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Babylon and Ting: Transmission 198, 2015 April 12

Here I am, filling in for Dusty Visions once again, which has to mean [I guess] that The Orb gets an airing, for reasons unknown. Anyway, I am sure Dusty would have appreciated the Spacemen 3 disc "featured" on the program. I don't care what the geeks at Discogs have to say, this was a Munster release. I was there when it happened. Somehow I always enjoyed the idea of Spacemen 3 more than the actual manifestations thereof, until this one.

Mistakes abound in this program. I know they are proof of liveness but I have to say they have a way of losing their charm. Maybe this is just as good as I get. Sometimes I wonder if this is a reason to stop and then I realize that, trouble not withstanding, this program is not the expression of a mid-life crisis but the solution to it. You're stuck with me. Anyway, by the end of the show I was so exasperated with myself I just said, FTS, let's play some Nurse With Wound, which should probably be the solution more often than it is.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 April 12, 2100-2300:

1. "Braces Tower Dub" | Augustus Pablo | King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown | Shanachie
2. "Towers of Dub" | The Orb | U.F.Orb | Island Red Label
3. "Bowls" | Caribou Vibration Ensemble | CVE Live 2011 | Caribou Vibration Ensemble
4. "Losing Touch With My Mind (Northampton Demo)" | Spacemen 3 | Losing Touch with Your Mind | Munster | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Das Spiel ist aus" | The Notwist | Messier Objects | Alien Transistor
6. "Midnight Man" | Etienne Jaumet | La Visite | Versatile
7. "Honey (Alternate Mix)" | Spacemen 3 | Losing Touch with Your Mind | Munster | "Physical Evidence"
8. "In a Trap" | African Head Charge | Sherwood at the Controls Volume 1 1979-1984 | On-U Sound
9. "Chameleon" | Herbie Hancock | Autodrive | Columbia
10. "Black Towers" | Roman Flugel | Sliced Africa | Dial
11. "Things'll Never Be the Same (Drum Mix)" | Spacemen 3 | Losing Touch with Your Mind | Munster | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Spark (Remood Remix)" | Douglas Greed & Mooryc | Spark / Noisy | Freude Am Tanzen
13. "Why Couldn't I See (Alternate Mix)" | Spacemen 3 | Losing Touch with Your Mind | Munster | "Physical Evidence"
14. "The Purple Ache" | Nurse With Wound | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed

next time: all around me was bonfire. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Is That Pedantic Enough For You: Transmission 197, 2015 April 11

Here is a fill-in appearance I did for "The Magic Womb." I didn't know it at the time, but I would get in trouble for spinning records on this night. Just like old times, I think. Anyway, after listening back to this recording, it is a pleasant surprise, so I guess it was worth it. Here's hoping I'm not dwelling on it a couple of decades from now.

Sometimes I fear that someone who's been out of touch with me for 25 years or so will stumble upon a show like this, hear me playing a bunch of On-U Sound / This Mortal Coil / Cocteau Twins stuff [by the way, why are April and May always so dark?] and think, "man, he's really stuck in that time." Of course, as with extraterrestrials who never manage to land in big cities, this hypothetical person from the past couldn't find a program where I only play new stuff. This is how my mind works.

Finally, I'm going to congratulate myself on finding the one thing you could accidentally cue on top of a Colourbox song and not have it pass unnoticed. Congratulations to Nisennenmondai, as well.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 April 11, 1900-2100:

1. "Sixteen Days - Gathering Dust" | This Mortal Coil | Sixteen Days - Gathering Dust | 4AD
2. "Throughout the Dark Months of April and May" | Cocteau Twins | Victorialand | 4AD
3. "Middle Mass" | The Fall | Sherwood at the Controls Volume 1 1979-1984 | On-U Sound
4. "A'" | Nisennenmondai | N' | Bijin - Blast First Petite | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Justice" | Colourbox | Colourbox | 4AD
6. "Of One Skin" | Skids | Winters of Discontent | Strange Fruit
7. "Temples" | Goitia Deitz | MODE | Cut Mistake
8. "diskhat ALL prepared1mixed 13" | Aphex Twin | Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 EP | Warp
9. "5 Beat" | System 7 | N + X | A-Wave
10. "My Favourite Dress" | The Wedding Present | George Best [reissue] | Edsel
11. "The Places We Go" | Mark Gardener and Robin Guthrie | The Places We Go | Soleil Apres Minuit
12. "B-1'" | Nisennenmondai | N' | Bijin - Blast First Petite | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Gathering Dust" | Modern English | Natures Mortes - Still Lives | 4AD
14. "Pearl" | Loscil | For Greta | Bandcamp self-release
15. "Learning to Cope with Cowardice (flexi version)" | Mark Stewart & The Maffia | Sherwood at the Controls Volume 1 1979-1984 | On-U Sound
16. "Bora" | Lake People | Purposely Uncertain Field | Permanent Vacation
17. "Body" | 18+ | Dry | Houndstooth
18. "In This World..." | Cindytalk | In This World (2) | Midnight
19. "Flight Risk" | Kinski | 7 (or 8) | Kill Rock Stars
20. "Engines of Truth" | Brian Harris | On My Knees | self-released
21. "Nuclear Weapon" | Prince Far-I | Sherwood at the Controls Volume 1 1979-1984 | On-U Sound
22. "The Traveller" | Node | Node 2 | DiN
23. "y 0 why" | John Tejada | Signs Under Test | Kompakt

next time: losing touch with my mind. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Let's Not Upstage Kink Anymore: Transmission 196, 2015 April 7

Hurtling into the future, relative to our recent posting rate, here is another program, and one from this very month, to boot. I almost remember this night. Feeling under some kind of time constraint to use yet another Shriekback record as "Physical Evidence," I went ahead and buckled. Junior's had a health class, so I didn't feel too queasy hearing her read the title, but still.

I do keep forgetting there's that awkward rap break in "Achtung." Very English, and a good exhibit of why, at the time, it was a really bad idea for white people to make those attempts. Still, I would be sad when Carl Marsh left the band.

Elsewhere: I swear, sometime in my adolescence [my actual adolescence, not my prolonged refusal to grow up] there was a local mattress outlet that used a passage from the end of "Home Computer" as the underscoring. I think that was about as cool as Greater Sacramento ever got.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 April 7, 2100-2300:

1. "Nerve" | Shriekback | Knowledge, Power, Truth and Sex | Arista | "Physical Evidence"
2. "Rolf & Florian Go Hawaiian" | Blaine L. Reininger | Byzantium | LTM
3. "Intergalactic Spring" | Thyladomid | Interstellar Destiny | DIYNamic
4. "Din Con" | Kriget | Din Con / Sama | Hoga Nord
5. "Barium" | Dodi Palese | Chemtrails EP | What Ever Not
6. "Achtung" | Shriekback | Knowledge, Power, Truth and Sex | Arista | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Blue Ocean" | Mirror System | N + X | A-Wave
8. "Gold Bars" | Schmutz | Peelers EP | Dirt Crew
9. "Anatomy of a Synthesizer" | Etienne Jaumet | La Visite | Versatile
10. "Spiritual Enhancer" | Roman Flugel | Sliced Africa | Dial
11. "Abu Dhabi Joint" | Chuckie | Desolat X-Sampler 2015 | Desolat
12. "Traders II (feat. Rennie Foster)" | Dan Shake | Out of Sight | Black Acres
13. "Nightsteps" | Sascha Ciminiera | Footjob 002 | Footjob
14. "Home Computer" | Kraftwerk | Computer World | Warner Bros.
15. "Direct Experience (Hannes Rasmus Remix)" | Sebastian Mullaert | Direct Experience | Traum
16. "Mistah Linn He Dead" | Shriekback | Knowledge, Power, Truth and Sex | Arista | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Paradise Trilogy I" | Darkness Falls | Dance and Cry | HFN
18. "Fantasia" | Kink | Fantasia | Pets
19. "Phoenix" | good guy mikesh | Year of the Horse | Riotvan
20. "Persona non grata" | La Batteria | La batteria | Penny
21. "Hubris" | Shriekback | Knowledge, Power, Truth and Sex | Arista | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Echo" | Automat & Max Loderbauer | Verstarker / Hall / Kompressor / Echo | Bureau B Selekt

next time: millennium bugs, gathering dust. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

To Do A Dangerous Thing With Style Is What I Call Art: Transmission 195, 2015 March 31

This program didn't go as planned for a few reasons. I think the original intent was to go with more "unknown" garage punk, but inspiration struck, and The Ruts got the nod. In retrospect, "Black Man's Pinch" is kind of...an unfortunate aesthetic choice, I guess? Not as bad as Shriekback trying to rap, but that's another wince for another day.

