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While Your Charm Is Considered Disarming: Transmission 281, 2016 June 8

This one time, I was in the same room as Tony Allen. He was part of a panel at our local Africana Center, and he was giving a "tutorial" on the drums. His kit was set up in the room and everything. It--he--had a massive sound and that is as much as I can say about that. I'm really here to share some quotes.

Having invited members of the audience to come up and play the drums so that he could explain his technique, he gave a listen to this one hipster for about 30 seconds. "You play drums?" he asked, as the dude nodded sheepishly. "For real? In a band?"

Other pearls of wisdom:

"The first time I heard Art Blakey, I asked, 'is someone playing the cymbal for him?'"
"When I said, 'I don't like to play solos,' I didn't mean 'I don't play solos.'"
"It sounds simple. It's not so fucking simple."
"When you play with me, you don't riff. I don't riff. I keep you down there. You sit."

I actually had tickets to see him play that night, albeit with a Local Wannabe Afrobeat Ensemble who shall remain nameless, but my taste for that was soured when members of said Local Wannabe Afrobeat Ensemble, during the talk, put Mr. Allen in the impossible position of having to say complimentary things about Local White Guys Who Appropriate Afrobeat. I didn't want to support that, but then again my ticket was already purchased, so I suppose I did. I am not so smart! At any rate I hope Tony took most of the money.

That's as close as I get to a Fela story, except to say that listening to his music convinced me to change my home listening habits, and in my home studio noodling, my production habits. Keep the EQ flat, let the speakers do the work, things sound best when they sound like themselves. Thank you, Fela.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 June 8, 2100-2300:

1. "La Facon Dont La Machine Vers L'Arriere - Al Lover Remix" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | La Facon Dont La Machine Vers L'Arriere | A Records
2. "Hurricane Malcolm" | Connie Price & The Keystones | Wildflowers (The Expanded Version) | Now-Again
3. "St. Vitus Dance" | Bauhaus | 5 Albums | Beggars Banquet - Hostess
4. "I Go Shout Plenty" | Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Afrika 70 | I Go Shout Plenty!!! | Kalakuta Sunrise - Knitting Factory | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Red Sun in June" | Causa Sui | Summer Sessions, Vol. 1 | El Paraiso
6. "Eidfjord" | Dessin Bizarre | Air Frais | Fluttery
7. "You Better Run" | Little Annie | Trace | Tin Angel
8. "Tide" | La Boum Fatale | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | hafendisko
9. "Russian Glass" | Commodo | How What Time | Black Acre
10. "Nano" | The Comet Is Coming | Channel The Spirits | Leaf
11. "Night Games" | The KVB | ...Of Desire | Metropolis
12. "Some Velvet Morning" | Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood | Fairy Tales & Fantasies: The Best of Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazelwood | Rhino | "Listening Parlour"
13. "Golden Lights" | The Smiths | The World Won't Listen [reissue] | Sire
14. "Panes" | Anenon | Petrol | Friends of Friends
15. "Raccoon Society" | Maxim Wolzyn & Bartellow | Cosmos #1 | SVS
16. "Some Velvet Morning" | Thin White Rope | When Worlds Collide | Munster
17. "Hullo" | Kettel | Wingtip | DUB
18. "If This Is" | Revbjelde | The Delaware Road | Buried Treasure
19. "Partys Fall" | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Classic Album Selection Volume Two | Polydor
20. "Cryin' Shames" | The Blue Angel Lounge | In Times 2006-2010 | 8MM Musik
21. "Frustration" | Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Afrika 70 | I Go Shout Plenty!!! | Kalakuta Sunrise - Knitting Factory | "Physical Evidence"
22. "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld: Live Mix Mk 10" | The Orb | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld [reissue] | WAU! Mr. Modo - Island

when I'm done, this calls for anaesthetic

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We Can Go for a Walk Where It's Quiet and Dry, and Talk About Precious Things: Transmission 280, 2016 June 1

We began a busy June with a busy show. In it, we conducted a good deal of business--Physical Evidence, Listening Parlour, and a couple of "post-punk" birthday observances. We mean them all, even Lady Catharsis, who is really laboring through her introduction to "Work Hard."

It's always the 30th anniversary of something, but this year seems to be the 30th anniversary of quite a bit--or so it seems to a person of my age and sensibility. The Queen Is Dead, released just as school was getting out, was the soundtrack of that summer, the last of Smithdom, and much more. Lady Catharsis does not go for the title tune, but she is nuts.

