
Issue 147
May 1996
Bites
Photek aquasonic breakbeat science
Palace lowdown 'n' dirty Country primitives
Carl Stone rock hard sampladelia
Rhys Chatham
The New York composer used to write screaming electric symphonies
for 100 guitars. Now he records distorted avant funk for Coldcut's
label. By Clive Bell
Jaki Liebezeit
The alternative funky drummer, generator of the marathon lock
grooves that fired Can's mantra-rock, is back with a new,
trance-expanding project : Club Of Chaos. By Rob Young
Coldcut and the Blunted Generation
Meet the stoned scientists of down-tempo funk: Coldcut, Funki
Porcini, The Herbaliser, Red Snapper, Clatterbox, Dr Rockit, Fila
Brazilia, and more. By Peter Shapiro and Rachael Philipps
Global Ear: Pakistan
David Toop drifts through the sub-continental sonic debris, and
meets the giant of devotional trance music, Nusrat Fateh Ali
Khan
Ronald Shannon Jackson
From jukejoint-rebellion to future-present freeform psychedelia,
Ben Watson gets a history lesson in Great Black Music with The
Decoding Society's chief cypher
Negativland
High in the ether above Northern California, these plunderphonic
pranksters are building a surreal world form the raw material of
mainstream radio. By Phil England
Hypersymposium
Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Scanner, Howie B, DJ Spooky and David
Toop attempt to answer the $64,000 question: what will music sound
like in the future?
Invisible Jukebox: Philip Glass
Mike Barnes plays Aphex Twin, Ravi Shankar, Steve Reich, Velvet
Underground, David Bowie and more to the minimalist maestro