The Wire 315. May 2010

Excepter Electronic body music and consciousness-altering improvised marathons collide in this Brooklyn sextet’s discordian disco noise. By Phil Freeman Daniel Carter The quixotic New York saxophonist has blown up a soundstorm with everyone from Test to Sonic Youth, and isn’t afraid to keep the funk. By Daniel Spicer Seoul music Nat Roe reports on South Korea’s newly unleashed experimental Improv scenes, from shamanic freeplay to disembowelled hard drives Invisible Jukebox: August Darnell Mr Kid Creole discovers The Wire’s mystery record box is a wonderful thing, baby. Tested by David Stubbs Jahtari In Leipzig, Steve Barker tunes in to the global reverberations emanating from this digital dub crew Lil B Andrew Nosnitsky enters the ‘based freestyle’ universe of the eccentric Californian rapper Toro Y Moi The LA chillwave auteur refracts R&B and 1980s pop through a distorting FX-haze. By Joseph Stannard Cross Platform: Craig Baldwin Ken Hollings marvels at the Californian film maker’s repurposed cinema and speculative histories The Inner Sleeve Aaron Dilloway on Drunks With Guns Bites John Wiese on The Haters, William Burroughs, Virgo, Hypnagogic pop videos and more Global Ear: Vancouver How the Lighta! Sound are importing dubstep into Canada’s Winter Olympic city. By Jenny Charlesworth Epiphanies Mark Pilkington on out-of-body experiences courtesy of Kraftwerk, Charles Hayward and others Print Run Just Kids by Patti Smith Cracked Media: The Sound Of Malfunction by Caleb Kelly Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman On Screen Cafe Concrete, Plymouth City Project (DVD) Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines And Mystery Of Raymond Scott (DVD) Decoder (DVD) Blank Generation (DVD) On Site The Anarchy Of Silence: John Cage And Experimental Art, Oslo, Norway On Location The Poetics Of Space: Sonic Acts XIII, Amsterdam, The Netherlands DOOM, London, UK The Compass Series Presents: Nord Rute featuring Plaid, Synnøve Persen & Ross Adams, London, UK AV 2010 Festival, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne/ Sunderland/Middlesbrough, UK The Gluts’ Cafe Carbon, London, UK No Fun Acid + Oneohtrix Point Never, London, UK