Bill Laswell discography
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Bill Laswell discographyStudio albums 70 Soundtrack albums 5 Live albums 4 Compilation albums 8 Singles 4 Remix albums 5
This article presents the complete oeuvre of American bassist , composer and music producer Bill Laswell , including his work as a band member and collaborating artist. Laswell has an expansive and eclectic discography and has been involved in hundreds of recordings with many artists from across the world. Laswell's music is influenced by a plethora of musical genres , such as funk , world music , jazz , drum and bass , dub and ambient music . Starting in 1978, Laswell has built a reputation as an accomplished bass player and composer. He has also had a prolific career as a music producer and sound engineer, overseeing the recording process of diverse musical acts such as Sly and Robbie , Afrika Bambaataa , Bernie Worrell , Blind Idiot God , Henry Threadgill and Buckethead .[ 1]
As a solo artist
Studio albums
Under a pseudonym
Collaborative albums
Remix albums
Cover albums
Compilation albums
Soundtracks
Singles
Year
Title
Album
1984
"Work Song "
Baselines
1998
"Moody's Mood for Love"
Non-album singles
2003
"Photo Op Before a Long Hard Fuck"
2005
Todd Bridges on Lockdown/Summary Execution
Axiom series
As a band member
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilation albums
Bass guitar credits
Year
Artist
Release
Song(s)
1978
Michael Blaise and Cheater
Scoring Power (7" )
"Scoring Power"
1981
Brian Eno and David Byrne
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
"America Is Waiting"
Fred Frith
Speechless
—
Kip Hanrahan
Coup de tête
"Whatever I Want", "This Night Comes Out of Both of Us", "India Song", "Shadow to Shadow"
Elliott Sharp
Moving Info (CS )
—
John Zorn
Archery
—
1982
PHASE 2
The Roxy (12" )
—
Elliott Sharp
Ism
"Surdification", "Filter", "Just Like Here"
Elliott Sharp
Nots
"TMI", "Obvious", "Surdification", "Just Like Here", "Filter"
Brian Eno
Ambient 4: On Land
"Lizard Point"
Daevid Allen
Divided Alien Playbax 80
—
Love of Life Orchestra
Casino
—
Jill Kroesen
Stop Vicious Cycles
"Wayne Hayes Blues", "I Am Not Seeing That You Are Here", "Ride Your Pony", "I'm Sorry I'm Such a Weenie"
Fab Five Freddy
Change the Beat (12" )
—
Tribe 2
What I Like (12" )
—
1983
Daevid Allen
Alien in New York (12" )
"Are You Ready", "Oo La La"
D.St.
Crazy Cuts (12" )
—
Herbie Hancock
Future Shock
—
Fred Frith
Cheap at Half the Price
"The Welcome"
Nona Hendryx
Nona
"Run for Cover"
Daniel Ponce
New York Now!
—
Lenny White
Attitude
—
1984
Laurie Anderson
Mister Heartbreak
"Sharkey's Day", "Gravity's Angel", "Kokoku", "Excellent Birds ", "Blue Lagoon", "Sharkey's Night"
Herbie Hancock
Sound-System
"Hardrock", "Junku", "Sound-System"
Herbie Hancock
Hardrock (12" )
"Hardrock" (long ver.) , "T.F.S."
David Moss
Full House
"Tunes", "3-Way Switch"
Genji Sawai
Sowaka
—
Shango
Shango Funk Theology
—
Time Zone
World Destruction
—
Tom Verlaine
Cover
"Miss Emily"
Yellowman
King Yellowman
"Strong Me Strong", "Disco Reggae"
Yla-Mago
TYO-Rock (12" )
—
1985
Afrika Bambaataa
Kick Out the Jams (7" )
—
B-Side
Cairo Nights
"Change the Beat", "What I Like (American Dreams)"
Mick Jagger
She's the Boss
"Lonely at the Top", "Just Another Night "
Toshinori Kondo & IMA
China Boogie (12" )
—
1986
Public Image Ltd
Album
"F.F.F.", "Rise ", "Fishing", "Round", "Bags", "Home "
Laurie Anderson
Home of the Brave
"Credit Racket"
Ginger Baker
Horses & Trees
"Interlock", "Dust to Dust", "Uncut"
Peter Gabriel
So
"This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds) "
Toshinori Kondo & IMA
Konton
—
Meltable Snaps It
Points Blank
"Chigger Reel", "Crake", "Mike Me", "Points Blank"
The Stalin
Fish Inn
—
1987
The Epidemics
Do What U Do
—
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Neo Geo
—
Sonny Sharrock
Seize the Rainbow
"Sheraserhead's High-Top Sneakers"
James Blood Ulmer
America – Do You Remember the Love?
—
1988
Afrika Bambaataa
The Light
"Clean Up Your Act", "Zouk Your Body", "World Racial War"
Gettovetts
Missionaries Moving
—
James Blood Ulmer
Wings
—
1989
Menace
Doghouse
—
Robert Musso
Absolute Music
"Surakarta"
Nicky Skopelitis
Next to Nothing
—
Swans
The Burning World
—
Swans
Saved (12" )
—
1990
Akira Sakata
Mooko
—
Ginger Baker
Middle Passage
—
Bootsy's Rubber Band
Jungle Bass
—
Fred Frith
Step Across the Border
—
Niels & The New York Street Percussionists
Niels & The New York Street Percussionists
—
Mandingo
New World Power
—
Minako Yoshida
Gazer
"Gazer", "Silencer"
1991
Valentina Ponomaryova
Live in Japan
"Gotanda U-Port Hall I"
Akira Sakata
Silent Plankton
—
1992
Masabumi Kikuchi
Dreamachine
—
Robert Musso
Active Resonance
"A Dream Supreme", "Alliance", "All Funked Up", "Tanar!", "To Cross the Rubicon", "Ancient Silk Road", "The Squidge", "A Late One"
Hector Zazou
Sahara Blue
"I'll Strangle You", "Lettre au Directeur des Messageries Maritimes"
1993
Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects
Shabeesation
"A Muey a Muey", "Dunya", "Fin Roh", "Nbrik", "Nbrik" (dub version) , "El Harb"
Anton Fier
Dreamspeed
—
Umar Bin Hassan
Be Bop or Be Dead
—
Icehouse
Big Wheel (12" )
"Big Wheel" (Bill Laswell mix)
Icehouse
Big Wheel
"Melt Steel" (Parts 1-3)
The Last Poets
Black and Strong (Homesick) (12" )
—
The Last Poets
Holy Terror
—
F. Robert Lloyd
Think About Brooklyn
"Blind Willie", "Waltzing Kate", "Lullaby You", "Bloody Buddy Rumba", "Four Lives in a Day Suite", "Proverbs From Hell", "True Man Coyote", "La Femme Bachir"
Nicky Skopelitis
Ekstasis
"Meet Your Maker", "Ghost of a Chance", "One Eye Open", "Telling Time"
Hideo Yamaki
Shadow Run
—
Yothu Yindi
Freedom
—
1994
The Beatniks
Another High Exit
"Mirrors" (Bill Laswell Alien Mind-Screen mix)
Hakim Bey
T.A.Z.
—
Buckethead
Giant Robot
"Doomride", "Want Some Slaw?", "Binge and Grab ", "Robot Transmission", "Post Office Buddy", "Last Train to Bucketheadland"
Death Cube K
Dreamatorium
—
Masters of None
Stained Glass Sky
"Seven Headed Queen", "Forever Came Today", "Legends of America", "80 Worlds", "Preincarnation"
Monday Michiru
Groovement
"Is This How It Feels"
Transonic
Downstream Illusion
—
Transonic
Virtual Current
—
Vodû 155
Vodû 155
"Zaka", "Tak This Tak That", "Feel No Evil"
Zoopadelica feat. Menace
The Life and Times of One Chocolate Baby
"Secret"
1995
A.P.C.
APC Tracks Vol. 1
—
Ahlam
Acting Salam
"Tkelemti", "Ash Men Hila", "Irfiq Rak 2", "Mashi"
Cypher 7
Security
"Message Important"
Aïyb Dieng
Rhythmagick
—
Emergency Broadcast Network
Telecommunication Breakdown
"Electronic Behavior Control System", "Electronic Behavior Control" (System Ver. 2.0)
Haruomi Hosono
N.D.E.
"Navigations", "Edge of the End"
Abiodun Oyewole
25 Years
—
Julian Schnabel
Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud
—
Transonic
Future Primitive
—
John Zorn
Filmworks III: 1990–1995
"France", "USA"
1996
A.P.C.
APC Tracks Vol. 2
—
Argan
Berberism
"Tibdit"
Ashes
Corpus
—
Buckethead
The Day of the Robot
—
Niels Jensen & Jonas Hellborg
Ordinary Day
—
Jali Kunda
Griots of West Africa & Beyond
"Lanmbasy Dub"
Russell Mills
Undark
—
The Dark Side of the Moog
The Dark Side of the Moog 4
"Part I", "Part II", "Part III", "Part V", "Part VIII"
The Dark Side of the Moog
The Dark Side of the Moog 5
"Part III", "Part VII"
Paul Schütze + Phantom City
Site Anubis
"Future Nights", "An Early Mutation", "Blue Like Petrol", "Ten Acre Ghost", "Eight Legs Out of Limbo"
Stina Nordenstam
The Photographer's Wife
—
Trawl
Trawl (12" )
—
1997
Lori Carson
Everything I Touch Runs Wild
"Something's Got Me", "Something's Got Me" (Curse of the Voodoo Swamp extended mix) , "Something's Got Me" (Homegrown Fantasy mix) , "Something's Got Me" (Instant Drip Hop mix)
Chakra
Seven Centers
—
Death Cube K
Disembodied
—
Elixir
Hegalien Zone
"Automation Required", "Voyage Orientis", "Humans Being Human", "Etherus Athirst C2 H50 CD H5"
Chaba Fadela & Cheb Sahraoui
Walli
—
The Last Poets
Time Has Come
—
Paul Schütze + Phantom City
Shiva Recoil: Live/Unlive
—
Bernie Worrell
Free Agent: A Spaced Odyssey
"AfroFuturism (Phazed One)", "In Pursuit"
1998
Almamegretta
Lingo
"47", "Black Athena", "Berberia"
A.P.C.
