http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6972&rws=%2Fmaterial%2Ftop-tracks.rssMore a shifting group of collaborating musicians than a band, the music of Bill Laswell's brainchild Material is a relentless cross-pollination of genres and traditions. Laswell's far-reaching vision includes elements of Funk, hip-hop, Dub, Ambient, Fusion, Progressive Rock, and music from North India and the Middle East. On each of the band's releases, several of these elements orbit around the rock-solid fulcrum of Laswell's subterranean bass, subsumed into a down-tempo groove based in Funk and Dub. Their latest outing finds them in a hip-hop frame of mind, with Kool Keith dropping cosmically minded, often unsettling meditations on the coming millennium over spooky drones, white noise, and Kut Masta Kurt's turntable scratches. Laswell's music presents the darker side of a globalizing culture, containing with it a larger sense of displacement and anxiety. It's from neither Manhattan, nor Jamaica, nor the Himalayas, yet a fusion of those three places with a simultaneous alienation from all. - Marc KateExperimentalen720Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:13:14 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6972&rws=%2Fmaterial%2Ftop-tracks.rss More a shifting group of collaborating musicians than a band, the music of Bill Laswell's brainchild Material is a relentless cross-pollination of genres and traditions. Laswell's far-reaching vision includes elements of Funk, hip-hop, Dub, Ambient, Fusion, Progressive Rock, and music from North India and the Middle East. On each of the band's releases, several of these elements orbit around the rock-solid fulcrum of Laswell's subterranean bass, subsumed into a down-tempo groove based in Funk and Dub. 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It's from neither Manhattan, nor Jamaica, nor the Himalayas, yet a fusion of those three places with a simultaneous alienation from all. - Marc Kate http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.24817610&variant=play&rws=%2Fmaterial%2Ftop-tracks.rss Experimental Sat, 1 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 Top Tracks by Material on Rhapsody Online 24817610 tra.24817610 Material art.6972 0.99 Tomorrow alb.24775853 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/1/6/0/1/1501061_170x170.jpg 2007-09-01 00:00:00.0 2007-09-01 00:00:00.0 true Moving to Seattle tra.24817610 209000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.24817610&variant=play&rws=%2Fmaterial%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.24817610&variant=data&rws=%2Fmaterial%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.15424861&variant=play&rws=%2Fmaterial%2Ftop-tracks.rss Experimental Thu, 1 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Material on Rhapsody Online 15424861 tra.15424861 Material art.6972 0.99 ZE Christmas Album alb.15411670 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