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Wire playlist: Lucrecia Dalt's ¡Ay! influences
September 2022

The Wire 464 cover star compiles a long playlist of tracks that inspired breakthroughs during the making of her brand new album ¡Ay!
Annotated playlists, exclusive mixes, album previews and more.
The Wire 464 cover star compiles a long playlist of tracks that inspired breakthroughs during the making of her brand new album ¡Ay!
Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our October 2022 issue
To mark the release of her latest album Wehikuł, Polish musician and community radio co-founder Justyna Banaszczyk channels uncertainty and anxiety in a new mix featuring numerous underground acts from her home country
The UK based Australian garage punk artist shares a track from the next Ulysses Trash single
To accompany his interview with Emily Bick in The Wire 464, the samplist and composer compiles a playlist spanning his long career, including some rarities from the far-reaching corners of his hard drive
To accompany her article on Berlin based platform Faitiche in The Wire 464, Leah Kardos selects tracks that demonstrate the diversity and playfulness of the label's back catalogue
The UK pianist introduces his favourite mid-90s tunes to coincide with the reissue of his 1997 dancefloor album New Jazz Jungle: Remembering
Polish-American laptop folklorist Derek Piotr shares an exclusive reimagining of a track from his latest album The Devil Knows How
To mark the release of experimental label Marionette's 20th edition, its founder Ali Safi shares a mix of past and future releases including exclusive previews of tracks by Roxane Métayer, Delphine Dora and MinaeMinae
Stream tracks from releases we listened to while making our September 2022 issue
Tom Welsh introduces a new recording of an unknown work by a composer who was a key member of John Cage’s pioneering US percussion group in the 1930s but whose name has since fallen out of history
Interdisciplinary performer eddy kwon shares music from a collaborative performance with cellist and composer Lester St Louis
The Ojibwe vocalist shares an exclusive recording from a recent pow wow
The US minimalist post-punk composer selects tracks that have influenced her own work and ways of listening
The Suffolk based multi-instrumentalist provides a career-spanning playlist of solo and collaborative works
Stream a selection of tracks we listened to during the making of our August 2022 issue
Stream a playlist of tracks by artists involved in The Wire's 40th birthday celebrations in London, Glasgow, Manchester, Bristol, Brighton and online from Chicago
To accompany his article on the Vietnamese rave collective in The Wire 461, James Gui selects tracks from the scene
The Peruvian artist and musician compiles some of the music that has inspired an upcoming live performance with cajón player Laura Robles
The London based producer and installation artist pieces together an exclusive mix of tracks by ambient affiliates, inspired by Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man