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#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/

#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

#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/

#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/

#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/

"Rockit" is a composition recorded by American jazz pianist #HerbieHancock #and produced by #BillLaswell and #MichaelBeinhorn. Hancock released it as a #single from his twenty-ninth album, #FutureShock (1983). The selection was composed by Hancock, Laswell, and Beinhorn. The track was driven by its deejay #scratch style, performed primarily by #DXT, and its music video created by #GodleyAndCreme, featuring the robotic art of #JimWhiting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY

#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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early

Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell & Karsh Kale:
🎵 Woo Doo

#BillLaswell #BernieWorrell #KarshKale

https://modreloaded.bandcamp.com/track/woo-doo

https://open.spotify.com/track/2zhQmhaBSjv6nAxwD62HOx

#WorldDestruction by #TimeZone

"This is a world destruction. Your life ain't nothing.
The human race is becoming a disgrace.
The rich get richer.
The poor are getting poorer.
#Fascist, #chauvinistic government fools."

- #JohnLyden, Afrika Bambaataa & #BillLaswell, 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1T6l70XlqU

#HipHop #80sMusic #FridayNightMusic #FridayNightMusicVideos #MusicForARevolution #USPol #WorldPol

RIP legendary tabla virtuoso and Shakti founder Zakir Hussain, 73

#shakti #zakirhussain #tabla #billlaswell #JohnMcLaughlin #gratefuldead #IndianMusic #tablabeatscience https://www.npr.org/2024/12/15/nx-s1-5229593/zakir-hussain-dead-india-shakti-tabla

#FortnightFridayMusic
Nov 29 2024
The prompt is Creation

Axiom Dub: Mysteries of Creation 1996

It must have been pretty soon after I came to appreciate #RootsReggae that I found its deeper, spacier sibling, #dub - hell, just flip the 7” or let the 12” run, and there’s the dub version. THIS was the shit; it still is for me.

I think it was one night while listening to #WZBC, #BostonCollege's radio station, that I got my first taste of this Axiom Dub #compilation.

#BillLaswell, wielder of massively heavy #bass, created the Axiom label for his own projects, but also released work by some other artists of his ilk. What he created with this compilation was my portal to a whole new world of sound.

Familiar names like #SlyAndRobbie and #JahWobble mingled with newer players on the scene #SubDub and #DJSpooky; yes, dub #reggae was here, but also new sounds, like a more #electronic-based #BrokenBeat sound, #ambient's skittery cousin #Illbient.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXvFTYAHnWA

Jon Batiste, Chad Smith & Bill Laswell // #JonBatiste #ChadSmith #BillLaswell //

The Drift
[album The Process, 2014]

//via // #MODTechnologies //

#brandunbrand #bandcamp #music #JonBatiste #ChadSmith #BillLaswell
#TheProcess #TheDrift #PeterApfelbaum

link: https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/track/the-drift

Jon Batiste, Chad Smith & Bill Laswell // #JonBatiste #ChadSmith #BillLaswell //

Time Falls
[album The Process, 2014]

//via // #MODTechnologies //

#brandunbrand #bandcamp #music #JonBatiste #ChadSmith #BillLaswell
#TheProcess #TimeFalls #DominicJames

link: https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/track/time-falls

Jon Batiste, Chad Smith & Bill Laswell // #JonBatiste #ChadSmith #BillLaswell //

B2
[album The Process, 2014]

//via // #MODTechnologies //

#brandunbrand #bandcamp #music #JonBatiste #ChadSmith #BillLaswell
#TheProcess #B2

link: https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/track/b2

Jon Batiste, Chad Smith & Bill Laswell // #JonBatiste #ChadSmith #BillLaswell //

Haunted
[album The Process, 2014]

//via // #MODTechnologies //

#brandunbrand #bandcamp #music #JonBatiste #ChadSmith #BillLaswell
#TheProcess #Haunted #ToshinoriKondo

link: https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/track/haunted-3

"existence"
https://hearthis.at/emuziek/mix-18022023-existence

feat. #Download / #AnemoneTube / #SchlossTegal / #PostScriptvm / #Scanner / #ThrobbingGristle / #HausArafna / #BrowningMummery / #KrylonHertz / #AdnCkrystall / #Sote - / #BillLaswell / #18eOktober -/ #Shpongle / #HolegSpies / #DFTram / #TranquilityBass / #KillingJoke -

#VinylOnly #Podcast #DJset #Minimal #Electronic #musodon
#NowPlaying #DIY #HitsUMissed #NowListening
#VinylRecords #ExperimentalMusic
#Turntable #NowSpinning #NowHearThis

"existence"
https://hearthis.at/emuziek/mix-18022023-existence

feat. #Download / #AnemoneTube / #SchlossTegal / #PostScriptvm / #Scanner / #ThrobbingGristle / #HausArafna / #BrowningMummery / #KrylonHertz / #AdnCkrystall / #Sote - / #BillLaswell / #18eOktober -/ #Shpongle / #HolegSpies / #DFTram / #TranquilityBass / #KillingJoke -

