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Lights Flicker, Time To Start The Show: Transmission 413, 2018 June 27

It begins. After a week off I deliver the first show of the "intense" period of my year, when the critical theory summer camp that I manage (yes) is in full swing. This is my third year of doing it, and somehow it is becoming more stressful. This may be a result of my medication (and boy do I need to find a new psychiatrist) or it may be a result of my trying to do it better (look at Mr. Model Employee over here). Whatever the cause, I find myself five pounds lighter because my stomach is full of butterflies all the time. Those who know me well, which is hardly anybody, will recognize OVEReating as my normal response to stress. So this is something greater or qualitatively different. What was I saying earlier, about bodies?

Anyway, life still has its pleasures. On this night I got to witness a new show being born, and it is good to know that this still warms my heart. And what a terrific show it was--though mine was quite good on this night, it did not measure up to the simple joy delivered by "Rocket Morton" (whom I mistakenly referred to as "Rocket Morgan," ugh). I need to explore this idea, and on the next couple of shows I think I try.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 June 27, 2100-2300:

1. "Gelatin Mode" | Post Animal | When I Think of You in a Castle | Polyvinyl
2. "arts cool" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
3. "Kungssten Bus Stop Riddim" | Shakarchi & Straneus | Steal Chickens from Men and the Future from God | Studio Barnhus
4. "Funky Heaven" | A Certain Ratio | acr:mcr | Mute
5. "Djougou Yah" | Laolu & Mr. Raoul K. | Djougou Yah - EP | Compost
6. "Safety in Numbers" | Dirtmusic | Bu Bir Ruya | Glitterbeat
7. "Water Mirrors" | Jonathan Fitoussi / Clemens Hourriere | Espaces timbres | Versatile
8. "Voyage Libre (feat. LouLou Ghelichkhani)" | Thievery Corporation | Treasures from the Temple | ESL
9. "Trax 11" | Rumore | Life in the Cloud | Hot Haus
10. "Inna Trice" | Culross Close | Moments | Esencia
11. "Kongaulois" | Baloji | 137 Avenue Kaniama | Bella Union
12. "Cochi Loco" | Dual Action | Babe Beer Bar Car | Hospital Productions
13. "Not in Love" | OOFT! | Intricacies of Modern Life | FOTO Recordings
14. "New Horizon" | Opto Mystics | New Horizon | vibraphone
15. "Persuasion" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats [reissue] | Mute
16. "Thinking About You" | Jubl | Thinking Sweet | self-released
17. "Goonies Never Say Die" | Ben Frost | All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated | Mute
18. "Gravitational VII" | Landing | Bells In New Towns | El Paraiso
19. "Glow, Glow" | Fazer | Mara | Fazer
20. "Character Collapse" | Ian Hicks | Character Collapse | So Low
21. "Cosine" | Joe Ford | Colours in Sound | Shogun Audio
22. "Serafin - 12" Mix" | Opal Sunn | II | Planet Sundae
23. "Radiation Fog" | The Messthetics | The Messthetics | Dischord
24. "Ginsterblut" | Die Wilde Jagd | Uhrwald Orange | Bureau B
25. "Levitation" | K2 | Loss of Gravity | Vibraphone

It's not even funny

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Distant Sounds Inside Your Head: Transmission 412, 2018 June 13

Physical Evidence returns on this outing in the form of The Times, about which more soon. Little did I know at the time that this would be the penultimate Physical Evidence, but so it would. More about that...in a later diary entry, I guess. Back to the episode at hand: this is pretty good, not great, and hella...dynamic, I guess. Kudos to Ed Ball for not compressing the dickens out of himself. I'm not even sure what I mean.

