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Notes: Inside this brand new issue:

The Haxan Cloak: From his bedroom in Wakefield to the City of Angels, the UK born producer, composer and musician talks darkness, light and scoring the unspeakable. By Joseph Stannard

DJ Znobia: The Angolan kuduro innovator relates the invention and evolution of the influential dance style. By April Clare Welsh

Linda Smith: The return of the Baltimore songwriter who amassed a wealth of lo-fi pop in the 1980s and 90s. By Claire Biddles

Ariel Kalma: The electronic music veteran maintains his cosmic trajectory well into his seventies. By Daniel Spicer

Invisible Jukebox Kahil El'Zabar: Will the US bandleader know What It Is! when faced with The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Howard Mandel

Unlimited Editions: Thanatosis Produktion

Unofficial Channels: The Blindboy Podcast

The Inner Sleeve: Teresa Winter on Saint Etienne's Foxbase Alpha

Global Ear: Santiago Underground resistance in the Chilean capital. By Juan San Cristobal Lizama

Billy Bultheel: Queer cyberaesthetics from the Belgian composer. By Edward Henderson

Lumpeks: Franco-Polish folk jazz fun. By Gabriel Bristow

Yasuhiro Morinaga: Concrete traditionalism from the Japanese sound recordist. By Clive Bell

John Pope: Geordie improv bassist gets communal. By Abi Bliss

Epiphanies: Edward Ka-Spel makes hay with Faust

Print Run: Eric Dolphy by Guillaume Belhomme; Where We Come From: Rap, Home And Hope In Modern Britain by Aniefiok Ekpoudom; Transfigured New York: Interviews With Experimental Artists And Musicians, 1980-1990 by Brooke Wentz; Tokyo Jazz Joints by Philip Arneill with James Catchpole; Hans Reichel: Daxophonie edited by Klaus Untiet & Peter Klassen; Love, Sex & War: Terry Day Lyrics by Terry Day & Blanca Regina (Editor); Split Friction by Birgit Ulher; Trad, Gras Och Stenar: A Collective History by Hakan Agnsater, Mats Eriksson Duner, Jakob Sjoholm & Jonas Stal

On Screen: Daniel Weintraub Deep Listening: The Story Of Pauline Oliveros

On Location: Jazz Rumours, London, UK; Construction Festival, Dnipro, Ukraine; En Masse, Bristol, UK; Mariam Rezaei + Angharad Davies + Atzi Muramatsu + Semay Wu, London, UK; MAVI + Armand Hammer + Fly Anakin, Manchester, UK; Tashi Dorji & Alex Zhang Hungtai, New York, US; Le Guess Who?, Utrecht, Netherlands; Jazzfest Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Other Minds, San Francisco, US; Haunted Dancehall, Dublin, Ireland; Ska?u Mess, Riga, Latvia

On Site: Lutz Bacher AYE!, London, UK; Reynols 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Don Van Vliet, Standing On One Hand, London, UK

Soundcheck: Al Karpenter, Al Karpenter & CIA Debutante, Among The Rocks And Roots, Marc Baron & Mark Vernon, The Body & Dis Fig, Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann, Allison Burik, N Chambers, George Crumb, Dez Dare, Darkspace, Divine Horsemen, Samuel Goff/Camila Nebbia/Patrick Shiroishi, Kim Gordon, Madison Greenstone, Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/ Oren Ambarchi, Mary Halvorson, Hieroglyphic Being, Mark Van Hoen, The Dave Howard Singularity, Anja Huwe, Mayssa Jallad, Jlin, Locust, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Kali Malone, Moor Mother, Dorothy Moskowitz, Naum Gabo, Ov Pain, Gruff Rhys, Laetitia Sadier, Sombat Simla, The Smile, John Surman, Valerio Tricoli, Univers Zero, Mark Vernon, Xmal Deutschland, Various Our Trip Is Short Vol 7

The Boomerang: Fred Anderson Quartet, Electric Sun, Emeralds, Bill Fay Group, Dredd Foole & The Din, FUSE, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Mark McGuire, Microstoria, Sam Morrison, Plastikman, Speedy J, Nisse Sandstr?m Group, Pauline Anna Strom, Techno Animal, Various Fantastic Voyage: New Sounds For The European Canon 1977-1981

Notes: A true legend of modular synthesis, Make Noise's Maths is arguably the definitive Eurorack function generator. Based on analogue computing circuits, Maths draws on Buchla-style techniques to offer countless ways of generating and processing modulation signals.

