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There's Always Danger in Your Dreams: Transmission 427, 2018 October 10

I can't possibly guess whether you'd want good news or bad news first, but since I have to choose one, I'll begin with the bad. Without the crutch of topicality or a full album to play on that (or some other) basis, I lapse back into the incoherence and annoyance of recent episodes. Sorry about that. Lady Catharsis would probably tell me I am more irritated than anyone else would be, but I can't be certain. I find myself listening to an episode like this and shaking my head at times, approaching every segue hoping that I will keep my mouth shut and being somehow disappointed but unsurprised when I don't. There may be a passage in the middle where I manage to stay out of the way, and that may make you smile--at least it did me. But the whole thing falls apart toward the end, a terminus for which I cannot wait.

The good news is that I think this episode ends this terrible run of form. Better things are coming, just in time for the holidays! Brace yourself.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 October 10, 2100-2300:

1. "Common Dominator" | Shlomi Aber | Whistler | Figure
2. "Wolf Eats Wolf" | Tony Allen | The Source | Blue Note
3. "No Further Ahead Than Today" | Ulrich Schnauss | No Further Ahead Than Today | Scripted Realities
4. "C'est Chaud" | Amadou & Mariam | La Confusion | Because Music
5. "Bright" | Landing | Bells In New Towns | El Paraiso
6. "Sticks and Stones" | Thee Headcoatees | Punk Girls [reissue] | Damaged Goods
7. "Der Schimmelreiter ruckwarts" | Station 17 | Blick | Bureau B
8. "The View from Here" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | The Punishment of Luxury | 100%
9. "Hadjiatou" | Mamadou Kelly | Politiki | Clermont
10. "Sobrevolar" | Lasitud | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
11. "All This Has Always To Be Filmed." | Coil with Black Sun Productions | The Plastic Spider Thing | Rustblade
12. "Seed Bank" | Pariah | Here From Where We Are | Houndstooth
13. "Unexpectedly" | Megumi Acorda | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "The Vortex" | Alaska | Hold On / The Vortex | Arctic Music
15. "Blasted Heath" | EOD | Named | BBBBBB
16. "We're Makin' a Hell" | Rock Town Express | Funky Makossa | Comb & Razor
17. "Skin and Bones" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Something Else | A Recordings
18. "Underwater" | Hugo LX | Desiderata EP | Motor City Drum Ensemble
19. "P.S. Goodbye" | The Chameleons | What Does Anything Mean? Basically [reissue] | Blue Apple
20. "Passing By" | The National Jazz Trio of Scotland | Standards Vol. IV | Karaoke Kalk
21. "Dawn" | DJ Khalab | Black Noise 2084 | On the Corner
22. "Analogue Test Oct 16" | Orbital | Monsters Exist | ACP
23. "Tchakoulate" | Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds | 1974-1975 | Analog Africa
24. "Sudden Move" | Phil Gerus | Sudden Move | True Romance
25. "The Drop" | Causa Sui | Vibraciones Doradas | El Paraiso
26. "All This And More" | The Wedding Present | George Best 30 | Scopitones
27. "Structures and Behavior (Intrepid)" | The Mayhem Lecture Series | Structures and Behavior | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)

Fruit juice everywhere

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Sardonicus Keeps Smiling Till the End: Transmission 426, 2018 October 3

My program tries to be topical when it can. In late September and early October, which seem about 50 years ago now, Americans were transfixed by the trainwreck of a nomination process for (now) Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a belligerent drunk (possibly formerly, but no one is sure) who almost certainly at least tried to rape at least one woman. It was a sordid process leading to a predetermined outcome, and you felt (rightly) that there was nothing you could do to stop it. That reminds me of something, though I can't quite put my finger on what that is.

Because the whole thing needed just a touch of bleak humor, it emerged the week of this program that at some point (1985?) Kavanaugh and his bros had gone to a UB40 gig, presumably in New Haven. Afterward, at a bar, Kavanaugh had confronted someone he mistook for Ali Campbell; angry at being properly rebuffed, he initiated a fight. This led to a brief, unresolved national dialogue on whether this is something that all "real men" do--starting barfights, not attendinng UB40 concerts, sadly.

