An Interview with Bill Laswell
David Toop, Wire, The, December 1994
For almost two decades, Bill Laswell's music has traced a long, humid trail across continents, genres, moods, atmospheres and numerous collaborations. David Toop met him in Paris to hear about hidden webs, dark trances and the whooping sounds of alarm.
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