Listen to a selection of tracks from this year's top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire's contributors. You can read more about the artists featured in our chart, as well as those featured in the Top 50 Archive Releases of the Year, in The Wire 394.

To mark its fifth anniversary, Folklore Tapes has made a whopping 90 minute mix for its Library Catalogue Cassette Volume 1: 2011–2016 project. Listen to it here

Soraya Lutangu aka Bonaventure has produced a new track for The Wire

Listen to a recording of the Swedish producer and label boss playing live in Riga in October

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of the December issue #394

Ahead of his set at London’s Corsica Studios this weekend, producer and Soundman Chronicles label boss offers us an exclusive mix

Listen to the Funniest Home Videos concept album with an exclusive new track for The Wire

Get a first hit of the New York based composer’s Last Signs Of Speed

The Texan producer presents a freewheeling collage featuring Pharoah Sanders, Broadcast, Colleen and more

Stream the Lithuanian producer's second official collection Ecologies II: Ecosystems Of Excess, out on 11 November via Knives

Exclusive stream of the London-based trio's polyrhythm-heavy debut album

Following a 17 year hiatus the duo release their new EP Shadow Boat on Tresor

Exclusive: be the first to hear Howlround’s epic contribution to Front & Follow’s The Blow Vol 2

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of the November issue #393

The Scottish doom-hop duo present a beastly mix exclusively for The Wire

Dark Entries give us an exclusive listen to archive recordings by Patrick Cowley and Candida Royalle

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of the October issue

The South London producer offers up an exclusive haunting mix of gospel and R&B for The Wire

Stream side A from The Owl And The Pussycat, the latest LP from Cameron Stallones’s label

Monotype Records have given us a sneak listen to three tracks from the label’s forthcoming release Carp's Head