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But What Does It Matter? Transmission 462, 2019 April 24

Serendipitously, I guess, I am trying to recall this program at the right time. I see that on this day "what we were enduring" was a tedious and stupid political argument about whether the incarcerated should have the right to vote. (They should.) And now, in the sweltering heat of a July that is surely cooler than any we will see in the future, I am compelled to think about "carceral logic," how it affects me, whether I embrace it, etc. It's been a wild ride at "theory camp" this year.

I would say I deserve "congratulations" somewhere on the spectrum of irony for managing to get three months behind in my postings, which is a record. What can I say? Life intrudes. We're trying to buy a house, and I am trying to be good at the things in my life that don't involve radio, for once. And I am also trying to sleep. As always, if you're unhappy with the service around here, we offer full refunds.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 April 24, 2100-2300:

1. "Windshield Wiper Rex" | Guided By Voices | Zeppelin over China | GBV Inc.
2. "Seneca" | Pedro Vian | Pedro Vian | Modern Obscure Music
3. "Fallen Name" | Landing | Bells In New Towns | El Paraiso
4. "Find a Way" | Asok | Better Dead Than Alien | M>O>S
5. "If All the People Took Acid" | FaltyDL | If All the People Took Acid | Blueberry
6. "Is This Your First Time? (Artificial Remix)" | Sobriquet | 3AM Spares | Efficient Space
7. "Toxin" | Eric Random | Two Faced | Klanggalerie
8. "I Am The Audience" | Brian Harris | No Fixed Adobe | self-released
9. "This Must Be Bedlam" | Piroshka | Brickbat | Bella Union
10. "Ella" | Pete Cannon | Sick Music 2019 | Hospital
11. "Heaven, Listen" | Weval | The Weight | Kompakt
12. "Ich Bin Klang" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Don't Get Lost | A Records
13. "Sidiki's Jam" | Sex Judas feat. Ricky | Go Down Judas | Optimo
14. "Bluebird" | Makoto X Hugh Hardie | Sick Music 2019 | Hospital
15. "Walking Distance" | Buzzcocks | Love Bites | Domino
16. "Obstacles" | Holly Golightly | Do The Get Along | Damaged Goods
17. "Coral" | Matt Robertson | Entology | Tape Club
18. "Stingray Nebula" | OUER | Stingray Nebula EP | Dirt Crew
19. "Rider from Nempnett Thrubwell" | Melodic Energy Commission | Migration of the Snails | Telephone Explosion
20. "Alyochan" | Kel Assouf | Black Tenere | Glitterbeat
21. "Another Thing" | HOMESHAKE | Helium | Sinderlyn
22. "Double Helix" | Brother Nebula | Going Clear EP | Touch from a Distance
23. "Echoes of you" | Ghost Transmission | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "We Are the Asteroid!" | Extrawelt | Unknown | Cocoon
25. "The Man With X-Ray Eyes" | Bauhaus | Mask [reissue] | Beggars Banquet
26. "Love Theme" | Scuba | Displaced Soundtracks Vol. 2 | Life and Death
27. "Real" | m a g g i e . w a v | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
28. "Suite For Jupiter" | MJ Lallo | Take Me with You [reissue] | Seance Centre
29. "Helix" | Tracey | Metamorphosis | Aus
30. "Sightlines" | Method One | Stomping Grounds EP | Commercial Suicide
31. "Rehndim" | Chris Carter | Chemistry Lessons Volume 1 | Mute

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Validate What You Create: Transmission 461, 2019 April 23

I swear to god I will never be "good" at social media. Maybe it is because I am too old and maybe it is because I have lost the ability to master things, but I "lose" people and transactions for the dumbest and most unfathomable of reasons. This time it was over a discussion about Spotify and its connection to our station's "DJ" software which we are using, perhaps illicitly, as airplay software. It has always struck me as odd that nonprofit radio stations should pay any kind of royalties for doing artists the favor of publicizing their music, but that is a concession I have made in my dotage and tiredness. But to think that playing shoddy mp3 files on an "unauthorized" platform is a violation of some terms and conditions, and that Spotify stans on Twitter would "enforce" these for free, is completely beyond me. Consider me corncobbed. Add to this the fact that Lady C and I had an offer for a house rejected in favor of someone who threw down a quarter million dollars in cash, and that there was yet another station meeting prior to this program in which I felt thoroughly disrespected, and it was a "blastedly awful" day.

