Subscriber Special: Below The Radar Volume 1

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With this month’s issue, The Wire launches Below The Radar, a new series of free download compilations that is released exclusively to all the magazine’s subscribers

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Compiled and produced by The Wire staff, each volume of Below The Radar is a showcase for just some of the underground, outsider and experimental music that has been featured in recent issues of the magazine. The compilations are made available exclusively to all the magazine’s subscribers, both print and digital.

Below The Radar Volume 1 is released to subscribers to coincide with the publication of this month’s September issue. Subsequent volumes will be issued on a quarterly basis.

Here’s how it works... All subscribers are issued with a url for a dedicated Below The Radar webpage, plus a user name and password. Once logged in to the webpage, they can download all the tracks on the compilation. The webpage also includes a set of sleevenotes that contain biographies and images, links and contact information for all the featured musicians. Logged in subscribers can view the sleevenotes online and/or download them as a pdf file.

To make sure you get access to the first volume of Below The Radar, subscribe now: thewire.co.uk/subscribe

The second volume of Below The Radar will be made available to subscribers on 10 December to coincide with the publication of the January 2010 issue of The Wire .

NB Below The Radar will run in parallel with The Wire Tapper, the series of new music compilation CDs The Wire has been compiling and producing since 1998 and which are given away to all readers of the magazine twice a year with the April and October issues. The Wire Tapper Vol 22 comes with all copies of next month’s issue: see page 6 for more details.

Below The Radar Volume 1 features new or exclusive tracks by:

▲ Ghédalia Tazartès

▲ Gareth Davis & Steven R Smith

▲ Brian Morant

Volume 1

▲ James Ferraro

▲ Rhodri Davies/Michel Doneda/Louisa Martin/Phil Minton/Lee Patterson

▲ Jamie Coleman/Grundik Kasyansky/Seymour Wright

▲ Afternoon Brother

▲ Sudden Infant

▲ Harappian Night Recordings

▲ Starving Weirdos

▲ Dredd Foole & Ed Yazijian

▲ Uton

▲ Jonathan McHugh & Mark Wastell

▲ Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides

▲ LSD March

▲ A Broken Consort

▲ Concern

▲ The Hunter Gracchus Inside The Wire 307 | September 2009

David Sylvian photographed by Donald Milne

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 Insect music at Pestival, Patrick Cowley’s cybernetic disco, Rinse FM

Charts 44

Out There 89 Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings

Back Issues 96

Subscriptions 97

Reviews Index 45

Soundcheck 46 This month’s selected CDs, vinyl and downloads, including Warp20 Boxset, Jim O’Rourke, Terror Danjah and more. Plus avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, global, hiphop, jazz & Improv, outer limit s, unusual formats and reissues

The Inner Sleeve 69 Philip Jeck on recycled cardboard and Studio One singles

Print Run 70 New music books: a Slits biography, Nicolas Collins on hardware hacking, essays on the 1960s avant garde, Nas’s Illmatic dissected, and more

On Screen 72 Soul Power, Palace Of Winds and Jennifer Walshe’s Barbie opera on DVD

On Site 73 Gallery and mixed media events, including Allora & Calzadilla’s exhibition in Berlin and Bernie Lubell in Liverpool

On Location 74 Festival and concert reviews including the No Fun, Supersonic and Molde Jazz festivals, Kraftwerk in Manchester, Wet Sounds in London and more

Joker 12 Lisa Blanning is granted an audience with dubstep’s clown prince of purple

Caroliner 14 California’s most enigmatic experimental medicine showmen sell snake oil to Joseph Stannard

Global Ear Hanoi 16 In Vietnam, Daniel Neilson rides a motor scooter round a sound art scene located at the city peripheries

Cross Platform John Wynne 18 Speaker-stack mountains, hidden sirens, dead languages: a few of the elements lured into this London artist’s ‘sound trap’. By Clive Bell

Invisible Jukebox William Basinski 20 The loopy Los Angeleno tries not to disintegrate in the face of The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by David Stubbs

Aki Onda 24 Clive Bell meets the itinerant Tokyo field recordist whose Cassette Memories explore the predicament of growing up an outsider in Japan

Julie Tippetts 30 From spirited improvisations with husband Keith to her new digital hybrids with Martin Archer, the vocalist continually seeks surprise. By Julian Cowley

David Sylvian 36 The Samadhisound proprietor tells Biba Kopf about his latest song collection which features input from improvisors Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe and more

Epiphanies 98 Novelist Matt Thorne on Viking Moses and others who perform on a wing and a prayer