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Given hip hop's position as pop culture's new musical lingua franca in the 21st Century, it's not a stretch to suggest Gil Scott-Heron is one of the most influential recording artists of the past 100 years, given his role as the progenitor of the genre. The Chicago-born poet electrified R&B, disco, jazz & later electronic productions with no-nonsense street reportage, and critiques on the ills of a broken America. He inspired a legion of artists with his militant faith in his own beliefs.
This 2 hour compilation brings together the breadth of Heron’s work, combining soul, blues and jazz, with comedy, spoken word and a piercing insight into race relations in 20th century America.

This show has been compiled by Robbie Warin and is dedicated to Henry Miller, who first introduced him to Scott-Heron’s music.

https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-gil-scott-heron-10th-december-2019

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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

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Greetings, Japanese Breeze fans! Mori-Ra is about to embark on a rare west coast excursion over the next few weeks! To celebrate, Mori put this mix together with some selection assistance from his son, Ren. Be on the lookout for more from him in the future! For now, sit back, pour yourself a nice drink, and enjoy the sounds of Japanese Breeze 15, the West Coast Tour edition.

Japanese Breeze Mix vol15

Mori Ra - Japanese Breeze Vol 15

'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

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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

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New York based artist and musician Rahill selects a monthly medley of picks from her record collection, rooted in US jazz, with soul, folk and international sounds. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/rahill/episodes/rahill-26th-march-2025

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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

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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

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For last week’s episode I put together a mix of modernist ballads from West Africa, primarily works from the 1970s. About half the songs gathered here are from Senegal, an epicentre of post-colonial cultural forms, featuring a capacious cosmopolitan hybridity which drew from American jazz and psychedelic rock, French chanson, Cuban bolero, Congolese rhumba, Martinician beguine, Wolof griot music, and the complex polyrhythms of Mande musical traditions. Other songs in this mix come from Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Togo, and Benin, joined in pan-African solidarity as well as sharing a modernist sensibility, fraught with both melancholy for the failure of post-colonial nationalism and a utopic yearning for social change. These songs are exemplary of Tsitsi Ella Jaji calls “stereomodernism.” in her wonderful book, Africa in Stereo.

Séance Centre Radio Episode 85: Modernist Ballads from West Africa

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

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Breakfast, in Flo motion - served by Flo Dill, every Monday to Wednesday. 
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-breakfast-show-flo/episodes/the-breakfast-show-flo-4th-june-2025

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Breakfast, in Flo motion - served by Flo Dill, every Monday to Wednesday. 
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-breakfast-show-flo/episodes/the-breakfast-show-flo-1st-july-2025

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RBL x Nextones w/ Ramzilla | 200725

We're none too fond of terms like 'selector' here at the figurative 12th Isle HQ. We think it was a shrewd marketing ploy concocted by natural wine bar owners - and possibly the freemasons - who repackaged the spergy single-mindedness of record nerds into something that sounded much more socially agile and cool in order to distract punters from the exorbitant price of nibbles. Thankfully, the time of white label soundtracked £40 sashimi seems to be behind us, and DJing can go back to being obsessives playing odd music made by even odder folk without much in the way of pretence. Someone who encapsulates that kind of energy has very kindly put together a nearly 4 hour long sprawl and has stated that under no circumstances should this mix be enjoyed alongside thinly sliced bits of raw beef and wine with bits in it or there will be hell to pay. Floor Length Skirts for Forecast 79, it's good gear like.

Forecast 079: Floor Length Skirts

Martin Hallmark (p), Jon Halton (b), Adrian Coggins (d). Selmer SBA Wanne Brahma

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