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Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell is a prolific experimental musician and a cornerstone of the underground New York music scene. Between his roles as musician, label head and producer Laswell's fingerprints are on hundreds of albums, with many bearing his signature fusion of funk and dub with punk energy, though his recordings have ranged through jazz, Indian music and hip-hop. Born in 1955, Laswell started out as a guitarist but made an early switch to bass. He cut his teeth playing in funk bands in the Detroit area before moving to New York in the late 1970s. There, he founded the group Material...