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Thanks to @KillCapitalism, @hoimhoo9, @fadetopurple, and @DaneKnight on Discord, and @therearenot, @ccilchrl, and @cheerycherrie on Instagram for their picks.

A selection of tributes to the late and great Quincy Jones.

Thanks to El Torso, erikplusplus, marion, and julian on Discord, and @john.hoffman, @5star.jadaa, @daddysissue_, and @putyourrubbishinabin on Instagram for the suggestions.

Recent NTS Radio shows broadcast by or in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

Toast to bass culture with our selection of shows featuring spacious dub & reggae, lilting lovers rock, speaker rattling dancehall, digi-dub & bashment.

This year Marshall Allen turned 100, and we marked 110 years since the birth of Sun Ra. Celebrate with hours of radio exploring their music and lives.

Forwardly political music - trade unionist and workers anthems, songs of revolutionary struggle, anti-fascist songs of solidarity....

Thanks to @stinkinnrich, @darrinsalzmann, @eccoblast, @joseth on Instagram, and belbel, fadetopurple, and JakeTheBrick on Discord for this month's suggestions.

Listener-selected shows from March. Thanks to @markkrafferty, @spliffimp, @owenpfghhfddss, @ggulieuh on Instagram, and sickrichard, cuac, autostereo, and El Torso on Discord for the picks.

Tune in, drop out with our collection of show featuring the trippy and the psychedelic. Perfect to soundtrack any and all mind expanding experiences...

Thanks to @lenaefrm, @akkarifruitinbeirut, @slobbbyy, and @4184x on Instagram, and @common.grackle, and @dogmeat00 on Discord for the suggestions.

Celebrate the (arguably manufactured) holiday of Valentine's Day with our round-up of sexpot slow jams, sensual soul, boogie and R'n'B.

Thanks to @d_bellefontaine, @Interactions247, @kiernanlaveaux, and @efb1233 on Twitter, and @ryus3000, @yosoymarch, @estheronstein, and @sustainablethinking.info on Instagram for the suggestions.

Marking the feast of St. Patrick with our best musical overviews of everything Irish: from folk ballads to Troubles-era punk, to pop mystic Enya.

NTS recently celebrated 75 years of the seminal Folkways recording label, listen back to some of our favourties.

Some highlights from Coltrane day, NTS celebrating 97 years of one of the masters of Jazz.

Mark the turn of the seasons with a collection of Autumnal NTS mixes, guiding listeners through Fourth World and ambient records, ethereal Medieval chamber music and soothing soundscapes.

Don your dancing shoes and get your hips warmed up for our collection of shows celebrating Latin America's most popular rhythm: Cumbia.

Loosen up with a mastermix of shows featuring early '80s plugged-in post-disco? boogie? proto-electro? Whatever it's called, it sounds good.

Emerge dewy-faced into springtime with fresh, revitalising radio featuring everything from pastoral folk ballads, to lively house & disco.

Wear your heart on your knitted sleeve with our sweet suite of lush shoegaze jams, laconic dream pop and cozy indie rock.

A collection of the most rowdy and unrefined club offshoots: bassline, donk, hoover-ised hardcore and free party nangers...

Celebrating the rich musical culture of Wales - avoiding the Tom Jones if possible. Cool Cymru 90s indie rock, vintage folk ballads, hymns and DIY oddities.

All hail the sludge overlords, praise be to the doom demons. Amen.

Immerse yourself in a series of mixes and radio shows re-visiting vibrant avant-garde and pop music from 1980s Japan.

Rule-breaking and confounding sounds from Japan's musical underworld – noise rock, boundary-less minimalism, pioneering electronics and more.

Radio specials from the stacked line up for this year's NTS ONE DAY, 27TH MAY

Music that unnerves, perturbs, and goes bump in the night. Listener beware… you’re in for a scare.

Set your phone to silent, your spirit to vibrate and tune into a higher frequency with shows featuring pastoral Japanese ambience, transcendent new age, and fourth world drift.

Rest In Peace Pharoah Sanders. Marking his passing, NTS hosts pick out their favourite tracks from the revered spiritual jazz luminary.

Escape to the sunkissed white isle with our collection of shows perfect for sunning yourself or sweating at the dance to, featuring Ibiza sunset soundtracks, sunshine house and disco, & psychedelic mood music.

Kick open the saloon doors of NTS and say howdy to our suite of country & western shows, featuring heartbroken lullabies, widescreen soundtracks, & dusty-trail folk.

Start your day the NTS way with gentle, energising radio guiding listeners through soothing soul, Appalachian folk, sophisti-pop and a whole lot more...

Get yourself dressed up, set the table, make sure everything in the kitchen is ticking over nicely – we'll handle the music for your dinner party. Classy, unobtrusive sounds that are guaranteed to go down smoothly.

Dress to sweat and get your blood rushing with our collection of high energy shows designed to get you moving, whether its hitting the gym, going for a run, or just dancing in your bedroom...

The BBQ is just about hot enough, the burgers are ready to go, and everyone's arriving. Now you just need some good tunes. Luckily we've got you covered.

Welcome home... here you'll find all NTS in-house productions; including In Focus, NTS Guide To, Otaku, Sounds on Screen and more.

Explore the cinematic and saccharine world of French pop music, with shows highlighting Francophone rock, chanson, yé-yé and beyond.

Born on the West Coast in the early 1990s, G-funk drew heavily from the style of funk popularised by George Clinton, repurposed for a new generation of gangsta rap.

Escaping into ecstasy with our round up of shows playing trance, progressive house and other euphoric dance sounds.

Tap into the sound of South African dance music - pumping kwaito, hypnotic gqom, polyrhythmic Bacardi house and beyond.

Turn back time and relive the revolutionary times of ‘60s USA with politically charged folk, scrappy surf music, & LSD-laced rock’n’roll. “We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave…”

RIP Lee "Scratch" Perry - pay your respects to the mystic figurehead of reggae with our collection of shows, traversing the breadth of his huge catalogue.

If you ever have to turn off because things get a little too weird, then try something from this collection. Plain good music, without too many surprises.

Mix up a brandy and coke before digging into our UKG collection, compiling the best UK garage and 4x4 shows from over the years.

Journeys into the often untapped musical riches of video game soundtracks, from the sweeping classical suites of Final Fantasy, to timeless timeless Nintendo earworms to hidden gems from games you've never heard of.

Warm & hearfelt sounds from Latin America, featuring Mexican balladeering, Lowrider soul, Texan tejano + more.

Howl at the moon with our collection of shows featuring plugged in & acoustic blues from the Mississippi Delta and beyond.

Tuning the FM dial on the convertable radio to pristine soft rock jams, strictly for adults - leave that other noise to the kids.

Take a whirlwind trip round the globe, without the turbulence, airport stress and bank balance depletion - NTS guides you through the sounds of every continent on earth...

Celebrating Jamaica's Independence with a collection of shows highlighting the island's deep, and world changing musical heritage, from mento to reggae to rap to dancehall.

Every show from our week long 10th Birthday broadcast, raising money for the Global Foodbanking Network.

Drift across the wide musical expanses of the Sahara region - NTS shows featuring desert blues, traditional songwriting and folk rhythms from Tunisia to Sudan and everywhere in between.

Stop by and relax in The Lounge, maybe enjoy a barrel-aged liquor of your choice - we can cover the music. All easy listening, space age pop, and lush soundtracks from the midcentury...

Need zen focus to cram for an exam, or finish that novel you’ve been putting off reading? Look no further than this selection of calm and unobtrusive radio shows, featuring ambient, minimalism, instrumental beats & more.

They go big in Texas - big cars, big rap instrumentals, big country ballads, big riffs...

The smoky, hybrid rhythms of trip-hop appear to be once again in vogue - educate yourself on the sound's past and vital present with our collection of specials.

Celebrating Mexico's independent state with a selection of radio shows covering the breadth of their musical culture, from rancheros, to balero to reggaeton.

Tune in and switch off with a collection of soothing shows, featuring tempered jazz, gentle ambience, dreamy pop and more.

Music to break your heart, or mend it back together to - Radio shows with aching, melancholy soul, bittersweet R&B, lively doo-wop + more from Black America and beyond.

Immerse yourself in the local music found in street celebrations across the globe, from Colombia to Barbados, Japan to Egypt.

In celebration of British Black History Month, re-visit these cuts from the NTS archives showcasing Black British music. Featuring everything from Sade to LTJ Bukem, through dub and reggae, grime, street soul, UK drill, indie rock trailblazers and more.

Rewind with the sounds of late '80s and '90s hip-hop, from A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul all the way through to the Wu-Tang Clan.

