The Connection Machine has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 7 November 2014. The Connection Machine's music has been featured on 16 episodes.

The Connection Machine are Jeroen Brandjes and Natasja Hagemeier from The Netherlands. In 2004 they have released an album entitled Painless on the Down Low Music label.

The name is a reference to a series of supercomputers that grew out of Danny Hillis' (an American inventor) research in the early 1980s at MIT on alternatives to the traditional von Neumann architecture of computation.