I've never done either, though UB40 did come through my hometown on what seems to be that same tour. I bet they would have been good, if the disc I played on this program is any evidence. And, though I seem less intrusive on this program than I have seemed recently, the disc certainly "stops the bleeding," by which I mean the run of terrible shows brought on by lapses of judgment and technique. If only I had heeded the lesson I learned here, which is to go back to the basics--can you just play one thing and not screw it up? It's a solid foundation.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 October 3, 2100-2300:

1. "Missing You" | Petar Dundov | At The Turn of Equilibrium | Music Man
2. "Heart for Yes. Like for No." | Man Power | Souvenirs | Correspondant
3. "Repercussions - Live" | A Certain Ratio | acr:mcr | Mute
4. "Snake Hips" | Trinidadian Deep | The Tribute Songs | Shelter
5. "Thaw" | deathlist | The DarkSide of TBTCI, II | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Burning Curtains" | Orvar Smarason | Light Is Liquid | Morr Music
7. "The Stop Next" | The Lost End | The DarkSide of TBTCI, II | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "Something's Missing Inside" | CTMF | Something's Missing Inside | Damaged Goods
9. "Touch of Goodbye" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope (II) | Numero Group
10. "Galactic Cruise" | Retep Folo | Galactic Sounds | Clay Pipe
11. "I'm Your Man" | Spiritualized | And Nothing Hurt | Bella Union
12. "Glossine (Zombie)" | Baloji | 137 Avenue Kaniama | Bella Union
13. "Mantaray" | Syrup, Go On | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "Floor Lord" | The Lavender Flu | Mow the Glass | In the Red
15. "Food for Thought" / "Sardonicus" / "Don't Slow Down" / "Folitician" / "Tyler" / "Present Arms" / "Piper Calls the Tune" / "Love Is All Is Alright" / "Burden of Shame" / "One in Ten" | UB40 | Live | Disky

Together, we shall live

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You Broke the World That You're Not Long For: Transmission 425, 2018 September 26

Disaster should perhaps be my middle name. Were it not for the fact that "Kid Disaster Catharsis" doesn't have a ring to it, and that the legal process is expensive and needlessly complicated, as I have recently discovered, I might make this a reality. If you wonder why I am pondering this, click the "play" button on this episode to find out. To say that most of it makes little sense to me is an understatement. Perhaps if I'd listened a bit sooner after it was actually broadcast, I might understand the "mood" I was in at the time, but...whom am I kidding?

The tracks themselves are decent enough (most of them, anyway). The segues baffle me completely, and I am annoyed by THIS GUY who keeps butting in between songs. I really wish he would go away, and can't wait for the day that he does.

A strange, merciful thing happens toward the end of the program, though. My laptop loses its charge and shuts off abruptly, and I am "flying blind" like Luke at the end of the first Star Wars movie. And everything magically gets better. Maybe if you just skip to the last half-hour of the program we can agree to believe that the first 3/4 of the show never happened. Does this sound like a plan?

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 September 26, 2100-2300:

1. "Feel It" | Peshay | Reflections | De:tuned
2. "Anywhere But Here" | Ulrich Schnauss / Jonas Munk | Passage | Azure Vista
3. "Greatness in the Catapult" | Michal Turtle | Middle of the Road Less Traveled | Light of Other Days
4. "Perfect Disco Machine" | Bindiga | Duomo Sounds LTD (Nigerian 80s Disco Music to Move Your Soul) | Odion
5. "Vault - Moby Remix" | Pendulum | The Reworks | Ear Storm
6. "Mind-Numbing Entertainment" | Velveteen Rabbit | Mind-Numbing Entertainment | HoZac
7. "Cloud of Hate" | Superchunk | What a Time to Be Alive | Merge
8. "Meet Me Dub" | Impact All-Stars | Java Java Java Java - Instrumentals Dubwise Versions | Get On Down
9. "Na My Turn - Dub" | Dele Sosimi meets Prince Fatty / Nostalgia 77 | You No Fit Touch Am In Dub | Wah Wah 45s
10. "Es Vedra - The Mystical Island" | Madcat | Petite musique de chanvre | FHUO
11. "Freesia i" | J Colleran | Gardenia | Because Music
12. "Poema" | L_cio | Poema | D.O.C.
13. "Dirty Game" | Secret Shine | There Is Only Now | Saint Marie
14. "Anticipated Sentence" | The National Jazz Trio of Scotland | Standards Vol. IV | Karaoke Kalk
15. "A Rubik's Cube" | RDTK | Human Resources | Denovali
16. "U Knw What 2 Do" | SKRS | Paradise Magic Traxx | Ancient Monarchy
17. "Echosystem" | Lynch Kingsley | Echosystem | Rua Sound
18. "Compte et Comptine Pt. 1" | Matthias Puech | Purlieu | Panatype
19. "L'inizio" | Verner | Crash of the Web Era | Quartet Series
20. "Erotica" | Kontinuum | No Need to Reason | Season of Mist
21. "Brume" | Mika Vainio / Franck Vigroux | Ignis | Cosmo Rhythmatic
22. "Emulsiya" | AEM Rhythm-Cascade | Litie | Gost Zvuk
23. "Light of the Rising Sun" | Brucken / Froese | Beginn | SFE
24. "Spiral Ascending" | Jodie Lowther & A. R. C. Soundtracks | The Blow, Vol. 4 | Front and Follow
25. "Facing North" | Synkro / Arovane | Refractive (Index) | Apollo
26. "V.I" | Papir | V | Stickman

If you've waited this long, then you've already gone

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Can I Be You, I Don't Want To Be Me: Transmission 424, 2018 September 19

Slightly better this time out, I have to say! Though I fear that we'll have to endure several more episodes of the "one-song backannouncement" between tracks, I think I handle it a bit more adeptly this time. At least, it seems to me that I ruined fewer good segues. There is no helping the bad ones! It doesn't hurt that the music between the segues, at least to my ears, sounds a bit better than in recent episodes. That's not nothing.

I have to say, I've been on a bit of a kick lately with this radio thing. Could it be that my passion has been reignited by something? I have no idea what! Maybe it's just that the previous two episodes were so cringeworthy I became paralyzed for three months. It happens. But I can promise you there is some good stuff coming--uhhh, in November. Don't worry, we'll get there together. Sooner or later.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 September 19, 2100-2300:

1. "High Rise (Not Waving Remix)" | S U R V I V E | RR7387 | Relapse
2. "Ghost Sleep" | Mob Killa | What If We Drink Coffee | Rarefied
3. "Sun" | Mr. Fries | WOLFEP045 | Wolf Music Recordings
4. "Astadjam Dada Sare" | Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds | 1974-1975 | Analog Africa
5. "London" | Northwest | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Hidden Force - Vocal Mix" | Kompozyt & Lee "Scratch" Perry | Hidden Force | Trees Will Remain
7. "Systems" | Adrian Younge | The Electronique Void | Linear Labs
8. "Lateral Alice" | Ride | Weather Diaries | Wichita
9. "When Your Dreams" | Reveries | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
10. "Thrive" | Monoloc / Jonas Landwehr | STYX | Unterland
11. "About the Author" | Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs | YMFEES | Bokeh Versions
12. "So It Conquer" | Lee "Scratch" Perry + Subatomic Sound System | Super Ape Returns to Conquer | Echo Beach
13. "Sibsoo Bazaar" | Druk 11000 | Zamboling / Sibsoo Bazaar | Hoga Nord
14. "The Movements" | La Fraicheur | Self Fulfilling Prophecy | Infine
15. "V.V" | Papir | V | Stickman
16. "Drift" | The Orb | No Sounds Are Out of Bounds | Cooking Vinyl
17. "Abandoned Soul" | Jimi Jules | Midnight Juggernaut EP | Watergate
18. "Ashley" | Bichkraft | 800 | Wharf Cat
19. "There It Goes" | Pete Astor | Spilt Milk | Slumberland
20. "Sensation" | The Room in the Wood | The Room in the Wood | A Turntable Friend
21. "Cicely" | Cocteau Twins | Treasure [reissue] | 4AD
22. "I Try" | Pinemoon | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Pyramid Scheme" | Michael Rault | It's a New Day Tonight | Wick
24. "Long Way Home" | Fred Everything | Long Way Home | Lazy Days
25. "Crawl Away" | Harvey Lush & His Orchestra | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "Opferator" | Afriqua | Aleph EP | R & S

