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Circa Nineteen-Eighty-One: Transmission 408, 2018 May 16

This program finds us back in the usual Wednesday night slot, "our special time together." I was already somewhat tired from the night before--like I said, I am too old--but emotionally amped, at least, because I would be playing a cherished record, about which more below. The show begins, though, with an embarrassing gaffe as neither Andrea or I can force the second tune--which is playing--to make a sound. I should be better than this. Apologies to Ant Orange, whoever you are. Anyway, in the interest of full disclosure, I have edited some of that silence out.

But let's talk about what we do hear. Bourbonese Qualk is a rough listen, with skips and pops aplenty, but that record has been loved. Even a perfect copy would be decidedly "lo-fi" and have its dynamics all over the place, but I think that's what its creators wanted. Why is it so dear? I feel like the home recording puts it squarely in the category of "you too can do this," and indeed it sounds in places like things Mr. D and I were trying to do back in the day. I think that, too, is intentional. I remember listening to this record a lot during a six-week period one summer when I was unemployed (how quaint that it felt like an endless stretch at the time).

Anyway, regardless of those considerations, you could do a lot worse than "Pipe Dreams," and god knows many people have done worse.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Smallbig" | The Micronaut | Contrast | Freude am Tanzen
2. "A Frozen Lake" | Ant Orange | Right There | Karaoke Kalk
3. "Critical Path" | Abyss X | Pleasures of the Bull | Danse Noire
4. "Saturn" | A Certain Ratio | I'd Like To See You Again [reissue] | Mute
5. "Stand Above the Streams, Pt. 2B" | Jason Sharp | Stand Above the Streams | Constellation
6. "Play" | Fritz Kalkbrenner | Drown | Different Spring
7. "Skin Walker" | Insect Ark | Marrow Hymns | Profound Lore
8. "Translucent" | Ismo Laakso | Ofelia | Sahko
9. "Mean Street" / "Always There" | Bourbonese Qualk | Bourbonese Qualk | New International Recordings | "Physical Evidence"
10. "LOD" | Hrtl | Sugarlump EP | Wolfskuil Limited
11. "Magma" | Inigo Kennedy | Magma / Mantle | Token
12. "Hypeway 101" | Duccio | Late Night Swing | Greta Cottage Workshop
13. "Shock Corridor" | Bourbonese Qualk | Bourbonese Qualk | New International Recordings | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Motorik" | Frank Bretschneider | Lunik | Shitkatapult
15. "Prism" | C.A.R. | PINNED | Ransom Note
16. "Dummy-Run" / "Unknown Trk" / "C2V" / "Obsession" | Bourbonese Qualk | Bourbonese Qualk | New International Recordings | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Glory" | Liz Phair | Girly-Sound to Guyville | Matador
18. "Blues at the Acropolis" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
19. "The Dance" | The Skull Defekts | The Skull Defekts | Thrill Jockey
20. "Zlota Skala Dub" | JANKA | Krzyzacy | U Know Me
21. "Mora" | Answer Code Request | Gens | Ostgut Ton
22. "Untitled" / "Black and Blues" / "Pipe Dreams" | Bourbonese Qualk | Bourbonese Qualk | New International Recordings | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Kitsch Is the New Atonality" | Gosheven | The Harvest of a Quiet Eye | Opal Tapes
24. "Colony" | Ian Boddy / Erik Wollo | Meridian | DiN
25. "Mantodea vs. Furcifer Pardalis" | Sign Libra | Closer to the Equator | Antinote
26. "Illusion" | Pure Confusion | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
27. "Mr. Bikinis" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold
28. "Nothing New to Trash Like You" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Don't Get Lost | A Records

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Every Fool Will See His Madness Crowned: Transmission 407, 2018 May 15

Here is a rarity: an "unscheduled" appearance of the program. It is strange to think of it as an unusual thing (as we shall see), but "it is what it is." It was Andrew Eldritch's birthday, something I'd meant to observe three years ago (I think) but my chance was too late in the day: 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. I think of that as the day I decided I was "too old." (One could think of it as the day I officially became a flake, but that was a long time ago.) In 2018, we're probably past the point of anyone's caring, least of all Mr. Eldritch himself, but I don't like to leave business unfinished, so here we are. I may have been in a bit of a mood, but I think I was enjoying myself, and the segues aren't too bad. I had meant to play Spacemen 3 at the end of it all--I wasn't "giving up"--but I was bad at math on this night, so we get an excerpt.

