Episodes
Monday Jan 06, 2014
Alternative Indie Fusion, Or So It Says: Transmission 85, 2013 December 18
Monday Jan 06, 2014
Monday Jan 06, 2014
Finally, "Physical Evidence" is serving a purpose--it doesn't just provide cover for my laziness, making the overplay of one record seem like conceptual art, it now helps me remember what the experience of a given show was like. So I can say with confidence that this is a good program, because Bugs on the Wire is a good record. Ask me anything else about this particular program and I'll be well challenged.
As I say during the broadcast, I have no idea why this particular record came about, other than to satisfy someone's desire to compile an album. But it's an exciting collection that captures...I don't know what, exactly. Thinking back through the various releases that have served as "Physical Evidence," I don't recall one that comes closer to what BOMBAST strives to be. And why does it strive to be so? Again, I have no freaking idea; I guess it seems more fun than monochrome.
BOMBAST playlist, 2013 December 18, 2100-2300:
- "Small Town Girl" | Camilla Green | Small Town Girl | Wonder Wet
- "I Walked With A (Live) Bugs Bunny Bendy Toy" | The Mel-O-Tones | Bugs On The Wire | Leghorn - Skysaw | "Physical Evidence"
- "Sarabande - Christian Loffler Remix" | Christian Prommer | The Lost Originals | Musica Autonomica
- "Anchoress" | Polvo | Siberia | Merge
- "Stevie Smith" | Vic Chesnutt | Little | New West | "Listening Parlour"
- "Guuurl" | Lapalux | Nostalchic | Brainfeeder
- "He She" | Oneohtrix Point Never | R Plus Seven | Warp
- "Scratch on the Wire" | Lee "Scratch" Perry with The Flying Vicars and Sir Freddy Viaduct | Bugs On The Wire | Leghorn - Skysaw | "Physical Evidence"
- "In the Dawn of Light" | Legowelt | Cocoon 100 | Cocoon
- "Saude - Eule:nhaupt & Molle:nhauer Radio Version" | Pupkulies & Rebecca | Wolde | Acker
- "Wings (live)" | The Fall | Bugs On The Wire | Leghorn - Skysaw | "Physical Evidence"
- "Forest at Dawn" | Teen Daze | Glacier | Lefse
- "What's That?" | General Strike | Bugs On The Wire | Leghorn - Skysaw | "Physical Evidence"
- "Highway 69" | Shy Guys | In Fuzz We Trust | Stag-O-Lee
- "Houndstooth" | Unicorn Hard-On | Weird Universe | Spectrum Spools
- "Forget It All" | The Whiskey Priests | Bugs On The Wire | Leghorn - Skysaw | "Physical Evidence"
- "Neutrino" | Olan Mill | Hiraeth | Preservation
- "Enola Gay" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Enola Gay | Virgin
- "Gammy Leg" | Scott & Charlene's Wedding | Any Port in a Storm | Fire
- "Black Eye" | Uncle Tupelo | March 16-20. 1992 | Rockville | "Listening Parlour"
- "The Need to Live" | Bim Sherman and Singers & Players | Bugs On The Wire | Leghorn - Skysaw | "Physical Evidence"
- "Simulrec" | Daniel Avery | Drone Logic | Because
- "Ups & Downs (Bonus Beat) | Madlib & Freddie Gibbs | Deeper | Madlib Invazion
ps apologies to Pupkulies & Rebecca!
Friday Jan 03, 2014
By Similar I Mean Good: Transmission 84, 2013 December 15
Friday Jan 03, 2014
Friday Jan 03, 2014
We meet again, this time for a slightly abbreviated broadcast. I'm not entirely sure how I wound up doing this one, in a 90-minute shift we've been calling "The Time Slot in Question." It was originally meant for a rotating cast of live hosts, and is of course home to no one, because we can't get people to do radio on the weekends.
Anyway, this is the second consecutive program I did on the birthday of a loved one, and of course I played no music truly suitable to the occasion. Whether karma punishes me, or I fall victim to an unlikely but nevertheless random series of mishaps, this program also initiates a long string of shows in which something goes catastrophically wrong, at least to my ears. In retrospect, it seems like a smaller deal than it was in the moment. That Polvo song's got to be out there in its entirety, somewhere, just to give one example.
