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Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #232 June 2003
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $7.00
Catalog #: WIRE 232
On the cover: Yo La Tengo. Features: Mauricio Kagel, The Ex, Asmus Tietchens, Cliff Martinez, Semiconductor; Ian Penman's elegy to Nina Simone; Invisible Jukebox: David Sylvian; The Primer: Soft Machine (roots & branches).


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #235 September 2003
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $7.00
Catalog #: WIRE 235
On the cover: Matmos; Features: Mike Kelley, Ron Geesin, Kaffe Matthews, Borah Bergman, Eric Glick Rieman, Leafcutter John, Erase Errata. Invisible Jukebox: David Byrne. Epiphany: Robert Wyatt on Ray Charles.


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #244 June 2004
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $7.50
Catalog #: WIRE 244
"All copies of this issue (UK and overseas, subscription copies and shop copies) will come complete with The Wire Tapper 11, a special 16 track CD that is the latest volume in the magazine's ongoing series of new music compilations. The track list includes new, rare or previously unreleased material by To Rococco Rot, Icarus, Juana Molina, Wibutee, Phillip Clemo, Albert Ayler, The Brotherhood of Breath, Matthew Dear, Jah Wobble, Arthur Russell, Henrik Rylander, Green Milk From the Planet Orange, Mountains, Slowblow, Un Caddie Renverse Dans L'Herbe, Poire_z with Phil Minton. On The Cover: Christian Fennesz. Features: Philip Corner, Eric Dolphy; The Primer: Clive Bell on wind instruments of the Orient; Invisible Jukebox: Vinicius Cantuaria; PG Six, Sixtoo, Henrik Rylander.


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #245 July 2004
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $7.50
Catalog #: WIRE 245
On the cover: Alvin Lucier. Features: Damo Suzuki, Devendra Banhart, Ellen Fullman, Bark Psychosis, Dylan Nyoukis, Dengue Fever. Invisible Jukebox: Sunn O))).


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #246 August 2004
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $7.50
Catalog #: WIRE 246
On the cover: Wilco. Features: Phil Minton. The Primer: noise! (written by David Keenan), Beth Anderson, Margareth Kammerer, Hang on the Box, Invisible Jukebox: Asian Dub Foundation.


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #247 September 2004
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $7.50
Catalog #: WIRE 247
On the cover: Derek Bailey. Features: Kenneth Anger, Jac Berrocal, Tim Barnes, Chris Watson's Invisible Jukebox, Felix Kubin, Mira Calix, Thomas Melchior.


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #248 October 2004
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $7.50
Catalog #: WIRE 248
On the Cover: Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori. Features: Henry Flynt, Mats Gustafsson, A user's guide to psychedelic soul. Invisible Jukebox: Jennifer Herrema/RTX, Radian, Juana Molina, Comets On Fire.


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #250 December 2004
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG/CD
Price: $7.50
Catalog #: WIRE 250
"The December 2004 edition of The Wire will be the magazine's 250th issue. Over the course of those 250 issues, The Wire has developed from a quarterly fanzine covering avant garde jazz and modern composition into an award-winning and widely influential international monthly. This issue features a special 40 track double CD cover mount, The Wire Tapper 12, the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD will be mounted on the cover and given away free with every copy of the issue worldwide. Cover story: The 100 Greatest Riffs Of All Time. From the repetitive, bass driven trance music of North Africa (birthed thousands of years ago, appropriately, in Morocco's Rif Mountains), to the world famous symphonic themes of Beethoven, to the blues hook, jazz head and rock lick, the riff has been a primary tool for injecting music into the memory. As this is a Wire guide to the riff, and not another rock magazine regurgitation of rock 'n' roll clichés, the article will be ignoring the obvious stuff like 'You Really Got Me', 'Whole Lotta Love', 'Smoke On The Water', 'My Sharona', etc, etc. Instead, it will expand the notion of what a riff is or could be, covering all sorts of nagging repetitive aspects of music, from Techno and HipHop breaks to themes in jazz, avant rock, memorable funk motifs, riffs in 'world music' from Inuit songs to Fela Kuti, Krautrock, lower case and minimalist/systems music, etc, etc." Features: The new Finnish underground (starring Avarus, the Anaksimandros, Kemialliset Ystavat, Es, Kiila, Paivansade, Hetero Skeleton, Maniacs Dream and more), irr. app. (ext.), Greg Davis, John Peel RIP, My Cat is an Alien, Invisible Jukebox: Marshall Allen.


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #254 April 2005
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $7.50
Catalog #: WIRE 254
On the cover: Mike Patton (the voice of unreason behind Fantomas and Ipecac). Features: The Primer: Grime - (Simon Reynolds investigates the bustling UK microculture of So Solid Crew, Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, Kano and more); Elliott Sharp (The NY guitarist/composer discusses his cyberpunk take on avant rock, Improv and the blues), Antony and the Johnsons, Venetian Snares (the Canadian drill'n'jazz producer explains the links between breakcore and crack), Richard Barrett (militant composer/improvisor at odds with the niceness of the British music establishment), MIA (Maya Arulpragasam), C-Schulz, Invisible Jukebox: Ira Cohen (t poet and photographer on WS Burroughs, Angus MacLise, Cecil Taylor and more).


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #255 May 2005
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $7.50
Catalog #: WIRE 255
On the cover: Electrelane (How Steve Albini, The Ex and a passing US military train helped shape their formidable rock noise). Features: Foetus (With a new album and a bunch of orchestral side projects, Jim Thirwell's career just changed gear); Kali Z Fasteau, Alex von Schlippenbach, Josephine Foster, Boris (Japan's heaviest power outfit); Annie Gosfield (the star-mapping soundworld of this innovative New York composer), Wojt3k Kucharczyk (the founder of Poland's Mik.Musik!. electronica label); Steve Beresford's Invisible Jukebox.


