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John Cage Wire Primer talk in Brussels

21|02|2013

Louise Gray gives a talk in Brussels on 19 April, based around her Primer article on John Cage.

Issue 348

February 2013

On the cover: Oneohtrix Point Never: Brooklyn synth explorer Daniel Lopatin talks technological illusions, video game theory and cinema for the ear with Derek Walmsley. Plus: Joshua Abrams, Amsterdam’s STudio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Ricardo Villalobos' Invisible Jukebox, Cara Tolmie, Mark Fell's Collateral Damage and more.

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Interview from Issue 318

Chicks On Speed

August 2010

Read an unedited transcript of Louise Gray's interview with Chicks On Speed, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 4–5 June, 2010.

Issue 318

August 2010

On the cover: Chris Watson - Ken Hollings meets the sound recordist and Cabaret Voltaire founder whose mic penetrates the wild places humans can't reach. Plus: Howard Riley, Surgeon, Chicks On Speed, Rhodri Davies's Invisible Jukebox, Peter Shapiro on Cosmic Disco, Julian Lynch, Helena Gough, Terror Danjah

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Issue 313

March 2010

+ Café Concrete

On the cover: Caledonia dreaming: How Glasgow has become the UK's experimental free folk capital, with Alasdair Roberts, Trembling Bells, The Family Elan and more. By Rob Young. Plus Marina Rosenfeld, The Thirteenth Assembly, The Moodies, Dylan Nyoukis's Invisible Jukebox, Geiom, Sebastian Lexer, Yabby You, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot in Cross Platform, Alan Moore on John Clare, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard on Adam And The Ants 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 308

October 2009

+ The Wire Tapper 22

Broadcast: Collaborating with hauntologists The Focus Group, Warp's defining post-rock duo summon an occult pop laden with psychedelia. By Joseph Stannard. Plus Lou Reed's Invisible Jukebox, Iancu Dumitrescu, Dopplereffekt, Kosmische Primer, Rashied Ali, Sun Araw, Hans Peter Kuhn in Cross Platform and more

Stuck To The Cover: Free 20 track CD - Arrington de Dionyso, Climax Golden Twins, Elodie Lauten, Pink Mountain, Shits And Giggles, Yoshio Machida and more

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The Portal from Issue 305

Portal 02/07/2009

July 2009

Issue 291

May 2008

On The Cover: Wolfgang Voigt: With the rerelease of his classic, controversial GAS series, the Kompakt/Profan/Studio 1 founder and Cologne minimal architect talks psychedelic forestry with Rob Young. Plus: Interviews with Max Eastley, Kan Mikami, Dean Roberts, Jon Hassell, Dexplicit and Frans de Waard, Carl Craig's Invisible Jukebox, AV Festival in Cross Platform, Underground Resistance artist Abdul Quadim Haqq's Inner Sleeve, Lawrence English's Epiphany and more

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Issue 287

January 2008

2007 Rewind - Records of The Year; Musicians' and writers' reflections.

Plus Six Organs Of Admittance, Steve Jansen, Keith Rowe's Invisible Jukebox, Once Upon A Time In... Sweden - late 60s free rock and psychedelic folk by Jim Weir, Stefan Németh, nsi., Ian Forsyth & Jane Pollard in Cross Platform by Louise Gray and more...

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Issue 284

October 2007

+ The Wire Tapper 18

Stuck To The Cover: The Wire Tapper 18 - The latest volume in our ongoing series of new music compilations

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. By David Toop

Features: Han Bennink's Invisible Jukebox, Oxbow, Once Upon A Time In Bristol, Walter & Sabrina, Shape Of Broad Minds, The Bug, Ute Wassermann

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Issue 282

August 2007

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. By Philip Sherburne

Features: The Primer: British Psych-Folk, Whitehouse, Cross Platform: Laurie Anderson, Invisible Jukebox: Jonathan Harvey, Matthew Dear, Axolotl

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Issue 281

July 2007

On The Cover: Throbbing Gristle - The four "wreckers of civilisation" return with their first new material since breaking up in 1981. David Stubbs finds out how their uncompromising stance has matured

Features: Keijo, Robin Williamson, Invisible Jukebox: Peter Rehberg, Daniel AIU Higgs, Skull Disco, Cross Platform: Mathieu Brand

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Issue 274

December 2006

+ The Wire Tapper 16

ON THE COVER: Melvins - The unpredictable California based quartet intersperse neo-Metal albums with art film soundtracks, avant garde provocations and audience baiting antics. By Phil Freeman

STUCK ON THE COVER: The Wire Tapper 16 - Free 21 track CD with tracks by Califone, Pansonic, Derek Bailey, The Slits, Alan Vega and more

FEATURES: John Surman, Texan Hiphop, Marc Ribot, Charles Atlas, Steve Mackay, Reanimator, Hisato Higuchi, Beat Furrer