Supplier's Notes:
The MATHS music synthesizer module is an analogue computer designed for musical purposes. Amongst other things, it will allow you to:

Features

Generate a variety of linear, logarithmic, or exponential triggered or continuous functions

Integrate an incoming signal

With no signal applied, generate a variety of linear, logarithmic, or exponential functions

Add, subtract and OR up to 4 signals

Generate analogue signals from digital information (Gate / Clock)

Generate digital information (Gate / Clock) from analog signals

Delay digital (Gate / Clock) information

If the above list reads like science rather than music, here is the translation:

Voltage Controlled Envelope or LFO as slow as 25 minutes and as fast as 1khz

Apply Lag, Slew or Portamento to control voltages

Change the depth of modulation and modulate backwards!

Combine up to 4 control signals to create more complex modulations

Musical Events such as Ramping up or Down in Tempo, on command

Initiating Musical events upon sensing motion in the system

Musical note division and / or Flam

Perfect for modulating the DPO and just about anything else

Specifications
Width: 20hp
Max Depth
(incl. power cable): 32mm

Power:
60mA@ +12V
50mA @ -12V

Review: 8 Tableaux finds modern classical artist Flore Laurentienne "attempting to give musical form to a painting." It's a count that yields great results as the pantry sounds are smeared and smudged across the airwaves with great beauty. It results in a new age record of rich ambient that answers questions the artist poses such as "painting is a freeze-frame at a precise moment in the painter's creative flow so how do you combine these two art forms? Do you have to stop time? How do you stop time in music?" Listen to this album and you will go some way to finding out.

Review: Baton Rouge, Louisiana based doom-sludge auteurs Thou have become renowned for their uniquely punishing brand of psych-tinged, heaving, fuzzed-out metal, while their myriad collaborations with the likes of noise-sludge duo The Body has prevented the collective from ever resting on their laurels for long. While most recently working with Mizmor on 2022's Myopia EP, and the two preceding years spent on both the Emma Ruth Rundle full-length May Our Chambers Be Full and companion EP The Helm of Sorrow, it's now been almost six full years since the band released an LP of their sole design. 2018's Magus served as a monolithic, 75 minute statement of artistic despair whilst highlighting the catharsis found in the most crushing of sonics. Featured in the top metal releases of 2018 by Decibel, Noisey, BrooklynVegan and NPR, to name but a few, this limited tan vinyl 2xLP reissue is long overdue, and just might signal the coming signs of new Thou material out on the horizon. Whatever may come, revisit the gargantuan Magus in the meantime.

Notes: Zeus Guitar Pedal Power Supply

NU-X have built an enviable reputation as guitar pedal experts and great guitar sound starts with the power source. Using standard 9Vdc power adaptors usually releases unwanted noise into the signal chain and unstable power can adversely affect the operation and even life expectancy of some boutique pedals. Zeus is an extremely low noise, high current power supply designed specifically for audio effect circuits with 6 fully isolated 9V outlets, 3 switchable 9/12/18V outlets and a fully variable 6-12V outlet. This lightweight and efficient power supply has the flexibility and reliability to run a full pedal board, even with multi-effect units added, with problem-free operation.

Extremely low noise circuitry
Fully isolated outputs
Multiple voltage options
High current capacity
Supplied with various DC link cables to havndle most pedal input types
Supplied with a 2-outlet combiner lead with 2.5mm DC plug for higher power units.

Power supply: 100-240Vac, 50/60Hz (IEC)
Outputs: 6 x 9VDC, 3 x 9/12/18vDC, 1 x 6-12Vdc variable (all DC5521 jack)
USB output current: 1.5A (Type-A outlet)
Dimensions: 195 x 101 x 42mm
Weight: 658g

In the box

The box for this item contains :

Zeus guitar pedal power supply
5 x DC jack link cables (5.5x2.1mm) straight to angle 0.5m
5 x DC jack link cables (5.5x2.1mm) straight to angle 0.3m
1 x DC jack reverse polarity cable (5.5x2.1mm) straight to angle 0.5m
1 x DC jack (5.5x2.1mm) to 3.5mm plug cable 0.5m
1 x twin DC jack (5.5x2.1mm) socket to single DC plug (5.5x2.5mm)
1 x IEC power lead

