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wire
wire (wìr) noun
1. A usually pliable
metallic strand or rod made in many lengths and diameters, sometimes
clad and often electrically insulated, used chiefly for structural
support or to conduct
electricity.
2. A group of wire
strands
bundled or
twisted
together as a functional unit; cable.
3. Something resembling
a wire, as in slenderness or stiffness.
4. An open
telephone
connection.
5. Slang. A hidden
microphone,
as on a person's body or in a building.
6. a. A telegraph service.
b. A telegram or cablegram.
7. Computer Science. A pin
in the print head of a computer printer.
8. The screen on which
sheets
of paper are formed in a papermaking machine.
9. Sports. The finish line
of a racetrack.
10. wires a. The system
of strings employed in manipulating puppets in a show. b. Hidden
controlling
influences.
11. Slang. A pickpocket.
12. Fencing made of usually
barbed wire.
verb
wired, wiring, wires verb,
transitive
1. To bind, connect, or
attach with wires or a wire.
2. To string (beads, for
example) on wire.
3. To equip with a system
of electrical wires.
4. Slang. To install
electronic
eavesdropping equipment in (a room, for example).
5. To send by
telegraph:
wired
her congratulations.
6. To send a telegram to.
verb, intransitive
To send a telegram.
- idiom.
down to the wire Informal.
To the very end, as in a
race or contest.
under the wire
1. Sports.. At the finish
line.
2. Informal.. Just in the
nick of time; at the last moment.
[Middle English, slender
metal rod, from Old English wìr.]
-
seminal art
punk
band (emphasis art) from the British '77 U.K. scene
-
Wir is Wire w/o drummer Robert Gotobed
-
track _So And Slow It Grows (The
Orb
in Atlas Mix)_ MP3 (160k)
off of _Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond The Call Of Duty - The Orb
Remix
Project_ CDx2
on Deviant (1996)
_Pink Flag_ 12"
on Harvest/
EMI/Captiol
(1977)
- _Reuters_ MP3 (192k)

- _Field Day For The Sundays_ MP3 (192k)

- _Three Girl Rhumba_ MP3

- MP3 (160k)
covered by Bark Psychosis off of _Game Over_
on 3rd Stone (1997)
- _Ex Lion Tamer_ MP3 (192k)
- To avoid having the audience ask for old
songs they didn't want to play they were supported on their US tour
1987 by the Ex-Lion Tamers, a tribute band who would play the whole of
Pink Flag in sequence
- _Lowdown_ MP3 (192k)

- _Start To Move_ MP3 (192k)

- _Brazil_ MP3 (192k)

- _It's So Obvious_ MP3 (192k)

- _Surgeon's Girl_ MP3 (192k)

- _Pink Flag_ MP3 (192k)

- _The Commercial_ MP3 (192k)

- _Straight Line_ MP3 (192k)

- _106 Beats That_ MP3 (192k)

- _Mr. Suit_ MP3 (192k)

- _Fragile_ MP3 (192k)

- _Mannequin_ MP3 (192k)

- _Different To Me_ MP3 (192k)

- _Champs_ MP3 (192k)

- _Feeling Called Love_ MP3 (192k)

- _12XU_ MP3 (192k)

- MP3
covered
by
Minor Threat
- (live) MP3 (192k)
covered by
Nomeansno
- covered by Naked Raygun
- covered by Dag Nasty
_On Returning (1977-1979)_ CD
on Restless Retro/
EMI
(1989)
- _12XU_ MP3 (192k)

- _It's So Obvious_ MP3 (192k)

- _Mr. Suit_ MP3 (192k)

- _Three Girl Rhumba_ MP3

- _Ex Lion Tamer_ MP3 (192k)

- _Lowdown_ MP3 (192k)

- _Straight Line_ MP3 (192k)

- _106 Beats That_ MP3 (192k)

- _Strange_ MP3 (192k)

- _Reuters_ MP3 (192k)

- _Field Day For The Sundays_ MP3 (192k)

- _Champs_ MP3 (192k)

- _Feeling Called Love_ MP3 (192k)

- _I Am The
Fly_
MP3
- _Dot Dash_ MP3

- _Practice Makes Perfect_ MP3

- _French Film Blurred_ MP3

- _Another The Letter_ MP3

- i feel mysterious today
- _Men 2nd_ MP3 (160k)

- marooned
- _Sand In My Joints_ MP3

- _Outdoor Miner_ MP3

- _A Question Of Degree_ MP3 (160k)

- _I Should Have Known Better_ MP3

- two people in a room
- blessed state
- _The Other Window_ MP3

- _40 versions_ MP3 (192k)

- _A Touching Display_ MP3 (160k)

- on returning

_Chairs Missing_ 12" on Harvest (1978)
- _Practice Makes Perfect_ MP3
- _(Live Peel Sessions)_ MP3 (vK)

