Episodes
Monday Apr 25, 2016
Monday Apr 25, 2016
Once Again we have some catching up to do. How did this month disappear? (Maybe I am wrong to assume they don't all disappear in the same way.) Whatever--we'll begin with this episode, featuring a new single by whatever Keiran Hebden is calling himself and his crew. It is quality, but also dare I say directionless and maybe even implacable (not bad things!), a nice metaphor for this little radio adventure I have going.
It has been awhile since I listened to this, so I hope you can forgive the lack of specific recollections and the haziness of those that do exist. I remember feeling that the show went well, execution-wise, though I don't think Johnny Moped quite "fit," not that they would care. I remember "Fat" reminding me (in a good way) of Trisomie 21 and thinking that I need more T21 in my life. As always, there is no money or time. I remember thinking I needed to pronounce "Oblic" as "oblique" but that this was totally instinctive and without rational basis. Am I a snob for doing this and a slightly smaller snob for admitting it? Finally, there is not knowing what a "footjob" is and knowing I don't want to go that far. I am sadly basic.
BOMBAST playlist, 2016 April 13, 2100-2300:
- "Pink Sun" | The Field | The Follower | Kompakt
- "Lost Plane" | Blackie & The Oohoos | Lacuna | Unday
- "Kryzane" | Fat | Citron | Cat Dog Mouse
- "Solo 2" | Nicklas Sorensen | Solo | El Paraiso
- "Not Sensitive" | Moby | Hotel : Ambient | Mute
- "Behave Yourself" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Rumble
- "Drifting" | Breathless | Blue Moon [reissue] | Tenor Vossa
- "Out" | Gary Bromley | Outside | Assembly Field
- "No Time" | Witch | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again
- "Kids Don't Follow" | The Replacements | Stink | Twin / Tone
- "Dogs" | Whore Paint | Ultra Sound | Translation Loss
- "Mothers" | Designer + Four Tet | Mothers / Dark | Text | "Physical Evidence"
- "Lost Count" | Daniel Jacques | Discovery Change (Part 3) | Jadac
- "Call on Anyone" | Brian Harris | Impossible Songs | self-released
- "Oblic" | Cosmin TRG | Oblic | Fizic
- "Coral(4)[F0B]" | Idle potentiate | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Real Cool Baby" | Johnny Moped | Real Cool Baby | Damaged Goods
- "Conclusion" | Olof Melander | The Path | Project Mooncircle
- "Monsoon" | Anchorsong | Ceremonial | Tru Thoughts
- "Airotic" | Pallaspeople | Airotic | Footjob
- "Dyed Black Hair" | Loom | European Heartache | Gobstopper
- "What We Came To Be" | Dawn Mok | Eternal Love | Dial
- "Ahlan wa Sahlan" | Demidron | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Temperate" | Dieter Moebius | Blotch | Bureau B
- "Soaring High" | Flying Saucer Attack | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
- "Dark" | Designer + Four Tet | Mothers / Dark | Text | "Physical Evidence"
- "A Voz do Dono II" | Ondness | Quase Driven | Seagrave
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Thursday Apr 14, 2016
U_D_M Detour 19, 2015 October 26
Thursday Apr 14, 2016
Thursday Apr 14, 2016
[GUEST POST]
Guy here. I did a couple of programs at the end of October. This is one. A captive of dead time might have said, "my schedule allowed me" to do a couple of programs; a poseur might have called it a "gentlemanly, cosmopolitan schedule." But I "keep it real." I do what I want, when I want. My schedule dictates not a thing.
It was nevertheless convenient that I was thrown off a middle-school bus chartered for a middle-school field trip to Quebec, on which I had tried to stow away. But these things will happen. You don't sulk. You make the best of it. I have already "been a lot of places, seen a lot of faces" anyway. It's those kids who are missing out.
