Inside The Wire 305 | July 2009

Moritz von Oswald photographed by Kai von Rabenau

The Masthead 4

Letters 6

Bitstream 8 News and more from below the radar

Trip Or Squeek 9 Cartoon strip by Savage Pencil

Bites 10 Richard Williams meditates on Kind Of Blue, Video Data Bank’s sound art DVD collection, the Free Music Archive

Charts 46

Out There 88 Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings

Back Issues 92

Subscriptions 93

Reviews Index 47

Soundcheck 48 This month’s selected CDs, vinyl and downloads, including The Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Foetus and more. Plus avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, global, hiphop, jazz & Improv, outer limit s, unusual formats and reissues

The Inner Sleeve 71 Doug McCombs on Minutemen’s Double Nickels On The Dime

Print Run 72 New music books: a collection of Velvet Underground interviews, modern art versus modern composition, a history of recorded music and a no-nonsense guide to World Music

On Screen 74 Kenneth Anger, Steve Jansen and David Toop on DVD

On Site 75 Gallery and mixed media events, including exhibitions featuring Ryoji Ikeda, Sonic Youth, Luke Fowler and more

On Location 77 Concert and festival reviews including the Ponderosa Stomp, Short Circuit and Sotto Voce, plus Trembling Bells, Robert Ashley and more

Cooly G 12 Joe Muggs meets the South Londoner who’s rewiring vintage House as blistering Funky beatdowns

Lucas Abela 14 This Australian body artist and Noise performer loves the sound of breaking glass. By Bruce Russell

Giuseppe Ielasi 16 Nick Cain reports on a concrète turntablist pulling off sonic stunts on Milan’s fringes

Global Ear Berlin 18 Robert Rigney enters the German city’s Turkish districts where hiphop reigns supreme

Cross Platform Jacob Kirkegaard 20 The Danish sound artist explores Chernobyl, the Oman desert and the inner ear in search of the inaudible. By Anne Hilde Neset

Invisible Jukebox Ariel Pink 22 We place Los Angeles’s lo-fi songsmith under house arrest until he can identify The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Mike Barnes

Ran Blake 26 Since the late 1950s, the mercurial bop pianist has continued to create the newest sound around. By Byron Coley

Ramleh 30 The UK cassette underground veterans fly their Broken Flag for power electronics, pagan guitars and Anne Frank. By David Keenan

Pierre Henry 36 At home with the oldest surviving pioneer of French musique concrète, as he enters an Indian summer of renewed creativity. By Philip Clark

Moritz von Oswald 40 Basic Channel’s reclusive co-founder breaks cover to tell Philip Sherburne about the dub-Techno interface and his trio with Vladislav Delay and Max Loderbauer

Epiphanies 98 Amanda Petrusich dips a toe in the Mississippi Delta to commune with the spirit of Americana