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You'll Forget About Life, You'll Forget About Time: Transmission 260, 2016 January 27

Here is another program that came off well, featuring that unicorn of the "Physical Evidence" bestiary, the non-streamable 4AD record. There must be a story behind the non-spotification of "The Mercy Seat," but I have no idea what it is. I was and was not paying attention during this time, no matter how many people say that the 80s and 90s were "my era."

I will tell you this: if it weren't for 4AD releases from 1988 / 1989 / 1990, I would pretty much have no recollection of those years at all. I know that I was in school, that I was in a band, that I worked as a barista, that no one used the term "barista," that I was seeing someone, that I was doing theatre, and that I wasn't eating meat. That seems like a lot but if you scratch beneath the surface you just get a bland, creamy nougat of vagueness. (My counselor and I are working on this.)

But damned if I don't have every last thing 4AD put out during this time. If I'm giving Ultra Vivid Scene short shrift here it's because I wasn't particularly a fan of theirs (well, his, but in the case of this record they are a "they"). [KURT RALSKE: if you're reading this please don't be offended, I said the same thing about Bowie, so my words don't mean anything except that my taste is probably bad.] But this is a good and good-sounding record.

Scheduling reminder: again, I express some uncertainty about the program schedule in this broadcast because I didn't know it at the time, but we are staying at 2100 Eastern Time on Wednesdays, so there's that, if you happen to like any of this.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 January 27, 2100-2300:

1. "Gimmer Dot" | Bailter Space | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
2. "Sun Is Shining" | The Upsetters | Mr. Perry I Presume | Pressure Sounds
3. "Avebury" | Appleblim | Avebury | Ammunition
4. "Lacrimosa" | Architectural | Amour | Wolfskuil
5. "Lost Week-End" | Wanda Jackson | There's a Party Goin' On | Rumble | "Listening Parlour"
6. "Projekt 2 Kraut" | Markus Oehlen | Wanne 4 | Infinite Greyscale
7. "Everywhere a Bruk" | Seekers International | Her Imperial Majesty | Boomarm Nation
8. "Mercy Seat" | Ultra Vivid Scene | Mercy Seat | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Hot Cross Buns" | Bill Wells | Nursery Rhymes | Karaoke Kalk
10. "Sugar Coated Stucco" | Supernova | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
11. "Leningrad" | Cayetano | The Right Time | Klik
12. "Stekker Forever!" | Deadbeat | Walls and Dimensions | BLKRTZ
13. "Final Flight Excerpts 1-4" | Vision Heat | The Chosen Themes - Program II | Root Strata
14. "Find What You Love and Let It Kill You" | Hurricane #1 | Find What You Love and Let It Kill You | Tapete
15. "NAZ" | The Wharves | NAZ / My Will | Upset the Rhythm
16. "ae0UN93R" | Iskeletor | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
17. "Inner Flight" | Primal Scream | Screamadelica [reissue] | Sony
18. "Earthstrong Steppas" | PDX Mandem | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
19. "H Like In Heaven" | Ultra Vivid Scene | Mercy Seat | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Baby" | The Comsat Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel
21. "Red Bath" | Boss Hogg | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
22. "Obsolete Frameworks" | Colossal Yes | Surrounded by Progress | Ba-Da Bing!
23. "The Fog" | Normil Hawaiians | Return of the Ranters | Upset the Rhythm
24. "Imidiwan N'assouf (Alter Echo's VIP Dub of the Dub!)" | Hama & Krucial Kuts | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
25. "Kiko Medina" | Le Tropical Jazz | Senegal 70 (Sonic Gems from the 70s) | Analog Africa
26. "A Harmonious Approach" | Gulls Rhythm Force | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
27. "Perle" | M.ono | Volle Schnauze EP | Heist
28. "Codine" | Ultra Vivid Scene | Mercy Seat | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Spread the Fear" | Evil Blizzard | Everybody Come to Church | Louder Than War
30. "IX - Synthapella Version" | Stephan Bodzin | Powers of Ten (Remixes) | Herzblut
31. "What You Want" | Huxley | What You Want | No Idea's Original

