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Inside The Wire 295 September 2008 Regulars The Masthead 4 Letters 6 Bitstream 8 Trawling for gossip with The Wire’s news net The Joined-up World of The Wire 9 PlusTrip Or Squeek Global Ear 14 In Beijing, Lawrence Li monitors an underground drift from laptops towards ‘real’ instruments Charts 42 Out There 86 The pick of the month’s festivals, concerts, club spaces and more Print & Digital Subscriptions 90 The Wire Tapper/The Wire Tapper/The Wire Tapper Back Issues 92 Epiphanies 98 Brian Eno’s Obscure label strengthens the resolve of LAFMS founder Tom Recchion Features Dusk + Blackdown 10 The London dubstep duo bring documentary realism to their sonic remapping of the city. By Chris Sharp Aleks Kolkowski 12 Clive Bell gets horny over the collagist/broadcaster’s collection of gramophones, Stroh fi ddles and wax cylinders Cross Platform Allora & Calzadilla 16 The Puerto Rican pair avenge Hitler’s attack on art with a Cageian take on his favourite music. By Marinus de Ruiter Invisible Jukebox Daniel Johnston & Jad Fair 18 The US rock outsiders put their heads together to identify the contents of our mystery record box. Tested by Mike Barnes Ghéédalia Tazartèès 22 Nick Cain meets a Parisian eccentric whose ethnographic forgeries conjure parallel worlds Ultra-red 28 Mark Fisher talks experimental music and radical politics with the multinational audio activists Trevor Watts 34 The British Improv pioneer explains to Julian Cowley why funk and freedom go together Ultra-red photomontage by Ben Weaver Reviews Index 43 Soundcheck 44 This month’s selected CDs and vinyl, including Ilyas Ahmed, The Caretaker, William Parker and more, plus specialist columns on avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, global, hiphop, jazz & Improv, outer limits, reissues, compilations and unusual formats The Inner Sleeve 69 Fonal Records head Sami Säänpääkkilää aka Es on Pekka Streng’s Kesäämaa Print Run 70 Sonic Youth and Brian Eno biographies, and more On Screen 72 The Ship Of Fools on DVD, German The Ship Of Fools on DVD, German The Ship Of Fools terrorist Andreas Baader on film On Site 73 Gallery and mixed media events, including David Byrne and Daphne Oram On Location 74 Concert, club and festival reviews, including Venn, Terrastock 7, Sonáár, My Bloody Valentine, Sparks and more

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Inside The Wire 295 September 2008

Regulars

The Masthead 4 Letters 6 Bitstream 8 Trawling for gossip with The Wire’s news net The Joined-up World of The Wire 9 PlusTrip Or Squeek Global Ear 14 In Beijing, Lawrence Li monitors an underground drift from laptops towards ‘real’ instruments Charts 42 Out There 86 The pick of the month’s festivals, concerts, club spaces and more Print & Digital Subscriptions 90

The Wire Tapper/The Wire Tapper/The Wire Tapper Back Issues 92

Epiphanies 98 Brian Eno’s Obscure label strengthens the resolve of LAFMS founder Tom Recchion

Features

Dusk + Blackdown 10 The London dubstep duo bring documentary realism to their sonic remapping of the city. By Chris Sharp

Aleks Kolkowski 12 Clive Bell gets horny over the collagist/broadcaster’s collection of gramophones, Stroh fi ddles and wax cylinders

Cross Platform Allora & Calzadilla 16 The Puerto Rican pair avenge Hitler’s attack on art with a Cageian take on his favourite music. By Marinus de Ruiter

Invisible Jukebox Daniel Johnston & Jad Fair 18 The US rock outsiders put their heads together to identify the contents of our mystery record box. Tested by Mike Barnes

Ghéédalia Tazartèès 22 Nick Cain meets a Parisian eccentric whose ethnographic forgeries conjure parallel worlds

Ultra-red 28 Mark Fisher talks experimental music and radical politics with the multinational audio activists

Trevor Watts 34 The British Improv pioneer explains to Julian Cowley why funk and freedom go together

Ultra-red photomontage by Ben Weaver

Reviews

Index 43 Soundcheck 44 This month’s selected CDs and vinyl, including Ilyas Ahmed, The Caretaker, William Parker and more, plus specialist columns on avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, global, hiphop, jazz & Improv, outer limits, reissues, compilations and unusual formats The Inner Sleeve 69 Fonal Records head Sami Säänpääkkilää aka Es on Pekka Streng’s Kesäämaa Print Run 70 Sonic Youth and Brian Eno biographies, and more On Screen 72 The Ship Of Fools on DVD, German The Ship Of Fools on DVD, German The Ship Of Fools terrorist Andreas Baader on film On Site 73 Gallery and mixed media events, including David Byrne and Daphne Oram On Location 74 Concert, club and festival reviews, including Venn, Terrastock 7, Sonáár, My Bloody Valentine, Sparks and more

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