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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.

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Listen: Bruiloftslied (Wedding Song) radio drama

November 2012

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.

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Stream: Tectonic sampler

November 2012

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.

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Listen to Wyrd sounds from the West Country

November 2012

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.

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Office Ambience #346

November 2012

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.

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Listen: Global Ear Mexico City compilation

November 2012

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.