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Bill Laswell

Chris Campion, Dazed & Confused, Winter 2000

MAVERICK PRODUCER and bassist Bill Laswell is on a mission to collapse musical boundaries by any means necessary. With a resolutely pioneering spirit, a typical Laswell production will furiously mix up the electronic and the abstract primitive, colliding African and Eastern percussion with techno rhythms, propulsive bass, p-funk keyboard melodies and stratospheric guitar.

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