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BEEP BEEP! Bumper sticker featuring exclusive art by Robert Beatty, produced in celebration of the new Mort Garson album "Journey to the Moon and Beyond".

Since ITS Inception, Orienteer HAS Taken THE Print Format OF AN OLD OS MAP. Moving IN A Progressive Direction, THE Mapazine HAS Transformed Into A 240-page Print Magazine.

THE Term Deimatic Behaviour Refers TO THE Patterns OF Bluffing That AN Animal CAN Display IN Defence. This Feat OF Nature IS Seen Across ALL Forms OF Wildlife, Especially Butterflies, Moths AND Small Creatures Like Birds AND Insects.

Since Turning PRO FOR @satisfyrunning, WE Have Been Keeping A Close EYE ON @stiandhl AND HIS Impressive Work ON THE Trails & Competitions. WE Travelled TO Oslo TO Meet HIM IN HIS Backyard, AND Then Caught UP With HIM Just After THE Black Canyons 100k Race TO Speak About ALL Things Trail & Gear. Stian Makes Cover 3 OF 4.

IN Stian’S Words: “running ON Trails CAN Heal THE Rift Between Human Experience AND THE Natural WORLD.”

IT WAS A Pleasure TO Work With YOU Stian AND WE Would Like TO Thank THE Satisfy Team FOR Their Support

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Titelstory: Vinyl-Report Paris
Auf 45 Seiten begeben wir uns auf einen ausführlichen Trip durch die Plattenläden von Paris, zeichnen die Entwicklung der Rockmusik zwischen Rhein und Atlantik nach, werfen einen Blick auf die Besonderheiten der französischen Vinyl-Kultur und stellen – von Françoise Hardy über Gong bis Daft Punk – 33 der besten Alben französischer Herkunft vor, die auch hierzulande ins Plattenregal gehören.

Clearaudio
High End Made in Germany: Wir besuchen die Produktionshallen des traditionsreichen fränkischen Familienbetriebs.

Vinyl-Laube
Wir verbringen einen Abend mit fünf Freunden, die in einer Dortmunder Gartenlaube ihre Leidenschaft für Vinyl teilen.

Master Class
Frank Wonneberg befasst sich in seiner Reihe zu großen Alben mit „Tubular“ Bells von Mike Oldfield.

Enthüllt: Yellow Magic Orchestra
Die Geschichten zum Cover von Yellow Magic Orchestras „Solid State Survivor“, fotografiert von Masayoshi Sukita.

Soundtrack Of My Life
Jethro-Tull-Mastermind Ian Anderson über den Folk-Klassiker „Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith“ von Roy Harper.

Weitere Themen der Ausgabe: Praxistests zu Plattenspieler, Phono-Vorverstärker und Tonabnehmer, über 100 LP-Besprechungen auf 50 Seiten, die Rubrik „33 1 / 3 Cover“, News-Features, Dr. MINT, Vinyl-Vorschau, das Sleeveface des Monats und vieles mehr.

Pop! Jordan of the American boy band, New Kids on the Block, is here to take the stage and liven up your music collection! Reunite Pop! Jordan with the band in your Pop! Rocks collection. Vinyl figure is approximately 10.8 cm tall.

Don Cherry's Organic Music Family, Gaika, John Butcher, Ahao Ssan, …

The fouth issue of our quarterly underground hip hop magazine.

44 pages – no ads, full color, 5.5″ x 8.5″ Indie rap interviews, articles, illustrations and more. Featuring: Wordsworth, Es, Sankofa, Codefendants (Ceschi + Sam King), Elemxnt + more. Contributors: David “319 Heads” Jaguttis, Aidan Searle, Allan Lorde, Donae’ Johnson, Max Rodgers, Brian Kayser, Chaps, Justin Boland, Matt Bomarr, Matt Greenfield, Werner von Wallenrod.