A tip-of-the-iceberg overview of the sounds birthed in one of the most musically dynamic cities in the world. From Motown heartbreak ballads to Drexciyan battle music to raw garage rock...

A round-up of shows highlighting the emotive power of gospel music, from Suncut's focus on the Voices of East Harlem to Death Is Not The End highlighting the Jamaican gospel tradition.

Immerse yourself in a different world with our selection of movie and soundtrack specials, from tense horror scores to escapist, dreamlike anime themes.

Say goodbye to any Winter blues with classic NTS shows, packed to the brim with sunkissed sounds - dub, soca, baile funk, dancehall and highlife.

Think it was just hippies in San Francisco and Canterbury getting psychedelic in the 60s? Think again! Feel trippy in 10 languages with our collection featuring Peruvian surf jams, Thai taxi riffs, Anatolian freakouts and more...

Marking Father's Day with our humble offering of music for all the cool NTS dads out there. Who needs another pair of socks?

Immerse yourself in the experimental melting pot of late '60s and '70s Germany; taking you from Amon Düül II to Can, Popol Vuh to Klaus Schulze.

Our collection of shows celebrating Afrobeat - a mode of expression birthed in the fervor of post-independence West Africa, melding jazz, funk, highlife, fuji & more.

Hands up who doesn't enjoy a good cover? Ok. Can all of you leave please while the rest of us enjoy some rare & wonderful cover versions? Featuring big artists covering small ones, and vice versa. Joyous.

Plug in and feel your neurons whirr with our suite of shows featuring subaqueous ambient techno, braindance classics, and programmatic electronic ephemera.

NTS appearances from some 21st Century boundary pushers, featuring one of a kind personalities, bleeding edge electronic producers + more.

Our collection of timeless Ethiopian pop and traditional music, inspired by the classic compilation series...

We're a very open minded lot at NTS, and we'll let our hosts and guests play whatever their heart desires. Insect noises? Sure. Algorithmically generated death metal? Certainly.

Fail we may, sail we must.

Idiosyncratic DIY pop, fourth world experiments, dark and intense rave music. This is thee Sound Of Belgium.

Olé, Olé, Olé, Olé!!! Get in the mood for European football the NTS way, travelling the continent thru Belgian new beat, Hungarian jazz, Italo disco, French drill & more.

100% dancehall riddims, featuring guest appearances from luminaries of the genre, and party sessions from NTS resident experts...

Enter the inferno with our unholy tribute to metal in all its many incarnations: doom, sludge, thrash, black, speed, death and beyond. No nu-metal, no posers & no requests.

The first (and arguably best) musical instrument is the Human voice - traverse it's many uses in throat singing, spoken word, choral music & beyond with this collection of NTS specials...

Born from the ashes of breakbeat hardcore, jungle was the high-BPM soundtrack to UK rave culture in the early to mid nineties. Moving Shadow collates some of NTS' best jungle shows, suitable for veterans & newcomers alike.

Contrary to popular belief, NTS loves pop music - well, only the good stuff. Play the hits with our collection of shows featuring chart topping icons - expect pristine production values, power ballads, singalong choruses + a few album cuts you might not have heard...

89-INFINITY... highlights from Warp Records' recent NTS takeover, celebrating thirty years of genre defying music.

Radio homage to the sublime beauty of nature, with field recordings from the Amazon basin; audio from ornithologist Jean C. Roché, pastoral ambient, new age and much more.

A suite of forward-thinking modern compositions challenging the definition of classical music - deep subterranean drone, celestial orchestral performances and austere works of minimalism.

Live la dolce vita with our collection of the finest Italo disco...

A motley selection of raw and heavy NTS shows, showcasing everything from the ‘80s DC hardcore scene to Northern Irish proto-punk and the new wave of contemporary D.I.Y... Music fit for delinquents, layabouts and truants.

An array of broadcasts dedicated to the uncompromising futuristic sounds of Detroit, featuring everything from Drexcyian subaquatics to raucous ghettotech…

Sun-kissed afrobeat, dancehall, dub and soul to soundtrack the Summer months.

Sick of fighting over the aux cord at pre drinks? Hand the controls over to us with this selection of hip hop, house, R&B, and disco shows primed for the function.

Feast on our selection of festive specials from NTS residents throughout the years...

An uncomprehensive overview of the breadth of contemporary club music. Expect everything from batida to baile funk, reggaeton to Jersey club and endless cross-pollination between genres.