There are some long electronic numbers here that would probably sound at home on Guy LeBatard's show, but he doesn't seem to be very active lately. As always I feel like I'm compensating for others. Poor me.

Also, I think maybe this program happened during Junior's spring break, and I was flipping out on the regular.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 March 31, 2100-2300:

1. "Comedy Time" | Holly Golightly | The Good Things | Damaged Goods
2. "Dub Is All I Got (feat. U-Roy)" | The Dub Syndicate | Hard Food | Echo Beach
3. "Demolition Dancing" | The Ruts | The Peel Sessions Album | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Duff 80" | Robert Leiner | Duff 80 / Injected | Hoga Nord
5. "Yermande (Kick and Bass Mix) [with Mbene Diatta Seck]" | Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force | Yermande | Ndagga
6. "I've Been Lookin'" | The Buttons | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 1 | Crypt
7. "Until the Music Dies - D'Marc Cantu Remix" | Aroy Dee | Re-Sketched | M>O>S
8. "Jetplane" | The Fall | Re-Mit | Cherry Red
9. "Babylons Burning" | The Ruts | The Peel Sessions Album | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
10. "There's Gonna Be A Dad War" | The Dad Kennedys | Seans Shed Demos | self-released
11. "City of Orion II" | Pollyester | City of O | Disko B / Schamoni
12. "Staring at the Rude Boys" | The Ruts | The Peel Sessions Album | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Icaria" | The Soft | Derelicht Sampler | Derelicht
14. "Savage Circle" | The Ruts | The Peel Sessions Album | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Corbeau" | Turzi | C | Record Makers
16. "The Answer to Everything" | Aggborough | The Answer to Everything / MitzpeRamon | OTB
17. "Secret Soldiers" | The Ruts | The Peel Sessions Album | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Blackberry's Dream" | Strategy | Seeds of Paradise | Idle Hands
19. "In a Rut" | The Ruts | The Peel Sessions Album | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Charity" | Nick Klein | Failed Devotee | Unknown Precept
21. "The Bummer" | Lincoln St. Exit | Everywhere Chainsaw Sound 1 | Feed the Mind
22. "Leisure Suit Preben (I:Cube Remix)" | Todd Terje | Preben Remixed | Olsen
23. "Black Man's Pinch" | The Ruts | The Peel Sessions Album | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
24. "I Found Another Girl" | The Dirt Merchants | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 1 | Crypt
25. "Whole Lotta Rosie" | AC/DC | Let There Be Rock | Atco | "Listening Parlour"
26. "Comedy Time" | The Len Bright Combo | Combo Time! | Fire
27. "Granadaland" | The Wedding Present | Bizarro | Edsel
28. "Criminal Mind" | The Ruts | The Peel Sessions Album | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Strange Days - Recondite remix" | Mind Against | Strange Days | Life and Death

next time: bassline has no point of view. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

When Stars Appear and Shadows Fall: Transmission 194, 2015 March 24

Hello friends, long time no see. As promised, tax season is finished, so it's time to make this website less ill-tended. Here's a heavy dose of garage rock, not so much a trail mix this time around as perhaps a cookie with little nibbles of techno-candy in it.

