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On the cover, onetime popstar David Sylvian, who in an interview discusses his trajectory into ever-more avant garde creative territory. Also, this issue has pieces on Japanese field recordist Aki Onda, singer Julie Tippetts, dubstepper Joker, and SF's own Caroliner weirdos, among others. AQ fave William Basinski is tested in the Invisible Jukebox feature. And there's all the usual reviews, columns, charts, news, ads, and whatnot.

This month's issue features Broadcast (on the cover) discussing their witchy new release, also spacey techno technician Dopplereffekt, "hypnagogic popster" Sun Araw, Romanian avant-composer Iancu Dumitrescu, the Master Musicians of Joujouka, and more, including Lou Reed given the Invisible Jukebox blindfold listening test by Alan Licht. Also, the Primer this issue is about kosmische krautrock music a la Ash Ra Tempel, Siloah, and Yatha Sidra amongst others. And Christian Marclay discusses the cover art of Herb Alpert's Whipped Cream & Other Delights. Plus all the usual reviews, columns, new bits, charts (where you'll find an Aquarius 15!), and more. Oh, and this issue also features a free cover mounted cd sampler, The Wire Tapper 22, featuring Shits And Giggles, Zenlo, Pink Mountain, Climax Golden Twins, and 16 others.

Black Sheep's main druid dude, Julian Cope, is cooler than thou in shades and black leather vest on the front cover. Also this ish, good readin' as well about the likes of Peter Walker, OOIOO, Cornelius Cardew, Bernie Krause, Mordant Music, and plenty more, including a scene report from Java, and an "Invisible Jukebox" session with director Jim Jarmusch. Plus all the usual columns and charts and reviews and stuff, of course. Need we say it? If you read our list/website, you should also be reading The Wire. ----* ----* Compilations : ----*

Holy crap, it's our favorite rapper, Sensational posing in some cool shades on the cover. You know it's gonna be a good issue of this indispensable music magazine already. Then, inside, there's also features on Ben Frost (who has an AQ Record of the Week this week, you may have noticed), Oneohtrix Point Never, pianist Lubomyr Melnyk (good for him!), Dam-Funk, a primer on prog greats King Crimson (now we're really talking!), and plenty more interesting and diverse musical subjects... plus all the usual columns, charts, and reviews, lots of reviews... Oh, and there's a David Keenan article on "The now sound of Sheffield" including Harappian Night Recordings and a bunch of other related acts we're now curious to check out. Cool... though at first we were expecting a piece on True Sheffield Black Psychedelia, which ISN'T touched upon here, nothing about Black Vomit or Skultrol or the like, well perhaps next time if Keenan sticks around the place and really starts delving?

2009 REWIND! The Wire's annual end of year issue, with their big list of Record Of The Year (do you have 'em all? One of this week's AQ Records Of The Week comes in at #2, guess which one), and various writers' and musicians' reflections on the year that was. Plus: Monolake, Janek Schaefer, Josephine Foster, and plenty more. As always, maybe especially this issue, essential reading for the musically obsessed (you probably!).

"Zen and the art of space exploration" is the tag line on the cover, for a feature on free jazz vet Wadada Leo Smith. Also this ish, everyone from Eliane Radigue (taking the Invisible Jukebox test) to David Grubbs to Basic Channel's Mark Ernestus to Mattin of Billy Bao. And much much more. The usual charts and columns and tons of reviews and all that too. As always, can you afford NOT to read The Wire?? You might be missing out on something... ----* ----* Compilations : ----*

Another month, another Wire, another few hours to spend readling about all sorts of interesting music & musicians. This issue features Alasdair Roberts and "the wyrd sound of Glasgow" on the cover, along with stuff about Maria Rosenfeld, The Moodies, Chocolate Monk's Dylan Nyoukis (doing the Invisible Jukebox), Yabby You (RIP), Geiom, and more... including the usual reviews, news, charts, columns, and so forth. Our fave thing this: the pictures of French sound artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot's installation in London, a roomful of finches and plugged-in electric guitars on which they can perch. We'd love to hear it!

