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Tested by Dan Warburton Mattin 30 Improv, post-punk with Bly B30 ané radial dlalacties areal ful to the Basque provocatour’swaron Capital 8y David Keenan Mark Ernestus 34 Celebrating 20 years of pacemaking Europe's lectronic heartbeat with the asic Channel producer land Hard Wax store funder 8y Derek Walmsley Wadada Leo Smith «0 Phit Freeman meets a fee music cosmopolitan who hha explored free space with Anthony Brarton Jha Zorn, Spring Hee! Jack and more Epiphanies 92 Participating in Abin Lcier's Vespers helped composer Niolas Collins to find hms?The Masthead Itiswith come corto that Tho ir report the stn ‘romliver cancer of Rowland Howard (1959-2000) (Gitsteam, page 0). He willbe best remembered as ‘guitarist in The Birthday Party. When the Australian {70up Fetched up inthe UK, cea 1980, oly to iscover the post-punk scene had setted into a cosy, mddlebrow molanchaly, they took ut thelr isappointmentn performances of unparalleled rock {orosity wrenened from aiffiult ves oracorbated by hard drugs and poverty But, a Tny Herrington underinesinhisraview of The Stooges’ You Don’, Want My Name You Want fy Action: 1974 The Missing Link (page 59), the greatest ack often energed rom amoral souls locked into cycles of self-destruction, and glo moralsing ist gong to stop people ‘sneaking glimpses inte the abject states plumbed ‘and hercicall overcome. The Birthday Party wore «stunning spectacle of ruin, with Howard's guitar "ping openyamning abyssesaits heart, Many ‘ofus ar stil raumatised by the tsunam of dense noise he generated at the start of har single “The Friend Catcher” (1083), out of which ho song slowly lumbored and back nto whichit returned ‘When the car crash happened in 1983, Howard right have crated free from the wreckage but he rover wally fully recovered. Resembling a startiod Nosferatu atthe throat of hiswctin,hecuta haplssl tragiconic igure adrift in London. The break-up lofthima guitarist search ofa portfolio for nisfieny blend ofraw poner, uy noise and unabashes Ici. is doldrums were temporary rosolved when hiscoleagueMickHarveyreccuted him for Crime & ‘The ity Solution but he was eventually tron out by vocalist Simon Bonney, reportedly bocause is guitar occupied the same spaces the voice Howard's postion wasnthopes by his inability to cope with ‘everyday demande, which eeriovely ted hi ability ‘twhead his own group. | recall interviewing Crime a ‘Amsterdam. Everybodys thor excopt Howard, who isstilin London sorting out passport problems. He misses one, wo, three fights more before finally arriving 20 minutos before showtine. Later we retreat Distribution Semone tocrine's hotel whore, except for Sonny who ‘sappoars to get wastd, Howard andthe thors change into their pyjamas and conduct proceedings bottuprghtin thei beds, Meetings with Howard wereinvarably marked by astark contrast batween his gentlemanly, dandified demeanour and hs michy shelshocked aura of helplessness, as ihe stil hadn't 3¢p¢d te debilitating enormty of i hand to mouth fistence After Crim, he lec on group These Immortal Souls trough two albus that came too far apart, 1987 and 2992 to generate momentum, but they contain some fie saloming songs, ike the ‘mordant "So The tery Goos": “The story gous ve been setdestructive/Everybody knows hat steeped in sin/Everybooy knows ve got no sense of hnumouri'n foo morose and toe damn peculor/And the vwealmess shows.” ‘ung in is logubrous, snared slur, it encapsulates why ony he coud sing the songs he wrote, despite the eudent silo their construction. Outside These Immertal Sous, he often worked wth Lydia Lunch, ‘raton version of Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra's "Some Velvet Mornin”, where the era's two most rmonotonal voices trade vows wth passion verging fon the pornographic Later they recorded ae Shotgun Wedding, but thn Howard returned to Australi, where he belatedly nade two slo albums, Teenage ‘Snuff Fim (1898) and Pop Crnes (2008). Despite their unpromisng titles, their wonder tawdry bulady cloves to Howard's belie, as hai his utar's volume and PX podals, that tho groatst rock isbirthed from equal parts intligence and stupsit. Listening to thea returns eto the Canned Heat ong "Tine Was", as covered by ACMavias on her 1989 album One Of Our Giri (Has Gone Missing on which Howara played gitar. Draning back he belt midway through the frst verse, he desist punctuabng heres before unleashing a ising metalic shee of ‘bruised molancholy that oozes the pained otherness of aman outside the window condemned tobe alnays leaking in. 