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Everyone Gets Heaven: Transmission 261, 2016 February 2

In what is now a statutorily rare gesture, I fill in for "The Griot Hour" on that stupidest of holidays, Groundhog Day. I won't develop or improve old theories here, but merely reiterate one: that a given music's inability to sit alongside other musics is directly proportional to its greatness. So here we have the much-plagiarized, little-appreciated Curve in the "Physical Evidence" feature. None of this is to say that all the other segues in the program, or even most of them, make sense. The fault is not in our records, but in our selves.

At this time of writing we are pouring one out for Skeptical Sunday, one of the few WRFI programs that pre-dated the launch of this one. I'm feeling aware of my own mortality in this moment. I don't know why this came on so suddenly, this realization that I do have "seniority" and have definitely logged more hours on air at this station than any other music host. What's it all for, I wonder.

I do try to launch into personal and political rants only when the issues directly involve me, so I'll simply note here that free-form radio stations "are" little more than the people who comprise them. That is the point, the upside and the downside. Personally I've been feeling the "downside" more often than not lately, as one beloved host after another closes up shop. I only feel the losses and I don't know what we're getting from the newbies, because I simply don't know. I've chosen not to know, so the responsibility is mine in a way, which is part of what hurts about this.

Anyway, that's quite enough, especially since I might be sufficiently crazy to try another post today. Happy Tuesday, everybody!

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 February 2, 2100-2300:

1. "Die Like a Dog" | Curve | Radio Sessions | Anxious | "Physical Evidence"
2. "Secondo Percorso" | Pietro Riparbelli | Vacuum | Dirter
3. "Mama Words" | Brain Damage | Walk the Walk | Jarring Effects
4. "The Magical Party" | The Silent Ones | The Magical Party | Kompakt
5. "Ten Little Girls" | Curve | Radio Sessions | Anxious | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Action Candy" | Surgery | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
7. "Firestarter" | Brian Harris | Behind the Mask | self-released
8. "Woodland Rock" | Ty Segall | Ty Rex | Goner
9. "Split Into Fractions" | Curve | Radio Sessions | Anxious | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Excalibur" | Fracture | Tempa Allstars, Vol. 8 | Tempa
11. "Love" | Acre | Better Strangers | Tectonic
12. "Arms Out" | Curve | Radio Sessions | Anxious | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Ariyo" | Dieuf-Dieul de Thies | Senegal 70 (Sonic Gems from the 70s) | Analog Africa
14. "Take Me Beyond" | Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation | Take Me Beyond | Rocket
15. "Coast Is Clear" | Curve | Radio Sessions | Anxious | "Physical Evidence"
16. "If We Amplify Everything, We Hear Nothing" | Demons | The Wrong Person Spec | District Six
17. "PGL - Pretty Good Looking" | Lonely Walk | Teen | Born Bad
18. "Bad Times" | Lubricated Goat | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
19. "Free Jazz" | Strategy | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
20. "Free HiFi Internet" | Emmanuelle | Emmanuelle | DEEWEE
21. "Horror Head" | Curve | Radio Sessions | Anxious | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Restless in Thought" | Basic Soul Unit | Under the Same Sky | Dekmantel
23. "Belle Ile En Mer Dub Night - The Humble Bee 'The Noises in Andrew's Head' Mix" | A New Line (Related) | Our Lady of Perpetual Fucking Succour | Home Assembly
24. "A Washed Out Monkey Star Halo" | Steel Pole Bath Tub | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
25. "The Subdubba Beat - Stockholmia Glue Mix - Prins Thomas Edit" | Ü | Paradise Goulash Versions | Eskimo

didn't get out of the building in time

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You'll Forget About Life, You'll Forget About Time: Transmission 260, 2016 January 27

Here is another program that came off well, featuring that unicorn of the "Physical Evidence" bestiary, the non-streamable 4AD record. There must be a story behind the non-spotification of "The Mercy Seat," but I have no idea what it is. I was and was not paying attention during this time, no matter how many people say that the 80s and 90s were "my era."

I will tell you this: if it weren't for 4AD releases from 1988 / 1989 / 1990, I would pretty much have no recollection of those years at all. I know that I was in school, that I was in a band, that I worked as a barista, that no one used the term "barista," that I was seeing someone, that I was doing theatre, and that I wasn't eating meat. That seems like a lot but if you scratch beneath the surface you just get a bland, creamy nougat of vagueness. (My counselor and I are working on this.)

