Protecting You from Psychological Harm Is Our Ultimate Aim: Transmission 444, 2019 January 16

I am pleased to report that no computer malfunctions occurred on this night. That's a first for 2019, I think. Our intrepid general manager texts me instead of calling the studio phone, and at a reasonable time as well. The stars are lining up!

Regrettably I am not at my best here, unless this is the best we can expect. My adventures in pronunciation continue, most notably with "Oneohtrix," although in my defense opinions seem to differ on that one. I have a frog in my throat, the beginning of another motif. I confidently proclaim that the PAN label is from Berlin, only to express doubt that it is even from Germany. After (finally) playing Gaye Su Akyol, I mention that "she's out of Turkey," which sounds like she is struggling to make a sandwich. Segue-ing from Public Service Broadcasting into The Snivelling Shits was perhaps less than smooth (but I did my best). And, in the "executive functioning" department, I should probably have played more reggae than the one Lee Perry track. These issues aside, this is a program for the vaults!

Reckoning: I marvel at our first airing of Skinny Puppy ("we're partying like it's 1988!") because once upon a time they were a staple of my radio diet. In my early days in college radio I labeled my program "industrial." I loved drum machines and synthesizers then (and do still) and there was a culture war afoot. This music needed defending, I felt, and there was relatively little of it and it was so hard to come by. I didn't save my playlists from that time, and there are precious few cassette recordings of old shows, but I would say that 30 years ago I played Bites quite a bit. Looking back, this music...doesn't hold up for me? (In fairness this is also true of plenty of "rock" records.) The synths and samples seem very second-wave, and the middle-aged person in me wonders if the singer isn't hurting his voice. I can't help but wonder if we saw more there than really is there. As proof that this is more about me than Skinny Puppy, I find myself enjoying OMD, of all things, in the 21st century, and I never would have played them in college. If that isn't selling out in old age I don't know what is.

 

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 January 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Blanch" | Pijn | Loss | Holy Roar
2. "Lost Orbit" | Etch | Ups & Downs | Sneaker Social Club
3. "Dead Meat Dub" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | The Black Album | Upsetter
4. "Architecture and Morality" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Architecture and Morality [reissue] | Virgin
5. "Mickey Way" | A Certain Ratio | acr:set | Mute
6. "Nge Mounkila" | Sekou Bah | Soukabbe Mali | Clermont
7. "Sajkvfighosgo" | All Is Well | Fragments - EP | Drumpoet Community
8. "Love" | Skinny Puppy | Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse [reissue] | Nettwerk
9. "Impossible Star" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Impossible Star | Flexidisc
10. "Infectious" | Eric Random | Two Faced | Klanggalerie
11. "The Unsinkable Ship" | Public Service Broadcasting | White Star Liner | PIAS
12. "Bring Me the Head of Yukio Mishima" | The Snivelling Shits | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
13. "Bread and Wine with Your Loved One" | Karl Hund | Karl Hund | Violette
14. "Trigger Warning" | EURINGER | EURINGER | Metropolis
15. "Life Gamble" | Orson | Life Gamble / 12:09 | Version
16. "Casting the Runes" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Any Day Now [reissue] | Metropolis
17. "Other Playgrounds" | Peter Kardas | Switched-On Eugene | Numero Group
18. "Cold Snap" | Law / Wheeler | Lost Fragments | Next Phase
19. "Laziko" | Gaye Su Akyol | Istikarli Hayal Hakikattir | Glitterbeat
20. "Conquer the World" | Cyanide Pills | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
21. "Dollar Man" | Brian | Dylan Done | self-released
22. "I'm Good Enough" | Thee Headcoats | In Tweed We Trust | Damaged Goods
23. "Never Gonna Push Me Around" | Mikabomb | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
24. "Quick To Judge (Don't Be So)" | The National Jazz Trio of Scotland | Standards Vol. IV | Karaoke Kalk
25. "When My Mind is Not Live" | Fabienne DelSol | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
26. "Dazzle Anew" | Objekt | Cocoon Crush | PAN
27. "Boys (Original Version)" | Bauhaus | The Bela Session | Leaving Records
28. "Burn" | Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band | The Serpent's Mouth | Big Crown
29. "The Ladder" | As One | Air Texture Vol. VI | Air Texture
30. "Monody" | Oneohtrix Point Never | The Station | WARP

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