Tyshawn Sorey
In the magazine: Tyshawn Sorey, Joyce, Horse Lords, Devin Townsend, Invisible Jukebox: Big Joanie, Andrew Poppy, Backxwash, Xhosa Cole, Camille Émaille, BLTNM, No Choice, Adrian Corker, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, OM, High Castle Teleorkestra, Dickie Landry, The Advisory Circle, Björk, John Carpenter, Eno, Charles Lloyd, Jessica Pavone, Senyawa, Can, Dead Kennedys, Gnawa Music Of Marrakesh, Main Source, Mal Waldron, Robert Fripp, Little Annie, Adam Rudolph, Alice Coltrane, Trevor Mathison, Cory Arcangel & Stine Janvin, Grimalkin festival and more.

On the CD: 16 new tracks by Lucrecia Dalt, Lady Aicha & Pisco Crane, Reiko & Tori Kudo, Balka Sound, OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE, Dave Clarkson and more.

Joyce
The Brazilian musical prodigy, a favourite of Antonio Carlos Jobim, enjoyed a stellar 1970s before her career was diverted by domestic political struggles and the disco era. As her 1977 New York album Natureza finally sees the light of day, she talks to Joshua Minsoo Kim.

Horse Lords
Baltimore’s rock trio put the ‘tune’ into ‘tuning’ through their mantric rock minimalism which collides Just Intonation harmonic systems and the energy of West African guitars. By Dan Wilson

Devin Townsend
The rogue operator of avant rock has forged a unique career as both first choice collaborator for metal groups and lone psychonaut exploring the outer corners of the guitar. He talks to Joseph Stannard about his new twin release Lightwork/Nightwork.

Invisible Jukebox
Radical punx and founders of London’s Decolonize festival Big Joanie take The Wire’s mystery record test.

Global Ear
Memories of a coastal town destroyed in 2011 by the Japanese tsunami live on through field recordings and songs in the hands of one of its former residents.

One page interviews with Backxwash, Andrew Poppy, Xhosa Cole and Camille Emaille.

Unlimited Editions: Ramallah based label BLTNM.
Unofficial Channels: DJ M-TRAXXX.

Epiphanies: Raymond McDonald of Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra.

The fifth issue of our quarterly underground hip hop magazine.

60 pages – no ads, full color, 5.5″ x 8.5″ Featuring: Buck 65, ShrapKnel, illingsworth, MC Paul Barman, Southern Vangard Radio, Drop the Needle director Rob Freeman, Myst Milano, Ben Buck, and more. Contributors: David “319 Heads” Jaguttis, Aidan Searle, Allan Lorde, Brent Fierro, Max Rodgers, Brian Kayser, Chaps, Homeboy Sandman, DJ Jester, Jonathan Balazs, Justin Boland, and Peter Agoston.

The second issue of our quarterly underground hip hop magazine.

44 pages – no ads, full color, 5.5″ x 8.5″ Indie rap articles, reviews, illustrations and more. Featuring: Homeboy Sandman, Fat Tony, Lxvndr, Helixx C. Armageddon + more. Contributors: David “319 Heads” Jaguttis, Aidan Searle, Allan Lorde, Helixx C. Armageddon, Ian “Bub” Davis, King Rose Visuals, Chaps, Clemits, Homeboy Sandman, Shane Young, Werner von Wallenrod.

The debut issue of our quarterly underground hip hop magazine.

40 pages – no ads, full color, 5.5″ x 8.5″ Indie rap articles, reviews, illustrations and more. Featuring: Bleubird (Anti-Hate Adventure Bois), Chief and TheDoomsdayDevice, Rove, Id Obelus (Audio Recon) + more.

Contributors: David “319 Heads” Jaguttis, Aidan Searle, Allan Lorde, Shithouse Mouse, Chaps, Clemits, Matt Greenfield

GROOVE #177 is the second strictly limited special edition of the magazine since the discontinuation of the print issue in 2018. 156 pages bundle a selection of articles published on groove.de from the last year with exclusive content. This is also the case in the large dossier on trance, trash pop and TikTok. Where will the techno and house scene go if it flirts with the mainstream? The festival special with a look behind the scenes of the industry and of course all the important dates of the summer season offers the best prospects. Rave on!

