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No More Worlds Like This, No More Days Like That: Transmission 431, 2018 October 31

With this episode we enter the nostalgic period of the year--you'll find that between Halloween and New Year's I am playing mostly things that I have played before. (If you haven't heard it, it's new to you!) Things get a bit softer--planning is easier, mistakes seem more forgiveable, and so on. It's nice. Accordingly, we begin with a fairly competent program, for some values of "competent."

Admittedly, I meant to play a third song with the title "Halloween," that being Mudhoney's heavy cover of Sonic Youth. Whenever this time of year rolls around there is a ton of stuff I mean to play but don't have room for; New Order and Bauhaus also didn't make the cut on this night, though we will hear from them soon enough. Apologies to Mudhoney. Another program note: that Breathless piece is a little bit less "ambient" than I remember, and I was tricked upon rehearing it into wondering what I had sprung upon my listeners. Legends are never easy.

Another admission: I have to say that I don't "get" Halloween, or whatever it has become. As a theatre person I put myself at risk by saying this. But "sexy nurse" costumes, and the like, don't really capture what this day seems to me to be about, which is not mere dress-up. I feel like it's about coming to terms with horror, specifically the prospect of death, but I will accept a more general definition of the concept. So we have some downerish tunes, including a ghost story and a gun story that got me in some trouble with station management (that "BBF3" certainly has a pottymouth!). Finally, I (re-) share with you a bedtime story, to which I don't recommend listening by yourself. Since it's Christmas as I write this, I hope you have someone close, whom you can hold onto.

Enjoy nostalgia season!

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 October 31, 2100-2300:

1. "Halloween" | Siouxsie and the Banshees | Voices on the Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor - UMC
2. "All Night Party [John Peel Session]" | A Certain Ratio | Early | Soul Jazz
3. "Napalm Brain / Scatter Brain" | DJ Shadow | Endtroducing... | Mo Wax - FFRR
4. "$ixxx Harmonie$ Version" | Killing Sound | $ixxx Harmonie$ Version | Blackest Ever Black
5. "Reunion of Two Bodies" | Campbell Irvine | Reunion of Two Bodies / Terms of Propaganda | Infrastructure New York
6. "The Space for Waste" | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Legendary Pink Dots' Hallowe'en Special 2018 | Bandcamp self-release
7. "Badge of Evil" | Cabaret Voltaire | The Crackdown | Virgin
8. "Halloween" | Sonic Youth | A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems
9. "How Ghosts Affect Relationships" | His Name Is Alive | Livonia | 4AD
10. "Porno Base" | 23 Skidoo | Seven Songs | Ronin
11. "Hellraiser" | Coil | The Unreleased Themes From Hellraiser | Solar Lodge
12. "BBF3" | Godspeed You Black Emperor! | Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada E.P. | Constellation
13. "I Have a Special Plan for This World" | Current 93 | I Have a Special Plan for This World | Durtro

It'll be over in a minute or two

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U_D_M Detour 33, 2018 October 27

[GUEST POST]

Guy LeBatard here, and pace my most recent signoff, I did not wind up in prison. Of course we are "always already" imprisoned by dead time, try as we might to escape it. So as we approach the "dark" time of year, the likelihood of my appearance increases. Here I am, drifting through Ithaca once again, stealing airtime from the ongoing WRFI concern and hopefully putting it to good use with (still!) the only program of this kind. This program felt so good that I decided to lay in wait for another opportunity. But that is another story for another day. Perhaps we can read it together from the giant almanac of stories, over a nice bottle of wine. Which will, of course, also be stolen.

U_D_M playlist, 2018 October 27, 1900-2000:

1. "Everybody" | Obas Nenor | Warm Yellow Stickers | Nenorion
2. "Camouflage" feat. Ann Weller | Fabian Dikof | Who | Best Works
3. "Disco Puff" | Signal St | Late Night Games EP | House-Puff
4. "Moving In This Way" | Gene Tellem | Who Says No | Sounds of Beaubien Ouest
5. "Time As a River" | Voiski | Dekmantel 10 Years 07 | Dekmantel
6. "Always Disko" | Jurgen Paape | Kompakt: Total 17 | Kompakt
7. "Circular Verisimilitude" | Ugly Drums | Hold Back to Block EP | Le Petit Zoo
8. "Over Water" | Fort Romeau | Compilation 05 | Correspondant
9. "Affetto - Gerd Janson Precious Hall Remix" | Stijn Sadee | Affetto | Kitjen

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People Differ in an Absolutely General Way: Transmission 430, 2018 October 24

"We have been 'cataclysmic' tonight," I remark toward the end of this broadcast, though I think I may be exaggerating. Now firmly on the familiar ground of "long backannouncements over quieter tunes," we march onward, at this point a "mere" two months behind in our online postings. It's a sad and lonely feeling, being unprepared to post the more recent programs and knowing that they are even more off the wall and somehow better. But it's not like we ever really play "Christmas" music on this program per se, so I don't see why this late October program wouldn't warm the heart of...someone, sometime. With that hope in mind, I say, voila.

Program notes: I have found that I now prefer listening to myself in the car, as opposed to listening at the gym. But that might have to do with my recent struggles at the gym, which put me in a bad mood generally. But also...while this program generally rewards headphone listening, I have to say that headphones suck, even decent ones. Plugging something directly into my earhole provides too much...presence. [Sigh--is feeling this way a symptom of depression?] Anyway, try this with speakers, I think you will like it better.

There are things about this transmission that no listening scheme will help. The Wire segues were bad at both ends; I started "Rage" too late (a phrase which should be more loaded than it is); I cannot pronounce "Kaniama." At least I am laughing at my mistakes on air--is that to keep from crying, I wonder?

As I say on the air, "thanks for sticking with me!"

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 October 24, 2100-2300:

1. "Cogged" | Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs | YMFEES | Bokeh Versions
2. "Daydream Distortion" | Sonic Apparitions | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
3. "Mutant Moog" | Maceo Plex | Mutant 1 | Correspondant
4. "Our Day Will Come" | Sunny & The Sunliners | Mr. Brown Eyed Soul | Big Crown
5. "Help Yourself" | Bur | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Yemaya" | MAKU Soundsystem | 5 Fuegos | Peace & Rhythm
7. "On Levels" | Talons | We All Know | Holy Roar
8. "Intro" | D.A.L.I aka Deadly Avenger / Luke Insect | WHEN HARO MET SALLY | Burning Witches
9. "Of Freedom" | Matchess | Sacracorpa | Trouble In Mind
10. "Footsteps" | A Broken Sail | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
11. "A.D. - Long Version" | Pseudocode | Next One's Called... | Sub Rosa
12. "Factory Girl" | Little Axe | London Blues | Echo Beach
13. "Fridge Magnets" | Tim Reaper | Pony / Fridge Magnets | Foxy Jangle
14. "Straight Line" | Wire | Pink Flag | Pink Flag
15. "Wear Me Down" | Ross from Friends | Family Portrait | Brainfeeder
16. "Tropisme - Start-up" | Baloji | 137 Avenue Kaniama | Bella Union
17. "Walking with a Killer" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
18. "Jack Hills" | Barry Walker | Diaspora Urkontinent | Driftless Recordings
19. "Synthetic Thoughts" | Astral TV | Chrystal Shores | El Paraiso
20. "A Strychnine Kiss" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Any Day Now [reissue] | Metropolis
21. "Sawtooth" | Blind Idiot God | Undertow [reissue] | Indivisible
22. "Second Nature" | Ulterior Motive / Future Cut | GDNCE003 | Guidance
23. "The Blue Sleep" | Blaine L. Reininger | The Blue Sleep | Les Disques du Crepuscule
24. "Rage" | Seaside Caves | The DarkSide of TBTCI, II | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
25. "Multifoiled" | Cocteau Twins | Head Over Heels [reissue] | 4AD
26. "waft" | serpentwithfeet | soil | Secretly Canadian
27. "You Give and Give" | Dorian Concept | The Nature of Imitation | Brainfeeder
28. "Gum" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet [reissue] | Mute
29. "Proper" | Outside Air | The DarkSide of TBTCI, II | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
30. "cataclysmic outtro" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released

I do aim to please, it doesn't always sound like it

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A Love Like Ours Is Rare: Transmission 429, 2018 October 17

It has been a recurring blessing in my life that the timing of things just sort of works out. This has held true even (or maybe especially) in cases of ignorance or negligence--finding about this or that thing too late has led to some other opportunity, procrastinating on something has ensured that it is consummated at just the right time, etc. It is the latter case that I am considering here--just in time for Annual Gifting Day, almost as a present to myself, my program suddenly turns good again. Had I gotten around to editing and posting this October transmission in a timely manner, who knows how it would have struck me, what I would have felt?

