Axiom Collection


Axiom Collection series of albums are compilations from the Axiom record label released between 1991 and 1996.
The first collection, Illuminations, collects one track from each of the label's first ten albums. The second collection, Manifestation, contains mainly non-album mixes and edits.
Subsequent collections were released to highlight specific music forms, and in the main contained new material.

Axiom Collection: Illuminations

Track listing

  1. Simon Shaheen – "Sittel Habayeb" – 6:35 – taken from The Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab
  2. Material – "Cosmic Slop" – 5:15 – taken from The Third Power
  3. Gnawa Music of Marrakesh – "Baba L'Rouami" – 3:05 – taken from Night Spirit Masters
  4. Jonas Hellborg – "Saut-E Sarmad" – 3:28 – taken from The Word
  5. Mandingo – "Powerhouse" – 4:56 – taken from New World Power
  6. Sonny Sharrock – "As we used to sing" – 7:45 – taken from Ask the Ages
  7. Fulani Music of the Gambia – "Nayo" – 3:11 – taken from Ancient Heart
  8. Ginger Baker – "Under black Skies" – 6:59 – taken from Middle Passage
  9. L. Shankar – "Ragam, Tanam, Pallavi Ragam: Kapi, Seethalakshmi Talam: 6 3/4 Beats" – 5:20 – taken from Soul Searcher
  10. Ronald Shannon Jackson – "Elders" – 5:08 – taken from Red Warrior
  11. Mandinka Music of the Gambia – "Hamaba" – 4:40 – taken from Ancient Heart
  12. Shankar – "Ragam: Kapi" – 8:0 – taken from Soul Searcher

    Axiom Collection II: Manifestation

Track listing

  1. Material – "Mantra" – 8:53 – originally on Hallucination Engine
  2. Praxis – "Animal Behavior" – 4:45 – originally on Transmutation
  3. Bahia Black – "Captiao Do Asfalto" – 5.05 – originally on Ritual Beating System
  4. Material – "Reality Dub" – 7:22 – originally on The Third Power
  5. Nicky Skopelitis – "Tarab Dub" – 10:11 – originally on Ekstasis
  6. Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar – "A Habibi Ouajee T'Allel Allaillya" – 4:12 – originally on Apocalypse Across the Sky
  7. Henry Threadgill – "Better Wrapped / Better Unwrapped" – 4:28 – originally on Too Much Sugar for a Dime
  8. Mandingo – "Lanmbasy Dub" – 9:44 – originally on New World Power
  9. Gnawa Music of Marrakesh – "Baniya" – 5:59 – originally on Night Spirit Masters
  10. Praxis – "Dead Man Walking" – 3:33 – originally on Transmutation
  11. Material – "Playin' With Fire" – 3:57 – originally on The Third Power
  12. Talip Ozkan – "Feridem" – 3:59 – originally on The Dark Fire

    Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation

Directions in music – sound sculptures by Bill Laswell with contributions from Terre Thaemlitz, The Orb, Tetsu Inoue. Created and mastered at Greenpoint Studio, Brooklyn, New York. Produced by Bill Laswell.

CD1

  1. "Eternal Drift" – 15:53 – originally on Hallucination Engine
  2. "Peace" – 17:11
  3. "Aum" – 17:37
  4. "Cosmic Trigger" – 16:19

    CD2

  5. "Dharmapala" – 14:35
  6. "Flash of Panic" – 15:17
  7. "Holy Mountain" – 16:41
  8. "Ruins" – 8:00 – originally on Hallucination Engine

    Side 1

  9. "Eternal Drift" – 9:00
  10. "Aum" – 17:37

    Side 2

  11. "Dharmapala" – 8:44
  12. "Holy Mountain" – 8:16

    Side 3

  13. "Eternal Drift" – 12:02

    Side 4

  14. "Holy Mountain" – 9:05

    Axiom Funk: Funkcronomicon

A 12" single containing four mixes of "If 6 was 9" was released in 1996 as Axion Funk featuring Bootsy Collins.

CD1

  1. "Order within the Universe" – 3:17
  2. "Under the Influence " – 5.45
  3. "If 6 was 9" – 6:00
  4. "Orbitron Attack" – 12:29
  5. "Cosmic Slop" – 5:15 – taken from Material's The Third Power
  6. "Free-Bass " – 5:43
  7. "Tell the World" – 3:53 – taken from Maceo Parker's For All the King's Men
  8. "Pray my Soul" – 5:08

    CD2

  9. "Hideous Mutant Freekz" – 7:25
  10. "Sax Machine" – 7:47 – taken from Maceo Parker's For all the King's Men
  11. "Animal Behavior" – 7:09 – taken from Praxis Transmutation
  12. "Trumpets and Violins, Violins" – 3:38
  13. "Telling Time" – 4:57 – taken from Nicky Skopelitis's Ekstasis
  14. "Jungle Free-Bass" – 5:38
  15. "Blackout" – 3:44
  16. "Sacred to the Pain" – 4:54

    Axiom Dub: Mysteries of Creation

Compiled, edited and mastered at Greenpoint Studio, Brooklyn, New York.
Conceived and constructed by Bill Laswell.

CD1

  1. Ninj / Bill Laswell – "Maroon Rebellion" – 5:55
  2. *Ninj – beats
  3. *Bill Laswell – bass
  4. Sly and Robbie – "Return to the Bass and Trouble" – 7:00
  5. *Sly Dunbar – drums
  6. *Robbie Shakespeare – bass
  7. *Bill Laswell – sound FX
  8. Sub Dub – "Revolution" – 6:59
  9. *John Ward – bass
  10. *Raz Mesinai aka the Bedouin – percussion
  11. *Tony Buzzeo – guitar
  12. The Orb – "Cocksville U.S.A." – 10:32
  13. We featuring DJ Olive, Loop, Once 11 – "Illbient" – 8:08
  14. Material – "Ghost Light / Dread Recall" – 14:17
  15. Wordsound I-Powa – "Dungeon of Dub" – 5:33

    CD2

  16. Mad Professor – "Ariwa Dub Club" – 5:06
  17. Automaton – "Beta One / Assyrian Dub" – 11:12
  18. *Jah Wobble, Gabe Katz – bass
  19. *Nicky Skopelitis: guitar
  20. Dub Syndicate – "Gun Too Hot" – 4:41
  21. *produced by Style Scott and Adrian Sherwood
  22. *Akuba & I Roybacking vocals
  23. *Errol "Flabba" Holt – bass
  24. *Skip McDonald – guitar
  25. *Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul – keyboards
  26. *Dean Fraser – sax
  27. *Keith Sterling – piano, synthesizer
  28. *Carlton "Bubblers" Ogilvie – piano, organ, synth
  29. *Style Scott – drums, percussion
  30. *Scully – percussion
  31. Jah Wobble with Jaki Liebezeit and Neville Murray – "Nev 12" – 6:08
  32. *Jah Wobble – bass
  33. *Jaki Liebezeit – drums
  34. *Neville Murray – percussion
  35. Techno Animal – "Cyborg Dread" – 5:39
  36. *Dr. Israel – voice
  37. New Kingdom – "Black Falcon Dub" – 6:06
  38. Scarab – "Fall of the Towers of Convention" – 7:39
  39. *Skiz Fernando & Sassan Ghari – sounds
  40. DJ Spooky – "Anansi Abstrakt" – 11:37

    Axiom: Reconstructions and Vexations

Remixes of tracks from Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell's Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission, and Tabla Beat Science's Tala Matrix.
  1. Carl Craig – "Alsema Dub mix" – 6:28
  2. 4 Hero – "Orion" – 5:48
  3. Bedouin Ascent – "Secret Channel" – 9:07
  4. Dr. Israel – "Alam Dub mix" – 8:37
  5. Karsh Kale – "Taarut" – 5:18
  6. Carl Craig – "Alsema Dub" – 10:47
  7. Midival Punditz – "Palmistry" – 4:26
  8. Bill Laswell – "Shiva Myth" – 6:00

    Release history