Episodes
Saturday Apr 24, 2021
No Sex or Records for a Year and a Day: Transmission 516, 2020 March 5
Saturday Apr 24, 2021
Saturday Apr 24, 2021
A great show awaits you, and in even better news, it's my show! The only element missing is Lady Catharsis, who has arrived by and by at a grudging respect for The Fall, tonight's featured artiste.
Here is yet another posthumous Hall of Legends induction, since I lazily made the band charter members and then for whatever reason never asked to talk to the man himself. I need to start talking to people again.
Anyway, I guess this is where the origin story goes but once again there really isn't one. I have a weird memory of being 17, and being driven by my mother to a halloween party (I didn't get a driver's license until age 25), insisting on listening to KDVS in the car, and hearing a very distinctive song that stuck with me for about a decade before I figured out it was "Barmy." In my early days deejaying for that same station I would play "Hey! Luciani" and whatever the U.S. equivalent of Bend Sinister was. Jeremy, Friend of the Program, had a copy of In: Palace of Swords Reversed and we all loved "Marquis Cha-Cha." I had a copy of the Steve Barker compilation Bugs on the Wire and still think the version of "Wings" on that is the best one. In the waning days of the record store at which I worked, I gave myself a very special discount on the 458489 A Sides cd compilation, which tided me over until graduate school, during which time all the Beggars Banquet albums were reissued on cd and my obsession really began. Mark E. Smith used to say that Fall fans were the salt of the earth; as with Coil, there's no great explanation why this cishet black guy with a doctorate is among them; life just bounces!
Recommendations: the two best three-album runs are Perverted By Language > The Wonderful and Frightening World Of... > This Nation's Saving Grace and The Real New Fall L.P. > Fall Heads Roll > Reformation. If for some perverse reason you must own only one thing by this band, make it the Peel Sessions box set. That is the real story, right there.
I feel like I have to address this: by several accounts Mark E. Smith is a first-class asshole and an easily cancellable person. I know this. As a recovering abuser myself I give him a certain forbearance. That is all.
Anyway, "Why Are People Grudgeful" goes crazy on the turntable but winds up sounding alright. Otherwise I think the show is a technical success. It's a perfectly fine but random selection; at least I manage to play things I have not played before, unlike the Coil program from a week ago.
I don’t know why I had to remind people that it was a live show? Was it because I hadn’t spoken for a while? Or because I made some embarrassing error that has been memory-holed by post-production magic? Editing was so long ago.
Since this program was broadcast, 415 days ago now, I've gone "on the air" 56 times. I have delivered 54 pre-recorded episodes on account of the pandemic. "It's a living," I would say, if it were a livelihood and if I were truly living. Maybe someday.
BOMBAST playlist, 2020 March 5, 2100-2300:
- "Bombast" | The Fall | This Nation's Saving Grace | Beggars Banquet
- "Totally Wired" | The Fall | Singles 1978 - 2016 | Cherry Red
- "Brillo De Facto" | The Fall | New Facts Emerge | Cherry Red Records
- "Systematic Abuse" | The Fall | Reformation Post T.L.C. | Narnack Records
- "Stepping Out" | The Fall | Short Circuit - Live At The Electric Circus | Virgin
- "Lucifer over Lancashire" | The Fall | Bend Sinister / The Domesday Pay-Off Triad -Plus! | Beggars Banquet
- "Pay Your Rates (Live in Vienna 16/4/88)" | The Fall | Seminal Live | Beggars Banquet
- "Plug Myself In" | D.O.S.E. Feat. Mark E. Smith | A World Bewitched: Best Of 1990-2000 | Artful
- "Why Are People Grudgeful?" | The Fall | Why Are People Grudgeful? | Matador
- "Blindness" | The Fall | Fall Heads Roll | Narnack Records
- "Sing! Harpy" | The Fall | Extricate | Cog Sinister
- "Kurious Oranj (Live)" | The Fall | Cab It Up | Beggars Banquet
- "Arid Al's Dream" | The Fall | Volume Four | Volume
- "Barmy" | The Fall | This Nation's Saving Grace | Beggars Banquet
- "The Rhinohead" | Von Sudenfed | The Rhinohead / Slow Down Ronnie | Domino
- "Theme from Sparta F.C." | The Fall | The Real New Fall LP (Formerly 'Country On The Click') | Action Records
- "Put Away" | The Fall | Mixed Peel | New Musical Express
- "Chicago Now" | The Fall | Extricate | Cog Sinister
- "Cruiser's Creek (Single Version Remastered)" | The Fall | Singles 1978 - 2016 | Cherry Red
- "2x4" | The Fall | The Complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004 | Castle Music
- "Pacifying Joint" | The Fall | Fall Heads Roll | Narnack Records
- "(I'm) In Deep" | Coldcut | What's That Noise? | Tommy Boy / Reprise
- "A Day in the Life" | The Fall | Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father | New Musical Express
Winter lives in my heart
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Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
It's the Beginning of the End: Transmission 515, 2020 March 4
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
One week to go before time stops.