The weird stuff is already beginning

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Dare To Live in Your Body: Transmission 423, 2018 September 12

Thankfully, on this outing I was not sick, though that is nearly the best thing that one can say about this program. A common problem rears its head here with uncommon frequency--a segue that sounded good at home sounds terrible, suddenly, in the moment and on air. So there's plenty of that to look forward to. Elsewhere, I ruin many a decent segue by doing a "one-song backannouncement over the crossfade.

[Sigh] I think I had decided upon this because I was growing tired of delivering long lists of discographical information and talking over the bulk of a track. But to me that is clearly better than what is on display here. My voice is not a palette-cleanser, I guess! It would also help if I avoided stupid mistakes like forgetting that the "Mr." in "Mr. Marouf" was "monsieur" and not "mister." That one particularly bugged me.

There happens to be a sublime passage in the second hour of the program, I would say, from Bromide through Oiseaux-Tempete. And the last two tracks therein prevent it from being a solid rock block! That's not nothing.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 September 12, 2100-2300:

1. "Incorporeal Life" | Alice Bag | Alice Bag | Don Giovanni
2. "Science" | Finiflex | Suilven | Finiflex
3. "Mana Yero Koy" | Samba Toure | Wande | Glitterbeat
4. "kronsphere" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
5. "Unathi" | El Michels Affair | Unathi b/w Zaharila | Big Crown
6. "Tekoaly - feat. Islaja" | Tatu Ronkko | Spheres | Sonic Pieces
7. "Blue Hour" | Pinkshinyultrablast | Miserable Miracles | Club AC30
8. "First Pour" | Head Technician | Profane Architecture | Ecstatic
9. "Drinking It In Again (Chapter IV)" | Leon Vynehall | Nothing Is Still | Ninja Tune
10. "Falling Man" | Vienna Youth | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
11. "Mr. Marouf" | Jacob Yates | The Hare. The Moon. The Drone. | Optimo
12. "Disarray" | Preoccupations | New Material | Jagjaguwar
13. "VIIII" | Colin Fisher | V Le Pape | Geej
14. "Zig-Zag" | Thee Headcoatees | Punk Girls [reissue] | Damaged Goods
15. "Roter Gitterling" | Dominik Eulberg | Roter Gitterling & Tintenfischpilz | Apus Apus
16. "Waiting to Land" | July Skies | The English Cold [reissue] | Caroline True
17. "Futurist Shore Leave" | Bromide | I Woke Up | Scratchy Records
18. "Searching in the Wilderness" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
19. "Ministry of Emergency Situations (Riley Session 26.06.18)" | Unpaid Intern | The DarkSide of TBTCI, II | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
20. "No Manchester" | Ruby Karinto | Ruby Karinto | HoZac
21. "Wait or Hide" | Landing | Bells In New Towns | El Paraiso
22. "When the Cocoon Is Finished the Spider Watches the Victim" | Coil with Black Sun Productions | The Plastic Spider Thing | Rustblade
23. "Coda - And Dream Slowly" | Oiseaux-Tempete | Tarab | Sub Rosa
24. "Sweet Rock Town" | Rock Town Express | Funky Makossa | Comb & Razor
25. "Needles Disney" | Jesu Sun Kil Moon | 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth | Caldo Verde
26. "As We Open, So We Close" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | The Punishment of Luxury | 100%
27. "Phantom Limb" | Seeming | Sol: A Self-Banishment Ritual | Artoffact
28. "In Voice 21" | Bulkhead | Aft Pressure | 2MR

