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. 
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Ramzilla - NTS  [12.3.24]

Paul Bley - Improvisie
Jack Grassel - Mowgli's House
Soft Machine - (Slightly) Slightly All the Time
Mike Ratledge - Riddles of the Sphinx Sequence 3
Piano Magic - I Came to Your Party Dressed as a Shadow
Anne Clark - Swimming
Pavel Milyakov & Lucas Dupuy - deep gtr
Davis Galvin - Marine Layer
Gerry Franke - Netzteil
Sweets of the Night and Sentena - Sq Moon
Huon - Basement
Konrad Sprenger - Set I
Carl Stone - Banteay Srey
Delta Rain Dance - Green Light Fade
Polonius - Skate
Isan - Comb
Tetsu Umehara - Beacon
Thomas Bush - Pure Intention
Daniel Crommie - Dystopian Future
Nicolini - TIE IT UP (ft. Hanna Tembo)
Morpheme - Somebody To Love (Break Mode’s Toxic Dub)
AP Macroeconomics - lover pardon
Peace Of Dream - Past (Stoned Roses Mix)
No Man - Drink Judas
Owt - Dream Mint
Ptôse - Sticky Slug!
Total Blue - Heart Of The World
Million Blues - Living on a Promise (Whale Awareness Mix)

Do/While with Wonja & The Globule | February 12, 2025

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

A survey in minimal micro emo tech low end sonics with Loidis.

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Breakfast, in Flo motion - served by Flo Dill, every Monday to Wednesday. 
 
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The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Flo 010725

Musical peregrinations from Gabi, guiding listeners through new wave, post punk and synth.  
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Gabi 030725

Drifting into a new day with Maria Somerville, live from Ireland's wild west coast.  
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The Early Bird Show w/ Maria Somerville & Brad Urman 080725

Séance Centre Radio Episode 88 - Taarab Special

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

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