Review: Barnsley heavy metal legends Saxon originally released their 11th studio album Forever Free in 1992, though it would be quickly reissued in the UK with an alternate Warhammer 40,000 inspired cover including a biker Space Marine. Reissued by Demon over a decade ago on CD, a vinyl repress is long since overdue and now the beautiful people over at Music On Vinyl have opted to re-distribute the underrated seasoned gem on translucent blue vinyl with the 180 gram numbered audiophile treatment. Reliably mammoth riffs and soaring hooks abound, though the project is most noted for featuring an eclectic reimagining of Willie Dixon's blues classic 'Just Wanna Make Love to You', popularised by the incomparable Muddy Waters.

Review: Dancefloor Stompers was formed in Sardinia in 2009. They are a talented group of musicians who have a big love of mod jazz, black music roots and Italian soundtracks and library music classics from the 50s through to the 80s and all of that influences this new EP, Phuture Soul. Recorded and mixed at Solid Twin Studio between May 2021 and January 2022, it kick off with the title track which pairs rock guitars with funky basslines. 'Catch This Train' has a more playful pop-rock feel with big horns, 'Glass Tears' is a smoother groove and 'Not In My Name' closes on a more downbeat note.

Notes: Part of Mackie's ProFXv3+ series, this six-channel model offers great value, with built-in audio interface, Bluetooth streaming and GigFX+ effects.

Supplier's Notes:
Mackie ProFX6v3+ is a professional 6-channel analogue mixer and USB-C audio interface featuring Onyx preamps and EQ, switchable USB recording modes, Bluetoothr for capturing phone calls and upgraded effects you can adjust on a colour LCD screen.

Enhance your sound using high-resolution GigFX+ effects, with 12 presets you can edit and save on the fly via the full-size LCD screen. Combining the warmth of an analogue recording console with precise digital effects, ProFXxv3+ is an ideal mixer for home studios and live events alike.

With up to 60 dB of gain and ultra-low noise, ProFXv3+ series mixers allow you to sound better than ever. Record podcasts, stream gameplay or produce the next hit-all with ultra-clean, transparent audio. Our award-winning Onyx Mic Preamps deliver analogue warmth so you sound great, no matter what you do.

Enhance your sound using high-resolution GigFX+ effects, with 12 presets you can edit and save on the fly via the full-size LCD screen. Combining the warmth of an analogue recording console with precise digital effects, ProFXxv3+ is an ideal mixer for home studios and live events alike.

Capture your stream or performance at pristine 24-bit / 192 kHz quality with a built-in 2x4 USB-C audio interface, complete with three recording modes: Standard for the full mix with effects, Loopback to include computer audio with mixer signal for streaming, and Interface to record channel 1-2 without effects processing.

Use the dedicated Bluetoothr channel to send and receive audio from devices like smartphones and tablets. For podcasters, it's an effortless way to bring in phone calls. For musicians and performers, it's the easiest option for streaming outside music and backing tracks.

Product features
Three recording modes: Standard, Loopback and Interface
Bi-directional Bluetoothr for music playback and caller integration
2-band EQ on channels 1 and 2
One-button compression on channels 1 and 2
Hi-Z switches allow direct connection of instruments
100 Hz low-cut filter and 48V phantom power on all mic channels
Stereo 1/8" input on channel 5/6
Headphone output with separate level and blend control
Easily blend between monitoring your computer output and a latency-free feed from the mixer
Waveform OEM recording software Included
Legendary Built-Like-A-Tank design
Solid steel chassis
Tough ABS side protection

Line inputs: 6
Mic inputs: 2
Effects: GigFX+
USB I/O: 2x4
USB Type: C
Recording modes: Yes
Bluetooth w/MixMinus: Yes

Notes: ProFX10v3+ is a compact analogue mixer and USB-C audio interface with features from a studio recording console. Equipped with essentials including one-knob compression, EQ, Hi-Z switches and 100 Hz low-cut filters, it's the perfect centrepiece for your studio.

Mackie ProFXv3+ Series is a professional analogue mixer and USB-C audio interface with powerful enhancements for studio-quality recordings and live streams. Capture your performance with Onyx preamps and channel EQ, add computer audio via loopback, bring in calls via Bluetoothr and enhance your sound with upgraded GigFX+ effects on a colour LCD screen.

