https://www.nts.live/shows/theo-parrish/episodes/theo-parrish-17th-july-2022

Theo Parrish 170722

A carefully selected overview of the rich smorgasboard of Brazilian psychedelia and related music from the 1960s and 1970s, encompassing MBP, folk, jovem gaurda pop, and tropicália. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-brazilian-psychedelia-25th-august-2024

NTS Guide to: Brazilian Psychedelia 1960 - 1980 250824

The in-demand US DJ unfurls dubby, dance floor poetry.

Where does sentimentality fit on the dance floor? For Liv Klutse, AKA livwutang, the answer is everywhere. The New York-based DJ is guided by a deep desire to stir connection, finding themes and points of correspondence across an impressively broad range of sounds, tempos and eras. 

This emotional intuition lends Klutse's sets a depth few others can match. Her selections can seem unpredictable, rooted in an appreciation for feeling over genre—hard and soft sounds are carefully balanced with surrealism and bursts of nostalgia (for instance, the Lazy Dog bootleg edit of Everything But The Girl's "Tracey In My Room"). But as versatile as she is, a few signature traits colour her style, such as a love for dubwise music and rhythms from across the Black diaspora, alongside a refreshingly introspective energy that invites dancers to find moments of meditation—even during peak time. 

A former staffer at our New York office, Klutse has long merited an RA Podcast. Her slow-burning blends and mystical selections have graced near-enough every major festival and club out there, from Dekmantel and Sustain-Release to Nowadays, where she's been a resident since 2022. Despite this cross-continental touring schedule, she still plays plenty of grassroots venues—testament to her days with TUF collective and Orphan Radio in Seattle, as well as her enduring belief in the power of DIY, community-orientated dance music. 

"How did you come down off life?" James Massiah asks at the beginning of RA.975. Across nearly 90 minutes, Klutse's downright beautiful mix seeks answers to this question, reflecting on hedonism in times of political decay. She's in full-on dub mode, moving through meditative bassweight, glitchy house and flat-out weirdo techno with a deftness we've come to expect from one of the most promising, singular voices in dance music right now. She's got there all on her own terms—and we couldn't be prouder.

@livwutang

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RA.975 livwutang

MONEY DISC meets Dan Tager @ The Lot Radio

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456 Dub Street with MONEY DISC and Dan Tager @ The Lot Radio 03-16-2025

Dear Everybody......

Experience the futuristic musical TRANSCENDENCE of the FULL LIVE recording of my 6+ hour ALL NITE LONG TRANSCENDENTAL futuristic sound experience into the TRANSCENDENTAL DAWN after HTRK's LIVE performance at Making Time at a TRANSCENDENTAL Secret Location on Friday April 4th, 2025 !!!

Here's where you can experience the futuristic musical TRANSCENDENCE next.....

Friday May 9th - C2C Festival NYC - Knockdown Center / Queens, NY

Saturday May 17th - Club Doom at Cruel World Festival / Los Angeles, CA

Friday May 23rd - MTXXV with Helena Hauff, Djrum, Objekt, Kia @ A TRANSCENDENTAL Secret Location / Philadelphia, PA

Wednesday June 4th - BBC RADio 1 X Primavera Sound with Kelly Lee Owens & FCUKERS @ Nitsa Barcelona, Spain

Sunday June 8th - Primavera Sound Closing Party @ Nitsa / Barcelona, Spain

Saturday July 12th - Love International / Tisno, Croatia

CHOOSE TRANSCENDENCE. 

see you on the other side.

Love,
Dave P.

Dave P.....ALL NITE LONG at Making Time - April 4th, 2025

A rare club mix from the ever-evolving artist, with 90 minutes of shadowy, atmospheric pressure.

Music's therapeutic value is often linked to relaxation—gongs, singing bowls and the like. Dense passages of foggy droning and eerie static aren't traditionally considered restorative, but Laurel Halo makes a pretty good case for it.

The Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based musician's abstract, often improvised productions are heavy on sound design and emotional climax. Driven by atmosphere rather than rhythm, they push listeners to grapple with their innermost insecurities, fears and dreams. "I'm lucky my music has helped people through crises," Halo once told Discwoman. It's easy to see why.

Since her 2010 debut King Felix, Halo has built a stunningly diverse catalogue of classically-informed records. A multi-instrumentalist—piano, violin, guitar, keys—her sharpest instrument is arrangement. Inspired by the surrealism of Italo Calvino and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, her releases, from Atlas to Behind The Green Door, unfold with slow-burning narrative and dense emotional weight. Her soundworlds are layered and labyrinthine—an architectonic space where self-reflection happens almost by force.

Even in the club, the sought-after composer excels in immersion. Her sets extend the expressionist palette of her records, trading traditional rhythm for tension, space and surprise. It’s no wonder she takes a genre-agnostic approach to the dance floor—her deep roots in freeform radio began at WCBN-FM in Michigan, followed by Berlin Community Radio, Rinse FM, and now a regular show on NTS.

RA.992 stitches foggy ambient loops, propulsive techno, mutant percussion and heady left turns with care. Tracks from DJ Rush, Octave One and Eddie Fowlkes nod to her Midwestern heritage, balanced out by deeper, psychedelic fare from the likes of Polygonia and Cousin. It's the mark of an artist revealing both deep curiosity and a precise hand as a selector. Rare, indeed.

@laurelhalo

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RA.992 Laurel Halo

Kim Ann Foxman @ The Lot Radio 07-03-2025

Nocturnal acid lines and swirling, soft rotations meld mental spaces with melodic threads. Downtempo energies and soulful traces of ’90s R&B entwine with lava-lamp psychedelia and interstellar journeys. Smoky, visionary passages and unexpected intervals of ‘80s pop pay homage to the lost art of crate-digging and compilation craftsmanship.

The unmistakable Ivkovic signature emerges: slow-motion BPMs, drum-heavy basslines, and tastefully warped distortion — all blending into a masterclass in futuristic acid.

Experimental club culture shuffles through ISAbella’s grooves, echoing her role as a trailblazer of Barcelona’s queer nightlife and co-founder of the MARICAS collective.

Words by Laura Caprino

RA.362 Kyle Hall

Resident Advisor