Square profile picture and Opens profile photo
Follow
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
Music discovery platform. All shows archived at nts.live next working day. Become an NTS Supporter: bit.ly/2Vy9iXu
London, Englandnts.liveJoined January 2011
4,429 Following
109.5K Followers

NTS Radio’s Tweets

Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
Could never hope to distill the breadth of his legacy in tweets, but here's some Sakamoto, since we're thinking of him today ⬇️
Image
13
12K
1.5M
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
RIP to the OG NTS booth. Can't imagine how many amazing artists have spent an hour or two in our little Dalston studio since first opening in 2011...
Image
Image
Image
70
2,789
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
Tune into The Sound of GTA: a Musical History this Monday 14th December, as
@RockstarGames
hijacks channels 1 and 2 from 6pm until midnight. feat. radio by Eclair Fifi, Delroy Edwards, @funkineven,
@hrricnelorraine
+ more as they explore the musical heritage of GTA...
Image
50
1,616
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
WE NEED YOU⁣ ⁣ to celebrate the legacy of
@RockstarGames
’ Grand Theft Auto Series, we’re putting together a special broadcast - ‘GTA: Caller Classics’ featuring listener submissions of your favourite musical memories from playing GTA III, Vice City & San Andreas.⁣
Image
141
1,503
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
Replying to
@NTSlive
Sakamoto’s most famous composition might be “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence”, a soundtrack piece for a film of the same name starring himself and David Bowie. Here he is performing it for school kids in Masai Mara, Kenya, 2002.
Embedded video
1:53
8
1,474
91.8K
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
Replying to
@NTSlive
In the early 1980s, the Fairlight CMI sampler was out of reach to all but the most elite musicians. But, realistically, there was no-one better to give it to than Ryuichi.
Embedded video
1:49
5
1,370
58.3K
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
This year we lost a giant. We're remembering Andrew Weatherall today with a marathon 8 hour broadcast, featuring some of his best NTS shows. Enter the temple of gnostic sonics: nts.live/2 🖤
Image
16
1,244
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
We lost one of our best today - RIP Andrew Weatherall. Statement from management: “We are deeply sorry to announce that Andrew Weatherall, the noted DJ and musician passed away in the early hours of this morning, Monday 17th February 2020, at Whipps Cross Hospital, London...
Image
24
1,203
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
Batman come on NTS you coward
Quote Tweet
Square profile picture
IGN
@IGN
The Batman star Robert Pattinson has explained he had to keep his costume on for long stretches during downtime – which meant he did everything from reading to making 'ambient electronic music' in the Batsuit. bit.ly/3rCiDhI
Image
7
1,281
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
It was as much a shock to us as it was to all of you. Here’s to ten years of Do!! You!!! What a ride - let the eagle fly.
Image
52
1,076
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
"All the music you can make with this flute is a conversation" Cameroonian composer and writer Francis Bebey plays a pygmy wooden flute at @realworldstudios, 1995.
Embedded video
2:19
17
928
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
Dr. Yamashiro, who recorded and conducted the original Akira soundtrack, will be presenting a one-off show today running through the film's musicial influences. Tune in from 4pm BST, 12am JST.
Embedded video
GIF
11
812
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
Replying to
@NTSlive
In 1992 he composed and conducted a piece of piece of music for the Barcelona Olympics, “El Mar Mediterrani”. The bombast of the music spills from the stadium.
Embedded video
2:19
3
921
40.4K
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
Capcom Sound Team staff photo, 1990✨ You might not recognize any of these people - but if you played video games in the '80s and '90s, you've heard their music...
Image
9
893
66.1K
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
Replying to
@NTSlive
Ryuichi Sakamoto tended to his own musical legacy, aware that his time was limited. He faced the starkness of mortality with music.
Image
Image
1
707
32.6K
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
Alice Coltrane covering John's masterwork "A Love Supreme" - with Reggie Workman on bass, Roy Haynes on drums, and son Ravi Coltrane on sax ✨ 📹 footage from Jazz Jamboree, Warsaw, 1987
Embedded video
0:58
2
607
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
NTS turned 8 today - thanks to all the artists and DJs who’ve contributed so far, and thanks to all of you for tuning in.
Image
4
594
Square profile picture
NTS Radio
@NTSlive
Yamantaka Eye performing in pre-Boredoms noise group HANATARASH in Osaka, Japan. They were soon banned from most venues following reports of Eye strapping a circular saw to his back onstage, and demolishing a wall with a bulldozer during shows.
Embedded video
0:52
4
530