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Monday Feb 03, 2020
Monday Feb 03, 2020
True confession: my first attempt at recounting this episode was such a dull, sausage-making drone that I bored even myself. So I'm trying again, this time with atmosphere, and maybe some mental sausage.
A couple of hours before the program, it rained. A lot. There was flooding in the area! And I think of the poor children and their parents, especially in our old hipster neighborhood, a Halloween wonderland, getting soaked in their heroic effort to keep the candy industry afloat.
I was working in the opposite direction, trying to get to the gym, probably for the first time in several days--my new job was exhausting me mentally and physically, and I had dived deeply into comfort food (and am still diving)--and taking my life into my own hands.
Rain is my least favorite weather to begin with, but particularly in Ithaca--usually if it's raining it's just the right temperature for our car to fog up uncontrollably. I could easily have mowed down some young family on my way to torture myself, and to be honest I probably felt nothing in particular about either part of this equation.
Feels like I just talked about how much I hate fundraising programs, and here I was in the control room again the next day. Like a goddamn salmon I keep returning, with tremendous effort, and I don't even get it.
Since this program was broadcast, 95 days ago now, I've gone on the air 17 times. I am listening to a transmission from 61 days ago. I'm currently editing a sound file from 41 days ago--7 shows ago. What does it amount to, this enormous task? And what will I even do when I am caught up? Anyway, October's finished, unless you count that unfortunate area of space-time where it is always still happening, forever.
Fittingly, I played a bunch of 4AD-adjacent stuff on this evening of "songs about ghosts and songs about dead people." It haunts me, or at least it haunts the person I have been, whom I carry around with me at all times. It is more "me" to stray from the "best available" in favor of the weird, personal, disturbing. And of course we made less money on this night than the last one. Sometimes I know what I'm talking about.
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 October 31, 2100-2300:
- "Ghost Lights" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68
- "I Fell In Love With a Ghost" | Rowland S. Howard / Lydia Lunch | Some Velvet Morning | 4AD
- "Your Ghost" | Kristin Hersh | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
- "Halloween" | The Dream Syndicate | The Days of Wine and Roses | Fire America
- "56B" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Legendary Pink Dots' Hallowe'en Special 2019 | self-released
- "Keleya" | Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band | Siri Ba Kele | Sublime Frequencies
- "Ghosts" | Japan | Exorcising Ghosts | Virgin
- "Fache Ainik Ant" | Moulay Ahmed El Hassani | Atlas Electric | Hive Mind
- "Zawal" | Tinariwen | Amadjar | Wedge
- "The Jezebel Spirit" | Brian Eno - David Byrne | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | Sire
- "City of the Dead" | The Clash | Black Market Clash | Epic
- "Death From Above" | Crispy Ambulance | The Plateau Phase + Live On A Hot August Night + Peel | Factory Benelux
- "Ghosts" | Nancy Babich | Time Adds Up | self-released
- "Nachtschatten" | Xmal Deutschland | Tocsin | 4AD
- "White Sunlight" | Hunter Complex | Open Sea | Death Waltz
- "KURT KOBAIN" | Velvet Negroni | NEON BROWN | 4AD
- "Jazz Sega" | Jeanot Rabeson Et Son Orchestre | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
- "All The People I Like Are Those That Are Dead" | Felt | Forever Breathes the Lonely Word | Creation
- "The Double-Switch" | King Salami and the Cumberland Three | Kiss My Ring | Damaged Goods
- "Halloween" | Brian | Because It's Mine! | self-released
- "Sleep-Wake Cycles" | Jeff Mills | Moon (The Area of Influence) | Axis
- "Celine's Surprise" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Legendary Pink Dots' Hallowe'en Special 2019 | self-released
existing in the shadows of dreams
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Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
For this program my health had returned (that is, if I was actually sick the prior week, which I of course no longer remember). Also, I was in good spirits--a rarity during a fundraising drive. Let's be frank, I hate these things. They're just a confluence of bad stuff. Because I am a dandy and a child, I don't like to think about money; I have bad memories from previous co-hosting experiences; I don't actually enjoy talking on the radio that much. Fortunately I had Lady Catharsis riding shotgun, and DJ Feng Shui, a sympathetic colleague, "on the other side of the glass," so this was a good evening, which is pretty much all my notes say.
Since this program was broadcast, 95 days ago now, I've gone on the air 18 times. I am listening to a transmission from 60 days ago. I'm currently editing a sound file from 40 days ago--7 shows ago. [In some ways time is moving backwards.]
There's one little bit of sadness as I think back on this episode. It's that I miss the old "festivals of Evidence" that I used to do. But "Physical Evidence" is no longer a thing (Junior is fine, by the way); seemingly it had to die so that more important things could flourish. These "year end roundups" are wall-to-wall quality tunes, but they aren't really me. And yet from a fundraising perspective they are increasingly effective. Is that a "rising tide" thing for the station, or do I succeed more when I am not quite myself?
