NTS Radio S/D

I think the Autechre thread turned me on to this internet radio station? A+ curating and mixes, post your recommendations here.

Currently we are jamming contemporary Arabic music:

https://www.nts.live/shows/ma3azef/episodes/ma3azef-31st-march-2018

no wait it was that thread deej started abt "what feels fresh and new in 2018" where people mentioned this

The lee gamble ones are good

http://radio.garden/live/tolyatti/106i9fm/

this might belong on a different thread, but it is a fun resource for browsing the globe through radio.

For me it's gotta be Charlie Bones & The Do!!You!!! Breakfast Show or bust.

Soul/funk/boogie/reggae/house/highlife/jungle/cosmic electronics/yacht-y rock/other oddities

Great sense of humour, fun rapport w/ recurring guest DJs and killer overall taste

Am really selling it but for me it's the perfect/ultimate radio show where you end up adding hundreds of titles to yr Discogs wantlist while trying to wipe a goofy smile off yr face
https://www.nts.live/shows/the-do-you-breakfast-show

Yes! I've bigged up Do You a couple of times on ILM to a fairly muted response. i.e. radio's a dead duck, why listen to real people playing great music when you can listen to another soporiphic house mix on soundcloud? lol

Thank you Charlie Bones for brightening up my weekday mornings at work.

When I've caught the show I love what the Bahamian Moor guys play for southlondonpostpunkyachtbalearicindustrialdisco. Also Field Work's themed ambientnewageprotoidpop explorations just before them.

Also search out Trevor Jackson's mammoth interview with Trevor Horn.

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There's loads fo great stuff on NTS- some of my favourites...

Radio Fenriz - all things metal
https://www.nts.live/shows/radio-fenriz

Ted Draws for hip hop, particularly his year on year shows:
https://www.nts.live/shows/TED-DRAWS

OPTIMO
https://www.nts.live/shows/optimo

Test Pressing- Balearic loveliness
https://www.nts.live/shows/test-pressing

so many great shows i can't even remember what's good but i always make an effort to listen to moxie and unknown to the unknown (both house & techno). charlie bones is sometimes great and sometimes kinda meh depending on his guests. the one with young marco from a couple of weeks back was a classic though

Field Work! Lovely ambient, dub and new age show punctuated by bizarre found sounds and samples

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

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.

radio jiro is consistently great imo but i haven't quite worked that far back in the archives yet

Only quip with the mixtapes is that it doesn't give you a tracklist. Is that right, or am I not searching right?

really digging this ambient/mellow Luke Mele show from Jan. 23rd

Is there a proper way to see a live updated tracklist of NTS1/NTS2, as it's being played?

no but there's always IDs in the chat

I usually avoid chatrooms like the plague but this one pays off. Thanks Nick!

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

As much as I listen to NTS, somehow I've never found the chat!

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.

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!

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

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.

these king britt sessions are dooooooooooooope https://www.nts.live/shows/king-britt-presents-transmissions

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

Wishing for a round-up review of all the Warp shows, or an old-school liveblog.

The Mixcloud archives are going up now. There still isn't a great way to download & listen offline, is there (aside from 'Mixcloud Select')?

There are very easy paste-and-save services but you’ve still got 40kbps files at the end

anyone else now lost the ability to pause and rewind shows and getting a message about subscribing to mixcloud premium instead?

mixcloud premium is the worst

I've never been able to rewind on mixcloud (free, in the US), can at least pause though.

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.

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.

this kinda sucks, oh well. I usually put them on and just listen through anyway

mixcloud app (via the nts app) has always been super clunky, it flakes out all the time

i've actually been digging the infinite mixtapes a little, poolside cracks me up i love it

i don't want to be hyperbolic but like this site fucking rules. i don't really listen to much else. there is so MUCH

some of my favorite hosts

siren -adventurous and fun dance music, and a reminder that trance is cool again which i am pleased about because i've always loved trance
gost zvuk - weird electronic music exclusively from former soviet republics
doing time for airy laid back balaeric, reggae, soft rock
radio jiro for similar vibes
bumpin on sunset for similar vibes
donna leake, the best jazz fusion, nts jazz shows in general are fucking awesome
moxie for the house music
circuits for the house music
onra's been playing a lot of boogie and gfunk lately
autotune the world's cumbia episodes made me listen to cumbia for a month, the only substantial non-nts listening i did this summer
rhythm connection plays all KINDS of good dance music but the DJ
yayo - honestly i can't remember what yayo plays but i feel like i am always favoriting their episodes
king britt for wild synth ambient kosmiche electronic
felix hall for dancehall
rhythm section w/ bradley zero always has good music of all kinds but christ he needs to shut the fuck up, one of those djs who can't just let a track play but has to interrupt constantly. you think he's done when he gives a single shoutout or a track name -- he'll turn the volume back up ---then he turns it back down to give another shoutout -- volume up and i tink I AM FREE TO HEAR THIS AMAZING TRACK but nope here is another shoutout, then another, then a story about how he found that piece of wax at the corner shop back in the day, meanwhile the track is three minutes in and you give up

rhythm connection plays all KINDS of good dance music but the DJ

lol i started to type this but midway realized i was talking about rhythm section instead

Bradly Zero is insufferable. Wasn't he one of the Boiler Room hosts for a while?
Do You my most listened to show.

