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“The road to the Western Lands is by definition the most dangerous road in the world for it is a journey beyond death…” William Burroughs Starting life as an avant-dance collective, by 1987 Bill Laswell’s Material epitomised a culture in fast forward, popular music eating itself. Fusion has never been so thoroughly realised as on 
A matter of days after the US Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, this explosive collaboration between Keith LeBlanc and Adrian Sherwood was released, single handedly defining the parameters of a completely different approach to record production. Taking as a starting position the ‘hard’ electro blueprint pioneered by ‘Tommy Boy’ records, this visceral mash up of samples 
