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Dandies in the Soundtrack: Transmission 178, 2015 January 1

Here I am, I always am. This first show of 2015 was always going to be more of a hodge-podge than usual, seeing as I had little time, for some reason, to put it together, and frankly, I'm a little tired! But when you play 34-minute tracks [award yourself a croix de Bombast, by the way] that leaves you fewer segues to flub, not that I didn't make a heroic effort. This new tic I have developed, starting the first song half-way through, is a nice personal touch. I'm always chasing the next thing.

Aside from the "exclusives" / "forthcomings" from the Factory Benelux disc, most of these songs were things I'd sat on for a long time, unable to find "proper" contexts for them. Especially Snuff Crew (I do picture them as these two Restoration dudes in justaucorps, sipping hot chocolate and comparing snuff boxes--what, do you think the band name refers to something else?). It's been a while since I've done a proper "overflow" program, and probably will be a while again, so I hope you enjoy this one.

Still, it's about time for a really good program, don't you think?

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 January 1, 2100-2300:

1. "Gimmie Gimmie" | The Dub Club | Foundation Come Again | Stones Throw
2. "The Hunter (Stephen Morris Mix)" | Marnie | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Karadeniz" | Karl Hector & The Malcouns | Unstraight Ahead | Now-Again
4. "Peel B" | VD [Votive Deposite] | Dedication Tone | Locative
5. "Walk Don't Run" | Los Straitjackets | Deke Dickerson Sings The Great Instrumental Hits | Yep Rock
6. "Want Fi Goh Rave" | Linton Kwesi Johnson | Di Eagle An Di Bear | Righteous Reggae
7. "Mange" | Brian Harris | Behind the Mask | Soundcloud self-release
8. "You Don't Know" | Mode | Play the Game | Codek
9. "Microgroove" | Section 25 | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Zeppelin Race" | Moonpunk | not on album | Bandcamp self-release
11. "Prejoy - Barbaric Splendour Version" | The Asphodells | Correspondant Compilation 02 | Correspondant
12. "Midwatch 1953" | The Fall | The Unutterable | Let Them Eat Vinyl
13. "What Did Your Last Servant Die Of?" | The Wedding Present | George Best [reissue] | Edsel
14. "Lights" | Snuff Crew | Behind the Masks | BPitch Control
15. "Atomium Sunrise" | Blaine Reininger | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Bring The Sun / Toussaint L'Ouverture" | Swans | To Be Kind | Young God
17. "Wobby Bomack" | The Invisible Girls | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux | "Physical Evidence"

next time: The Hall of Legends! Enjoy the music. --kid catharsis

Pipeline to Your Heart: Transmission 177, 2014 December 30

Another day, another shift. WE DOIN WORK, SON. Here is the final Bombast of 2014 and we go out with a...what, exactly? The(e) Milkshakes were a great band, and my favorite of the Billy Childish projects, and I played A LOT of them on this night, you guys. Hmm. I did discover one thing, and that is that segueing out of a Milkshakes tune is much easier than segueing into one. What "significance" that has I have no idea.

It is refreshing, though, that, judgment aside, this is a largely error-free program. I am relieved to see that I am still capable from time to time. My competence is like the tide. It comes in; it goes out. YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 December 30, 2100-2300:

1. "Kennedy" | The Wedding Present | Bizarro | Edsel
2. "Pipeline" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Suratkorps (Prins Thomas Handjagerversjon)" | Tarjei Nygard | Suratkorps | Full Pupp
4. "Geezer" | Ultramarine | Every Man And Woman Is A Star | Rough Trade
5. "Tupelo" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | The Firstborn Is Dead [reissue] | Mute
6. "Muzzled" | Maoupa Mazzocchetti | A-Tranquility | Unknown Precept
7. "Little Girl (Mumble the Peg)" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Fuck You GI" / "Fire" | 23 Skidoo | Urban Gamelan | Illuminated
9. "She Tells Me She Loves Me" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Asha" | Luke Benjamin | Keysound Recordings Presents...Certified Connections | Keysound
11. "What A Shame" | Tin Man | ODE | Acid Test
12. "Baby What's Wrong" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Snowbeam" | VD [Votive Deposite] | Dedication Tone | Locative
14. "Let Me Love You" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Key My Brain" | Mouse On Mars & Atom TM | 21 Again Collaborations, Pt. 3 | Monkeytown
16. "Boys" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Knock Yourself Out" | Eric Random | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux
18. "Graveyard Words" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Midnight Manor" | Haunted By Hallucinations | Haunted By Hallucinations | Herakles
20. "Ethereal" | Torus | Temples | Rwina
21. "The One I Get" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Pipeline" | Los Straitjackets | Deke Dickerson Sings The Great Instrumental Hits | Yep Rock
23. "Little Girl Be Good" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
24. "K's Editspot pt. 4" | Skipson | Skiption EP | Deep Vibes
25. "I Want You" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
26. "Crystal" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
27. "2014.02.16" | Causa Sui | 2014.02.16 / 2012.07.04 | El Paraiso

