Episodes
Friday Feb 03, 2017
Night Is Warm and the Stars Are Bright: Transmission 316, 2016 December 31
Friday Feb 03, 2017
Friday Feb 03, 2017
Since we all had a free night, and the last night of the "calendar year" is a useless observance, the entire Catharsis Family Circus rolled into the WRFI studios. It was the first time we had done this in a while, so for those who don't live with her every day, Junior's performance on this episode is something of a...revelation, I daresay. I would be happy to listen to her program, if she had one, but I will also settle for her being a frequent guest on my program and deflating my pretensions (although considering Their Satanic Majesties Request a "masterpiece" is not a pretension). Elsewhere, Lady Catharsis shares a half-dozen "depressing" tunes with us, I completely botch a segue from Wanda Jackson to Thee Michelle Gun Elephant (I swear that one should have worked), and I play THE WRONG JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU-MU TRACK at the end of the program (it was supposed to be "Burn the Bastards").
I'm sure that, with all its shortcomings (at least I see them that way), this program will be a favorite for you listeners. More voices, actual debate, anyone in the studio besides me, etc. I know how these things work. So I guess it was good to close up 2016--a godawful year!--with a "good" show. We actually didn't do "that much" radio in 2016, "only" 60 programs, thanks to some wise policy (don't quote me on that) from management and my own hypering down. Here's to even fewer--and better--programs in 2017!
BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 31, 2100-2300:
- "Let's Spend the Night Together" | Muddy Waters | Electric Mud | Chess
- "Kassi Ma Sumaya / Don't Cry" | Lobi Traore Group | Lobi Traore Group | Honest Jon's
- "Blue Yodel #6" | Wanda Jackson | The Party Ain't Over | Third Man
- "Lily" | Thee Michelle Gun Elephant | Collection | Alive
- "Badhead" | Buick | Sweatertongue | Lather
- "Down On The Street" | The Stooges | Fun House | Elektra - Rhino
- "Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice" | Richard "Rabbit" Brown | Aimer et Perdre: To Love And To Lose | Angry Mom Archives
- "Honey (Alternate Mix)" | Spacemen 3 | Losing Touch With Your Mind | Munster
- "Fin Roh" | Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects | Shabeesation | Rykodisc
- "Citadel" / "In Another Land" | The Rolling Stones | Their Satanic Majesties Request | London
- "The Last Amethyst Deceiver" | Coil | The Ape of Naples | Important
- "Too Late" | The Stoneman Family | Aimer et Perdre: To Love And To Lose | Angry Mom Archives
- "Facing East" | Thievery Corporation | The Richest Man In Babylon | Eighteenth Street Lounge
- "The Art of Parties" | Japan | Exorcising Ghosts | Virgin
- "I Need A Man" | Barbara Pittman | Hillbilly Fillies & Rockin' Chicks | Charly
- "December" | Teenage Fanclub | Bandwagonesque | Creation - Geffen
- "Radha Krsna" | Suns of Arqa | Solar Activity | 1979-2001 EMI
- "False Hearted Lover's Blues" | Dock Boggs | Aimer et Perdre: To Love And To Lose | Angry Mom Archives
- "Whitney Joins the JAMs" | The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu | Shag Times | KLF Communications
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Monday Jul 27, 2015
Lose Some Sleep and Say You Tried: Transmission 221, 2015 July 15
Monday Jul 27, 2015
Monday Jul 27, 2015
This was a fun program, albeit (or because it was?) overdetermined. I had a plan going in, and then I had another plan, which was sort of not to have a plan, so I brought in way too much stuff and this is what happened. Window Window, "Physical Evidence" on the night, was always part of the plan and not-plan and therefore aired as planned or not-planned.
For a little while I had an in-studio guest, Alex Reed of Seeming and of this tome. He is an aspiring WRFI personality and contributed the Rhythm & Noise track to the evening's set. Making his acquaintance, and digging through the book, have got me thinking about the past, to which I am prone anyway.
I was really into Wax Trax! in the mid-80s and remember playing a lot of that stuff on the radio back then. I recently took another look at their Black Box collection, which I once owned (the metal / fishnet edition, with coasters & loose audiotape and everything), but wound up selling. Almost none of it interests me. I wonder why and how that happened, as I tend to hang onto things, emotionally if not literally. It takes quite a lot to provoke a "that's no longer me" response. You'd think I would remember such a catalyst, but apparently my drift into "shoegaze" / "dreampop" / "afrofuturism" is part of that "lost time" that my (as yet unretained) therapist and I need to unlock.
