Brought to you by FUNKNSTUFF.NET and hosted by Scott Goldfine — musicologist and author of “Everything Is on the One: The First Guide of Funk” ― “TRUTH IN RHYTHM” is the interview show that gets DEEP into the pocket with contemporary music’s foremost masters of the groove.
Featured in Episode 30 (Part 1 of 2, see Part 2 here — https://youtu.be/8LIbWZ4O3F0 ): Visionary bassist-producer Bill Laswell, who since the late 1970s has been one of the most prolific artists of the recorded music era. As a sound conceptualist who has always been a step ahead of the curve, Laswell has put his inimitable stamp on nearly 3,000 recording projects by artists like Mick Jagger, Yoko Ono, Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Bootsy Collins, Nine Inch Nails, Motorhead, Peter Gabriel, Blur, The Ramones, George Clinton, Pharaoh Sanders, Sting, The Last Poets, Afrika Bambaataa, Manu Dibango, Fela Kuti, Bernie Worrell, Buckethead and most notably Herbie Hancock, who collaborated with Laswell for the pivotal 1983 smash-hit single “Rock-It.” His radical remixes (a.k.a. reconstructions) of works by Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Bob Marley and a vast array of dub-related and atmospheric ambient projects have further defined Laswell as a revolutionary iconoclast.
Setting up base in New York, Laswell helped generate several i…
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