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Office Ambience #359

December 2013

Stream some of the tracks that were played in The Wire office when we were putting together our January 2014 issue

Due to space restrictions in the January 2014 issue, this Office Ambience is online only (it's our yearly Rewind edition, already packed with charts, critic's and musician's reflections, analyses and more).

Actress
Ghettoville
(Ninja Tune)

Jim O'Rourke
Old News 9
(Editions Mego)

Astor
Inland
(Kye)

Purple Snow: Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound
Various
(Numero)

Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band
Trout Mask Replica
(Zappa)

Joseph Kabasele
Le Grand Kallé: His Life, His Music
(Sterns)

DJ Rags 36 Chambers Mix
Various
(Life For The Funk/Soundcloud)

Music For Shut-Ins
Various
(LIES)

Mobilisation Generale: Protest And Spirit Jazz from France 1970–1976
Various
(Born Bad)

Logos
Cold Mission
(Keysound)

Blevin Blectum
Emblem Album
(Aagoo)

Peru Maravilloso: Vintage Latin, Tropical & Cumbia
Various
(Tiger's Milk Records)

Księżyc
Księżyc
(Penultimate Press)

Tara Jane O'Neil
Where Shine New Lights
(Kranky)

Stefan Jaworzyn
Eaten Away By Shadows
(Shock)

Compiled by The Wire Sound System. We welcome charts from record shops, radio shows, DJs, venues, labels, musicians, blogs, readers, etc. Email a top 15 to charts@thewire.co.uk.

Comments

Where has The Office Ambience/charts page gone for the last 2 issues? Is it a space issue as suggested above or is the page no momore? It's one of my favourite regular features!

Hi, the last two Office Ambience and charts section pages weren't included in the print magazine due to space restrictions. As noted above, the issue 359 Office Ambience/charts section was dropped from the print mag as we had a surplus of year end charts, reflections and the like (though obviously the chart is online, above). The issue 360 Office Ambience was not included in the print edition as we ran the 2013 Subscribers' Releases of the Year instead, but we have posted it online here: http://thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/office-ambience_360

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