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Kept It Together, Held It Together: Transmission 398, 2018 March 14

It was a Medway night, so naturally the segues were terrible. We need to get past that now. Additionally, it was a night of technical difficulties, not just conceptual ones. The computer in the studio went rogue and I was afraid I'd be stuck there all night. It's been a long time since I had that feeling. I didn't miss it.

Have I ever explained my multitasking during the program? Or: maybe I have and you are new here. I don't know. Anyway, we air a lot of pre-recorded public affairs programming, and every night somebody has to program this stuff to play automatically, on time, the next day. This is a thing I used to do every night--for, like, two straight years--but I'm down to once a week. Wednesday is my night because I would rather not have to "dial in" while someone else is in the control room.

So that's why this program might sound worse than usual, but only a little bit worse. The more you know!

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 March 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Confused" | Tee Mango | Losing Control EP | Clone Royal
2. "Love Me Lies" | The Prisoners | Medway Power House Vol III | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Milford Dip" | Swine | Lessons | Front and Follow
4. "Multipass" | Tropikal Camel | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
5. "Don't Ever Antagonize the Horn" | Claude Speeed | Other Infinities | Planet Mu
6. "Dearest Darling" | Thee Milkshakes | Medway Power House Vol III | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
7. "A Moment" | Eraldo Bernocchi / FM Einheit / Jo Quail | Rosebud | Rarenoise
8. "Nothing Natural" | Stella Diana | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
9. "The Song of Passionate Intensity" | Band of Holy Joy | Funambulist We Love You | Tiny Global Productions
10. "Dirty Water" | The Gruffmen | Medway Power House Vol III | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Heute Tanz B" | Mapa | No Automatu | Gusstaff
12. "Alea" | Lancelot | Transport EP | Omena
13. "Thunder and Cathode" | Scanner | Fibolae | Pop Noire
14. "Muddy Puddle Trot (Guavid Remix)" | Brainwaltzera | Remix EP | Film
15. "Light From A Dead Star" | 93MillionMilesFromTheSun | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "Pay Day" | Johnny Barkers Bandits | Medway Power House Vol III | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Purged Specimen" | Blind Idiot God | Undertow [reissue] | Indivisible
18. "The Sun The Moon" | Goat | Fuzzed in Europe (live) | Rocket
19. "Ladykillers" | Cherry Heaven | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
20. "Power" | Constantijn Lange | Power & Love | Laut & Luise
21. "Boredom" | Jack Ketch And The Crowmen | Medway Power House Vol III | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Moving Parts" | GYHT | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Jack the Ripper" | Auntie Vegetable | Medway Power House Vol III | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
24. "De-Luxe" | See The Eye (feat. Yudhit) | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
25. "Youngman" | Your Planet Is Next | Laid Back EP | Studio Barnhus
26. "Telephone Thing" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
27. "Dangerous Charms" | The Delmonas | Medway Power House Vol III | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Tin Mine" | Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs | YMFEES | Bokeh Versions
29. "Cheyne Stoking" | Special Request | Belief System | Houndstooth
30. "Outro" | Clip | Magnetic Reconnection | Seeking the Velvet

pills and liquid filled my mind

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Golden Vibrations: Transmission 397, 2018 March 7

You should listen," I said about this program prior to its airing. "It will be good." Verily, I think it was. How often does that happen? Memory may fail me in this regard, but I am trying out a new thing with myself: Benefit Of The Doubt. How am I doing? Feedback welcome.

So I mentioned last time out that a universe was ending--this is the first program from a new, more cautious world. Honestly the past seven weeks have been so full of stress and have gone by so quickly (am I having fun, or something?) that I don't remember what this "felt" like so I can't give you a proper account. To begin with, I guess that it must have been cold, but who can tell anymore? And with that kind of a beginning, is there any point continuing?

