Saturday 31 October 2009

Maverick Minimalist: How Bill Laswell Takes Bass Into the Future—One Dub Ostinato at a Time (2002)

“I don’t want to know what music is. I’d rather be intuitive and take my time.”

If there is a border that bass will not cross, Bill laswell doesn’t know it. Since his breakout moment on Herbie Hancock’s 1983 mega-hit “Rockit,” the New York visionary has lent his production, remix, and conception skills to nearly 1,000 albums across a dizzying array of labels and categories. More than any other icon in the short history of the electric bass, Laswell has developed a subgenre all his own: bass-heavy musical cross-pollinations on the cutting edge of turntable, ambient, dub, world music, and drum-n-bass innovations.

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