Bill Laswell

producer, bass, mix, performer, arranger, remixer, electric bass guitar, bass guitar, programming, drums, recording, electronic instruments, effects, synthesizer, sampler, keyboard, turntable(s), editor, creative direction, engineer

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
Herbie Hancock (US jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer)
Material producer Activate, Barricade, Conservation, Hindsight, Lowlands, Moving Target, Upright Man, Uprising, Work Song
Painkiller (US avant-garde jazz/grindcore band)
Anton Fier performer Assassinations, Castles, Freya Stark at Alamut
Nicky Skopelitis performer Marco Polo's Tale, Morning High

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Material producer Activate, Barricade, Conservation, Hindsight, Lowlands, Moving Target, Upright Man, Uprising, Work Song
Anton Fier performer Assassinations, Castles, Freya Stark at Alamut
Nicky Skopelitis performer Marco Polo's Tale, Morning High
Martin Bisi engineer, mix, recording Activate, Assassin, Barricade, Bullet Hole Memory, Conservation, Hindsight, Illinois Central, Kingdom Come, Lost Roads, Lowlands, Moving Target, Upright Man, Uprising, Work Song
Ronald Shannon Jackson drums Activate, Barricade, Conservation, Lowlands, Uprising
Daniel Ponce congas Activate, Barricade, Lowlands, Uprising
Robert Musso engineer, mix, programming, recording Ananta (Passing Dream), Bass Terror - Tetragrammaton, Black Dangers, Chakra, Dread Iternal, Hear No Evil, Kingdom Come (Ambient Suite), Mystery of Shape Changing
Michael Beinhorn synthesizer Activate, Barricade, Conservation, Lowlands, Upright Man, Uprising, Work Song
Buckethead performer Maps of Impossible Worlds
Howie Weinberg mastering Assassin, Bullet Hole Memory, Illinois Central, Kingdom Come, Lost Roads
George Lewis (Chicago-born trombonist) trombone Activate, Barricade, Lowlands, Work Song
Karl Berger conductor Angel Eyes, Blue, Little Boy Don't Get Scared, Moody's Mood for Love
Genesis P-Orridge vocal Book of the Highest Initiation, Slogans, Tale of the Caliph Hakem, The Old Man of the Mountain
Nils Petter Molvær trumpet Beyond the Zero, Devil Syndrome
Fred Frith guitar, violin Barricade, Conservation, Lowlands, Uprising
Layng Martine III (bassist and engineer) engineer Ananta (Passing Dream), Bass Terror - Tetragrammaton, Chakra
Hakim Bey vocal Marco Polo's Tale, Pilgrimage to Cairo, The Assassins
Percy Howard vocal Castles, The Mongol's Destroy Alamut, The Old Man of the Mountain
Nicole Blackman vocal Assassinations, Freya Stark at Alamut, Hashish Poem
Jah Wobble performer, producer, bass guitar Cybotron, Evil Eye, The Divine Self
Sussan Deyhim vocal First Reading, Last Reading, The Spilled Cup
Craig Taborn electric piano A Screaming Comes Across the Sky, Beyond the Zero, Devil Syndrome
Ui (US 2-step / Afro-beat / Breakbeat group) producer, remixer Oscillations (Very Optimistic Dog mix), Very Optimistic Dog mix
Pete Namlook performer Angel Tech, Black Dawn
Jonah Sharp performer Aion, Zurvan Akarana
Iggy Pop vocal A Quick Trip to Alamut, The Western Lands
Karsh Kale drums, tabla Beyond the Zero
Paul Schütze performer A Quick Trip to Alamut, The Mongol's Destroy Alamut
Helios Creed performer Book of the Highest Initiation, Slogans
Tetsu Inoue performer Káshí, Monochrome Existence