U_D_M playlist, 2015 October 26, 2300-0000:
- "Vertigo" | Tin Man | ODE | Acid Test
- "Isabel" | Youandewan | Spiral Arms | Aus Music
- "Blame the World" | Mumbai Science | Deja Vu | Lektroluv
- "Storm" | Dodi Palese | Chemtrails | What Ever Not
- "He and She" | Woo York | The Valley of Songs | Life and Death
- "Volca Polka - Frank Muller Remix" | Beroshima | The Oppression EP | Acid Orange
- "C.A.V.O.K." | Oleg Poliakov | C.A.V.O.K. (Nosig) | Circus Company
- "One - Lake People Remix" | Lee Burton | Busy Day for Fools | Klik
- "Been a Lot of Places, Seen a Lot of Faces" | Gerry Read | Been a Lot of Places, Seen a Lot of Faces | No Label
- "Blue Suite - Bird of Paradise Mix" | Man Power | Trans EP | Throne of Blood
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Monday Apr 11, 2016
Monday Apr 11, 2016
It is a new month, with new energy and new freedom and new prospects. A certain Onion story is tempting me to link to it, but I still struggle with just how real I want this ongoing diary to be, in the end. At any rate, I do attach here a fine program featuring a fine record, even though the segues don't always live up to my expectations. That's okay. I AM LEARNING TO LOVE MYSELF.
I have an on-again / off-again semi-secret life as an amateur electrical engineer / hobbyist / noodler. There's a saying in those circles that within 10% of the desired value of anything is fine unless you're on the edge of a cliff. We've arrived at that point, with this episode, #270. "300" is the number of programs I would pretty much bet my life on having done at my old station; differences in program length notwithstanding that is the point at which it will start feeling as though this program, here, is the Real one. THERE IS NO NEED TO FEEL THIS WAY but I do nevertheless, and it is daunting. I am already comfortable saying this is the better one although it lacks the naivete and pure instinct that drove the old one. Still, it is my light and it produces happiness, I will not hide it, it will not always be my only light and it will not be a light of mine forever. But it is here, now, and I thank you for joining me on this ride.
BOMBAST playlist, 2016 April 6, 2100-2300:
- "Pot Hole" | Hol | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "The Eye Dance" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel
- "Skid Row" | Merle Haggard | The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1 | Bear Family | "Listening Parlour"
- "Gorgeous Blue Flower in My Garden" | Th' Faith Healers | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
- "Wind on the Reeds" | I-lodica and Dogdub | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Can't You Hear Me" | Paul Ngozi | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again | "Physical Evidence"
- "Ring" | Fabrizio Rat | La Machina | Optimo Trax
- "Fwe Bena Zambia" | 5 Revolutions | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again | "Physical Evidence"
- "Primer" | The KVB | ...Of Desire | Metropolis
- "In Other Worlds" | Barry Adamson | Know Where To Run | Central Control International
- "N1" | Kapote | Fuck Music | Toy Tonics
- "A Constant Temptation" | PaPERHOUsE | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Black Power" | Peace | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again | "Physical Evidence"
- "You Sold Me Out #2" | Love 666 | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
- "The Bad Will Die" | Keith Mlevhu | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again | "Physical Evidence"
- "Reflective Orange" | Blood Sport | Axe to the Root | Blast First Petite
- "Popol Vuh III" | Flying Saucer Attack | Chorus [reissue] | Drag City
- "Mad Man" | Born Free | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again | "Physical Evidence"
- "Return to Mechanics" | COH | MUSIC VOL. | Editions Mego
- "No Time (Palooski Edit)" | Witch | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again | "Physical Evidence"
- "Ode to Citrus Heights" | CTMF | A Glimpse of Another Time | Damaged Goods
- "Hi Gloss (Manicure)" | No Zu | Afterlife | Chapter Music
- "Chinese Takeaway" | Spider King | Shot to Pieces | Finders Keepers
- "Arc-Lite (Sonar)" | Loop | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
- "Hardwax Flashback (Powell 'Cov Megamix')" | Russell Haswell | As Sure As Night Follows Day (Remixes) | Diagonal
- "No Answered Prayers" | Breathless | Blue Moon [reissue] | Tenor Vossa
- "Don't Take Me For A Ride" | Founders 15 | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again | "Physical Evidence"
- "Path 5 - Clark Remix / Edit" | Max Richter | Sleep (Remixes) | Deutsche Grammophon
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Wednesday Apr 06, 2016
Cruising Altitude Departure 18, 2015 September 20
Wednesday Apr 06, 2016
Wednesday Apr 06, 2016
[GUEST POST]
Captain Halcyon, checking in. Programs like the one in this post are what "Cruising Altitude" is all about: summery / autumnal late-afternoon sunshine and love. Press "play" and you will find satisfaction. If it is not already within you, your search is over.