Work and depression, those twin pillars of my life, have seemed very large this past month or so. To be honest, I've been pretty disengaged and let a lot of people down. [This is my diary, remember?] At any rate, I know I've listened to this program, and was of course there when it happened, but I can't tell you much about it. You'll just have to listen. That segue from The Buff Medways into Section 25 is a pretty good one--I remember that, at least--and as a former friend once said, "the more time passes, the more we'll just remember the good times." Everyone is wise but me.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 March 24, 2100-2300:

1. "Unable to See the Good" | The Buff Medways | 1914 | Transcopic
2. "Be Brave" | Section 25 | Always Now | Factory Benelux
3. "The Last Step of Doom" | The Jolly Beggars | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 1 | Crypt | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Sueno Latino (Agua Version)" | Sueno Latino with Manuel Gottsching Performing E2-E4 | Sueno Latino | Dance Floor Corporation
5. "Old Friend" | Robin Guthrie & Mark Gardener | Universal Road | Soleil Apres Minuit
6. "Psychedelic Feelin'" | The Krels | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 1 | Crypt | "Physical Evidence"
7. "I Can Only Give You Everything" | The Stairs | Mary Joanna | Go! Discs
8. "You Never Had It Better" | The Electric Prunes | Everywhere Chainsaw Sound 1 | Feed the Mind
9. "Mary" | Electric Sensation | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 1 | Crypt | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Ain't About to Lose My Cool" | The Original Dukes | Everywhere Chainsaw Sound 1 | Feed the Mind
11. "Tell Me" | Mickey & Ludella | Bedlam A Go Go | Vinyl Japan
12. "Hey You" | The Guilloteens | Everywhere Chainsaw Sound 1 | Feed the Mind
13. "One More Night" | The Expressions | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 1 | Crypt | "Physical Evidence"
14. "I'm Leaving Here" | The K-otics | Everywhere Chainsaw Sound 1 | Feed the Mind
15. "Django's Soul" | The Fabulous Three | The Best of the Fabulous Three | Truth & Soul
16. "Central" | Feonix | Feonix (LP Sampler) | Uprise
17. "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me" | The Philly Rollers | Super Soul | Springboard
18.  | "Listening Parlour"
19. "Lies" | Bourbonese Qualk | Lies (Ancient Methods Edit + Remix) | Mannequin
20. "Crawdad" | The Colonials | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 1 | Crypt | "Physical Evidence"
21. "I Can't Win" | The Monacles | Everywhere Chainsaw Sound 1 | Feed the Mind
22. "Thousand Tears" | The Infinitives | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 1 | Crypt | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Volcano" | Andrea Balency | Volcano | Bataille
24. "I Wish I Could" | The Juveniles | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 1 | Crypt | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Last Dance" | XXXY | Last Dance | Rinse
26. "Handsome Devil" | The Smiths | Hatful of Hollow | Rough Trade | "Hall of Vengeance"
27. "Melvin" | Thee Headcoatees | Girlsville | Damaged Goods
28. "End House" | Roger West | Wasted House EP | In Paradisum
29. "Mirror Ball'13" | Nisennenmondai | Live at Clouds Hill | Clouds Hill
30. "Tell Me" | The Strangers | Everywhere Chainsaw Sound 1 | Feed the Mind
31. "Gloria" | The Continentals | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 1 | Crypt | "Physical Evidence"
32. "I Can Only Give You Everything" | The Heros | Everywhere Chainsaw Sound 1 | Feed the Mind
33. "iPolice" | Damu | Holed Up in the Hovel | Keysound
34. "Requiem" | Tadeo | Terra Incognita | Token

next time: answers to everything. Enjoy the music!  --kid catharsis

Wandering Around the Supermarket, Wondering What Went Wrong: Transmission 193, 2015 March 17

"Ahoy!" here is a program from the not too distant past. I wish I had something useful to say about it but it has been rough lately, yo. Very difficult to formulate any coherent thoughts, what with work and family bearing down on me, not nec. in bad ways, just that everything consumes time.

Speaking of which, Beyond Time is a most welcome return for 23 Skidoo. [And no, I haven't had a chance to watch the DVD yet, so no comments on what is probably an awesome film.] I have enjoyed this band's music since before I started doing radio, which was a long time ago, you guys. 23 Skidoo have my permission to keep making records for as long as they like!

You know what, though? John from Time Spent Listening is right--social media is pathological. We lost four passengers from the Facebook page within 24 hours of this program's airing. It has taken me this long to stop blaming myself and conclude that these four must have been the sort of "judges at a high school talent show" that my program has always been designed to offend. Thanks, to the rest of you, for staying onboard.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 March 17, 2100-2300:

1. "Bad Betty" | The Sonics | Bad Betty | The Sonics Boom
2. "Contemplation" | 23 Skidoo | Beyond Time | Les Disques Du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
3. "OUD" | Disappears | Irreal | Kranky
4. "Sun Salute" | 50 Foot Wave | Night Blooming (Works in Progress) | self-released
5. "Mirror's Edge" | Dave Bessell | Black Horses of the Sun | DiN
6. "Noisy" | Douglas Greed & Mooryc | Spark / Noisy | Freude Am Tanzen
7. "AYU (Ambient)" | 23 Skidoo | Beyond Time | Les Disques Du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
8. "On Knives" | Snow Ghosts | A Wrecking | Houndstooth
9. "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" | The Darkness vs SFB | I Believe in a Thing Called Love | not on label (SFB Remix Series)
10. "Kendang" | 23 Skidoo | Beyond Time | Les Disques Du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Tans 1 - Lieb" | Aden | Tanz | Ultramajic
12. "Abaraxas II" | Lando | MYTH002 | Myth
13. "Helicopterz" | 23 Skidoo | Beyond Time | Les Disques Du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Chug-A-Lug" | The Viscounts | Chug-A-Lug - Exotic Blues & Rhythm Vol. 8 | Stag-O-Lee
15. "Infinity" | Malandra Jr | Four to the Floor 04 | DIYNamic
16. "The Rubberband Man" | The Spinners | The Rubberband Man / Now That We're Together | Atlantic
17. "Decay" | D'Marc Cantu | Decay | Drone
18. "Calypso" | 23 Skidoo | Beyond Time | Les Disques Du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Dorian (feat. Edward Ka-Spel and Brant Showers) -Brant's Mix" | Databomb | Dorian | Bandcamp self-release
20. "Totally Useless" | Psykik Volts | Totally Useless / Horror Stories #5 | Munster
21. "Interzonal" | 23 Skidoo | Beyond Time | Les Disques Du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
22. "13 Women" | Chance Halladay | Boom-A-Lay - Exotic Blues & Rhythm Vol. 7 | Stag-O-Lee
23. "Shake Off the Ghosts" | Simple Minds | Sparkle in the Rain | Universal

next time: probably some teenage garbage. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

We're Going to Find the Meaning of Feeling Good: Transmission 192, 2015 March 12

Another "IDGAF" program which, naturally, turned out pretty well. The power of that attitude is such that even with a dreaded, round number of 10 songs, I managed not to call down the wrath of the radio gods. [As I write this, a week and a half later, I have the benefit of knowing that it will happen in or after the next program.]

Old times: "Bela Lugosi's Dead," which I wound up not playing because Joe played it on his program earlier in the evening [long tracks have their virtues, especially during playlist reporting], was once the subject of a moratorium at my old radio station--half a decade after its release, people were playing it so damn much that the music department had to order them not to. "Teen Love" was another song with which they could have done that, but didn't, for some reason. I always felt that the Flux album was so good that people ought to play it often enough to invoke a moratorium, but looking back I think maybe I was the only one who liked Flux. So it goes.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 March 12, 2100-2300:

1. "Real Cool Time" | The Stooges | The Stooges | Elektra
2. "Televised Green Smoke" | Carl Craig | More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art [reissue] | Planet E - Rush Hour
3. "Sun" | Caribou Vibration Ensemble | CVE Live 2011 | Caribou Vibration Ensemble
4. "M.O.P. (Movement of the People) Political Statement Number 1" | Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80 | Live in Amsterdam | MCA - Universal
5. "Quantum Shift on Plague Mothership" | Blown Out | Drifting Way Out Between Suns | Riot Season | "Croix de Bombast"
6. "Do You Love Me? (Part 2)" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Let Love In | Mute - BMG
7. "Teen Love" | No Trend | Teen Love EP | No Trend
8. "Madonna, Sean and Me" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | DGC
9. "Lateral Oracle" | You Still Have Friends | Near Memory | Finity
10. "Children Who Know" | Flux | Uncarved Block | One Little Indian

next time: contemplation and rubber bands. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Look Forward to More Sloppiness: Transmission 191, 2015 March 10

Don't let the short track list fool you. This is a full-length program in which I overcompensate for the previous one by doing as little as possible. It's playlist reporting time, and I just don't like writing down all the start times and durations of everything I do. Make of that what you will.

Anyway, it's a busy time so I can't conceptualize things. This turned out to be a pretty decent show somehow, thanks in large part to that Campbell Irvine record (and CD). These two hours sound like the Old Days, a little bit, I guess because mostly they are. No time to be wistful about things that are gone--the real world is calling, even if it is just butt-dialing me.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 March 10, 2100-2300:

1. "Prologue / How to Get Your Band on Television" | Chumbawamba | Pictures Of Starving Children Sell Records: Starvation, Charity And Rock & Roll - Lies & Traditions | Agit Prop
2. "B52 (live)" | The Perfect Disaster | Heaven Scent | Fire
3. "Reunion of Two Bodies" | Campbell Irvine | Reunion of Two Bodies | Infrastructure New York | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Magic Lamp" | Breathless | Blue Moon | Tenor Vossa
5. "People" | Boyd Rice and Friends | Music, Martinis and Misanthropy | New European Recordings
6. "Terms of Propaganda" | Campbell Irvine | Reunion of Two Bodies | Infrastructure New York | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Protection" | Cabaret Voltaire | 2x45 | Rough Trade
8. "Cosmic Slop" | Funkadelic | Greatest Hits 1976-81 | Charly
9. "O Kou" | Stanislas Tohon | Dans le Tchink Systeme | Hot Casa

next time: do I still have friends? Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

In Pain, the Body Rearranges: Transmission 190, 2015 March 3

Thanks for joining me on a visit to Tepid Peppermint Wonderland, and other places. MANY other places, on this night--a reckless choice to play so many tunes rapid-fire during a "playlist reporting period," but I guess you know me by now. [If you don't, hello! I'm Kid Catharsis and welcome to my podcast site.]

Apparently I was on a Shriekback kick at around this time, so that explains that. It might also explain the fact that I tried to cue one of their songs on air while somebody else's song was playing, but, again, we both know better. Sorry. Fortunately I seem to be in this pattern wherein one thing goes wrong in each program, and that was it, as far as I can recall. Finally, it's taken me a long time to come around, but Peter Buck was right: Pylon's "Crazy" is better than anything on Chronic Town. Greatness doesn't extrapolate backward, after all, does it? Is there a lesson in that, for me? Probably not.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 March 3, 2100-2300:

1. "Bric Brac" | Piero Umiliani | Tra scienza e fantascienza | We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want
2. "Cathartica" | Nedelle Torrisi | Advice from Paradise | Ethereal Sequence
3. "Blush" | The Cherry Wave | Blush EP | Saint Marie
4. "Gruesome Castle" | The Wake | Here Comes Everybody | Factory Benelux
5. "Kung Fu Fighting" | Robyn Hitchcock | Alvin Lives (In Leeds) | Midnight
6. "Talk - Action = Shit" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Tepid Peppermint Wonderland Volume 2 | A Recordings
7. "Midnight Maps" | Shriekback | Evolution | Kaz | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Both Sides Now" | Leonard Nimoy | The Way I Feel | Dot
9. "Disparo de Amor" | Axolotes Mexicanos | Holi <3 | Elefant
10. "C U In Hell" | DUST | C U In Hell | Mannequin
11. "Don't Cry" | Yung | Alter | Tough Love
12. "Zero Emission" | Wild Billy Childish & CTMF | Acorn Man | Damaged Goods
13. "Ringfinger" | H. Hawkline | In the Pink of Condition | Heavenly
14. "Lines from the Library" | Shriekback | Evolution | Kaz | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Deja Vu - Beatless" | Vince Watson | Deja Vu | Ovum
16. "Alibi II" | Afrikan Sciences | Circuitous | Pan
17. "Step Inside" | Simon Haydo | Corrupted from Memory | Studio Barnhus
18. "Book of Five" | L/F/D/M | M Is a Shape | Ecstatic
19. "Simpleton Leave Violence" | Tappa Zukie | Tapper Roots | Kingston Sounds
20. "Wanderlust" | Chrisma | Chinese Restaurant | Spittle
21. "I Won't Go Back to Work" | The Explosives | The Explosives | Munster
22. "It's That Time Again" / "Constipation Blues" | Screamin' Jay Hawkins & The Fuzztones | Live | Midnight
23. "Hand on My Heart (12" Version)" | Shriekback | Evolution | Kaz | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Wasted Dawn" | Magic Island | Wasted Dawn | Mansions and Millions
25. "Yori Yoyo" | Oorutaichi | Drifting My Folklore | Streamline
26. "Despite Dense Weed" | Shriekback | Evolution | Kaz | "Physical Evidence"
27. "XIII" | Taiko | Perfect Wait | Subaltern
28. "Crazy" | R.E.M. | 7in-83-88 | I.R.S.
29. "Dead Souls" | Gang of Four | What Happens Next | Metropolis
30. "A Baby Got Back on Its Feet" | The House of Love | Live At the Lexington | Cherry Red
31. "We Will Need Each Other" | Schneider Kacirek | Shadows Documents | Bureau B
32. "Crazy" | Pylon | Chomp More | DFA