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #256 June 2005
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG/CD
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 256
On the cover: Laugh Till It Hurts -- "Received wisdom says humor and music don't mix, only everybody you speak to can name some exceptions to the rule. Add all those exceptions together and you have our special humor and music feature. this being The Wire, we are not concerned with comedy or novelty songs here; rather, we're interested in examples of humor and absurdity that challenge, wrongfoot or undermine habit-forming practices in composers, performers and listeners. We're talking Cage and Kagel Scores, Fluxus Pranks, Han Bennink Slapstick, John Zorn Duck Calls, The Vic Reeves/Steve Beresford/Evan Parker Axis, Noise Effects as disruptive devices, Robert Wyatt's songs, and so on. As with every aspect of The Wire, this article will search outside the box to uncover some of the most weird and wonderful moments of humor in alternative music." Artists featured on The Wire Tapper 13 covermount CD (included w/ all copies): "Fallt Tu m', Domino Pajo, Domino Juana Molina, Carpark Ariel Pink, Monotreme Recs, Picastro with Dwayne Sodahberk, Aesthetics Mandarin Movie, Cuneiform John Surman, Tigerbeat 6 Kid 606, Die Stadt Fover Hex, Ici d'ailleurs Matt Elliott, Horen Akinori, Strange Attractors Nick Castro, Jazzaway Crimetime orchestra, Resonant Port-Royal, Groenland Bombay 1, Bip Hop Deviationists, Kool arrow Alexander Hacke, Track & Field Currituck County." Features: The Books ("literate upstate New York duo"), Cooper-Moore ("veteran NYC freedom jazz multi-instrumentalist), Clemens Gadenstatter ("Austria's latest comic sensation), Invisible Jukebox: Mark Stewart ("the Bristolian godfather of punk-funk"), Tod Dockstader ("reclusive American tape music pioneer").


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #257 July 2005
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 257
On the cover: Jamie Lidell (How Super_Collider's former singer discovered a deeper voice to become the godson of soul.) Features: Keiji Haino's Invisible Jukebox; Magik Markers (Connecticut's knuckledusting free rock trio put up their dukes); Monolake (The Berlin techno duo reveal the magical equations behind their streamlined sound sculptures); Tony Bevan (British improv saxophonist electroacoustic foghorn fusion); Ornette Coleman (the veteran saxophonist reveals more harmolodic secrets in a rare interview); Animal Collective (The blissful sounds of the four fauns of new American music, plus Ariel Pink); The Primer: Lone Horn Improvisors. Limited stock.


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #258 August 2005
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 258
On the cover: Mayo Thompson (The Red Krayola: Since 1967, this Texan guitarist has been pulverising the art and language of rock). Features: Marissa Nadler (The Boston artist and singer owes more to American Gothic than free folk's drifts); Ikuro Takahashi (The ex-Fushitsusha drummer on his switch to rape alarms and mechanical toys); The Skaters (Karaoke machines were never intended for the vocal experiments this Frisco duo put them through); Carla Bozulich's Invisible Jukebox; Musique Actuelle (Byron Coley reports from the Victoriaville Festival); Once upon a time in Brixton: (The first in a new series revisiting significant musical sites: the story of London's Cold Storage studio); Pierre Schaeffer (Goran Vejvoda and Rob Young reappraise the life and work of France's founding father of musique concrète).


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #260 October 2005
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 260
"On the cover: Boards of Canada (In a rare interview on home turf, the Scottish gnarly electronica duo share campfire stories with Rob Young). Features: Jarboe (The prolific ex-Swans singer tells Marc Masters about The Men Album in her life); Alexander Tucker (The UK guitarist and comic book artist clears up some foggy notions about his dark avant folk); Birchville Cat Motel (New Zealand feedback guitarist Campbell Neale discusses his Metal project Black Boned Angel); Invisible Jukebox: Warren Ellis (The Dirty Three/Bad Seeds); Elaine Radigue (The Parisian electronic composer discovers an appetite for collaboration with The Lappetites); New London silence (Clive Bell remaps the city with third generation improvisers Mark Wastell, Phil Durrant, Rhodri and Angharad Davies)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #261 November 2005
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 261
"On the cover: Remake Remodel -- a sequel to the state of song feature that appeared in The Wire's May 2005 issue. In a 12-page special, The Wire's crack writing squad picks 60 cover versions that rattle the state of song. Plus: writer/musician Alan Licht goes undercover to explore his motivations for versioning Moondog, Minutemen, Captain Beefheart and more. Features: Jackson and his Computer Band (Warp artist Jackson Fourgeaud explains the egomaniacal forces behind his disintegrated Techno); Mazen Kerbaj (The Beirut trumpeter explains to Julian Cowley how his music deals with the legacy of Lebanon's civil war); Oren Marshall (The London tuba player extends his instrument's reach with a range of astonishing devices); Invisible Jukebox: Steve Reich (The minimalist tussles with tracks by Charlie Parker, Charlemagne Palestine and more); Earth (The missing links between La Monte Young and Black Sabbath extend their drone into Country); Once Upon a Time in Shinjuku (In the second in our new series revisiting significant musical sites, Alan Cummings travels back to Tokyo's sleaziest district in the late 1960s, where Masayuki Takayanagi and Kaoru Abe laid the foundations of Japanese free music)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #262 December 2005
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG/CD
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 262
"On the cover: Lightning Bolt (Alan Licht visits the Rhode Island duo who are reconfiguring US Hardcore with their breakneck drum and bass thrash). Features: Tujiko Noriko (The Japanese electronic musician and film maker's naive charm belies a touch of steel); Kang Tae Hwan (The pioneering Korean sax improvisor recalls the tribulations of blowing free under martial law); Susanne Brokesch (Since moving to Brooklyn, the Austrian artist matches her electronica to the paintings of Paula Brook); Invisible Jukebox: Ray Russell; Vashti Bunyan (Rob Young meets the forgotten 60s pop star turned singer-songwriter now championed by the free folk generation); Ken Hyder (Will Montgomery follows the Scottish percussionist's quest for the link between Improv and shamanic trance); The Primer: Jamaican deejays (Brian Marley toasts the titans of talkover, including I-Roy, U-Roy, Big Youth, Dr Alimantado, Dillinger, Trinity and more.
       
