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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.

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.

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.

Continuing on our journey through The Rainbow Collection, we reach that most verdant of colours, green. You'll hear slightly creepy library music from the UK and France, a brand new release from Ghost Bost and no less than four German artistes, dear listener, not to mention the First Lady of the Hammond.

This week we explore the sunny uplands of our journey through the rainbow, dear listener, as we reach a colour associated variously with amusement, harmony and, er, envy, namely yellow. We have some 60s J-pop, a German pretending to be a Latin American pretending to be Japanese, a song-poem, some exotic Moog and the drifting stereo sounds of Werner Müller.

We take a break from our trip through the colours of the rainbow this week, dear listener, with a trip around (some of) the capitals of the world. We hope it proves to be as much of a journey of discovery as it was for us as we share some very heart-felt and often quite puzzling celebrations of some of the world's great cities. Special thanks are due to our Canadian ambassador for finding a great 80s tribute to her very own capital city.

Hot on the heels of last week's red show comes the next colour in The Rainbow Collection, namely orange. We have a surprisingly high representation of French music this week, dear listener, in particular French musicians pretending to be from South America. There's also beat poetry, exotica, 80s electronics and we close with a double bill of kawaii and classic Moog.

This week's show sees the beginning of a new series we are calling The Rainbow Collection with each show in the collection taking one colour as its theme. We start our journey at the lower end of the visible spectrum with a ruddy great show about the colour red. We have library music from the UK and France, an Italian double-bill and even some music from one of the ancient kingdoms of South America.

Time to catch up with some of our favourite new releases and reissues of recent weeks, dear listener. We have the new single from Swedish exoticists Joe Davolaz (featuring vocals from Kumisolo), a track from former Auteurs front man Luke Haines and his new all-analogue synth album about nuclear bunkers, a Colombian party from the Meridian Brothers and the organist they pay tribute to on their new album, some East German athletics training music, a track from the new single by ex-Stereolab Farfisa-ist Morgane Lhote, a pair of harpsichord tracks and we close with something to celebrate 10 years of Ghost Box.

Continuing our seemingly obsessive interest in modes of transport - and to show that we do listen to you, dear listener - we present this week a selection of tunes on the subject of bus travel, a theme indirectly requested by our Canadian ambassador. There are plenty of stops along the way as we travel via New Zealand, Germany (two stops), the US, Sweden, Japan, Ghana and, most exotic of all, Leeds in the UK.

Welcome to a truly diabolical edition of the show, dear listener. Yes, that's right, it's time to fill the house with cobwebs, turn all the lights out and hope that a mob of sinister children (dressed, inexplicably, as superheroes) don't come knocking on the door pleading for a trick or, perish the thought, a treat.

It's time to get out on the high road, dear listener, for our altogether more high-octane follow-up to last week's bicycle special. So put your leathers on and join us as we take you - at moderate speed - down the highway to hell...

After all the high-speed action of the last couple of weeks, it's time to take a rather more sedate approach this week with a show all about the gentle art of bicycling. We aren't talking middle-aged men in lycra here, dear listener but rather more tweed, trouser-clips (where appropriate) and poncho (if wet).