But damned if I don't have every last thing 4AD put out during this time. If I'm giving Ultra Vivid Scene short shrift here it's because I wasn't particularly a fan of theirs (well, his, but in the case of this record they are a "they"). [KURT RALSKE: if you're reading this please don't be offended, I said the same thing about Bowie, so my words don't mean anything except that my taste is probably bad.] But this is a good and good-sounding record.

Scheduling reminder: again, I express some uncertainty about the program schedule in this broadcast because I didn't know it at the time, but we are staying at 2100 Eastern Time on Wednesdays, so there's that, if you happen to like any of this.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 January 27, 2100-2300:

1. "Gimmer Dot" | Bailter Space | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
2. "Sun Is Shining" | The Upsetters | Mr. Perry I Presume | Pressure Sounds
3. "Avebury" | Appleblim | Avebury | Ammunition
4. "Lacrimosa" | Architectural | Amour | Wolfskuil
5. "Lost Week-End" | Wanda Jackson | There's a Party Goin' On | Rumble | "Listening Parlour"
6. "Projekt 2 Kraut" | Markus Oehlen | Wanne 4 | Infinite Greyscale
7. "Everywhere a Bruk" | Seekers International | Her Imperial Majesty | Boomarm Nation
8. "Mercy Seat" | Ultra Vivid Scene | Mercy Seat | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Hot Cross Buns" | Bill Wells | Nursery Rhymes | Karaoke Kalk
10. "Sugar Coated Stucco" | Supernova | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
11. "Leningrad" | Cayetano | The Right Time | Klik
12. "Stekker Forever!" | Deadbeat | Walls and Dimensions | BLKRTZ
13. "Final Flight Excerpts 1-4" | Vision Heat | The Chosen Themes - Program II | Root Strata
14. "Find What You Love and Let It Kill You" | Hurricane #1 | Find What You Love and Let It Kill You | Tapete
15. "NAZ" | The Wharves | NAZ / My Will | Upset the Rhythm
16. "ae0UN93R" | Iskeletor | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
17. "Inner Flight" | Primal Scream | Screamadelica [reissue] | Sony
18. "Earthstrong Steppas" | PDX Mandem | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
19. "H Like In Heaven" | Ultra Vivid Scene | Mercy Seat | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Baby" | The Comsat Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel
21. "Red Bath" | Boss Hogg | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
22. "Obsolete Frameworks" | Colossal Yes | Surrounded by Progress | Ba-Da Bing!
23. "The Fog" | Normil Hawaiians | Return of the Ranters | Upset the Rhythm
24. "Imidiwan N'assouf (Alter Echo's VIP Dub of the Dub!)" | Hama & Krucial Kuts | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
25. "Kiko Medina" | Le Tropical Jazz | Senegal 70 (Sonic Gems from the 70s) | Analog Africa
26. "A Harmonious Approach" | Gulls Rhythm Force | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
27. "Perle" | M.ono | Volle Schnauze EP | Heist
28. "Codine" | Ultra Vivid Scene | Mercy Seat | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Spread the Fear" | Evil Blizzard | Everybody Come to Church | Louder Than War
30. "IX - Synthapella Version" | Stephan Bodzin | Powers of Ten (Remixes) | Herzblut
31. "What You Want" | Huxley | What You Want | No Idea's Original

don't get paranoid with me

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The Angels Only Look the Other Way: Transmission 259, 2016 January 20

A foul mood has come over me, so please indulge me while I speak of happy golden days of yore. "Friend of Bombast" Jeremy once insisted that I play "Hungarian Love Song" on a radio show at my old station, and steered my parents toward Bloody Nonsense (in my mind still the best Jazz Butcher compilation) when they were feeling a bit squeamish about buying the album that was at the top of my Christmas wishlist that year [link NSFWish; bizarrely I still don't own that one.] So the Jazz Butcher and I go way back.

On two different occasions, I saw the Jazz Butcher perform. One gig was during the Creation years, and another was much later, albeit with the inimitable Max Eider, now back in the fold. We didn't get David J on that night, as promised, but you can't have everything. Now: I didn't track down a copy of Hamburg until a few years after this latter gig, so that concert, while post-"fame" in a way, was the closest I got to experiencing the "glory years" of the band. I personally don't think that the Jazz Butcher without Max Eider is much of a thing at all, although I will say that the 1990 gig did include, pace the gigography, an encore in which the Jazz Butcher was joined by opening act The Blue Aeroplanes (I think there were, like, eighty of them) for a ripping version of "Caroline Wheeler's Birthday Present" (and, IIRC, "Sweet Jane"). That was a good time.