        All copies of the December issue will come complete with an exclusive free 16 track CD, The Wire Tapper 14. The Wire Tapper 14 is the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD will be given away free with every copy of the December issue worldwide and will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks that together will span the spectrum of the kind of new, underground music that gets featured in the magazine each month, from electronic music, avant rock and new jazz, to dub, hiphop, traditional musics and beyond."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #264 February 2006
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 264
"On the cover: Edan (The Boston DJ/MC/producer trawls widely, from Old School hiphop to 60s freakbeat heroes). Features: Battles (David Stubbs skirmishes with a leftfield New York 'supergroup' slugging it out at the frontline of rock and electronics); Birgit Ulher (The self-taught Hamburg trumpeter and artist expands her instrument's lexicon of sputters); Sleeparchive (Philip Sherburne attempts to unravel the Berlin minimal Techno producer's complex web of identities); Invisible Jukebox: Steve Reid; Bardo Pond (Philadelphia's psychedelic freeform collective reveal the secrets of their sonic vortex); Derek Bailey (David Toop plus a host of admirers and fellow musicians pay tribute to the pioneering guitarist who died in December).


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #265 March 2006
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 265
"On the cover: Phill Niblock (At 72, the pioneering American 'loud music minimalist' and film maker is at the top of his game). Features: Wooden Wand (The sprawling US collective stitch together a family quilt of influences, from Kraut to misfit hillbilly); Tape (The in-house group of Sweden's Hapna label make electroacoustic Improv in the midnight hour); Keith Berry (This British digital composer treats found sounds to plant surreal seeds in listener's ears); Invisible Jukebox: The Bug; Mat Maneri (New York's 'microtonal jazz' violinist tells Philip Clark how moving out of his father's shadow took him to the edge.); Once Upon a Time in San Francisco (How Quicksilver Messenger Service and others tore up the late '60s Bay Area Ballroom scene)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #266 April 2006
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 266
"On the cover: Tom Verlaine (On the eve of his first new albums in 13 years, the reclusive Television guitarist allows Alan Licht a rare audience). Features: Mouthus (The elusive and prolific Brooklyn noise-rock duo pinned down by Marc Masters); The Knife (Louise Gray looks behind the many masks of the Swedish electro-prankster siblings); Ned Sublette (The writer and musician talks up his Cuban music book and his work with artist Lawrence Weiner); Invisible Jukebox: Burnt Friedman; Linder (Brian Dillon unpicks the secret history of a transgressive visual artist and musician, from punk to present); Spring Heel Jack (Keith Moliné charts the progress of John Coxon and Ashley Wales from '90s drum 'n' bass to noughties free Improv); Primer: The Fall (A user's guide to the Mancunian iconoclasts' intimidatingly vast discography)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #267 May 2006
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 267
"On the cover: AGF (Word processing in Berlin with polystylistic laptopper and digital 'poemproducer,' Antye Greie). Features: Scatter (The Glaswegian avant folk ensemble explain their methodical madness to Mia Clarke); Mattin (The shadowy Basque prankster on laptop abuse, sonic theory and provocative song); David Rothenberg (Phil England quizzes the writer and clarinettist on birdsong, jazz and the sounds of nature); Invisible Jukebox: William Parker; Scott Walker (In a revealing interview, the enigmatic auteur decodes the secrets of his first new album in a decade); Conrad Schnitzler (The maverick Berliner left Kluster and Tangerine Dream to pioneer the industrial use of electronics); Ryoji Ikeda (David Toop enters the Dataplex to discuss silence and control with the Japanese composer and sound artist)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #268 June 2006
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG/CD
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 268
w/ free 20 track CD! "The Wire Tapper 15 is the latest volume in the Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD will be given away free with every copy of the June issue worldwide and will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks that together will span the spectrum of the kind of underground music that gets featured in the magazine each month, from electronic music, avant rock and new jazz, to dub, hiphop, traditional musics and beyond. On the cover: Sonic Youth (The veteran New York rockers tell Nick Cain about the raw power of Rather Ripped, and give an update on their myriad activities, past, present and future). Features: Terry Day (The former People Band drummer talks Julian Cowley through his interrupted Improv history); Harry Rag (From Düsseldorf punk to pastoral futurism via Wim Wenders and Can with the SYPH vocalist); Jutta Koether (Lina Dzuverovic unravels the personae and multiple media activities of the New York artist and painter); Invisible Jukebox: Rob Mazurek; Yellow Swans (The prolific Portland, Oregon noise duo mull over method, motivation and manifestoes for a better world); Ekkehard Ehlers (The Berlin conceptualist reconfigures blues, jazz and African musics in an attempt to reconnect dead voices across continents); The Primer: John Fahey (David Keenan picks his way through a user's guide to the phantasmagorical folk blues of the original American Primitive)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #269 July 2006
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 269
On the cover: Current 93 (David Tibet explains how his music is shaped by his apocalyptic religious visions and nightmares of black ships). Features: Boxcutter (Barry Lynn talks beats, horror movies and Pharoah Sanders with Chris Sharp); FM3 (The Chinese electronica duo have gone into overdrive to meet the demand for their Buddha Machine); Cross Platform: Annea Lockwood (Harnessing sound as pure energy, the Antipodean sound artist maps rivers as living entities); Invisible Jukebox: Kode9; Once Upon a Time in Berlin (In the early '80s, while their noisier compatriots cultivated a nihilistic culture that defined West Berlin, the constantly mutating Die Tödliche Doris best embodied its unstable identity)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #270 August 2006
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 270
