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Office Ambience 470

March 2023

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our April 2023 issue

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Unlimited Editions: 577 Records

March 2023

To accompany his profile of the New York creative music label in The Wire 469, Kehinde Alonge selects standout tracks from the vast back catalogue of 577 Records

On Air

Derek Walmsley presents Adventures In Sound And Music

February 2023

The 28 February edition of The Wire’s weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra focussed on independent tape and digital microlabels in Greece, featuring music from Dasa Tapes, Granny Tapes, Rekem, Thalmos, Coherent States, moremars and other contemporary imprints

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Office Ambience 469

February 2023

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our March 2023 issue

On Air

Meg Woof presents Adventures In Sound And Music

February 2023

The 9 February edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Širom, James Brandon Lewis, aya, Cleo Reed, Matthew Shipp & Ivo Perelman, Tony Buck & Gianni Gebbia, and more

Mix

Wire mix: Gamut Inc

February 2023

The retro-futuristic Berlin duo compile a mix of music that has influenced their own hi-tech sound experiments

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Unlimited Editions: Fox & His Friends

January 2023

Croatian archive specialist Fox & His Friends issues forgotten curios that flowered in the cracks of communist Yugoslavia. Antonio Poscic creates a playlist of standout tracks from the label's back catalogue.

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Unlimited Editions: BLTNM

January 2023

As the independent Palestinian hiphop label readies itself for another live show in London, Nihal ElAasar runs us through standout tracks from BLTNM's back catalogue to accompany her report on the collective in The Wire 465