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The Darkest Night Was the Day: Transmission 231, 2015 August 25

Another weekday, another program: here's something else I did, seemingly long ago. On this night I was clearly getting some stuff out of my system; it felt good at the time, and still does, I daresay. This mixtape ripples with anger, but perhaps you will get a different impression (or, if you share mine, will find it useful at least some of the time).

Diary: lately I've been reading Memoirs of a Geezer by Jah Wobble. I have to admit that I am an unfocused reader these days; I'm unfocused about a lot of things. Something that struck me was one really brief conversation the author had with a friend in which he (re)affirmed his life's purpose. If only it were that easy! I could use that conversation, or that friend, right about now. I have been certain for a while that my "purpose" is not volunteer disc jockeying or any of the behind-the-scenes stuff I do. So all of this is just biding my time. Has if felt that way to you? And biding it for what, I wonder?

BOMBAST PLAYLIST, 2015 August 25, 2100-2300:

1. "We Shall Cleanse the World" | Revolting Cocks | Big Sexy Land | Wax Trax!
2. "Lurker" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Kasm02 | Kasm
3. "Slices of Brain I" | Folamour | Chapeau Rouge | Fauxpas
4. "Practicing To Be a Doctor" | Shit and Shine | Jealous of Shit and Shine | Riot Season
5. "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" | Barry Adamson | Moss Side Story | Mute
6. "God Made the Virus" | McCarthy | I Am a Wallet | Cherry Red
7. "To Love You Blossom" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
8. "Should I Leave You Alone?" | Rat Columns | Fooling Around | Blackest Ever Black
9. "Inbalance 16" | Best Available Technology | Excavated Tapes, 1992-1999, Vol. 2 | Astro:Dynamics
10. "Down Down Down (Liminals Remix)" | The Radio Dept. | Occupied | Labrador
11. "A Side" | El Mahdy Jr. | Ghost Tapes | Discrepant
12. "Tom Violence" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
13. "A Ground Without A Figure" | Shuttle358 | Can you prove I was born | 12k
14. "Sound of Confusion" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Thank God for Mental Illness | A Recordings
15. "50 degrees" | Crypto Tropic | Crypto Tropic | Le Cabanon

all the good guys, they drink milk

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The Freaks and the Misfits Are All That Remain: Transmission 230, 2015 August 19

Hello again, it's me again. If you are a visitor to this site only, and don't listen live, it's been a while since you've seen or heard anything new from this program. Apologies--it's been a wild, sordid, depressing summer, as they all seem to be. In my defense, I have been doing lots of radio all the while, and you could listen live, you know.

At any rate here is a program that features one of my favorite records. Different for Domeheads was not the first Creation comp I encountered, but as Horatio would say, "it follow'd hard upon." I tend not to do well with playing records at the "appropriate" time of year but for me this will always be a summer record. "July skies" indeed, sun and anger as relentless as Slaughter Joe. This is what the last couple of months have been.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 19, 2100-2300:

1. "Intro / Into You" | The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience | I Like Rain: The Story of the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience | Fire
2. "19.8.86" | Conrad Schnitzler | Kollektion 05 (Compiled and Assembled by Thomas Fehlmann) | Bureau B
3. "To the Moon and Back" | The 23s | Flamingo | Karaoke Kalk
4. "Steam" | Gaspard de la Montaigne | Stallion | Creaked
5. "Intensive Care" | Barry Adamson | Moss Side Story | Mute
6. "Where the Traffic Goes" | The Jasmine Minks | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
7. "The Fatal Day (Brixton Rehearsal 1980)" | In Camera | Era | 4AD
8. "Heart of Darkness" | Pere Ubu | Elitism for the People 1975-1978 | Fire
9. "Paradise" | The Bodines | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Marilyn Moore" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
11. "Digital Punk" | Square Wave | Correspondant Compilation 03 | Correspondant
12. "Baby Honey" | The Pastels | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
13. "We Just Did What Happened and Nobody Came" | Sweet Billy Pilgrim | Motorcade Amnesiacs | Kscope
14. "Unrequited" | OKADA | Impermanence | N5MD
15. "Hermitage - Full Beard Mix" | Thomalla | Imaginary Solutions | Riotvan
16. "Napalm Girl" | Slaughter Joe | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Herbststimmung" | Faust | Kollektion 04 - Bureau B (Compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
18. "Peri-Natal Imprinting" | The Host | Esalen Lectures | Touch Sensitive
19. "Circa 96" | Hidden Rivers | Where Moss Grows | Serein
20. "Ghost Warrior (feat. UMO)" | Jimi Tenor | Ghost Warrior | Herakles
21. "Rally Round Jah Throne" | Bad Brains | Rock for Light | PVC
22. "Ruins - Fieldhand Remix" | Graveyard Tapes | I'm on Fire (White Rooms Remixes) | Lost Tribe
23. "One of Five" | Tapage | Five & Six | Tympanik
24. "Love and Hate" | Biff Bang Pow! | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Garden Constellations" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl

practicing to be.

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Witness What My Knuckles Find: Transmission 229, 2015 August 16

This was a night on which we sat in for "Seeking a Thread." The program bristles with unintentional comedy as I get things stuck in my throat and have to pronounce a battery of things beyond my capability. Oh, and there is also The Birthday Party. I am one of those people who never quite "matured" into thinking that Nick Cave "solo" was a better thing, though I enjoy his records well enough. I really miss this band, right here.

I don't remember the nature of the "many nagging complaints" to which I refer, thankfully. The thought of searching my email in search of a mildly sardonic joke scares me. Ah, sweet oblivion!

Ah, on second thought, I probably deserved whatever complaints came my way.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Nature" | Valet | Nature | kranky
2. "Laid Black" | Tiefschwarz | Left | Watergate
3. "Ding Dong Thing" | Felix Laband | Deaf Safari | Compost
4. "Release the Bats" | The Birthday Party | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Soul" | Rival Consoles | Odyssey / Sonne | Erased Tapes
6. "I Know You Can" | Leafcutter John | Resurrection | Desire Path
7. "Rowland Around in That Stuff" | The Birthday Party | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Loose" | Stooges | Fun House | Elektra
9. "Monkey Snake" | Birdstriking | Birdstriking | A Recordings
10. "The Bed's Too Big Without You (The Bed's Too Big Without Dub)" | DubXanne | The Police in Dub | Echo Beach
11. "Gravure / Continuum - Regis Whip Hand Mix" | Akkord | HTH040 | Houndstooth
12. "Loose" | The Birthday Party | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Jah The Conqueror" | Bad Brains | Live At CBGB 1982 | MVD Audio
14. "Aixo Es Miel" | Jose Padilla | So Many Colours | International Feel
15. "Anda" | Nymphalida | Loghi | Tranquillo
16. "Thangen After Dothe" | Petrels | Flailing Tomb | Denovali
17. "Something and Nothing" | The Wedding Present | George Best [reissue] | Edsel
18. "Negative Space" | ASC | Imagine the Future | Samurai
19. "One (Lake People Remix)" | Lee Burton | Busy Day For Fools - Lake People Remixes | Klik
20. "Forglemmigej" | Rosen & Spyddet | Fortuna | Posh Isolation
21. "(Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn" | The Birthday Party | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Desert - Juju & Jordash Remix" | Mahk & Morpheus | Desert | Souvenir
23. "Appalachia" | Cale Parks | Lagoon Fool | HAKT
24. "It's So Hard" | The Jesus and Mary Chain | Psychocandy - Barrowlands Live | Edsel

there's no turning back

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A Dream So Pure I Cannot Find a Heart That Will Endure It: Transmission 228, 2015 August 12

Here is some airtime I was supposed to be using, and I think I used it well. While I am kind of "finished" with themed programs, I will organize a show around an idea from time to time; this time, it was dead people, on account of the "Listening Parlour" selection, whose performers, ironically, are all still alive, as far as I know. That's just how it worked out. Anyway, happy birthday to Lawrence Hayward, aka "Lawrence"--I'm sure he is or was listening.

Do you ever find yourself repelled by music not because of the music itself, but because of the demographic that seems to enjoy it? I am guilty of this. But I have an anecdote to share, about someone else, and Felt. Somehow I didn't latch onto Felt's music until Poem of the River, but of course you could hardly turn on college radio in the mid-80s and avoid hearing "Primitive Painters." So of course the KDVS library contained this record, and of course the record cover featured sticker dialogue. "Only trendy Sacramentans like this music," or something like that, was the most prominent review. We had a DJ there, maybe he had Aspergers or something, or was just an ass (in either case I totally sympathize) who would frequently dismiss records in this way. Beware anything "trendy Sacramentans" were into, basically. Once Mr. D and I did a session "Live in Studio A," following this person's program, and he said on air that our band name made us sound like we were "from Sacramento."

Sacramento, for those who aren't familiar, is the state capital, about 20 minutes up the road from where I grew up (and did undergrad). If not for that, it would be Fresno North. It doesn't have much going for it. It is the home of Cake (the band) and Tesla (the band). The television program Eight Is Enough was set there. It was home to Rush Limbaugh before he "went national." So, a dismal place, then--a former colleague said, "you have these two rivers converging, and they collect all the bad energy from what happens in the Legislature." I can't argue. Anyway, I doubt there have ever been more than five "trendy" people in Sacramento at any one time. I never found them threatening, but clearly opinions differ.

Lady Catharsis and I moved "back" to Sacramento in the late 1990s. On my first full day there I rode my bicycle to the record store and bought a record by Denim. Was I (am I) a trendy Sacramentan? I've been called worse.

I don't know if Section 25 were ever accused of being a favorite of trendy Sacramentans, but I'll die with them in my record collection too, whatever that makes me.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 12, 2100-2300:

1. "Beneath the Blade" / "Inspiration" | Section 25 | From the Hip | Factory
2. "Quiet Life" | Japan | Exorcising Ghosts | Virgin
3. "The Friend Catcher" | The Birthday Party | Hits | 4AD
4. "Jenny Ondioline" | Stereolab | Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements | Duophonic - Elektra
5. "Make It Funky, Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4" | James Brown | Make It Funky (The Big Payback: 1971-1975) | Polydor
6. "I'm Comin' Down" | Primal Scream | Screamadelica | Creation - Sire
7. "All The People I Like Are Those That Are Dead" | Felt | Forever Breathes the Lonely Word | Creation | "Listening Parlour"
8. "Endless, Nameless" | Nirvana | The Nevermind & In Utero Singles | Geffen
9. "The Golden King" | Snakefinger's Vestal Virgins | Night of Desirable Objects | Ralph
10. "Devious Woman" | Singers & Players | War of Words | On-U Sound
11. "Herbert Harper's Free Press News" | Muddy Waters | Electric Mud | Chess
12. "Joy" | Isaac Hayes | Joy | Stax - Enterprise
13. "Further Back and Faster" | Coil | Love's Secret Domain | Threshold House
14. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (A Capella Mix / Special Edit Radio Mix)" | Negativland | U2 | SST

I took a ride through the pretty music.

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