Palmbomen has hosted the regular NTS show Palmbomen II, starting 19 November 2016. Palmbomen has been played on NTS over 80 times, featured on 76 episodes and was first played on 9 January 2014.

Palmbomen is the moniker for Kai Hugo an Electro artist from The Netherlands who also works as a DJ, doing his thing from 2009 onward.

Palmbomen (Dutch for “palm trees”), appropriately delivers a tropical escape from the mundane. Kai Hugo’s music is as experimental as it is contagiously poppy. Haunting vocals and hypnotic synth lines produced by desolated studio equipment create an atmospheric sound that, according to somewhere between 80s Italo and…