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Last updated: 10th May 2009.

• Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO - website of the fantastically good Japanese psych-rock collective. Here's former synth player and vocalist Cotton Casino's homepage too.
• austraLYSIS and SOMA ARTS - new sound and intermedia arts in performance and publication.
• The Syd Barrett Archives - discography, lyrics etc. See also Dolly Rocker, the Syd Barrett Homepage, particularly for information on the "Have You Got It Yet?" collection of unreleased material. Other unofficial releases are covered by the Pink Floyd RoIO Database Homepage.
• Blastitude - excellent independent music review.
• The Boredoms - UK fan site for the splendid, euphoric Japanese group. See also The Boredoms' eYe, Ear, Nose and Throat Page. Here's a page of album reviews and a page of Boredoms links.
• Calyx - biographies and discographies of bands and artists associated with the Canterbury Scene (Caravan, Henry Cow, Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt etc). See also COLLAPSO - The Canterbury Music Family Tree.
• The Official CAN/Spoon Records website - label of the legendary German group and its members' solo projects.
• The Captain Beefheart Radar Station.
• Cornelius Cardew - information on the English avant-garde composer, whose book Stockhausen Serves Imperialism is now available as a .pdf download from Ubuweb.
• Lawrence Casserley's homepage - tour dates, discography and much else from the composer, computer musician and performer.
• Clicks and Klangs - music e-zine covering music from hip-hop to Krautrock, free-jazz to drum and bass, post-rock to psychedelic punk, country blues to electronica.
• Bobby Conn - official website of Chicago's finest singer/songwriter.
• Corporeal Meadows - the official Harry Partch website. Information on the American microtonal composer.
• Creating Music - site created by Morton Subotnick to allow children to "draw" music onscreen and play back the results. Works much better since I downloaded the free Crescendo MIDI player...
• Current 93 - website for David Michael's apocalyptic folk project. See also the website for the Durtro label.
• Chris Cutler - website of the former Henry Cow percussionist.
• Holger Czukay - excellent site run by the former Can bass-player.
• adriandenning.co.uk - Adrian Denning's record reviews, and much else.
• Delia Derbyshire - website about the pioneering electronic composer and member of the BBC Radiophonics Workshop. Includes interviews, discography and downloads.
• Document Records - one of the best sources in the UK for vintage Blues, Jazz, Boogie-woogie, Gospel and Country music. Most CDs cost £10 or less.
• Double Leopards - rather good Brooklyn-based four-piece drone improv group...
• Emanem Discs - Martin Davidson's prolific and valuable improvised music label.
• enoweb - all you ever wanted to know about Brian Eno, and more. See also this 1995 interview from The Wire. Go to sseyo.com to download the Koan plugin and play some Generative Music on your browser.
• The European Free Improvisation Pages - vast archive of information about improvised music.
• fakejazz.com - excellent independent music review & discussion site.
• The Fall - Unofficial site for Mark E. Smith's group, with lyrics, news, discography etc. See also Stephen Bending's The Fall Multimedia Project and the archive of Graham Coleman's defunct-but-seminal fanzine The Biggest Library Yet.
• Faust - news & information about the German group. See also the homepage of percussionist Zappi Diermeier.
• Morton Feldman Page - discography, texts, interviews & links.
• Fenland Hi-Brow Recordings ...Free improvisation / Musique Concrete / Disastrous Ephemera...
• FMP/Free Music Production - a German label releasing CDs of free-improvised music.
• Forced Exposure - online record store with a vast and eclectic stock of alternative and experimental music. Recommended.
• Henry Flynt Philosophy - writings by the Fluxus artist and avant-garde hillbilly and blues musician.
• Christopher Fox - website of the English composer.
• Fred Frith - website of the former Henry Cow guitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist.
• Fursaxa - website of Tara Burke's haunting lo-fi psych-folk project.
• An Unofficial Keiji Haino Website - beautifully-designed site devoted to the Japanese performer, his group Fushitsusha, and other projects. See also these 1996 interviews with Haino from halana magazine and The Wire.
• Hardbop Blues and Boogie Woogie - Jim Redfarn's piano blues website.
• Head Heritage - Julian Cope's site, opening onto a generous sampling of unsung music.
• The High Llamas - unofficial website for Sean O'Hagan's group.
• Huun-Huur-Tu - website of the Tuvan throat-singing group. See also this article on throat-singing from Scientific American magazine.
• Incus Records - UK label specialising in improvised music.
• Indeterminacy - writings by John Cage. See also Writings on John Cage by James Pritchett and Four Minutes, Thirty-three Seconds, by John Cage.
• Improvised Music from Japan - artist profiles, discographies and concert schedules.
• The Internet Archive - several important audio archives are stored here, including a live music archive (downloadable files of complete concerts by hundreds of artists) plus many mp3s taken from early 78rpm records and wax cylinders.
• Juneberry78s.com - Early American roots music. Many mp3 files, and extensive information for collectors.
• The Just Intonation Network - promoting music in Just Intonation, also produces CDs by Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, La Monte Young and many others.
• Kill Your Timid Notion - annual festival of experimental music and film, based in Dundee, Scotland.
• The Klinker - upcoming events at the improvised music and performance venue in London.
• Knitting Factory - New York and Los Angeles-based performance venue & record label, includes live webcasts.
• The London Musicians Collective - promoting improvised and experimental music.
• Masonna - a website for Yamazaki Maso's implosively violent noise-art persona, and such gentler side-projects as Space Machine and Christine 23 Onna. Select the "English" link from the bottom of the navigation bar on the left, as I can't work out how to link directly to the English version of the site...
