The fifth release in Boomkat Editions’ 12x12 series is a mixed and chopped set of James Kirby’s 2006 recordings as V/Vm. Called The Brabant Shrobbelèr, it’s a 20 minute selection of previously unreleased new beat tributes compiled and sequenced by Jerk van den Boschalottt and mixed by Demdike Stare's Miles Whittaker.

Stockport born Kirby is paying homage to the genre which, in Boomkat record shop’s words, is the “black sheep of Manchester’s dance music canon”.

“New Beat was a crucial part of the Manc Dance make-up, most often mixed up with Chicago, Detroit and New York house, and whatever UK bleeps and boops were bubbling through at that time. James Kirby aka V/Vm is all too aware of the fact,” states Boomkat, “and thanks to the influence and legendary DJ sets of V/Vm card holder Acid Alan – whose new beat collection spilled over the racks at a now defunct NQ record shop – its memory and place in Manchester’s rave folklore has been preserved by only a select few souls who really-cannot-be-fucking-chuffed with the constantly regurgitated putative history of our city’s club and warehouse culture.”

New Beat: Brabant Schrobbelèr is released today as a limited edition 12".

The Art Of Sound: A Visual History For Audiophiles will be published at the end of July. Including inventor biographies of Emile Berliner, Thomas Stockham and more, author Terry Burrows’s text focuses on key changes in the evolution of recording. Ranging from Scott de Martinville's invention of the phonautograph in 1857 to the present day, it surveys four eras of recorded sound history: acoustic (1877–1924), electrical (1925–45), magnetic (1946–74) and digital (1975 onwards).

Illustrated with hundreds of archival photographs and various facsimile blueprints gathered from around the world, the book is published by Thames & Hudson in collaboration with the EMI Archive Trust on 27 July.

Describing its 19th edition as its last teenage year, Berlin’s CTM festival will mark its coming of age by making turmoil its central theme.

It expands on last year's Fear Love Anger theme, asking, “What is the sound of turmoil? What are aesthetics of tumult? What to do with such intensities? Which other sonic and musical responses could we conceive of to counter the current overload of agitation, anxiety and animosity?”

The theme continues the festival's inquiry into sound and music's potential to educate and drive resilience during a period which organisers see as marked by a normalisation of political, social and environmental crisis, all of which results in “unsettling feelings that resonate through our on and offline lives”.

Meanwhile, the fifth edition of CTM’s Radio Lab Call is now open for submissions. It’s sent out an open invitation to submit ideas that bring radio art and live performance or installation together based around the idea of turmoil. The commissioned work will premiere at the festival and then be broadcast as part of Deutschlandfunk Kultur’s Klangkunst programme. The Österreichischer Rundfunk (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) will then present the winning pieces via one or more of its platforms. More information can be found on CTM's website.

Running from 26 January–4 February, the CTM festival will include club events and concerts as well as day time lectures, talks, exhibitions and the sixth edition of MusicMakers Hacklab. It will take place at various Berlin venues, taking in new and veteran partners such as Berghain, HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Kunstquartier Bethanien. The first wave of confirmed artists will be revealed in early October.

The second Meakusma Festival will take place in the city of Eupen between 8–10 September. This year it has added three new stages at Friedenskirche, Ikob and a small street that is said to have “a very specific acoustic quality”. That makes a total of eight festival stages accommodating a programme jointly arranged by the Goethe-Institut Brüssel, reiheM, Dublab Radio, Ben Ufo and Les Ateliers Claus.

The line-up includes Brian Close & Justin Tipp as The Georgia Big Band featuring Sun Araw, M Geddes Gengras, Matt Werth, Kiki Kudo and Blazer Soundsystem, all of which will also perform solo. Other artists and events confirmed are Mary Ocher, Jace Clayton presenting The Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner as well as performing as DJ /rupture, Myriam von Imschoot & Doreen Kutzke, Lena Willikens & Sarah Szczesny presenting the audiovisual project The Phantom Kino Ballet, Lawrence, RDVS, Rie Nakajima, and more. There will also be a Dublab room hosting lectures and panel discussions.

Hostel, hotel, camping and B&B accommodation is available. More information and tickets can be found at the festival website.

The artist laboratory Metal and Darkstar have announced a new sound project working with young adults in Liverpool's migrant communities. The project comes off the back of their 2015 Foam Island album released by Warp in 2015, where the duo used samples from interviews they had made with residents of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.

Now the duo will work with 13–19 year olds at Harthill Youth Centre in Wavertree, Merseyside. The installation and final composition will be the result of several residencies Darkstar have run at Harthill. Their work reaches out to young people in the area, over 75 per cent of whom are from Eastern European communities including Slovaks, Czechs and members of the Roma community, a third of them living in poverty. The aim is to encourage them to discuss such topics as migration, Brexit, music, family and community.

“The work we have managed to accomplish at Harthill in collaboration with the kids that came to the sessions has been an incredible experience,” declare Darkstar. “From gaining insights into how their own communities interact with Liverpool we have managed to create something that is a true reflection of a nuanced landscape that is evolving rapidly.”

Working in conjunction with Metal's Different Trains 1947, the final piece will be presented as an interactive sound installation at Edge Hill Station this September, plus live music on 27 September, before moving to London Barbican Centre and Magnetic Fields festival in India. Cieron Magat has also been commissioned to make a short film about the project.

