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Night Is Warm and the Stars Are Bright: Transmission 316, 2016 December 31

Since we all had a free night, and the last night of the "calendar year" is a useless observance, the entire Catharsis Family Circus rolled into the WRFI studios. It was the first time we had done this in a while, so for those who don't live with her every day, Junior's performance on this episode is something of a...revelation, I daresay. I would be happy to listen to her program, if she had one, but I will also settle for her being a frequent guest on my program and deflating my pretensions (although considering Their Satanic Majesties Request a "masterpiece" is not a pretension). Elsewhere, Lady Catharsis shares a half-dozen "depressing" tunes with us, I completely botch a segue from Wanda Jackson to Thee Michelle Gun Elephant (I swear that one should have worked), and I play THE WRONG JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU-MU TRACK at the end of the program (it was supposed to be "Burn the Bastards").

I'm sure that, with all its shortcomings (at least I see them that way), this program will be a favorite for you listeners. More voices, actual debate, anyone in the studio besides me, etc. I know how these things work. So I guess it was good to close up 2016--a godawful year!--with a "good" show. We actually didn't do "that much" radio in 2016, "only" 60 programs, thanks to some wise policy (don't quote me on that) from management and my own hypering down. Here's to even fewer--and better--programs in 2017!

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 31, 2100-2300:

1. "Let's Spend the Night Together" | Muddy Waters | Electric Mud | Chess
2. "Kassi Ma Sumaya / Don't Cry" | Lobi Traore Group | Lobi Traore Group | Honest Jon's
3. "Blue Yodel #6" | Wanda Jackson | The Party Ain't Over | Third Man
4. "Lily" | Thee Michelle Gun Elephant | Collection | Alive
5. "Badhead" | Buick | Sweatertongue | Lather
6. "Down On The Street" | The Stooges | Fun House | Elektra - Rhino
7. "Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice" | Richard "Rabbit" Brown | Aimer et Perdre: To Love And To Lose | Angry Mom Archives
8. "Honey (Alternate Mix)" | Spacemen 3 | Losing Touch With Your Mind | Munster
9. "Fin Roh" | Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects | Shabeesation | Rykodisc
10. "Citadel" / "In Another Land" | The Rolling Stones | Their Satanic Majesties Request | London
11. "The Last Amethyst Deceiver" | Coil | The Ape of Naples | Important
12. "Too Late" | The Stoneman Family | Aimer et Perdre: To Love And To Lose | Angry Mom Archives
13. "Facing East" | Thievery Corporation | The Richest Man In Babylon | Eighteenth Street Lounge
14. "The Art of Parties" | Japan | Exorcising Ghosts | Virgin
15. "I Need A Man" | Barbara Pittman | Hillbilly Fillies & Rockin' Chicks | Charly
16. "December" | Teenage Fanclub | Bandwagonesque | Creation - Geffen
17. "Radha Krsna" | Suns of Arqa | Solar Activity | 1979-2001    EMI
18. "False Hearted Lover's Blues" | Dock Boggs | Aimer et Perdre: To Love And To Lose | Angry Mom Archives
19. "Whitney Joins the JAMs" | The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu | Shag Times | KLF Communications

late in time behold him come

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Haven't Got a Good Mind for the Details: Transmission 315, 2016 December 28

A quick turnaround between the prior show and this one, but that is how things work sometimes in this fast-paced life I lead. Nominally this was my "regular," Wednesday-night program and should have been "superior" to the hullabaloo on Monday the 26th, but it is tough to tell. I was certainly having a week. I managed to get myself professionally handcuffed and about ten different kinds of depressed while theoretically "on vacation." Let no one tell you I don't do amazing things.

I can say with some confidence that this seems to be "a program of two halves," perhaps fitting for what I like to think of as a mixtape. There is a brooding, downtempo first-half and a lurching, menacing, rocking second half. So were this a literal trail mix and not a metaphorical one, it could use some shaking. But my life has entered an "inefficient and inaccurate" phase. The first draft of just about everything I do needs serious revision, and sometimes there just isn't a second draft.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 28, 2100-2300:

1. "Frequencies of the Mind III Intro" | Atiq | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
2. "The Simplest Equation" | Pye Corner Audio | Run for the Shadows EP | Lapsus
3. "Concerto for Monkey and Oscillator" | Silver Apples | Clinging to a Dream | Chickencoop
4. "Failed State" | Spokes | Flight EP | Coyote
5. "No Angels" | Little Annie & The Legally Jammin | Little Annie & The Legally Jammin | Italic
6. "Odio y Desprecio" | Slaughtered Saint | Odio y Desprecio | La Notte di Architetto
7. "Winter" | The Silence Kit | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "Arizona" | Thom Sonny Green | High Anxiety | Infectious
9. "Sex Ghost" | Izzy True | Nope | Don Giovanni
10. "If Only All Elevators Played Music Like This" | Tom Furse | Interludes | Mind Meld
11. "Forever Bob - Terry Francis Remix" | Grant Dell | Forever Bob EP | Giant
12. "Spirit of Dunkirk" | Camberwell Now | The EP Collection | Modern Classics
13. "The Great Musical Battle" | Derrick Morgan | First Class Rock Steady | VP
14. "Catharsis" | Merrin Karras | Apex | A Strangely Isolated Place
15. "Miyazaki" | Wolf Muller & Cass. | The Sound of Glades | International Feel
16. "Reflecting Lights - Kaytlin Aurelia Smith Mix" | The Field | Kompakt: Total 16 | Kompakt
17. "The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill" | Dirty Sidewalks | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
18. "Delusion" | Tangent | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
19. "Chartered Trips" | Frana | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
20. "Programmed" | Alice Bag | Alice Bag | Don Giovanni
21. "Which Clapp" | Phil Pratt | Star Wars Dub | Burning Sounds
22. "Tell Me" | P.R.O. | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 1 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
23. "Vorel" | Russian Circles | Guidance | Sargent House
24. "Threshold" | Mustard Gas And Roses | Becoming | The Mylene Sheath
25. "The Good Mind" | CTMF | SQ 1 | Damaged Goods
26. "Louie Louie" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's
27. "Hear Mi Name Call (feat. Bionic Singer)" | Casio Love | Hear Mi Name Call | Cubiculo
28. "Tennents And A Tango Tan" | Penny Rimbaud's L'Academie des Vanites | Yes Sir, The Truth of Revolution | Cold Spring
29. "The Maria Sessions (Part Three)" | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Maria Sessions | Soleilmoon

not exactly vastly improving

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Cruising Altitude Departure 20, 2016 June 4

[GUEST POST]

Halcyon here, with an irregularly regular checkin. I am probably an ill-fitting substitute for Radio Days, but from time to time I fill in for that crew. This is one such time, from last summer. Ithaca is normally quite calm on a Saturday morning, even in the late morning; however, if I recall correctly, this was a "festival" weekend. I needed to create my own "quiet space," and this was it.

Nevertheless, I see that I had re-entered the world of "long" playlists and short songs, which is perhaps not a good development. And it's a bit "mainstream" too, as some local teen is wont to say. I cannot always be sublime. There's always "Matthewdavid," whoever he is. His stuff is pretty "out there," or "in there," whichever.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2016 June 4, 1000-1100 EDT:

1. "Memorize Them Well" | Secret Boyfriend | Memory Care Unit | Blackest Ever Black
2. "River in the Sea" | Dennis Young | Wave (Electronic Music 1984-1988) | Bureau B
3. "TD-Mem" | Baumann / Koek | Baumann / Koek | Bureau B
4. "Santiago quatro" | Underworld | Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future | Astralwerks
5. "Otis Walks Into the Woods" | Mary Lattimore | At the Dam | Ghostly International
6. "Love's Harp" | Matthewdavid's Mindflight | Trust the Glide and Guide | Leaving
7. "E" | Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Felicia Atkinson | Comme un seul narcisse | Shelter Press
8. "Alpine Morning" | The Orb | Alpine | Kompakt
9. "Restless Wings" | Emika | Flashbacks | Emika

happiness, deconstructed

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You Want It, You Buy It, You Forget It: Transmission 314, 2016 December 26

It is amazing to think that the xmas holidays were a mere five weeks ago. Seems more like five lifetimes. We should be grateful to have survived them all! Anyway, enough romance and nostalgia still attach themselves to the yuletide that I jump at the chance to do radio around this time, so here I am, "sitting in," as usual. I still have not managed to do a program on the 24th, and probably won't, ever, but I guess having Lady C in my life is a decent trade-off.

