October 2011

Two years after the release of his epochal "In/Flux" single, DJ Shadow's abstract beat collage is still a mutant strain in the hiphop nation. This article originally appeared in The Wire 151 (September 1996).

Interview from Issue 148

Meat Beat Manifesto: Dangerous Liaisons

October 2011

Thanks to the esoteric interests of frontman Jack Dangers, Meat Beat Manifesto's post-Industrial Electro-collages are reaching a new currency in the 90s. Interview by Chris Sharp. This article originally appeared in The Wire 148 (June 1996).

Issue 316

June 2010

+ 75: Edition Contemporary Music CD

On The Cover: Felix Kubin - The Hamburg cosmonaut repurposes dada, Neue Deutsche Welle, communist anthems and more for his music, films and radiophonic plays. By Momus. Plus Carsten Nicolai, Hudson Mohawke's Jukebox, Actress, Demdike Stare, Rangers, Carlos Casas in Cross Platform, Graham Duff on Wire, Oval, Chicks On Speed, Zwischenwelt, The A Band and more

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WAITING FOR TONY from Issue 311

Rewind 2009: Contributors Charts

January 2010

Jennifer Allen Sunn O))) Monoliths And Dimensions (Southern Lord) Black Dice Repo (Paw Tracks) Zola Jesus The Spoils (Sacred...

Issue 311

January 2010

On The Cover: The Wire's essential review of the year's best music, including Top 50 Records of the Year, writers' and musicians' reflections, and discussions of the state of the art in sound. Plus: Monolake, Janek Schaefer, Josephine Foster's Invisible Jukebox, Position Normal, The Village Orchestra, Yan Jun, Paul Rooney in Cross Platform, Jad Fair, Kodwo Eshun on sonic warfare, Cathi Unsworth on Gallon Drunk and more...

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Issue 296

October 2008

+ The Wire Tapper 20

On The Cover: Richie Hawtin - he has the technology. Stuck To The Cover: The Wire Tapper 20 - a free 19-track CD featuring music by Grails, Mike Osborne, Paavoharju, Pantaleimon, MoHa!, Zavoloka and more. Plus, Makoto Kawabata's Invisible Jukebox, Benge, The Primer: The alternative Neil Young, Ingrid Laubrock, Runhild Gammelsaeter, Lucky Dragons, David Grubbs on brief encounters and more.

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Issue 295

September 2008

On the cover: Ultra-Red - Mark Fisher talks experimental music and radical politics with the multinational audio activists. Other features include interviews with Trevor Watts, Ghédalia Tazartès, Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair's Invisible Jukebox, Dusk & Blackdown, Aleks Kolkowski, Allora & Calzadilla in Cross Platform, Global Ear from Beijing, Sonic Youth and Brian Eno biographies reviewed in Print Run, Venn Festival, My Bloody Valentine and Sonar reviewed On Location and more. Subscribe now!

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Issue 292

June 2008

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. By David Stubbs. Features include interviews with Nihilist Spasm Band, People Like Us, and Yoshi Wada, as well as RZA's Invisible Jukebox. Plus: Dylan van der Schyff, Machinefabriek, Chicks On Speed's Anat Ben David in Cross Platform, Carsten Nicolai of Raster-Noton picks his favourite Inner Sleeve and more...

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Issue 288

February 2008

Vladislav Delay - What makes today's Techno so different, so appealing? Interviews with Sightings, Hot Chip, Cath & Phil Tyler, Warrior Queen & Wooden Shjips. Plus: George E Lewis's Invisible Jukebox, Hideaki Takahashi's 'media opera' in Cross Platform, Drew Daniel's Global Ear from Baltimore, Nick Sylvester's Epiphany, Damon & Naomi's Inner Sleeve plus much, much more...

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Issue 276

February 2007

ON THE COVER: Seismic Performances: 60 Concerts That Shook The World! From gigs in defunct power stations to New York squats and Siberian festivals, The Wire's team of writers remember the performances that changed their lives

FEATURES: Invisible Jukebox: Bert Jansch; The Primer: Adrian Sherwood & On-U Sound; Cross Platform: Shinro Ohtake; Infinite Livez, Richard Skelton, Alan Vega

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Issue 272

October 2006

ON THE COVER: Pere Ubu - After 14 albums and several line-up changes, David Thomas's group continue to map out America's ghost towns and lost highways. By Phil Freeman

FEATURES: Rafael Toral, Invisible Jukebox: Chris Corsano, Once Upon A Time In Melbourne, Cross Platform: Jayne Parker, James Blackshaw, COH, Little Annie

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Issue 271

September 2006

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. By Peter Shapiro

FEATURES: Charalambides, Primer: AMM, Merce Cunningham, Invisible Jukebox: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Cross Platform: Ira Cohen, Digital Mystikz, Excepter, Jason Lescalleet

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Issue 269

July 2006

ON THE COVER: Current 93 - David Tibet explains how his music is shaped
by his apocalyptic religious visions and nightmares of black ships. By
Keith Moliné

FEATURES: Die Tödliche Doris, Invisible Jukebox: Kode9, Cross Platform:
Annea Lockwood, Boxcutter, FM3

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Issue 250

December 2004

+ The Wire Tapper 12

ON THE COVER: In Praise of the Riff. Celebrating The Wire's 250th issue, we present a guide to rhythm, repetition, loops and trance, including Chris Sharp on riffs breaking away from rock and David Toop on the riff in free jazz.