Yay! Konono No.1 and their "Congotronics" on the cover! And also stuck to the cover, "The Wire Tapper 23" cd sampler w/ Han Bennink, Clogs, The A Band, Raymond Dijkstra, Rolf Julius, Aaron Martin, and a whole bunch of others we haven't ever heard of. Inside, interviews and stuff about Joanna Newsom, Giacinto Scelsi, Eleh, Edgard Varese, Stefan Goldmann, The Gaslamp Killer, and more. Plus all the usual interesting reviews and columns and charts and all. ----* ----* Compilations : ----*

Latest issue of this British modern music mag, chock full of goodies as always, on the cover, NY electronic weirdos Excepter, while inside: an Invisible Jukebox with Kid Creole aka August Darnell, John Weise writes about fellow noisemakers the Haters, Aaron Dilloway writes about Drunks With Guns, William S. Burroughs, Chicago house music duo Virgo, nu-glo-fi outfit Toro Y Moi, rapper Lil B, German label Jahtari, Global Ear on Vancouver, filmmaker Craig Baldwin, saxophonist Daniel Carter, experimental music in Seoul Korea, and pages and pages of reviews of records, cds, 7"s, lps, tapes, films, performances, concerts, installations and more more more. Finishing off with a final page Epiphany about robotic music and psychedelics...

Another issue of the magazine we can't live without. Cover model: "Hamburg cosmonaut" Felix Kubin, interviewed by Momus. Also: Demdike Stare, Rangers, Hudson Mohawke (doing the Invisible Jukebox), Carsten "Alva Noto" Nicolai, Actress, and plenty more. Plus the usual helpful reviews, news, charts, scene reports (Fukuoka, Japan), etc.

This issue of the UK new music magazine that we here are all pretty much REQUIRED to read, features the hoodied image of Kevin Martin aka The Bug on the cover, he's also well known from such projects as God, Ice, and Techno Animal. We're definitely keen on reading that one. Also this ish, disco proggers Chrome Hoof, David Toop talks about London's swinging '60s sonic radicals, there's scene reports from Columbia and Poland, Alex Nielson reveals his love of Sinatra's Only The Lonely, and Oneohtrix Point Never is the Invisible Jukebox's next victim. Plus, DJ Nate, Michael Pisaro, Konx-Om-Pax, and more, including all the usual news, reviews (lots of reviews), charts, columns, etc. ----* ----* Compilations : ----*

On the cover, field recordist extraordinare Chris Watson (a marvelous photograph featuring him getting up close and personal with an array of butterflies or moths)! Inside, also: Chicks On Speed, Terror Danjah, Julian Lynch, Surgeon, an essay on/overview of cosmic disco, and plenty more...

The cover feature, "Retro-activity", is about "how the past percolates through the music of now", a collection of pieces by various writers about such things as the cold wave of the Wierd label, Mississippi's vinyl reissues, Creel Pone's musique concrete cd-r series, hiphop in the current crop of "hypnagogic pop", and much more. Also this ish: LA Vampires, Mordant Music, Roxy Music's Graham Simpson, Cindytalk, and plenty more, including the usual plethora of reviews and news, and a scene report on experimental music in Boise Idaho!

This month's cover story is all about about the "rogue transmissions" of "radio art", interestin' for sure. Then there's pieces on the Los Angeles Free Music Society improv collective, Swedish minimalist composer and Henry Flynt collaborator Catherine Christer Hennix, French sound-poet Anne-James Chaton, the techno "shanty-town sound" of Belem, Brazil, and more... Including Mike Watt taking the Invisible Jukebox test, and all the usual news and plethora of reviews. Plus a cover-mount cd sampler.

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SORRY. Cryptic composer Jennifer Walshe is this issue's striking cover star. Inside, you'll also find a Primer on "techno enigma" Drexciya, AMM pianist John Tilbury doing the Invisible Jukebox, interviews with Bjorn Torske, Wim Mertens, and more... there's a scene report from Beirut, lots of reviews as usual, and Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier writing about the cover art of one of her favorite Jorge Ben albums...

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SORRY. Gotta read The Wire. This ish: Skull Disco's Shackleton on the cover. Also: Scientist, Nam June Paik, William "Whitehouse" Bennett, Jon Mueller, an epiphany about Ornette Coleman, and the Dead C's Bruce Russell on the cover art to Kevin Drumm's debut, plus lots of other things, many of which are reviews!!