I remember buying this Times record in the summer of 1996, coming across it online right around the time I discovered that you could use the internet to buy records. I don't remember whether I was slow to that realization or not. But everything was slow back then. Somehow I purchased Beat Torture and 23 Skidoo's Seven Songs in the same order. It was ever thus! This was also right around the time I made the decision that I would try to get in shape, or at least be a bit less fat than I was. (Why on earth I make this connection I don't know, but I do.) 22 years later...I'm still trying. I've been thinking a lot lately about bodies and why they cause us so much grief, and doing so without many epiphanies, I have to say. Sadly, that too has always been the case.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 June 13, 2100-2300:

1. "Tiny Foldable Cities - Edit" | Orbital | Tiny Foldable Cities | ACP
2. "Godevil" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Squid Balls" | Wild Zeros | Motormouth E.P | Nerve Centre
4. "Un coq a esculape" | Lyonel Bauchet | Tone Science: Module No. 1 Structure and Forces | DiN
5. "Heaven Sent Me An Angel" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Moral Autonomy" | Kohl | Learned Ethics / Imposed Ethics | Umor-Rex
7. "X-ALT" | Suuns | Felt | Secretly Canadian
8. "Scarlet and Sapphire" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Tinnitus Lullaby" | The National Jazz Trio of Scotland | Standards Vol. IV | Karaoke Kalk
10. "Metsa" | Etherwood | In Stillness | Med School Music
11. "psyfi" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
12. "Chelsea Green" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Arcangel's Thunderbird" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
14. "Delirium - Conduct Remix" | Blu Mar Ten | Empire State (Remixes) | Blu Mar Ten
15. "Uni Blue" | alva noto | Unieqav | Noton
16. "I'll Be Your Volunteer" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Hypnagogo" | Solipsism | Hypnagogo | Ambidextrous
18. "Mirrors" | PTTRNS | Material Und Geschichte | Altin Village & Mine
19. "Persephone" | Cocteau Twins | Treasure [reissue] | 4AD
20. "Dakini" | The Veldt | Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose | self-released
21. "First Time" | BAKGROUND | First Time | E-Beamz
22. "Idiot Joy Showland (Peel Session)" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
23. "It Had To Happen" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Shavit" | Xen & Yovav | Etmol Hayom | Malka Tuti
25. "Major Magnus" | Le Millipede | The Sun Has No Money | Alien Transistor
26. "On The Peace Line" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Futur Parle" | Essaie Pas | New Path | DFA
28. "Tangent" | Ekman | Tangent | Bedouin
29. "Apsurt" | Oliver Deutschmann | Lost In A Loop EP | Mote Evolver

If we could all resist

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Astonishing Empathy, or So It Says Here: Transmission 411, 2018 June 6

Finally healthy, I deliver another well-executed program on this night. I might also say "well conceived," but there is a solid ROCK BLOCK in the middle of it. "There was an hour where I was really enjoying your show," Lady Catharsis tells me. I have no doubt what part she means. Nor do I have any idea how that happened. Admittedly, it's a decent hour.

Doing standard commercial dj things ("rock blocks," "two-fer Tuesdays," "gettin' the Led out," etc.) has never really interested me, though I have been fascinated with deejaying since I was young, and I wouldn't mind if one of these days I managed to get a satin jacket or something like that out of it. One time when I was a kid my family was eating in a pizza parlour and I spotted some grown up wearing an honest-to-goodness satin jacket with a local radio station's logo emblazoned on the back. These things really existed. I went up and talked to the guy--I was maybe 11 or 12--and sure enough he was an on-air personality that I knew. Strangely, though he was not what I would call unfriendly, he was more interested in playing "Asteroids," or whatever, than in talking to me. I wonder whatever happened to the guy, whose name I of course don't remember. And I wonder whatever happened to me, that I am now deejaying for no money and not even really any swag, and not terribly interested in talking to the kids.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 June 6, 2100-2300:

1. "Untitled Three" | Tlim Shug | Untitled | Bobby Donny
2. "A Paddle Around the Drowned World" | Other Lands | Pattern Transform | Firecracker
3. "Undress" | Somewhen | AFL | Ostgut Ton
4. "Spotlight" | Baloji | 137 Avenue Kaniama | Bella Union
5. "ceremony" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
6. "Moths" | 14 Iced Bears | 14 Iced Bears [reissue] | Optic Nerve
7. "The Machine" | Helios Creed | On the Dark Side of the Sun | Klanggalerie
8. "obviously gone" | Brian Harris | Washed Up Man | self-released
9. "You Should Always Keep in Touch with Your Friends" | The Wedding Present | Marc Riley Sessions Volume 2 | Hatch
10. "Tire Eyes" | Post Animal | When I Think of You in a Castle | Polyvinyl
11. "Smile" | The Fall | Perverted By Language | Superior Viaduct
12. "Cosmic Rupture" | Mythic Sunship | Upheaval | El Paraiso
13. "We & We in Azawad" | Mdou Moctar meets Elite Beat | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
14. "When I Die" | The Autumn Sighs | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
15. "Solitude" | Up High Collective | Solitude | Tangram
16. "Scarlet" | Blackpool Astronomy | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
17. "Red Indians" | Felt | The Splendour of Fear [Reissue] | Cherry Red
18. "Wildschweinbraten" | Damo Suzuki & Jelly Planet | Damo Suzuki & Jelly Planet | Purple Pyramid
19. "Withdrawal" | Sicayda | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
20. "Roy's Garage" | Trux | Orbiter | Avenue 66
21. "Audax" | Answer Code Request | Gens | Ostgut Ton
22. "Today I" | Trudge | Negative Spaces | Lost Palms
23. "Slowly Descend into Madness" | Stillhead | Copenhagen | Brightest Dark Place
24. "Transmission - LAPB Extended Version" | Tilbury | Execution | Radio Bongo

deeper and harder than the Alaska Pipeline

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No Need for You To Cry: Transmission 410, 2018 May 30

The previous week's cold still hung over me during this program, and you can tell by the frog that I can't seem to extract from my throat. But it also left behind a trace of its magic, for this is another excellent iteration of the Bombast thing, whatever that is. (Four hundred shows and I am still figuring it out.) The added bonus is that on this night, there is no Featured Artist that Lady Catharsis cannot stand! Or is that a subtracted bonus?

In non-musical news, my work life is coming into sharp focus. Too sharp, frankly. I am entering a seven-week period in which I have to be "on" all the time. I will wake up in the middle of the night with thoughts of tasks I have to complete. At the same time, little of it is truly within my control. Such is the life of a summer camp coordinator. Bringing it back home--what does this mean for the program? Chances are it will get really good or really bad, as psychologically much will depend on it. It's my anchor.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 30, 2100-2300:

1. "Too Young To Rock'N'Roll" | Calamita | Calamita | Ruptured
2. "On the Radio - Intro" | OOFT! | Intricacies of Modern Life | FOTO Recordings
3. "Light Pours from the Hollow" | Kensington Gore | Hexagon | More than Human
4. "Vague Memories 4" | Irrelevant | Vague Memories 2 | Fauxpas
5. "Unsystematic Waves" | Potter Natalizia Zen | Shut Your Eyes On The Way Out | Ecstatic
6. "Conversation Policy - Illum Sphere Remix" | Night Christ | Conversation Policy | All City Dublin
7. "Put a Smile on Your Face" | Durand Jones & The Indications | You and Me b/w Put a Smile on Your Face | Colemine - Dead Oceans
8. "Herdhya" | Gwenno | Le Kov | Heavenly
9. "VIII" | Colin Fisher | V Le Pape | Geej
10. "People Are Blind" | Sworr. | Sworr. | Fair Weather Friends
11. "l8r h8r" | Terekke | Improvisational Loops | Music From Memory
12. "Let That Sink In" | Ant Orange | Right There | Karaoke Kalk
13. "Gazing Into Diamond Mirrors" | Weirding Module | A Newer Age | Joyful Noise Recordings
14. "Red Cow" | Brian Harris | Red Cow | self-released
15. "Main Sequence Phase" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold
16. "Laying in the Sun" | Anemone | Baby Only You & I | Fat Possum
17. "Privacy" | XJ | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
18. "Blissters" | Chris Carter | Chemistry Lessons Volume 1 | Mute
19. "the catalyst of delusion" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
20. "Proxima - 12" Mix" | Opal Sunn | II | Planet Sundae
21. "Hardingfele (Release)" | Zoe Mc Pherson | String Figures | SVS
22. "Oloddumare" | Silvio Astier | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
23. "MetaGoth" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
24. "Give Dem (Style)" | SKRS | Paradise Magic Traxx | Ancient Monarchy
25. "The Illusion (End Credits)" | Phantoms Vs Fire | Swim | Hypersoma

signs that read "free hugs"

