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Prague
15:00 - 16:00

Tearooms in post-revolution Czechoslovakia symbolised places through which new spiritualities were flowing, and the influx of largely uncharted ways of life closely intertwined with new age, ambient, folk and minimalism. With their minds altered thanks to smuggled records by Fripp & Eno or Steve Reich, this loose network of musicians had begun composing meditative music, using loops and handmade instruments, with a different sensibility. Compared to the boisterous Zappa-adjacent and booze-soaked underground movement, which was led by Plastic People of the Universe and provoked the state authorities, this music was meant instead for tea rooms and spiritual sites like churches or monasteries, as if occupying some place where time flows anticlockwise. Music journalist Pavel Klusák dubbed this 1990s scene a “tearoom alternative”. Experimental folk singer Oldřich Janota, Jaroslav Kořán’s various ensembles like Modrá or Orloj Snivců (The Horologe of Dreamers) or Irena and Vojtěch Havlovi were drawn by the light and composed music that didn’t match the fast pace of newly imported capitalism. Mix created by: Miloš Hroch

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Cairo
14:00 - 16:00

ZULI, experimental club producer and VENT co-founder hailing from Cairo hits the NTS airwaves to showcase his club wares: aggressively left-field.

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STL

STL has been played on NTS over 230 times, featured on 184 episodes and was first played on 9 February 2011.

Alias of German Techno producer Stephan Laubner.

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STL

STL has been played on NTS over 230 times, featured on 184 episodes and was first played on 9 February 2011.

Alias of German Techno producer Stephan Laubner.

Tracks featured on

Most played tracks

Silent State
STL
Smallville Records2009
Jungle Sometimes
STL
Something2009
Loop 2
STL
Something2007
Loop 4
STL
Something2007
From A Distance
STL
Smallville Records2009
Loop 1
STL
Something2007
Mindbender
STL
Something2011
Loop 3
STL
Something2007
Heaven's Vape
STL
Smallville Records2015
Inverted Reality
STL
Smallville Records2012