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Bass Culture: A continuous flow of over 16 minutes, broken into seven individual, connected pieces. Dub, ambient and experimental electric basses are the focus... arranged and assembled by bassist / producer, Bill Laswell and featuring funk icon William Bootsy Collins ( James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, Bootsy’s Rubber Band), Robbie Shakespeare - one half of the mighty Jamaica rhythm / bass matrix - Sly & Robbie..., UK bass legend, Jah Wobble (P.I.L.) and Gabe Katz - bassist with the extreme dub / metal assault team - Blind Idiot God...
Diverse and intense directions from the low end universe.
credits
released October 30, 2015
produced & arranged by Bill Laswell recorded & mixed at
Greenpoint Studio, Greenpoint, Brooklyn engineer: Robert Musso
cover photograph by Richard Edson
cover design by Yoko Yamabe @ Randesign
M.O.D. Technologies: Yoko Yamabe
M.O.D. Support: Dave Brunelle
supported by 10 fans who also own “Bass Culture EP”
All these trax are good. James Blood Ulmer, via Ornette, enabled me to emerge from my be-bop coffin 1981. Harmolodics & the No Wave inspired the formation of Great White Noise, Sydney 1982-83. I'm still enjoying shaking off the rigamort. Am happy to dance with idiots.
Michael Sheridan