Sonny Sharrock RIP
Howard Mandel pays tribute to a giant of black noise guitar

Paul Schütze
Tony Herrington visits the strange soundworld of the Ambient Antipodean

Scorn
Jakubowski takes a version excursion with the glum Brummies

No-Man
Your special guide to our free cover CD

Morocco
Peter Culshaw falls into a trance in the long desert night

John Cale
Ian Penman goes underground in Amsterdam with the ex-Velvet

Pharoah Sanders
Michael Jackson meets the quiet prince of modern jazz

The Orb
David Toop enters the crucible of Ambient with Thrash and the Doctor

Letter From... Haiti
Leah Gordon chases the voodoo down on a Caribbean island