Past Lives in Warmer Climates: Transmission 419, 2018 August 11

Here is a (now) rare birthday observance, one that I could only execute because DJ Penelope was out of town. Strangely, these impromptu rituals often turn out to be some of my best shows--something to consider. Anyway, it was Jah Wobble night, so as "promised," I took one of his records and played the whole darn thing. Since we're no longer doing Physical Evidence, I wasn't constrained by what was in print or out of print or streamable / not streamable. I think Without Judgement is streamable but I don't know and don't care. It's a great record.

I can tell you how I first came across Without Judgement. I was working at a record store during the first Bush Recession, and we were going out of business. Our clearance sale coincided with end-of-fiscal-year inventory, on the basis of which the soon-to-be-defunct business would be taxed. In order to reduce inventory (and maybe as a going-away present?), the store's assistant manager told us to pick out what we wanted, charge ourselves whatever price we wanted, and get it out of the store.

Without Judgement was one of the things I chose. It was the CD version, which has more tracks on it than the LP. I remember "Burger Bar" with particualr fondness, but alas, I was karmically repaid when someone broke into my apartment a year later and stole most of my cds [leaving my computer untouched--the 90s were such a weird time]. It would be a while before I got around to tracking down copies of the things I lost, and by the time I got another copy of Without Judgement the zeitgeist was about vinyl again, so here we are.

This episode continues my tradition (?) of closing the program with a chill-out piece, with better results this time than last, I think.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 August 11, 2000-2200:

1. "Live Jam - 1" | E.E.K. | Live At The Cairo High Cinema Institute | Nashazphone
2. "The Great Curve" | Talking Heads | Remain in Light | Sire
3. "I.T.T. (International Thief Thief)" | Fḛlá Anikulapo Kuti | Black-President | Capitol
4. "The Message" | Gyedu Blay Ambolley | The Message | Analog Africa
5. "Bungalow Park" / "What the Problem Is" / "Anything Can Happen" / "A13" / "Drowned and the Saved" / "So Many Years" / "Message from Our Sponsors" / "Coypu" / "Good Ghosts" / "Saracen" / "Eternal Vendor" / "Invisible Cities" / "Inferno" / "Location" / "Uncommercial Road" / "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" | Invaders of the Heart | Without Judgement | KK
6. "Night Driver" | Blind Idiot God | Before Ever After | Indivisible
7. "Ornamentation" | Yann Novak | Ornamentation [excerpt] | Touch

Be absolute

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