There are not many more of these recordings, I daresay. I don't think there will be many more. This program has mostly been, and currently is, an impromptu adventure happening only when it can, and "when it can" is increasingly infrequent.
There's always The Slow Drift.
CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2015 September 20, 1600-1700:
- "La Piste Chinoise" | Bon Voyage Organization | Xingye | Bon Voyage
- "Coma" | Loop | Array 1 | ATP
- "Skov I" | Jannick Schou | Fabrik | Experimedia
- "The Subliminal Sense of Absorption" | At Vilander | Void Transcripts | Parachute
- "Dreamtape" | Will Samson & Heimer | Animal Hands | Karaoke Kalk
- "Codex" | Ghost Harmonic | Codex | Metamatic
- "Prisms" | Shuttle 358 | Can You Prove I Was Born | 12k
- "A Ghost Lovestory" | Lucy and Klock | War Lullaby | Stroboscopic Artefacts
- "Dulcitone Grasses - Benoit Pioulard Remix" | Graveyard Tapes | I'm On Fire (White Rooms Remixes) | Lost Tribe Sound
- "Resurrection" | Leafcutter John | Resurrection | Desire Path
- "The Lonely People (Are Getting Lonelier)" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky
- "Silver" | Lifted | 1 | PAN
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Tuesday Apr 05, 2016
We Know This Is a Moment Lost in Normal Time: Transmission 269, 2016 March 30
Tuesday Apr 05, 2016
Tuesday Apr 05, 2016
With this program we say goodbye to a horrible March. It was a month full of psychotic weather and pathological behavior. I don't excuse myself from that (who is to say I don't control the weather?). Maybe once in five tries I got it together to have "Physical Evidence" and "The Listening Parlour." Things can only get better--that's what I have heard, anyway.
Personal notes: I recently got hold of a copy of Today by Galaxie 500--keeping up with the times, don't you know--and I don't think an album has "expressed me," lyrically, as much as this one does since, maybe, Hatful of Hollow. True story! Also, hey, I am learning to create "bubbles of relief" for myself in therapy, which is a good thing as long as you don't over-apply them. I have learned that the hard way. But may you find your own bubble of relief if you have not already done so!