Anyway, this surprise edition of the program earned me a couple of nice interactions with local proprietor "Drummer John" who appreciated Cosey Fanni Tutti and Blind Idiot God. He told me I was helping him transcend. Transcend what I don't know. But if that isn't the point of all this I don't have a clue what is.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 April 23, 2100-2300:

1. "Unifying the Center (Abstract)" | Jayda G | Significant Changes | Ninja Tune
2. "Chelsea Girl" | Drones Club | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
3. "Are You Fine?" | Laurence Guy | Making Music Is Bad For Your Self Esteem | Studio Barnhus
4. "Contra - Indications" | The Durutti Column | Obey The Time [reissue] | Factory Benelux
5. "Sophic Ripple" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | TUTTI | Conspiracy International
6. "Winter Bloom" | Jon Porras | Voices of the Air | Ba Da Bing!
7. "Couleurs" | La Houle | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "Like Mary" | The Dream Syndicate | How Did I Find Myself Here? | Anti
9. "For You" | Secret Shine | There Is Only Now | Saint Marie
10. "What I Deserve" | Where We Sleep | Experiments In The Dark | self-released
11. "Bobira" | Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band | Siri Ba Kele | Sublime Frequencies
12. "Hideaway" | King Tubby & The Aggrovators | Dubbing in the Backyard | Pressure Sounds
13. "Happy Birthday" | The Wedding Present | John Peel Sessions 1987-1990 | Strange Fruit
14. "Freaked (Title Version)" | Blind Idiot God | Undertow [reissue] | Indivisible
15. "Love Is The Answer" | Healin' of the Nations | Take Us Home - Boston Roots Reggae: 1979 to 1988 | Cultures of Soul
16. "Next Week Thursday (Dub)" | Little Axe | London Blues | Echo Beach
17. "Demon Seed/Demon Flower" | The Membranes | What Nature Gives...Nature Takes Away | Cherry Red
18. "Six Six Sixties" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats | Mute
19. "From Here To Now" | Kill the Moose | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
20. "Too Cold For Your Eyes" | Bremen | Enter Silence | Blackest Ever Black
21. "Number 10" | Giuda | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
22. "Stay" | Soon, She Said | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Grmi Seva" | KineStatics | Labyrinth | FireScope
24. "A Single Life" | Renegade Pharmacy | Recovery Position | self-released
25. "abundance10edit[2 R8's, FZ20m & a 909]" | Aphex Twin | Collapse EP | WARP

Praised be the embrace of soft sleep

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Of Course You'll Scoff: Transmission 460, 2019 April 17

My notes from this show are brief and (surprise!) quite self-critical. "Djay Pro fucks up The Twilight Sad," I wrote; "I fucked up the segue too....The Wedding Present, as well! It seems to hate them....I messed up 'Minxed Driks.'" So it was a typical night out, it seems. Maybe a little bit rockist, listening back (again and again and again as I have put off writing this "entry"); Meat Beat Manifesto and Stratis don't really seem to fit but without them this show would not really be me. And it must be me because I am it.

On this day--maybe not that much was happening in the world. I think maybe this was the day someone did Pete Buttigieg cosplay, with the presidential candidate whipping a fake Christ on a cross. I have always found Easter LARPing to be the strangest and worst. Locally, the Squirrel Nut Zippers were in town and an alarming number of people my age were excited about this. Re-evaluating our tastes in the 90s seems to be something we were doing in the Spring of 2019. But--not sorry--I was right about the swing revival then and I am right about it now? How's that? I am sure the people who actually attended the gig on this night firmly believe the same thing about themselves. This must be the polarization that everyone is talking about.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 April 17, 2100-2300:

1. "Pin Drop" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Pin Drop | self-released
2. "Keep It All To Myself" | The Twilight Sad | IT WON'T BE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME | Rock Action
3. "Acknowledgement" | The Mattson 2 | Play "A Love Supreme" | Spiritual Pajamas
4. "Heatwave (Coming Towards You)" | Camila Fuchs | Heart Pressed Between Stones | ATP
5. "Theatre" | Stratis | New Face | Dark Entries
6. "Leave the Planet" | Galaxie 500 | On Fire [reissue] | 20|20|20
7. "Girls! Girls! Girls!" | Liz Phair | Girly-Sound to Guyville | Matador
8. "Fake Haka For E.C." | Poomse | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
9. "Guardia Castle" | Gaijin Blues | Gaijin Blues | Shapes of Rhythm
10. "Two Faced" | Eric Random | Two Faced | Klanggalerie
11. "Rose" | Slowness | Berths | Schoolkids
12. "Generation" | Wesqk Coast | S.T.A.S.H. | OOH-Sounds
13. "Check Sound Check" | Jac Berrocal / David Fenech / Vincent Epplay | Ice Exposure | Blackest Ever Black
14. "Outdoor Miner" | Wire | Chairs Missing | Pink Flag
15. "The Revelation Dub" | Alborosie | Alborosie Meets Roots Radics: Dub For The Radicals | Greensleeves
16. "Hanging By a Thread" | Cowbell | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
17. "The Intruder" | The Senior Service | The Girl In The Glass Case | Damaged Goods
18. "Suffocation as a Modern Pretext" | Neurotic Friends | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Two Bridges" | The Wedding Present | Marc Riley Sessions Volume 2 | Hatch
20. "Take Us Home" | Danny Tucker | Take Us Home - Boston Roots Reggae: 1979 to 1988 | Cultures of Soul
21. "Enter Silence" | Bremen | Enter Silence | Blackest Ever Black
22. "To Pass Through The Walls And Vanish" | Nonconnah | Dead Roses, Digged up Zombies, Broken Pieces of Diamonds, Live Cats | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
23. "Minxed Driks" | Ernest Moon | Ba-jesus | BOBOS
24. "Eden 1.1" | Croatian Amor | Isa | Posh Isolation
25. "Imitation Pearls" | David J | Crocodile Tears And The Velvet Cosh [reissue] | Glass Modern
26. "Love Pours Out of My Heart" | Miss Ludella Black | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
27. "Drawing of a Lake" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope (II) | Numero Group
28. "Bucket List No.2" | Dragon Welding | Dragon Welding | A Turntable Friend
29. "The Clown Song" | Thin White Rope | The Ruby Sea [reissue] | Frontier
30. "The Uneven Ritual" | K. Leimer | Imposed Order / Imposed Absence | Palace of Lights
31. "Mexican Bandits" | Felt | The Splendour of Fear [Reissue] | Cherry Red
32. "Into My Arms" | Kill The Moose | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
33. "One Flesh" | The Chameleons | What Does Anything Mean? Basically | Blue Apple
34. "Good Morning Sir" | Guided By Voices | Zeppelin over China | GBV Inc.
35. "Get Clear" | The Room in the Wood | The Mars E.P. | A Turntable Friend
36. "Sloppy Homework" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.

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I'll Have To Stay By Your Side: Transmission 459, 2019 April 10

A long time has passed since I posted something, and I sincerely apologize. It's crazy season for me, work-wise: so crazy that I have a "student assistant" now. And apparently I am pathological enough to have burned through the first one, so good luck to that person's replacement. I have mentioned it before, but BOMBAST could really use an intern or something as well. But since I have the kind of program where I can't even give away free movie tickets, apparently, I am guessing there isn't much interest. So it goes.

How the sausage is made: I have a running "note" on my phone where I jot down real-time observations of my programs. "I hate this show so fucking much," I wrote on the night this aired. I must have had some sort of plan, but nothing was going right. My computer and the station's computers both decided to work against me. I did not help by throwing together some truly awful segues. I swear, the songs are good! And I promise to do better, or at least not any worse.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 April 10, 2100-2300:

1. "Cannot Be Saved" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Cannot Be Saved | 'a'
2. "Mother Earth" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
3. "Last Shift" | Stingray | Air Texture Vol. VI | Air Texture
4. "Chappers Said So" | CYRK | Superior Things | Vakant
5. "Sing Shed Sing" | Billy Childish and Sexton Ming | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
6. "Flabba Dub Step" | Alborosie | Alborosie Meets Roots Radics: Dub For The Radicals | Greensleeves
7. "Mossegades" | Ultim Cavall | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "Too Hot" | Tight Knit | Too Hot | Not Unloved
9. "This Is But A Dream" | The Underground Youth | Montage Images Of Lust & Fear | Fuzz Club
10. "Mythenquai" | Lowtec | Light Surfing | Avenue 66
11. "Fenix" | Galaxina | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
12. "Jah Light" | Zion Initation | Take Us Home - Boston Roots Reggae: 1979 to 1988 | Cultures of Soul
13. "City of Refuge" | Blackout Transmission | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "The More I See You" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Organisation [reissue] | Virgin
15. "You're a Taxi, I'm a Cab" | Hooray for Humans | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "Move In Blue - Homeward Mix" | James Place | Still Waves To A Whisper | Umor Rex
17. "Heart (feat. Moro)" | Lotic | Power | Tri Angle
18. "Glassvegas" | Ambros Chapel | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Melamed" | Afriqua | Vice / Principle | R & S
20. "Lawrence of California" | Mekons | Deserted | Bloodshot
21. "Cell" | NNYz? | Aetiology | Kahvi Collective
22. "How Far Is Spaced-Out?" | Lonnie Holley | MITH | Jagjaguwar
23. "Unravel Together" | Vieo Abiungo | The Dregs | Lost Tribe Sound
24. "Spells" | Nils Frahm | Encores 2 | Erased Tapes
25. "Eyes Embrace" | Plains Apparition | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
26. "Purple Crested Lourie" | Constantijn Lange | Elysian Fields | Laut & Luise

