Interviews

Talvin Singh - virtuoso percussionist, producer, club organiser and musical live wire - is a crucial contributor to the passage of black and Asian music into the wide world of global pop. Rob Young speaks to him about his collaborations with Bjork, Sun Ra and On-U Sound, and hears a vision of the future sound of India

Digital composer Yasunao Tone's paramedia assault on old paradigms has led him from Tokyo to New York, via Japanese Fluxus pranks, work with Merce Cunningham and Yoko Ono, and destabilising CDs with Scotch tape

Roll over Beethoven, it's Vorsprung Durch Technik time! The most visionary - and least understood - of modern European composers, Karlheinz Stockhausen talks to Brian Morton about the 'time bombs' he has created to escape from the 'graveyard' of the Western classical tradition

Are Stereolab the perfect pop group? By combining a rigorous DIY aesthetic with a playful reverence for the arcane relics of musics past, they have managed to make a reality out of that most elusive of notions: experimental music that actually sells

So you thought Royal Trux were a pair of strung-out rock 'n' roll junkies? Wise up. From their remote Virginia ranch, avant garage's First Couple are astutely playing the media and the stock market. Words: Louise Gray

Defying the wisdom that HipHop innovation equals ugliness, Timbaland's euphoric productions prove that experimental music doesn't have to wear a hairshirt

For three decades, Evan Parker's mission has been to boldly go where no other musician has gone before. Now he's exploring music's outer limits with a new generation of musicians half his age. Interview by Rob Young

At 65, pianist Cecil Taylor is a lion in early winter, writes Howard Mandel. In this exclusive New York interview, one of the pioneers of black freedom expands on his ideas of music sonic architecture, spiritual intake and bodily transcendence

Once upon a time, Andrew Weatherall was the out-of-control speedfreak of UK club culture. Now following a long cooling off period, he's reinventing himself with Two Lone Swordsmen as a purveyor of primal underground Electronica. Interview by Rob Young

Thanks to the esoteric interests of frontman Jack Dangers, Meat Beat Manifesto's post-Industrial Electro-collages are reaching a new currency in the 90s. Interview by Chris Sharp