If we must talk about things we know, I know that Causa Sui was a highlight, as were SKRS & GULLS, Ride, Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs, The Apostles, and Petar Dundov. What a strong finish! Sometimes there is a point in continuing, just maybe not with speculation and words.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 March 7, 2100-2300:

1. "The Dawn of Man Intro" | Sefton | Stranded in Passion EP | Ellum Audio
2. "Edict" | Cyclopian | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
3. "Weekend Lights" | Traks Boys | Weekend Lights | Internasjonal
4. "The Deafening Scowl" | The Darkening Scale | Sonic Archaeology | Klanggalerie
5. "Catherine Wheel" | Beach Bully | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Lefty" | Prequel | Freedom / Lefty | Local Talk
7. "Life in the 80's" | Merveille & Crosson | Cerulean LP | Visionquest
8. "Viborera" | Causa Sui | Vibraciones Doradas | El Paraiso
9. "Crash" | Dead Fader | Jenny153 | Parachute
10. "Lake Symphony" | J.G. Biberkopf | Fountain of Meaning | Danse Noire
11. "Nos ventre nus" | Marietta | La passagere | Born Bad
12. "O M M" | Bene Fonteles | Outro Tempo | Music from Memory
13. "Cotard Delusion" | Big Miz | Cotard Delusion | Pear
14. "Love" | E Myers | Love / Hate | Dark Entries
15. "El Pas del Temps" | Sau Poler & Pedro Vian | Drawn By Sea | Modern Obscure Music
16. "Late Night Shuttle" | VTCN RADIO | Mydriase | Five to Six
17. "Sacred Rowan Grove" | Appleblim | Displaced Soundtracks | Life and Death
18. "DubU2Nite" | SKRS & GULLS | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
19. "Ariro" | Eunice Arimoku | Duomo Sounds LTD (Nigerian 80s Disco Music to Move Your Soul) | Odion
20. "Keep It Surreal" | Ride | Tomorrow's Shore | Wichita
21. "Theme From Nowhere" | Mark Barrott | Cascades (Francois K Mix) | International Feel
22. "#29" | Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs | YMFEES | Bokeh Versions
23. "Horizon Obscure" | The Seven Fields of Aphelion | Keep the Ocean Inside | Rad Cult
24. "Banko Woman" | The Apostles | Banko Woman | Cultures of Soul
25. "Everlasting Love" | Petar Dundov | At The Turn of Equilibrium | Music Man

you have two hearts and I have none

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Original Phrasing, Dialogue Verbatim: Transmission 396, 2018 February 28

I'm back! Did you miss me? Well, I guess it doesn't have to be mutual. I've missed you, even though I've been "here" every week. This time out, it's a return to one of our recurring themes: "Programs That Aired On The Final Night of a Now-Dead Universe." I suppose every program is such a program, when you consider the "multiverse" and all that, but I only know it's such a program some of the time, and in retrospect. When I know it in advance it will surely be the last time.

And let me tell you: this new universe, which began the night after this program aired, sucks ass. Things are less stable and cozy than I thought they were--a remarkably low bar--and I am filled with worry all of the time. Fittingly, time has frozen since the transition, and it is still winter even now. Are we living in Narnia? Will there be Christmas? It all remains to be seen.

It's fitting, then, that Volume 15 is our special "record" of the evening. That is a lost world too. Songs like "Outside"--where did they go, and when?

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 February 28, 2100-2300:

1. "Convincing People" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats [reissue] | Mute
2. "Rise, Fernanda, Rise!" | Brokeback | Illinois River Valley Blues | Thrill Jockey
3. "Let Go Oh Oh" | The Wannadies | Volume 15 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Ritual" | Brandon Wolcott & Emil Abramyan | Music of the Record | Kingdoms
5. "Hades Rocket" | Simian Mobile Disco | Displaced Soundtracks | Life and Death
6. "Target" | Silvia Kastel | Air Lows | Blackest Ever Black
7. "Ambient Jazz Suite No 2" | Bonjour Monsieur Basie | Volume 15 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Altered Ego" | Ultramarine | Volume 15 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Blue Dreamers" | Kid Lib | Blue Dreamers / That Special Way | Foxy
10. "Warmest Regards" | Molecular | Warmest Regards | Hiddenseer
11. "Don't Know Why?" | Scheer | Volume 15 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Hippie Lawyer" | Swanox | Jokes About Rain | Not Not Fun
13. "Woodshedded" | Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs | YMFEES | Bokeh Versions
14. "Outside" | Solid | Volume 15 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Strictly DNB" | Digital | Strictly DNB | Function
16. "MK2A (Tranquility Bass Dub)" | The Shamen | Volume 15 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Detect" | Kurt Baggaley | Remembering Infinity EP | Something Happening Somewhere
18. "Some Sounds" | Your Planet Is Next | Laid Back EP | Studio Barnhus
19. "Billy, I Am a Living Animal" | New Fumes | Teeming 2 | Rad Cult
20. "Thierry Lacroix" | Jock Scot with The Nectarine No 9 | Volume 15 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Forest Rain" | Beraber | Sun Ritual EP | La Freund
22. "Wait No Hurry" | Grotto | Grotto II: Wait...No Hurry | Livingstone Studio
23. "Everybody Say Yeah (Spring Heel Jack Remix)" | Joi | Volume 15 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Orthodox Spanking" | MANASYt | Reality Defense Department | Musar
25. "Who's 'In', Who's 'Out'" | Mick Harvey | Volume 15 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
26. "Orb" | Danny Daze | Displaced Soundtracks | Life and Death
27. "Summary" | Colm K | Heights | All City

