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 (four years ago) link
As part of the Warp Records takeover on NTS Radio, Brian Eno has teamed up with Extinction Rebellion to create an hour long piece which will be broadcast on Sunday June 23rd at 16.00 BST - https://nts.live/wxaxrxp
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
Wishing for a round-up review of all the Warp shows, or an old-school liveblog.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 24 June 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
The Mixcloud archives are going up now. There still isn't a great way to download & listen offline, is there (aside from 'Mixcloud Select')?
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 24 June 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
There are very easy paste-and-save services but you’ve still got 40kbps files at the end
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 24 June 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
anyone else now lost the ability to pause and rewind shows and getting a message about subscribing to mixcloud premium instead?
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
mixcloud premium is the worst
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
I've never been able to rewind on mixcloud (free, in the US), can at least pause though.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
TBH I kind of wish that NTS would join that new "Mixcloud Select" thing so that we can get offline access via the Mixcloud app. I'd pay a fiver a month for that, given how extensive the NTS archive is.
I find it baffling that Mixcloud Premium doesn't include offline access, which is pretty much the one thing they could offer that I'd feel incentivised to pay for.
― bamboohouses, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 11:07 (four years ago) link
I mightconsider premium if they improved their app which is very glitchy, at least for me. I'll really miss the ability to scroll through NTS shows uninhibited.
― millmeister, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
this kinda sucks, oh well. I usually put them on and just listen through anyway
― sleeve, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
mixcloud app (via the nts app) has always been super clunky, it flakes out all the time
― marcos, Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
i've actually been digging the infinite mixtapes a little, poolside cracks me up i love it
― marcos, Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link