Closing my mind for a while

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M Is For The Mean Things That This Mean Man Does: Transmission 458, 2019 April 3

I don't know how I developed the theory, or superstition, that when I only do one program per week I am more careful, less mistake-prone. That idea is certainly undermined by this program that you find here. As "always" I had the best of intentions but not necessarily the best ideas, in the moment. Somehow I desired to play a Lemonheads song, and to play it after Karate Hiroshima (whose segue I think I biffed, if memory serves). Similarly I deemed it wise to play Wire after Pavo Pavo, and to play "Deceased Squirrel on the Phone" (featuring Bob Vratnicek--YES, LISTENERS, THAT BOB VRATNICEK!) after Dexter Story. At some point in WRFI's history we promised to strive for "excellence in content and technique," but who could predict that the arc of striving bent so gradually toward its goal?

At least I'm pretty sure I got Simon Raymonde's birthday correct, and as I have become fond of saying, "I'm sure he's listening."

Not much to add in the category of "what we were enduring this week," or "what were we healing from," or whatever it was I was calling that recurring diary feature. I think maybe a major centrist candidate entered the presidential race this week, so it looks like we'll all get to revisit the ill-conceived compromises of years past. I already do this constantly, in my head, so welcome to my world, everybody.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 April 3, 2100-2300:

1. "Idra" | Marvin & Guy | Solar Warriors | Life & Death
2. "Quisquose" | Cocteau Twins | Aikea-Guinea | 4AD
3. "Rushing the Acid Frat" | Stephen Malkmus | Groove Denied | Matador
4. "El Diablo Me Va a Llevar" | Nicola Cruz | Siku | ZZK
5. "The Light In My Little Girl's Eyes" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Any Day Now [reissue] | Metropolis
6. "Lo que quieras que sea, seré por ti" | Karate Hiroshima | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
7. "TAQN" | The Lemonheads | Varshons 2 | Fire
8. "Dive" | Bauhaus | In the Flat Field [reissue] | 4AD
9. "Evolution" | brim liski | Duels | Latenight Weeknight
10. "On The Road" | Yamila | Iras Fajro | Forbidden Colours
11. "Louder" | Pure Morning | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 3 - Viva Mexico! | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
12. "Manuwar" | Cairo Liberation Front | Eurabia, Vol. 1 | Byrd Out
13. "Close To Your Ego" | Pavo Pavo | Close To Your Ego | Bella Union
14. "Sand in My Joints" | Wire | Chairs Missing [reissue] | Pink Flag
15. "Midwest Flower" | Thin White Rope | The Ruby Sea [reissue] | Frontier
16. "Dubba Black" | Errol Brown | Orthodox Dub | Dub Store
17. "Behind the Wall" | Stranded | Celine's Dilemma EP | Optimo
18. "Birdsnest" | The Wedding Present | Going, Going... | Scopitones
19. "Secret Snake" | Objekt | Cocoon Crush | PAN
20. "I Never Could Tell You" | Business of Dreams | Ripe for Anarchy | Slumberland
21. "I Love Girls (He Loves Girls)" | Fat Cops | Fat Cops | self-released
22. "Deseo" | Apartmentos Acapulco | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Trace of You" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope (II) | Numero Group
24. "Worship & Passion" | Pablo's Eye | Dark Matter | Stroom
25. "TV Romance" | MELTNET | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
26. "First Tube" | Midland | Displaced Soundtracks Vol. 2 | Life and Death
27. "Electric Gurage" | Dexter Story | Electric Gurage | Soundway
28. "Catman" | Deceased Squirrel on the Phone (Feat. Bob Vratnicek) | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
29. "KAMA" | Mooner | O.M. | Outer Battery
30. "Capitalism" | Ernest Moon | Ba-jesus | BOBOS
31. "Red the Sign Post (alternate version)" | Fifty Foot Hose | Bad Trips | Modern Harmonic
32. "4AM" | NNYz? | Aetiology | Kahvi Collective
33. "Shimmering Bomb" | Stabudown Productions | Strange Rabbits | Diagonal
34. "Twice The Lovin' (In Half The Time)" | Jean Shepard and Speedy West | Hillbilly Music...Thank God! Volume 1 | Bug / Capitol | "The Listening Parlour"
35. "Soul City" | Bowery Electric | Lushlife [reissue] | Beggars Banquet