Canadian publisher Mosaic Press has just published New Zealand singer-songwriter Graeme Jefferies’s memoirs Time Flowing Backwards. Jefferies started his musical career in the 1980s, and his book recalls more than three decades of his work, from the time he spent in Nocturnal Projections, the post-punk outfit he formed with his brother Peter Jefferies, through to This Kind Of Punishment, whose music was released by labels such as Flying Nun, The Cakekitchen and other collaborative and solo works.

Time Flowing Backwards : A Memoir is out now. Listen to Graeme Jefferies’s “If The Moon Dies” from Messages From The Cakekitchen, a precursor to the Cakekitchen project.

The Philadelphia based film maker Robert Mugge's 1986 documentary film Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus will be reissued on Blue-ray and DVD in August.

After he completed the UK's Channel 4 film The Return Of Ruben Blades in 1984, Mugge followed the advice of jazz critic Francis Davis to begin work on a new documentary about the tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins. With the help of Davis and Sonny’s wife and manager Lucille Rollins, among others, Mugge filmed footage of Rollins performing at Tokyo's Koseinenkin Hall on 18 May 1986, and Opus 40, a sculpted rock quarry in upstate New York on 24 August the same year. This was the gig where Rollins jumped off the stage into the audience but misjudged the height and broke his heel. After the briefest of pauses he continued playing. The film also interviews jazz critics Ira Gitler, Gary Giddins and Francis Davis, while Mugge himself interviews Sonny and Lucille Rollins on a park bench in New York City.

Named after his 1956 album, Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus, is released in Blu-ray, DVD and digital formats on 4 August. Mugge supervised the remastering process and created a new bonus feature about the making of the film called Leaps And Bounds. IN addition, the release will feature audio-only performances of "G-Man" and "Don't Stop The Carnival", which were originally recorded for the film.

Film trailer below, and you can buy it here:

Dais records celebrate ten years in action this September with two special shows. Formed in 2007 by Gibby Miller and Ryan Martin, they operate from both Los Angeles and Brooklyn, New York, and in the last decade they’ve added over 100 releases to their discography. Their featured artists include Cold Cave, Iceage, King Dude, Youth Code, Drew McDowall and Drab Majesty, and they have also reissued material by COUM Transmissions, Ragnar Grippe, Ghédalia Tazartès, Hunting Lodge and Maurizio Bianchi. Earlier this year Little Annie's debut LP Soul Possession was reissued by the label, and last year they digitised the entire Psychic TV back catalogue. They’re also working with Sacred Bones on a documentary film about Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth.

Both Dais’s anniversary events will feature Drew McDowall performing a rendition of Coil's drone work Time Machines. One will happen at Los Angeles The Regent on 2 September with guests Drab Majesty, High-Functioning Flesh, Body Of Light, Cold Showers and more. The other will take place at New York Queens Knockdown Center on 22 September. Featured guests at the latter include Little Annie Anxiety and Hiro Kone performing songs from Little Annie's Soul Possession and Jackamo, plus Robert Turman, Scout Paré-Phillips, Drekka and Wetware, and DJ sets from Pieter Schoolwerth, JS Aurelius and Nikki Sneakers.

A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to cover the final stages in the production of Ben Graham’s new Butthole Surfers biography. Called Scatological Alchemy: A Gnostic Biography Of The Butthole Surfers, the book will attempt to “pull the true significance of The Butthole Surfers' legacy from the wreckage”, recounting their history as well as taking an in-depth look at their discography.

This isn't the only recent publication documenting the Texan band: it follows James Burns’s 2015 Let's Go to Hell: Scattered Memories Of The Butthole Surfers.

Scatological Alchemy: A Gnostic Biography Of The Butthole Surfers will be published by Eleusinian Press, who are running the campaign to cover the editing, type setting and proof reading costs, as well as, ideally, the book launch in Graham's hometown Brighton. The campaign will end on 23 July, with the book's projected publication date being the end of summer 2017.

The Blume label has just reissued Jocy De Oliveira’s 1981 album Estórias Para Voz, Instrumentos Acústicos E Eletrônicos. Oliveira, who started off her career as a concert pianist, was born in Brazil but moved to the US and Europe to study music. She has worked with Stravinsky, Luciano Berio, Iannis Xenakis, Cláudio Santoro, John Cage and Manuel Enriquez. In the 1960s she moved towards composition. Indeed, as early as 1961 she worked with Berio on a collaborative theatre piece titled Berio Apague Meu Spot Light, which is believed to be the first performance of electronic music in Brazil. She went on to become the sole Latin American contributor to Source: Music Of The Avant Garde, a publication that also featured contributions from Pauline Oliveros and Annea Lockwood, among others.

Originally released in 1981, Estórias Para Voz, Instrumentos Acústicos E Eletrônicos hit the ground during the last years of Brazil's military dictatorship and it was met with controversy. “Its works draw on a diverse range of the country’s musics and percussion traditions, as well as Indian raga structures and Japanese Shomyo singing – inspired in part by the sounds of immigrant communities within Sao Paulo, the city where Oliveira grew up,” explains Blume's press release.

This first time reissue of the album comes as a limited edition LP in red vinyl. You can listen to “Estoria IV Para Vozes Violino Electronico Baixo Guitarra E Percussao” from Estórias Para Voz, Instrumentos Acústicos e Eletrônicos

The release is available via Sound Ohm.