Inside The Wire 282 August 2007

Ricardo Villalobos photographed by Daniëlle Van Ark

Regulars The Masthead 4 Letters 6 Bitstream 8 Global Ear 14 Charts 44 Out There 84

Features

Reviews Index 45 Soundcheck 46

Axolotl 10

Nick Cain books a seat in the memory theatre for Karl Bauer’s delirious electric violin drones

Trawling for gossip with The Wire’s news net. Plus Trip Or Squeek Maria Bakkalapulo finds music strengthening the Hindu footprint in Bali

Matthew Dear 12
Cross Platform

As False, Jabberjaw and Audion, the US electronica producer toggles between pop and rougher textures. By Dave Stelfox

Laurie Anderson 16
Invisible Jukebox

This month’s selected CDs and vinyl, including Angels Of Light, Deepchord, Australian experimental music and more. Plus specialist columns on avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, global, hiphop, jazz & Improv, outer limits, reissues, compilations and unusual formats

The multimedia maven rails against American foreign policy in her new Homeland performance. By Louise Gray

The Inner Sleeve 69
Lasse Marhaug on Carcass

The pick of the month’s festivals, concerts, club spaces, radio and more

Print Run 70

Subscribe 88 Back Issues 90 Epiphanies 98

Jonathan Harvey 18 Whitehouse 22

New music books, including Soul Covers, Beyond Exoticism and graphic art by Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale

The Buddhist spectral composer meditates on The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Philip Clark

On Screen 72 On Site 73

New music DVDs, including Roky Erickson, EXIAS-J, and Burroughs and Gysin’s cut-ups

Bruce Russell peels back the skin of The Velvet Underground’s banana album

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. By David Keenan

Ricardo Villalobos 30
The Primer

Gallery and mixed media events, including Panic Attack: Art In The Punk Years and music for robots

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

On Location 74

Concert and festival reviews, including Sónar 2007 Faster Than Sound, , Grinderman, Christian Marclay and more

British psychedelic folk 36

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. By Rob Young