Nick Cain

Issue 350

April 2013

+ The Wire Tapper 31

On the cover: Jakob Ullmann – Stasi interrogation methods and transcendent world religions inform the austere minimalism of this German composer. By Nick Cain. Plus: street dancer and Flying Lotus collaborator Storyboard P, Mika Vainio's Invisible Jukebox, Ashley Paul, Red Snapper, Metasplice, Liberez and more. Stuck to the cover: The Wire Tapper 31.

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Florian Hecker's Chimerization: Surround sounds

January 2013

Nick Cain examines the inward looking spatial sonics of Florian Hecker's recent piece Chimerization.

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.

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Issue 339

May 2012

On the cover: Atom™: From Señor Coconut to 19th century Romantic, Uwe Schmidt’s multiple personae spring from a lifelong passion for electronic simulacra, says Dan Barrow. Plus: A sound poetry Primer, Mary Halvorson's Invisible Jukebox, Scott Walker's MOR covers and TV shows, London's improv disciples, Benedict Drew, Laurel Halo, Sean McCann and more.

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Issue 324

February 2011

On the cover: Deerhoof - Now in their 16th year, the mercurial rockers have shapeshifted into a disciplined global mobile unit. By Joseph Stannard. Plus: Vanessa Rossetto, Tri-Angle Records, Hype Williams's Invisible Jukebox, Matthew Shipp, Captain Beefheart remembered and much more

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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

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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

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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 304

June 2009

+ Exploratory Music From Poland 01

On The Cover: Ornette Coleman: Music as medicine, sound as universal grammar: Phil Freeman hears the philosophy of the free jazz legend. Plus: The Caretaker, Comus, Dan Graham, Andy Moor's Invisible Jukebox, Bora Yoon, Graham Lambkin, Arrington de Dionyso and more

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Issue 303

May 2009

On The Cover: Kode9 - Celebrating five years of the Hyperdub label, the philosophy don of dubstep invites Derek Walmsley to a seminar on sonic warfare and futurist dance moves. Plus: Sublime Frequencies tour report, The Primer on the Roland TB-303, Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo's Jukebox, Alexis O'Hara, Belbury Poly, Lee Patterson, The Hospitals, Richard Foreman, Momus's Epiphany, Pom Pom Records, Moondog and more

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Issue 301

March 2009

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On The Cover: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Will Oldham's mask of sorrow. Plus: Joan La Barbara, Andrew Cyrille, Joe Morris's Jukebox, Menace Ruine, Seymour Wright, Zomby, Jerry Dammers on Sun Ra, Carsten Nicolai meets Michael Nyman and more.

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Issue 299

January 2009

On The Cover: The Wire’s review of the year’s best music, including our Top 50 Records of the Year. Plus Animal Collective's Invisible Jukebox, Emeralds, Peverelist, Voice Crack on film, Hugo Wilcken on Joy Division and more.

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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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Issue 295

September 2008

On the cover: Ultra-Red - Mark Fisher talks experimental music and radical politics with the multinational audio activists. Other features include interviews with Trevor Watts, Ghédalia Tazartès, Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair's Invisible Jukebox, Dusk & Blackdown, Aleks Kolkowski, Allora & Calzadilla in Cross Platform, Global Ear from Beijing, Sonic Youth and Brian Eno biographies reviewed in Print Run, Venn Festival, My Bloody Valentine and Sonar reviewed On Location and more. Subscribe now!

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Issue 293

July 2008

On The Cover: Mark Stewart - The former Pop Group and Maffi a godfather talks up his new outernationalist album and warns against being absorbed into a consumerist ‘flatpack reality’. Plus: Trumpeter Bill Dixon, improv trio The Necks, .snd's Invisible Jukebox, Pianist Vijay Iyer's Epiphany, Rustie, Franz Hautzinger, Materials Library in Cross Platform and more

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Issue 289

March 2008

On The Cover: John Butcher. This key player in the second wave of British Improv reinvents the saxophone via digital transformation, acoustic science and a heightened sense of space.

