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Chatting All the Chat, Now Look at You: Transmission 388, 2017 December 27

With this mixtape we say good riddance to 2017, an awful year from our perspective, truly one of the worst. My perspective may be too narrow and that may be the problem, but this is my opinion and I am sticking with it. The slow descent into fascism, the degradation of fact, personal stresses and crises, an aborted vacation, an austere holiday season, Lady C falling and concussing herself--right now the idea that time only moves in one direction and therefore we will never revisit these moments is the only thing giving me any hope.

So we say "adieu" by featuring the Legendary Little Annie (yep, still not getting paid)--and I can think of no one better for this occasion. To tell the truth about this particular sausage of a program, I have the cd that combines Short and Sweet with In Dread, but if I recall correctly--sorry, too lazy to consult the database at the moment--we have already featured the latter. So it goes! There are odd moments in this program where one song ends abruptly, giving way to the next song's extremely slow and quiet fade-in. A good program for headphone listening, then! Or you could blast it on your hifi and lull your neighbors repeatedly into false senses of calm.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 27, 2100-2300:

1. "Black and Blue" | The Veldt | Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose | self-released
2. "Going for Gold" | Little Annie | Short and Sweet | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Dirty Joke" | DIRTY SONGS | DIRTY SONGS play DIRTY SONGS | Audika
4. "Boots with Wings" | UUUU | UUUU | Editions Mego
5. "Ambition" | TV21 | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
6. "frikandel [the end bit]" | Brainwaltzera | Poly-Ana | Film
7. "The Friendly Coroner" | Extrawelt | Fear of an Extra Planet | Cocoon
8. "Metronomic Underground" | Stereolab | Serene Velocity: A Stereolab Anthology | Rhino / Elektra / Duophonic | "The Listening Parlour"
9. "Give It To Me" | Little Annie | Short and Sweet | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Big Shot" | Patrick Cowley | Afternooners | Dark Entries
11. "Moonlight" | Ziur | U Feel Anything? | Planet Mu
12. "You, the Night and the Music" | Little Annie | Short and Sweet | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Party Of The Mind" | The Dead Suns | New Dark Age, A Tribute to the Sound | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "If Cain Were Able" | Little Annie | Short and Sweet | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Nobody" | Michael Claus | Memory Protect | 100% Silk
16. "The Homeless Mutants" | Naked Beast | Naked Beast | Guitars and Bongos
17. "Sanfte Grusse" | Voigt & Voigt | Speicher 99 | Kompakt
18. "Watch the World Go Bye" | Little Annie | Short and Sweet | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Metropolis" | Somne | Metropolis EP | Just This
20. "Hanging Pyramid" | Juju & Jordash | Sis-boom-bah! | Dekmantel
21. "Lazuli" | Von Haze | VII | Drone UK
22. "Boys Club" | Johannes Klingebiel | We'll Sea, Part 2 | Mireia
23. "See the Light - Rework" | Sofa Surfers | 20 | Monoscope
24. "Little Man" | Little Annie | Short and Sweet | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
25. "The Queen Is Dead" / "I Know It's Over" - Live in Boston" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
26. "Dieu dans le bordel" | Mirco Magnani + Ernesto Tomasini | Madame E. | Undogmatisch

ere long done do does did

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We're Going To Touch Part of You That's Never Been Touched: Transmission 387, 2017 December 23

Since I never get to, or am never allowed to, do a WRFI broadcast on Christmas Eve, I suppose I will have to make do with another Festivus program. (This may be "inside talk" of the sort with which we had an attraction / repulsion thing going during this broadcast, but whatever.) Nevertheless, this was a good outing. Lady Catharsis and I had a nice mix of "chestnuts" and tunes we had never before played, and the banter was cheery and good. In an added bonus, I resisted the temptation to share all 24 minutes of Oval with our listeners.