"On the cover: Smegma (Three decades of free rock mayhem hasn't dimmed the enthusiasm of the LA freakout troupe who have worked with Wild Man Fischer, Richard Meltzer, Merzbow and Wolf Eyes). Features: Philip Samartzis (Andy Hamilton meets the electronic spatializer who has become a figurehead for Australian New Music); Leopard Leg (How this Brighton based female shamanic free rock collective went wild in the country); John Wiese (The prolific Californian noise generator is on a mission to find the frequencies that will blow your mind); Cross Platform: Brian Eno (The Ambient maestro introduces his latest venture into generative video; a painting cycle that would take hundreds of lifetimes to watch); Invisible Jukebox: Biosphere; Die Trip Computer Die (Guerrilla sampling duo Lepke B and Xentos 'Fray' Bentos have been electrocuting the UK post-punk underground since the late 70s); Akio Suzuki & John Butcher (On a recent odyssey round the resonant spaces and sacred stones of Orkney, the Japanese sound artist and the UK improvisor were affected by the spirit of place); Dabrye (Michigan producer Tadd Mullinix's spectral, shapeshifting take on hiphop has made him new friends, including Beans, MF Doom and Vast Aire)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #271 September 2006
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 271
On the cover: Kool Keith (Hiphop's premier streetwise satirist and scatologist, Dr Octagon, is back - just one of the former Ultramagnetic MC's raft of comeback projects in 2006). Features: Excepter (Marc Masters talk contrarian circuits with the style-mashing New York Techno/rock quartet); Jason Lescalleet (This New England Improv sound manipulator's compositions capture the sound of decay); Digital Mystikz (Chris Sharp blags some rare facetime with DMZ's Mala and Coki, South London's dubstep dreamers); Cross Platform: Ira Cohen (Underground film maker, poet, photographer and multimedia shaman Ira Cohen has finally released his 1968 masterpiece on DVD; Invisible Jukebox: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge; Charalambides (Nick Cain traces the 15 year development of Christina and Tom Carter's stream of cathartic song and crepuscular suburban blues); Merce Cunningham (Since his groundbreaking choreography with John Cage, Merce Cunningham's long career has always married New Music with motion); The Primer: AMM (A user's guide to the recordings of a British free music institution, including solo projects by Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe, John Tilbury and more)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #272 October 2006
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.00
Catalog #: WIRE 272
"On the cover: David Thomas/Pere Ubu (After 14 albums and several line-up changes, David Thomas' group continue to map out America's ghost towns and lost highways.) Features: COH (Russian Raster-Noton artist Ivan Pavlov talks emotional electronics with Chris Sharp); Little Annie (The New York singer tells Phil England about her latest transmogrification from punk priestess to cabaret chanteuse); James Blackshaw (Sam Davies drifts on the young London fingerpicking guitarist's cloud of unknowing); Cross Platform: Jayne Parker (Artist Jayne Parker's extraordinary films explore the physicality of musicianship); Invisible Jukebox: Chris Corsano; Rafael Toral (The Portuguese composer has jettisoned his electric guitar on the first stage of an ambitious, long-haul electronic Space Program.); Once Upon a Time in Melbourne (Jon Dale investigates the meta-musical enclave of the Australian city's late 70s post-punk scene, including Essendon Airport, Laughing Hands and Warren Burt)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #276 Febuary 2007
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 276
"Seismic performances: did the earth move for you? Our crack writing squad dredge the collective cultural memory to recall some of the most dynamic, ground-breaking or just plain awesome concerts, gigs and live music performances of all time; events that changed the way we see and hear things; or that reached a peak of emotional/physical intensity; or that simply provided the soundtrack/climax to a great night out. From minimalist endurance tests to transgressive audience baiting, our writers were there, saw it, and have something to say about it. Features: Infinite Livez (London's hiphop's Cockney rebel describes his headlong collisions with Swiss electronica duo Stade); Richard Skelton (The musician behind Harlassen, A Broken Consort and Carousell on the life-affirming properties of art); Cross Platform: Shinro Ohtake (The Japanese artist and occasional Puzzle Punk halts his ceaseless activities for long enough to talk to Chris Sharp); Invisible Jukebox: Bert Jansch; The Primer: Adrian Sherwood (David Stubbs provides a user's guide to 30 years of the producer's innovative 'per-versions' for On-U Sound and beyond, from Creation Rebel and Lee Perry to Tackhead)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #277 March 2007
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 277
"On The Cover: Grinderman (Nick Cave's revitalized cowboy outfit draws its rock power from improvisation, Warren Ellis' violin loops and the spirit of ecstatic jazz); Features: Paul Burwell (David Toop celebrates the life of the Bow Gamelan founder, percussionist and instrument builder, who died last month); Polly Shang Kuan Band (Karen Constance tells Keith Moliné how her female noise unit sits beside her work in Blood Stereo, Ceylon Mange and more); Robert Horton (The San Francisco underground veteran has just unleashed a deluge of discs and collaborations); Cross Platform: Ray Lee; Invisible Jukebox: Rachid Taha; Once Upon a Time in Cairo (In 1944, the world's first piece of electronic music was composed in the Egyptian capital. Rob Young tells the amazing story of its creator); Peter Hammill (Since 1969, Britain's most singular songwriter has been unflinchingly addressing the Seven Ages of Man, both with and without Van Der Graaf Generator). Epiphanies: Peter Rehberg on Cabaret Voltaire."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #278 April 2007
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 278
"On The Cover: Terry Riley (The pioneer of 1960s American minimalism reveals the range of his interests, from his Irish and Italian roots to Indian ragas and space music for NASA.); Features: Aufgehoben (The English free rock unit disclose the studio processes behind their improvised sonic barrage); Islaja (The songs of Finnish mult-instrumentalist Merja Kokkonen are imbued with spiritual longing); Michio Kurihara (Alan Cummings talks to the Tokyo psychedelic underground's most in-demand guitarist about his first solo album); Cross Platform: Hal Rammel (The American instrument builder's inventions reflect his deep interest in comic utopias and surrealism); Invisible Jukebox: The Dead C; Maja Ratkje (The Norwegian singer moves freely between noise, electronics and Improv with her solo projects and as a member of SPUNK and Fe-Mail); Eyeless In Gaza (With his Industrial pop/folk duo and projects with Mick Harris, Max Eastley and Lol Coxhill, Martyn Bates has ploughed a deep, dark furrow through English roots music); Epiphanies: A booty of pirated mixtapes opens a window on the world of dancehall and bashment reggae for Dave Stelfox."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #279 May 2007
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG/CD
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 279
