Eastside 89.7 FM

Umami Junction

28.06.26

Aired on Sunday 28th 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. 0:00

    Debarye, Abstract Orchestra, MF DOOM

    Air - Abstract Orchestra Remix

  2. 6:17

    DNA, Suzanne Vega, Neal Slateford

    Tom's Diner - 7" Version

  3. 14:18

    Pan Amsterdam, Guts

    Carrot Cake

  4. 15:20

    Madvillain

    Money Folder (Four Tet Remix)

  5. 20:21

    Flight Of The Conchords, Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie

    Inner City Pressure

  6. 24:00

    Pan Amsterdm, Damu The Fudgemunk

    Duk Wok

  7. 28:31

    Soul Coughing

    Screenwriter's Blues

  8. 31:00

    Clark

    Love Lock Floor

  9. 37:25

    Madvillain, Madlib, MF DOOM

    All Caps

  10. 40:20

    JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown

    Burfict!

  11. 43:12

    The Avalanches

    The Wozard of Iz

  12. 46:35

    Pan Amsterdam, thatmanmonkz

    Good Ol' Days

  13. 48:56

    YOTA: Youth Of The Apocalypse, MF DOOM

    Drop The Bomb

  14. 49:04

    Senay

    Honki Ponki

  15. 53:10

    Blue Scholars

    Blue School

  16. 1:01:34

    Cymande

    Brothers On The Slide

  17. 1:06:05

    MF DOOM, Mr. Fantastik

    Rap Snitch Knishes

  18. 1:08:37

    King Geedorah, Mr Fantastik

    Anti-Matter

  19. 1:12:08

    The Pharcyde

    Otha Fish

  20. 1:12:22

    Uncle Louie, Walter Murphy

    Full Tilt Boogie

  21. 1:22:29

    MF DOOM

    Deep Fried Frenz

  22. 1:27:00

    Suzanne Vega

    Tom's Diner - Reprise

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