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Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Outland (Remastered) (2023)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Nov. 1, 2023
Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Outland (Remastered) (2023)

Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Outland (Remastered) (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 750 MB
5:23:32 | Ambient, Jazz | Label: Cold Spring

A lavish matte-finish boxset containing all 5 "Outland" albums in separate matte sleeves, with all-new designs, and all audio completely remastered. The box also contains a new addition to the OUTLAND series - an album of dense, bass space drone by Bill Laswell, entitled "Blackland". The boxset also contains an exclusive card with an essay about the project written by BIll Laswell, July 2023. The 'Outland' album series was a collaborative endeavour by the visionary US bassist-producer Bill Laswell and the late German musician Peter Namlook that pushed the boundaries of dark ambient and electronic music. Spanning five albums released over a thirteen year period from 1994, this new boxset serves as a testament to the creative synergy between the two masterminds.

Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Psychonavigation (1994)  Music

Posted by Designol at June 30, 2023
Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Psychonavigation (1994)

Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Psychonavigation (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 303 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 164 Mb | Artwork included
Ambient, Experimental | Label: Subharmonic | # SD 7005-2 | Time: 01:10:20

Psychonavigation is a trip and a half. Pete Namlook and Bill Laswell have created a set of sonic hallucinogens that permeate the psyche. These sequences and atmospheres are full of experimental sounds, strange samples, and overt space music riffs. There is nothing earthly about this music. The atmospheres are inhuman. The evocations are metallic and robotic. The flow, however, is smooth and fluid. Namlook and Laswell are visiting the ultimate oxymoron – fluid metal. The answers are as mysterious as quicksilver itself. This is one of the best Namlook/Laswell collaborations. It will appeal to fans of Amani, Tales, and Dweller at the Threshold. It is essential space music.

Mike Sopko, Bill Laswell & Tyshawn Sorey - On Common Ground (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at April 27, 2022
Mike Sopko, Bill Laswell & Tyshawn Sorey - On Common Ground (2020)

Mike Sopko, Bill Laswell & Tyshawn Sorey - On Common Ground (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 315 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 125 Mb | 00:54:37
Jazz Fusion | Label: M.O.D. Reloaded

Since the days of Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the guitar/bass/drums trio has been convened by visionary tone scientists as a laboratory for music of primal power and tonal subtlety. ON COMMON GROUND features three such players. Mike Sopko has explored the frontiers of the guitar with Los Lobos and Dosh, Thomas Pridgen. Laswell, like Sopko a Midwesterner, here transmutes the industrial crash and hum of the region into music of muscular authority. Even followers of the protean career of composer, instrumentalist and conceptualist Tyshawn Sorey might be surprised by the oceans of primal rhythm he conjures here. Together, the sounds brought into being by these 3 improvisors are at once grounded in a deep inquiry of traditions that span space and time while cracking open a window onto eternal radiance. This is fearless music, the kind that can only be made when master musicians meet ON COMMON GROUND.

John Zorn & Bill Laswell - The Cleansing (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 24, 2022
John Zorn & Bill Laswell - The Cleansing (2022)

John Zorn & Bill Laswell - The Cleansing (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:46:39 | 233 Mb
Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Tzadik Records

Zorn and Laswell have been friends and musical compatriots since they first met in 1978, and have been responsible for some of the most intense and memorable music in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Recorded in early 2021, near the end of the year’s pandemic lockdown, it marks the first time Zorn had touched the saxophone in over fifteen months. Laswell had spent most of the year locked in his apartment. Something special was happening that day—and after the session Laswell felt rejuvenated—as if all the toxins and poisons had left his body. Soulful and essential, The Cleansing is an historic meeting—and the first recorded duo project by these two Downtown magicians.

Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Outland (Remastered) (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Dec. 23, 2023
Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Outland (Remastered) (2023)

Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Outland (Remastered) (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | Covers included | 05:23:42 | 1,64 Gb
Electronic, Ambient, Dub | Label: Cold Spring

The 'Outland' album series was a collaborative endeavour by the visionary US bassist-producer Bill Laswell and the late German musician Peter Namlook that pushed the boundaries of dark ambient and electronic music. Spanning five albums released over a thirteen year period from 1994, this new boxset serves as a testament to the creative synergy between the two masterminds.

Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell - Realm Of Spells (2019)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 28, 2021
Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell - Realm Of Spells (2019)

Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell - Realm Of Spells (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 317 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 129 Mb | 00:55:26
Contemporary Jazz, Fusion, Nu Jazz, Dub | Label: Jah Wobble Record

Spirals , the slow reveal, cyclical but eventually coming to a point . ‘Realm of Spells ‘ is for me the point . Maybe the last time I will get to work with Bill. For me personally, this record embodies and contains a lot of the basic approach I had right from the beginning , especially in regard to playing the bass. The circumstances of our trip led to me using a Fender P bass for the first time in years. All the early PiL stuff plus Full circle with Holger and Jaki was played on Fender P. I was taken back to that beautiful naive beginning . At that juncture some pristine mathematical truth shot like a ray of vajra light from deep space.
Wadada Leo Smith & Milford Graves & Bill Laswell - Sacred Ceremonies (2021)

Wadada Leo Smith & Milford Graves & Bill Laswell - Sacred Ceremonies (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 484 MB
2:55:24 | Jazz, Avant-garde Jazz | Label: TUM Records

(3-CD set) Sacred Ceremonies represents a meeting of three true masters of creative music. On this three-CD boxed set trumpet legend Wadada Leo Smith joins forces with the ever-versatile electric bassist Bill Laswell and the late, great master drummer Milford Graves in three separate sessions.

Bill Laswell - Version 2 Version: A Dub Transmission (2004)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Oct. 9, 2022
Bill Laswell - Version 2 Version: A Dub Transmission (2004)

Bill Laswell - Version 2 Version: A Dub Transmission (2004)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 326 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 120 MB | Covers - 116 MB
Genre: Dub, Downtempo | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Reachout International Records (RUSCD 8288)

Version 2 Version: A Dub Transmission finds the veteran bassist/producer offering yet another dose of his intriguing neo-dub experimentation. Instead of giving an exact replica of grooves from dub's classic era, a 49-year-old Laswell combines dub with modern electronica and takes it to a trippy, hypnotic, atmospheric place - a place where the reggae beat interacts with ambient club/dance grooves. Version 2 Version doesn't cater to dub purists by any means; anyone who expects this 2004 release to sound exactly like King Tubby circa 1971 is bound to be disappointed. But then, anyone who is familiar with Laswell's history knows that expecting him to offer a carbon copy of old-school dubwise would be like expecting Ornette Coleman to play "Ornithology" exactly like Charlie "Bird" Parker played it in the late '40s…

Ulf Ivarsson & Bill Laswell - Nammu (2022) [Official Digital Download]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at June 4, 2022
Ulf Ivarsson & Bill Laswell - Nammu (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Ulf Ivarsson & Bill Laswell - Nammu (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 50:36 minutes | 525 MB
Experimental Electronic, Ambient, Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: Ropeadope Records, Official Digital Download

Acclaimed bassist Ulf Ivarsson got a copy of The Beatles Revolver when he was just 3 years old, and the stream of great music continued as he immersed himself in music from Mott The Hoople, David Bowie, and many more. From Pop, to Punk, to ambient, to Jazz, Ivarsson kept searching and learning. A true musical nomad, Ulf Ivarsson became an acclaimed producer, composer, and bandleader. He discovered Bill Laswell through a fellow bassist (and mentor) when he was in his teens.

Bill Laswell - Outer Dark (1994)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Feb. 1, 2020
Bill Laswell - Outer Dark (1994)

Bill Laswell - Outer Dark (1994)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 253 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 112 MB | Covers - 28 MB
Genre: Electronic, Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Fax +49-69/450464 (PS 08/66)

Outer Dark displays Bill Laswell's penchant for working out compositional ideas at great length, breaking the 20-minute barrier on both of the album's instrumental pieces. Entirely a studio creation, the music is the result of Laswell's (sounds) collaboration with Robert Musso (engineering, treatments) at Brooklyn, NY's Greenpoint Studios. The duo attempts to shape a composition out of the dark ether on the opening "Chakra." It begins with a buzzing sitar drone (providing the Eastern flavor common in Laswell's music) and strummed guitar emerging from the murk. Disappearing and returning throughout, the elements take on a sort of dizzying paranoia at song's end through their repetition…