Funnily enough, I don't really manage to make the "festive" thing happen on this night. It would come soon enough--as I said earlier, I am just behind with a lot of things this year. (And not to say that Thee Headcoats and Ramleh aren't festive in their own ways). I seem happy enough to do what I am doing, but who is to say? It was generations ago.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 26, 2100-2300:

1. "New Brain" | Off World | 1 | Constellation
2. "Ballad of S. Starling" | Faten Kanaan | The Botanist & The Archaeologist | Polytechnic Youth
3. "Inside the Wheel" | Atiq | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
4. "The Life I Ruin" | Flowers for Bodysnatchers | Love Like Blood | Cryochamber
5. "Refugee Dub" | Alpha & Omega / Ras Tinny | No Beginning No End | Steppas
6. "We Suck TV Shows Online" | Dubblestandart | Dub Realistic | Echo Beach
7. "noR3gRts" | Ziur | Deeform | Objects Limited
8. "Born To Love You" | The Sensations | First Class Rock Steady | VP
9. "Element Unknown" | Camberwell Now | The EP Collection | Modern Classics
10. "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Drinker" | Portable | Alan Abrahams | K7
11. "Samara" | Magic Castles | Starflower | A Recordings
12. "Empty Words" | Bowery Electric | Beat: 20th Anniversary Edition | kranky
13. "Proem" | XAM Duo | XAM Duo | Sonic Cathedral
14. "Lump Sum Slum Lord (Dabrye Dirt Drum Remix)" | Mophono | Lump Sum Slum Lord | CB
15. "Arpeggiator" | Petal Head | Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "Demby Surround" | The Travel | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
17. "Newtons Cradle - FaltyDL Remix" | Grandbrothers | Dilation Remixes | Film
18. "Nameless Lake" | Roman Flugel | All The Right Noises | Dial
19. "(Another) Hour of the Grubber" | Ashtray Navigations | To Make A Fool Ask, And You Are The First | Blackest Ever Black
20. "What's My Name" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's
21. "Wonder When" | Sofie Letitre | Take To Heels | Division
22. "In the Cut" | Eusebia | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
23. "Forever One" | Phaeleh | Illusion of the Tale | Undertow
24. "Siemens Und Halske" | Carre | Grey Scale | Alter
25. "Every Time You Knock Me Down" | Kiki Hitomi | Karma No Kusari | Jahtari
26. "Monotron" | Emanuele Rizzuto | Hand Made Illusions | Kapvt Mvndi
27. "Enter" | Kutmah | BLK/SMR | Hit & Run
28. "Slow Love" | Lahun | Slow Love EP | Apollo
29. "Coal and Dust" | Paradox Obscur | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
30. "Cleansed" | Boom Bip | Sun Choke | Lex
31. "American Womanhood" | Ramleh | Circular Time | Crucial Blast
32. "Living in a French Movie" | Hante | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself

no one could break me like you

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Consensus Or Confession, I Don't Recognize Depression: Transmission 313, 2016 December 21

40 days in the past, there were two hours on a Wednesday evening that we shared together. Or maybe we didn't, and now's your chance--except I'm probably doing something else at the moment, so find a friend and share this with them. This Solstice program was capably executed, technically, anyway, though maybe not in terms of content. James Brown made it into the mix with one of the most dreary (although, this year, strangely appropriate) xmas tunes you're likely to hear. And there was a chestnut, the Pixies in this case, dealing with some non-specific holiday or other.

Now, I had meant to don a sonic hair-shirt on this night and channel the memory of past transgressions through the medium of A Certain Ratio. But that didn't happen, because, as James says, "I waited a little too long" to get things together. This is where all my troubles seem to begin! So instead we get this strange roller-coaster of a show that seems to make sense for about the first hour and then again at the very end, but loses its shape in the middle--another metaphor for just about everything I do. The best that can be said is that I took the Chameleons' advice. So should you.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 21, 2100-2300:

1. "Intro" | Tiger & Woods | On The Green Again | Tiger & Woods
2. "Blot (Remix)" | Tabor Radosti | Egregor | Klanggalerie
3. "A Thing Or Two (Grapefruit Remix)" | Copy | Chosen Atmospheric Remixes | Gold Robot
4. "Antilogue" | Hiroshimabend | Dddirzzz | Klanggalerie
5. "Ponakin {White Thorn}" | Belarisk | Moments in Shapeshifting | Type
6. "Aham / Realm of the Wild Woman" | Medicine Voice | I and Thou | Provenance
7. "Santa Claus, Santa Claus" | James Brown | Funky Christmas | Polydor
8. "Tabidaichi (Departure)" | Kiki Hitomi | Karma No Kusari | Jahtari
9. "Shorobun / Funayurei" | Dakota Suite / Vampillia | The Sea Is Never Full | Karaoke Kalk
10. "Don't Fall" | The Chameleons | Script of the Bridge [reissue] | Blue Apple
11. "Trolley of Thought" | Delete (RU) | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
12. "Broken Bow" | The Wedding Present | Going, Going... | Scopitones
13. "Oblivious (feat. Beaver Sheppard)" | Brandt Brauer Frick | Joy | Because Music
14. "These Windows Are Pistons, Pt. 2" | Sonna | Keep It Together | Temporary Residence Limited
15. "Safari Strut" | Whitefield Brothers | Beyond Addis Vol.2 (Modern Ethiopian Dance Grooves Inspired by Swinging Addis) | Trikont
16. "Clampdown" | The Clash | London Calling [reissue] | Columbia - Sony
17. "Binary" | Douglas Dare | Aforger | Erased Tapes
18. "The Letter" | Sybarite | Waver the Absolute | Temporary Residence Limited
19. "Natalia" | Bitori | Bitori (Legend of Funana, the Forbidden Music of the Cape Verde Islands) | Analog Africa
20. "Life Awaits You" | Damon Bell | Stand By Me EP | Burek
21. "Abismo" | Balvanera | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
22. "All Cats Are Grey" | Echodrone | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Tomato Song" | Patrick Cowley / Candida Royalle | Candida Cosmica | Dark Entries
24. "Un Etrange Baiser" | Kriistal Ann | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
25. "Nec Mergitur" | Oiseaux-Tempete | Unworks & Rarities 2012-2015 | Sub Rosa
26. "Bath White" | 50footwave | Bath White | HHBTM
27. "The Holiday Song" | Pixies | Come On Pilgrim | 4AD - Rough Trade
28. "Terrorize My Heart (Disco Dub)" | 79.5 | Terrorize My Heart Pt 1 & 2 | Big Crown
29. "Leaves" | Nicolas Jaar | Sirens | Other People
30. "Peel Me" | Kim Myhr | Bloom | Hubro
31. "Diazepam Dreams" | Franz Kirmann | Elysian Park | Denovali

hand made illusions

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Franchises of the Mind: Transmission 312, 2016 December 17

Sometimes I cannot explain why or how I do this, except to suggest that maybe it is either a way of staying tethered to reality or as a performance of normativity and calm. There is probably a little of both in this program. I don't know what it is about the "ides" of December or thereabouts, but it has a way of ushering me into some new, toxic phase of life. This year did not disappoint. Maybe, on this particular night, I decided that instead of being too upset to do radio, I was too upset not to do radio.

Or maybe it was a holiday-related chance to play Half Man Half Biscuit. That too seems to make sense, in hindsight. What a crazy time this must have been. I have already repressed most of it, though the body seems to remember. For extra difficulty I crammed three dozen tracks into this broadcast. Guilt and shame, my therapist tells me, are major forces in my life.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 17, 2100-2300:

1. "The Dawn Breaking Crystals" | Resonance | Light Continuum | El Hombre Bala
2. "No More Dreams II" | 1991 | No More Dreams | No More Dreams
3. "Young Narrator In The Breakers" | Pavo Pavo | Young Narrator In The Breakers | Bella Union
4. "Destination Highrise" | Dubkasm meets Iration Steppas | CM4400 EP | Dubkasm
5. "Musicawi Silt" | The Daktaris | Beyond Addis Vol.2 (Modern Ethiopian Dance Grooves Inspired by Swinging Addis) | Trikont
6. "Arthur's Farm / All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit" | Half Man Half Biscuit | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Out There In The Dark" | Riyeh1 | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
8. "What You Do To Me" | Daydreams | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
9. "In the Jungle - Vocal Version" | The Hygrades | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 2 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
10. "These Sounds" | Keith Leblanc | Sherwood At The Controls Volume 2: 1985-1990 | On-U Sound
11. "Corolla" | Soft Grid | Corolla | Antime
12. "El Casino Royale" | Lynn Tait & The Jets | First Class Rock Steady | VP
13. "Old Tige" | Half Man Half Biscuit | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Splash" | Camberwell Now | The EP Collection | Modern Classics
15. "The One" | Magic Castles | Starflower | A Recordings
16. "PR Theme" | Cowtown | Paranormal Romance | Hot Salvation
17. "The Stage Says No" | Matt Christensen | Honeymoons | Miasmah
18. "Can't Feel My Soul" | Churrus | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Helicat" | Second Storey | Bismuth | Houndstooth
20. "D'y Ken Ted Moult?" | Half Man Half Biscuit | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
21. "3415" | Waterhouse | Empty Gallery EP | Decisions
22. "Rock a Tone Dub" | Errol Brown | Orthodox Dub | Dub Store
23. "El Salvador" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Upright
24. "The Trumpton Riots" | Half Man Half Biscuit | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Untitled" | The Fashion Focus | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "Fake Health" | Katie Dey | Flood Network | Joy Void
27. "SaturdayNiteDrive" | Seekers International | LoversDedicationStation | Bokeh Versions
28. "Subconscious" | SB-SIX | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
29. "Tiutiunnyk - Live in Manchester" | The Ukrainians | Evolutsiya | Eastblok
30. "Push" | The Dead Suns | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
31. "Portuguese Dream" | Fatso Jetson | Idle Hands | Heavy Psych Sounds
32. "Leonardo's Formula" | Isan | Glass Bird Movement | Morr Music
33. "Celebrated Summer" | Echodrone | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
34. "The Weedy Burton" | The Cure | Three Imaginary Boys | Rhino
35. "Sold" | HE3Dless | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
36. "Holdgaze - Legiac Remix" | Funckarma | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick

You Drift Until You Brutalize

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Memory Serves Us To Serve You: Transmission 311, 2016 December 14

"What is good for the future, what was good for the past?" Here is a program that happened 43 days ago [or whenever, depending upon when you read this!]. And it is a GREAT one, I say, with complete objectivity. Not even too many downer tracks to be found here, unless we count Dead Can Dance, and I guess we must. There is a really funny story about John Peel playing a session version of that track, but I don't have the reference in front of me, so you'll just have to do that homework.

Also, fittingly, given the quality and the mood, this is another "last program from a dead universe." And you thought I was finished with themes! This universe--for there are many--was/is a personal one, and dear god is the new one bleak. Thank goodness for mixtapes--among other things, they remind us of what we were, and what we might still be.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Jewelries" | Tross | The Walrus EP | Hoga Nord
2. "Eden" | Jurgen Paape | Kompakt: Total 16 | Kompakt
3. "Kingdom of D'mt" | Karl Hector & The Malcouns | Beyond Addis Vol.2 (Modern Ethiopian Dance Grooves Inspired by Swinging Addis) | Trikont
4. "Harmonie Als Ziel der Welt" | Dubblestandart | Dub Realistic | Echo Beach
5. "Seriously No" | Voiski | I'll Be Your Maple Pecan Tonight | Dekmantel
6. "I Have Got No Money" | Peace | Black Power | Now-Again
7. "Heaven & Earth - Part 2" | Paul Woolford | Heaven & Earth | Aus
8. "Suggestion" | Coaches | Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
9. "Decide" | Lifetones | For a Reason | Light in the Attic
10. "Squad Up (feat. The Soft Pink Truth)" | True Neutral Crew | Soft Rules | Deathbomb Arc
11. "Day 1" | Roger23 | Extended Play | Ilian Tape
12. "Collapse" | Vaghe Stelle | The Full Steam Ahead: The Prologue | Other People
13. "Sadness Pale" | Has a Shadow | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "Machines" | Anenon | Petrol | Friends of Friends
15. "94" | Manon Meurt | Manon Meurt | Label Obscura
16. "For Those In Peril" | Camberwell Now | The EP Collection | Modern Classics
17. "Stalker State" | Videodrones | Mondo Ferox | El Paraiso
18. "Smallpox Champion" | Rei Clone | Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Disturbed Minds" | Reiner Zonneveld | Megacity Servant | Stil Vor Talent
20. "Illusion" | Miyagi | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | hafendisko
21. "Soleil levant" | Sin | Bass Tension | Antipod
22. "High" | The Spiracles | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Ocean" | Dead Can Dance | Dead Can Dance [reissue] | 4AD
24. "Stuzzicadenti" | Cosmic Analog Ensemble | Beyond Addis Vol.2 (Modern Ethiopian Dance Grooves Inspired by Swinging Addis) | Trikont
25. "First - Consider the Lilies" | The Orb | COW / Chill Out, World! | Kompakt
26. "Trending" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Pages of Aquarius | Metropolis
27. "Akasha" | CVN | Exposure | Where To Now?

