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We Are Running Out of Love in the Time of Lexapro: Transmission 471, 2019 June 12

Here we are, at the end of a concept. At least that's what I think, though as always I didn't know it at the time. I did not even "give up" on account of this night's disasters. Earlier in the evening I'd been accosted by the guy on the commons hawking his shitty rap cd; having already made the mistake of buying it a few years ago, tonight I said "no thanks" as I walked by, only for him to tell me to "shut the fuck up." Ok, happy to. It was the dreaded "playlist reporting" period at the station, but when I arrived my laptop "arbitrarily" decided it wasn't doing internet anymore, so that was a neat obstacle. I began recording my show late, as you will hear--apologies to The Durutti Column. And I couldn't give away tickets to Stop Making Sense, from which I can only conclude that absolutely no one was listening.

"What else can go wrong," I ask at one point, though without these disclosures you might not know it from hearing hour 1. Sure, the Slits segue was late, and the Underground Youth segue was too soon. (What would Bombast be, without, etc.). It's not a terrible mixtape. I might well have continued in this vein, had I not been "radicalized," for lack of a better description. But I was, so I haven't.

I'm sure the program will continue to sound just as ragged and haphazard, but maybe more intentional "going forward." And, yes, this is a difference. My therapist says I have more power now--is it because I have changed, or did I change because of it? The forensic analysis is not yet complete. But things are different now.

Was it good, while it lasted? Mostly, sure. I mean let's hope so. I spent more than six years on this.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 June 12, 2100-2300:

1. "Fridays (Up-Person Mix)" | The Durutti Column | Obey The Time [reissue] | Factory Benelux
2. "Really" | Johannes Klingbiel | It's Ok to Cry | Mireia
3. "Barbarians (feat. Disco Fries & Kassiano)" | Tommie Sunshine | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
4. "Mabbrooka" | Ifriqiyya Electrique | Laylet El Booree | Glitterbeat
5. "Take Me Home" | Follow Me Not | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Mauna Kea" | ANF | Mauna Kea | Pacific Rhythm
7. "Revival" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
8. "Over & Over" | Seahawks | Eyes of the Moon | Cascine
9. "God Codex" | Renegade Pharmacy | Recovery Position | self-released
10. "Telegraph" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships [reissue] | Virgin
11. "Petr Petr" | Minotaur Shock | MINO | Bytes
12. "Houses In Motion" | A Certain Ratio | Houses In Motion | Mute
13. "Overdrive" | Giuda | Overdrive | Rise Above
14. "Way Out" | Big Joanie | Sistahs | Daydream Library Series
15. "Charm Assault" | Ride | Weather Diaries | Wichita
16. "Zenith, Pt. 2" | The Lucid Dream | Actualisation | Holy Are You
17. "Feeling Gravitys Pull" | The Silence Kit | Welcome To The Occupation, A Reverence to R.E.M. | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
18. "Love In The Time Of Lexapro" | Oneohtrix Point Never | Love In The Time Of Lexapro | WARP
19. "Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend." | Sampleman and the Music Mutant | Newest New | self-released
20. "Freedom Fighter" | Bowery Electric | Lushlife [reissue] | Beggars Banquet
21. "Terry Waite Sez" | The Fall | Bend Sinister / The ‘Domesday’ Pay-Off Triad-Plus! | Beggars Banquet
22. "Shoplifting" | The Slits | Cut [reissue] | Island
23. "Blind II" | The Underground Youth | Montage Images Of Lust & Fear | Fuzz Club
24. "S.U.S." | The Ruts | The Crack [reissue] | Virgin
25. "The Crawler" | Ty Segall & Freedom Band | Deforming Lobes | Drag City
26. "Wheel of Yew" | Bilge Pump | We Love You | Gringo
27. "Heron" | Palms Trax | To Paradise | Dekmantel
28. "Infinity Return" | The Love Dimension | Dream Decibels | Dodecagan
29. "Djougou Yah - Perc Mix" | Laolu & Mr. Raoul K. | Djougou Yah - EP | Compost

He's an Elmer Gantry type person, don't listen to him

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Flying Aboard the Seduction 747: Transmission 470, 2019 June 7

Whatever we had bickered about earlier in the week must have resolved itself, because Lady Catharsis joined me on this broadcast, so I invite you to enjoy what is basically a two-hour trip to "The Listening Parlour." We made two observances on this night, and because I had a guest, these were a little out of balance. A little. I try to play whatever Lady Catharsis tells me to; if she brings in a dozen records I will try to play them all. Here she brings in a couple of Tom Jones records and I do the best I can with them. For my part, if I remember correctly the concept was "lounge music." I'm not sure how well I did.