I guess this particular outing is a "grower." It seems forced early on; Kristin Hersh and Mogadisco don’t really go together nicely, for example, nor does Vanitas
follow smoothly. The overall vibe smacks of the insincerity and LARPing that, I feel, characterizes many of these programs from the "before" time. "I like this Africa 70 collection a lot," I say, but I don’t own it. So what is it, other than something to fill airtime in which I may not need to squat, and why should anyone else care?
I may not be the 20-year old idiot who used to play the same handful of Cocteau Twins records every week, but "growth" is overrated. I have settled into a different kind of groove . It’s feeling kind of pointless.
But it could always be worse--there’s a strange urgency to this program that I can hear in the recording. I swear it’s not memory playing tricks on me, because at a baseline level I can barely tell one current show from another at this point. I can only attribute the urgency to this show’s unfolding in real time, with a fiery crash always just around the corner. There is something more than content to these experiences—it’s the capture of a live singularity that’s important, not *what* I play per se.
Or maybe it's just because the records can skip, like the Legendary Pink Dots disc that I play here. "Thanks for sticking with us," indeed.
Since this program was broadcast, 413 days ago now, I've gone "on the air" 56 times. I have delivered 53 pre-recorded episodes on account of the pandemic. Only two more episodes "like this" to go--one to treasure, and one about which you can definitely say, "that happened."
BOMBAST playlist, 2020 March 4, 2100-2300:
- "Tempus Fugit" | Closed Loop | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Snake Oil" / "Pearl" | Kristin Hersh | Cats and Mice | Kitten Charmer | "The Listening Parlour"
- "Hab Isii" | Omar Shooli | Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972-1991) | Analog Africa
- "新しい時代, YES!" | VANITAS命死 | New Era : 2020 | Virtual Soundsystem
- "Wasting My Time" | Hannah Cohen | Wasting My Time | Bella Union
- "Tramsystem Battle" | Terror of Evil | New Era : 2020 | Virtual Soundsystem
- "Pretty Nice" | Chicago Odense Ensemble | Chicago Odense Ensemble | El Paraiso
- "Down where it's wetter" | Pandacetamol | Driftwood | Kahvi Collective
- "Allah Wakbarr" | Ofo The Black Company | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Melfuf" | Rizan Said | Saz Û Dilan | Akuphone
- "Kinringjingbin" | Dr Victor Olaiya's International All-Stars | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Gruppe Erdheim" | Fehler Kuti | Schland Is The Place For Me | Alien Transistor
- "Yabis" | Sir Shina Peters And His International Stars | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Carnaval Soca - Antal Edit" | Daniel Dimbas | La Differencia - Antal & Palms Trax Edits | No Label
- "Koladi-Ola" | Yello | Stella | Mercury
- "Moon Two" | Chris Carter | Chemistry Lessons Volume 1 | Mute
- "Laugh/Joy/Happiness" | Diego Esnaurrizar | New Era : 2020 | Virtual Soundsystem
- "Waiting for the Cloud" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Any Day Now [reissue] | Metropolis
- "NORTH" | Evaporated | New Era : 2020 | Virtual Soundsystem
- "Flowers" | Galaxie 500 | Today [reissue] | 20|20|20
- "Tiamat" | Marco Paul | Adonai | Forbidden Colours
- "A Strange Perfume" | The Membranes | What Nature Gives...Nature Takes Away | Cherry Red
- "Triptophan" | Curious Inversions | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Outro - Wisdom" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Heavy Rain | On-U Sound
- "Divine Dub (Alpha & Omega Remix)" | Dubzoic feat. Livio Roaring Bass | "Divine" Featuring Fikir Amlak | Steppas
- "Blurry Youth - Elise Reshape" | François X | Irregular Passion Reshaped | Dement3d
- "Dub Conscious" | Digital | Shadows | Function
Now you know our truth
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Monday Apr 19, 2021
Monday Apr 19, 2021
The pandemic has made me extra-fond of this episode, because it's one of the last "specials" I did before the lockdown, but I think this episode might be suitable for the pantheon in any timeline. I had of course already inducted Coil into the Bombast Hall of Legends, in four stages, to go along with their "equinox" / "solstice" series. Early days! But here I wind up with airtime on what would be Peter Christopherson's birthday, so it's a "proper" chance to devote the full two hours to their music (and other things, with apologies to Jhonn Balance).
