01 AGF 09 Moon Wiring Club “The Wires Are Fragile” “Purred Applause” Previously unreleased Previously unreleased BELOW THE RADAR 06 RADAR THE BELOW 02 Borngräber & Strüver 10 Douglas Quin “Dancing Queen (Edit)” “77º 37' S 165º 48' E (Excerpt)” From Urlaub (m=minimal) From Fathom (Taiga) 03 Mark Bradley 11 Sleeps In Oysters “Spiraling” “The Brambles In Starlight” From Cathedral Sound Ritual (Reverb Worship) From Lo! (Seed) 04 Chandeliers 12 Jo Thomas “Candy Apple” “Butterfly Sweet: Air” From Roulé (Captcha Records) Previously unreleased 05 Dalglish 13 Jo Thomas “3.9.2004” “Butterfly Sweet: Flutter” From Benacah Drann Deachd (Highpoint Lowlife) Previously unreleased 06 Eleven Twenty-Nine 14 Trembling Bells “Leaf In A Whirlwind” “A Boy's Dream” From Eleven Twenty-Nine (Northern-Spy) Previously unreleased 07 Mark Fell 15 John Wall & Alex Rodgers “Manitutshu 1.3 Razorwire Dub” “Three Fragments” Previously unreleased Previously unreleased 08 Ga'an 16 Wet Hair “I Of Intimate Forms Part I” “Echo Lady” From Ga'an (Captcha Records) From In Vogue Spirit (De Stijl) This compilation © 2011 The Wire thewire.co.uk Cover image by Mishka Henner 02 06 R Borngräber & Strüver “Dancing Queen (Edit)” From Urlaub m=minimal “Dancing Queen” is the last part of Borngräber & Strüver’s album Urlaub, the follow up to In G. It has nothing to do with ABBA. The duo have worked together since 1999, and in 2010 BELOW THE RADA THE BELOW they founded the label m=minimal, which aims to “give minimal 01 its true meaning again”. AGF “No other composing technique was as successful as “The Wires Are Fragile” minimalism,” say Borngräber & Strüver. “Almost none of the Previously unreleased popular music styles could exist without the minimal way of composing. m=minimal offers a platform for a big spectrum of the wires are fragile styles that have one thing in common: they are minimal!” as fragile as dry sea grass m=minimal 03 when rain is lost in thought Mark Bradley “Spiraling” and no wires can hold From Cathedral Sound Ritual the drought together Reverb Worship cause when you touch carelessly Mark Bradley is a solo performer, who says he “portrays it breaks into a revolution of dust emotional states of being through sound” and is “a man of few words... full of mystery, smoke and mirrors”. the wire and the sea grass Bradley’s Cathedral Sound Ritual was originally issued in a have to be nurtured run of 25 by Hooker Vision, as a double 3" CD-R set swaddled in a denim pouch. It has now been reissued by Reverb Worship we power with resoluteness on a standard sized CD in a run of 50, with larger artwork but and strength of character without the hand stitched denim. cause we can’t hold dust Mark Bradley Myspace we can’t appreciate dust Hooker Vision Reverb Worship when we turn to dust we rain the wires are fragile 01 yours, poetess, AGF 06 R BELOW THE RADA THE BELOW LAUREN FORD 04 Chandeliers “Candy Apple” From Roulé Captcha Records 05 Chicago based five piece Chandeliers released their first Dalglish record in 2008. “Candy Apple” is taken from this year’s “3.9.2004” release, the Chandeliers/Mahjongg split EP Roulé (‘rolls’ in From Benacah Drann Deachd French). The title is a nod to the label started by one half of Highpoint Lowlife Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter. Dave Cooley mastered the Chandeliers material for Roulé, Berlin based Chris Douglas (aka OST/Rook Vallard/Dalglish) A poem for Jack Rose by Tom Carter and the Illuminati-inspired album artwork is by Chandeliers was raised in the California Bay Area. Introduced to the member Chris Kalis. all-night rave scene in the early 1990s, he worked with the 06 Spacetime Crew to organise the first Techno/Ambient parties Eleven Twenty-Nine Chandeliers in San Francisco, which played host to guests including Ritchie “Leaf In A Whirlwind” Hawtin and µ-Ziq. From Eleven Twenty-Nine In 1992 Douglas moved to Detroit and recorded his first EP, Northern-Spy Basilar, under the name OST. His debut album Death Notice was released on Phthalo in 1998. Eleven Twenty-Nine is a new project from long time In 2002 Douglas opened for Autechre on the US leg of the collaborators Tom Carter and Marc Orleans. Signed to Confield tour. Autechre also invited Douglas to perform at All Brooklyn based indie label Northern-Spy, their first release Tomorrow’s Parties, which resulted in a relocation to Berlin takes its name from blues parlance for a year long prison term. in 2004. Benacah Drann Deachd is a collection of unreleased Dalglish tracks recorded between 2001–2011. Northern-Spy 02 Dalglish 06 R 08 Ga’an “I Of Intimate Forms Part I” From Ga’an BELOW THE RADA THE