Babylon and Ting: Transmission 198, 2015 April 12

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

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

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 April 12, 2100-2300:

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

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