Helicoid 0222MB has been played on NTS in shows including Phew, featured first on 1 October 2021. Songs played include Helicoid The Sun.

Once upon a time, let's say 1998-ish, Helicoid 0222MB was a somewhat spacey guitar-bass-drums trio from Osaka, and most of the limited press coverage they got concentrated on a joke (?) about how their music was supposed to make a giant robot dance. They grew a fair bit over the years -- there were typically four to six people on stage by the mid-2000s, with a keyboard and an extra guitar or two added to the mix -- but they still performed the dancing-robot song pretty regularly for ages.

Biography nerds will probably want to know that the principal players were pretty much always guitarist/lead vocalist Tanaka Hiroko (also of Teresa 11 and Free From Disguise), bassist Suguri Makiko (who also hosts the band's never-updated web site) and drummer Kon (who might have been Imanishi Satomi pre-pseudonym, or maybe the lineup actually changed… updates from people with a clue are obviously welcomed). Other contributions on record have come from such Osaka luminaries as Gonzo Murakami (of Labcry, maybe?) and Akamatsu Misaki (AKA akamar22 these days). Come late 2010, Tanaka left the city and that, as they say, was that. (Her erratically-updated blog insisted that it wouldn't be, but you try finding any information to the contrary since then.)