I pronounce PC's surname like "Kristofferson" although I don't really know if that's correct--I become wistful about the Dif Juz HoL induction, triggered by that very question. How lucky I was that at least two of them are alive to answer the question. But not in this case. This program is for the spirits, and for the fans, and for the uninitiated.
There is no cool or interesting origin story for me and my Coil records. I'm sure that Jeremy, Friend of the Program, used to encourage me to play Scatology late at night on the radio, many years ago. And there was a kind docent at the local record store, Alex, who insisted I take home The Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser 10-inch. I'm not a pagan, I'm not into male-only onanistic rituals or anything, I'm just a black cishet guy who loves music that is unusual and good and unusually good. My tastes are probably almost as boring as I am.
I guess I stuck with Coil over the years because they were prolific and restless, building a catalog that is almost self-sufficient--not merely a "desert island disc" but a desert island body of work. In that ridiculous hypothetical, you'd hardly need anyone else's records. Also, there are only a handful of “industrial “ artists who (to me) are unproblematic. It’s a depressingly short list--Coil, Cabaret Voltaire, Chris & Cosey, Test Dept., Bourbonese Qualk, Einsturzende Neubauten, Nocturnal Emissions, Zoviet France, I'm not sure whom I'm forgetting...Everyone else seems too close to Alain Jourgensen, too close to Douglas Pearce, or is actually Genesis. This last bit is less trivial than it sounds--Coil's presence on a compilation is a really good indicator of quantity. I've "discovered" a lot of good sounds just picking up the various "various artists" records on which Coil appeared. And I take the willingness to do comps as an indicator of niceness in a person--easygoing, plays well with others, etc.
So I guess that's it.
It was a lovely evening sitting in the studio and letting the music flow through me, loudly, though I couldn’t seem to say anything correctly when it was time to speak. There is a certain magic(k) in the air whether you listen to this in blinding sunlight or at nighttime as intended.
Since this program was broadcast, 418 days ago now, I've gone "on the air" 57 times. I have delivered 53 pre-recorded episodes on account of the pandemic. I am most definitely biased but I have to say that none of those episodes are better than this one.
BOMBAST playlist, 2020 February 27, 2100-2300:
- "First Dark Ride" | Coil | Unnatural History III | Threshold House
- "Who'll Fall" | Coil | Stolen & Contaminated Songs | Cold Spring
- "20 Jazz Funk Greats" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats | Mute
- "Red Skeletons" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton
- "Homage To Sewage" | Coil | Life At The Top | Third Mind / Abstract
- "Futhur" | Coil | Stolen & Contaminated Songs | Cold Spring
- "Princess Margaret's Man In the D'jamalfna" | Coil | The New Backwards | Important Records
- "Amethyst Deceivers" | Coil | Autumn Equinox: Amethyst Deceivers | Eskaton
- "Distant Dreams (Part Two)" | Throbbing Gristle | The Industrial Records Story | Illuminated
- "Love's Secret Domain" | Coil | Stolen & Contaminated Songs | Cold Spring
- "Feeder" | CTI With Coil | Core - A Conspiracy International Project | Conspiracy International
- "Panic" | Coil | Unnatural History III | Threshold House
- "Cowboys In Bangkok 1995 (Coil vs Elph Mix)" | Chris & Cosey | Twist | T & B Vinyl
- "The Snow" | Coil | Love's Secret Domain | Threshold House
- "In My Head A Crystal Sphere Of Heavy Fluid" | Peter Christopherson | Foxtrot | Chalice
- "The Last Amethyst Deceiver" | Coil | The Ape of Naples | Important Records
- "Neither His Nor Yours" | Coil | A Diamond Hidden In The Mouth Of A Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems
- "Dark River" | Coil | Love's Secret Domain | Threshold House
- "The Lost Rivers of London" | Coil | Unnatural History III | Threshold House
Everything is good and divine
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Friday Apr 16, 2021
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Wednesday is my day of healing: first therapy, and then this. My therapist thinks my dj hobby is creativity. I think it is self-expression at best. I have never believed that djs are artists or that spinning and mixing records is a performance. I have done art and I have done performance; I may do these things again, god help us all. But for reasons of trauma those are in the past.
There is plenty of new trauma unfolding in the present. Work was not going well at the time of this broadcast. I was feeling inadequate and afraid to show up as myself. Little did I know what kind of blessing the pandemic would be in this regard.
The program is my one arena for seeming and feeling competent. Listening back to the programs from this time, I do wonder what any of it has to do with "the self." I think that has gotten better, but you'll have to wait.
