Derek Walmsley
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Derek Walmsley presents Adventures In Sound And Music: Three Lobed Recordings special
February 2021

The 4 February edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM focused on North Carolina label Three Lobed Recordings, featuring new music by Daniel Bachman and Body/Head with Aaron Dilloway, plus side projects from No-Neck Blues Band and Sunburned Hand Of The Man
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Derek Walmsley presents Adventures In Sound And Music: Room40 special
November 2020

The 12 November edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM explores the music of Australian sound art label Room40 as it celebrates its 20th anniversary, with music from Rafael Toral, Akio Suzuki, Ellen Fullman, Ueno Takashi, Julia Reidy, and label boss Lawrence English
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Adventures In Sound And Music: Finnish freak scene special by Derek Walmsley
August 2020

Deep dive into the Finnish freak scene courtesy of longtime underground survivors Lal Lal Lal and Ikuisuus Records. With music from Ilpo Numminen, Vaisu Luksus, Sunhiilow, Bruce Russell, and more.
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Derek Walmsley presents Adventures In Sound And Music
May 2020

The 7 May edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM was dedicated to Massachusetts label Feeding Tube
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Derek Walmsley presents Adventures In Sound And Music: Kevin Drumm Special
February 2020

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition celebrates the daunting heavyweight Bandcamp catalogue of electroacoustician Kevin Drumm
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Adventures In Sound And Music hosted by Derek Walmsley
November 2019

This edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM takes a deep dive into the evergreen Osaka institution EM Records. Derek Walmsley spends 90 minutes exploring their weird and wonderful world
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The Wire’s Derek Walmsley and Sukhdev Sandhu on WFMU
July 2017

Editor Derek Walmsley and contributor Sukhdev Sandhu guested on Daniel Blumin’s WFMU show this month to celebrate The Wire’s 400th issue
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Adventures In Sound And Music featuring Mark Wastell
July 2016

Mark Wastell joins Derek Walmsley in the Resonance FM studio to discuss a life in improv and 20 years of his label Confront Recordings

Issue 389
July 2016
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.
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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
News
Norient to publish new book Seismographic Sounds: Visions Of A New World
Norient to publish new book Seismographic Sounds: Visions Of A New World

Norient is set to publish a new book Seismographic Sounds: Visions Of A New World featuring contributions from The Wire's Louise Gray, Derek Walmsley, Adam Harper and Wayne Marshall
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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
Essay
Jazz Searches For The New Land: Jackie McLean's “Appointment In Ghana”
July 2015

Stop six in Derek Walmsley's journeys through the new worlds sketched out by jazz from the mid-1950s onwards.
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Rewired 11 June 2015 with Mike 'The Bike' Williams of Dread Broadcasting Corporation
June 2015

Rewired special hosted by Derek Walmsley and Shane Woolman, joined by Mike 'The Bike' Williams, one of the founders of trailblazing 1980s London pirate station Dread Broadcasting Corporation
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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
Essay
Jazz Searches For The New Land: Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra’s “Saturn”
May 2015

Derek Walmsley journeys through the new worlds sketched out by jazz from the mid-1950s onwards
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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
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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
Essay
Jazz Searches For The New Land: Horace Silver
March 2015

Join Derek Walmsley on his journey through the jazz that imagined liberation through distant places and spaces, from Africa and the Far East to the cosmos.
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Adventures In Sound And Music 05 February 2015
February 2015

Listen to our show from last night on Resonance FM, this week hosted by Derek Walmsley, playing new tracks and an Aphex Twin unreleased tracks mix by Ian Fenton of Frozen Reeds records
Essay
Jazz Searches For The New Land: Yusef Lateef's Jazz ’Round The World
February 2015

Derek Walmsley journeys through the jazz that imagined liberation through distant places and spaces

Issue 372
February 2015
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Adventures In Sound And Music 18 December 2014
December 2014

Listen to last night's show on Resonance FM, hosted by Derek Walmsley. Tracks by Dro Carey featuring Chocolate and Kid Kairo, Tlaotlon, Palmbomen II, Giant Swan, Chicago Jim and more