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Material (1978 - 1999)

Group - United States group and producer team led by Bill Laswell

Releases (44)

Official

Album

  1. Memory Serves 1981
  2. One Down 1982
  3. Seven Souls 1989
  4. The Third Power 1991
  5. Hallucination Engine 1994
  6. Intonarumori 1999

Album - Remix

  1. The Road to the Western Lands 1998

Album - Live

  1. Live in Japan 1993
  2. At Soundscape, Hell's Kitchen 01 Nov 2020
  3. Montreux 1983 03 Dec 2020
  4. The Kitchen, NYC 05 Mar 2021
  5. Milan 2012 29 Mar 2021
  6. Berlin '81 07 Jul 2021
  7. Frankfurt 27 Jul 2021
  8. Warsaw 27 Jan 2022
  9. Jazz Middelheim 22 Aug 2022 (as Ex Material)
  10. Jazz à Vienne 09 May 2023
  11. Athens 29 Feb 2024

Album - Compilation

  1. Temporary Music (1979–1981) 1981
  2. Red Tracks 1985
  3. Secret Life 1986
  4. The Best of Material 2001

Single

  1. Discourse / Slow Murder 1980
  2. Bustin' Out / Over & Over 1981
  3. Ciquri / Detached 1982
  4. I'm the One / Don't Lose Control 1982
  5. Memories / Take a Chance 1983
  6. For a Few Dollars More 1983
  7. Time Out 1983
  8. Reality 1991
  9. Reduction / A.O.A.

EP

  1. Temporary Music 1 1979
  2. Temporary Music 2 1981
  3. American Songs 1981
  4. Playin' With Fire 1991
  5. Access Beginnings 11 Feb 2018
  6. Wake Up And Dream 31 Jan 2023

EP - Remix

  1. Eternal Drift 1994

Other - Remix

  1. Mantra 05 Jul 1993

Other - Live

  1. Live from Soundscape

Promotion

Single

  1. Equation / Ineffect 1989

Single - Remix

  1. Axiom Ambient - Lost in the Translation 1994

EP

  1. Rap Is Still an Art 1999

Other

  1. Come Down / I'm the One 1982

Relationships (32)

Members

  1. Buckethead
  2. Nicky Skopelitis
  3. Charles K. Noyes
  4. Ali Jihad Racy
  5. George Lewis
  6. Bernie Worrell
  7. Cliff Cultreri
  8. Mark E. Miller
  9. Fred Maher
  10. Robert Quine
  11. Michael Beinhorn
  12. Olu Dara
  13. Arto Lindsay
  14. Simon Shaheen
  15. Jeff Bova
  16. Fred Frith
  17. Aïyb Dieng
  18. Bill Bacon
  19. Jerome Brailey
  20. J.T. Lewis
  21. Bill Laswell
  22. Henry Threadgill
  23. Nile Rodgers
  24. David Moss
  25. Michael Hampton
  26. Robert “Robbie” Shakespeare
  27. Foday Musa Suso
  28. Jonas Hellborg
  29. Gary “Mudbone” Cooper
  30. Billy Bang
  31. Lowell “Sly” Dunbar
  32. Ginger Baker

Recordings by (189)

  1. Cosmic Slop 5:16 (1975)
  2. O.A.O. 4:43 (1979)
  3. On Sadism 5:04 (1979)
  4. White Man 7:40 (1979)
  5. Process/Motion 4:34 (1979)
  6. Discourse ?:?? (1980)
  7. Slow Murder ?:?? (1980)
  8. Reduction 5:32 (1981)
  9. Heritage 3:21 (1981)
  10. Secret Life 5:45 (1981)
  11. Dark Things ?:?? (1981)
  12. Ciquri 6:23 (1981)
  13. Detached 5:04 (1981)
  14. Over and Over (long version) 5:38 (1981)
  15. A.O.A. 4:41 (1981)
  16. Memory Serves 5:08 (1981)
  17. Disappearing 7:11 (1981)
  18. Upriver 5:25 (1981)
  19. Metal Test 4:30 (1981)
  20. Conform to the Rhythm 4:32 (1981)
  21. Unauthorized 3:50 (1981)
  22. Square Dance 4:29 (1981)
  23. Silent Land 3:48 (1981)
  24. Bustin' Out (long version) 8:03 (1981)
  25. For a Few Dollars More 4:22 (Jun 1982)
  26. Take A Chance 4:32 (1982)
  27. I’m the One 5:27 (1982)
  28. Time Out 4:58 (1982)
  29. Let Me Have It 5:26 (1982)
  30. Holding On 4:46 (1982)
  31. Don’t Lose Control 4:21 (1982)
  32. I'm the One 7:29 (1982)
  33. Don't Lose Control 6:30 (1982)
  34. Come Down 4:47 (1982)
  35. Memories 4:00 (1983)
  36. Time Out (edit) 5:55 (1983)
  37. Time Out (instrumental dub mix) 6:30 (1983)
  38. For a Few Dollars More (Special long version) ?:?? (1983)
  39. Conform To The Rythm ?:?? (1984)
  40. Busting Out ?:?? (1984)
  41. Process Motion ?:?? (1985)
  42. Ciguri ?:?? (1985)
  43. Equation 5:06 (1989)
  44. Seven Souls 5:45 (1989)
  45. Soul Killer 4:33 (1989)
  46. The Western Lands 6:17 (1989)
  47. Deliver 5:52 (1989)
  48. The End of Words 4:11 (1989)
  49. Ineffect 7:34 (1989)
  50. Reality (album mix) 5:00 (1991)
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On Recordings (46)

Instruments

  1. Let's Rock 7:24 Sly & Robbie (1987) strings
  2. Rhythm Killer 7:17 Sly & Robbie (1987) strings
  3. Bank Job 3:55 Sly & Robbie (1987) strings
  4. Yes We Can Can 6:16 Sly & Robbie (1987) strings

Produced

  1. Dark Things ?:?? Material (1981)
  2. Detached 5:04 Material (1981)
  3. Secret Life ?:?? Material (1981)
  4. Reduction ?:?? Material (1981)
  5. Bustin’ Out 8:02 Material feat. Nona Hendryx (1981)
  6. Heritage ?:?? Material (1981)
  7. Ciquri 6:23 Material (1981)
  8. Time Out 4:58 Material (1982)
  9. I’m the One 5:27 Material (1982)
  10. Holding On 4:46 Material (1982)
  11. Don’t Lose Control 4:21 Material (1982)
  12. Memories 4:00 Material feat. Whitney Houston (1982)
  13. Let Me Have It 5:26 Material (1982)
  14. Take a Chance 4:32 Material (1982)
  15. Earth Beat 5:13 Herbie Hancock (1983)
  16. Rockit (mega mix) 6:18 Herbie Hancock (1983)
  17. Hindsight 4:00 Bill Laswell (1983)
  18. Lowlands 4:29 Bill Laswell (1983)
  19. Barricade 4:10 Bill Laswell (1983)
  20. Work Song 7:15 Bill Laswell (1983)
  21. TFS 5:47 Herbie Hancock (1983)
  22. Upright Man 3:54 Bill Laswell (1983)
  23. Autodrive 6:27 Herbie Hancock (1983)
  24. My Turn to Love You 5:48 Lenny White (1983)
  25. Activate 3:23 Bill Laswell (1983)
  26. Rough 6:57 Herbie Hancock (1983)
  27. Uprising 1:07 Bill Laswell (1983)
  28. Moving Target 1:56 Bill Laswell (1983)
  29. Future Shock 8:05 Herbie Hancock (1983)
  30. Harima (edit) 3:59 Mandingo (1985)
  31. Dewgal 6:16 Mandingo (1985)
  32. Makossa '87 (Big Blow) 10:17 Manu Dibango (1986)
  33. Fire 3:40 Sly & Robbie (1987)
  34. Perfect Machine 6:36 Herbie Hancock (17 May 1988)
  35. Chemical Residue 6:01 Herbie Hancock (17 May 1988)
  36. Obsession 5:22 Herbie Hancock (17 May 1988)
  37. Beat Wise 5:56 Herbie Hancock (17 May 1988)
  38. Maiden Voyage / B-Bop 6:38 Herbie Hancock (17 May 1988)
  39. Vibe Alive 5:26 Herbie Hancock (17 May 1988)
  40. Rhythm Killer 4:23 Taxi Gang featuring Shinehead (01 Dec 1993)
  41. Beat Wise (12″ edit) 6:27 Herbie Hancock (02 Jul 1997)
  42. Bustin' Out 6:40 Material feat. Nona Hendryx (Jun 2003)

Credited as (41)

  1. Material
  2. Gigi w Material
  3. Material feat. Nile Rodgers
  4. Material & Whitney Houston
  5. Material feat. Nona Hendryx
  6. Material feat. Ramm Ell Zee
  7. Material feat. Kool Keith and Kut Masta Kurt
  8. Material feat. Extrakd and Eddie Def
  9. Material feat. Flavor Flav, phonosychographDISK and DXT
  10. Material feat. Ramm Ell Zee and phonosychographDISK
  11. Material feat. Killah Priest
  12. Material feat. Lori Carson and Bernie Worrell
  13. Material feat. Nature Boy Jim Kelly
  14. Material feat. Scotty Hard, Elwood and Ted Parsons
  15. Material feat. Ahlill the Transcending Soldier & Alicia Blue
  16. Material feat. The Ghetto Prophets & DXT
  17. Material feat. Alicia Blue
  18. Material feat. Ahlill the Transcending Soldier, phonosychographDISK and Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey
  19. Material feat. Flavor Flav
  20. Material feat. Kool Keith and Kut Master Kurt
  21. Material feat. Whitney Houston
  22. Material with Nona Hendryx
  23. Material with Chic
  24. Material feat. Juggaknots, Breeze & Queen Heroine
  25. Material feat. Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Lowell “Sly” Dunbar & Robert "Robbie" Shakespeare
  26. The Master Musicians Of Jajouka featuring Material
  27. Material with William S. Burroughs
  28. Material With Nona Hendryx
  29. Seven Grand Housing Authority / Material
  30. Cloud One / Material
  31. Material And Nile Rodgers
  32. Material & Whitney Houston feat. Archie Shepp
  33. Material featuring Nona Hendryx
  34. Material featuring Whitney Houston
  35. Material & Nona Hendryx
  36. Nona Hendryx & Material
  37. Bill Laswell & Material feat. Bernie Worrell
  38. Ex Material
  39. Bill Laswell/Material
  40. Whitney Houston & Material
  41. Bill Laswell / Material

Works (4)

Composed

  1. Ciquiri
  2. Detached
  3. Discourse
  4. Slow Murder

Links (8)

Other Databases

  1. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/material
  2. https://www.whosampled.com/Material/

Last.Fm

  1. https://www.last.fm/music/Material

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/8796

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000386865

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3298452

Stream For Free

  1. https://www.deezer.com/artist/17245
  2. https://open.spotify.com/artist/7yegFhKemMedsme3entsAW