American experimental punk-jazz-funk-noise-electro band, founded circa 1978/79 by bassist and keyboard player .
Material was not only a band name, but an alias for the intensive production work of the duo (for , , ...).
left the 'band' in 1985. In the 90s, Material became more world/indian/afro/ambient/dub-oriented.
Name Vars
- Bill Laswell's Material
- Ex Material
- Material/OAO
- Naterial
- OAO/Material
- The Material
Members
- Bill Laswell
- Gary Mudbone Cooper
- Bootsy Collins
- Robbie Shakespeare
- Bernie Worrell
- Foday Musa Suso
- Jonas Hellborg
- Jerome Brailey
- Nile Rodgers
- Bill Bacon
- Robert Quine
- Michael Hampton
- Nicky Skopelitis
- Fred Maher
- Graham Haynes
- Fred Frith
- Michael Beinhorn
- Henry Threadgill
- Simon Shaheen
- George Lewis
- Aiyb Dieng
- Jeff Bova
- Thi-Linh Le
- Olu Dara
- Sonny Sharrock
- Billy Bang
- David Moss
- Ginger Baker
- Mark E. Miller
- Hamid Drake
- J.T. Lewis
- Charles K. Noyes
- Cliff Cultreri
- Peter Apfelbaum
- Vikku Vinayakram
- Michael Baklouk
- Jihad Racy
- Lowell Dunbar
- Brian Carroll
- Ali Jihad Racy
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