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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.

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Listen: Peter Brötzmann tracks

October 2012

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.

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Stream Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille album

October 2012

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.

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Office Ambience #345

October 2012

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

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Listen to Hideaki Takahashi's Media Opera

October 2012

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.

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Listen: John Butcher's Trace album

September 2012

Stream the improvising saxophonist's entire Trace album, originally released on cassette by the Tapeworm label. Butcher is the subject of The Wire 344 Invisible Jukebox, tested by Clive Bell.

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Listen: Exclusive Laurie Spiegel track

September 2012

Stream Spiegel's "The Orient Express" (composed and recorded June–July 1974). Composer and computer music pioneer Spiegel is featured in an article by Frances Morgan in The Wire 344.

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Listen: Pelt track

September 2012

Stream a track by US improvising drone outfit Pelt, who are featured in an article by David Keenan in The Wire 344.

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Office Ambience #344

September 2012

Stream a selection of the music we've been listening to this month in The Wire office.