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By Pressing Down the Special Key It Plays a Little Melody: Transmission 346, 2017 May 31

It seems like the sensible way to follow a Coil night would be to do a Medway night. Sometimes (regrettably?) I exhibit some sense. So here it is--god knows how many of these we've done. I crack myself up referring to Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! as a "reunion record," but it is (was) the truth. Frequently I forget that it is no longer 1992 or shortly thereafter; that, or the realization of it, must produce the comedy. I can't figure it out.

Listening to this episode, I tried something other than the gym, which, I am gradually figuring out (after a dozen or so years), is a place of intense self-loathing. I reviewed this mostly walking around town. It was quite glorious! Ithaca in summer reminds me of my beloved D-town (as it could only do at this time of year), sunny, quiet, parched, deadly. I like what I like! Regarding the content itself, there weren't too many mistakes here, just a misplaced fader and some slightly abrupt or ill-timed cues. Nothing drastic. A couple of timely references, which seem inevitable these days--"Kid Covfefe" and the timeliness of The Orb. Not quite one for the vaults, but a good use of two hours.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 May 31, 2100-2300:

1. "Groove Is In The Heart" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Don't Get Lost | A Records
2. "Medicine Man" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Ters Okyanus" | Gevende | Kinnardi | Shalgam
4. "The Ballad of Johnny Burma" | Mission of Burma | Vs. | Matador
5. "Held" | Malibu | Mono No Aware | PAN
6. "Canceled" | Hatti Vatti | SZUM | Most
7. "Snooker Club" | Schilling | Hella | Apparel Tonic
8. "Tempest" | Dapayk & Padberg | Harbour | Fenou
9. "Who'll Be Next In Line" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Lost Unfound" | Cindytalk | The Labyrinth of the Straight Line | Editions Mego
11. "Open Universe" | The Solid Doctor | How About Some More Ether: Collected Works 90-95 | Declasse
12. "Toenail" | Scott Franka | The Gym | Quartet Series
13. "Insomnia" | Bioshi | Bedroom Tales | Original Cultures
14. "Stretch Deep - feat. Eve Essex" | James K | Mono No Aware | PAN
15. "Time's Against You" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Somnium" | Mario Batkovic | Mario Batkovic | Invada
17. "4am Exhale - Dave DK Accellerator Mix" | The Orb | The Cow Remixes - Sin In Space, Pt. 3 | Kompakt
18. "Some of us (Camp Century 4)" | You Still Have Friends | The Never Years | M.I.S.T.
19. "Babylon" | Booka Shade | Babylon | Blaufield
20. "The Girl That Radiates That Charm" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Pocket Calculator" | Kraftwerk | Computer World | Warner Bros. | "Listening Parlour"
22. "Limerence" | Yves Tumor | Mono No Aware | PAN
23. "Sad Drummer - Bird of Paradise Remix" | Roe Deers | Sad Drummer EP | Nein
24. "Toxicity" | Evan Caminiti | Toxic City Music | Dust Editions
25. "Pilgrim Trade" | Wire | Nocturnal Koreans | Pinkflag
26. "Dancing Girl" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Falling Again" | Secret Shine | There Is Only Now | Saint Marie
28. "Minute Man" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Airborne" | JFDR | Brazil | White Sun
30. "Loving Is Believing" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
31. "Versatile Dub" | Jay Glass Dubs | New Teeth for an Old Country | Bokeh Versions
32. "See You Shining" | Magic Castles | Starflower | A Recordings

Is it really my fault that i just don't know

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No One Saw Him Coming, Plenty Witnessed His Remains: Transmission 345, 2017 May 24

Recently I promised only really good or really bad programs, and this is a really bad one. What makes me say that? One mistake, early on, which I blame on the computer but is really attributable to my being stupid. I have listened back to this moment three times or so and it makes me cringe. Supposedly you will have an easier time with it, provided you do not easily get embarrassed for other people. But this is the way I think--an otherwise decent show can run aground on one error.

