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Derek Walmsley

Book Extract

Deconstructing Violence In Grime

October 2015

If you can’t mess with time don’t do grime, writes Wire Editor Derek Walmsley in Seismographic Sound: Visions Of A New World, a book recently published by Norient

The Portal

Archive Portal: Steve Mackay

October 2015

The fourth of our series of posts shining a light into the darker recesses of The Wire's online archive of back issues. Derek Walmsley recommends Edwin Pouncey's article from December 2006 on the late saxophonist Steve Mackay.

On Air

Adventures In Sound And Music 24 September 2015

September 2015

Hosted by Derek with special guest Simon Reynell of Another Timbre label – talking about improvised music, contemporary composition and the blooming connections and cross-talk between the two. Sounds from Jürg Frey, Derek Bailey, Linda Catlin Smith, Magnus Granberg, Marc Sabat and more

On Air

Adventures In Sound And Music 23 July 2015

July 2015

Listen again to last night's show on Resonance FM, hosted by Derek Walmsley. Tracks by Louise Landes Levi, Paul Metzger, Natural Information Society And Bitchin Bajas, Fountainsun, Tilth, Bert Jansch and more

On Air

Adventures In Sound And Music 4 June 2015

June 2015

Listen again to last night's broadcast on Resonance FM, hosted by Derek Walmsley. Tracks by A Taut Line, German Army, Earthly, Mark Fell & Errorsmith, Hilde Marie Holsen, Jim O'Rourke, Norberto Lobo & Joao Lobo, Joshua Abrams and more

On Air

Adventures In Sound And Music 16 April 2015

April 2015

Derek Walmsley hosts the most recent instalment of our regular Thursday evening broadcasts on London's Resonance FM. Tracks by Container, Wiley, Strategy, Sauce & Cop, Nochexxx, High Wolf, Black Zone Myth Chant and more

On Air

Adventures In Sound And Music 19 March 2015

March 2015

Listen again to last Thursday's broadcast of our regular Resonance FM show. This week's host, Derek Walmsley, goes deep into the sounds of 1990s computer music from DJ Guy, Ben Zimmerman, Soichi Terada and μ-Ziq, alongside what sounds like 1990s computer music, from Legowelt, Wolfgang Voigt, Peder Mannerfelt, and many more