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Bill Laswell Leftfield Downtempo Experimental 1984 US
Bill Laswell - Baselines flac album
  • Performer Bill Laswell
  • Title Baselines
  • Date of release 1984
  • Country US
  • Style Leftfield, Downtempo, Experimental
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  • Genre Electronic
  • Size MP3 1595 mb
  • Size FLAC 1397 mb
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Baselines ‎(LP, Album). Baselines ‎(Cass, Album, Dol). Elektra Musician, Elektra Musician.

William Otis Laswell (born February 12, 1955) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner. He has been involved in thousands of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. His music draws from funk, world music, jazz, dub and ambient styles

Baselines is the debut album of American composer Bill Laswell Baselines. Studio album by. Bill Laswell.

Even though Bill Laswell was already immersed in numerous projects since the end of the '70s, including leading his loose ensemble Material, he didn't release a solo record until 1983, and Baselines was quite a strange album. On the one hand, there's "Upright Man," one of the most infectious grooves Laswell has ever conceived, boasting ace bass playing and a weird taped sermon as sort-of lead vocals. Then there's "Work Song," which is funky and catchy and features Phillip Wilson's somewhat off-beat drumming (pun intended).

Tracklist

A1 Activate 3:22
A2 Work Song 7:14
A3 Hindsight 3:57
A4 Uprising 1:05
B1 Barricade 4:07
B2 Upright Man 3:52
B3 Moving Target 1:52
B4 Lowlands 4:22
B5 Conservation 3:09

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded At – OAO Studios
  • Mastered At – Masterdisk
  • Copyright (c) – OAO Records
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Rough Trade
  • Distributed By – The Cartel

Credits

  • Art Direction – Peter Corriston
  • Bass [Music Man Sting Ray, Fender Six String, Ibanez Eight String, Steinberger, Fender Fretless Precision] – Bill Laswell
  • Congas – Daniel Ponce (tracks: A2, A3, B2, B4)
  • Design [Cover Art] – Felipe Orrego
  • Drums – Phillip Wilson (tracks: A2), Ronald Shannon Jackson (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B4, B5)
  • Drums, Percussion – Martin Bisi (tracks: A3, B2, B3)
  • Executive Producer – Celluloid
  • Executive-Producer – Karakos*
  • Guitar, Violin, Instruments [Steinberger String Console] – Fred Frith (tracks: A4, B1, B4, B5)
  • Mastered By – Howie Weinberg
  • Other [Administration] – Roger Trilling
  • Photography By – Thi-Linh Le
  • Producer – Material
  • Recorded By – Martin Bisi
  • Saxophone [Bass], Clarinet [Contrabass] – Ralph Carney (tracks: A1, A2, B1)
  • Synthesizer [Profet 5], Instruments [Shortwave], Tape – Michael Beinhorn (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B2, B4, B5)
  • Trombone – George Lewis (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B4)
  • Voice, Percussion [Non Metric], Steel Drums – David Moss (tracks: A3, B5)

Notes

Recorded at OAO Studio, Brooklyn. Mastered at Masterdisk, NYC.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, hand-etched): ROUGH 51 A1
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, hand-etched): ROUGH 51 B1

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
60221-1 Bill Laswell Baselines ‎(LP, Album) Elektra Musician 60221-1 US 1983
CEL NY 6005 Bill Laswell Baselines ‎(LP, Album) Celluloid New York CEL NY 6005 US 1983
9 60221-4, SR 60221 Bill Laswell Baselines ‎(Cass, Album, Dol) Elektra Musician, Elektra Musician 9 60221-4, SR 60221 US 1983
JICK-89048 Bill Laswell Baselines ‎(CD, Album, RE, ) Jimco Records JICK-89048 Japan 1992
CPCD 8284 Bill Laswell Baselines ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM) Charly Records CPCD 8284 UK 1997


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