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Archived material from The Wire's back issues, most from rare and sold-out copies of the magazine
Collateral Damage: Awesome Tapes From Africa's Brian Shimkovitz
Digital transparency has revealed dimensions to African music beyond Western received ideas. But how to market it sympathetically, asks Brian Shimkovitz
Posted 09/05/12
Kraftwerk: Let your fingers do the singing
The robots are coming! Cyberpopmen Kraftwerk are back with a new disc and a new UK tour. We sent Wire's talking typewriter Hopey Glass to ask the almost lifelike Ralf, do androids dream of electric bleeps? Originally published in The Wire 89, July 1991.
Posted 16/04/12
Collateral Damage: Phil England
Circulating music as resource-free downloads might reduce carbon footprints, but the fast turnover of the computers, MP3 players and mobile phones we play them on costs the Earth plenty, argues Phil England.
Posted 11/04/12
Arthur Russell: Past Futurist
Arthur Russell died in obscurity of AIDS in 1992. Yet this New York composer was a true visionary, traversing dub, disco and minimalism and anticipating the 90s obsession with musical hybrids. David Toop pays tribute. This article first appeared in The Wire 134, April 1995.
Posted 04/04/12
David Toop reaches the end of the road
A public resignation from David Toop. Published in The Wire 166, December 1997.
Posted 29/03/12
Collateral Damage: John Richards
When John Richards of Dirty Electronics began manufacturing interactive sound devices such as a hand-held analogue synth, he tapped into a participatory social experiment in revitalising digitally numbed senses
Posted 13/03/12
Robert Wyatt: Local Hero
A very English voice combines with wholly un-English sentiments in the idiosyncratic songs of Robert Wyatt, who is about to break a six year silence with a brilliant new album. Published in The Wire 163, September 1997.
Posted 16/02/12
Collateral Damage: Vicki Bennett
In the early 2000s, increased bandwidth allowed recombinant artists to enter the gift economy. It’s a freedom we should defend at all costs, argues Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us
Posted 14/02/12
Collateral Damage: Terre Thaemlitz
Don’t confuse online culture with digital culture, argues Terre Thaemlitz, whose latest project pushes the MP3 format to its absolute limits.
Posted 17/01/12
The Wire's Top Rhythms of All Time (Part 2: 50-100)
Inspired by the article The Top 50 Rhythms Of All Time which appeared in The Wire 98 April 1992, this series of 50 further mini-essays was commissioned specially by The Wire as part of the ICA's Rhythm Section event, November 2010. Listen to an accompanying YouTube playlist of (most) of the rhythms featured below.
Posted 22/12/11
