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https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/nts-guide-to-georgian-underground-electronics-2002-2019-28th-september-2022

NTS Guide To: Georgian Underground Electronics 2002-2019

Effortlessly cool French alternative sounds from the 1980s, selected by NTS.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/french-coldwave-14th-october-2022

The NTS Guide To: French Coldwave, Post Punk, Synth & Other Oddities 1980 - 1989

Trailing down the dusty highway at dusk, soundtracked by Western-flavoured downtempo sounds. Lapsteels, anachronistic electronics, and deconstructed country ballads.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-ambient-americana-16th-february-2023

Dust To Dust: The NTS Guide to Ambient Americana 160223

In a vague coalescing of producers and scenes in the late 1990s, the worlds of fuzzy, reverb laden indie rock and drum & bass fused on projects by artists like Bowery Electric and Flying Saucer attack.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-drum-and-bliss-17th-february-2023

NTS Guide To Drum & Bliss 170223

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

NTS Guide to: Birth of Cool - Postwar US Jazz 150423

Anne Briggs, Sibylle Bayer, Karen Dalton and more shepherds of the folk revival in this hour long guide to.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-women-of-60s-70s-folk-4th-july-2023

NTS Guide to: Women of 60s & 70s Folk 040723

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. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-classical-works-in-murakami-novels-23rd-january-2024

NTS Guide to: Classical Works in Murakami Novels 230124

Berlin School experimental rock, prog journeys and more, all referencing and taking inspiration from Frank Herbert's goliath science fiction epic Dune. 

Illustration by Bruce Pennington. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-inspired-by-dune-13th-march-2024

NTS Guide to: Music Inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune 130324

Sounds of stillness and peace from the Japanese "kankyō ongaku" movement - environmental and ambient recordings, produced as a reaction to the growing hyper-commercialisation and urbanisation of 1980s Japan.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-japanese-new-age-and-environmental-music-1st-april-2024

NTS Guide to: Japanese New Age and Environmental Music 010424

A look back at that moment in the 2010s when underground club music, and experimental-leaning artists reached for the R&B palette - an influential period that birthed mainstream stars.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-2010s-underground-rnb-7th-may-2024

NTS Guide to: 2010s Underground R&B 070524

A round-up of the original (and best?) iteration of emo – early "emotional" hardcore music, an offshoot of 1980s DC hardcore punk, that quickly morphed into a sound of it's own, characterised by a heart-on-your-sleeve earnestness, and a wider set of influences from math rock, post rock and more.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-early-emotional-hardcore-10th-may-2024

NTS Guide to: Early Emotional Hardcore 100524

Two hours of dead mall energy from the initial creative flourishings of the vaporwave scene in the late 2000s and early 2010s, from the architects of the sound: Vektroid, Daniel Lopatin 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-early-vaporwave-14th-may-2024

NTS Guide to: Early Vaporwave 140524

2 hours of 80's Euro Pop 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-80s-french-belgian-disco-pop-22nd-june-2024

NTS Guide to: 80s French & Belgian Disco Pop 220624

A two-hour selection of the late 20th Century composers who harnessed the blossoming new style of minimalist and neo-romantic music, infusing their work with mystic or religious themes. Featuring sounds from Arvo Pärt, John Tavener 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-holy-minimalism-9th-august-2024

NTS Guide to: Holy Minimalism  090824

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japan became the birthplace of a distinctive and intense form of psychedelic music, emerging from the underground scene and centred around pioneering labels like PSF Records. This movement was marked by a raw, dissonant, and fuzzed-out sound that combined elements of noise, free jazz, and traditional psychedelic rock. 

This two hour show documents the sounds of several key bands that played a significant role in shaping this unique musical landscape such as Fushitsuha, Les Rallizes De Nudes, Shizuka, Acid Mothers Temple and more. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-japanese-underground-psychedelia-23rd-august-2024

NTS Guide to: Japanese Underground Psychedelia 230824

A carefully selected overview of the rich smorgasboard of Brazilian psychedelia and related music from the 1960s and 1970s, encompassing MBP, folk, jovem gaurda pop, and tropicália. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-brazilian-psychedelia-25th-august-2024

NTS Guide to: Brazilian Psychedelia 1960 - 1980 250824

A snapshot of the current shoegaze revival which is taking the gauzy indie rock style into a multitude of distinct directions, influenced by club music, ambient, breaks and more.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-shoegaze-2k24-12th-september-2024

NTS Guide to: Shoegaze 2k24 120924

Part two of The NTS Guide To Ambient Americana. Trailing down the dusty highway at dusk, soundtracked by Western-flavoured downtempo sounds. Lapsteels, anachronistic electronics, and deconstructed country ballads. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-dust-to-dust---the-nts-guide-to-ambient-americana-21st-october-2024

Dust To Dust - The NTS Guide To Ambient Americana Vol 2 211024

An overview of the initial wave of rock bands tearing up the genre rulebook and exploring avant-garde arrangements and new technology. A style of music that would be defined as post-rock, a term first coined by music journalist Simon Reynolds in The Wire magazine.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-early-post-rock-1-25th-october-2024

NTS Guide to: Early Post Rock 251024

'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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