Send your love forward into the past

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Hold Onto Your Darkness: Transmission 422, 2018 September 5

Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! I would like to think, though I cannot be sure, that maybe you missed me. I've missed you. Dear God, I have been so down the past couple of months. I am not even sure why. But I am still around, still doing the radio thing, still trying and failing to write, though this is writing that you are reading.

The week prior to this program, I had been off the air because Junior and I had visited my old stomping ground, in California. It was a weird and sad trip, because home never seemed quite like home to me. [I guess that means that home is here, in the 607.] Not even my beloved KDVS felt quite right when we visited it, the two of us, though it was nice to bring Junior to that sacred place. I was genuinely happy to be back in Ithaca, and doing radio, on the night that this program aired.

Needless to say (well, perhaps not needless) I wish things had gone better--I wish I hadn't picked up a cold, I wish the selection of tunes made sense to me, I wish I didn't botch as many segues as I did, in both concept and execution--the usual complaints, I suppose. Normal service resumes!

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 September 5, 2100-2300:

1. "Intro" | Echo Ladies | Pink Noise | Sonic Cathedral
2. "Better Half of Nothing" | Funeral Horse | Psalms for the Mourning | Artificial Head
3. "Pour les eleveurs" | Mamadou Kelly | Politiki | Clermont
4. "Your Own World" | The Messthetics | The Messthetics | Dischord
5. "Chaos in 1150" | Roman Rauch | Down in 1150 | Secret Crunch
6. "Wazoo" | TEE MANGO | #2 | Aus
7. "Tony's Blues" | Tony Allen | The Source | Blue Note
8. "La Confusion" | Amadou & Mariam | La Confusion | Because Music
9. "Chrystal Shores" | Astral TV | Chrystal Shores | El Paraiso
10. "Gandi Bawong" | Waak Waak Djungi | Waak Waak ga Min Min | Efficient Space
11. "Ravens" | The Midnight Hour | The Midnight Hour | Linear Labs
12. "Love Affair" | SJOB Movement | Friendship Train | Cultures of Soul
13. "Melts into Air" | Ulrich Schnauss | No Further Ahead Than Today | Scripted Realities
14. "Jesus Will Kill You" | ANOHNI | Paradise | Rough Trade
15. "Vermiform" | Afriqua | Vice / Principle | R & S
16. "Music is not a copy" | Kink Gong | Music Is Not A Copy | Sucata Tapes
17. "Emptyness" | Beta 2 | The Rolls | Metalheadz
18. "Holotyd Neo-Optika" | X-Altera | X-Altera | Ghostly International
19. "Venial Elevate" | Yris Den | Strafen | Magazine
20. "In The Realms Of Fancy" | Llewellyn | San Junipero | Riotvan
21. "Azul Rey" | Noizu | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
22. "Uncle Frank Says Turn It Down" | Gnod | Chapel Perilous | Rocket
23. "Underdog" | The Nightingales with Vic Godard | Commercial Suicide Man | Tiny Global Productions
24. "Layli" | AMMAR 808 | Maghreb United | Glitterbeat
25. "¿Quién será?" | Sonido Gallo Negro | Mambo Cosmico | Glitterbeat
26. "Von Us" | Anajunno | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
27. "Ein Knall" | Station 17 | Blick | Bureau B
28. "Selallane" | The Black Five | Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth Boogie in 1980s South Africa | Soundway
29. "Soft Confidence (Firefly Reprise)" | DEEP LEARNING | Soft Confidence | Salmon Universe
30. "Colonization" | Tross | The Overview Effect | Hoga Nord

Effervescent mindful convulsions

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If Your Heart's Strong, Hold On: Transmission 421, 2018 August 22

Good evening, music lovers, or morning, or afternoon, or whenever it is you are reading this. Whatever time it is, it's early for an aside, but I must point out that I have "Dissidents" by Thomas Dolby stuck in my head due to its repetition of the phrase "my writing." That's been my hangup of late. "The old writer couldn't write anymore because he had reached the end of words," or whatever it was that William S. Burroughs said--I am feeling that. Nevertheless, here I am, trying.