Since this program was broadcast, 416 days ago now, I've gone "on the air" 58 times. I have delivered 53 pre-recorded episodes on account of the pandemic. At long last I have set up my voice-over mic and preamp in my new house. I am accepting the new reality by and by, probably just in time for it to end.
BOMBAST playlist, 2020 February 26, 2100-2300:
- "The Feeling" | Orlando Voorn | The Feeling | Bosh
- "I Can't Get Along Without You - Instrumental" | Vance and Suzzanne | I Can't Get Along Without You | Kalita
- "Hope Reminds Me Of Her" | Hadone | The World of Monnom Black II | Monnom Black
- "Maze Exit" | Brioskj | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Hoobeya (Somali Traditional Chant)" | Shimaali & Killer | Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972-1991) | Analog Africa
- "Worried Man" | Jeb Loy Nichols | Cash Covered | Mojo Magazine
- "Dan Asher - King Britt Mudd Club Mix" | Gray | Shades of... Anthology | Ubiquity
- "Keep Out" | Nominalbeat | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Status" | Midnight Embassy | Midnight Embassy | International Major Label
- "Ire Africa" | Chief Checker | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Suck It Like a Whistle" | Sneaks | Highway Hypnosis | Merge
- "Let Dreamer's Dream (Daydream)" | Vince Watson | DnA - EP1 | Everysoul
- "Homesick" | I Kill Kane | Disintegration Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
- "ADA" | NNYZ? | Reveries | self-released
- "Call Me Anything (But Call Me)" | Maggie Sue Wimberly | Hillbilly Fillies & Rockin' Chicks | Charly | "The Listening Parlour"
- "Oxford Guitar Club" | Lloyd Meadows | Oxford Synthesizer Club | The Beautiful Music
- "Fell from the Sun" | Kendra Smith, David Roback, Keith Mitchell | Fell From The Sun | Serpent
- "Coincidence" | Fallende | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Shaleedayaa (By Myself)" | Dur-Dur Band | Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972-1991) | Analog Africa
- "Onipa" | Onipa | Onipa / Makoma | Strut
- "African Dialects" | Peter King | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Kele Bila (Stop Fighting)" | Mr Raoul K | African Paradigm | Compost
- "Amino Acids" | Hardwired | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Happy Survival" | Ifeanyi Eddie Okwedy & His Maymores Dance Band | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "2d Objects" | Jabber | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
I've killed everybody, now what
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Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
All Surroundings Are Evolving: Transmission 512, February 19
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
"Who’s listening?" I wonder out loud in my notes to this program. So much of the time on the radio I actually want to be "alone," at least left to my own devices. Sometimes the isolation gets to me and this must have been one of those times. Was I having some kind of premonition, or advance feeling of what the next 14 months would be like?
Strangely this program seems "authentic" even though it is heavily Spotify-driven. It saddens me on a couple of levels to listen, but perhaps it will do you or someone else good.
Looking at the playlist very little of it connects or makes sense or reflects commitment, except for Primal Scream covering Roky Erickson of all things. And how many times can I play that?
Since this program was broadcast, 420 days ago now, I've gone "on the air" 58 times. I have delivered 52 pre-recorded episodes on account of the pandemic. It's getting easier to do this again, a bit less embarrassing as I pick through the mess.
BOMBAST playlist, 2020 February 19, 2100-2300:
- "Slip Inside This House" | Primal Scream | Screamadelica | Creation / Sire
- "Desperate Mantra" | Fallende | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Coolie" | Sarathy Korwar | Coolie | Leaf
- "Sweet Salts 2" | SJ Tequilla | Sanya | Craigie Knowes
- "Akayan Ekassa" | Sir Victor Uwaifo | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Alpha Blueprint Signal" | Abjective | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Dancing Time" | The Funkees | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Craggie Helm" | The Three Mothers | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Temperature's Rising" | Galaxie 500 | Today [reissue] | 20|20|20
- "Roswell Sunset" | Legendary Pink Dots | Legendary Pink Dots' Christmas Special 2019 | self-released
- "When The Morning Comes" | The Claim | The New Industrial Ballads | A Turntable Friend
- "Inu Mimo" | Sina Bakare | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Waakaa Helaa (I Like You)" | Fadumo Qassim & Shareero | Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972-1991) | Analog Africa
- "Drowning" | The English Beat | Beat This! The Best Of The English Beat | Go-Feet / London
- "Sinewe - l'Eglise de Tominia" | Mamadou Kelly | Les Bateaux | Claremont
- "In The Clouds" | dayflower | petal drops | self-released
- "It's Never Alright" | Ramleh | It's Never Alright / Kerb Krawler | Fourth Dimension
- "I'll Make You Sorry" | Screaming Females | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
- "The Pontiac" | Tom Waits | Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards | Anti- / Epitaph | "The Listening Parlour"
- "Illimite" | Sainte Anne | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Sweet Love" | Samuel Jonathan Jackson | My Music | Be With
- "Bounce (elevators)" | NNYz? | Reveries | self-released
- "Sunkwa" | Gyedu-Blay Ambolley | 11th Street, Sekondi | Agogo
- "Ifa" | Tunji Oyelana & The Benders | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Yamona - Detroit Swindle Remix" | Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band | Yamona (Detroit Swindle Remix) | Strut
- "Life" | Moneyman And The Super 5 International | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Time Catch" | Kri Tik | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
Maybe getting somewhere doesn't seem like a lot
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Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Overstand the Futility of My Antics: Transmission 511, 2020 February 12
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Shockingly I had stopped drinking, at least for this week, and had been working very hard at the gym with nothing to show for it. On this day I wrote down that I'd had a four-hour training at work just to be the backup to a backup on some issue or other. I had scribbled something less-than-profound, I'm sure, about the ongoing Democratic primary, but let's face it, I was done caring.