As to what is "otherwise decent" about this broadcast--well, it is a Coil night, to begin with. In another of those "this will probably work better for you than for me" instances, these tunes are pretty chill, especially the first two lengthy ones. Recently I made the mistake of trying to listen to these on the cross-trainer, during a period of acute self-loathing. It was not very "chill!" But I know these have had what I think is their intended effect on me in the past. There is also the somewhat legendary Ramleh, who underscored the self-loathing quite nicely.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 May 24, 2100-2300:

1. "A Space Between" | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Maria Dimension | Soleilmoon
2. "Coming Apart" | Sigha | Metabolism | Token
3. "Gianna Anna - Sundrenched Remix" | Andi Otto | Via (Remixed) | Pingipung!
4. "Cadillac" | CTMF | SQ 1 | Damaged Goods
5. "The Mothership And The Fatherland" | Coil | Astral Disaster | Acme / Prescription | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Hell A" | The Bug / Earth | Concrete Desert | Ninja Tune
7. "City" | Acre | City / You Know | Brainmath
8. "Kambowa" | Mokoomba | Luyando | Out Here
9. "The Greatest Fear" | Safar | In Transit | Ruptured
10. "The Sea Priestess" | Coil | Astral Disaster | Acme / Prescription | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Intervention Stjerner" | Ulrich Schnauss / Jonas Munk | Passage | Azure Vista
12. "Just Let Them Kill Each Other" | Byul.org | Selected Tracks for Nacht Damonen | Alien Transistor
13. "Darkblue Seagrey" | Kyo | I Musik | Posh Isolation
14. "Solar Xub" | Herva | Hyper Flux | Planet Mu
15. "Colourful Flight" | Monolog / Subheim | Conviction | Denovali
16. "Best Time of My Life" | Pat Kelly | Lonely Man | Burning Sounds
17. "Any Lyfe" | Yen Towers | Love Means Taking Action Remixes | Posh Isolation
18. "Orthodox Dub" | Errol Brown | Orthodox Dub | Dub Store
19. "I Don't Want To Be The One" | Coil | Astral Disaster | Acme / Prescription | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Floating on Salt Water" | A Sagittariun | The Magick Box | Elastic Dreams
21. "Ndiguel" | Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force | Yermande | Ndagga
22. "2nd Son Syndrome" | Coil | Astral Disaster | Acme / Prescription | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Entropy" | Ramleh | Circular Time | Crucial Blast

To escape from time forever

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From Pre-Eternity to Post-Eternity: Transmission 344, 2017 May 21

True story: I told myself at around this time that I couldn't do "fill-in" appearances because (a) I was behind on posting the regularly-scheduled broadcasts that I do and (b) I was entering a really busy work period (where we are now). Like most things I promise myself, I bailed on this one. Aron called in sick, on this day, and so I found myself in the Kenny Ritter Memorial Studio a mere 24 hours after my previous fill-in appearance. I used to call stunts like this "hero time." I don't know what to call them now.

HOWEVER, whether in spite of an absence of planning or because of it, this is an excellent program. I am leaning toward the latter. Though mostly current and non-nostalgic except for the Kevin Shields birthday observance, this "mixtape" feels like the spirit of what I used to do in the olden days--long, trippy tunes with excellent segues, not the bite-size "trail mix" and rapid-fire changes I am "into" now. I am frequently reminded that young me had it together in more ways than current me does.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 May 21, 2100-2300:

1. "Loomer" | My Bloody Valentine | Loveless | Creation - Sire
2. "Let's Play Doctor" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 2 | Hippie Dance
3. "A1" | Convextion | Acido 22 | Acido
4. "Zeolites" | Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald | Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald Present Borderland: Transport | Tresor
5. "Don't Come Any Closer" | OKADA | Floating Away from the World | N5MD
6. "SIDE A" | El Mahdy Jr. | Die Before You Die | Boomarm Nation
7. "Tactus Tempus - Tonal" | A Pulse Train | Tactus Tempus | Geej
8. "Dronz 3 - Nefesh" | Richard Pinhas | Reverse | Bureau B
9. "Och Solen Sankte Sig Rod" | Hills | Alive at Roadburn | Rocket

