Inside The Wire 300 | February 2009

Jeff Mills photographed by Leon Chew

The Masthead 4

Letters 6

Bitstream 8 News and more from below the radar

The Joined-up World of The Wire 9 What we are up to online and elsewhere

Trip Or Squeek 9 By Savage Pencil

Bites 10

Charts 46

Out There 86 Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings

Reviews Index 47

Soundcheck 48 This month’s selected CDs, vinyl and downloads, including Aan meets Eyes Like Saucers, a selection of South Korean Improv, and box sets from Olivier Messiaen and MEV. Plus avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, hiphop, jazz & Improv, modern composition, outer limits, unusual formats and reissues

The Inner Sleeve 71 Christina Carter on Jandek

Print Run 72 New music books, including the collected writings of Boyd Rice, a history of LSD in Britain, Simon Reynolds’s post-punk interviews and more

On Screen 74 Jem Cohen’s Evening’s Civil Twilight In Empires Of Tin, Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention: In The 1960s, The Holy Modal Rounders… Bound To Lose and Roulette TV on DVD

On Site 76 Gallery and mixed media events, including Soviet sound experiments at Sound In Z and two Ryoji Ikeda installations

On Location 77 Concert and festival reviews, including the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Psychedel-Yah, ATP’s Nightmare Before Christmas and more

Martyn 12 The Dutch producer on pitchshifting from drum ’n’ bass to Techno-influenced dubstep. By Lisa Blanning

Mary Halvorson 14 Philip Clark hears how the New York based People person is ringing the changes for jazz guitar

Hamilton Yarns 16 The countryside around Brighton is the inspiration for these yarnspinning pre-rockers, says Julian Cowley

Global Ear 18 Tehran Lucinda Dunn and Nima Shaeyghi report on new strains of roots and fusion music in the Iranian capital Cross Platform Ding>>Dong 20 Fragmented Orchestra’s pulsating electronic brain fires David Stubbs’s synapses at Liverpool’s FACT

Invisible Jukebox James Plotkin 22

The dark lord of the American underground gets to grips with The Wire’s mystery record box. Tested by Phil Freeman

No-Neck Blues Band 26

In a rare interview, New York’s leaderless collective discuss ways of summoning form from formlessness. By Marc Masters Jeff Mills 32

Space is still the place for the Detroit Techno pioneer. Exclusive interview by Derek Walmsley

The Primer William S Burroughs 38

Jack Sargeant surveys the recorded output of the literary outlaw, from his spoken word documents to his cut-up tape and celluloid experiments

Epiphanies 106 British film director Chris Petit gets carried away by lines heard on the radio