NTS Radio S/D

the steve davis + kavus shows are always A++ great if you like weirdo prog sounds

Great thread idea. Some shows I regularly check for, mostly electronic:

Akito (contemporary club music)
The Astral Plane (experimental electronic & dance music)
Nite Bus Radio w/Gage (grime, UK dance, etc)
LOFT (experimental electronic)
Livity Sound (UK techno/dance)

But honestly, between the two channels I can always find something interesting when I'm cooking or at work.

Especially with all the shows archived on Mixcloud, I sometimes think about how if I made NTS my only source of music listening, it would still be a bottomless wellspring.

thanks, everyone. I went deep down the New Age rabbit hole yesterday, great stuff

i mentioned this on the autechre thread, but my introduction to NTS was haruomi hosono day: https://www.nts.live/shows/haruomi-hosono-ymo-day

A 15-hour tribute to the influential Japanese songwriter, Haruomi Hosono, known from his prolific productions and work in the electronic trio, Yellow Magic Orchestra. Expect mixes exploring his career and adjacent music from NTS' most dedicated Hosono-philes.

it's a great soundtrack to a weekend. visible cloaks did a great deep dive all-hosono set, and i really liked jen monroe's set that leans on hosono but also branches out into other music from the era. and for those that aren't familiar with YMO, 2ManyDJs' set was more focused on them.

NTS is a good twitter account to follow, too.

Jordan's right, it's an embarrassment of riches

Weatherall of course always worth a listen!
https://www.nts.live/shows/andrewweatherall

Great thread idea, there's so much good stuff - embarrassment of riches is right!

Usually I find something from the recent NTS Picks or when tuning in to what's live. In addition to what's been mentioned above, I do always look forward to (and warmly recommend) the Blackest Ever Black/Low Company and Silent Servant shows (for post-punk, wave, dark techno and electro, etc.), Whities and Livity Sound (for new leftfield techno), Quiet Storm (for RnB and Jazz), and Sees to Exist and Jazzman for Jazz.

Also having the archives is amazing, as I'll randomly discover a new show I'm feeling and have a treasure trove of back eps to listen to.

xp on the Discogs wantlist...it's not just Charlie Bones who does that!

Especially with all the shows archived on Mixcloud, I sometimes think about how if I made NTS my only source of music listening, it would still be a bottomless wellspring.

Yes! I listen to the NTS archives on Mixcloud at work, just dipping in and queuing up things with interesting names (so no doubt missing lots of good stuff) and always manage to queue up more shows in a week than I actually get round to listening to.

Given the hit rate and the randomness of my clicking I feel a bit bad trying to pick favourites, but still - lately I remember enjoying shows by Trevor Jackson, Carla dal Forno, Samuel Kerridge, Not Waving, Silent Servant, mostly on some kind of spectrum between post-punk and post-industrial techno sludge. Particularly enjoyed Not Waving throwing some Italo tracks in along the way too.

nts has been my work soundtrack since spotify stopped working on my computer six months ago. best thing that's happened to my listening in a long time

I'm extra-appreciative of NTS/Mixcloud today since Soundcloud is having struggles (was down for a few hours, now going in and out).

i love NTS

what shows do you like?

its a fairly recent discovery for me (see: the origins of this thread) but got super into this show:

https://www.nts.live/shows/naafi

they just did one yesterday hopefully its up on mixcloud soon

also for obvious reasons,

https://www.nts.live/shows/radio-free-numero/episodes/the-numero-group-8th-february-2018

The Haxan Cloak has done a few shows I've really loved, and Test Pressing is always great.

its a fairly recent discovery for me (see: the origins of this thread) but got super into this show:

https://www.nts.live/shows/naafi

This is shocking to me, I'm shocked

???

Mostly kidding, but NAAFI seems a little "frankendance" for your tastes

(cool though!)

idk maybe it gets that way sometimes but i didnt have that problem w this episode: https://www.nts.live/shows/naafi/episodes/cdmx-tapes-30th-april-2018

it just mainly felt like uptempo banging dance music that wasnt afraid of some subtle groove shifts for rhythmic variety

Well, then I have a lot of music for you. NTS-wise, you should at least check out Akito's show that I linked up upthread.

Also worth mentioning Jack Rollo's weekly slot on Do You every Monday morning. Lots of weird and wonderful sounds.

NTS live?

Also william basinski's doing a show today

sounds of the dawn is such a good program https://www.nts.live/shows/soundsofthedawn

this rules, dubbed out spacey blip goodness:

https://soundcloud.com/the-trilogy-tapes/ttt-nts-cs-kreme

https://www.nts.live/shows/jamma-dee

Love these Jamma Dee shows a lot, recommended if you're into 80s soul, new jack swing and 90s garage house

sounds of the dawn is amaaaaaazing ty

damn an ilxor booked an eight hour block of programming and it never got mentioned smh

who and when?

https://www.nts.live/shows/chicago-takeover

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

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

passed on* 2 or 3

there's an NTS app for iOS that lets you favorite shows and episodes

doesnt work for android though

oh cool I didn’t know, perfect

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.