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The Angels Only Look the Other Way: Transmission 259, 2016 January 20

A foul mood has come over me, so please indulge me while I speak of happy golden days of yore. "Friend of Bombast" Jeremy once insisted that I play "Hungarian Love Song" on a radio show at my old station, and steered my parents toward Bloody Nonsense (in my mind still the best Jazz Butcher compilation) when they were feeling a bit squeamish about buying the album that was at the top of my Christmas wishlist that year [link NSFWish; bizarrely I still don't own that one.] So the Jazz Butcher and I go way back.

On two different occasions, I saw the Jazz Butcher perform. One gig was during the Creation years, and another was much later, albeit with the inimitable Max Eider, now back in the fold. We didn't get David J on that night, as promised, but you can't have everything. Now: I didn't track down a copy of Hamburg until a few years after this latter gig, so that concert, while post-"fame" in a way, was the closest I got to experiencing the "glory years" of the band. I personally don't think that the Jazz Butcher without Max Eider is much of a thing at all, although I will say that the 1990 gig did include, pace the gigography, an encore in which the Jazz Butcher was joined by opening act The Blue Aeroplanes (I think there were, like, eighty of them) for a ripping version of "Caroline Wheeler's Birthday Present" (and, IIRC, "Sweet Jane"). That was a good time.

[MEMORY UPDATE] I just recalled what I think is a funny thing. Another "Friend of Bombast," Jen, once rebuffed a cassette of Jazz Butcher songs that I had made for her. "He is too English," she explained. [This, from a Smiths fan!] It got me thinking that there are, I guess, many ways to be English [including the categories "insufficiently English" and "just English enough"], but what I suspect comes off as "too English" is the Oxfordian thing, which, let's face it, only Ride have worn well. MORE IMPORTANTLY, I think this program needs a new feature, because you can never have enough. "Reflections on Rejected Mixtapes" seems like a strong candidate, no shortage of material there.

Anyway, I have a few more "Physical Evidence"-worthy Jazz Butcher records; hopefully the show survives long enough for me to get to them.

On that note, the new WRFI schedule is upon us, and we are staying right where we are, on Hump Night, so prospects are good.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 January 20, 2100-2300:

1. "Total War (Richard Skinner Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel
2. "Take Your Ghosts" | The Japanese Girl | Sonic-Shaped Life | Munster
3. "Mandrake Handshake" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Mini Album Thingy Wingy | A Recordings
4. "Cumbia de Giza" | Musette | A Cosmic Serenade | Hapna
5. "Bour Sine" | Le Sourouba de Louga | Senegal 70 (Sonic Gems from the 70s) | Analog Africa
6. "Tied" | Oren Ambarchi & Johan Berthling | Tongue Tied | Hapna
7. "Rano Pano" | Mogwai | CENTRAL BELTERS | ROCK ACTION
8. "Victims" | Tropic of Cancer | Archive: The Downwards Singles | Blackest Ever Black
9. "Mon Explication" | Daniel Jacques | Discovery Change (Part 3) | Jadac
10. "Invocation" | Cabaret Voltaire | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule
11. "Gloss, Pt. 1" | Theo Burt | Gloss | Presto
12. "Completely sun (feat. Jarvis Cocker)" | Pilooski | Isola | Dirty
13. "Resolution (pt. 2 version 2)" | Singers & Players | Revenge of the Underdog | On-U Sound
14. "Warning!" | Peter Scion | Through My Ghost | Huntleys + Palmers
15. "Bath of Bacon" / "Soul Happy Hour" / "Death Dentist" / "Walk with the Devil" / "Rain" / "Roadrunner" | The Jazz Butcher and his Sikkorskis from Hell | Hamburg | Rebel | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Boys in Blue" | Janitor Joe | The Color of Noise | Robellion
17. "Squeeze Up (Part 2)" | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Uptown Top Ranking | VP
18. "Dance Slow" | Marbert Rocel | In the Beginning | Compost
19. "Mudlarks" | Shape Worship | A City Remembrancer | Front and Follow
20. "Come On Down and Get Saved" | Today Is the Day | The Color of Noise | Robellion
21. "Magical Journey" | Reckonwrong | Whities 005 | Whities
22. "Sophisticated Girl V.I.P" | Seekers International | Her Imperial Majesty | Boomarm Nation
23. "Street Credibility" | Family Fodder | Sunday Girls (Director's Cut) | Staubgold

