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U_D_M Detour 30, 2017 February 12

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STILL IN CONTROL of the Bombastic web archive, it is I, Guy LeBatard, whether you like it or not. If not, make your own adventures. This broadcast did happen on a "dark afternoon"--sadly my appointed time of day was becoming brighter and brighter, and my brief season of transmitting was nearing its end. But this is a good program, suitable for whatever! Vertical, orizzontal, diagonal, your activities may vary. A technical note: I didn't know and couldn't decide how to pronounce Ryan Crosson's name, but on reflection I do prefer "croissant." Ryan--I do not love you because you are tasty; you are tasty because I love you. Think on this.

U_D_M playlist, 2017 February 12, 1700-1800:

1. "Bambi Hands" | Ryan Crosson | MDRNTY001 | MDRNTY
2. "I Don't Want To Watch You Read - The Golden Filter Remix" | Marc Houle | Silver Siding EP | Innervisions
3. "Orizzonte" | Luca Ballerini | Dots & Pearls 3 | Coccon
4. "Abstract of Expression" | The Durutti Column | Fidelity | Les Disques du Crepuscule
5. "E" | Prins Thomas | Principe Del Norte | Smalltown Supersound
6. "Screaming With A Blocked Nose" | Arnaldo | Psychic Advisor | Smallville
7. "E to E - Ge-Ology Remix feat MdCL" | Adesse Versions | Push It Along EP | Heist
8. "Waiting Ground" | Frank & Tony | Waiting Ground | Scissor & Thread

i love narcotics

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U_D_M Detour 29, 2017 February 5

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YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE at a post by Guy LeBatard, accompanying another sonic adventure in mindless hedonism. "This unfolds" now, wherever you happen to be, but its "original" airing, if it was not always already happening somewhere in block time, was on the day of The Big Football Game. Not that the association means anything, but "real" time listeners got a taste of the violence of spectacle prior to the spectacle of violence, if in fact there is a relevant difference.

Bring on the rotary cocktails and permanent vacations!

U_D_M playlist, 2017 February 5, 1700-1800:

1. "Nehmet und Esset" | Deo & Z-Man | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | Hafendisko
2. "This Unfolds" | Four Tet | There Is Love In You | Domino USA
3. "Die Wiederkehr" | Obscure Shape & SHDW | Realm of Consciousness | Afterlife
4. "Dawn 808" | Lawrence | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | Hafendisko
5. "Wee Hours" | Echonomist | Dusk EP | Rotary Cocktail
6. "The Lattice" | Petar Dundov | At The Turn of Equilibrium | Music Man
7. "South of Mel" | Adam Johnson | Chigliak | Merck
8. "Brooklyn Bridge" | Alex Burkat | Permanent Vacation 4 | Permanent Vacation

expression of the abstract

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U_D_M Detour 28, 2017 January 29

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From the end of the world--do we dare to dream?--it is Guy LeBatard, bringing you another hour of my "less easily decipherable than I thought" program. Since all culture is simultaneous now I won't bother with telling you what "was" happening when I spun these tunes, but I can assure you that this abdication is NOT because I don't "remember." What is happening NOW is what matters, if anything does.

U_D_M playlist, 2017 January 29, 1700-1800:

1. "Dawn - Green Mix" | Joris Voorn | This Story Until Now | Green
2. "Water Vein - DJ Yogurt & Moja Remix" | Asian Psilocybe Foundation | Water Vein EP | Mental Groove
3. "Freudian Slip" | Arnaud Rebotini | Zone 27: Danger Zone - EP | Vinyl Factory
4. "Acidwave" | Omar V & Mario Aparicio | Vi kal it AEsid | Full Pupp
5. "Autopop" | Adam Johnson | Chigliak | Merck
6. "N.2guts" | Einzelkind & Robin Scholz | Cocoon Compilation P | Cocoon
7. "Frequency Graven" | Drafted | Frames From the Lake EP | Balans
8. "Surf Smurf - Rebolledo Short Version" | Munk & Rebolledo | Mushroom House EP1 | Toy Tonics
9. "Ping-Pong" | The Durutti Column | The Return of the Sporadic Recordings | Kooky