With up to 60 dB of gain and ultra-low noise, ProFXv3+ series mixers allow you to sound better than ever. Record podcasts, stream gameplay or produce the next hit-all with ultra-clean, transparent audio. The award-winning Onyx Mic Preamps deliver analogue warmth so you sound great, no matter what you do.

Enhance your sound using high-resolution GigFX+ effects, with 12 presets you can edit and save on the fly via the full-size LCD screen. Combining the warmth of an analogue recording console with precise digital effects, ProFXxv3+ is an ideal mixer for home studios and live events alike.

Capture your stream or performance at pristine 24-bit / 192 kHz quality with a built-in 2x4 USB-C audio interface, complete with three recording modes: Standard for the full mix with effects, Loopback to include computer audio with mixer signal for streaming, and Interface to record channel 1-2 without effects processing.

Use the dedicated Bluetooth channel to send and receive audio from devices like smartphones and tablets. For podcasters, it's an effortless way to bring in phone calls. For musicians and performers, it's the easiest option for streaming outside music and backing tracks.

Features:

4 Onyx mic pres with up to 60 dB of gain and ultra-low noise performance
High-resolution GigFX+ effects engine
Full-colour LCD display for editing and saving effects presets
24-Bit / 192 kHz 2x4 USB-C audio interface
Three recording modes: Standard, Loopback and Interface
Bi-directional Bluetooth for music playback and caller integration
3-band EQ on all channels
One-knob compression on channels 1 and 2
Hi-Z switches allow direct connection of instruments
100 Hz low-cut filter and 48V phantom power on all mic channels
Stereo 1/8" input on channel 9/10
Headphone output with separate level and blend control
Easily blend between monitoring your computer output and a latency-free feed from the mixer
Waveform OEM recording software Included
Legendary Built-Like-A-Tank design
Solid steel chassis
Tough ABS side protection

Line inputs: 10
Mic inputs: 4
Aux sends: N/A
Subgroups: 2
Compressors: 4
Effects: GigFX+
USB I/O: 2x4
USB Type: C
Recording modes: Yes
Bluetooth w/MixMinus: Yes

Review: Sub Merchants kick off a new 7" series with a special limited edition pressing of Drumterror ft. Dego Ranking & Ed Hodge's 'Social Dub.' The original version is as juicy as the orange depicted on the cover and finds the label head Drumterror in fine form with with the vocal talents of Ranking serving up some quick, tight bars that vibe nicely with the insistent chord stabs and heavy, rooted drums. The sax styling of Ed Hodge add extra sensuousness. On the flipside you get treated to a 'Social Version' that tweaks the original, layers in more echo and generally flips the vine to a more heady and late night sound.

Notes: The Wave Transformer is a complex single oscillator with 7 audio outputs. Its method of wave shaping differs from other complex oscillators in that it is not based upon classic wave folding such as is common in West Coast synthesis, or filtration such as is common in East Coast synthesis.

This analogue, vintage-voiced, voltage-controlled oscillator features over 8 octaves of accurate pitch tracking. Its 7 simultaneous wave outputs include a unique Complex output. This strange and novel output varies between a simple waveform (triangle, unless you patch a signal into the Shape Insert jack) and a complex transformation of the harmonic structure of the original waveform. It contains a unique mixture of the fundamental frequency, odd order harmonics, even order harmonics and subharmonics. The Sub Octave panel control will determine whether the sub harmonics are derived from one octave down, two octaves down, or are muted altogether. It will vary from a simple waveform to a silhouette of your cat watching you as you react to a "present" that it left for you on the counter. No, seriously.

The module's Transform control morphs from a basic waveform through many strange iterations into a complex, gnarled mass of audio mutations at the Complex output using an asymmetrical multi differential audio transmutation circuit. You can yield countless variations on these permutations by combining this novel circuit with Hard Sync, Soft Sync, Linear FM and Exponential FM.

Additionally, you can mute the source waveform to use the circuit as a harmonic gate/VCA, rendering the Wave Transformer a voice unto itself.

If that is not enough, there is a Shape Insert that allows you to transform external oscillations and modular-level audio sources.