On Goes the Beat/Oriental Disco (12" )
"Oriental Disco"
Lili Boniche
Alger Alger
—
Lili Boniche
Boniche Dub
—
Buckethead
Colma
"Machete"
Cypher 7
Nothing Lasts
"Message Important"
Dubadelic
Bass Invaders
—
Dub Syndicate
Fear of a Green Planet
—
Enzo Gragnaniello
Neapolis mantra
"Il Viaggio del Sole" (remix)
Jivamukti Yoga Center
Basic Yoga Class
—
The Men Xperience
La Mancha Negra: The Black Stain
"End the Sin", "Backdoor"
Meridiem
Meridiem
—
Mœbius
Creatore di Universi
—
Nia Monet
Laissez Faire
"Secrets of Life"
Professor Shehab & Robert Musso
Ataxia
—
Sapho
Digital Sheikha
"Sois Plus Radical", "Laouah", "Petit Demon", "Dabayji"
Talvin Singh
OK
"Soni"
1999
Percy Howard
Incidental Seductions
"Succubus"
Russell Mills
Innermedium
—
O Rappa
Lado B Lado A
—
DJ Cheb i Sabbah
Shri Durga
"Shri Durga", "Kese Kese", "Mere Kaku", "Gangta Dev"
Jah Wobble
Deep Space
"Disks, Winds and Veiling Curtains"
John Zorn
Taboo & Exile
"Sacrifist", "Thaalapalassi", "The Possessed"
2000
Sting
Brand New Day: The Remixes
"A Thousand Years" (Bill Laswell remix)
2001
Gigi
Gigi
—
Herbie Hancock
Future 2 Future
—
Robert Miles
Organik
"Release Me", "Improvisations" (Parts 1 & 2)
Qaballah Steppers
Imaginatrix
"Automation", "Last Exit"
Akira Sakata
Fisherman's.com
—
James Blood Ulmer
Blue Blood
—
2002
Robert Musso
Axiomatic
"For the Sky to Clear"
DJ Cheb i Sabbah
Krishna Lila
"Narajanma Bandage", "Maname Diname", "Raja Vedalu", "Lagi Lagan", "Rupa Tujhe Deva"
Jah Wobble's Solaris
Live in Concert
—
John Zorn
IAO
—
2003
Audio Leter
Neti-Neti
"Liberation from Samsara"
Lili Haydn
Light Blue Sun
"Light Blue Sun (Prelude)", "Anything", "Wounded Dove", "The Longing", "The Chinese Song", "Seek", "Anything" (Radio edit)
Karsh Kale
Liberation
"Milan"
Lucky Peterson
Black Midnight Sun [ 3]
—
Pharoah Sanders /Graham Haynes
With a Heartbeat
—
2004
Azzddine
Massafat
—
Gigi
Gold & Wax
—
Meridiem
A Pleasant Fiction
—
Kankawa 122
Greatfull Remixers
"Limbic System" (Bill Laswell mix)
Ustad Sultan Khan
Rare Elements
—
2005
Cheb i Sabbah
La Kahena
—
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Artifact: Perspectives
"Tokyo Shinjuku" (Flashback mix)
2006
Ashes
Unisono
—
D. Rad
Il Lato D
"Estrazione" (Electric Heater mix)
GOMA
Soul of Rite
—
Akiko Grace
Illume
—
Maghrebika
Neftakhir
—
DJ Cheb i Sabbah
La Ghibra
—
Samsara Sound System
Tales of the Red Dawn
"Dawn at the Devils Tower", "Round the Corner"
2007
Dorian Cheah
ARA
—
Raiz
Uno
—
Sigillum S
23/20
—
Submerged
Stars Lights the End
—
2008
Sussan Deyhim
Out of Faze
"Maze" (remix) , "Tell Me" (remix)
HiM
1110
"Sikyi Rock"
Kasbah Rockers
Kasbah Rockers
"Hikayati", "Bred Atay", "Al Rafel", "Bledstyle", "Mafi Tika", "Fikou", "Hellou Al Biban", "Hashouma", "Shems", "Rassoul Al Houda"
Toy Killers
The Unlistenable Years
"Smokey Raindrops", "Green Dolphin Sweet", "Corrugated Gems of Woe", "Bleed for the Mind", "The Devil May Be Your Santa Claus" (studio version)
2009
Martin Bisi
Son of a Gun (EP )
"Mile High - Apple of My Eye"
Death Cube K
Torn From Black Space
—
Jai Uttal and The Pagan Love Orchestra
Thunder Love
"Adonai"
2010
Sussan Deyhim
City of Leaves
"Searching for You"
Tomás Doncker
Small World
"Conscience of the World" (Bill Laswell mix)
Garrison Hawk
Livin' the Genocide
"Gangsta Roll" (Bill Laswell mix)
2011
Tomás Doncker
Power of the Trinity
"Conscience of the World", "Peace Is Not Fiction"
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Rise Again
—
2012
John Zorn
Nosferatu
—
2015
Samuel Claiborne
Love, Lust, and Genocide
"The Heart Is A Bomb"
"—" denotes a credit for the entire release.
