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'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... 
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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

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-us-80s-power-pop-jangle-pop-26th-april-2025

NTS Guide to: US 80s Power Pop & Jangle Pop 260425

Two hours of idiosyncratic and deeply personal dub and reggae recordings from one of the Jamaica's most unique and misunderstood talents, Keith Hudson. 

Selected and mixed by [JD Twitch.](https://www.nts.live/shows/optimo) 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-keith-hudson-2nd-may-2025

In Focus: Keith Hudson 020525

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

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

The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Flo 040625

This episode of Swimming is with Kfeelz and special guest DJ Healthy — a Yokohama-bred, Brooklyn-based DJ and curator who bridges the underground scenes of Japan and NYC. He’s the mind behind ‘PACIFIC MODE’ and ‘Will Records’. Tune in for a blissful dive. Show will be archived at swimmingarchive.com


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Swimming with Kfeelz and DJ Healthy @ The Lot Radio 06-08-2025

“At the end of the day, we’re just chillers.”

New York-via-Chicago trio Purelink – @milliamusic, @kind_tree and @raw_silk – record a deep and dub-soaked minimal techno mix for the Recognise series.

Purelink’s name has become increasingly prominent in recent years. The group – once memorably dubbed “the chillout room Backstreet Boys” – have spent the past half-decade exploring the deepest nooks and crannies of electronic music: fourth-world ambience, zero-gravity dub techno, groggy downtempo, baggy-eyed drum-and-bass. Is it ambient? Sure. But that's just part of the story. Call their music what you will, but it’s consistently remarkable, a slow-motion tumble of histories bound together by a shared interest in blissed-out soundscapes. In conversation with Michael McKinney, they speak about about the friendship, trust and chiller’s mentality that guided the creation of their new album, ‘Faith’, out now on @peakoil.

Interview & tracklist:  https://djmag.com/features/recognise-086-purelink

Tracklist & Interview

Recognise 086: Purelink

recorded live at good work in a backyard on a lovely saturday in brooklyn

Loidis @ Good Work - 12 July 2025

Kaifeng based DJ & producer Yu Su cooks up an hour of warm meanderings once a month.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/yu-su/episodes/yu-su-22nd-july-2025

Yu Su 220725

RBL x Nextones w/ Ramzilla | 200725

Razrbark welcomes goated CDMX-based POP3YE to the studio to share some blood curdling trax. 

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https://www.soundcloud.com/razrbark




Collective Stigmata with Razrbark b2b POP3YE @ The Lot Radio 08-09-2025

Our special guests for this show are New York's own Queen Majesty & Barcelona-based Kaidara in anticipation of our upcoming takeover of the Nonstop series at Nowadays this Saturday!

https://www.instagram.com/planetgroovy
https://www.instagram.com/frikaan_time 
https://www.instagram.com/thequeenmajesty
https://www.instagram.com/kaidara_______ 
https://www.soundcloud.com/gggroovyyy
https://www.soundcloud.com/andrewakanbi
https://www.soundcloud.com/thequeenmajesty 
https://www.soundcloud.com/kaidara

GROOVY GROOVY with Akanbi feat. Queen Majesty & Kaidara @ The Lot Radio 08-15-2025

Another mix from the recording of May PACIFIC MODE. 003 marks the swift return of YELLOWUHURU (@yellowuhuru), the founder of the Tokyo-based party collective under the concept of House & Experimental “FLATTOP”.  This set started at 5am for closing of the night. He is finding his updated DJ style as “Future Deephouse” defines trippy collages but also freshness into the morning that makes both body and soul dance.
Mastered: A Psychic Yes (@apsychicyes)

5月のPACIFIC MODEの録音から、もうひとつのミックスをお届けします。
003は、PACIFIC MODEともコラボし、"HOUSE & EXPERIMENTAL"のコンセプトのもと東京を拠点に活動するパーティーコレクティブ "FLATTOP"主宰のYELLOWUHURU（@yellowuhuru）が早くもカムバック。
このセットは、夜明けの午前5時に始まり、パーティーのクロージングを飾りました。
彼は今、自身のDJスタイルをFuture Deephouseと定義しつつあり、トリッピーなコラージュ感と朝の新鮮な空気を融合させたサウンドを追求した体も心も躍るセットになっている。
Mastered: A Psychic Yes (@apsychicyes)

PACIFIC MODE mix003 - YELLOWUHURU

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NTS Guide to: US 80s Power Pop & Jangle Pop 260425

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