just checking this thread for recommendations - timely post marcos!

rhythm connection djs are the best, love listening to them natter <3

jonny mons plays a great mix of electronic / balearic / oddwave stuff

yea jonny mons is good!

i have been listening to this episode a lot, baile funk from dj cuica, it is wild and fun https://www.nts.live/shows/christopher-kirkley/episodes/autotune-the-world-w-christopher-kirkley-27th-september-2018

this was cool as fuck https://www.nts.live/shows/image-search/episodes/image-search-6th-november-2019

whoa! that looks amazing! i also really like the name of the show <3

cdmx tapes (mexico city label naafi) is one of the most exhilarating & fun shows on nts imo https://www.nts.live/shows/naafi

If anyone’s interested in the history of jungle, fabio and grooverider on charlie bones’ show today was a hugely entertaining

Thanks for the heads up, that sounds promising.

Ok who's heard a good NTS show lately, we need a quarantine guide

Kali Malone's mix from earlier this week is amazing if you're looking to ride Nordic early music/folk/drone waves
https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/kali-malone-24th-march-2020

Liked this Armenian exploration

https://www.nts.live/shows/panorama-yerevan/episodes/panorama-yerevan-16th-march-2020

recently discovered noodsradio.com and checked out an Ossia show on there

thanks to Albert R. Broccoli for posting these on the Boredoms thread

https://www.nts.live/shows/remote-utopias/episodes/eye-boredoms-3rd-may-2020

https://www.nts.live/shows/remote-utopias/episodes/yoshimio-ooioo-2nd-may-2020

damn a new all reggae/dub infinite mixtape!! https://www.nts.live/infinite-mixtapes/island-time

thanks

NTS Supporters - https://www.nts.live/supporters?utm_source=web&utm_medium=homepage%20slider&utm_campaign=always%20on

would prefer if they did a pledge drive, but signed up anyway

i think a pledge drive is something most people in the UK / Europe are not very familiar with.

I just love the idea of NTS residents standing by to take my call, though

the funding of nts has always been a mystery to me! will be happy to sign up to this though - probably listen to about 60-70 hours of nts per month, so it's the least i could do

(the joke being that public radio stations in the US do these annual pledge drives for donations where they spend what seems like half of air time asking you to call to donate, with coffee mugs and symphony tickets to entice you - it feels like you've wandered into a school selling baked goods for the girls volleyball team)

I am all for the pledge drive as i've always felt it is something i've missed out on.

haruomi hosono taking calls would be most excellent.

the funding of nts has always been a mystery to me! will be happy to sign up to this though - probably listen to about 60-70 hours of nts per month, so it's the least i could do

― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Thursday, July 2, 2020 5:45 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

mainly happened through events & event sponsorships, which is now obviously not possible

my pledge drive thing wasn't totally a joke - they really should be much more intrusive asking for $/£/€/¥

(or rather, it was a joke, but I realized an opportunity to make myself seem more clever than I am)

Anyone else having problems with the app on android? Works fine listening live, but if I'm catching up on an old show, it keeps cutting out if I have the app running in the background. Am assuming it's because it's streaming from mixcloud and mixcloud seems to be generally quite shit. Or maybe it's my phone?

Also hi to anyone who hangs out in the chat, I seem to spend more time talking gibberish on that these days than I do on ILX

I only do that when I know the dj, but it's pretty fun when I can actually listen live (ie when the UK time zone lines up with when I'm working during the day).

Is the chat generally very active? I think I've only checked it out on the very rare occasion I've been up in time to listen to Charlie Bones, and it has been quite active then.

always busy in the mornings, but uk afternoons can be pretty hectic too for certain shows - goes mad during moxie but also for ruf dug, eclair fifi, shanti celeste, flo... it's a dead zone during the evening though i think

coolio!

loving Raga Vibrations but not providing a tracklist reeks of "hey listen to this exotic music from the mysterious Orient"

that said this set has really made my day

For some reason I have not been taking advantage of NTS much during this time, aside from a couple shows by friends that I always catch up on. Maybe because the endless abyss of music it represents is not psychologically helpful at present. But I'm enjoying the radio today.

Any other favorite shows recently?

https://www.nts.live/infinite-mixtapes/rap-house
Billed as the music behind gta

Is it to possible to download NTS shows/mixes on whatever device you're using? Would like to put some on my old-ass ipod. I'm not the brightest when it comes to stuff like this! Thanks

I think you'd have to find it on mixcloud and use a downloader?

in case NTS wasn't too much, this station out of Lyon/Paris/Brusells has a similar range and presentation of its archives that makes it easy to find great stuff:
https://lyl.live/

found it via the Actual Grammar show, which is Joe Gilmore (Superpang) & Paul Emery

(Brussels, rather)

https://www.nts.live/shows/uk-garage-evolutions

NTS tracks the history of UK Garage via six shows consisting of mixes and interviews with some pivotal figures, all UK Garage is excellent anyway but but these are particularly so.

YES!!

thanking u, jamming now

Ooh I've been meaning to get into that, maybe this is what I need to finally figure out how to dl/listen to NTS shows in the car.

I was listening to the DJ Narrows interview + mix the other day. Good guy, great DJ, powerful producer. The big trifecta

the amapiano comp they (nts) assembled is really good too

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?!!