Prince didn't get as much bandwidth as he deserved, though I did save "International Lover" for the all-important coda. I could have played the entirety of 1999 but I think it might have been too much for my wife. A few weeks later I was out with a few #theorycamp-ers at a dreary karaoke bar, and someone asked me what my karaoke song would be. Mind you--it would take a lot for me to do this kind of thing, and I did not have "a lot" in me on this night; but after a decent amount of thought I landed on "Little Red Corvette." I think I could at least give Sandra Bernhard a run for her money? Anyway.

Even so I like the concept of Prince even better than the reality of Prince; maybe, given things I've heard and read about him, that is inevitable. Lady C tells me that Tom Jones told an "off-color" joke at the gig she attended. Maybe we should abjure all of this music. Maybe we have made mistakes. I'm still thinking about this.

You know what isn't a mistake? You know what is a true instance of the divine reaching down and grazing my humble program ever so briefly? Something made me say "deboo" as I remember (maybe not even correctly?) Robert Studley Forrest Hughes saying it. Which led me to this clip, and ultimately the Bryan Ferry track.

Of course, as fate would have it, Hughes did a racism at least one time, and so we are reminded that everything is broken.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 June 7, 2100-2300:

1. "Roseland" | Rocketnumbernine / Four Tet | Roseland | Text
2. "I Can't Stop Loving You" | Tom Jones | Live In Las Vegas | Parrot
3. "The Man With the Golden Arm" | Barry Adamson | The Man With the Golden Arm | Mute
4. "Despedida" | Dimba Diangola | Angola Soundtrack 2 - Hypnosis, Distortion & Other Innovations 1969 - 1978 | Analog Africa
5. "2HB" | Julia Holter | Maria | Human Ear
6. "Clear Skies Select Stick (Vakula Remix)" | The Greg Foat Group | Girl and Robot with Flowers Remixed EP | Jazzman
7. "Venus" | Tom Jones | Tom | Parrot
8. "Adiza Claire" | Orchestre Super Borgou De Parakou | The Bariba Sound 1970-1976 | Analog Africa
9. "Nagisa No Tenshi" | Mieko Hirota | Nippon Girls | Big Beat
10. "20 Jazz Funk Greats" | Throbbing Gristle | Greatest Hits - Entertainment Through Pain | Industrial
11. "1nce Upon A Time" | Leslie Winer | Witch | Superior Viaduct
12. "Cheree" | Suicide | Suicide | Red Star
13. "Proud Mary" | Tom Jones | Tom | Parrot
14. "Koi No Yorokobi" | Sayuri Yoshinaga With Schoolmates | Nippon Girls | Big Beat
15. "Gentleman" | Fela Kuti | Gentleman | Knitting Factory
16. "The 'In' Crowd" | Bryan Ferry | Another Time, Another Place | Island
17. "Twist and Shout" | Tom Jones | Live In Las Vegas | Parrot
18. "Anamorphose" | Stereolab | Mars Audiac Quintet (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic
19. "International Lover" | Prince | 1999 | Warner Records

I'll live my life in dreams of yesterday

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You Know How To Sing, You're a Diplomat: Transmission 469, 2019 June 5

At the beginning of June, everything was "normal" for me. Surely I was preparing for #theorycamp, all by myself, without a student assistant. I was avoiding the work that needed doing at home--getting ready for our move. Lady Catharsis and I were squabbling, whether it was about that or something else. Check out her "Listening Parlour" intro! She was not having it on this day. But she is a professional, a "diamond," if you will.