This program's being the first time in five months that I had made a substitute appearance does not stop my past from being a burden. Back when I lived and breathed WRFI (almost literally!) I would jump at the chance, almost any chance, to do radio. We were desperate for programming in the old days, and the station always seemed on the brink of going off-air for whatever reason. If I remember correctly there was one year when I made 91 appearances! Ye gods. Anyway, between getting older, getting busier, learning my limitations, deciding on further limitations, and so on, I've been much better at limiting myself to my allotted airtime--except, I guess, for that brief, wonderful period last year when Catharsis Junior wanted to do radio with me on the regular. Anyway, people think I am still like my old self! At a meeting recently, when we were doing introductions, I said that I do radio on Wednesday nights, and a colleague added "and on demand, apparently." Shots fired! DJ Andrea, who is going on "indefinite hiatus" from the Free Pile, says that she will take sub shifts from time to time, "if you don't take them all." OUCH. I guess it is my destiny, in this and other ways, not to escape my past. But this night was worth it.

I wonder what I "live and breathe" now? That is a mystery.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 15, 2100-2300:

1. "Curfew, Gaza" | Muslimgauze | Zul'm | Extreme
2. "Jihad" | The Sisterhood | Gift | Merciful Release | "Physical Evidence"
3. "A Newer Age" | Weirding Module | A Newer Age | Joyful Noise Recordings
4. "7 Sweet Nation Army Dreams" | Brian Harris | 7 Sweet Nations | self-released
5. "Paix/Paix" | Kaazi | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
6. "Colours" | The Sisterhood | Gift | Merciful Release | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Finality" | Harrison BDP | Confusion of Sound | Piff
8. "20:02 [3] starts logging #public" | Jung an Tagen | Agent Im Objekt | Editions Mego
9. "Wounds and Water" | Melentini | Zrsha; Fundus Uterus | United We Fly
10. "Little Love" | Primitive Trust | Little Love | Aus
11. "Giving Ground" | The Sisterhood | Gift | Merciful Release | "Physical Evidence"
12. "The Truth Lies" | Suns of Arqa | Land of a Thousand Churches | Arqa Sound
13. "Finland Red, Egypt White" / "Rain from Heaven" | The Sisterhood | Gift | Merciful Release | "Physical Evidence"
14. "An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music Pt. 1 [excerpt]" | Spacemen 3 | Dreamweapon | Superior Viaduct

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Sees the Stars at Lunchtime, Says He Has a Plan: Transmission 406, 2018 May 9

Last time out, I mentioned that I normally listen to these mixtapes at the gym. As I write this, I am calling that practice into question. My therapist, you see, has told me that she thinks that my exercise is "proxy relief from total self-hatred." ("Also," she says, "that would be a GREAT album title." I'm inclined to agree on both counts.)

Let's just assume for a moment that it's true. In that case, listening to a good mixtape serves the purpose and listening to a bad mixtape probably mitigates the effect. So either I need to improve to the point where I am only ever doing good shows--5 years in, it doesn't seem likely--or, just to be safe, I need to find some other exercise jams. OR maybe it is exercise itself that is now expendable, since maybe I should be looking for ACTUAL relief from total self-hatred. In these latter two scenarios, I don't know when I would actually listen back to my program, since I rarely have large chunks of unoccupied time. So get ready for even more sporadic posting--either that, or more "who the hell knows what happened on this night" type posts. You have been warned!

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 9, 2100-2300:

1. "Showcase" | A Certain Ratio | I'd Like To See You Again [reissue] | Mute
2. "Mr. Music" | Pete Astor | Spilt Milk | Slumberland
3. "Bloom" | Akasha System | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
4. "Roman Litter" | Felt | The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories [reissue] | Cherry Red
5. "Birds of America" | Lake Ruth | Birds of America | Feral Child
6. "The Saddest Music In The World" | Soft Riot | The Outsider in the Mirrors | Possession
7. "Pandora (For Cindy)" | Cocteau Twins | Treasure [reissue] | 4AD
8. "Eligible Receiver" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold
9. "Not Sure What To Do (Variation Zoning 4)" | Octo Octa | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
10. "2.2" | Nicklas Sorensen | Solo 2 | El Paraiso
11. "Just 15" | The Buff Medways | 1914 [reissue] | Damaged Goods
12. "To Medicine (Biased Advice)" | EXEK | Ahead of Two Thoughts | W. 25th
13. "Howl at the Summit" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
14. "420" | Death Pedals | Death Pedals | Hominid Sounds
15. "Psycho Killer" | Brian Harris | 7 Sweet Notions | self-released
16. "Sharon & Vida" | Unknown Mobile | Sharon & Vida | Normals Welcome
17. "Hotmachine" | Fast Times | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
18. "Fear of a Luminous Shadow" | Weirdest Dream | White Worms | Dopeness Galore
19. "The Border Crossing" | Dirtmusic | Bu Bir Ruya | Glitterbeat
20. "Kosmos 1680" | Harrison BDP | Confusion of Sound | Piff
21. "Iginition" | Ripperton | Sight Seeing | ESP Institute
22. "I Don't Think I Should Shout" | Jing | Adularescence | 6dimensions
23. "A ta merci" | Fishbach | A ta merci | Blue Wrasse
24. "Out of Control" | Blushing | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
25. "I Like the Way You Talk (A.R.Kane Mix)" | The Veldt | Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose | self-released
26. "Brock Tune" | Natural Magic | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
27. "Sky's Falling" | The Orb | Pop Ambient 2018 | Kompakt

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Undaunted I Will Be: Transmission 405, 2018 May 2

We'll brush aside recollections and current-events commentary for this outing and just talk about the mixtape. I did not enjoy this program. Which is to say, I did not enjoy listening to this program after the fact, which I did twice. I thought it might improve on second listen, but as always I was wrong again, as someone once said. In case you didn't know, my listening venue is the gym; I've been having problems at the gym.

My new depression meds make me extremely restless, and I just can't see the point of running myself to death on the cardio machine every day. (What would I be doing instead, with my time? Good question.) "You're just fat and content now," my psychiatrist tells me. Or--counterpoint--I'm dismayed and out of control.

Maybe this is my way of talking myself out of thinking this was a bad program. It certainly didn't feel like it on the night, and it does get "good" in the last 15 minutes or so, if you want to scroll forward that far. June Tabor doesn't really "fit," after all, which is a sign of her greatness, and elsewhere it begins to dawn on me that I might just be into miserable music. It's good that I learned this before it was too late. I think.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 2, 2100-2300:

1. "Tongue Control" | Body-San | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
2. "Last Kiss by the Volga" | Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte | Hiver Noir | Subsound
3. "Bass Playa" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Impossible Star | Flexidisc
4. "Desire Lines" | Vibrissae | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
5. "The Banks Of The Sweet Dundee" | June Tabor | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Capsule" | Strie | Perpetual Journey | Serein
7. "Contained Within While" | Weirding Module | A Newer Age | Joyful Noise Recordings
8. "If I See You Again (TBTCI Version)" | Early Morning Sky | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
9. "Lord Bateman" | June Tabor | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
10. "XX" | Nyma | XYXX | It's All In You
11. "Mambo Fist Miasma" | Severed Heads | Brave New Waves Session | Artoffact
12. "Drown the Witch" | Brian Harris | 7 Sweet Notions | self-released
13. "Loss" | John Tejada | Dead Start Program | Kompakt
14. "Donal Og" | June Tabor | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
15. "300 HZ at Whitney Museum" | Simone Gatto | Heaven Inside Your Frequencies - Pt. 1 | Pregnant Void
16. "Wakey Wakey" | B. Fleischmann | Stop Making Fans | Morr Music
17. "Goodnight Children Everywhere" | The Times | This Is London [reissue] | Tapete
18. "Shake Your Body" | Mike Umoh | Duomo Sounds LTD (Nigerian 80s Disco Music to Move Your Soul) | Odion
19. "Tal" | Primer | Signals | Rarefied
20. "Injury Time" | Pete Astor | One for the Ghost | Tapete
21. "Buscando" | Dengue Dengue Dengue | Son de los Diablos | Enchufada
22. "The Fiddle And The Drum" | June Tabor | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Bipolaire - Les Noirs" | Baloji | Bipolaire - Les Noirs | Bella Union
24. "Raw Sun" | Ornette Hawkins | The Other Side of What | AGN7
25. "Gimmick Sick" | Eric Random | Two Faced | Klanggalerie
26. "Fix This Thang" | Bibio | Beyond Serious | WARP
27. "Miracle Mind Program" | Mor Elian | Miracle Mind Program | Delft

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Tough Kids Love Sad Songs: Transmission 404, 2018 April 25

Now that I've got my Morrissey rant out of the way, I can settle back into my routine. "This was a solid program," and so on. But sometimes the mundane is the truth. This was a solid program. Segue-wise, I probably lost my way somewhere in the middle, but Superpitcher seemed to settle me. 15-minute songs [or whatever] will do that.

But, you know, I can't escape The Smiths no matter what I do. As I've written elsewhere, they are the reason any of this matters to me. But for a time in the late 80s I must have thought that I'd outgrown them, or they embarrassed me, or I was grieving them, or something. At any rate I "moved on" and where did I go but to Felt and the Cocteau Twins, both represented here on this broadcast.

Cocteau Twins broke my heart, and I have chronicled that, sort of, but it wasn't political. I will never be able to quit them unless I discover that one of them hates black people, or something. [I hope I'm not inviting any revelations here.]

I brought Felt into my life at a crucial time. I had of course heard "Primitive Painters" on the radio plenty of times, and I played it plenty of times, as "trendy Sacramentans" [which I ultimately became] were apparently prone to do. But I bought Poem of the River after a harsh telling-off from someone I thought was a friend, and in that moment of vulnerability it was just right. Lawrence struck me, even then, as a more interesting, less problematic Morrissey. Please god don't let him be a Brexiteer or have a thing for Hitler.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 April 25, 2100-2300:

1. "Der Konig 1-4" | Nackt | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
2. "Online Seance" | The Sprawl | EP 2 | The Death of Rave
3. "Crystal Ball" | Felt | The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories [reissue] | Cherry Red
4. "Ode: Springtime and Summer" | Marsmobil | Fairytales of the Supersurvivor | Compost
5. "Four Faces" | Golden Teacher | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
6. "Taken" | Nyma | XYXX | It's All In You
7. "Julia's Call" | Lake Ruth | Birds of America | Feral Child
8. "The City Looks Beautiful from up Here" | Roche | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
9. "Liquid Lucite" | Johnny Jewel | Digital Rain | Italians Do It Better
10. "Dial up to the Palace" | Gary Safe | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
11. "Skinhead #2" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
12. "Listen in to the Heart" | Calendar Crowd | Perfect Hideaway | Dark Entries
13. "The City Hangover" | The Cyclist | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
14. "Electric Town" | Benoit B | Japonaiserie | Berceuse Heroique
15. "Happenings" | Weirdest Dream | White Worms | Dopeness Galore
16. "First Day" | Peder Mannerfelt | The 3D Printed Songbook | Peder Mannerfelt Produktion
17. "Micaela" | Leonardo Martelli | Menti Signole, Vol. 2 | Antinote
18. "Worldwide Sunshine (In Yr Heart Not the Sky Dub)" | Coyote Clean Up | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
19. "Duvalierism (u)" | German Army | More Bitter Fruit | Discrepant
20. "Kills v. Lies" | Efrim Manuel Menuck | Pissing Stars | Constellation
21. "Earth Wart" | Sam de la Rosa | Earth Wart | Mannequin
22. "Together" | Jupiter Jax | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
23. "Candy In Bed" | Fuzzy Feeling | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "Punky Reggae Party" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 12 | Hippie Dance
25. "My Love Paramour" | Cocteau Twins | Head Over Heels [reissue] | 4AD
26. "Wild Mountain Thyme" | Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band | Adios Señor Pussycat | Violette
27. "The War Against Intelligence (Peel Session)" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
28. "Theta v3 (Repetir)" | Existente | Theta Series | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)

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We're Probably Not Going To Be This Ambient All Evening: Transmission 403, 2018 April 18

As I say during the broadcast, I was having a hard time deciding whether I wanted to play ambient music or disco. So I played both. I have trouble with decisiveness, with finality.

To force a segue here, I am confident that someone like Morrissey would have hated this program, and that doesn't bother me in the slightest. This was the night after the day we Found Out (I guess?) about Morrissey through that horrible softball interview on his own website. Finally freed from wilful misinterpretation and journalistic malfeasance, he reveals that he...is Douglas Pearce, basically? Truly uncanny. Being an aesthete, I used to think Death in June was ripping off the Smiths' visuals; I didn't realize it was an exchange.