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Got the Tools but Don't Know the Rules: Transmission 409, 2018 May 23

Another week and another "industrial" record is the feature. I didn't plan it this way, but certainly none of my long-term acquaintances would be surprised. I just do what I do, I guess, circumstances notwithstanding. On this night, the circumstance was a fever (I am just getting over the accompanying cold). Am I really this dedicated? No, I had to visit the station in any case, and figured I might as well do my show, as scheduled. Someone told me once that the only reason to miss a show was on account of death--your own. I'm not that dedicated.

It certainly didn't feel like it on the night, but this is a masterful program, if I say so, and I do. I can see, listening to Black Light District, why Lady Catharsis hates Coil so much, and maybe it stems from this very album. It's not for everyone. But it goes with everything. This would seem to argue against its greatness, according to my oft-cited theory. But, let's be honest: I have no theory, only good taste.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 23, 2100-2300:

1. "Tejo" | P. Adrix | Album Desconhecido | Principe
2. "Clean Mind" | The Skull Defekts | The Skull Defekts | Thrill Jockey
3. "Scratches and Dust" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Stealth Technology" | Black Meteoric Star | No More White Presidents | Modern Obscure
5. "The Green Plain, Pt. 2" | C. Diab | Exit Rumination | Injazero
6. "Trapped in Atlanta" | Marco Wachs | Diversity EP | IWW
7. "Blue Rats" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Hunros" | Gwenno | Le Kov | Heavenly
9. "Changes" | CHAPPO | DO IT | Votiv
10. "Green Water" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
11. "You and Me" | Durand Jones & The Indications | You and Me b/w Put a Smile on Your Face | Colemine - Dead Oceans
12. "What - Interlude" | OOFT! | Intricacies of Modern Life | FOTO Recordings
13. "Chalice" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
14. "In My Garden" | K2 | Loss of Gravity | Vibraphone
15. "Babe in the Egg of Blue" | Creta | Creta | Karl
16. "Red Skeletons" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Wise Bird" | D.K. | Mystery Dub EP | Second Circle
18. "Too Much Choice" | The Galileo 7 | Tear Your Minds Wide Open! | Damaged Goods
19. "Sent" | Afriqua | Aleph EP | R & S
20. "050315 A" | Rumore | Life in the Cloud | Hot Haus
21. "Die Wolfe Kommen Zuruck" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Astral Trails" | Deep'a & Biri | Dominance | Black Crow
23. "Laying in the Sun (Dnb Remix)" | Anemone | Baby Only You & I | Fat Possum
24. "Cold Dream of an Earth Star" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Mangrove Dawn" | Joe Morris | Jacaranda Skies | Pleasure Unit

catalyst of delusion

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Circa Nineteen-Eighty-One: Transmission 408, 2018 May 16

This program finds us back in the usual Wednesday night slot, "our special time together." I was already somewhat tired from the night before--like I said, I am too old--but emotionally amped, at least, because I would be playing a cherished record, about which more below. The show begins, though, with an embarrassing gaffe as neither Andrea or I can force the second tune--which is playing--to make a sound. I should be better than this. Apologies to Ant Orange, whoever you are. Anyway, in the interest of full disclosure, I have edited some of that silence out.

But let's talk about what we do hear. Bourbonese Qualk is a rough listen, with skips and pops aplenty, but that record has been loved. Even a perfect copy would be decidedly "lo-fi" and have its dynamics all over the place, but I think that's what its creators wanted. Why is it so dear? I feel like the home recording puts it squarely in the category of "you too can do this," and indeed it sounds in places like things Mr. D and I were trying to do back in the day. I think that, too, is intentional. I remember listening to this record a lot during a six-week period one summer when I was unemployed (how quaint that it felt like an endless stretch at the time).