I promise, I am almost but not quite as tired as you of programs that mark the beginning or end of this or that. We've had a lot of mileposts in recent months. But here's an existential one--this program marks 5 years, nine months during which I've been on the air at WRFI, which is the same length as my original radio tenure, at KDVS all those years ago. I wondered when this current adventure began how long it would last, and what it would "mean" as and if it outgrew my initial, "real" radio experience. I have to say, it feels pretty real at this point! Which means maybe I need to grow up and sharpen my technique a bit. We could begin with learning to say "Miss Ludella Black"; that seems as good a starting point as any.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 August 22, 2100-2300:

1. "Afro Sirene - Original Mix" | Hardway Bros | The Laser | Throne of Blood
2. "Lucky Number 13" | Detroit Swindle | High Life | Heist Recordings
3. "Honey" | Death in Vegas | Honey | Drone
4. "Seven Peaceful Deities" | Surgeon | Luminosity Device | Dynamic Tension
5. "Manila" | Sinister X | Future Sound of Leipzig | Defrostatica
6. "Midnight Resurrection" | The Hunt | Beyond the Gate of Hell | Bordello a Pangi
7. "Intro" | Snail Mail | Lush | Matador
8. "Wait" | Miss Ludella Black | Till You Lie In Your Grave | Damaged Goods
9. "Barbed Wire" | Rodney Cromwell | Rodney's English Disco | Happy Robots
10. "Giddim" | Alza 54 | Future Sound of Leipzig | Defrostatica
11. "Ninja Schwert" | Gunter Schickert | Labyrinth | Marmo
12. "Overwhelmed" | Near Future | Ideal Home | Blanc Check
13. "Grande" | James Dole | Ex | Bergerac
14. "Hubble" | Actress | LAGEOS | Ninja Tune
15. "Anywhere" | Centrefold | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "A Mechanical Eye" | The Advisory Circle | Ways of Seeing | Ghost Box
17. "I Want to Tell You Something" | Jenny Hval | The Long Sleep | Sacred Bones
18. "Gold He Said" | No Swoon | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Dawn Said" | The Buff Medways | Steady the Buffs [reissue] | Damaged Goods
20. "Dreams" | Athlete Whippet | Hands Only | Squareglass
21. "Soft Hoop" | Metro Area | Metro Area (15th Anniversary Edition) | Environ
22. "Musica Enterrada - Strategys Recombinant Mix" | William Selman | Interpretations Vol 2 - Musica Enterrada | Mysteries of the Deep
23. "Should I Take You Home (Keyloc Version)" | Sunny & The Sunliners | Should I Take You Home (Keyloc Version) | Big Crown
24. "Thinking Sweet Fusion" | Jubl | Thinking Sweet | self-released
25. "Frames And Letters" | Hooray for Humans | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "Gunshot Riddim" | SKRS | Paradise Magic Traxx | Ancient Monarchy
27. "Party Theme" | Anemone | Baby Only You & I | Fat Possum
28. "Memories" | Loom | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Others must be poor if you're to be rich

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Forgive Me, Forgive Me: Transmission 420, 2018 August 15

Greetings, music lovers! Did you miss me? I hope not too much. I've been away, on vacation and in other senses, but now I am back. So posting resumes.