400 Blows were the soundtrack of that fall, though, "Movin'" blowing my mind just as college was beginning to blow my mind. I paid more attention to the tunes than to classes, I have to admit. The inauspicious beginnings of a mediocre career--but I still have the records, which does not seem like a bad deal.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 June 1, 2100-2300:

1. "The Queen Is Dead" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead | Rough Trade - Sire
2. "Post Apocalyptic Love Song (The End)" | Johnny Moped | It's A Real Cool Baby | Damaged Goods
3. "Little Jewel" | Blackie & The Oohoos | Lacuna | Unday
4. "Breakdown" | 400 Blows | Look | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Kiri" | CB-R | DRSL | Cut Mistake
6. "Susan" | The Goon Sax | Up to Anything | Chapter Music
7. "Back Side of the Moon" | The Orb | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld [reissue] | WAU! Mr. Modo - Island
8. "Riots Over London" | 400 Blows | Look | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Scrimshaw" | Anna Meredith | Varmints | Moshi Moshi
10. "Protein" | Tropicana | Cosmos #1 | SVS
11. "The Charmer" | 400 Blows | Look | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Nought Marie" | Little Annie | Trace | Tin Angel
13. "Enigma" | The Durutti Column | LC [reissue] | Factory Benelux
14. "Play For Today" | The Cure | Staring At The Sea - The Singles | Fiction - Elektra
15. "Femern" | Matt Karmil | ++++ | PNN
16. "Hollow Hills" | Bauhaus | Mask [reissue] | Beggars Banquet - Hostess
17. "Etheriel" | Lush | Origami | 4AD
18. "Fred Wesley Suffers Spontaneous Human Combustion" | 400 Blows | Look | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Maersk Recorder" | Matthew Collings | A Requiem for Edward Snowden | Denovali
20. "Broken Violin (Afternoon Recording)" | Waterhouse | Empty Gallery EP | Decisions
21. "Curfew" | Fatima Al Qadiri | Brute | Hyperdub
22. "Work Hard (East End Remix)" | Depeche Mode | Everything Counts (In Larger Amounts) | Mute - Sire | "Listening Parlour"
23. "Movin'" | 400 Blows | Look | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
24. "La fin de la guerre" | Dorian Pimpernel & Julian Gasc | Moonshine, Vol. 1 | Born Bad
25. "Break Through" | Funkees | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again
26. "Regular" | The Range | Potential | Domino
27. "The Morality of Altitude" | 400 Blows | Look | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"

what an accessory

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Wandering Up And Down Those Avenues Of Sin: Transmission 279, 2016 May 18

Again we've reached a point where the website is shamefully out of date. Friend of Bombast Mateu says he has run out of things to listen to, so like an arthritic tortoise I spring into action. Here is a Medway Night that happened nearly a month ago.

I recall things beginning well enough, and then somewhere the segues just stopped working. With (The(e)) Milkshakes it is always this way. I managed to fulfill an Antibalas request, about three weeks late, but I have no idea whether Drummer John was listening, or if he has internet. Maybe someone reading this can tell him it happened.

Thanks for listening.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 May 18, 2100-2300:

1. "And We Begin" | Loose Capacitor | The Delaware Road | Buried Treasure
2. "Green Hornet" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Around the World with the Prophets" | The (Hypothetical) Prophets | Around the World With | Infine
4. "ROM" | Thug Entrancer | Arcology | Software
5. "Uprising (Parts 1 & 2)" | Antibalas with Jojo Quo | Africafunk: Return to the Original Sound of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless
6. "C'est de l'or" | Forever Pavot & Dorian Pimpernel | Moonshine, Vol. 1 | Born Bad
7. "Stones for Throwing" | Cavalier Song | Blezard | God Unknown
8. "Dark Entries" | Bauhaus | 5 Albums | Beggars Banquet - Hostess
9. "You Did Her Wrong" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Patience" | Lifetones | For a Reason | Light in the Attic
11. "There Is So Much Static (feat. Eivind Aarset)" | Tortusa | I Know This Place: The Eiving Aarset Collages | Jazzland
12. "It's You" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Leaves Me Cold" | Lush | Origami | 4AD
14. "My Zippo" | King Snake Roost | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
15. "Wise Ol' Man (edit)" | The Fall | Wise Ol' Man EP | Cherry Red
16. "Transgalactic World Eater" | BLOWN OUT | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
17. "Don't Love Another" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Uwe" | Tobias Schmid | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | hafendisko
19. "Bardo" | Fontan | Babylon EP | Hoga Nord
20. "General Belgrano" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Coming Home" | Wells Fargo | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again
22. "Cruising Central Ave" | The 4th Coming | Strange Things (The Complete Works, 1970-1974) | Now-Again
23. "Brand New Cadillac" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
24. "To Believe" | K-X-P | III, Pt. 2 | Svart
25. "Dreamt Person v3" | Venetian Snares | Traditional Synthesizer Music | Planet Mu
26. "Ambassador of Love" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Over It" | Junior Boys | Big Black Coat | City Slang
28. "Helena" | Yndi Halda | Under Summer | Big Scary Monsters

you should hear me play piano

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A Presence Conjured From Thin Air: Transmission 278, 2016 May 14

Another successful journey to the "Exterior Realms" (at least I think so) gives me the opportunity to go "off-topic" and give you a more general update. I promised last time that I would share another story from the Senior Catharses' visit as well. Fortunately we can put our hands together in this case.

