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Asian Dub Foundation
Rooted in Community Music, the East London posse have built a broad popular base for their sample-loaded and politically charged music, bringing down barriers between high/low and East/West. By David Stubbs
2002 Rewind: Records of the Year
The Wire'ssurvey of the past 12 months in music and beyond: charting the best releases of 2002; plus musicians and writers tell us their Pros and Cons of the year
Albert Ayler
In this 1970 interview, which appears here for the first time in English, the legendary free jazz saxophonist talked to Daniel Caux about his childhood, his GI tour of duty, life in Scandinavia, and playing at Coltrane's funeral
Shandar
During the early 1970s, Paris's Shandar Records provided a home for such uncompromising artists as Albert Ayler, La Monte Young, Sun Ra and others. Edwin Pouncey talks to Daniel Caux, architect of its adventurous A&R policy
Invisible Jukebox: John Sinclair
The former MC5 manager and White Panther leader attempts to pick out jams by Thelonious Monk, Archie Shepp, Grateful Dead, Bukka White, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, The Up and more. Tested by Edwin Pouncey
Schimpfluch
The Zürich-based extreme noise collective, which includes Rudolf Eb.er, Runzelstirn & Gurglestocck, Sudden Infant, G*Park and others, attempt to tear down the walls of Jericho with ass trumpets and dead fish. By Drew Daniel
Henry Grimes
The bassist who provided the pulse for Albert Ayler and Cecil Taylor vanished from the scene in 1967. Tracking him down to Los Angeles, Marshall Marrotte discovers that reports of his death are greatly exaggerated
Oxbow
Biba Kopf chews the fat with the flagrantly vociferous but equally well-mannered Oakland quartet