Everybody Hears You and Don't Hate What You Say: Transmission 445, 2019 January 23

Of course I couldn't do two "perfect" shows in a row, so this will be a list of complaints and tech notes. But must it? I've taken to writing things down as they happen as a way of having "something to say" about these programs when I post them, but I wonder if I am creating my own prison with relentless self-negging. There are some terrific moments in this show--just looking at the playlist I can see that. I encourage you to find your own highlights, but Mdou Moctar's awesomeness goes without saying, and I was really taken with the SRSQ track. I managed to slip "the point" by management (yay me! Or were they just not listening?) and I concluded an extremely brief (and, admittedly, failed) flirtation with Skinny Puppy nostalgia. AND--I almost forgot to mention this--the "Listening Parlour" returns! I finally got it together to work that in, an honest to goodness triumph!

Now the bad parts: something leapt out of my nose or throat during the initial voice-over; the segue into the Felt tune seemed forced, but at the risk of going too deeply into how the sausage is made, I'd been sitting on that one for a long time and it must have made sense to me when I was of a different mindset; what on earth is a "backlist?" I swear, the less I talk, the better; I botched the segue from Bauhaus into the Blue Orchids, and also gave Brian Harris the Bauhaus treatment, apologies; I mispronounce "Sirikiti" as "Sikriti," as in rhyming with Saddam Hussein's full surname.

So much for my catalogue of atrocities. I'll make a concerted effort to be more positive in the future.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 January 23, 2100-2300:

1. "Awade (Here We Come)" | Orlando Julius & Ashiko | Love Peace & Happiness | Hot Casa
2. "35" | Objekt | Cocoon Crush | PAN
3. "Gentleman Never Run" | Ethyene | Brotherly Love | Moonrise Hill Material
4. "What a Wonderful World" | Soap&Skin | From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend | Play It Again Sam
5. "La plus belle" | Oumar Konate | Live in Bamako | Clermont
6. "Fortune" | Felt | Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty [reissue] | Cherry Red
7. "Lillian Gish" | Vic Chesnutt | Drunk | New West | "The Listening Parlour"
8. "Very Moments" | Meggy | Flowers | Suol
9. "Kamane Tarhanin" | Mdou Moctar | Kamane Tarhanin | Sahel Sounds
10. "Souvenir" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Architecture and Morality [reissue] | Virgin
11. "C-Q-D" | Public Service Broadcasting | White Star Liner | PIAS
12. "Forests" | MANOID | Truth | Hafendisko
13. "Atlas" | Borusiade | Their Specters | Unterton
14. "Exit Strategy" | Plastic Ivy | Death of the Machines, Vol. 1 | Mannequin
15. "Small Talk Stinks" | Bauhaus | In the Flat Field [reissue] | 4AD
16. "Get Bramah" | Blue Orchids | Righteous Harmony Fist | Tiny Global Productions
17. "Nude" | Adriatique | Nude | Afterlife
18. "pthex" | Aphex Twin | Collapse EP | WARP
19. "Amerikan Dread" | Victor | Amerikan Dread | Music From Memory
20. "Cherish" | SRSQ | Unreality | Dais
21. "Lannoy Point" | Ride | Weather Diaries | Wichita
22. "Pq Ekuka Rework" | Ekuka Morris Sirikiti | Ekuka | Nyege Nyege Tapes
23. "Psalm" | The Mattson 2 | Play "A Love Supreme" | Spiritual Pajamas
24. "Ground Song" | Brian Harris | Pine Lake | self-released
25. "Mellotron" | Stereolab | Peng! [reissue] | Too Pure
26. "the point" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
27. "Exit" | Max Graef | Lo Siento Mucho Pero No Hablo Tu Idioma | Tartelet
28. "Epilogue" | Skinny Puppy | Cleanse Fold and Manipulate | Nettwerk

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