Breakfast with a sea priestess

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Semi-Emergency Saturday: Transmission 343, 2017 May 20

Here is what I thought at the time would be a "rare" substitute appearance on the radio. "As Always I Was Wrong Again." Regardless, we are in good form on this night, even though it is early, and even though we sound like "The Magic Womb" only in places. We Are What We Are. It does feel nice to listen back to a program with few, if any, errors.

I have been looking at "memories" recently on a social-media platform that shall go unnamed. Seeing my program posts from 2016, at around this time, I note that I was panicked and error-prone then, too. (Differently, I have to say, from the 2017 version of My Self.) Well--I have to say that as of this writing I am actually feeling pretty good, some clouds have recently lifted, and I am breathing for the first time in about 8 months. So this means either some high-proficiency programs or some absolute trainwrecks to come. Nothing middling on the horizon.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 May 20, 1900-2100:

1. "Love Thirteen (Island Step)" | Why Be? | Love Means Taking Action Remixes | Posh Isolation
2. "Hover - Guitar Beatless Mix" | Amberoom | Rhit EP | Ovum
3. "Journey to Luna" | Bustic Kingley Bassey's Anansa Engineers | Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) | Comb & Razor Sound
4. "Pasadena Jam" | Louis' Band | Taste Me | Mondo Groove
5. "The crown on our heads" | Saint Abdullah | The Sounds of Evil - Vol. 1 | Boomarm Nation
6. "The Knife" | Scorpion Violente | The Stalker | Bruit Direct Disques
7. "Folle" | Mirco Magnani + Ernesto Tomasini | Madame E. | Undogmatisch
8. "Atomic Wrist Watch" | cloud seeder | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
9. "Howard Hughes Under The Microscope" | Jarvis Cocker / Chilly Gonzales | Room 29 | Deutsche Grammophon
10. "Karlie" | Gimmix | Stiff Little Spinners, Vol. 8 | Audiolith
11. "L'eternite" | Vilains Bonshommes | L'eternite Retrouvee | Hospital Productions
12. "Akananwan Isong Idung" | Monica Isaac | Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) | Comb & Razor Sound
13. "Love" | Drew McDowall | Love Means Taking Action Remixes | Posh Isolation
14. "Nyong Eyen Unen" | Cross River Nationale | Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) | Comb & Razor Sound
15. "This Perfect Day" | The Fall | The Marshall Suite [reissue] | Let Them Eat Vinyl
16. "Kilter" | Dark Sky | Kilter / Acacia | Monkeytown
17. "Starship Africa Section 3" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
18. "ICO130" | Ghost Culture | Nucleus | Phantasy Sound
19. "Counterfeit Worlds" / "Zulawski" / "Roaming Empire" / "Altar Natives" / "Confessional Method" | UBEK | Ubek | Sucata Tapes

All the regular business

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Too Much May Kill You; A Little Will Keep You Alive: Transmission 342, 2017 May 17

I present to you the first of several "consecutive" "regular" programs in which I managed to get it together at least to the point of including "Physical Evidence." At one point in the program, I provide a "how the sausage is made" moment by explaining that sometimes things slip in or out of Spotification and that the People Like Us canon had, at some point when I wasn't looking, slipped out. The world's loss is my negligible gain. So here you go. It was a good night!

