American - Musician | February 12, 1955 -
I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.
Bill Laswell
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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.
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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.
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Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
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Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.
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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.
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Sound comes out of a life experience.
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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.
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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.
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People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
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Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
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The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.
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