DJ /Rupture photographed by Jason Nocito

The Wire Tapper 27 4

The Masthead 8

Letters 10

Bitstream 12 News and more from under the radar

Bites 14 Johnny YesNo on DVD, Faze Miyake’s Grime bombs, Cambodian collaborations with Neak Ta, plus Unofficial Channels

Charts 54

Out There 97 Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings

Subscriptions 104

Below The Radar + The Wire Tapper 105 Free downloads and CDs

Reviews Index 55

Soundcheck 56 This month’s selected CDs, vinyl and downloads, including Corrupted, John Fahey, Patrice & Friends and Moniek Darge. Plus specialist columns, unusual formats and reissues

The Inner Sleeve 77 Dust-To-Digital founder Lance Ledbetter on The Country Girls!

Print Run 78 New music books: a history of Grunge, a study of punk’s racial politics, and words and music in Camus, Beckett, Cage and Gould

On Screen 80 Films & DVDs: Peter Brötzmann and Otomo Yoshihide on DVD

On Site 81 Exhibitions, installations, etc: Stephen Cornford in London and Jennie C Jones in New York City

On Location 82 Festival and concert reviews: Lee Patterson in the woods of Kent, Ostrava Music in the Czech Republic, Past Present Future Space-Time in rural Cambridgeshire, Shabazz Palaces in France

Inside The Wire 333 | November 2011

Collateral Damage 16 Marcus Boon comes to praise the culture of copying, not to bury it

Global Ear Barranquilla 18 Alex Hancock samples folk music cut with bassweight at Colombia’s biggest carnival

Cross Platform David Lynch 20 It’s Crazy Clown Time, the legendary director-turnedsongwriter tells Clive Bell, and you’re all invited

Helm 22 Alter label boss Luke Younger decodes his punkprimitive Noise strategies. By Matt Wuethrich

Bent Sørensen 24 Julian Cowley gets snowed under by the Danish composer’s multimedia blizzard of sorrowful songs

Invisible Jukebox Gang Gang Dance 26 The Brooklyn avant unit avoid eye contact with The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Hua Hsu

The SMiLE Sessions 30 Released in all its sprawling, unfinished glory, The Beach Boys’ most ambitious song cycle plays like an unofficial American history. By David Toop

Christoph Heemann 32 The German electronic musician’s immersive, cinematic soundworld provides an aural counterpart to the fiction of WG Sebald. By Keith Moliné

Radu Malfatti 36 From free jazz to Reductionist Improv and near-silent minimalism, it’s been a long strange journey for the Viennese trombonist/composer. By Philip Clark

Queer Sound 42 There’s got to be more to queer sound and music than Lil’ Louis. In fact, maybe all the noise in the world is queer, contends Matmos’s Drew Daniel

DJ /Rupture 48 Peter Shapiro meets prolific producer Jace Clayton to hear about post-colonial Bass music, The Shining remade in Dubai and Sufi Plug-Ins

Epiphanies 106 How Paul Gilroy was sucked into the exhilarating spirituals of The Voices Of East Harlem