• Matchless Recordings - UK record label devoted to the improvisation group AMM, members' side projects and related music.
• Melt-Banana - Webernian Japanese punk, incredible live.
• Merzbow - official site for Masami Akita's vast noise project. See also The Digital Merzbow Page and the Merzbow page at Noiseweb.
• The Monks - official site covering the band's 1960s work and their 1999 reunion.
• The Nihilist Spasm Band - eccentric Canadian improv since 1965.
• Paris Transatlantic Magazine - Global Coverage of New, Classical, and Avant-Garde Music, Film and Dance.
• Pauline Oliveros Foundation - website of the American composer and performer.
• Pere Ubu - the other Ubu Web: Pere Ubu's Avant Garage Online. See also the Ubu Projex Web Site for the latest on the band and David Thomas's other projects.
• Perfect Sound Forever - online music magazine. The Staff favourites section includes artist features on The Fall and Captain Beefheart, with reviews of every album . . .
• Plunderphonics/Oswaldian Space - the home of John Oswald's Plunderphonics projects, with complete albums available for download.
• Mark Prindle's Record Reviews. Psychotically inclusive.
• P.S.F. Records - New English-language site for the Japanese label releasing CDs by Acid Mothers Temple, Keiji Haino, Kazuki Tomokawa and many others. Now accepts PayPal...
• Psychedelic Noise from Japan and New Zealand.
• The Ptolemaic Terrascope - web presence for the psychedelic music 'zine.
• A Popular Guide to Unpopular Music - articles, reviews and links from WFMU DJ Kenny G[oldsmith]. See also Kenny G's homepage, above.
• Les Rallizes Denudes - unofficial website (mostly in Japanese) for the legendary Japanese band fronted by Mizutani Takashi.
• Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje - website of the Norwegian composer and performer, with information on her stunning solo CD Voice and her work with the group Spunk.
• Red Lick Records - mail-order record store, based in Wales and specialising in new and second-hand Blues recordings. Their stock is comprehensive, their prices as cheap as you'll find (check out the boxed sets from JSP records in particular). Highly recommended.
• Hans Reichel - the extraordinary, hypnotic website of the German guitarist, composer, inventor and designer. Requires Macromedia Flash and a soundcard.
• ReR Recommended - independent record label and distribution service.
• Resonance FM - the UK's first radio art station, broadcasting on 104.4 FM in London and worldwide via the web. A project of the London Musicians Collective, and highly recommended.
• Rough Trade - excellent UK record shop & mail-order source of imports you won't find anywhere else.
• Ruins - discography and tour dates for the Japanese duo.
• Silver Apples - a site devoted to the 1960s drum'n'oscillator duo, with information on Simeon's current projects. Here's an interview.
• The Harry Smith Archives - information about the filmmaker, occultist and compiler of the Anthology of American Folk Music.
• Sonore - "Japan music ressource, record label, mp3 and CD online music shop".
• Sound 323 - London-based source for experimental and improvised music. Their shop, at 323 Archway Road, Highgate, is well worth a visit (and also hosts regular concerts).
• Stereolab unofficial homepage, with news, discography and media files. Click here for the Guardian obituary of vocalist and guitarist Mary Hansen (1966-2002).
• The Karlheinz Stockhausen Homepage - official site.
• Sun City Girls - official site, with news, mp3s, pictures, merchandise, links and as complete a discography as you'll get. See also Scott Colburn's interim discography at Gravelvoice, this fan site and the article and interview at Perfect Sound Forever. Or the feature, gig review and conversation between Dylan Nyoukis and Alan Bishop in Blastitude magazine. Or this article from Seattle Weekly. Or this feature, originally published in The Wire. Or the e-mail list at Yahoo! Groups. Or this machine translation of a page of Sun City Girls reviews written in Italian. Or this page of reviews at Mark Prindle's site. Alan Bishop of SCG runs the CD and DVD label Sublime Frequencies. Here's the unofficial Lyrics Archive. And here's Sir Richard Bishop's new website.
• Damo Suzuki's Network - touring band of the former Can vocalist.
• Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
• Tinfoil.com - dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds. MP3 and RealAudio files of many early wax cylinder recordings, plus the world's oldest playable sound recording. See also the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, The Cylinder Archive, this archive of early Edison recordings and the sound archive at Michigan State University. The BBC website hosts a recording of Tennyson reading The Charge of the Light Brigade in 1890. Christer Hamp's Phonograph Makers' Pages are also well worth a look, and check out the sites on the Phonograph Webring.
• Kazuki Tomokawa - Japanese language website for the brilliant singer-songwriter. Here's a version translated by Altavista...
• The David Tudor Pages - devoted to the pioneering American pianist and electronic composer, with biography, discography, articles, interviews etc.
• Volcanic Tongue - a Glasgow-based mailorder for underground music & associated cultural ephemera. Highly recommended.
• The Wire - many useful articles, interviews and artist links on the website of the UK print-based music magazine. See also The Unofficial Wire Audio Companion - maintained by Vincent Kargatis, linking to .mp3 and RealAudio files of tracks featured in the magazine. A very useful searchable index of articles published since issue 100 of the magazine is maintained by arb at the University of Dundee.
• Robert Wyatt - devoted to the brilliant singer-songwriter and founder member of The Soft Machine.
• Yat-Kha - website of the excellent Tuvan band.
• La Monte Young - homepage for the MELA Foundation, focusing on the work of Young, Marian Zazeela and associated artists.

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