theme from nowhere

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More Dirt, More Germs: Transmission 395, 2018 February 21

Welcome to this week's edition of the program. "Solid" is the word that comes to mind when asked to describe it, though of course no one asked. It's not pantheon-level work in this broadcast but it is a good selection of tunes, delivered without incident. Can we hope for more, in these troubled times? Sadly I'm not sure we can.

Notes: I just found out, and by accident, pretty much, what a "jawn" is. I am so out of touch with the youth! It embarrasses me. Also, the Sam de la Rosa record seems to be a first issue, not a reissue. I can't recall what I said about it during the broadcast, but it sounds so satisfyingly old school (why am I out of touch, again) that I was sure that it came from another time. Finally, it took Lady Catharsis to point out to me that "The Chauffeur" is a Duran Duran song, originally. It seems I have much to learn!

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 February 21, 2100-2300:

1. "Intro" | Jawn Rice | Highlights | Mutual Intentions
2. "R.E.D." | Sam de la Rosa | Earth Wart | Mannequin
3. "Empty Network" | Lars Finberg | Moonlight over Bakersfield | In the Red
4. "The Chauffeur" | The Slowest Lift | The Slowest Lift | VHF
5. "Transient" | Visible Cloaks | Lex | Rvng Int'l
6. "3:08" | Isorinne | Speechless Malison | Northern Electronics
7. "Deer Ron" | Xenoula | Xenoula | Weird World
8. "Tes Hombres" | Yanomamos | Comes Alive | Con D'Or
9. "Hownow (Can We Be)" | Amp | Q Factors (A Mixtape) | Ampbase
10. "Breathe On - Liars 'Savannah' Remix" | ADULT. | Detroit House Guests (The Remixes) | Mute
11. "Entangled" | Vittoria Fleet | Entangled EP | 2DIY4
12. "My Blood Carries My Dreams Away" | Permahorn | My Blood Carries My Dreams Away | Shimmy 500
13. "Eine Gerade" | Friday Dunard | Gerade | Magazine
14. "Cast a Shadow" | Rodhad | Anxious | Dystopian
15. "No Gameboy" | Omari Jazz & Northern Draw (feat. Studenets) | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
16. "Algorithm Rock" | The Diabolical Liberties | All Out for Love | The Diabolical Liberties
17. "Beyond Help" | Stazma the Junglechrist | 15 Years of PRSPCT | PRSPCT
18. "Theme" | Redshape | Displaced Soundtracks | Life and Death
19. "Untitled Friday" | Nabihah Iqbal | Weighing of the Heart | Ninja Tune
20. "SCHAX" | Chillera | SCHAX | Muscut
21. "Mapleseed Rhinos" | Constantijn Lange | Power & Love | Laut & Luise
22. "Manta" | ARtroniks | Riddle / Manta | Bleak Winter
23. "La mer" | Sau Poler & Pedro Vian | Drawn By Sea | Modern Obscure Music
24. "Sacrament" | Helios Creed | On the Dark Side of the Sun | Klanggalerie
25. "Xmas Eve" | Johnny O Bazz | Duomo Sounds LTD (Nigerian 80s Disco Music to Move Your Soul) | Odion
26. "Fate in Black Attache" | Orthographic Figure | Select Gestures | Of Paradise
27. "Arroyo Hondo" | Neglect | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
28. "Twistin' On The Tombstones" | Ende Shneafliet | 80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1 | Contort Yourself
29. "Ejaz" | Lokal Affair | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation

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Night of Forced Romantic Consumption: Transmission 394, 2018 February 14

I had actually hoped to do a romantically-themed feature for this week's "special time together," as I have taken to calling it. But, as luck would have it, I'd been sick the week prior, and had lost all interest in any sort of planning. So I did the best I could with what I had, leaving us with only "moods and atmospheres" to mark our first Valentine's Day broadcast. But what else is this holiday about, other than keeping the chocolate / florist / greeting card industries afloat?