[MEMORY UPDATE] I just recalled what I think is a funny thing. Another "Friend of Bombast," Jen, once rebuffed a cassette of Jazz Butcher songs that I had made for her. "He is too English," she explained. [This, from a Smiths fan!] It got me thinking that there are, I guess, many ways to be English [including the categories "insufficiently English" and "just English enough"], but what I suspect comes off as "too English" is the Oxfordian thing, which, let's face it, only Ride have worn well. MORE IMPORTANTLY, I think this program needs a new feature, because you can never have enough. "Reflections on Rejected Mixtapes" seems like a strong candidate, no shortage of material there.

Anyway, I have a few more "Physical Evidence"-worthy Jazz Butcher records; hopefully the show survives long enough for me to get to them.

On that note, the new WRFI schedule is upon us, and we are staying right where we are, on Hump Night, so prospects are good.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 January 20, 2100-2300:

1. "Total War (Richard Skinner Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel
2. "Take Your Ghosts" | The Japanese Girl | Sonic-Shaped Life | Munster
3. "Mandrake Handshake" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Mini Album Thingy Wingy | A Recordings
4. "Cumbia de Giza" | Musette | A Cosmic Serenade | Hapna
5. "Bour Sine" | Le Sourouba de Louga | Senegal 70 (Sonic Gems from the 70s) | Analog Africa
6. "Tied" | Oren Ambarchi & Johan Berthling | Tongue Tied | Hapna
7. "Rano Pano" | Mogwai | CENTRAL BELTERS | ROCK ACTION
8. "Victims" | Tropic of Cancer | Archive: The Downwards Singles | Blackest Ever Black
9. "Mon Explication" | Daniel Jacques | Discovery Change (Part 3) | Jadac
10. "Invocation" | Cabaret Voltaire | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule
11. "Gloss, Pt. 1" | Theo Burt | Gloss | Presto
12. "Completely sun (feat. Jarvis Cocker)" | Pilooski | Isola | Dirty
13. "Resolution (pt. 2 version 2)" | Singers & Players | Revenge of the Underdog | On-U Sound
14. "Warning!" | Peter Scion | Through My Ghost | Huntleys + Palmers
15. "Bath of Bacon" / "Soul Happy Hour" / "Death Dentist" / "Walk with the Devil" / "Rain" / "Roadrunner" | The Jazz Butcher and his Sikkorskis from Hell | Hamburg | Rebel | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Boys in Blue" | Janitor Joe | The Color of Noise | Robellion
17. "Squeeze Up (Part 2)" | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Uptown Top Ranking | VP
18. "Dance Slow" | Marbert Rocel | In the Beginning | Compost
19. "Mudlarks" | Shape Worship | A City Remembrancer | Front and Follow
20. "Come On Down and Get Saved" | Today Is the Day | The Color of Noise | Robellion
21. "Magical Journey" | Reckonwrong | Whities 005 | Whities
22. "Sophisticated Girl V.I.P" | Seekers International | Her Imperial Majesty | Boomarm Nation
23. "Street Credibility" | Family Fodder | Sunday Girls (Director's Cut) | Staubgold

feel like crawling off somewhere to die

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Sordid Details Following: Transmission 258, 2016 January 13

I never know how this program should respond when special people die. Each instance seems like a high-risk balancing act. I don't want to do too much or too little, I don't want to ignore things or use death as an opportunity, and I feel the need to respond in the spirit of the moment, whatever that is, and in line with what I am feeling, which I will immodestly say is indispensable, because without taking this into consideration it isn't clear why *I* in particular should be delivering these two hours of radio. So with all that in mind here is the first program I did after we all found out that David Bowie died.

I'd be lying if I said I was a "fan." I can't speak for Lady Catharsis, who contributes "Heroes" to the program, but I think I'm authorized to say she only has one Bowie record. His music was one of those things that, seemingly, everyone in my high school theatre ensemble was into. Being a contrarian and a jerk, I kept it at arms' length, along with a host of other things dear to the group: Pink Floyd, Dr. Who [these would have been the Colin Baker years], Sgt. Pepper's, and Kate Bush [how many airings of "Babooshka" before brain damage sets in?]. Anyway I have come around, partly, on one or two of these things.

It seems like Bowie helped many a weird listener survive adolescence, and he helped at least a couple of his friends get clean and sober. Plus, he could make life unpleasant for people who deserved it. Whatever you feel about any individual Bowie song, he didn't seem ever to do a thing he didn't want to do in order to please others. The world is undoubtedly a dimmer place in his absence. So there's that.

You were expecting something profound? It's like you don't know me.

Oh, and enjoy the Comsat Angels.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 January 13, 2100-2300:

1. "Sound and Vision" | David Bowie | The Singles Collection | EMI
2. "Motame en la tormenta" | Mecanica Popular | Noche triler | Names You Can Trust
3. "Dark Parade (John Peel Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Sequence 2" | Skatebard | CDIII | Balsa Wood
5. "Charity Begins at Home" | Eji Oyewole | Charity Begins at Home | BBE
6. "At Sea (John Peel Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
7. "El sol y la luna (feat. Judah Warsky)" | Pilooski | Isola | Dirty
8. "Locked in Water" | Whore Paint | Ultra Sound | Translation Loss
9. "Goat of the West (Demo)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Galactic Center" | Helios Creed | The Color of Noise | Robellion
11. "Be Brave (John Peel Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Alpine Dawn" | The Orb | Pop Ambient 2016 | Kompakt
13. "Prostrate" | Marshall Applewhite | Dark Acid V | Clan Destine
14. "Mass" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Scary Munsters and Super Creeps" | Brian Harris | On My Knees | self-released
16. "Heavy Snow" | STL | Message of Sound, Pt. 1 | Echocord
17. "Ashes to Ashes" | David Bowie | The Singles Collection | EMI
18. "What's in Me" | Catz 'n Dogz | Basic Colour Theory | Pets
19. "Rishi (Shit Robot vs. Rino S.)" | Shit Robot | Rishi | Kitjen
20. "Justaposition" | Tellavision | The Third Eye | Karlrecords
21. "Gush" | Co La | No No | Kemado
22. "Heave Ho" | Cows | The Color of Noise | Robellion
23. "Eye Dance (Richard Skinner Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Heroes" | David Bowie | The Singles Collection | EMI | "Listening Parlour"
25. "Paint Me As a Dead Soul" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring
26. "Jah Warble" | Al Lover | Zodiak Versions | Hoga Nord
27. "Ziggy Stardust" | Bauhaus | Spirit | Beggars Banquet

we live together, on our own

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Rush Hour of the Gods: Transmission 257, 2016 January 6

Welcome to the first program of 2016, which finds us doing something predictable, playing a Coil record, and doing something else predictable, which is sounding awesome. OF COURSE bad things happen on this program, and AS USUAL it doesn't matter. This one goes in the vault. (They all go in the vault, but some postings merit the announcement more than others.)

As the history apparently goes, "Backwards" was something that Coil began to record either with Trent Reznor of at Trent Reznor's studio. I am too lazy to google at the moment. But here, from my youTube "favorites" list, is something funny Peter Christopherson said about Nine Inch Nails:

You know what, though? I'm going to tell you something that would probably have sickened Younger Me, so it's a good thing that guy can't use a time machine to see this: I have actually come to believe in recent years that Trent Reznor is a lovely guy, or at least that he has become one. Old age is making me really soft.

Miscellaneous: the same person who called in to request Can chided me a few minutes later for playing Motorhead and not Hawkwind. People are tough to please.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 30, 2100-2300:

1. "AYOR Its in My Blood" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
2. "Stealing" | Lilies on Mars | Stealing | Lady Sometimes
3. "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" | Walls | Urals | Ecstatic
4. "Intro" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Nuclear Substation" | The Advisory Circle | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
6. "I'm Not Going Down" | Lois | Dank Jazz | Acuarela
7. "Nature Is a Language - the test" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Lonar" | The Program | The path of Least Resistance | Bandcamp self-release
9. "Dusty" | Brian Ellis & Brian Grainger | At Dusk | El Paraiso
10. "Fire of the Mind" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
11. "U.V." | Hammerhead | The Color of Noise | Robellion
12. "Passeig de Gracia" | Pina | Transit | Lapsus
13. "Phonogene" | Teeth of the Sea | Highly Deadly Black Tarantula | Rocket
14. "A Small Revolving World" | John Foxx | London Overgrown | Metamatic
15. "A Cold Cell" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Stop Suffering" | Tropic of Cancer | Stop Suffering | Blackest Ever Black
17. "Be Careful What You Wish For" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Groovy Situation" | Keith Rowe & The Upsetters | Mr. Perry I Presume | Pressure Sounds
19. "Cosmic Serpent" | The Comet Is Coming | Prophecy | Leaf
20. "Amber Rain" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Total War (John Peel Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel
22. "Your Head" | Helmet | The Color of Noise | Robellion
23. "Heavens Blade" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Violet Lady" | Monuments | From the Future: The 1982-1983 Tapes | Mannequin
25. "1Guarda" | Visionist | Safe | PAN
26. "Micro Dub (Say No) - Conscious Sounds" | Congo Natty | Jungle Revolution in Dub | Big Dada
27. "Fire of the Green Dragon" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Oscura Primavera" | Can | The Lost Tapes | Spoon
29. "Travelers Who'd Seen It" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope | Numero Group
30. "Louie Louie (John Peel Session)" | Motorhead | BBC Live & In-Session | Sanctuary

drifting into my solitude, over my head

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I Can't Answer Why, But I Can Tell You How: Transmission 256, 2015 December 30

It's funny, once again, how the inexplicable and intolerable time lag between a show's airing and its posting creates awkwardness. I thought, at the time, that I was opening the show with "merely" the new David Bowie single, and not the opening paragraph of a goodbye note. I miss 2015. Anyway, the "tribute" show comes later; this is just the regular regular.

But what a good program this is, if I do say so, and I do. I somehow managed not to get to as much of Volume Four as I would have liked, but I am gratified to see from the images on Discogs that it is indeed "World's End Limited" that produced this fine series of compilation zines, for a while. And if it wasn't the name of the label, someone needs to take this up, stat. The world's end is coming, after all.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 30, 2100-2300:

1. "Blackstar" | David Bowie | Blackstar | Sony
2. "Animal Space" | New Age Steppers | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
3. "Don't Fight It, Feel It" | Primal Scream | Screamadelica [reissue] | Sony
4. "Soul Kiss" | Spectrum | Volume Four | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Satta Dread - unreleased alternate cut" | Wayne Jarrett | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
6. "Bulletproof (Adrian Sherwood Remix)" | Pop Will Eat Itself | Volume Four | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Do While Apple-X" | Oval | 94 diskont | Thrill Jockey
8. "Inner Systems" | Prequel Tapes | Inner Systems | Rcoupd
9. "Bury Yourself" | Vert | The Days Within | Shitkatapult
10. "Home Is the Range" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Demon
11. "Firepile (remix)" | Throwing Muses | Volume Four | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Successive Pleasure" | My Disco | Severe | Temporary Residence
13. "Music of the Spheres" | Cara Stacey | Things That Grow | Kit
14. "In Norwegen ganz verwegen" | Shackleton | Deliverance Series No. 3 | Woe to the Septic Heart
15. "Shine" | Flower Sermon | Volume Four | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Sons of the Serpent" | Mark McGuire | Beyond Belief | Dead Oceans
17. "The Ascent" | Ramleh | Circular Time | Crucial Blast
18. "Ode to Joy" | B Music | Ghosts of Christmas Past (Remake) | Les Disques du Crepuscule
19. "My Insatiable One (New Piano Version)" | Suede | Volume Four | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Braids" | Aris Kindt | Floods | Scissor & Thread
21. "We, The Inspired" | Butterfly Child | Volume Four | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Distant Trees" | Pharaon de Winter | Pharaon de Winter | Because Music
23. "The Caterpillar" | The Cure | Staring at the Sea - The Singles | Elektra
24. "Dizzy Talks" | Kito Jempere | Deep Love 15 | Dirt Crew
25. "If Nobody Had an Ocean" | Earth Jerks | The West Is a Mess | Ba Da Bing!

angels are mathematical

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What Kind of Dance Is This, Nothing Happens: Transmission 255, 2015 December 29

This seemed like a "downer" of a program when I listened back to it, but looking at the playlist I can't see why, except for the obvious. More on that momentarily. It probably had something to do with my mood, which proves as always that I am not fit to assess anything. My counselor tells me that we need to do some deep, background work but that my self-esteem is so wrecked that such work will probably make me feel worse about myself instead of better. So--how is your 2016?

Anyway, this is the first of a couple of Comsat Angels-themed episodes, which maybe explains the melancholy atmosphere of this particular audio file. It's weird--these records are so good and yet they just didn't make it into my circle of whatever, back in the day. I'm sure my old radio station had some stuff, but I don't remember anyone playing it; I had no friends who were into this band, never saw their records in a local store, etc. This seems like one of the quaint little things about pre-globalization. I remember having a copy of Surfer Rosa early on, loaning it to someone, having that person loan it to someone else, having an insanely hard time tracking my record down, and not getting it back until nearly a year later, by which point seemingly everyone I knew was a Pixies fan. For many an influential record, the roles were reversed--I depend on others and am by no means a tastemaker, no matter what my twitter bio says--but I can't for the life of me understand why Comsat Angels bypassed all of us. Clearly, though, it's never too late to be an emo kid.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 29, 1900-2100:

1. "Let's Boogie" | The Exorcist GBG | The Exorcist GBG | Hoga Nord
2. "Waiting for a Miracle" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Chic Psychedelic - X-Port Version" | System 7 | X-Port    A-Wave
4. "Higher than the Sun (A Dub Symphony in Two Parts)" | Primal Scream | Screamadelica [reissue] | Sony
5. "Dark Planet - Modeselektor Remix" | Shed | Dark Planet | 50Weapoons
6. "Loss - Regis Version" | Ike Yard | Manbait | Blackest Ever Black
7. "Waiting for a Miracle (John Peel Session)" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
8. "A Friend Indeed Dub" | The Aggrovators | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
9. "Real Story" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Cruisin' the IDR" | Workin' Man Noise Unit | Play Loud | Riot Season
11. "Red Planet" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
12. "77 Emerging Strips" | Little Annie | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
13. "Ju Ju Money (John Peel Session)" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
14. "The Unbecoming" | Perils | Perils | Desire Path
15. "Patient Days" | Clay Rendering | Snowthorn | Hospital Productions
16. "Le moi inacheve" | Police des Moeurs | Ceux Qui Restent | Mannequin
17. "Specimen No. 2" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Configuracion de Ataque" | Leandro Fresco | Pop Ambient 2016 | Kompakt
19. "Deep End" | Pye Corner Audio | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
20. "All of the Time" | Shop Assistants | Will Anything Happen | Blue Guitar / Chrysalis
21. "Independence Day (John Peel Session)" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Three of Five" | Tapage | Five & Six | Tympanik
23. "Silhouettes" | Thick Pigeon | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule
24. "Monkey Pilot" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Meditation No 2" | Laraaji | Ambient 3: Day of Radiance | Glitterbeat
26. "Postcard" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Just Like Honey (Demo - Oct 84)" | The Jesus and Mary Chain | Just Like Honey | Blanco Y Negro
28. "Debris" | WSR | Stainless | Contort

fresh deliveries for paid-up members

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Amateurism Arises When the Culture Around You Won't Let You Out of Where You Are: Transmission 254, 2015 December 23

Last June, when "The Dark Parade" ended, we moved our broadcast time from Tuesdays to Wednesdays. I have a thing about calendars, dates, and observances--part of me wanted not to appear on the same dates I broadcast last year ("that rules out a lot of dates," murmurs the chorus) but a hump night return was more important. So, anyway, here we are again with another Festivus observance. Last year's was so cheerful, in comparison, but this is a well-put-together program that I hope will give someone comfort at some point, maybe even right now.

It is good to see the back of this week. I am sick, both medically and at heart. It seems like everyone is dying. We're also being jobbed out of a proper winter, and my reverse seasonal affect isn't having it. I am grateful in these times for friends (update--"Reinhardt" and I made brief contact), friendly acquaintances (thanks to Leslie W for the copy of "1") and fleeting respites from my chronic, overstated anguish.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 23, 2100-2300:

1. "Black Candy" | Beat Happening | Look Around | Domino
2. "Can I take your order" | Leslie Winer & CM von Hausswolff | 1 | Monotype | "Physical Evidence"
   
3. "Unterwasser" | Max Wurden | Pop Ambient 2016 | Kompakt
4. "The History of Coal" | Normil Hawaiians | Return of the Ranters | Upset the Rhythm
5. "I Could Have Died" | J. C. Satan | J. C. Satan | Born bad
6. "Weatherman" | Leslie Winer & CM von Hausswolff | 1 | Monotype | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Death In Reverse" | MONO | Transcendental | Pelagic
8. "(P) Playfulness" | Clap! Clap! | Simple | Black Acre
9. "Travel Is Dangerous" | Mogwai | CENTRAL BELTERS | ROCK ACTION
10. "Rocking Carol" | B Music | Ghosts of Christmas Past (Remake) | Les Disques du Crepuscule
11. "Never Get Burn" | Twinkle Brothers | Beyond the Front Line | Front Line / Virgin
12. "I'll Be Mother" | Leslie Winer & CM von Hausswolff | 1 | Monotype | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Commercial" | Circuit Breaker | My Descent into Capital | Harbinger Sound
14. "Lighthouse Hustle" | Senking | Closing Ice | Raster-Noton
15. "Blue Green" | The Future Sound of London | Archived 8 | Jumpin' & Pumpin'
16. "Talked to Some of Them" | Leslie Winer & CM von Hausswolff | 1 | Monotype | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Magic, Art & Bells" | Early Mammal | Take a Lover | Riot Season
18. "Queen Mary" | Benjamin Brunn | Smallville Ways - Ten Years | Smallville
19. "This Discreet Organ" | Leslie Winer & CM von Hausswolff | 1 | Monotype | "Physical Evidence"
20. "HRM TX" | Benjamin Damage | Obsidian | 50Weapons
21. "Up to You" | Marbert Rocel | In the Beginning | Compost
22. "Catching Clouds in Outerspace" | Marco Bernardi | Spoken Word of Lie | Brokntoys
23. "Guiding Star" | Teenage Fanclub | Bandwagonesque | Creation - DGC

the transitive property

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Accidental Christmas Tunes To Come: Transmission 253, 2015 December 22

I have nothing to say about this particular program--except that maybe I expected a bit more from a tune called "We Met Bernard Sumner at a Christmas Party Last Night," that one has a bit of a "We Didn't Start the Fire" thing going* --so I will just drop a couple of thoughts here, or maybe "musings," if they don't rise to the level of thoughts.

I never owned any iteration of The Ghosts of Christmas Past until a day or two before this program. I knew that Crepuscule had released the 73rd different edition of this collection this fall, but I opted for the original record, mostly because I preferred the cover art. I'm sure the cd is perfectly good, but I am a jerk like this a lot of the time. I need THE WHOLE PACKAGE to be just right, or I will have "issues." It got me thinking whether aesthetics and curation are just fascism for people who are squeamish about actual violence.

Also, perhaps a bit of mental clarity is beginning to kick in on account of some changes of habit, but this was the year I decided I really wasn't into Christmas music per se. Every song I heard, unless it was attributed as "traditional," struck me as a crass novelty, which they really are. I am slow enough to have realized this just now. (By the way, people really WENT IN HARD on "Wonderful Christmas Time" by Paul McCartney this year, as though it just dawned on us all that maybe it's not so good. But I will tell you that there is no universe in which that is a worse song than The Beach Boys' "Little Saint Nick.") Anyway, I have always associated certain non-observant recordings with December, or Christmas time, if you prefer. We'll get to those, but that's for next time.

"Always Christmas, and Never Winter."

*it does have a good beat, and you can dance to it.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 22, 2100-2300:

1. "Cathedral Bloody Lady" | Eric Feremans | The Antwerp Killer | Finders Keepers
2. "Prayer for a Cheaper Christmas" | Swinging Buildings | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Downhearted Holidays" | Voiski | Breaths Written Outside Gloom | Delsin
4. "Baby I Love You So" | Jacob Miller | Classic Rockers | Island Jamaica
5. "Death Sentences" | Black Wing | ...Is Doomed | The Flenser
6. "Weinachtrap" | Tuxedomoon | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Distance" | Ziro | Lionheart | Crazylegs
8. "Afghan Farmer Driving Cattle" | The Mothmen | Pay Attention! | On-U Sound
9. "Christiana" | Paul Haig | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Nefelibata" | Mario Hammer | L'esprit de L'escalier | Traum
11. "Devils Dub Plate" | The Upsetters | Mr. Perry I Presume | Pressure Sounds
12. "Genetic Engineering" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships (Live at the Museum of Liverpool) | White Noise
13. "Gros Sabots" | The Flabbergast | No. 1 | Circus Company
14. "Feinherb" | Wurden & Pfeiffer | Pop Ambient 2016 | Kompakt
15. "Cream or Christians" | Michael Nyman | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
16. "We Met Bernard Sumner at a Christmas Party Last Night" | Marsheaux | Ghosts of Christmas Past (Remake) | Les Disques du Crepuscule
17. "Ahmadiya" | Martyn | Falling for You | Ostgut Ton
18. "Honolulu 25 Dicembre 1990" | Magazzini Criminali | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Afraid of the Dark" | Gentleman's Dub Club | The Big Smoke | Easy Star
20. "Tokyo Twilight" | The Names | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Tamiditin" | Tinariwen | Live in Paris | Wedge
22. "Lointaine AC" | The Young Gods | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
23. "Hot Club of Christ" | Aztec Camera | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Megalith" | Akkord | Obelisk | Houndstooth
25. "Peep Show International" | Simon Topping | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
26. "Tw33tz" | Phon.o | Tw33tz / Oscillate | 50Weapons
27. "Renes" | Lloyd Cole | 1D (Electronics 2012-2014) | Bureau B
28. "Tuntuna rebajada" | Romperayo | Romperayo | Discrepant
29. "One Christmas for Your Thoughts" | The Durutti Column | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"

a dictatorship without tears

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Everyone Has To Have an Interest: Transmission 252, 2015 December 16

There were many things going wrong behind the scenes on this particular night. Fortunately most of them don't make it to the foreground of this broadcast. But I can tell you, I was confused and frazzled as it was happening. It has been nice, listening to it after the fact and actually hearing the tunes.

Sometimes a band survives for a long time and through many iterations, but only some of their records seem to represent them as you'd like to remember them. The Wedding Present record featured in this broadcast is one of those. Also there are records that give you strong memories of hopeful times, "core memories," let's call them [yes, I just watched Inside Out, and yes, I cried]. That record is also one of those.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Deconstrucction" | Radar Men from the Moon | Subversive I | Fuzz Club
2. "Ashwini" | Kujuu | Kardan | For Those Who Know
3. "Move Me" | Kellerkind | Stil Vor Talent Berlin - Teufelsberg | Stil Vor Talent
4. "Who-Dun-It?" | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Uptown Top Ranking | VP
5. "B Side" | El Mahdy Jr. | Ghost Tapes | Discrepant
6. "Vasya Vasyl'ok" | The Wedding Present | Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela | RCA | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Colour Me In" | Certain Creatures | Vipassana | Styles Upon Styles
8. "Hyper Ho" | Telepathe | Destroyer | Young Cubs
9. "NEU 5" | Basti Grub | NEU | Hohenregler
10. "Distant Worlds" | Meteor Musik | Asteriu | Kasset
11. "Adera" | Aisha Devi | Of Matter and Spirit | Houndstooth
12. "Her Imperial Majesty" | Seekers International | Her Imperial Majesty | Boomarm Nation
13. "Hude Dnipro Hude" | The Wedding Present | Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela | RCA | "Physical Evidence"
14. "1987 (interlude)" | Shape Worship | A City Remembrancer | Front and Follow
15. "Not All Bad - Not All Good" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa
16. "Youts of Today - Harry J 2015" | Brain Damage | Walk the Walk | Jarring Effects
17. "Verkhovyno" | The Wedding Present | Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela | RCA | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Doomed" | Kitchen's Floor | Battle of Brisbane | Bruit Direct
19. "Crate Diggin on Planet Omnom" | Luke Hess | Adventures in Deep Space | Echocord Colour
20. "Ocean Drift" | Debukas | Forward to the Past 3 EP 2 | Poker Flat
21. "Zadumav Didochok" | The Wedding Present | Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela | RCA | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Tit for Tat" | Bruce Haack | Haackula | Telephone Explosion
23. "Tired" | Dead Fader | Dosage EP | Touchin' Bass
24. "Davni Chasy" | The Wedding Present | Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela | RCA | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Provincial Disco" | The Wake | Tidal Wave of Hype | Les Temps Modernes
26. "Amor Fati - Peverelist Remix" | Hodge | Amor Fati / Tilikum | Livity Sound

I will try to do sensible things

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