Anne Clark (English poet, songwriter and electronic musician) vocal Tale of the Caliph Hakem
Vedic producer, remixer Live Pop mix, Oscillations (live Pop mix)
Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) producer, remixer Low Membrane mix, Oscillations (Low Membrane mix)
DJ Grazzhoppa remixer Milky (remix), Oscillations (Milky remix)
Antipop Consortium vocal Broken Toenail Gland, Staple Nex
Atom Heart (German acid/ambient/electronica producer Uwe Schmidt) producer, remixer Digital Cut-Up, Oscillations (Digital cut-Up)
Automaton performer Asiyah Dub, Ports of Entry
Bisk (Naohiro Fujikawa) remixer Oscillations (remix)
Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shibabaw vocal Ethiopia / The Lower Ground
Endemic Void remixer Oscillations (remix)
Eyeless in Gaza performer Tale of the Caliph Hakem
Ira Cohen vocal Sinan's Boat
Jeff Bova performer Evil Eye
Jimmy Van M (Belgian DJ/producer Jimmy Van Malleghem) mix-DJ Babylon Ghost
John Balance performer Kála
Lizzy Mercier Descloux vocal Morning High
Michael Fossenkemper mastering Kingdom Come (Ambient Suite)
Mick Harris (Ex Napalm Death drummer) performer Distal Sonority
Nico (Nicholas Kristian Sykes, D'n'B pioneer, No U-Turn records) remixer Oscillations (remix)
Ninj performer Digitaria
Patti Smith vocal Morning High
Peter Christopherson performer Kála
Soul Static Sound remixer Oscillations (D mix)
Spectre (electronic/hip-hop producer Skiz Fernando Jr.) producer Répercussions
Terre Thaemlitz performer Open URL
Trilok Gurtu tabla Nothing
Umar Bin Hassan vocal The Lord of the Ressurection
William S. Burroughs vocal The Western Lands

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Herbie Hancock creative direction, producer, remixer, bass, electric bass guitar Alphabeta, Autodrive, Be Still, Black Gravity, Earth Beat, Future Shock, Hardrock, I Thought It Was You, Ionosphere, Junku, Karabali, Kebero, Part 1, Kebero, Part 2, Metal Beat, People Are Changing, Rockit, Rockit 2.002, Rough, Sound-System, TFS, The Essence, The Essence (Future 2 Future album mix), The Essence (LTJ Bukem remix), This Is Rob Swift, Tony Williams, Virtual Hornets
Material arranger, editor, producer, remixer, bass, keyboard, turntable(s) Busting Out, Come Down, Don't Lose Control, Holding On, I'm the One, Let Me Have It, Mantra (Doors of Perception edit), Mantra (Doors of Perception mix), Mantra (Orb remix), Memories, Playin' With Fire (Praxis Remix / edit), Take a Chance, The Seven Souls (Bill Laswell remix), The Seven Souls (The Secret Name remix by Bill Laswell), The Western Lands (A Dangerous Road mix), Time Out
Painkiller bass Black Chamber, Blackhole Dub, Buried Secrets, Damage to the Mask, Deadly Obstacle Collage, Devil's Eye, Dr. Phibes, Executioner, Guts of a Virgin, Handjob, Hostage, Lathe of God, One-Eyed Pessary, Portent, Purgatory of Fiery Vulvas, Scud Attack, Skinned, The Ladder, The Toll, Tortured Souls, Trailmarker, Warhead
Anton Fier mix, bass A Vague Sense of Order, A Vague Sense of Order (Bloody Miles mix), Bait And Switch, Being and Time, Blind Light, Clairvoyance Of Self (Seeing Through), Clouds Without Water, Dreamspeed, Dreamspeed (Realm of the Senseless mix), Emotional Smear, Midnight, Never Come Morning, Our Completion, Our Completion (Ancient Evenings Mix), Smoke and Mirrors, The Absence Of Time/Djeema El Fna, The Nostalgic Ache, Time Function
