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Tracks from Issue 353

Office Ambience #353

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Listen to some of the music that was played in The Wire HQ during the making of issue 353, July 2013. With tracks from Paul Metzger, Richard Pinhas, Don Cherry, The Siege Of Troy, Peter Jefferies, Legowelt and more.

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Tracks from Issue 353

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Listen: Paul Metzger tracks

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Listen to three tracks by Metzger, who expands the vocabulary of the banjo, modifying it and filtering it through Hindustani classical music. Covered by Byron Coley in The Wire 353.

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Adventures In Sound And Music 13 June 2013

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Our regular Thursday evening show on Resonance FM, this week hosted by The Wire's editor, Chris Bohn. Tracks from Circle, Masaki Hosotani, Nohome, Sherwood & Pinch, Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus, JA Seazer and more.

Essay from Issue 353

Collateral Damage: Numero Group on the vinyl bubble

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The recent boom in vinyl merely reflects business’s desire to extract maximum commodity value from ‘manufactured rarities’. But, ask Numero Group’s Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley, what happens to the music when the bubble bursts?

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Rewired 6 June 2013

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Our bi-weekly radio show on NTS Radio, hosted by Daisy Hyde and Shane Woolman. Tracks by Myrryrs, Drvg Cvltvre, Slugabed, Kyler, Kowton, Adrian Sherwood & Pinch, Boards Of Canada and more.

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Tracks from Issue 352

Listen: Jaap Blonk music

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Five tracks by the Dutch composer and poet, subject of this month's Invisible Jukebox article, tested by Philip Clark.

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Derek Walmsley attends a promo listening session, finds mind control, complimentary beer and Stockholm Syndrome.

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Adventures In Sound And Music 30 May 2013

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Our weekly show on Resonance FM, hosted by Jennifer Lucy Allan, playing new tracks by Rabih Beaini (aka Morphosis), The Durian Brothers, Nate Young, Robert Hood as Floorplan, The Source Family, and old time rural country music classics.

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Tracks from Issue 352

Office Ambience #352

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A collection of this month's best incoming tracks culled from the stereo at The Wire HQ.

Tracks from Issue 352

Listen: tracks from Newcastle, NSW

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Listen to a selection of tracks by artists featured in The Wire 352 Global Ear article on the no-brow Noise activities in Australia's Newcastle, with track notes by correspondent Cooper Bowman.

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Special Event

Shangaan Electro dance workshops and tour

Various venues, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, United Kingdom

The South African cohort on tour with vocalist Nozinja and his
Tshetsha Boys inviting the audience to learn the high-speed dance.
Amsterdam Pitch Festival (5 July), Liempde Inspire Festival (6),...

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Abi Bliss: Invisible Women

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Fetishising female pioneers of electronic music risks banishing them to glass cases, away from the main exhibits in the museum of musical history, says Abi Bliss.

Tracks from Issue 351

Listen: Wolf Eyes tracks

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Listen to two Wolf Eyes tracks released on Mike Connelly's Gods Of Tundra label. Wolf Eyes are featured in an article by Marc Masters in The Wire 351.

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Tracks from Issue 351

Office Ambience #351

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Listen to a selection of tracks that Wire staffers have been playing over the past month, including sounds by Eliane Radigue, Om, Merzbow/Pandi/Gustafsson and more.

Tracks from Issue 351

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Photo Gallery: Studio Envy

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Musicians in their studios, including Madlib's vinyl-cluttered home, Laurie Spiegel's NYC loft, Pierre Henry in Paris, Vladislav Delay's modernist shrine and more, culled from the pages of The Wire.

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Listen: Sounds of Ljubljana

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Stream a selection of tracks by musicians featured in Jonathan Knott's Global Ear article in The Wire 351 about music in Slovenia's capital city.

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Tracks from Issue 348

Listen: exclusive STEIM recordings

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Listen to a selection of recordings made at Amsterdam's STudio for Electro-Instrumental Music, compiled and annotated by STEIM's most recent director, Takuro Mizuta Lippit aka dj sniff. STEIM's 40-plus years of activities are the subject of a feature by Will Montgomery in The Wire 348.

The Portal from Issue 349

Portal: Little Annie links

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Little Annie Bandez spreads the word about her top websites. Annie is in The Wire 349 featured in an Invisible Jukebox, tested by Dave Mandl.

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Philip Clark: Composers Anonymous

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In his first column for The Wire online, Philip Clark looks at unhinged egos, unanswered emails and other occupational hazards of life as a working composer – and musicians who don't want to be noticed.

Cover Mount from Issue 350

The Wire Tapper 31

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The Wire's latest 20 track CD, free to all readers with The Wire 350 April issue.

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Tracks from Issue 342

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Tracks from Issue 350

Office Ambience #350

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Listen to tracks selected by The Wire staffers, played during the production of our April 2013. Tracks by Actress, Dennis Johnson, Ashley Paul and more.

Tracks from Issue 349

Playlist: US hardcore Primer

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These bands could be your life! Stream a playlist based on Peter Shapiro's breakdown of the precision-drilled punk songs that came out of America's underground in the early 1980s, featured in The Wire 349.

The Portal

Portal: links for the aspiring hacker

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The Wire Salon in February – The Way Of The Hacker – brought together contemporary experimental musicians to discuss the practice of designing and building new audio interfaces. Here, two of the panelists, Tom Bugs and Sam Underwood spread online knowledge for hackers in training.

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Listen: Global Ear Honduras tracks

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Listen to a selection of tracks by musicians featured in Louise Morris's article about the DIY music scene in Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, featured in The Wire 349.

Tracks from Issue 349

Listen: exclusive Little Annie and Baby Dee track

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Stream an exclusive track, "Love To Break The Fall" from Annie 'Anxiety' Bandez and Baby Dee's State Of Grace. Little Annie is the subject of The Wire 349's Invisible Jukebox feature, tested by Dave Mandl.

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Check out our selection of specialist music books by writers such as John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Simon Reynolds and David Toop.
Recently added titles include New Orleans Suite: Music And Culture In Transition, Daniela Cascella's En Abime, Berlin Sampler: From Cabaret To Techno and Solid Foundation: An Oral History Of Reggae. Subscribers to the magazine get special discounts on all titles in the shop.
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Listen: Ergo Phizmiz's Omniumusik

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Stream the entirety of experimental radio collagist Ergo Phizmiz's Omniumusik, an unreleased album of music inspired by Flann O'Brien. Phizmiz is featured in an article by Clive Bell in The Wire 349.

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Tracks from Issue 349

Office Ambience #349

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Stream a selection of tracks that were played in The Wire HQ during the production of our March 2013 issue #349.

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Tracks from Issue 348

Tracks from Issue 345

Listen: Peter Brötzmann tracks

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Stream a selection of tracks featuring the German jazz saxophone colossus. Brötzmann is featured in an article by David Keenan in The Wire 345, with a follow up article based on the same interview in The Wire 346.

Below The Radar 13 is now available on the DL

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Recent editions have included tracks by Aaron Dilloway, Jessika Kenney, Grouper, Robert Lowe, Tuff Sherm, King Felix, Eli Keszler, Merzbow and more.