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Chris Menist’s Paradise Bangkok label hits the NTS airwaves for a rundown of the best folk music from Africa, Indonesia and more. Reggae and Jazz rub shoulders with Gamalan as Menist uncovers classics; folk music without borders.

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A contemporary star of video game composition, award-winning US/Canadian musician Lena Raine has lent her talents to small-budget productions and blockbuster releases alike, from cult classic platformer Celeste, to sweeping huge scale projects like Guild Wars 2 and Minecraft.

Kyle Hall

On 11 February 2025, Kyle Hall was a guest on All Styles All Smiles. Kyle Hall has been played on NTS over 320 times, featured on 300 episodes and was first played on 6 April 2011.

There are two artists know as Kyle Hall

Kyle Julian Hall a DJ and producer from Detroit (US) making deep house.

Kyle Hall a solo "folk-punk" artist.

Kyle Julian Hall truly is one talented kid - a true prodigy. The Detroit native's productions are so richly musical, so thoughtful and mature, that it seems madness to think that he was born 1991. With releases on Hyperdub, R&S Records and Planet E - a label owned by Carl Craig - he is clearly destined for a rich artistic future.

His work began when he was as young as 11 - local legend DJ Raybone Jones taught him how to spin records, and schooled him in the history of music. After a friend suggested he go check out the Vibes record store in Detroit's Oak Park, Hall was taken under the wing of its owner Rick Wilhite (3 Chairs), who gave him a wider understanding of underground deep house. In 2005 Hall attended a class on using the music-producing software Reaktor 5, taught by another Detroit house legend, Mike Huckaby. He gave Huckaby a mix CD he'd made, and Huckaby went nuts for it - he helped him get some radio and club shows, and set him on the path to wider recognition.

When he was 16, Hall went to go see his favourite techno DJ, Omar-S, play out. Having danced for hours upon hours, he sat down to take a breather, at which point Omar approached him and said, "What up nig? You're Kyle, right?"; they've been friends ever since, with Omar acting as a kind of patron - indeed, his most recent mixtape is comprised solely of Kyle Hall productions.

So what of those productions? The influence of Detroit's deep house forerunners - Moodymann, Rick Wade and Theo Parrish, not to mention Rick Wilhite, Omar-S and Mike Huckaby - is all over 'em, but Hall isn't constrained by a 4x4 beat - he's just as likely to work with a slouchy hiphop rhythm à la J Dilla. Like Dilla, Hall's music connects with a grander, longer tradition of American soul music, all gut-wrenching melodies rendered in strings, heavy bass and jazzy keys.

Granted, there's no way of talking about Kyle Hall that doesn't make him sound like just another Detroit house producer.

Kyle Hall is Folk-pop/Folk-punk artist based in Galesburg, IL with several release on Plan-it-X Records and multiple split EPs http://kylehall.bandcamp.com
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Kyle Hall

On 11 February 2025, Kyle Hall was a guest on All Styles All Smiles. Kyle Hall has been played on NTS over 320 times, featured on 300 episodes and was first played on 6 April 2011.

There are two artists know as Kyle Hall

Kyle Julian Hall a DJ and producer from Detroit (US) making deep house.

Kyle Hall a solo "folk-punk" artist.

Kyle Julian Hall truly is one talented kid - a true prodigy. The Detroit native's productions are so richly musical, so thoughtful and mature, that it seems madness to think that he was born 1991. With releases on Hyperdub, R&S Records and Planet E - a label owned by Carl Craig - he is clearly destined for a rich artistic future.

His work began when he was as young as 11 - local legend DJ Raybone Jones taught him how to spin records, and schooled him in the history of music. After a friend suggested he go check out the Vibes record store in Detroit's Oak Park, Hall was taken under the wing of its owner Rick Wilhite (3 Chairs), who gave him a wider understanding of underground deep house. In 2005 Hall attended a class on using the music-producing software Reaktor 5, taught by another Detroit house legend, Mike Huckaby. He gave Huckaby a mix CD he'd made, and Huckaby went nuts for it - he helped him get some radio and club shows, and set him on the path to wider recognition.

When he was 16, Hall went to go see his favourite techno DJ, Omar-S, play out. Having danced for hours upon hours, he sat down to take a breather, at which point Omar approached him and said, "What up nig? You're Kyle, right?"; they've been friends ever since, with Omar acting as a kind of patron - indeed, his most recent mixtape is comprised solely of Kyle Hall productions.

So what of those productions? The influence of Detroit's deep house forerunners - Moodymann, Rick Wade and Theo Parrish, not to mention Rick Wilhite, Omar-S and Mike Huckaby - is all over 'em, but Hall isn't constrained by a 4x4 beat - he's just as likely to work with a slouchy hiphop rhythm à la J Dilla. Like Dilla, Hall's music connects with a grander, longer tradition of American soul music, all gut-wrenching melodies rendered in strings, heavy bass and jazzy keys.

Granted, there's no way of talking about Kyle Hall that doesn't make him sound like just another Detroit house producer.

Kyle Hall is Folk-pop/Folk-punk artist based in Galesburg, IL with several release on Plan-it-X Records and multiple split EPs http://kylehall.bandcamp.com
Original source: Last.fm

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