I am going through the motions in writing this blurb, just as I must have been going through the motions on this broadcast. Nevertheless it is a solid first hour, "close to the platonic ideal," as my notes say (even my notes are pretentious and full of shit). The Leathers, Captain Wardrobe, and Lurkers segues were terrible, if I recall, and I probably don't. As always, the music in between was good. All of this, though, comes with the subtext of a heavy sigh, as this "concept" of the program is approaching its end. Do you know what isn't going through the motions, though, what isn't accompanied by sighing? The Psychedelic Furs. No misgivings about that.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 June 5, 2100-2300:

1. "Marooned" | Wire | Chairs Missing | Pink Flag
2. "Sleeping Tiger" | Pete Astor | Spilt Milk | Slumberland
3. "Gravity's Angel" | Laurie Anderson | Mister Heartbreak | Warner Bros.
4. "Ecopoiesis" | Umwelt | Ecopoiesis | Voltax
5. "An ba siel" | DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson | Aimez ces airs | Hot Casa
6. "Hypochondriac" | John Tejada | Dead Start Program | Kompakt
7. "Phantom Heart" | LEATHERS | Artoffact Records 2019 | Artoffact
8. "Ivor" | The Buff Medways | Steady the Buffs [reissue] | Damaged Goods
9. "M-U-S-I-C" | Normal Brain | Lady Maid | WRWTFWW
10. "Some Day Soon - Burn Mix" | C Cat Trance | Screaming Ghosts | Emotional Rescue / Malka Tuti
11. "Sweet Dust" | Kez YM | Cross Section | Faces
12. "Dublin" | HNNY | 2014.12.31 | Omena
13. "If You Love Your Neighbor You No Go Die" | Rock Town Express | Funky Makossa | Comb & Razor
14. "Şahmeran" | Gaye Su Akyol | İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir | Glitterbeat
15. "She's a Diamond" | Opal | Early Recordings | Rough Trade | "The Listening Parlour"
16. "Lost and Found (Found Mix)" | Objekt | Cocoon Crush | PAN
17. "80s" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
18. "Meet Me" | Fred Abong | Pulsing | self-released
19. "Dry Food" | Blaine L. Reininger | The Blue Sleep | Les Disques du Crepuscule
20. "A Promise" | The Cinematic Orchestra | To Believe | Ninja Tune
21. "The Desert" | Where We Sleep | Experiments In The Dark | self-released
22. "To Sad To Tell You" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | 'a' records
23. "Super Falling Star" | Stereolab | Peng! [reissue] | Too Pure
24. "That Was Julia" | The Lurkers | Electrical Guitar | Damaged Goods
25. "President Gas" | Psychedelic Furs | Forever Now | Columbia
26. "Goya" | Mathimidori | Yosago EP | Ornaments

You have to have a party when you're in a state like this

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Kiss All Your Posters, Hold All My Letters: Transmission 468, 2019 May 29

We are getting closer. Here is another one. I hope you can enjoy these while they last. To me, these sound like someone else's program at this point. It's not literally the case, but I have been through a lot, you guys. Let's savor the innocence where it manifests itself.

On this day there were imbroglios about a razor commercial featuring a young transgender man learning to shave, and John Cleese cancelling himself over Brexit. Somewhere in the midst of all that there was a radio program that may or may not have reflected the vibes. Probably not.

"Pretty good until ill-conceived Biltmore Dive segue," my notes read. "And then of course Lali Puna was late. But the Korto segue was really good! Most things that I played from my laptop sounded terrible. The Membranes were an exception though that song sounds like eco-fascism."

