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Umami Junction

15.03.26

Aired on Sunday 15th March 2026, 11:00PM

Umami Junction explores the connections between music, food, community and conversation. To me, food and music are the foremost means of cultural connection – marrying the two is so natural!115 years ago, scientists identified the flavour profile ‘Umami’; that funky, savoury, bridge between sweet, salty, bitter, and sour, known as ‘The Fifth Taste’. They named it Umami, after the Japanese word for delicious ‘Umai’. The principle of the fifth taste can be applied to the music my show will highlight; scratching that itch for genre-bending, norm- smashing, culture-celebrating jazz, funk, electronic, R&B and soul tunes.Each week, I’ll select a meal or an ingredient, perhaps bring on a guest who I’ve shared this with, and spin a selection of tracks that evoke the feeling of these ingredients.

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Tracklist

  1. 01

    Madlib

    Introduction

  2. 2:53

    Dave Richmond

    Happy People

  3. 6:03

    People Under The Stairs

    Tales of Kidd Drunkadelic

  4. 9:16

    Cortex

    Huit octobre 1971

  5. 13:45

    MF DOOM

    One Beer

  6. 19:20

    Erroll Garner

    Long Ago and Far Away

  7. 27:52

    Tomppabeats

    Far Away

  8. 34:56

    Ahmad Jamal Trio

    The Awakening

  9. 34:58

    KAYTRANADA, Teadra Moses

    BE YOUR GIRL

  10. 41:14

    Brian Bennet

    Ladybird

  11. 56:00

    Loyle Carner

    Mean It In The Morning

  12. 54:13

    Miles Davis, John Coltrane

    Flamenco Sketches

  13. 1:03:26

    TV Girl

    Loving Machine

  14. 1:20:53

    Pan Amsterdam, Guts

    Come Closer

  15. 1:21:24

    Pan Amsterdam, Gut

    Carrot Cake

  16. 1:39:13

    Kool & The Gang

    Summer Machine

  17. 1:39:54

    Erykah Badu

    Certainly - Flipped It

  18. 18

    Bill Evans Trio

    My Foolish Heart

  19. 19

    sora

    Revans

  20. 20

    Mara O'Hara

    Oro Mo Bhaidin

  21. 21

    Passsion Pit

    Sleepyhead

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