BELOW Captcha Records Ga’an’s self-titled LP has had a bumpy ride: a turbulent 2010 09 featured troughs of messy breakups and hijacked master Moon Wiring Club 07 tapes alongside peaks such as opening slots for Sleep. “Purred Applause” Mark Fell Captcha Records (Benjamin Funke and Ryan Hoppes) Previously unreleased “Manitutshu 1.3 Razorwire Dub” describe Ga’an’s debut LP – which includes members of the Previously unreleased Coughs, Fielded and Psychic Steel – as “the soundtrack to You delve inside your handbag and retrieve Almond Talbot’s Everyman’s epic Norse BDSM fantasy of destruction and travel-sized Psychophon. The strange, sweet sounds that In January this year Mark Fell was invited by Erik Wiegand rebirth. The scenarios conjured by these jams make the death issue from this antique device lull the puppet-creature into a (aka Errorsmith) to create a range of presets for a software of Sardanopolus look like kid’s stuff.” swoony-state and you skip past into the hallway. synthesizer he was developing for Native Instruments. It is dark and very cold here. There are two large windows Although Fell’s presets were rejected by Native Instruments, Ga’an that look out across the neglected gardens. In the distance he decided to use Wiegand’s synth to rework his 2010 album Captcha Records you can see a Moontower. UL8 (Editions Mego 111). The result is a double 12" featuring The croquet lawn is now full of sunken horses, who observe nine tracks plus a remix by labelmate Mat Steel. “Manitutshu you with laconic detachment. Passing in front of a rotting 1.3 Razorwire Dub” is an exclusive new version from the UL8 mirror, you decide to quickly change your hair colour. Midway project. through choosing which burgundy hue, you pause and notice several figures reflected there that are not within the hallway. Mark Fell The figures are quite insubstantial, but you can just about make out the features of the nearest one, who resembles an enormous cat. He calls out “I saw you, Missis!” and the mirror turns to smoke. Somewhat taken aback, you must act quickly or risk missing your tea. Do you have a giant ball of wool? If you have this item, turn to 5. If you do not, turn to stone. Blank Workshop 03 at the sink washing dishes. I thought then about washing 06 R up on camping holidays in the South West, birdsong and the early evening chill in the grey-blue light, and I reached out to touch the fur at the base of his skull and I knew then she was behind me and I knew nothing more until I woke up here with the ticking of the longcase clock and the sun on the sampler over the bed that reads ‘Lo!’ with the picture of the gate to the garden. I am tired, though I have slept. Someone is moving around in BELOW THE RADA THE BELOW the kitchen. Sleeps In Oysters 10 11 Douglas Quin Sleeps In Oysters “77º 37’ S 165º 48’ E (Excerpt)” “The Brambles In Starlight” From Fathom From Lo! Taiga Seed While gathering field recordings for the sound design of Chapter Three. Werner Herzog’s Encounters At The End Of The World, Douglas Quin captured the alien vibrations of inhospitable Antarctica. The argument was long and without a reason, except that it Fathom is a vinyl only collection of underwater recordings was caused by pressures which were real enough. I sat and I from these travels: side A is exclusively Arctic, side B watched them both disappear into the small, black places they Antarctic. It is packaged in custom letterpress materials made for themselves until, at the last, at the end of something, including an insert describing specific locations, animals he gave a bellow and stalked from the room. and other elements heard. The insert is sealed in an envelope She and I only remained, and she didn’t see that as he left, printed with an essay by René van Peer. he wore for a moment the face of a great brown bear with matted hair and bared white fangs. Douglas Quin Still, I was glad to be back with them, though the disquiet Taiga I had known before was multiplied. We worked on the old projects, even with a presentiment of failure. Or more the sense that success or failure was irrelevant now. And the animals would come and go. 04 He was the bear again only once, some weeks later, stood 06 R BELOW THE RADA THE BELOW 14 Trembling Bells “A Boy’s Dream” Previously unreleased Trembling Bells founder and drummer Alex Nielson says: “This 12 the flutter of choice and it is calculated control. song was inspired by reading letters exchanged between Jo Thomas ““Air” is a work which explores the biological form of Arthur Rimbaud and his former tutor, Paul Demeny, whereby “Butterfly Sweet: Air” polymorphism in the butterfly.