Includes The Wire Tapper 17 free CD compilation. "On The Cover: Von Südenfed (Mark E. Smith and Mouse On Mars' new project is not so much a collaboration as a shotgun wedding marrying digital mayhem with cantankerous inventions); Features: Strategy (Community Library label runner Paul Dickow details his sonic smear campaign); Sylvie Courvoisier (The Swiss pianist discusses improvising with the cream of downtown New York's crop); Carlos Giffoni (The No Fun Festival founder tells Marc Masters about his endless quest for the perfect noise); Cross Platform: Derek Jarman; Invisible Jukebox: Rhys Chatham; Evan Parker (The saxophonist tells Phillip Clark about his enduring search for new forms via his Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and Spring Heel Jack, and explains why he and Derek Bailey had to split); The Primer: Dubstep (Derek Walmsley provides a user's guide to the sub-bass pressure of the UK's latest dancefloor mutation, with Burial, Kode9, Loefah, Digital Mystikz, DJ Hatcha and more. The Wire Tapper 17 is the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD, which has been compiled by Andy Tait and Shane Woolman and is packaged in a gatefold flexiwallet with artwork by The Wire's art director James Goggin, will be given away free with every copy of the May issue worldwide and will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks by Fred Anderson & Harrison Bankhead, Von Südenfed, A Hawk & A Hacksaw and the Hun Hangar Ensemble, Throbbing Gristle, Ken Ikeda, Fridge, Jack Rose & Glenn Jones, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, and more."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #280 June 2007
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 280
"On The Cover: Wiley (Grime's self-appointed Eskimo king invites Derek Walmsley into his Roll Deep Studio to explain how his blizzard of beats and rhymes gathers momentum in East London's streets); Features: Zavoloka (The Ukrainian artist tunes her electronics to the Earth spirits she hears in her native folk culture); Jozef van Wissem (The improvising Dutch lutenist has worked with Tetuzi Akiyama, Gary Lucas and more); Tomas Korber (Call it anything but electroacoustic Improv (EAI), insists Zurich's guitar/electronics manipulator); Cross Platform: Modified Toy Orchestra Invisible Jukebox: Neil Campbell; The Sea and Cake (Alan Licht hears how the painterly activities of Sam Prekop, Archer Prewitt and Eric Claridge feed into the Chicago quartet's modest, sophisticated pop; Kassin + Moreno + Domenico (Boasting family links with a Tropicalia giant, Rio's eclectic avant bossa trio are on a virtuoso mission to perfect the physics of funk)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #281 July 2007
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 281
"On The Cover: Throbbing Gristle (The four 'wreckers of civilization' return with their first new material since breaking up in 1981. David Stubbs finds out how their uncompromising stance has matured); Features: Skull Disco (Dave Stelfox tunes into the supple dubstep riddims of Shackleton and Appleblim); Daniel AIU Higgs (The ex-Lungfish man embroiders his shamanistic drones with folk, blues and Norse legends); Cross Platform: Mathieu Briand (The inclusive ethos of 90s rave informs the public access installations of this French artist); Invisible Jukebox: Peter Rehberg; Keijo (The veteran Finnish artesan retrieves inspiration for his holistic improvisations from a Borgesian parallel universe); Robin Williamson (A rare interview with the onetime Incredible String Band member, keeping the fluid Celtic tradition alive with a visionary series for the ECM label)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #282 August 2007
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 282
"On The Cover: Ricardo Villalobos (The red-eyed Chilean DJ and techno producer has become the toast of Berlin's minimal scene, with four-hour sets and disorientating beatdowns); Features: Axolotl (Nick Cain books a seat in the memory theatre for Karl Bauer's delirious electric violin drones); Matthew Dear (As False, Jabberjaw and Audion, the US electronica producer toggles between pop and rougher textures); Cross Platform: Laurie Anderson (The multimedia maven rails against American foreign policy in her new Homeland performance); Invisible Jukebox: Jonathan Harvey; Whitehouse (It's for your own good, say extreme power electronics artists William Bennett and Philip Best, discussing their reputation as arch-transgressors of public taste); The Primer: British Psychedelic Folk (A user's map of the misty lanes of Albion's folk rock, including Sandy Denny, Steeleye Span, Pentangle, John Martyn, Mellow Candle, Comus, The Wicker Man and more)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #283 September 2007
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 283
"On The Cover: PJ Harvey (Moving back to her homeland Dorset's chalky soil prompted alt rock's 50 Foot Queenie to recast her death-rattle songs as skeletal piano dirges); Features: Trim (UK Grime's ailing condition is being nursed back to health with Soulfood from this ex-Roll Deep MC); Lost In Hildurness (David Stubbs goes deep in the wood with the Icelandic cellist who has worked with Múm, Pan Sonic and Throbbing Gristle); Starving Weirdos (The northern Californian freeform soundscaping duo are rad, bad and dangerous to know, says Keith Moliné); Cross Platform: Daft Punk (Anne Hilde Neset talks to Thomas Bangalter about the French Techno duo's new cyborg road movie, Electroma); Invisible Jukebox: Sir Richard Bishop; Charlotte Moorman (Brian Morton commemorates the cellist who ritually adorned herself with TV sets, covered herself in chocolate, or performed naked works by Nam June Paik and more); Oren Ambarchi (The Australian guitarist swings like a pendulum between textural Improv, collaborations with Keith Rowe and Sunn O))) and unashamed pop songwriting)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #284 October 2007
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 284
"The Wire Tapper 18 is the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD, which has been compiled by Shane Woolman and Lisa Blanning and is packaged in a gatefold sleeve with artwork by The Wire's art director James Goggin, will be given away free with every copy of the October issue worldwide and will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks by Automated Acoustics, Babils, Cath & Phil Tyler, Damon & Naomi, Dimension X, Goodiepal, hamayôko, Heribert Friedl, Hulk, Icarus, John Luther Adams, Luciano Cilio, Modified Toy Orchestra, Mordant Music, Strings Of Consciousness, Tarentel, The Ex & Getatchew Mekuria & Guests, The Focus Group, The Fun Years, and more. In the issue: on the cover: Robert Wyatt (In a revealing interview, the garrulous singer and his wife Alfreda Benge discuss the troubled backdrop to his latest album, Comicopera). Features: Shape Of Broad Minds (Nick Sylvester hears about psychedelic hiphop from Philadelphia's Jneiro Janel, the fresh prince of Viberia); Ute Wassermann (The German Improv vocalist pushes her body to extreme limits to generate multiphonic ululations); Walter & Sabrina (Keith Moliné enters the sleazy, insidious world of the London nihilist rock duo); Cross Platform: Camille Norment; Invisible Jukebox: Han Bennink; Oxbow (The all-singing, all-stripping hardcore heavyweights are the music world's answer to Fight Club. Singer/slugger Eugene Robinson breaks the only rule to Phil Freeman); Once Upon A Time in Bristol (Out of St. Paul's claustrophobic mix of reggae, post-punk and hiphop, Smith & Mighty, The Wild Bunch and more spun a protective web of maternal bass)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #285 November 2007
