This edition revisits the music of the
crucial and newly reactivated UK reggae and dancehall empire
Fashion. Aligned with the Dub Vendor shop in South London, Fashion
sprung up in the early 80s with cuts from a host of home-grown and
relatively unknown reggae vocalists, and as the decade rolled on,
became an essential part of the 'fast chat' school of reggae DJing,
an essential building block of 1990s Jungle. Hosted by Derek
Walmsley
Listen to selections from the Office Ambience
for our March 2011 issue.
Listen to songs from the Aimer et
Perdre album, compiled by Christopher King and Susan
Archie.
Listen to the second Critical Beats
discussion at Stratford Circus, with George Mahood, Martin Clark
and Stuart Baker.
Talking Black Power/Black Music with Pat
Thomas, author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of
Black Power 1965–1975 on the line from Seattle.
Volume 08 includes tracks from The Automatics Group, BAO, Decimus, Emptyset, and more.
Listen to the January 2012 edition of our
regular discussion night at London's Cafe Oto, featuring a
presentation by Adam Harper on the future of music.
Listen to the now-defunct Mexican outfit's
2009 The Collapse Of Today.
Hosted by Chris Bohn, with tracks by Itta,
Wire, Oren Ambarchi, Asi Mina, Mars, The Complainer and more.
Stream music by the Brighton based sound
inventor and film maker
Hosted by Lisa Blanning, with a Lil B special
(featured on the cover of The Wire 336).
Hosted by Daisy Hyde and Shane Woolman.
Unfortunately, due to a technical mishap, the show was not
recorded.
Listen to the Office Ambience for the
February 2012 issue.
The Wire's Thursday evening
broadcast on Resonance FM returns in the new year with a new name:
Adventures In Sound And Music. Hosted by Derek Walmsley, with
tracks by André Vida, Ferran Fages, new Korean electroacoustic
improvs, White Out, Microkingdom and more.
An episode based on The Wire's year
end charts, hosted by Daisy Hyde and Shane Woolman.
Listen to three impressions of the work of
Schumann, Kagel and Ferrari, by Bernhard Schütz & Reinhold
Friedl, Frédéric Blondy & DJ Lenar, and Rinus Van Alebeek
respectively.
2011 end of year special, hosted by Derek
Walmsley.
Listen again to the audio from the first
Critical Beats panel discussion from 3 November.
Stream a live interview hosted by The
Wire's Daniel Spicer on 12 November, 2011 as part of the
Colour Out Of Space festival in Brighton, UK.