BOMBAST playlist 2016 March 30, 2100-2300:
- "Pop Song" | The Jesus Lizard | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
- "44 Blue" | Ling | Attachment | Codes
- "Onaneus" | Mike Cooper | New Kiribati | Discrepant
- "First Leap" | Bremen | Eclipsed | Blackest Ever Black
- "I've Got Your Heart Beat" | Sky High Diamonds | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Light in the Evening" | Flying Saucer Attack | Chorus [reissue] | Drag City
- "Thaler" | Irmler & FM Einheit | Bestandteil | Klangbad
- "Deranging good night" | Ashtray Navigations | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Syringe Dub" | Skin, Flesh & Bones | Dub in Blood | Pressure Sounds
- "Riding with Death (feat. Go As Death)" | Volkanos | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Beast Infection" | Grimes | Geidi Primes | Arbutus
- "The Script" | Bludgeon Club Sound | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Sheven" | John Tejada | The End of It All 2015 Mix | Palette
- "Frost" | BASS DRUM | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Waiting for the Angels" | The Darkside | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
- "The Ville" | Epoch | Tempa Allstars, Vol. 8 | Tempa
- "Duration Point" | Liza Nicklin | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Always the Sea | Immersion | Analogue Creatures | swim
- "One Who Really Loves You" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Rumble
- "Massani Cice" | Orchestre Laye Thiam | Senegal 70 (Sonic Gems from the 70s) | Analog Africa
- "Gift to Gift" | Bunny & The Invalid Singers | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Evil Kind" | Barry Adamson | Know Where To Run | Central Control International
- "Echoes Remain Forever" | Anne Clark | Changing Places | Red Flame
- "Tugboat" | Galaxie 500 | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
- "Sixteen Blue" | The Replacements | Let It Be | Twin/Tone
- "Volcano" | The Smokin Coconuts | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Somersault Sunrise" | BLOW-UP | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
- "Needles" | Franklin de Costa | Tentacles | Curle
- "Demain est une autre nuit" | Essaie Pas | Demain est une autre nuit | DFA LLC
- "Viva" | Breathless | Blue Moon [reissue] | Tenor Vossa
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Monday Apr 04, 2016
In the Absence of Better Explanations: Transmission 268, 2016 March 23
Monday Apr 04, 2016
Monday Apr 04, 2016
Supposedly, I have an opportunity to become wistful about "the way things used to be." Just a few years ago, it seems, I could juggle several responsibilities at once--"multitask," as the kids say. This program provides evidence that I can't do that, or at least that I couldn't on this night. My real job intruded on my pastime, my plans for the evening changed, phone calls needed making, and we would up with the awful result of two Flying Saucer Attack songs being played.
However, I am not going to take advantage of this opportunity. Perhaps not for the best of reasons--my back catalogue is full of mistake-riddled programs. But I have listened back to this one, and it was time well spent, not nearly as atrocious as I thought.
Forgiveness, though, as my counselor tells me, is a process requiring changed behavior over time, so I still need to work on being better, and on pardoning myself.
BOMBAST playlist, 2016 March 23, 2100-2300:
- "True Love Will Find You in the End" | Spectrum | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
- "They Cannot Be Replaced" | Not Waving | Animals | Diagonal
- "In Spirals" | Benoit Gagnon & Massimiliano Pagliara | In Spirals | Correspondant
- "All My Gods (feat. Tik Tu)" | Omodada | All My Gods - Ummagma Remix | Moon Sounds
- "Prediction - Brainwave Version" | Opfer der Hingabe | Domestic Landscape, Vol. 2: Underrated Synth Classics 1982-1990 | Domestica
- "Ministers Say It Could Take Two Years To Destroy Isis" | Band of Holy Joy | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "A Woman, A Lover, A Friend" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Rumble
- "tardive dyskinesia" | ugly separation | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "One of Our Girls Has Gone Missing" | A. C. Marias | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
- "Earth" | Fontan | Babylon EP | Hoga Nord
- "Ballroom" | Breathless | Blue Moon [reissue] | Tenor Vossa
- "The Howl" | Mary Ocher + Your Government | Mary Ocher + Your Government | Klangbad
- "Marie Galante" | Aquarius Heaven | Bato charge | Circus Company
- "Tired" | Fret! | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Crystal Eyes" | The Nightblooms | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