I suspect that my fascination with that music had a lot to do with my search for something that sounded like the washing machine mentioned in this interview (what a different time that was), and that at one point there was (or seemed from a distance to be) such a small set of that music that nearly all of it sufficed. I didn't like it when the music turned functional and/or got names. I didn't like it when things went showbiz (e.g. the antics of Trent Reznor). I didn't like it when it became de rigeur to sample evangelicals (Cabaret Voltaire owned that gesture from the get-go). I really didn't like it when blackness was incorporated appropriated as kitsch (h/t to Alex for articulating that one).
Maybe I don't need a therapist after all, but I still don't know when/how the cumulative effect of all this hit me.
What is ok: Coil, of course, and Chris & Cosey; the subjects of this book; Legendary Pink Dots (though they'd never be considered "industrial" by 2015 standards); Test Dept.; Bourbonese Qualk; just about everyone in the Industrial Culture Handbook (although Boyd Rice* and Genesis P-Orridge are thoroughly insufferable for various reasons). Oh, and Suicide, to whom just about everyone owes a debt.**
Almost forgot: With Sympathy by Ministry. That is ok too, fake accent and all.
BOMBAST playlist, 2015 July 15, 2100-2300:
- "Red Skeletons" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton
- "Auto-Suggestion" | Joy Division | Substance | Factory
- "Desert - Danton Eeprom Protofunk Rework" | Mahk & Morpheus | Desert | Souvenir
- "Window Window" | Cassegrain & Tin Man | Window Window | Infrastructure New York | "Physical Evidence"
- "Next Door" | Deru | Trying to Remember | Merck
- "Without Your Eye" | Rhythm & Noise | Chasms Accord | Asphodel
- "Moon Scapes 2703 BC" | The Orb | Moonbuilding 2073 AD | Kompakt
- "Breathe Deep" | Cabaret Voltaire | 2 x 45 | Rough Trade
- "Ether Ether" | Cassegrain & Tin Man | Window Window | Infrastructure New York | "Physical Evidence"
- "Il Collo et la Collana 06" | Rayon | Il Collo et la Collana | Alien Transistor
- "Flying Fortress" | Weird Owl | Interstellar Skeletal | A Recordings
- "Chinese Rocks" | Johnny Thunders | I ♥ NY Punk | Mojo Magazine
- "Anneannemin Koah'si" | Ah! Kosmos | Flesh | Denovali
- "Seduct Seduct" | Cassegrain & Tin Man | Window Window | Infrastructure New York | "Physical Evidence"
- "Afghani Dub" | The Mothmen | Pay Attention! | On-U Sound
- "Central Control" / "Round Up the Usual Suspects" | Barry Adamson | Moss Side Story | Mute
- "Crucial Tony Tries to Rescue the Space Invaders" | The Dub Syndicate | An On-U Journey Through Time & Space | On-U Sound
- "Subliminal" | WhoMadeWho | Ember EP | Get Physical
- "No. 29 Pareto 20/80" | Terron | Whities 003 | Whities
- "Modulor Mix" | Air | Premiers Symptomes | Rhino
- "Dings" | Tiefschwarz | Left | Watergate
- "Faint Faint" | Cassegrain & Tin Man | Window Window | Infrastructure New York | "Physical Evidence"
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Friday Feb 20, 2015
Festival of Evidence v2.1: Transmission 185, 2015 February 7
Friday Feb 20, 2015
Friday Feb 20, 2015
BOMBAST doesn't do moderation. Hour-long programs are for other people. It's either a feature-length film or a sitcom for us. This is one of the latter, staged as part of some radio station "house party" whose end-use I do not grasp.
The idea, supposedly, was that we would have a party at the station for staff, and that instead of having usual programming run at that time (which would have been just fine, and perfectly party-ish), we should "take advantage" of the presence of multiple djs and have several of them do short sets. I guess the benefit is that it prevents one person from being sequestered away from the party for a prolonged time, and that sequestration wouldn't be fun for anyone who likes parties. And I suppose another benefit is that the listener at home (or wherever) could get a sampling of different programs without investing too much time.