Plus interviews with Michael Hurley, Autechre, Valet, Brendan Murray, Baby Dee, with Andrew WK's Invisible Jukebox and Stephen Malkmus's Inner Sleeve. Jed Speare features in Cross Platform while Jon Dale heads to Queensland for Global Ear. And more!

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Issue 285

November 2007

Underground Resistance founder 'Mad' Mike Banks explains campaign strategy to Mark Fisher. Plus interviews with Loren Connors, Russel Haswell and Sonny Simmons; JG Thirlwell's Jukebox, Thurston Moore's Inner Sleeve, Juneau/Projects/ in Cross Platform plus our 22-page Reviews section, Epiphanies, Global Ear, Savage Pencil's Trip Or Squeek and more

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Issue 282

August 2007

On The Cover: Ricardo Villalobos. The red-eyed Chilean DJ and Techno producer has become the toast of Berlin's minimal scene, with four-hour sets and disorientating beatdowns. By Philip Sherburne

Features: The Primer: British Psych-Folk, Whitehouse, Cross Platform: Laurie Anderson, Invisible Jukebox: Jonathan Harvey, Matthew Dear, Axolotl

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Issue 280

June 2007

On The Cover: Grime's self-appointed Eskimo king invites Derek Walmsley into his Roll Deep Studio to explain how his blizzard of beats and rhymes gathers momentum in East London's streets

Features: The Sea And Cake, Invisible Jukebox: Neil Campbell, Kassin + Moreno + Domenico, Cross Platform: Modified Toy Orchestra, Tomas Korber, Jozef van Wissem, Zavoloka

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Issue 278

April 2007

On The Cover: Terry Riley
The pioneer of 1960s American minimalism reveals the range of his interests, from his Irish and Italian roots to Indian ragas and space music for NASA. By Richard Henderson

Features: Maja Ratkje; Invisible Jukebox: The Dead C; Eyeless In Gaza; Aufgehoben; Islaja; Michio Kurihara; Cross Platform: Hal Rammel

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Issue 271

September 2006

ON THE COVER: Kool Keith - Hiphop's premier streetwise satirist and scatologist, Dr Octagon, is back - just one of the former Ultramagnetic MC's raft of comeback projects in 2006. By Peter Shapiro

FEATURES: Charalambides, Primer: AMM, Merce Cunningham, Invisible Jukebox: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Cross Platform: Ira Cohen, Digital Mystikz, Excepter, Jason Lescalleet

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In Conversation from Issue 268

Sonic Youth Invisible Jukebox

June 2006

In conversation with Nick Cain in Paris (268, June 06)

Issue 268

June 2006

+ The Wire Tapper 15

STUCK TO THE COVER: The Wire Tapper 15: All copies worldwide of this month's issue comes with a free 20 track CD, the latest volume in our ongoing series of new music compilations. The CD features tracks by Leafcutter John, Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor, Dub Trio, Herbert and more

ON THE COVER: Sonic Youth: The veteran New York rockers tell Nick Cain about the raw power of 'Rather Ripped', and give us an update on their myriad activities, past, present and future

FEATURES: Ekkehard Ehlers, Yellow Swans, Primer: John Fahey, Invisible Jukebox: Rob Mazurek, Terry Day, Harry Rag, Cross Platform: Jutta Koether

Issue 267

May 2006

ON THE COVER: AGF - Word processing in Berlin with polystylistic laptopper and digital 'poemproducer', Antye Greie. By Keith Moliné

FEATURES: Scott Walker, Conrad Schnitzler, Ryoji Ikeda, Invisible Jukebox: William Parker, Scatter, Mattin, David Rothenberg

In Conversation from Issue 278

The Dead C - Jukebox

Invisible Jukebox extract - tested by Nick Cain

Current Issue 352

June 2013

On The Cover: Babble On! – In a 20 page special, Wire contributors assess and rethink the relationship between underground music and words, text and language. Including Rob Young on songs about themselves, Ken Hollings on Cage’s pulverised language, Derek Walmsley on dread talk, Alasdair Roberts on verbal jousting, Daniel Spicer on hip semantics, David Toop on Improv words and gestures, Nina Power on female machine voices, Hua Hsu on vocalese, Marcus Boon on profane rappers, Rory Gibb on Footwork’s vocal science, and more.

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