I have been Deputy Editor of The Wire since 1994. The Wire is the leading international magazine of non-mainstream music, covering new developments in contemporary sound including Electronica, avant rock, free jazz and improvisation, contemporary classical, global music, drum 'n' bass, breakbeat and many points in between. With a team of some of the best music critics in the world, including Simon Reynolds, Kodwo Eshun, Biba Kopf, David Toop, Ian Penman, etc, we draw a completely dfifferent map of current music from the normal media hype.

Although interested in many types of music, I specialise in electronic music and have written articles on the Cologne A-Musik scene, reviewed Vienna's Phonotaktik (95) and in August 97 a cover story on the Vienna underground (the fact that we did it was the subject of articles in a couple of newspapers in Austria afterwards).