Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian has been played on NTS over 60 times, featured on 57 episodes and was first played on 19 February 2014.

Japanese composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto first worked with English singer-songwriter David Sylvian in 1980, when he played keyboards on 'Taking Islands in Africa' track for Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids album in 1980. A proper collaboration happened two years later, with a Bamboo Houses / Bamboo Music single co-produced by Steve Nye and released by Virgin in 1982. Steve Jansen from Japan plays drums and also appears in the promotional video.