The Third Wave has been played on NTS in shows including Mild Animals, featured first on 3 November 2017. Songs played include Love Train, Cantaloupe Island and Eleanor Rigby.

Third Wave was a pop jazz vocal group consisting of 5 teenage Filipino sisters from Stockton, California that was discovered by funky keybordist and long time Frank Zappa collaborator George Duke. Duke brought the sisters over to Germany in 1970, where he produced and recorded the album ,Here and Now for German label MPS.