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Listen: Wolf Eyes tracks

April 2013

Listen to two Wolf Eyes tracks released on Mike Connelly's Gods Of Tundra label. Wolf Eyes are featured in an article by Marc Masters in The Wire 351.

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Listen: Sounds of Ljubljana

April 2013

Stream a selection of tracks by musicians featured in Jonathan Knott's Global Ear article in The Wire 351 about music in Slovenia's capital city.

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Office Ambience #351

April 2013

Listen to a selection of tracks that Wire staffers have been playing over the past month, including sounds by Eliane Radigue, Om, Merzbow/Pandi/Gustafsson and more.

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Office Ambience #350

March 2013

Listen to tracks selected by The Wire staffers, played during the production of our April 2013. Tracks by Actress, Dennis Johnson, Ashley Paul and more.

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Listen: Global Ear Honduras tracks

March 2013

Listen to a selection of tracks by musicians featured in Louise Morris's article about the DIY music scene in Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, featured in The Wire 349.

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Playlist: US hardcore Primer

March 2013

These bands could be your life! Stream a playlist based on Peter Shapiro's breakdown of the precision-drilled punk songs that came out of America's underground in the early 1980s, featured in The Wire 349.

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Listen: exclusive Little Annie and Baby Dee track

February 2013

Stream an exclusive track, "Love To Break The Fall" from Annie 'Anxiety' Bandez and Baby Dee's State Of Grace. Little Annie is the subject of The Wire 349's Invisible Jukebox feature, tested by Dave Mandl.

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Listen: Ergo Phizmiz's Omniumusik

February 2013

Stream the entirety of experimental radio collagist Ergo Phizmiz's Omniumusik, an unreleased album of music inspired by Flann O'Brien. Phizmiz is featured in an article by Clive Bell in The Wire 349.

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Office Ambience #349

February 2013

Stream a selection of tracks that were played in The Wire HQ during the production of our March 2013 issue #349.

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Listen: exclusive STEIM recordings

February 2013

Listen to a selection of recordings made at Amsterdam's STudio for Electro-Instrumental Music, compiled and annotated by STEIM's most recent director, Takuro Mizuta Lippit aka dj sniff. STEIM's 40-plus years of activities are the subject of a feature by Will Montgomery in The Wire 348.

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Office Ambience #348

January 2013

Stream some of the sounds that we've been listening to during the making of The Wire 348.

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Listen: Starkey track

December 2012

Stream an unreleased track by Starkey, recorded for his Orbits album. Starkey wrote an Inner Sleeve article on Spiritualized's Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space album in The Wire 346. Orbits is is out on Civil Music.

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Office Ambience 347

December 2012

Stream a selection of sounds that we've been listening to at The Wire HQ during the making of issue 347.

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Listen to a Slowfoot label sampler

November 2012

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.