BBCi Jazz voted Jaga Jazzist their LP of the year & if you haven't seen this video that was voted "office favourite" by myvillage.com and all over MTV Europe then you don’t know what you’re missing. Just imagine "Herbie Hancock 1970's, Tortoise and Stereolab's post-rock guitar blues, Squarepusher's lunatic jazz electronica and mangled rhythm".[contactmusic.com]

Under various guises, Matthew Herbert pushes electronic music production standards to its limits and then some. His releases for Phonography, Classic, and Warp, and his countless remixes for Raw Elements, Clear, Reflective, Perlon, Playhouse, and F Communications run the gamut from house to techno and electro, taking in abstract and experimental along the way. In early 2000, he set up Accidental, Soundslike, and Lifelike (formerly Lowlife) to release avant-garde electronic music from a family of innovative, nonconformist musicians of all stylistic leanings, in addition to releases under his own aliases Herbert, Radio Boy, Wishmountain, and Doctor Rockit [epitonic.com]

Hi everebody,
this weblog has been abandoned for a long time. Formerly this was my personel weblog but I didn't wrote very much. I hope to post more often from now on, focusing on artists mentioned in the music magazine THE WIRE and provide links to sound and video files. The magazine is written in english, so I decided to write my webpage also in english. This is not an official WIRE site, it's just that I like the magazine so much because every issue is like a big journey and so I started to collect links to sound- and videofiles. As you might guessed, I am not an english native speaker. I'm German so there will be defenetly some spelling mistakes.

The are two ways to search this site for specific content. You can browse this site by "topics". To do so, choose a specific issue of the WIRE from the drop down menue in the right coloum.

If you are looking for a certain artist use the "search" function, which is also in the right coloum.

Usually I don't link the soundfile directly, instead the links will lead you to the webpage were the direct link can be found. If you can't find the link to the soundfile on the linked webpage, than there are two reasens. First, you might just don't see it. Therefore press Ctrl + f. That should open a little "search window" asking you to enter a term. This Term will be searched and highlitend, when found. This "search window" is not a feature of the specific webpage, it's a feature of most windows aplications. Second, the file might have been removed :-(

If you can't find what you are looking for, got to the The Unofficial Wire Audio Companion. This site is doing the same as me, but for a longer time. Also a very good source of high quality sound files is Epitonic.com

You can contribute to this site by writing comments. If you know more sources of legal downloads, just write an comment at the refering artists article. Or add your comment to this article.

If someone (artists, recordlabels) don't want me to use theire pictures, or claims that I am linking to illegal files, please write me an email to s.emmerlingATgmail.com and I will delete the link/file.