Anyway, "a conceptually and technically perfect show?" Is this really what my notes say? It isn't true, though this one gives me pleasure even now, confirming that it has not all been a waste. And I even got props from drummer John over the phone, who was playing with a cat while waiting for his friend to wake up and give him a toke. I had always hoped that this program would be a soundtrack for positive experiences, so achievement unlocked.
Since this program was broadcast, 425 days ago now, I've gone "on the air" 59 times. I have delivered 52 pre-recorded episodes on account of the pandemic. I wonder if it is a victory just to tread water at this point; it is certainly "funny" to hear myself say during the program that I am "only" thirteen programs behind on this site. I could just give up, but then that would only prove right the people in my life who say I don't take ownership of anything.
New York just legalized marijuana, so I am looking forward to more altered states of my own in the near future. I've been told by more than one person that I need this, so it must be true.
BOMBAST playlist, 2020 February 12, 2100-2300:
- "Music" | Henry Turner's Crystal Band | Music | Kalita
- "Pancake Lizard" | Aphex Twin | Peel Session 2 | WARP
- "Delphine (St. Malo Mix)" | Camomille Dawn | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Rough for Radio" | Seefeel | Peel Session | WARP
- "Mindblock" | Shiken Hanzo | Maya Warfare EP | Repertoire
- "Seven Souls" | Material | Seven Souls | Virgin
- "Shells" | Teebs | Anicca | Brainfeeder
- "Jackson" | Nancy & Lee | Nancy & Lee | Reprise | "The Listening Parlour"
- "Underwater" | Jabber | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Memory Loop" | Daniel Avery | Song For Alpha (B-sides & Remixes) | Phantasy Sound / Mute
- "Adelina" | Toada | Cambiante | pluma
- "Monochrome" | Dog in the Snow | Vanishing Lands | Bella Union
- "Ashikibaya - Sam Jones Construct" | Siti Muharam | Ashikibaya | On The Corner
- "Mind of Jacob" | Nu Era | EVOLVE | Omniverse
- "Disassociation Effect" | Peel Dream Magazine | Up and Up | Tough Love
- "Lana Hidjori" | Mamadou Kelly | Les Bateaux | Claremont
- "Ratopia" | Lakmus Red | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Boloko" | Bantou Mentale | Bantou Mentale | Glitterbeat
- "Wiggle Waggle" | Longwave Radio | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "All That Matters Is The Moments" | The Comet Is Coming | Afterlife | Impulse
- "Wintergatan" | Sampleman and the Music Mutant | Apotropaic | self-released
- "Rob's Nightmare" | LFO | Peel Session | WARP
- "White Burn" | Letters from Mouse | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Kita Kita" | Gasper Lawal | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Hybrid Nineteen" | Zainetica | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Existential Blowfish" | Afuma | Songs From The Shore | Blank Forms
- "Altered States" | Fushara | The Mystics | Transmute
- "Blowing" | Girl in a gale | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
No now, no then
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Monday Apr 05, 2021
Monday Apr 05, 2021
I must have been in a bad mood when this program aired, but what is new? This was the day my therapist told me to stop drinking and to see a psychiatrist. I did one of these things. I will let you guess which one it was.
ANYWAY! The program starts off well but for some reason I don’t talk during a long King Sunny Ade instrumental. I am Just Not On My A Game.
"Energies Collide" is really heteronormative, wow--
"Reunite the tantric spark, the magic?" Is this the Sting universe? They say that when you're happy you listen to atmosphere and groove and when you're depressed you tune into the lyrics. Maybe I have been happy all this time.