Clinical interventions that work in relationships

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Everything Is One, You Have Nothing To Do with It: Transmission 457, 2019 March 27

Welcome to the second night of a back-to-back engagement. No doubt, I must have been tired. But unlike the previous outing, this was "my" shift. Accordingly, this time around my mistakes were fewer (I think) and more routine (I think). So this is a typical program, I guess you'd say, and typically good too, though once again I've heard it way too much since.

That week people were really worked up about this (trolling?) retrospective of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. Maybe it is a generational thing, but I didn't regard that album as any good at the time and I don't think it has improved with age. It was certainly on "heavy rotation" on local corporate "alternative" radio--this did not endear it to me, but in fairness it didn't stand a chance when Liz Phair's Exile In Guyville was totally already out there (and which, incidentally, has aged well).

It got me thinking about a couple of things--first, the 90s, the total memory of which makes me shudder. I have issues with self-disgust in general, but I really don't like the person I was in that decade. How inconvenient it is that many of my life-defining experiences happened then. Coincidentally, or maybe not, I don't find myself liking a lot of music from that period, either, though I mostly still enjoy now what little I did then. Maybe it's just me but I feel like, collectively, we need to have a talk about what went on during that time.

Second, that nihilistic (and rightly loathed) critique is exactly the sort of thing I might write had I remained in the "various businesses" that paid me to do so. My own flawed decision-making and the pointless and cruel interventions of others have spared us all that fate. But, however late I am coming around to it, I daresay that I am finally learning to distinguish between the harmless and the harmful. Most of the time it is ok to let people like things--this must be what the kids mean when they say "just keep scrolling." But punk-style negation is very hard to unlearn. I am working on it, dear friends.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 March 27, 2100-2300:

1. "Dusty Fingers - Metrik Remix" | S.P.Y. | Sick Music 2019 | Hospital
2. "Everything In Colour" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
3. "All Men Are Dogs" | Harlem | Oh Boy | Female Fantasy
4. "I Feel Better All Over" | Ferlin Husky | The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 2 | Bear Family
5. "Goku" | Taylor Graves | Brainfeeder X | Brainfeeder
6. "Chapel O' Love" | b l u e s c r e e n | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
7. "Skunk" | A Certain Ratio | Mind Made Up [reissue] | Mute
8. "We Are the Snare" | Spare Snare | Sounds Recorded by Steve Albini | Chute
9. "God Bless You" | Sone Institute | Where Moth and Rust Consume | Front and Follow
10. "Sanity Starts At Home" | The Claim | Boomy Tella | A Turntable Friend
11. "Wolfbane" | The Orb | No Sounds Are Out of Bounds | Cooking Vinyl
12. "Real Eyes" | NNYz? | Aetiology | Kahvi Collective
13. "Another the Letter" | Wire | Chairs Missing [reissue] | Pink Flag
14. "Join The Dots" | Dragon Welding | Dragon Welding | A Turntable Friend
15. "They Kept Walking" | Frieder Nagel | Distract Robots | Infine
16. "Heroes" | A Merge Group | A Merge Group Plays "Heroes" | Merge
17. "Harry" | Bauhaus | The Bela Session | Leaving Records
18. "White Star Liner" | Public Service Broadcasting | White Star Liner | PIAS
19. "Hold Me, You Idiot" | b l u e__ΔCID | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
20. "It's Over" | CTMF | SQ 1 | Damaged Goods
21. "Help Me Mary" | Liz Phair | Girly-Sound to Guyville | Matador
22. "Blissos" | Lauer | Power | Running Back
23. "Split" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | TUTTI | Conspiracy International
24. "Champion of the Arena Dub" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
25. "Day Tripper" | Pom Poko | Birthday | Bella Union
26. "Want You" | Tight Knit | Too Hot | Not Unloved
27. "Ballare Sulla Tua Tomba" | Futuropaco | Futuropaco | El Paraiso
28. "Stranger Than Kindness" | Curl | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
29. "The Other Light" | David Vassalotti | Guitar Dream | Wharf Cat
30. "Bartender's Rag" | Thin White Rope | The Ruby Sea [reissue] | Frontier
31. "Soundtrack to the Daily Grind" | Graham Day And The Gaolers | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
32. "She's a Girl" | The Amps | Pacer | 4AD
33. "Night Time Diamonds" | Brian | EJOG | self-released
34. "Smooth False Foxglove" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope (II) | Numero Group
35. "Sing a Song - Live at Clouds Hill" | Tom Allan & The Strangest | Sing a Song (Live at Clouds Hill) | Clouds Hill