Review: The second part of the Remember The Future series from the Greek label To Pikap is another 12" packed with electro goodness form an array of exciting artists. LEGACY opens up with 'Nom De Guerre' with its magnificently lithe and chrome plated rhythms dancing about over crunchy analogue drums. Future Draft rides a more zoned out and celestial electro vibe on 'All That Remains' and The Jaffa Kid gets into some intricate synth programming and off-grid beat work. Three further cuts on the B-side bring funky, dark and joyous tweaks to the electro format.

Review: Acid Pimp, also known as Tom Newman (though details vary), unveiled their creation, 'Theme' last year and now it arrives once more on nice yellow vinyl. This track exemplifies their mastery in transforming a classic sound into a delightfully off-kilter, reality-distorting experience within the realm of acid techno. The eight-track offering explores a spectrum, from intriguingly hollow compositions like 'Top' to serenely pulsating tunes such as 'Crispy Toe,' showcasing the sonic prowess of a seasoned production virtuoso. This release follows Acid Pimp's return to 'Acid Pimping' in 2019, leaving us eager to embrace more sonic innovations from this creative maven.

Notes: ***B-STOCK: Box damaged, product in perfect working order***


The Morphor Mixer - 5 Channel Amplifier is a flexible analogue mixer module that can find a home in every type of Eurorack setup.

Each of the five channels feature an attenuator knob and mute switch to allow for instant playability, for example in live settings.

Input signals can be AC or DC-coupled depending on your preferred setting.

The output stage also features an extra attenuation/gain stage that allows you to double the mixed signal. An additional master mute switch, clipping LED are nice-to-haves that complete this intuitive mixer module.

Weight: 102 g
Dimensions: 128.5 × 40.3 × 30 mm
Width: 8 HP

Review: Northern Soul heads rejoice - Cam Cameron's delightful 1968 gem 'They Say' is back on 45 rpm thanks to Soul Junction. Cameron is a Black American artist who has a stunning voice, as you can hear here, but is one of many such talents to apparently have only ever recorded one tune before disappearing never to be heard from again. More's the pity. His real name was Alvin Cameron and he wrote this one while the lush strings come from the late John Andrew Cameron, a hugely respected arranger, producer and songwriter who had a big impact in the soul scene in the 60s and 70s in Chicago.

Review: Vinyl debutants The Kid N Cliff (most likely an alias for a better-known artist or artists) are the latest outfit to join the ranks of "interpretation" and "homage" specialists Dirty Blend. There are two tracks on offer, both of which are pleasingly epic and stretched out. A-side 'Don't Be Alarmed' is raw, spaced out and analogue rich, sounding like a light-tough rework of an early jacking Chicago house cut or obscure proto-techno treat from the early 1980s. 'Heavy Thump (Bangdatshyt)' sounds like an edit (or tribute to) something from a similar period - all jacking, lo-fi machine drums, deep and filtered bass, vinyl crackle, Ron Hardy builds, and more sampled drums. Whatever it references - and early Chicago house is the obvious comparison - it's breathlessly brilliant.

Review: ***B-STOCK: Record has light surface marks/scratches, otherwise in excellent working condition***


Amused To Death is the third studio album from Roger Waters outside of his work in Pink Floyd. As one of the fundamental creative forces in the prog behemoth, of course it's hard to separate his solo work from that most famous of bands, but this is indeed its own beast. At times it's an experimental space in which Waters uses space and minimalism to great effect, creating a foreboding sound peppered with speech samples and field recordings. There are of course plenty of more straightforward tracks too, like lead single 'What God Wants, Part 1'. This lavish issue of the 1992 album spreads the music out across four discs and comes in a box set format, a must-have for devoted Floyd and Waters collectors.

Notes: Compact Tuner-metronome combo

The Korg TM-70T is a compact tuner-metronome combo. Offers precise tuning, clear metronome sound, and a user-friendly display. Features a transpose function, long battery life, and is ideal for a range of instruments. Made in Japan for quality assurance.

The TM-70T combo metronome and tuner is the latest evolution in our TM series, expertly blending a tuner and metronome in one practical unit. Designed for the modern musician, it delivers a suite of features in a surprisingly compact design, ensuring you stay in tune and on beat, whatever your instrument.

The TM-70T is designed to be portable and user-friendly. It's small enough to fit in your pocket, yet features an improved display for easy visibility, making it an ideal companion for musicians of all levels.

Korg have fine-tuned the TM-70T for precision and clarity. The tuning is quicker and more accurate, essential for every performance, and the metronome sound is loud and clear, cutting through even in noisy environments.