#VinylOnly #Podcast #DJset #Minimal #Electronic #musodon
#NowPlaying #DIY #HitsUMissed #NowListening
#VinylRecords #ExperimentalMusic
#Turntable #NowSpinning #NowHearThis

"existence"
https://hearthis.at/emuziek/mix-18022023-existence

feat. #Download / #AnemoneTube / #SchlossTegal / #PostScriptvm / #Scanner / #ThrobbingGristle / #HausArafna / #BrowningMummery / #KrylonHertz / #AdnCkrystall / #Sote - / #BillLaswell / #18eOktober -/ #Shpongle / #HolegSpies / #DFTram / #TranquilityBass / #KillingJoke -

#VinylOnly #Podcast #DJset #Minimal #Electronic #musodon
#NowPlaying #DIY #HitsUMissed #NowListening
#VinylRecords #ExperimentalMusic
#Turntable #NowSpinning #NowHearThis

"existence"
https://hearthis.at/emuziek/mix-18022023-existence

feat. #Download / #AnemoneTube / #SchlossTegal / #PostScriptvm / #Scanner / #ThrobbingGristle / #HausArafna / #BrowningMummery / #KrylonHertz / #AdnCkrystall / #Sote - / #BillLaswell / #18eOktober -/ #Shpongle / #HolegSpies / #DFTram / #TranquilityBass / #KillingJoke -

#VinylOnly #Podcast #DJset #Minimal #Electronic #musodon
#NowPlaying #DIY #HitsUMissed #NowListening
#VinylRecords #ExperimentalMusic
#Turntable #NowSpinning #NowHearThis

"existence"
https://hearthis.at/emuziek/mix-18022023-existence

feat. #Download / #AnemoneTube / #SchlossTegal / #PostScriptvm / #Scanner / #ThrobbingGristle / #HausArafna / #BrowningMummery / #KrylonHertz / #AdnCkrystall / #Sote - / #BillLaswell / #18eOktober -/ #Shpongle / #HolegSpies / #DFTram / #TranquilityBass / #KillingJoke -

#VinylOnly #Podcast #DJset #Minimal #Electronic #musodon
#NowPlaying #DIY #HitsUMissed #NowListening
#VinylRecords #ExperimentalMusic
#Turntable #NowSpinning #NowHearThis

#NowPlaying: #LastExit - Last Exit (1986) Some crazy, noisy #jazz from #BillLaswell, #PeterBrötzmann, #RonaldShannonJackson, and #SonnySharrock https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/last-exit-2

Last Exit's Iron Path was the CD that convinced me to finally buy a CD player in 1988. (Though ultimately "Noise of Trouble: Live in Tokyo" is my fave of their recordings.)

#PeterBrotzmann #RonaldShannonJackson #BillLaswell #SonnySharrock #PeterBrötzmann #LastExit #IronPath

Laswell x Brötzmann, Low Life, 1987. Monty is not sure about the racket. I still think it is pretty great.

#BillLaswell #PeterBrötzmann #PeterBrotzmann #LowLife #CelluloidRecords

#PeterBrötzmann in #LastExit live at Deutsches Jazzfestival, 1986 with #RonaldShannonJackson, #SonnySharrock, and #BillLaswell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKYq4H3-iKM

on now:

Pharoah Sanders – Message From Home
(1995/1996 Verve Records) produced by Bill Laswell

youtube.com/watch?v=H80349kgHrA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H80349kgHrA

#wolfsmixedbag
#PharoahSanders #BillLaswell
#jazz @jazz

Carlos Santana - Divine Light
Reconstruction & Mix Translation by Bill Laswell

2001/02.2023 Music On Vinyl MOVLP3140

numbered gatefold 2x12" yellow, red & black marbled vinyl + insert

https://www.musiconvinyl.com/catalog/carlos-santana/divine-light-reconstruction-mix-translation-by-bill-laswell

"For this album, Laswell went for the two albums that were an explicit acknowledgement of Santana's love of John Coltrane, Illuminations (1974) and Love Devotion Surrender (1973)."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKWyDBGu4B8

#wolfsmixedbag
#Santana #BillLaswell #DivineLight #AliceColtrane #JohnMcLaughlin

@Music_From_The_80ies Yes. Some difficult listening...

https://www.mixcloud.com/emuziek/existence/

#drone #darkAmbient #industrial #experimentalAmbient #Soundscape #Download #BillLaswell #Shpongle #18eOktober #ThrobbingGristle #Scanner #SchlossTegal #Sote #HolegSpies - and more!!

I keep close tabs on Bandcamp and Bandcamp Daily for new stuff -- what other sites do folks watch for new tunes? #Music

Genres: #80s #Synthwave #ClassicRock #Funk #Instrumental #IndiePop #Tuareg

Bands: #Khruangbin #JukeboxTheGhost #AimeeMann #ColinHay #TheCure #XTC #RobynHitchcock #TheWeepies #TheJayhawks #ImogenHeap #PharoahSanders #BillLaswell #Material #Reptaliens #MdouMoctar