Though I feel compelled to say--"If Someone Touches You" may be triggering. It certainly turned out to be, for me, though not in the most obvious way. It just seems like the sort of thing that Young Me would have played in the olden days, to troll some Imagined Listener. That track has got me thinking (as usual) about what The Point of all this might be. I still don't know.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 May 17, 2100-2300:

1. "Still Bored" | Cyanide Pills | Sliced and Diced | Damaged Goods
2. "We Believe (Excerpt)" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Terminus Drift" | Joshua Sabin | Terminus Drift | Subtext
4. "CherylLinn" | Seekers International | LoversDedicationStation | Bokeh Versions
5. "Direction Asymmetry" | Daughter Produkt | Dreamy Harbor | Tresor
6. "Ursula Fahrt Ski" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Akan Anwan Isong Idung" | The Doves | Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) | Comb & Razor Sound
8. "Another Kind of Humor (Intro)" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Freeeze" | Baba Stiltz | Is Everything | Studio Barnhus
10. "VXOMEG" | Bill Kouligas | Mono No Aware | PAN
11. "The Sacred Erm" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Rubber Plant" | Spectres | Condition | Sonic Cathedral
13. "Blue Paint" | Fixity | The Things In The Room | Penske
14. "Lugere" | Flora Yin-Wong | Mono No Aware | PAN
15. "Yearn / Please" | You Still Have Friends | The Never Years | M.I.S.T.
16. "Take A Walk" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Xtra" | Shed | The Final Experiment | Monkeytown
18. "Tanger Blanc Return" | Muslimgauze | Jerusalaam | Staalplaat
19. "Odawah Jam" | Marcelus | Dreamy Harbor | Tresor
20. "Sing With Melodious Inarticualte Sound..." | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Omnisession#1" | Marvin Horsch | Fukushisha | Film
22. "Black Noise (Interlude)" | Adrian Younge | The Electronique Void | Linear Labs
23. "A White Truck" | High Plains | Cinderland | kranky
24. "If Someone Touches You" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Home Is Just as Good as Anyplace" | John Andrews & The Yawns | Bad Posture | Woodsist
26. "Reculer et repousser le singe" | Kink Gong | Imer Zeillos | Discrepant
27. "T424plu (Excerpt)" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Thursdays Child" | The Chameleons | Script of the Bridge [reissue] | Blue Apple
29. "Space Invaders" | Gerry & The Holograms | Gerry & The Holograms | Cache Cache
30. "What Do You Miss" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 2 | Hippie Dance
31. "Glamr" | Anjou | Epithymia | kranky

As a young man, he was quite something

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Easy To Kill By Just Sitting Still: Transmission 341, 2017 May 10

Regretfully, this is another "featureless" program. My ability to incorporate "Physical Evidence" and "The Listening Parlour" is declining as I age. We're left with "just" a collection of great tunes here. I apologize. Full refunds are available; just write to my mailing address.

It may be a small consolation, but at one point in this broadcast I do bust out a comically bad Yoda impersonation. No hints as to where it is--you'll have to listen to find it. Another highlight is the Petar Dundov track: let me tell you, as a compulsive cardio enthusiast, this jams on the arc trainer. And I know nothing about Blushing--more South American shoegaze, maybe?--but their track makes me cry. I do that during my workout too.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 May 10, 2100-2300:

1. "Zah Zah, Pt. 2" | Mary Ocher | The West Against the People | Klangbad
2. "Before It All Ends" | Petar Dundov | At The Turn of Equilibrium | Music Man
3. "Chemtrails" | Vermont | II | Kompakt
4. "Hot Heavy Horses" | Ravioli Me Away | Living Is A Myth | Upset the Rhythm
5. "Tourner incessamment dans l'eclatement euphorique de soi - Road Painting Ahead IV" | Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche | Pas pire pop (I Love You So Much) | Constellation
6. "To Know Evil" | Annie Anxiety | Soul Possession [reissue] | Dais
7. "Rusty Cage" | Johnny Cash | Unchained | American Recordings | "Listening Parlour"
8. "Cheating Dub" | Impact All-Stars | Java Java Java Java - Instrumentals Dubwise Versions | Get On Down
9. "Flist" | Oto Hiax | Oto Hiax | Editions Mego
10. "Black Roses" | Domenico Crisci | Body Punishment | Opal Tapes
11. "Winter" | Peter Gordon & David Van Tieghem | Winter Summer | Foom
12. "SIDE B" | El Mahdy Jr. | Die Before You Die | Boomarm Nation
13. "Visions of LA" | vhs dream | Just for a Life, A Homage to Slowdive | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "Ghost Belt" | You Still Have Friends | The Never Years | M.I.S.T.
15. "Symmetry" | The Veldt | Symmetry | Schoolkids
16. "Tether" | Blushing | New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
17. "17p13.2" | Loess | Pocosin | N5MD
18. "Yayela" | Kel Tangawal | Agrim Agadez: Musique Guitare De La Republique Du Niger | Sahel Sounds
19. "John Doe's Carnival of Error" | Blanck Mass | World Eater | Sacred Bones
20. "Aftermath" | Boom Bip | Sun Choke | Lex
21. "Roadblock - Slam Door Dub Mix" | Neville Staple | Return of Judge Roughneck | Cleopatra
22. "Little One" | Tiny Hazard | Greyland | Ba Da Bing!
23. "Kuinka yo" | Tomutonttu | Kevatjuhla | Alter
24. "Draht 8" | Deux Balaines Blanches | Sammlung (Elektronische Kassettenmusik, Dusseldorf 1982-1989) | Bureau B
25. "You Made Me Realise" | Panophonic | Forever and Again, A Tribute to My Bloody Valentine | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "Orpheus Rising" | Julie's Haircut | Invocation and Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin | Rocket
27. "In Yourself, Believe" | FOAMMM | New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
28. "Anthem" | Heinali | Anthem | Injazero

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Post banlieue, post banlieue: Transmission 340, 2017 May 3

Reading today about the "culture of narcissism," I feel compelled to say "it me," as the kids do. Differentiating between myself and the external world is a challenge. Object permanence, which I thought I had mastered once, is a memory (though I guess the fact that I remember it should reassure me). Things exist insofar as they produce feelings in me. Remembering readings from graduate school, I might fancy myself "His Majesty the Baby," but most likely "l'hommelette" is more apt as a description.

Case in point: I've listened to this program twice, and have no idea whether it is great or terrible. Not that I am certain it is something in between: I heard it once and it was terrible, and I heard it another time and it was great. It may be an infinite number of other things--for me it all had to do with how I was feeling at the time I heard it. Give this a try yourself. Perhaps you should do it more than once.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 May 3, 2100-2300:

1. "SAUDADE" | Kangding Ray | HYPER OPAL MANTIS | Stroboscopic Artefacts
2. "Space Talk" | Cass. | Youth Sessions | Emotional Response
3. "Virile Poetry" | Glider | New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
4. "Da Gone" | Mahatma X | A Mobtown Suite Vol. 1 | Home Assembly
5. "64 Bits" | Baloji | 64 Bits & Malachite | Bella Union
6. "Slag" | Nash the Slash | And You Thought You Were Normal | Artoffact
7. "ChannelTwo(MurderousDub)" | Seekers International | Presents the RaggaPreservation Society EP | Diskotopia
8. "Memorabilia" | Soft Cell | Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing | Sire | "Listening Parlour"
9. "African Communication" | Phil Pratt | Star Wars Dub | Burning Sounds
10. "New Life" | Swindle | Purple Walls | Butterz
11. "Llullaillaco" | Kairon; IRSE! | Ruination | Svart
12. "Classic NU Shit" | No UFO's | NU LP For RS | Root Strata
13. "Gender Balance" | Pool Art | New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "Descendants" | Esteban Adame | Descendants | EPM
15. "Insects" | Thornucopia | Four Lips From One Mouth | Lather | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Headzdropa" | Will Guthrie | People Pleaser | Black Truffle
17. "Weird Time" | The Mighty Strangers | Four Lips From One Mouth | Lather | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Fr3sh" | Kareem Lotfy | Mono No Aware | PAN
19. "Locust" | JUPITER-C | 001 | Invada
20. "Geheimes Wissen" | Le Petit Mort | Sammlung (Elektronische Kassettenmusik, Dusseldorf 1982-1989) | Bureau B
21. "Mass Ignorance Culture" | Jack Ketch and the Crowmen | Brimfull of Hate | M'Lady's
22. "At Last, At Last" | Xiu Xiu | FORGET | Polyvinyl
23. "Bloom" | Jaws | Object Dom | Hundebiss
24. "Firstling, Pt. 2" | Mary Ocher | The West Against the People | Klangbad
25. "The Moon Is Not A Yellow Sow" | Buick | Four Lips From One Mouth | Lather | "Physical Evidence"
26. "Construct Conduct" | Odeko | Digital Botanics / Construct Conduct | Gobstopper
27. "Delta-V" | Shobaleader One | Elektrac | WARP
28. "When I Fall" | Zombie Motorcade | Four Lips From One Mouth | Lather | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Baby How Strong Are" | Egyptrixx | Pure, Beyond Reproach | Halocline Trance
30. "Time Hole (Scene)" | Hand Habits | Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) | Woodsist
31. "The Soniferous Garden - Radio Edit" | Auntie Flo | The Soniferous Garden | Sofrito Super Singles
32. "Lysander" | Mark Barrott | Music for Presence | International Feel
33. "Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose" | James Brown | Star Time | Polydor
34. "Skinshaped - Outro" | Moodprint | The Gold Play | Tangram

