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#306 August 2009
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WIRE 306 WIRE 306
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7/27/2009

"On the cover of this month's issue: Madlib (Patrolling yesterday's universe with the Beat Konducta). Features: Diana Rogerson (Nick Richardson laps up the whiplash wit and Kali-inspired wisdom of Chrystal Belle Scrodd); Nisennenmondai (The all-female Tokyo power trio's monolithic motorik is gaining them a worldwide following); Andrea Parkins (Exploring sonority from squeezebox improv to invented 'funky machines'); Global Ear: Belize; Cross Platform: Rolf Julius (The Berlin sound artist on amplifying the inner life of stones and the music of colours); Invisible Jukebox: Sleazy Peter Christopherson (The co-founder of Throbbing Gristle and Coil member stands on the threshold of identifying The Wire's mystery record selection); Hypnagogic pop: How James Ferraro, Spencer Clark, Pocahaunted, Emeralds, et al are floating beyond noise to a dream-pop hallucination of the 1980s; The Primer: British visionary jazz; Epiphanies: Graphic novelist Warren Ellis on musical communion with a sense of place with Sigur Rós and Julian Cope."