NTS Morning Shows

Flo sketches a bright Tuesday from balearic‑tinted calm and MPB glow (Jonny Nash; Bruno Berle; Erasmo Carlos) into dub‑soul and lovers’ sway (Dennis Bovell/Black Beard; Flame N King), then lifts through post‑punk and new‑wave sparkle (Prefab Sprout; The Cure; The Police; Spandau Ballet) before a late push into classic house euphoria and power‑pop bite (Ten City; Le Tigre; The Nerves) with a gentle Carole King exhale.

Ian Kim Judd drifts a Fifth World dawn from hushed ambient and tape‑soft minimalism (Idea Fire Company; Mister Water Wet) into vaporous electronics and dream‑state pop (Les Halles; The Furniture Group; EMER), then tilts toward dub‑wise oddities and left‑field club flicker (Nick León; Bambinodj; Rat Heart), closing with misty indie lullabies and Portuguese synth‑poise (Yo La Tengo; Carlos Maria Trindade & Nuno Canavarro).

Flo coaxes Monday into focus with Japanese film‑tender intros (Nobuo Yagi) and Sahelian highlife glow (Volta‑Jazz), flowing into cello‑and‑choral reverie (David Darling & the Wulu Bunun), ethio‑jazz lift (Kibrom Birhane) and MPB breeze (Milton Nascimento). Mid‑morning threads Flying Nun shimmer (The Chills, Minisnap), country‑folk and soft‑rock warmth (John Martyn, America, J.J. Cale) with Ghanaian highlife (Florence Adooni), Frafra swing and Ethiopian piano grace (Tsegue‑Maryam Guebrou), before a baggy‑bright nudge (Happy Mondays) and dream‑folk/leftfield pop haze (Juana Molina) — clear lines, gentle radiance, easy rise.

Braden eases Monday from bell‑like modern classical and baroque hush (Colleen; Zbigniew Preisner; Lorenzo Ghielmi) into tape‑soft folk and dream‑pop bloom (Annelies Monseré; Movietone; Spoonfed Hybrid), then opens the blinds to devotional jazz and pastoral glow (Alice Coltrane; Vince Guaraldi; Talk Talk). Mid‑morning drifts through Malian string hymnals and blue‑eyed melancholy (Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté; The Durutti Column; Hope Sandoval), with hushed post‑rock and Bristol‑school shadows (Crescent; The Remote Viewer), before a late lift of leftfield electronics and kosmische‑soul (Smerz; Dunkelziffer).

Hushed to radiant in modern‑classical and ambient hues: Jim White, Jan Kopinski and Michael Jon Fink set a reverent tone that opens into tape‑halo’d minimalism and dream‑folk before an intimate live session with Eiko Ishibashi; glints of Cage, Cymande and Bridget St. John add human warmth to the stillness.

A sunrise circuit through spiritual jazz, spoken‑word fire and soul‑bright lift: Carlos Niño & Friends, Attila Engin Group and Max Roach/Horace Tapscott frame live‑in‑studio moments with Saul Williams, while R&B and leftfield pop touches (Etta Bond, Prophet, Lô Borges, Photay) and a late club pressure (Krust) keep the morning lucid and charged.

Flo sketches a clear‑sky Thursday from airy indie and dream‑pop glow (Juana Molina; Beth Orton; Melody’s Echo Chamber; The Magnetic Fields) into 90s/00s alt touchstones and classic cool (Richard Hawley; David Bowie; Ween; The Clash), laced with leftfield electronics and club‑curious pulses (Two Lone Swordsmen; Smerz; PEJZAŻ; JASO). Hip‑hop and pop inflections (The Notorious B.I.G. instrumental; Blood Orange x Caroline Polachek; Geese’s Live Lounge cover) add lift toward a bright, easy late morning.

PAM and Violeta trace a dawn arc from minimal‑keys and lucid ambient (Marco Parisi; Kelly Moran; Mr. YT) into kosmische‑dub shimmer and art‑song oddities (DJ Sotofett & Philip Lauer; Robert Wyatt; Annette Peacock), then flip through leftfield rap and city‑soul gloss (Twista & Paul Wall; 03 Greedo; Cardi B x Janet), brightened by global pop detours and game‑console nostalgia (Camarón de la Isla; Daniel Darc; Mint Condition; Cibo Matto; Nintendo) before a late lift into East‑Asian synth sparkle and house‑touched bounce (Lee Moon‑Sae; Soichi Terada).

Maria traces a silver‑blue Tuesday from tape‑worn folk laments and choral hush into dream‑pop haze and chamber‑ambient glow, with devotional synths and gentle kosmische currents opening the blinds to a soft, radiant late morning.

Midweek in bright Flo colours: jangle‑pop and soft‑rock sheen ease into art‑pop sparkle and city‑pop gloss, then lift through boogie, disco edits and deep‑house chug with dub‑sweet undercurrents — clean lines, warm hooks, easy rise.