It's a Fact that I Live With: Transmission 350, 2017 June 24

Did you know that I am scared of round numbers? I have a basic problem with implied symmetry in my playlists, e.g. I would rather play 29 or 31 songs in my broadcast than 30. (I have long felt this way about LPs--except for classic New Order, and all the 4AD eps from the 80s, I'm not a big fan of "the same number of tracks on each side of the record," finding the 10-song album particularly distasteful. Weird, huh.) Not too long ago, I was okay with milestones, at least--100th program, 200th program, etc. Now anything that ends in zero seems like a convenient place to call time on this adventure, or for someone else to do so.

So it was fairly cool that #350 popped up randomly as a fill-in opportunity on which Junior wanted to begin a co-hosting escapade. Not only "no meaning" but "decent co-host": I will take that. Junior had not really found her confidence or her voice, though it starts to come on near the end of this broadcast, when she begins making Gayle references. There is really not much talking on this episode; not sure what is going on with me. Maybe just chilling in the studio with a good person, and/or low-key scrambling to throw up some decent segues. Either way, good process = good results.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 June 24, 1700-1900:

1. "Intro" | Gentleman's Dub Club | Dubtopia | Easy Star
2. "The Hoima Witch and the Songye Mask" | Visions Congo | Mulago Sound Studio | Discrepant
3. "Xiao Youmei Corridor" | Soundwalk Collective | Before Music There Is Blood | Apollo
4. "Don't Turn Me Away" | Rexy | Sharon Signs to Cherry Red [reissue] | Night School
5. "Hanky Panky" | Rita Chao & The Quests | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
6. "Shooting Above The Garbage" | Carsickness | 1979-1982 | Get Hip
7. "Koko Says" | WaqWaq Kingdom | Shinsekai | Jahtari
8. "Space Movement Section 3" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
9. "Flux" | Spacetime Continuum | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture
10. "Top Eyop Odo" | Emmanual Ntia | Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) | Comb & Razor Sound
11. "Level 5" | Al Lover meets Cairo Liberation Front | Nymphaea Caerulea | Hoga Nord
12. "Bare Feet" | El Mahdy Jr. | Time to Sell the Golden Teeth | Boomarm Nation
13. "Mille Voix" | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma | Miracle Steps (Music from the Fourth World 1983-2017) | Optimo
14. "FALLING RIZLAS" | Actress | AZD | Ninja Tune
15. "Spring But Dark" | Clark | Death Peak | WARP
16. "Placebo - Byron the Aquarius Reinterpretation" | Parker Madicine | Voices & Drums EP | Heist
17. "To the Well" | Secret Shine | There Is Only Now | Saint Marie
18. "Revel" | I:Cube | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture
19. "Dead Soul" | Hunter/Game | Dead Soul | Just This
20. "Golden Thread" | Fabian Dikof | Who | Best Works
21. "Welt 7" | Cologne Tape | Welt | Magazine
22. "You in the Horizon" | Ensemble Economique | In Silhouette | Denovali
23. "Blood & Berry" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 4 | Hippie Dance

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