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SORRY. It's that time again, The Wire's year end Rewind issue, always highly anticipated, packed with year end lists, reflections from writers and musicians, always a good read, and a good way to discover lots of great music you may have missed. But besides all that, the usual batch of far out sounds, this time around: Detroit rockers Death, Dutch composer Antoine Beuger, London video artist Weirdcore, Norwegian percussionist Terje Isungset (the guy who made all those awesome musical ice records!!), Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson of Throbbing Gristle (R.I.P.), Lichens (who just played an amazing in-store here), musician Pat Maherr (Indignant Senility, Expressway Yo-Yo Dieting), Global Ear on Leeds, Japanese sound artist and longtime AQ fave Toshiya Tsunoda, Invisible Jukebox with Scanner, EVP (aka electronic voice phenomena), electroacoustic composer Giuseppe Ielasi, and of course the usual massive batch of reviews, records, cds, films, videos, performances, installations, books and more more more...

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SORRY. Another fine issue. On the cover, avant-popsters Deerhoof! Also: an interview with pianist Matthew Shipp, an Invisible Jukebox session with Hype Williams, and tributes to Captain Beefheart from Gary Lucas, Byron Coley, Savage Pencil, and others. And plenty more.

Another month, another Wire, at least that's something good about the passage of time. This issue, Detroit techno DJ Theo Parrish on the cover. Also, an interview with composer David Beford, a report on a bunch of interesting sounding bands from Cambridge UK we've never heard of, the scene in Burkina Faso, an epiphany about Fugazi's Red Medicine, a session of the Invisible Jukebox with French composer Michel Chion, tales from an academic black metal symposium, and more, including all the many many reviews that we expect in each issue of The Wire.

Type artist Richard Skelton on the cover. Also on the cover (attached to it with gummy stuff) is another installment of The Wire's "Wire Tapper" sampler series, a cd with 20 tracks by lots of weird electronic and/or noisy folks. Inside this issue, you'll find Funkystepz, Peter Evans, Olivia Block, Charlie Nothing, Jenny Hval, and a piece on the legendary Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music center, among other things, including all the usual reviews. ----* ----* Compilations : ----*

Once again, our monthly must read is here. Particularily interesting this issue, the cover story by Simon Reynolds on the husband and wife team who run the LA label Not Not Fun, responsible for a lot of cool releases from the likes of Sun Araw, Umberto, High Wolf, Pocahaunted, Robedoor, Magic Lantern, Ducktails, LA Vampires, etc. Also: David Toop delves into "mellow soul", Mute founder Daniel Miller is tested by the Invisible Jukebox, there's a Sao Paulo scene report, "anarchic hiphop" is examined, and plenty more, including the usual slew of reviews, including the new Ulver.

Artsy mathrockers Battles are hanging around colorfully on the cover, cool pic! Inside, they talk about their new album Gloss Drop, which features guest vocals from both Eye Yamantaka and Gary Numan! Also in this issue of this monthly must-read for musical obsessives like us, there's interesting essays from Chris Cutler (against filesharing) and Simon Reynolds (about the current trend of "retromania"), an "Invisible Jukebox" session with Demdike Stare, a feature on sea shanties, and a scene report from Hong Kong, amongst other interestin' stuff... Plus the usual news, reviews, etc.

Cover story: the legendary singer-songwriter Roy Harper. Hat's off! Also this ish, there's John Maus, People Like Us, John Wall, Nils Okland, and more, including a piece about the music of outsider artist Adolph Wolfi (the release of which we're very much looking forward too, soon, on Sub Rosa). Plus all the other usual Wire goodness; reviews, news, etc.

If you read our list, you should probably also read The Wire. Just sayin'. And a lot of you do. The latest issue of this music magazine outta the UK features the mysterious Zomby on the cover. Also inside: Forest Swords, BBC Radiophonic Workshop founder Daphne Oram, Tiawanese pipa virtuoso Luo Chao Yun, Kemialliset's Jan Anderzen, a Primer on Jim O'Rourke (that could have taken up the whole issue!), and an interesting essay by Bob Ostertag on why he now gives away his music for free online and what he's learned from that. Plus more, including all the other usual good stuff you expect in The Wire, reviews, charts, etc., AND a free cover-mounted cd sampler, Wire Tapper 26.

Another issue of one of any weird music fan's must-reads... this time, Italian freeks My Cat Is An Alien get the cover spot. Also this ish: Prurient, Andy Stott, Jana Winderen, an "Invisible Jukebox" session with John Carpenter collaborator, soundtrack composer Alan Howarth, and more, including an article on Fela Kuti's London years, and an interesting piece by Not Not Fun's Amanda Brown about how filesharing etc. is destroying the DIY underground. Plus the usual reviews and news and suchlike. ----* ----* Compilations : ----*

Vinyl abusing composer/conceptualist Christian Marclay is on the cover, talking with David Toop inside this issue of The Wire. Also: Bill Orcutt, Scanner, Chris & Cosey (doin' the "invisible jukebox") and plenty more - including Sun Araw's Cameron Stallones recounting adventures in Jamaica recording with The Congos! Also, there's a Primer on "Militant Tuning" featuring the likes of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Harry Partch, Tony Conrad, and more... Plus The Wire's usual batch of reviews, news, etc.

Another great issue of this indispensable & adventurous music magazine. On the cover, DJ/ Rupture. Also, everyone from our pal Drew Daniel of Matmos (on "queer sound") to Christoph Heemann to David Lynch to Gang Gang Dance, and more. Including David Toop talking about the SMiLE sessions. And, there's a free cd sampler bagged with this ish, The Wire Tapper 27, featuring "20 new, rare or unreleased tracks from Blank Disco, Palmer Eldritch, Praed, Gary Smith/Silvia Kastel/Ninni Morgia, Soema Montenegro, Artifact Shore, The Drift, Dimitris Bakas, Dalglish, Konntinent, Toddlers, Ekoplekz, Artifact Shore, La La Vasquez, Phog Masheeen, ROBERTS, Action Beat, The Astroboy, Ektoise, Mathon and ton." Definitely some new stuff to check out there.

On the cover of this issue of this adventurous music lovers must read mag, krautrock guitar/electronics explorer Manuel Gottsching (of Ashra), with the story of his classic album E2-E4. Inside, also: A primer on Turkish psych! aQ fave Grouper! Techno mavens Sandwell District! Composer Roger Reynols! Jukin' duo Spinn & Rashad doing, naturally the "Invisible Jukebox"! And plenty, plenty more. Including all the vast plethora of reviews as usual.

The issue of The Wire that everybody's waiting for: their annual Rewind issue. A look back at 2011 from this leading magazine of "Adventures In Sound And Music". The top 50 Records Of The Year as picked by the editiors (#1: James Ferraro's Far Side Virtual). Sure to cause consternation. Not for the Ferraro pick (although maybe that too), but for the fact that Lou Reed/Metallica wound up in the top ten. WTF?? There's various musicians reflections on the year that was, essays by David Keenan, Mark Fisher, and Philip Clark pertaining to some of the trends we saw, etc. Besides the 2011 Rewind, this issue also has the usual Wire features: reviews, news, articles, interviews: this time 'round with Kouhei Matsunaga, Gonjasufi, ex-Skaters dudes Spencer Clark/James Ferraro, and more!

Pictured on the cover of this month's Wire, as if rising out of the Bay, is hip hop eccentric Lil B, aka the Based God! Also this ish: This Heat's Charles Hayward (taking the Invisible Jukebox test), Ital, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Indian wedding brass bands, and much much more, including the usual massive chunk o' reviews.

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SORRY. Slo-mo dronelords Earth are on the cover of this month's Wire, discussing among other things their newfound fascination with mystic Britfolk... also this ish, Julia Holter, zoviet*france, The Ex in Ethiopia, a primer on King Tubby, and plenty more including an "Invisible Jukebox" session with the Ghost Box label guys. Plus the usual plethora of reviews, news, etc.

Sun Araw (aka Cameron Stallones) is this month's cover star, discussing his recent experience collaborating with The Congos, among other things. And also inside this issue of this most indispensable new music magazine, you'll find features on composer Conlon Nancarrow (he of player piano fame), saxophonist Charles Gayle, droning trumpeter Nate Wooley, and more. Remix master Tom Moulton does the Invisible Jukebox. And Simon Reynolds contributes an essay entitled "We Are All David Toop Now". Hmm. Plus all the usual worldwide news, tons of reviews, and a free cover mounted cd sampler, The Wire Tapper 28.

On the cover this month, looking stern and elegant: electronic eclectic Atom (tm). Also inside, you'll find interviews with/articles about Laurel Halo, Mary Halvorson, Scott Walker, Eddie Prevost's London improv workshop, and more, including a South Korean scene report (which includes aQ pals, post Pyha punkers Bamseom Pirates!) and best of all, a Primer on Sound Poetry! Plus all the usual columns, news, reviews, charts, etc. We like Gesellschaft Zur Emazipation Des Samples' chart of '15 Records To Play In Public Places', a playlist consisting of all "records or musicians involved in copyright disputes".

Longtime lo-fi troubadour R. Stevie Moore is on the cover, maybe just 'cause the photo the had of him - all white beard/hair and glasses (with flipped up clip-on shades) - is so good! Also in this issue of this monthly must-read: Annea Lockwood, Bass Clef, Traxman, Nik Colk Void, Mira Calix, Jan Jelinek (doing the Invisible Jukebox), and more, including a "Global Ear" scene feature on Kingston, Jamaica. And reviews, reviews, reviews...

It's the "Bass" issue of The Wire, well at least it's got a special section with David Toop, Dave Tompkins, Will Montgomery, and Joe Muggs discussing various aspects of "Low End Theory", accompanied by a selection of 75 different, significant bass heavy albums reviewed by various Wire writers. Also: Fushitsusha, Duane Pitre, Zeitkratzer's Reinhold Friedl (doing the Invisible Jukebox), Istanbul band Replikas, and more, including a Blondie-related essay from Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier. Plus the usual reviews and news and so forth. Oh, and there's a Wire Tapper cd sampler glued to the cover, with a diverse array of tracks from various artists, most of which we haven't even heard of before.

"Beta male" Ariel Pink stares intently at us from this cover of this month's issue of indispensable new music magazine The Wire. Inside, there's also stuff on Estonian disco experimentalist Maria Minerva, Ghanian drummer Buddy Pipp, field recordist Peter Cusak (doing the Invisible Jukebox... what, are they going to play him cracking ice and ask him to identify the lake? We wish!), Austrian composer Peter Ablinger, and more, including a novelist's "epiphany" about the Wu-Tang's vocal collage... Plus the usual news, reviews, charts, etc.!

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SORRY. The usual wide variety of interestin' music is covered in the pages of this month's Wire... Folkstress Josephine Foster, minimal techno maven Robert Hood, grime producer Terror Danja (vs. the 'Invisible Jukebox'), Penny Rimbaud & Gee Vaucher of Crass, and more, including a cassette-centric Montreal scene report, and Steve Beresford on the late Lol Coxhill. Plus, reviews, adverts, charts, columns, etc.

This month's cover star: Flying Lotus, doing something weird with his eyes. Also, among other interestin' things: Laurie Spiegel, Pelt, John Butcher, a scene report from Hanoi, and a wonderful 'Epiphanies' essay from William Basinski about an encounter with David Bowie in the '80s. And of course reviews, reviews, reviews... Plus, this issue comes with one of those Wire Tapper cd samplers glued to the front.

BROTZMANN! Peter, that is, on the cover, in black & white, looking intense. Besides an interview with (and a Primer on) the legendary free improvising saxophonist, this issue of our favorite must-read new music magazine gets into the likes of roots producer Niney The Observer, avant blues persons Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille, and "Postwar Optophonic Pioneers", among other things. Plus the usual reviews, news, reviews, charts, reviews, columns, reviews, etc.!

On the cover this month: the reclusive Scott Walker, who gives a rare interview to discuss his forthcoming new album! Also: dubstepper Pinch (being tested by the 'Invisible Jukebox'), remembrances of the late saxophonist David Ware, a Mexico City scene report, and much more, including the usual tons of reviews of new music. Oh, and also a Part II to last issue's interview with improv great Peter Brotzmann...

Here it is, the always-eagerly-awaited year end "Rewind" issue of The Wire, looking back at the past year, in this case 2012. Besides the massive 2012 Rewind section, pages 30-59, it's got all the usual regular features: reviews & columns & charts, etc. The "Invisible Jukebox" test this time is undertaken by Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry. The "Global Ear" scene report covers Christchurch, NZ in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake. Charles Hayward of This Heat handles the "Epiphanies" essay on the back page. And there's more. Meanwhile, in that 2012 Rewind section, you'll find The Wire's writers' picks for the Releases Of The Year (#1 going to Laurel Halo's Quarantine). Various trends also get spotted and analyzed and argued about ("the decline of the group", "the rise of the private press") by The Wire's scribes. These writers (and also a bunch of the artists) further share their personal reflections on the year that was. As usual, very very interesting/informative as a recap of the state of "new" music in 2012 and a potential argument starter all right.

One of the best print mags around, that is if you're like us and want to keep up with all the weird music in the world! This issue has synth maven Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never on the cover. Inside, also: adventurous bassist Joshua Abrams, Amsterdam's Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, minimal techno artist Ricardo Villalobos (doing the "Invisible Jukebox" feature), a scene report on electronica in Tbilsi, Georgia, and lots of other stuff besides - of course including the usual ton o' reviews, news, charts, etc.

The Wire is all over the musical map with this issue. On the cover, Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. Inside, Lonnie Holley, Ergo Phizmiz (with a "Rabelaisan techno opera" in the works), Little Annie doing the "Invisible Jukebox" feature, a scence report from Honduras, and a primer on '80s American hardcore punk!! Plus the usual reviews, news, etc. As always, recommended reading!

This month's issue of this indispensable adventurous UK music mag features a cover story on minimal German composer Jakob Ullman. Also inside: Ashley Paul, Storyboard P, Mika Vainio (in an 'Invisible Jukebox' session), and more, including the usual columns and tons of reviews. Plus, a Wire Tapper sampler cd glued to the front!

The new issue of The Wire features noisniks Wolf Eyes on the cover, on the occasion of their great new disc No Answer: Lower Floors. There were some guys from out of town in the store the other day who are buddies with Wolf Eyes and they were highly amused to say the least by the photos and interview, especially as pertaining to the Wolf Eyes member identified here as Crazy Jim, whose pull quote goes like this: "I have a reputation of being a nut. That's not so bad. I can't worry about what other people think. I barely know what I think." Anyway, also in this issue, lots more good stuff, including a Slovenian scene report, an article about Woodstock's Creative Music Studio, and an Invisible Jukebox session with Oval. Plus Glenn Jones on John Fahey, and the usual ton o' reviews, etc.

"Babble On! In 20 page special, Wire contributors assess and rethink the relationship between underground music and words, text and language." That's the cover feature this month, and manages to touch upon everything from Fluxus to Footwork, Cage to Corrupted (Corrupted, really?). Elsewhere in this issue, our fave rubber-faced Dutch sound poet does the Invisible Jukebox challenge!

Heck yeah, NZ's The Dead C is on the cover! "On the road in Europe, they tell David Keenan why Bruce Russell's amp sound is better than sex." Can't wait to read that. Also this ish, a Primer on Don Cherry, Global Ear: Kowloon, an Epiphany involving the Boredoms, an Invisible Jukebox with Pangaea, an interview with Dubplates & Mastering wiz Rashad Becker, and plenty more including the usual slew of reviews.

Another issue of this fine magazine all about much of the music we like, or would like to learn about. This one has Chicago jazz guy Rob Mazurek on the cover, also Marisa Anderson, noiserockers Terminal Cheesecake (now that's a surprise reunion!), vocalist Meredith Monk, Danish electronic music pioneer Else Marie Pade, and more, including an 'Epiphany' from Asmus Tietchens, an Istanbul scene report, and best of all, our pal Jussi from Circle taking the 'Invisible Jukebox' test! Also you get a free sampler cd with this issue, Wiretapper #32.

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SORRY. This time, we'll let The Wire's own press release tell you what's in this new issue, since their blurb is probably even more thorough than ours usually is: "On the cover: Young Echo + Livity Sound (Rory Gibb goes west to meet the movers and shakers of Bristol's post-dubstep underground, encountering the low frequency traders of the Young Echo and Livity Sound collectives, DIY activists advancing the cause of bass music via a mess of white label vinyl pressings, marathon radio sessions, cassette releases, sound system jams and online zines). Features: Kazuo Imai (Alan Cummings goes east to meet guitarist Kazuo Imai, former Taj Mahal Traveller, and the focal point of Japan's most enigmatic experimental music collective, Marginal Consort); The Primer: Cabaret Voltaire (Keith Moline goes back in time to essay a Primer on the sprawling recorded legacy of Sheffield Industrialists Cabaret Voltaire, tracking their development from Eno-obsessed garage punks to mutant House breakers); Invisible Jukebox: Christina Carter (The Charalambides singer and guitarist picks apart The Wire's mystery record selection). Plus all the (un)usual news, views, reviews and more from the heart of the global new music network."

Gotta hand it to The Wire, it's pretty impossible to predict who their next cover star is gonna be. Definitely it's not based on record sales. This ish, we're being introduced to saxophonist/vocalist/composer Mantana Roberts. Some more familiar folks are also featured, however, including aQ faves Cave and The Necks. Plus, there's stuff like South African Shangaan Electro artist Nozinja doin' the Invisible Jukebox test, and an interview with forgotten Buchla Box virtuoso Charles Cohen, and plenty more, including tons of informative reviews, as per usual.

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