2019. So it goes.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 May 29, 2100-2300:

1. "Bafia" | DJ Khalab | Black Noise 2084 | On the Corner
2. "Trouble" | Halogenix | Edition 2 | 1985 Music
3. "Safe On Hollow Ground" | Aerial Love Feed | Out Of The Darkness | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
4. "Mother - Instrumental Version" | Kongas | Afrodesia | Because Music
5. "Tectonic Breach" | Mythic Sunship | Upheaval | El Paraiso
6. "Nothing Stays" | Cyberaktif | Artoffact Records 2019 | Artoffact
7. "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" | Bauhaus | The Sky's Gone Out [reissue] | Beggars Banquet
8. "Blue Rhumba" | Scott Gilmore | Two Roomed Motel | Crammed Discs
9. "Debris" | Test Dept | Disturbance | One Little Indian
10. "Sharpened Edge" | Ivan Black | Harmonic Neuism | vanguardista
11. "Where Have They Gone" | KiDD | Chance Weekend | Zenerino
12. "Rock & Roll Cinnamon Tree" | Maggie Sue Wimberly | Hillbilly Fillies & Rockin' Chicks | Charly | "The Listening Parlour"
13. "Airmail" | Dome | Dome 1 [reissue] | Editions Mego
14. "When The Sun Collapsed" | Biltmore Dive | Out Of The Darkness | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
15. "Beatx" | Lali Puna | Being Water | Morr Music
16. "Special One" | Alpha Stone | Stereophonic Pop Art Music | Hoga Nord Arkiv
17. "Fresque" | Korto | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
18. "Hyperspace Blues" | Strand of Oaks | Eraserland | Dead Oceans
19. "Winter (The Beauty And Violence Of Nature)" | The Membranes | What Nature Gives...Nature Takes Away | Cherry Red
20. "Hotel of The Lake, 1990" | The Durutti Column | Obey The Time [reissue] | Factory Benelux
21. "Miss Globule" | Pas Musique | The Phoenix | Alrealon
22. "Saucy Jack" | The Buff Medways | 1914 [reissue] | Damaged Goods
23. "Good Looking" | Fat Cops | Fat Cops | self-released
24. "Ladies Well" | Thomas Gray / Liam Ebbs | 3 Days, 2 Nights | Analogue Attic
25. "Control" | Where We Sleep | Experiments In The Dark | self-released
26. "ILYBBY♥" | Radio藍Dream | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
27. "Quipu" | John Tejada | Dead Start Program | Kompakt

Got lost in my own skin, thought that i earned it

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Do You Ever Want To Turn Around And Go? Transmission 467, 2019 May 22

How hard is it to write a sentence? How hard to post a picture, or a sound file, or a playlist? Probably "not very," on a universal scale, but on my solipsistic spectrum of struggle they appear at one extreme, I guess. Anyway, hello, it's me! I have indeed been doing radio all this time, however it may seem to podcast-only listeners. What else have I been doing? Where do I start?

Let's just say I moved and changed jobs, and the rest is gossip.

Notably, this was Morrissey's birthday. In previous years I might have programmed accordingly, and this year I might have programmed accordingly but more antagonistically, but honestly I'm just finished. This was probably "catalyst one" of my format change / plunge off the deep end / whatever. But that's for another day.

In the meantime, this is a nearly perfect show (at least that's what my notes tell me) as far as technique is concerned, though there is a lot of rock in hour 2. In "what were we enduring on this day" news, it was indeed World Goth Day and wouldn't you know it, people in the 4AD facebook group were body-shaming Lisa Gerrard; elsewhere, known jackass Moby was discovered to have another level to him, accidentally reflected in the Stella Donnelly tune that I played. Topicality!

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 May 22, 2100-2300:

1. "Trash Can" | Jon Spencer | Spencer Sings the Hits! | In The Red
2. "Afterlight" | Evi Vine | Black // Light // White // Dark | Solemn Wave
3. "Lost My Brain" | Superchunk | What a Time to Be Alive | Merge
4. "Procession - Cargo Demo" | New Order | Movement [reissue] | Rhino
5. "Frameshift Mutation" | Umwelt | Ecopoiesis | Voltax
6. "Days of the Sunset" | 90 Process | Fuse | Lobster Theremin
7. "Spacewoman" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
8. "Genau Wie Damals" | Ulrich Schnauss / Jonas Munk | Passage | Azure Vista
9. "Time Zones" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships [reissue] | Virgin
10. "Nocebo" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Impossible Star | Flexidisc
11. "Cruel When Complete" | Dome | Dome 1 [reissue] | Editions Mego
12. "Nite Klub" | The Specials | The Specials | Chrysalis
13. "Our Love Can Destroy This Whole Fucking World" | Teeth Of The Sea | Wraith | Rocket
14. "Sonora" | Cochemea | All My Relations | Daptone
15. "Dub Along" | Lee "Scratch" Perry + Subatomic Sound System | Super Ape Returns to Conquer | Echo Beach
16. "Sister Lucifer" | Brian | Fading Starlight | self-released
17. "Snoqualmie" | MARKERS | Heaven in the Dark Earth | God Unknown
18. "Pillow Fight @ Shag Mountain" | The Orb | No Sounds Are Out of Bounds | Cooking Vinyl
19. "Radiant City" | Lake Ruth | Birds of America | Feral Child
20. "64" | Raam | Raam 8.8 | Raam
21. "Ty I Ya" | Ummagma | Caravan | Leonard Skully
22. "Of Lilies And Remains" | Bauhaus | Mask [reissue] | Beggars Banquet
23. "Old Man" | Stella Donnelly | Beware of the Dogs | Secretly Canadian
24. "World's Last Payphone" | Dot Dash | Proto Retro | The Beautiful Music
25. "Kill Devil Hills" | The Wedding Present | Marc Riley Sessions Volume 3 | Hatch
26. "Orquidea" | Consejo | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
27. "My Poor Heart" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Something Else | A Recordings
28. "Your Honour" | The Beasts | Still Here | Bang!
29. "Some Time Ago" | Victor Krummenacher | Blue Pacific | Veritas
30. "Til The Money Runs Out" | Tom Waits | Heartattack and Vine | Elektra | "The Listening Parlour"
31. "Why Not" | Man•E | Go To Slip | Taste

