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Krampus Hasn't Taken You; That's A Good Sign: Transmission 170, 2014 December 5

With a mixture of happiness and malaise I present to you what turned out to be an excellent program, which I am pretty sure only I have heard. Occupying the "Test Pattern" time slot straddling the midnight hour last Friday, I observed Krampusnacht and the faste feast of St. Nicholas Peter. Doing radio on holy days used to be something that fueled my soul. Now? I don't know, and I'm scared that I don't know.

This recovering altar boy (it's not what you think) used to love doing radio during Advent, and especially on December 24. I think I managed to do the latter every single year, back at the old radio station. Granted, I wasn't doing it after midnight, so that might be a thing, but still I feel like I am chasing thrills that aren't coming back. I feel like a character in a Hallmark Christmas movie, jaded, needing to believe, needing a seasonal miracle.

Wouldn't it be great if Krampus were real? I feel like that myth is the direct negative of the Santa Claus idea. On the 25th, you wake up to find your stocking full--he does exist! On the morning of December 6, however, you wake up to find that all the world's worst people are still here--he doesn't exist. I find the whole thing very rude.

No time to dwell on it. Those thrills aren't getting any closer.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 December 5 2300-0100 December 6:

1. "Bad Mouth" | Fugazi | First Demo | Dischord
2. "Portrait Of A Sorry Man" | Peter Buck | Opium Drivel | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Cada Dia Te Quiero Mas" | Ana Helder | Fiebre de Marte | Comeme
4. "HMix" | Lee Gamble | Koch | PAN
5. "Drown With Me" | Peter Buck | Opium Drivel | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Signature - feat. Anja T. Lahrmann" | Future 3 | With & Without | Morr
7. "Ata Calling" | Vaudou Game | Apiafo | Hot Casa
8. "Ghetto Of Eden" | King Champion Sounds | Songs For The Golden Hour | Louder Than War
9. "Valediction" | Ides of Gemini | Old World New Wave | Sige
10. "Our Love (Daphni Mix)" | Caribou | Our Love (Daphni Mix) | Merge
11. "If This Is Love Can I Have My Money Back?" | Peter Buck | Opium Drivel | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Macaques" | The Heuremics | Whe Reisa Zat | not on label (self-released)
13. "Merdona" | Margot | Prins Thomas Diskomiks Selection | Internasjonal
14. "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Kicking Against The Pricks [reissue] | Mute
15. "Laguna" | Fennesz | Venice | Touch
16. "Pale Spectre - 7" edit" | The Wake | Testament (Best Of) | Factory Benelux
17. "wish" | Felicita | Frenemies | Gum
18. "Agar" | Mattson 2 | Agar | Um Yeah Arts
19. "Skipscada" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
20. "Whirling" | Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan | The Fascinating World Of Electronic Music | Sonitron
21. "Chemical Playschool 16 Part 1" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Chemical Playschool Volumes 16 & 18 | self-released
22. "How To Pronounce Tecuciztecatl" | His Name Is Alive | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
23. "Welcome To The Party" | Peter Buck | Opium Drivel | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
24. "SE" | Call Super | Suzi Ecto | Houndstooth
25. "You Can Count On Me" | Los Straitjackets | Deke Dickerson Sings The Great Instrumental Hits | Yep Rock
26. "For The Feel" | Bleached | For The Feel | Dead Oceans
27. "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" | Isaac Hayes | Greatest Hits | Stax

next time: scratches and dust. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Cruising Altitude Departure 8, 2014 August 8

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Halcyon here, still chronicling the summer. I see that six weeks had passed between my previous flight and this one. It is reassuring that I refused to conform to the schedule I was assigned. No one can miss me if I don't go away.

