NTS Radio

NTS Radio (also known as NTS Live) is an online radio station and events company based in Dalston, London. Formed in April 2011 by Femi Adeyemi ^[1] (one of the original members of Boiler Room) and Clair Urbahn, NTS Radio serves the online community with a diverse range of live radio shows. Its tag line 'Don't Assume' sums up its diversity and radical programming.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Origins

NTS Radio was formed by Femi Adeyemi due to his frustration with Commercial radio. He sought to create a radio station for a global audience that were tired of major label controlled commercial radio and an audience that simply wanted to hear quality underground and undiscovered music, all day and all night, with no on-air advertising.

With no funding and the help of his friends including Clair Urbahn, basic equipment was sourced and a shack in Dalston was borrowed to start broadcasting. The programming initially started with 12 hours 7 days a week of live shows hosted by London-based DJs, curated by the small unpaid NTS team of 3 people.

Platform & Technology

The online streaming NTS delivers is found by users on the NTS website and various mobile streaming applications such as TuneIn. The main software used to broadcast the live audio stream is the open source software Icecast, for schedule playback of non-live content the station use Airtime from Sourcefabric. The station has configured Icecast in a way that means they can broadcast from remote locations, such that they can be broadcasting from their main studio in Dalston, then switch to a broadcast live from anywhere else in the world (subject to a reliable internet connection at the location).

The current website was designed and built by Shane Connolly (Creative Director). In mid-2014, work started to revamp their website, enhancing the discoverability of content and providing more of the historical archive on-demand, which at present is nearly seven thousand episodes large.

All of the station's content is also uploaded to Mixcloud.

Hosts & Artists

All hosts and artists that appear on NTS are selected by the NTS team; Fergus McDonald (Head of Programming), Sean McAuliffe (Managing Director) and Femi Adeyemi (CEO).

There are over 160 regular Hosts. Hosts and guest Artists that appear regularly and have appeared live on NTS include the following:

Thurston Moore, Jeff Mills, Floating Points, Andrew Weatherall, Gilles Peterson, Gaslamp Killer, Sun Araw, Kutmah, Micachu, Charlie Do You Bones, DJ Moxie, Four Tet, Jah Wobble, Jazzman Records, Frankie Knuckles, Rough Trade Records, Trilogy Tapes, Theo Parrish, Debonair, Wire Magazine, Dego, Mr. Scruff, Funkineven, Mamiko Motto, Lil Louis, Dean Blunt, Lukid, Martelo, Torn Hawk, Ivan Smagee, Lee Gamble, Awkward Movements, Noise In My Head, Marshmello, Throwing Shade, DJ Slimzee, Skepta, Young Turks, Peaking Lights, Powell, Damo Suzuki, Slack, Onra, Charles Cohen, Ron Morelli, Beautiful Swimmers, Peanut Butter Wolf, Julia Holter, Mr Beatnick, Derrick May, Kit Records, Kerri Chandler, Tasker, Bell Towers

In recent years, the station has also started doing live broadcasts from festivals and events around the world.^[5] In November 2014, the station was a broadcast partner for Red Bull Music Academy in Tokyo.^[6] Festival coverage includes broadcasts from Berlin Atonal and Dimensions Festival.

Awards

NTS won the 2014 best online radio station in the world award from Mixcloud and the official International Radio Awards Festival.^[7]

See also

• Resonance FM
• Rinse FM
• WFMU
• Boiler Room

References

External links

• Official website