Following the last minute cancellation of a planned event in March this year – which prompted JME and Noisey to make this documentary – a new Just Jam night has been announced, taking place at London's Barbican this December.

Put together by promoters Tim & Barry, the next planned edition of Just Jam happens 13 December, and will include sets from Omar Souleyman, JME and Big Narstie with Preditah, Mumdance with Novelist, and Traxman with Litebulb. More details here.

Radio Lancashire's long running avant-garde music show On The Wire is turning 30. Originally broadcast on 16 September 1984, the programme will be marking its birthday with a trio of specially commissioned pieces from musicians born or based in Lancashire. Sam Shackleton has produced a new work called "Drones Over Lancashire", which consists of three improvised sessions edited together; Richard Skelton has recorded a new piece under a new moniker – The Inward Circles, a reference to 17th century polymath Thomas Browne; and Miles Whittaker has recorded a mix.

The show will be broadcast on BBC Radio Lancashire at midnight on Saturday 21 September, and will be archived online at On The Radio's site.

The schedule for our Off The Page festival has just been confirmed, and here it is. A few tickets for the festival are still available, namely some weekend passes plus Saturday and Sunday tickets. Full details on the programme and how to book are here.

Unless otherwise stated, all events take place at Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA, 0117 917 2300.

Friday 26 September
8-10pm
Robert Wyatt in Conversation with Marcus O’Dair + audience Q&A

Saturday 27 September
11am-noon
Mark Fisher: Another Grey World: The Secret Sadness of the 21st Century + audience Q&A

12:30-1:30pm
Richard King with Pinch & Mike Darby: A Record Shop, Roots & Bristol Culture

2:30-3:30pm
David Keenan: Crime Calls for Night: A Phenomenology of Transgression in Industrial Music

4-5pm
Sarah Angliss: Visceral Music: The Corporeal Origins of Electronic Sound

5:30-7pm
Paul Gilroy in Conversation with Tony Herrington + audience Q&A

8-9:30pm
Carla Bozulich in Conversation with Frances Morgan + audience Q&A

10-11pm
Julian Henriques with David Fisher (Papa Roots Sound System): The Sound System Unplugged

11pm-3am
Off The Page aftershow party with Rewired (NTS Radio) DJs + The Wire Sound System DJs at The Cube, Dove Street South, Bristol BS2 8JD, 0117 907 4190

Sunday 28 September
noon-1pm
The Wire pub quiz hosted by Derek Walmlsey & Rob Young at The Louisiana, Wapping Road, Bathurst Terrace, Bristol BS1 6UA, 0117 926 5978

2-3:30pm
Film screening: A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness

4-4:30pm
Dean Blunt's "Black Metal": A Reading

5-6:30pm
Eric Isaacson: A Cosmic and Earthly History of Recorded Music According to Mississippi Records

7-11pm
Off The Page closing concert with Marisa Anderson + Lori Goldston + Dragging An Ox Through Water at The Cube, Dove Street South, Bristol BS2 8JD, 0117 907 4190

Gabriel Prokofiev's label and club night Nonclassical has started a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of a photobook documenting the alternative classical scene in London. Photographer Dimitri Djuric has been shooting images for the last few years, and writer Thom Andrewes has been tracking its activities. The book, titled We Break Strings, includes images from Nonclassical events, plus the Kammer Klang series at Cafe Oto, London Contemporary Music Festival, and the Multi-Story Orchestra.

Prokofiev is aiming to raise £5,000, which will pay for printing and distribution. Otherwise, the book is complete and ready for publication, pencilled in for November when the funding target needs to be met. Full Kickstarter details here.

Rhino is releasing a box set titled Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 To 1972, which pulls together Lick My Decals Off, Baby, The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot, along with 14 outtakes and alternate versions. All three albums have been remastered, and extra tracks include a sung version of Bat Chain Puller spoken word track “I Can’t Do This Unless I Can Do This/Seam Crooked Sam", and an instrumental rehearsal of “The Witch Doctor Life” which ended up on Ice Cream For Crow, although it doesn't include "Funeral Hill".