Strangely--unless it isn't strange--this program "works" for me. Good tunes, good segues--mostly. A brief rock excursion that doesn't make much sense but maintains the overall quality. And Barry Manilow! I have done much, much worse.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 February 14, 2100-2300:

1. "The Other Stranger" | Doxa Sinistra | 80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1 | Contort Yourself
2. "Call Mi Name (RMX)" | Alter Echo & E3 | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
3. "Ahsure" | Mano Le Tough | Ashure E.P. | Pampa
4. "Frozen Joints (Best Coast VRSN)" | Best Available Technology | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
5. "Bienenfresser" | Dominik Eulberg | Bienenfresser & Blauracke | Apus Apus
6. "Only U" | Rex Kirby meets Becky D. at Studio Geordie! | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
7. "Nyiri" | Tunnelvisions | Midnight Voyage | Atomnation
8. "Lydia" | Lau Nau | Poseidon | Beacon Sound
9. "All on a Beautiful Day" | People Like Us / Porest | Optimized! | Discrepant
10. "Bonsai Terrace" | Pauline Anna Strom | Trans-Millenia Music | Rvng Int'l
11. "2016" | Andreas Spechtl | Thinking About Tomorrow, and How to Build It | Bureau B
12. "C.C.C.P.Calling" | Tranceonic | New Crime | Dark Entries
13. "The Habit Machine" | The Galileo 7 | Tear Your Minds Wide Open! | Damaged Goods
14. "Walkabout" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats [reissue] | Mute
15. "Strait Bass" | Cale Sexton & Sleep D | Domestic Documents Vol 2 | Domestic Documents
16. "The Teaze" | Steve Bug & Langenberg | Chord Cluster | Poker Flat
17. "Waleb" | Titus 12 | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
18. "Po Burzy" | Tamten | Diamentowa Sutra EP | Transatlantyk
19. "Latemar (Extended Version) feat. Dieter Kern" | Ulrich Troyer | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
20. "Dolci" | Masaki Uchida | Noein | Blueberry
21. "Sleepy Head" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 11 | Hippie Dance

300 hot, screaming kids

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See It for Yourself, but Not Through the Eyes: Transmission 393, 2018 January 31

Do you have a favorite genre of diary entry? I do. Mine is "I couldn't tell you what happened on this program if my life depended on it." I am blaming this on sickness--literal sickness that has dogged me at various times this year, including the week after this show aired, when I was listening back to it, such that I feel I haven't really been in my right mind at any point in 2018, and a general malaise that has me not wanting to do or think about much of anything. Isn't it good to hear from me?

So anyway, I can't tell you how this show "felt" at the time, though it was good to be able to speak properly (inasmuch as I do) and not to have to commemorate a death (can't help seeing myself as Casey Kasem here). Looking at the playlist, I can faintly remember some good segues. The selection looks tight. I think you will enjoy this, but who am I to say?

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 January 31, 2100-2300:

1. "Margaritifer" | Dan Terminus | Automated Refrains | Blood Music
2. "Cemetry Gates - Demo" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
3. "Hello Victim! Awake!" | Coil with Black Sun Productions | The Plastic Spider Thing | Rustblade
4. "Silly Girl" | Chester | Holding Hands Under a Cloudless Sky: A Tribute to the Television Personalities Volume 4 | The Beautiful Music
5. "Perishan" | El Mahdy Jr. (feat. Hamorabi 13th imam) | Time to Sell the Golden Teeth | Boomarm Nation
6. "Tanith" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats [reissue] | Mute
7. "Merle's Boogie Woogie" | Merle Travis | Hillbilly Music...Thank God! Volume 1 | Bug / Capitol
8. "Covehithe" | Second Storey | Lucid Locations | Houndstooth
9. "Iambic 5 Poetry" | Shobaleader One | Elektrac | WARP
10. "Zandra" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
11. "Pain" | Quays & Lixo | GETME! Is Ten | GETME!
12. "The Color of Love is Blue" | The Veldt | Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose | self-released
13. "Strait of Dover" | Last Days | Seafaring | N5MD
14. "Giggles" | Blue Hawaii | Tenderness | Arbutus
15. "Teenage Witch" | John Maus | Screen Memories | Ribbon
16. "Ghabash" | Muqata'a | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
17. "Nieznajoma" | Tamten | Diamentowa Sutra EP | Transatlantyk
18. "Let Me Sing" | Saint Abdullah | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
19. "What About Brian - Alt. Version" | CTMF | What About Brian (Alt. Version) | Damaged Goods
20. "Arpo" | Call Super | Arpo | Houndstooth
21. "Tonal Bath For Bubbles" | Gregg Kowalsky | L'Orange L'Orange | Mexican Summer
22. "Being Home Tonight" | Muziekkamer | 80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1 | Contort Yourself
23. "Australasie 2" | Astrobal | Memories of Stars EP | Karaoke Kalk
24. "Endless" | Know V.A. | Black Label | Signal Life
25. "Breathe In" | Sky High | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
26. "Balustrade" | Achterbahn D'Amour | Acid Test 13 | Acid Test
27. "DLR" | Bicep | Glue EP | Ninja Tune
28. "Detours" | Saine | For The Dreamers | Omena
29. "Sem Teto" | Cinema | Outro Tempo | Music from Memory
30. "Zapoi" | Rone | Mirapolis | Infine
31. "The Neverending" | James Holden & The Animal Spirits | The Animal Spirits | Border Community
32. "I've Got Acid (On My Brain) (Acapella)" | John Tejada & Justin Maxwell | I've Got Acid (On My Brain) | Acid Camp
33. "Haunting Ex" | Giant Head | Lessons | Front and Follow
34. "Post Self" | Godflesh | Post Self | Avalanche
35. "got HYPE" | Glow In The Dark | Into Existence | Sonar Kollektiv
36. "The Split" | Howard Hello | Election Year | Temporary Residence Limited
37. "En Espiritu" | Jorge C. | Sueno Viejo | Dopeness Galore

finding it hard

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Drink the Long Draught, Dan: Transmission 392, 2018 January 24

I'm going to be petty for a moment and talk about an inconvenient aspect of death. It can really mess with the plans of the living. Here I was, planning on featuring a Leslie Winer record (NB that I did anyway) and in comes the news that Mark E Smith has died. What on earth am I supposed to do with this? I did what I could, and what I always do--I played a Fall song on the radio.

Should I have gone with two hours' worth? Maybe, though frequent listeners will already be overly familiar with my Fall habit. I certainly didn't become acquainted with the band through large doses. Funnily enough, my first relevant memory is of hearing a tune in the car, age 16 or 17, not knowing who it was, having it stick in my head firmly enough to drive me crazy with curiosity, and finding out years later that it was "Barmy." There was also Friend of Bombast Jeremy, who had a copy of Palace of Swords Reversed that he would try to get me to listen to but I couldn't seem to be bothered, most of the time. Still, things stuck with me--bits of "Leave the Capitol," "Fit and Working Again" and "Kicker Conspiracy," and all of "Marquis Cha-Cha." At some point I bought this compilation and was bowled over by the rendition of "Wings." (Ah, this one, here! So good!) I wouldn't call this succumbing instantaneous or gradual; it was very random and staccato. Things just lingered, waiting to be latched onto. Seems fitting.

It's been weird, the last 20 years, watching the man's personal decline--hearing about the belligerence, the drinking, the verbal and physical violence. I have to say that I haven't made sense of it--I'm unable to bracket off the "product" from the personal, but I also can't stop listening. I can't quit him though I know I probably should. It is probably like this for other people.

