NTS radio

[catalog]

A safe space in which to discuss LOVE and HATE for the radio station.

Felix Hall on right now playing some good reggae.

 

[version]

I used to like Lukid's show but I think it's been years since I've listened to more or less any radio at all. A bit sad really, but it never even occurs to me to check what's on. I just boot up YouTube instead.

 

[IdleRich]

Lukid used to live in Lisbon, met him playing footie on a Monday night. Quite a useful player.

 

[Corpsey]

 

[dilbert1]

I heard its just an algorithm created by Uniqlo and Carhartt

 

[catalog]

Care to expand?

 

[catalog]

I mean, I don't think they have a playlist as such, if that's what you mean, bug what do I know.

 

[dilbert1]

Only rudely filling the hate quota. Never got into NTS, they host every other DJ and their brother but almost any time I turn it on its exactly the sort of thing I’d expect to hear. This mixed with the outward pride some people (Americans?) take in it, the tote bags, like they’re eating organic fruit as opposed to the usual McSpotify playlist. Leaves a bad taste in my own very smug mouth

 

[catalog]

Well the argument made by some here is, I suppose, broadly, that they are a genttifying agent, but I'm not sure how useful that argument is. It's better than BBC radio and there's not really a pirate scene anymore so...

 

[dilbert1]

I, too, boot up Youtube instead. Perhaps I’m just annoyed no one would find my YouTube tote bag very cool

 

[catalog]

I suppose, in a sense, you could say they are an East London cultural mafia of sorts, with the connection to boiler room etc etc

 

[catalog]

I just like to be able to put something on and not have to keep monitoring it.

 

[catalog]

What's interesting as well is hod they've set the standard, I think, for Internet radio stations. Everyone else has copied that ident style, the dj with the picture I mean. I think they did that first.

 

[dilbert1]

My own analysis hasn’t gone as deep as gentrification but I’d hear anyone out with that argument

 

[catalog]

The thing you could say with it is that all the shows are by hipster middle class people, I suppose, rather than artists. Like there's no one connected to a living scene as such, and there's a lot of nostalgia. But that's also the moment we are in, in terms of music. Combing through the archives. But my arguement against that is that you've the odd one like scratcha, or say conor Thomas in Manchester, who is actually part of something.

 

[dilbert1]

Yeah, there’s obviously a lot of what feels like low-hanging fruit and easy target ridicule that comes with their current place in the ‘culture’, and some of it is going to be unfair considering the sorry state of said culture. It mostly just feels anachronistic but of course even dead institutions can provide shelter for that which still shows signs of life

 

[IdleRich]

I don't really listen to it but I have been on it a few times. I dunno why it became so all-conquering to be honest, sort of the first of those wave of internet stations that are everywhere now. Or at least the first to become really popular.

 

[dilbert1]

Pandemic definitely helped

 

[catalog]

Presumably they get enough money out of the supporters scheme go support what they're doing

 

[IdleRich]

I think was massive before pandemic.