And there was reason for cheer--it was the second night of our "Christmas vacation." Little did I know at the time that it would be ten days of mediocre sleep and troubled dreams, most of them dreams of a previous life I am well out of. Looking back, maybe our mood on this night was "premature," or "misplaced," or whatever, but hindsight doesn't cloud the fact that this was a fun show to do, and (I hope) to hear.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 23, 1900-2100:

1. "December" | Teenage Fanclub | Bandwagonesque | DGC
2. "The Secret Touch" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | Time To Tell | Conspiracy International
3. "Christmas Underground" | Kristin Hersh | Banjo's Pavlova | self-released
4. "You Little Shits" | Stereolab | Peng! | Too Pure
5. "Good Morning Blues" | Ella Fitzgerald | Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas | Verve
6. "It's That Time Again" | Screamin' Jay Hawkins & The Fuzztones | Live | Midnight
7. "Fyt" / "Fond Affections" / "The Last Ray" | This Mortal Coil | It'll End in Tears | 4AD
8. "Sleigh Ride" | The Partridge Family | A Partridge Family Christmas Card | Razor & Tie
9. "Spacelab" | Kraftwerk | The Man-Machine | Capitol
10. "Mary Mild" | The Kingston Trio | The Last Month of the Year | Capitol
11. "Must Be Santa" | The Tea Jennies | "Christmas Crackers" | Bandcamp self-release
12. "Sno Cat" | Kristin Hersh | Duchess of York UK Live 2009 | self-released
13. "Quarterdrawing of the Dog" | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Tinderbox | Geffen
14. "Rose Madder" | A Primary Industry | Ultramarine | Sweatbox
15. "One Christmas For Your Thoughts" | The Durutti Column | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule
16. "Jingle Bells" | Ella Fitzgerald | Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas | Verve
17. "Jesus Christ" | Big Star | Big Star's 3rd: Sister Lovers | PVC
18. "My Christmas Card To You" | The Partridge Family | A Partridge Family Christmas Card | Razor & Tie
19. "Christmas Is Now Drawing Near" | Coil | Winter Solstice: North | Eskaton
20. "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" | The Smiths | Hatful of Hollow | WEA

make mine gin and panic

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Queueing for a Shuttle into Space: Transmission 386, 2017 December 20

This program was the second night of a back-to-back engagement. (I brought this on myself.) It was also the fourth program in eight nights. (I brought that on myself too.) If you had asked me beforehand, and no one did, I would never have volunteered! I am so exhausted these days, physically and emotionally. Yet I seem up for it on this night. It must be solstice magic!

Notes: I suspect I've said just about as much as there is for me to say about the Jazz Butcher, except that I find myself enjoying these grainy, older recordings more than I used to. Elsewhere: I am certain the Indie Gods are punishing me for ending an honest to goodness ROCK BLOCK at the beginning of the program by going junglist all of a sudden, giving me (and you) a five-second dropout during "Night Vision" to contemplate the error of my ways. Nevertheless, it's true that I sell myself short during the backannounce. I am a Very Important Person. (And, by the way, so are you.)

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 20, 2100-2300:

1. "Wait in the Car" | The Breeders | Wait in the Car | 4AD
2. "Bigmouth Strikes Again - Demo" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
3. "Marnie" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
4. "The Magic Ray" | The Magic Ray | The Magic Ray | Dischi Autunno
5. "Last Train to Clarkesdale (Back Crack Track)" | Brian Harris | My Sister's Wedding | self-released
6. "JB V. PM" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Night Vision - VIP Mix" | Technimatic | Technimatic Remixed | Shogun Audio
8. "Open The Gift" | Laraaji | Bring On The Sun | All Saints
9. "Distance" | Flying Saucer Attack | Distance [reissue] | VHF
10. "Ten Cats Down (alt. take)" | The Miller Sisters | Hillbilly Fillies & Rockin' Chicks | Charly | "The Listening Parlour"
11. "Outside" | Inner Self | O.E. Outside Experience | 100% Silk
12. "Helena Markos" | Videodrones | Mondo Ferox | El Paraiso
13. "Poly" | Daphni | Joli Mai | Jiaolong
14. "Zombie Love" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Mokou Mokou Blues" | Amadou & Mariam | La Confusion | Because Music
16. "Shot" | The Hipshakes | Shot | Nerve Centre
17. "Lost in France" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Dream Come Now" | Honey | New Moody Judy | Wharf Cat
19. "Reborn After the Road" | Several Definitions | Reborn After the Road | Stil vor Talent
20. "Small Wonder" | The Carpettes | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
21. "The One Who's Hurting Is You" | Sunny & The Sunliners | Mr. Brown Eyed Soul | Big Crown
22. "JB Meets Count Dracula" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Thema II" | Sully | Escape | Keysound
24. "Camus" | The Veldt | Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose | self-released
25. "Broccoli Tempura" | Kitty, Daisy & Lewis | Superscope | Sunday Best
26. "Karma" | Will Lister | Space to Breathe | Joy in Repetition
27. "You Are Digging Your Grave" | Nelson Can | EP3 | Alcopop!
28. "Southern Mark Smith" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Swampland" | Pere Ubu | 20 Years in a Montana Missile Silo | Cherry Red
30. "Rain" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
31. "Falls 2" | Four Tet | New Energy | Text
32. "Dust In Your Eyes - Mark Du Mosch Remix" | Nuno Dos Santos | Trigonometry of Love Remixes | Something Happening Somewhere
33. "A Gleam" | Dmitry Evgrafov | Comprehension of Light | FatCat
34. "Chatter" | L.Zylberberg | PE-010 | Prasens Editionen
35. "Sheet Music" | Simian Ghost | Simian Ghost | Heist or Hit
36. "Harmony Day" | The Mole | De La Planet | Maybe Tomorrow

resembling a thought

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Veering Back into the Usual Unprofessionalism: Transmission 385, 2017 December 19

At long last, a well-executed program. I am in another of those troughs, it seems; it took an opportunity for "hero time," Godfrey's sudden indisposal--is that a word?--for me to show my best radio self. Unlike DJ Danelectro, who preceded me on this night, I couldn't plan or summon much holiday spirit, but perhaps hearing this program within the appropriate season will conjure up some of the hoped-for magic. My built-in "excuse," insofar as I need one, is that there would be two more programs between this one and "the big day."

Surely there are better segues than "Vicar in a Tutu" transitioning into "Crystal Pleasure," but I am willing to be wrong about this. Elsewhere there are moments that vary between lovely and weird and often achieve both qualities. Additionally we see the welcome return of Blancmange! I say so because someone phoned in specifically to tell me how awesome that track is. It must be true.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 19, 2100-2300:

1. "Little Jacket" | Loney Dear | Loney Dear | Real World
2. "Fit to be Tied" | The Veldt | Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose | self-released
3. "Lost at Sea" | Martial Canterel | Lost at Sea | Dais
4. "Arcade Desire" | Laroze | Past Twenty Years | RTCT
5. "The Shape Of Trance To Come" | Lorenzo Senni | XAllegroX / The Shape Of Trance To Come | WARP
6. "Bells" | Wooden Arms | Trick of the Light | Fierce Panda
7. "~42º" | Carbon Based Lifeforms | Derelicts | Blood Music
8. "George's Garden" | Mister Heavenly | Boxing the Moonlight | Polyvinyl
9. "Grow - Nite Jewel Remix" | Barbara Morganstern & Werkstatt | Monika Werkstatt Remixes | Monika
10. "Kitka" | Die Angel | Entropien I | Cosmo Rhythmatic
11. "Groundsboy" | The Fall | New Facts Emerge | Cherry Red
12. "Vicar In a Tutu" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
13. "Crystal Pleasure" | Orlando Julius & Ashiko | Love Peace & Happiness | Hot Casa
14. "Gratitude" | Blancmange | Unfurnished Rooms | Blanc Check
15. "The Swarm of Sweettooth - Child Bite Remix" | Controlled Bleeding | Carving Songs | Artoffact
16. "Fault Line" | Flat Worms | Flat Worms | Text Me
17. "Samba" | The Hipshakes | Shot | Nerve Centre
18. "The Winding Path" | Terminal Cheesecake | Dandelion Sauce of the Ancients | Box
19. "Good Ol' Days" | Pablo Valentino | My Son's Smile | MCDE Recordings
20. "Gravity Can Not Catch You" | Tzusing | In A Moment A Thousand Hits | Bedouin
21. "Cold" | C Cat Trance | Screaming Ghosts | Emotional Rescue / Malka Tuti
22. "Dolce" | I-iii | Dolce / Bun So Nude | Livity Sound
23. "Paron Largo" | Ferenc vs. Eduardo de la Calle | Collab | Motor City Drum Ensemble
24. "Beast" | Phase Fatale | Redeemer | Hospital Productions
25. "Das Expanded, Untitled Riff" | Dedekind Cut | The Expanding Domain (DED005) | Hallow Ground
26. "One Sad Touch" | G.S. Schray | Gabriel | Last Resort
27. "Home Grown" | London Modular Alliance | Home Grown EP | Hypercolour
28. "The Magic in You" | Ulrich Schnauss | No Further Ahead Than Today | Scripted Realities