All the same it must be awkward, listening in on a "party" to which one isn't really invited. We are at pains to say that we're a community radio station ("we're your community radio station!") and that of course you should feel free to come down to the studio and walk right in on whatever we're doing. But only sociopaths crash parties where they don't know anyone. Is that what we want? [ed. apparently, "yes."]
Well. I don't "work" parties as a DJ [it shows] and I can barely attend parties as a human. But if someone is giving out airtime I am all over it. What's the alternative, that someone else should occupy this half-hour? That simply won't do. I'm convinced that I'm special, one way or the other. I was born with the moon VOID OF COURSE, don't you know. I'm destined to be either Spinoza or one of the dudes who torched Alexandria. Am I "John Peel" special? Of course not. Peel was a teacher. I have nothing to teach anybody. You can ask around--I would start with the attendees of the last party for which I made a mix tape, if you can track them down.
I have spent many an hour being upstaged by unruly young people, and this is one such episode. Say hello to Nikkolai, everyone. I would love to have him on future programs, and just let him interject wherever most or least appropriate. I fear that he has bigger and better things to do.
BOMBAST playlist, 2015 February 7, 2030-2100:
- "Rocking Steady" | Hot & Rich | Rocksteady - with Lynn Taitt & The Jets and Beverleys All Stars | Reggae Retro | "Physical Evidence"
- "Tearjerker" | The Creepers | Rock 'N' Roll Liquorice Flavour | Red Rhino | "Physical Evidence"
- "I'm Nowhere" | The Durutti Column | Return of the Sporadic Recordings | Kooky | "Physical Evidence"
- "Pentatonic Skull" | Design A Wave | A.R.M. 1 | No Label | "Physical Evidence"
- "Cybernetic" | The Grid | Volume 5 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
- "Look for the Question Mark" | Wallflowers (Wally Waller & The Strange Flowers) | In Fuzz We Trust | Stag-O-Lee | "Physical Evidence"
- "Rise Dub" | Annie Anxiety Bandez | As I Lie In Your Arms | One Little Indian | "Physical Evidence"
- "Bye Bye Baby" | Prince Buster | Judge Dread Rock Steady / She Was A Rough Rider | DOJO | "Physical Evidence"
Wednesday Dec 03, 2014
Cruising Altitude Departure 7, 2014 June 27
Wednesday Dec 03, 2014
Wednesday Dec 03, 2014
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Halcyon here. What a crazy six months it has been. I have been doing radio all too often, and too regularly. I should be singing as the birds do, but these "volunteer" situations have a way of roping you in.
Anyway, this program was the first time I had guests in the cockpit proper. They seemed to enjoy themselves. For my part, I improvised more than perhaps I should have, and that always seems to mean living in the past.
I hope this warm-weather program brings cheer to you in this cold-weather season. May all your dreams be "of the inmost light!"
CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 June 27, 1900-2000:
- "Rhodes Viola Multiple" | Keith Fullerton Whitman | Antithesis | kranky
- "Critique of the Beautiful" | Steve Hauschildt | S/H | Editions Mego
- "Sediment" | Oval | Voa | EOVA
- "Lesser Than The Sum Of Its Parts" | Rafael Anton Irisarri | The Unintentional Sea | Room40
- "Premonition 34" | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Creature that Tasted Sound | self-released
- "Black & White Jesus" | Biting Tongues | Compressor | Factory
- "Moments of Being (Reprise)" | Dr. Calculus | Designer Beatnik | 10
- "A Dream Of TheInmostLight (For Christoph Heemann)" | Current 93 | Foxtrot | Chalice
Friday Nov 14, 2014
Plant Lilies At My Head: Transmission 164, 2014 November 4
Friday Nov 14, 2014
Friday Nov 14, 2014
Here is a FUN(d)raising program, usually one of the lowlights of the year. I hate these money drives with all my heart. I became a Marxist not just because I hated Ronald Reagan but also out of a deep-seated belief that people ought to just give me stuff without my having to ask. I guess at this point there are about a half-dozen fundraiser programs in the archive, and this is nowhere near the worst, thanks mostly to Steph, who makes two brief appearances (can you hear my heart breaking when I find out she has to leave halfway through? There are only, maybe, four or five humans I can tolerate in the cockpit while I am DJing, so when one of them happens to be around, I don't want it to end).
