Tonight’s programme is a special on the Hamburg punk and German new wave/Neue Deutsche Welle scene circa 1977–1985, with special guest Klaus Maeck, whose work as a film maker and producer (Decoder, Commissioner Of Sewers, Fraktus), writer and independent record distributor was pivotal to the development of the Hamburg underground. Hosted by Chris Bohn.
Stream a selection of sounds that we've been listening to at The Wire HQ during the making of issue 347.
Volume 11 includes tracks from Holly Herndon, Thomas Bei, Meitheal, Robin The Fog, and more.
Host Frances Morgan spins some global archive finds, including 1970s/80s music from the Gambia and Senegal on Teranga Beat Records, and the outer reaches of 1970s Brazilian samba, with tracks by Marcos Valle, Gal Costa, Cresencio Camacho, Los Salvajes and more.
Stream a compilation of music by artists on the Slowfoot label, selected by label boss Frank Byng. Slowfoot is featured in an article by Nick Southgate in The Wire 346.
Stream a sound-led radio drama based on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, by Melanie Clifford, Alisdair McGregor and Howard Jacques. McGregor and Jacques are featured in an article by Zakia Uddin in The Wire 346.
Derek Walmsley hosts a special show on quietest composer in the world, Jakob Ullmann, playing selections from this year's Editions RZ collection Fremde Zeit Addendum.
Hosted by Daisy Hyde and Shane Woolman, with tracks from Ossie, Main Attrakionz, Ricardo Villalobos, Vladislav Delay, Hauschka and more.
Hosted by Daisy Hyde, with tracks by Roll The Dice and Pole, Raime, Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille, Kemper Norton, Barnaby Bennett, Spill and more.
Listen to a collection of tracks by artists on Rob Ellis aka Pinch's Tectonic label. Pinch is the subject of The Wire 346 Invisible Jukebox, tested by Joe Muggs.
Stream tracks by Kemper Norton, Hacker Farm and IX Tab. Farmer Glitch, Kek-W, Bren, IX Tab and Kemper Norton (pictured above) are featured in Matthew Ingram's article in The Wire 346 looking at electronic music makers and culture jackers in the UK's West Country.
Hosted by Daisy Hyde and Shane Woolman, wth tracks by Mouse On Mars, Mungo's Hi Fi featuring Charlie P, Pinch, Anders Lauge Meldgaard and more.
This week's show explores the life, work, complexities and contradictions of bassist and composer Charles Mingus. Philip Clark and host Derek Walmsley discuss Mingus's three decade plus career.
Listen to a selection of the sounds that we were playing in The Wire offices for the November issue, including Nathan Bowles (of Pelt), Jan Jelinek, Production Unit and more.
Stream a selection of tracks compiled by Gabriel Stargardter, author of The Wire 346 Global Ear, looking at the cumbia sound systems in Mexico City's Tepito neighbourhood.
Hosted by Daisy Hyde and Shane Woolman, with tracks from The Mole, Ras G, Gelom and more. Plus: sets by TVO, Some Truths and Hieroglyphic Being, recorded at the Rewired Live event at London's Royal Albert Hall in the Elgar Room, 10 October, 2012.
Hosted Frances Morgan, with tracks by Myrrh, Alastair Galbraith, Sarin Smoke, Arbouretum, Aluk Todolo, Natural Snow Buildings, Richard Pinhas, Merzbow & Wolf Eyes, and more.
Stream a selection of tracks featuring the German saxophone colossus. Brötzmann is interviewed by David Keenan in The Wire 345; part two of the interview is published in The Wire 346.
Listen again to The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance FM, hosted this week by Chris Bohn playing tracks by Charles Hayward, John Tilbury, Christiaan Virant and more.
Stream the entire soundtrack to artist Beatrice Gibson's new film inspired by the compositional techniques of Cornelius Cardew. Gibson is featured in an article by Julian Cowley in The Wire 345.