Put on your best friend's anorak

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My Cloudy Brain Remembers: Transmission 384, 2017 December 14

This outing was less angry for us than the previous one. Indeed, in the intervening day we had come down from that infuriating telephone call and begun to feel remorse. Maybe that old lady--had we mentioned that it was an old lady?--was merely lonely and had difficulty communicating. Maybe we had shut her down in some way. Maybe she was a supporter of the station, or a would-be supporter, and we had alienated her (that probably happened in any case). We are extremely narcissistic and think our umbrage and words matter a lot!

Nevertheless, as we warned, we did not deliver a "lovely" program on this substitute occasion. (The previous program, The Joe Show, had "harmony" as its theme--is "theme" the right word when the songs literally featured harmonies? Is it not "style" or "feature?--making us wonder if we should return to "themed" programs, having burned ourselves out long ago.) But we did deliver a good, weird program, hopefully enjoyable whether you are old and lonely or young-ish and with healthy friendships.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Helen in the Woods" | TORRES | Three Futures | 4AD
2. "Before at the Flat, 'The Aquarium,' Conant Gardens, 10:00 PM" | Taos | Nights | Pont Neuf
3. "Clouds" | Carbon Based Lifeforms | Derelicts | Blood Music
4. "Without You" | Danvers | Omiyage EP | SGOL
5. "Night Valve" | Off World | 2 | Constellation
6. "Law and Panda" | Weaves | Wide Open | Memphis Industries
7. "Circuit" | VVV | Shadow World | Holodeck
8. "Aisling" | John Tejada | Ceol | Kompakt
9. "Everyone Is Falling" | Vessels | The Great Distraction | Different
10. "An Intention" | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith | The Kid | Western Vinyl
11. "Provinces" | City | A Goal Is an Image | Halcyon Veil
12. "Neon Swing" | Juju & Jordash | Dekmantel 10 Years 05 | Dekmantel
13. "For One Moment" | Lee Hazlewood | Love and Other Crimes | LHI | "The Listening Parlour"
14. "Meille" | Hannu Karjalainen | A Handful Of Dust Is A Desert | Karaoke Kalk
15. "Bleeding Eyes" | White Manna | Bleeding Eyes | Agitated
16. "Bagman" | Honey | New Moody Judy | Wharf Cat
17. "Mere Pseud Mag. Ed." | The Fall | Hex Enduction Hour | Superior Viaduct
18. "The Painted Word" | The Pristines | Holding Hands Under a Cloudless Sky: A Tribute to the Television Personalities Volume 4 | The Beautiful Music
19. "San" | Hinosch | Hinosch | TAL
20. "Climate Change" | Display Homes | Display Homes | Tough Love
21. "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others - Demo" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
22. "Thorazine" | Sumerian Fleet | Pendulum | Dark Entries
23. "LPG" | Fvzz Popvli | Fvzz Dei | Heavy Psych Sounds
24. "Patrick" | Juju | Our Mother Was A Plant | Fuzz Club
25. "Searc" | Jabu | Sleep Heavy | Blackest Ever Black
26. "Carretera" | Arce | Lapsus EP | M.I.S.T.
27. "The End of Daydreams" | Behind the Shadow Drops | H a r m o n i c | Temporary Residence Limited
28. "Still" | Nick Hoppner | Box Drop EP | Ostgut Ton
29. "Mirror Mirror" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Pages of Aquarius | Metropolis
30. "Cover From the Sun" |  Destroyer | ken | Merge
31. "Titan's Island" | Ancient Ocean | Titan's Island | Palmetto

A laughable life

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Live in the Light and Breathe the Noise: Transmission 383, 2017 December 13

I was angry on this night, because a listener had made a request in an obnoxious way. "I like what I'm hearing," the caller said, "but this would kick it up a notch." (Who uses Chef Emeril catchphrases in 2017, you were probably wondering. This person.) Like, was it impossible to just ask for a song without intimating that it would make my program better? Requests are already problematic enough in this day and age. There's a tension between everything already being on the internet (as the requested tune was) and our particular status as a listener-supported station. We shouldn't have to be anyone's jukebox, but we more or less must. There is the odd person every now and then who doesn't have internet, but how big a financial backer is such a person going to be?