3,000 miles east of Mel

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U_D_M Detour 27, 2017 January 8

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Bonjour! Guy LeBatard, checking in with another program from the "distant" past. The pipeline is drying up. We are nearing the end. But here is an hour's worth of good "entertainment," or whatever. Were I the type to write long treatises--I never "showed much promise," or so they told me--I would figure out whether I find it more distasteful that music is made to be used as a backdrop for some other activity or that some musicians insist that you give their product your full attention.

It is a good thing that I am not that type!

Anyway, kid catharsis tells me that this was a very satisfying listen while he was punishing himself on the arc-trainer, so I suppose we are to trust him?

U_D_M playlist, 2017 January 8, 1700-1800:

1. "Electrica Salsa (feat. Sven Vath) [Roman Flugel Remix]" | Off | Electrica Salsa Revisited (feat. Sven Vath) | Cocoon
2. "Four Squares" | Adam Johnson | Chigliak | Merck
3. "St3am" | Nico Purman | Pattern Recognition | Vakant
4. "Frustration" | Carl Craig | More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art | SSR
5. "No Fool" | Tensnake | Freundchen EP | True Romance
6. "Should I Stay" | Magdalena | 10 Years DIYnamic | DIYnamic
7. "I Gave My Love (Shan & Gerd Janson Edit)" | Move D | Move D Presents House Grooves Vol. 1 | Misfit Melodies
8. "Differentiator" | Gregor Tresher & Petar Dundov | Spike | Cocoon
9. "Lolog" | Alex Under | Kompakt: Total 16 | Kompakt

gonna take you right into the

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U_D_M Detour 26, 2017 January 1

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Guy LeBatard here, wishing you the best of luck in 2017. I was spending the holidays "down south," with the Catharsis family. Some of "kid's" clumsiness must have rubbed off on me. This is a clumsy hour and a dreaded symmetrical selection. Plus, I played the same Carl Craig tune for the second program in a row. "Honor thy error as a hidden intention?" Get stuffed, Brian Eno, and go back to making music for shopping malls or whatever it is you do.

U_D_M playlist, 2017 January 1, 1700-1800:

1. "Orion - Luci's Travel" | Luciano | Alma Sounds | Cadenza
2. "Interstellar" | Hugh Mane | Permanent Vacation 4 | Permanent Vacation
3. "At Les" | Carl Craig | More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art | SSR
4. "Impressions of a Dawn (Alba in 4/4)" | Luca Ballerina | Dots & Pearls 3 | Coccon
5. "The Change - Jacques Renault Remix" | Baldo | The Change | Good Ratio
6. "Disappear" | Julia Govor & Kamran Sadeghi | Dots & Pearls 3 | Coccon
7. "Border" | Matthew Styles | Metro | Ostgut Ton
8. "False Readings On" | Eluvium | False Readings On | Temporary Residence Limited

electrical salsa

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U_D_M Detour 25, 2016 December 18

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Happy holidays, from Guy LeBatard! No doubt, the more pedantic among you will point out that it is currently August, but time means nothing to me. Please find attached a program that I did...sometime. It strikes me, in retrospect, as rather pleasing. Though I sound a bit down "on tape," I was delivering appropriate mindlessness for the listening area, and beyond.

I am discovering that a trait I share with kid catharsis, who "hosts" this archive, is a desire for shallowness of affect above all things. Is it standing in for authenticity, humility, lack of commercial appeal? This could certainly be. Words, effort, "balls-out" commitment--I don't know what to do with these, in all honesty. I prefer states of being, undisturbed. A death wish? That's for someone else to figure out, in their free time.

