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Acid flashbacks

“Will anybody under the age of 40 get that joke?” asks David Toop in the new March issue of The Wire , referring to the title of FennO’Berg’s In Stereo album. I’m a long way over the wrong side of 40, but still I ain’t laughing, mainly because, as David hints in his review of the record, In Stereo represents something of a muted return on the part of the original Powerbook trio. But the appearance of the album, not to mention its rather humdrum punning title, sends me back to a couple of unvoiced, and quite possibly half-arsed, notions that were prompted by the release of one of 2009’s most audacious records of digital sound processing, one which wipes the floor with In Stereo in terms of its conceptual rigour, and which happened to contain a pun in the title that could be got by at least three generations of electronic music aficionados. Apart...

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Netaudio survey: How does the Internet influence your music habits?

The Netaudio festival (an offline festival for online music) are calling out for participants in a short survey about the effect of the internet on how people make and listen to music. It should take about 10-15 minutes of your time and has some prizes up for grabs to those who complete it, including a copy of our very own The Wire Primers, a Last FM membership subscription, a copy of Nicolas Collins's Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking and a copy of Steve Goodman's (aka Kode9) Sonic Warfare: Sound, Effect And The Ecology Of Fear amongst other goodies . Click here to go to the survey

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Adventures In Modern Music 4 February 2010

Tonight's episode will be broadcast live from Berlin in a special Transmediale festival edition. Hosts Chris Bohn and Derek Walmsley will be joined by Family Battle Snake man Bill Kouligas and Wolfgang Müller, musician, artist and founder of Die Tödliche Doris. 21:00-22:30 (BST), 104.4 FM for Londoners, streamed live at resonancefm.com for the rest of the world.

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Tales Of The Uncanny

The Exotic Pylon's Jonny Mugwump is launching his hauntological tale-telling show tonight on Resonance FM. Weird Tales For The Winter is a series of eight programmes, broken down into chapters as follows: Monday 25th January: Moon Wiring Club - "Minuke" by Nigel Kneale Tuesday 26th January: West Norwood Cassette Library and Matthew de Abaitua – "The Dinner Party Wars" by Mathew de Abaitua Wednesday 27th January: Dolly Dolly – "Death, Taxes and the Fireplace (being a story concerning love above all): Thursday 28th January: Belbury Poly and Lawrence Norfolk – "His Name was Legion" by Sir Andrew Caldecott Friday 29th January: Radio Joy (LIVE) – "The Haunted Beach" by Johny Brown Saturday 30th January: Mordant Music – "The Bells Will Sound Forever" by Thomas Ligotti Sunday 31st January: Vanessa Daou – "Love Among the Shadowed Things" Monday 1st February: John Foxx - "When You Walk Through Me" ...