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Astoundingly, McAuley says that tthe time hehad noknonledge of Garage a all beyond having heard Burials South London Boroughs EP, which made hin *want todo a suung beat” -buthis subsequent release, n particular the 2009 ite abe! "Memories", hich fused samples cf two separate Gladys Knight vocals over atwo-stepshutl, capture both the greoving physicality and the yearning churchiness of Garage so wel fels he must have tapped into sone atavstic connection. Intenge and articulate about most topic, Netuloy becomes suddenly hesitant han comes ‘te expaining the mechanics ofhis own records He constantly comrects himself nth agrinace, siggesting exch word he tress grotesquely Inadequate regulary pausing task, “Does that make any sence?” This is pechaps unsurprising, as Imuchof his working methods unconscious: i start outwith abeat anda picture of what | want to do," he says, “but do manage to emotionally ack font andes then hous willpass an i'l be seven in themorning and ve made something without quite knowing how t's alvays about the eration, though something lean't express in words ~elther seeing where ean go from or itching up the track lleva it or remove fem te equation Ho sot teehncally mindod, favouring atria and ero approach with whatever tools are tohand ‘ver detailed knowledge ofthe latest gal signal processing plug-ins. This might expan some ofthe counterintuitive use of space within is musi, where echoes are applied to echoes and rovers toreverbs inobtucoly inventive and transporting way. ind Imsatf going off on ene," elaborates, processing 2 ound int something really weird, an have to remind myself that itis fora sound system and For dancing, fandrenitia. | angsea records romain entielyroatd in that sound eystem mentality, and more epecfealyin Netuleyseriginal 2008 epiphany at DMZ tough isnew double EP on Herelonaselamonts of UK rage and Techno, and hints of subliated but Funky ponerfull melachoke ues oul and gospel, al sx {wacks remain essentially dubstep runing atcloseto 2140 bpm tempos, ana showing the clear invence of Dis fearsomeymininalet Losfah and the soul Nala. t's thie total deciation tone form that ets him apart from Ramadanman, TRG and flow Hessle artist Untold, whohavelatery expanded variously to-encompass House, Jungle and Grime tempos and rythm and which suggests he wl only go deepar on successive explorations of that form. 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Isinply work and follow my ont taste an not intrested in building ‘consistent ceuve. am lee not intrestedin Understanding deeper meanings inside my own work, explanations or psychoanalysis. am interested in connecting withlfe, opening paths, removing bares. ‘What comos out then comes out spontaneously.” ‘Ase-described autodidac,Ojksta has spent ‘the past seven years documenting his experiments in spontaneity on dezene of mtd vinyl editons on ie {Us Souttcur abel, 2000 releases ike the De Fazont (ie Phoacont) and De Sehroot (The Sere) albus and aslen of "and 3 records scund so spontaneous that listening to them is abracing, anost cathartic oxporence. Disa chants short burst of energy Into rau, primitve blasts of organ and seraped strings noley and improsiced, bu some aitance from thor Noise or improvisation, 3termbe eschews. "I prefer ‘the term automation, since improvsation suggests certain playulnes. The pisces came ito boing through an automated process, which allows the suboonseius to speak out. The proces abstract, without theinterference of tho il” That process is Dijestra'sattamptto detach hig from his Sef, which he oot defines ac his subconscious othe inner cor of his being in order toopen previously blocked “ereationel pathways" ‘The goa. he says, is to genrate “unmodiatos sctons. short-circulting his own thought processes, he hopes to access the “cosmic enorgy” hie Self contains. "The aretas a portal of energy,” he continues" seeitas expressionistie musi, freed ‘rom musical dogmas ie melody or ‘evoltionary lings within the piece. detach nyse from mysel 35 well ss froma music, workin the moment, ting Spontaneous impulses guide my hands and body. The mentedh: self ‘ears are not complotely excluded, but they function ‘ona subconscious level. My musics only action only Impulse ~ whon m detached, things start to happen.” Le Soutfcureleasae are oftan packaged ornately and acornee with Dykstra’ painting, pints ane ‘collages; e also works asa sculptor. Dijkstra regards ‘temas art editions and prices them accordingly. In 2006-07 they nereprlced at upaards of $90 for some limited runs. Sines than thay have cold for anywhere between 850-20. Guta couple of his recent altums sro more obtainable: second, affordable version of 2000's LOpus Chwas recent published and ‘Opus {Eade for ainent release on Dekorer, making his first eal above-groue release. The two launch a new strand in his work, a series which hehas dubbed “The advantages of schizophrenia", areterence tothe ‘fragmented collages ofthe albuns" artwork. They are also ve approachable, working up slow, “iting concoctions of what sound ike pump-org3n, scratched metal and suiting echo effects ~Dikstra Inreluctnt to identify any of his instrumentation. 