Pete Townshend was once asked how he prepared himself for The Who’s violent live performances. His answer? ‘Pretend you’re in a war.’ For a band as prone to furious infighting as it was notorious for acts of ‘auto-destructive art’ this could have served as a motto.
Between 1964 and 1969 The Who released some of the most dramatic and confrontational music of the decade, including ‘I Can’t Explain’, ‘My Generation’ and ‘I Can See For Miles’. This was a body of work driven by bitter rivalry, black humour and dark childhood secrets, but it also held up a mirror to a society in transition. Now, acclaimed rock biographer Mark Blake goes in search of its inspiration to present a unique perspective on both The Who and the sixties.
From their breakthrough as Mod figureheads to the rise and fall of psychedelia, he reveals how The Who, in their explorations of sex, drugs, spirituality and class, refracted the growing turbulence of the time. He also lays bare the colourful but crucial role played by their managers, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. And – in the uneasy alliance between art-school experimentation and working-class ambition – he locates the motor of the Swinging Sixties.
As the decade closed, with The Who performing Tommy in front of 500,000 people at the Woodstock Festival, the ‘rock opera’ was born. In retrospect, it was the crowning achievement of a band who had already embraced pop art and the concept album; who had pioneered the power chord and the guitar smash; and who had embodied – more so than any of their peers – the guiding spirit of the age: war.

Graffiti Characters for Beginners presents you with a simple and straightforward introduction to the basics behind graffiti characters. Easy-to-follow instructions of how to draw a classic b-boy or a fly girl, flying eyeballs, angry spray cans, happy Uni-markers and much more. Learn the the basic composition of the characters, and give them emotions, attitude and purpose. Graffiti Characters for Beginners is the fundamental guide for you to learn how to master drawing funky cartoonish figures with style and finesse. Step by step, until you are able to put together complicated sceneries with interacting characters of your own choice. Graffiti Characters for Beginners suits all ages and is as great for kids and creative adults as it is for advertisers, home stylers and school teachers. Learning graffiti has never been easier or more fun! Also available in Dokument Press’ ”beginners” series is the popular Graffiti for Beginners: An

Big Takeover returns with features on Slowdive, Sloan (part 2), Lenny Kaye on Nuggets, Fountains OF Wayne, Blonde Redhead, THE Clientele, Emma Anderson, Soft Science, Modernettes / LOS Popluaros, Crime & THE City Solution, Deer Tick, Mountain Goats, Sweeping Promises, THE 1981, and more!

Recent winners of Royal Photographic Society Award for Photographic Publishing. All books 36 pages, printed in England, staple bound, 14cm x 20cm.

Pop! Donnie of the American boy band, New Kids on the Block, is here to take the stage and liven up your music collection! Reunite Pop! Donnie with the band in your Pop! Rocks collection. Vinyl figure is approximately 10.8 cm tall.

Titelstory: Depeche Mode Anlässlich des neuen Albums „Memento Mori“ widmen wir uns auf 46 Seiten der Welt der Synthie-Pop-Pioniere Depeche Mode. Es gibt einen großen Vinyl-Guide zu Studioalben und Live-Bootlegs, dazu Interviews mit Sänger Dave Gahan, Bandentdecker und Mute-Gründer Daniel Miller und Stammdesigner Anton Corbijn. Zudem haben wir einem leidenschaftlichen Depeche-Mode-Fan einen Besuch abgestattet und blicken in Form von Historys auf die New-Romantics-Bewegung der frühen 80er und auf die Entwicklung der Remix-Kultur, die Depeche Mode geprägt haben.

Frauen und Vinyl Warum sind Frauen in der Vinyl-Welt immer noch Ausnahmeerscheinungen? Wir haben Sammlerinnen quer durchs Land interviewt und nach Antworten gesucht.

Coturn Ein neuer Plattenspieler setzt Maßstäbe für die mobile Wiedergabe. Der Weg dorthin war weit. Wir haben den Erfinder in seinem Atelier besucht.

Musik zum Lesen Von Pink Floyd über Prince bis Rory Gallagher: sechs aktuelle Bücher, in denen sich Schallplatten- und Musikfans verlieren können.