FEATURES: Invisible Jukebox: Marshall Allen, The Finnish underground, John Peel RIP, Greg Davis, irr.app.(ext.)

PLUS: The Wire Tapper 12: This month's free cover-mounted 40 track double CD is available in shops worldwide and features tracks by Daniel Biro & Rob Palmer, Githead, Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides, Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players, Chas Smith, Ascoltare, Ergo Phizmiz, The Fall, Cul De Sac/Damo Suzuki, Milky Globe, Andrew Pekler, DJ /Rupture Featuring Sister Nancy, David Grubbs & Nikos Veliotis, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney and more

Issue 234

August 2003

ON THE COVER: New Weird America - Sunburned Hand of the Man are spearheading the groundswell of the US free folk revolution. By David Keenan

FEATURES: Primer: Fela Kuti, Robert Ashley, Phew, Mike Paradinas, The Pastels, Niobe, Cedric Im Brooks, Tu m'

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Issue 211

September 2001

ON THE COVER: Björk - Flitting between London, Reykjavik and Manhattan, Iceland's queen of the night has been singing round the digital campfire with Matmos, Matthew Herbert and others on her new Vespertine album. By David Toop

FEATURES: Q-Bert, Pandit Pran Nath, Stereolab, Mike Patton, Lester Bangs, Stephan Mathieu, Gregg Bendian, Radu Malfatti, Lightning Bolt, Patti Smith, Crass

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Issue 210

August 2001

ON THE COVER: Acid Mothers Temple - Beneath the psychedelic gimmickry, Makoto Kawabata's cosmic revellers are sky-kissing troubadours at heart. David Keenan unravels the 23 year trip that transformed teenage noisefreak Kawabata into AMT's high priest of drone

FEATURES: Invisible Jukebox: Laurie Anderson, Primer: Morton Feldman, Fennesz, Rune Lindblad, Prefuse 73, Hamid Drake, Delia Derbyshire, Björk, Sonic Youth, Sonar 2001

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Issue 199

September 2000

On The Cover: Royal Trux. These tramps were born to burn: Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema pour their shared affinity for scuzzy art, musique concrete and harmolodics into high-octane trailerpark rock noise. By Edwin Pouncey

Features: Burnt Friedman, Francisco Lopez, Sunny Murray's Jukebox, Tangents #2: Back To The Roots, Luther Blissett, Joseph Suchy, Lois V Vierk

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Issue 165

November 1997

ON THE COVER: Jim O'Rourke - Underground Renaissance

FEATURES: Oskar Sala, Butch Morris, Faust, Ansuman Biswas, J Saul Kane, Hal Willner, 4 Hero's Jukebox

Issue 159

May 1997

ON THE COVER: Photek - Suburban Samurai

FEATURES: Robert Fripp, Jeff Mills, Ennio Morricone, Merzbow, Tipsy, Third Eye Foundation, Sonic Boom's Invisible Jukebox

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Issue 152

October 1996

On The Cover: A Guy Called Gerald

Features: Henry Rollins's Jukebox, Lamb, Cristian Vogel, Global Ear: Tokyo, Einstürzende Neubauten, David Thomas, Jim O'Rourke meets John Fahey, Throbbing Gristle at the ICA

Issue 151

September 1996

ON THE COVER: The Fall

FEATURES: Sheila Chandra, John Cale's Jukebox, DJ Shadow, Trans Am, Roger Eno, Keiji Haino, Magical Power Mako, David Cunningham, Spleen

Issue 148

June 1996

On The Cover: Andrew Weatherall

Stuck To The Cover: free Big Cat CD

Features: Lou Reed, Pil, Neil Young, Marvin Gaye, Mad Professor, Meat Beat Manifesto, Jungle goes AWOL, 808 State, Ravi Shankar

Issue 140

October 1995

ON THE COVER: Jah Wobble

FEATURES: Ornette Coleman, Countertenor Madness, Stereolab, Mick Harvey, Derrick May

Reviews from Issue 185

Holger Czukay: Good Morning Story

The skilful way Czukay constructs so evocative a musical narrative makes a powerful case for his continued relevance. This review originally appeared in The Wire 185 (July 1999).