Nicky Skopelitis producer, bass guitar Altai, Bad Blood, Black Eyes, Ghost Of A Chance, Heresy, Jubilee, Meet Your Maker, Omens, One Eye Open, Proud Flesh, Sanctuary, Second Skin, Shotgun News, Ta Magika, Tarab, Telling Time, Witness
James Blood Ulmer producer, bass 99 Names, After Dark, As It Is, Black Sheep, Home Alone, I Belong In The U.S.A., I Belong in the USA, I Can Tell, Lady Blue, Momentarily, O Gentle One, On and On, Pull on Up to Love, Show Me Your Love (America), Show Me Your Love America, We Got to Get Together, Wings, Wings / Drum Solo
The Golden Palominos bass, bass guitar (Kind of) True, (Something Else Is) Working Harder, Belfast, Boy (Go), Buenos Aires, Clustering Train, Curses, Diamond, Faithless Heart, Metal Eye, Omaha, Only One Party, Silver Bullet, Something Becomes Nothing, The Ambitions Are, The Animal Speaks, The Push and the Shove, You Are Never Ready
Ronald Shannon Jackson producer Charming the Beast, Evoking, Holyman, Nothing Beats a Failure But a Try, Panhandling, Psychic Greeting, Sheep In Wolf's Clothing, Shotgun Wedding
Massacre performer After, Aging With Dignity, As Is, Bones, Corridor, Gate, Killing Time, Legs, Lost Causes, Not the Person We Knew, Subway Heart, Surfing, Tourism
Deadline producer, programming, bass, drums, electronic instruments, synthesizer Afro Beat, Baliphone Dub, Black Swans, Boat Peoples, Doo Root, Gammatron, Heart Of Darkness, Makossa Rock, Makossa Rock (edit), Refrain, The Stone That Speaks, Who's Who
Sly & Robbie producer Bank Job, Bass and Trouble, Boops (Here to Go), Fire, Get to This, Get to That, Language Barrier, Let's Rock, Make 'em Move, Miles (Black Satin), No Name on the Bullet, Rhythm Killer, Yes We Can Can
Lucky Peterson producer Black Midnight Sun, Change Your Ways, Herbert Harper's Free Press News, Is It Because I'm Black, Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone, Lucky in Love, She's a Burglar, Smokestack Lightning, Talkin' Loud and Saying Nothing, Thank You for Talkin'to Me Africa, Truly Your Friend
Daniel Ponce performer Africa Contemporanea, Basta De Cuentos, Cojelo Suave, Invasion 80, Odie, Siboney, Solo Para Ti
N'Gwa producer Baba L'Rouami, Baniya, Chabako, Hamouda, Jillala, Mimoun Mamrba, Moulay Abdellah Ben Hassaine / Moulay Brahim, Said Fafy Drum Solo, Toura Toura Tour Kelilah, Toura Toura Tour Kelilah #2, Tramin
Manfred Fleckenstein arranger, producer African Revolution, Butterfly, Dancehall Kung Fu, E.T., Higher Level, House of God, Inakaya (Japanese Food), Orthodox, Rise Again, Scratch Message, Wake the Dead
Ramones producer All Screwed Up, Can’t Get You Outta My Mind, Come Back, Baby, Don’t Bust My Chops, I Believe in Miracles, Ignorance Is Bliss, Learn to Listen, Palisades Park, Punishment Fits the Crime, Zero Zero UFO
Dan Collins mix Flo Vi Ru Dub, Funnel Drone, In Gold Mesh, Majuu, Near Nadir, Nooks, Orbs, Ternary Rite +, Valhalla, Yuga Warp
Bernie Worrell performer, producer, programming, sampler Afrofuturism (Phazed One), Dissinfordollars, Fields of Play, Flex, Gladiator Skull, In Pursuit, Judie's Passion Purple, Moon Over Brixton, Time Was (Events in the Elsewhere), Won't Go Away