Master Class Frank Wonneberg widmet sich in der Reihe zu Albumklassikern „Surfer Rosa“, dem einflussreichen Debüt der Indierocker Pixies.

Enthüllt: Prince Die Ideen hinterm Cover von Prince’ „Around The World In A Day“, einem psychedelischen Meisterwerk, gestaltet von Doug Henders.

Soundtrack Of My Life Garbage-Sängerin Shirley Manson über „The Scream“ von Siouxsie And The Banshees

Weitere Themen der Ausgabe Praxistests zu Plattenspieler, Phono-Vorverstärker und Regallautsprecher, über 100 LP-Besprechungen auf 50 Seiten, die Rubrik „33 1 / 3 Cover“, News-Features, Dr. Mint, Vinyl-Vorschau, das Sleeveface des Monats und vieles mehr.

Regardless if you’re doing it for the purpose of relaxation or for releasing a lot of stress, having a night out could have an almost purifying effect. Things then will certainly look even more peachy when your name is on the guest list. It’s just perfect in case you want to have a life but it shouldn’t be too real.
People who aren’t on the guest list are officially uninvited. At least that’s how you should feel when your name made it on one. You put so much energy, smalltalk, omnipresence and social media action into it, you deserve to be treated like royalty. If there’s one constant you can count on, then it certainly is that being on the guest list still is the ultimate status check.

For our GUEST LIST issue, Lodown was hanging out backstage, enjoyed private views, got drunk at uncountable vernissages, took a closer look at flyer culture, high-fived a few bouncers - and even let a few guest art directors take over a couple of pages.
All for the simple reason that you don’t have to queue. You’re welcome. Now let’s dance.

- WHY Ebay... Every once in a while you get introduced to the work of an emerging artist that immediately makes you reflect on why you fell in love with graffiti, graphic design, fashion and getting inked in the first place. It is as if you suddenly got invited to observe things from an edge, wondering when and why you suddenly stopped to rethink - or think ahead - the many possibilities these mediums offer while admiring the audacity, presumed playful easiness and variety of ideas on display. And one of these artists goes by the capricious name of Why Ebay.

- Richard Kern... There are quite a few protagonists that portrayed the seedy underground of NYC in the 80s, and East Village-based Richard Kern certainly is one of the most prominent ones. As a filmmaker he was one of the driving forces behind the Cinema of Transgression, for which he explored hysteria, sex, drugs and violence through the punk rock lens - topics he committed to for a large part of his professional career as a photographer as well.

- Cali Thornhill Dewitt... Creating subversions of the American flag. Being a roadie for grunge royalty. Running a publishing house. Doing radio. Preparing for solo-exhibitions worldwide. Running a record label. Actually, the creative endeavors of celebrated artist Cali Thornhill DeWitt are too numerous to list, but it’s safe to state that the collaboration with Abloh and Kanye a few years back might have been the moment that catapulted his name into the mainstream consciousness once and for all.

- plus more elaborate features and visual awesomeness from the likes of: Marta Blue, Mark Mulroney, Clamm, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Icy & Sot, Dry Cleaning, Matt Hansel, Mike Osborne, Djinn and many others.

Highlights of our GUEST LIST issue include…

DAVE SWINDELLS… In the UK, some people refer to the London of 1988 as “Year Zero“, because it seemed to have kickstarted a club scene in a way that hadn’t existed before. It was the year Acid House was hitting England’s capital (and beyond) big time. It was the time of clubs like Future, Shoom and Spectrum. And luckily East London-based photographer Dave Swindells was there to capture it all.

CIVILIST… Everybody’s favorite Skate Shop in Berlin opened its diary for us. In the end, it basically felt like chronicling the last years of skateboarding of Germany’s capital. It’s a Lodown exclusive, by the way.

NIKITA TERYOSHIN… Berlin-based photographer Nikita Teryoshin invites us to visit the back office of war with him, as his awarded, ongoing project “Nothing Personal“ takes a look at global defence business. Shot (so far) at fourteen different defence exhibitions worldwide between 2016 and 2020 the images capture a parallel world unknown to the vast majority of us ordinary mortals.