I was surprised, listening back to this, that at first I continued in my recent, awful habit of punctuating every segue with my voice. But at some point I just sort of abandoned this tactic and "found" the truer path of doing extended backannouncements over ambient or dance tracks (apologies, ambient and dance content creators). It is so much better when I just let the segues speak for themselves. Don't get me wrong; there are still plenty of clunkers here. But it seems to me like I carry these off with more humor and aplomb than I have exhibited recently. YMMV.

Admittedly, it would be nice if I could learn to pronounce things correctly, if I could avoid getting tongue-tied, and if I could properly and consistently distinguish between band names and song titles. But there's still time to develop those skills. Isn't there?

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 October 17, 2100-2300:

1. "Zamboling" | Druk 11000 | Zamboling / Sibsoo Bazaar | Hoga Nord
2. "Model 48" | P.J. Philipson | Linotopia | Little Crackd Rabbit
3. "Only Old" | Ben Hauke | Only Old | Far Out
4. "Ensemble (Wesh)" | Baloji | 137 Avenue Kaniama | Bella Union
5. "Machete" | MAKU Soundsystem | 5 Fuegos | Peace & Rhythm
6. "Armado" | PTTRNS | Material Und Geschichte | Altin Village & Mine
7. "Monotony" | Miss Ludella Black | Till You Lie In Your Grave | Damaged Goods
8. "Brazil" | Wire | Pink Flag | Pink Flag
9. "Fsmooth3" | Tapeworms | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
10. "Make Me You" | Secret Shine | There Is Only Now | Saint Marie
11. "Talk About Bones" | Seeming | Sol: A Self-Banishment Ritual | Artoffact
12. "Ricochet" | ANOHNI | Paradise | Rough Trade
13. "Junghof Love Star" | Ingo Boss | Cocoon Compilation R | Cocoon
14. "Twenty Something" | Jesu Sun Kil Moon | 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth | Caldo Verde
15. "Inkstain" | Chris Carter | Chemistry Lessons Volume 1 | Mute
16. "Where Is It Going?" | Orbital | Wonky | ACP
17. "I've Got a Conflicted Mind (Alt. Version)" | Wild Billy Childish / CTMF | I've Got a Conflicted Mind | Damaged Goods
18. "Break the Glass" | Superchunk | Break the Glass / Mad World | Merge
19. "For Every Flaw" | Japan Suicide | The DarkSide of TBTCI, II | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
20. "Transmitting Illicit Logic" | Cosmic Force | Transmitting Illicit Logic | Something Happening Somewhere
21. "I Want To Be Alone" | oOoOO & Islamiq Grrrls | Faminine Mystique | Nihjgt Feelings
22. "All Featureless Corridors" | G.S. Schray | Gabriel | Last Resort
23. "Botanical Garden" | BLNDR | L'Observatoire | Hypnus
24. "The Melody - Henrik Schwarz Remix" | Carl Craig | Versus Remixes, Vol. 2 | Infine
25. "The Plasma Twins" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Any Day Now | Metropolis
26. "Wodwo" | Black Lodge | Bitter Blood (A Collection of Archival Recordings) | Disciples
27. "Cutthroat (Lena Willikens Remix)" | S U R V I V E | RR7387 | Relapse
28. "The Great Escape" | Natureboy Flako | Theme for a Dream | Five Easy Pieces

No one can tell me that I'm too young to know

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We'll Be the Pirate Twins Again: Transmission 428, 2018 October 14

As promised, the healing begins here. It takes a fill-in appearance and a semi-divine intervention from Lady Catharsis, but we will accept a good program on any terms. As was the case with UB40 a couple of weeks ago, it definitely helps that the broadcast is anchored by a good long-playing record. But, as one of us remarked at some point in the episode, "it [was] a night of good segues"--and unplanned ones at that.

I'm struck by my remark about Section 25--"another synth-pop classic," or something like that. What was the first, I wonder? Could it have been The Golden Age of Wireless? Though it must have struck me as "synth pop" back in the day, when "one synth" seemed to be sufficient, it strikes me as simply "pop" now (and that's--shockingly--not an insult. This is very good pop).