Anyway, since I didn't have any luminaries on hand to perform in-studio, I thought I would roll out the second Festival Of Evidence, which is sort of what passes for a yearly roundup in these parts. I consider "best of" programs and lists more or less anathema to independent music (the Festive Fifty was...alright, I guess), and let's face it, "what I think" is less relevant than "what actually happened." Or, in some cases, what should have or almost happened, or what is about to happen.
BOMBAST playlist, 2014 November 4, 2100-2300:
- "Summer Nights" | 14 Iced Bears | Alvin Lives (In Leeds) | Midnight
- "(Varoom!)" | Stereolab | Low Fi | Too Pure
- "CIRCLONT6A (syrobonkus Mix)" | Aphex Twin | Syro | WARP
- "Waterline" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
- "Listen Up! (Quasar Mix)" | A.R.K. | Listen Up! | Rough Trade
- "Pete's Riff" | The Durutti Column | Red Shoes | Materiali Sonori
- "The Hardest Day" | Tropic Of Cancer | Restless Idylls | Blackest Ever Black
- "I Want You" | Spiritualized | Fucked Up Inside | Plain
- "Crystal Pond [excerpt]" | Imaginary Softwoods | The Path of Spectrolite | Archives Interieures
- "Thick And Thin" | The Nightingales | For Fuck's Sake | self-released
- "Transmission" | Joy Division | The Complete BBC Recordings | True North
- "He Was" | © [Leslie Winer] | Witch | Transglobal
- "Mr. Romance" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68
- "Grains Of Sand" | Opal | Early Recordings | Rough Trade
- "O.O.B.E. (live)" | The Orb | Volume 5 | Volume
- "Shift F1 (Inland Edit)" | Function | Synewave Reissues Part I: 1995-97 | Infrastructure New York
- "Plant Lilies At My Head" | Tropic Of Cancer | Restless Idylls | Blackest Ever Black
- "Untitled 4" | Laika + Luddite Machine | live in studio November 2013 | not on label
Thursday May 01, 2014
Angry Mom Records: Transmission 116, 2014 April 16
Thursday May 01, 2014
Thursday May 01, 2014
George from Angry Mom Records stops by, with a bunch of vinyl to spin. This was a good time, and a good show. As a bonus, he absolved me of "too much time spent in record stores," at least partially--perhaps a President or a Pope might have done more, but I will take what I can get.
Notes on the program: (a) I meant to play something I'd once purchased at No Radio Records, but didn't get around to it, much to my regret; (b) the stories about my time in Amsterdam are, "sadly," true--even the "internet cafes" (good grief, remember those?) were hash bars, but I was really using them for the internet; (c) I manage to get the French translation wrong, even though it's right there on the record cover: "perdre" is the infinitive of the verb, hence "to lose"; (d) all other anomalies can be chalked up to my usual raggedness.
BOMBAST playlist, 2014 April 16, 2100-2300:
- "Bombast" | The Fall | This Nation's Saving Grace | Beggars Banquet
- "Lufuala Ndonga" | Konono No. 1 | Congotronics | Crammed Discs
- "Epirotiko Mirologi (Lament from Epirus)" | Alexis Zoumbas | A Lament for Epirus 1926-1928 | Angry Mom
- "Gaida Moni (Single Line Dance)" | The Harisis Group | The Recordings of the Harisis Group From Northern Greece | Angry Mom
- "Muntilor" | Dogtroep | III | not on label
- "Pente Meres Pantremeni (Five Days Married)" | Halkias Brothers Folk Orchestra | Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song And Dance From Northern Greece, 1928-1958 | Angry Mom
- "Raw Umber" | A Primary Industry | Ultramarine | Sweatbox
- "Snarls Radical!" | Elsa & The Awesomeawesomes | Elsa & The Awesomeawesomes | Angry Mom
- "Imitator (Landau Remake)" | Rootsman | Versions of the Unseen | BSI
- "Lower Manhattan" | Johnny Dowd | Lower Manhattan | Angry Mom
- "Menstrual Man" | Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti | Fragments from Work in Progress | 4AD
- "Bran Mash and Crushed Beans" | People Like Us | Jumble Massive | Soleilmoon
- "Loaded" | Blow | Overrated | Angry Mom
- "Suggestion" / "Glue Man" | Fugazi | Thirteen Songs | Dischord
- "Roswell" | Peter Buck | I Am Back to Blow Your Mind Once Again | Mississippi
- "Aimer et Perdre (To Love & To Lose)" | Cleoma & Joe Falcon | Aimer Et Perdre: To Love & To Lose: Songs, 1917-1934 | Angry Mom
- "Signal" / "Host" / "Blowing In The Instrument (excerpt)" | Zoviet:France | Misfits, Loony Tunes, and Squalid Criminals | Red Rhino
Tuesday Apr 29, 2014
Dub Night: Transmission 115, 2014 April 14
Tuesday Apr 29, 2014
Tuesday Apr 29, 2014
Back in January--it must have been--DJ Leon and I were talking radio over a pint and decided to do a collaborative show sometime. I thought at the time that "sometime" would probably happen in a few days. But here we are, in April, and "Dub Night" is finally upon us. Listen to this one with your "large bins" engaged.
