Adrian Rew and other staff members, as well as friends, of NYC's Ergot Records shop play new discoveries and old favorites.
 
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ADRIAN REW @ The Lot Radio 05-26-2025

Classic Jamaican records from the "Rocksteady Daddy" Asher G. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/asher-g/episodes/asher-g-29th-june-2025

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Broadcast simultaneously on Kiosk and on The Lot Radio, Think Outside The Kiosk is Lefto Early Bird's outlet to share his latest discoveries, exclusives and rarities for audiences onsite in the park and worldwide online.


Think Outside The Kiosk w/ Jo G @ Kiosk Radio 06.07.2025

Japanese drummer and producer Takafumi Okada has had his hands in several projects over the last 12 years or so, and, like with his music, patterns emerge: his discography is full of DIY sounds, an unconventional attitude to production, and an ability to create tension and mystery with layered polyrhythmic grooves.

Takafumi is well known as the former drummer of goat, the experimental band from Osaka. His mathematical lock-grooves helped to zone-out minds and levitate audiences between 2017-2023, notably on goat’s third album “Joy In Fear”. Prior to that, Takafumi was playing in his trio The Noup, a formation of guitar, bass, drums and synths that found their own balance of no wave and trippy homemade sounds over the course of several releases since 2013.

Under his Manisdron alias, Takafumi has a clutch of weighty records and tapes. In particular a 12” EP and double LP “Body of Void” on US label L.I.E.S. demonstrates his high-octane, industrial style, made on hardware and a drum kit. There are also Manisdron tapes of glitchy scatterbomb electronics to be discovered on Takafumi’s own label Cathodic.

Takafumi’s new project Nboj Tespo is another intriguing offshoot. Warm electronic sounds are layered with polymetric rhythms across nine tracks, and arranged in such a way as to bring listeners into a hypnotic dance state. Takafumi combines his Elektron Machinedrum, Boss delay pedal and Novation Bass Station 2 at his home studio, to produce minimal grooves that grow into fully-fledged creatures and take on a life of their own.

While Manisdron is one side of Takafumi’s solo output - that is, industrial and machine-like rhythms made with a real drum kit - Nboj Tespo flips that premise, and creates organic songs with a drum machine. The artist name also hides a clue: shift every letter of Manisdron down a notch and we find ourselves on the other side of the alias - the same identity but from a different viewpoint.

If the viewpoint of Nboj Tespo has a theme, it’s one of finding positivity in life, or a mysterious sense of satisfaction in the everyday. That makes “Blessed Planet” a perfect companion, for both the inside and the outside world.

- Fizzy Veins

All music written, played and recorded by Takafumi Okada in Okayama, Japan
Mastered by The Cologne Wizard
Text by Fizzy Veins
Artwork by Ryan Dougan & Dominik Rodemann
Distributed by Rush Hour

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SONLP-019 - Nboj Tespo - Blessed Planet (snippets)

In the 1970s, artists from Réunion and Mauritius began fusing island styles - Maloya and Séga - with psychedelic rock, funk, and soul. 

Séga, rooted in Afro-Creole rhythms and often sung in Mauritian Creole, developed as a celebratory dance music drawing from European, African, and Indian influences. Maloya, native to Réunion, originated in enslaved Malagasy and African communities - a slower, percussive style traditionally performed with vocals, kayamb and roulér, and associated with ritual, resistance, and later, political activism. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-soulful-sega-electric-maloya-from-the-indian-ocean-4th-august-2025

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Pique-nique A.M. is a monthly show on The Lot Radio that highlights the work of artists across NYC's improvised music scenes and beyond, featuring tracks that span jazz, soul, ambient, dub, and more. The show aims to connect contemporary voices to their cultural lineages while amplifying the city's most boundary-pushing creators.

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Pique-nique A.M. @ The Lot Radio 08-20-2025

A deep dive into scenes, record labels and genres from 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-ambient-americana-vol-iii-25th-august-2025

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Recorded live on 8/21/25 for my first and last guest Dublab show prior to moving out of LA <3

TRACKLIST:

nor elle – freddy is gone
charlie tate – dar el salam
king kooba – the antidote
t-polar – pentagram
t-polar – calatrava
santal – past and future things (ananda mix)
ohm-g – aya
freeform – the brink
rithma – emphasis
mark force & kaidi tatham – afrospace (blakai mix)
vikter duplaix – manhood
chari chari – life in flow motion (volker meitz remix)
karizma – i c u
bruk rogers – get stronger
darcosan & alexdrum – funk on pot
king kooba – indian summer
searchlight – breathe ft tolu makay (afroforce remix instrumental)
afro mystik – ritual de rua
super_collider – soily soul
tempo 2 – latinlectrofuzion (ambient pass)
chris brann – in love again (king britt remix)
watershine – tania’s dancing along
neon phusion – galaxian
neon phusion – unreleased dub mix
phoojun – blackcurrent
ananda project – i hear you dreaming (cottonbelly dub)
midnight music co – black swan (vertical mix)
king kooba – want your love

Dublab

Live on Dublab (8/21/25)

Stay left and take a trip with Macca's Saturday breakfast show on NTS. Weekend musings and eclectic cuts from all over the place, it's a low-key affair and you're all invited. ONE GLOVE!!!
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/macca/episodes/macca-30th-august-2025

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Guitar music, electronic musings and heady explorations with Baba Stiltz. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/babastiltz/episodes/babastiltz-29th-august-2025

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@tylerbarrow
Music before bread is a weekly breakfast show, broadcasting live from Tyler’s home in Naarm (Melbourne) on Saturday mornings from 9-11 (aest) // 11-1 (nzt)

Tyler would like to acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which he broadcasts this show, the Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation, and pay respect to their Elders, past, present, and continuing and extend that respect to all first nations people.
Sovereignty was never ceded

And as always - Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Show # 251

Music Before Bread w/ Tyler & Tristan - September 27th 2025

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