It is somewhat hilarious (perhaps an insult in this case) how our understanding of the actual record we are playing changes in real time. It turns out we are playing an American pressing, not Canadian and not English, and not the original tracklisting. But any time your record has 68 pressings, that's a good sign, no matter what clowns like us have to say about it.

[aside--just had a major case of deja vu typing that last sentence. I hope it isn't something I have actually said before--I can't imagine what the context might have been.]

I hope it comes across that we love The Golden Age of Wireless, because we do.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 October 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Nation" | Colourbox | Colourbox [MAD 315 CD] | 4AD
2. "Biti Six" | Bamba Pana | Poaa | Nyege Nyege Tapes
3. "Without Mercy II (Face 2)" | The Durutti Column | Without Mercy | Factory - Airea
4. "Europa and the Pirate Twins" / "Flying North" / "Weightless" / "Leipzig" / "Windpower" / "Commercial Breakup" / "Urges" / "Airwaves" / "Radio Silence" / "Cloudburst at Shingle Street" | Thomas Dolby | The Golden Age of Wireless | Harvest
5. "Beneath the Blade" / "Inspiration" | Section 25 | From the Hip | Factory
6. "Changer Demain" | Adam Johnson | Chigliak | Merck

My plasma lady fair

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There's Always Danger in Your Dreams: Transmission 427, 2018 October 10

I can't possibly guess whether you'd want good news or bad news first, but since I have to choose one, I'll begin with the bad. Without the crutch of topicality or a full album to play on that (or some other) basis, I lapse back into the incoherence and annoyance of recent episodes. Sorry about that. Lady Catharsis would probably tell me I am more irritated than anyone else would be, but I can't be certain. I find myself listening to an episode like this and shaking my head at times, approaching every segue hoping that I will keep my mouth shut and being somehow disappointed but unsurprised when I don't. There may be a passage in the middle where I manage to stay out of the way, and that may make you smile--at least it did me. But the whole thing falls apart toward the end, a terminus for which I cannot wait.

The good news is that I think this episode ends this terrible run of form. Better things are coming, just in time for the holidays! Brace yourself.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 October 10, 2100-2300:

1. "Common Dominator" | Shlomi Aber | Whistler | Figure
2. "Wolf Eats Wolf" | Tony Allen | The Source | Blue Note
3. "No Further Ahead Than Today" | Ulrich Schnauss | No Further Ahead Than Today | Scripted Realities
4. "C'est Chaud" | Amadou & Mariam | La Confusion | Because Music
5. "Bright" | Landing | Bells In New Towns | El Paraiso
6. "Sticks and Stones" | Thee Headcoatees | Punk Girls [reissue] | Damaged Goods
7. "Der Schimmelreiter ruckwarts" | Station 17 | Blick | Bureau B
8. "The View from Here" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | The Punishment of Luxury | 100%
9. "Hadjiatou" | Mamadou Kelly | Politiki | Clermont
10. "Sobrevolar" | Lasitud | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
11. "All This Has Always To Be Filmed." | Coil with Black Sun Productions | The Plastic Spider Thing | Rustblade
12. "Seed Bank" | Pariah | Here From Where We Are | Houndstooth
13. "Unexpectedly" | Megumi Acorda | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "The Vortex" | Alaska | Hold On / The Vortex | Arctic Music
15. "Blasted Heath" | EOD | Named | BBBBBB
16. "We're Makin' a Hell" | Rock Town Express | Funky Makossa | Comb & Razor
17. "Skin and Bones" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Something Else | A Recordings
18. "Underwater" | Hugo LX | Desiderata EP | Motor City Drum Ensemble
19. "P.S. Goodbye" | The Chameleons | What Does Anything Mean? Basically [reissue] | Blue Apple
20. "Passing By" | The National Jazz Trio of Scotland | Standards Vol. IV | Karaoke Kalk
21. "Dawn" | DJ Khalab | Black Noise 2084 | On the Corner
22. "Analogue Test Oct 16" | Orbital | Monsters Exist | ACP
23. "Tchakoulate" | Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds | 1974-1975 | Analog Africa
24. "Sudden Move" | Phil Gerus | Sudden Move | True Romance
25. "The Drop" | Causa Sui | Vibraciones Doradas | El Paraiso
26. "All This And More" | The Wedding Present | George Best 30 | Scopitones
27. "Structures and Behavior (Intrepid)" | The Mayhem Lecture Series | Structures and Behavior | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)

Fruit juice everywhere

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Sardonicus Keeps Smiling Till the End: Transmission 426, 2018 October 3

My program tries to be topical when it can. In late September and early October, which seem about 50 years ago now, Americans were transfixed by the trainwreck of a nomination process for (now) Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a belligerent drunk (possibly formerly, but no one is sure) who almost certainly at least tried to rape at least one woman. It was a sordid process leading to a predetermined outcome, and you felt (rightly) that there was nothing you could do to stop it. That reminds me of something, though I can't quite put my finger on what that is.