Anyway, regardless of those considerations, you could do a lot worse than "Pipe Dreams," and god knows many people have done worse.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Smallbig" | The Micronaut | Contrast | Freude am Tanzen
2. "A Frozen Lake" | Ant Orange | Right There | Karaoke Kalk
3. "Critical Path" | Abyss X | Pleasures of the Bull | Danse Noire
4. "Saturn" | A Certain Ratio | I'd Like To See You Again [reissue] | Mute
5. "Stand Above the Streams, Pt. 2B" | Jason Sharp | Stand Above the Streams | Constellation
6. "Play" | Fritz Kalkbrenner | Drown | Different Spring
7. "Skin Walker" | Insect Ark | Marrow Hymns | Profound Lore
8. "Translucent" | Ismo Laakso | Ofelia | Sahko
9. "Mean Street" / "Always There" | Bourbonese Qualk | Bourbonese Qualk | New International Recordings | "Physical Evidence"
10. "LOD" | Hrtl | Sugarlump EP | Wolfskuil Limited
11. "Magma" | Inigo Kennedy | Magma / Mantle | Token
12. "Hypeway 101" | Duccio | Late Night Swing | Greta Cottage Workshop
13. "Shock Corridor" | Bourbonese Qualk | Bourbonese Qualk | New International Recordings | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Motorik" | Frank Bretschneider | Lunik | Shitkatapult
15. "Prism" | C.A.R. | PINNED | Ransom Note
16. "Dummy-Run" / "Unknown Trk" / "C2V" / "Obsession" | Bourbonese Qualk | Bourbonese Qualk | New International Recordings | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Glory" | Liz Phair | Girly-Sound to Guyville | Matador
18. "Blues at the Acropolis" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
19. "The Dance" | The Skull Defekts | The Skull Defekts | Thrill Jockey
20. "Zlota Skala Dub" | JANKA | Krzyzacy | U Know Me
21. "Mora" | Answer Code Request | Gens | Ostgut Ton
22. "Untitled" / "Black and Blues" / "Pipe Dreams" | Bourbonese Qualk | Bourbonese Qualk | New International Recordings | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Kitsch Is the New Atonality" | Gosheven | The Harvest of a Quiet Eye | Opal Tapes
24. "Colony" | Ian Boddy / Erik Wollo | Meridian | DiN
25. "Mantodea vs. Furcifer Pardalis" | Sign Libra | Closer to the Equator | Antinote
26. "Illusion" | Pure Confusion | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
27. "Mr. Bikinis" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold
28. "Nothing New to Trash Like You" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Don't Get Lost | A Records

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Every Fool Will See His Madness Crowned: Transmission 407, 2018 May 15

Here is a rarity: an "unscheduled" appearance of the program. It is strange to think of it as an unusual thing (as we shall see), but "it is what it is." It was Andrew Eldritch's birthday, something I'd meant to observe three years ago (I think) but my chance was too late in the day: 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. I think of that as the day I decided I was "too old." (One could think of it as the day I officially became a flake, but that was a long time ago.) In 2018, we're probably past the point of anyone's caring, least of all Mr. Eldritch himself, but I don't like to leave business unfinished, so here we are. I may have been in a bit of a mood, but I think I was enjoying myself, and the segues aren't too bad. I had meant to play Spacemen 3 at the end of it all--I wasn't "giving up"--but I was bad at math on this night, so we get an excerpt.