four legs good, no legs best

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Cruising Altitude Departure 19, 2016 March 13

[GUEST POST]

Dear Bombasticons, I am back! Momentarily, at least. Here, as my colleague "kid catharsis" would say, a program from a universe that has now closed down. I need hardly point out that I don't remember the exact background circumstances, be they political or cultural or emotional. Clearly, though, this was a springtime broadcast, and it is unnaturally warm right now, as it probably always will be, "going forward," so it seems appropriate enough.

All that said, it sounds to me like this was an almost playful program, and I especially enjoyed the shortness of the playlist and the duration of the tunes. One of these days we will do a program that is just one hour-long tune--at least if I am permitted on the air in the future. There have been other broadcasts since this one, but I don't have a regular airtime at the moment.

Personal note: in real and virtual life the past few days (and indeed our entire new epoch) have been characterized by panic and disc(h)ord. It is important that we hang on to the friends we have, and forgive our trespasses while there is still time.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2016 March 13, 1500-1600 EDT:

1. "Buddha Machine 5 loop 02" | FM3 | Buddha Machine 5 | CVMK
2. "Watertowers" | Steve Hauschildt | Air Texture Vol. IV | Air Texture
3. "Mahler Remix 2" | Fennesz | Mahler Remix | Touch
4. "The Byte of Spring Parts 1-4" | Edward Ka-Spel | The Byte of Spring | Bandcamp self-release

use flash cards if necessary

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You Don't Change, Or I Don't Notice Your Changing: Transmission 310, 2016 December 7

We are now 48 days behind the times (at least I am; I should not presume to speak for you). I sound tired in the introduction, which is not a good omen, but it is probably the truth. "Tell me, when is it better?" asks the first song--when, indeed. There is also a weird kind of survivor's guilt, as I had just read about five would-be radio colleagues perishing in the recent Ghost Ship fire. "In my little way," I say, what I do is for them. Sadly, my ways are always little. I lack even the energy to "oscillate wildly" (or otherwise) and half-heartedly encourage you, gentle listener(s), to do that on your own.

So perhaps I didn't offer a strong alternative to the live-television performance of Hairspray, with which I was directly "competing." SORRY. In this time I am trying hard to cling to what I can--maybe even to believe what I can, such as my therapist's observation (on this day) that I am "an adorable geek." Words to live up to, if one must keep living.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 7, 2100-2300:

1. "When Is It Better" | Brutalist Architecture In The Sun | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
2. "Cutty Sark - Trade Winds - Pearl Divers" | Camberwell Now | The EP Collection | Modern Classics
3. "Guiding Star" | Lobby Boys | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
4. "Jupiter Sunrise" | Kollektiv Turmstrasse | 10 Years Diynamic | DIYnamic
5. "The Style Is Death" | Forever Grey | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Midnight Orchestra" | Petar Dundov | At The Turn of Equilibrium | Music Man
7. "Raw Beat" | Bernard Fevre | Black Devil Disco Club Presents: Orbit Ceremony 77 | Medical
8. "Life in Cannan" | Ceejebs | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 2 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
9. "Mulanje" | Ulterior Motive | Beating Heart - Malawi | Beating Heart
10. "Anymore" | Shield Patterns | Mirror Breathing | Gizeh
11. "traces" | Cavern of Anti-Matter | I'm the unknown | Duophonic
12. "Everything Flows" | Car Crash Sisters | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
13. "Fishes Bones" | Wire | Nocturnal Koreans | Pinkflag
14. "Oscillate Wildly" | The Smiths | The World Won't Listen [reissue] | Sire
15. "Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club)" | Tom Waits | Small Change | Asylum | "Listening Parlour"
16. "- What Did You Know, What Did You Care?" | Penny Rimbaud's L'Academie des Vanites | Yes Sir, The Truth of Revolution | Cold Spring
17. "I Can Tell" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Upright
18. "I Am Lonely" | The Heptones | First Class Rock Steady | VP
19. "Dub 100" | MM Studio | Good Star Dubs | Album Label
20. "She Saw Me" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
21. "Loathsome And Wild" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's
22. "Stone the Flower" | The Hykkers | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 1 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
23. "Turn Your Illness Into A Weapon" | SPR | Mental Health | Hoga Nord
24. "Sea of Tranquility" | Lone | Levitate | R & S
25. "A Strange Day" | Soviet X-Ray Record Club | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "Song To The Cynic" | Veil | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
27. "Friday, I'm In Love" | Twinpine(s) | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
28. "Flak" | Death in Vegas | Transmission | Drone

