Ergot Records label head Adrian Rew finds readymade plunderphonics and corporate mind control on the gambling floor.

The Polish experimental musician and composer Zbigniew Karkowski died on 12 December 2013. Richard Whitelaw remembers an artist whose music could "suck the soul out of your body".

The Polish experimental musician and composer Zbigniew Karkowski died on 12 December 2013. Atau Tanaka writes an open letter to an artist of "vision and principle".

Jazz is radical music, so why is it funded by big business? asks Dan Spicer.

When funding bodies treat culture as a business enterprise, their insistence on results discriminates against music’s true value, argues Richards.

Lou Reed died 27 October, 2013. Here Mark E Smith eulogises – on being a criminally devout Velvet Underground fan. Not a 'Velvets' or 'Lou Reed' fan.

Lou Reed died 27 October, 2013. Lydia Lunch pays tribute to the gender bender.

Lou Reed died 27 October, 2013. "So I fucking hated that song. I hated the record with the cool banana and I hated everything in the world but especially that record." Carla Bozulich arrives late to The Velvets.

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. Ulrich Krieger remembers his time working with Reed on Metal Machine Trio.

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. “Whatever you do, don’t talk to Lou.” Byron Coley ignores a warning.

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. Masami Akita aka Merzbow pays tribute.

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. Alan Licht on Reed, the connector.

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. Ambarchi remembers Reed, from a near encounter on NYC's subway to telling the rock god to keep on fucking playing.

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. Can's Irmin Schmidt on the sudden awakening brought on by The VU

Lou Reed died 27 October, 2013. Zeitkratzer's Reinhold Friedl remembers Reed, and performing Metal Machine Music

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. Einstürzende Neubauten's Alexander Hacke on Reed's ultimate misanthropy, and the hidden Evil in his noise.

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. Musician Alex Neilson on how 1978's Take No Prisoners intensified and counter acted his prejudices about Reed

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. David Keenan remembers him.

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. The Dead C's Bruce Russell on horrifying all solid citizens

The recent boom in vinyl merely reflects business’s desire to extract maximum commodity value from ‘manufactured rarities’. But, ask Numero Group’s Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley, what happens to the music when the bubble bursts?