next time: sitting in the boss's chair. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Wasn't Born To Stand In Line, I Like To Sit Around: Transmission 176, 2014 December 26

NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN. Here we are, posting on the weekend. It's still the season of giving, so here, have another program. Let's call this one the fruitcake of the bunch. There are some kernels of truth behind my amateur numerology and superstition. I'm not crazy about numbers that end in zero, so naturally when I wind up playing 30 tracks something will go wrong, and it does.

How about we start at the beginning, where I botch the intro to the Colo song? Somewhere in the middle I let my Ian Dury record play a bit too long, screwing up what was ACTUALLY a very good segue into Pink Industry (a shame, because "Don't Let Go" is a chestnut among chestnuts). Then of course something goes wrong at the end of the program; I had meant to play the Ramones earlier--god knows how I was to transition into or out of that tune--but had skipped over them somehow. Programs like this are a sign that I am happy--we had enjoyed a lovely Annual Gifting Day--if only I could be conscious of it in real time and not just in retrospect!

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 December 26, 1900-2100:

1. "Ghana" | Colo | Multi Culti Japan | Multi Culti
2. "You're Gonna Die" | Destroy All Monsters | Hot Box 1974-1994 | Munster
3. "Winter" | TV On The Radio | Seeds | Harvest
4. "Pitch Business" | Herva | Instant Broadcast | Delsin
5. "Never Get Burn" | The Twinkle Brothers | Beyond the Frontline | Front Line - Virgin
6. "Working Isn't Working" | The Primitives | Spin-O-Rama | Elefant
7. "Unfaithful (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session - 24 May 1988)" | The Wedding Present | Bizarro | Edsel
8. "Genuine Creeper" | Oozing Wound | Earth Suck | Thrill Jockey
9. "F4" | Function | Synewave Reissues Part I: 1995-97 | Infrastructure New York
10. "Lift Off" | Nagamatzu | Neural Interval | Zoharum
11. "Run Run Riddim" | Mungo's Hi Fi | Boom | Scotch Bonnet
12. "Clevor Trever" | Ian Dury | New Boots and Panties!! | Stiff
13. "Don't Let Go" | Pink Industry | Don't Let Go | Cathexis
14. "Shift F1 (Inland Edit)" | Function | Synewave Reissues Part I: 1995-97 | Infrastructure New York
15. "Schleifling" | Springintgut & F.S. Blumm | The Bird and White Noise | Pingipung
16. "This Train" | Girls At Our Best! | Pleasure | Optic Nerve
17. "The Monk" | Joris Voorn | Nobody Knows | Green
18. "Ramphodon Stellarum" | Moonpunk | not on album | Bandcamp self-release
19. "F3" | Function | Synewave Reissues Part I: 1995-97 | Infrastructure New York
20. "Soup Dumplings" | Ulli Bomans | Werkschau03 | Shitkatapult
21. "Those Words I Spoke" | (ghost) | A Vast And Decaying Appearance | n5MD
22. "Randomizzami Sto (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)" | Margot | Prins Thomas Diskomiks Selection | Internasjonal
23. "Each One Dub" | Augustus Pablo | King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown | Shanachie
24. "Homology Myself" | Tarwater | Adrift | Bureau B
25. ".44 Pistol" | R.L. Burnside | Too Bad Jim | Fat Possum
26. "Abracadubra" | Sir Horatio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
27. "Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime)" | The Dentists | Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime) | Trouble In Mind
28. "Boxing Day" | AFX | Chosen Lords | Rephlex
29. "And Suddenly" | BNJMN | Coil | Delsin
30. "Loudmouth" | Ramones | Morrissey Curates the Ramones | Rhino

next time: a large milkshake. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

The Hall of Vengeance: Transmission 175, 2014 December 23

Hey-o, it's been a while, hope that everyone has had a nice holiday. BACK TO WERK TIME. 2015 is not for the sluggards. And all that. This was a program that happened on Festivus, but was (of course) not so themed. It's a good but rough iteration of the usual trail mix, made slightly better by the introduction of a new, limited (but probably recurring around this time each year, if there are more years) feature called THE HALL OF VENGEANCE.

