Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
Bill Laswellis an American bassist, producer and record label owner...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth12 February 1955
CountryUnited States of America
mean thinking space
Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think it just means the atmosphere or what defines the environment of sound and maybe removing the more destructive, harsh elements and harder rhythmic elements and you get down to the stillness that's inherent. There's an ambient quality in every sound. You may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.
thinking years play
Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. I don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but I'm sure there's some connection. But in all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. I think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.
generic less music noise people pop until whether
I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.
bob dub interest reggae time unusual
I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican songs, Bob Marley, or any of those established artists. I just thought it was such an unusual sound.
decoration music
I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.
technology viable
I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.
background cold lack music producers technology
Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
exactly looking time
I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.
careers people existence
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
house atmosphere quality
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
moving long listening
If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
sides jazz tradition
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
play people valuable
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
sound life-experience
Sound comes out of a life experience.