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The NTS Golden Record
The NTS Golden Record
05.09.22 · Space

The NTS Golden Record

In 1977, the Voyager spacecraft launched with two golden phonograph records, containing a variety of sounds and images selected to best represent life on earth, in the hopes that they might be found by extraterrestrial intelligence.

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the Voyager records' launch into the cosmos. But if we were to do it all again today, what would we do differently?

This four hour broadcast contains the original NASA-collated mix of sounds, followed by a two hour mix of NTS listener-submitted sounds.

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Tracklist

  • Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
    Present Joys
  • The Book Of Music And Nature: An Anthology Of Sounds, Words, Thoughts
    Women Gathering Mushrooms
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Barton
    Heron Dance
  • Unknown Artist
    The Oldest Known Melody C.1400 BC!
  • Erik Satie
    Gymnopédie No.1
  • Tchaikovsky, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky
    Symphony No.5 In E Minor, Op. 64
  • John O’Donohue
    Beannacht”
  • Hiroyuki Onogawa, Kenjiro "Sounder" Matsuo, Tenzan Utagaki
    August In The Water 1
  • Hamza El Din
    Mwasha
  • Robbie Basho
    Orphan's Lament
  • Joe Meek, The Blue Men
    I Hear A New World
  • Amália
    Estranha Forma De Vida
  • Miles Davis
    He Loved Him Madly
  • Carl Stone
    Banteay Srey
  • Pharoah Sanders
    Love Is Everywhere
  • Gil Scott-Heron
    Whitey On The Moon
  • Ryo Fukui
    Scenery
  • Ivor Cutler
    Beautiful Cosmos
  • Aphex Twin
    Alberto Balsalm
  • Aphrodite's Child
    Loud, Loud, Loud
  • Jon Hassell
    Last Night The Moon Came
  • Akira Yamaoka
    A World Of Madness
  • Boards Of Canada
    Corsair
  • Geinoh Yamashirogumi
    Illusion
  • Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares
    Kalimankou Denkou
  • Mulatu Astatke
    Tezeta
  • Othar Turner And The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
    Ida Reed (1978)
  • Agustus Pablo
    King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
  • Fela Ransome Kuti, Africa 70
    Water No Get Enemy
  • Vicente Fernández
    Volver Volver
  • Glen Campbell
    Wichita Lineman
  • Marvin Gaye
    I Want You
  • Herbie Hancock
    Watermelon Man
  • Eno
    Golden Hours
  • Uku Kuut
    Vision Of Estonia (Demo)
  • Cocteau Twins
    Lorelei
  • Björk
    Come To Me
  • Sophie
    It's Okay To Cry
  • Drexciya
    Andreaen Sand Dunes
  • Playboi Carti
    Location