It looks like I borrowed some of Kid Catharsis's records for this particular program. I see a lot of things on this playlist that I had been meaning to spin, at some point, but did not get to until this particular departure. "Liquid Light Forms," indeed. They are in my line of vision all the time.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 August 8, 1900-2000:

1. "M'Bondo" | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe | Timon Irnok Manta | Type Vinyl
2. "Heroic" | Oval | Voa | EOVA
3. "Straβenlanterne" | Takeshi Nishimoto | Lavandula | Sonic Pieces
4. "Prism Buzzard" | Edvard Graham Lewis | All Over | Editions Mego
5. "Labrum" | Sean Pineiro | Saved Once Twice | KI
6. "Mille Viviers" | Opera Mort | Dedales | Alter
7. "Popol Vuh III" | Flying Saucer Attack | Chorus | Drag City
8. "Hoosick" | Koen Holtcamp | Liquid Light Forms | Barge
9. "Vapourware 05" | Donato Dozzy | Plays Bee Mask | Spectrum Spools

unusual interest in terrain.

Meanwhile, Uptown, The Deejay Play: Transmission 169, 2014 December 2

This program marks a return to Tuesday evening normalcy, which also means a return to the world of mistakes. I'd suggested a few weeks ago that anger gave me a focus, and I was not feeling that way on this particular night. The snow was falling, and I was full of holiday cheer, if you know what I mean. I'd met up with an old friend from a previous life, and despite the fact that she thinks there are child-labor violations in my use of Junior as voice-over talent (AS IF THE GIRL DOESN'T GET PAID IN CANDY AND PANCAKES), a good time was had.

Nevertheless it's rough going at times. In my defense, I think, looking back, that it was mostly the machines' fault. The CD player only wanted to play about a minute and a half of Los Straitjackets, for some reason, and the turntable needed forcing to yield a Mutabaruka song. Oh yes, on the subject of friends--it was an old comrade, Ben, who introduced me both to Mutabaruka and Augustus Pablo one "winter" evening--probably at a solstice party or something. Precious memories!

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 December 2, 2100-2300:

1. "Misirlou" | Agent Orange | Bitchin' Summer | Posh Boy
2. "Happy Idiot" | TV On The Radio | Seeds | Harvest
3. "Hard Time Loving" | Mutabaruka | Check It! | Alligator | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Superstar-Watcher" | Yo La Tengo | Extra Painful | Matador
5. "Miserlou" | Los Straitjackets | Deke Dickerson Sings The Great Instrumental Hits | Yep Rock
6. "De System" | Mutabaruka | Check It! | Alligator | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Can't Stand It (feat. Warrior Queen)" | Mungo's Hi Fi | Serious Time | Scotch Bonnet
8. "Teenage Exorcists" | Mogwai | Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1. | Rock Action
9. "Give Us A Kiss" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Give Us A Kiss | Bad Seed Ltd
10. "King Kong" | Tom Waits | Orphans | ANTI- | "Listening Parlour"
11. "Every Time A Ear De Soun'" | Mutabaruka | Check It! | Alligator | "Physical Evidence"
12. "when you get home" | Felicita | Frenemies | Gum
13. "Roehre" | Camera | Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide | Bureau B
14. "Gaping Void - ANTI Remix" | Korablove | Gaping Void | High-Jack
15. "Winter Wonderland (Xmas Remix 2014)" | The National Jazz Trio Of Scotland | not on album (Soundcloud release) | Karaoke Kalk
16. "Butta Pan Kulcha" | Mutabaruka | Check It! | Alligator | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Procession" | New Order | 1981-Factus 8R-1982 | Warner
18. "Juvis Priestly" | Sloath | Deep Mountain | Riot Season
19. "Check It" | Mutabaruka | Check It! | Alligator | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Schneid Ein Stuck Aus Der Zeit" | Schlammpeitziger | What's Fruit? Remixes | Pingipung
21. "Mechanical Turk (Courtesy of Karpov not Kasparov)" | Mehmet Aslan | Mechanical Turk | Huntleys + Palmers
22. "El Pirata" | Tarkus | Tarkus | Vinilisssimo
23. "Avarice" | Throwing Snow | Avarice | Houndstooth
24. "Dead (Peel Session)" | Pixies | Doolittle 25 | 4AD
25. "Avion Central" | Mark E | Avion | Spectral Sound
26. "Whey Mi Belang?" | Mutabaruka | Check It! | Alligator | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Machine Conspiracy" | Conforce | Machine Conspiracy | Delsin
28. "In/Flux" | DJ Shadow | Preemptive Strike | FFRR
29. "Naw Give Up" | Mutabaruka | Check It! | Alligator | "Physical Evidence"