This program's being the first time in five months that I had made a substitute appearance does not stop my past from being a burden. Back when I lived and breathed WRFI (almost literally!) I would jump at the chance, almost any chance, to do radio. We were desperate for programming in the old days, and the station always seemed on the brink of going off-air for whatever reason. If I remember correctly there was one year when I made 91 appearances! Ye gods. Anyway, between getting older, getting busier, learning my limitations, deciding on further limitations, and so on, I've been much better at limiting myself to my allotted airtime--except, I guess, for that brief, wonderful period last year when Catharsis Junior wanted to do radio with me on the regular. Anyway, people think I am still like my old self! At a meeting recently, when we were doing introductions, I said that I do radio on Wednesday nights, and a colleague added "and on demand, apparently." Shots fired! DJ Andrea, who is going on "indefinite hiatus" from the Free Pile, says that she will take sub shifts from time to time, "if you don't take them all." OUCH. I guess it is my destiny, in this and other ways, not to escape my past. But this night was worth it.

I wonder what I "live and breathe" now? That is a mystery.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 15, 2100-2300:

1. "Curfew, Gaza" | Muslimgauze | Zul'm | Extreme
2. "Jihad" | The Sisterhood | Gift | Merciful Release | "Physical Evidence"
3. "A Newer Age" | Weirding Module | A Newer Age | Joyful Noise Recordings
4. "7 Sweet Nation Army Dreams" | Brian Harris | 7 Sweet Nations | self-released
5. "Paix/Paix" | Kaazi | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
6. "Colours" | The Sisterhood | Gift | Merciful Release | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Finality" | Harrison BDP | Confusion of Sound | Piff
8. "20:02 [3] starts logging #public" | Jung an Tagen | Agent Im Objekt | Editions Mego
9. "Wounds and Water" | Melentini | Zrsha; Fundus Uterus | United We Fly
10. "Little Love" | Primitive Trust | Little Love | Aus
11. "Giving Ground" | The Sisterhood | Gift | Merciful Release | "Physical Evidence"
12. "The Truth Lies" | Suns of Arqa | Land of a Thousand Churches | Arqa Sound
13. "Finland Red, Egypt White" / "Rain from Heaven" | The Sisterhood | Gift | Merciful Release | "Physical Evidence"
14. "An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music Pt. 1 [excerpt]" | Spacemen 3 | Dreamweapon | Superior Viaduct

not attempt to captivate or fascinate

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Sees the Stars at Lunchtime, Says He Has a Plan: Transmission 406, 2018 May 9

Last time out, I mentioned that I normally listen to these mixtapes at the gym. As I write this, I am calling that practice into question. My therapist, you see, has told me that she thinks that my exercise is "proxy relief from total self-hatred." ("Also," she says, "that would be a GREAT album title." I'm inclined to agree on both counts.)

Let's just assume for a moment that it's true. In that case, listening to a good mixtape serves the purpose and listening to a bad mixtape probably mitigates the effect. So either I need to improve to the point where I am only ever doing good shows--5 years in, it doesn't seem likely--or, just to be safe, I need to find some other exercise jams. OR maybe it is exercise itself that is now expendable, since maybe I should be looking for ACTUAL relief from total self-hatred. In these latter two scenarios, I don't know when I would actually listen back to my program, since I rarely have large chunks of unoccupied time. So get ready for even more sporadic posting--either that, or more "who the hell knows what happened on this night" type posts. You have been warned!

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 9, 2100-2300:

1. "Showcase" | A Certain Ratio | I'd Like To See You Again [reissue] | Mute
2. "Mr. Music" | Pete Astor | Spilt Milk | Slumberland
3. "Bloom" | Akasha System | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
4. "Roman Litter" | Felt | The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories [reissue] | Cherry Red
5. "Birds of America" | Lake Ruth | Birds of America | Feral Child
6. "The Saddest Music In The World" | Soft Riot | The Outsider in the Mirrors | Possession
7. "Pandora (For Cindy)" | Cocteau Twins | Treasure [reissue] | 4AD
8. "Eligible Receiver" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold
9. "Not Sure What To Do (Variation Zoning 4)" | Octo Octa | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
10. "2.2" | Nicklas Sorensen | Solo 2 | El Paraiso
11. "Just 15" | The Buff Medways | 1914 [reissue] | Damaged Goods
12. "To Medicine (Biased Advice)" | EXEK | Ahead of Two Thoughts | W. 25th
13. "Howl at the Summit" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
14. "420" | Death Pedals | Death Pedals | Hominid Sounds
15. "Psycho Killer" | Brian Harris | 7 Sweet Notions | self-released
16. "Sharon & Vida" | Unknown Mobile | Sharon & Vida | Normals Welcome
17. "Hotmachine" | Fast Times | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
18. "Fear of a Luminous Shadow" | Weirdest Dream | White Worms | Dopeness Galore
19. "The Border Crossing" | Dirtmusic | Bu Bir Ruya | Glitterbeat
20. "Kosmos 1680" | Harrison BDP | Confusion of Sound | Piff
21. "Iginition" | Ripperton | Sight Seeing | ESP Institute
22. "I Don't Think I Should Shout" | Jing | Adularescence | 6dimensions
23. "A ta merci" | Fishbach | A ta merci | Blue Wrasse
24. "Out of Control" | Blushing | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
25. "I Like the Way You Talk (A.R.Kane Mix)" | The Veldt | Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose | self-released
26. "Brock Tune" | Natural Magic | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
27. "Sky's Falling" | The Orb | Pop Ambient 2018 | Kompakt

from the Queen of England to the hounds of hell

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Undaunted I Will Be: Transmission 405, 2018 May 2

We'll brush aside recollections and current-events commentary for this outing and just talk about the mixtape. I did not enjoy this program. Which is to say, I did not enjoy listening to this program after the fact, which I did twice. I thought it might improve on second listen, but as always I was wrong again, as someone once said. In case you didn't know, my listening venue is the gym; I've been having problems at the gym.

My new depression meds make me extremely restless, and I just can't see the point of running myself to death on the cardio machine every day. (What would I be doing instead, with my time? Good question.) "You're just fat and content now," my psychiatrist tells me. Or--counterpoint--I'm dismayed and out of control.

Maybe this is my way of talking myself out of thinking this was a bad program. It certainly didn't feel like it on the night, and it does get "good" in the last 15 minutes or so, if you want to scroll forward that far. June Tabor doesn't really "fit," after all, which is a sign of her greatness, and elsewhere it begins to dawn on me that I might just be into miserable music. It's good that I learned this before it was too late. I think.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 2, 2100-2300:

1. "Tongue Control" | Body-San | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
2. "Last Kiss by the Volga" | Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte | Hiver Noir | Subsound
3. "Bass Playa" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Impossible Star | Flexidisc
4. "Desire Lines" | Vibrissae | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
5. "The Banks Of The Sweet Dundee" | June Tabor | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Capsule" | Strie | Perpetual Journey | Serein
7. "Contained Within While" | Weirding Module | A Newer Age | Joyful Noise Recordings
8. "If I See You Again (TBTCI Version)" | Early Morning Sky | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
9. "Lord Bateman" | June Tabor | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
10. "XX" | Nyma | XYXX | It's All In You
11. "Mambo Fist Miasma" | Severed Heads | Brave New Waves Session | Artoffact
12. "Drown the Witch" | Brian Harris | 7 Sweet Notions | self-released
13. "Loss" | John Tejada | Dead Start Program | Kompakt
14. "Donal Og" | June Tabor | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
15. "300 HZ at Whitney Museum" | Simone Gatto | Heaven Inside Your Frequencies - Pt. 1 | Pregnant Void
16. "Wakey Wakey" | B. Fleischmann | Stop Making Fans | Morr Music
17. "Goodnight Children Everywhere" | The Times | This Is London [reissue] | Tapete
18. "Shake Your Body" | Mike Umoh | Duomo Sounds LTD (Nigerian 80s Disco Music to Move Your Soul) | Odion
19. "Tal" | Primer | Signals | Rarefied
20. "Injury Time" | Pete Astor | One for the Ghost | Tapete
21. "Buscando" | Dengue Dengue Dengue | Son de los Diablos | Enchufada
22. "The Fiddle And The Drum" | June Tabor | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Bipolaire - Les Noirs" | Baloji | Bipolaire - Les Noirs | Bella Union
24. "Raw Sun" | Ornette Hawkins | The Other Side of What | AGN7
25. "Gimmick Sick" | Eric Random | Two Faced | Klanggalerie
26. "Fix This Thang" | Bibio | Beyond Serious | WARP
27. "Miracle Mind Program" | Mor Elian | Miracle Mind Program | Delft

oh dear, oh dear, oh no, oh no

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Tough Kids Love Sad Songs: Transmission 404, 2018 April 25