How lonely does it feel?

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All About the Screaming: Transmission 466, 2019 May 18

There was no "occasion" for Lady Catharsis's appearance on this Saturday night fill-in occurrence of the Bombast thing. Much to my relief, there wasn't much "happening" in the world to serve as background noise or motivation. There were just (strangely) a hundred minutes for us to reiterate our musical (non) vision to the world. The preceding program, a pre-recorded one, ran over time and strangely advertised a show that was not about to happen. (Note to management, if they're still monitoring my posts: we're losing our definition of "evergreen" here; call it "evergreen creep" or whatever you like, but people need to do their own edits.)

Short though it was--and made to seem shorter by the inclusion of a very long Stereolab opener that I probably mispronounced--it was an eventful evening. We put the "crack research team" on the case of Sandie Shaw's early records. We discussed the place of Colourbox in the 4AD universe (and I feel like decreeing that we are finished with that--the time for discussion is past). We learned a lot about Lady C's wild early college years ("I got my ear pierced and everything"). And we played a number that we also played at our wedding, all those years ago! You'll have to guess, but it's not difficult.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 May 18, 2000-2200:

1. "Jenny Ondioline" | Stereolab | Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements | Duophonic / WARP
2. "Only Lonely" | Divinyls | Desperate | Chrysalis
3. "The Moon Is Blue" | Colourbox | The Moon Is Blue | 4AD
4. "Pale Blue Eyes" | Moe Tucker | I'm Sticking With You: An Introduction To Moe Tucker | Modern Harmonic
5. "Stasher" | The Coathangers | The Devil You Know | Suicide Squeeze
6. "I Can't Stand the Rain" | Liela Moss | A Little Bit of Rain | Bella Union
7. "Mississippi Kite" | Kristin Hersh | Crooked [reissue] | Fire
8. "I'll Stop At Nothing" | Sandie Shaw | Sandie Shaw | Reprise
9. "Cries and Whispers" | LoneLady | Cries and Whispers | WARP
10. "Insomnia" | Lena Raine | Oneknowing | Local Action
11. "Jewel (Cut Rough)" | Propaganda | Duel | ZTT / Island
12. "Little Red Shoes" | Loretta Lynn | Van Lear Rose | Interscope
13. "Walk The Dog" | Laurie Anderson | O Superman | Warner Bros.
14. "Black Room" | Jun Mayuzumi | Nippon Girls | Big Beat
15. "Here's Looking at You" | Blondie | AutoAmerican | Chrysalis

When we were together everything was so grand

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Saying Nothing So You Don't Have To Lie: Transmission 465, 2019 May 15

Let's review the "notes" from this episode:
"Lagged a bit going into [the Brian Jonestown Massacre] but a great first hour!"
"Very rockist in hour 2"--true
"Alborosie detour was much needed but didn't make sense"--sadly, also true
"Messed up segue out of Bilge Pump"--I was anxious, what can I say?
"Hugs for Chelsea is so fucking compressed"--this is the truest thing I wrote down about this program, but you know what, the judge just said that Chelsea Manning is going to be in prison for more than an additional year and will have to pay like half a million dollars in fines, so you know what, just buy the damn benefit and cope with it.