next time: Krampusnacht! Enjoy the music. --kid catharsis

Cruising Altitude Departure 7, 2014 June 27

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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:

1. "Rhodes Viola Multiple" | Keith Fullerton Whitman | Antithesis | kranky
2. "Critique of the Beautiful" | Steve Hauschildt | S/H | Editions Mego
3. "Sediment" | Oval | Voa | EOVA
4. "Lesser Than The Sum Of Its Parts" | Rafael Anton Irisarri | The Unintentional Sea | Room40
5. "Premonition 34" | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Creature that Tasted Sound | self-released
6. "Black & White Jesus" | Biting Tongues | Compressor | Factory
7. "Moments of Being (Reprise)" | Dr. Calculus | Designer Beatnik | 10
8. "A Dream Of TheInmostLight (For Christoph Heemann)" | Current 93 | Foxtrot | Chalice

more soon.

Absent Of All Thought And Of All Reason: Transmission 168, 2014 November 30

I present for your enjoyment a bonus / impromptu / fill-in program thrown together on short notice and of course every bit as good as the regularly-scheduled Tuesday night show. Thanksgiving was eventful, as Junior's short-lived but dire sickness kept us out of town a day longer than we'd planned, scuttling things that might have happened on the radio a couple of days prior to this. Nevertheless it is always good to "recover" from a Hall of Legends program and it is always good to hear Peel Sessions.

The earlier edition of this Chameleons disc was unreasonably hard to acquire. I paid somewhat dearly for my copy right before a critical peripateia in my life and will always associate these tunes with that time. Playing them here is part of my recovery process, and everyone's invited!

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 November 30, 1600-1730:

1. "Dust To Dust / Return Of The Roughnecks" | The Chameleons | John Peel Sessions | Blue Apple | "Physical Evidence"
   
2. "Think Positive" | Vaudou Game | Apiafo | Hot Casa
3. "Thank Goodness Gotta Good Woman" | Lenis Guess | The Norfolk Soul Sound | Soul7
4. "SXF" | Automat | Automat | Bureau B
5. "Dark Beneath the Earth" | Node | Node 2 | DiN
6. "Kristina" | Ichisan | Kristina | Internasjonal
7. "Lucinda" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
8. "No Qualms" | Karma Kid | Bird Of Prey | Future Classic
9. "Things I Wish I'd Said" | The Chameleons | John Peel Sessions | Blue Apple | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Swing" | Japan | Exorcising Ghosts | Virgin
11. "Don't You Dare To Scare Me, Empty Wallet" | Valina | Container | Trost
12. "President Gas" | The Psychedelic Furs | Forever Now | Columbia
13. "Om" | Octave Minds | Octave Minds | boysnoize
14. "Perfumed Garden" | The Chameleons | John Peel Sessions | Blue Apple | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Mirages (Michael Mayer Remix)" | Dreems | Mirages | Multiculti
16. "Ryan Michalak (Is Coming To Town)" | Axxa/Abraxas | Axxa/Abraxas | Captured Tracks
17. "Bell Shaped Heads (Hung Jury)" | Live Skull | Pusherman | Desire
18. "The Fan And The Bellows" | The Chameleons | John Peel Sessions | Blue Apple | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Primidue" | Margot | Trentaseitrenta | Holger

next time: the system is a graveyard. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

The Hall of Legends - The Durutti Column: Transmission 167, 2014 November 25

We herewith induct The Durutti Column into the BOMBAST Hall of Legends, where they join John Peel, Breathless, This Mortal Coil, The Wolfgang Press, The Dub Syndicate, A.R.Kane, Little Annie, Dif Juz, Prince Far I, Coil [part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4], Billy Childish, Stereolab [charter members], and The Fall [charter members].

