Ikue Mori has been played over 40 times on NTS, first on 21 July 2014. Ikue Mori's music has been featured on 38 episodes.

Ikue Mori moved from her native city of Tokyo to New York in 1977. She started playing drums and soon joined the seminal NO WAVE band DNA, with fellow noise pioneers Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright. DNA enjoyed legendary cult status while creating a new brand of radical rhythms and dissonant sounds; forever altering the face of rock music.

In the mid 80’s Ikue started to employ drum machines in the unlikely context of improvised music. While limited to the standard technology…