Inside The Wire 319 | September 2010

Retro-Activity by Will Sweeney

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 Ignaz Schick’s Echtzeitmusiktage, the art of Greensleeves LPs, artists making music in Cambridge, William Bennett and Florian Hecker at Tate Britain’s The Real Thing event

Charts 48

Out There 89 Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings

Below The Radar +The Wire Tapper 96 Free downloads and CDs

Subscriptions 97

Reviews Index 49

Soundcheck 50 This month’s selected CDs, vinyl and downloads, including the return of Swans, Hype Williams, lost Lee Perry dubplates, an Italian Improv box set and more. Plus avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, hiphop, jazz & Improv, modern composition, outer limits, unusual formats and reissues

The Inner Sleeve 71 Mark Leckey on a record that wants to remain invisible

Print Run 72 New music books: a history of British visionary music, John Cage’s 4'33" analysed, essay collections on David Byrne and The Fall and more

On Screen 75 Boredoms, Alexander von Schlippenbach and Shizuka on DVD

On Site 76 Sound art exhibitions by Chelpa Ferro and at Systematics

On Location 77 Festival and concert reviews: Sub:stance in Berlin, Anthony Braxton feted in NYC, Cage’s Indeterminacy in London, Faust’s Avantgarde Festival in Germany and more

LA Vampires 14 Amanda Brown’s post-Pocahaunted project comes slathered in sleazy dub. By David Keenan

Odd Future 16 The cantankerous teens are grafting a mutant third limb on LA’s hiphop scene. By Andrew Nosnitsky

Cindytalk 18 Lisa Blanning listens to the crackling of the former 4AD singer and transgender warrior’s soul

Global Ear Boise 20 Dustin Verburg unveils a testy experimental music festival blazing through Idaho’s City of Trees

Cross Platform Aura Satz 22 The London based sound artist sculpts a macabre, mechanical art of memory from phonographic objects. By Philip Clark

Invisible Jukebox Mordant Music 24 The London hauntologist shows disturbing symptoms after being treated with The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Joseph Stannard

Graham Simpson 28 Exclusive interview with the original Roxy Music bassist, who fell out of history after discovering Sufism and psychedelics. By Stephen Thrower

Paul Burwell 32 Three years after his death, Julian Cowley pays tribute to the British percussionist, inventor and Bow Gamelan Ensemble founder’s liberating spirit

Retro-Activity 38 A survey of the past percolating into present-day music, from Hypnagogic pop to samizdat reissues, analogue synthesis, creative quotation and more

Epiphanies 98 Tim Lawrence on Arthur Russell’s avant disco