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 October 30, 2100-2300:
- "Tema" / "Dope" | Afriqua | Colored | R & S
- "Give Love (Interlude)" | Sampa the Great | The Return | Ninja Tune
- "If Not Now When?" | Ultramarine | Signals into Space | Les Disques du Crepuscule
- "C/2015 V2" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Opaque Couche | Flexidisc
- "Heliy" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | Tutti | Conspiracy International
- "Heston" | Finlay Shakepeare | Domestic Economy | Editions Mego
- "The Edge of the World" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
- "Life of the Plants" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Life of the Plants | Stones Throw
- "Chemin de fer" | Dexter Story | Bahir | Soundway
- "Feeling You Got" | El Rego et ses Commandos | El Rego | Daptone
- "Wanted" | Renegade Pharmacy | Recovery Position | self-released
- "XYZ" | Boards of Canada | XYZ | WARP
- "Happy Sad" | Jübl | DNA Cowboys | Eighth Son Records
- "Let's Take The Time" | Sequoyah Murray | Before You Begin | Thrill Jockey Records
- "Tenere" | Kel Assouf | Black Tenere | Glitterbeat
- "Honam" | Orchestre Abass | De Bassari Togo | Analog Africa
- "Driving Blind" | Chris and Cosey | Songs of Love & Lust [reissue] | Conspiracy International
- "All About Money" | Spontaneous Overthrow | All About Money | Numero Group
- "Microwave Mistral" | Your 33 Black Angels | Eternities I | self-released
- "T 3.1" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
- "Disorder Dub" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
- "Sometimes I Wanna Dance" | Lonnie Holley | MITH | Jagjaguwar
- "Come Home O'Shawn" | (((O))) | ((( 1 ))) | The Sundrop Garden
- "Master's Clock" | Moor Mother | The Myth Hold Weight | Don Giovanni
- "Exchange - Mountain Steppers Dub" | Massive Attack | Massive Attack V Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98) | UMC / Virgin
life of the party
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Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Hundreds of Miles Going Nowhere: Transmission 490, 2019 October 23
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
I sound sick and I sound like I'm using my laptop (again), which would mean that the station's equipment has predictably failed. But for me to fail less than the gear is an achievement, and I will take it. Anyway, the technical situation is due to improve, or at least that's what I hear from my inside sources.
Since this program was broadcast, 101 days ago now, I've gone on the air 18 times. I just finished listening to a transmission from 66 days ago. I'm currently editing a sound file from 39 days ago--6 shows ago.
Content-wise, this playlist looks like the "old" me, so who knows what I was thinking on this night--the usual explanation, clearing out some songs I'd been meaning to play, trying to minimize the guilt of not having played them, ignoring the bigger question of why I would have felt that way in the first place, doesn't work. I was probably finding a lot of things "not working" in my new situation. I'd started turning to comfort food and drinking more alcohol, skipping the gym, telling myself this was all temporary, etc. So thank goodness for mechanical competence, for a couple of hours at least.
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 October 23, 2100-2300:
- "Decembers Embers" | The Irony Board | Unfinished Business | The Beautiful Music
- "Blips Drips and Strips" | Stereolab | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in The Milky Night (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / Warp Records
- "Blue Palms" | Iori | Tangerine Sky | Mule Musiq
- "Mango (feat. Zia Ahmed)" | Sarathy Korwar | More Arriving | Leaf
- "What You Gonna Ask For - Theo's Mix" | Theo Parrish / Lori / Silentjay | What You Gonna Ask For | Sound Signature
- "Wake Up (Interlude)" | Sampa the Great | The Return | Ninja Tune
- "Wallow" | The Pull of Autumn | Afterglow | RBM Records
- "Andeha Hanarato" | Los Matadores | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
- "City Track" | Kedr Livanskiy | Your Need | 2MR
- "That Feeling of Falling" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
- "T 3.4" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
- "Fury - The Origin" | Goldie | Saturnz Return (2019 Remaster) | London
- "Third Sync" | Rainer Veil | Vanity | Modern Love
- "Let's Hope It Lasts the Summer" | elAstrum | Summer Vacation | Kahvi Collective
- "Dreams (Alternate Version)" | Tombstones in Their Eyes | Open Skies | Somewherecold
- "Jump In, The Water's Fine" | The Wedding Present | Jump In, The Water's Fine | Come Play With Me / Scopitones
- "One Step" | Section 25 | Always Now | Factory Benelux
- "Drift Away" | Secret Shine | There Is Only Now | Saint Marie
- "Ocean Blue" | The Primitives | Losing Touch With My Mind: Psychedelia In Britain 1986-1990 | Cherry Red
- "(I Walked Away From) The Girl In Yellow" | David J | Missive to an Angel from the Halls of Infamy and Allure | Glass Modern
- "Heroes" | Flying Lotus | Flamagra | WARP
- "Elizabeth 44" | Ummagma | Compass | Leonard Skully
- "Jogging" | Brian | Red Rover | self-released
- "4eva" | Kelman Duran | Two Suns | Point Records
- "At the Point of Hustle" | Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell | Realm of Spells | self-released
- "Oa Niny Ê" | Nino Rafah | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
easy dreams down lazy streets
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