Essential overviews of some of the biggest figures from classical and contemporary composition.

Jack yourself into the mainframe with some of our most experimental shows in all their entropic beauty. Filled to the brim with avant-garde ambience & extreme computer music.

Immerse yourself in the music of generations past, from the psychedelic depths of sixties counter culture to outsider folk and country, rounded off with the uplifting vocal harmonies of post-war doo wop.

Essential overviews of some of NTS' favourite artists - primers of the prolific yet underrated as well as collections of B-sides and rarities from iconic musicians and labels.

Lace up your dancing boots for our salvo of high energy shows featuring pounding industrial, uptempo minimal synth, sweaty drum machine workouts, and strobe-burned techno chuggers.

Feel the breeze and take it easy with our collection of shows featuring primo AOR, soft rock and Yacht-ready jams strictly for the grown and sexy crew.

Hardcore punk, new wave, post-disco, minimalism, hip hop... All the best of New York in one collection.

Journeys into the often untapped musical riches of video game soundtracks, from the sweeping classical suites of Final Fantasy, to timeless timeless Nintendo earworms to hidden gems from games you've never heard of.

A setlist of NTS' best live performances & recordings - rap shows in LA, math rock studio sessions, widescreen electonic A/V performances & more.

Check out our collection of LGBTQI themed broadcasts - New Queer Cinema soundtracks, radical book readings, dance sessions from queer club nights + more.

Immerse yourself in the sounds of the Indian subcontinent, from the traditional singing of Pandit Pran Nath to the glamour of Bollywood playback star Bappi Lahiri.

Specials sourced from the seemingly endless musical font of the Maestro: Ryuichi Sakamoto.

No card required to browse this library of scores, soundscapes & themed music, from top shelf jazz & prog instrumentals to hair raising sci-fi soundtracks.

Sounds from down under - Indigenous NZ and Australian traditional music, Aotearoa street soul, pub rock bangers, sunsoaked ambient, indie rock and more.

Classic dancefloor sounds from the Windy City's most legendary DJs - sensuous post-disco, raw + rowdy drum machine workouts, subaqueous deep house and more...

Hey hey kids! Radio shows featuring music made and performed by children, and other cute sounds the youngsters will like.

Turkey’s take on 70s psychedelic music — prematurely stamped out by cultural oppression — was one of the world’s most vibrant musical scenes… Trip through catchy oddball pop, hypnotic progressive rock, and neck snapping arabesque funk on these specially selected shows.

Familiarise yourself with the dusty, menacing bounce of Memphis rap, which has influenced the sound of hip hop for over two decades.

Journey through the many varied strains of jazz: from the radical experimentation of free-jazz to transcendant spiritual jazz, via the post-war explosion of Ethiopiques, or the formal constraints of modal styles.

A selection of NTS's best interviews, from legendary hip-hop producer J Dilla to new age icon Laraaji.

A potted history of a millennium of music - pre-20th Century music from the pioneering medieval compositions of Hildegard Von Bingen, to iconic Mozart symphonies...

Bounce and break your back to our most frenzied juke & footwork shows - featuring a who's who of the tight-knit Chicago scene and beyond, from DJ Spinn, RP Boo & the late DJ Rashad.

Take your shoes off before you come in - our collection of shows full of cosy & intimate bedroom pop, lo-fi indie ballads and DIY rock epics.

Lean back and switch on our selection of shows playing the trunk-knocking, hallucinogenic sound of modern rap, from Gucci Mane and Flocka to tomorrow’s hottest SoundCloud celebrity…

An aural shrine to the legacy of Prince - four purple decades of world beating classics and under the radar gems.

In celebration of US Black History Month, re-visit these cuts from the NTS archives showcasing Black American music. Featuring everything from Delta blues and spiritual jazz through to Detroit techno and Chicago house; hip-hop and footwork.

Getting a bit nostalgic for days gone by with some NTS shows from deep in the vaults - featuring early appearances from future superstars, and classic episodes from regular hosts who still do their thing here every month.

No melodies, no compromise. Only the noisiest need apply.

Dive into the motorised angst and ferment of recession-addled '80s England with shows exploring the source of Industrial music and the music it influenced; Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Fad Gadget and more.

Crowd into the NTS studios and listen to some of grime’s best DJs and MCs going in - from OGs like Slimzee & Trim to vital young blood like Novelist and Flohio. Don’t call it a comeback.