- "Stoned Crocodiles" | Praed | The Fabrication of Silver Dreams | Annihaya
- "Feedback Song Demo" | Flying Saucer Attack | Chorus [reissue] | Drag City
- "Mechanika" | Effeto Joule | Domestic Landscape, Vol. 2: Underrated Synth Classics 1982-1990 | Domestica
- "Second Hour (accidental detail)" | Flying Saucer Attack | Chorus [reissue] | Drag City
- "Before I Kill Again" | Gas Huffer | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
- "Uriel Wavv" | Dagir Du | Uriel Wavv | Seagrave
- "My Deranged Heart" | Smashing Orange | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
- "Tangeh-ye-Hormoz" | Pina | Transit | Lapsus
- "Red Planet" | DUBCON | Martian Dub Beacon | Metropolis
- "DMX 15-80 S" | Automat | Plusminus | Bureau B
- "Moonbuilding 2073 AD - Teebs - Moon Grotto Mix" | The Orb | Moonbuilding 2073 AD Remixes / Sin in Space, Pt. 1 | Kompakt
- "Park the Car by the Side of the Road" | Swirlies | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
- "Texas Crash" | Barry Adamson | Know Where To Run | Central Control International
- "Sara e Tristana" | The Durutti Column | Amigos Em Portugal | Durutti
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Friday Apr 01, 2016
Me, A Machine, And My Obsession: Transmission 267, 2016 March 16
Friday Apr 01, 2016
Friday Apr 01, 2016
Live albums seem to polarize people, for reasons I don't understand. "I don't like listening to people clap for things that happened when I wasn't there," I seem to recall a friend writing. Friend: if you're reading this, rest assured that the clapping on "Live At The Venue" is not very audible! Still, I love this recording, bootleggy though it may be.
In a previous life, I "did" live performance and I had/have some hangups about the recording of it. Not the paranoid hangups--I don't mind there being documentary evidence that I did a thing in a place at a time--but simply the aversion to watching / hearing myself do / say things in the past. The laws of space / time suggest that there are places where the past is always happening, but I don't have to visit those places! HOWEVER, I have no philosophical issues with recordings of OTHER people. Is this hypocritical, or just blithe? I'm going with the latter.
For damn sure I don't have any serious feelings about the ontology of live tapes. I'm fine with their being whatever the performers want them to be.
BOMBAST playlist, 2016 March 16, 2100-2300:
- "Gremlin Stomp" | Hammerhead | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
- "Self Portrait" | The Durutti Column | Live at the Venue | Durutti | "Physical Evidence"
- "Chase" | Go March | Go March | Unday
- "Jacqueline" | The Durutti Column | Live at the Venue | Durutti | "Physical Evidence"
- "Uthers Dub" | Glove of Bones | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Farver / Filmrer" | Skatebard | CDIII | Balsa Wood
- "Kobane Iraq" | Abu AMA | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "I Got a Woman" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Rumble
- "The Beggar" | The Durutti Column | Live at the Venue | Durutti | "Physical Evidence"
- "ONE CHORD" | David Ramos | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Gettin' to Business" | Morgan | Gettin' to Business / Cooker | Funk 45
- "Ham and Fish Pasty" | Heads of State | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Party" | The Durutti Column | Live at the Venue | Durutti | "Physical Evidence"
- "I Get Excited" | The Comsat Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel
- "All the Reasons Slide" | Breathless | Blue Moon [reissue] | Tenor Vossa
- "In" | Gary Bromley | Outside | Assembly Field
- "Winter Tale" | Ummagma | Frequency | Moon Sounds
- "Sigh Becomes a Scream" | The Durutti Column | Live at the Venue | Durutti | "Physical Evidence"
- "The Things You Crave" | The Astronauts | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Creature of Habit" | Starclash | Rhodes Inspirational: From East to West | Klik
- "Black Diamond" | The Replacements | Let It Be | Twin/Tone
- "Running" | ASYMMETROI FAROI | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Work Is a Four-Letter Word" | The Smiths | Girlfriend In a Coma | Rough Trade | "Listening Parlour"
- "Shimmering Dawn" | Finglebone | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Croupier" | Adam Johnson | Chigliak | Merck
- "boom boom chac REMIX" | Rapoon | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
- "Christine" | The House of Love | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
- "Never Known" | The Durutti Column | Live at the Venue | Durutti | "Physical Evidence"
- "Bobo on the Corner" | Beastie Boys | The In Sound from Way Out! | Grand Royal - Capitol
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