0 both albuns he insistent) explores and re-explores ‘small range of sounds, conjuring fom then Ieiosyncrate soundwords, as obsess and insular as they ae primitive and outlandish. The process bymbich they're producedis quite aitferent. "They ston from ny efter side, which ony likes to droam and olay," he relates. "Instead of detaching myself ‘rom the music, asin my oxpressionistc work, simply bathoin the wealth ofthe atrosphere It's another way of connecting myselt Two sides of the same con.” Dijkstra whe grow up inthe Nothrlands and is now based in Tri, has been making music since the ate 19003 ~ "Noise recordings wth overloaded input and broken tape-echo, exprimonts with able feodback” = but oly launched Le Souter in 2003, after a ‘ar-yar break from music between 1996 and 2002. "Trealice that ator years of inner esearch thore was ‘a need for consolidation instead of further journey and ‘@perinentation,” he explains. “From 2002 on my work Issoelycccupie wth gaining depth staying on one {xed point and going deper instead of moving on." bis creative process requires solitude. "When ‘resting muse oat work within four wal, alone. don’ tal about the project mworkng on ata specie moment, because when you talk about something t's already broughtinto eistonce and theres no poner let to actualy make" But Dijkatta’s ow profile has ld to him being wisperceved 36 com cor of reclue, “leolation i conmactod to ny way of working, nto the way ve sciay. ln fact lve boing with people. And have voy doar ‘Fiend, he laughs. One of then is Tine van Li, of Noise-Mokers ifs, Onde an in arsera lth whom hha worked forainoat te decades. The duc plan ‘toralease tree albums in 2010, ono of them a ple LP: they have aso played a couple of session wth Keith Connolly and Dave Nuss of No-Neck Blues Band Inlate 2006, Attributed tothe moniker Dendosh, the ‘collaboration was documented on an LP and released by Alga Merghon offshoot label Panam, without the noaladge or perission of Dikstra, who dsounsit. His enphation the unmediated geeturhae something in common wth the surelst dea of the “automatic gesture’ ache acknowledges. “t's trie my work has surelstic elements, but how they get nis. for me a question It's also nat important forme. [do not see myself nly or mainly asa musician, nor do ‘ee myself only as a visual artist. ike tomake ay own personal creation, my own porsonal way. am not interested in how things are generally done, or what is the general consenaus of hw things should be dene simply make what ik," he concludes. “Making Imusic and art shouldbe as natural as tying your shoos, 1 ding the shes." CL ‘Opus Ch ison o Souter, opus Lis on Dekordr. wna rlNO FUN ACID / ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER EUROPE MARCH 2010 TOUR Distributed by Darla, Cargo, A-Musik, Melamkine & Volcanic Tongue (dala! ‘nofunproductions.com PRODUCTIONS e heal a RECENT INTERVIEWS Monolake / Sours Ree eel .) [ TEM EST rhe 2 " ESIC ke AO emt ae Kotchy / Distance CATs PTs ee ng _ CS ST Oe Sana Cheah aa edt ee Pee ee oy Shor tn Evo nan Te il IEEE tenes Ta eo rae err ete ete eerGlobal Ear A survey of sounds from around the planet “Thoroare seven of us siting down tolunchin this restaurantin the Estalagem hol, avertiginous terraced comple of two-storey apartment blocks, patios, pels, cafe and bar areas bit nto the sida Of acl face overlooking the village of Ponta Do Sel fon the southern coast of the stand of Maia, My, lunch companions comprise four Africans, 2 Cuban and a German, The ican and the Cuban are Joking witn each ether and giving meals inthe kind of tense relationships that can exist between island communities and their mainland hosts, They arealin fact Portuguese, a is Maderia set ‘Apparently the mainland Portuguese refer othe Maseirans a Africans due tothe island's locaton, 500 kilometres of the coast of Morocco, but moe ‘than 900 lilometres from Lsbon tse The islanders ‘efertothe manlanders as Cubans fora rather less Brosaicreason In 1974, Portugal slong