Trailing down the dusty highway at dusk, soundtracked by Western-flavoured downtempo sounds. Lapsteels, anachronistic electronics, and deconstructed country ballads.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-ambient-americana-16th-february-2023

Dust To Dust: The NTS Guide to Ambient Americana 160223

2 hours of 80's Euro Pop 
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NTS Guide to: 80s French & Belgian Disco Pop 220624

Part two of The NTS Guide To Ambient Americana. Trailing down the dusty highway at dusk, soundtracked by Western-flavoured downtempo sounds. Lapsteels, anachronistic electronics, and deconstructed country ballads. 
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Dust To Dust - The NTS Guide To Ambient Americana Vol 2 211024

'Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on thick, forbidding chords. Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody’s - a nameless, faceless somebody’s - dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness. Or at least that’s how it sounds to me. The patient, repeating music ever so slowly breaks apart the real, rearranging the pieces. It has a hypnotic, menacing smell, just like the forest'

Music, and specifically jazz, has always featured heavily in the literary imagination of Haruki Murakami. In this radio special, NTS lays down two hours of jazz records as featured throughout Murak... 
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NTS Guide to: Jazz In Murakami Novels 211124

A two hour overview of the distinctive blues and rock sounds from North Africa, a loose assimilation of artists and styles often dubbed "Sahara blues" or "Desert blues". The music is frequently associated with (but not exclusively) the nomadic Tuareg peoples who made the music famous around the world.  
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NTS Guide to: Sahara Blues 140325

Artist: New World
Track: Stay (Original Mix)
Label: RIOTVAN
Release date: 16/05/2025
Buy: www.beatport.com/es/release/stay/5047135

PREMIERE: New World - Stay (Original Mix) [RIOTVAN]

A deep dive into scenes, record labels and genres from around the world. 
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NTS Guide to: Mexican Discoteca (70s-90s) 200525

For this edition of Off The Record, we’re honored to host a mix from Rob Sevier, co-founder of the legendary archival label Numero Group. Known for its meticulous approach to uncovering and reissuing lost gems across soul, funk, punk, ambient, and beyond, Numero has earned its place as a gold standard for crate diggers and curious listeners alike. Sevier, a tireless researcher and selector, brings that same curatorial depth to his exclusive mix—a deep dive into self-released and small-label funk-adjacent singles from Ohio, Texas, Michigan, and Georgia. Alongside the mix, we caught up with him to talk DJing in hidden corners of Japan, the joys of non-allegiance to any one digging method, and what’s next for one of the most important archival projects in music.

Off The Record Mix Series 58: Numero Group (Mixed By Rob Sevier)

Mix of Italian ambient/minimalist/avant-garde music, mostly emanating from institutions supporting the visual arts in cities like Milan and Rome: theatre production soundtracks, video installations and architectural studies. Ethnographic plunderphonics, post-Battiato spiritual minimalism and hypnotic FM patterns, flowing with Mediterranean fourth world currents throughout.

tracklist:
Daniel Bacalov ‎– “Africa L’Animali” Il Ladro Di Anime
O.A.S.I. ‎– “Il Gioco Dei Sogni” Il Cavaliere Azzurro
Roberto Musci / Giovanni Venosta – “Nexus On The Beach” Water Messages On Desert Sand
Piero Milesi / Daniel Bacalov ‎– “Camera 2° Parte” La Camera Astratta
Riccardo Sinigaglia ‎– “Attraverso (excerpt)” Riflessi
Elicoide – “Mitochondria (excerpt)” Elicoide
The Doubling Riders ‎– “Chinese Comedy” Doublings & Silences Vol. II
Roberto Laneri ‎– “Animalia” from Anadyomene
Goffredo Haus ‎– “Cielo” Musiche Per Poche Parti
Francesco Messina ‎– “Comunicazioni Interne” Medio Occidente
Roberto Donnini ‎– “T 2 A (excerpt)” Tunedless
Mario Piacentini / Roberto Bonati / Anthony Moreno – “Sealed in a Transparent Cube” Frozen Pool
Magazzini Criminali / Jon Hassell – “Camminavo Nella Sera Piena Di Lilla” Sulla Strada
Vincenzo Zitello “Arilels” Et Vice-Versa
Roberto Mazza “Stanze Parallele” Scoprire Le Orme
Raffaele Serra – “Maldoror Theme” Kodak Ghost Poems
Giovanni Venosta ‎– “Woman In Late” Olympic Signals
Andreolina ‎– “Music In A Small Room” An Island In The Moon
Piero Milesi (w/Riccardo Sinigaglia) ‎– “The Presence Of The City” The Nuclear Observatory Of Mr. Nanof

Cover image: Munari Apartment Venice, Sottsass/Cibic.

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Music Interiors Vol. 2: Interni Italiani

Rock The Box Vol.1

First Touch - Sure Feels Good To Me

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Eastern-European folk music and its modern refractions - Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, Czech Republic, former Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary.

- Liaudies Muzikos Teatro Trupė - Intakas
- Hamlet Gonashvili - Tsintskaro
- Ženklo Grupė - Ratas
- Irena & Vojtěch Havlovi - Jako Motýl Na Tvé Dlani
- Gjirokastra Folk Festival, Albania, 1988 (Artist Unknown) - Melodi Me Fyej, Dyjare, Zile E Imitues
- Folk Ensemble of Vilnius State University - Let the Hops Grow (Spring Sutartinė)
- Gordian Knot Company - Parijs
- Jieva Mockienė - Plauke pylele
- István Mártha - Templom (ft. Márta Sebestyén)
- Capella Antiqua E Moderna - Marnost Křídel
- Mtiebi Choir - Zamtaria
- Boris Kovač - Folk Prelude: Love Sick
- Miina Lambot & Anna Paalberg - Noorik lahkub isakodunt
- Oldřich Janota - Obrácený Vodotrysk
- Vízöntő - Amerikás Dal
- Veronika Povilionienė ir Petras Vyšniauskas - Vidury Laukų Grūšelė Auga
- Lola V. Stain - Rani Jadi
- Jievaras - Rimo Rimo, Tūtoj
- Dhurim Ballo, Sotir Ballo, Nazo Celaj, Trifon Golemi, Hyso Xhaferraj - We Live Among Strangers (text: Yona Friedman)
- Evaldas Vyčinas & Daiva Račiūnaitė - Ei, smūtna liūdna mano širdelė
- Kiri Uu - Ilus Neiu Kiigel
- Dezső Tandori, Cserepes - Miért Csináljuk
- Argo - Daina I

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