The second volume of Incognitum Hactenus, the journal on art, horror and philosophy includes articles from Wire contributors Dave Tompkins and Mark Fisher. Tompkins interviews Walter Murch, and Mark Fisher writes on nihilism in Scott Bakker's Neuropath.

Editors Caryn Coleman and Tom Trevatt have an open call out for pieces for the next issue of the journal, under the header Living On: Zombies. To submit work send a 200 word abstract to both editors. More info and contact details here.

Download the the current issue here.

This summer Faber is publishing a leather clad limited edition of Julian Cope's Copendium, five months before the standard edition is available. 150 box sets will be produced, costing £200 a pop. These will contain a leather bound copy of Copendium (signed and numbered), three CD compilations to accompany your reading, and a ticket to an event with Cope (open to only those with the box set) at London's Rough Trade East on 21 June.

Copendium is a collection of Cope's writing on music, culture and politics, detailing an alternative history of the last 60 years of popular music. The limited edition version will be released on 7 June, and regular copies will be released on 7 November. Ordering details imminent at Rough Trade, or email Clare Yates at Faber at clarey[at]faber.co.uk.

UPDATE (16 May): The print run for Copendium has been upped to an edition of 250, and the price has been brought down to £120. The limited edition will now be published on 5 July. The June event has also been cancelled, with an event planned for the book's general release in November. Those who have already purchased the limited edition will have guaranteed entry.

Bleep is releasing a ten track compilation of electronic music from new, previously unreleased producers. The compilation, titled Filtered, was put together by Bleep with help from Soundcloud and Warp (including Warp founder Steve Beckett). Over 4000 demos were submitted, from which were culled a 50 track shortlist. The shortlist was passed on to Warp, and Bleep staff made the final selection.

"Every track was listened to," says Raj Chaudhuri at Bleep. "All five full time staff members of Bleep worked in shifts to make sure that every track was listened to properly. It was a massive task and was done day and night for a long period of time... Much longer than we first anticipated."

The compilation will be released on 23 April. Listen to a promo mix below, and download a track from Filtered here.

Bradford Community Broadcasting have an open call out for work to be broadcast as part of a pilot show on sound art. Submissions must be three to seven minutes in length, in MP3 or WAV on CD, and must include full contact details. If the response to the pilot is positive BCB plans to broadcast a regular show.

Deadline for submissions 25 March. More info here.

Second bit of Fat Possum related news this week: Other Music, a record store based in New York's East Village, is starting a record label. Other Music Recording Co will be an imprint on Fat Possum, with the first release being a 7" by Brooklyn group Ex Cops arriving on 24 April. Also scheduled for release is a solo album by former frontman of Yura Yura Teikoku Shintaro Sakamoto.

NYTimes quotes one of the shop's owners Josh Madell as saying: "It’s just something we have wanted to do for a long time. Despite everything happening in the music industry, we are always getting excited about new bands."

More info here.

Dave Tompkins, author of vocoder history How To Wreck A Nice Beach, has released a 7" of three vocoder tracks from the early 80s. The How To Wreck A Nice Beach record is produced in an edition of 500 and is made from various colours of recycled vinyl in a screen printed sleeve. Each one includes an eight page booklet "detailing the effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey on Jermaine Dupri when he danced at the Swatch Watch NYC Fresh Festival in 1984". Tracklisting and Tompkins's liner notes below:

Geno Jordan
“You’re a Peachtree Freak On Peachtree Street (Tom Noble Edit)”
Geno Jordan is from Atlanta. This classy, sophisticated grown-up space-funk situation makes the author fondly think of the Peachoid water tower off I-85 South in Gaffney, South Carolina, which admittedly is not Atlanta, but looks like a giant rear end, or a planet, and will get you there soon enough.