Grandpa Catharsis asked me why I hadn't done any interviews latey, pointing out that the Hall of Legends specials were one of his favorite things about this program. That's nice! (In my tradition of turning every compliment into a negative, I started wondering what might be wrong with regular, non-interview programs like this one.) It just so happened that we drove down to DJ Segundo's crib for a short visit and HE asked me the same thing, so clearly we are facing a wavelength with room for more than one person.

Very well--let's talk about the Hall of Legends and why it has been dormant. Turns out there is no legitimate reason except What Is Going On With Me, so I'll discuss that. [REMEMBER: this is my diary, so GTFO if you are not entertained.]

Sometime around the HOL interview with the great Breathless I experienced a personal trauma that was as serious as it was ridiculous. In a way I couldn't actually believe it was happening, in real-time, and didn't read much significance in my immediate response to it. Surveying the damage in retrospect, I stopped going to the gym (which for me substitutes for depression meds), gained weight, increased my alcohol consumption, and generally became very angry.

"But Breathless was not the most recent Hall of Legends special," I hear you saying. (I do not actually hear this, except in an imagined conversation with the Platonic Ideal of a Regular Listener.) It's true. Three months later we spoke to the legendary Vini Reilly, but I literally can't tell you how long that was in the planning, and it just kind of happened one day. A little over a month after that, we did the Heidi Berry interview. But that was "in the pipeline" when the Breathless thing was happening, because the legendary Ari was prescient enough, and kind enough, to ask if I'd like to be placed in contact with the legendary Heidi and I wasn't a big enough idiot to say "no." So because I am a PROFESSIONAL (albeit an unskilled and unpaid one) I held it together long enough to see that through. And then we stopped.

MEANWHILE I was supplementing my permanent half-time sinecure with temporary half-time sinecures that filled me with despair. I continued to do the job of Program Director at WRFI all by myself although there were nominally two of us; there were negative aspects of that which were practical, personal, and racial, none of which helped with my demeanor or general outlook. When I "quit" that position last June I somehow found ways to become more angry, more bitter, and more destructive. I KNOW: I am special this way.

Amazingly, last (summer? fall?) I did get up the nerve to contact a Legend In Waiting, and we had a promising dialogue in some etherspace or other. Something was going to happen, and then it fell through, because I have become a flake. I also received an assurance from one already-Legend that something could be arranged with yet another Legend In Waiting, but this never happened because the person in question never uses the internet. At least that is why I'm telling myself it never happened. I am capable of protecting myself sometimes.

Thus, out the window flew one possible way of spending my newfound free time as a non-management type at the radio station. Other possible hobbies went unexplored as well. I was, as I concluded, using alcohol at night to self-medicate. It is very good at killing feelings! How anxiously I looked forward each day to the murder of my feelings.

In October I came around to thinking that maybe this was a bad idea, that this daily homicide wasn't taking me anywhere good, so with Lady Catharsis's help I stopped altogether. But the Feelings, which I had decided I needed to feel, were so awful, and the lack of medication so excruciating, that I filled the void not with productivity but with food. Because of course I can't just suffer from depression and PTSD and anxiety. THAT is boring. I must also have Binge Eating Disorder and Body Dysmorphia in my life to keep things interesting.

(It's funny to think that, all the while, I've been doing this ridiculous little program on the reg, cracking up at my mistakes like nothing relevant is actually happening around it or me. But this has saved, and is saving, my life, as LC tells me, so there's that.)

I started having suicidal "ideation" --if you know how that might differ from "thoughts," please explain it to me--in November of last year, and I was able to keep them at bay only by telling myself "you wouldn't just kill some random kid's dad, or some random woman's husband, so how can you do anything to Catharsis Junior's dad, or Lady Catharsis's husband?" Meaning that I had to get outside my own self to see me as something worth preserving, in the abstract. I figured that maybe the time had come for me to talk to somebody, so I did.

Things are not miraculously better--it has taken work--but some healing is taking place. I can "containerize" the feelings and set standards and boundaries for myself--these are novelties! My work situation has improved in ways that it could not have done for 2015 me. So, yeah.

Anyway, were I a Legend I would not have wanted to talk to this community radio jackass in a bad mindframe (there's something to add to the ol' email signature) for any amount of time, much less for the amount of time I demand from people, MUCH MUCH LESS the TWO times poor Andrew Gray was subjected to the experience.

So that's why the Hall of Legends hasn't had anything happen in seventeen months. But things are revving up again. I have to convince that one Legend that I am not actually a flake. Maybe I will send them a link to this. I have a feeling they might understand.

I sincerely hope that if you need to talk to someone, you find a person. Or that if you need something like an amateur radio hour to keep you tethered to this world, you find an outlet. Maybe we can be that outlet. It's working for me.

Thanks for listening.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 May 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Jah I" | Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters | Mr. Perry I Presume | Pressure Sounds
   
2. "Blackhole" | Deviant Amps | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
3. "What a World!" | Parade of Sinners | Domestic Landscape, Vol. 2: Underrated Synth Classics 1982-1990 | Domestica
4. "Bubble" | Stabat Stable | Ultrissima on the Junk's Moon | Cache Cache
5. "Angora - Fairmont Remix" | Ricardo Tobar | Ricardo Tobar - Collection Remixes Pt. 1 | Cocoon
6. "R-Type" | Anna Meredith | Varmints | Moshi Moshi
7. "She Wore Lilacs in Her Hair" | Magic Castles | Starflower | A Recordings
8. "Head Body" | Not Waving | Animals | Diagonal
9. "Shanpan" | Roger West | En Asie | In Paradisum
10. "The Wheel" | PJ Harvey | The Wheel | Island
11. "Sequencer Roll" | Baumann / Koek | Baumann / Koek | Bureau B
12. "I Had A Dream (instrumental)" | 5 Revolutions | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again
13. "Macka Talk" | Mabrak | Drum Talk | Dug Out
14. "Foxtits Funkdrive" | Zach Christ | Sonic Doucheclap | Husoptageiser
15. "Aokigahara (feat. Tobi)" | Asian Psilocybe Foundation | Water Vein EP | Mental Groove
16. "Galacticon" | Ummagma | Frequency | Moon Sounds
17. "break glass actions" | Cavern of Anti-Matter | void beats / invocation trex | Duophonic
18. "Powers of Ten - Marco Plex & Shall Ocin Remix" | Stephan Bodzin | Powers of Ten (remixes) | Herzblut
19. "Comin' Home Baby" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Rumble
20. "The Shag" | Trouble & Strife | The Delaware Road | Buried Treasure
21. "Thousands Below" | 12z | Trembling Air | Other People
22. "Always" | Flying Saucer Attack | Chorus [reissue] | Drag City
23. "The Sombre" | Shallow Sanction | Without Light | Alter
24. "Numbered" | Wire | Nocturnal Koreans | Pinkflag
25. "Earth (Gaia)" | The Orb | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld [reissue] | WAU! Mr. Modo - Island
26. "Bestandteil" | Irmler | Bestandteil | Klangbad
27. "Favourite Descending Intervals" | The Durutti Column | Amigos Em Portugal | Durutti
    

For you I steal, for you I kill

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Don't You Roll So Slow: Transmission 277, 2016 May 11

a propos of nothing, I have a thought I'd like to share, since I can't remember anything about this particular program except that the tunes were good and that Lady Catharsis chose one. My thought is about elitism as it pertains to music. Maybe it is about wilful obscurity, and maybe it is about both things, and maybe it is halfway coherent. We try.

This past week the Senior Catharses were in town, and one of them asked us about the local music scene, about which I suggested that it is kind of nice that we have a thriving underground without anyone being "too big" [though we could maybe do with someone who was Thin White Rope-sized, but that's just a personal preference.] Then Lady Catharsis brought up that somewhat local band, X Ambassadors--they of the "Renegades" song that has aired so many times in a Jeep commercial that I never want to hear it again--not that I would have found it enjoyable in the first place, but you get "the picture." (I suggested that they don't count but LC insists that they do).

Anyway, THIS IS HOW WE GOT HERE: it really is about my never wanting to hear your song again. I don't care that you've made money from a commercial. Congratulations. Whether you are successful enough at art to quit your day job is not my business; I wish you the best. I would not recommend poverty to anyone or wish it upon anyone so harmless as an artist. (Except Billy Joel, but then he is not harmless, so my point stands.) So: knock yourself out with underscoring deals, that's part of your freedom. I may have to move on from fandom, but that's part of my freedom too. Universal balance restored.

But that other part of success--growing an audience--gave me some thinks too. I don't think, pace occasional friend of the program Alex, that social snobbery informs one's decision to move on when a favorite band "breaks." To me it is more like a response to gentrification--the cool kids are moving in, and I need to find a more reasonable neighborhood until the next cultural shift happens. Some of us like things cheap, low-key, and not crowded. No personal judgement involved.

If you would like to exercise personal judgement here, like perhaps thinking--even commenting--that it's a dire rhetorical move to liken, say, hurt feelings over a band's major-label contract to losing one's house, that's part of YOUR freedom. Yay, freedom.

More grandparent updates next time!

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 May 11, 2100-2300:

1. "Mad Dog" | Spider King | Shot to Pieces | Finders Keepers
   
2. "You Can't Sit Down" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Rumble
3. "Temp" | Trux | Trux | Office Recordings
   
4. "Stripping at the Nail" | Secret Boyfriend | Memory Care Unit | Blackest Ever Black
   
5. "Mob Hand" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
6. "Circle IX (Treachery)" | Pact Infernal | The Descent Chapter II | Samurai Hero
   
7. "Alpine Evening" | The Orb | Alpine | Kompakt
8. "Nine Regal" | The Dandelion Set | The Delaware Road | Buried Treasure
   
9. "Leger Leger" | Julien Gasc, Forever Pavot & Chassol | Moonshine, Vol. 1 | Born Bad
10. "Building a bridge to you from the roof of a disused supermarket in Budapest" | Jumble Hole Clough | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
11. "Generique debut" | Pierre Vassiliu | Ils (Bande originale du film de Jean-Daniel Simon) | Born Bad
12. "Slow" | Olof Melander | The Path | Project Mooncircle
13. "4'32"" | Inventing Masks | Inventing Masks | Error Broadcast
14. "Souvenir" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships (Live at the Museum of Liverpool) | White Noise
15. "Standing Stone" | Flying Saucer Attack | Distance | Domino
16. "All Leave Cancelled (X)" | The Fall | Wise Ol' Man EP | Cherry Red
17. "Solo 3" | Nicklas Sorensen | Solo | El Paraiso
18. "Young Mountain" | Gain Stage | Elevated Noise | Portals Editions
19. "Camino" | H.O.S.H. | Cilanthropy | DIYnamic
20. "Hate Week (vox dub Dark Outside)" | Security | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
21. "Hi Fu" | Tiefschwarz | Left | Watergate
22. "EYES (Feat EazyLee RIP)" | Trinity Lo Fi | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
23. "Nom" | Benny Boeldt | 8 of Cups | Carpark
24. "Poor Magic" | Brandt Brauer Frick | Holy Night & Pure Magic | K7 / Because Music
25. "The Other Me" | Laila | Laila | DEEWEE
26. "Nine Pound Hammer" | Merle Travis | Hillbilly Music... Thank God! Vol. 1 | Bug / Capitol | "Listening Parlour"
27. "Poor Connection" | Blackfoot | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again
28. "Exoplanet" | ASC | The Farthest Reaches | Auxiliary

I Wore Lilacs In My Hair

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Gangster Whitewalls, TV Antenna In The Back: Transmission 276, 2016 May 04

It was good timing that William DeVaughn's "Be Thankful" had been reissued, because I was feeling thankful on this night. I was feeling so much thankfulness, I guess, that I needed to play three versions of it. Or maybe that is just my craving for repetition. Anyway, that happened, and somewhere in the mess Cavern of Anti-Matter manifested itself as well A special evening!

I've taken on new work, you see, that at least part of the time allows me to exist in this century, and not some far-off time. It's quite refreshing! This century is actually pretty decent.

As I write this the Senior Catharses are in town. Grandpa Catharsis was trying to remember the other night which WRFI personalities he'd met. He remembered Jim Murphy, which is a good memory to retain, and somehow blocked out our accidental encounter with tinfoil-hat-wearing, rabbit-hole dwelling "outside the box" thinker Joey Dugan when he slept through half of his show this one time. I'm jealous. I remember all of that, and meanwhile I've got whole chunks of years that I can't remember. It's not fair. I'm withholding some of my gratitude--sorry, Oprah--until I get the obliviousness I deserve.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 May 4, 2100-2300:

1. "Mind Sweep" | Dan Curtin | Galaxies Merging EP | EPM
2. "Spirit Beat" | No Zu | Afterlife | Chapter Music
3. "In Fear of Fear" | Bauhaus | Mask [reissue] | Beggars Banquet - Hostess
4. "Hi-Hats Bring The Hiss (Hieroglyphic Being Remix)" | Cavern of Anti-Matter | Void Versions | Duophonic | "Physical Evidence"
5. "A2" | Prins Thomas | Principe Del Norte | Smalltown Supersound
6. "Doin' A Little Time" | Jealousy | Paid For It | Moniker
7. "Be Thankful For What You Got" | Massive Attack | Blue Lines | Wild Bunch / Virgin
8. "Intro (Walking Unobserved)" | Hunter / Game | Adaptation | Kompakt Extra
9. "Heisenberg (The Sight Below Remix)" | Port-Royal | You Ware Nowhere | N5MD
10. "Breeding Space" | African Head Charge | Environmental Studies | On-U Sound
11. "Be Thankful for What You Got" | William DeVaughn | Be Thankful for What You Got | Fever Dream
12. "Celestrial Voyage" | Dennis Young | Wave (Electronic Music 1984-1988) | Bureau B
13. "All Night Party" | Anne Clark | Changing Places | Red Flame
14. "Life" | Karl Bartos | Life | Trocadero
15. "Bajeer" | Pampered Fists | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
16. "Void Beat (Karen Gwyer Remix)" | Cavern of Anti-Matter | Void Versions | Duophonic | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Twit" | Monoslapper | The Delaware Road | Buried Treasure
18. "Answering Machine" | The Replacements | Let It Be | Twin/Tone
19. "February 8th" | Flying Saucer Attack | Chorus [reissue] | Drag City
20. "Saudade" | The Durutti Column | Amigos Em Portugal | Durutti
21. "Green Onions" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Rumble
22. "Tomb Song (variant)" | Fossil Aerosol Mining Project | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
23. "Names and Numbers" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope | Numero Group
24. "Conscious Dub (Instrumental Version)" | Illbilly Hitec | Reggae Not Dead | Echo Beach
25. "Nocturne" | Molecule | 981mb | Because Music
26. "OooRr (inside)" | nobodisoundz | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
27. "Be Thankful" | Bunny Clarke | Shocks of Mighty | Attack
28. "Dubbing In The Back Seat" | The Upsetters | Shocks of Mighty | Attack
29. "Que" | Asterion | The Delaware Road | Buried Treasure

