Contemporary British AV artist, collagist, and NTS host Mark Leckey takes to the airwaves to play oddities from his collection. Everything from doo-wop to gabber.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/mark-leckey/episodes/mark-leckey-28th-november-2023

MARK LECKEY w/ Lucy Duncombe 281123

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Don’t believe your ears - Pepper’s Ghost is the latest offering from NYC project Nuke Watch.

Whatever you think it is - it is not. By the same token it really can be whatever you want - electronica, jazz, improv, noise, new age, ambient - it’s none and all of these. Like the primitive visual illusion it’s named for - Pepper’s Ghost is a projection of a thing, it’s not the thing.

The Nuke Watch method - like that of Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos’ other primary project Beat Detectives - leans almost entirely on live improvisation, with some advanced studio alchemy in post. Where the Beat Detectives palette draws from club music tropes, Nuke Watch blends recognizable tones (hand drums, woodwinds, keys, fretless bass) with sounds of providence unknown, the line between organic and synthesized instrumentation unintelligibly smudged. What is real and what is projection? It’s hard to say. What do our ears tell us? This is where we arrive at Pepper’s Ghost.

Warped as the sounds may be, the playing belies a crew of deeply expressive, learned improvisers who have their craft honed. Their friendship and psychic connection enhances the ritualistic rhythms, mutant modular synthesis, nimble keyboard runs, absurdist sampling and unidentified skronk. They’re wonderfully complemented across several tracks on this set by Cole Pulice’s levitational, sublime saxophone.

As unhinged as this might all appear, once the mind and music meet on the same wavelength this is profoundly moving, energizing and uplifting Alive Music that recalibrates the sense of what music can be. 

Nuke Watch is Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos, with an array of friendly guests. They’ve released records as Nuke Watch on The Trilogy Tapes, Commend and Moon Glyph. As Beat Detectives they’ve released records on Not Not Fun, 100% Silk and their own studio imprint NYPD Records.

Pepper's Ghost was written and produced by Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos. Additional instrumentation on these recordings by Cole Pulice, Leonard King, Eric Timothy Carlson, Chris Farstad and William Statler. It was mixed by Chris Hontos and mastered by Jack Callahan. Painting on the cover is “The Unity Of Being” (2020), by Ry Fyan. Design and layout by Aaron Anderson.

RIYL - Musical illusions, puzzles and magic tricks, downtempo, music of the spheres, good journey, Eddie Harris, Ketron, "world building", orange sunshine, suspension of disbelief.

Nuke Watch - Pepper's Ghost (IMPTNC07) - Previews

London's infamous psychedelic outfit Bo Ningen takes over the NTS airwaves. Expect anything from video game sounds to noise rock. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/bo-ningen/episodes/bo-ningen-12th-march-2024

BO NINGEN w/ Silv-o 120324

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An hour a month from LA label Total Stasis, responsible for releases by Ramzi, Aquarian Foundation, Anom Vitruv, Elysia Crampton, Bobo Eyes & Plush Throw, CS + Kreme, Fmvee, Second Language, Regularfantasy, Private Lesson, Alexi Baris, Laila Sakini, and Sebastiano Carghini.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/total-stasis/episodes/total-stasis-19th-march-2024

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Love you forever and always w/ Nat Earthsine (22/3/24)

SISTER MARION B2B JTG BROKEN MIX @ DE SERING 17th JUNE 2023

Jonathan Castro invites Juliane Schmitt, a.k.a @smittness, for an hour of medieval ambient and unreleased music on @lyl_radio.

Juliane Schmitt - Breathing object (for portative organ)
Juliane Schmitt - Sentimental gentle rental (portative organ)
Juliane Schmitt - Interlude 1 (for mouth organ)
Juliane Schmitt - Sign of the times
Juliane Schmitt - Sentimental gentle rental part 2 (portative organ)
Juliane Schmitt - Interlude 2 (gregorian chant fragments)
Smittness - Speak my language 
Smittness - Untitled
Juliane Schmitt - Er schmückt das düstre Haus
Juliane Schmitt - Interlude 3 (portative organ improvisation)
Juliane Schmitt - Einflugschneise (home) 
Juliane Schmitt - Sentimental gentle rental part 3 (portative organ)
Juliane Schmitt - Interlude 4 (found a dx7)
Juliane Schmitt - CDMX23
Smittness - Outro
Jonathan Castro - Experimentos con gaseosa

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LYL Radio - The Locus w/ Juliane Schmitt & Jonathan Castro

After a longer mixtape break, we plan to ramp up the output this year starting off with London based @OnyaDev. Host of the Strange Pleasures show on Lisbon based @quanticaonline, after a decade in Portugal and Berlin moving around DIY scenes, this past year she found herself playing alongside artists like Lukid, Tapes, Lil Mofo and more in Japan, Berlin and London.

We love Onya’s open heart for all genres which results in a varied and liberated approach to her sets which explore the “odder end of dance music, experimental electronic, and sounds of strange pleasure.“

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Lucía Meliá is a writer and dj based in Mexico City. As unmade she focuses her creative practice on exploring the affective flows between sound, literature and theory.

She is the founder and creative director of the platform perpetual_field, an experimental space inspired by the thought of Gilles Deleuze, where she currently curates sinister flower, a series of experimental mixes broadcast monthly via radio.syg.ma. In 2023, she began her personal residency at Hong Kong Community Radio.

Tracklist: 
Romance, Dean Hurley - The Flesh is Weak
Ben Bondy - The Only Part of You That I Ever Really Need
Vanessa Amara - Pipe Organ
Cool Maritime, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Daybreak
Acronym - In the Swamp
Pataphysical - Dream Reveal
Kareem Lotfy - Plant Nursery
Liila - Silent Illuminating
Liai - Fous Directions in Flowers
KMRU - resonant sharing
Dylan Henner - Harrisburg
Masahiro Takahashi - Torch Dance
Maxime Denuc - Edo

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