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Track created purely with guitar-generated sounds, no MIDI. 

New version uploaded in 02/2012 (original is from beginning 2011), new mix. Hard job, the recording quality isn't great... This was my first ambient track EVER :-)

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Christian unison singing from the thousand year span of the Byzantine Church. Selected by NTS. 

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-byzantine-chants-9th-march-2023

NTS Guide to: Byzantine Chants 090323

NTS selects an hour of emotional and measured guitar bands from the resonance of the post-hardcore explosion - Music from Codeine, Low, Karate, Red House Painters and more.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-slowcore-31st-march-2023

NTS Guide to: Slowcore 310323

Considered a reaction to the more lively bebop styles of jazz, the postwar era saw a rise in subdued styles, often referencing classical music. NTS selects two hours of cool jazz from Miles Davis, Chet Baker and more.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-cool-jazz-9th-april-2023

NTS Guide to: Birth of Cool - Postwar US Jazz 150423

Madlibs most heartache-inducing production moments, pulled from the vinyl depths of soul, gospel, and beyond. Featuring Anderson.Paak, Erykah Badu, Freddie Gibbs and more.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-5th-june-2023

NTS Guide to... Madlib's Romantic Beats 050623

Two hours of solo piano compositions from modern greats like Ryuichi Sakamoto, Laurel Halo, Mica Levi and more. Selected by NTS.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-21st-century-solo-piano-1st-august-2023

NTS Guide to: 21st Century Solo Piano 010823

A tour of some of the avant-garde sounds released on Blue Note, featuring recordings from Art Blakey, Donald Byrd, Wayne Shorter, Solomon Ilori & more. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-avant-garde-jazz-of-blue-note-records-30th-november-2023

NTS Guide to: Avant Garde Jazz of Blue Note Records 301123

An hour of mournful dirge for a sacrificial evening, playing a selection of funeral doom from Iran, Norway, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Sweden and more. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-funeral-doom-8th-january-2024

NTS Guide to: Funeral Doom 080124

In a [2011 New York Times article](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/magazine/the-fierce-imagination-of-haruki-murakami.html?pagewanted=5&ref=baseball), Murakami estimated that he owns 10,000 records, but was too afraid to count. Music is elemental to the atmosphere of the stories he creates, his works filled with quotations, references and inspiration from the music world; even entire novels are structured around musical pieces, as with 1Q84. 

In this Guide, NTS collects just a few of Murakami's classical references found in his novels. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-classical-works-in-murakami-novels-23rd-january-2024

NTS Guide to: Classical Works in Murakami Novels 230124

'Skótos' is a collection of gloomy soundscapes portraying a year of life in Scotland. Based on improvisation, deconstructed organic sounds and field recordings taken during everyday life, hikes and wild camping trips in the Highlands, this dark ambient piece serves as a kaleidoscope of intoxicated memories of the artist: constantly swinging between moments of joy and pure darkness, love and apathy, oneness with nature and hallucination, nostalgia and escapism, the album is a rough yet emotional journal of life experiences in one of the most fascinating and wild areas of Europe.

They Sing At False Dawns

Tracing the post-punk edge of 1980s Los Angeles; sun-drenched dream experimentation, goth, and other weirdo ephemera from the fringe. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-life-and-death-on-sunset-strip-19th-november-2024

Life And Death on Sunset Strip - NTS Guide To 80's LA Post Punk, Dream and other Weirdness 191124

'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... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-jazz-in-murakami-novels-21st-november-2024

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.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-sahara-blues-14th-march-2025

NTS Guide to: Sahara Blues 140325

An hour of Ryuichi Sakamoto's piano focussed compositions, in memory of the legendary musician's passing.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-sakamoto-piano-works-28th-march-2025

NTS Guide to: Sakamoto's Piano Works 280325

A snapshot of a short-lived microgenre, created by a niche network of producers in New York, fusing two of the dominant sounds of the city in the mid 2000s – the ostentatious, trunk-knocking drum programming of Diplomats beats, and the euphoric big-room trance sounds spilling from the city's clubs. Dipset Trance.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-dipset-trance-8th-april-2025

NTS Guide to: Dipset Trance  080425

The LA Beat Scene emerged in the early 2000s as a loose community of producers pushing instrumental hip-hop into new territory. Built around live nights like Kutmah's Sketchbook, and later Low End Theory, it created space for new kinds of sampling, strange drum programming and a DIY approach to sharing music. This mix brings together artists central to the scene’s development - Flying Lotus, Ras G, Teebs, Samiyam, Knxwledge, and others who shaped its sound from bedrooms, basements and backrooms across LA. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-la-beat-scene-13th-may-2025

NTS Guide to: LA Beat Scene 130525

A meeting of minds: Hashman Deejay & Eranthos Beretta captured live at the Aquarium, deepest West Footscray, Melbourne. 

A journey through varying rhythms & electronics of many colours - %100 Neuromance guaranteed. 

GGHQ mix #20 - We made it! 

DEEP AS THE OCEAN ITSELF

GGHQ Mix #20 : Hashman Deejay & Eranthos Beretta - Simstim Connecter (Vancouver/Tottenham)

German DJ Vladimir Ivkovic is resident at Dusseldorf’s Salon des Amateurs, and he has truly made the place his own over the last 12 years. Quite what to expect from him on any given night is anyone’s guess: he can do folk and experimental, sludgy techno or abrasive noise that is always original and arresting in equal measure. The Belgrade born artist also runs Offen Music and manages Loco Dice’s Desolat, and this year will close down our Selector’s stage, something we're truly looking forward to.

And it is that fact which informs the 80 minute podcast he has done for us here. Designed for soul soothing and post party contemplation, it is a meditative mix with basically no drums. Instead it is about suspensory ambient sounds, worldly lullabies and blissed out Balearic moments that encourage you to lay back and stare into the sky. As beautiful as it is beguiling, it is a mix that has us very excited for what is to come and proves what a singular talent this man is.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 115 - Vladimir Ivkovic

Recording of our weekly Dekmantel Radio show at @redlightradio.

First hour: Orpheu The Wizard
Second hour: Sekan (Jiwa Jiwa)

Dekmantel Radio

Dekmantel Radio w/ Orpheu The Wizard & Sekan (21/07/2017)

Hello - And happy new year!

Welcome to our first GGHQ mix of 2018, it's a special one! 

We're very pleased to offer up this sumptuous selection of varied rhythms from the Finnish West Coast's finest - DJ Vesa Matti. A name that should be familiar to those with a penchant for the deeper angles of esoteric electronic explorations. A true sonic explorer, this guy and his Ljudverket crew have put out some of the most interesting left-field sounds in recent times. Here though, we are treated to a slew of killer records and deep rhythms mixed for your pleasure by the man himself. 

Dive in, you won't regret it.

More here - https://soundcloud.com/ljudverket

GGHQ Mix #38 : DJ Vesa Matti - 'Some Of That Bongo Spirit'

Asia-inspired ambient mix on Klasse Wrecks Wradio-show, broadcasted on LYL Radio (12.10.18). Dial up, tune in and zone out.

++ be sure to check out "Double Vision EP" by Luca Lozano & Telephones, 12" out on Klasse Wrecks now!  https://klassewrecks.bandcamp.com/album/double-vision-ep

Ambient Asia Mix @ Wrecks Wradio (LYL Radio 12.10.18)

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NTS Guide to: Byzantine Chants 090323

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