it's my direction

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It's Going To Be The Usual Wild Ride, Mrs. Toad: Transmission 275, 2016 April 27

Here we find ourselves broadcasting on schedule, or at least according to our "obligation" [NB I am still a volunteer and very grateful to have airtime--thank you, mgmt!]. Sure enough, our focus game was on fleek this evening. This does not stop mediocrity from crashing the party.

For once this appears in the form of other people, specifically someone we'll call "the substitute" [you'll have to listen to the sound file for "clues," yo]. This person had filled in for DJ Andrea--thinking they'd left a cd in one of the decks, they pressed "eject" and interrupted my first track--sorry, Essaie Pas!--and forced a restart. DON'T PRESS MY BUTTONS. ONLY I PRESS THE BUTTONS. People don't learn. I have dealt with this person's technical incompetence many a time. God give me the confidence and complacency of an underqualified white man.

Anyway, as I said, *I* did pretty well, all things considered. Drummer John called in and had a bunch of requests, which I did my best to oblige. You have him to thank for "Bela Lugosi's Dead" [or blame, if you happen to be my Program or Music Director from three decades ago].

[Yes, I still get the feeling I'm being supervised.]

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 April 27, 2100-2300:

1. "Retox" | Essaie Pas | Demain est une autre nuit | DFA LLC
2. "Face Peradam" | Jakob Skott | All the Colours of the Dust | El Paraiso
3. "Strange" | Post Industrial Boys | Unintended | Karaoke Kalk
4. "Roach Race" | Alex Barnett | Chew from the Mind | Midwich Productions
5. "Body Deh (feat. Shokryme)" | Okzharp & Samrai | Gated EP | Keysound
6. "Immaculata" | The Devil and the Universe | Benedicere | Rustblade
7. "liquid gate" | Cavern of Anti-Matter | void beats / invocation trex | Duophonic
8. "Super Echo" | Egoless | Like a Nuclear Bomb | Scotch Bonnet
9. "NOV20152[Edit1]A]" | Warrior Squares | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
10. "Other Dub - Mix II" | MM Studio | Good Star Dubs | Album Label
11. "Peaceful Man" | Peace | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again
12. "Cities of the Red Night" | Dave Harrington Group | Become Alive | Other People
13. "Bela Lugosi's Dead" | Bauhaus | Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape | Beggars Banquet - Hostess
14. "All My Gods (feat. Tik Tu) (Ummagma Remix)" | Omodada | All My Gods - Ummagma Remix | Moon Sounds
15. "In a Quiet Room" | The Veldt | The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur - The Drake Equation | Leonard Skully
16. "Tomorrow We Will Kill You" | Not Waving | Animals | Diagonal
17. "Nairobi Cowboy" | Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society | Earned Dreams | Knit Classics
18. "Path 5 - Mogwai Remix / Edit" | Max Richter | Sleep (Remixes) | Deutsche Grammophon
19. "Morning Dew" | Einsturzende Neubauten | Fuenf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala | Some Bizarre
20. "Wheels Turning" | The Durutti Column | Amigos Em Portugal | Durutti
21. "Feel the Spirit" | Foster Jackson Group | Feel the Spirit | Lonnie
22. "Canthem" | Ling | Attachment | Codes
23. "You Shouldn't Do That" | Jack Ketch and the Crowmen | Brimfull of Hate | M'Lady's
24. "Rollercoaster" | The Jesus and Mary Chain | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
25. "Numbed Out" | Hey Colossus | Radio Static High | Rocket
26. "Hinoki" | Anenon | Petrol | Friends of Friends
27. "The White Sea" | :zoviet*france: | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY

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Uniquely, Completely, Imperially Alone: Transmission 274, 2016 April 23

Another fill-in opportunity, this time for "Exterior Realms" and DJ Penelope, another program without features, another scoop of unregulated trail mix, and another recording with notes. I hope you appreciated the previous one. Here's what I have:

"More vocal numbers in this program. It's going well even though I am in a desperate mood." [I WAS. Personal issues.]