This was pretty much improvisational, and a lot of good material went unused. So of course we'll have to do it again. Sometime.
My initiation into reggae was sort of backwards, as many of my initiations have been. I knew and loved dub well before I developed a taste for roots. As I mention in the program, Linton Kwesi Johnson was the catalyst; I loved the old On-U Sound records, especially Dub Syndicate and Singers & Players, as well. What I didn't think to mention in the program was that I had "formative radio experiences" with two great reggae DJs at my hometown station.
One was Gary Saylin, who, I think, might still be there. He had a daytime weekend show on which he played roots, ska, African, and Hawaiian (!) music. It was a really upbeat show, but I was too heavy & depressed to truly appreciate it fully back in the day.
Then there was Nahum Chandler, a.k.a. "The Sorcerer," who brought the heavy heaviness on Sunday nights. He was a poet as well, which fit perfectly with the LKJ / Bovell stuff he would occasionally play, as well as Michael Smith, whose record graces this program. I do have a faint recollection of walking into the studio one night, after having come on board, and seeing a mysterious cloud hovering beneath the studio ceiling one night when the Sorcerer was at the controls. I say "faint" because I don't fully trust my recollection and don't want to get him in trouble; that would have been against the rules, don't you know.
I am neither as smiley as Gary nor as substantial as the Sorcerer. I can only be neurotic and distracted self, with a little help from time to time.
BOMBAST playlist, 2014 April 14, 1900-2100
- "Dub Poem" | Mutabaruka | The Mystery Unfolds | Tuff Gong
- "Janet Dub" | Billy Boyo | The Very Best of Me | L & R
- "Harder Shade of Black" | Augustus Pablo | Santic + Friends: An Even Harder Shade of Black | Pressure Sounds
- "Reminiah Dub" | Sly and the Revolutionaries | Reminah Dub | Original Music
- "Picture or No Picture" | Michael Smith | Mi Cyaan Believe It | Mango UK | "Physical Evidence"
- "Dub Fire" | Aswad | Crucial Tracks (Best of Aswad) | Mango
- "Original Raggamuffin Dub" | Michael Prophet / Scion Success / John Holt | Super Star Mix Tp. 2 | Life Music
- "Ai Bod" | Llwybr Llaethog | Da! | Side Effects
- "Streets of Gold (Version)" | The Heptones | release unknown | label unknown
- "Ganja Smuggling Version" | Roots Radics Band | Ganja Smuggling | Jah Guidance
- "Black 'n' White" / "Mi Feel It" | Michael Smith | Mi Cyaan Believe It | Mango UK | "Physical Evidence"
- "Old Time Dub" | Mungo's Hi-Fi | Sound System Champions | Scotch Bonnet
- "Free 1" | Sound Iration | Sound Iration In Dub | WAU! Mr. Modo
- "Immortal Drums" | Bongo Herman | Soldier Round the Corner | TEEM
- "Fire" | 23 Skidoo | Urban Gamelan | Illuminated
- "Only Jah Dub" | Roots Radics Meet Soul Syndicate | In Dub | Razor Sound
- "Three Blind Mice" / "Three Times Three" | Leo Graham | Shocks of Mighty 1969-1974 | Attack
- "Headline News" | Mikey Dread | African Anthem | Cruise
- "Looks Like We're Shy One Horse / Shoot Out" | Colourbox | Baby I Love You So | 4AD
- "Cosmic Jugalbandi (Part 1)" | Suns of Arqa | Solar Activity 1979-2001 | EMI
- "Black Heart" | Keith Hudson & Soul Syndicate | Heavyweight Sound | Blood & Fire
- "Satan Side" | The Dub Syndicate | Classic Selection Volume 1 | On-U Sound
- "Love & Fire" | Ruts DC / Mad Professor | Dub or Die Vol:2 | ROIR
- "Give Me Little Dub Music" | Michael Smith | Mi Cyaan Believe It | Mango UK | "Physical Evidence"
Friday Jan 10, 2014
Boink Boink! Transmission 87, 2013 December 25
Friday Jan 10, 2014
Friday Jan 10, 2014
Please find attached our Christmas program, and I mean that quite literally. I was joined by Lady Catharsis and Catharsis Junior on the night of the 25th, because what else are you going to do at 9pm on Christmas night? Esquivel, Gene Autry, James Brown, The Fall, and Orbital provide some holiday cheer, at least nominally. Otherwise, it's just our ordinary extraordinariness at work.
