who and when?
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 10:08 (six years ago) link
https://www.nts.live/shows/chicago-takeover
― lowercase (eric), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 10:30 (six years ago) link
how the hell do you manage & keep track of shows? there's so many and i can't figure out how reasonably keep track of where i left off, which ones to save or bookmark or whatever. i thought maybe the mixcloud app would have some mechanism for this but it was so rudimentary and shitty that i deleted it after 5 minutes of use. i want to be able to seamlessly pick up where i left off and save shows the way i do w/, say, podcasts on on the native iOS podcast app
― marcos, Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
sounds of the dawn is amaaaaaazing ty
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Tuesday, September 11, 2018 1:59 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it really is! of the few years of shows up there i think i've only passed one 2 or 3. if you like sotd you might like microdosing, not quite as good but close https://www.nts.live/shows/microdosing
― marcos, Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
passed on* 2 or 3
― marcos, Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
there's an NTS app for iOS that lets you favorite shows and episodes
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 11 October 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
doesnt work for android though
oh cool I didn’t know, perfect
― marcos, Thursday, 11 October 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
I sometimes think about how if I made NTS my only source of music listening, it would still be a bottomless wellspring.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, April 30, 2018 10:42 AM (six months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yea it's probably 90% of what i listen to now. three to four clicks at most between the live sets and the archives and i'll hear something new and interesting.
radio, when you have a good host w/ some conception of a program and you are open to what they are doing, is truly wonderful, one of the best ways of hearing recorded music. i love passing over control to this person and going where they want to go, it can be an intimate experience especially w/ live radio, you feel very aware of this other person somewhere else hearing it with you. radio also helps me surrender that possessive, consumptive drive of a collector, of needing to *to own* music, regardless of format, so that i can queue it up again at will and incorporate into some kind of a collection. i don't want a collection anymore. it's not that fun to pick out an album to listen to from a shelf or my files. i usually want someone else to do it.
― marcos, Friday, 9 November 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
^^
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 November 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
favourite shows atm?
― Herb Achelors (NickB), Friday, 9 November 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
yea! i like all these shows despite not really being familiar w/ a lot of the music, that's part of the appeal for me, other ilxors might look at the setlists and think that shit is pedestrian and that's fine, i am a pedestrian.
erased tapes japan specials can be really good - https://www.nts.live/shows/erased-tapes/episodes/erased-tapes-19th-february-2018 the four elements: japanese ambient, environmental, new age & healing music 1980-1993 - https://www.nts.live/shows/the-four-elements-japanese-ambient-environmental-new-age-healing-music-1980-1993that recent siren show w/ rui ho starts off a little slow but gets super fun - https://www.nts.live/shows/siren/episodes/siren-w-rui-ho-1st-november-2018some parts of silvia kastel's set the other day were really wild https://www.nts.live/shows/carla-dal-forno/episodes/silvia-kastel-30th-october-2018sounds of the dawn is consistently great as i mentioned earlier itt - https://www.nts.live/shows/soundsofthedawnkaitlyn aurelia smith's touchtheplants is generally great though i'm not as into the folk and pop stuff she sometimes playskranky's monthly set is good for catching up on their stuff, occasionally boring but mostly good - https://www.nts.live/shows/krankyautotune the world had some really good pop & dance from the middle east the other day - https://www.nts.live/shows/christopher-kirkley/episodes/autotune-the-world-w-christopher-kirkley-25th-october-2018
― marcos, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
ive been leaning mostly toward ambient, experimental, new age, some house & techno & various dance. genres beyond that i'll listen to live but haven't gone into any archives really
― marcos, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
YES: thank you for those links. i've heard a few of those shows. i haven't listened to the four elements show, but i've been obsessively listening to the three releases in the Wave Notation series recently (Music for Nine Postcards by Hiroshi Yoshimura is the most well-known, but Still Way by Satoshi Ashikawa is even better, somehow)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
oh rad i don't know those!
― marcos, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
i barely know anything about them. i just put this on while i'm drinking coffee and reading and i love it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaWdVJO5H98
― Karl Malone, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
and somehow knowing this adds something to the listening experience:
Ashikawa died a few months after this, his only record, came out at just 30 years old (in some kind of traffic accident). His death didn't just spell the end of the Wave Notation project, it also marked the end of his Sound Process label which had previously put out Hiroshi Yoshimura's 'Music For Nine Post Cards' and Satsuki Shibano's 'Erik Satie'.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
NTS app needs option to save mix to ur phone so u CD. Listen offline
― flopson, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
*can
I love youarelistening.to: https://www.nts.live/shows/youarelisteningto
― bamboohouses, Saturday, 10 November 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
thank u, youarelistening.to is great!
― marcos, Monday, 12 November 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
this episode of lightning conductor is so fucking good https://www.nts.live/shows/lena-willikens/episodes/lena-wilikens-7th-february-2018
― marcos, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
sarah davachi's 'le jardin' is a gorgeous hour for tuning in if you like prog, kraut, neo-classical... https://www.nts.live/shows/sarah-davachi
― meaulnes, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 04:02 (five years ago) link
^ Thanks for that!
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
They have an app now (iOS only?)
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
awesome! thanks for the heads up. it lets you favorite hosts and specific episodes
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
I've been looking for NTS recommendations for a while and this thread is a goldmine. Albeit there is something terrifying about the abyssal nature of this; not to mention finding a way to circumvent my need to archive and track everything I listen to (the mania for needing to know who and where and when).
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
embrace the abyss and surrender the archivist impulse
― marcos, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
(the app is nice tho)
but yea lightning conductor is so rad, so many of her shows are uniformly stellar, super dark and spacious, wonderful textures
adam oko's show is great too. the second hour of this show was nuts, amazing percussion throughout https://www.nts.live/shows/adam-oko/episodes/adam-oko-2nd-september-2018
raga vibrations (https://www.nts.live/shows/raga-vibrations) has been a regular for me too. i've been listening to ragas regularly for 20 years and keep going to the same names so it's been great to have exposure to unfamiliar ones and more variety
― marcos, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
the genre tags are nice even if not always accurate. for me anything w/ "ambient" "kosmische" "fourth world" "japanese traditional" "minimalism" "new age" "drone" has been p reliable
― marcos, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
lol yes that has been working for me as well
― sleeve, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
The app hs been out for awhile we talked about it upthread they only just announced it
What is new is the “mixtapes” section which browses by like ... meta-genre. There’s one called “poolside” that’s all balaeric
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 14 December 2018 02:07 (five years ago) link
iOS only, gutted
― boxedjoy, Friday, 14 December 2018 09:39 (five years ago) link
Loving the latest Acid Memories.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 20 January 2019 12:10 (five years ago) link
this show! https://www.nts.live/shows/radio-jiro/episodes/radio-jiro-14th-november-2016
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
Thank you! NTS is both a blessing and a curse: there's just too much good music and shows on there.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
radio jiro is consistently great imo but i haven't quite worked that far back in the archives yet
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
Only quip with the mixtapes is that it doesn't give you a tracklist. Is that right, or am I not searching right?
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
really digging this ambient/mellow Luke Mele show from Jan. 23rd
― sleeve, Saturday, 26 January 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
Is there a proper way to see a live updated tracklist of NTS1/NTS2, as it's being played?
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 February 2019 10:40 (five years ago) link
no but there's always IDs in the chat
― goats eat grandma (NickB), Monday, 18 February 2019 10:45 (five years ago) link
I usually avoid chatrooms like the plague but this one pays off. Thanks Nick!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 February 2019 10:57 (five years ago) link
on some shows the DJ will respond in the chat, other shows they'll post the setlist in the chat while the show is going out
― goats eat grandma (NickB), Monday, 18 February 2019 11:03 (five years ago) link
As much as I listen to NTS, somehow I've never found the chat!
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 18 February 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
Had no idea there was a chat. The NTS digital presence looks great, and looks like it should be easy to navigate, but it isn't at all. Fortunately, the self-selected audience doesn't mind digging around and being baffled. Am I on Mixcloud? Will this archived set show a playlist? What happens when i click on a new show while one is playing? It seems different each time, but the delight of the programming outweighs frustration.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Monday, 18 February 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
Ah I had that for a short while, but you'll get used to these things quickly. I kind of like having to put in *some* effort as a listener to find your way around idk. Never knew about the cht either, but that's because it's the last thing I'd look for. Proves useful for track id's though!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 February 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
chat gets pretty lively at times, mostly during uk mornings (charlie bones show), also for ruf dug and moxie and flo and a few other afternoon things. those djs do tend to talk back to the chat a lot, so sometimes stuff makes more sense if you're in there. it's mostly nonsense but it's quite funny sometimes
― goats eat grandma (NickB), Monday, 18 February 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
i listen to charlie bones early morning at the gym and then entertain myself at work by scrolling way back into the chat to get all the track ids i missed.
― adam, Monday, 18 February 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
these king britt sessions are dooooooooooooope https://www.nts.live/shows/king-britt-presents-transmissions
― marcos, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
this was publically revealed months ago. odd he only mentions it now.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 16:42 (ten months ago) link
feels alarmist
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 17:27 (ten months ago) link
i do think it seems like an odd match but also feel those who run NTS know what they are doing and aren't into it purely for the £s.
i thought it was interesting that Peter Gabriel was revealed to have been an early big investor too.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 17:33 (ten months ago) link
I would love to live in a world where grassroots culture organisations are able to thrive independently, and I'm a proud paying supporter of NTS. That said, this feels nothing new in that NTS have been running spon-con for distinctly un-grassroots companies like Nike, Uniqlo, Rockstar for years.
It does also feel different to the Bandcamp situation in that the NTS template is, and has proven, to be infinitely replicable. It does feel like we're living in a golden age of eclectic community radio. If NTS falls I'll be very sad but the question of "well what do we use now?" is quickly and comprehensively answerable, unlike with Bandcamp.
(Tangential thought - maybe the company we should all be on tenterhooks about is Mixcloud, given how central their archives are to so many small radio operations, including NTS. If THEY go...)
― bamboohouses, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 08:42 (ten months ago) link
Can't say I'm thrilled about this, but the bigger picture is NTS losing their Arts Council funding earlier this year. Whether the Universal investment preceded that or not, it's another example of the increasingly grim situation for publicly funded culture in the UK.
― Composition 40b (Stew), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 09:51 (ten months ago) link
that's a very salient point, I had no idea
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 10:05 (ten months ago) link
Bit of context here: NTS was an National Portfolio Organisation, in that it got funding for 3 years. They may still be getting smaller project grants etc, but it's harder for them to plan ahead.
https://bachtrack.com/news-arts-council-england-contemporary-music-cuts-november-2022
― Composition 40b (Stew), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 10:27 (ten months ago) link
just to add that i don't think it's a good thing they are in bed with UMG but i'm way less concerned about this than the Bandcamp situation.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 16:31 (ten months ago) link
You can rewind on Mixcloud now?!!
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 11 December 2023 18:18 (nine months ago) link