Hero worship will enable and force you to do some mental gymnastics, and to cling to mere possibilities. Saying that reggae is vile might have been a reference to its patriarchy and homophobia. It's possible that the chorus of "Panic" wasn't about lynching black people. There's a chance that "We'll Let You Know" and "National Front Disco" are not endorsements. [In my defense, this is more of a probability. But there I go. Or do I? I can't tell anymore.] And so on. But that's my problem all along. Post-1976 we are not supposed to have heroes, I guess, but I do. I've never "gotten it."

I could write a paragraph about when I got "woke," because part of me had to know, but who cares? I've been wrong.

Was he ever anything but "devious, truculent, and unreliable?" I would like to think that the person who wrote "Well I Wonder" and "I Know It's Over" was a great chronicler of loneliness. Even fascists get lonely! It didn't occur to me at the time that perhaps he was lonely because he'd preemptively ruled out the possibility of companionship with most of humanity. I'm still struggling with this reckoning. Those Smiths songs must have been the work of a different person. Right?! Sigh.

I would have been better off seeing Morrissey from the start as many of my friends did, as a Ridiculous Person. [And I did, sort of, but I just loved him anyway.] Or just being on Team Robert Smith, though I never quite understood that beef. But things didn't happen that way. As I've written elsewhere, the Smiths came along when I needed something to come along.

What to do now? I wonder if, after a few more similar interviews, Smiths records will become like Death in June records, a kind of eBay contraband. [I'm thinking also of Spotify's new policies regarding hateful speech and hateful behavior.] Probably not, I guess. But they are a kind of emotional contraband. Will I jettison mine? I told you I have trouble with decisiveness and finality.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 April 18, 2100-2300:

1. "White Worms Intro" | Weirdest Dream | White Worms | Dopeness Galore
2. "Stray" | Degree Absolute | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
3. "Drums Please" | Saine | For The Dreamers | Omena
4. "Black I.C.E." | The Sprawl | EP 2 | The Death of Rave
5. "Poison Fang" | Vast Asteroid | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "ONE" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Impossible Star | Flexidisc
7. "Flying" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 9 | Hippie Dance
8. "Bacchus Theme" | Mirt/Ter | Bacchus Where Are You? | Monotype
9. "Shame" | Mikkel Metal | Pop Ambient 2018 | Kompakt
10. "Disco Connection" | Bindiga | Duomo Sounds LTD (Nigerian 80s Disco Music to Move Your Soul) | Odion
11. "2.4" | Nicklas Sorensen | Solo 2 | El Paraiso
12. "Evidence" | Metro Area | Metro Area (15th Anniversary Edition) | Environ
13. "Hurray For The People" | Pete International Airport | Safer With The Wolves... | A Recordings
14. "Racist Cops On A Jog" | Sam de la Rosa | Earth Wart | Mannequin
15. "When Mama Was Moth" | Cocteau Twins | Head Over Heels [reissue] | 4AD
16. "NorthernLi" | Trinidadian Deep | Organic Frequencies | D3 Elements
17. "All Is Not Lost" | Hodge | Beneath Two Moons | Berceuse Heroique
18. "Improvisation #2 Part 2" | Ulrich Schnauss | Improvisation #2 | Scripted Realities

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Looking into the Void, You're Reckoning with a Question: Transmission 402, 2018 April 11

Here is another fine program, perhaps even finer than the last. [Feeling like perhaps I should open every salvo with this sentiment, whether it is true or not.] I actually had that very long Ulrich Schnauss piece going during my workout. And it did not kill the vibe, whatever my workout vibe may be. So I heartily endorse this one.

Wonder of wonders, I even sound up for it on this outing. It must be my performer training kicking in, on some level. Though I have been "checking in" with myself and can assure you that I am still having fun, I am very tired in the moment, which comes from my being old and its being late and my inability to get proper sleep. I have also been battling the most wicked depression this winter [yes, it was still winter at this time], from what cause I do not even really know. So there's a lot going on, shallow affect notwithstanding. Does it get better? I think it must.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 April 11, 2100-2300:

1. "Nervous Mary" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
2. "Love Is a Foreign Country" | Dirtmusic | Bu Bir Ruya | Glitterbeat
3. "Compassion and Release" | Benoit B | Japonaiserie | Berceuse Heroique
4. "Monochrome" | Whimsical | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
5. "Besakih's Dragons' Clouds" | Raw M.T. | Trip To The Far East | Distant Hawaii
6. "Improvisation #2 Part 1" | Ulrich Schnauss | Improvisation #2 | Scripted Realities
7. "Dona Nobis Pacem" | Eindkrak | Brullend Staal | Unknown Precept
8. "Virus" | Chafik Chennouf | The Harvest of a Quiet Eye | Opal Tapes
9. "Capsize" | Carl Gari | Shipster | Permanent Vacation
10. "Undertow" | Coloring Electric Like | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
11. "Heart 2 Tape" | Silvia Kastel | Air Lows | Blackest Ever Black
12. "Sweetness And Light" | Vivienne Eastwood | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
13. "Walter and the Taxi" | Lake Ruth | Birds of America | Feral Child
14. "Ocean" | Shoe Shine Six | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
15. "Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow" | Felt | The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories [reissue] | Cherry Red
16. "XY" | Nyma | XYXX | It's All In You
17. "Black Pyramid" | Johnny Jewel | Digital Rain | Italians Do It Better
18. "Bird Element" | Etelin | The Harvest of a Quiet Eye | Opal Tapes
19. "Blind Blue" | Masaki Uchida | Xenolinguistics | Loose Lips
20. "You Had" | Peder Mannerfelt | The 3D Printed Songbook | Peder Mannerfelt Produktion
21. "Djoukourou - Auntie Flo Remix" | Oumou Sangare | Djoukourou - Auntie Flo Remix | Highlife Edits
22. "Love Is Like A Violence" | Ted Milton | Ruminant Violence | Optimo
23. "Apokalypso 3" | Prins Thomas | Apokalypso | Rett | Fletta
24. "Come Play the Trees Outro" | Snapped Ankles | Come Play the Trees | Leaf

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All of Us Do It, Each Time Asleep: Transmission 401, 2018 April 4

We got close to the Platonic Ideal of a Bombast on this night. Here is a program that has a bit of everything: a bit of shoegaze, a bit of 4AD delicacy, a bit of Creation, some African music, some electro, and some of whatever my current aesthetic is. (I don't know how to classify it and don't care.) Why "close to," then? Because I didn't feel at the time, and don't feel on repeated listening, that this was "great." But don't pay attention to me. According to one listener, mediated through Felix, our GM, I was "killin' it" on this night. So there you have it, maybe.

Two things I have never mastered in this life are "aligning my perceptions and tastes with those of other people" and "absorbing affirmation." I am good at taking it in and decent at acknowledging it but I can't seem to let it flow through me and touch every part of my being, as I need it to. I'm thinking of the time in Hamlet when Rosencrantz says, "take you me for a sponge, my lord?" and I'm, like, "THAT IS MY HIGHEST ASPIRATION."

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 April 4, 2100-2300:

1. "Woa" | Zazou / Bikaye / CY1 | Noir Et Blanc | Crammed Discs
2. "Still Walking" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats [reissue] | Mute
3. "Ad Hoc Principle" | Barreca | Leimer | Dual Mono | Palace of Lights
4. "Inti" | The Cyclist | Sapa Inca Delirium | Hypercolour
5. "So Quero Um Xodo" | Os Mulheres Negras | Outro Tempo | Music from Memory
6. "Dounignamou" | Amadou Balake | Bar Konon Moussou Bar | Kindred Spirits | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Raincoat" | Flite | Sick Music 2018 | Hospital
8. "Cellophane" | Johnny Jewel | Digital Rain | Italians Do It Better
9. "No Hard Feelings" | The Times | Go! With The Times [reissue] | Tapete
10. "Advise" | Christy Ogbah | Duomo Sounds LTD (Nigerian 80s Disco Music to Move Your Soul) | Odion
11. "Fugazi (feat. Elif Dikec)" | Gantz | Dying on Acid | Deep Medi Musik
12. "Les pays exterieurs" | Benoit B | Japonaiserie | Berceuse Heroique
13. "Place for Me" | Red Rack'Em | Place for Me / Exhalt | Bergerac
14. "Nabacouboury" | Amadou Balake | Bar Konon Moussou Bar | Kindred Spirits | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Opium" | Vicious Blossom | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "Look at Me" | Mike Umoh | Duomo Sounds LTD (Nigerian 80s Disco Music to Move Your Soul) | Odion
17. "Runs Reprise" | Klein | Tommy EP | Hyperdub
18. "Tondibama" | Amadou Balake | Bar Konon Moussou Bar | Kindred Spirits | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Drexel Street - Interlude" | Submorphics | Detroit Haze | The North Quarter
20. "Hands Return" | Circuit Breaker | Hands Return to Shake | Harbinger Sound
21. "Willow (Mehmet Aslan Remix)" | Yor Kultura | Lotus EP | The Magic Movement
22. "Balake Ya Marlama" | Amadou Balake | Bar Konon Moussou Bar | Kindred Spirits | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Oil Drowning Portrait" | Basic House | The Harvest of a Quiet Eye | Opal Tapes
24. "Fantasy" | Omega Vague feat. Dani Mari | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
25. "Strange Love" | Ghost Music | I Was Hoping You'd Pass By Here | Arlen
26. "Danse Macabre" | Dean McPhee | Four Stones | Hood Faire
27. "Beatrix" | Cocteau Twins | Treasure [reissue] | 4AD
28. "Nth" | Portal | Ion | Profound Lore
29. "End" | JAGUWAR | Ringthing | Tapete

