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About Bill Laswell

  • Born: February 12, 1955
  • Occupation: Bassist
    • People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
    Play People Valuable
    Miles davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. he was criticized heavily from the jazz side. he was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
    Sides Jazz Tradition
    What i'm dealing with is sound. i don't pretend to be dealing with music. i'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
    Sound Elements Texture
    Records are just moments of achievement. they're like receipts for work done. time goes on and people keep playing music.
    People Achievement Playing Music
    Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. i don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but i'm sure there's some connection. but in all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. i think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.
    Thinking Years Play
    People are afraid of things they don't understand.
    People
    If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
    Moving Long Listening
    People are afraid of things they don't understand. they don't know how to relate. it threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
    Careers People Existence
    Sound comes out of a life experience.
    Sound Life Experience
    Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. all music has that in it- a space or center. i think it just means the atmosphere or what defines the environment of sound and maybe removing the more destructive, harsh elements and harder rhythmic elements and you get down to the stillness that's inherent. there's an ambient quality in every sound. you may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.
    Mean Thinking Space
    In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
    House Atmosphere Quality
    Nothing was a style first. everything started as an idea. a guy did something with an idea. someone copied him. some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.
    Ideas Guy Style
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