Welcome, first-time visitors! Enjoy whatever on this site strikes your fancy. The hyperlink above will take you to a loose description of the Hall of Legends, and this page describes the "idea" of the show, such as it is. The prose you find everywhere on the site is mostly for my own entertainment, since this is my outlet; if you enjoy it, that's a nice bonus, and you're welcome. Audio's at the bottom of the post, so scroll down whenever my words bore you.

Quite early on I said that this special was a thing that needed to happen. It was delayed by my own sloth and nervousness, and of course by Vini Reilly's circumstances. But happily, and totally unbeknownst to me prior to speaking with Vini, those are improving. As to my own stuff, don't even ask!

It doesn't need saying that The Durutti Column's music is unique, but it is unique to me in a personal way. So much of the music I embraced in my formative years, and which still matters to me, came into my life with the help of some close friend or other; you might say my experience was curated in some way. But Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say was a mystery beckoning me from the rack in my hometown record store. Seeing "fac 114," I knew it was the same label as the New Order and Joy Division records I loved, but there was no information hinting at what the record was like, just a brilliantly simple design. These were the days when you could trust design. I picked it up knowing nothing else about the contents other than that the experience they gave me would be mine, first-hand.

Having participated very loosely in the old Durutti Column email discussion group in the internet's early days, I discovered that people come to the DC for different things. There are fans who love the acoustic pieces most of all, or at least the pieces without drum machines. But SWYMMWYS is a drum machine record, big-time. I have always been drawn to these records--Fidelity, Obey The Time, Greetings--that remind me of this, although I like everything that Vini Reilly does and over time I have come to appreciate what a monster drummer Bruce Mitchell is. But this EP, on first listening, sounded like nothing I'd ever heard, DMX or no. It was, as another legend has said, music you could lose yourself in, and I certainly have!

Needless to say the musical selection from this program is...odd, I guess? But as I say I've already used LC, Chronicle XL, and Red Shoes as the "Physical Evidence" component of other programs. As for the rest of it, there's no "best of" thinking at work here, just some old chestnuts. Make your own mix if you don't like mine!

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 November 25, 2100-2300:

1. "Art And Freight" | The Durutti Column | Obey The Time | Factory
2. "Fanfare" | The Durutti Column | Chronicle - 2011 Pre-release | Kooky
3. "Geh Cak Af En Yam" | The Durutti Column | Rebellion | Artful
4. "Only Love" | The Durutti Column | Return Of The Sporadic Recordings | Kooky | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Finding The Sea" | The Durutti Column | Vini Reilly | Factory Once
6. "How Do U Think It's Going To Feel?" | The Durutti Column | Return Of The Sporadic Recordings | Kooky | "Physical Evidence"
7. "All That Love and Maths Can Do" | The Durutti Column | Without Mercy | Factory Once
8. "Silent Nite" | The Durutti Column | Return Of The Sporadic Recordings | Kooky | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Tomorrow" | The Durutti Column | Circuses And Bread | Normal
10. "Blue Period" | The Durutti Column | Sex and Death | Factory Too - FFRR
11. "Real Drums - Real Drummer" | The Durutti Column | Vini Reilly | Factory Once
12. "Sketch for a Manchester Summer" | Vini Reilly | The Sporadic Recordings | TTTTTTTT
13. "In Memory Of Anthony" | The Durutti Column | Love In The Time Of Recession | Artful
14. "Waiting 4 The Earth" | The Durutti Column | Return Of The Sporadic Recordings | Kooky | "Physical Evidence"
15. "One Christmas For Your Thoughts" | The Durutti Column | LC | Factory Once
16. "Zinni Tune" | The Durutti Column | Return Of The Sporadic Recordings | Kooky | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Fado" | The Durutti Column | Sex and Death | Factory Too - FFRR
18. "The Room" | The Durutti Column | Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say | Factory

underscoring:

• "Diazepam 5mgs" | Vini Reilly | The Sporadic Recordings | TTTTTTTT

next time: who cares? Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Ruling Over Something, I Guess: Transmission 166, 2014 November 18

If it weren't for pronunciation--what's up, His Name Is Alive?--this would be a nearly perfect show. Good segues, "many moods and energies," a Legend contributing to the "Physical Evidence," such as it is--the whole deal. Exactly what the times demand.

Also, what serendipitous timing that the Fugazi "demos" album should come out during this particular week, since Ghost Lights, to my ear anyway, has a very Red Medicine feel to it, which is most welcome. Also also--"Drifting Way Out Between Suns," tonight's installment in the (unofficial) "Croix de Bombast" series, makes for terrific workout music, if I may say so. I am dead certain that was the intent.

As I write this, Thanksgiving week is upon us, which makes this most recent episode the final show of Bombastic Year Two. 93 shows, god help us. Here's hoping for a less frenetic Year 3, though it will start with a bang, I promise.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 November 18, 2100-2300:

1. "It's Springtime, Baby" | Coitus Int. | Sex For The Wealthy | Desire
2. "Schwerkraft" | Chogori | Chogori | Modularfield
3. "Mr. Ramirez" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68 | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Familiar Stranger" | Institute | Salt EP | Sacred Bones
5. "Underwater Lies" | Ernesto Ferreyra | Some Kind of Sign | Cadenza
6. "Train (dub)" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68 | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Found My Place (feat. HEwrote)" | Alexander Skancke | Found My Place | Eskimo
8. "Na Yafa (Tamana Dub)" | Studio Zuma | Glitterbeat: Dubs & Versions I | Glitterbeat
9. "Drifting Way Out Between Suns" | Blown Out | Drifting Way Out Between Suns | Riot Season
10. "Bang Bang" | Pharmakon | Bestial Burden | Sacred Bones
11. "Into The Deep" | Oculus | 10 Yrs Systematic | Systematic
12. "Stealing Cars" | Nadine Shah | not on album | Apollo
13. "Fuzzy Glass" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68 | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Bleeding" | Necro Deathmort | EP2 | Distraction
15. "I'm Getting Alone" | His Name Is Alive | Tecuciztecatl | Light In The Attic
16. "Swim (Rival Consoles Mix)" | Douglas Dare | Caroline / If Only | Erased Tapes
17. "Revenant - feat. Benoit Pioulard" | Future 3 | With & Without | Morr
18. "Urge For Offal" | Half Man Half Biscuit | Urge For Offal | Probe Plus
19. "Agape" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Asylum | Jnana
20. "Sulu Sekou" | Call Super | Suzi Ecto | Houndstooth
21. "Fromm" | Mouse On Mars & F.X. Randomiz | 21 Again Collaborations, Pt. 3 | Monkeytown
22. "Turn Off Your Guns" | Fugazi | First Demo | Dischord
23. "Reining Blood" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68 | "Physical Evidence"
24. "XIII" | Raspberry Bulbs | Privacy | Blackest Ever Black
25. "Hypnotized" | Dream Police | Hypnotized | Sacred Bones

next time: an audience with a legend. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Half Of Your Sorrow Comes From The Sun: Transmission 165, 2014 November 11

We made it to the other side of the fundraiser, thank goodness. Also, winter is upon us. At least it is now. Was it a week ago? I don't remember. It might as well have been, how's that? At any rate, once you get past the first 7 minutes or so, this is a well-executed program. After I nearly play "Hot Dog" too early, the worst of it is listening to me struggling to pronounce things. It's good, in a way, that the show has some constants.