My listening and posting cycle is getting a bit faster; I've gotten so fed up with the disappearance of my free time that I'm even more determined to carve out moments and comment about these broadcasts and the deteriorating state of everything. What I'm saying is that I haven't listened to this, like, a dozen times like I have done with some other "recent" episodes, so my raw notes will have to do. I know that at around this time I was bitching online about some kind of disaster capitalism as it related to art and human tragedy. You know, as one does. I am guessing I will have more to say about this as I approach a state of "being caught up" on this website, but that state is not now.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 May 15, 2100-2300:

1. "Creatures" | Section 25 | Elektra | Klanggalerie
2. "Mother Seletta" | Karl Hector & The Malcouns | Mother Seletta | Now-Again
3. "Hurrican Felix" | Repeat | Repeats | Delsin
4. "Different Angle" | Davis | Ordinary Sleep | Live at Robert Johnson
5. "Deep River - The Payback Mix" | Little Axe | Deep River | On-U Sound
6. "This Is Just a Modern Love Song" | TB | Night Heat | Permanent Vacation
7. "Northern Lights" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
8. "Mea Culpa" | Brian Eno - David Byrne | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | Sire
9. "Glide Path" | Chicago Odense Ensemble | Chicago Odense Ensemble | El Paraiso
10. "Boys Keep Swinging" | Gudrun Gut | Moment | Monika
11. "Fix" | The Sisters of Mercy | The Reptile House E.P. | Merciful Release
12. "Always Now" | Bromide | Magic Coins | Scratchy Records
13. "Everything Is Falling Apart" | Teenage Fanclub | Everything Is Falling Apart | Merge
14. "Remember Me This" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | 'a' records
15. "Void Heirlooms Beneath The Floorboards" | Nonconnah | Dead Roses, Digged up Zombies, Broken Pieces of Diamonds, Live Cats | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
16. "Heartbeats" | Piroshka | Brickbat | Bella Union
17. "Derdriu's Vision" | Mac-Talla Nan Creag | The Sorrow of Derdriu | Firecracker
18. "Caffeine Blues" | Ulrich Schnauss / Jonas Munk | Passage | Azure Vista
19. "Christopher" | The Claim | Boomy Tella | A Turntable Friend
20. "Runes of Abandonment" | Ted Leo | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
21. "Surveillance Dub" | Alborosie | Alborosie Meets Roots Radics: Dub For The Radicals | Greensleeves
22. "Manzana de la Discordia" | Bilge Pump | We Love You | Gringo
23. "Aileen" | Louise Distras | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
24. "FLIES" | RAT BOY | INTERNATIONALLY UNKNOWN | Helicat / Epitaph
25. "They Told Me Too" | Ty Segall & Freedom Band | Deforming Lobes | Drag City
26. "Mi defensa personal" | Arista Fiera | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
27. "Amelia" | Cocteau Twins | Treasure [reissue] | 4AD
28. "Strange" | Galaxie 500 | On Fire [reissue] | 20|20|20
29. "Pretty Wraith (I Remember You)" | Brian | Fading Starlight | self-released
30. "Bronze Age Babies" | Beaches | Second of Spring | Chapter Music
31. "We Fought For America" | Hunter Complex | Open Sea | Death Waltz
32. "Scrub Your Ego" | Suso Saiz | Nothing Is Objective | Music From Memory

Come find me down in Mexico

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That Little Problem Our Boys in Engineering Find So Entertaining: Transmission 464, 2019 May 8

Dear listener / reader, I hope you will appreciate that I am working under duress right now. My Summer of Movement and Racism (or is that Movement Racism?) shows no signs of slowing down, and yet I am compelled to keep posting--or, as those less generous among you would say, "to post." How the sausage is made--it's actually "market forces" that are pushing me. I'm wasting the money I spend at this website by not filling up my allotted server space these last couple of months, and it's bothering me. So my botherment is your gain, as I present to you another program from what I like to call "before."