Production credits
Year
Artist
Release
Role(s)
Song(s)
1984
Laurie Anderson
Mister Heartbreak
Producer
"Sharkey's Day", "Kokoku", "Sharkey's Night"
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin & D.St.
Mean Machine (12" )
Producer
—
Herbie Hancock
Sound-System
Producer
—
Toshinori Kondo & IMA
Taihen
Mixing
—
Fela Kuti
Army Arrangement
Producer, Remixing
—
Gil Scott-Heron
Re-Ron (12" )
Producer
—
1985
Afrika Bambaataa
Kick Out the Jams (7" )
Producer
"Kick Out the Jams"
Manu Dibango
Electric Africa
Producer
—
Herbie Hancock and Foday Musa Suso
Village Life
Producer
—
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Decode Yourself
Producer
—
Mick Jagger
She's the Boss
Producer
—
Toshinori Kondo & IMA
China Boogie (12" )
Co-producer
—
The Last Poets
Oh My People
Producer
—
Touré Kunda
Natalia
Producer
—
Sly and Robbie
Language Barrier
Producer
—
Yoko Ono
Starpeace
Producer
—
1986
Public Image Ltd
Album
Producer
—
Ginger Baker
Horses & Trees
Producer
—
Manu Dibango
Makossa '87 (Big Blow) (12" )
Producer
—
Peter Gabriel
In Your Eyes (12" )
Producer
—
Toshinori Kondo & IMA
Konton
Producer
—
Motörhead
Orgasmatron
Producer
—
Sonny Sharrock
Guitar
Producer
—
The Stalin
Fish Inn
Producer
—
1987
Mandingo feat. Foday Musa Suso
Watto Sitta
Producer
—
Motörhead
Rock 'n' Roll
Producer, engineering
"Eat the Rich "
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Neo Geo
Producer
—
Sonny Sharrock
Seize the Rainbow
Producer
—
Sly and Robbie
Rhythm Killers
Producer
—
James Blood Ulmer
America – Do You Remember the Love?
Producer
—
1988
Afrika Bambaataa
The Light
Producer
"Clean Up Your Act", "Zouk Your Body", "World Racial War"
Blind Idiot God
Undertow
Producer
—
Bootsy Collins
What's Bootsy Doin'?
Producer
"Shock-It-To-Me"
Gettovetts
Missionaries Moving
Producer
—
Herbie Hancock
Perfect Machine
Producer
—
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Texas
Producer, mixing
—
Iggy Pop
Instinct
Producer
—
Samulnori
Record of Changes
Producer
—
1989
Menace
Doghouse
Producer
—
Ramones
Brain Drain
Producer
—
Nicky Skopelitis
Next to Nothing
Producer
—
Foday Musa Suso
Julu Kemo
Producer
—
Swans
The Burning World
Producer
—
Swans
Saved (12" )
Producer
"Saved ", "See No More" (acoustic ver.)
White Zombie
Make Them Die Slowly
Producer
—
Stevie Salas
Colorcode
Producer
—
1990
Akira Sakata
Mooko
Producer
—
Ginger Baker
Middle Passage
Producer
—
Bootsy's Rubber Band
Jungle Bass
Producer
—
Gnawa Music of Marrakesh
Night Spirit Masters
Producer
—
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Taboo
Producer
—
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Red Warrior
Producer
—
Limbomaniacs
Stinky Grooves
Producer
—
Mandingo
New World Power
Producer
—
Mandinka and Fulani Music of The Gambia
Ancient Heart
Producer
—
Maceo Parker
For All the King's Men
Producer
—
Simon Shaheen
The Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab
Producer
—
Shankar
Soul Searcher
Producer
—
Foday Musa Suso
The Dreamtime
Producer
—
Bernie Worrell
Funk of Ages
Producer
"Volunteered Slavery/Bern's Blues/Outer Spaceways", "At Mos'Spheres"
1991
Apollo Smile
Apollo Smile
Remixing
"Thunder Box"
F.F.F.