you end up fooling yourself

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If the Music Is Square, It's Because I Like It Square: Transmission 400, 2018 March 28

"Self-expressive radio," to which I allude at one point in this 400th Bombast transmission, refers to WRFI's mission statement, at least as it was originally rendered. "Self-expression" was one of the values according to which we'd develop and produce content on the radio. I try to live by that every week. I hope that others enjoy what I do. I think that is the case, sometimes, and it's cool and great when it is. Ultimately, though, my program is about and for me and my tastes. Sorry.

I must also point out that I am finished indulging the idea that it might be about anything else, like, say, fulfilling requests. One such gesture, which I made out of pity more than anything else, marred this milestone program. There's a lady who calls in--to many shows, apparently, asking for the same thing over and over--and is quite specific and persuasive. I hear that she's a shut-in, though apparently she is not sufficiently "shut in" as to be unaware of the latest dope, profanity-laced beats produced by the likes of Karol G. There is a new podcast called "Mass for Shut-Ins." Maybe she can listen to that. I can't humor her anymore.

Perhaps I'm being mean, and perhaps I'm marring the occasion more with this rant. But this is me, it's my life, this happened on my special night and I'm going to discuss it.

Here is the thing about requests: I owe it to my listeners only to play things that I think are good. Who am I to decide what's good? Someone in whom the radio station has entrusted a two-hour block of airtime each week, that's who. Why not let the audience decide? They already do, but removing individual decision making leads to something like having a computer spit out random tracks in all styles, all the time. There must be radio stations like that. If that's what you want, go support one. Meanwhile I am going to keep doing this show about me, and refusing trash requests.

Long story short: I hurt my program by trying to be nice. I will spend the next 400 (or so) programs trying to find other, better ways of being nice.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 March 28, 2100-2300:

1. "Concert Man" | Phil Pratt | Star Wars Dub | Burning Sounds
2. "Breakdown (Radio)" | 400 Blows | Breakdown / Jive 69 | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Snask" | Henrik Rylander | Fran En Obestamd Plats I Rummet | Hoga Nord
4. "Conscience" | 400 Blows | Movin' | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Sungaze" | Reso | Sick Music 2018 | Hospital
6. "Perspective 2" | 400 Blows | Pressure | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
7. "All My Feelings Denied" | The Buff Medways | 1914 [reissue] | Damaged Goods
8. "Solarity" | Sciahri | The Harvest of a Quiet Eye | Opal Tapes
9. "Azid Jazz" | Sir Lord Commix | Retroactive (Part One) | R Time
10. "Groove Jumping" | 400 Blows | Movin' | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Transmission A" | J Albert | The Harvest of a Quiet Eye | Opal Tapes
12. "Ahora Me Llama" | Karol G | Unstoppable | UMG Latino
13. "Movin'" | 400 Blows | Movin' | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Hardly Able To Do Anything" | Patricia | The Harvest of a Quiet Eye | Opal Tapes
15. "Indaba" | RANGEr | Portable Presents: RANGEr | Waellas Choice
16. "Legend" | Ornette Hawkins | The Other Side of What | AGN7
17. "Radio Pressure" | 400 Blows | Pressure | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
18. "In The Beginning" | Trinidadian Deep | Organic Frequencies | D3 Elements
19. "Totean" | Cucina Povera | Hilja | Night School
20. "Intuition" | Evitceles | The Harvest of a Quiet Eye | Opal Tapes
21. "Spare Life" | Urbandawn | Sick Music 2018 | Hospital
22. "Declaration of Intent" | 400 Blows | Declaration of Intent | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Music Box" | Ruby My Dear | Brame | PRSPCT
24. "Jive 69 (Radio)" | 400 Blows | Breakdown / Jive 69 | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Structures and Behavior (Expertise)" | The Mayhem Lecture Series | Structures and Behavior | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)
26. "Roll Over" | Permahorn | My Blood Carries My Dreams Away | Shimmy 500

