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No, I Don't Know, Too: Transmission 243, 2015 October 21

"You sound stuck," a Friend of Bombast tells me. It's true. I am. I'm working on it; whether I'm "doing my best" remains to be seen. It's been a weird four months or so, but tbh the entire ride has been weird.

I was recently reminded that I'll be missing the 3rd birthday (observed) of this program on account of being at DJ Segundo's crib for Thanksgiving. That (the cancellation) seems about right, pretty much par for our current course. But why was I reminded of this? Because at a recent station fundraiser party I was told by a colleague that it sounded like I was on the air all the time (I'm not). There is always too much of me, it seems, dating back to when there was none of me.

Do you know why the Wednesday prior to Thanksgiving, "Thanksgiving eve," if you like, is the program's observed birthday? Because we had just about the softest "soft launch" in the history of radio. A supportive (dare I say rogue?) board member of WRFI snuck me onair, basically, on a night when there would be very few people listening. There was no other way--I couldn't have airtime just for the asking, as others at the station soon received, much less was I going to be cold-called and asked to do a show, as others were. I heard at the time that some board members were opposed to my having a program. Never mind that a white volunteer who started on the same day I did had already been given a program, there was of course nothing differential about my not being given one. There never is. (That person, bee-tee-dubs, is no longer with the station, having ghosted us a couple of years ago, while I'm still here doing off-the-air stuff, but don't let that convince you that the station ever bets on the wrong horse.)

So anyway, here is one of the best, or worst, or most typical programs I have done in my three years at WRFI. Your phone or .mp3 player will try to convince you that it's approximately two hours long, but don't let that stop you thinking it's more like four, or twenty, or whatever fits your narrative.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 October 21, 2100-2300:

1. "At Dusk" | Brian Ellis & Brian Grainger | At Dusk | El Paraiso
2. "Feeder" | Coil | Wrong Eye | Threshold Archives
3. "Basile" | Sergie Rezza | Sergie Rezza | desire
4. "The Courtesy House" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope | Numero Group
5. "Kiiro No Sekai" | J Girls | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-1969 | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Water Dancer" | Jens-Uwe Beyer | The Emissary | Kompakt
7. "Church of All Images - Regis Version" | Vatican Shadow | Manbait | Blackest Ever Black
8. "Ame Agari No Samba" | Ryoko Moriyama | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-1969 | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Spent Time" | The Durutti Column | Another Setting [reissue] | Factory Benelux
10. "Plant Lilies at My Head - Alternate Version" | Tropic of Cancer | Manbait | Blackest Ever Black
11. "Tsukikage No Rendezvous" | Keiko Mari | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-1969 | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Die Anderen" | Kolsch | 1983 | Kompakt
13. "Aurat (Tool)" | Aisha Devi | Of Matter and Spirit | Houndstooth
14. "Asian Rebel" | Suns of Arqa | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
15. "Prismatic" | Byron Westbrook | Precipice | Root Strata
16. "Alpha 4" | Ami Shavit | In Alpha Mood | Finders Keepers
17. "Taste of Cindy" | The Jesus and Mary Chain | Psychocandy - Barrowlands Live | Edsel
18. "Freak Love" | Gossamer | Garden Ghost | self-released
19. "Prismacolor" | Pittsburgh Track Authority | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
20. "Sharock No.1" | Mie Nakao | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-1969 | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Sodawaltz" | Ms. John Soda | Loom | Morr
22. "This Foundry - Regis Version" | Raime | Manbait | Blackest Ever Black
23. "Easy Sun" | Dead Fader | Dosage EP | Touchin' Bass
24. "Suki Sa Suki Sa Suki Sa" | Nana Kinomi & Leo Beats | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-1969 | "Physical Evidence"
25. "The Circle Is Binding" | Master Musicians of Bukkake | Further West Quad Cult | Important
26. "Tafouk tele" | Terakaft | Alone (Tenere) | Outhere
27. "Taiyou Wa Naite Iru" | Ayumi Ishida | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-1969 | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Dsa" | Black Wing | ...Is Doomed | The Flenser
29. "Realtime" | Conforce | Presentism | Delsin

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Revenge Is Sweet to Those Who Have Never Known Anything Sweet: Transmission 242, 2015 October 14

Sometimes I really do have only a grab-bag of tunes that don't really fit together except in some fleeting and forgotten syntax in my head, or, if you prefer, an amateur Cubist puzzle. This was one of those times. I just had some stuff I felt like hearing and sharing.

I was correct, bee-tee-dubs, when I pointed out that Don't Let The Hope Close Down was the only record released on the Hope Springs label. I know how that goes--I, too, appeared once on a record that was the only thing its "parent company" ever issued. Similarly, "my" record was not successful. Dissimilarly, it was not a thing I wanted to hear on this night! I do listen to it, though, sometimes, when I'm alone. Like Hope, it failed to save anything, except maybe a decent folk tune, for posterity. We'll see.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 October 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Sample D." | Front 242 | Back Catalogue | Wax Trax!
2. "Shadows in Hibernation" | We Never Learned To Live | Silently, I Threw Them Skyward | Holy Roar
3. "Mona" | Thee Milkshakes | Don't Let the Hope Close Down | Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Scrambler - with Robert Lippok" | Barbara Morgenstern | Beide | Monika Enterprise
5. "Beyond - Karmon Remix" | Benotmane | Stil Vor Talent Berlin - Teufelsberg | Stil Vor Talent
6. "Дикие Пляжи" | Вальс | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
7. "Let There Be More Darkness" | Robyn Hitchcock | Don't Let the Hope Close Down| Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
8. "The End of It All 2015 Mix" | John Tejada | The End of It All 2015 Mix | Palette
9. "From Me to You" | Mary Afi Usuah | Ekpenyong Abasi | Voodoo Funk
10. "Nimrud" | Laurel Halo | In Situ | Honest Jon's
11. "Hush" | Killdozer | For Ladies Only | Touch & Go
12. "Through a Glass" | Tall Boys | Don't Let the Hope Close Down| Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Charles Windsor" | McCarthy | I Am a Wallet | Cherry Red
14. "Don't Bring Me Round" | The Telescopes | Hidden Fields | Tapete
15. "The Underestimated Man" | The Vibes | Don't Let the Hope Close Down | Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Ruiner" | OKADA | Impermanence | N5MD
17. "Blood Dunza - unreleased dubplate mix" | Johnny Clarke, DJ | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
18. "What the New Breed Say" | The Sting-Rays | Don't Let the Hope Close Down| Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Strays" | Rat Columns | Fooling Around | Blackest Ever Black
20. "Crazy When I Hear That Beat" | The Dead Beats | Don't Let the Hope Close Down| Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Wait for Me" | Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin | Wait For Me | Hot Casa
22. "Ballad of the Distrances (parts 1 & 2)" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky
23. "Hush" | The Prisoners | Don't Let the Hope Close Down| Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Nao Consegues" | Pega Monstro | Alfarroba | Upset the Rhythm
25. "He Was Human and Belonged with Humans - Regis Version" | Dalhous | Manbait | Blackest Ever Black
26. "Your Attention" | Pan-Pot | The Other | Second State Audio
27. "Tears in My Beer" | Roddy Radiation & The Tearjerkers | Don't Let the Hope Close Down | Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Saturna's Black Belt" | Natural Snow Buildings | Terror's Horns | Ba Da Bing!
29. "Kritikal & X" | M.E.S.H. | Piteous Gate | PAN

i've heard it before, still i need more and more

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Let's Send the Sucker Headfirst Into Space: Transmission 241, 2015 October 7

Here is another broadcast, this one regularly scheduled, as they all seem to be these days. It wasn't a special occasion, but I decided it was finally time for a special disc, the Brain in the Wire compilation (I am really into comps these days). I wrote a while back about a three-disc collection of Wax Trax! material not aging well; this one has aged well and I am still into it.

I actually don't remember any slip-ups from this episode, so I guess that's good. Probably some inexplicable segues, as always. Oh, and some weirdness in the voice-overs. Talking--I am not so good at it, which is probably why this is my medium of choice.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 October 7, 2100-2300:

1. "Je te vois" | Police des Moeurs | Ceux Qui Restent | Mannequin
2. "296-16" | Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator | Con-Struct | Bureau B
3. "Mieva Do" | Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin | Wait For Me | Hot Casa
4. "Vice Versa Dub" | Tino | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Silver Lining" | Anchorsong | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
6. "The Old Empire" | Kasra V | Atlantis | Love in Public Spaces
7. "The Apollo Creed" | Ku-Ling Bros | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Dream of a Child" | The Durutti Column | Another Setting [reissue] | Factory Benelux
9. "Saved (Readwriteerror mix)" | Bowery Electric | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Amelia" | Industrial Revelation | Liberation & The Kingdom of Nri | self-released
11. "It's a Disgrace Dub - unreleased dubplate mix" | The Aggrovators | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
12. "Old Sparky" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Pie Eyed and Sky High" | Tim Love Lee | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
14. "You Can't Win" | Matmos | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Insides - Roman Flugel Remix" | Fort Romeau | Frankfurt Versions | Spectral
16. "Structures" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Big Big Girl - unreleased mix" | Linval Thompson | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
18. "Outlines" | The KVB | Flaamingos / The KVB | felte
19. "inflatable" | Lee Bannon | Pattern of Excel | ninja tune
20. "Primate Change" | The Host | Esalen Lectures | Touch Sensitive
21. "Argent - Tom Furse Extrapolation" | Jane Weaver | Mission Desire | Finders Keepers
22. "The Gorgon - Steppers Cut unreleased mix" | Cornell Campbell | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
23. "Pregnant Cheerleader Theme Song" | Kid 606 | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Leave Me Alone" | New Order | Power, Corruption & Lies | Rhino
25. "Requiem for Dying Mothers (Version I, Zamachowski Op. 87)" | Stars of the Lid | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"

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I Won't Be Waiting Here Like Undiscovered Treasure: Transmission 240, 2015 October 4

Happy October, Bombasticons! Here, for various reasons, is the last of the "fill-in" programs to date. It is a good one, featureless though it is. Listening back, I found myself thinking a couple of times, "this is an incredible show." I'm not prone to doing this. Anyway.

Ramping down my activity so that I'm only doing the once-weekly radio thing has been good. It has allowed me to devote time to "other things." I guess. It makes the shows seem more important, more valuable somehow.

This program is a good nocturnal listen. For some reason (besides the fact that it's good) I decided to play all of Simon Scott's Insomni. I don't know why--seems more like the sort of thing Halcyon would play, but he doesn't seem to be around, and the piece might be too "nighttime" for him anyway.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 October 4, 2100-2300:

1. "You Are Dissolved" | Jane Weaver | Mission Desire | Finders Keepers
2. "Horizonte Dos" | C.P.I. | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
3. "Enforcement" | Vin Gordon & The Aggrovators | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
4. "Rub Your Eyes" | Lushes | Service Industry | felte
5. "Blue Moon" | cabaal | Atavistic | Hyperpron
6. "Amfmpm" | Carlton Melton | Out to Sea | Agitated
7. "Energy Warning" | Boards of Canada | Geogaddi | Warp
8. "Nusrat" | Flowers Must Die | Montana / Nusrat | Hoga Nord
9. "Music Of Your Own" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media
10. "Satta Dread Dub" | Scientist | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
11. "Movements II" | Anzano | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
12. "Austin Texas Mental Hospital Part 3" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky
13. "NIK" | Tempelhof | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
14. "The Only Direction in Concrete" | Prefuse 73 | The Only She Chapters | Warp
15. "Insomni" | Simon Scott | Insomni | Ash International
16. "Holdfast" | bachjulianna | not on album | Soundcloud self-release

you get these words wrong, every time

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So Agitated That I'm So Agitated: Transmission 239, 2015 September 30

Those who follow this program (there are some such people, right?) are well aware that this website is woefully behind the times. Here, unexpectedly, is a post-hoc rationalization of all that: a special (albeit regularly scheduled) episode featuring pre-release PHYSICAL EVIDENCE (the best kind), which I promised not to post until after the release date. That was five days ago, so HOW FRESH IS THIS? Pretty fresh, by our standards.

The Post-Creation EP by The Julia Sound is a loud, beautiful mess, reminding me of some of the great EPs from the golden years of EPs, while not really sounding like any of them in particular. It was so nice to receive mail, and to be reminded that this program makes at least a small difference sometimes. September was a crap month otherwise--this release gave it the fiery funeral it deserved.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 30, 2100-2300:

1. "Dreams Are Like Water" | This Mortal Coil | Blood | 4AD
2. "Colourless Water" | Kyrill & Redford | Stil Vor Talent Berlin - Teufelsberg | Stil Vor Talent
3. "Crisis" | Chain of Flowers | Chain of Flowers | A L T E R
4. "Slow Figure" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Post-Mortem, Post Boredom" | Darker My Love | Darker My Love | Dangerbird
6. "Kaannetty huulipuna" | Olimpia Splendid | Olimpia Splendid | Fonal
7. "Bordeaux" | The Durutti Column | Another Setting [reissue] | Factory Benelux
8. "Serpentara" | Dusty Kid | The Arsonist | Isolade
9. "You Know the Way" | The Telescopes | Hidden Fields | Tapete
10. "Operation Negligee" | Kinski | 7 (or 8) | Kill Rock Stars
11. "The Substance of Grief Is Not Imaginary" | Pyramids | A Northern Meadow | Profound Lore
12. "9 Movements" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Swallows and Swifts" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
14. "Montana" | Flowers Must Die | Montana / Nusrat | Hoga Nord
15. "Moebius Strip (Suspension)" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Split from the Sun" | Weird Owl | Interstellar Skeletal | A Recordings
17. "Baby Talk" | Lush | Scar | 4AD
18. "Interlude with Jim Reid" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Agitated" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys
20. "It's a Disgrace - unreleased dubplate mix" | Johnny Clarke | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
21. "Feedback Song" | Flying Saucer Attack | Chorus | Drag City
22. "Domain in Grey" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Never Be The Same" | Ulrich Schnauss | Goodbye | Domino

the breathing is loud, at any rate

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Shallowness is Forever: Transmission 238, 2015 September 29

Slowly the present is coming into focus, as we are less than a month behind the times with this latest posting. This is another "fill-in" episode--September was strangely full of these, and mostly devoid of "regular" hump-night programs--and I was in the mood for some "proper rock," hence BIFF BANG POW! (with a heartfelt endorsement from Junior). Could it really be two years since we last featured a BBP record? I suppose it must be. What a night that was. What a night this was.

Elsewhere, in blasts from the past, I just heard out of the blue from a veritable LEGEND, which reminds me. There is a Hall of Legends, and we are not finished with it. I have just been...asleep, mostly, let's call it that. For nine months, I guess. But in the words of Mike Myers's "Middle Aged Man" character, "I'M WORKING ON IT!" Thank you for your patience.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 29, 2100-2300:

1. "The Smoke of Hashish" | Hashish | Outer Spaced | Subliminal Sounds
2. "Electric Sugar Child" | Biff Bang Pow! | Love Is Forever | Creation - Relativity | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Moonface" | Kolsch | 1983 | Kompakt
4. "Land Of Dub Version" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Back On The Controls | Rolling Lion - Upsetter
5. "Itilla ihene dagh aitma" | Terakaft | Alone (Tenere) | Outhere
6. "Still Warm" | The KVB | Flaamingos / The KVB | felte
7. "X-Theme" | The Exorcist GBG | The Exorcist GBG | Hoga Nord
8. "Dirt" | The Stooges | Fun House | Elektra
9. "Startripper" | Biff Bang Pow! | Love Is Forever | Creation - Relativity | "Physical Evidence"
10. "The Night Sky" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
11. "Where the Two Rivers Kiss in Belgrade" | Elintseeker | Geography of the Heart | PLOP
12. "aftern00n" | yuk. | a n a k | Leaving
13. "Electrodes" | Osynlige Mann | Snake Eye / Electrodes | Hoga Nord
14. "Split Second" | Vin Gordon & The Aggrovators | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
15. "Stopped My Heart" | Holly Golightly | Slowtown Now! | Damaged Goods
16. "She Haunts" | Biff Bang Pow! | Love Is Forever | Creation - Relativity | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Shallowness is the root of all evil" | Lee Bannon | Pattern of Excel | Ninja Tune
18. "Naked" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys
19. "Tradicion destructiva" | Romperayo | Romperayo | Discrepant
20. "BBQ in Karantina" | Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra | Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra | Discrepant
21. "Present for Sally" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Kasm02 | Kasm
22. "Glass" | Hanno Leichtmann | Unfinished Portrait of Youth Today | Karlrecords
23. "Kodaje" | Tal National | Zoy Zoy | Fatcat
24. "Dark in Mind" | Biff Bang Pow! | Love Is Forever | Creation - Relativity | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Sundowner" | Kitchen's Floor | Battle of Brisbane | Bruit Direct
26. "Don't Work Hard" | J. C. Satan | J. C. Satan | Born bad
27. "Il Collo et la Collana 10" | Rayon | Il Collo et la Collana | Alien Transistor
28. "You've Heard It Before" | The Durutti Column | Another Setting [reissue] | Factory Benelux
29. "Close" | Biff Bang Pow! | Love Is Forever | Creation - Relativity | "Physical Evidence"
30. "Bassekouni" | Bassekou Koyate + Ngoni Ba | Ba Power | Glitterbeat
31. "Mulholland" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky

my eyes are closed, my lips are sealed

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Trying to Capture Something That Was Beyond My Capabilities: Transmission 237, 2015 September 22

Here is yet another fill-in program, one which I did a few weeks ago. This one has more "purpose" than many of them do, I guess, aided by the occasion of (King) Sunny Ade's birthday and some personal correspondence with an old friend. Not that some of my shows lack purpose, but...ah, you know by now, probably.

As with Felix da Housecat, I didn't do proper justice to the Sunny Ade record, but that is just how things work out sometimes. "Leave them wanting more," as they say in the theatre--not that I've ever fully embraced that idea, but I have to play something at the upcoming "Festival of Evidence," don't I? Elsewhere, it's the usual quality you've come to expect, complete with baffling segues and adventures in pronunciation. This is my brand.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 22, 2100-2300:

1. "Intro" | John Beltran | Espais | Delsin
2. "Angels and Devils" | Love & Rockets | Express | Big Time - RCA
3. "Branca" | Pega Monstro | Alfarroba | Upset the Rhythm
4. "CHNNL" | Funkstorung | Funkstorung | Monkeytown
5. "War and Friction" | I Roy | If Deejay Was Your Trade | Blood and Fire
6. "Constant Star" | Sunny Ade and His Green Spot Band | Vol. 4 - Stereo Recording in London | African Songs | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Space Burial" | We Never Learned To Live | Silently, I Threw Them Skyward | Holy Roar
8. "Death Trap - Steppers Mix" | Tommy McCook | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
9. "Lullaby" | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Candyman | Wonderland - Polydor
10. "Halycon + On + On" | Orbital | Orbital 2 (Brown Album) | Rhino
11. "Rosa Decidua" | Coil | Autumn Equinox: Amethyst Deceivers | Eskaton
12. "FAC 21" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky
13. "From Her to Eternity" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Wings of Desire | Nonesuch
14. "Blood of Babylon Dub - unreleased dubplate mix" | The Aggrovators | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
15. "Auburn Blaze" | Appleblim | Avebury | Ammunition
16. "New Earth" | Kreidler | Kollektion 04 - Bureau B (Compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
17. "Chief Lekan Salami" | Sunny Ade and His Green Spot Band | Vol. 4 - Stereo Recording in London | African Songs | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Circus" | Lushes | Service Industry | felte
19. "Highway" | Hey Mother Death | Highway | Paper Bag
20. "Transfer" | Alexandre Francisco Diaphra | Diaphra's Blackbook of the Beats | Mental Groove
21. "Slow Tapes" | Angels Dust | Slow Tapes | Hit+Run
22. "Major General Adebayo" | Sunny Ade and His Green Spot Band | Vol. 4 - Stereo Recording in London | African Songs | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Qu'ran" | Brian Eno & David Byrne | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | Sire
24. "Singularity" | Stephan Bodzin | Singularity | Life and Death
25. "All You Got Is Your Word - Instrumental" | Souls of Mischief | There Is Only Now (Remix) | Linear Labs
26. "Mr. Adenaike (Ololu)" | Sunny Ade and His Green Spot Band | Vol. 4 - Stereo Recording in London | African Songs | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Kundalini Tremolos" | Faust | Kollektion 04 - Bureau B (Compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
28. "Obscura Somnia" | God is an Astronaut | Helios / Erebus | Revive
29. "Kortestrasse After Midnight" | Elintseeker | Geography of the Heart | PLOP

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Through A Lovely Analog Console, Which Apparently Doesn't Matter: Transmission 236, 2015 September 16

"Sorry we're late, but here we are." As with NBA teams, the second night of a "back to back" often produces an inferior display, but such is not the case here. This was a fun program to do, and it has been fun listening back. No features, just goodness. True, it falls apart at the end, when I seem to forget that a) this is a show about segues and b) my "job" is sometimes to provide information and novelty. But you can't have everything.

I'm reminded today of 5th grade, when for a short time I was learning to play the viola. I was not particularly good, and I was just playing in a group of kids, not taking private lessons or anything. One day at the end of class I went for my instrument case...and it wasn't there. I knew that I had brought it back to my regular classroom, but it was nowhere to be seen, and my teacher didn't know anything about it. We looked everywhere, without success.

The next day, a dismal, rainy Saturday, my whole family, including my little siblings (aged 7 and 4 at the time) searched the school grounds and the neighboring park for my instrument case, again without luck. That was one of the worst days. It was gone--nothing to be done. My biggest fear at the time was that my viola (borrowed from the school supply) was worth, like, $10,000 or something, and my family would be hopelessly in debt (it was a lot of money in 1978) on account of something that I was sure was my fault. Give me a break; I was a child.

Only it wasn't gone. I found out two days later that someone had returned it to the school, smashed to bits. That seemed a rather pointed gesture--it wasn't enough just to take the viola from me, and/or destroy it; people had to know these things had been done--and it wasn't lost on me that it hadn't happened to anyone else's instrument, just mine.

I'm musing about this because lately I've encountered senseless opposition to my work and creativity, this program being one facet of that. It's always been there, I guess, but its acuteness comes and goes.

It explains why I have felt for a long time that my "art," such as it is, is most effective when I see it as a weapon. If it ever feels that way, to you, this is part of the reason, and it's not your fault.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Hounds of Love" | The Futureheads | The Futureheads | Sire
2. "Coastlines and Laughter" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
3. "Right Hand" | Ghetto Ghouls | Collisions | Monofonus
4. "Does It Matter Irene? (radio session version)" | The Mothmen | Pay Attention! | On-U Sound
5. "Tisnant an Chatma" | Tamikrest | Taksera | Glitterbeat
6. "Push Thru the Veil" | Herbcraft | Wot Oz | Woodsist
7. "Walk Now..." | Orbital | Orbital 2 (Brown Album) | Rhino
8. "Shattered Lens" | Sunday Painters | 4th Annual Report | What's Your Rupture?
9. "Breaking the Hex" | Gnod | Infinity Machines | Rocket
10. "Hop the Railings" | Hey Colossus | Radio Static High | Rocket
11. "Flood of Mendoza" | The Butterscotch Cathedral | The Butterscotch Cathedral | Trouble In Mind
12. "Das Katerer" | The Fall | The Unutterable | Let Them Eat Vinyl
13. "Crank" | Palm | Trading Basics | Inflated
14. "Native Willow" | Will Samson & Heimer | Animal Hands | Karaoke Kalk
15. "Open Room in Hell" | The Ukiah Drag | Crypt Cruiser | Wharf Cat
16. "The Earth Melts into Red Gashes Like the Mouths of Whales" | Pyramids | A Northern Meadow | Profound Lore
17. "DerDieDas" | Kolsch | 1983 | Kompakt
18. "Sonic Instruments of War #01" | Kerridge | Sonic Instruments of War | Contort
19. "Who's Foolin' Who?" | Karl Hector & The Malcouns | Unstraight Ahead | Now-Again
20. "Rock Steady" | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Uptown Top Ranking | VP
21. "Shatner" | The Wedding Present | George Best [reissue] | Edsel
22. "Nowhere" | Valet | Nature | kranky
23. "Green Light" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
24. "The Theme from Judge Judy" | EXEK | The Theme from Judge Judy | Homeless Vinyl
25. "In Another Way" | My Bloody Valentine | m b v | MBV
26. "3 Speed Limiters" | Christian Fitness | love letters in the age of steam | Prescriptions
27. "White Werewolf" | Weird Owl | Interstellar Skeletal | A Recordings
28. "Slipping Into Darkness" | The Senior Allstars | DUB from Jamdown - Darker than Blue | Echo Beach
29. "Austin Texas Mental Hospital Part 1" [excerpt] | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky

I didn't touch another instrument for six years

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Before God, What Kind of Thing Is It? Transmission 235, 2015 September 15

Hello again, radio friends. It's a new day, and I bring you a new sound file. As I try to feel better about myself today than I did yesterday, I can assure you that I feel better about this program than the last one I posted. Sometimes a program has to overcome: this one, in particular, was another "early evening" fill-in; I didn't think the occasion merited a "Physical Evidence" segment, so there was none; it was "playlist reporting" time, making the optimal strategy that of playing the fewest, longest tracks I could. And yet.

Sometimes it is just really satisfying to spin a long record, and ease back in the "captain's chair" with nothing to do but listen. This was a good night, company in the station notwithstanding. Life is never free of drama, but volume knobs can always be cranked. "Without Mercy," "Lucy Conrad," and "Hydro" sound especially good loud. You're welcome.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 15, 1900-2100:

1. "You're Lionel Richie" | Mogwai | Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | Sub Pop
2. "Red Lights" | Carl Craig | More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art | SSR
3. "Without Mercy II" | The Durutti Column | Without Mercy | Factory - Airea
4. "Lucy Conrad, Excellent Liar" | Buick | Sweatertongue | Lather
5. "I Think We're Tiffany" | Warlock Pinchers | Morrissey Rides a Cockhorse | Tupelo
6. "Zarbi" | Eat Static | Planet Dog - Peel Sessions - Peel Your Head | Strange Fruit
7. "Crazy About Love" | Wire | The Peel Sessions Album | Strange Fruit
8. "Gasfarming [excerpt]" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky
9. "Hydro" | Unrest | Cath Carroll | 4AD

chicken and chips

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Bring Some Good Vibes and Your Nice Sunglasses: Transmission 234, 2015 September 3

Happy "Throwback Thursday," everyone. Remember last month? Man, seems like not much time has passed. Anyway, here is an early-evening show that I did as a fill-in. For once, in the "Joe Show" time slot, I tried to emulate his "After Dinner Dance Party" feature and played half an hour of Orbital. Elsewhere, there are miscues and horrible segues and not nearly enough of Felix Da Housecat [SORRY]. But this audio file is what happened that night.

It is a weird, dark time. This week, for once, I have been feeling not my own mortality but WRFI's. Everybody in community radio is worried about money, and death is always hanging over just about every station. Strangely I was/am at peace with it. People and ideals are falling by the wayside. Just last night I found out that a respected colleague is on "indefinite hiatus" for reasons that are unknown and probably none of my business. And there are signs, like this sound file right here, that I am on the air much too often.

These days I am trying really hard to love myself, be happy, and be nice. How would I grade myself on this? "Incomplete," probably.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 3, 1900-2100:

1. "Prime Mover" | Antigone | Cantor Dust | Token
2. "Analog City" | Felix Da Housecat | Kittenz And Thee Glitz | City Rockers | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Lush 3.1" / "Lush 3.2" / "Impact (The Earth is Burning)" / "Remind" | Orbital | Orbital 2 (Brown Album) | Rhino
4. "A Touch of Rot" | 39 Clocks | Subnarcotic | Luxury Products
5. "The Evil That Men Do - Pablo's Version" | Yo La Tengo | President Yo La Tengo / New Wave Hot Dogs | Matador
6. "TV at 7PM" | Birdstriking | Birdstriking | A Recordings
7. "Second Skin" | The Chameleons | John Peel Sessions | Blue Apple
8. "Slapback" | Node | Node | Deviant
9. "Voicemail with Miss Kittin" | Felix Da Housecat | Kittenz And Thee Glitz | City Rockers | "Physical Evidence"
10. "So Sad Today" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
11. "Cloche - Tuff City Kids Disco Mix" | Fort Romeau | Frankfurt Versions | Spectral
12. "Walk With Me" | Felix Da Housecat | Kittenz And Thee Glitz | City Rockers | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Girls, Amen" | High Wolf | Growing Wild | Leaving
14. "Secret Girl" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
15. "Opal" | Pisetzky | Off the Map | Just This
16. "Silver Screen Shower Scene" | Felix Da Housecat | Kittenz And Thee Glitz | City Rockers | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Set It Up" | Woolfy vs. Projections | Stations | Permanent Vacation
18. "Morgen Abend" | Tiefschwarz | Left | Watergate
19. "Austin Texas Mental Hospital, Part 2" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky

what would they say if they ever knew

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