Blast Culture
Producer
—
Jonas Hellborg
The Word
Producer
—
Akira Sakata
Silent Plankton
Producer
—
Sonny Sharrock
Ask the Ages
Producer
—
Nicky Skopelitis /Sonny Sharrock
Faith Moves
Producer
—
X-Legged Sally
Slow-Up
Producer
—
1992
Bahia Black
Ritual Beating System
Producer
—
Bachir Attar
The Next Dream
Producer
—
Blind Idiot God
Cyclotron
Producer
—
Bomb
Hate Fed Love
Producer
—
Hardware
Third Eye Open
Producer
—
Icehouse
Masterfile
Producer, mixing
"Love in Motion ", "Byrralku Dhangudha"
Masabumi Kikuchi
Dreamachine
Producer
—
The Master Musicians of Jajouka
Apocalypse Across the Sky
Producer
—
N-Factor
Paradigmashift
Mixing
—
Talip Özkan
The Dark Fire
Producer
—
Simon Shaheen
Turath (Heritage)
Producer
—
1993
Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects
Shabeesation
Producer
"A Muey a Muey", "Dunya", "Fin Roh", "Nbrik", "Nbrik" (dub version) , "El Harb"
William S. Burroughs
Words of Advice for Young People (12" )
Remixing
"Interzone" (radio edit) , "Mutatis Mutandis" (radio edit) , "Interzone" (extended mix) , "Mutatis Mutandis - Lemurs In the Mist" (Interzone mix) , "Mutatis Mutandis" (mix)
George Clinton
Hey, Man, Smell My Finger
Co-producer
"Maximumisness"
Icehouse
Spin One (12" )
Producer
"Byrralku Dhangudha"
Icehouse
Big Wheel (12" )
Producer
"Big Wheel" (Bill Laswell mix)
Icehouse
Big Wheel
Producer
"Slow Motion", "The Great Southern Mix"
The Last Poets
Black and Strong (Homesick) (12" )
Producer
—
The Last Poets
Holy Terror
Producer
—
O.G. Funk
Out of the Dark
Producer
—
Nicky Skopelitis
Ekstasis
Producer
—
Soon E MC
O.P.I.D. (12" )
Producer, remix
—
Henry Threadgill
Too Much Sugar for a Dime
Producer
—
Bernie Worrell
Pieces of Woo: The Other Side
Producer
—
Bernie Worrell
Blacktronic Science
Producer
—
X-Legged Sally
Killed By Charity
Producer
—
Hideo Yamaki
Shadow Run
Producer
—
Yothu Yindi
Freedom
Producer
"World of Innocence", "Baywara", "Mabo", "Yolngu Boy"
Zillatron
Lord of the Harvest
Producer
—
1994
Azonic
Halo
Producer
—
The Beatniks
Another High Exit
Producer, remix
"Mirrors" (Bill Laswell Alien Mind-Screen mix)
Hakim Bey
T.A.Z.
Producer
—
Buckethead
Giant Robot
Producer
—
Cypher 7
Decoder
Producer
—
Death Cube K
Dreamatorium
Producer
—
Mahmoud Guinia
The Trance of the Seven Colors
Producer
—
King Cobb Steelie
Project Twinkle
Producer
—
Mephiskapheles
God Bless Satan
Producer
—
Buddy Miles Express
Hell and Back
Producer
—
Slave Master
Under the Six
Producer
—
Liu Sola
Blues in the East
Producer
—
Vodû 155
Vodû 155
Producer
"Vodu Funkadelic", "Zaka", "Tak This Tak That", "Feel No Evil"
Jah Wobble
The Sun Does Rise
Co-producer, mixing
"Om Namah Shiva" (Transformation of the Heart mix)
1995
A.P.C.
APC Tracks Vol. 1
Producer
—
Ahlam
Acting Salam
Producer
"Tkelemti", "Ash Men Hila", "Irfiq Rak 2", "Mashi"
Paul Bowles
Baptism of Solitude
Producer
—
Justin K. Broadrick /Azonic
Subsonic 3: Skinner's Black Laboratories
Producer
"River Blindness", "Nine Tails"
Cypher 7
Security
Producer
—
Aïyb Dieng
Rhythmagick
Producer
—
Emergency Broadcast Network
Telecommunication Breakdown
Co-producer, mixing
"Shoot the Mac 10"
GOD
Appeal to Human Greed
Producer
"Bloodstream" (The Evening Redness in the West mix)
Haruomi Hosono
N.D.E.
Producer
"Navigations", "Edge of the End"
Mutiny
Aftershock 2005
Co-producer
—
Nicklebag
12 Hits and a Bump
Co-producer
—
Abiodun Oyewole
25 Years
Producer
—
Julian Schnabel
Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud
Producer
—
Scorn
Ellipsis
Remixing
"Night Ash Black" (Slow Black Underground River mix)
Henry Threadgill
Carry the Day
Producer
—
Henry Threadgill
Makin' a Move
Producer
—
Jah Wobble
Heaven and Earth
Producer
"Gone to Croatan", "Hit Me"
1996
A.P.C.