DAN WITZ… Embracing the possibility of a collective high through clubbing or a proper show can have an almost cleansing effect - because letting loose within the community of kindred spirits is something very comforting. And there hardly is any other artist capturing these moments of crowds going blissfully berserk than Brooklyn-based genius artist Dan Witz.

- plus more elaborate features and visual awesomeness from the likes of: EIKE KÖNIG, KUEDO, MARCELOA CANEVARI, PVA, LISA WASSMANN, LYZZA, DAVID HENRY BROWN JR. and many others.

Let's celebrate the 100st Issue of LODOWN with a proper retrospective of artists, films, music and more...

Highlights of our Heat issue include… Jean Jullien… The French multidisciplinary artist just opened a massive solo show titled “Studiolo“, which basically runs for the entire second half of 2023 at Brussels’ Mima - his first European institutional solo exhibition, to be precise. It’s an immersive experience, celebrating the symbiotic relationship between art and language (and therefore the richness and complexity of the human experience), showcasing Jean Jullien's exceptional talent for combining the two.

Pose… Pose already started to sink his teeth into graffiti in 1992, and later became part of renowned crews The Seventh Letter and MSK. He then co-founded We Are Supervision in 2005 before deciding to focus entirely on his artistic career around 2009. His work takes pop culture out of context via an expertly executed cut-and-paste technique that deconstructs and reinterprets familiar compositions in order to create something entirely new.

Chicago Gang Culture… Los Angeles-based writer Alec Banks was revisiting his hometown Chicago for “Compliments of: Chicago Gang Culture“, an excellent new book that delivers deep insights on the visual history and exploration of Chi-town’s gang culture and its controversial standing within the city.

Will Cotton … New York City-based painter Will Cotton continues to write his very own take on Americana with his latest exhibition “Trigger“, that’s currently on display at Paris-based Templon gallery. His art might have a soft focus on first impression. In actuality though, it is not only a masterfully executed reflection on American pop culture and its often implied myth-making, but a first-rate deconstruction of ultra-masculinity, gender, and outdated role models.

- plus more elaborate features and visual awesomeness from the likes of: Andrea Orejarena, Caleb Stein, Tristan Martinez, Adali Schell, and many others.

Titelstory: 1973 Von The Who über Pink Floyd zu Bruce Springsteen bis New York Dolls: Der große Rückblick auf ein Jahr, in dem große Bands den Zenit ihres kreativen Schaffens erreichen und letzte Meisterwerke aufnehmen oder auch Richtungsentscheidungen treffen, Ausnahmetalente ihre Debütalben veröffentlichen und damit den Grundstein für Superstarkarrieren legen und die Punk-Bewegung ihren Anfang nimmt.

Sugar Man Die Geschichte von Songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, seinen beiden wiederentdeckten Ausnahmealben und weiteren Meisterwerken, die ebenfalls fast vergessen worden wären.

Master-Class Frank Wonneberg befasst sich in seiner Reihe diesmal mit dem Akustik-Livealbum „Unplugged“ von Eric Clapton.

Rega Made in England: Wir besuchen das Werk des legendären HiFi-Herstellers in Leigh-on-Sea in Großbritannien und treffen den Firmengründer Roy Gandy. Soundtrack Of My Life MC5-Gitarrist Wayne Kramer über das Free-Jazz-Album „Ascension“ von John Coltrane, das seine Weltsicht veränderte.

Enthüllt: The Pogues Die Geschichten zum Cover von The Pogues’ Folk-Punk-Klassiker „New Peace And Love“, designt von Simon Ryan.

Weitere Themen der Ausgabe Praxistests zu Plattenspieler, Vollverstärker und Standlautsprecher, Über 100 LP-Besprechungen auf 42 Seiten, die Rubrik „33 1/3 Cover“, News-Features, Dr. Mint, Vinyl-Vorschau, das Sleeveface des Monats und vieles mehr.

Dave Lombardo, Paul Dunmall, Alison Cotton, Verity Susman, …

The third issue of our quarterly underground hip hop magazine.