Now that I've got my Morrissey rant out of the way, I can settle back into my routine. "This was a solid program," and so on. But sometimes the mundane is the truth. This was a solid program. Segue-wise, I probably lost my way somewhere in the middle, but Superpitcher seemed to settle me. 15-minute songs [or whatever] will do that.

But, you know, I can't escape The Smiths no matter what I do. As I've written elsewhere, they are the reason any of this matters to me. But for a time in the late 80s I must have thought that I'd outgrown them, or they embarrassed me, or I was grieving them, or something. At any rate I "moved on" and where did I go but to Felt and the Cocteau Twins, both represented here on this broadcast.

Cocteau Twins broke my heart, and I have chronicled that, sort of, but it wasn't political. I will never be able to quit them unless I discover that one of them hates black people, or something. [I hope I'm not inviting any revelations here.]

I brought Felt into my life at a crucial time. I had of course heard "Primitive Painters" on the radio plenty of times, and I played it plenty of times, as "trendy Sacramentans" [which I ultimately became] were apparently prone to do. But I bought Poem of the River after a harsh telling-off from someone I thought was a friend, and in that moment of vulnerability it was just right. Lawrence struck me, even then, as a more interesting, less problematic Morrissey. Please god don't let him be a Brexiteer or have a thing for Hitler.

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 April 25, 2100-2300:

1. "Der Konig 1-4" | Nackt | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
2. "Online Seance" | The Sprawl | EP 2 | The Death of Rave
3. "Crystal Ball" | Felt | The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories [reissue] | Cherry Red
4. "Ode: Springtime and Summer" | Marsmobil | Fairytales of the Supersurvivor | Compost
5. "Four Faces" | Golden Teacher | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
6. "Taken" | Nyma | XYXX | It's All In You
7. "Julia's Call" | Lake Ruth | Birds of America | Feral Child
8. "The City Looks Beautiful from up Here" | Roche | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
9. "Liquid Lucite" | Johnny Jewel | Digital Rain | Italians Do It Better
10. "Dial up to the Palace" | Gary Safe | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
11. "Skinhead #2" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
12. "Listen in to the Heart" | Calendar Crowd | Perfect Hideaway | Dark Entries
13. "The City Hangover" | The Cyclist | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
14. "Electric Town" | Benoit B | Japonaiserie | Berceuse Heroique
15. "Happenings" | Weirdest Dream | White Worms | Dopeness Galore
16. "First Day" | Peder Mannerfelt | The 3D Printed Songbook | Peder Mannerfelt Produktion
17. "Micaela" | Leonardo Martelli | Menti Signole, Vol. 2 | Antinote
18. "Worldwide Sunshine (In Yr Heart Not the Sky Dub)" | Coyote Clean Up | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
19. "Duvalierism (u)" | German Army | More Bitter Fruit | Discrepant
20. "Kills v. Lies" | Efrim Manuel Menuck | Pissing Stars | Constellation
21. "Earth Wart" | Sam de la Rosa | Earth Wart | Mannequin
22. "Together" | Jupiter Jax | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
23. "Candy In Bed" | Fuzzy Feeling | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "Punky Reggae Party" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 12 | Hippie Dance
25. "My Love Paramour" | Cocteau Twins | Head Over Heels [reissue] | 4AD
26. "Wild Mountain Thyme" | Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band | Adios Señor Pussycat | Violette
27. "The War Against Intelligence (Peel Session)" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
28. "Theta v3 (Repetir)" | Existente | Theta Series | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)

heaven inside your frequencies

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