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IPansonic Round The World Tour Diary tonesanddrones.~ 25 YEARS OF &UGH TRADE SHOPS 4 CD BOX SET 5.3.01 56 RARE AND EXCLUSIVE TRACKS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARS OF INDEPENDENT MUSIC i INCLUDES TRACKS FROM NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, CHEMICAL BROTHERS, I BUZZCOCKS, LEE PERRY, JOY DIVISION, LAMBCHOP, LEMON JELLY AND MANY MORE. AVAILABLE FROM ROUGH TRADE AND ALL GOOD RECORD SHOPS. # i Z 2n4 Gen s i n g l e cd/12" out now including mixes by si begg (buckfunk 3000). -- techno animal feat. di~lkkand cold kid new album out now 1 album cd/lp out 26th f e b i r o n y i s 'An astonishing collection of bruised beats, hypnotic soundscapes and shattering intensityt - Terroriser '2nd Gen? Troublemaker. We need more.' - DJ (positive apolcalypse music' - Overload
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inside ,W montw exploration of new music 10 Bites Future Pilot AKA Steerlng committees Im i n Chusid Outsider tendencies ThighpaulsandraWlldman of Wessex Chas Smith Maverick metallurg~st 18 Invisible Jukebox:Stephen Malkmus The former Pavement vocallst and guitarist tries not to step on the cracks as he identifiestracks by Sandy Denny, Sebadoh,Telev~sionPersonal~t~es,Can, Jack Kerouac, Skip Spence and more.Tested by Mike Barnes 22 JohnWall He constructs music from samples and glitches, but it's not plunderphonics. He records free improvisers but doesn't play a note. What is the secret of this British composer's burning intensity? By Will Montgomery 24 Talvin Singh With the releaseof his second album Ha,the multitaskingtablatronic master has been promoted to the global music elite, hangingwith cronies from Bill Laswell and Sakarnoto to Andrew LloydWebber. By Peter Shapiro 30 Phi11 Niblock A stalwart of New York's avant garde loft happeningssince the late 60s, this shaper of drones and layered noise has expanded h18operations throughout Europe via a multitude of labels. By Rahma Khazam 34 Ornette Coleman Now 70, the great saxophonist outgrew free jazz long ago, yet his later harmolodic work and aaociatlon wlth William Burroughs remain neglected. Ben Watson travels to New York to redress the balance 42 Tangents #5: The Blank Generation Cold War fear and loathlng pushed 60s artists headfirst Into the Void, a tendency vlsible in the films of Godard and Antonioni and the music of The Velvets, Sex Pistols and Richard Hell. By Alan Licht 50 Soundcheck March'sselected albums and singles, including new releases from A Certain Frank, Alexander Balanexu, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Anthony Braxton,Tan Dun, Fantomas, Grateful Dead, BernhardGunter, Noah Howard, Makoto Kawabata,Labradford, Stephen Malkmus, Matmos, Melvins, John Oswald, Sarah Peebles, People Like Us, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Rothko, Talvin Sngh, Ke~thTippett and more 16 Print Run New music books: sampling cutting edge CD designs; Morton Feldman'swritings; a mild life of Joe Meek; Ben Thompson's Ways Of Heonng;essays from the UK electroacousticcircuit an Italianguide to exotica; Peter Guralnick's prose picks 14 Multimedia Transience's living wall of sound at Helsinki's K~asmaGallery 82 On Location Going live:. . . And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead and Peaches k~ckass In London; RobertWilson and lannis Xenakis's Prometheus on stage in Athens; Michael Finnlssy's eplc HistomOf Photography In Sound as told on the piano 4 Editor's Idea 6 Letters 14 Bitstream News from music'souter limits 18 Global Ear Jason Gross discovers Istanbul'syoung Turks 13 Charts 80 Label Directory 88 Out There March's selected festivals, happenings, live events, clubs and radio 96 Back Issues 91 Subscribe and get FpEE'CDs or FREE mags! 98 Epiphanies Jon Wozencroft gets ~ttaped with Joy Divlslon

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inside ,W montw exploration of new music

10 Bites

Future Pilot AKA Steerlng committees Im i n Chusid Outsider tendencies ThighpaulsandraWlldman of Wessex Chas Smith Maverick metallurg~st

18 Invisible Jukebox:Stephen Malkmus

The former Pavement vocallst and guitarist tries not to step on the cracks as he identifiestracks by Sandy Denny, Sebadoh,Telev~sionPersonal~t~es,Can, Jack Kerouac, Skip Spence and more.Tested by Mike Barnes

22 JohnWall

He constructs music from samples and glitches, but it's not plunderphonics. He records free improvisers but doesn't play a note. What is the secret of this British composer's burning intensity? By Will Montgomery

24 Talvin Singh

With the releaseof his second album Ha,the multitaskingtablatronic master has been promoted to the global music elite, hangingwith cronies from Bill Laswell and Sakarnoto to Andrew LloydWebber. By Peter Shapiro

30 Phi11 Niblock

A stalwart of New York's avant garde loft happeningssince the late 60s, this shaper of drones and layered noise has expanded h18operations throughout Europe via a multitude of labels. By Rahma Khazam

34 Ornette Coleman

Now 70, the great saxophonist outgrew free jazz long ago, yet his later harmolodic work and aaociatlon wlth William Burroughs remain neglected. Ben Watson travels to New York to redress the balance

42 Tangents #5: The Blank Generation

Cold War fear and loathlng pushed 60s artists headfirst Into the Void, a tendency vlsible in the films of Godard and Antonioni and the music of The Velvets, Sex Pistols and Richard Hell. By Alan Licht

50 Soundcheck March'sselected albums and singles, including new releases from A Certain Frank, Alexander Balanexu, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Anthony Braxton,Tan Dun, Fantomas, Grateful Dead, BernhardGunter, Noah Howard, Makoto Kawabata,Labradford, Stephen Malkmus, Matmos, Melvins, John Oswald, Sarah Peebles, People Like Us, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Rothko, Talvin Sngh, Ke~thTippett and more 16 Print Run New music books: sampling cutting edge CD designs; Morton Feldman'swritings; a mild life of Joe Meek; Ben Thompson's Ways Of Heonng;essays from the UK electroacousticcircuit an Italianguide to exotica; Peter Guralnick's prose picks 14 Multimedia Transience's living wall of sound at Helsinki's K~asmaGallery 82 On Location Going live:. . . And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead and Peaches k~ckass In London; RobertWilson and lannis Xenakis's Prometheus on stage in Athens; Michael Finnlssy's eplc HistomOf Photography In Sound as told on the piano

4 Editor's Idea 6 Letters 14 Bitstream News from music'souter limits 18 Global Ear Jason Gross discovers Istanbul'syoung Turks 13 Charts 80 Label Directory 88 Out There March's selected festivals, happenings, live events, clubs and radio 96 Back Issues 91 Subscribe and get FpEE'CDs or FREE mags! 98 Epiphanies Jon Wozencroft gets ~ttaped with Joy Divlslon

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