If this seems like an abrupt ending, that's how life works.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 January 24, 2100-2300:

1. "Other (Justin K Broadrick as JK FLESH Remix)" | S U R V I V E | RR7387 | Relapse
2. "PHANTOM BRICKWORKS II - Edit" | Bibio | PHANTOM BRICKWORKS II (Edit) | WARP
3. "Never Enough Time" | Michael C. Sharp | Never Enough Time | Holodeck
4. "I Think About Your Car When I Drive Mine" | Jori Hulkkonen | Don't Believe In Happiness | My Favorite Robot
5. "Babe" | Ruby My Dear | 15 Years of PRSPCT | PRSPCT
6. "Choose Ur Illusion - Jay Glass Dubs Version" | Bonebrokk | Hollow Systems | Trial and Error
7. "La Riviere Des Perles" | Becker & Mukai | Eyes | Sas
8. "Fieldofdreams" | Om Unit | Self | Cosmic Bridge
9. "Cold Sweat" | Phuture-T | Fugitive Drummer / Cold Sweat | Inperspective
10. "Hip Priest" | The Fall | Hex Enduction Hour | Superior Viaduct
11. "The Cross" | R.I.P. | Street Reaper | Riding Easy
12. "Night Beat" | Odonis Odonis | No Pop | Felte
13. "Lost Flight" | © | The Boy Used To Whistle | Not on label | "Physical Evidence"
14. "V.III" | Papir | V | Stickman
15. "A Year In A Day" | Hannu Karjalainen | A Handful Of Dust Is A Desert | Karaoke Kalk
16. "The Future Is Hurt / Dirt & Fields" | Shackleton with Anika | Behind the Glass | Woe to the Septic Heart
17. "Red Kite like a Dust Mote in my Third Eye (Bee Fart)" | Brian Harris | My Sister's Wedding | self-released
18. "Garden Portal" | Semiomime | Close Ones | Mindtrick
19. "The Boy Used To Whistle" | © | The Boy Used To Whistle | Not on label | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Night Shift" | Wild Ones | Mirror Touch | Topshelf
21. "When He Come Back" | © | The Boy Used To Whistle | Not on label | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Cloudburst Five" | The Belbury Circle | Outward Journeys | Ghost Box

a train to Crewe

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Poured Kerosene on Some Bridges: Transmission 391, 2018 January 17

Finally a good program from 2018! It seems that maybe I have not "lost" it after all. Unburdened by "physical evidence" and "the listening parlour" (I do seem to take joy in saying "it's a featureless program tonight"), I am able to make sense of some segues. Some. It's about damn time. Now, if I could just stop playing Smiths records.

Seems noteworthy that I guess out loud that it's "Roving Iinternational" and not "Raving International." Is that a sign of age, or tiredness, or both, not to mention whatever degree of general malaise I am feeling? To be fair, I'm not really up for raving OR roving these days. A year into--I can hardly name it--our current era, let's say, I'd prefer much of the time to stay in bed. "Were it not that I have bad dreams."

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 January 17, 2100-2300:

1. "How Soon Is Now?" / "Hand In Glove" / "I Want the One I Can't Have" / "Never Had No One Ever" - Live in Boston | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
2. "Another Moon" | Minor Science | Whities 012 | Whities
3. "Wakihi" | Sugai Ken | UkabazUmorezU | Rvng Int'l
4. "Harvest" | Tom Trago | Serene Waters | Voyage Direct
5. "I'm Interesting, Cheerful & Sociable" | Errorsmith | Superlative Fatigue | PAN
6. "A Spark To Light The Hollows" | Hoofus | Lessons | Front and Follow
7. "What A Day" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats [reissue] | Mute
8. "Pull" | Elite Barbarian | Lessons | Front and Follow
9. "As I Get To Know You Better" | Fake Laugh | Fake Laugh | Headcount
10. "Dottie's Messages" | Oliver Cherer | Lessons | Front and Follow
11. "London Bridges" | Grandbrothers | Open | City Slang
12. "Elephant" | Eye O | Deux O & Debut | Public Release
13. "The Triangle" | Gilb'r | Dekmantel 10 Years 07 | Dekmantel
14. "Self Reliance" | TuTH | Transgression | Umor Rex
15. "La Plume Des Armes" | Esmerine | Mechanics of Dominion | Constellation
16. "Kerberos" | MEUTE | Tumult | Tumult
17. "Superflare" | Psycho & Plastic | Kosmopop | Give Us Your Gold
18. "Solarhys" | Chloe | Endless Revisions | Lumiere Noire
19. "Lumen" | Aparde | Glass | KI
20. "Resist Much Obey Little" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Don't Get Lost | A Records
21. "Great Heroes" | Little Axe | London Blues | Echo Beach
22. "Millers Pond" | Headroom | Head in the Clouds | Trouble in Mind
23. "Fine Line" | Alvarius B. | With a Beaker on the Burner and an Otter in the Oven | Abduction
24. "Appointment" | Aathens | Virtue Signal | Blank Editions
25. "Soar" | Kink | Playground | Running Back
26. "Fogged_M1" | Pye Corner Audio | Lessons | Front and Follow
27. "46 Things I Did Today (feat. Little Annie)" | COH | COHGS | Editions Mego
28. "Pangea" | Speakman Sound | Warm | Ears to Learn With