I'm asking myself, i'm the only one here

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Hissing Under the Floorboards: Transmission 339, 2017 April 26

Back to regularly-scheduled content come we. Here is a "full-featured program" with both Physical Evidence and a Listening Parlour entry, because it is what I like to imagine you are here for. (I like to imagine many things.) ((I routinely find it difficult to avoid saying "full-figured program," which, in a way, all of my programs are.)) True to form, it...perhaps could have gone better than it did.

Eventually I settle into a groove, but it takes a while to get there. I am quite fond of Prophette, tonight's special record (and of Afriqua generally), but on listening (and re-listening) it's awfully...dynamic (or maybe just quiet?). Audio purist that I am (or that I fancy myself), I never thought I'd find myself arguing for more compression, but "life comes at you fast," as the kids say. Try this program out for yourself--and then buy the Afriqua record so you can listen to it outside of anyone else's context.

Elsewhere I upset Lady Catharsis with some of my commentary--this takes me back to the "halcyon" days of the late 1980s, when I used to do this with other friends, some of whom seem not to have stuck around. Thank goodness LC has build up a tolerance. I really need to stop doing the things I used to do when I was 18 or 19. They were dumb then and dumber now.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 April 26, 2100-2300:

1. "No Life Child" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
2. "Nothing Happens" | Afriqua | Prophette | Cure Music | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Tempelhof" | Albrecht La'Brooy | Emissary | Night Tide
4. "Head Expanded" | AIR LQD | Remain Neutral | Unknown Precept
5. "Geldenes Herz Menz" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Dropping Bombs On The Sun | A Records
6. "Mary Jane (feat. Tenor Youthman)" | Alter Echo & E3 | Mary Jane | Moonshine
7. "Larynx" | The Horse He's Sick | Oz Waves: Compiled By Steele Bonus | Efficient Space
8. "Mischkin" | Afriqua | Prophette | Cure Music | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Lady On The Train" | Irena Xero | Oz Waves: Compiled By Steele Bonus | Efficient Space
10. "Tegel" | Gudrun Gut | Instrumentals for Sirens | Moabit
11. "Tape 27 Track 3, Pt. 2" | Ahmed Malek / FLAKO | The Electronic Tapes | Habibi Funk
12. "Fiction" | Afriqua | Prophette | Cure Music | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Slowdive" | Whimsical | Just for a Life, A Homage to Slowdive | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "Jack The Ripper [Acoustic Version]" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | B-Sides & Rarities | Mute | "Listening Parlour"
15. "Someone" | Afriqua | Prophette | Cure Music | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Ginza District" | Marconi Union | Tokyo+ | Just Music
17. "Waves" | Berlina | Just for a Life, A Homage to Slowdive | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
18. "Decontroit" | Afriqua | Prophette | Cure Music | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Squids Can Fly" | Xerox Dreamflesh | Oz Waves: Compiled By Steele Bonus | Efficient Space
20. "Ascension" | Tadeo | The Pit | Token
21. "Kaoz" | Kings of Tomorrow | Kaoz | Poker Flat
22. "Inveighed" | Afriqua | Prophette | Cure Music | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Trail Mix" | Simon Fisher Turner | Giraffe | Editions Mego
24. "Cinder" | You Still Have Friends | The Never Years | M.I.S.T.

You tremble in your boots and your fingers start to break

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I'm Careful and I'm Always True: Transmission 338, 2017 April 23

Here is a fill-in program that I did not too long ago, geologically speaking. (Never mind that in our current time, it seems like every week is an epoch.) As I alluded to a few posts ago, April 23 came and went, featuring airtime by me, and I didn't do anything to honor or even observe David Gedge, whose records have given me much joy. I should at least have done a "Physical Evidence" thing--anything more than that would probably require a visit to Ithaca by Friend of Bombast Jeremy, and that's not on the agenda. Nevertheless, as we found out in the previous episode, sometimes it's good not to have "compulsory" items on the playlist.

Filling in here for "Fellow Traveler," I find myself once again being super-apologetic about it. I do imagine that some people tuned in hoping for something else and have no evidence that they enjoyed what they found instead. Trying here to keep myself grounded. On the other hand, they should have enjoyed this program, but it is quite good! Early on it's a bit soupy, but it rewards patience with electric unpredictability, if I do say so.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 April 23, 2100-2300:

1. "Birds in 6/8" | Terminal Cheesecake | Dandelion Sauce of the Ancients | Box
2. "Seed" | Sevendeaths | Remote Sympathy | LuckyMe
3. "Deceiver" | Loscil | Monument Builders | kranky
4. "Her" | Sigha | Metabolism | Token
5. "Voyage De La Planete" | Marc Romboy | Monde Futuriste | Hyperharmonic
6. "Above the Clouds" | Earthen Sea | An Act of Love | kranky
7. "Be Away" | Versus People | New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "Terrorize My Heart (45 Edit)" | 79.5 | Terrorize My Heart Pt 1 & 2 | Big Crown
9. "Last Train To Expo 67" | The Melodians | First Class Rock Steady | VP
10. "Away" | Heinali | Anthem | Injazero
11. "Splanish Air" | Seatemples | Just for a Life, A Homage to Slowdive | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
12. "Son" | Andrew Broder | Wertheimer EP | Lex
13. "Count Your Fears" | Meatbodies | Alice | In The Red
14. "The River Returns" | Alpha Steppa Meets High Public Sound | The River (feat. I-Sarana) | Steppas
15. "Protection Cloak" | Zavala | Fantasmas | Fake Four
16. "Compound Dub" | Jay Glass Dubs | New Teeth for an Old Country | Bokeh Versions
17. "Leave Ya Dub" | Vibronics Meets Conscious Sounds | Half Century Dub...Five Decades in the Mix | Scoops
18. "Almost In Motion" | You Still Have Friends | The Never Years | M.I.S.T.
19. "Barracuda - Outro" | The Clamps | Blend, Shake, Swallow | Heavy Psych Sounds
20. "Some Baffled Stranger" | G.S. Schray | Gabriel | Last Resort
21. "Held" | Whore Paint | Ultra Sound | Translation Loss
22. "Cold Sweat" | Errol Brown | Orthodox Dub | Dub Store
23. "Fall" | A Thousand Hours | New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "come thru" | Mahatma X | A Mobtown Suite Vol. 1 | Home Assembly
25. "V" | Mere | Mere II | Home Normal
26. "The Tigris - Cassie Version" | Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers | The Gospel According To The Selfish Gene | VaVa
27. "Hundi Conga" | Ninos Indigo | Vuduwave | Phonica Special Edition
28. "Fabrik" | Pete Bassman | Lost In Space | Hoga Nord
29. "Outro" | Carsten Jost | Perishable Tactics | Dial