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 285
"On The Cover: Underground Resistance (The elusive Detroit Techno guerrilla cell are superheroes of the Motor City, waging electronic warfare on Capital. Founder 'Mad' Mike Banks explains campaign strategy to Mark Fisher). Features: Flying Lotus (Dave Stelfox meets California's one-man cinematic orchestra, freak-hop rejuvenator and grand-nephew of Alice Coltrane); David Watson (The well travelled improvisor brings the skirl of the bagpipes to New York's downtown scene); Daniel Menche (The Portland electronic extremist tells Nick Cain how he's knocking himself out to tame the wild beast of noise); Cross Platform: Juneau/Projects (Britain's woodcraft folk artists make hand carved guitars, drowning Walkmans and sonic skateboards); Invisible Jukebox: JG Thirlwell; Russell Haswell (A catalytic presence in British art and computer music for over a decade signs to Warner Classics for his latest act of digital decimation with Florian Hecker); Loren Connors (How Brooklyn's guitar transcendentalist spun heavenly harmonies from out of the squalor of '70s and '80s urban bohemia)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #286 December 2007
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 286
"On The Cover: Pram (Keith Moliné enters the old dark house of the Birmingham sextet to see how their obsessions with late night TV and East European cartoons animate their exotic experimental pop). Features: Bruno Pronsato (How a former rock drummer transformed himself into an idiosyncratic house and techno producer); Lionel Marchetti (Dan Warburton speaks to the French composer whose cinema for the ears has reinvigorated musique concrète); Amir ElSaffar (The U.S. based Iraqi santoor/trumpeter mixes blues and Arabic music in defiance of the occupation); Cross Platform: David Ellis (Anne Hilde Neset meets the Southern U.S. artists who sends rhythms rippling through 'drum paintings' and trash piles); Invisible Jukebox: Michael Gira; Burial (On the eve of the release of his second album, the dubstep producer grants Mark Fisher a rare face-to-face interview to discuss his sonic mythographies of South London); Roxy Music (Author Michael Bracewell picks up where his Remake/Remodel book leaves off, to re-examine early Roxy Music's still thrilling crosswirings of pop, art and avant garde methods); The Primer: Harry Partch (Brian Marley follows the hobo trails of the 20th century American composer and instrument builder to piece together a users' guide to his microtonal compositions on CD and DVD)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #288 February 2008
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 288
"On The Cover: Vladislav Delay (Whether as Luomo, Uusitalo or Delay, Finnish electronica producer Sasu Ripatti has always avoided slipping into generic blueprints). Features: Wooden Shjips (The San Francisco fuzz quartet conjure transcendent incantations from traditional tools); Warrior Queen (How MC Annette Henry's uncensored stream of Jamaican patois is enlivening the dubstep scene); Cath & Phil Tyler (The twining harmonies of this husband and wife duo recall the heyday of English pastoral folk song); Cross Platform: What's opera.doc? (La Fura Dels Baus' post-industrial Wagner Ring cycle and Hideaki Takahashi's 'media opera' update the medium for the digital age); Invisible Jukebox: George E. Lewis; Hot Chip (The London quintet hatch a witty hybrid of urban electronic musics, taking in everything from minimal techno to Puerto Rican reggaeton); Sightings (The New York avant power trio explain to Marc Masters how their customary clouds of distortion and overdrive were parted by new producer Andrew WK)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #289 March 2008
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 289
"On the cover: John Butcher (This key player in the second wave of British Improv reinvents the saxophone via digital transformation, acoustic science and a heightened sense of space). Features: Baby Dee (Clive Bell meets the transgender street performer whose eccentric songs find favour with David Tibet and Antony); Brendan Murray (The Boston composer describes a musical commonwealth via delicately sculpted electronic toneworks); Valet (Former Jackie-O Motherfucker member Honey Owens talks shamanic psychic exploration with David Stubbs); Cross-Platform: Jed Speare (Working field and documentary recordings into socially resonant performance works, this unsung composer is a pioneer of multimedia presentation); Invisible Jukebox: Andrew WK; Autechre (Sean Booth and Rob Brown reveal the intuitive processes and magical maths behind their latest Warp album, Quaristice); Michael Hurley (Byron Coley plots the wanderings of America's neu-volk bohemian, from Greenwich Village and Folkways to The Holy Modal Rounders, cartoon wolves and Armchair Boogie)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #290 April 2008
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 290
"All copies of this issue will come complete with an exclusive free CD stuck to the cover: The Wire Tapper 19, a special 10th anniversary edition of our acclaimed series of new music compilations. The Wire Tapper 19 is the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations, the first volume of which was issued 10 years ago with The Wire's April 1998 issue. As with previous volumes, The Wire Tapper 19, which has been compiled by Shane Woolman, Lisa Blanning and Andy Tait, will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from across the spectrum of the kind of underground/outsider musics covered in the magazine. Packaged in a gatefold sleeve with artwork by The Wire's art director Ben Weaver, the CD will be given away free with every copy of the April issue worldwide. Artists include: Our Sleepless Forest, Snorkel, Nico Muhly, G.F. Fitz-Gerald & Lol Coxhill, X.A. Cute (feat. Mike Ladd), Daniel Figgis via Somadrone, Fluorescent Grey, Kaffe Matthews, Alexei Borisov & Anton Nikkilä, Talvin Singh, Illusion Of Safety, The Master Musicians Of Hop-Frog, Phog Masheeen, Setsubun Bean Unit, Pink Skull, LowDynamicOrchestra with Stefano Scodanibbio, Lars Akerlund, Tangtype, Yellow6, Never Enough Hop. On the cover: Gudrun Gut (From Malaria!, Mania D and Neubauten to Ocean Club radio and Monika Enterprise, this 'dilettante' has genially hosted Berlin's new music scene for 30 years. Features: Benga (Derek Walmsley meets dubstep's prince of darkness); Religious Knives (Bruce Russell on dervish surgery in New York); Robert Hood (Detroit Technocrat lights out for the South); Cross Platform: Cory Arcangel (With homage to Glenn Gould and hacked video games, this visual artist converts geekiness into media savvy); Invisible Jukebox: Michael Rother; Henry Grimes (Lost to the world for 30 years, the free jazz bassist has belatedly restarted his magnificent career in New York); J Dilla (Two years after his tragically early death, Dave Stelfox pays tribute to the celebrated hip-hop producer's ruff drafts, decaying textures and influential lo-fi aesthetics); The Primer: Henry Cow (A user's guide to the recordings of this nomadic, utopian outfit, including the extended Rock In Opposition family of Slapp Happy, The Work, Art Bears and more."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #291 May 2008
