specially produced for the wire ,given away to all subscribers to the wire magazine with copies of issue 238 december 03, archiv 1 is a new and exclusive compilation featuring material released by the german electronic music imprint, raster-noton. the cd contains 19 tracks by the likes of mika vainio, robert lippock, william basinksi, COH/christopherson/balance, ryoji ikeda, noto, signal, komet, senking and more.

If you aren't a subscriber, you still can listen to excerpts of most of the tracks featured on "archiv 1" at the raster-noton webpage.