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.

Hosted by Frances Morgan, with a special show looking at Scandinavia's early electronic and musique concrète scene, including a recent reissue by Kåre Kolberg and tracks by Rune Lindblad and Elsa Marie Pade among others. Plus, new music by Holly Herndon, Old Apparatus and more.

Stream recordings of Barely Accurate, a live performance by the Danish music collective, Yoyooyoy, featured in an article by Daniel Spicer in The Wire 345.

Hosted by Daisy Hyde and Shane Woolman, with tracks from Randomer, Danthrax, Skudge and more, plus an exclusive mix by Matthewdavid

Listen to the entirety of Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille's I Wish I Didn't Dream album, out on Northern Spy Records in November 2012. Connors and Langille are the subject of The Wire 345 Invisible Jukebox, tested by Jason Gross.

Hosted by Chris Bohn, with tracks by Crime And The City Solution, Marchlevski, CS Yeh, Soisong, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, King Crimson and more.

Stream a selection of music from groups featured in The Wire 345 Global Ear Basque Country article by Mark Lore.

Listen to the sounds we've been playing on The Wire stereo while putting together the November 2012 issue.

Get warmed up for the Chicago Afro-futurist's performance at The Wire's Rewired event at the Royal Albert Hall on 10 October.

Hosted by Chris Bohn, with tracks by Laibach, Fushitsusha, Eliane Radigue, Hieroglyphic Being and more.

Listen to three audio excerpts from live recordings made at the premiere of Hideaki Takahashi's media opera. Biba Kopf reports on Takahashi’s hi-tech media opera work and La Fura Dels Baus’s post-Industrial take on Wagner's Ring cycle in The Wire 288.

Hosted by Daisy Hyde and Shane Woolman, with tracks by Young Smoke, Matmos, Bass Clef, Hieroglyphic Being, NHK'Koyxen and more.