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Unlimited Editions: Zoomin’ Night

July 2021

In accompaniment to her Unlimited Editions article in The Wire 449, Jennifer Lucy Allan selects tracks from the back catalogue of Zhu Wenbo's Beijing based cassette label

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Wire mix: Pamela Z

June 2021

The Wire 449 featured radio DJ, soprano and composer marks the release of her new solo album A Secret Code with an exclusive mix

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Wire mix: BLK JKS

May 2021

The Johannesburg quartet share a new mix spanning doom metal from Vancouver, noise rock from New York and psych rock from Moscow plus tracks by many of their associates from the South African underground

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Unlimited Editions: HoZac

May 2021

Byron Coley traces the threads through Chicago label and publisher HoZac's back catalogue, selecting tracks representing the imprint's global sub-underground network

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Virtual Office Ambience 447

May 2021

Compiled from the playlists of working at home Wire staff. A selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our May 2021 issue

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People Like Us's greatest bits

April 2021

To coincide with the People Like Us cover feature in The Wire 477, Spenser Tomson explores some of arch collagist Vicki Bennett’s most affecting mash-ups