"In Radiohead's new video for "House of Cards", no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data."

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Featuring tracks from the best Avant Rock, Critical Beats, Dub, Global and Hiphop albums of 2007

82 tracks from 34 of The WIRE's Top 50 albums from 2007.



Mising albums: 15 Laub 18 Harmonia - Live 1974 19 John Butcher - The Geometry Of Sentiment 20 Akio Suzuki - K7 Box 26 Pandit Pran Nath - Raga Cycle 27 Flower-Corsano Duo - The Radiant Mirror 29 Zeitkratzer & Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music 33 Rhys Chatham - The Crimson Grail 35 The Focus Group - We Are All Pan's People 36 The Terminals - Last Days Of The Sun 37 Sightings - Through The Panama 40 Haswell & Hecker - Blackest Ever Black 42 Dial - 168K 44 fORCH - Spin Networks 48 Lichens - Omns 50 Frank Bretschneider - Rhythm The whole list here

Also see: The WIRE - Genre Charts 2007 - Part 1

OM was formed by Al Cisneros (bass/vocals) and Chris Hakius (drums), both founding members of legendary pioneers of Sabbathian worship: Sleep." Read on

OM - Unitive Knowledge Of The Godhead

A film with Radiohead in it made for New Year's Eve, 2007. Features every song on their new album IN RAINBOWS.

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"soaring psychedelic vocal melodies to shimmering layers of guitar and percussion" Read on. Some more info

Hear two tracks featuring Napalm Death founder Nicholas Bullen. Watch a Six Organs Of Admittance video, exclusive to The Wire.
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01 Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
02 Burial - Untrue 03 Panda Bear - Person Pitch 04 OM - Pilgrimage 05 LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver (DFA/EMI) 06 Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions (Domino) 07 Pram - The Moving Frontier (Domino) 08 MIA - Kala (XL) 09 Battles - Mirrored (Warp) 10 Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 (Fabric) 11 Grinderman - Grinderman (Mute) 12 Kassin+2 - Futurismo (Luaka Bop) 13 Matthew Dear - Asa Breed (Ghostly) 14 Strategy - Future Rock (Kranky) 15 Laub - Deinetwegen (AGF Producktion) 16 Björk - Volta (One Little Indian) 17 Pole - Steingarten (~scape) 18 Harmonia - Live 1974 (Grönland) 19 John Butcher - The Geometry Of Sentiment (Emanem) 20 Akio Suzuki - K7 Box (ALM) 21 Deerhunter - Cryptograms (Kranky) 22 Lil' Wayne - Da Drought 3 (Mixtape) (No Label) 23 Peter Evans Quartet - Peter Evans Quartet 24 James Blackshaw - The Cloud Of Unknowing 25 Kemialliset Ystävät - Kemialliset Ystävät (Fonal) 26 Pandit Pran Nath - Raga Cycle (SRI Moonshine) 27 Flower-Corsano Duo - The Radiant Mirror (Textile) 28 Electrelane - No Shouts, No Calls (Too Pure) 29 Zeitkratzer & Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (Asphodel) 30 Gudrun Gut - I Put A Record On (Monika Enterprise) 31 Marnie Stern - In Advance Of The Broken Arm 32 Throbbing Gristle - Part Two: The Endless Not (Mute) 33 Rhys Chatham - The Crimson Grail (Table Of The Elements) 34 Radiohead - In Rainbows 35 The Focus Group - We Are All Pan's People (Ghost Box) 36 The Terminals - Last Days Of The Sun (Last Visible Dog) 37 Sightings - Through The Panama (Load) 38 Anthony Braxton - 9 Compositions Iridium 2006 39 Steve Jansen - Slope (Samadhisound) 40 Haswell & Hecker - Blackest Ever Black (Warner Classics) 41 Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf) 42 Dial - 168K (Cede) 43 Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain) 44 fORCH - Spin Networks (PSI) 45 PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Island) 46 Hanne Hukkelberg - Rykestrasse 68 (Nettwerk) 47 Susan Howe & David Grubbs - Souls Of The Labadie Tract 48 Lichens - Omns (Kranky) 49 Low - Drums And Guns (Sub Pop) 50 Frank Bretschneider - Rhythm (Raster-Norton)

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