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Issue 273

November 2006

ON THE COVER: Joanna Newsom - On her new orchestral album Ys, the Californian harper's epic tales have been enhanced by collaborations with Van Dyke Parks, Steve Albini and Jim O'Rourke. By Rob Young

FEATURES: Lasse Marhaug, Haunted Audio, Christof Kurzmann, Invisible Jukebox: Om, Cross Platform: Mika Taanila, Victor Gama, Colleen, Tovah Olson

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Issue 270

August 2006

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. By David Keenan

FEATURES: Dabrye, Invisible Jukebox: Biosphere, Akio Suzuki & John Butcher, Die Trip Computer Die, Cross Platform: Brian Eno, Philip Samartzis, Leopard Leg, John Wiese

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Issue 266

April 2006

+ Room 40: A Collection of Sound From the Australian Imprint Room 40

ON THE COVER: Tom Verlaine: On the eve of his first new album in 13 years, the reclusive Television guitarist allows Alan Licht a rare audience

FEATURES: Spring Heel Jack, Invisible Jukebox: Burnt Friedman, Primer: The Fall, Linder, Mouthus, The Knife, Ned Sublette

Issue 262

December 2005

+ The Wire Tapper 14

ON THE COVER: Lightning Bolt

FEATURES: Ken Hyder, Vashti Bunyan, Invisible Jukebox: Ray Russell, Primer: Jamaican Deejays, Tujiko Noriko, Susanne Brokesch, Kang Tae Hwan

PLUS: Wire Tapper 14: All copies of this month's issue come with a free 16 track CD, the latest volume in our ongoing series of new music compilations. The CD features tracks by Oren Marshall, Dirty Projectors, Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid, This Heat, Nels Cline/Wally Shoup/Chris Corsano and more

Issue 260

October 2005

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: Eliane Radigue, The new London silence: Mark Wastell and Sound 323, Invisible Jukebox: The Dirty Three, Jarboe, Alexander Tucker, Birchville Cat Motel

Issue 259

September 2005

ON THE COVER: Richard Youngs - The naive shaman's rapturous DIY minimalism is re-energising the UK's free rock underground. By David Keenan

FEATURES: Hugh Hopper, Ralf Wehowsky, The Primer: Xenakis, Invisible Jukebox: Broadcast, Alexander Hacke, Okkyung Lee, Tracy + The Plastics, Tony Oursler

Issue 225

November 2002

+ The Wire Tapper 09 (this CD is no longer available)

ON THE COVER: 20th Anniversary Issue - We made it. In this ten page special anniversary feature, we leaf though two decades of this magazine's back pages to hear how we kept on an even keel in choppy musical and financial seas

FEATURES: Anticon, No Wave Primer, Invisible Jukebox: Steve Lacy, Kimmo Pohjonen, Annette Krebs, Steve Mackey

Issue 223

September 2002

ON THE COVER: Boredoms - Yamataka Eye and Yoshimi P-We's 16 year old avant institution has a new lease of life. They tell Edwin Pouncey how they've streamlined their anarchic punk into a disciplined percussion frenzy... by turning the group into a turntable

FEATURES: Atom Heart, Invisible Jukebox: Charlemagne Palestine, Primer: Miami Bass, Yasunao Tone, Earle Brown, Cheb i Sabbah, Eliane Radigue, Mike Westbrook, Ladyfest, Zappanale, RJD22

Issue 217

March 2002

ON THE COVER: Sonic Youth - Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo talk through their involvement with the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Los Angeles, and dispense the secrets of eternal Youth. By Christoph Cox

FEATURES: Sam Rivers, Invisible Jukebox: Steinski, Christof Migone, Marc Almond, Rocket From the Tombs, Thomas Brinkmann, John Zorn, Bohman Brothers, Oslo's new Improv set, Thomas Buckner, Musée Mécanique, Cex

Issue 194

April 2000

ON THE COVER: Coil - Beginning To See The Light

FEATURES: Morton Subotnick, Sussan Deyhim's Jukebox, Einsturzende Neubauten, Gunter Muller, Kid-606, Kim Cascone

Issue 186

August 1999

On The Cover: Scanner: For a multimedia mogul such as Robin Rimbaud, music is just another node in a complex web of collaborative activity that defines the democratic processes of the digital world. By Rob Young

Features: Tony Oxley, The Primer: Japanese Psychedelia, Sound Art, Blixa Bargeld's Jukebox, Piano Magic, Plug Research, The Last Poets

Current Issue 353

July 2013

On the cover: The Dead C – The New Zealand underground rock trio have been making music at the outer limits for 25 years. On the road in Europe, they tell David Keenan why Bruce Russell’s amp sound is better than sex. Plus: Rashad Becker, a Primer on Don Cherry, Pangaea's Invisible Jukebox, Arturas Bumšteinas, Paul Metzger, The Durian Brothers and more.

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