I'll say right now that I have no fks to give about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but as with Fox News or your crazy relative's facebook page, it is occasionally useful to check in on what the crazy people are up to. I don't want to give away future installments in the HoV feature, so I'll take a roundabout path and tell an unrelated story, because that's what I am good at do.

When I was in college, in the middle of nowhere, I worked for a while at this library, once more in the middle of nowhere, even relative to the rest of the school. I re-shelved books that patrons had either returned or left sitting around in the stacks. The sorting area was on the basement level, and there were almost never any patrons around. You could hold a conversation without getting shushed. So when there were two or more people sorting, we would talk.

One of my co-workers was named Melanie. Or was it Melissa? Or Melinda? I've blocked it out--thank goodness for small mercies. Anyway, I recall her being a bit of a dim bulb, not that I am one to talk, but if I regard her this way...anyway. You know those people with whom you have absolutely nothing in common? She is one of those. I think we tried and tried to find things to discuss. Once we were talking about home interiors (do you see how hard we tried?) and she professed her love for wood paneling. Wood paneling. She loved it. I knew then that silence would be the best thing, going forward. Different worlds altogether.

Anyway, it wouldn't surprise me if Melba, whatever her current circumstances, is really, really into Green Day and the solo records of Ringo Starr. Let's put it that way.

Did you know--Lady Catharsis, a completely sensible person, worked at the same library? But that is pre-history, to say the least! At any rate she has closed the "Listening Parlour" for a while and opened a bigger, darker place, a place of imaginary justice, if you will.

So there is that. And there is also Kyle Reinhardt Deise, who, upon googling himself and finding this page, should get in touch with me BUT QUICK. There is that too.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 December 23, 2100-2300:

1. "Judy Is A Punk" | The Ramones | Morrissey Curates the Ramones | Rhino
2. "Not the Man for You" | KC White | Not the Man for You | Soul Proff
3. "My Baby" | The Girls | Girls With Guitars | Ace | "Physical Evidence"
   
4. "Beyond (feat. Omar) [Marcel Lune Dub]" | EVM128 | Beyond (Revisited) | Studio Rockers
5. "The Holiday Song" | Pixies | Come On Pilgrim | 4AD - Rough Trade
6. "Eho" | Malfinia Ensemblo | Varsovia | Kvitnu
7. "Bo Diddley Is A Lover" | The Liverbirds | Girls With Guitars | Ace | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Human Parcel" | Dro Carey | Scope EP | Templar
9. "Pocket Calculator" | Kraftwerk | Computer World | Toshiba EMI | "Hall of Vengeance"
   
10. "Shake A Tail Feather" | The Debutantes | Girls With Guitars | Ace | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Fury" | Los Straitjackets | Deke Dickerson Sings The Great Instrumental Hits | Yep Rock
12. "All Of The Time" | The Shop Assistants | Will Anything Happen | Blue Guitar
13. "Le Tombeau D'Edgar Poe" | Casino Shanghai | L'Action Minimal | Mannequin
14. "Please, Please" | Goldie & The Gingerbreads | Girls With Guitars | Ace | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Xmas 2014" | Section 25 | not on album | self-released
16. "You Little Shits" | Stereolab | Peng! | Too Pure
17. "Lightning Flash Weak Heart Drop" | Big Youth | Beyond the Frontline | Front Line - Virgin
18. "Frosty the (Dylanesque) Snowman" | The Tea Jennies | Christmas Crackers | self-released
19. "Pattern Five" | The Analog Roland Orchestra | Patterns 5 6 | Rotary Cocktail
20. "Diatribe" | Acolytes | Acolytes | Alter
21. "XMAS_EVET10 [Thanaton3 Mix]" | Aphex Twin | Syro | WARP
22. "Without Words (intro)" | 2+2=5 | Into the Future | Mannequin
23. "Transformation (Pt. 2)" / "Telepathic Routine" / "The Dance" / "Trust the Cosmos (Believe in the Universe)" / "Infinite List (Toss the Dice)" / "Epilogue" | The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles | The Last Transmission | Now-Again
24. "Revellion" | The Sentinals | Big Surf! | Rumble
25. "A Ladies' Man" | Colette & The Bandits | Girls With Guitars | Ace | "Physical Evidence"
26. "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" | Talking Heads | Remain In Light | Sire
27. "I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy" | The What Four | Girls With Guitars | Ace | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Joe #1" | Fugazi | First Demo | Dischord

