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The Waveform #024: Quiet Wars, Loud Vans
Five months and three writers on what replaced the loudness war: mixing to survive a phone speaker in a loud bar. Plus Substation gets a date and a van gets soundproofed.
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The Waveform #023: The Minidisc Bump
Minidisc prices are not what they were, so we updated the piece. Plus Velvet Static's data centre shoegaze and a defence of the skip button.
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The Waveform #022: Four in the Morning
Vera Lune on night shifts, tape hiss as a comfort blanket and why she will not tour, recorded at the only hour she is properly awake.
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The Waveform #021: One Take, One Roof
Vera Lune plays 'Glasshouse' on the Wire roof with two mics and the traffic left in, plus Tbilisi's basements and an hour of music at walking pace.
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The Waveform #020: Basements of Tbilisi
Tbilisi kept dancing without its club. With Substation preparing to reopen, the network built in its absence has to decide what it wants next.
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The Waveform #019: Small Rooms, Big Records
Low Ceiling cap the room at 200 and produced a record to match, a defence of skipping, and five Reykjavik venues that were never meant to be venues.
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The Waveform #018: Slow Motion
Wire Mix 014 goes out free and never rises above walking pace, bedroom labels win on logistics, and DJ Provenance argues for metadata as memory.
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The Waveform #017: The Label in the Spare Room
What a label even is now: one-person operations beating majors on logistics, plus a cheap mic that will not die and a lullaby record made of concrete.
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The Waveform #016: Everything Louder Than Nothing
Kilo Nova build a club record out of a room emptying, the Fjord report lands, and a column on why you remember rooms better than choruses.
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The Waveform #015: Horizontal Rain
Three days of horizontal rain at the Fjord Festival, the brutal arithmetic of a 300-capacity room, and the roll of tape that saved the weekend.
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The Waveform #014: Eighty Dollars Well Spent
An eighty-dollar dynamic mic that outlives everything around it, five Reykjavik rooms built for other purposes, and a church full of contact mics.
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The Waveform #013: Music for Waiting Rooms
Wire Mix 013 lands for Studio Pass, DJ Provenance opens a spreadsheet going back to 2004, and three retired engineers keep the Baltic coast's last pressing machine turning.