standing Fight wing dictatorship was overthrown by ale wing niltary coup, the so-called Carnation evlution. Intriguingly, the current Madeiran ag bears an Uncanny resemblance to that ofa defunct ght wing terrorist garaniitaryorgaisation styling itself the Maseira Archipelago Liberation Front, which once ought an unsuccessful campaign fr independence from maining Portugal Taolated from continental drifts and trends, eect Island states can become enclaves of entrenched tration. Over tho years Madeira has acquired a reputationfor being s suitably conservatvelocstion for tho mambers of Europe's bourgonisiotlive out their etirements. And so this lunchtime nesting is part of another ongoing coup attemgt, one which Tooks toreboot the ila cultural identity along more progressive lines. With he exception of your correspondent, allot thoee around the table are invelved none way oF On the paradise island of Madeira Tony Herrington discovers a utopian nother with Mair DG, one ofthe more unusual and utopian, not to say ulkely anit known, ‘events on the global electronic music calendar. ‘Styling soi as “an avantgarde trip through the world of serious new and contemporary mise” this festival fr sgital music and art “aims to beng International op level artists from muse, i, vdeo, ‘computer art and photography tothe island), and feo to motivato Madeiran artists to eeate new works in these fils.” What that has meant practices that since 2004 the likes of Vndistn Delay, Burnt Friedman, Jaki Liebezelt, AG, Tira Frank Fonaesz, Frank Brotschnoider, log, Philip “Je, Seanner and Ove have travelled to te lan ‘operformintially at venues located inthe capital, Funchal btin more recent years atthe Casa das des art centre, low-rise slab of concrete and ‘lass that ts out ito the Alantic afew kilometres further along the coast from Ponta De Sol. The decision to relocate the festival toa venue outside of th capital ie just one aspect ofa mission to ‘extond access to vanguard digtal culture, and not just with regard to Madeira, ive years ago, when Rafael first had the idea ‘or the festival, teame fom him going to electric inusc festivals Europe tat were always presonted inurban areas, northern citi,” says Mauricio. Marques, Madera DG's co-producer, refering to Rafaol ecto, the festnale unassuming creative ‘drector. Rafal has joined us for lunch, but ts ‘ie atthe far ond ofthe tab threughout the discussion, cing his poor English as the reason he Ishappy or others to proseltize on Ns behalf. "The idea," Mauricio continues, “was why cant we use this kind ofenvronmant, that very frianaly and nat nd produce a digital arts festival ia Madeira, to mx ‘lectronic works withthe environment, withthe sea, vith the landscapes, with the forests? Wo can offor Aatrulyunique experience. Thewheleconcopt isto create something unique" Incecent year, Madeira DIG has taken place over the ‘rst weekend in comer The format for exch ofthe ‘our nights of the festival has remained consistent: @ ‘concat at Casa das Midas folloned by an after show part atthe Estalagem. By all account, up unt! 2008 the audience for this rope sland mc of arts centre ‘electronica, VI culture and Ambient DJ sets was ‘comprised of curious local youth a superannuated winter sun sockers with aot muchelsetodoon a Friday or Saturday right in Madeira. Enter Michael Rosen, a Beri based consultant for Design Hots, the chan of boutique establishments of which the Estalagomis apart. Itjustso happens thst Reson also runs the Digital in Berlin website, which hosts and publcises events that feature the kind of advanced ‘electronic sound and visual art tht the organisers of DiG are so hoon to transposo to the island. ter tending the 2008 ection, Rosen started promoting iG heavy through his website selling it to Bart's ‘lectronica community 2s an exaticnen destination ‘festival Hels cbviusly an fective campaigner, because this year the bik! Did's audence was made up of punters whohad traveled to Madeira ‘romvarious points across Germany, busing into the prospect ofa total island experince that as implicit Inthe kind of package deais being aere bythe ‘confluence ofthe festival, venue and ote. "came here forthe first time in 2008 and saw the possiblities,” Rosen explains. “Sots year help these guys with making a whole corporatoidentiy, vith the artairetors, making awebste, tying to ‘how the people whats special about tis place, what ieunique about ecauee normaly afectial ikeJasna th Ete ota this exists inctesncllarsn dark places, Weare ‘ona pecilisland that has more characte, more adventure, than an iland ike Majorca The festa snot