Because the whole thing needed just a touch of bleak humor, it emerged the week of this program that at some point (1985?) Kavanaugh and his bros had gone to a UB40 gig, presumably in New Haven. Afterward, at a bar, Kavanaugh had confronted someone he mistook for Ali Campbell; angry at being properly rebuffed, he initiated a fight. This led to a brief, unresolved national dialogue on whether this is something that all "real men" do--starting barfights, not attendinng UB40 concerts, sadly.

I've never done either, though UB40 did come through my hometown on what seems to be that same tour. I bet they would have been good, if the disc I played on this program is any evidence. And, though I seem less intrusive on this program than I have seemed recently, the disc certainly "stops the bleeding," by which I mean the run of terrible shows brought on by lapses of judgment and technique. If only I had heeded the lesson I learned here, which is to go back to the basics--can you just play one thing and not screw it up? It's a solid foundation.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 October 3, 2100-2300:

1. "Missing You" | Petar Dundov | At The Turn of Equilibrium | Music Man
2. "Heart for Yes. Like for No." | Man Power | Souvenirs | Correspondant
3. "Repercussions - Live" | A Certain Ratio | acr:mcr | Mute
4. "Snake Hips" | Trinidadian Deep | The Tribute Songs | Shelter
5. "Thaw" | deathlist | The DarkSide of TBTCI, II | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Burning Curtains" | Orvar Smarason | Light Is Liquid | Morr Music
7. "The Stop Next" | The Lost End | The DarkSide of TBTCI, II | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "Something's Missing Inside" | CTMF | Something's Missing Inside | Damaged Goods
9. "Touch of Goodbye" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope (II) | Numero Group
10. "Galactic Cruise" | Retep Folo | Galactic Sounds | Clay Pipe
11. "I'm Your Man" | Spiritualized | And Nothing Hurt | Bella Union
12. "Glossine (Zombie)" | Baloji | 137 Avenue Kaniama | Bella Union
13. "Mantaray" | Syrup, Go On | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "Floor Lord" | The Lavender Flu | Mow the Glass | In the Red
15. "Food for Thought" / "Sardonicus" / "Don't Slow Down" / "Folitician" / "Tyler" / "Present Arms" / "Piper Calls the Tune" / "Love Is All Is Alright" / "Burden of Shame" / "One in Ten" | UB40 | Live | Disky

Together, we shall live

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You Broke the World That You're Not Long For: Transmission 425, 2018 September 26

Disaster should perhaps be my middle name. Were it not for the fact that "Kid Disaster Catharsis" doesn't have a ring to it, and that the legal process is expensive and needlessly complicated, as I have recently discovered, I might make this a reality. If you wonder why I am pondering this, click the "play" button on this episode to find out. To say that most of it makes little sense to me is an understatement. Perhaps if I'd listened a bit sooner after it was actually broadcast, I might understand the "mood" I was in at the time, but...whom am I kidding?

The tracks themselves are decent enough (most of them, anyway). The segues baffle me completely, and I am annoyed by THIS GUY who keeps butting in between songs. I really wish he would go away, and can't wait for the day that he does.

A strange, merciful thing happens toward the end of the program, though. My laptop loses its charge and shuts off abruptly, and I am "flying blind" like Luke at the end of the first Star Wars movie. And everything magically gets better. Maybe if you just skip to the last half-hour of the program we can agree to believe that the first 3/4 of the show never happened. Does this sound like a plan?