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 291
"On the cover: Wolfgang Voigt (With the release of his classic, controversial GAS series, the Kompakt/Profan/Studio 1 founder and Cologne minimal architect talks psychedelic forestry with Rob Young). Features: Jon Hassell (A new orchestral project finds the Fourth World trumpeter preaching to the choir); Dexplicit (Derek Walmsly takes a bass line mainline to the North London suburb); Frans de Waard (Noise of many stripes with the Dutch protagonist of Goem, Freiband, Zebra and more); Cross-Platform: AV Festival (Andy Hamilton encounters Radiophonia, indeterminacy and vinyl-killers at North East England's multidisciplinary meltdown); Invisible Jukebox: Carl Craig; Dean Roberts (From White Winged Moth to Autistic Daughters, the nomadic New Zealand avantist has left a trail of ghostly post-rock and dislocated lyrical archetypes); Max Eastley (Delicate automata, wind-blown harps, ear-shattering Arc improvisations: welcome to the dynamic world of England's foremost environmental sound sculptor); Kan Mikami (Floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, Japan's acid folk veteran punches above his weight with Keiji Haino, Jojo Hiroshige, Motoharu Yoshizawa and more."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #292 June 2008
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 292
"On the cover: Evangelista (Since covering Willie Nelson's 'Red Headed Stranger,' Carla Bozulich has been shunting alt country deeper into hardcore improv territory with her new group). Features: Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt tells Chris Sharp why 3" CD-Rs are the perfect medium for his electronic streams of consciousness); Dylan van der Schyff (Vancouver's busiest drummer talks about his work with John Butcher, pianist Peggy Lee and more); Cross Platform: Anat Ben-David (Chicks On Speed's Israeli recruit interrogates pop and politics in her performance art piece, Popaganda); Invisible Jukebox: The RZA; Yoshi Wada (Inspired by La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath, the Japanese Fluxus artist explores the 'sympathetic resonances' of his homemade bagpipes and horns); People Like Us (Adopting the motto 'all things avant retard,' Vicki Bennett creates witty audio cut-ups and collages that slyly subvert heavily mediated images of Britain); Nihilist Spasm Band (The likes of Joe McPhee, Voice Crack and Jojo Hiroshige have all made the pilgrimage to London, Ontario to attend the Canadian noise veterans' No Music nights)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #293 July 2008
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 293
"On the cover: Mark Stewart (The former Pop Group godfather talks up his new outernationalist album and warns against being absorbed into a consumerist 'flatpack reality'). Features: Rustie (This Scottish wunderkind's bass-heavy 'aquacrunk' is the perfect beat for Glasgow's busy party scene); Franz Hautzinger (Why the Austrian trumpeter rejected Reductionism in favor of more eclectic, promiscuous fusions); Cross Platform: Materials Library (Joanne Lee meets Zoe Laughlin, curator of a London research project into the sound of everyday stuff); Invisible Jukebox: .snd; The Necks (Australian improvising trio Chris Abrahams, Tony Buck and Lloyd Swanton explain how their weightless, long-haul explorations achieve lift-off); Bill Dixon (The trumpeter has always patrolled the borders of tonality, from his 60s work with Archie Shepp and Cecil Taylor to his current, monumental Darfur)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #294 August 2008
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 294
"On the cover: Tricky (Knowle West council estates, strong women and Jesus Christ: Bristol's self-described 'Mr Darkness' explains his return to form to Mark Fisher). Features: Sick Llama/Fag Tapes (As curator of the Fag Tapes label, Heath Moreland is a crucial force in Michigan's noise scene); Reiko Kudo (The nomadic Maher Shalal Hash Baz founder conceals toxic thorns within her floral musical haikus); Asva (Former Burning Witch/Sunn O))) member Stuart Dahlquist's new project blends Doom with drone); Cross Platform: Atsuhiro Ito (Vicente Gutierrez meets Tokyo's inventor of the optron, harnessing the sonic power of fluorescent light); Invisible Jukebox: Joe McPhee; Michel Chion (The Parisian musique concrete composer and author ravishes the 'floating ear' with powerful text settings and cinematic sensibility); The Primer: Digital Dancehall (A user's guide to Jamaica's digital revolution, with deejaying and minimal riddims from Wayne Smith, King Jammy, King Tubby, Ninjaman, Shabba Ranks and more)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #295 September 2008
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 295
"On the cover: Ultra-red (Mark Fisher talks experimental music and radical politics with the multinational and audio activists). Features: Dusk + Blackdown (The London dubstep duo bring documentary realism to their sonic remapping of the city); Aleks Kolkowski (Clive Bell gets horny over the collagist/broadcaster's collection of gramophones, Stroh fiddles and wax cylinders); Cross Platform: Allora & Calzadilla (The Puerto Rican pair avenge Hitler's attack on art with a Cageian take on his favorite music); Invisible Jukebox: Daniel Johnston & Jad Fair; Ghédalia Tazartès (Nick Cain meets a Parisian eccentric whose ethnographic forgeries conjure parallel worlds); Trevor Watts (The British improv pioneer explains to Julian Cowley why funk and freedom go together)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #296 October 2008
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 296
"All copies of the October issue will come complete with an exclusive free CD stuck to the cover, The Wire Tapper 20, the latest volume in our acclaimed series of new music compilations. The Wire Tapper 20 is the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. As with previous volumes, The Wire Tapper 20, which has been compiled by Shane Woolman, Lisa Blanning and Andy Tait, will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from across the spectrum of the kind of underground/outsider music covered in the zine. Packaged in a gatefold sleeve designed by The Wire's art director Ben Weaver, the CD will be given away free with every copy of the October issue worldwide. Artists include Zavoloka, Crackle, Formication, Paavoharji, oRSo, A_dontigny, RJ Valeo, rarescale, Mike Osborne, Random Touch, Punck, Grails, micronormous, Pantaleimon, Lothar Ohlmeier/Isambard Khroustaliov, Tertium Quid, MoHa!, Anthony Kelly & David Stalling, Wounded Knee.
       