about Techno, Here we eeateaaventure for sorous music na beautiful place.” Tf that sounds ite the kindof rhetoric used by the turism industry to sell vanguard destinations {0 jaded world travllars, i fits with he philosophy of mevent that neacs torevire perceptions of t= host sland it to doveiop the kind fintarrationa audiences that il guarantee its future viability. The decisionto stage the festival in Decenber as also strategic, as Mauricio Marques explains: “The festival used tohappen in September. We moved it to December fortwo reasons, because teres nat ‘puch happening in Europe then, but alo in Europe In December co, there ie snow, and we can ‘ay to people, ook, there ths thing happening in Madeira, andthe climate is ike spring and also because that's when fights are cheapest “We can never bea big festival, thisisa small Island, we cannot bring $0,000 people ere t's Inpossibie, so we dont want tobe a new version of ‘Sonar. But we don't have an audience here that can ‘support the festival swe have to attract people to come hare buttokoop it intimato at tho sam tno.” ‘il theliteatur produced by 06, Casa das Modas and the Estalagem emphasises Maderis's unique floating garden ecology ts spectacular volcanic landscapes, the paraciseislnd’ ‘nvtonment. Meni, the festival and its content ischaracterisd as an cranple of sophisticated sustainable development within adeiate and ‘oxquisite ecasystam. But the orgarisers also look to expt the Easyjet effect which has had significant, little commented upon, iapact on the nap of experimental music in Europe Budget artines open routes that connect hub cities such as London and Berlin wth otherwise obscure destinations, from Tampere in Finland to Madeiraitsof, andl of aside the cultural tafe rerouted down rovously eeclased channels and now contres of ‘nergy and excellence are established Tho poople who coms here ae the opinion makers, ‘they effect what ean happen or doesn't happen, suggest Vitor Joaquin, the sole Cuban at tis particular fear. He refering to theknd of hyper-networked artists that perform at DIG, whose line-up this year included Murcof, Carsten Nico FelicKubin, Jason Forest, Zavooka, as wells local (le Portuguese artists igantn, Jerome Fara ana Huge Olin. Like Michael Rosen, Joaquim, musician And educator nho als run te EME (asin Encontos «de Musica Experinenta) festa in Lisbon, has been drawn to the island by th possibilities offered by the DiGinitive, “There may only be a small number of people here but verybody has connections that can eallyefec hing He information education. Soyou are dealing with peop that ean realy change opinion." Vitor Joaquin deans of bringing the Brtish lan artist Anthony Geldsworthy to tho island of video mapping the blank exteriors of Casa das Mudas of building a programa of lectures, workshops, seninars, expanding the discourse around the ‘music, changing ves” as he puts I Fo his par, Michael Rosen soos the potential for DIG to become a creative babe fr companies to come and brainstorm and workshop ideas." This would have the add effect of boosting off-season trade for this particular Design Hotel, ofcourse, whichis now ‘core component inthe infrastructure ofthe whole Nadeira IG project, as Michael explains: "The hotel is homebase fr everyone coming tothe festival This is where the aftar shows happen, llth artiste arohere,allthe people are here." “Its the perfect Place to make connection,” eda Andre Diogo, the Estalagon’s doctor gonoral, ‘and to cone an find coutiore about Madera” ‘nd sure enough, onthe Saturday of this year's festival, party of musicians, delegates and punters take aeaach from tha Etalagen tthe ‘Yast platoau at he top of tho fland, 2000 metres upinthe mountain, inorder to walk the lovada, ibyrinthine network of rgation canals and quaduets that has been eut int the iving rock. Upon the plateau, forests of wind turbines churn ‘through the ow ying mist. nd think ofthe cloud sculptors in J Ballas Vermilion Sond, and of how Casa das Mudas might soften the col, hard surfaces of ts lassie Brutal arenitocture byntegrating the kindof singing statues once imagine by Ballard. As isthe case wth Lanzarote, Its easytolose yoursel inthe fantasy that this island a Verilion Sands nth here and now. The read mood might be issipated, but spend afew dayshero and you coon start to sense that peculiar end of ennui that paradise bring on. ‘Some of the things that happen here ike the lovada walks, they are spontangous, they are not calculated,” insats Mauricio Marques, as re near the end tis long lunch. 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