pockets full of sadness

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Unaware, Certainly, of Some Imminent Disaster: Transmission 309, 2016 November 30

Here begins my current run of not flaking out on airdates, and also not being pre-empted. From this vantage point, so far, so good. Perhaps the general zeitgeist is furnishing me with enough anger to broadcast with competence--or maybe the inconsistency of my schedule has rendered me unfamiliar enough with the control booth for me to be immune to complacency. Whichever it is, I can testify that you are in good hands with this program. Maybe a bit too much from the Blog That Celebrates Itself, about which I can only say that I'm not receiving any kickbacks.

I don't know why or how we wound up with Siouxsie as a featured performer on this night, but again, maybe the zeitgeist has something to do with that. Speaking of which--30 years ago Friend of Bombast Mr. D and I shared a dorm room, and he had a cassette of Nocturne, which was on Heavy Rotation [if I recall correctly I also had Tinderbox and Once Upon a Time]. This should probably have made my recent "Teen Top Ten" list (that thing on Facebook that everyone was doing a week or so ago) but I didn't want to "backload" my list with cool stuff I was listening to in my late teens. Honesty is our policy. Nevertheless I remember Siouxsie annoying the hell out of our neighbors, but what were we going to do--sit on our hands and listen to the Van Halen* and Eddie Money enjoyed by the other residents of Gilmore Hall?

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 November 30, 2100-2300:

1. "Intro" | Weval | Weval | Kompakt
2. "Hong Kong Garden" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Waiting Room" | Soft Wounds | Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
4. "Known to All" | The Cobra Lamps | The Cobra Lamps EP | A Records
5. "Nowhere" | Choreography | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Metal Baby" | The Skating Party | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
7. "Cannons" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
8. "1048" | NHK yx Koyxen | Doom Steppy Reverb | Diagonal
9. "The Unknown" | Dillon | Live at Haus der Berliner Festspiele | BPitch Control
10. "Metal Postcard" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Edgeland Industries" | Hoofus | The Blow, Vol. 1 | Front & Follow
12. "Slipping into Darkness" | The Funkees | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 2 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
13. "Lucid Dream" | Benedikt Frey | Permanent Vacation 4 | Permanent Vacation
14. "A.F.Y." | Dinner | Psychic Lovers | Captured Tracks
15. "You Fill Me" | Jacob Korn | Cocoon Compilation P | Cocoon
16. "Voodoo Dolly" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
17. "What You Do To Me / Satan" | Bi-Latheral | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
18. "Trytosphere" | Sebastien Leger | Oracle EP | Loveland
19. "Our Westchester Pizzeria Is a Huge Success" | Radionics Radio | An Album of Musical Radionic Thought-Frequencies | Sub Rosa
20. "Soldiers of Love" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Upright
21. "Placebo Effect" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
22. "2X202-ST5" | Aphex Twin | Cheetah EP | WARP
23. "Powerline" | Sciflyer | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "Hope and Ramati" | Stimming | 10 Years Diynamic | DIYnamic
25. "Three Hills" | Daniel Lanois | Goodbye to Language | Red Floor - ANTI-
26. "Your Interruption" | C. Diab | No Perfect Wave | Injazero
27. "Float" | Tirogo | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 1 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
28. "Playground Twist" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Perennial Comforts" | Benoit Pioulard | The Benoit Pioulard Listening Matter | kranky
30. "December" | Klam | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
31. "Helter Skelter" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"

the band was awful, and so were the tunes

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* I have a lot of time for early Van Halen.