       On the cover: Richie Hawtin (From Detroit to Berlin, from Plus 8 to Minus, the former Plastikman's life and music remain in constant flux). Features: Runhild Gammelsaeter (Norway's black metal boffin tells Chris Sharp she isn't about to give up the day job); Lucky Dragons (Lisa Blanning on the L.A. collective who combine technology, eco-consciousness and textiles); Ingrid Laubrock (The F-IRE Collective saxophonist and Sleepthief leader talks a good game with Mike Barnes; Global Ear: Helsinki (Derek Walmsley reports on the rise of skweee's irreverent, downtempo beats; Cross Platform: Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Owen Hatherley hears the sound of marching feet on London's streets); Rules Of Engagement (Can artworld recreations of radical performances do justice to anarchic spirits?); Invisible Jukebox: Makoto Kawabata; Benge (The latest project by this London musician celebrates two decades of analogue synthesis); The Primer: The Alternative Neil Young (A user's guide to the roads less traveled in the long career of Canada's finest guitar vet)."


Artist: WIRE, THE
Title: #297 November 2008
Label: THE WIRE (UK)
Format: MAG
Price: $8.50
Catalog #: WIRE 297
"On the cover: Unofficial Channels: A Tour of Music's Unauthorised Domains, from Bootlegs to Blogs and Beyond. In the latest in our popular series of 'composite' cover features, The Wire's team of writers and critics takes a look at the myriad unofficial and alternative ways music gets out into the world, including bootlegs, blogs, CD-Rs, cassette networks, audience tapes, online DJ sets, hip-hop battle tapes, studio outtakes, pirate radio mixes and more. Features: Gino Robair (The San Francisco improvising percussionist tells Julian Cowley about his energized surfaces); Yo! Majesty (Matt Gorney on a flamboyant Florida rap duo with a penchant for royal bust-ups); Tristan Perich (Exploring the foundations of digital sound, from Loud Objects to 1-bit music); Global Ear: Guča: (Robert Rigney reports from smalltown Serbia's bustling brass band blowout); Cross Platform: Ken Jacobs (Alan Licht rips up the presidential suite with the avant garde film maker); Invisible Jukebox: Hal Willner; Dick Raaijmakers (The Dutch electroacoustic theorist blinds Brian Morton with sonic science, from astronomy to anti-gravity); Luciano (Derek Walmsley meets the Swiss techno architect and globe-trotting DJ making dance music for introspective types); Anthony Braxton (During the 1970s, one of jazz's most avant garde figures plied his trade on one of the world's biggest record labels. Bill Meyer on Braxton's Arista years)."

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