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Joe Muggs's Grime 2.0 pressed to vinyl via Ninja Tune crowdsourced repress service
Joe Muggs's Grime 2.0 pressed to vinyl via Ninja Tune crowdsourced repress service
Beat Delete website pressing recent Grime compilation onto 4LP set.
Essay from Issue 300
The Wire 300: Joe Muggs on Warp’s Artificial Intelligence series
February 2013
Previously unpublished essay commissioned to celebrate The Wire's 300th issue
Issue 346
December 2012
On the cover: Scott Walker – In a rare interview, the singer and composer talks Mike Barnes through his ambitious, brutal and absurdist new album, Bish Bosch. Inside: Peter Brötzmann redux, Wyrd sounds from the West Country, Jonas Mekas, David S Ware, Pinch, the Slowfoot label, Fontanelle, and much more.
Issue 343
September 2012
On the cover: Josephine Foster: After tracing a path through opera, lieder, folk and psych, the nomadic US singer finds her musical home in the charged landscape of Cádiz, Spain. By Clive Bell. Plus: a visit with Crass's Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher, Detroit Techno pioneer Robert Hood, Terror Danjah's Invisible Jukebox, Steve Beresford remembers Lol Coxhill, and more.
Issue 341
July 2012
+ The Wire Tapper 29
On the cover: Low End Theories: The Wire’s 22 page celebration of the booming culture of Bass, from the Big Bang to the Brown Note. Stuck to the cover: The Wire Tapper 29 free 20 track CD.Plus: Fushitsusha, Reinhold Friedl's Invisible Jukebox, Duane Pitre, Ian Rawes's London Sound Survey and more.
Issue 322
December 2010
On The Cover: The Skull Disco co-founder has survived his Soundboy’s Suicide Note and moved to Berlin to craft his apocalyptic beat visions. By Derek Walmsley. Plus: Scientist, Nam June Paik, William Bennett's Invisible Jukebox, Jon Mueller, Shabazz Palaces, Vomir, Global Ear: Budapest & Pécs, Cross Platform: Charlie Morrow and much more
Issue 318
August 2010
On the cover: Chris Watson - Ken Hollings meets the sound recordist and Cabaret Voltaire founder whose mic penetrates the wild places humans can't reach. Plus: Howard Riley, Surgeon, Chicks On Speed, Rhodri Davies's Invisible Jukebox, Peter Shapiro on Cosmic Disco, Julian Lynch, Helena Gough, Terror Danjah
Issue 317
July 2010
+ Exploratory Music From Poland vol. 2
On The Cover: The Bug - Kevin Martin talks Lisa Blanning through his many metamorphoses, from God's car-crash Improv to King Midas Sound's dread-infused dancehall. Plus: Oneohtrix Point Never's Invisible Jukebox, Chrome Hoof, Poland's hidden reverse, DJ Nate, Michael Pisaro, Konx-Om-Pax in Cross Platform, David Toop on John Latham, Alex Neilson on Frank Sinatra, Alan Moore and more
Interview from Issue 317
Konx-Om-Pax in full
June 2010
Read the unedited transcript of Joe Muggs's interview with Konx-Om-Pax
Issue 313
March 2010
+ Café Concrete
On the cover: Caledonia dreaming: How Glasgow has become the UK's experimental free folk capital, with Alasdair Roberts, Trembling Bells, The Family Elan and more. By Rob Young. Plus Marina Rosenfeld, The Thirteenth Assembly, The Moodies, Dylan Nyoukis's Invisible Jukebox, Geiom, Sebastian Lexer, Yabby You, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot in Cross Platform, Alan Moore on John Clare, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard on Adam And The Ants and more...
Issue 312
February 2010
On The Cover: Wadada Leo Smith - Phil Freeman meets a free music cosmopolitan who has explored free space with Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Spring Heel Jack and more. Plus Mark Ernestus, Mattin, Eliane Radigue's Invisible Jukebox, Raymond Dijkstra, Moon Wiring Club, David Grubbs in Cross Platform, Pangaea, Robert Ashley's Inner Sleeve, Billy Ray Martin, Nicolas Collins on Alvin Lucier and more
WAITING FOR TONY from Issue 311
Rewind 2009: Contributors Charts
January 2010
On Air
Adventures In Modern Music 16 July 2009
July 2009
Hosted by Derek Walmsley. With special guest Joe Muggs in the studio discussing and playing UK Funky
Issue 305
July 2009
On The Cover: Moritz von Oswald - Basic Channel's reclusive co-founder breaks cover to tell Philip Sherburne about the dub-Techno interface and his trio with Vladislav Delay and Max Loderbauer. Plus Pierre Henry, Ramleh, Ran Blake, Ariel Pink's Invisible Jukebox, Lucas Abela, Giuseppe Ielasi, Cooly G, Jacob Kirkegaard and more
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Issue 302
April 2009
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On The Cover: Sunn O))): Stephen O'Malley & Greg Anderson's drone project opens Heavy Metal to the realms of cosmic jazz, experimental rock and spectral music. Joseph Stannard meets the meta-Metal masters.
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Issue 298
December 2008
On The Cover: Antony & The Johnsons: Alan Licht uncovers the singer’s interest in paradise and Japanese Butoh dance, and his former dreams of creating a progressive cabaret in New York. Plus Florian Hecker, Radio Ballads, West African psychedelia, The Band Of Holy Joy's Invisible Jukebox, Graveyards, Noodles, Bettina Köster, Goodiepal, Jonny Trunk and more.
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Interview from Issue 302
El-B - unedited transcript
Read the unedited transcript of Joe Muggs's interview with El-B - and hear some audio snippets to boot