This week we take a good look behind the mask, with a selection of music which isn't quite what it appears to be on first listen.

We have Frenchmen pretending to be Japanese, a Japanese man pretending that Duke Ellington was also Japanese, an Irishman pretending to be Hawaiian, the sound of exotic Hackney and a duo pretending it's still the 1980s (#callback).

WARNING: Surprisingly, no Germans.

This week we take a good look behind the mask, with a selection of music which isn't quite what it appears to be on first listen.

We have Frenchmen pretending to be Japanese, a Japanese man pretending that Duke Ellington was also Japanese, an Irishman pretending to be Hawaiian, the sound of exotic Hackney and a duo pretending it's still the 1980s (#callback).

WARNING: Surprisingly, no Germans.

It's time to take another trip back to the imaginary 80s with, ironically, some of the newest music we've ever played on the show.

We have highly-polished, adrenalin pumping tunes from such epicentres of 80s music such as Milwaukee, the Isle of White, Finland and Rome.

It's time to take another trip back to the imaginary 80s with, ironically, some of the newest music we've ever played on the show.

We have highly-polished, adrenalin pumping tunes from such epicentres of 80s music such as Milwaukee, the Isle of White, Finland and Rome.

We return to our journey through the rainbow this week, dear listener, with an all-blue edition of the show. But rest assured that, while the theme might be blue, the music itself is very much up-beat.

We have some French easy-disco, home-made music boxes, a Welsh TV theme tune, The Herb, steel drums and plenty plenty Moog synthesizer.

WARNING: Dangerously high levels of harpsichord.

We return to our journey through the rainbow this week, dear listener, with an all-blue edition of the show. But rest assured that, while the theme might be blue, the music itself is very much up-beat.

We have some French easy-disco, home-made music boxes, a Welsh TV theme tune, The Herb, steel drums and plenty plenty Moog synthesizer.

WARNING: Dangerously high levels of harpsichord.

We kick the new year off by blasting away the cobwebs with some splendid reissues and new releases.

We've got French space disco, a lost retro-futuristic relic from 1977, British exotica, Italian space-themed cinematic funk, something from Manchester's answer to Sun Ra and we close with a meditative piece from Tim Gane's current band ahead of their imminient triple-LP release - and there's plenty more besides too.

We kick the new year off by blasting away the cobwebs with some splendid reissues and new releases.

We've got French space disco, a lost retro-futuristic relic from 1977, British exotica, Italian space-themed cinematic funk, something from Manchester's answer to Sun Ra and we close with a meditative piece from Tim Gane's current band ahead of their imminient triple-LP release - and there's plenty more besides too.

It's time for an extremely sweet edition of the show, dear listener, as we bring you a selection of some of our favourite boilings.

PLEASE NOTE: Any connection to the festive season is purely coincidental.

It's time for an extremely sweet edition of the show, dear listener, as we bring you a selection of some of our favourite boilings.

PLEASE NOTE: Any connection to the festive season is purely coincidental.