Eastside 89.7 FM

Umami Junction

07.06.26

Aired on Sunday 7th June 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. 0:57

    Jungle

    Ive Been In Love

  2. 1:38

    Champion, Sammy Virji

    Hot In Here

  3. 7:02

    Declan McKenna

    Brazil

  4. 9:59

    The Pretty Littles

    Australian Dream

  5. 16:25

    Mura Masa, A$ap Rocky

    Love$ick

  6. 25:18

    MF DOOM

    One Beer

  7. 28:31

    Cortex

    Huit Octobre 1971

  8. 34:46

    Young Franco, Dana Williams, p-rallel

    Sing It Back

  9. 35:30

    Jitwam

    Opendoors

  10. 38:54

    Thomas Flynn

    I'm a Bug Now

  11. 42:36

    Barry Can't Swim

    Sunsleeper

  12. 44:05

    Tapir!

    On a Grassy Knoll (We'll Bow Together)

  13. 49:55

    Nines

    Fire In The Booth

  14. 53:29

    Little Simz

    Free

  15. 1:00:07

    Mac DeMarco

    Ode To Viceroy

  16. 1:04:22

    ICEHOUSE

    Great Southern Land

  17. 1:08:57

    Gwen McRae

    Keep The Fire Burning

  18. 1:14:25

    Fred again.., All and The Sniffers

    you're a star

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