Transmission 2.6

This program is usually made in Australia, however this episode was made in Japan. Well, not really, but I was in Japan at the time it went to air so indulge me. The playlist for Transmission 2.6 was entirely music by Japanese artists with a small bit of poetic licence to include Kraftwerk singing in Japanese (which lead nicely into P5 sampling the same song). There's some funny nonsense from the likes of Picky Picnic and Hikashu, a knockout piece from the Crue-L Grand Orchestra selected by the superb Kahimi Karie for her Crystallization compilation album, the odd bit of anime music, the delightful bedroom recordings of Akane Hosaka, Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda, and Sketch show, the band that reunites Haruomi Hosono & Yukihiro Takahashi (2 thirds of Yellow Magic Orchestra). 1 - Technopolis - Yellow Magic Orchestra (Solid State Survivor - 1979) 2 - Untitled 1 - Space Machine (Cosmos From Diode Ladder Filter - 2001) 3 - Space Travel with Teddybear - Elektel (Space Travel with Teddybear - 2002) 4 - My Toast Time - Picky Picnic (Ha Ha! Tarachine - 1985) 5 - Silent Object - Masami Tsuchiya (Rice Music - 1982) 6 - Oriental Melon Man - Asei Kobayashi & Micky Yoshino (Hausu - 1977) 7 - Muscles and Fruits - Hikashu (Hikashu History - 2001) 8 - The Metamorphosis - Chumei Watanabe (Uchuu Keiji Gavan (aka 'Space Sheriff Gavan') - 1982) 9 - Dentaku - Kraftwerk (Pocket Calculator - 1981) 10 - Contact - Pizzicato Five (Romantique '96 - 1995) 11 - Theme From Take-Off (Magic Sunset) - Yoshinori Sunahara (Pan Am: The Sound Of '70s - 1998) 12 - Cannival Carpenter (Type G) - Crue-L Grand Orchestra (KAHIMI KARIE Presents Crue-L Crystallization - 2006) 13 - Small Circular Motion - Yuka Honda (Memories Are My Only Witness - 2002) 14 - Chronograph - Sketch Show (Loophole - 2004) 15 - White Sun - Akane Hosaka (Electric For Small Drop Channel - 2004) 16 - Girl Friend - Hajime Tachibana (Bambi - 1991) 17 - Intro - 7000 of Dragoon - Iwamura Manabu (This Is How I Feel About Jazz - 2000) 18 - Catwalk (Saint Etienne Remix) - Pizzicato Five (Great White Wonder: Rare Masters 1990-1996 - 1996) 19 - The Womb - Hajime Yoshizawa (Violet Lounge - 2001)