baselines is a great early one. avant-funk with an edge. similar to the early material album memory serves. i love hear no evil, most recently available as a 2 cd set from meta. beautiful, kind of indian vibe with l. shankar on violin, nicky skopeltitis on acoustic slide guitar (mostly), laswell on lots of slide bass and a killer percussion trio of zakir hussain, aiyb dieng and daniel ponce. seven souls is the best material album. there's a version on triloka that sports a couple superfluous remixes, and another album (also on triloka) of completely inessential remixes (imho) called road to the western lands. that's just laswell/material highlights. he's had the heavy production hand on lots of other stuff i still like, but it gets pretty overwhelming. and the last exit stuff is all quite powerful, but a different bag altogether. he's definitely a guy who needs a better self-editing function, but it seems just when i think he's completely devoid of ideas and recycling himself ad infinitum, he comes up with something interesting again. my two cents, sean Hi there, I never considered myself a Bill Laswell fan until I discovered "Filmtracks 2000", "Invisible Design", some of his work with Toshinori Kondo and Ernaldo Bernocci and Material's "Hallucination Engine". I already knew his discography has enormous proportions so I thought it would be good to ask you what you think are his ESSENTIAL albums, regardless of genre (dub, ambient, funk, whatever). Painkiller is covered yet. I never thought I'd get this guys work... Many thanks in advance. Best, Efrén del Valle ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es _______________________________________________ zorn-list mailing list zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list