that's the whole problem

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Put Death in My Hands and I Will Pay with It For Sure: Transmission 399, 2018 March 21

We are at the mercy of various record companies' apparent suicide missions. A number of rarities (and deservedly so) will see the light of day once again, soon, and in our perverse attempt to keep up with the times for our half-dozen devoted listeners we'll be trotting our copies out as Physical Evidence while they still "count." Which brings us to this broadcast's feature, a terrific record by Trisomie 21 that has been in my life for 30 years. I don't find myself listening to it often, and am just blown away by how good it is. Happy times! In college, I had a balding English teaching assistant / discussion leader who was likewise into Trisomie 21. I thought he was just trying to be cool in a "how do you do, fellow kids" kind of way. But of course, now I am him. These things always come back to you.

More happy feelings--there were no computer mishaps on this night, so all mistakes were my own. If I recall correctly there weren't that many, though there are awful segues into and out of Felt. But, really, we are all just one bad Felt segue from personal ruin. Aren't we?

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 March 21, 2100-2300:

1. "DanceGwaan(EazeUp!)" | Seekers International | Presents the RaggaPreservation Society EP | Diskotopia
2. "Pleasure" | Trisomie 21 | Chapter IV Remix - Le Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi Et Le Presque Rien | Scarface | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Sun Star" | Christian Kleine | Electronic Music from the Lost World | A Strangely Isolated Place
4. "This Was Supposed To Be An Outro" | Malouane | Long Way for the Homies | In The Box
5. "Is Anybody Home? (Parts 2 and 3)" | Trisomie 21 | Chapter IV Remix - Le Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi Et Le Presque Rien | Scarface | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Glass Candle Grenades" | Cocteau Twins | Head Over Heels [reissue] | 4AD
7. "Remember Her Name / The Jazz Song" | Psyche | Brave New Waves Session | Artoffact
8. "Damenbartblick" | Schlammpeitziger | Damenbartblick auf Pregnant Hill | Bureau B
9. "Fair Is The Field" | Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts | Shouts, Moans, and Significance | Musique Risquee
10. "Your Dream" | Trisomie 21 | Chapter IV Remix - Le Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi Et Le Presque Rien | Scarface | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Tizi Ouzou" | Pascal Viscardi | Chabha Dassin Hakku | La Chinerie
12. "Ezy2141" | Jono Ma & Dreems | The Dreemas | Kompakt
13. "The Cave And The Light" | Trisomie 21 | Chapter IV Remix - Le Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi Et Le Presque Rien | Scarface | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Junkie Hideout in Suburbia" | The Bunny Tylers | Chance Meetings | Ruptured
15. "All Nerve" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
16. "Jorge (Satori Remix)" | Acid Pauli | BLD Remixes B | Ouie
17. "The Last Song" | Trisomie 21 | Chapter IV Remix - Le Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi Et Le Presque Rien | Scarface | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Gigue" | Fondation | Les cassettes 1980-1983 | Bureau B
19. "Dismantled King Is Off The Throne" | Felt | The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories [reissue] | Cherry Red
20. "Bu Bir Ruya" | Dirtmusic | Bu Bir Ruya | Glitterbeat
21. "Fluent in English" | EXEK | Ahead of Two Thoughts | W. 25th
22. "Desert - Vocal" | Enzo Elia | Game of Circles - EP | Compost Disco
23. "There's No Trouble There" | Trisomie 21 | Chapter IV Remix - Le Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi Et Le Presque Rien | Scarface | "Physical Evidence"
24. "La Fortaleza" | Arce | Lapsus EP | M.I.S.T.
25. "The Queen Is Dead - Full Version" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
26. "The Last Call" | L'Amour Fou | Dujuan | Smallville

if I really could, dear, I would apologize

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