Anyway I won't poison your experience any further by telling you which song it was that I didn't plan on playing when the evening began. You'll have to figure that out on your own.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 13, 2100-2300:

1. "Welcome" | Orson Wells | Pneumatics | Live at Robert Johnson
2. "Anatomie De Lenfer" | Teresa Winter | Untitled Death | The Death of Rave
3. "Invisible Man (demo)" | The Breeders | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Forever" | Pink Fluid | Pipe Dreams | Horisontal Mambo
5. "Mad World" | Superchunk | Break the Glass / Mad World | Merge
6. "Charles" | Skids | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
7. "Mistress (remix)" | Red House Painters | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
8. "I Don't Know" | UV Pop | In Your Skin | Genetic
9. "New Way of Feeling" | Toby Tobias | The Rain | Delusions of Grandeur
10. "Where Are All Those Puerto Rican Boys?" | Unrest | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
11. "Filter Me Through You" | The Dream Syndicate | Filter Me Through You | Anti
12. "ChakachaMaasaiMbili - feat. Maasai Mbili & Oren Gerlitz" | Gebruder Teichmann | Lost on Earth | Noland
13. "Orere Elejigbo" | Lidaju Sisters | Horizon Unlimited | Knitting Factory
14. "No One Else (But Me)" | Rock Town Express | Funky Makossa | Comb & Razor
15. "This Is The Way (Pt 2)" | Ultra Vivid Scene | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
16. "Heard My Name" | Omni | Multi-task | Trouble In Mind
17. "Shatner" | The Wedding Present | George Best 30 | Scopitones
18. "Firefly" | Heidi Berry | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
19. "Boda Has No Radio" | Ross Alexander | Memorias, Vol. 1 - Bugandan Sacred Places | Sucata Tapes
20. "Your Eyes (remix)" | Underground Lovers | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
21. "The Car" | Apartment | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
22. "I Love You Citizen" | Seeming | Sol: A Self-Banishment Ritual | Artoffact
23. "Totally Freaked Out" | Bettie Serveert | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
24. "Usa" | Ultra Satan | Usa / Usb | Hoga Nord
25. "Happy Time" | Brendan Perry | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
26. "Prism, Pt. 2" | Throwing Snow | Embers | Houndstooth
27. "Syrtos Sta Dyo" | Alexis Zoumbas | A Lament for Epirus, 1926-1928 | Angry Mom | "The Listening Parlour"
28. "Gravity:Repulsion" | Michael Beach | Gravity/Repulsion | Spectacular Commodity
29. "Keep Breaking It Down" | Howard Ivans | Beautiful Tired Bodies | Spacebomb
30. "The Embers" | Enter Shikari | The Spark | Play It Again Sam
31. "Desire Lines (demo)" | Lush | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
32. "The Pillars of Creation" | Electrosoul System & Liquitek | Kosmological Conspiracy | Kos.Mos
33. "Do Yoused To Go" | Anno Stamm | FragmentsB | All City Dublin

Like it or not, I prefer it this way

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Snoring Dark Frequencies into the Night: Transmission 382, 2017 December 6

Please find attached the first December program of the year. It begins well! They all seem to begin well. In my previous life in the theatre, I always wanted to know that I was "in good hands" at the start of a performance. If I felt that way, I could forgive whatever mistakes and weirdness might happen later. If I didn't feel that way I would never feel comfortable. I hope this program makes you feel comfortable, at least at first.

Are there mistakes and weirdnesses here? I'm sorry, is this your first time visiting the podcast site? We start off with Peter Buck, the evening's featured artist, dropping a metric ton of f-bombs in his first song. It got me thinking--there was a time, not too long ago, when I would have felt rebellious playing such a tune. Now--my parents are listening (corollary--will I ever grow up?), I'm tired and sad, and language only seems to free the wrong people in this time.

Happy holidays!

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 6, 2100-2300:

1. "The Golden Age" | Susanne Sundfor | Music for People in Trouble | Bella Union
2. "Czech One" | King Krule | Czech One | XL
3. "Muffler" | Rowan Box | Just Breathe / Muffler | M.I.S.T.
4. "By the Way" | Lee Hazlewood | Love and Other Crimes | LHI | "The Listening Parlour"
5. "Winning" | The Sound | From the Lion's Mouth | Korova
6. "It's Alright" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
7. "All Rolled Up" | F Ingers | Awkwardly Blissing Out | Blackest Ever Black
8. "20 Block Lockdown" | Richard H. Kirk | Dasein | Intone
9. "Migraine" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Kimigayo" | Merzbow | Trax Test (Excerpts from the Modular Network 1981-1987) | Ecstatic
11. "Back a Bit.. Stop" | The Wedding Present | Marc Riley Sessions Volume 2 | Hatch
12. "Return (Peel Session)" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
13. "Travel Without Arriving" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
14. "524" | Cooper Bowman | Maud Variations | Resistance / Restraint
15. "Nowhere No Way" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Shame" | I Speak Machine | Zombies 1985 | Lex
17. "Rodent" | Burial | Rodent | Hyperdub
18. "10 Million BC" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Catching an L" | Greg Fox | The Gradual Progression | Rvng Int'l
20. "No Answers - Concealed Identity Remix" | Soul Intent | No Answers | Exkursions
21. "Hard Old World" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
23. "Divine Voices" | The/Das | Exit Strategies | Life & Death
24. "In a Parallel World - (Alt. Version)" | Wild Billy Childish / CTMF | I've Got a Conflicted Mind | Damaged Goods
25. "Cheap Mimicry" | Terry Malts | Split EP | Emotional Response
26. "Biosolution for Today" | Nostalgia | Trax Test (Excerpts from the Modular Network 1981-1987) | Ecstatic
27. "L.V.M.F." | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Rise Of The White Dwarf" | Pfirter | Double Existence | Mindtrip
29. "Nothing Means Nothing" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
30. "Zahir" | Concealed Identity | No Answers | Exkursions
31. "Derealization" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold

God bless the cold winds and its refreshing consequence

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To Those Who Offend You, Show Mercy: Transmission 381, 2017 November 29

Here is the first post-Thanksgiving program, and therefore the first program of our sixth year on the air. It continues to blow my mind that they let me keep doing this. Back in 2012 I thought maybe I would get ten programs out of my WRFI experience if I didn't offend anybody. That I remain fixated on this--"wow, unbelievable"--and don't just accept it and move forward is what my therapist would call a "frozen shutdown response." I am working on it, I promise.

Ok, I am amused that right off the bat I called the Fort Romeau tune "EMO II." I don't care what anyone thinks. That is accurate. Synths and drum machines from "that time" are emotional. I am realizing that music is a time machine and there is an increasing list of rides I don't want to take. Fort Romeau--if you're reading--I enjoyoed your track!

Do your best this week not to freeze or shut down.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 November 29, 2100-2300:

1. "Emu II" | Fort Romeau | Emulators | Running Back
2. "Raining Horses" | Shit and Shine | Some People Really Know How to Live | Editions Mego
3. "The Truth (Shall Save Us)" | Foundars 15 | Fire Woman | Comb & Razor
4. "Exclam" | Trickfinger | John Frusciante presents Trickfinger II | Acid Test
5. "E.I.A. (Emergency In Africa)" | Daniel Dzidzonu | Unknownland | Zephyrus
6. "Quelqu'un Est Jaloux (Someone Is Jealous)" | Delin T. Guillory & Lewis Lafleur | Aimer et Perdre: To Love & To Lose: Songs, 1917-1934 | Angry Mom Archives | "The Listening Parlour"
7. "You Will Find Out" | Fake Laugh | Fake Laugh | Headcount
8. "T" | Sites 'n Sounds | The Night Is so Dark | Slovenly
9. "Upside Your Head" | Thee Headcoats | The Jimmy Reed Experience | Get Hip | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Final Transmission" | Jochen Heym | Sononaut | Stonedwave
11. "Map to the Stars" | Ducktails | Jersey Devil | New Images
12. "Bright Lights, Big City" | Thee Headcoats | The Jimmy Reed Experience | Get Hip | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Lullabies for the Lost and Forgotten" | Beastie Respond | Information City | Foul Up
14. "Gentle Soul" | Four Tet | New Energy | Text
15. "Honest I Do" | Thee Headcoats | The Jimmy Reed Experience | Get Hip | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Impotent Garden" | Violence | Human Dust To Fertilize the Impotent Garden | PTP
17. "Natural Tradition" | Beaches | Second of Spring | Chapter Music
18. "Simple Things" | Carmen Villain | Infinite Avenue | Smalltown Supersound
19. "Hay Fever" | 14 Iced Bears | 14 Iced Bears [reissue] | Optic Nerve
20. "Silver Lining" | Makoto | Salvation | Hospital
21. "Out Here" | Lord of the Isles | Permanent Vacation X (10 Years Label Anniversary) | Permanent Vacation
22. "High and Lonesome" | Thee Headcoats | The Jimmy Reed Experience | Get Hip | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Vespa" | Bicep | Bicep | Ninja Tune
24. "Cielo" | Tensnake | Permanent Vacation X (10 Years Label Anniversary) | Permanent Vacation
25. "Fade Away" | Dead Man's Chest | Trilogy Dubs, Vol. 3 | Ingredients
26. "I Remember" | Thee Headcoats | The Jimmy Reed Experience | Get Hip | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Party in the Dark" | Mogwai | Every Country's Sun | Rock Action
28. "Ain't That Lovin' You Baby" | Thee Headcoats | The Jimmy Reed Experience | Get Hip | "Physical Evidence"
29. "The Strange Silence" | John Talabot | Permanent Vacation X (10 Years Label Anniversary) | Permanent Vacation
30. "Theta v5 (Repetir)" | Existente | Theta Series | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)

awkwardly blissing out

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You've Made Me Suspicious of People Who Are Kind: Transmission 380, 2017 November 19

Looking back at this, the final program of our fifth year, I'm feeling better than I did the last time out. It's a slight improvement, but improvement matters! Fitting, isn't it, that this is a fill-in program, as there's no possible way we could have averaged 76 programs a year without them?! And here I was thinking that 2017 had been a light year in terms of this. As always, my perception is a bit off.

Typically, I can't wrap my mind around some of these segues. How could I have thought these would work? For every "Big Dream from a Small Room" into "Fool Babe" (not sure how that one made it into the program but there it is), there's an Akkord into The Smiths (not sure how much longer I can indulge my Morrissey fixation publicly). There is, additionally, at least one point where I begin to play a song for the second time on the night. But I am pretty sure it is a good song, and quality matters.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 November 19, 2100-2300:

1. "Extricate" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
2. "The Great Dying" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold
3. "Big Dream from a Small Room" | Brian Harris | My Sister's Wedding | self-released
4. "Fool Babe" | Shelley Short | Pacific City | Mississippi Modern
5. "Crisis" | Gerry Read | New Junk City | Ramp Recordings
6. "Greenland" | The Wedding Present | Going, Going... | Scopitones
7. "Moonflower" | Auburn Lull | Hypha | Azure Vista
8. "This Is Your Life" | Glaxo Babies | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
9. "A Single Hellfire Missile Costs $100,000" | Ben Frost | The Centre Cannot Hold | Mute
10. "Dead Pop Stars" | Altered Images | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
11. "Static Burn" | Lina Tullgren | Won | Captured Tracks
12. "Gaslighter" | Faerground Accidents | Co-Morbid | Louder Than War
13. "Set Me Free" | THE TINOPENERS | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
14. "Ghost" | The Horrors | V | Wolf Tone
15. "Fire With Fire" | Fred V & Grafix | Cinematic Party Music | Hospital
16. "Wild Dub" | Generation X | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
17. "Instrumental" | Florist | If Blue Could Be Happiness | Double Double Whammy
18. "I'd Rather Spend My Time With You" | Flamin' Groovies | Fantastic Plastic | Sonic Kicks / Severn
19. "Jamaica 88" | Psychic Health | Exclusion | Time No Place
20. "Strain" | Chelsea Wolfe | Hiss Spun | Sargent House
21. "DRUMMER MAN" | Tonight | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
22. "Chainsaw Massacre" | Utopia Production | Trax Test (Excerpts from the Modular Network 1981-1987) | Ecstatic
23. "It's Coming to a Point" | Sløtface | Try Not to Freak Out | Propeller
24. "Trybuna Ludu" | B-Sides | Trax Test (Excerpts from the Modular Network 1981-1987) | Ecstatic
25. "Unite et Litre" | Baloji | 64 Bits & Malachite | Bella Union
26. "First Time" | The Boys | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
27. "You Are Me And I Am You" | Jesu Sun Kil Moon | 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth | Caldo Verde
28. "Midnight Cowboy" | Acetone | 1992 - 2001 | Light in the Attic
29. "Big Shot" | Bark Psychosis | Hex | Fire
30. "Do the Robot" | The Saints | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
31. "Surgical Lights (Mike Butler Mix)" | Kids On A Crime Spree | Split EP | Emotional Response
32. "Momento Mori" | Siriusmo | Comic | Monkeytown
33. "Night Train" | John Barera & Will Martin | Proceed to the Root | 2MR
34. "RCVR" | Akkord | RCVR / XMTR | Houndstooth
35. "Never Had No One Ever - Demo" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
36. "Something Changed" | A House in the Trees | What Am I Supposed To Do? | Handsome Dad
37. "Volumes" | Minor Science | Whities 012 | Whities

