Ducking as a Chandelier Comes Crashing Down: Transmission 446, 2019 January 29

Here is a fill-in program that I did on very short notice when Godfrey announced that he couldn't do "The Griot Hour" on this night. Despite the non-descript and hurried occasion (it wasn't a "celebrity birthday" and I couldn't rope Lady Catharsis into joining me), this comes off as a pretty good show. ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. There's a lot to consider, but I'll try to be brief about it.

I don't know what "filling in valiantly" means, but I said it with sincerity; hopefully that counts? Something jumped out of my body again when I tried to talk. I mixed up my tenses at one point, saying "if you enjoy what you hear over the last two hours." I deliver an utterly pedantic weather report. The whole sequence from Oneohtrix Point Never through Maoupa Mazzocchetti is pretty rough. Nevember is an album, not an EP.

There's this ongoing Twitter thing called the #MWE or "Music Writing Exercise." I've been participating, though not consistently. Music journalism is a thing I used to do. Anyway, I have been coming to terms with "what I believe in" as far as music is concerned, and one of those things is self-care, not in the blithe consumerist sense but in a post-traumatic self-healing sense. What were we trying to heal from on the day of this program? It looks mostly like Howard Schultz, the Starbucks guy quixotically running for President as the avatar of the non-existent Center. No one wants this! But he is a billionaire, so we are going to get him (and perhaps, as a result, four more years of Trump) as a result, whether we like it or not (we don't). Good thing Ithaca has plenty of good, non-corporate coffee. I wish it had more guillotines.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 January 29, 2100-2300:

1. "You Do Good You Do For Yourself" | Godfrey Odili | Duomo Sounds LTD (Nigerian 80s Disco Music to Move Your Soul) | Odion
2. "S.O.S.T." | Breach | Turtle Dance | NKDLTD
3. "Symbia" | Qluster | Elemente | Bureau B
4. "Fire-Toolz Theme" | Fire-Toolz | Skinless X-1 | Hausu Mountain
5. "Agaba Kibati" | Bamba Pana | Poaa | Nyege Nyege Tapes
6. "Reefer Max" | Horsepower Productions | Reefer Max / Phantasy Rush | Effective96
7. "Sugar for the Pill - Avalon Emerson's Gilded Escalation" | Slowdive | Future Sounds of Jazz Vol. 14 | Compost
8. "Moderation Blues" | The Taki Twins | Old and New | self-released
9. "The Station" | Oneohtrix Point Never | The Station | WARP
10. "Looking Inwardly" | The Chameleons | What Does Anything Mean? Basically | Blue Apple
11. "Lil Mist" | Geo Rip | U-Udios 2 | U-Udios
12. "It's A Gas" | The Wedding Present | Marc Riley Sessions Volume 2 | Hatch
13. "644 Beauty Marks" | Maoupa Mazzocchetti | Testimony | Knekelhuis
14. "Ponderosa" | Tricky | Maxinquaye [reissue] | Island
15. "Twilight World" | Holger Czukay / Jah Wobble / Jaki Liebezeit | Full Circle | P-Vine
16. "Nevember" | HUS | Nevember | Kervid
17. "Fouh Sei Allah" | Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds | 1974-1975 | Analog Africa
18. "Heart and Soul Dub" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
19. "Wide Eyed" | Eric Random | Two Faced | Klanggalerie
20. "Very Good Lock" | Pete Astor | Spilt Milk | Slumberland
21. "Castlevania III - Clockwork" | Perturbator | B-Sides and Remixes, Vol. 2 | Blood Music
22. "Neon Gladiators - Version Apocalypse" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Any Day Now [reissue] | Metropolis
23. "The Circle" | The Dream Syndicate | How Did I Find Myself Here? | Anti
24. "King of the Castle" | Beak> | >>> | Invada
25. "VCL XI" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Organisation [reissue] | Virgin
26. "Da Lub Club" | Inner Harmony | 3AM Spares | Efficient Space

Different levels of the devil's company

https://www.facebook.com/radiobombast?ref=hl
https://twitter.com/KidCatharsis