52 pages – no ads, full color, 5.5″ x 8.5″ Indie rap articles, book reviews, illustrations and more. Featuring: Andrew, Chali 2na, Noah23, The Custodian of Records, Hand’Solo Records, Tase Grip: Akai Solo, ctyzn, GAM, iblss, Lungs, phiik, S!LENCE, Seji Beats, Shae Buttah, Wavy Bagels, and more. Contributors: David “319 Heads” Jaguttis, Aidan Searle, Allan Lorde, Hip Hop Toys, Matt Shaver, Brian Kayser, Chaps, Homeboy Sandman, Ralph Perez, Werner von Wallenrod.

The Necks. Sirom, Marc Hollander, James Brandon Lewis, …

Eugen S Robinson, O Yama O, Nappy Nina, Lary 7, Ale Hop, …

Score a slam dunk for your National Basketball Association collection with Pop! Wilt Chamberlain. Recruit this basketball legend to your basketball collection with this Pop! Wilt Chamberlain in his 1973 All Star uniform. Vinyl figure is approximately 12.4 cm tall.

Legendary rapper Snoop Dogg is throwing it back to one of the many iconic moments of his career. Funko's Pop! Snoop Dogg w/ Chalice wears an outfit from the 46th Annual Grammy Awards. Who will this artist collaborate with in your collection? Vinyl figure is approximately 10.9 cm tall.

This legendary rapper is throwing it back to the early days of his career. Pop! Snoop Dogg wears a blue plaid shirt and khaki pants while rocking a natural hairstyle to keep things real in the world of rising rap music. Who will this artist collaborate with in your music collection? Vinyl figure is approximately 10.6cm tall.

The Goddess of Pop, Cher, is ready to take the stage in your music collection! Jam out with this glittering Diamond Collection Pop! Cher in her “Living Proof: The Farewell Tour” outfit and add some flare to your Pop! Rocks set. Who will this iconic performer collaborate with in your collection? Vinyl figure is approximately 10 cm tall.

Score a slam dunk for your National Basketball Association collection with Pop! Vince Carter. Recruit this basketball legend to your basketball collection with this Pop! Vince Carter in his 2005 All Star uniform. Vinyl figure is approximately 11.8 cm tall.

Maria Chávez, Mariam Rezaei & Victoria Shen Three experimental turntablists, from the UK and the US East and West coasts, come together in a new project which sets out on a European festival tour this April. By Emily Pothast.

Dorothy Moskowitz The vocalist in venerable US experimental/electronic rock band The United States Of America talks to Edwin Pouncey as she returns with new project The United States Of Alchemy.

Mihály Víg The Hungarian film composer, actor and close collaborator of film director Béla Tarr talks to Ilia Rogatchevski ahead of a major new Berlin screening and soundtrack performance of Tarr’s monumental Sátántangó.

Invisible Jukebox: Tatsuya Yoshida Japanese underground rock’s most prolific drummer takes times out from Ruins, KK Null, Korekyojinn, etc to take our mystery record test.

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With Richard Pinhas, Weyes Blood, Hamid Drake, DJ Marcelle, Ale Hop, …

Lucrecia Dalt, Anthony Moore, Carl Stone, …

On the cover: Saul Williams. Inside: Alan Skidmore, Laura Cannell, Cheri Knight, Joe Rainey, Anna Butterss, Michael Gregory Jackson, Invisible Jukebox: Bob Mould, Unlimited Editions: Cortizona, Unofficial Channels: Rāga Junglism, Global Ear: Gothenberg, The Inner Sleeve: Éliane Radigue, Epiphanies: Emeka Ogboh, Nancy Mounir, Midori Takada, Tony Williams, Albert Ayler, Moers festival, and more.

+ Free CD with every issue: The Wire Tapper 59 featuring 16 new tracks by MimiCof, Delmore FX, Evicshen, RSS Boy 1 featuring Waclaw Zimpel, Mark Stewart featuring KK Null, Madeleine Cocolas, and more.

Phew One of Japan’s original punk generation, a collaborator with both Otomo Yoshihide and members of Can, has reinvented herself once again in the new millennium with recordings of her hardcore voice, electronic experiments, and collaborations with Jim O’Rourke and The Raincoats’ Ana Da Silva. Interview by Emily Pothast.

The Primer: Pauline Oliveros The sprawling discography of the Deep Listening innovator, including electronic compositions at Mills College, adventurous settings for improvisation, site-specific projects, experimental scores and her distinctive accordion drones, is mapped by Louise Gray. The Dream Syndicate The survivors of the 80s US Paisley Underground have flourished since their recent reformation, exploring cinematic influences, hypnotic songwriting, soundtrack collaborations, and with Steve Wynn as a wild card guitarist for hire in numerous collaborations. Joseph Stannard talks to them. Invisible Jukebox US guitar shredder Ava Mendoza tries to ID our mystery record selection. Global Ear Arthur Kuzmin of New New World Radio in Moscow describes the changes in Russia’s alternative music landscape following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Unlimited Editions Pioneering broadcasting project Radio Art Zone aims to light up the airwaves in Luxembourg as part of this year’s European Capital of Culture Esch celebrations. By Ilia Rogatchevski. Unofficial Channels Inner Sleeve US rapper billy woods on Bigg Jus’s Black Mamba Serums. Epiphanies Former Magic Band and Jeff Buckley guitar hero Gary Lucas chronicles his 50 year obsession with the mesmerizing moves of Third Ear Band.

Plus one page interviews with Julmud, Black Glass Ensemble, Floris Vanhoof, and Deborah Walker & Silvia Tarozzi...

Reynols As one of the most singular groups in rock release a new album, and following drummer Miguel Tomasin’s Henry Viscardi Award for achievement in the disability community, the Argentinian trio talk to Emily Pothast about their mission to acknowledge all sounds, experiences and abilities, and the emancipatory power of noise and jamming.

Valentina Magaletti One of the most prolific and sought after percussionist-composers in the London music scene tells Ilia Rogatchevski about her role laying down the rhythm for psychedelic rock groups like Vanishing Twin, participation in London Improvisers Orchestra, and her growing reputation as timekeeper for hire for Gruff Rhys, Can Project, Bat For Lashes, and many more.

Ivo Perelman The Brazilian saxophonist has forged his own uncompromising and hardcore approach to the instrument that’s now being heard across a dizzying range of collaborations and projects. He tells Phil Freeman about his epic plans for 2022 including a dozen recordings with fellow saxophonists, a trio with Joe McPhee and Matthew Shipp, and a new documentary about his work.

Invisible Jukebox: King Jammy Reggae and dancehall godfather King Jammy takes our mystery record test as he revisits his 1980s and 90s catalogue in dub style on a new release.

Global Ear Two reports from the underground music scenes of Kyiv and Moscow as their communities are left reeling by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Unlimited Editions Nathan Evans tunes into unorthodox transmissions from Blackpool with Lancashire’s guardians of the weird and the occult Fonolith Records.

Unofficial Channels Marc Weidenbaum surveys eclectic and groundbreaking uses of sound to represent information via the Data Sonification Archive.

The Inner Sleeve Dennis Bovell on The Slits’s Cut.

Epiphanies Composer and writer Edward Henderson discovers the true meaning of experimentation watching two people cover themselves in tape in an East London flat. Plus full page interviews with Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaig, oksana linde, Helms Alee, and Blod.

Scratcha DVA As the best connected mover and shaker in London’s dance underground nears 20 years in music, the producer and DJ talks to Chal Ravens about his Afrofuturist visions, his Hyperdub productions, making intercontinental connections with South Africa’s bass avant garde, and a broadcasting legacy that stretches from his pirate days at Rinse FM to NTS.

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Eberhard Kranemann An unheralded figure in Germany’s underground rock revolution, Eberhard Kranemann was a member of Kraftwerk and Neu! in their crucial early years before striking out on his own with the notorious Fritz Müller Rock project and later collaborations with Harald Grosskopf.

Anne Gillis The French artist and experimental sound maker trod a distinctive path through the industrial scene with projects such as Devil's Picnic. Now, with her first album in over 15 years and new collaborations with London duo Seymour Wright and Paul Abbott, her unique rhythmic sensibility is surfacing once more.

