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Bill's name sounds familiar to me. I'm sure I've heard his playing on numerous artists albums I like. Liking what you've posted.

Cool. Glad your enjoying it. I think he's the cat's pajamas. If you want to hear another track I posted a review of his first solo album HERE.

I'll check it out, thanks.

I'm a big fan as well. I'm always interested in anything he is involved with. Here's The The Golden Palomino's "Clean Plate" from _The Golden Palominos_

Sweet. Thanks for posting contra. That's a great track. I've got I think one album and a couple of tracks by The Golden Palominos. Haven't heard this before. Cool stuff.

Prolific indeed..I found him when he was at Celluloid in the early 80's doing mostly hip hop production «a link..also love his work with Last Exit «a link

I wasn't altogether fond of those remixes he did of Marley and Miles material. He kinda reminds me of George Clinton..a finger in many,many pies, most of them tasty.

Oh now comments show up. Hey Cody. 10 years ago I was in a Kansas City record store and I found a small stack of hip-hop/electro 12"'s that he had produced. I listened to them though and they were just awful. It wasn't cool at all. Now I kind of wished I had picked them up even though they were so bad. I guess there was a reason why no one else grabbed them. He has produced some stinkers but with his kind of output there's bound to be some duds.

Yeah, that inconsistency would plague most of the G.P's catalog. The first self titled album is the only thing I've heard that I like. Ditto with Praxis, after transmutations...meh.

There are some grea performances by all those Knitting Factory regulars on John Zorn's Great Jewish Composer's: Burt Bacharach. It's great. The Masada albums are great too.

great post!i love Laswell too, thanks f.s

No problem dimitra. Glad you enjoyed the post.

Contra I got really excited about a Material cassette I found once and it was oh so bad. Can't win them all. Really love the Masada stuff too. I heard bout the Bacharach album but haven't gotten it yet. I'll check it out.

Did you know that Bill Laswell was one of the composers of "Lizard Point" that appeared on Brian Eno's Ambient 4: On Land album? Neither did I but your post got me searching my collection for all of the tracks with his name buried in the metadata. I'm especially fond of Laswell's work on the FAX label with Pete Namlook (Psychonavigation, et al), Tetsu Inoue (Cymatic Scan) and Haruomi Hosono (Interpieces Organization). Laswell, like Pete Namlook and Brian Eno, is one of those serial collaborators that has just consistently pushed and promoted ambient forms in electronic music. It's interesting, and surprising, to hear the work that he's done that isn't ambient.

Hey Sam, I'm used to be really down on Bill Laswell as well. Have got quite a few bits of vinyl, but in recent years have lost touch with what he;s been doing, and only have one digital album (Radioaxiom-A Dub Transmisson with Jah Wobble - which I haven't really played a lot - not bad, but never really grabbed me).

Nice tracks to hear again. BTW, I'm with you on the hip-hop stuff he did. I think that might have been the about the time I drifted away.

spaceling I bought a Namlook collab for my wife's step-father's birthday around 2000. It was a hit and I got a copy. Can't remember what it was but it was awesome. You're totally right about him, Eno, and Namlook. They're geniuses. I was opened up to Laswell as a jazz artist first, then electronic, and in the last 4 years I've explored more of his africa/no wave/funk stuff. I didn't know he was the composer of "Lizard Point". Need to go revisit that.

cipher I used to have a bunch of the Axiom compilations. I thought they were kind of hit or miss. I still think Bill is the shiz though.