Falty DL - Ninja Tune Takeover 26th September 2013

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CHILDREN OF ZEUS

Konny Kon juggling an hour of reggae records from his collection.

NTS GUIDE TO: JAZZ IN MURAKAMI NOVELS

'Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on thick, forbidding chords. Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody’s - a nameless, faceless somebody’s - dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness. Or at least that’s how it sounds to me. The patient, repeating music ever so slowly breaks apart the real, rearranging the pieces. It has a hypnotic, menacing smell, just like the forest' - Kafka On The Shore Music, and specifically jazz, has always featured heavily in the literary imagination of Haruki Murakami. In this radio special, NTS lays down two hours of jazz records as featured throughout Murakami's corpus.

Techno House Electronica Jungle Soul Hardcore

We welcomed Ninja Tune to the studio at the end of September to take control of the NTS airwaves for a whole day. Their twelve hour hijack included an exclusive interview between Machinedrum and Ninja Tune founder Matt Black, an insane acid mix from Luke Vibert, and sessions from Mr.Scruff, Congo Natty, Illum Sphere and the Invisible. There was also a Solid Steel 25th anniversary special featuring Coldcut, Amon Tobin blessed the airwaves with a spectacular exclusive mix, there was a Werkdiscs special, and Raf Daddy, Toddla T and Falty DL stopped by to show off their selecting skills…

The day was an exploration of the label and what it represents – musical depth as well as breadth, and a whole ton of fun. If you missed it, you should be ashamed of yourself, but not to worry, you can stream a selection of the one-off shows below.