Full tracklisting for the outtakes disc here. The set is due out as a 4xLP and 4xCD set on 11 November.

The Dream is a compilation featuring a selection of musicians from Poland, Norway and Iceland many of whom will be performing at the 2014 editions of the Unsound (Krakow), Insomnia (Tromso) and Iceland Airwaves (Reykjavik) festivals as part of the Luminous Bodies project.

Musicians contributing tracks to the CD include Hildur Gudnadottir with Skuli Sverrisson; Księżyc; Stine Janvin Motland with The Receptacles; Jenny Hval & Susanna; Robert Piernikowski; Ben Frost with Shahzad Ismaily and Greg Fox; TCF; We Will Fail; Natalia Martinez Ordonez; Kucharczyk; Eltron John; Le Petit Garcon; and Aabzu.

Excerpts from two special projects have also been included on the compilation, one from Double Vision, a collaboration between Atom™ & Robin Fox, and a section from Jed Kurzel’s soundtrack to the 2011 Australian film Snowtown. Both projects have been developed in collaboration with Unsound and the Adelaide Festival.

The Dream is compiled by Unsound’s artistic director Mat Schulz, and is coproduced by Unsound, Insomnia and Iceland Airwaves in co-operation with The Wire.

All subscribers to the print magazine will receive the compilation as both a CD and download, while subscribers to the digital edition will receive the download. Anyone taking out a print subscription to The Wire before the end of October 2014 will also be sent a copy of the CD and download, while new digital subscribers will receive the download. More details here. Subscribe here.

Brian Coleman's 500-page tome Check The Technique Volume 2: More Liner Notes For Hip-Hop Junkies will be published on 14 October. The follow up to volume one (published in 2007) of the completist hip-hop album histories includes interviews with over 80 artists including Ice Cube, Mantronix, Raekwon, MF Doom, Dr Octagon, Mos Def, Jazzy Jeff, plus images, covering 25 records from the 1980s.

Digital versions of Check The Technique Volume 2: More Liner Notes For Hip-Hop Junkies will also be published, which includes five extra chapters. More info is on Coleman's site, and there are two sample chapters on 3rd Bass and Smif-N-Wessun published online for a limited time.

Der Klang Der Familie, an oral history of techno in post-reunification Berlin has been translated into English. The book covers the emergence of techno and the club scene in the German capital after the Berlin wall came down, and includes transcripts of interviews with Juan Atkins, Mike Banks, Danielle De Piciotto, Alec Empire, Mark Ernestus, Thomas Fehlmann, Robert Hood, Jeff Mills, Ron Murphy, Wolfgang Tillmans, Paul Van Dyke and others. It was originally published in 2012, written and edited by by Felix Denk (editor of Zitty magazine) and Sven von Thülen (DJ and editor of De:Bug). The English translation of Der Klang Der Familie will be published on 9 November, the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.

A reading will take place the day before (8 November) at Berlin's Berghain Kantine, along with a screening of the TV documentary based on the book, In This Place Called Techno. More information via the publishers, and watch a trailer for the documentary below.

Steve Goodman (aka Kode9) is the first person to receive the Innovator Award at the annual AIM Independent Music Awards. Goodman founded Hyperdub in 2004, and this year celebrates its tenth anniversary with a string of compilation releases, plus events including takeovers of the London venue Fabric. The awards ceremoney took place 2 September at The Brewery in Clerkenwell.

Also awarded this year was Beggars group founder Martin Mills. AIM is a not for profit body representing independent labels in the UK, More details here.

The saxophonist John Butcher, a mainstay of London's jazz and improv scene, is celebrating his 60th birthday with a residency at London's Cafe Oto. Over 28–29 November, he'll be playing with some longstanding collaborators as well as new players, including Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Adam Bohman, Magda Mayas and others.

Butcher originally studied physics but in the early 1980s set out as musician and composer, touring extensively to this day and playing with numerous artists including Derek Bailey, John Tilbury, The Ex, Gino Robair, John Edwards, Toshi Nakamura, Christian Marclay and others.

Check full details here.