That Bhundu Boys record is one of those things I bought way back in the day and which inhabited a sort of trough of indifference in my world. Not good enough to be a chestnut, I thought, and not bad enough to jettison. I'll bet a couple of decades went by in which I didn't even play it once. I've only re-discovered it in the last few years, and it gets better with every listen. It's a sneakily good headphone record--it sounds like there's a flanger on some of the drum reverbs! Crazy production for an otherwise straightforward set of tunes.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 November 11, 2100-2300:

1. "What You Used To Know" | CHLLNGR | Form Of Release | Time No Place
2. "Baba Munini Francis" | The Bhundu Boys | Shabini | Discafrique | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Hot Dog" | Buck Owens | The Other Side Of Bakersfield, Vol. 1 | Bear Family | "Listening Parlour"
4. "4PM" | Camera | Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide | Bureau B
5. "Up So High" | The Primitives | Spin-O-Rama 7" | Elefant
6. "Agnes Revenge" | Objekt | Flatland | PAN
7. "Wenhamo Haaneti" | The Bhundu Boys | Shabini | Discafrique | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Sandalyon - SaffronKeira ReInterpretation" | Dusty Kid | Omega X | Isolade
9. "My Cousin Kim" | The Gun Club | Mother Juno | Bang!
10. "Where's The Tambourine?" | The Sex Rays | Midnight Caller 7" | Pinata
11. "The Girl From Ipanema" | Big Star | Live In Memphis | Omnivore
12. "Pachedu" | The Bhundu Boys | Shabini | Discafrique | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Dif Juz" | The Mattson 2 | Agar | Um Yeah Arts
14. "Untrust Us" | Capital Children's Choir | The 'Untrust' EP | Vinyl Factory
15. "Keiler Aufgang" | Springintgut & F.S. Blumm | The Bird and White Noise | Pingipung
16. "Manhenga" | The Bhundu Boys | Shabini | Discafrique | "Physical Evidence"
17. "4blend" | (ghost) | A Vast And Decaying Appearance | n5MD
18. "Ten Steps Up" | C.A.R. | My Friend | Kill The DJ
19. "Fememorde" | Ides of Gemini | Old World New Wave | Sige
20. "Unordinary Realities" | Transllusion | The Opening Of The Cerebral Gate | Tresor
21. "Lights In My Brain" | Ultramarine | Every Man And Woman Is A Star | Rough Trade
22. "Big Man" | Bugs & Rats | Adidas | Feeding Tube
23. "Tudo que e solido" | Rakta | 7" | bandcamp self-release
24. "St. Christopher 1.3" | 50 Foot Wave | "Night Blooming" - Works In Progress | not on label
25. "Inreturn" | Tarwater | Adrift | Bureau B
26. "Wake The Nation" | U Roy | Wake The Nation 7" | Jamaican
27. "Dai Ndakaziva" | The Bhundu Boys | Shabini | Discafrique | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Quixotism Part 5" | Oren Ambarchi | Quixotism | Editions Mego
29. "Beach" | Ormonde | Cartographer / Explorer | Gizeh
30. "Der Lude" | Phon.o | Werkschau03 | Shitkatapult
31. "Grande Finale" | Munk | Chanson 3000 | Gomma

next time: drifting way out between suns. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Plant Lilies At My Head: Transmission 164, 2014 November 4

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:

1. "Summer Nights" | 14 Iced Bears | Alvin Lives (In Leeds) | Midnight
2. "(Varoom!)" | Stereolab | Low Fi | Too Pure
3. "CIRCLONT6A (syrobonkus Mix)" | Aphex Twin | Syro | WARP
4. "Waterline" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
5. "Listen Up! (Quasar Mix)" | A.R.K. | Listen Up! | Rough Trade
6. "Pete's Riff" | The Durutti Column | Red Shoes | Materiali Sonori
7. "The Hardest Day" | Tropic Of Cancer | Restless Idylls | Blackest Ever Black
8. "I Want You" | Spiritualized | Fucked Up Inside | Plain
9. "Crystal Pond [excerpt]" | Imaginary Softwoods | The Path of Spectrolite | Archives Interieures
10. "Thick And Thin" | The Nightingales | For Fuck's Sake | self-released
11. "Transmission" | Joy Division | The Complete BBC Recordings | True North
12. "He Was" | © [Leslie Winer] | Witch | Transglobal
13. "Mr. Romance" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68
14. "Grains Of Sand" | Opal | Early Recordings | Rough Trade
15. "O.O.B.E. (live)" | The Orb | Volume 5 | Volume
16. "Shift F1 (Inland Edit)" | Function | Synewave Reissues Part I: 1995-97 | Infrastructure New York
17. "Plant Lilies At My Head" | Tropic Of Cancer | Restless Idylls | Blackest Ever Black
18. "Untitled 4" | Laika + Luddite Machine | live in studio November 2013 | not on label

next time: you only have friends when you have money. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

We Shall Make Delirious Mischief On This Auspicious Night: Transmission 163, 2014 October 29

Here is a fill-in program that I did the night after an "alpha" program. Usually this is a bad idea, at least if we give credence to the idea that I need rest every now and then. But as usual there is less "pressure" on these extra shows, and I'm still coasting on upset-ness as well. Delirious? You betcha. Mischief? No, not anymore, I guess. I'm part of the establishment, or so I hear.

All of my "adult" peers at the station are telling me that these 11pm-1am shifts are too much for them. I have to admit I'm coming around to this line of thinking. Strangely it's harder for me to go to sleep when I get home after a 1am sign-off than at the usual time. If only that "second wind" were something I actually felt! I might actually manage to be productive in some capacity.

Oh, and sure enough, "Nautica" is clothing, and (please god) not a band. Sorry about that one.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 October 29, 2300-0100 2014 October 30:

1. "Freedom Of The Floor (Bullion Remix)" | Nautic | Freedom Of The Floor (Bullion / Open Space Remixes ) / M.P.B (Missin' Persons Bureau) | Test Pressing Editions
2. "Good Morning And Goodbye" | The Nightingales | For Fuck's Sake | self-released
3. "Pusher" | High Heels Breaker | High Heels Breaker | Drumpoet Community
4. "Unter Holzern" | Tobias Thomas & Michael Mayer | Kompakt: Total 14 | Kompakt
5. "Black Coffee" | Nearly God | Nearly God | Durban Poison - Island | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Flying Sparks" | Egokind & Ozean | Transition | Traum
7. "Euro Breakdown" | Ravioli Me Away | The Inevitable Album | Good Job
8. "2AM" | Camera | Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide | Bureau B
9. "Tattoo" | Nearly God | Nearly God | Durban Poison - Island | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Enemies Of The People" | Not Waving | Intercepts | Ecstatic
11. "Attends" | The Young Gods | Second Nature | Rustblade
12. "Keep Your Mouth Shut" | Nearly God | Nearly God | Durban Poison - Island | "Physical Evidence"
13. "The Same Blood" | Tony Allen | Black Voices | Kindred Spirits
14. "You Concrete" | Lee Gamble | Koch | PAN
15. "Plateau" | Conforce | Depth Over Distance | Delsin
16. "Make A Change" | Nearly God | Nearly God | Durban Poison - Island | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Enchained Tribe (Chapitre 1 & 2)" | Mr Raoul K | Still Living In Slavery - Pt. 1 | Baobab
18. "Mekkin Histri" | Linton Kwesi Johnson | Di Eagle An Di Bear | Righteous Reggae
19. "Judas" | Nearly God | Nearly God | Durban Poison - Island | "Physical Evidence"
20. "The Only Chamber Resolve" | Prefuse 73 | The Only She Chapters | Warp
21. "The Witching Hour" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Hallowe'en Special 2014 | Bandcamp self-release

next time: crime doesn't pay, nor does theatre of the absurd. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis