NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Dead Can Dance on 18 June 2017. Dead Can Dance has been played on NTS over 120 times, featured on 93 episodes and was first played on 30 March 2015.

Dead Can Dance is an Australian musical project formed in 1981 in Melbourne by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The band relocated to London, England, in May 1982. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described Dead Can Dance's style as "constructed soundscapes of mesmerizing grandeur and solemn beauty; African polyrhythms, Gaelic folk, Gregorian chant, Middle Eastern mantras, and art rock."

Having disbanded in 1998, they reunited briefly in…