APC Tracks Vol. 2
Producer
—
Ashes
Corpus
Producer, mixing
—
Buckethead
The Day of the Robot
Producer
—
Anne Clark
Letter of Thanks to a Friend (12" )
Remixing
—
Kodo
Ibuki
Producer
—
Jali Kunda
Griots of West Africa & Beyond
Producer
—
Makyo
Rasa Bhava
Co-producer, mixing
"Devabandha"
Nûs
All The Vertical Angels
Producer
—
Stevie Salas
Color Code
Producer
—
Pharoah Sanders
Message from Home
Producer
—
Sonny Sharrock
Into Another Light
Producer
—
Liu Sola /Wu Man
China Collage
Producer
—
Trawl
Trawl (12" )
Mixing
"Wireless" (Rupture mix)
1997
Chakra
Seven Centers
Producer
—
George Clinton
Get Yo Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me (Single )
Producer
—
Death Cube K
Disembodied
Producer
—
Chaba Fadela & Cheb Sahraoui
Walli
Producer
—
The Last Poets
Time Has Come
Producer
—
Henry Threadgill & Make a Move
Where's Your Cup?
Producer
—
Jai Uttal and The Pagan Love Orchestra
Shiva Station
Mixing
—
Bernie Worrell
Free Agent: A Spaced Odyssey
Co-producer, mixing
—
1998
A.P.C.
On Goes the Beat/Oriental Disco (12" )
Producer
"Oriental Disco"
The Bogmen
Closed Captioned Radio
Producer
—
Lili Boniche
Alger Alger
Producer
—
Lili Boniche
Boniche Dub
Producer, mixing
—
Buckethead
Colma
Producer
"Machete"
Cypher 7
Nothing Lasts
Producer
—
Enzo Gragnaniello
Neapolis mantra
Remix
"Il Viaggio del Sole" (remix)
Jivamukti Yoga Center
Basic Yoga Class
Recording , mixing
—
The Men Xperience
La Mancha Negra: The Black Stain
Recording
—
Mœbius
Creatore di Universi
Recording
—
Naftule's Dream
Smash, Clap!
Mixing
—
Nûs
Inside Is the Only Way Out
Producer
—
Pharoah Sanders
Save Our Children
Producer
—
Sapho
Digital Sheikha
Producer, mixing
"Sois Plus Radical", "Laouah", "Petit Demon", "Dabayji"
1999
A.P.C.
Havana Mood/Rhum and Bass
Producer
—
Buckethead
Monsters and Robots
Producer
"Night of the Slunk"
Laurel MacDonald
Wingspan
Remix
"A Wing & a Prayer" (Bill Laswell mix)
Medeski Martin & Wood
Combustication Remix EP
Remix
"Satan's Church of Hypnotized Logic" (Bill Laswell remix)
O Rappa
Lado B Lado A
Producer
"Lado B Lado A", "Na Palma Da Mão"
DJ Cheb i Sabbah
Shri Durga
Recording
—
Jah Wobble
Deep Space
Producer
"Disks, Winds and Veiling Curtains"
2000
The Damage Manual
The Damage Manual
Mixing
"King Mob", "Denial", "Broadcasting", "Blame and Demand", "Damage Addict" (Laswell mix) , "Stateless" (Laswell mix)
Enrico Macias
Enrico Experience
Remix
"L'oriental" (Laswell remix) , "Le Violon de mon pére" (Laswell remix)
Millennium Project
Simulasticity
Mixing
—
Sting
Brand New Day: The Remixes
Remix
"A Thousand Years" (Bill Laswell remix)
2001
A.P.C.
APC Dance: Ignore the Beat
Producer
—
Mari Boine
Remixed
Remix
"Maid Áiggot Muinna Eallin" (Bill Laswell remix)
Freeform
Audiotourism Reinterpretations: Vietnam and China
Remix
"Lost World"
Gonervill
Gonervill
Co-producer
—
Herbie Hancock
Future 2 Future
Producer
—
Nils Petter Molvær
Recoloured
Co-producer, mixing
"Merciful/Ligotage" (Incunabula mix)
Naftule's Dream
Job
Mixing
—
Akira Sakata
Fisherman's.com
Producer
—
Carlos Santana
Divine Light: Mix Translations
Mixing
—
Henry Threadgill
Everybodys Mouth's a Book
Mixing
—
Henry Threadgill
Up Popped the Two Lips
Recording, mixing
—
James Blood Ulmer
Blue Blood
Producer
—
2002
Karsh Kale
Redesign: Realize Remixed
Remix
"Empty Hands" (Bill Laswell mix)
Angélique Kidjo
Black Ivory Soul
Producer
—
Nils Petter Molvær
Axis of Ignorance (12" )
Remix
"Frozen" (Northern Light mix)
Rovo
Tonic 2001
Mixing
—
DJ Cheb i Sabbah
Krishna Lila
Recording
—
Vida Blue
Most Events Aren't Planned
Remix
"Most Events Aren't Planned" (Dreams of Tee Point mix)
Satlah
Children of Israel
Producer, mixing
—
2003
Abyssinia Infinite
Zion Roots
Producer
—
Audio Leter
Neti-Neti
Remix
"Liberation from Samsara"
