Keep Your Gifts and Keep Your Money: Transmission 443, 2019 January 9

"It's a very smooth evening," I suggest at one point in this broadcast. Compared to what? A porcupine's back, or sandpaper, or a loofa, perhaps.

My plan to play 36 songs on the night was probably ill-considered, and was quickly cut down to 35 (apologies to Gaye Su Akyol--is it my destiny always to be apologizing?) when all the computers in the room decided to freeze on me and I had to read public service announcements without underscoring to prevent dead air. There was a period in my life when people used to tell me I had a "good radio voice" but I don't hear it so much anymore. This endures for only about 3 minutes or so, but seems interminable to me. YMMV. I also worry about causing a food panic by biffing the opening hours of Loaves and Fishes, but I am probably kidding myself about the number of people listening.

Anyway, that's what I get, apparently, for being optimistic about this program beforehand. You can hear the audio software failing during the Fall track (sorry), the aux cord came dislodged from my laptop during my PSA adventure, ruining the first few seconds of the Hairbone track (sorry), and my playlist was set to "shuffle" so we accidentally hear the first few seconds of a Comet Gain track--which I call a "harbinger of something" (sorry)--so I guess apologies are my destiny. I sound like Radio Niger without the exoticism--I am just a local bumbler.

But in my defense, if you can make it through the first 10 minutes or so, by which point "the technology is working for us and not against us," this is a pretty rewarding mixtape. There is some head-nodding goodness around the time of Stereolab and Beaches, and for the most part I got out of my own way in the second hour (apologies--again!--if I have used that phrase before). Playing Ammar 808 immediately after the Budget Girls was probably not such a great idea, but I executed it with confidence, which seems to have made a difference there and elsewhere. I talked over Dominik Eulberg's excellent track--he always seems to provide such an opportunity--but it was so nice and long that I couldn't resist. I got Cee Bee Beaumont's name wrong no less than four times, but at least I played their track without screwing it up. You're welcome?

Alright, look, it wasn't a great night for music or talking, and what else is there, but there are at least a few things that came off properly. I ended the proceedings a little bit early, because why not quit while I am ahead?

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 January 9, 2100-2300:

1. "Overture from 'I Am Curious, Orange'" | The Fall | I Am Kurious Oranj | Beggars Banquet
2. "Phrygian Jelly" | Hairbone | Earth to Momma | Blank Forms
3. "Numbered Days" | Odd Beholder | All Reality Is Virtual | Sinnbus
4. "And Then Again - 12" Version" | A Certain Ratio | acr:set | Mute
5. "Distribution of Care" | Lotic | Power | Tri Angle
6. "P.H.U.K." | Orbital | P.H.U.K. | ACP
7. "Inertia" | All Is Well | Fragments - EP | Drumpoet Community
8. "Come on Get Happy" | Sun Kil Moon | This Is My Dinner | Caldo Verde
9. "Eagerly Hunting" | Rue Royale | In Parallel | Sinnbus
10. "The Harbour Master" | Cee Bee Beaumont | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
11. "Maka Dub" | Errol Brown | Orthodox Dub | Dub Store
12. "Freiluft" | Thomas Fehlmann | Los Lagos | Kompakt
13. "Faraday Monument" | Oliver Coates | Shelley's on Zenn-La | Rvng Int'l
14. "Silent Hedges" | Bauhaus | The Sky's Gone Out [reissue] | Beggars Banquet
15. "Davey Crockett" | Thee Headcoatees | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
16. "True Love" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Any Day Now [reissue] | Metropolis
17. "Reality World" | Pedrodollar | Studio Barnhus Volym 1 | Studio Barnhus
18. "We Are The Bees" | The Taki Twins | Old and New | self-released
19. "Rise Of The Bird" | Hot Hot Hawk | Legendary | Nang
20. "Unique Boutique" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Impossible Star | Flexidisc
21. "Farfisa" | Stereolab | Refried Ectoplasm [Switched On Volume 2] [reissue] | Duophonic
22. "Void" | Beaches | Second of Spring | Chapter Music
23. "You're So Sorry" | Budget Girls | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
24. "Degdega" | AMMAR 808 | Maghreb United | Glitterbeat
25. "Slingshot" | The Senior Service | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
26. "The God of Gaps" | The Galileo 7 | Tear Your Minds Wide Open! | Damaged Goods
27. "Cold Water People" | Ride | Tomorrow's Shore | Wichita
28. "Deadlock" | Objekt | Cocoon Crush | PAN
29. "She's Leaving" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Architecture and Morality [reissue] | Virgin
30. "Tintenfischpilz" | Dominik Eulberg | Roter Gitterling & Tintenfischpilz | Apus Apus
31. "At the Movies" | Valerie from the Galerie | Tape One | Whataboutnever
32. "What U Waiting For" | Heavee | WFM | Teklife
33. "Ventania Dub" | Bixiga 70 | The Copan Connection: Bixiga 70 Meets Victor Rice | Glitterbeat
34. "Eventually" | The Nightingales | Perish the Thought | Tiny Global Productions
35. "Infinite Pleasure, Pt. 2" | HALEY | Pleasureland | Memphis Industries

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