Graceful birds will whisper as I slowly pass them by

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Dreamy Harmer: Transmission 337, 2017 April 19

"The Catharsis Family Circus" had been promised in the previous episode, but it did not come to town on this night. I forget why, exactly, but it's probably best kept secret anyway. This was Spring Break for Junior, too, which is a shame, since she has expressed an interest in guesting on this program; maybe this summer, if things are not too insane. Having my two ladies join me on this night had originally been my way of avoiding yet another "observance" of an Important Date, this one resonating only with me; being shorn of this option, I had tried to make some kind of positive substitution in the form of "Physical Evidence," but that too fell through. So we're left with just me and a random assortment of decent tunes.

It was indeed a "melancholy" evening, as DJ Andrea had intimated prior to signing off--at least my part of it was. Lots of atmospheric stuff in this playlist. And some bleep-bloop. A bit of rock at the beginning and end--my own version of the "horseshoe theory," let's call it. Can't be debunked if it doesn't try to explain anything.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 April 19, 2100-2300:

1. "The Touch I Crave" | Alice Bag | Alice Bag | Don Giovanni
2. "I Still Dream" | Letta | Redemption | Coyote
3. "Open Minds Now Close" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Open Minds Now Close | A Records
4. "Bwanawe" | Wells Fargo | Watch Out! | Now-Again
5. "Immortality" | Desto | Immortality | Signal Life
6. "Vivere, Pt. 5" | Mondkopf | They Fall but You Don't | In Paradisum
7. "Knife On Top" | Pro-D | Oz Waves: Compiled By Steele Bonus | Efficient Space
8. "Signs Of Change - Bambounou Dub Mix" | Landside | Uncharted Remixes EP | Just This
9. "Nine" | The Golden Filter | STILL // ALONE | Optimo
10. "Einklang" | Pfad der Tugend | Sammlung (Elektronische Kassettenmusik, Dusseldorf 1982-1989) | Bureau B
11. "NGC1265" | Ghost Culture | Nucleus | Phantasy Sound
12. "Electric Dub - Edit" | Juan Atkins & Moritz Von Oswald | Dreamy Harbor | Tresor
13. "The Beginning" | Frigorex | Sammlung (Elektronische Kassettenmusik, Dusseldorf 1982-1989) | Bureau B
14. "On Distant Fields" | Gailes | Seventeen Words | Ba Da Bing!
15. "Frightening Thoughts" | Noumen | White Silence | Central Processing Unit
16. "Caterpillar" | CANNIBALE | No Mercy for Love | Born Bad
17. "Thing" | Aquarian Blood | Last Nite in Paradise | Goner
18. "Gun Court" | K. Leimer | Land of Look Behind | Palace of Lights
19. "None" | LAARS | LYSaR/NONE | Full Pupp
20. "Take A Walk In The Sun" | Moral Fibro | Oz Waves: Compiled By Steele Bonus | Efficient Space
21. "The Strollers' Memorial" | Brokeback | Illinois River Valley Blues | Thrill Jockey
22. "Apenas" | Humberto Polar | Anatema | Discos Mono
23. "Apropos Nancy" | Marc Barreca | Aberrant Lens | Palace of Lights
24. "Koan" | Julie's Haircut | Invocation and Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin | Rocket
25. "Hardly Exist" | Invisible Days | New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "Coil" | Multicast Dynamics | Continental Ruins | Denovali
27. "Father" | Paul Woolford | Father, Son & Holy Ghost | Aus

I hope to entertain you

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