Late in the broadcast I refer to this as a "disorganized evening," which it really isn't. Surely I was kicking myself for hitting a wrong button in Djay Pro and making Causa Sui loop back to the beginning, something I don't even acknowledge when I am back-announcing. Nicholas Hill would be proud of me for that. Elsewhere, my notes say "segue from Deafkids to XXL sounds like a mistake but isn't." Damn right, and a good summary of the overall outing. Mission accomplished.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 May 8, 2100-2300:

1. "Better Dead Than Alien" | Asok | Better Dead Than Alien | M>O>S
2. "Virus da Imagem do Ser" | Deafkids | Metaprogramacao | Neurot
3. "Lemoning" | XXL aka Xiu Xiu / Larsen | Puff O'Gigio | Bad Paintings
4. "Agua (Re-Edit)" | First Floor | You Dubn't Know | Local Talk
5. "Sweet Love" | Glen Ayers | The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1 | Bear Family | "The Listening Parlour"
6. "Vibraciones Doradas [excerpt]" | Causa Sui | Vibraciones Doradas | El Paraiso
7. "Reproduktionsfunktion" | Botschaft | Glaspalast - Eine Zusammenstellung von Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten | Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten
8. "Heal" | John Tejada | Dead Start Program | Kompakt
9. "Sidi kommi" | AMMAR 808 | Maghreb United | Glitterbeat
10. "Perfect Life" | Pete Astor | Spilt Milk | Slumberland
11. "Ohoho Gedama" | Mahmoud Ahmed | Ere Mela Mela | Hannibal
12. "Doubt" | Stereolab | Switched On [reissue] | Slumberland
13. "Verglas" | Stereocilia | The Silence That Follows | Drone Rock
14. "One And A Half Years Later" | BELP | Crocodile | SVS
15. "Yes, O Yes" | The Fall | I Am Kurious Oranj | Beggars Banquet
16. "Lotus" | Voetvolk | The Sea Within | Rotkat
17. "Dawn: Making an Effort" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
18. "Far From Me" | BUNNI | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Whistling For His Love" | Danielle Dax | Dark Adapted Eye | Rubellan Remasters
20. "Children's Song" | Evan Greer | she/her/they/them | Don Giovanni
21. "DAWAN" | Apparat | LP5 | Mute
22. "Booming and Zooming" | Tom Tom Club | Tom Tom Club [reissue] | Real Gone
23. "Radio Prague" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships [reissue] | Virgin
24. "Ten Sleep" | The Wedding Present | Marc Riley Sessions Volume 3 | Hatch
25. "Dope For Guns" | The Ruts | The Crack [reissue] | Virgin
26. "Lunar Eye" | Giuda | Overdrive | Rise Above
27. "Tutti" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | TUTTI | Conspiracy International
28. "The Lady Vanishes" | Thin White Rope | The Ruby Sea [reissue] | Frontier
29. "Good Times" | Ex Hex | It's Real | Merge
30. "Touchdown" | Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band | The Serpent's Mouth | Big Crown
31. "Floating Tone" | Ivan Black | Harmonic Neuism | vanguardista
32. "Vibra" | Richard Barbieri | Vibra | Kscope

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Cruising Altitude Departure 32, 2019 May 4

[GUEST POST]

Halcyon here, the "good captain," as I like to think of myself, bringing you another audio transcript of a gentle Saturday morning from long ago. For civic infrastructure trivia buffs, this should have bookended street repairs near the radio station that had just begun when I embarked on my previous departure, but this was not the case. More evidence that I shouldn't concern myself with what is on the ground. People keep trying to tell me. Who knows if I will ever listen.

I am hereby giving myself credit for reigniting Kid Catharsis's interest in Laraaji by playing today's lengthy opening piece. Why shouldn't I? Structurally, things get more hectic after that point, the changes coming faster and faster. Is that reminiscent of something? Does that do anything for you, listener? Is it perhaps none of my business?

