INSIDE THE WIRE 264 (FEBRUARY 2006) (on sale NOW) ON THE COVER:
Edan: The Boston DJ/MC/producer trawls widely, from Old School hiphop to 60s freakbeat heroes. By Hua Hsu

FEATURES: Derek Bailey 1930-2005, Invisible Jukebox: Steve Reid, Bardo Pond, Battles, Birgit Ulher, Sleeparchive

REVIEWS:

SOUNDCHECK: Acustronic Ensemble, AGF.3 + SUE. C, Susan Alcorn, Alog, Laura Andel Electric Percussive Orchestra, Arkstar, Broken Hands + Lucky Rabbit, Susanne Brokesch, John Butcher & Eddie Prévost, Capillary Action, Andrew Chalk, Clogs, Coil, Anla Courtis/Kouhei Matsunaga, The Drones, Estron, Hans Fjellestad, Fursaxa, Lou Gare, The Gates Ensemble, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra/Maggie Nicols, André Gonalves & Kenneth Kirschner, Graduation Trio, Anthony Guerra, Anthony Guerra & Nishide Takehiro, Ignatz, Immolation, Kattoo, Joëlle Léandre, Natalie Rose Lebrecht, Lethe, Liars, Francisco López/Scott Arford, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Greg Malcolm, Minimum Chips, Ilya Monosov, Nash Kontroll, Nautical Almanac, The Nevermet Ensemble, No-Neck Blues Band, Lise-Lotte Norelius, NRA, KK Null/Chris Watson/Z'EV, Opsvik & Jennings, Prefuse 73, Razor X Productions, Secret Mommy, Solex + Mae, Sunroof!, Masayuki Takayanagi, Masayuki Takayanagi Angry Waves, Tangent/Jin Sang Tae/Choi Joon Yong, Thighpaulsandra, Thus, Town And Country, Various: Fonotone Recordings, Frederick, Maryland, The Village Orchestra, JD Walker, Matthew Welch, WWIII, James Wyness, Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra, Z'EV/John Duncan/Aidan Baker/Fear Falls Burning, Zu and more...

PRINT RUN: Interrogation Machine: Laibach And NSK, by Alexei Monroe; It's About That Time: Miles Davis On And Off Record, by Richard Cook; The Study Of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues And Concepts, by Bruno Nettl

CROSS PLATFORM: Miya Masaoka: Rewired kotos and bioacoustic barnstorming; Reviews: Brazilian Tropicália exhibited in London, plus Robert Ashley, Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer, Jim White and more on DVD, Plus, The Inner Sleeve: Wynne Greenwood (Tracy + The Plastics) on Team Dresch; and Go To: Our monthly Net trawl

ON LOCATION: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, UK; The Young Gods, London, UK; Broken Social Scene, London, UK; Dial-A-Diva, Glasgow, UK

PLUS: Epiphanies: Johny Brown on Russian dissident Sasha Baschlacho; Global Ear: Hull; Savage Pencil's Trip Or Squeek and more

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Enter our competition to win one of three pairs of tickets to Kill Your Timid Notion, held at Dundee Contemporary Arts, 17-19 February.
Hear two tracks specially provided for THE WIRE by this month's cover star Edan.
Listen to music by this month's Invisible Jukebox contender Steve Reid in collaboration with Kieran Hebden.
Read more tributes to the late Derek Bailey.
Download an exclusive track donated by Philadelphia collective Bardo Pond.
Read the transcript from Marc Masters's Bardo Pond interview.
Hear a selection of music by trumpeter Birgit Ulher and colleagues.
Listen to a track from Sleeparchive's forthcoming EP.
Download some of the new music emanating from the Hull underground.