As is often the case, I remember little about this program, but looking at the playlist, I would say that it's quite solid. Certainly there must be a technical error somewhere, some segue that I could have handled better either conceptually or practically. But for me, ignorance is bliss, at least until I give this another listen someday. I do wonder when that day will come, when I turn to this ever-growing library of transmissions and savor the memories. I sometimes wonder what life will be like then, what will drive me to these mixtapes rather than my also-growing pile of records I haven't given enough spins.

These are the thoughts that preoccupy me!

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 August 15, 2100-2300:

1. "Black Lodge" | HLZ | Vectors EP | Dispatch Blueprints
2. "Liquidators" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Impossible Star | Flexidisc
3. "The Blue Notebooks" | Max Richter | The Blue Notebooks (15 Years) | Deutsche Grammophon
4. "The Other Side of What" | Ornette Hawkins | The Other Side of What | AGN7
5. "Telemetry" | John Tejada | Dead Start Program | Kompakt
6. "Nan Ye Likan" | Mac Gregor | In Abidjan | Hot Casa
7. "Aether Flux" | Mythic Sunship | Upheaval | El Paraiso
8. "A Body" | Gnod | Chapel Perilous | Rocket
9. "Glass House" | Carla Bozulich | Quieter | Constellation
10. "Konkin" | Mikkel Metal | Just Enough Light | Echocord
11. "Temple Rd" | Steven Julien | Bloodline | Apron
12. "Know No Out Only In" | Mark | The Least Likely Event Will Occur in the Long Run | Unterton
13. "Momentum" | Fluxion | Ripple Effect | Vibrant Music
14. "Whirlpool Vision of Shame" | Felt | The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories [reissue] | Cherry Red
15. "Good Boy" | Ty Segall & White Fence | Good Boy | Drag City
16. "Memories of an Expensive Festival" | Brian Harris | It's Not Rocket Surgery | self-released
17. "Ghost Button" | Dub Taylor | Caves & Cages | Dirt Crew
18. "Arrow Dub" | Zasha | Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth Boogie in 1980s South Africa | Soundway
19. "Marfa Sunset" | Dungen & Woods | Myths 003 | Mexican Summer
20. "Blood Brew" | Videodrones | Mondo Ferox | El Paraiso
21. "Circuits" | Ice Baths | Ice Baths | Blank Editions
22. "Pered Snegopadom" | Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte | Hiver Noir | Subsound
23. "Hot Knights" | A Certain Ratio | I'd Like To See You Again [reissue] | Mute
24. "Yayaya Twins" | Dj Raph | Sacred Groves | Noland
25. "The Fields in Mist" | CTMF | What About Brian (Alt. Version) | Damaged Goods
26. "Superblast" | Lacing | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
27. "Sugar Hiccup" | Cocteau Twins | Head Over Heels [reissue] | 4AD
28. "Chorus (Outro)" | Julian Stetter | Another | Correspondant

We are who we say we are

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Past Lives in Warmer Climates: Transmission 419, 2018 August 11

Here is a (now) rare birthday observance, one that I could only execute because DJ Penelope was out of town. Strangely, these impromptu rituals often turn out to be some of my best shows--something to consider. Anyway, it was Jah Wobble night, so as "promised," I took one of his records and played the whole darn thing. Since we're no longer doing Physical Evidence, I wasn't constrained by what was in print or out of print or streamable / not streamable. I think Without Judgement is streamable but I don't know and don't care. It's a great record.

I can tell you how I first came across Without Judgement. I was working at a record store during the first Bush Recession, and we were going out of business. Our clearance sale coincided with end-of-fiscal-year inventory, on the basis of which the soon-to-be-defunct business would be taxed. In order to reduce inventory (and maybe as a going-away present?), the store's assistant manager told us to pick out what we wanted, charge ourselves whatever price we wanted, and get it out of the store.

Without Judgement was one of the things I chose. It was the CD version, which has more tracks on it than the LP. I remember "Burger Bar" with particualr fondness, but alas, I was karmically repaid when someone broke into my apartment a year later and stole most of my cds [leaving my computer untouched--the 90s were such a weird time]. It would be a while before I got around to tracking down copies of the things I lost, and by the time I got another copy of Without Judgement the zeitgeist was about vinyl again, so here we are.

