Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never), James Ferraro, Laurel Halo, and Samuel Godin have collaborated with David Borden (Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co), for the next edition of RVNG Records's FRKWYS series: FRKWYS Vol 7.

The five track album is a large group collaboration, which came about as a result of Lopatin's admiration for Borden's Music For Amplified Keyboard Instruments. It was recorded over two days in Brooklyn, in August 2010. FRKWYS Vol 7 will be released on LP and CD on 17 July. More info and samples here. Listen to "People Of The Wind Pt 2" below:

Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo & Lopatin - People of the Wind Pt. 2 by RVNG Intl.

FM3, the creators of the Buddha Machine, have minted their own currency to be bundled with their forthcoming compilation HeXieFo, and distributed randomly in the packaging of other FM3 objects.

FM3 released a coin last year, in a limited test run that was distributed solely in China. Coins are legal tender for use in the FM3 shop, including Buddha Machines, tickets to live shows, T-shirts and more. Two coins can be exchanged for one Buddha Machine, a T-shirt, or an FM3 CD.

The new coin is larger in diameter than last year's test, and has a print of Zhang Jian's profile on one side and the Buddha Machine speaker and names of the HeXieFo contributing artists on the flip side. The coins are made from hand carved moulds, and printed in a run of around 3000, with plans to mint a smaller coin in 2012.

HeXieFo is a project featuring over a dozen Chinese experimental musicians, scheduled for release in November this year (October if you're in China).

Deerhoof's 2004 album Milk Man has been remastered and re-released by ATP Records, to coincide with the group's 1 July slot supporting The Flaming Lips, where they'll be playing the whole of the album from start to finish.

Milk Man has been reissued on CD and in a run of 1000 on 180g white vinyl, the latter with MP3 download. More info here.

New York sound art gallery Diapason has an open call out for residency proposals using its two 12-channel sound systems. The sound systems are in two spaces that each have different speaker arrays, one of which also includes a grand piano.

Submissions must be via email and should include a project proposal (including timeline) and technical details, plus a brief bio, contact details and links to works online. Diapason asks that artists submitting proposals do not include any attachments in their applications. Deadline for submissions is 31 August. More info and PDF application form here.

Outsider musician and Smegma collaborator Larry 'Wild Man' Fischer has passed away from heart failure at the age of 66. Fischer developed schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as a teenager, and recorded a number of solo records. Fischer's manic peaks took the form of creative bursts of energy, which he called the "pep".

He played instruments, sang and wrote songs for Smegma, and the pair recorded an album together: Wild Man Fischer And Smegma Sing Popular Songs. He opened shows for Alice Cooper, The Byrds, Zappa and Solomon Burke, and busked on Sunset Strip. Fischer also collaborated with Frank Zappa, appearing on Zapped, although the pair eventually fell out with one another.

The New York Times reports that Fischer was committed to an assisted living facility in 2004. Josh Rubin, a filmmaker who made a documentary about Fischer, and used to speak to him around 20 times per day, said: “After he went to the facility, the phone calls just stopped. The pep was gone.”

Underground Resistance (The Wire 285) have announced they will be reissuing five double 12" titles from their back catalogue as single EPs. The releases being re-bundled are: Hi-Tech Jazz, Dark Energy, Electronic Warfare, The Turning Point, and Interstellar Fugitives.

The 12" EPs will feature only "the most essential tracks from each double pack", and have been remastered by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete Mastering. A post on the Submerge site says this is due to the fact that all original stamping plates have been used, added to high shipping and production costs. There are no release dates on the 12" EPs yet, except for the promise that they are arriving "very very soon". More info here.

Throbbing Gristle are officially reactivating Industrial Records, after their contract with Mute expired this time last year. All four members (including Sleazy Peter Christopherson, before he passed away) voted to reactivate the label, with plans to re-release the Throbbing Gristle back catalogue.

The reissue schedule kicks off with a series of deluxe remastered vinyl editions and digital downloads (AAC, MP3, FLAC) of A Second Annual Report, DOA The Third & Final Report, Heathen Earth, 20 Jazz Funk Greats, and Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits, slated for release on 26 September in runs of 2000. TG have also bought all existing Mute stock, which is available (some of it discounted) as of this week via the TG site.

The Quietus also reported in April that Chris & Cosey would be finishing Throbbing Gristle's final album: a reinterpretation of Nico's Desertshore, which Sleazy Pete had been working on in Bangkok before he died.

Lasse Marhaug's next release is a one-sided screen printed vinyl with Paal Nilssen-Love, recorded in Fukuoka, Japan, in February this year. Marhaug described it as "pretty full-on falling-down-the-stairs drum/electronics improv". No Combo will be released in a limited run of 100 copies on Marhaug's Pica Disk label. Head here for more.

John Fahey is getting the Dust-To-Digital treatment, in a co-production with Revenant records that will be released in autumn (tentative on sale date 25 October). John Fahey: Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You (The Fonotone Years 1958-1965) is a 5CD box set with 115 tracks and an 88 page booklet.

The collection is edited by Fahey collaborator Glenn Jones, who says that virtually all of the music included is so far unknown. The booklet includes a song by song analysis by Malcolm Kirton, an unpublished interview with Fahey from 1967, images of Fahey given to Jones by Fahey's mother, plus essays, reminiscences, and more. More info here, and here.

Two weeks ago we published an excerpt of forthcoming documentary We Don't Care About Music Anyways, which looks at Tokyo's underground music scene. Now there's another one on the way from Good Charamel Records. Live From Tokyo is directed by American filmmaker Lewis Rapkin, and looks at the effect of global information networks and the digital paradigm shift on Japanese underground music creation. Featured in the documentary are Tenniscoats, Nissennenmondai, Boredoms members and others.

Confirmed screening dates are as follows: Philadelphia Japan Arts Matsuri (7 July), New York Big Screen Project (21 July), Netherlands Camera Japan Film Festival (21 September–2 October). Watch the trailer below: