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Now I Try and Do Things Right: Transmission 233, 2015 September 2

Progress: we're now "just" one month behind in our postings. I have been wondering to myself whether my laziness about this is symptomatic of something. I have this problem in life, you see; I read meaning into things where there is none, most of the time, anyway.

Big ups to Lady Catharsis for gifting me a membership in the "Friends of the World Order of Ancient Headcoats" or whatever it's called. The Kyra record featured in this broadcast is the first salvo in a series of Medway-related reissues, and there will be more to come. This is a crazy record, perfect for a crazy evening; it is just the sort of thing that would have irritated me when I was younger and had a crippling perfectionism in my taste.

We will also hear more from the Honorable Chief. That too is a great recording.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 2, 2100-2300:

1. "Kollaps" | Jannick Schou | Fabrik | Experimedia
2. "It's a Stick-Up" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Fyre Balls" | Ball | Fyre Balls | Horny
4. "Takes More Than 41" | Mike Ladd | Welcome to the Afterfuture | Vava
5. "Space Cassava" | Kutiman | Space Cassava | Siyal
6. "316-16" | Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator | Con-Struct | Bureau B
7. "Organic Footprints" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Frodi Ambience" | Exos | My Home Is Sonic | Delsin
9. "Shockout Get Washout" | Seekers International | Her Imperial Majesty | Boomarm Nation
10. "Perdiddle" | Carlton Melton | Out to Sea | Agitated
11. "MEN TODAY" | HEALTH | DEATH MAGIC | Loma vista
12. "Louise" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
13. "The Arsonist Part 2" | Dusty Kid | The Arsonist | Isolade
14. "Death to Our Friends" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
15. "Ah Reckon" | The Honorable Chief | The Honorable Chief Ahamefule J. Oluo | Bandcamp self-release
16. "Anna K" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Reactivation" | John Tejada | The End of It All 2015 Mix | Palette
18. "Ones" | Herbert | The Shakes | Accidental
19. "Here I Am, Here I Always Am" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Pacer" | Kolsch | 1983 | Kompakt
21. "For Robin" | Coil | not on album | Soundcloud release
22. "Mud and Root" | LHF | For the Thrown | Keysound
23. "Snake Eye" | Osynlige Mann | Snake Eye / Electrodes | Hoga Nord
24. "Hide" | Sebastian Russell | Free Fall | Fenou
25. "Tantrum Time" | F Ingers | Hide Before Dinner | Blackest Ever Black
26. "Marieke" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Phase Doubt" | The Ambivalent | Phase Doubt | Ovum
28. "Do Things Right" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Southern Orchards" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
30. "Austin Texas Mental Hospital Part 1" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky
31. "Laughing Song" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"

in the back, shakes a tambourine

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It Seems Like the End of the World When You Smile: Transmission 232, 2015 August 26

In our increasingly futile quest to catch up with the present, we offer you the last program from August. Surely, there were mistakes here, but we no longer recall what they were! THEREFORE THIS IS A SOLID MIXTAPE AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED.

Let's state here, also, that we were the first at WRFI to use "mixtape" as a descriptor of content. Also, we were truly all over the "stylistic" map from the beginning, knowing as we do that the word "eclectic" means something more than "a playlist that includes Bob Dylan AND The Band." Someone needed to say these things, for the record, before our time was up.

As in life, the end is not in sight, but we face death all the time.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 26, 2100-2300:

1. "Moving On" | Arnaldo | Your Favourite Colour Is Green Yet You Dress in Black | Smallville
2. "When You Smile" | The Dream Syndicate | The Days of Wine and Roses | Omnivore
3. "Scorpions" | Oppenheimer Analysis | New Mexico | Minimal Wave
4. "RE 201" | Automat | Plusminus | Bureau B
5. "Science Fiction" | Beachbuggy | Sport Fury | Poptones | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Bad Dream" | Seapony | A Vision | Burrito Thirty
7. "The Ruined and Disused Churches of Norfolk" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
8. "La traversee" | Bon Voyage Organization | Xingye | Bon Voyage
9. "From the South" | Beachbuggy | Sport Fury | Poptones | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Wash" | Sigward | Correspondant Compilation 03 | Correspondant
11. "Dramamine" | John Tejada | Dramamine | Palette
12. "It Might Be the Jets" | Beachbuggy | Sport Fury | Poptones | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Mission Desire" | Jane Weaver | Mission Desire | Finders Keepers
14. "Outer Spaced" | Hashish | Outer Spaced | Subliminal Sounds
15. "Monday" | Orbital | Orbital 2 (Brown Album) | Rhino
16. "Mel3" | Nocow | Ravine | Fauxpas
17. "Bad Guys Wear Black" | Beachbuggy | Sport Fury | Poptones | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Combination" | Woolfy vs. Projections | Combination | Permanent Vacation
19. "Of Palm and Reef" | Mike Cooper | Fratello Mare | Room40
20. "Kickin' Back" | Beachbuggy | Sport Fury | Poptones | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Baba na ayele" | Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin | Wait For Me | Hot Casa
22. "Ebre Mbre" | Mary Afi Usuah | Ekpenyong Abasi | Voodoo Funk
23. "Cuba" | Beachbuggy | Sport Fury | Poptones | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Taking a Walk" | Sauna Youth | Distractions | Upset the Rhythm
25. "Bulletin of the International String Figure Association" | Kinski | 7 (or 8) | Kill Rock Stars

i believe we're going to live forever.

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The Freaks and the Misfits Are All That Remain: Transmission 230, 2015 August 19

Hello again, it's me again. If you are a visitor to this site only, and don't listen live, it's been a while since you've seen or heard anything new from this program. Apologies--it's been a wild, sordid, depressing summer, as they all seem to be. In my defense, I have been doing lots of radio all the while, and you could listen live, you know.

At any rate here is a program that features one of my favorite records. Different for Domeheads was not the first Creation comp I encountered, but as Horatio would say, "it follow'd hard upon." I tend not to do well with playing records at the "appropriate" time of year but for me this will always be a summer record. "July skies" indeed, sun and anger as relentless as Slaughter Joe. This is what the last couple of months have been.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 19, 2100-2300:

1. "Intro / Into You" | The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience | I Like Rain: The Story of the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience | Fire
2. "19.8.86" | Conrad Schnitzler | Kollektion 05 (Compiled and Assembled by Thomas Fehlmann) | Bureau B
3. "To the Moon and Back" | The 23s | Flamingo | Karaoke Kalk
4. "Steam" | Gaspard de la Montaigne | Stallion | Creaked
5. "Intensive Care" | Barry Adamson | Moss Side Story | Mute
6. "Where the Traffic Goes" | The Jasmine Minks | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
7. "The Fatal Day (Brixton Rehearsal 1980)" | In Camera | Era | 4AD
8. "Heart of Darkness" | Pere Ubu | Elitism for the People 1975-1978 | Fire
9. "Paradise" | The Bodines | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Marilyn Moore" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
11. "Digital Punk" | Square Wave | Correspondant Compilation 03 | Correspondant
12. "Baby Honey" | The Pastels | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
13. "We Just Did What Happened and Nobody Came" | Sweet Billy Pilgrim | Motorcade Amnesiacs | Kscope
14. "Unrequited" | OKADA | Impermanence | N5MD
15. "Hermitage - Full Beard Mix" | Thomalla | Imaginary Solutions | Riotvan
16. "Napalm Girl" | Slaughter Joe | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Herbststimmung" | Faust | Kollektion 04 - Bureau B (Compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
18. "Peri-Natal Imprinting" | The Host | Esalen Lectures | Touch Sensitive
19. "Circa 96" | Hidden Rivers | Where Moss Grows | Serein
20. "Ghost Warrior (feat. UMO)" | Jimi Tenor | Ghost Warrior | Herakles
21. "Rally Round Jah Throne" | Bad Brains | Rock for Light | PVC
22. "Ruins - Fieldhand Remix" | Graveyard Tapes | I'm on Fire (White Rooms Remixes) | Lost Tribe
23. "One of Five" | Tapage | Five & Six | Tympanik
24. "Love and Hate" | Biff Bang Pow! | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Garden Constellations" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl

practicing to be.

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Witness What My Knuckles Find: Transmission 229, 2015 August 16

This was a night on which we sat in for "Seeking a Thread." The program bristles with unintentional comedy as I get things stuck in my throat and have to pronounce a battery of things beyond my capability. Oh, and there is also The Birthday Party. I am one of those people who never quite "matured" into thinking that Nick Cave "solo" was a better thing, though I enjoy his records well enough. I really miss this band, right here.

I don't remember the nature of the "many nagging complaints" to which I refer, thankfully. The thought of searching my email in search of a mildly sardonic joke scares me. Ah, sweet oblivion!

Ah, on second thought, I probably deserved whatever complaints came my way.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Nature" | Valet | Nature | kranky
2. "Laid Black" | Tiefschwarz | Left | Watergate
3. "Ding Dong Thing" | Felix Laband | Deaf Safari | Compost
4. "Release the Bats" | The Birthday Party | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Soul" | Rival Consoles | Odyssey / Sonne | Erased Tapes
6. "I Know You Can" | Leafcutter John | Resurrection | Desire Path
7. "Rowland Around in That Stuff" | The Birthday Party | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Loose" | Stooges | Fun House | Elektra
9. "Monkey Snake" | Birdstriking | Birdstriking | A Recordings
10. "The Bed's Too Big Without You (The Bed's Too Big Without Dub)" | DubXanne | The Police in Dub | Echo Beach
11. "Gravure / Continuum - Regis Whip Hand Mix" | Akkord | HTH040 | Houndstooth
12. "Loose" | The Birthday Party | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Jah The Conqueror" | Bad Brains | Live At CBGB 1982 | MVD Audio
14. "Aixo Es Miel" | Jose Padilla | So Many Colours | International Feel
15. "Anda" | Nymphalida | Loghi | Tranquillo
16. "Thangen After Dothe" | Petrels | Flailing Tomb | Denovali
17. "Something and Nothing" | The Wedding Present | George Best [reissue] | Edsel
18. "Negative Space" | ASC | Imagine the Future | Samurai
19. "One (Lake People Remix)" | Lee Burton | Busy Day For Fools - Lake People Remixes | Klik
20. "Forglemmigej" | Rosen & Spyddet | Fortuna | Posh Isolation
21. "(Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn" | The Birthday Party | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Desert - Juju & Jordash Remix" | Mahk & Morpheus | Desert | Souvenir
23. "Appalachia" | Cale Parks | Lagoon Fool | HAKT
24. "It's So Hard" | The Jesus and Mary Chain | Psychocandy - Barrowlands Live | Edsel

there's no turning back

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A Dream So Pure I Cannot Find a Heart That Will Endure It: Transmission 228, 2015 August 12

Here is some airtime I was supposed to be using, and I think I used it well. While I am kind of "finished" with themed programs, I will organize a show around an idea from time to time; this time, it was dead people, on account of the "Listening Parlour" selection, whose performers, ironically, are all still alive, as far as I know. That's just how it worked out. Anyway, happy birthday to Lawrence Hayward, aka "Lawrence"--I'm sure he is or was listening.

Do you ever find yourself repelled by music not because of the music itself, but because of the demographic that seems to enjoy it? I am guilty of this. But I have an anecdote to share, about someone else, and Felt. Somehow I didn't latch onto Felt's music until Poem of the River, but of course you could hardly turn on college radio in the mid-80s and avoid hearing "Primitive Painters." So of course the KDVS library contained this record, and of course the record cover featured sticker dialogue. "Only trendy Sacramentans like this music," or something like that, was the most prominent review. We had a DJ there, maybe he had Aspergers or something, or was just an ass (in either case I totally sympathize) who would frequently dismiss records in this way. Beware anything "trendy Sacramentans" were into, basically. Once Mr. D and I did a session "Live in Studio A," following this person's program, and he said on air that our band name made us sound like we were "from Sacramento."

Sacramento, for those who aren't familiar, is the state capital, about 20 minutes up the road from where I grew up (and did undergrad). If not for that, it would be Fresno North. It doesn't have much going for it. It is the home of Cake (the band) and Tesla (the band). The television program Eight Is Enough was set there. It was home to Rush Limbaugh before he "went national." So, a dismal place, then--a former colleague said, "you have these two rivers converging, and they collect all the bad energy from what happens in the Legislature." I can't argue. Anyway, I doubt there have ever been more than five "trendy" people in Sacramento at any one time. I never found them threatening, but clearly opinions differ.

Lady Catharsis and I moved "back" to Sacramento in the late 1990s. On my first full day there I rode my bicycle to the record store and bought a record by Denim. Was I (am I) a trendy Sacramentan? I've been called worse.

I don't know if Section 25 were ever accused of being a favorite of trendy Sacramentans, but I'll die with them in my record collection too, whatever that makes me.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 12, 2100-2300:

1. "Beneath the Blade" / "Inspiration" | Section 25 | From the Hip | Factory
2. "Quiet Life" | Japan | Exorcising Ghosts | Virgin
3. "The Friend Catcher" | The Birthday Party | Hits | 4AD
4. "Jenny Ondioline" | Stereolab | Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements | Duophonic - Elektra
5. "Make It Funky, Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4" | James Brown | Make It Funky (The Big Payback: 1971-1975) | Polydor
6. "I'm Comin' Down" | Primal Scream | Screamadelica | Creation - Sire
7. "All The People I Like Are Those That Are Dead" | Felt | Forever Breathes the Lonely Word | Creation | "Listening Parlour"
8. "Endless, Nameless" | Nirvana | The Nevermind & In Utero Singles | Geffen
9. "The Golden King" | Snakefinger's Vestal Virgins | Night of Desirable Objects | Ralph
10. "Devious Woman" | Singers & Players | War of Words | On-U Sound
11. "Herbert Harper's Free Press News" | Muddy Waters | Electric Mud | Chess
12. "Joy" | Isaac Hayes | Joy | Stax - Enterprise
13. "Further Back and Faster" | Coil | Love's Secret Domain | Threshold House
14. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (A Capella Mix / Special Edit Radio Mix)" | Negativland | U2 | SST

I took a ride through the pretty music.

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He Asked No Questions, He Had Few Conversations: Transmission 227, 2015 August 11

"Don't tell me crime don't pay," as some guy said once. Here I am, snatching airtime that is not mine, to carry out the irrational, unconscious mission of this program. It was Jah Wobble's birthday, so there is a Jah Wobble record involved, but that is a long-ish story whose time has not yet come. Hopefully someday soon.

Technical and other notes: on this night I think I plugged the "AUX IN" cable into my digital recorder, instead of AUX OUT, so I had to take the digital file from the station's computer, which means that it is post-compression with a few artifacts. Sorry about that. I will try to be better. Elsewhere, I cut off the first however many seconds of Siouxsie's "Halloween." (The Dream Syndicate's "Halloween" is intact.) (I think this is the second time I've played two tracks called "Halloween" in the same program, and that neither of these programs happened to fall on October 31. I am taking a page out of Catharsis Junior's handbook. She has no sense of time, and it is wonderful in a way.)

Finally, Meat Beat Manifesto returns! You know, in a previous life, I interviewed Jack Dangers. I no longer have the cassette, but the transcription did make it into a zine. I don't think it's been reproduced on the web. If I can find it and I'm not too embarrassed by it, I'll post it here sometime.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 11, 2100-2300:

1. "Can't Stand Losing You (Can't Stand Losing Dub)" | DubXanne | The Police in Dub | Echo Beach
2. "Agelast" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Kasm02 | Kasm
3. "El Bawaba" | EEK | Kahraba | Nashazphone
4. "Snake Charmer" / "Hold on to Your Dreams" | Jah Wobble / The Edge / Holger Czukay | Snake Charmer EP | Island | "Physical Evidence"
5. "II" | Ah! Kosmos | Flesh | Denovali
6. "Greenpoint" | Prurient | Frozen Niagara Falls | Profound Lore
7. "It Was a Camel" | Jah Wobble / The Edge / Holger Czukay | Snake Charmer EP | Island | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Achtung" | Automat | Plusminus | Bureau B
9. "I and I Survive" | Bad Brains | Rock for Light | PVC
10. "Crime Don't Pay" | Joe Jackson Band | Beat Crazy | A & M | "Listening Parlour"
11. "Anton II" | Robag Wruhme | Cybekks | Pampa
12. "Auto Destruction" | Barry Adamson | Moss Side Story | Mute
13. "Snake Charmer Reprise" | Jah Wobble / The Edge / Holger Czukay | Snake Charmer EP | Island | "Physical Evidence"
14. "In the Kingdom #19" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
15. "Detroit Trickle Down" | Kinski | 7 (or 8) | Kill Rock Stars
16. "Halloween" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor
17. "Sleazy" | Jah Wobble / The Edge / Holger Czukay | Snake Charmer EP | Island | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Refractions in the Plastic Pulse" | Stereolab | Dots and Loops | Elektra
19. "Halloween" | The Dream Syndicate | The Days of Wine and Roses | Omnivore

But I wouldn't know where to begin.

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Trying Every Now and Then: Transmission 226, 2015 August 8

Live on a hot August night we were (probably), and here is the audio to prove it. This program exceeds the usual two-hour timeframe because I followed roller derby (!), which ended before the hour. I tried to give the roller derby audience something gentle (albeit dark, it seems!) to suck them in before dropping the heavy stuff on them.

In retrospect, this seems to be one of those "arc" programs--rockist and the beginning, techist at the end--but it is good anyway. I am sure that on the night I was feeling triggered, as I have felt when doing radio for the last two months. When will that end?

Summers just are not what they were. I had a better title in mind for this episode, but it's gone now. Probably for the best.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 8, 2100-2300:

1. "Signed D.C." | Love | Love | Elektra
2. "Earthmover" | Blind Idiot God | Before Ever After | Indivisible
3. "Mr. Green" | Whipped Cream | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
   
4. "Child" | Valet | Nature | kranky
5. "Buddha of Compassion" | Jah Wobble | Redux - Anthology 1978-2015 | Cherry Red
6. "We Five" | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Uptown Top Ranking | VP
7. "Divided Alien" | Brian Harris | On My Knees | self-released
8. "Signed D.C. [acoustic version]" | Spirea X | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Kahraba" | EEK | Kahraba | Nashazphone
10. "Clear Off!" | The Fall | The Wonderful and Frightening Escape Route To... | Beggars Banquet
11. "Gold" | Celestial Tribes | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Aphelion" | Loop | Array 1 | ATP
13. "Bubblegum" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
14. "All Over My Face (Scam Mix)" | New Fast Automatic Daffodils | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Northern Lights" | Cobblestone Jazz | Northern Lights | Itiswhatitis
16. "Liquid Metal [Remix]" | Bomb the Bass | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Casanova 70" | Air | Premiers Symptomes | Rhino
18. "Looking at the Starz" | LOYOTO | Looking at the Starz | Upon You
19. "Dirty Disco II - Premix" | Section 25 | From The Hip | Factory Benelux
20. "When a Lion Awakens" | Definition of Sound | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Moonbuilding 2073 AD" | The Orb | Moonbuilding 2073 AD | Kompakt
22. "Miracle" | System 7 | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Gelk" | Autechre | Peel Session 2 | Warp

yes, but you don't understand

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How Much Further Do I Need To Go: Transmission 225, 2015 August 5

Here I am, back again to the world of posting. It seems very much the same, which is a relief; I'd hate to have to learn new things. Anyway, here is a very summery program, to me at least. Your sensibilities may differ.

Since I've got a backlog of programs, it is time, sadly, to play the guessing game with this one. I know I've listened to it, but I don't remember exactly what mood I was in (probably a melancholy one, that seems a safe bet) or any particular comedies of errors on this night. I can tell you that I think the Mucky Sailor single is great, and that while I cannot speak for partner in crime Mr. D, I would have killed to be Heavenly Bodies in the day. It saddens me that they didn't do more things.

This may have been the night I got my Germans mixed up, come to think of it, but you'll have to listen to find out.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 5, 2100-2300:

1. "Taffy Come Home" | Nightingales | Mind Over Matter | Louder than War
2. "Intro" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort | "Physical Evidence"
3. "289-5" | Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator | Con-Struct | Bureau B
4. "Precession" | Loop | Array 1 | ATP
5. "Partials" | Lurka | Partials / Mach | Black Acre
6. "Albatross, Silly Albatross" | Mucky Sailor | Albatross, Silly Albatross | Care in the Community
7. "The Icon" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Down the Garden Path" | Felix Laband | Deaf Safari | Compost
9. "Auto Chip 2014-2016" | The Fall | Sub-Lingual Tablet | Cherry Red
10. "Wild at Heart" | High Wolf | Growing Wild | Leaving
11. "Rains on Me" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Standing By Your Side (45 Edit)" | Lee Fields & The Expressions | Standing By Your Side | Truth & Soul
13. "Oh Sunday" | Thomalla | Imaginary Solutions | Riotvan
14. "Sendero Luminoso" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort | "Physical Evidence"
15. "EMT 140" | Automat | Plusminus | Bureau B
16. "The Saint Became a Lush" | Psyche | Unveiling the Secret | C'est La Mort
17. "Fine Vibrations" | Weird Owl | Interstellar Skeletal | A Recordings
18. "An Obsession" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Heaven's Vape" | STL | Simply Positive | Smallville
20. "Exit" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort | "Physical Evidence"

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Dan-U, Dan-U, Goddamn You: Transmission 224, 2015 July 29

We closed out a very weird July (aren't they all) with an "FTS" program that was probably better than the shows that came before or after. Wouldn't you know it, my digital recorder ran out of batteries near the end, so I had to rely on the post-compression recording that the station computer does automatically. I suppose the machines and I were on the same wavelength on this night.

I'd remarked a few weeks ago that I wasn't on "any relevant forums or facebook fan groups." Well, that's changed. I did give in and join the 4AD group. It's what you would expect, for better and for worse. I can't help it, I am just very curious about how people create social identities and networks around music, which seems to be the point of it all, does it not?

Anyway, as it happens with randomly moving targets all the time, someone there derailed a post to diss Colourbox, to which I can only say (because my imagination is limited) GET YOURSELF BENT, SON.

I guess I won't be making any BFFs around those parts, I can already tell.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 July 29, 2100-2300:

1. "Soul Soldier" | Throwing Muses | The Fat Skier | 4AD - Sire
2. "Summer Eyes" | The Young Gods | T.V. Sky | Play It Again Sam
3. "Radial" | Loop | Array1 | ATP
4. "Nation" | Colourbox | Colourbox | 4AD
5. "Sounds from the Big House" / "Suck on the Honey of Love" | Barry Adamson | Moss Side Story | Mute
6. "Inner Guidance" | LTJ Bukem | Journey Inwards | Good Looking - Kinetic
7. "J'Ai Dormi Sous L'Eau" | Air | Premiers Symptomes | Rhino
8. "Mouled El Ghoul" | EEK | Kahraba | Nashazphone
9. "Cheetah Guava" | Kutiman | Space Cassava | Siyal
10. "Corona" | Gwei-Lo | Gwei-Lo | Bella Union - Instinct
11. "BBF3" | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada | Constellation

pre not pro
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Relying Only on Perplexing Intangibilities: Transmission 223, 2015 July 24

This is a fill-in show that I did in place of "Conference of the Birds." I made it a Medway Night because I felt like it--as I have previously noted, this was bound to result in some awkward segues, because the Greats do not Play Nice. Mind you, that does not explain every botched transition in the program, but it does explain some.

Whimsy must have put The Birthday Party and The House of Love in the mix, but Death put Negativland there. I was indeed lucky to see them perform in the late 1980s--I think it was 1987 [the year of Escape from Noise], but I may be off by a year. At any rate I hope to god that I handled myself with a bit of maturity back then--apparently there was some reporter from the student paper who covered the show and was "freaked out." I remember it being weird and wild but I do not recall this reaction as mine, much less any written account thereof. Perhaps I'd quit that gig already. Anyway, thank goodness for the pre-internet era! Because, you see, I was not at all above pearl-clutching or collapsing onto the fainting couch. I strongly endorse that whole "right to be forgotten" thing the Euros are into.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 July 24, 2100-2300:

1. "Announcement / Quiet Please" | Negativland | Escape From Noise | SST
2. "1983" | Kolsch | 1983 | Kompakt
3. "Dalis Car" | Dalis Car | The Waking Hour | Paradox
4. "Powder" | Kinski | 7 (or 8) | Kill Rock Stars
5. "Cassandra" | Thee Milkshakes | Thee Knights of Trashe | Hangman's Daughter | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Suleika" | Gunter Schickert | Kollektion 04 - Bureau B (Compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
7. "Life in the Gladhouse" | Modern English | After the Snow | 4AD - Sire
8. "Promising" | Man Power | Correspondant Compilation 03 | Correspondant
9. "Apache" | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Uptown Top Ranking | VP
10. "You're Asking Too Much" | Thee Milkshakes | Thee Knights of Trashe | Hangman's Daughter | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Getting Old" | Felix Laband | Deaf Safari | Compost
12. "Junkyard" | The Birthday Party | Hits | 4AD
13. "Elephant Rifle" | Buzz Rodeo | Sports | Bandcamp self-release
14. "Amanaz" | Amanaz | Africa | Now-Again
15. "Girl, It No Good" | Thee Milkshakes | Thee Knights of Trashe | Hangman's Daughter | "Physical Evidence"
16. "I Don't Know Why I Love You" | The House of Love | Live At the Lexington | Cherry Red
17. "SST 282" | Automat | Plusminus | Bureau B
18. "Signs" | Valet | Nature | kranky
19. "Repent And Dub" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Back On The Controls | Rolling Lion - Upsetter
20. "I Dreamt Last Night (That I Lay Dead)" | Thee Milkshakes | Thee Knights of Trashe | Hangman's Daughter | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Writing Poetry on Your Forehead with the Tip of a Hunting Knife" | Shit and Shine | 54 Synth-Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral | Rocket
22. "Fetes" | Johannes Brecht | Trois Nocturnes | Poker Flat
23. "Indigo Birds" | Pyramids | A Northern Meadow | Profound Lore
24. "I'm Out of Control" | Thee Milkshakes | Thee Knights of Trashe | Hangman's Daughter | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Find a Way (Live on Northey Island)" | Ultramarine | not on album | Soundcloud self-release

but I just can't see reflection

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