BOMBAST playlist, 2013 December 15, 1600-1730:
"Some Songs" | Polvo | Siberia | Merge
"Space Christmas" | Shonen Knife | A Shonen Knife Christmas Record For You | Rockville | "Physical Evidence"
"Dayz" | Mathew Jonson | Rebel Rave 3 | Crosstown Rebels
"Down and Out in a Diamond City" | Raccoon Fighter | Zil | Papercup
"Plant Lilies at My Head" | Tropic of Cancer | Restless Idylls | Blackest Ever Black
"And the Salvation Army Band Plays" | Helen Love & Ricardo Autobahn | And the Salvation Army Band Plays | Damaged Goods
"Charlotte's Remains" | Strawberry Alarm Clock | In Fuzz We Trust | Stag-O-Lee
"Windschatten" | Extrawelt | Cocoon 100 | Cocoon
"One" | Fuzz | Fuzz | In the Red
"Sky Hi" | Christmas Crew | G.E.D. Soul Christmas | G.E.D. Soul
"Das ibizenkische Wohlfuhlaroma" | Dominik Eulberg | Cocoon 100 | Cocoon
"Boring Angel" | Oneohtrix Point Never | R Plus Seven | Warp
"Itous" | Tamikrest | Chatma | Glitterbeat
"Listen" | Teen Daze | Glacier | Lefse
"(We Wish You A) Protein Christmas" | The Fall | (We Wish You A) Protein Christmas | Action
"We Three Kings" | Magic in Threes | G.E.D. Soul Christmas | G.E.D. Soul
"Christmas Message '91" | Shonen Knife | A Shonen Knife Christmas Record For You | Rockville | "Physical Evidence"
next time: just a pair of flabby wings. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis
Thursday Jan 02, 2014
Ain't No Right Time Or Place: Transmission 83, 2013 December 11
Thursday Jan 02, 2014
Thursday Jan 02, 2014
WO' NOW. This program is a mess, in content and technique, but it seems "truer" than the conceit of the last program. I figured out a year ago that "themed" shows are not my thing--why I turn to them, other than laziness, I don't know--so I happily present the usual grab-bag of styles, energies, and periods.
There are many Billy Childish records that might serve as "Physical Evidence"--brace yourselves--but we had to begin here. It was "Friend of Bombast" Jen's birthday, and her loan of this record to me was the catalyst for a lifelong fascination with The Medway Sound. Oddly, I don't even know if Jen still likes Billy Childish's music. People change. She did tell me once that she couldn't get into The Jazz Butcher because he was "too English." What, then, is BC? But anyway--I wonder if I've ever done that, inadvertently getting a person hooked on something and then moving on. Who am I kidding? I influence no one. Whatevs.
The Pop Rivets had tried to "obey the time" [see my comments about "bad rock and roll" in the previous post], which I suppose is ultimately why I fast-forward to this band and pretend they are "the beginning." The Milkshakes made decidedly unfashionable music in the early 1980s, so of course the world decided they were fashionable for a brief period. Billy and company chugged along, not caring, which is why this and all his subsequent bands have been so great. Like the output of The Fall, or James Brown, or Fela Kuti, or The Durutti Column, the records are always the same, and always different. Every few years he accidentally becomes "hip" again, and continues not to give a damn. That's how it's done. LEGEND.
As for Kevin Supremo: there's nothing I can tell you that the song doesn't. Rock on, KCB.
BOMBAST playlist, 2013 December 11, 2100-2300:
- "? (Modern Industry)" | Fishbone | Fishbone | Columbia
- "Cadalina" | The Milkshakes | Fourteen Rhythm & Beat Greats | Wall City | "Physical Evidence"
- "Ghosts" | Japan | Ghosts | Virgin - Universal
- "The Long Walk Home" | Madlib & Freddie Gibbs | Deeper | Madlib Invazion
- "Back N Forth" | Myron & E | Broadway | Stones Throw
- "There You Go" | Johnny Cash | I Walk The Line | Pickwick | "Listening Parlour"
- "The Devil Went Down To Kevin" | Kevin Supremo | The Devil Went Down To Kevin | Bandcamp self-release
- "Send the Pain On" | Chrome Sparks | Sparks | Future Classic
- "Black Sails in the Moonlight" | The Milkshakes | Fourteen Rhythm & Beat Greats | Wall City | "Physical Evidence"
- "Aftermath" | Tricky | Maxinquaye | Island
- "Clancy" | Moin | Murphy | Blackest Ever Black
- "Ampersands" | Steve Hauschildt | S/H | Editions Mego
- "Take You Home Tonight" | The Milkshakes | Fourteen Rhythm & Beat Greats | Wall City | "Physical Evidence"
- "No One Gets Left Behind - Guy J Remake Remix" | DJ Yellow & Flowers & Sea Creatures | Black Label 105 (No One Gets Left Behind) | Compost Black
- "In Shape to Escape" | Extrawelt | The Inkling | Traum
- "Fairy Tale" | Genevieve Pasquier | Irritating Music for Effete Snobs Desperate to Impress Their Jaded Friends | Soleilmoon
- "Red Monkey" | The Milkshakes | Fourteen Rhythm & Beat Greats | Wall City | "Physical Evidence"
- "Annex" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Enola Gay | Virgin
- "There You Go" | Bongwater | Double Bummer | Shimmy Disc | "Listening Parlour"
- "Lupine" | Mister Lies | Mowgli | Lefse
- "I Want You" | The Milkshakes | Fourteen Rhythm & Beat Greats | Wall City | "Physical Evidence"
- "Burn the Flames" | Roky Erickson | Don't Slander Me | Light in the Attic
- "Wave Trace" | Conforce | 100DSR/VAR2 | Delsin
- "She's Wicked" | Craig Moore & Davie Allan | In Fuzz We Trust | Stag-O-Lee
- "Highway at Night" | Ozka | Tiny Pleasures - Part II | Wolfskuil
- "Wo' Now" | The Milkshakes | Fourteen Rhythm & Beat Greats | Wall City | "Physical Evidence"