Inside The Wire 290 April 2008

Gudrun Gut photographed by Olaf Unverzart

Regulars

The Masthead 6 Letters 8 Bitstream 10 Trawling for gossip with The Wire’s news net The Joined-up World of The Wire 11 PlusTrip Or Squeek Global Ear 18 Victor Gama fi nds edgy electronics and shamanic healing bedding down in Bogotáá, Colombia

Charts 48 Out There 94 The pick of the month’s festivals, concerts, club spaces, radio and more Print & Digital Subscriptions 98

The Wire Tapper/The Wire Tapper/The Wire Tapper Back Issues 100

Epiphanies 106 Volcano The Bear’s Daniel Padden hears a new world on ethnographic LPs

Features

The Wire Tapper 19 4 Your track by track guide to this month’s free CD

Benga 12 Derek Walmsley meets dubstep’s prince of darkness

Religious Knives 14 Bruce Russell on dervish surgery in New York

Robert Hood 16 Detroit Technocrat lights out for the South. By Philip Sherburne

Cross Platform Cory Arcangel 20 With homages to Glenn Gould and hacked video games, this visual artist converts geekiness into media savvy. By Abi Bliss

Invisible Jukebox Michael Rother 22 The Neu! guitarist settles into a motorik groove with The Wire’s mystery record box. Tested by Mike Barnes

Henry Grimes 26 Lost to the world for 30 years, the free jazz bassist has belatedly restarted his magnifi cent career in New York. Progress report by Howard Mandel

J Dilla 30 Two years after his tragically early death, Dave Stelfox pays tribute to the celebrated hiphop producer’s ruff drafts, decaying textures and infl uential lof-fi aesthetics

Gudrun Gut 34 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. By Philip Sherburne

The Primer Henry Cow 40 A user’s guide to the recordings of this nomadic, utopian outfi t, including the extended Rock In Opposition family of Slapp Happy, The Work, Art Bears and more. By Philip Clark

Reviews

Index 49 Soundcheck 50 This month’s selected CDs and vinyl, including Portishead, William S Burroughs, Birchville Cat Motel and more. Plus specialist columns on avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, hiphop, jazz & Improv, modern composition, outer limits, reissues, compilations and unusual formats The Inner Sleeve 75 Zeke Clough on Kevin Blechdom Print Run 76 New music books, including George Lewis’s AACM history, Drew Daniel on TG, an Italian take on exotica and more On Screen 78 An Arthur Russell documentary, Sublime Frequencies DVDs and more On Site 79 Gallery and mixed media events, including Self-Cancellation at Instal 08 and Loris Grééaud’s Cellar Door On Location 80 Concert, club and festival reviews, including Instal 08, FWD>>, Earth, Sir Richard Bishop and more