Divination arranger, mix, performer, producer Ancient Evenings (Najm-Al-Din), Baraka, Delta, Descent, Errata, Illuminoid Assassin, Navigations, Rain Dream, Tangier Space Draft
Last Exit electric bass guitar A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, Don't Be a Cry Baby Whatever You Do, Hanged Man Are Always Naked, Headfirst Into the Flames, I Must Confess I'm a Cannibal, Jesus! What Gorgeous Monkeys We Are, Lizard Eyes, No One Knows Anything, So Small, So Weak, This Bloody Sweat of Loving
Motörhead producer Ain’t My Crime, Built for Speed, Claw, Deaf Forever, Doctor Rock, Mean Machine, Nothing Up My Sleeve, Orgasmatron, Ridin’ With the Driver
Nicholas Müller producer Bala Moussaka, Boulandi Samawi, Casa Casa Atougra, Hamdouchi, La Allah Dayim Moulenah, Mahraba, Moussa Berkiyo / Koubaliy Beriah La' Foh, Peace In Essaouira (for Sonny Sharrock), Salat Anbi
New York Gong bass Black September, Hours Gone, I Am a Freud, Jungle Windo(w), Materialism, Much Too Old, O My Photograph, Preface, Strong Woman
Climatic Terra producer Becoming, First of Equals, In the Flesh, Mescalito, Sacrifice, The Pyre, Uncle Herbie's Dance, Venus, Who Are You
François Robert Lloyd bass Blind Willie, Bloody Buddy Rumba, Four Lives in a Day Suite, La Femme Bachir, Lullaby You, Proverbs From Hell, True Man Coyote, Waltzing Kate
Klaus Hoffmann bass Coda, Interlude 1, Interlude 2, Interlude 3, Introduction, Part One, Part Two, Postlude
Aïyb Dieng producer Bôka Devotion, Darésalam, Dungal Dub, Rhythmagick, Sabar, Soweto Funk, Takou, Touba
Laurie Anderson mix, producer, bass Blue Lagoon, Credit Racket, Excellent Birds, Gravity's Angel, Kokoku, Sharkey's Day, Sharkey's Night
Cypher 7 performer, producer Conspiracy of Silence, Dead Drop, Dream Spiral, Ladder of Lights, Nothing Lasts, Piece of Blue Sky, The Suspicious Shamen
Simon Shaheen producer Al Hinna, Bortuqal, Hanil Widd, Ibnil Balad, Mudnaka, Sittel Habayeb, Theme & Variations
The Damage Manual mix, remixer Blame and Demand (Bill Laswell / Jah Wobble), Blame and Demand (Wobble/Laswell Hybrid edit), Broadcasting, Damage Addict (Laswell mix), Denial, King Mob, Stateless (Laswell mix)
Loyal Flames mix Ekatanata, Expansion, Hamsa, Nirodha, Please Be Seated, Return to Bell, Suspension
Manu Dibango performer, producer, programming, synthesizer Echos Beti, Electric Africa, Makossa '87, Makossa '87 (Big Blow), Pata Piya, Pata Piya (extended version), Pata Piya (radio edit)
Buckethead performer Binge and Grab (instrumental version), Doomride, Last Train to Bucketheadland, Post Office Buddy, Robot Transmission, Want Some Slaw?
John Zorn mix, recording Litany I, Litany II, Litany III, Litany IV, Litany V, Litany VI
Abalo Sísmico producer Death Tools, Dueling Sufis, Fathoms, Overloaded Lila, Shintotech Iridescence, Subterrania
Lili Boniche remixer Alger Alger (dub), Amir Leghram (dub), Je chanterai toujours la musique orientale (dub), Mezelt Ma Jetch (dub), Saadi Rite Elbarrah (dub), Yakhalbi Khali L'Hal (dub)
Psychonavigation arranger, producer Blue Shift, Infinum, Psychic & UFO Revelations in Last Days, The Fate of Energy, The Hell of the Same, Under Heaven
Pharoah Sanders producer Country Mile, Kumba, Nozipho, Ocean Song, Our Roots (Began in Africa), Tomoki
Sonny Sharrock producer As We Used to Sing, Little Rock, Many Mansions, Once Upon a Time, Promises Kept, Who Does She Hope to Be?
Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects producer A Muey A Muey, Dunya, El Harb, Fin Roh, Nbrik, Nbrik Dub
Swans producer Can’t Find My Way Home, God Damn the Sun, I Remember Who You Are, Saved, Song for Dead Time (MG version)
Death Cube K arranger, producer, bass Dark Hood, Land of the Lost, Maggot Dream, Maps of Impossible Worlds, Terror by Night
Todd Pertl mix Fifth Meeting, First Meeting, Fourth Meeting, Second Meeting, Third Meeting
Tabla Beat Science bass Audiomaze, Biotech, Devotional, Magnetic, Secret Channel
Metheglin bass guitar Called, Changed, Connected, Cornered, Cried
Djeneba producer Fudge, Hedge, Layout, Spin, Substantiality
Sonja Oosterman producer Epiphany, Fresh Meat and Roses, Right As Rain, Sacrament
Ahlam arranger, producer, bass Ash Men Hila, Irfiq Rak 2, Mashi, Tkelemti
Donnel Smokes arranger, producer Across Time, Alankara (Beats of the Heart), Gamaka, Morning Tala
Elliott Sharp bass Filter, Just Like Here, Obvious, TMI
Kip Hanrahan electric bass guitar India Song, Shadow to Shadow, This Night Comes Out of Both of Us, Whatever I Want
Nils Petter Molvær remixer Frozen (Bill Laswell remix), Merciful / Ligotage (Incunabula mix by Bill Laswell)
Πάνος Κιάμος producer Alam Dub (remix by Dr. Israel), Alsema Dub (Astral Africa mix by Carl Craig), Alsema Dub Mix (remix by Carl Craig), Orion (Dollis dub mix by 4 Hero)
坂本龍一 producer After All, Before Long, Neo Geo, Risky
杉瀬陽子 producer Early Warning, Kanatente, Moon/Light, Ndan Ndan Nyaria
Nine Inch Nails producer, remixer Vessel (mix 1) (remixed by Bill Laswell), Vessel (mix 2) (remixed by Bill Laswell), Vessel (remixed by Bill Laswell)
Jun Orenza performer, producer Insectoidal Regression, Open URL, Transfer Complete
Mandingo producer Dewgal, Harima, Harima (edit)
Miles Davis remixer On the Corner (Bill Laswell remix), On the Corner (Subterranean Channel mix)
Andy Hawkins producer Nine Tails, River Blindness
Enrico Macias remixer L'Oriental (Bill Laswell remix), Le Violon de mon père (Bill Laswell remix)
Karsh Kale remixer Empty Hands (Bill Laswell mix)
細野晴臣 producer, bass guitar, effects Edge of the End, Navagations
EBN mix, bass guitar Electronic Behavior Control System, Shoot the Mac-10
N-TEC bass For a Few Dollars More, Memories
Reggie bass Speed of Light, Voice of Thunder
Rob Swift producer My Style, Re-Animator
Anne Clark remixer Letter of Thanks to a Friend (Bill Laswell mix)
Sacred System producer Black Lotus, Black Lotus (album edit)
Robert Haglund engineer Running From the Light
Transonic bass Wheel of Heaven
Charley Bird producer, remixer Mirrors (Bill Laswell Alien Mind-Screen mix)
DXT producer Cut Transmitter
The Blood of Heroes remixer Salute to the Jugger (Bill Laswell original mix)
Talvin Singh bass Mombasstic
Sébastien Gastine mix, producer Om Namah Shiva (Transformation of the Heart mix)
Susie Benchasil Seiter remixer Satan's Church of Hypnotized Logic (Bill Laswell mix)
Sting remixer Thousand Years (Bill Laswell remix)
Dave Gerrard arranger Amorphous
Scorn remixer Night Ash Black (Bill Laswell "Slow Black Underground River" mix)
Russell Mills performer Stone 's Eggs (feat. Bill Laswell & Michael Brook)
Annise Hadeed bass, effects, electronic instruments I'll Strangle You
Makyo mix, producer Devabandha
Public Image Ltd producer Rise
Peter Gabriel producer In Your Eyes (special mix)
Peppermint Creeps bass, effects, electronic instruments Lettre au directeur des Messageries Maritimes
Osaeris programming Order Within the Universe
Orquesta Mundo bass Sufi Hadra
Freeform remixer Lost World (Bill Laswell remix)
God remixer Bloodstream (The Evening Redness in the West mix)
Jimmy Allen arranger Word of Advice
Monks of the Monastery of Sed Gyued bass guitar Last Dance
Lenny White arranger My Turn to Love You