next time: fewer, slower, longer. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Hear It And Believe, Don't You Grieve Or Look Behind: Transmission 189, 2015 February 24

As promised, here is one of those programs that happens on a day when I just stop caring. So of course it is EXCELLENT. Lessons are only for those who can learn, so don't expect this to be the new thing. No "Physical Evidence," no "Listening Parlour," no "Hall of Vengeance," and no clue. "This was quieter than usual," the Senior Catharses tell me. Really? I didn't think so at the time, and still don't, but whatever "it" is I come by it honestly.

A little over a week after the fact, I find myself enjoying this one quite a bit. I don't know if this is part of my new "accept yourself" strategy or actual merit in the program, but it feels good, so I'm going to go ahead. Notes: DJ Kristi reminded me not too long ago how great those early Simple Minds records were. Those Shriekback / PWEI songs were certainly chestnuts for me back in the day. Did you know--I had a chance to see Shriekback in a tiny little campus coffeehouse, capacity ~200, back in Fall 1985 but opted instead to attend some politics lecture for extra credit in a class. PRIORITIES: I guess I had them once? I have warmed to that MBV record. I genuinely have no idea how that particular M83 song made it into the show, but that's part of the "magic." Finally, everyone, say hello to the Roots Nyabingi Brigade, straight from Babylondon!

I remember nothing about that lecture. Thanks, academia.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 February 24, 2100-2300:

1. "Theme for Great Cities" | Simple Minds | Sister Feelings Call | Virgin
2. "Malaria" / "Everything That Rises Must Converge" | Shriekback | Oil and Gold | Island
3. "Happy Cycling" | Boards of Canada | Peel Session | Warp
4. "New Era" | Shells | In a Cloud | Life Like
5. "Keep Your Dreams" | Suicide | Suicide | Red Star
6. "Ratts of the Capital" | Mogwai | Happy Songs for Happy People | Matador
7. "To Forgive But Not To Forget" | Outside | Rebirth of Cool 4 | Island
8. "Kiss Of Def" | The Durutti Column | Obey the Time | Factory Once
9. "Wonder 2" | My Bloody Valentine | M B V | MBV
10. "Cosmic Jugalbandi (part 1 based on Raga Bhupali)" | Suns of Arqa | Solar Activity 1979-2001 | EMI
11. "Guitar Voodoo" | The Darkside | All That Noise | Situation Two
12. "One Flesh" | The Chameleons | John Peel Sessions | Blue Apple
13. "Woy-Oh YaYa (Dubplate)" | Roots Nyabingi Brigade | Bring Downa Babylondon | self-released
14. "Written on the Forehead" | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake | Vagrant
15. "Bleach" | Little Annie & The Legally Jammin' | Little Annie & The Legally Jammin' | Italic
16. "Boy Go" | The Golden Palominos | Visions of Excess | Celluloid
17. "Up!" | M83 | Saturdays = Youth | Mute
18. "524 Fidelio" | The Wedding Present | Back A Bit...Stop! (German Version) | This Will Be Our Summer
19. "Everything That Rises" | Pop Will Eat Itself | Love Missile F1-11 (Designer Grebo Megamix) | Chapter 22
20. "I Put A Spell On You" | Screamin' Jay Hawkins & The Fuzztones | Live | Midnight

next time: safe harbor. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis