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A Multi layered/multi genre mix of soft dance beats

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Kissen @ The Lot Radio 01 - 08 - 2023

MCR king-pin selector takes on the Soup To Nuts slot, mid-morning matters from NTS's burliest DJ.

https://www.nts.live/shows/tom-boogizm/episodes/tom-boogizm-tom-boogizm-soup-to-nuts-7th-march-2023

Soup To Nuts w/ Tom Boogizm 070323

NTS selects rap music with piano led instrumentals, featuring glittering jazz gangster rap from Westside Gunn, club rap bangers from Thugger and more.

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

NTS Guide to: Piano Rap 310323

https://www.nts.live/shows/adab/episodes/adab-22nd-april-2023

Heaven is in You w/ ADAB 210423

The Blackest Ever Black released singer-songwriter Carla Dal Forno stops by NTS' London studio once a month for an hour-long show featuring original productions side by side with old favourites and inspirations ranging from minimal synth to folk and dream pop...

https://www.nts.live/shows/carla-dal-forno/episodes/carla-dal-forno-6th-june-2023

Carla Dal Forno 060623

https://www.nts.live/shows/dreamcast/episodes/dreamcast-22nd-july-2023

Dreamcastmoe w/ Sami 210723

Joyful global club sounds with NYC via London party starter The Large 
https://www.nts.live/shows/the-large/episodes/the-large-11th-august-2023

The Large 110823

@darianmusic

A nice mellow opener for a fun-filled saturday afternoon highlighting some homies from Los Angeles

Collage by @mengzemusic

Recorded LIVE at 109 Montrose

08.26.2023

CFM025 - Darian

New releases and current inspirations from your hosts Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/htrk/episodes/htrk-18th-october-2023

HTRK 181023

'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

History Repeats @imregii

Ever feel like your mind is a browser with a thousand tabs open? This song is about finding the one thing that can shut them all down.

"Ball is Life" isn't just a track about loving basketball. It's about using the simple, logical world of the basketball court as a form of therapy. In a life that’s often confusing and chaotic, the court is a place where everything makes sense: the rules are clear, the goal is simple, and a shot either goes in or it doesn't.

The song explores how this physical discipline—the thousands of practice shots, the focus on footwork—becomes a way to quiet anxiety and find mental clarity. The artist draws a direct parallel between mastering the craft of basketball and mastering his own craft of writing rhymes, showing how both require the same dedication to find that one perfect, satisfying moment of execution.

It’s a track for anyone who has ever used a passion or a hobby to bring order to their inner world.

ball is life

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NTS Guide to: Piano Rap 310323

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