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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