IZ Army
“Brainwash (Army of Shadows Edit)”
Nothing says vocoder like a brainwash by the shore. "Smurf across the surf," as they used to say. It goes for mad doubloons on eBay, so we’re happy to present this licensed bonus beat, with editorial assistance by DJ Monk-One. The chorus favours Mtume and is pretty uplifting for a song about brainwashing. According to Discogs, the IZ Army logo was designed by Philco. It's a war eagle wearing keyboard flip-flops beneath a flashing star (or The Very Idea!) that could easily be classified by William Corliss as "phenomena". Philco is either some guy named Phil, or the same Ford Motor Company subsidiary that manufactured vocoders for the Air Force. It would make a fine hood ornament.

Fantasy Three
"Biter’s Dub (All You Have Is Yore Teeth Edit)"
As mentioned in the book, this record is about vampire vacuum cleaners, Donald Sutherland pods, clone drones, and microphone carried in shaving kits. And Fangoria. It literally almost tore the author’s mom’s turntable apart when it refused to surrender the spindle. It just wanted to remain there and keep playing. Like, forever. This is the black hit of space. Fantasy Three were from Harlem, and among many things, should be sainted for mentoring LL and Kool G Rap. Pumpkin’s dub version still remains one of the most futuristic electro tracks ever made.

More info here and here.

Sleep's Dopesmoker has been remastered for reissue on Southern Lord and will be released with a live recording of "Holy Mountain" from 1994 (from the I-Beam venue in San Francisco). The record was originally titled Jerusalem, but in 2003 was rereleased as an alternate version and renamed Dopesmoker.

The reissue will also be getting new artwork by Arik Roper, who also created artwork for previous iterations of the record, and Earth's The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull. No official dates or format info have been released yet, but updates are on the way.

Wadada Leo Smith is releasing Ten Freedom Summers, a 21 part work based on the American civil rights movement. The work centres around the ten years between the US Supreme Court's 1954 decision to end segregation in schools and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and is formed of three 'collections': Defining Moments In America, What Is Democracy?, and Ten Freedom Summers.

The work is partly inspired by August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle of ten plays. "I own all ten of Wilson’s plays and have studied them over the years,” says Smith. “Much like Wilson, what I’m trying to do is give a full impression, show the psychological transformation that America achieved. Each piece has its own motivation, and what ties it together is the psychological thread."

Ten Freedom Summers will be released as a 4CD set this spring via Cuneiform, and was premiered across three nights in October last year at Los Angeles REDCAT (although the CD release is not a recording of the premiere). It will be performed again on 19 May at the Festival International de Musique Actualle de Victoriaville in Quebec. Watch a video of Wadada Leo Smith introducing the work below, and read more here.

El-P is releasing a new solo album, Cancer For Cure, his first since 2007's I'll Sleep When You're Dead, following 2010 interim instrumental release weareallgoingtoburninhellmeggamixxx.

The album includes guest spots by Killer Mike, Danny Brown, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, and Interpol's Paul Banks. Cancer For Cure will be released on 22 May via Fat Possum. More info here, and possibly here.

Unsound New York has announced its Unsound Labs discussion programme for next month's festival, presented by The Wire. Monolake (aka Ableton co-developer Robert Henke) will be in conversation with Andy Battaglia, Pole talks on The Art Of Mastering, and Stuart Argabright is in conversation with Dave Tompkins.

Also lined up is Biosphere and Lustmord talking about their journey to early nuclear testing sites in the New Mexico desert for their Unsound commissioned project Trinity, and Dave Tompkins giving his second talk on the history of Miami Bass. A screening of Icon Eye will be followed by a panel with Cameron Stallones (aka Sun Araw), director Tony Lowe and project producer Matt Werth, and Jeremy Grimshaw will give a talk titled The Music And Mysticism Of La Monte Young. Also included is a panel on music and culture infrastructure in Poland, Ukraine and beyond, with Unsound organiser Gosia Plysa, with Kotra, Denis Kolokol and Macio Moretti. Full programme details and schedule here.