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 September 26, 2100-2300:

1. "Feel It" | Peshay | Reflections | De:tuned
2. "Anywhere But Here" | Ulrich Schnauss / Jonas Munk | Passage | Azure Vista
3. "Greatness in the Catapult" | Michal Turtle | Middle of the Road Less Traveled | Light of Other Days
4. "Perfect Disco Machine" | Bindiga | Duomo Sounds LTD (Nigerian 80s Disco Music to Move Your Soul) | Odion
5. "Vault - Moby Remix" | Pendulum | The Reworks | Ear Storm
6. "Mind-Numbing Entertainment" | Velveteen Rabbit | Mind-Numbing Entertainment | HoZac
7. "Cloud of Hate" | Superchunk | What a Time to Be Alive | Merge
8. "Meet Me Dub" | Impact All-Stars | Java Java Java Java - Instrumentals Dubwise Versions | Get On Down
9. "Na My Turn - Dub" | Dele Sosimi meets Prince Fatty / Nostalgia 77 | You No Fit Touch Am In Dub | Wah Wah 45s
10. "Es Vedra - The Mystical Island" | Madcat | Petite musique de chanvre | FHUO
11. "Freesia i" | J Colleran | Gardenia | Because Music
12. "Poema" | L_cio | Poema | D.O.C.
13. "Dirty Game" | Secret Shine | There Is Only Now | Saint Marie
14. "Anticipated Sentence" | The National Jazz Trio of Scotland | Standards Vol. IV | Karaoke Kalk
15. "A Rubik's Cube" | RDTK | Human Resources | Denovali
16. "U Knw What 2 Do" | SKRS | Paradise Magic Traxx | Ancient Monarchy
17. "Echosystem" | Lynch Kingsley | Echosystem | Rua Sound
18. "Compte et Comptine Pt. 1" | Matthias Puech | Purlieu | Panatype
19. "L'inizio" | Verner | Crash of the Web Era | Quartet Series
20. "Erotica" | Kontinuum | No Need to Reason | Season of Mist
21. "Brume" | Mika Vainio / Franck Vigroux | Ignis | Cosmo Rhythmatic
22. "Emulsiya" | AEM Rhythm-Cascade | Litie | Gost Zvuk
23. "Light of the Rising Sun" | Brucken / Froese | Beginn | SFE
24. "Spiral Ascending" | Jodie Lowther & A. R. C. Soundtracks | The Blow, Vol. 4 | Front and Follow
25. "Facing North" | Synkro / Arovane | Refractive (Index) | Apollo
26. "V.I" | Papir | V | Stickman

If you've waited this long, then you've already gone

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Can I Be You, I Don't Want To Be Me: Transmission 424, 2018 September 19

Slightly better this time out, I have to say! Though I fear that we'll have to endure several more episodes of the "one-song backannouncement" between tracks, I think I handle it a bit more adeptly this time. At least, it seems to me that I ruined fewer good segues. There is no helping the bad ones! It doesn't hurt that the music between the segues, at least to my ears, sounds a bit better than in recent episodes. That's not nothing.

I have to say, I've been on a bit of a kick lately with this radio thing. Could it be that my passion has been reignited by something? I have no idea what! Maybe it's just that the previous two episodes were so cringeworthy I became paralyzed for three months. It happens. But I can promise you there is some good stuff coming--uhhh, in November. Don't worry, we'll get there together. Sooner or later.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 September 19, 2100-2300:

1. "High Rise (Not Waving Remix)" | S U R V I V E | RR7387 | Relapse
2. "Ghost Sleep" | Mob Killa | What If We Drink Coffee | Rarefied
3. "Sun" | Mr. Fries | WOLFEP045 | Wolf Music Recordings
4. "Astadjam Dada Sare" | Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds | 1974-1975 | Analog Africa
5. "London" | Northwest | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Hidden Force - Vocal Mix" | Kompozyt & Lee "Scratch" Perry | Hidden Force | Trees Will Remain
7. "Systems" | Adrian Younge | The Electronique Void | Linear Labs
8. "Lateral Alice" | Ride | Weather Diaries | Wichita
9. "When Your Dreams" | Reveries | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
10. "Thrive" | Monoloc / Jonas Landwehr | STYX | Unterland
11. "About the Author" | Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs | YMFEES | Bokeh Versions
12. "So It Conquer" | Lee "Scratch" Perry + Subatomic Sound System | Super Ape Returns to Conquer | Echo Beach
13. "Sibsoo Bazaar" | Druk 11000 | Zamboling / Sibsoo Bazaar | Hoga Nord
14. "The Movements" | La Fraicheur | Self Fulfilling Prophecy | Infine
15. "V.V" | Papir | V | Stickman
16. "Drift" | The Orb | No Sounds Are Out of Bounds | Cooking Vinyl
17. "Abandoned Soul" | Jimi Jules | Midnight Juggernaut EP | Watergate
18. "Ashley" | Bichkraft | 800 | Wharf Cat
19. "There It Goes" | Pete Astor | Spilt Milk | Slumberland
20. "Sensation" | The Room in the Wood | The Room in the Wood | A Turntable Friend
21. "Cicely" | Cocteau Twins | Treasure [reissue] | 4AD
22. "I Try" | Pinemoon | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Pyramid Scheme" | Michael Rault | It's a New Day Tonight | Wick
24. "Long Way Home" | Fred Everything | Long Way Home | Lazy Days
25. "Crawl Away" | Harvey Lush & His Orchestra | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "Opferator" | Afriqua | Aleph EP | R & S