Lili Haydn
Light Blue Sun
Producer
"Light Blue Sun (Prelude)", "Come Here", "Wounded Dove", "Sweetness", "Seek", "Home", "The Promised Land"
Jon Madof
Rashanim
Mixing
—
Lucky Peterson
Black Midnight Sun
Producer
—
Pharoah Sanders /Graham Haynes
With a Heartbeat
Producer
—
Serj Tankian and Arto Tunçboyaciyan
Narina (12" )
Remix
"Narina" (Bill Laswell mix)
2004
Oz Fritz
All Around the World
Co-producer
—
Gigi
Gold & Wax
Producer
—
Kankawa 122
Greatfull Remixers
Remix
"Limbic System" (Bill Laswell mix)
Ryukyu Underground
Ryukyu Remixed
Remix
"Koi No Michi Kusa" (Bill Laswell mix)
Sly and Robbie
Version Born
Producer
—
Yulduz
Bilmadim
Remix
"Kiss Me" (Bill Laswell mix)
2005
Buckethead
Enter the Chicken
Engineering
"Running from the Light"
Nils Petter Molvær
Remakes
Co-producer, remix
"Frozen"
Cheb i Sabbah
La Kahena
Recording
—
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Artifact: Perspectives
Remix
"Tokyo Shinjuku" (Flashback mix)
2006
Ashes
Unisono
Mixing
—
D. Rad
Il Lato D
Remix
"Estrazione" (Electric Heater mix)
Akiko Grace
Illume
Producer
—
Matisyahu
Youth
Producer
—
Matisyahu
No Place to Be
Remix
"Jerusalem (Out of Darkness Comes Light) ", "Chop 'em Down", "Warrior", "Message in a Bottle", "Message in a Bottle" (dub version)
Muddy World
Finery of the Storm
Mixing
—
Roots Tonic
Roots Tonic Meets Bill Laswell
Producer, mixing
—
DJ Cheb i Sabbah
La Ghibra
Recording
—
John Zorn
Moonchild: Songs Without Words
Mixing
—
John Zorn
Astronome
Mixing
—
2007
Dorian Cheah
ARA
Producer
—
Nine Inch Nails
Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D
Remix
"Vessel" (Bill Laswell mix)
Raiz
Uno
Mixing
—
John Zorn
Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
Recording, mixing
—
John Zorn
Asmodeus: Book of Angels Volume 7
Recording, mixing
—
2008
Enzo Avitabile & Bottari
Festa Farina E Forca
Producer
"Mamm"
Anthony Braxton /Milford Graves /William Parker
Beyond Quantum
Producer, mixing
—
Sussan Deyhim
Out of Faze
Remix
"Bashad", "Maze" (remix)
Hal and The Big Five
Umoya
Mixing
—
2009
Death Cube K
Torn From Black Space
Producer
—
Dr. Israel
Gangsta N Police (12" )
Producer, mixing
—
The Project_Pale
Our Inventions and How They Fail Us
Mixing
—
Jai Uttal and The Pagan Love Orchestra
Thunder Love
Mixing
—
2010
Beatundercontrol
Beatundercontrol in Dub
Remix
"Secrets of Fascination" (Bill Laswell mix)
Sussan Deyhim
City of Leaves
Producer
"Searching for You"
Tomas Doncker
Small World
Co-producer, remix
"Conscience of the World" (Bill Laswell mix)
Garrison Hawk
Livin' the Genocide
Remix
"Gangsta Roll" (Bill Laswell mix)
2011
Animation
Agemo
Producer, remix
"Pharoah's Dance" (Son of Panthalassa remix)
Tomas Doncker
Power of the Trinity
Co-producer
—
Loud Apartment
Get Up Get Down
Mixing
—
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Rise Again
Producer
—
2012
Dr. Israel
Ghetto Defendant
Mixing
—
Garrison Hawk
Survive
Producer
—
Jano
Ertale
Producer
—
Jano
Ertale
Mixing
—
Naked Truth
Ouroboros
Mixing
—
John Zorn
Nosferatu
Mixing
—
2013
Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band
Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band (12" )
Mixing
"Mad Lifeline"
Suphala
Alien Ancestry
Remix
"Vashikaran"
Bernie Worrell
Elevation: Upper Air
Producer
"World of Innocence", "Baywara", "Mabo", "Yolngu Boy"
Mumpbeak
Mumpbeak
Co-producer, mixing
—
2014
Abraxas
Psychomagia
Mixing
—
Colin Edwin /Lorenzo Feliciati
Twinscapes
Mixing
—
Helio Parallax
Helio Parallax
Mixing
—
2015
Blind Idiot God
Before Ever After
Producer
—
"—" denotes a credit for the entire release.
Other credits
Year
Artist
Release
Credit
Song(s)
1983
Nona Hendryx
Nona
Musical arrangements
—
1984
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin & D.St.
