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Office Ambience #401

June 2017

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of the July issue #401

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Office Ambience #400

May 2017

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of the June issue #400

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Emptyset: Wire 400 Mix #6

May 2017

Following the release of their fifth LP, the next in our series of Wire 400 mixes comes from sound architects Emptyset

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Mira Calix: Wire 400 Mix #5

May 2017

Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s short story The Aleph, the fifth in our series of Wire 400 mixes comes from Mira Calix, with the title “Sunset In Queretaro, A Rose In Bengal”

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John Eden: Wire 400 Mix #4

May 2017

From Woofah co-founder and blogger John Eden, the fourth in our series of Wire 400 mixes is filled with “deathly dub, soundsystem seagulls and wrong-headed reggae”

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Flora Yin-Wong: Wire 400 Mix #3

May 2017

From Flora Yin-Wong aka ||FLORA, the third in our series of Wire 400 mixes moves through “quite specific electronic sounds in contemporary club music” says the Pan affiliate

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Dark Entries: Wire 400 Mix #2

April 2017

From Josh Cheon of Dark Entries, the second in our series of Wire 400 mixes has a special 1982 theme to mark the year The Wire was founded