The weird stuff is already beginning

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Dare To Live in Your Body: Transmission 423, 2018 September 12

Thankfully, on this outing I was not sick, though that is nearly the best thing that one can say about this program. A common problem rears its head here with uncommon frequency--a segue that sounded good at home sounds terrible, suddenly, in the moment and on air. So there's plenty of that to look forward to. Elsewhere, I ruin many a decent segue by doing a "one-song backannouncement over the crossfade.

[Sigh] I think I had decided upon this because I was growing tired of delivering long lists of discographical information and talking over the bulk of a track. But to me that is clearly better than what is on display here. My voice is not a palette-cleanser, I guess! It would also help if I avoided stupid mistakes like forgetting that the "Mr." in "Mr. Marouf" was "monsieur" and not "mister." That one particularly bugged me.

There happens to be a sublime passage in the second hour of the program, I would say, from Bromide through Oiseaux-Tempete. And the last two tracks therein prevent it from being a solid rock block! That's not nothing.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 September 12, 2100-2300:

1. "Incorporeal Life" | Alice Bag | Alice Bag | Don Giovanni
2. "Science" | Finiflex | Suilven | Finiflex
3. "Mana Yero Koy" | Samba Toure | Wande | Glitterbeat
4. "kronsphere" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
5. "Unathi" | El Michels Affair | Unathi b/w Zaharila | Big Crown
6. "Tekoaly - feat. Islaja" | Tatu Ronkko | Spheres | Sonic Pieces
7. "Blue Hour" | Pinkshinyultrablast | Miserable Miracles | Club AC30
8. "First Pour" | Head Technician | Profane Architecture | Ecstatic
9. "Drinking It In Again (Chapter IV)" | Leon Vynehall | Nothing Is Still | Ninja Tune
10. "Falling Man" | Vienna Youth | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
11. "Mr. Marouf" | Jacob Yates | The Hare. The Moon. The Drone. | Optimo
12. "Disarray" | Preoccupations | New Material | Jagjaguwar
13. "VIIII" | Colin Fisher | V Le Pape | Geej
14. "Zig-Zag" | Thee Headcoatees | Punk Girls [reissue] | Damaged Goods
15. "Roter Gitterling" | Dominik Eulberg | Roter Gitterling & Tintenfischpilz | Apus Apus
16. "Waiting to Land" | July Skies | The English Cold [reissue] | Caroline True
17. "Futurist Shore Leave" | Bromide | I Woke Up | Scratchy Records
18. "Searching in the Wilderness" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
19. "Ministry of Emergency Situations (Riley Session 26.06.18)" | Unpaid Intern | The DarkSide of TBTCI, II | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
20. "No Manchester" | Ruby Karinto | Ruby Karinto | HoZac
21. "Wait or Hide" | Landing | Bells In New Towns | El Paraiso
22. "When the Cocoon Is Finished the Spider Watches the Victim" | Coil with Black Sun Productions | The Plastic Spider Thing | Rustblade
23. "Coda - And Dream Slowly" | Oiseaux-Tempete | Tarab | Sub Rosa
24. "Sweet Rock Town" | Rock Town Express | Funky Makossa | Comb & Razor
25. "Needles Disney" | Jesu Sun Kil Moon | 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth | Caldo Verde
26. "As We Open, So We Close" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | The Punishment of Luxury | 100%
27. "Phantom Limb" | Seeming | Sol: A Self-Banishment Ritual | Artoffact
28. "In Voice 21" | Bulkhead | Aft Pressure | 2MR

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