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He's Scandinavian, That's Why I'm Confused: Transmission 456, 2019 March 26

Karmic debt accrues, I feel, when I sit in on another DJ's time slot. I wonder if anyone else feels this--it strikes me as odd now that I've sat down to write about it. The DJ has requested a substitute, so I'm not depriving them of anything. Might someone else have wanted this time? There's always a chance, but most of our vacated slots go unclaimed, despite public perception that I take them all. (It's true that I'm on a particular mission in calendar year 2019, but I'm trying to do only one of these appearances per month.) Still I feel that I don't belong here--a recurring theme of late, as it happens--and so my being here must come with a cost.

There are some really terrible segues in this hastily assembled program, namely Gyedu-Blay Ambolley and Jon K, whose songs were too good to leave out but nonetheless didn't "fit" (hmm--ed). I also did poorly with whatever I played from the Hugs for Chelsea benefit, except maybe the track by Priests. Jello Biafra was especially jarring, but then again when is he not? (In a strange bit of symmetry, Manning has been released from prison and then promptly sent back in since this program aired, so you should really buy that comp.)

I've also been in kind of a work-life funk since this program's airing (might it go back farther than that? I'm not sure) and have found it difficult to write and post, and I guess that too is part of my debt. Also, because I have been stuck, I have listened to this episode countless times at the gym and am fully tired of several tracks herein. But you'll just have to make guesses about that.

Surely Ranking Roger's death on this day was not part of my personal punishment, but it hurt all the same. I have, in middle age, come to see The (English) Beat as a lesser entity than The Specials, but in high school only the mod kids (one of whom I could never hope to be) liked Mr. Hall and co., whereas all the theatre kids like me were in thrall to I Just Can't Stop It. This one in particular pleases me because the band's influences are on full unapologetic display. I saw many social media "tributes" around this time bizarrely linking to Dave Wakeling showcases, and am proud to say that "Rough Rider" was one thing I got completely right on this weird evening.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 March 26, 2100-2300:

1. "Morning Beam" | Ash Is | Morning Beam EP | Perfect Motion
2. "Theories of Loneliness - Wice Remix" | Deep'a & Biri | Dominance Remixes | Black Crow
3. "Live in Fiction" | The KVB | Only Now Forever | Invada
4. "Catch You Dreaming" | Ride | Tomorrow's Shore | Wichita
5. "Anyways" | FEELS | Post Earth | Wichita
6. "Peste Rossa" | Futuropaco | Futuropaco | El Paraiso
7. "Distress" | Pijn | Loss | Holy Roar
8. "Burkina Faso" | Gyedu-Blay Ambolley | The Message | Analog Africa
9. "Breathe" | Boy Is Fiction / Ghosts of Tyto Alba | A Single Beam of Light | N5MD
10. "Not Today" | The Kominas | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
11. "2nd Thought" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Organisation [reissue] | Virgin
12. "The Other Window" | Wire | 154 | Pink Flag
13. "Asafo" | Jon K | Asafo / Enye Woa | Soundway
14. "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Mellow)" | Stereolab | The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music [reissue] | Too Pure
15. "Perluv" | Robag Wruhme | Wuzzelbud FF | Hart & Tief
16. "Nothing Feels Natural" | Priests | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
17. "Speak You Me" | Coldharbourstores | Vesta | Enraptured
18. "2nd Foundation" | Jakob Skott | Instrumentality | El Paraiso
19. "This Is Almost A Happy Ending" | 48 Cameras | Chosen Songs | Stroom
20. "White People And The Damage Done" | Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
21. "Perversions of Humankind" | ADULT. | This Behavior | Dais
22. "Marble" | Martes Niebla | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Ubary" | Kel Assouf | Black Tenere | Glitterbeat
24. "New Facts Emerge" | The Fall | New Facts Emerge | Cherry Red
25. "Wish I Had a Pretty Dog" | The Orb | No Sounds Are Out of Bounds | Cooking Vinyl
26. "Farmer C" | Alpha Stone | Stereophonic Pop Art Music | Hoga Nord Arkiv
27. "Film" | Chatham Rise | Meadowsweet | Picture in My Ear
28. "Overrated - Robin Guthrie Version" | Echo Ladies | Overrated (Robin Guthrie Version) / Rebel Rebel | Sonic Cathedral
29. "Et Avant" | Free Love | Luxury Hits | Full Ashram
30. "Pole" | A Certain Ratio | Change the Station [reissue] | Mute
31. "Rough Rider" | The English Beat | I Just Can't Stop It | I.R.S.

