Inside The Wire 315 | May 2010

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