feel like crawling off somewhere to die

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Sordid Details Following: Transmission 258, 2016 January 13

I never know how this program should respond when special people die. Each instance seems like a high-risk balancing act. I don't want to do too much or too little, I don't want to ignore things or use death as an opportunity, and I feel the need to respond in the spirit of the moment, whatever that is, and in line with what I am feeling, which I will immodestly say is indispensable, because without taking this into consideration it isn't clear why *I* in particular should be delivering these two hours of radio. So with all that in mind here is the first program I did after we all found out that David Bowie died.

I'd be lying if I said I was a "fan." I can't speak for Lady Catharsis, who contributes "Heroes" to the program, but I think I'm authorized to say she only has one Bowie record. His music was one of those things that, seemingly, everyone in my high school theatre ensemble was into. Being a contrarian and a jerk, I kept it at arms' length, along with a host of other things dear to the group: Pink Floyd, Dr. Who [these would have been the Colin Baker years], Sgt. Pepper's, and Kate Bush [how many airings of "Babooshka" before brain damage sets in?]. Anyway I have come around, partly, on one or two of these things.

It seems like Bowie helped many a weird listener survive adolescence, and he helped at least a couple of his friends get clean and sober. Plus, he could make life unpleasant for people who deserved it. Whatever you feel about any individual Bowie song, he didn't seem ever to do a thing he didn't want to do in order to please others. The world is undoubtedly a dimmer place in his absence. So there's that.

You were expecting something profound? It's like you don't know me.

Oh, and enjoy the Comsat Angels.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 January 13, 2100-2300:

1. "Sound and Vision" | David Bowie | The Singles Collection | EMI
2. "Motame en la tormenta" | Mecanica Popular | Noche triler | Names You Can Trust
3. "Dark Parade (John Peel Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Sequence 2" | Skatebard | CDIII | Balsa Wood
5. "Charity Begins at Home" | Eji Oyewole | Charity Begins at Home | BBE
6. "At Sea (John Peel Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
7. "El sol y la luna (feat. Judah Warsky)" | Pilooski | Isola | Dirty
8. "Locked in Water" | Whore Paint | Ultra Sound | Translation Loss
9. "Goat of the West (Demo)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Galactic Center" | Helios Creed | The Color of Noise | Robellion
11. "Be Brave (John Peel Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Alpine Dawn" | The Orb | Pop Ambient 2016 | Kompakt
13. "Prostrate" | Marshall Applewhite | Dark Acid V | Clan Destine
14. "Mass" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Scary Munsters and Super Creeps" | Brian Harris | On My Knees | self-released
16. "Heavy Snow" | STL | Message of Sound, Pt. 1 | Echocord
17. "Ashes to Ashes" | David Bowie | The Singles Collection | EMI
18. "What's in Me" | Catz 'n Dogz | Basic Colour Theory | Pets
19. "Rishi (Shit Robot vs. Rino S.)" | Shit Robot | Rishi | Kitjen
20. "Justaposition" | Tellavision | The Third Eye | Karlrecords
21. "Gush" | Co La | No No | Kemado
22. "Heave Ho" | Cows | The Color of Noise | Robellion
23. "Eye Dance (Richard Skinner Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Heroes" | David Bowie | The Singles Collection | EMI | "Listening Parlour"
25. "Paint Me As a Dead Soul" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring
26. "Jah Warble" | Al Lover | Zodiak Versions | Hoga Nord
27. "Ziggy Stardust" | Bauhaus | Spirit | Beggars Banquet

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