"Words of Expectation" is a real room-clearer, this live rendition being more annoying than I remember. It wasn’t a good segue either. I talked over “encore,” oops, but Dylan Thomas can get bent.
Since this program was broadcast, 426 days ago now, I've gone "on the air" 59 times. I have delivered 51 pre-recorded episodes on account of the pandemic. These numbers don't seem to be moving...
My therapist, when she was not giving me advice that I only partially heeded, told me, "not every trace of your existence has to disappear from the fabric of space-time." This is a good thing to remember as I try to get back into the swing of documenting this ongoing adventure.
BOMBAST playlist, 2020 February 5, 2100-2300:
- "Ja Fun Mi - Instrumental" | King Sunny Ade | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Brent" | Girl in a gale | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Energies Collide" | Black Jazz Consortium | Evolution of Light | Perpetual Sound
- "Latin Parang" | Colleen Grant | Latin Parang / Parang Jam | Soundway
- "Wrecked" | Zonal | Wrecked | Relapse
- "She Don't Want That" | Midnite Snaxxx | Music Inside | Slovenly
- "Better Change Your Mind" | William Onyeabor | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Abstract of Expression" | The Durutti Column | Fidelity [reissue] | Les Disques Du Crépuscule
- "Four Feet" | Otik | Blasphemy | Boogie Box
- "In Wooded Country" | Whistling Arrow | Whistling Arrow | God Unknown
- "Wild Sand" | Secret Wilderness | Out Of The Darkness | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
- "Go Back to Oly" | Elite Beat | Selected Rhythms | Research Records
- "Words of Expectation - Live, Larry's Hideaway, Toronto, Canada, 21 April 1983" | The Fall | Room To Live [reissue] | Cherry Red
- "A Lover Sings" | Billy Bragg | Best Of Billy Bragg At The BBC 1983 - 2019 | Cooking Vinyl
- "Encore" | The Velvet Orchestra | Velvet Desert Music Vol. 1 | Kompakt
- "Josephine" | Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band | Adios Señor Pussycat | Violette
- "Wonder Why" | dayflower | petal drops | self-released
- "Lazybeams" | Plaid | Peel Session 2 | WARP
- "Endless Cycle" | Lou Reed | New York | Sire | "The Listening Parlour"
- "Passing of Time" | Moor Mother | Analog Fluids of Solid Black Holes | Don Giovanni
- "Abidjan Adja" | Antoinette Konan | Abidjan Adja | Awesome Tapes From Africa
- "Stars" | Kunds | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "A Brief Message" | Ryo Kawasaki & The Golden Dragon | Little Tree | Studio Mule
- "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste" | Galaxie 500 | Today [reissue] | 20|20|20
Everything will be alright, you are in my hands
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Friday Apr 02, 2021
They Will Sell You Back Your Heart: Transmission 509, 2020 February 1
Friday Apr 02, 2021
Friday Apr 02, 2021
Welcome to a weird night, with lots of bizarre human traffic, on which Lady Catharsis and I sheltered in the Kenny Ritter Memorial Studio (RIP) and delivered what would turn out to be our final joint program prior to the lockdown.
Basic things kept going wrong because I was rude, during the previous program ("pa’bajo"), to a caller who wanted to be put straight through to the studio. I say "rude" because I declined the request, even though it was practically impossible to grant. This is the kind of thing my therapist keeps bugging me about, but that is another story.
I suppose that during a lot of these programs it is unfinished business and "misfit toys" time, which explains a lot of this playlist. Except for Rick James (RIP) I don't know why I'm playing a lot of what I'm playing. Bad energy: I would like to say the program crackles with it, but that would overstate the excitement factor.
"Maybe," I wrote at the time, "when I hear this program six months from now it will sound good." It does! Even though I underestimated the wait just a little bit.
Since this program was broadcast, 427 days ago now, I've gone "on the air" 60 times. I have delivered 51 pre-recorded episodes on account of the pandemic. The good news is that I'm past the point of editing old sound files, because the editing happens before they ever go out on the air. Truly I have become a podcaster.
Our discussion of "the four corners of time" captures this perpetual dilemma, but as always I am determined to speed things up and post like a normal person.