I particularly found the voiceovers for this program to be high-quality stuff. Concise and thought-provoking. When DID irony die? I still don't know. What IS proper yuletide music? If not "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" and "Tarantula," then what?*
Apologies to Fuzz, whose "Sleigh Ride" [not an actual Christmas song] was firmly rejected by the cd player at the station. That was indeed exciting, and triggered an avalanche of improvisation and error. As always, it felt terrible at the time, but sounds not so bad. This is an important lesson for me, or could be, if only I could keep it in mind, which I know I won't.
*the answer is most definitely not this, because it never happened--could not have happened, because that band stopped making music in 1986 LALALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU.
BOMBAST playlist, 2013 December 25, 2100-2300:
- "Jingle Bells (Greetings from Esquivel!)" | Esquivel | Merry X-Mas From The Space-Age Bachelor Pad | Bar / None | "Physical Evidence"
- "Santa's Coming in a Whirlybird" | Gene Autry | The Christmas Cowboy | Laserlight | "Listening Parlour"
- "Hunted by a Freak" | Mogwai | Happy Songs for Happy People | Matador
- "Tarantula" | Colourbox | Breakdown | 4AD
- "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" | Esquivel | Merry X-Mas From The Space-Age Bachelor Pad | Bar / None | "Physical Evidence"
- "Wonderful Land" | The Shadows | Yule Cool | Virgin
- "Winter Moonness" | RVDS | Moon on Milky Way | Smallville
- "Jingle Bell Rock" | The Fall | The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 | Castle - Sanctuary
- "I Feel Merely Marvelous" | Esquivel | Merry X-Mas From The Space-Age Bachelor Pad | Bar / None | "Physical Evidence"
- "Running Away" | Toby Tobias | Messing with My Mind | Burek
- "Sleigh Ride" | Fuzz | Fuzz | In the Red
- "Reggae Sounds" | Linton Kwesi Johnson | Reggae Greats | Mango
- "De System" | Mutabaruka | Check It! | RAS
- "Frosty the Snowman" | Esquivel | Merry X-Mas From The Space-Age Bachelor Pad | Bar / None | "Physical Evidence"
- "Go Power at Christmas Time" | James Brown | Funky Christmas | Polydor
- "Love of My Life" | Anna Calvi | One Breath | Domino
- "The Dream Is Just Beginning (acoustic)" | Twink and the Technicolour Dream | You Reached for the Stars | Sunbeam
- "Versions" | Moderat | II | Monkeytown
- "The Christmas Song" | Esquivel | Merry X-Mas From The Space-Age Bachelor Pad | Bar / None | "Physical Evidence"
- "Skanking Dub" | Augustus Pablo | King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown | Shanachie
- "Par Avion" | Pell Mell | Rhyming Guitars | SST
- "And Then?" | Miracle Legion | Me and Mr. Ray | Rough Trade | "Listening Parlour"
- "Measure" | §un §pells | βunβet - Live at the Chanticleer 5/30/13 | Bandcamp self-release
- "Last Boss" | No Joy | Pastel and Pass Out | Kemado - Mexican Summer
- "Blue Christmas" | Esquivel | Merry X-Mas From The Space-Age Bachelor Pad | Bar / None | "Physical Evidence"
- "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" | Cocteau Twins | The Spangle Maker | 4AD
- "Christmas Chime" | Orbital | Christmas Chime | ACP
- "Happy Birthday" | The Wedding Present | John Peel Sessions 1987-1990 | Strange Fruit
- "Auld Lang Syne (Adios from Esquivel!)" | Esquivel | Merry X-Mas From The Space-Age Bachelor Pad | Bar / None | "Physical Evidence"
Thursday Dec 05, 2013
Parlour of Evidence: Transmission 76, 2013 November 27
Thursday Dec 05, 2013
Thursday Dec 05, 2013
It seems like it's been forever. Have you missed me? Or have you been listening live all this while? At any rate, this program happened one short [and long] week ago, on the eve of Thanksgiving, the program's [observed] birthday. Lady Catharsis and Catharsis Junior sit in, and occasionally say things.
