Night Shift w/ Diamondstein & Akira Rabelais 15th February 2022

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NTS Guide to: Tearoom Ambient

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

Studio One - The Heptones Special

Deep dive into the work of Kingston rocksteady trio The Heptones.

Experimental Ambient Drone Noise

Cold winds, empty street. Diamondstein, member of the band Melted Bodies, presents Night Shift - ambient techno, sinister industrial sounds, and moody experimental music for night time noir moments.

Tracklist

Svarte GreinerSvarte Greiner
Devolving
Justina JaruševičiūtėJustina Jaruševičiūtė
Let It Go
Gabriel PaiukGabriel Paiuk
Cuando ya no import (a Juan Carlos Onetti)

Mark KorvenMark Korven
Our House
Phoenix ChoralePhoenix Chorale
Sunrise Mass: The Spheres, “Kyrie Eleison” (Diamondstein Edit)
Phoenix ChoralePhoenix Chorale
Sunrise Mass: The Spheres, “Kyrie Eleison”
C418C418
Moog City 2
Steve RoachSteve Roach
Holding Light
3636
The Lower Lights
Lyra PramukLyra Pramuk
Mirror
RSS BOY 1RSS BOY 1
Hi
Abul MogardAbul Mogard
In True Contemplation
FathomageFathomage
Megaloschemos II
Gustavo SantaolallaGustavo Santaolalla
All Gone
GrailsGrails
New Drug II
Arcane TricksterArcane Trickster
Shoulder Of Orion
Zero Crossing PointZero Crossing Point
We're Just Ghosts
Akira RabelaisAkira Rabelais
Untitled Work In Progress
Akira RabelaisAkira Rabelais
1390 Gower Conf. II. 20 I Can Noght Thanne Unethes Spelle That I Wende Altherbest Have Rad.
Akira RabelaisAkira Rabelais
À L'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles En Fleurs - Car Il Était Celui ... Il Navigue
Akira RabelaisAkira Rabelais
In A Cadence Of Vanishing
Akira RabelaisAkira Rabelais
Where To Let Our Scars Fall In Love
Akira RabelaisAkira Rabelais
(Gorgeous Curves Lovely Fragments Labyrinthed On Occasions Entwined Charms, A Few Stories At Any Longer Sworn To Gathered From A Guileless Angel And The Hilt Edges Of Old Hearts, If They Do In The Guilt Of Deep Despondency.)
Akira RabelaisAkira Rabelais
With The Gift Of Your Small Breath
Akira RabelaisAkira Rabelais
Within Bending Sickle's Compass Come
Akira RabelaisAkira Rabelais
Il Joue Avec Le Vent, Cause Avec Le Nuage,
Akira RabelaisAkira Rabelais
図書館
Akira RabelaisAkira Rabelais
Le Temps Retrouvé - À Ce Moment Même ... Avec Moi
Akira RabelaisAkira Rabelais
Sarabande No. 2