Perhaps I will change

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Cruising Altitude Departure 31, 2019 March 23

[GUEST POST]

Good day to you, traveler. I bring you greetings from some seven weeks after this program aired. If I recall correctly, which is never a safe bet, this was a wet, gray, somewhat cold morning in the Ithaca area. It was "Spring" by the slimmest of technicalities, though winter never seems far away here. "Sunlit but Shivering?" Maybe a little of that. "Partly sunny" is a local specialty. In any case it was a reasonable day for flying, and apparently I was needed. I rose to the challenge as I sometimes do.

This program was book-ended by two long and lovely pieces. I received a compliment on the Michael Morley tune, which made me feel nice even though I didn't create the music! What is the psychology of that, I wonder? I did not receive any praise for playing Becoming Animal, but then again it was not required. I am happy to play just about any fruit of the Cindytalk tree.

Again, this was a "surprise" program, and I have done yet another one in the meantime. I will write a report at some point, I am sure. When time allows, when it allows.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2019 March 23, 1000-1100:

1. "Cease The Four Winds" | Michael Morley | Heavens Idleness Awaits | Thin Wrist
2. "Sky" | SLV | Berlin. Portrait In Music | Soma Quality Music
3. "Toward a Boundless Uncertainty, Sunlit But Shivering" | Benoit Pioulard | Toward a Boundless Uncertainty... | Mellotron
4. "4(E+D)4(ER=EPR)" | William Basinski | On Time Out of Time | Temporary Residence Ltd.
5. "The Courtesan Jigokudayu Sees Herself as a Skeleton in the Mirror of Hell" | Black to Comm | Seven Horses For Seven Kings | Thrill Jockey
6. "The Sky Is Ever Falling - Abul Mogard Remix" | Becoming Animal | And We Are Passing Through Silently | Houndstooth

not not fun

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We Are Your Latenight Weeknight Companion: Transmission 455, 2019 March 20

I'm finally tired of not writing and not posting. How about you? Currently I am multitasking, straddling the distant and near past, editing an episode from four days ago as I try to gather my impressions of this program from nearly two months ago. I've heard this one so many times on my iPod that I don't think I can make sense of it anymore, if I ever could. Maybe I never could.

This particular day was the "International Day of Happiness" but there's a good chance that I was not participating. It was the Iraq was anniversary (which one? I think maybe the second one, like it matters) and I think the President was trying (and probably succeeding) in banning transgender people from the military. Personally I think no one should be in the military, but it's the largest employer in this fucked-up society we have, and my tax dollars pay for it, so I kind of think everyone should be able to feed from that trough. Except Nazis, maybe. On that note, we were also still trying to wrap our heads around the Christchurch massacre, which was five days earlier, and the best our "opposition party" could do was stage some kind of symbolic vote to condemn a Muslim congresswoman, so congratulations everyone.

Predictably, this sentence from my recollection of the previous program--"I biffed a bunch of segues and got very mad at myself behind the scenes"--works perfectly well with this program too. I should probably leave it in every little thing I write about this ongoing adventure. I'm not going to tell you what was good and what was bad. You'll have to figure it out for yourself. Aren't you glad I'm back?

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 March 20, 2100-2300:

1. "African Starship" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | African Starship | On-U Sound
2. "Mother Courage" | Hula | Cut From Inside | Klanggalerie
3. "Un astronaute" | Station 17 | Ausblick | Bureau B
4. "Atuy So Kata - Patric Catani Remix" | Umeko Ando | Atuy So Kata | Pingipung
5. "Can't Wait" | Nancy Babich | Time Adds Up | self-released
6. "Blue Thunder" | Galaxie 500 | On Fire [reissue] | 20|20|20
7. "Yummer Yummer Man" | Danielle Dax | Dark Adapted Eye | Rubellan Remasters
8. "Nineteen 7" | Chris Carter | Chemistry Lessons Volume 1 | Mute
9. "Airports" | Osynlige Mann | Airports / Exodus | Hoga Nord
10. "Spillway" | Inner River | Inner River | Atomnation
11. "The Music Years" | brim liski | Duels | Latenight Weeknight
12. "Tear up the Red Sky" | The Young Gods | Tear up the Red Sky | Two Gentlemen
13. "Tolu" | Sonido Gallo Negro | Mambo Cosmico | Glitterbeat
14. "Spanish House" | Felt | The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories [reissue] | Cherry Red
15. "Favour" | Mark Stewart | Favour | On-U Sound
16. "Lancelot's Last Word" | Blue Orchids | Righteous Harmony Fist | Tiny Global Productions
17. "Daytona" | Commodo | Rikers | Deep Medi Musik
18. "It Isn't About That" | Stefano Ritteri | Mutanda | Viaggio
19. "Isolation Dub" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
20. "Fight" | Nicolas Jaar | Nymphs [reissue] | R & S
21. "The Middle Section" | Bremen | Enter Silence | Blackest Ever Black
22. "A God in an Alcove" | Bauhaus | In the Flat Field [reissue] | 4AD
23. "Love Bomb (Grinderman)" | Bone Acre | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "When Whales Make Love" | Sampleman and the Music Mutant | Third Ear Music | self-released
25. "Theme #1" | Pom Poko | Birthday | Bella Union
26. "I'm Hurting" | Thee Headcoats | In Tweed We Trust [reissue] | Damaged Goods
27. "Outside" | Edwyn Collins | Outside | AED
28. "Lost in Saint Petersburg" | Lake Haze | Shall Not Fade - 3 Years of Service | Shall Not Fade
29. "Tokai Desu" | foodman | Moriyama | Palto Flats
30. "Bending" | BELP | Crocodile | SVS

Music isn't about that

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She Understands There Are Problems: Transmission 454, 2019 March 17

Alright, we're really out of date now. Familiar ground--feels good! Anyway, this is a fill-in program from about a month ago, executed in partial daylight, which Lady Catharsis and I both found somewhat confusing. I'll just make a blanket statement that this basically didn't work, for a number of reasons. Mostly it came down to me.

There were conflicting "concepts" of this program, and usually it works best when there is no concept. The "physical evidence" aspect of the show--the Wanda Jackson record--was alright. My "green" idea was lazy and bad, though in my defense I have heard people do entire "themed" programs based on entering a search term in Spotify (like, I don't know, "peace" and things like that) and playing an entire two-hour "playlist" based on songs with that term in the title. I'm reminding myself and you that I could be much worse.

Also, I biffed a bunch of segues and got very mad at myself behind the scenes. My foray into "sober history" wasn't great. But I stand by what I said about Carl Craig: you should definitely follow him!

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 March 17, 1900-2100:

1. "The Presence" | Crispy Ambulance | Live On A Hot August Night (Comprising The Presence And Concord Square) | Factory Benelux
2. "Everything's Gone Green" | New Order | Everything's Gone Green | Factory
3. "If You Don't Somebody Else Will" | Billy Gray & Wanda Jackson | Early Wanda Jackson | Bear Family
4. "Green Eyed Loco-Man" | The Fall | The Real New Fall LP (Formerly 'Country On The Click') | Action
5. "I Cried Again" | Wanda Jackson | Early Wanda Jackson | Bear Family
6. "Greenfingers" | The Camberwell Now | Meridian / Greenfingers | Modern Classics
7. "Green Light" | Sonic Youth | Evol | DGC
8. "Wasted" | Wanda Jackson | Early Wanda Jackson | Bear Family
9. "Es 30" / "Televised Green Smoke" | Carl Craig | More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art | SSR
10. "Soyoyo" | Kings Aigbologa Bucknor & His Afrodisk Beat Organisation | Katakata | Hot Casa
11. "I'd Rather Have a Broken Heart" | Wanda Jackson | Early Wanda Jackson | Bear Family
12. "Arithmetic" | Ultramarine | Signals into Space | Les Disques du Crepuscule
13. "Tears At The Grand Ole Opry" | Wanda Jackson | Early Wanda Jackson | Bear Family
14. "Forever Sunshine" | Karl Hund | Karl Hund | Violette
15. "Love on a Pale Green Post Stamp (Live)" | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam
16. "Lovin' Country Style" | Wanda Jackson | Early Wanda Jackson | Bear Family
17. "Evergreen Dazed" | Felt | Absolute Classic Masterpieces | Cherry Red
18. "Dhyana" | Efficient Refineries | Terahertz | No.

Ours is a nocturnal program

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