NTS Radio S/D

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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

thank u, youarelistening.to is great!

this episode of lightning conductor is so fucking good https://www.nts.live/shows/lena-willikens/episodes/lena-wilikens-7th-february-2018

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

^ Thanks for that!

They have an app now (iOS only?)

awesome! thanks for the heads up. it lets you favorite hosts and specific episodes

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).

embrace the abyss and surrender the archivist impulse

(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

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

lol yes that has been working for me as well

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

iOS only, gutted

Loving the latest Acid Memories.

this show! https://www.nts.live/shows/radio-jiro/episodes/radio-jiro-14th-november-2016

Thank you! NTS is both a blessing and a curse: there's just too much good music and shows on there.

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?!!