An update to Keith Fullerton Whitman's widely reported Greatest Hits project: previously existing only as one enormous mix, Whitman is now uploading all the tracks separately, which means over 100 remixes of 1980s pop classics, including Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue", Boston's "Foreplay" and Styx's "Mr Roboto". He began the project on the eve of his 30th birthday, to document the pop music markers of his youth. A full explanation of the project can be found here.

A trio of musicians, song collectors and educators made up of Sam Lee, James McDonald and Thomas McCarthy have founded The Song Collector's Collective. Its purpose is to develop an archive of traditional singing and oral culture in the UK and Ireland. It is an attempt to document traditional source singers who are still alive, but who have rarely been recorded. Listen to recordings at the site and on Soundcloud here.

To mark his 60th birthday Paul Dunmall performs his new piece for sextet for the first time this October, a commission by Jazzlines. Three dates are lined up for the end of October: a premiere in Birmingham (26 October) and then subsequent dates in London and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (tbc). Dunmall's output has also recently been collected in a 50CD box set by FMR as part of their anniversary releases.

Musician and artist André Vida has a new interactive work, Score And Seek, set to run at New York's Eyebeam gallery and project space, 19–30 September. Vida is looking for musicians to help "test" the installation – a projected, animated musical notation system responding to performers as they move about the space. Participants can have musical backgrounds ranging from classical training to Improv, or be a hobbyist, or student. Performances take place daily at 5pm. Those interested should send André an email with their name and the times they would like to perform: marbles@vidatone.com

London's Hayward Gallery are publishing a book by British artist Jeremy Deller, looking at the roots of working class music culture from the Industrial Revolution to the glam and heavy rock music of the 1980s. The exhibition the book accompanies, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, opens 12 October at Manchester Art Gallery and will also be on tour, stopping in Nottingham and Laing in 2014.

Mark E Smith and Merzbow are among the guests on new eight piece supergroup Mutation's forthcoming album (which includes members of The Wildhearts, Napalm Death and the Cardiacs). The record is titled Error 500 and is due out via Mike Patton's Ipecac in October.

Leyland Kirby, Hieroglyphic Being, Legowelt, Scanner, Perc and others have contributed tracks to a 24 track compilation in support of LGBT rights in Russia. This follows Russian president Vladimir Putin's passing of aggressive legislation making it illegal to expose minors to information that portrays homosexual relationships as normal. Click here to listen.

David Tibet is publishing a book on artist and spiritualist Madge Gill (subject of an article in The Wire 347), via his own publishing imprint The Spheres. the book contains 108 reproductions of Gill's pen and ink artwork – portraits of her spirit-guide Myninerest. The book also contains an introductory essay by Roger Cardinal. As well as the book there will also be an exhibition of Gill's work taking place in Twickenham, 5 October 2013–26 January 2014.

An album of Robert Wyatt solo recordings, made in the US in 1968 are being issued by Cuneiform. The material is unreleased, and includes some early versions of Soft Machine tracks. Some of the material has barely been heard, having only resurfaced last year. It was recorded during and after Soft Machine's second tour of the US with Jimi Hendrix, with Hendrix on bass for a version of The Wilde Flowers's "Slow Walkin' Talk" included here. '68 is due out 10 October on CD, vinyl, and digitally. More details at Cuneiform, pre-orders on Bandcamp here. Listen to samples from the record below.

"The problem with records today is that they kind of disappear after two weeks," says Paal Nilssen-Love. "Keeping the catalogue in print is important so that it's always visible."

Scandinavian power jazz trio The Thing recently announced that they would be starting their own label, bringing all their music under one roof. The release schedule for The Thing Records begins in November with their new album, Boot!.

But The Thing aren't the only ones bringing their work together: In the last fortnight AtomTM announced the launch of his own label, archiving all of his past output, and Sasu Ripatti (aka Vladislav Delay) started his own imprint, though he'll be using it as a studio diary rather than as an archive. Death Grips also recently took control of their output with Thirdworlds records. It's nothing new for artists to self-release (musicians like Richard Skelton and Jandek, among others, have always kept things in house) but it's notable that these recent artist-run imprints are from established musicians who've worked under various aliases and line ups with only one or two labels, for a decade or more.

Being a label head is nothing new to members of The Thing: all three already run their own – Mats Gustafsson ran Blue Tower in the 1990s, Crazy Wisdom in the early 00s and Slottet in the mid-00s and now runs record trading site Discaholic Corner, as well as Olof Bright with Thomas Millroth. Paal Nilssen-Love has PNL, and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten runs Tektite records with his wife.

The Thing Records will collect together all their previous releases through Smalltown Supersound and Gustafsson's Crazy Wisdom, with Austrian label Trost handling distribution. At the same time as Boot!, there are also plans to release 2011 Smalltown Supersound album Mono on vinyl (originally only released on CD), and into next year their 2004 album Garage will be released, along with a collaboration with Thurston Moore. "It is a ton of work," says Nilssen-Love. "The three of us have different things to do, and it almost became a mess with three chefs basically – too many cooks."

How much and what gets put into print depends on money, but the aim is to have the entirety of The Thing's back catalogue in print on vinyl, and eventually offer downloads. Nilssen-Love says: "On tour, people ask 'Why haven't you got this record?' and we've got to say 'Oh it was sold out at the distribution' or explain that it's stuck at some warehouse, but I think its important to keep the back catalogue alive, not just as downloads."

Further into the future, the possibility of putting together a box set has been raised: "When we've got everything out, then we might make a box set out of it, sell it cheaper, and have something special. We did some crazy stuff with a box that Joakim [Haugland, Smalltown Supersound label head] put out, where we cut up the T-shirts that we wore on the tour and laminated them. If we do it, it will be something special, something funny."

Boot! will be released on 11 November on the newly incorporated The Thing Records.