RIP James “Blood” Ulmer

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/rip-james-blood-ulmer/

Funkcronomicon is a 1995 various artists collection of tracks produced by Bill Laswell under the name Axiom Funk, after Laswell's associated record label. It is a 2-CD set that was released by Island Records. Funkcronomicon features heavy participation from various members of Parliament-Funkadelic, to the degree that Funkcronomicon is widely considered to be a full-fledged P-Funk album. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUU8osV25zM&list=RDMUU8osV25zM&start_radio=1

#BillLaswell #AxiomFunk #GeorgeClinton #Funkadelic #PFunk #BernieWorrell #Dub #Funk #Music

Hallucination Engine is a 1994 album by the New York based music group Material. The album mixes jazz, dub, funk and Indian music.

Review by Rick Anderson

...the combination of Wayne Shorter and various North African elements is certainly interesting. In fact, the array of guest musicians is more diverse than ever: Trilok Gurtu, Jonas Hellborg, Zakir Hussain, Bootsy Collins -- the list goes on and on and even includes William Burroughs (who intones a hilarious list of "Words of Advice" over a churning mid-tempo funk groove)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBkJ-xRBLV0

#Material #BillLaswell #TrilokGurtu #JonasHellborg #ZakirHussain #BootsyCollins #WayneShorter #WilliamBurroughs #Dub #Jazz #Fusion #Music #Funk

In this episode you’ll learn

• How Bill Laswell transformed music production
• Why dub techniques reshaped modern sound design
• The role of bass and spatial mixing in Laswell’s work

#billlaswell
#dubmusic
#experimentalmusic
#ambientdub

https://youtu.be/yuqQEgomQZk

#FortnightFridayMusic
March 20 2026
The mood is #Indigo

Matik, “Indigo” from Rhythm Science (2004)

Rhythm Science is a print and audio project by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal kid (as it states right there on the cover), who penned a slim volume, a kind of manifesto/wordscape for electronic music production via #DJ sample culture, and assembled an accompanying CD compilation of tracks full of sounds from the archive of Belgian label #SubRosa that traverses that territory.

The track that first got my attention was a spoken word piece by #PattiSmith over electronic washes of sound. There are also some atmospheric cut-and-paste sample-fests that you’d associate with #DJSpooky. Prominent names such as #BillLaswell and #LeeRenaldo of Sonic Youth appear here, and others I would call ‘genre-famous’ like #Oval and #Seefeel - and a piece by #Debussy with warm crackly vinyl noise, tying it in with the #turntablism theme.

This track by Matik bubbles with suggestions of #dub, feels like #ambient but pulses with rhythm and features repeated melodic phrases, flirts with #ElectronicGlitch but rides on an undercurrent that remains smooth.

https://djspookythatsubliminalkid.bandcamp.com/track/mat-ik-indigo

For more on the DJ Spooky project see https://djspooky.com/rhythm-science/

#NowPlaying Arcana 'The Last Wave' CD (DIW, 1996)

Can it really be 30 years since this brilliant album was released by a superlative “power trio” (for want of a better expression) of improvisors comprising Derek Bailey, Bill Laswell and Tony Williams?

Williams’ room-filling drumming is such a brilliant foil for the shards of Bailey’s explosive electric guitar attack. So sad that the former died the following year, aged just 51.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Wave_(album)

#DerekBailey #BillLaswell #TonyWilliams #ArcanaTheLastWave #ImprovisedMusic @improvisedmusic

Oh, nice. New BASSMATTER exclusive album just dropped: a live show from 2016 with Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart and Bill Laswell. Something great to listen to while editing. #Music #Bass #BillLaswell #JahWobble

https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/bassmatter