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Khanate: The reconvened avant sludge quartet bring their fifth document of doom in the form of To Be Cruel. By Rob Turner

BEAM SPLITTER: Audrey Chen and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø explore intimacy via electroacoustics. By Julian Cowley

Invisible Jukebox: Dali De Saint Paul: The Bristol based vocalist and improvisor faces The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Phil England

Agitation Free: The German rock experimentalists return with a new album. By Daniel Spicer

Unlimited Editions: bié Records

Unofficial Channels: The Roulette Tapes

Violent Magic Orchestra: The Osaka outfit unite black metal, gabber and trance. By James Hadfield

Mpho Molikeng: Rebuilding African music with the Basotho multi-instrumentalist. By David Grundy

Galya Bisengalieva: The Kazakh-British artist invokes the spirit of the atom. By Abi Bliss

Eve Stainton: Capturing the Dykegeist with the Mancunian choreographer. By Claire Biddles

Global Ear: In Berlin brutality reigns at Germany’s long-running extreme metal festival. By Thomas Osman

The Inner Sleeve: Alan Courtis on Mauricio Kagel’s Exotica and Los Caú’s Los Caú

Epiphanies: Nkisi follows the path of Kongo tradition into unseen worlds of sound

Print Run: First Floor: Reflections On Electronic Music Culture Volume 1 by Shawn Reynaldo; Journal De Mes Sons/Diary Of My Sounds by Pierre Henry; Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music At The National Institute Of Design, India 1969–1972 edited by Paul Purgas; Transforming Moments by Richard Barrett; Gérard Grisey And Spectral Music: Composition In The Information Age by Liam Cagney; The Life And Music Of Gérard Grisey: Delirium And Form by Jeffrey Arlo Brown; Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir by Sly Stone with Ben Greenman; Kleenex/LiLiPUT by Marlene Marder

On Screen: Maureen Gosling The 9 Lives Of Barbara Dane

On Site: Din, London, UK; Johanna Billing Each Moment Presents What Happens, London, UK

On Location: Unsound, Krakow, Poland; WOS Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Another Sky Festival, London, UK; M³ Festival, New York, US; AR Kane, London, UK; Seanaps Festival, Leipzig, Germany; Cadillac & Ogun 50th Anniversary Concert, London, UK; Tubby’s 5-Year Anniversary, Kingston, US; ArcTanGent, Bristol, UK

Soundcheck: Abstract Concrete, Susan Alcorn/Septeto Del Sur, Amor Muere, AshTreJinkins, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Christoph de Babalon, François J Bonnet & Stephen O’Malley, Diego Caicedo, Maria Chavez & Sandy Ewen, Buck Curran, Sarah Davachi, Anthony Davis/Kyle Motl/Kjell Nordeson, Fielded, Flesh & The Dream, Fruit LoOops, Adele H, Poppy H, Helmet, Marina Herlop, Honeydrip, Islaja, Zubin Kanga, Ingrid Laubrock, Steve Lehman & Orchestre National De Jazz, Lucidvox, Manzanera Mackay, Charif Megarbane, Mendoza Hoff Revels, DJ Muggs & Dean Hurley, Stephen O’Malley & Anthony Pateras, Phét Phét Phét, PLF, Position Normal, Prong, Pyne, Razen, Joseph Shabason, Shackleton, Shackleton & Wacław Zimpel with Siddhartha Belmannu, Silver Apples & Makoto Kawabata, Sone Institute, Space Afrika & Rainy Miller, Unkle G, Vanishing Twin, Vidrio, Hilary Woods, Yokel/D Ham/Franco Franco

The Boomerang: Ash Ra Tempel, Wally Badarou, Derek Bailey & Paul Motian, Betty Davis, Deerhoof, Timothy Leary & Ash Ra Tempel, Marginal Consort, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Matthew Shipp Trio, Richard Wright, La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela, Various If There’s Hell Below, Various No Future, No Past: Finnish Speed & Thrash Metal Explosion 1986–1992