Subscriber Special: Below The Radar Vol 3

▲ Filter Feeder

▲ High Wolf

▲ Graveyards

▲ Denseland

▲ Burning Star Core

▲ The Cray Twins

▲ Jacques Beloeil

▲ Borbetomagus

▲ Anthony Levin-Decanini

▲ Hong Chulki

▲ Alan Courtis

▲ Sone Institute

▲ Oneohtrix Point Never

▲ LA Vampires

▲ Demdike Stare

▲ Weasel Walter/Sheik Anorak/Mario Rechtern

With this month’s issue, The Wire releases the third volume in its series of free new music downloads

Compiled by The Wire staff, Below The Radar is a showcase for all manner of underground, outsider and experimental music. The compilations are issued as a series of free downloads, complete with specially commissioned artwork and liner notes that contain biographies and images, links and contact information for all the featured musicians.

The Below The Radar series is available exclusively to all The Wire’s subscribers, both print and digital.

For information on how to get access to all the downloads in the Below The Radar series, go to thewire.co.uk/subscribe

Below The Radar Vol 3 contains:

Exclusive tracks or edits by Borbetomagus, Alan Courtis, Demdike Stare, Hong Chulki, LA Vampires, Oneohtrix Point Never and Sone Institute.

Plus new or forthcoming tracks by Jacques Beloeil, Burning Star Core, The Cray Twins, Denseland, Filter Feeder, Graveyards, High Wolf, Anthony Levin-Decanini and Weasel Walter/Sheik Anorak/Mario Rechtern .

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Excepter photographed by Michael Schmelling

The Masthead 4

Letters 6

Bitstream 8 News and more from under the radar

Trip Or Squeek 9 Cartoon strip by Savage Pencil

Bites 10 The Haters, William Burroughs, Virgo, Hypnagogic pop videos and more

Charts 48

Out There 96 Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings

Below The Radar +The Wire Tapper 104 Free downloads and CDs

Subscriptions 105

Reviews Index 49

Soundcheck 50 This month’s selected CDs, vinyl and downloads, including Flying Lotus, Dolphins Into The Future, Demdike Stare and more. Plus avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, global, hiphop, jazz & Improv, outer limits, unusual formats and reissues

The Inner Sleeve 71 Aaron Dilloway on the shambolic Drunks With Guns

Print Run 72 New music books: Patti Smith, Syd Barrett and a glitch study

On Screen 74 Raymond Scott on film, plus Klaus Maeck’s Decoder, Blank Generation and more on DVD

On Site 75 John Cage exhibited in Oslo

On Location 76 Festival and concert reviews, including Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, AV 2010 Festival in North East England, DOOM, No Fun Acid and Oneohtrix Point Never in London, and more

Toro Y Moi 14 The LA chillwave auteur refracts R&B and 1980s pop through a distorting FX-haze. By Joseph Stannard

Lil B 16 Andrew Nosnitsky enters the ‘based freestyle’ universe of the eccentric Californian rapper

Jahtari 18 In Leipzig, Steve Barker tunes in to the global reverberations emanating from this digital dub crew

Global Ear Vancouver 20 How the Lighta! Sound are importing dubstep into Canada’s Winter Olympic city. By Jenny Charlesworth

Cross Platform Craig Baldwin 22 Ken Hollings marvels at the Californian film maker’s repurposed cinema and speculative histories

Invisible Jukebox August Darnell 24 Mr Kid Creole discovers The Wire’s mystery record box is a wonderful thing, baby. Tested by David Stubbs

Daniel Carter 28 The quixotic New York saxophonist has blown up a soundstorm with everyone from Test to Sonic Youth, and isn’t afraid to keep the funk. By Daniel Spicer

Seoul music 34 Nat Roe reports on South Korea’s newly unleashed experimental Improv scenes, from shamanic freeplay to disembowelled hard drives

Excepter 42 Electronic body music and consciousness-altering improvised marathons collide in this Brooklyn sextet’s discordian disco noise. By Phil Freeman

Epiphanies 106 Mark Pilkington on out-of-body experiences courtesy of Kraftwerk, Charles Hayward and others