- _(Remix)_ MP3

- _French Film Blurred_ MP3

- _Another The Letter_ MP3

- _Men 2nd_ MP3 (160k)

- _Marooned_
- _Sand In My Joints_ MP3

- _Being Sucked In Again_
- _Heartbeat_
- _Mercy_
- _Outdoor Miner_ MP3

- _I Am The Fly_ MP3

- _I Feel Mysterious Today_
- _From The Nursery_
- _Used To_
- _Too Late_

_154_ 12" on Harvest (1979) - named after the
number of live gigs played up to that point
- _I Should Have Known Better_ MP3

- _Two People in a Room_ MP3 (192k)

- _The 15th _ MP3 (192k)

- _The Other Window_ MP3

- _Single K.O._ MP3 (192k)

- _A Touching Display_ MP3 (160k)

- _On Returning_ MP3 (192k)

- _ A Mutual Friend_ MP3

- _Blessed State _ MP3 (192k)

- _Once Is Enough_ MP3 (192k)

- _Map Ref. 41 Degrees North 93 Degrees West_
MP3 (192k)

- _Indirect Enquiries_ MP3 (192k)

- _40 Versions_ MP3

- Song 1 [*]
- Get Down, Pts. 1-2 [*]
- Let's Panic Later [*]
- Small Electric Piece [*]
_A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck_ CD (1988)
_Silk Skin Paws_ MP3 (vK)
- _Finest Drops_ MP3

- _Queen Of Ur And The King Of Um_ MP3

- _Free Falling Divisions_ MP3

- _It's A Boy_ MP3 (160k)

- _Boiling Boy_ MP3 (192k)

- _Kidney Bingos_ MP3

- _Come Back In Two Halves_ MP3

- _Follow The Locust_ MP3

- _Public Place_
- _Queen Of Ur And The King Of Um (alternate
version)_
- _Pieta_ MP3 (160k)

- _Over Theirs (Live)_ MP3 (160k)

- _Drill (Live)_ MP3 (vK)


- release _I Am The
Fly_ 7" on Harvest (1978)
- release _Dot Dash MP3
/Options R_ MP3 (192k)
7"
on Harvest
(1978)
- release _Mannequin_ 7" on Harvest (1977)
- track _Outdoor Miner_ MP3
off of _Outdoor Miner_ 7" (white vinyl) on
Harvest (1978)
- track is 1:06 longer on this singles
version
- track _A Question Of Degree_ MP3
off of _A Question Of Degree_ 7" on Harvest
(1978)
- release
_Map
Ref. 41N 93W_ MP3 (192k)
7" on Harvest
(1979)
- release _Manscape_ (1990)
- release _Send_ on Pink Flag (2003)
- 2. _Mr. Marx's Table_ MP3 (192k)

- release _The Ideal Copy_ on Mute (1987)
- 1. _Point Of Collapse_ MP3 (160k)

- 3. _Madman's
Honey_
MP3 (vK)
- 4. _Feed Me_ MP3 (vK)
(5:58)
- 12. _Advantage In Height_ MP3 (vK)

|
view to the north at the confluence 41
degrees
north, 93 degrees west located in Monroe, Iowa USA - approximate
altitude
274 meters (898 ft.)
|
- Colin Newman owns the techno label Swim.
- post punk orchestral pop track _But
I...._ MP3 (192k)
by Colin
Newman off of _Commercial Suicide_ (1986)
- IDM techno track _Liquid
Dimension_ MP3 (256k)
by Cusp off of _Space+
Time*Liquids+Metals_ CD on Swim
#008 (1995)
- ambient track _Slide (Bruce Gilbert
Remix)_ MP3
by Scala off
of _Slide ep_ 12" on Too Pure #066 (1997)
- There are 27,572 wires used in one main
cable on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The bridge has
two main cables.
-
_Wired_
magazine
Anomalog:
Razor
Wire Cage? Fuck You & Your 'free speech zones'

- techno release _Wires_ 12"
by Ausgang on Synewave #002 (1994)
- a1
604 track
_Wires_ MP3
(also off of
_Outside The Reactor Volume 1_ compilation on
Blue Room Released
(1995))
- b1 _Robotics_
- b2 _Echoe Park_ MP3
atomjack used to reside in Echo Park, CA USA
on West
Edgeware Road (ca. 2001-2003)
- film _Echo Park_
(vhs/ntsc)
(1986) - very poor film set in my
former city of residence with Tom Hulce as a pizza delivery boy &
Susan Dey as a stripper
- the city of Echo
Park can be spotted in the film _Chinatown_ (vhs/ntsc)
(1974) directed by
Roman Polanski. (when they are rowing in
a lake)
- 604 track _Kilobyte Bandit_ MP3
by Logic Bomb off of _Headware_ CD
- sample: "we are the music
makers. we are the dreamers of the
dream...
have you ever wire tripped? have you ever jacked in?"
- 604 track _E-Wire_ MP3 (160k)
by
Joujouka
off of _New Asians_ 12"x2 on Radiosonic (2002)
- track _Push Off My Wire_ MP3
by
Third
Eye
Foundation off of _I Poo Poo
On Your
Juju_ on Merge (
2001)
- tech house release _Cross Wires_ 12" by
Peace Division on Low Pressings #003
- a1 _Cross Wires (Syndromeda Mix)_ MP3
(192k)