the vowels are missing

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All This Peaceful Wilderness: Transmission 390, 2018 January 10

I am beginning to think 2018 might not be a good year for this program. You have heard, no doubt, of "women laughing alone with salad." Consider this modification--me, crying alonne with my mixtape--and you begin to get a picture of how I have experienced this particular broadcast. It is not for the faint of heart, to begin with--it is a dark, dubby, moody two hours, but then I am such a person and these are such times. The segues are incomprehensible, which means either that Trench Town Dub is the greatest record of all time or I've completely lost it. I'll let you decide!

Note: I speculate that the recordings on this "physical evidence" record were done prior to its release date of 1989. Well, no duh--what I meant was "significantly earlier," but I may have even been wrong about that. If I'm not mistaken, I hear a gated drum sound on at least one of these tracks, so maybe this is mid-to-late 80s stuff. Yes, I listen carefully even when I am annoyed at what I do.

At least my cold is gone. The dulcet tones are back, baby!

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 January 10, 2100-2300:

1. "Space Movement Section 2" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
2. "Sakouro Dub" | Sly & The Revolutionaries | Trench Town Dub | Original Music | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Caju" | Fia Fiell | Domestic Documents Vol 2 | Domestic Documents
4. "Lost and Blind" | Null+Void | Cryosleep | HFN
5. "Fresh Fruit" | Roman Nails | Domestic Documents Vol 2 | Domestic Documents
6. "Streetwise Dub" | Sly & The Revolutionaries | Trench Town Dub | Original Music | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Beachy Head" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats [reissue] | Mute
8. "Unity of Opposites" | Miris | Domestic Documents Vol 2 | Domestic Documents
9. "Hustler Dub" | Sly & The Revolutionaries | Trench Town Dub | Original Music | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Second Mistake" | Ayya | Mono No Aware | PAN
11. "Up the Path and in My Door" | Herb Henson | The Other Side of Bakersfield | Bear Family | "The Listening Parlour"
12. "Mountainside" | Deradoorian | Eternal Recurrence | Anticon
13. "East Tower Stairwell Gathering - Alternative Mix" | Howlround | Lessons | Front and Follow
14. "Gu" | Necro Deathmort | Overland | Profound Lore
15. "It Could Be Now - Interlude" | FD | Alone with Everybody | The North Quarter
16. "The Absolute Territory" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold
17. "Crossing" | Sova Stroj | Refugium | Testtoon
18. "Comprehensive Dub" | Sly & The Revolutionaries | Trench Town Dub | Original Music | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Motif Of A Fish" | Ewan Jansen | Domestic Documents Vol 2 | Domestic Documents
20. "In The Dust Of This Planet" | K-Lone | In The Dust EP | Soundman Chronicles
21. "Wolves" | London Modular Alliance | Wolves EP | Hypercolour
22. "Untitled" | Sly & The Revolutionaries | Trench Town Dub | Original Music | "Physical Evidence"
23. "The Seams of Goodwill - Original Quincux Version" | IX Tab | Lessons | Front and Follow
24. "Black Shore" | Kangaroo Skull | Domestic Documents Vol 2 | Domestic Documents
25. "Jungle Man Dub" | Sly & The Revolutionaries | Trench Town Dub | Original Music | "Physical Evidence"
26. "Structures and Behavior (Group Dynamics)" | The Mayhem Lecture Series | Structures and Behavior | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)

there's a club if you'd like to go

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I Need To Cling to Something: Transmission 389, 2018 January 3

Please find attached the first Bombast program of 2018, and I must say it is an inauspicious start. "My voice is shot," as I say toward the end of the program when I am giving up on backannouncing, and that's no exaggeration. Elsewhere you will find me experiencing Sean McDonough-worthy adolescent voice cracks, and other indignities. This is on account of a cold I was trying unsuccessfully to fight off, one which would have me convalescing in a Manhattan hotel room a couple days later, during a business trip I was not looking forward to anyway. "A program of many moods and energies?" Not exactly, on this night.

