Tracks
Listen: Sam Dunscombe's “Three Forests”
June 2021
The itinerant composer and field recordist shares a new audio work featuring the sounds of forests in the US, Japan, and Australia
Annotated playlists, exclusive mixes, album previews and more.
The itinerant composer and field recordist shares a new audio work featuring the sounds of forests in the US, Japan, and Australia
The founder of Newcastle’s locked down TUSK festival compiles a playlist of tracks drawn from the festival’s pandemic initiative, TUSK Editions
Mick Harris shares an exclusive stream of a track from his new Scorn album The Only Place
The Wire 449 featured radio DJ, soprano and composer marks the release of her new solo album A Secret Code with an exclusive mix
In accompaniment to his Unlimited Editions article in The Wire 448, Rob Turner selects tracks from the back catalogue of Jason Lescalleet's playful Maine based label
As Paris based label Souffle Continu begins a PALM Records reissue campaign, Pierre Crépon compiles a playlist spanning the musician-owned label's main series from the 1970s, plus a never heard before live recording of saxophonist Byard Lancaster
Listen to a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our June 2021 issue
The trumpeter and modular synthesist duo share their latest collaboration, recorded in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg's disused water tank
The outsider DJ from The Netherlands shares a selection of tracks from her next full length album
Techno producer Dalibor Cruz brings a personal mix of raw noise and Honduran punto to Chicago’s underground
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
The protean Paris based filter house producer shares a bonus track from his latest Amorama project
Byron Coley traces the threads through Chicago label and publisher HoZac's back catalogue, selecting tracks representing the imprint's global sub-underground network
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
International Anthem share a full preview of More Energy Fields, Current, featuring contributions from Shabaka Hutchings, Laraaji, Sam Gendel, and many more
Peru’s Buh Records to release a tribute album dedicated to the late Brazil based composer and instrument builder
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
The Bratislava based musician, field recordist and microphone designer's next record Brieždenie is inspired by dawn and dreaming
Sound collagist Vicki Bennett compiles a comprehensive soundtrack to her Wire cover feature, piecing together 30 years' worth of work in a new mix
Laurie Spiegel, Lafawndah, Lucrecia Dalt, Lyra Pramuk and others respond to the state of online music engagement with a new album lasting less than seven minutes