^^

favourite shows atm?

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-1980-1993
that 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-2018
some 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-2018
sounds of the dawn is consistently great as i mentioned earlier itt - https://www.nts.live/shows/soundsofthedawn
kaitlyn aurelia smith's touchtheplants is generally great though i'm not as into the folk and pop stuff she sometimes plays
kranky's monthly set is good for catching up on their stuff, occasionally boring but mostly good - https://www.nts.live/shows/kranky
autotune 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

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

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)

oh rad i don't know those!

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

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'.

NTS app needs option to save mix to ur phone so u CD. Listen offline

*can

I love youarelistening.to: https://www.nts.live/shows/youarelisteningto

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSy5F3Cscrd/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

end of an era

yeah, will miss it hugely

Got me through a lot of mornings when I was doing a dull desk job. He did ask me to be a guest on the show a few months back which was quite funny, but it never quite happened, more's the pity (if you ever listened to doyou jukebox, i'm faustapes). Anyhow some great shows in the archives - it's really had a big impact on my tastes, discovered a lot of amazing music along the way

if you ever listened to doyou jukebox, i'm faustapes

starstruck rn

ditto lol

aww shucks :)

Out to Faustapes, out to the Self-Existing Eagle

Heartbreaking

I loved the music of course but the tone / affect of the show, the low stakes, unpressured feel of how it was run, was such a huge part of its appeal… so refreshing on today’s internet

For sure--a cosmic alignment of the funniest high-strung-yet-chill guy with the best taste ever

This is surprising: https://thevinylfactory.com/news/charlie-bones-launching-do-you-radio/

anyone catch theo parrish' 6-hour live set yesterday? shit was SO good

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/theo-parrish-six-hour-mix-28th-november-2021

ah damn nm it's not available on that link

i had it on during my kid's birthday party, there was some dancing

ahh that is awesome we listened to it while i played chess w/ my kids just passing the hours it was so good

available here!

https://www.nts.live/shows/theo-parrish/episodes/theo-parrish-28th-november-2021

Eclair Fifi had a bit of a mare today - she opened her show with a yasuaki shimizu track of his album IQ-179, and I think she just intended to play some interesting textural stuff to ease into the set with, but unfortunately she played the one with Hitler speeches and people sieg heiling all over the place and I'm not sure anyone was quite ready for that, I think she almost died of embarrasment. My heart went out to her but also it was quite funny. Anyway, I'm not entirely sure what shimizu's intentions were with that piece, but djs beware!

Should say the rest of the show was excellent though as always, she's the best

amazing.

have been enjoying the new morning lineup, flo and zakia are extremely good but john gomez, lupini and ruf dug have been killing it in the slot right after.

scratcha is unbearable though. boring selections, unending unfunny patter.

That's too bad, I'm a fan of his music and twitter account.

(omg @ Hitler ambient)

Downloaded the app a few weeks ago, what an embarrassment of riches.. Theo Parrish is one of the new regulars announced for '22, 5hr show from Jan 30 now available

Not really nts news so sorry for thread abuse but I'm doing a show on c.bones' do you radio tomorrow at noon UK time: https://doyou.world/

that's awesome, congrats

thanks map! It's a pre-record because I can't get to their studio and I'm regretting some of my choices already (mostly there's way too much record nerd chat iirc), but lol I've never recorded a mix before, let alone a radio show so I'm amazed I even got this far

I mean it did turn out okay, it's not a total disaster anyway!

Slightly tangential, but it looks like Mixcloud updated their Premium plans last night, and offline listening is now available for all shows on the Premium plan. (Previously it was only available on a per-creator basis via their Select thing). This means offline listening for the NTS archives, plus all the other radio stations that use Mixcloud for their archives (Dublab, Noods...). Given that I currently have to commute on the tube, this is good news.

my friend put together this fantastic show that aired over the weekend exploring 'spoken word' in various forms

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/plastic-language-5th-november-2022

ugh

Not sure how this hasn't been mentioned in the music press already, especially since the deal went down months ago, but I wrote about @NTSlive and its surprising new investor in today's @_FirstFloor. pic.twitter.com/sn7x5LCHJa

— Shawn Reynaldo (@ShawnReynaldo) October 24, 2023

O no

this was publically revealed months ago. odd he only mentions it now.

feels alarmist

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.

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...)

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.

that's a very salient point, I had no idea

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

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.

You can rewind on Mixcloud now?!!