BOMBAST playlist, 2020 February 1, 2000-2200:
- "The Modern Day Saints" | The Orange Kyte | Carousel | Little Cloud
- "Bury It Deep" | Beat Hotel | Feel It | Occultation Recordings
- "Ii Ooy Aniga (Cry For Me)" | Iftin Band | Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972-1991) | Analog Africa
- "Brokos" | Gyedu-Blay Ambolley | 11th Street, Sekondi | Agogo
- "You And I" | Rick James | Come Get It! | Gordy
- "Il ne faut pas intervenir (Martin Meissonnier reconstruction)" | Sankayi | Kinshasa 1978 | Crammed Discs
- "Void" | Algiers | Void | Matador
- "A Dr0ne" | NNYz? | Reveries | self-released
- "To Hell With Poverty" | Gang of Four | Another Day/Another Dollar | Warner Bros.
- "Nova" | Kimyan Law | Yonda | Blue Mar Ten
- "Remember Me" | The Durutti Column | Fidelity [reissue] | Les Disques Du Crépuscule
- "Rue des tempêtes" | The Young Gods | L'Eau Rouge / Red Water [reissue] | [PIAS] Le Label
- "144,000" | James Massiah | Natural Born Killers (Ride for Me) | Levels
- "Neo" | Leandro Fresco / Thore Pfeiffer | Pop Ambient 2020 | Kompakt
- "The Redemption Project" | Hieroglyphic Being | Synth Expressionism / Rhythmic Cubism | On the Corner
- "Heartbeat" | Chris and Cosey | Heartbeat [reissue] | Conspiracy International
- "Reflections" | Taelue | Reflections | Perpetual Rhythms
- "The Wedge" | The J.B.'s | More Mess On My Thing | Now-Again
- "Hidden Track" | Lloyd Meadows | Oxford Synthesizer Club | The Beautiful Music
- "The Myth Hold Weight" | Moor Mother | Analog Fluids of Solid Black Holes | Don Giovanni
- "Range of Motion" | Force Placement | Vibe Repair | 100% Silk
Proud of the way I've avoided prison
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Friday Mar 19, 2021
Get Ready for That Albini Sound: Transmission 508, 2020 January 29
Friday Mar 19, 2021
Friday Mar 19, 2021
Lockdown has entered day 367, and we are feeling great about it. I am trying out something new in the thirteenth month; I call it "proving to my listeners that I exist." If I can't provide you with recent evidence thereof, I can at least write a few sentences every couple of days and slap an old sound file on top of that. Were it not for my neurotic insistence on linearity, I could even show you what I've been up to lately. But isn't it marginally more interesting to find out, drip by drip, how we got here?
Anyway, we have an artsy-sounding beginning, and really, even looking back across this last year's wasteland of time this sounds a bit "like me" in light of today, at least early on. I even received kind words over the phone from "Mark" In Trumansburg during "Up Side Down!" We like compliments--more of this, please.
On the topic of sounding like myself, I stopped "en gammal Amazon" magically; how wonderful it would be if I had the power to do that with other phenomena. And whatever happened to Brian Harris, by the way? Subsequently I referred to something called the Celsus!!! And then, as always, conceptually things get weird somewhere between Crispy ambulance and the Black Watch. Probably a result of my trying to be ecumenical, if that is the right word. Those days are probably over.
I can’t get over how pinched and small "Volgarity." sounds. I guess it’s not 1992 anymore and we are no longer impressed. This feeling occurs to me often these days.
Since this program was broadcast, 416 days ago now, I've gone "on the air" 59 times. I have delivered 49 pre-recorded episodes on account of the pandemic. I'm trying to edit a sound file from 380 days ago--51 shows ago. Once again I am playing this silly, crazy-making game with the past.
I suspect things are going to carry on like this for a while, then get really bad, then good, then worse, then ok, and then we'll be caught up. Vague but probably accurate.
BOMBAST playlist, 2020 January 29, 2100-2300:
- "Arboreal Epitone" | Kimyan Law | Yonda | Blue Mar Ten
- "Living In Denial" | Michael Kiwanuka | KIWANUKA | Polydor
- "Halo" | MONO | Before The Past • Live From Electrical Audio | Temporary Residence Ltd.
