NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Kelli Hand on 20 August 2021. Kelli Hand has been played on NTS over 80 times, featured on 65 episodes and was first played on 23 June 2013.

K-HAND aka Kelli Hand (1965 – August 3, 2021) was named “the first lady of Detroit” by the city’s council in 2017, acknowledging a career in which she was a rare Black woman in dance music production and DJing.

Born and raised in Detroit, she began DJing in the late 80s, producing her own music and founded the label Acacia Records, to release tracks spanning jackin’ house, ghettotech and Detroit techno. She began touring in Europe by the mid-1990s with Warp Records releasing the single 'Global Warning' in 1994. She released the first of seven studio albums in 1995, and steadily continued to release music until 2020.