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From making groundbreaking electro to working with Whitney Houston via boozy sessions with Motörhead, plus avant explorations of thrash, drum & bass, grindcore, gnawa and disco, Bill Laswell has been on more great records than you've had hot dinners. Zachary Lipez offers ten points of entry to his bewilderingly vast back catalogue
Our man from San Francisco Ned Raggett talks to the former Napalm Death Drummer and driving force behind Scorn about battling on against the odds and finally finding some peace and satisfaction. All portraits courtesy of Helen Harris