- "An Old Amazon(En Gammal Amazon)" | Brian Harris | Thylacine | self-released
- "Upside Down" | Fela Anikulapo Kuti & The Africa 70 | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "3:38" | The Pop Group | Y | Mute
- "Daradaa Muxibo" | Dur-Dur Band | Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972-1991) | Analog Africa
- "Egypt" | Crispy Ambulance | The Plateau Phase + Live On A Hot August Night + Peel | Factory Benelux
- "Transatlantic Part 1 & 2" | Jabber | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "crying all the time!" | The Black Watch | Crying All The Time | A Turntable Friend
- "Blacktea" | Lakey | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" | The Ramones | All The Stuff (And More) - Vol. I | Sire
- "Heptameth Rainbow" | Weldroid | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Sweetness of the New - Free the Robots Remix" | Gray | Shades of... Anthology | Ubiquity
- "Gestalt Waves" | Leniad | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "The Deep" | clipping. | The Deep | Sub Pop
- "No Discrimination" | Tony Allen & His Afro Messengers | Nigeria 70: Box Set | Strut
- "Breath Mint" | Daniel T. | Heliotrope | Cascine
- "Kawai K4" | Guy Contact | Liminal Space | Butter Sessions
- "Astral Light" | Botany talk Home | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
- "Night Driving" | Throwing Muses | The Season Sessions: Winter | self-released | "The Listening Parlour"
- "Tears from Pluto" | Kantakin | Shepherd Drift | Kahvi Collective
- "Volgarity" | Steroid Maximus | Volume Four | Volume
Right now some are insane
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Sunday May 24, 2020
You Should Know What You Look Like: Transmission 506, 2020 January 11
Sunday May 24, 2020
Sunday May 24, 2020
Welcome to day 67 of lockdown. I am happy to present you with a recording of a broadcast that happened with Lady Catharsis at my side. This sort of thing can't happen right now. It is good to be reminded of the world we are fighting to preserve. If this seems like a petty and trivial example of such a world, I don't apologize.
I have a lot of notes about this program, so strap in. The American Music Club segue had no business sounding good, but it did. Now, onto the bad and weird things: I'm pretty sure I say we're going uptempo only to say later that we went downtempo. Who is to say what tempo is? I am pretty sure I identified the JBs album as being released by Get On Down and I am almost certainly wrong. I say nothing when Lady Catharsis says to me, "you're the clever one." Probably a lot to unpack there! I sound exasperated with myself about four minutes into the program, which is not a good sign. "It's hot in the city tonight," Lady Catharsis says. What can it mean?
Showing up as myself (my therapist would be proud): shout out to Wally of The Beautiful Music, who shared the THE SOUND YOUR DREAMS MAKE comp with me. He is truly one of the Good People of music Twitter. I hold back from delivering a rant about the Coil reissue, "Stolen and Contaminated Songs." But (maybe this is not my best self showing up at the moment) I have to say I don't know who's pocketing the profits from this one and the label that released it is almost certainly releasing music by outright fascists. So There. I do pop off at Chris and Cosey and it pains me to say that they deserve it. Their fall 2019 reissues cost me $28 apiece, the records skip, and they insist that I pay an additional £8.99 if I want a version I can listen to on my phone. I don't think this is right and I'm not backing down. Moving on: the Dennis Green story sort of comes out of nowhere, but it illustrates the trade-offs and choices that brought me here, I guess.
Since this program was broadcast, 134 days ago now, I've gone "on the air" 21 times. I have delivered ten pre-recorded episodes on account of the pandemic. I'm supposed to be editing a sound file from 88 days ago--fourteen shows ago, supposably. There is some mental block preventing me from completing that work.
Anyway, one day I'm sure we'll do this again, and better (one can hope).
BOMBAST playlist, 2020 January 11, 2000-2200:
- "Oh What a Saturday Night" | Errol Strength | Take Us Home - Boston Roots Reggae: 1979 to 1988 | Cultures of Soul
- "Joka Awuor" | ODD OKODDO | Auma | Pingipung
- "Am I Just A Dub" | Lizard Brain | THE SOUND YOUR DREAMS MAKE | EVERLASTING
- "Light Shining Darkly" | Coil | Stolen & Contaminated Songs | Cold Spring
- "Arcade" | Chris & Cosey | Exotika [reissue] | Conspiracy International
- "Bad Television" | Smoothy | THE SOUND YOUR DREAMS MAKE | EVERLASTING
- "The Controversial Control" | Jay Glass Dubs | Nyx EP | Berceuse Heroique
- "My Only Love" | The Durutti Column | Fidelity [reissue] | Les Disques Du Crépuscule
- "Animation (Martin Meissonnier reconstruction)" | Orchestre Bana Luya | Kinshasa 1978 | Crammed Discs
- "Blue TV Screen" | Cody Currie & Joel Holmes | New Chapter | Toy Tonics
- "Harp at Noon" | Pandacetamol | Driftwood | Kahvi Collective
- "The Thorn In My Side Is Gone" | American Music Club | San Francisco | Reprise
- "Waiting In The Rain" | Kendra Smith | Presents the Guild of Temporal Adventurers | Fiasco
- "Look Know (John Peel Session 15/9/81)" | The Fall | Hex Enduction Hour [reissue] | Cherry Red
- "When You Feel It, Grunt If You Can (Complete Take)" | The J.B.'s | More Mess On My Thing | Now-Again
Born on a ray of sound
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