This summer will see the release of an enormous 30 disc archival Sun Ra box set, compiled by the director of the Sun Ra Music Archive, Michael D Anderson. The collection is titled The Eternal Myth Revealed Vol.1, implying there’s more to come (although there's no confirmation on this yet – will update when we hear more).

Slated for release in July, the set covers the period 1924–1956. It contains music, interviews and audio excerpts, plus rare recordings by bands that influenced Sun Ra, threaded together into a 435 track monolith with extensive liner notes, described by Anderson as “a detailed music chronology of every known recording to include Sun Ra as a piano sideman, composer, arranger, vocal coach and his own recordings as a band leader”.

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Shizuo (aka David Hammer), part of the original Digital Hardcore posse, has passed away from unknown causes, (Foxy Digitalis state that the likely cause of death is an overdose). Berlin-born Hammer started out in the early 90s as an engineer for Atari Teenage Riot, and released a solo album under the name Shizuo in 1997: Shizuo vs. Shizor on the Beastie Boys’s Grand Royal label. Little else emerged until a self released four track 7” in 2000. Reports suggest that Shizuo was most recently seen playing guitar in Berlin-based band The Nothings. The Facebook post announcing his death can be found here.

The next album from JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia project is being released in 5.1 surround sound. Dinoflagellate Blooms is a double disc album, with one disc carrying the 5.1 surround sound, the other in stereo.

For those listeners without the requisite speaker array, there will be a free listening event at Harvestworks New York on 22 June, as part of the New York Electronic Arts Festival, where the album will be played in its entirety at 7:15pm and again at 8:30pm. Thirlwell notes: “A dinoflagellate is a small plankton-like aquatic creature. Dinoflagellate blooms is the term for when the dinoflagellate create an algae that turns the surface of the sea red.” More info here.

As reported via Facebook at the end of last week, House diva Darryl Pandy has passed away. Pandy was the vocalist on Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk’s “Love Can’t Turn Around” from 1986, which signalled a turning point for House music, particularly in the UK.

Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk and Pandy (in a bright blue glittery top) performed the track on Top Of The Pops in the same year, with Pandy ending the flamboyant performance by kicking his shoes off and lying on the stage. Pandy, in the words of The Wire’s reviews editor Derek Walmsley, was at that time “the gayest man ever to appear on Top Of The Pops - and I mean that as a compliment”.

Pandy had a vocal range of six and a half octaves, and was a former gospel singer at the Church of Universal Awareness in Chicago. In a 1986 article in Spin magazine, Barry Walters said: “Pandy’s histrionics are emblematic of the House scene in general. House is about the loss of decorum and control. From sexual extravagance to dance-floor excess, everything about House is geared towards losing it” Read a longer obit of Pandy here. Watch Pandy’s performance of “Love Can’t Turn Around” on Top Of The Pops below:

Anish Kapoor has invited Richie Hawtin to perform in front of his sculpture Leviathan in the nave of the Grand Palais, Paris, as part of Monumenta 2011. The connection between the two artists began when Hawtin felt a sonic emptiness after placing his head inside Kapoor's sculptures: "Suddenly I was able to walk around a physical version of what I wanted to do musically," says Hawtin. That encounter culminated in his 1998 Plastikman album Consumed.

In Facing The Leviathan Hawtin aims to work directly with the specific acoustic properties of Kapoor's work. For information on how to apply for an invitation click here. Paris Grand Palais, 21 June, 8pm, free.

The second installment of Wolgang Voigt’s Kafkatrax project is out today. The Kafkatrax 2 12” carries a red version of the centre label from Kafkatrax 1, which features Voigt’s face pasted onto the head and shoulders of Kafka.

For a closer look at the sleeve artwork, head to Voigt's site. Like the first, Kafkatrax 2 is limited to 199 copies on vinyl with hand painted artwork, only available direct from Kompakt. The third and final phase of the project will be released next month. For more info on Kafkatrax 1, head here.

Esmerine, a side project from members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt Zion, are streaming their new album for free via Constellation records. La Lechuza is the first album from the duo of Bruce Cawdron and Beckie Foon in six years. For La Lechuza they are joined by harpist Sarah Page, percussionist Andrew Barr, and others. The album is dedicated to and was inspired by Lhasa de Sela, a Montreal-based singer who died of breast cancer on New Year’s day last year. The album includes an unreleased version of a track Esmerine and de Sela recorded together. Listen below:

La Lechuza - ESMERINE by Constellation Records

Wire contributor Owen Hatherley’s book Uncommon is out on Zero books this month. Uncommon is Hatherley’s attempt to draw Pulp away from the Britpop label and the celebrity circus that briefly surrounded Jarvis Cocker, and instead, to argue that Pulp deserve to be taken seriously. Zero describes it as being "mainly a book about sex, the city and class via the 1990s finest British pop group”. More info at the Zero site here. Owen Hatherley wrote an Epiphany on Pulp in The Wire 318.

As part of the British Library’s Out Of This World exhibition, regular Wire contributor Ken Hollings will be performing with the Radio Science Orchestra, on a bill alongside Global Communication (Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton - pictured above).

The Radio Science Orchestra is led by writer and producer Bruce Woolley, and deals in bringing vintage electronics together with conventional orchestral instruments. Also on the bill are Global Communication, playing live for the first time in 15 years, recreating their 1994 LP 76:14, plus DJ sets from Jon Hopkins and Rob Da Bank. Attendees are encouraged to dress in "sci-fi glamour", or at the very least, in something silver. London British Library, 17 June, 7:30–11pm, £12.50.