next time: boxing [night]. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Was It a Mistake Or a Lie? Transmission 174, 2014 December 21

This theatre company I was involved with in high school used to have solstice parties, before it was cool. I remember these fondly. They and those people were more fun than Christmas. It is always good to do radio around this time of year, although I am trying as best I can to jettison nostalgia, among other things.

I hope your weekend was nice. Mine was terrible. I did this radio show in a mood one should never be in. Which is to say that this program is VERY FOCUSED and AWESOME. Here and there are some segues that don't quite work (I'm looking at you, Nick Cave) but I plow through them without a flinch, blink, or regret.

Do records ever take the place of people for you, either by choice or by accident? Yes, me too. There are a couple of these on this program. Here's to real friends, sentient and otherwise!

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 December 21, 1400-1600:

1. "(Ride On) Iron Horse (instrumental)" | The Marlboro Men | (Ride On) Iron Horse | Funk45
2. "Turn Yer Head Around" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68
3. "Long Black Veil" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Kicking Against The Pricks [reissue] | Mute
4. "Nail Biting" | Raspberry Bulbs | Privacy | Blackest Ever Black
5. "I Found That Essence Rare" | Gang Of Four | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Euphoria" | Egokind & Ozean | Transition | Traum
7. "I Found That Essence Rare" | Band of Susans | Peel Sessions | Dutch East India Trading
8. "Latin Soul" | The Sentinals | Big Surf! | Rumble
9. "Raining Dub" | Blind Idiot God | Blind Idiot God | SST
10. "Flight" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory
11. "Old Age Killed My Teenage Bride" | Half Man Half Biscuit | Urge For Offal | Probe Plus
12. "Bejeweled Body" | Function & Vatican Shadow | Games Have Rules | Hospital Productions
13. "At Home He's A Tourist" | Gang Of Four | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Jesus Christ" | Big Star | Live In Memphis | Omnivore
15. "Shudder / King Of Snake" | Underworld | Beaucoup Fish | Universal [Japan]
16. "Itous Dubwise (Tamikrest)" | Dennis Bovell | Glitterbeat: Dubs & Versions I | Glitterbeat
17. "Static Kings" | Fennesz | Becs | Editions Mego
18. "Need A Job" | Vaudou Game | Apiafo | Hot Casa
19. "I Found That Essence Rare (BBC Radio 1 Evening Show Session - 20 April 1986)" | The Wedding Present | Tommy | Edsel
20. "Dovetail" | Call Super | Suzi Ecto | Houndstooth
21. "5.45" | Gang Of Four | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Krystal" | Haunted By Hallucinations | Haunted By Hallucinations | Herakles
23. "Trmbns" | Future 3 | With & Without | Morr
24. "Canoe Trip / Skyclad" | Ultramarine | Every Man And Woman Is A Star | Rough Trade
25. "We Were Not Told" | Ngozi Family | Day of Judgement | Now-Again
26. "What Is This False Life You're Leading" | Wild Billy Childish & CTMF | Acorn Man | Damaged Goods
27. "Oui verckys" | Verckys & L'Orchestre Veve | Verckys & L'Orchestre Veve (Congolese Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978) | Analog Africa
28. "Return The Gift" | Gang Of Four | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Hi Scores" | Boards of Canada | Hi Scores | Skam

next time: a topical new feature, as a Festivus gift. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Cruising Altitude Departure 9, 2014 August 22

[GUEST POST]

Halcyon, checking in, as I have been summoned. I must have been feeling weak when this program happened, because I caved in to the demands of the schedule. Clearly, my mind was on the sea, and why not? There is no poetry in lakes or creeks.

