Axiom (music label)
Axiom was a record label founded in 1989 by bassist and producer Bill Laswell . The releases were initially distributed by Island Records , whose founder and CEO Chris Blackwell was open to Laswell's creative ideas. In 1997, Axiom switched to Blackwell's new label Palm Pictures, before Laswell founded the follow-up project Innerhythmic in 1999 .
philosophy
Laswell founded Axiom in order to realize his ideas of a progressive, cross-genre world music and not to have to subordinate it to the economic constraints of conventional record companies, but this did not prevent him from running another label called Subharmonic as well as on numerous other labels such as Douglas, ION and Meta to publish.
Laswell designed numerous albums for Axiom under headings such as Axiom Funk , Axiom Dub or Axiom Ambient , often with mythical-mystical subtitles such as Funkcronomicon or Assassin Knowledges of the Remanipulated, and realized these with musicians from various musical genres. Recurring partners here were the funk musicians Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell , the experimental guitarists Buckethead and Nicky Skopelitis , the percussionist Aiyb Dieng, hip-hop musicians such as DJ Disk and the jazz great Herbie Hancock . Laswell produced the majority of the albums together with his long-time companion Robert Musso .
The label MOD Technologies, founded in 2011 by Laswell with Giacomo Bruzzo ( RareNoise Records ), aims to build on the philosophy of Axiom.
successes
Laswell used Axiom mainly for the publication of his well-known projects Material and Practice and later for Tabla Beat Science with Zakir Hussain . In addition, Laswell developed his forms of ambient and dub on numerous albums up to the remix of the music of Bob Marley ( Dreams of Freedom ) and the setting of Hakim Bey's work Temporary Autonome Zone .
With Ask The Ages by Sonny Sharrock (1991) and Arc Of The Testimony with Tony Williams (1997), important late works by the two artists who died a short time later were realized.
Artwork
Most of the record covers were created by the American graphic artist James Koehnline, which gives many publications a uniform line. Other covers are by graffiti artist and hip-hop musician Rammellzee .
Selected discography
- Simon Shaheen : The Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab (1990)
- Ginger Baker : Middle Passage (1990)
- Sonny Sharrock : Ask the Ages (1991)
- Practice : Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) (1992)
- Umar Bin Hassan : Be Bop or Be Dead (1993)
- Maleem Mahmoud Ghania feat. Pharoah Sanders The Trance of Seven Colors (1994)
- Hakim Bey : TAZ (1994)
- Axiom Funk - Funkcronomicon (1995)
- Altered Beats - Assassin Knowledges of the Remanipulated (1996)
- Bob Marley : Dreams of Freedom - Ambient Translations of Bob Marley In Dub (1997)
- Arcana : Arc of the Testimony (1997)
- Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell : Radioaxiom - A Dub Transmission (2001)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://music.hyperreal.org/labels/axiom/axibook1.html
- ↑ http://music.hyperreal.org/labels/axiom/others.html
- ↑ http://music.hyperreal.org/labels/axiom/imports.html
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://music.hyperreal.org/labels/axiom/sonny.html
- ↑ http://music.hyperreal.org/labels/axiom/tony.html