emo, too

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Asterisks in My Eyelids: Transmission 379, 2017 November 15

Lately I have been thinking a good deal about negativity--what its uses might be, what it says about the bearer, what it does to the soul. Depression has such a strong hold on me these days! But this is somewhat true of all days, my dear Bombasticons. Sometimes I even doubt that this program nourishes me, though I can't imagine life without it. And I might have to--a "little bird" tells me that our recent fundraiser generated some 20% of the station's annual budget. Should I rue the missing 80% or take delight that people love us enough to give what they gave? Should I borrow future grief over programs that won't air or should I be grateful that I have done nearly 400 of these?

Musical notes: that Durutti record, though legendary, arrived in awful shape for a new record--so much for ambivalence about negativity! But seriously, what is wrong with vinyl these days? I have had a couple of similar experiences recently. Segues--who gives a toss? In this program they are fairly bad, and hopefully the songs compensate for that.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 November 15, 2100-2300:

1. "Slam Dunk in a Black Hole" | The Comet Is Coming | Channel The Spirits | Leaf
2. "Bad Blood" | Emperor | Critical Music Presents: 15 Years of Underground Sonics | Critical Music
3. "Florence Sunset" | The Durutti Column | Greetings Three | Tiger Bay | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Passenger" | El Mahdy Jr. (feat. Hamorabi 13th imam) | Time to Sell the Golden Teeth | Boomarm Nation
5. "Nowhere" | Lone Taxidermist | Trifle | Memetune
6. "He's Royal" | ATKI2 | Tribute to Disc Shop Zero | Idle Hands
7. "Deep Think, Straight Talk" | Arthur Miles | Night Flight | All My Thoughts
8. "Voices" | Indian Wells | Where the World Ends | Friends of Friends
9. "For Friends in Italy" | The Durutti Column | Greetings Three | Tiger Bay | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Boy with a Gun" | The Names | German Nights | Factory Benelux
11. "octobre" | exm | Modulus | Touched
12. "A Lot Of Wind" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
13. "Meng" | Iona Fortune | Tao Of I | Optimo
14. "State of Presence" | Pional | Permanent Vacation X (10 Years Label Anniversary) | Permanent Vacation
15. "Jigsaw" | My Nu Leng & Friction | Portal EP | Shogun
16. "Mechta" | DJ Heure | Mechta | Distant Hawaii
17. "I'm Drifting" | Mystic Eyes | Mysterious | Burning Sounds
18. "All That Love and Maths Can Do" | The Durutti Column | Greetings Three | Tiger Bay | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Nescience Is Not Ignorance" | Sim Hutchins | Vantablank Stare EP | UIQ
20. "Yellow Coat" | Screamin' Jay Hawkins | At Home with Screamin' Jay Hawkins | Cornbread
21. "Souviens-toi (feat. Hasawa)" | Labelle | univers-ile | Infine
22. "This Is Dissent" | Nordra | Nordra | Sige
23. "San Giovanni Dawn" | The Durutti Column | Greetings Three | Tiger Bay | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Tuesday Paris Texas" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 8 | Hippie Dance

cinematic party music

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