To address the present: it seems as though my services are no longer required at WRFI, which is probably to our mutual benefit. There will be one more program, for certain, and then after that, who knows? From time to time I will gradually complete the archive with posts like this one, but for now this is an actual departure. Find me on Naked Island, perhaps?

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 August 22, 1900-2000:

1. "Daybreak Comes Soon" | Rafael Anton Irisarri | The Unintentional Sea | Room40
2. "Back to the Sea" | Mark Barrott | Sketches From An Island | International Feel
3. "Credit Line" | Oval | Voa | EOVA
4. "Fracture Fuss" | Moebius, Story, and Leidecker | Snowghost Pieces | Bureau B
5. "Balkanize You" | Tim Hecker | Mirages | Sunblind
6. "Sur La Mer Avec Mon Ami" | Petar Dundov | Sailing Off The Grid | Music Man / N.E.W.S.
7. "Play It As It Lays" | Naked Island | Naked Island | Peak Oil

foolishly entranced.

We Would Go On As Though Nothing Was Wrong: Transmission 173, 2014 December 16

Dear internet friends, here is a program you haven't yet heard, unless you were waiting patiently online for our stream to wake up (and why not?), which it did about 15 minutes from the end of the program. This one really felt like the old days, an EXCLUSIVE local-only broadcast. I'm trying to make lemonade out of this.

The Joy Division recording captured on the Preston record is wonderfully ragged, which is how I like my JD--sounding like a rock band. As a teen I was infatuated with New Order. A friend gave me a copy of Still, telling me, "if you like New Order then you need to hear this." Or something like that. Anyway, I was failing to see the point. There wasn't an "Age of Consent" to be found here, or a "Dreams Never End," "Love Vigilantes," "Elegia"...much less a "Blue Monday." What was the big deal? Then I put the second record on--better. It was "Disorder" that flicked the switch. I was actually disappointed to hear the Unknown Pleasures version, and I totally "get" the band's lukewarm feelings about the Martin Hannett records. Origin stories--what are they? Anyway, hopefully soon we'll get to some stuff on Side 1 of Preston, which is even more messed-up and even more perfect.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 December 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Yeman" | Kloke | First Light | Sub Squared    
2. "Prologue" / "Big Bang Reincarnation" / "Searching for Signs of Life" / "Blue Mist" / "The Cavern" / "Transformation (Pt. 1)" | The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles | The Last Transmission | Now-Again
3. "Sanza tristesse" | Francis Bebey | Psychedelic Sanza | Born Bad
4. "Intoxico" | The Sentinals | Big Surf! | Rumble
5. "Children With Feet Of Giants (Solitude)" | Warsnare | Endgame | Seclusiasis
6. "Getting Nowhere Fast" | Girls At Our Best! | Pleasure | Optic Nerve
7. "A Glorious Fall (TOTALMESS Remix)" | Caiman Philippines | A Glorious Fall / Sperne EP | Caiman Philippines
8. "Voel" | Brian Harris | Behind the Mask | not on label
9. "Matinda Comono" | Verckys & L'Orchestre Veve | Verckys & L'Orchestre Veve (Congolese Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978) | Analog Africa
10. "Refugee" | Moonpunk | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
11. "Never Walk Away" | Maya Jane Coles & GAPS | In Dark, In Day | I/AM/ME
12. "I'm Doubtful Of Your Love" | Benny Joy | Tav Falco's Wild & Exotic World Of Musical Obscurities | Stag-O-Lee
13. "s950tx16wasr10 (Earth Portal Mix)" | Aphex Twin | Syro | WARP
14. "Watchin' Out" | The Split Decision Band | Watchin' Out | Now-Again
15. "Getting Nowhere Fast" | The Wedding Present | George Best [reissue] | Edsel
16. "Janus" | Nachtbraker | Janus | Dirt Crew
17. "002" | HWLS | HWLS | Future Classic
18. "It's So Hard To Be Happy" | Wild Billy Childish & CTFM | Acorn Man | Damanged Goods
19. "Shadowplay" / "Transmission" / "Disorder" / "Warsaw" / "Colony" / "Interzone" / "She's Lost Control" | Joy Division | Preston 28 February 1980 | Drastic Plastic | "Physical Evidence"
20. "AB/7A" | Throbbing Gristle | Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits | Industrial
21. "Take A Chance On Me" | ABBA | The Definitive Collection | Polar - UTV  | "Listening Parlour"
22. "Tableau II" | Valentin Stip | Sigh | Other People
23. "Epilogue" | Proxima | Alpha | Tempa

next time: depends on when. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

U_D_M Detour 9, 2014 August 15

[GUEST POST]

Bonjour. LeBatard here, in the frozen north. Four months ago I produced this radio program, right here. Goodness knows what I was thinking on this hot August night. But I can guarantee that I was not thinking about a drifter that I had killed just for fun.

For my part, I do drift, mostly. Predominantly, I just drift. I don't know what else one is to do in these times, except perhaps read tedious blog posts. I hope you are at least reading this on a mobile, as part of some adventure. At any rate, If I had to nail down some kind of "theme" or "connecting thread" to this episode, I suppose it would be "the mind," but Kid Catharsis tells me these things have to happen in threes, so no dice. You're on your own, as always.

U_D_M playlist, 2014 August 15, 1900-2000:

1. "Oceans - Mirror People Remix" | Jesse Oliver | Discotexas Picnic II | Discotexas
2. "Anatomy - North Lake Remix" | DJ Tennis | Local | Life And Death
3. "Waves of Grain" | Amber | Waves of Grain | mobilee
4. "A Tale of Two Lovers - Dub Mix" | Eelke Klein | Lovely Sweet Divine / A Tale of Two Lovers | Eskimo
5. "Through My Mind" | Panthera Krause | Laika | Riotvan
6. "Schnuppe" | Mathias Schaffhauser | Angular (Remixed) | Mo's Ferry
7. "Awe Baby" | Kon | On My Way | BBE
8. "Delivery" | Cleric | Delivery | Coincidence
9. "Something From My Mind" | Echonomist | Blowback | Rotary Cocktail

we used to.

Things Known and Things Unknown: Transmission 172, 2014 December 11

Every time I say I need to slow down on the fill-in programs, along comes another fill-in program. This happened on a Thursday night that was cold enough to keep our snow pack intact, and on which Joe of "Joe Show" fame was out of town. I'm not really expected to turn up my nose at prime time, am I?

Listening back to the previous program, it doesn't seem as aggressive as I let on. This one, however, is full of rock. "This black person likes his rock and roll," I was telling a friend earlier in the evening. And I do, damn it. A good chunk of Flow, in a previous life, served as the soundtrack for a brilliant play, written by a dear friend, on which Lady C and I worked. It perfectly captures fraternal love, memory, disconnection, vast, stupid deserts, and "slow cars and sudden death," as a Legend once said.

I am still prone to playing 15 minutes of drifting synths, as I do halfway through this program. But when else am I going to thank seemingly every benefactor the station has in a single voice-over? I am thankful. As I was telling said friend, this radio thing came along when I needed something to come along, and I still need it.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 December 11, 1900-2100:

1. "Midnight Caller" | The Sex Rays | Midnight Caller 7" | Pinata
2. "American Eagle" | Pell Mell | Flow | SST | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Waiting Room" | Fugazi | First Demo | Dischord
4. "Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | The Firstborn Is Dead | Mute
5. "Blue Boot Journal" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68
6. "Smoke" | Pell Mell | Flow | SST | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Belladonna Theme" | Cut Hands | Festival Of The Dead | Blackest Ever Black
8. "Knife Slits Water" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
9. "Little Blue Dance" | Pell Mell | Flow | SST | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Nobody's City" | The Gun Club | Mother Juno | Bang!
11. "Tiger's Skip" | Tony Allen | Film Of Life | Harmonia Mundi - Jazz Village
12. "Mopping Up" | Pell Mell | Flow | SST | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Westward Ho! Massive Letdown" | Half Man Half Biscuit | Urge For Offal | Probe Plus
14. "Things Known / Things Unknown" | Function & Vatican Shadow | Games Have Rules | Hospital Productions
15. "The Devil Bush" | Pell Mell | Flow | SST | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Reciprocal Tensions and Polarized Components" | His Name Is Alive | Tecuciztecatl | Light In The Attic
17. "Beholding The Throne Of Might" | Soft Pink Truth | Why Do The Heathen Rage? | Thrill Jockey
18. "Do The Dub Version" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Back On The Controls | Rolling Lion - Upsetter
19. "Curb Your Ego" | Ulli Bomans | Riven | Shitkatapult
20. "Aero" | Pell Mell | Flow | SST | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Day to...(Out)" | You Still Have Friends | Close EP | Transition
22. "Recovery" | Rival Consoles | Sonne | Erased Tapes
23. "Signal" | Pell Mell | Flow | SST | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Velvet Valley | The Primitives | Spin-O-Rama | Elefant
25. "Dust In The Light" | Gallon Drunk | Dust In The Light | Clouds Hill
26. "Breach of Promise" | Pell Mell | Flow | SST | "Physical Evidence"
27. "We Float Around (And Hang Out On Clouds)" | Egokind & Ozean | Transition | Traum
28. "Theme From A Summer Place" | Los Straitjackets | Deke Dickerson Sings The Great Instrumental Hits | Yep Rock

next time: having a fine time living in the night. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

That's My Headache, Don't You Worry 'Bout Me: Transmission 171, 2014 December 9

On the night of this particular show, everyone in the area (seemingly) was flipping out over a weather forecast. A civilization-ending storm had appeared out of nowhere (because that's what they do) and we all needed to cancel all outings. Apparently. I need hardly say that none of the warnings came true, that it barely drizzled, and that this program proceeded as it would have anyway, and it was great, even if I am the one saying so.

Commentary--there are some expensive releases out there these days. That Destroy All Monsters box is, like, $80 or so for a mere 3 records. I get that it's from Spain and all but damn, what good is a dysfunctional economy with millions of unemployed people if the rest of us can't get stuff for cheap? I mean, right? Also, can we stop calling things "limited?" What isn't?

Also also: I have the opposite of seasonal affect disorder. Cold and snow make me really happy, so get ready for some unfocused and terrible shows!

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 December 9, 2100-2300:

1. "Bored" | Destroy All Monsters | Hot Box 1974-1994 | Munster
2. "I" | Design A Wave | International Journey of Synthetic Emotion | Alien Jams
3. "Ruh" | Automat | Bootleg | Bureau B | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Quiet Pillage" | 23 Skidoo | Seven Songs | Ronin
5. "Schlaggefahr" | Nagamatzu | Neural Interval | Zoharum
6. "Where The Rio De La Rosa Flows" | Jimmy Lloyd | Tav Falco's Wild & Exotic World Of Musical Obscurities | Stag-O-Lee
7. "001-B" | Gulls Rhythm Force | Live | Boomarm Nation
8. "In Turmoil" | Joel Hood | Gone | International Feel
9. "(Ride On) Iron Horse" | The Marlboro Men | (Ride On) Iron Horse | Funk45
10. "Whatever" | Miss Kenichi | The Trail | Sinnbus
11. "Hey Jude" | Assagai | Assagai | Prog Temple
12. "Endless Caverns" | Steve Moore | Pangaea Ultima | Spectrum Spools
13. "I Believe" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Back On The Controls | Rolling Lion - Upsetter
14. "3 Chords" | Rival Consoles | Sonne | Erased Tapes
15. "Inlightenment" | Cut Hands | Festival Of The Dead | Blackest Ever Black
16. "Quiet Village" | Martin Denny | Tav Falco's Wild & Exotic World Of Musical Obscurities | Stag-O-Lee
17. "Erdol" | Schneider TM | Bootleg | Bureau B | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Around Me - My Favorite Robot Remix" | Abstraxion | I Can't | Hakt
19. "She's The One That's Got It" | Allen Page | Tav Falco's Wild & Exotic World Of Musical Obscurities | Stag-O-Lee
20. "Mind Your Own Business" | Hank Williams | 24 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits | Polydor | "Listening Parlour"
21. "Diptych" | Lowcommittee | Race At Neon Club | Vlek
22. "Folk Fuck" | Lost Girls | Lost Girls | 3 Loop
23. "Q1.2" | Basic Channel | Q-Loop | Basic Channel
24. "Happiness" | Vaudou Game | Apiafo | Hot Casa
25. "Useless Stop Motion" | Herva | Instant Broadcast | Delsin
26. "Chlor" | Schneider TM | Bootleg | Bureau B | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Azure" | BNJMN | Coil | Delsin
28. "The Train Kept A-Rollin" | Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'N' Roll Trio | Tav Falco's Wild & Exotic World Of Musical Obscurities | Stag-O-Lee
29. "Wasserfall" | Superconnection | Wasserfall | m=minimal

next time: bring on the china! Enjoy the music. --kid catharsis