Effective period / Period of releases: 1979 - 2024

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, Jihad Racy, Lowell Dunbar, Brian Carroll, Ali Jihad Racy

American experimental punk-jazz-funk-noise-electro band, founded circa 1978/79 by bassist Bill Laswell and keyboard player Michael Beinhorn.
Material was not only a band name, but an alias for the intensive production work of the duo (for Afrika Bambaataa, Herbie Hancock, Nona Hendryx ...).

Michael Beinhorn left the 'band' in 1985. In the 90s, Material became more world/indian/afro/ambient/dub-oriented.