insideyourmonthlyexplorationofnewmusic
9 Global Ear: New York
Skylab, DJ Krush, DJ Spooky and Amiri Baraka get offbeat in Gotham
10 Bites
New Kingdom low-slung HipHop madness Patrick Pulsinger hypermodern Electro-jazz Stevie Wishart hurdy gurdy heroine Tony Levin ace bass man's world diary HU1 postrockers enter the echo chamber
14 Harrison Birtwistle
Is this the unreconstructed hard man of modern classical music? Nick Kimberley meets the composer who caused panic at the Last Night of the Proms
17 Larry Heard
Still ignored in his home town of Chicago, the one-time pioneer of Acid and Deep House is setting a course for deep space Electronica. By Peter Shapiro ·
18 YokoOno
An intimate and extended interview with the woman who mixed it with the 60s avant garde, met John Lennon and changed the face of rock forever. By Joy Press
26 Low end theories
In Frankfurt, the Mille Plateaux label has become a nexus for both the complex Electronica of Oval and the digital Hardcore of Alec Empire. By Simon Reynolds
32 Mark Stewart
From The Pop Group to On-U Sound and The Maffia, Mark Stewart is still mixing agit-prop lyrics with dubbed-out P-funk. By Biba Kopf
34 Who needs record companies?
Triple Earth's lain Scott provides an anarchist's DIY guide on how to subvert the corporate hustlings of the music industry by going out and starting your own record label
38 Invisible Jukebox: Courtney Pine
Mike Barnes plays Alice Coltrane, Jacob's Optical Stairway, Gang Starr, Tricky, Bootsy Collins and more to the stellar saxophonist
• reVIews43SoundcheckApril'sselectedalbums, including new releases from Bandulu, Blue Cheer, Cocteau Twins, CoiL DJ Spooky, Dub Syndicate, EAR, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Money Mark, Youssou N'Dour, Harry Partch, Martin Rev, Christian Vander, David SWare, Cassandra Wilson, Neil Young, John Zorn and more.. 70 Print Run New music books: an encyclopedic history of music in the UK; plus AMM's meta music narrative 73 Multimedia Subverting new CDLink software
4 Letters 6 Soundings April 's selected live,events, happenings, club spaces, music on radio 25 ~u.u:.·~.uwt= 42 Charts 72 Back Issues 74 David Toop Wired adventures in modern music
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