John Morrison
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September 2025
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April 2024
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Issue 481
March 2024
The Portal
From The Archive by John Morrison
November 2023
Contributor John Morrison selects pieces of writing from The Wire’s back pages featuring hiphop mixtapes, Can, Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore, Steinski, and more. All selected articles are available to read in The Wire’s digital library with a print or digital subscription
Issue 473
July 2023
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December 2022
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October 2022
Interview
“My dream is to teach in a club”: King Britt talks Blacktronika and new pedagogies
July 2021
John Morrison speaks with the US producer, DJ and teacher about the ideas and structure behind his new UCSD course Blacktronika: Afrofuturism In Electronic Music
Issue 444
February 2021
Interview
Bridging The Gap: H31R speak to John Morrison
December 2020
The East Coast duo discuss their friendship and eventual collaborative practice which has most recently culminated in their debut album Ve·loc·i·ty. By John Morrison
Essay
Roy Ayers & Fela Kuti: Music Of Many Colours
October 2020
Roy Ayers and Fela Kuti each explored Pan-Africanism and diasporic solidarity their own way before their meeting in 1979, which represented a crystallisation of ideas. By John Morrison
Issue 440
October 2020
Issue 437
July 2020
Essay
Zyl-bient: how ambient radio pioneer Chuck van Zyl reframed psychedelia's utopian dreaming
June 2020
John Morrison traces the new world routes mapped by the Philadelphia musician, promoter and Star’s End presenter
Essay
Kraftwerk And Black America: A Musical Dialogue
May 2020
John Morrison on how the 1980s black music scene gave Kraftwerk the club-wise edge