This episode continues my tradition (?) of closing the program with a chill-out piece, with better results this time than last, I think.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 August 11, 2000-2200:

1. "Live Jam - 1" | E.E.K. | Live At The Cairo High Cinema Institute | Nashazphone
2. "The Great Curve" | Talking Heads | Remain in Light | Sire
3. "I.T.T. (International Thief Thief)" | Fḛlá Anikulapo Kuti | Black-President | Capitol
4. "The Message" | Gyedu Blay Ambolley | The Message | Analog Africa
5. "Bungalow Park" / "What the Problem Is" / "Anything Can Happen" / "A13" / "Drowned and the Saved" / "So Many Years" / "Message from Our Sponsors" / "Coypu" / "Good Ghosts" / "Saracen" / "Eternal Vendor" / "Invisible Cities" / "Inferno" / "Location" / "Uncommercial Road" / "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" | Invaders of the Heart | Without Judgement | KK
6. "Night Driver" | Blind Idiot God | Before Ever After | Indivisible
7. "Ornamentation" | Yann Novak | Ornamentation [excerpt] | Touch

Be absolute

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Still Life with Ample Parking: Transmission 418, 2018 August 8

Between the last program and this one, I (and maybe you) survived a visit from Guy LeBatard. At last report, by the way, he has not been jailed. (And neither have I!) While he was here, he delivered one of his better programs IMHO. I often wish that my own program's concept were more...coherent, like his. But then I remind myself that he has good and bad programs just like I do, which seems like a coping strategy befitting a normal, well-adjusted person. I wonder where it came from.

Anyway, this program mostly resembles what I think Bombast would be if it were, like U_D_M, genre-specific. It's mostly "downtempo electronics," as I would describe it the following week, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. I say "mostly" because Samara Lubelski is in here somewhere, as are Ride and Captain Wardrobe. Even when I try for consistency I...can't quite manage it. No wonder I have been described in writing as a disaster.

It probably wasn't a great idea to end with Existente, but I figured I had to put it somewhere, so there it goes.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 August 8, 2100-2300:

1. "Zuul Passage" | Ghost Vision | Saturnus | Kompakt
2. "Keuthonymos" | Fango | GEA | Degustibus
3. "Frieze Relief" | Chris Carter | Tone Science: Module No. 1 Structure and Forces | DiN
4. "Genesis Dub" | Inhmost | TRIP 004 | Short Trips
5. "Calma" | Starcount | Calma/Jeraldine | Echovolt
6. "The Measure, The Decline" | Samara Lubelski | Flickers at the Station | Drawing Room
7. "Fuxa" | Kagami | Kagami | Root Strata
8. "Smile" | Boothroyd | Pure Country | Fnord Communications
9. "Sweet Romancer" | Iron Curtis | Sweet Romancer | Uncanny Valley
10. "i dreampt" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
11. "Tromb Horn" | Ringard | Lacrima rossa | Les Yeux Orange
12. "No Famous Actors" | Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs | YMFEES | Bokeh Versions
13. "Flash" | La Marine | Speicher 102 | Kompakt
14. "Big" | The Analogue Cops | Racoon City | Hot Haus
15. "Drawn from Memory - Chinaski Remix" | Benjamin Frohlich | Remixes from Memory | Permanent Vacation
16. "Pulsar" | Ride | Tomorrow's Shore | Wichita
17. "Timanfaya" | Pablo Fierro | Timanfaya EP - Compost Black Label #142 | Compost Black
18. "The Melody - Ishmael Ensemble Remix" | Carl Craig | Versus Remixes, Vol. 2 | Infine
19. "Chapel Perilous Closed" | Other Lands | Pattern Transform | Firecracker
20. "Ooooh Baby In The Chorus" | Death and the Maiden | Wisteria | Occultation
21. "Theta v4 (Repetir)" | Existente | Theta Series | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)

I want to forget destiny

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