As always, this was a "pop-up" program, and I don't know if or when I will be allowed to do this again. Life is contingency.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2019 May 4, 1000-1100:

1. "Equinox" | Laraaji & Lyghte | Celestial Realms | Morning Trip
2. "Side A" | Not Waving / Jim O'Rourke | Side A / Side B | Diagonal
3. "Hal - Wolfgang Voigt Mix" | Soulsavers | Pop Ambient 2017 | Kompakt
4. "New Dawn" | Seahawks | Eyes of the Moon | Cascine
5. "Nordmeer" | Benoît Honoré Pioulard, Sean Curtis Patrick | Avocationals | Beacon Sound
6. "Hawaii et Papaye" | Papillon | Cercueil flottant | Sucata Tapes
7. "Discovery" | Dravier | Spirit Channels | Not Not Fun
8. "Cerulean Skull" | DJ Rubio | Western Medicine | Man Band

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Let Me Take You Down the Corridors of My Life: Transmission 463, 2019 May 1

I must admit that I've been looking through my social media timelines for clues as to what was happening at the time these old programs were aired. It's been so long, and we seem to have passed through so many worlds, that I have reached a new order of magnitude of not-remembering, if that even makes sense. (Apologies, I am on my second vodka-and-Pompelmo as I write this.) Anyway, I must not have been doing much on social media at around this time. And it's just as well. Do you remember when Facebook and Twitter were fun? Or am I just hallucinating? At any rate it has been a crazy couple of months, I have been extremely offline, and I have little idea what is going on in the world.

This program is from a different era, and it begins a bit low-key. It gets going eventually, and I admit that I like where it goes. But it sounds foreign to me, for long stretches. How things have changed. This warrants an explanation, and I will try to provide it, by and by. But for now, try to live with the sounds.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 May 1, 2100-2300:

1. "Siraba Kele" | Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band | Siri Ba Kele | Sublime Frequencies
2. "Down in the Ghostness of Darkness" | Lonnie Holley | MITH | Jagjaguwar
3. "To Binge (sucks)" | Michael Valentine and the Heartaches | Michael Valentine | self-released
4. "Metal Gear Rex" | Gaijin Blues | Gaijin Blues | Shapes of Rhythm
5. "Labyrinth" | KineStatics | Labyrinth | FireScope
6. "Soo Soo Mungha" | Orchestre Abass | De Bassari Togo | Analog Africa
7. "I Worship the Sun" | Felt | Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty [reissue] | Cherry Red
8. "Paddle Boat" | Ernest Moon | Ba-jesus | BOBOS
9. "Ghosts" | Nancy Babich | Time Adds Up | self-released
10. "Babylon's Burning" | The Ruts | The Crack [reissue] | Virgin
11. "ProVision L-3 (#Resist Version)" | Against Me! | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
12. "Mi Globo De Nieve" | Donna Regina | Transient | Karaoke Kalk
13. "Different to Me" | Wire | Pink Flag | Pink Flag
14. "Dekondor" | Tiliboo Afrobeat | Two Tribes | Agogo
15. "Boyfriend Shirt" | Cherushii & Maria Minerva | Cherushii & Maria Minerva | 100% Silk
16. "Hell Is Round The Corner" | Tricky | Maxinquaye [reissue] | Island
17. "Come Along" | Nocow | Atoner | Rekids
18. "Don't Place Your Happiness in the Hands of Another" | The Telescopes | Exploding Head Syndrome | Tapete
19. "Prismatic Gateway" | Pye Corner Audio | Hollow Earth | Ghost Box
20. "Rock 'N' Roll / Night Clubbing" | The Human League | Travelogue | Caroline / Virgin | "The Listening Parlour"
21. "Black Noise - Afrikan Sciences Remix" | Khalab | Black Noise 2084 (Remixed) | On the Corner
22. "Mutations - Version" | Evan Caminiti | Refraction | Make Noise
23. "Mystic Dreams" | Adam F | Hold Tight / Mystic Dreams | Infrared
24. "The Pit" | Mike Cooper | Tropical Gothic | Discrepant
25. "The Boy" | XIII | Eocity | Gang of Ducks
26. "La Resistencia" | Perlita | Caballo Rojo | Lovemonk
27. "W.F.L." | FEELS | Post Earth | Wichita
28. "It's Good To Try" | Laurence Guy | Making Music Is Bad For Your Self Esteem | Studio Barnhus
29. "Hit the Lip" | The Senior Service | The Girl In The Glass Case | Damaged Goods
30. "Commercial Suicide Man" | The Nightingales with Vic Godard | Commercial Suicide Man | Tiny Global Productions
31. "Black Opium" | Martina Lussi | Diffusion is a Force | Latency

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