Invisible Jukebox: Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley As an extensive collection of Sonic Youth’s live recordings is released, the New York pair take The Wire’s mystery record test.

Global Ear Peter Margasak investigates a new group of Berlin composers exploring the possibilities of just intonation tuning, including Catherine Lamb, Werner Durand, Marc Sabat, Chiyoko Szlavnics and Arnold Dreyblatt.

Unlimited Editions Emily Pothast talks to Ratskin Records, the Bay Area crew putting issues of accessibility and equality at the forefront of its music including in its ‘mixed reality’ online projects.

Unofficial Channels Abi Bliss investigates This Band Isn’t Real, the Twitter feed creating fictitious metal groups and album covers through the power of machine learning.

Mdou Moctar

Niger guitar hero Mdou Moctar has blazed a trail across the world for a new style of hypnotic desert rock. On the eve of a major US and European tour, Clive Bell talks to Moctar and his band about the anti-colonial spirit animating their current album Afrique Victime, the infamous Purple Rain-inspired motorbike musical Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai, and their connections with other leading lights of daredevil North African guitar including Les Filles De Illighadad.

Inside the issue... Éliane Radigue Mazen Kerbaj Ben LaMar Gay Jeff Parker

The Primer: Éliane Radigue Julian Cowley writes a user’s guide to the recordings of the great French electronic and electroacoustic composer, whose work has continued exploring the connections between Buddhism and longform sound well into the 21st century with the acoustic Occam Ocean series. Mazen Kerbaj The Lebanese trumpeter, improvisor and cartoonist has carved out a new niche for himself in Berlin. He tells Mariam Rezaei about his new album Sampler/Sampled, where a global cast of collaborators including Bob Ostertag, Muqata’a and Equiknoxx’s Gavsborg explore the power of music as a universal language.

Invisible Jukebox Chicago creative music polymaths Jeff Parker and Ben LaMar Gay go head to head with The Wire’s mystery record test. Global Ear In Lisbon, April Clare Walsh gets familiar with a new wave of creole language rap.

Unlimited Editions Tokyo label, record shop and keepers of the roots reggae flame Dub Store.

Unofficial Channels YouTube’s Original Jungle Samples channel.

Inner Sleeve Tim Hecker. Epiphanies Reinhold Friedl on Iannis Xenakis.

Plus full page interviews with Robbie Lee, Hedvig Mollestad, Powers/Rolin Duo, and Duma.

The Wire’s essential annual guide to the year in sound and music is upon us, as we consider where we are now after a tumultuous 12 months of underground activity, recovery, false starts and new beginnings. Our specially extended Rewind issue includes our Top 50 Releases of the Year and Archive Releases of The Year charts, cultural reflections from our extensive roster of writers, and our specialist columnists’ charts from avant rock to noise. This year the Rewind section also includes essays by Clive Bell on how new tunings are breaking the stranglehold of Western music; Neil Kulkarni on the complex and problematic legacy of the Fourth World aesthetic in contemporary sound; and Rob Turner on how music formats from LP and tapes to downloads and streams are still changing the way we listen.

Elaine Mitchener

Loré Lixenberg

Reiko & Tori Kudo

Haley Fohr Inside the issue...

Invisible Jukebox Vocalists Loré Lixenberg and Elaine Mitchener take The Wire’s mystery record test.

Global Ear James Gui spends a week in Seoul as the underground music scene opens up after Covid.

Unlimited Editions Robert Barry profiles publishing house and event organiser Grapheme as it explores the role of notation and scoring in music.

Unofficial Channels Punk ’zine archive Contextual Dissemination. Inner Sleeve Reiko and Tori Kudo choose record sleeves that have influenced them.

Epiphanies Haley Fohr aka Circuit Des Yeux on lessons learned in quarantine and the isolation of a Robert Rauschenberg residency.

Plus full page interviews with Matthias Muche, Klankvorm, Giant Claw, and Saadet Turkoz.

Soundcheck Selected new vinyl, CDs, cassettes, singles, downloads, streams etc reviewed