Anyway, we have an elusive 4AD-related piece of Physical Evidence to feature in this program, so that is something. Back in the day, this Garlands compact disc was one of a small handful of reasons why I finally "went digital." It was an expensive medium to jump into, and I had to be convinced, you see. What were the other reasons? As I recall, the cd combining the first two Felt LPs and a 3" (!) cd single by Trisomie 21. For you younger readers and listeners, you have to understand what a novelty it was, in the 1980s, to hear dead silence preceding the onset of music, instead of crackle or hiss. Friend of the program Mr. D. had the cassette of Garlands, which also featured these bonus tracks, and the A/B comparison was mind-blowing. I suppose my mind was easily blown.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 January 3, 2100-2300:

1. "Stuck in the Track at Salford Priors" | Fret | Over Depth | KarlRecords
2. "Dear Heart" | Cocteau Twins | Garlands | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Chile's Crimson Tide" | Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement | Ambient Black Magic | Hospital Productions
4. "Something in My Brain" | The Telescopes | As Light Return | Tapete
5. "Ripleys" | Spectrasoul | How We Live | Ish Chat
6. "Perhaps Some Other Aeon" | Cocteau Twins | Garlands | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Java Dub" | Impact All-Stars | Java Java Java Java - Instrumentals Dubwise Versions | Get On Down
8. "Time to Sell the Golden Teeth" | El Mahdy Jr. (feat. Hamorabi 13th imam) | Time to Sell the Golden Teeth | Boomarm Nation
9. "Dead Fly Disguise" | Brian Harris | My Sister's Wedding | self-released
10. "Guitar" | Hisato Higuchi | She (Reissue) | Family Vineyard
11. "Stretch Out And Wait" / "The Boy With the Thorn In His Side" / "Cemetry Gates" / "Rubber Ring / What She Said / Rubber Ring" - Live in Boston | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
12. "Sa Ou Che" | Cristobal and the Sea | Exitoca | City Slang
13. "Stannum" | Kemper Norton | Lessons | Front and Follow
14. "Speak No Evil" | Cocteau Twins | Garlands | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Tom at the Library" | West Norwood Cassette Library | Lessons | Front and Follow
16. "Brexit Jazz - New Version" | Brexit Jazz | Brexit Jazz Remix EP | Compost
17. "The Garden" | Carla dal Forno | The Garden | Blackest Ever Black
18. "Hazel" | Cocteau Twins | Garlands | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Healthcare" | Ben Frost | The Centre Cannot Hold | Mute
20. "Blind Dumb Deaf" | Cocteau Twins | Garlands | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Release the Bats" | The Birthday Party | Silhouettes & Statues - A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986 | Cherry Red
22. "Dan Dare" | The Wedding Present | Singles 1989-1991 | Manifesto | "The Listening Parlour"
23. "Island Fanfare" | Off World | 2 | Constellation
24. "Friendship Train" | SJOB Movement | Friendship Train | Cultures of Soul
25. "The Mighty 8th" | July Skies | The English Cold [reissue] | Caroline True
26. "Hearsay Please" | Cocteau Twins | Garlands | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Alaska Cruisin" | Walter TV | Carpe Diem | Sinderyn
28. "Voices" | Belia Winnewisser | PE-010 | Prasens Editionen
29. "Pregame" | Blue Hawaii | Tenderness | Arbutus
30. "The Opening" | Spotlights | Seismic | Ipecac
31. "Madeira II (Mae Terra)" | Marco Bosco | Outro Tempo | Music from Memory
32. "Dragou mig" | Hogni | Two Trains | Erased Tapes
33. "Theta v2 (Repetir)" | Existente | Theta Series | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)

it could be now

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