U_D_M playlist, 2016 December 18, 1700-1800:

1. "Timebomb - VIP Mix" | John Tejada | Timebomb | Palette
2. "Prelog Strain" | Init | Correspondant Compilation 04 | Correspondant
3. "At Les" | Carl Craig | More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art | SSR
4. "Broncos - Natureboy Gold & Marlon Hoffstadt Rework" | Marlon Hoffstadt | Coach Mike | Retrograde
5. "Trans-Atlantic Journey? We've Been Here!" | Damon Bell | Stand By Me EP | Burek
6. "Hedione" | La Fleur | Hedione EP | Watergate
7. "Poseidon" | Woo York | Realm of Consciousness | Afterlife
8. "2nd Movement" | Johannes Brecht | 10 Years DIYnamic | DIYnamic
9. "Seaside Special" | Fantastic Man | Permanent Vacation 4 | Permanent Vacation

impressions of Don

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U_D_M Detour 24, 2016 November 13

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Punching in once again, I am Guy LeBatard. Being a "radio regular," and chronicling that regularity, made me a little bit sick, looking back. And we shouldn't look back anyway. So I did not, but at the moment I am feeling dragged back into responsibility by forces I do not understand. It seems I can only quet them by pressing onward.

What sort of spectacular fascination you might craft from this hour of radio escapes me, but what's new? I find the content here a bit more "organic" than usual, without the segues necessarily being that way. Conscious resistance? Sure, we can call it that. Words don't mean anything anymore.

U_D_M playlist, 2016 November 13, 1700-1800:

1. "Love Cry" | Four Tet | There Is Love In You | Domino USA
2. "Jekaterinburg" | Adriatique | 10 Years DIYnamic | DIYnamic
3. "New York, New York" | Ponty Mython | Deep Love 100 | Dirt Crew
4. "Emeralds" | Locked Groove | Realm of Consciousness | Afterlife
5. "The Choice" | Redshape | Cocoon Compilation P | Cocoon
6. "Miami Logic" | Metronomy | Summer 08 | Because Music
7. "Psycho Hub" | Matthew Oh | Psycho Hub EP | Taped Artifact
8. "Solitaire" | Quenum | Solitaire | Cadenza
9. "Ivys Boogie" | Prins Emanuel | Permanent Vacation 4 | Permanent Vacation

we've been here

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Occasionally Lucid Commentary: Transmission 359, 2017 July 26

Currently having a lot of thoughts about time. This is the final broadcast before the Catharsis Family goes on vacation. We haven't done this in FIVE YEARS. Much has changed since then. BOMBAST was not a thing in summer 2012--for that matter, WRFI was barely a thing. I was a "gentleman of leisure" at the time--I guess that's called "taking a gap year" now, though mine was more than a year. I almost went feral. I would have been happy to stay in the wilds of California and never return to society.

ANYWAY.

Listening back to this program was strangely dissociative (dissociating?). Though it is SO RECENT (we're all caught up, for a fleeting moment) I seem to remember none of it. What was I doing at the time? How had I chanced upon these tunes? While I'm doing my own (poor) David Byrne imitation, I'm going to find an arbitrary, unrelated hill that I'm willing to die on--"The Overload" sounds more like Joy Division, in style and substance (even though reportedly the band had only heard about JD) than 90% of "postpunk" strivers. Read someone dissing this track yesterday and I just won't have it.

ANYWAY.

Things get rough toward the end, or perhaps just lazy, but it's all good.

See you August 16.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 July 26, 2100-2300:

1. "007 Shanty Town" | Desmond Dekker | Monkey Business | Trojan
2. "Zhao Hua" | HVAD & Pan Daijing | Mono No Aware | PAN
3. "Empty Chamber" | Grails | Chalice Hymnal | Temporary Residence Limited
4. "Throwing Lines" | Kelly Lee Owens | Kelly Lee Owens | Smalltown Supersound
5. "Splatter" | LTGL | The Gold Play | Tangram
6. "Coming Down" | Bowery Electric | Beat: 20th Anniversary Edition | kranky
7. "Filthy Sun in Diminished Light" | Cindytalk | The Labyrinth of the Straight Line | Editions Mego
8. "Ascension" | The Comet Is Coming | Death to the Planet | Leaf
9. "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate" | Mission of Burma | Vs. | Matador
10. "I Live in Eastcote" | Brian Harris | Washed Up Man | self-released
11. "Dead West" | Moon Duo | Killing Time [reissue] | Sacred Bones
12. "Kelmeh Oula" | Kinematik | Ala' | Ruptured
13. "Fracture" | Kailin | Fracture | Mistry
14. "Cosmic Child" | Greg Shepherd | Divine EP | Finefood
15. "Je Ne Veux Pas Travailler" | Unkonwn Artist | unknown album | unknown label | "The Listening Parlour"
16. "Dandelions" | Terminal Cheesecake | Dandelion Sauce of the Ancients | Box
17. "Contact the Fact" | Lyfe Indoors | New Dark Age, A Tribute to the Sound | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
18. "Space Movement Section 4" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
19. "Citizen Lane" | Orange Crate Art | Quantum Distortion in Empty Space | self-released
20. "Another Dark Hour" | Noveller | A Pink Sunset For No One | Fire
21. "Memories" | Stefano Ghittoni & DJ Rocca | Atemporal Space Tests | Schema
22. "Night Moves" | Basic Rhythm | The Basics | Type
23. "Real Man" | Gnod | JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE | Rocket
24. "///" | Second Woman | S/W | Spectrum Spools
25. "Beat on the Brat" | Between the Cities Are Stars | Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, A Ramones Reverence | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "Sunclue" | Samuel Rohrer | Range of Regularity | Arjunamusic
27. "Strangers" | Raphael Danilo | Strangers | Pauls Musique

indifference on the wind

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Cleaner Lyrics, For the Most Part: Transmission 358, 2017 July 22

Welcome to Installment Four of the Junior Experiment. It occurs to me that we had a short-lived feature once (I think it was literally once) which we called "Junior Selector," in which some tune that struck Junior's fancy at the moment made it to air in the same way "Listening Parlour" tunes do. IIRC it was "Kether Hot Knives" by A Certain Ratio, of all things. What taste! And where did it go?

I should not waste too much time lamenting, because on this occasion she brings in "a Stones record we both agree on" (there are only a few!). She gets nervous when I remind her that her promise that the tunes are suitable for daytime airplay will only bring us more scrutiny, but not nervous enough to opine quite candidly on the subject of "You Can't Always Get What You Want." I have changed my mind about something I said during the program. I hope that Mick and Keef ARE listening, and, gents, I hope you drop my daughter a note--she would love that.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 July 22, 1700-1900:

1. "Nishapur" | Mythic Sunship | Land Between Rivers | El Paraiso
2. "Midnight Rambler" | The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed | London
3. "You Got the Silver" | The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed | London
4. "Monkey Man" | The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed | London
5. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" | The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed | London
6. "As Tears Go By" | Naomi & The Boys | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
7. "I'd Like To Know" | Naomi & The Boys | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
8. "How to Catch a Girl" | Rita Chao & The Quests | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
9. "Hanky Panky" | Nancy Sit | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
10. "My Boy Lollipop" | Sakura & The Quests | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
11. "Come Back When You Grow Up" | Nancy Sit | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
12. "Fever" | Nancy Sit | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
13. "Runaway Girl" | U-Roy | Dread In A Babylon | Get On Down
14. "Chalice in the Palace" | U-Roy | Dread In A Babylon | Get On Down
15. "I Can't Love Another" | U-Roy | Dread In A Babylon | Get On Down
16. "Dreadlocks Dread" | U-Roy | Dread In A Babylon | Get On Down
17. "The Great Psalms" | U-Roy | Dread In A Babylon | Get On Down
18. "Black Mollies" | S U R V I V E | Survive | Holodeck
19. "Scalar Wave" | S U R V I V E | Survive | Holodeck
20. "Shunting Yard" | S U R V I V E | Survive | Holodeck
21. "Dirge" | S U R V I V E | Survive | Holodeck
22. "I Want a Dog" | Dirk von Lowtzow | Dirk von Lowtzow Plays Pet Shop Boys & Neil Young | Martin Hossbach

workin' an' practicin'

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Spiritually and Emotionally Uplifting Properties: Transmission 357, 2017 July 19

I wonder what my opinion of this program was on the night. It couldn't have been as favorable as it is right now, because upon playback it is AWESOME. But then, it is ten days later--#theorycamp is ended, my mind is finally clearing, and my own greatness is revealed to me at last. Do you want excellence in content and technique? It is all here.