"I don't understand how this works." [I DON'T. This is why I'm not a professional.]

"The segue into "Like a Chicken" shouldn't have worked but did." [Happy accidents!]

"So many words." [I don't remember whether I was referring to some vocalist or myself. I hope this has been edifying!]

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 April 23, 2100-2300:

1. "Keep Moving On" | Satin Jackets | Panorama Pacifico | Eskimo
2. "Human Mystery" | Celt Islam | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
3. "Britain's Got Talon" | eMMplekz | Rook to TN34 | Mordant
4. "We're Comin' Out" | The Replacements | Let It Be | Twin/Tone
5. "Organic Cities" | Immersion | Analogue Creatures | swim
6. "Passenger" | Post Industrial Boys | Unintended | Karaoke Kalk
7. "Run" | Spiritualized | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
8. "Mo' Onions" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Rumble
9. "Sanctified" | The Veldt | The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur - The Drake Equation | Leonard Skully
10. "Into Night (Brush My Hair, While I Cry)" | Purple Pilgrims | Eternal Delight | Not Not Fun
11. "Profoundamental" | Candy L | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
12. "Nord" | Julian Wasserman & HBC | 10 Years Stil Vor Talent Presented By Oliver Koletzki | Stil Vor Talent
13. "Like a Chicken" | Witch | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again
14. "Outsider" | ^L_ | The Outsider | Antime
15. "Inescapable" | Cranes | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
16. "Stayin' Strong Hand" | Gary Gritness | The Sugar Cane Chronicles Vol. 1 | Hypercolour
17. "Solid Gold Telephone" | Commodo | Set It Straight | Black Acre
18. "Of Roots Hardly Known" | 12z | Trembling Air | Other People
19. "Tentacles" | Franklin de Costa | Tentacles | Curle
20. "Small Girl By a Pool" | The Durutti Column | Amigos Em Portugal | Durutti
21. "No. 1 Fan" | Majesty Crush | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
22. "To My Love" | July Skies | The Weather Clock | Caught By the River
23. "Saturn and Co." | Bill Pritchard | Mother Town Hall | Tapete
24. "Bogota" | Jimi Jules | Bogota EP | Watergate
25. "Damascus Spy" | Abu AMA | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
26. "I'm Not Made of Iron" | Chrissy Zebby Tembo | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again
27. "E" | Jealousy | Paid For It | Moniker
28. "Expo" | Anchorsong | Ceremonial | Tru Thoughts
29. "Untitled 1985" | Muslimgauze | Split | Optimo Trax
30. "63 1st Movement Home" | 3bc | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
31. "Bijie Dream" | Tim Hecker | Love Streams | 4AD

strewn with time's dead flowers

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A Determination Will Be Made As To Why That Occurred: Transmission 273, 2016 April 20

Normal Wednesday Night Service resumes! And, in my pursuit of Excellence in Content and Technique, I took notes on this broadcast. I thought I would share them with you. Here goes:

"I am sighing, eating dinner during the show, choking on phlegm, it's ugly and sloppy." [It's all true--I am overcoming something in the phlegm department; as I have said in the past I work out before my program, and sometimes buy a sandwich, and this was one of those nights, and it is ALWAYS UGLY AND SLOPPY, I don't even know why I bothered writing that down.]

"I don't talk enough, not like Roger Smith. He is a teacher. I have nothing to teach anymore." [Haha, also true! You should listen to Roger Smith and "Crazy Words, Crazy Tune," Monday nights at 7pm. I have promised that no one will learn anything from my program, so at least I am keeping my word.]

"That is a long story." [Yes, yes it is.]

"I don't feel like talking, it is all very tired sounding. almost the entire show is instrumental. is this the sound of old age?" [Probably, but did you not wonder what the sound of old age was? OH NO HAVE I ACTUALLY TAUGHT YOU SOMETHING]

More notes to come, with the next program! I feel more excellent already!

