i say this a lot but i this is super fresh

How can art, design or popular culture be active parts of social justice and challenge stereotypes or binaries of gender, race, class, sexuality, and or species hierarchy?

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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... 
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

NTS Guide to: Jazz In Murakami Novels 211124

An hour of classics from the weightless grime scene – atmospheric instrumentals, mostly eschewing MCs in favour of airy sub bass, tearjerking melodies, and pure empty space. Featuring music from Mssingno, Rabit, Strict Face, Mumdance and others. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-weightless-grime-27th-february-2025

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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

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

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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

After spending hours on digging on their channel, I thought it was time to have them on the show for the last one of the season.

Miley Serious Invite Madjestic Kasual - 21 Juillet 2025

At last year’s Opening Party at Unsound Kraków, DJ E (aka Chuquimamani-Condori) showcased their distinct hyper-charged sound. Narrowing it down to genres is pretty impossible, but there are fragments of Andean folk, cumbia and country music ballads, often carefully layered with a bunch of soundboard-effects. The result is a classic DJ E set. Many of the tracks played here were recently included in the almost 2-hour long collection Edits, which you can pick up on Chuquimamani-Condori’s Bandcamp page.

Unsound Podcast 107: DJ E / Chuquimamani-Condori (2024)

from my upcoming album XO Salt Llif3 available for preorder on the 3XL bandcamp out August 29th. 

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Ur Ghost Is My Shadow feat. Kissen

Josephine Moriko is in Sweden. innerinnerlife is in Poland. ‘Emociones / Prior’ is in the world, and out on New York City’s OST.

The dark balearia of ‘Emociones’ marries innerinnerlife’s warm, slowly unfurling synth pads to a yearning, autotuned Moriko vocal, swirling and swaying in the sultry riptide of the instrumental. It’s drama in slow motion, a heart-stopping moment caught and crystallised in memory, played and replayed again and again.

‘Prior’ walks a dimly lit route, white linen on a nighttime beach, inner turmoil by a romantic backdrop. Moriko’s coldly intoned vocals carry secrets and intrigue, whispering about longing and addiction over a flickering phantomscape. It haunts and hits in equal measure.

It’s a gripping statement piece from two artists with rare, idiosyncratic points of view and frames of reference. Two songs forged under candlelight and sculpted from afterglow. Two songs that hold a shadow world of style and seduction, passion and poison, black roses and green-eyed envy. Two songs made to transport. Two songs for you.

Written and produced by Josephine Moriko and innerinnerlife @josephinemoriko @innerinnerlife

Mastered by Ike Zwanikken @ikezwanikken

Artwork by Rasmus Erichs Lång

Words by Madjestic Kasual @madjestickasual

Prior

Music I chose for our wedding dinner on the 9th of August 2025. Artwork by my wife Nastassia


To All of You - Syd Matters
Streets of Your Town - The Go-Betweens
In Arms - Fall River Music Project
Black Cab - Jens Lekman
By Your Side (Neptunes Remix) - Sade
Spit On a Stranger - Pavement
Wedding Dress - Sam Amidon
Oh Honey - Delegation
Soul to Squeeze - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Runner - Hovvdy
blade bird - Oklou
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
Having a Party - Sam Cooke
Cold Beer Conversation - George Strait
here and now (Organ Tapes cover) - Villa, Redhead
Cemetary Gates - The Smiths
Family Business - Kanye West
Just to See You Smile - Tim McGraw
Laid - Matt Nathanson
Me & You Together Song - the 1975

Inish Beg Octagon Mixtape

El sol desapareciendo en el horizonte.

PURE at Café Del Mar, Ibiza. Music for sunsets, directed by Evian Christ and Slam Jam. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/pure/episodes/pure-evian-christ-31st-august-2025

PURE at CAFE DEL MAR w/ Evian Christ 310825

bambinodj’s @henryaleksis musical influences trace back to his early childhood in Guinea, West Africa, and are further shaped by his formal training in classical music.
In the early 2010s, bambinodj explored SoundCloud’s underground, tracing black diasporic club sounds from Brooklyn to London. Genres like FDM, Soflojook, UK Funky and Grime shaped his approach to rhythm, energy, and sound design.
After moving to Berlin, he immersed himself in its diverse electronic music scenes, each one adding another layer of inspiration.
Over time, bambinodj gravitated toward the emotional spectrum of music, where melancholy, euphoria, and intimacy intersect.
Blending elements of dancehall, pop, electronica, and trance, he creates a sound that is both personal and globally resonant. What began as remix-driven collage work has evolved into a more refined language, one where vulnerability and rhythm move in sync.

You can find the interview with bambinodj on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOJBa63iDEL/?img_index=2

LIVE FROM EARTH Mix w/ bambinodj (79)

El sol desapareciendo en el horizonte.

PURE at Café Del Mar, Ibiza. Music for sunsets, directed by Evian Christ and Slam Jam. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/pure/episodes/pure-malibu-5th-october-2025

PURE at Café Del Mar w/ Malibu 051025

Nobody Epic - Ancestral Call

JUST A DREAM (夢)

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NTS Guide to: Weightless Grime 270225

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