We Let In Light and We Banish Shade: Transmission 317, 2017 January 4

Flying solo again on this outing, I took care of some unfinished business. Since xmas is technically a twelve-day observance--more on this momentarily*--I empty this year's quiver of holiday tunes. Five weeks after the fact, it doesn't sound clever; still, I don't regret it. More importantly, we deliver a "full-featured program," the first for some time, with a pertinent track from Lady C and A Certain Ratio occupying the prestigious "Physical Evidence" chair. This, too, was a belated seasonal observance. As I say, I would have liked to do this on the Winter Solstice (because you can't always play Coil; even I can't), but "things happened." The Old & The New is probably not a solstice record for you, but it is for me, a souvenir from a trip to Tower Records in Los Angeles during an ill-fated vacation, the guilt and shame of which I still carry. "Sounds Like Something Dirty," indeed. (In case you didn't know, this archive is also my diary, so deal.)

*I insist on stretching out the yuletide forever, by the way, on account of the recurring childhood trauma of watching my next-door neighbors throw their Christmas tree into the street, like clockwork, every December 26. That seemed wrong to young, Catholic Master Catharsis, as it does to older, lapsed Kid Catharsis. Apologies if I have told this story before--one only has so many to tell.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 January 4, 2100-2300:

1. "In This Heat?" | Whore Paint | Ultra Sound | Translation Loss
2. "Hark The Herald Angels Sing" | The Fall | The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 | Castle
3. "Blown Away" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Driving Through Darkness" | Controlled Bleeding | Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps | Artoffact
5. "Rifle" | Swellbound | Colors Compilations - Violet "Dreampop" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Po d'Terra" | Joao Cirilo | Space Echo (The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed) | Now-Again
7. "I Can't Stand It" | The Specials | More Specials | Chrysalis | "Listening Parlour"
8. "Half Half" | Ice Eyes | New Frame | Seagrave
9. "#6" | Nisennenmondai | #6 | On-U Sound
10. "Wild Party" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Clanging Chimes of Doom" | The Misters of Circe | Clanging Chimes of Doom | Bandcamp self-release
12. "Thin Boys" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Yesteryear" | AMyn | Best Heard In Shadows EP | Apollo
14. "Slip 7 Sideways" | The 7th Plain | Chronicles I | A-TON
15. "Jolly Rock 'n Roll Christmas" | Brian Harris | The Christmas Album | self-released
16. "Padded Cell (Area Man Remix)" | Violet Age | Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
17. "Fields" | Bukra | Family Album 2017 | Boomarm Nation
18. "Shack Up" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Our Decade" | MY DISCO | Severe Remixes | Downwards
20. "I Want Elvis For Christmas" | Eddie Cochran | Yule Cool | Virgin
21. "Life's A Scream" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Somewhere Away" | Vibrissae | Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "No-One Cries No More" | Tom Furse | Interludes | Mind Meld
24. "Jaguar" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Damaged Goods
25. "Imi (Emoji)" | Shonen Knife | Adventure | Damnably
26. "Sounds Like Something Dirty" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Gratitude" | Noemi Bolojan | VA Compilation #4 | Assembly Field

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