
Issue 159
May 1997
Third Eye Foundation
Exchanging his guitars and effects pedals for a sampler and
computer was the best decision that the Bristol isolationist Matt
Elliot ever made. By Simon Hopkins
Global Ear: New York
Steve Holtje enters LaMonte Young's Theatre of Eternal Music
Bites
Kelli Hand Digital night rider
Tipsy West Coast lounge lizards
Spaceheads Cosmic slop-outs Susie
Ibarra Gotham rhythmstick Label lore:
Emanem
Cologne Central
In the German city that is a hive of galvanised music activity, Rob
Young meets the new stars of selten gehorte Musik: Mouse On Mars,
Mike Ink, Dr Walker, A-Musik, Pluramon and more
Photek
Chris Sharp travels to the heart of the English greenbelt to meet a
Junglist who is combining martial arts techniques with astro jazz
influences to recast the mood of the suburbs
Robert Fripp
Mike Barnes gains admittance to the court of the Crimson King to
discuss the birth of Prog rock, the chemistry of performance, Eno's
tape-delay systems, and, er, getting gobbed at with The Damned
Jeff Mills
Since departing the militant Detroit Techno collective Underground
Resistance, this elusive DJ/producer has sent the conventions of
electronic music spinning through new subterranean channels. By
Mike Shallcross
The Primer: Ennio Morricone
From Spaghetti Western soundtracks to scores for Italian pulp
horror-erotica, Russell Lack spools through the iconoclastic output
of the great film composer
Invisible Jukebox: Sonic Boom
Rugby's very own drone-rock junkie, the founder of Spacemen 3 and
EAR, tries to identify tracks by Sun Ra, Morton Subotnick, White
Noise, AMM, Arnold Dreyblatt and more. Mike Barnes is the
inquisitor
Merzbow
Tokyo performance artist Masami Akita distils the most noxious
elements of lo-fi electronics, hard rock, free jazz and
sado-masochism into a fearsome noise aesthetic. By David Keenan