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 April 20, 2100-2300:

1. "Cosmic Traveler" | DUBCON | Martian Dub Beacon | Metropolis
2. "Moonbuilding 2073 AD - Wassermann - PsychoSchaffelClusterMix" | The Orb | Moonbuilding 2073 AD Remixes / Sin in Space, Pt. 1 | Kompakt
3. "50 Trees" | Modeselektor | Trees / 50 Trees | 50 Weapons
4. "She Moves Like a Machine" | Rob Lawrence | Domestic Landscape, Vol. 2: Underrated Synth Classics 1982-1990 | Domestica
5. "The Wrong Person Spec" | Demons | The Wrong Person Spec | District Six
6. "Realigned Dub" | African Head Charge | Super Mystic Brakes | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Flashbacks - Franck Vigroux Remix" | Emika | Flashbacks | Emika
8. "Bato charge" | Aquarius Heaven | Bato charge | Circus Company
9. "Shut Down" | Chakk | Clocks and Babies | Klanggalerie
10. "13 crowsdub" | Dogdub | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
11. "Good Vibrations" | The Echologist | Good Vibrations | Echocord Colour
12. "Invierno - John Tejada Remix" | Ricardo Tobar | Ricardo Tobar - Collection Remixes Pt. 1 | Cocoon
13. "Beri Version" | African Head Charge | Super Mystic Brakes | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Call of Deliverance" | Rapoon | Song from the End of the World | Glacial Movements
15. "Stranger on the Shore" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Rumble
16. "People I Know - Cesar P" | David Ramos | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
17. "Estoril a noite" | The Durutti Column | Amigos Em Portugal | Durutti
18. "Where" | Baumann / Koek | Baumann / Koek | Bureau B
19. "The Invention Mother" | Nonkeen | The Gamble | R & S
20. "Clean Slate" | Joachim Pastor | 10 Years Stil Vor Talent Presented By Oliver Koletzki | Stil Vor Talent
21. "Street Field" | Assembled Minds | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
22. "The Race (Part 2)" | African Head Charge | Super Mystic Brakes | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
23. "June Keys (fragment)" | Ishmael Cormack | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY

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You Can't Tell If It's Your Birthday Or You're Getting Fired: Transmission 272, 2016 April 17

Today I hate everyone and everything, so I thought I might lighten my mood by posting something. YOU'RE WELCOME. The "something" is a program I did on pretty short notice (was it an emergency? probably an emotional one, knowing me). I wanted to hear some A Certain Ratio, I know this, and there wasn't much more to it.

What happened in this program? You probably already know--carefully curated segues that nevertheless went awry, some scrambling toward the end, a general clusterfuffle of an evening. At least we got to hear a different version of "Flight" than the standard, which for reasons I'm not ready to discuss I have always associated with a bad personal decision. Oh, and I managed to call our friend Mr. D something I don't think he's ever been called, though he should have.

I'm feeling better now, but only just.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 April 17, 2100-2300:

1. "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" | The Replacements | Let It Be | Twin/Tone
2. "Flight (John Peel Session, 1979)" | A Certain Ratio | B-Sides, Sessions & Rarities | Soul Jazz | "Physical Evidence"
3. "The Orchard (feat. Violinbwoy)" | Dub Dynasty | Holy Cow | Steppas
4. "To Modify" | Dan Curtin | Galaxies Merging EP | EPM
5. "III" | Aluk Todolo | Voix | Ajna Offensive
6. "Welcome to the Foyer" | Blood Sport | Axe to the Root | Blast First Petite
7. '4'22"' | Inventing Masks | Inventing Masks | Error Broadcast
8. "Money" | One Eyed God | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
9. "Choir (John Peel Session, 1979)" | A Certain Ratio | B-Sides, Sessions & Rarities | Soul Jazz | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Plainsong" | Seefeel | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
11. "Big Tuna" | Bulbs | Color Attic | Shelter Press
12. "Terminal New York" | The (Hypothetical) Prophets | Around the World With | Infine
13. "Jiffy hoof out" | MWSTARD! | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
14. "All Night Party (John Peel Session, 1979)" | A Certain Ratio | B-Sides, Sessions & Rarities | Soul Jazz | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Johnny Sunshine" | Liz Phair | Exile in Guyville | Matador
16. "Endzone" | Fatima Al Qadiri | Brute | Hyperdub
17. "One Day Out of Life" | The Veldt | The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation | Leonard Skully
18. "Unreal" | Tricky | Skilled Mechanics | K7
19. "Envy" | HVOB | 10 Years Stil Vor Talent Presented By Oliver Koletzki | Stil Vor Talent
20. "Another Reality" | Karl Bartos | Communication | Trocadero
21. "Karma Control on Patrol" | Ste Rozza | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
22. "Afterlife Lifestyle" | No Zu | Afterlife | Chapter Music
23. "Laughter in Moscow" | The Toy Shop | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
24. "Do the Du (John Peel Session, 1979)" | A Certain Ratio | B-Sides, Sessions & Rarities | Soul Jazz | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Don't Be Afraid (12" Mix)" | George Faith | Mr. Perry I Presume | Pressure Sounds
26. "Violently Still" | How Hot Is Your Cloud | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
27. "Call to the Shining Man" | The Assembled Minds | Creaking Haze and Other Rave-Ghosts | Patterned Air
28. "7 Directions" | Luciano feat. Jaw | 7direction(s) | Cadenza
29. "Breathless" | Waterhouse | Empty Gallery EP | Decisions

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