To accompany his report on Strategic Tape Reserve in The Wire 491/492, Antonio Poscic selects music from the back catalogue ...

Elia Brülhart compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Zurich’s underground noise scene in The Wire 491/492 ...

While many musicians have written criticism or conceptualised their work, few have operated on both sides off the theory/practice divide so extensively and provocatively as David Toop. Since the 1970s ...

The Wire's Hip-Hop contributor Dave Tompkins charts the history of the vocoder in a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of music’s most provocative innovators. The ...

All systems open might be the rallying cry of artists the world over, but Mark Fell argues the case for technological limitation as a trigger for creativity. Back in the early 1980s, the synth pop ...

On paper Edgar Guest’s poems don’t do much for me but the early recordings of his readings of his poems are fantastic. Guest’s homespun philosophising reminds me a bit of vaudeville performer Will ...

50 records of the year as voted for by The Wire's writers.

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 ...

Most sound art directs its focus outward, endeavouring to create an environment which explores the sonic qualities and cultural or aesthetic resonances of an object or musical instrument, an event or ...

After David Naegele’s departure, David Storrs had little connection with Valley Of The Sun, as replacement music director Robert Slap’s sensibilities skewed more towards the commercial, progressive ...