Episodes
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
As I listen back to these episodes I realize that my hiatus should have been longer. Looking at my notes I see the repetition of several key phrases, such as "didn't make sense," "ill-conceived," "wasn't great," "for reasons unknown," and so on. Back in the summer I decided on an agenda--and I'm still committed to it!--but I was pursuing it so relentlessly that I was trampling on such time-honored values as "currency" and "competence." And on nights like this, I was even stealing extra airtime (or filling in for under-the-weather colleagues, take your pick) to do it!
This is probably not profound advice and I probably heard it from someone I don't even respect much, but knowing how you're going to begin and end a program is key. "Sutra" is the best kind of opening for me. And "Insight?" Maybe "not great," as someone is fond of saying, but it got me out the door, as Okada did on the last outing. What about the middle? Maybe if you sift through it you'll find some special moments--I think the best song of 2019 is in there, somewhere!
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 September 8, 2100-2300:
- "Sutra" | Section 25 | Always Now | Factory Benelux
- "Eternal Lights" | Julian Muller | Frustration | Arts Collective
- "Harnessed Black Holes" | London Modular Alliance | Precious Materials | Applied Rhythmic Technology
- "A Lil Close" | Sneaks | Highway Hypnosis | Merge
- "Love Can Lose" | The Milkshakes | Punk Rock ist nicht tot | Damaged Goods
- "Easing - Version" | George & Glen Miller | Easing | Soundway
- "Change of Tide" | Grotto II | At Last... | Odion Livingstone
- "CONFETTI" | Velvet Negroni | NEON BROWN | 4AD
- "Everybody Ought to Make a Change" | Sleepy John Estes | The Blues Of Sleepy John Estes Volume Two 1938-1940 | Swaggie
- "I'm Sorry" | Bo Diddley | Go Bo Diddley | Rumble
- "Werewerenci" | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa De Kayes | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa De Kayes | Kindred Spirits
- "Slow Train" | Hot & Rich With Lynn Taitt & The Jets And Beverleys Allstars | Rocksteady | Reggae Retro
- "Shearing You" | Prince Buster | Judge Dread Rock Steady / She Was a Rough Rider | DOJO
- "Paco" | Shellac | The End of Radio | Touch and Go Records
- "Jogging" | Richard Dawson | Jogging | Domino
- "Sunday Night" | Rosaire | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
- "Little Birds, Moonbath" | Yu Su | Roll With The Punches | Second Circle
- "Insight" | Buildings In Motion | Insight | vanguardista
Forgive me for i knew not what I was saying
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Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
We are revisiting a period where I must have made it my mission to reach Episode 500 before year's end. (I succeeded!) If anything, this program is about processing the past, through the present, and these next couple dozen entries will endeavor to do that. This program was the first after (another) three-week hiatus, this one more or less voluntary as I finally lost my mind somewhere in mid-August and decided that I had to change jobs and change houses at the same time, and that I had no time for anything else (I was pretty much right about this.)
This transmission did little to work through these feelings, though it did continue my relentless and impulsive new agenda. I tried to mix the old with the new, to varying degrees of technical and conceptual. The first 45 minutes or so had me thinking that this program was somewhat special. I was wrong about this. Following Hugh Mane with Jimi Hendrix was not great. Then again, the "crazy" set was not that crazy. People tell me that my perception is off, so maybe I am not a reliable narrator. With this in mind, I think there may be some post-production magic on the Isaac Hayes segue, but it's too long ago to remember. I'm fairly sure that the D.K. transition was abrupt, but I didn't know how else to get to Okada, which was the whole point. Another episode in the bag, and we survived it.
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 September 4, 2100-2300:
- "Djanfa Magni" | Tidiani Koné & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo | African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds from Benin & Togo 70s | Analog Africa
- "Kogn. Dissonanz" | JakoJako | Aequilibration - EP | Leisure System
- "Omlagus Garfungiloops" | Coil | The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex + 2 | Musique Pour La Danse
- "Give It To Me" | Isaac Hayes | Harlem Shuffle | Plastic
- "Mirror In My Room" | Lifted | 2 | PAN
- "Performance Review" | John Tejada | Performance Review - EP | Palette
- "Child of Love" | Hugh Mane | Voodoo Questions | Running Back
- "Voodoo Chile" | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Electric Ladyland | Reprise
- "Billiard Player Song" | Shellac | The End of Radio | Touch and Go Records
- "Pretend" | CTMF | Brave Protector | Burger / Damaged Goods
- "How Could You Love Me" | Big Joanie | Sistahs | Daydream Library Series
- "Bo's Bounce" / "You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover" | Bo Diddley | His Greatest Sides: Volume One | Chess
- "Alice Mae" | R. L. Burnside | Mr. Wizard | Fat Possum Records
- "Voices" | D.K. | Riding for a Fall | Antinote
- "I Still Wake Up Thinking You Are By My Side" | OKADA | Life Is But An Empty Dream | n5MD
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Thursday Jan 02, 2020
U_D_M Detour 37, 2019 August 31
Thursday Jan 02, 2020
Thursday Jan 02, 2020
[GUEST POST]
Greetings from dead time. I am Guy, and sometimes I do radio and post here. The attached file is a detour from the summer, but eternal summer is upon us now, so how old is it, really? Anyway, this was the first "Saturday night" of the "academic year," both ridiculous constructs, but those willing to throw away their leisure time on the passive consumption of radio content could find me, living my best possible life to this here soundtrack.
If I remember correctly, and I probably do, this night was filled with references and suggestions. Alcyon? It does sound familiar. Feel live? I did and I do. Alternative Faction? Surely a "kid catharsis" musical entity waiting to happen. It was also a night of solidity and opacity, a monolithic beat experience in which you could lose yourself. And I think I did? But I came back, and I will be back again.
U_D_M playlist, 2019 August 31, 1900-2000:
- "Paradigm Shift" | Greg Gow | Paradigm Shift | Planet E
- "Naja" | Pawas feat. Arooj Aftab | India Gets Physical, Vol. 1 | Get Physical
- "All States of Dawn" | Smallpeople | Afterglow | Smallville
- "Alcyon" | Simon Vuarambon | A Winter Sampler | All Day I Dream
- "Feel Live" | Massimiliano Pagliara | Feel Live | Live at Robert Johnson
- "Alternative Faction" | Casey Tucker | Alternative Faction | Love Notes
- "Cannot Compare" | Frits Wentink & DJ Boring | Shall Not Fade - 3 Years of Service | Shall Not Fade
- "Cosmic Child (Thomas T & Anish – Remix)" | Greg Shepherd | Divine | finefood
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