Sadly I do not own this Jazz Butcher compilation on vinyl--if I recall correctly, Friend of Bombast Jeremy does, or did once. I forget whether his copy came with the elusive 7" whose contents did not make it onto this cd (but did land on one of the other umpteen Jazz Butcher anthologies, and on iTunes, so they would not be "Physical Evidence" anyway, I guess). ANYWAY, this release and I go way back. I could probably have done with a similar degree of familiarity with Those Who Walk Away, probably playing that tune because I liked its ambience but finding myself totally unnerved by the "content" and needing to read PSAs over it.

I also have some opinions on record titles. "Oriental Special" is, I'm sure, meant to be ironic, but it's 2017 and that doesn't work. Also, "Madonnawhore?" I will take any random Shit and Shine title over that, seven days a week.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 July 19, 2100-2300:

1. "Agrim Agadez" | Etran de L'Air | Agrim Agadez: Musique Guitare De La Republique Du Niger | Sahel Sounds
2. "Golden Egg" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
3. "Groovin' In The Bus Lane" | The Jazz Butcher | Big Questions | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
4. "If I Was With A Woman" | Ian Dury | New Boots And Panties!! [reissue] | Demon
5. "Bruma" | Humberto Polar | Anatema | Discos Mono
6. "The Pill" | Loretta Lynn | The Definitive Collection | MCA Nashville / Decca | "The Listening Parlour"
7. "Sit and Cry" | Pat Kelly | Lonely Man | Burning Sounds
8. "Sounds from the Hosseinieh" | Saint Abdullah | The Sounds of Evil - Vol. 1 | Boomarm Nation
9. "Conspiracy" | The Jazz Butcher | Big Questions | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Alabaster" | Alberich / Lussuria | Borgia | Hospital Productions
11. "She Hacked My Head" | Brian Harris | Washed Up Man | self-released
12. "Forever" | The Jazz Butcher | Big Questions | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Who / Blank Pass" | You Still Have Friends | The Never Years | M.I.S.T.
14. "Marsoul Alhoub" | Abdou El Omari | Nuits de Printemps avec Abdou El Omari | Radio Martiko
15. "People" | Voilaaa | Des promesses | Favorite
16. "54-46 Was My Number" | Toots & The Maytals | Monkey Business | Trojan
17. "Inner Space" | El Nino & The Southern Oscillations | El Nino & The Southern Oscillations | Innovative Leisure
18. "First Partially Recollected Conversation" | Those Who Walk Away | The Infected Mass | Constellation
19. "With Your Love - Quarion Remix" | Marbert Rocel | In The Beginning Remixes | Compost
20. "Sharon Signs to Cherry Red" | The Kamikaze Pilots | Sharon Signs to Cherry Red [reissue] | Night School
21. "Mersey" | The Jazz Butcher | Big Questions | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
22. "New Dark Age" / "Hot House" | The Sound | From the Lion's Mouth | Korova
23. "El Mundo Sera Feliz" | Tobias | Eyes In The Center | Ostgut Ton
24. "Death Dentist" | The Jazz Butcher | Big Questions | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Blackout" | Chalk Outlines | Come On Feel The NoiZe, BraZil Class '17 | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "Parsifal" | Toby Driver | Madonnawhore | Flenser
27. "The Hairbrush and the Tank" | The Jazz Butcher | Big Questions | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Your House" | Paco Sala | The Silent Season | Denovali
29. "My Boy Lollipop" | Sakura & The Quests | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
30. "Vortex" | Fred P | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture

honest to goodness airwaves

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