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Can't Cry When I Don't Have Your Shoulder: Transmission 251, 2015 December 9

The second night of a "back-to-back"--we did several of these last month. I might have mentioned this last time out, but December is prime time for filling in on the radio. People (a) get busy and (b) go away. In the olden days it was a joy to take on extra broadcast opportunities around the annual gifting holiday. I am trying to re-access feelings these days. I don't know if it's working.

I do know that I have achieved a particular kind of notoriety, in that my behavior is more or less the cause of a new station policy limiting the frequency of fill-in appearances. One consideration for "Hall of Fame" status in sports is whether an athlete has changed the game in some way, for example causing a strategic re-think or the introduction of new rules to level the "playing field." So there is that. I definitely have Hall-of-Fame peskiness and endurance, if not quality. There is a question of whether the rule can really be about me when I helped to draft it, but we will let the judges decide.

Anyway, as it turns out, this long-winded humblebrag is a bit out of place, as December 9 was a regularly-scheduled appearance for me. Timing: it has never been my strong suit. As I predicted, this show was a bit angrier and more ragged than the previous night. But it is also full of TR-707 sounds, as promised, so no complaining.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 9, 2100-2300:

1. "Into the Dark" | Siglo XX | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
   
2. "Late" | Mouse on Mars | Dis Cover - Donna Regina As Recorded By | Karaoke Kalk
3. "Luther" | Black Wing | ...Is Doomed | The Flenser
4. "I Bite Through It" | Oneohtrix Point Never | Garden of Delete | Warp
5. "Sweet Soul Music - Live at the 100 Club, London / 1977" | The Jam | Fire and Skill: The Jam Live | Polydor
6. "Bad Seeds" | Beat Happening | Look Around | Domino
7. "Love on a Pale Green Post Stamp (live)" | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Labor and Enchantment" | Bill Orcutt | Colonial Donuts | Palilalia
9. "Chemical Specialist" | Creation Rebel / New Age Steppers | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
10. "A Day" | Dole | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Belbury Poly Logotone" | Belbury Poly | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
12. "Robert Earl" | Christina Vantzou | No. 3 | kranky
13. "Love and Pain" | The Neon Judgement | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Daniel" | Iron Curtis | Smallville Ways - Ten Years | Smallville
15. "Laika" | Moon Zero | Moon Zero | Denovali
16. "Psychedelic Conveyor Belt" | Gossamer | Garden Ghost | self-released
17. "Night Beach" | Brian Ellis & Brian Grainger | At Dusk | El Paraiso
18. "The Lift" | The Weathermen | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
19. "All Around and Inside" | Anthony Child | Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle, Vol. 1 | Editions Mego
20. "Do You Know My Name" | Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin | Wait For Me | Hot Casa
21. "Meltintu" | Call Super | Migrant | Houndstooth
22. "Fooling Around - Long Version" | Rat Columns | Fooling Around | Blackest Ever Black
23. "Harley David" | The Bollock Brothers | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Intermission" | Feindrehstar | Love & Hoppiness | Musik Krause
25. "Bad Day" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa
26. "Waiting For" | Trisomie 21 | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Phil vs David" | The Black Dog | Neither/Neither | Dust Science
28. "Moebius Strip (Suspension)" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released
29. "Dance Ritual I feat. Anbuley" | Auntie Flo | Theory of Flo | Huntleys + Palmers
30. "I Comb My Hair" | Co La | No No | Kemado
31. "Blood of Babylon - unreleased dubplate mix" | Barrington Spence | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
32. "Fratello Mare" | Mike Cooper | Fratello Mare | Room40
33. "You're Gonna Need That When He's Gone" | Bing & Ruth | City Lake | RVNG
34. "Prick" | Steve Lake | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"

i don't know what's wrong with the youts

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Maybe We Are Thinking the Same Thing: Transmission 250, 2015 December 8

Yo yo yo, happy 2016 denizens of the podcast site. We are back, feeling heavier and not terribly refreshed from our holiday, such as it was. Here is our sesquicentennial episode, occuring--as is our tradition with milestones--without fanfare, on short notice, and in a fill-in context. I am still working on figuring out why it is so much fun do do radio when I am "not supposed to." Updates will follow.

Anyway, this was a good night. As I say during the broadcast, the Ezy & Isaac record is quite special and continues to get better in my estimation, for what it's worth. We got real-time positive feedback--hooray for affirmation!--and a request that actually fit in with what we were doing. A BANNER EVENING.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 8, 1900-2100:

1. "Echoes of Progress" | Colossal Yes | Surrounded by Progress | Ba-Da Bing!
2. "Take Off!!!" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa | "Physical Evidence"
3. "DarkLord" | Deradoorian | The Expanding Flower Planet | Anticon
4. "Lay Beside You" | Joy White | Mr. Perry I Presume | Pressure Sounds
5. "Come to the Feast" | The 4th Coming | Strange Things (The Complete Works, 1970-1974) | Now-Again
6. "Burn True" | Coppe' | 20rpm | Mango + Sweetrice
7. "All We Need Is Love" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Way of Life" | New Order | Brotherhood | Rhino
9. "Eclipse" | Robot Koch | Hypermoment | Monkeytown
10. "Arp 188" | Steve Moore | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
11. "Situation" | Laurel Halo | In Situ | Honest Jon's
12. "A Form of Love" | Chevel | Blurse | Stroboscopic Artefacts
13. "Don't Step on My Shoes" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa | "Physical Evidence"
14. "The Night Sky" | Mark Van Hoen | Nightvision | Saint Marie
15. "Monday Generation" | Baby Guru | Sunshine Special | Klik
16. "Lift Me Up" | Console | Dis Cover - Donna Regina As Recorded By | Karaoke Kalk
17. "Bawagbe" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Czas Poczeka (Chyba)" | Catz 'n Dogz | Basic Colour Theory | Pets
19. "E=facé-C2" | Anklepants | Social-Patching-And the pixel Pageant faced boy | Love Love
20. "Dancing Horse (Logotone)" | The Focus Group | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
21. "I Fell Like a Fucking Flower" | Kinski | 7 (or 8) | Kill Rock Stars
22. "Absence" | The Telescopes | Hidden Fields | Tapete
23. "I'm Ready for You Baby" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa | "Physical Evidence"
24. "I've Said" | Visionist | Safe | PAN
25. "Aylmeri Bracelet" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope | Numero Group
26. "Mandarin Rabbit (LaGuardia)" | ULYSSES | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
27. "Holding Back (My Love) - Shan Funhouse Mix" | Tensnake | In the End (Remixes) | Running Back
28. "Edgewater Prelude" | Steve Hauschildt | Where All Is Fled | kranky
29. "Fly...Night Bird" | Roy Buchanan | You're Not Alone | Atlantic
30. "Tears of Modernism" | Pinkcourtesyphone | Sentimental Something | Important
31. "Sad to See You Go Away" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa | "Physical Evidence"
32. "This I'm Not Telling You" | Die Goldenen Zitronen | Flogging a Dead Frog | Altin Village & Mine
33. "Kunta Kinte Dub" | Singers and Players | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound

because I'm immature and I'm cursed to stay that way

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U_D_M Detour 14, 2014 November 14

Bonjour, LeBatard here, “here” being an undisclosed location in the not-frozen North. I didn’t buy you anything for Christmas, but I do have this program from the somewhat distant past to share with you. It cost me more than you know.

Since I am a free spirit, I often occupy the booth alone, but on this night I am joined for the first and only time. My co-host’s name is Faustine de la Rue, and she is, twice over. She and I plow through a multifaceted soundtrack for hedonism and adventure. We also butcher the entertainment calendar, and I injure myself in the studio. IT IS A DANGEROUS LIFE.

U_D_M playlist, 2014 November 14, 1900-2000:

1. "Mold Trip" | William Kouam Djoko | Satisfied | mobilee
2. "Flying Suns" | UNER | Tune 432 | DIYNamic
3. "Ringbahn" | Maxim Wolzyn | Intercity Express | SVS
4. "For You - Deepchord Reconstruction #1" | Fluxion | Broadwalk Tales Remix | Echocord
5. "Forbidden Place" | Esa | Serenity In A Forbidden Place | Burek
6. "Looking From A Hilltop (Stephen Morris Mix)" | Section 25 | From the Hip [30th anniversary reissue] | Factory Benelux
7. "No. No... (John Tejada Mix)" | The Field | Kompakt: Total 14 | Kompakt
8. "In Your System" | Tin Man | ODE | Acid Test

boreds of canada

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If You Finish, There's Hot Chocolate: Transmission 249, 2015 December 2

"You need to figure out how to be nice to yourself." Both Lady Catharsis and my counselor tell me this, so I am guessing there is some truth to it. This will take some figuring, but I can start by saying this is a pretty good program, verbal gaffes notwithstanding.

I really, really embarrassed DJ Andrea with what I said about her program in the beginning. Were we joking? I'm not sure. I will say that everything I tell anyone about BOMBAST is meant to be repeated. I have no reservations about it. At any rate we do struggle to find an audience for our music programs at WRFI, stranded as we are between an older demographic that doesn't know how to use computers and a younger demographic that doesn't get its music from the radio. Is either demographic "white?" This is Ithaca, son. (...and Watkins Glen.)

BOMBAST has always strived to be music for depressed, middle-aged people of mixed race who may also suffer from anxiety and various "adaptive strategies" gone wrong. However many of us there are! I think we have succeeded, and I'm not even "being nice" to myself when I say that. I honestly think it is the truth.

As for repeating the words that other people say, I will strive to be better. "You had a thought," my counselor told me today, "but you didn't act on it." I don't always have to, except when I do.

BOMBAST PLAYLIST, 2015 December 2, 2100-2300:

1. "Le coeur de la ville bat pour nous" | Police des Moeurs | Ceux Qui Restent | Mannequin
2. "Eye of the Lens" | The Comsat Angels | Eye of the Lens | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Flicker - Dag Rosenqvist Remix" | Graveyard Tapes | I'm on Fire (White Rooms Remixes) | Lost Tribe
4. "Terrain" | Julia Kent | Asperities | Leaf
5. "Obsidian" | Benjamin Damage | Obsidian | 50Weapons
6. "At Sea" | The Comsat Angels | Eye of the Lens | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Almost There" | John Foxx & The Belbury Circle | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
8. "Access Granted" | Gregor Garnutsi | Dark Acid V | Clan Destine
9. "Life Inside a Paradox" | Lost Horizons | Rainy Day Record / Life Inside a Paradox | Bella Union
10. "More Basile" | Sergie Rezza | Sergie Rezza | desire
11. "Sirens" | Ms. John Soda | Loom | Morr
12. "Charlie" | Loscil | Plume [reissue] | kranky
13. "288-1" | Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator | Con-Struct | Bureau B
14. "Stupid People" | Evil Blizzard | Everybody Come to Church | Louder Than War
15. "Gone" | The Comsat Angels | Eye of the Lens | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
16. "End" | Monuments | From the Future: The 1982-1983 Tapes | Mannequin
17. "Horse Thief" | Birds of Prey | Birds of Prey | Kathexis
18. "Return to White Mountain" | Master Musicians of Bukkake | Further West Quad Cult | Important
19. "Mind-Body Problems" | CW/A | Words Unspoken, Acts Undone | Parachute
20. "Here and Now" | Ride | Nowhere25 | Ride Music
21. "Joke Shop" | The Wake | Make It Loud | Les Temps Modernes
22. "Another World" | The Comsat Angels | Eye of the Lens | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Music For Commercials" | Coil | The Consequences of Raising Hell | Threshold Archives
24. "The Sedge" | Max Loderbauer / Claudio Putin / Samuel Rohrer | ambiq 2 | Arjunamusic
25. "Rainy Day Record" | Mercury Rev | Rainy Day Record / Life Inside a Paradox | Bella Union
26. "Attaining the Third State" | Roj | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
27. "The Sea" | Coma | This Side of Paradise | Kompakt
28. "courtmis" | aldenwels | but why hide? | JASS

I can't find anyone to doubt it

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Cruising Altitude Departure 13, 2014 November 8

Hello friends, it's me, the Captain. Or, let's say, "a" Captain. This life has taken many things away from me but I will always have that. Mind you, I don't always bring this up. It is irrelevant in most social contexts. Every now and then someone will address me in this way, taking me aback (and back). I try, like my colleagues at this site, to live in the present.

And yet: here is a departure from a year ago, posting just now, so it appears I am not doing such a good job. Apologies. It is hard work, my sinecure, my self-repair, and...other tasks. Anyway, this program was, I think, a transition out of an "earthy" phase I went through last fall. Every now and then I must remind myself, it seems, of my proper element. The goal is "pure ego life," whatever the Mattson 2 say.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 November 8, 1400-1500:

1. "Sadness On A Cloud" | Monolog | Merge | Ad Noiseam
2. "Explorer / Cartographer" | Ormonde | Cartographer / Explorer | Gizeh
3. "Devon Saturday" | Tarwater | Adrift | Bureau B
4. "Holding" | Grouper | Ruins | Kranky
5. "Military Saints II" | Virile Games | Wounded Laurel | Hospital
6. "Veery" | Off Land | Quinarian | Psychonavigation
7. "Day Drift" | Koshi Kamata | Seven Most | Offshoot
8. "Astral" | Marcelus | Shine | Tresor
9. "In Repair" | (ghost) | A Vast And Decaying Appearance | n5MD
10. "For You - Deepchord Reconstruction #2" | Fluxion | Broadwalk Tales Remix | Echocord
11. "Blue Anchor" | Kemper Norton | Loor | Front And Follow
12. "Pure Ego Death" | The Mattson 2 | Agar | Um Yeah Arts
13. "Federn Kegeln" | Springintgut & F.S. Blumm | The Bird and White Noise | Pingipung
14. "Cataracts" | Objekt | Flatland | PAN

a warm body

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Emergency Festivals Are Still Festive: Transmission 248, 2015 November 28

WELL, well well. Look at us, all caught up at last. Our newer, lazier schedule has reaped at least one benefit, thank goodness. Here is a program that happened on really short notice because DJ Kristi was sick a few nights ago. Because all critics become voices in my head, this felt like stealing, even although a hypothetical, objective observer (as elusive as the "frictionless surface" of elementary physics problems) might call this "helping."

As is often the case, I was multitasking, so you must take the good segues with the bad. Or not--I guess you could always find a more professional mixtape to listen to. I really did think "Rat Race" would work, and I didn't mean to screw up "Senses" as badly as I did. Finally, OF COURSE the last Joy Division song was "Twenty Four Hours," the ditty that launched a thousand bass tones--or is it one bass tone reiterated a thousand times? Anyway, a part of me knew this in the moment but managed to botch the backannouncing, as I always seem to.

I did manage to tae care of some "business" here, in Festival of Evidence v3.1, that I had meant to take care of a couple of weeks ago when we did the "real thing." But who's to say what's real?

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 November 28, 1900-2100:

1. "Prism Split (A Scrying Song)" | Campbell Irvine | Reunion of Two Bodies | Infrastructure New York
2. "Elektro (He Held the World in His Iron Grip)" | Stereolab | Low Fi | Too Pure
3. "Suicide" | Spacemen 3 | Losing Touch with Your Mind | Munster
4. "Incubation / Wilderness / Twenty Four Hours" | Joy Division | Preston 28 February 1980 | Drastic Plastic
5. "Slicer Dubplate (Version 2)" | Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed
6. "Urban Gamelan" | 23 Skidoo | Beyond Time | Les Disques Du Crepuscule
7. "Moussa Poussy Galore!" | Unknown Artists | Radio Niger | Sublime Frequencies
8. "Harmonics" | Fridge | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed
9. "What in the World" | The Other Side | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 1 | Crypt
10. "Senses" | New Order | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit
11. "Egbe Board" | Sunny Ade and His Green Spot Band | Vol. 4 - Stereo Recording in London | African Songs
12. "Overload" | Interference | Volume 3 | Volume
13. "Rat Race" | The Specials | The BBC Sessions | EMI
14. "Cavatina" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort
15. "Love Cuts" | Chris & Cosey | Action | LD
16. "Happy Hour" | Felix Da Housecat | Kittenz And Thee Glitz | City Rockers
17. "Panic" | Coil | Panic | Threshold Archves
18. "Sunburst" | Loop | Wolf Flow | Reactor
19. "Let's Sail Away (Remix)" | Honey Tongue | Volume 3 | Volume

when they see me they run away

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That Ghost That Lives in Your Head: Transmission 247, 2015 November 18

Presenting the final program of Year Three of this Phantastic Voyage. It strikes me that, were WRFI a college station, and Transmission One had marked the beginning of "freshman" year," I would be a "senior" now. Deep, man.

Basic math tells me that I've averaged 82 programs per year, which is, like, a lot. Look for me to slow down some. Some. More scarcity and more thought-per-program can only increase value, right? That is the theory I am going with.

Nevertheless this here is a good episode, despite being pretty unremarkable. Goodness shouldn't be remarkable, and in the case of BOMBAST I don't think it is. How do you like that, voices in my head? Anyway I have remarked enough about it. Time for you to listen.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 November 18, 2100-2300:

1. "Opening" / "What's a Man's Paris" | Darker My Love | Darker My Love | Dangerbird
2. "Slow Figure" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released
3. "Won't Change" | Husker Du | A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Radial Drill" | New Age Steppers | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
5. "Sto Nisi Tis Afroditis" | Baby Guru | Sunshine Special | Klik
6. "Out of the Frying Pan..." | David Van Tieghem | A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Big Noise, Big Deal" | The Wake | Tidal Wave of Hype | Les Temps Modernes
8. "Ima Mma Uyem" | Mary Afi Usuah | Ekpenyong Abasi | Voodoo Funk
9. "Neither His Nor Yours" | Coil | A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Yukkuri Henshin" | Bill Horist | Mutei: Music for Davida Monk's Dream Pavilion | Important
11. "Stebeni's Theme" | African Head Charge | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
12. "Moroccan Trip" | Billa Qause | Rhodes Inspirational: From East to West | Klik
13. "20rpm" | Coppe' | 20rpm | Mango + Sweetrice
14. "Boiling Point" | The Soundcarriers | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
15. "Dead Man's Shoes" | Cabaret Voltaire | A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Constraint" | Visionist | Safe | PAN
17. "Selfed Out" | The Ambivalent | Phase Doubt | Ovum
18. "Obscurant - Inna Loft Mix by Call Super" | Gonno | Obscurant | International Feel
19. "U1-U8" | Martyn | Falling for You | Ostgut Ton
20. "Nah" | Laurel Halo | In Situ | Honest Jon's
21. "Johnsonius" | David Johansen | A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems | "Physical Evidence"
22. "AA Side" | Donato Dozzy | Cassandra | Claque
23. "Tenement Lover" | Jessica Hagedorn and the Gangster Choir | A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Motioning" | Mind Over Mirrors | The Voice Calling | Immune
25. "The Colour of Love - X-Port Version" | System 7 | X-Port | A-Wave
26. "Kein Weg - with Schneider TM" | Barbara Morgenstern | Beide | Monika Enterprise
27. "Sunday's Child" | Hidden Rivers | Where Moss Grows | Serein
28. "System High-Rise Reprise" | Colossal Yes | Surrounded by Progress | Ba-Da Bing!

actually twenty four hours

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Skin in the Game: Transmission 246, 2015 November 11

Those of you who hopped on board recently may not know that I used to write album reviews. So I'm telling you: I used to write album reviews. I can't remember whether it was a paid gig--it was not a "living," nor was it an internship; it was most likely aspirational voluntarism. ANYWAY. Once, a good friend said about one of my reviews: "I think you got carried away with your words." I probably did. And this is just my prose. Imagine what my spoken discourse must be like: an automatic writing exercise without the magic, and with sound.

Which brings us to this particular episode of the program, an unusual one for a few reasons. On account of our fall fundraiser, I have a co-host, Domenic [a good co-host, as you will discover--the roster of people I will tolerate in the booth has increased!], and we talk a LOT, you guys. I should not talk this much. More on this topic in a moment. Also it is the "Festival of Evidence" v3.0, and not a particularly well-curated festival, but you can't have everything. I was improvising, and toward the end I limited myself to cds, due to, let's call it, "listener response." Some of these tunes have aired previously on the program, but as Mr. Lee told me when half-heartedly trying to sell me on a compilation that would be redundant for me, "the songs appear in an unfamiliar order, though."

Talking--good grief, where to start. I certainly was interested in discussing the Happy Mondays, something I guess someone has to do. I was unfair to Fugazi. They were easily as important as Pixies, probably moreso as time has passed, but I was a 4AD chump back in the day. I am not proud of it, it's just a disclosure. Also, Gallon Drunk were a great band in the 2000s and are still a great band right at this moment. Finally, I can't speak for Domenic, but I am here to bash NPR, whenever you like. Come get some.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 November 11, 2100-2300:

1. "Domain in Grey" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released
2. "Your Love" | No Trend with Lydia Lunch | Heart of Darkness | Widowspeak
3. "Toothpick the Size of a Skyscraper" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68
4. "Desmond" | Happy Mondays | Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) | Factory
5. "The Grunt" | The J.B.'s | These Are The J.B.'s | Now-Again
6. "Bo Diddley Is A Lover" | The Liverbirds | Girls With Guitars | Ace
7. "I Be The Prophet" | Nearly God | Nearly God | Durban Poison - Island
8. "Hatisitose" | The Bhundu Boys | Shabini | Discafrique
9. "Flood" | Pell Mell | Flow | SST
10. "Forget My Name" | The Flaming Stars | Songs From the Bar Room Floor | Vinyl Japan
11. "Swallow My Pride" | Fastbacks | Sub Pop 200 | Sub Pop - Tupelo
12. "Slo-Glyde" | The Durutti Column | Return Of The Sporadic Recordings | Kooky
13. "False Starts" | Andy Fairley | System Vertigo | On-U Sound

surrounded by progress

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Terror Takes the Sound Before You Make It: Transmission 245, 2015 November 4

Hello Radio Friends, here is the first of the November episodes, and a good one if I may say so. It turns out that I may, and so I do, in this new spirit of affirmation I am trying on. Feels good. Hope you enjoy it.

As I've said (probably too often), I was a bit too young to experience "punk" as it unfolded, and the same goes for "industrial" (what I would call the "real" industrial, but don't get me started, as there isn't enough time). The first I heard of "Chris and Cozy" (as I thought, before actually seeing one of their records, they called themselves) was "October Love Song," about which I can't decide whether it was the best or worst thing they've done. Either way I loved it and still do. Their records are special, whether they are the clinical studio material or the grainy live performances such as those captured on Action. Historical note: I seem to recall Mr. D having a vinyl copy of this album, which I hope he has held onto, otherwise I will have to cry.

And I have done enough crying this fall.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 November 4, 2100-2300:

1. "Crucial Dub" | Prince Jammy | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
2. "Shivers" | Chris & Cosey | Action | LD | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Sparks" | Stephan Hinz | Unsentimental EP | Second State Audio
4. "My Desire - Synkro Remix" | Chris Coco | Rhodes Inspirational: From East to West | Klik
5. "Syko - Round's Slow Response Mix" | Kenton Slash Demon | Syko - Round's Slow Response Mix | Future Classic
6. "The Luxury of Living Day by Day" | Pan-Pot | The Other | Second State Audio
7. "Bordeaux (live at WOMAD)" | The Durutti Column | Another Setting [reissue] | Factory Benelux
8. "Error" | Monolake | D E C | imbalance computer music
9. "Pertronics" | Lloyd Cole | 1D (Electronics 2012-2014) | Bureau B
10. "Hasenheide" | Mogwai | CENTRAL BELTERS | ROCK ACTION
11. "Delerium" | Chris & Cosey | Action | LD | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Noche triler" | Mecanica Popular | Noche triler | Names You Can Trust
13. "Resurrection Version 2" | Anti Hero | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
14. "Headcleaner" | Shackleton | Deliverance Series No. 3 | Woe to the Septic Heart
15. "Alpha 5" | Ami Shavit | In Alpha Mood | Finders Keepers
16. "Send the Magick Down" | Chris & Cosey | Action | LD | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Man Made of co2" | Man or Astro-Man? | 1000x | Touch and Go
18. "Garden Ghost" | Gossamer | Garden Ghost | self-released
19. "Kaleidoscope" | Ride | Nowhere25 | Ride Music
20. "Hollow Moon" | Magic Castles | Starflower | A Recordings
21. "Les Claviers de Couleurs" | Astrobal & Tom Terrien | Dis Cover - Donna Regina As Recorded By | Karaoke Kalk
22. "Talk to Me" | Chris & Cosey | Action | LD | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Samurai" | Faultnaut | Rhodes Inspirational: From East to West | Klik
24. "(M) Modesty" | Clap! Clap! | Simple | Black Acre
25. "Messages" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships (Live at the Museum of Liverpool) | White Noise
26. "Silver Ziggurats" | Weird Owl | Interstellar Skeletal | A Recordings
27. "Low Blood Minus" | bossFYTE | Paralellabyes | DETROIT UNDERGROUND

armistices are sacred

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The Look of a Stranger Is Almost a Smile: Transmission 244, 2015 October 28

I went on quite a rant last time out, so I'll try to keep this entry mostly positive. Let's try some remembrances. This Loop record featured in the program brings me back to a simpler, more active time. Back in this period I would walk or bike my way through my problems, instead of eating and drinking my way through them. Apparently I had a lot of free time and not much food or drink. I would frequently have on my Walkman, because that's what we had in those days. Undoubtedly the music I listened to was loud, repetitive, and not-complex, whether it was self-made or other-made. I highly recommend this as a cheap and valuable therapy. I am after all a doctor.

Also, this Loop record (to which I once again do not do justice, although I guess there's always the imminent "Festival of Evidence" to rectify things) kind of reminds me of one particular turning point in history at which I decided I just "didn't get" where music was going. These people and Spacemen 3 were a really nice alternative in the late 1980s to the Seattle scene, and Wax Trax, and that god-awful "Acid House" coming from England. Just play one chord, run it through a fuzz/wah or a "repeat percussion," and repeat. Forever.

I prefer this, by the way, over Main and the other things Robert Hampson has done since. There is a Legend (to be precise, someone who could easily be a legend if they would just answer their damn email) with whom I would love to discuss this particular topic: the notion that sometimes you start out great and don't need to "develop." But that's for another day.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 October 28, 2100-2300:

1. "Venus" | The Exorcist GBG | The Exorcist GBG | Hoga Nord
2. "Out of India" | Sun Temple Circus | Sun Temple Circus - Live | FUEGO
3. "In the World of Moomin" | Folamour | Chapeau Rouge | Fauxpas
4. "Kirin: Yama No Kami: Tango" | Bill Horist | Mutei: Music for Davida Monk's Dream Pavilion | Important
5. "Mother" | Brian Dove / Danzig | not on album | self-released
6. "Rocket USA" | Loop | Wolf Flow | Reactor | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Make My Nana" | Schlammpeitziger | Dis Cover - Donna Regina As Recorded By | Karaoke Kalk
8. "Sleepless" | Pan-Pot | The Other | Second State Audio
9. "Off the Beaten Track" | African Head Charge | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
10. "Send We a Sign" | Seekers International | Her Imperial Majesty | Boomarm Nation
11. "Buffer Underun" | bossFYTE | Paralellabyes | DETROIT UNDERGROUND
12. "Sunrise" | New Order | Low-Life | Rhino
13. "Blinding Horses - Stableboy Version" | Regis | Manbait | Blackest Ever Black
14. "Bleeding Star" | The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience | I Like Rain: The Story of the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience | Fire
15. "Comanche" | Thee Headcoats | Elementary Headcoats [reissue] | Damaged Goods
16. "Straight to Your Heart" | Loop | Wolf Flow | Reactor | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Interruptions" | Urban Force | The Outer Space Connections | Ornaments
18. "Unke" | Smallpeople & Rau | Smallville Ways - Ten Years | Smallville
19. "Mojave Trail" | Night Plane | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
20. "Soundhead" | Loop | Wolf Flow | Reactor | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Smile in the Crowd" | The Durutti Column | Another Setting [reissue] | Factory Benelux
22. "Level 1" | Luca Agnelli | Solaris | Upon You
23. "Collision" | Loop | Wolf Flow | Reactor | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Fractal Shift" | Byron Westbrook | Precipice | Root Strata

taking sides again

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