"Physical Evidence" and "The Listening Parlour" converge in a catch-all feature I'm calling "Parlour of Evidence," because I am just that imaginative. Anyway, Lady Catharsis brings in The Early Recordings by Opal, about which I have a conspiracy theory that [surprise!] is as interesting as it is completely wrong. Turns out that Mazzy Star record technically has a 1990 copyright, which would date it a year later than The Early Recordings, which would of course mean that the Opal album capitalizes on nothing at all. Memory is a funny thing, and so is spoken word salad. My bad.
There's an inexplicable technical glitch that makes the last two minutes of "Grains of Sand" a new and interesting experience. Apologies for that too.
BOMBAST playlist, 2013 November 27, 2100-2300:
- "Grains of Sand" | Opal | Early Recordings | Rough Trade | "Parlour of Evidence"
- "This Summer" | RVDS featuring Tin Man | Summer EP | It's
- "Until the Day" | The Blaxploited Orchestra | The Pursuit | Compost Disco
- "Harriet Brown" | Opal | Early Recordings | Rough Trade | "Parlour of Evidence"
- "Golden Dreams" | Deux | Golden Dreams | Minimal Wave
- "Funky Kingston" | Toots & The Maytals | Funky Kingston | Get On Down
- "This Is What You Could Have Won" | The National Jazz Trio of Scotland | Standards Vol. II | Karaoke Kalk
- "Hear the Wind Blow" | Opal | Early Recordings | Rough Trade | "Parlour of Evidence"
- "Make Up Your Mind" | Los Mockers | The Original Recordings 1965-1967 | Get Hip
- "Northern Line" | Opal | Early Recordings | Rough Trade | "Parlour of Evidence"
- "Hop In" | Camilla Green | Small Town Girl | Wonder Wet
- "Dead Like I Was" | Whore Paint | Swallow My Bones | Load
- "Fell From The Sun" | Opal | Early Recordings | Rough Trade | "Parlour of Evidence"
- "Reprise" | Michaela Melian | Monaco | Monika
- "Strange Delight" | Opal | Early Recordings | Rough Trade | "Parlour of Evidence"
- "No Lungs" | Charles Murdoch | Weathered Straight | Future Classic
- "My Only Friend" | Opal | Early Recordings | Rough Trade | "Parlour of Evidence"
- "Etiopia" | Sambanzo | Daora: Underground Sounds of Urban Brasil | Mais Um Discos
- "Tanz" | Afriqua | Mir Zeit | F4TMusic
- "Lullabye" | Opal | Early Recordings | Rough Trade | "Parlour of Evidence"
Monday Nov 11, 2013
All DJ Pretense and Radio Magic: Transmission 71, 2013 November 10
Monday Nov 11, 2013
Monday Nov 11, 2013
It's ten days after Halloween, but I offer you a "fun-size" edition of the program. We were having a studio party last night, and people were taking short shifts in the "captain's chair." This is a recording of mine.
My co-pilots are DJ Jahman (?!), DJ Leon, and Dusty Visions [who came prepared with a math fact]. The ratio of music to chat was higher than it had been the other night, which was a good thing. I still don't know how long (or how briefly) one must pitch in order to maximize the odds of a phone call, but the duration must be shorter than what we've been trying for the past week or so. My .02.
Anyway, "good vibes" were plentiful last night.
BOMBAST playlist, 2013 November 10, 2300-2330:
- "Momplays" | Zombie Nation | RGB | Turbo
- "This Generation" | The Lions | This Generation | Stones Throw
- "Mid Century Modern Nightmare" | Neon Neon | Praxis Makes Perfect | Lex
- "The Precinct of System" | Andy Fairley | System Vertigo | On-U Sound
- "Dimension of Sound" | Harry Axt | Dimension of Sound | Arms & Legs