- b1 _Back 2 Back_
 |
 |
- abstract glitch track
_Netmork Part 1: Dark Inside
Telephone Wire_ MP3 (192k)
(16.9megs) by COH off of _Netmork_ CD on Source
Research #002 (2002)
- electro techno tracks
_Devoid Of Wires_ MP3 (192k)
& _Wireframe Images_ MP3 (192k)
by
Arpanet
off of _Wireless
Internet_ on
Record Makers (2002)
- electro synth pop release
_On The Wires Of Our Nerves_
Add N To X off of 12"x2 on Satellite #010 (1998)
- 10. _On The Wires Of Our
Nerves_ MP3
 |
 |
- post rock americana release _Feast Of Wire_
by Calexico on Quarterstick (2003)
- techno track _Tek 29 (Wire Version)_ MP3
(192k)
by Thomas
Schumacher off of _Tek 29_ 12" on Spielzeug #014 (2000)
- techno track _Mindwire_ MP3 (160k)
by Headroom off of _Vessels_ compilation 12"x2
on Planet Rhythm #005 (2000)
- techno breaks track _Wire Elves_ MP3 (192k)
by Mark Hawkins off of _Test Bottle Damage ep_
12" on Horspielmusik #028 (2001)
- minimal techno track _Wiretripping_ MP3
(160k)
by Hakan
Lidbo off of _Tech Couture_ CD on Poker Flat Recordings #003 (2001)
dub track _Burning Wire_
MP3 (192k)
by
Lee Scratch Perry
- dub track _Bag A Wire Dub_ MP3 (192k)
by King Tubby off of _Bag A Wire_ 10" on
Select Cuts
- track _I
Dream
Of Wires_ MP3 (192k)
by Gary Numan
off of _Telekon_ 12"
- electro track _World Of Wire_ MP3 (192k)
by Ilektro
- electro track
_High Tension Wires_ MP3
(160k)
by Artificial
Material/Third
Electric off of
_Plus Bonus Track_ 12" on World Electric #001
ambient track _Wire Netting_
MP3 (256k)
by Hazard off
of _North_ CD on Ash (1999)
- track _Wire Shock_ MP3
by Brian Eno off of _Nerve
Net_ CD (1992)
- ambient track _Patrolling Wire Borders_ MP3
(vK)
by
Brian
Eno off of _Music For Films_ 12" (1978)
- post
hardcore
indie rock track _No Voices In The Wire_ MP3
by Burning Airlines
- Burning Airlines is Jawbox minus Kim
Coletta. the name is from a pre-ambient Brian Eno release
- track _No
Voices In The Wire_ (Live Cincinnati 6/28/99) MP3 (160k)
- indie rock track _Highwire (Live)_ MP3
by
Moonpools &
Caterpillars
- track _Wires_ MP3
by Pilot To Gunner
- metal track _Live Wire_ MP3
by Motley Crue off of _Too Fast For Love_ 12"
on Motley/Beyond (1981)
- digitized video - _Live Wire (ascii
midi)_ (quicktime)
(16.8megs)
- track _Wire
Greyhounds_
MP3 (160k)
by Guided By
Voices off of _Universal
Truths
& Cycles_ on Matador (2002)
- track
_Telephone
Wires_ MP3 (192k)
by Mirah off
of _You Think It's Like This But It's Really Like This_ on K (2000)
- 604 track _Kilobyte Bandit_ MP3
by Logic Bomb
- sample: "Have you ever jacked
in? Have you ever wire tripped?" - from the film _Strange
Days_ (vhs/ntsc)
- track _Drifing In Wire_ MP3 (160k)
by Single Cell Orchestra off of _Excursions In
Ambience: The Fourth Frontier_ compilation CD
- post grunge alternative rock track _Headwires_ MP3
by Foo Fighters off of _There Is Nothing Left To Lose_ (1999)
- abstract IDM track _Cloth Mother/Wire
Mother_ MP3 (192k)
by Matmos off
of _Quasi-Objects_ CD on Matador (1999)
- track _Music On A Long Thin Wire_ MP3 (192k)
by Alvin Lucier off of
_Ohm: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music
1948-1980_ CDx3
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