The Spectacular Empire Show w/ Gaika & Mensa 23rd February 2024

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A Month of Sundays w/ Bill Spencer

Bill Spencer shares weekend recordings from his living room studio in Detroit, Michigan, from where he brings a range of soulful jazz rock, and ambient sounds, spanning to electronica and psychedelic dub.

NTS GUIDE TO: YU-MEX

An hour of Mexican Mariachi & Rancheras sung in Croatian and Serbian, produced in the post-war period in Yugoslavia. Many of the films shown in Yugoslavia in the 1950s–1960s were Mexican, due to a restriction on importing Soviet and American films. As a result, everything Mexican became popular in Yugoslavia and many musicians started to don sombreros to perform Mexican music, either singing in Serbo-Croatian or in the original Spanish.

Soul House Boogie Hip Hop

The Spectacular Empire functions as infrastructure for forward-thinking Black Art and Creativity. Founded in 2017 by contemporary artists GAIKA and Akwasi Brenya-Mensa.

TSE is a decentralised Black-led music, arts and technology organisation. It primarily aims to empower, promote and develop genre defying creatively ambitious artists

By engaging in spectacular group projects, and maintaining a worldwide perspective, emerging talent is actively platformed whilst maintaining artistic integrity above all else.