Mean Machine (12" )
Shortwave
—
Nona Hendryx
The Art of Defense
Tapes
"I Sweat", "The Life", "Electricity"
Toshinori Kondo & IMA
Taihen
Tapes
—
Genji Sawai
Sowaka
Musical arrangements
—
Gil Scott-Heron
Re-Ron (12" )
DMX , radio
—
Time Zone
World Destruction
DMX
—
Yla-Mago
TYO-Rock (12" )
Tapes
—
1985
Manu Dibango
Electric Africa
DMX
"Pata Piya", "Echos Beti"
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Decode Yourself
drum programming
"Decoding"
The Last Poets
Oh My People
DMX
"Get Movin'"
1987
Mandingo feat. Foday Musa Suso
Watto Sitta
DMX programming
—
1990
Bootsy's Rubber Band
Jungle Bass
Musical arrangements
—
1993
Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects
Shabeesation
Effects , loops
"A Muey a Muey", "Dunya", "Fin Roh", "Nbrik", "Nbrik" (dub version) , "El Harb"
Bernie Worrell
Pieces of Woo: The Other Side
Samples , loops, effects
"Gladiator Skull", "Moon Over Brixton", "Judie's Passion Purple", "Fields of Play"
Bernie Worrell
Blacktronic Science
Loops
"Flex", "Won't Go Away"
Yothu Yindi
Freedom
Musical arrangements
"World of Innocence", "Baywara", "Mabo", "Yolngu Boy"
Zillatron
Lord of the Harvest
Ambient sounds
—
1994
Azonic
Halo
Musical arrangements
—
Hakim Bey
T.A.Z.
Musical arrangements
—
Death Cube K
Dreamatorium
Musical arrangements, effects
—
1995
A.P.C.
APC Tracks Vol. 1
Effects
—
Ahlam
Acting Salam
Musical arrangements
"Tkelemti", "Ash Men Hila", "Irfiq Rak 2", "Mashi"
Paul Bowles
Baptism of Solitude
Musical arrangements
—
Emergency Broadcast Network
Telecommunication Breakdown
Effects
"Electronic Behavior Control System", "Electronic Behavior Control" (System Ver. 2.0)
Spectre
The Illness
Intro voice
"9th Secret Rule of the Order"
1996
A.P.C.
APC Tracks Vol. 2
Effects
—
Argan
Berberism
Intro voice
"Tibdit"
Ashes
Corpus
Musical arrangements
—
Buckethead
The Day of the Robot
drums
—
Dubadelic
2000: A Bass Odyssey
Samples, loops, effects
—
Jali Kunda
Griots of West Africa & Beyond
Samples
"Lanmbasy Dub"
Russell Mills
Undark
Drones
—
The Dark Side of the Moog
The Dark Side of the Moog 4
Sound collage
"Part I", "Part II", "Part III", "Part V", "Part VIII"
The Dark Side of the Moog
The Dark Side of the Moog 5
Effects
"Part III", "Part VII"
Satori
Invisible Rhythm
Effects
"Relocations"
1997
Chakra
Seven Centers
Effects
—
Chaba Fadela & Cheb Sahraoui
Walli
Effects
—
The Last Poets
Time Has Come
Loops, effects
—
The Dark Side of the Moog
The Dark Side of the Moog 6
Effects
"Part IV"
Sri Hari
One But Different
Effects
—
1998
A.P.C.
On Goes the Beat/Oriental Disco (12" )
Effects
"Oriental Disco"
Lili Boniche
Alger Alger
Synthesizers
—
Lili Boniche
Boniche Dub
Synthesizers
—
Enzo Gragnaniello
Neapolis mantra
Effects
"Il Viaggio del Sole" (remix)
Jivamukti Yoga Center
Basic Yoga Class
Effects
—
Mœbius
Creatore di Universi
Samples, effects
—
1999
A.P.C.
Havana Mood/Rhum and Bass
Musical arrangements
—
2001
Gigi
Gigi
Guitar , synthesizer
—
Nils Petter Molvær
Recoloured
Effects
"Merciful/Ligotage" (Incunabula mix)
2002
Buckethead
Funnel Weaver
Samples
—
2003
Abyssinia Infinite
Zion Roots
Musical arrangements, acoustic guitar , keyboards
—
Pharoah Sanders /Graham Haynes
With a Heartbeat
Musical arrangements, keyboards, flute
—
2004
Gigi
Gold & Wax
Guitar , synthesizer
—
Sly and Robbie
Version Born
Musical arrangements, guitar, keyboards
—
2006
D. Rad
Il Lato D
Effects
"Estrazione" (Electric Heater mix)
Akiko Grace
Illume
Electronics
—
2008
Sussan Deyhim
Out of Faze
Programming
"Maze" (remix) , "Tell Me" (remix)
2009
Death Cube K
Torn From Black Space
Effects
—
2011
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Rise Again
Effects
—
2012
Garrison Hawk
Survive
Musical arrangements, effects
—
"—" denotes a credit for the entire release.
References
General
Notes
External links
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Studio albums As a pseudonym Remix albums Cover albums Soundtrack albums Compilations
Collaborative
Other albums