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Live in the Light and Breathe the Noise: Transmission 383, 2017 December 13

I was angry on this night, because a listener had made a request in an obnoxious way. "I like what I'm hearing," the caller said, "but this would kick it up a notch." (Who uses Chef Emeril catchphrases in 2017, you were probably wondering. This person.) Like, was it impossible to just ask for a song without intimating that it would make my program better? Requests are already problematic enough in this day and age. There's a tension between everything already being on the internet (as the requested tune was) and our particular status as a listener-supported station. We shouldn't have to be anyone's jukebox, but we more or less must. There is the odd person every now and then who doesn't have internet, but how big a financial backer is such a person going to be?

Anyway I won't poison your experience any further by telling you which song it was that I didn't plan on playing when the evening began. You'll have to figure that out on your own.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 13, 2100-2300:

1. "Welcome" | Orson Wells | Pneumatics | Live at Robert Johnson
2. "Anatomie De Lenfer" | Teresa Winter | Untitled Death | The Death of Rave
3. "Invisible Man (demo)" | The Breeders | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Forever" | Pink Fluid | Pipe Dreams | Horisontal Mambo
5. "Mad World" | Superchunk | Break the Glass / Mad World | Merge
6. "Charles" | Skids | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
7. "Mistress (remix)" | Red House Painters | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
8. "I Don't Know" | UV Pop | In Your Skin | Genetic
9. "New Way of Feeling" | Toby Tobias | The Rain | Delusions of Grandeur
10. "Where Are All Those Puerto Rican Boys?" | Unrest | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
11. "Filter Me Through You" | The Dream Syndicate | Filter Me Through You | Anti
12. "ChakachaMaasaiMbili - feat. Maasai Mbili & Oren Gerlitz" | Gebruder Teichmann | Lost on Earth | Noland
13. "Orere Elejigbo" | Lidaju Sisters | Horizon Unlimited | Knitting Factory
14. "No One Else (But Me)" | Rock Town Express | Funky Makossa | Comb & Razor
15. "This Is The Way (Pt 2)" | Ultra Vivid Scene | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
16. "Heard My Name" | Omni | Multi-task | Trouble In Mind
17. "Shatner" | The Wedding Present | George Best 30 | Scopitones
18. "Firefly" | Heidi Berry | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
19. "Boda Has No Radio" | Ross Alexander | Memorias, Vol. 1 - Bugandan Sacred Places | Sucata Tapes
20. "Your Eyes (remix)" | Underground Lovers | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
21. "The Car" | Apartment | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
22. "I Love You Citizen" | Seeming | Sol: A Self-Banishment Ritual | Artoffact
23. "Totally Freaked Out" | Bettie Serveert | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
24. "Usa" | Ultra Satan | Usa / Usb | Hoga Nord
25. "Happy Time" | Brendan Perry | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
26. "Prism, Pt. 2" | Throwing Snow | Embers | Houndstooth
27. "Syrtos Sta Dyo" | Alexis Zoumbas | A Lament for Epirus, 1926-1928 | Angry Mom | "The Listening Parlour"
28. "Gravity:Repulsion" | Michael Beach | Gravity/Repulsion | Spectacular Commodity
29. "Keep Breaking It Down" | Howard Ivans | Beautiful Tired Bodies | Spacebomb
30. "The Embers" | Enter Shikari | The Spark | Play It Again Sam
31. "Desire Lines (demo)" | Lush | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
32. "The Pillars of Creation" | Electrosoul System & Liquitek | Kosmological Conspiracy | Kos.Mos
33. "Do Yoused To Go" | Anno Stamm | FragmentsB | All City Dublin

Like it or not, I prefer it this way

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Snoring Dark Frequencies into the Night: Transmission 382, 2017 December 6

Please find attached the first December program of the year. It begins well! They all seem to begin well. In my previous life in the theatre, I always wanted to know that I was "in good hands" at the start of a performance. If I felt that way, I could forgive whatever mistakes and weirdness might happen later. If I didn't feel that way I would never feel comfortable. I hope this program makes you feel comfortable, at least at first.

Are there mistakes and weirdnesses here? I'm sorry, is this your first time visiting the podcast site? We start off with Peter Buck, the evening's featured artist, dropping a metric ton of f-bombs in his first song. It got me thinking--there was a time, not too long ago, when I would have felt rebellious playing such a tune. Now--my parents are listening (corollary--will I ever grow up?), I'm tired and sad, and language only seems to free the wrong people in this time.

Happy holidays!

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 December 6, 2100-2300:

1. "The Golden Age" | Susanne Sundfor | Music for People in Trouble | Bella Union
2. "Czech One" | King Krule | Czech One | XL
3. "Muffler" | Rowan Box | Just Breathe / Muffler | M.I.S.T.
4. "By the Way" | Lee Hazlewood | Love and Other Crimes | LHI | "The Listening Parlour"
5. "Winning" | The Sound | From the Lion's Mouth | Korova
6. "It's Alright" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
7. "All Rolled Up" | F Ingers | Awkwardly Blissing Out | Blackest Ever Black
8. "20 Block Lockdown" | Richard H. Kirk | Dasein | Intone
9. "Migraine" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Kimigayo" | Merzbow | Trax Test (Excerpts from the Modular Network 1981-1987) | Ecstatic
11. "Back a Bit.. Stop" | The Wedding Present | Marc Riley Sessions Volume 2 | Hatch
12. "Return (Peel Session)" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
13. "Travel Without Arriving" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
14. "524" | Cooper Bowman | Maud Variations | Resistance / Restraint
15. "Nowhere No Way" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Shame" | I Speak Machine | Zombies 1985 | Lex
17. "Rodent" | Burial | Rodent | Hyperdub
18. "10 Million BC" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Catching an L" | Greg Fox | The Gradual Progression | Rvng Int'l
20. "No Answers - Concealed Identity Remix" | Soul Intent | No Answers | Exkursions
21. "Hard Old World" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
23. "Divine Voices" | The/Das | Exit Strategies | Life & Death
24. "In a Parallel World - (Alt. Version)" | Wild Billy Childish / CTMF | I've Got a Conflicted Mind | Damaged Goods
25. "Cheap Mimicry" | Terry Malts | Split EP | Emotional Response
26. "Biosolution for Today" | Nostalgia | Trax Test (Excerpts from the Modular Network 1981-1987) | Ecstatic
27. "L.V.M.F." | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Rise Of The White Dwarf" | Pfirter | Double Existence | Mindtrip
29. "Nothing Means Nothing" | Peter Buck | Peter Buck | Mississippi / Change | "Physical Evidence"
30. "Zahir" | Concealed Identity | No Answers | Exkursions
31. "Derealization" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold

God bless the cold winds and its refreshing consequence

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To Those Who Offend You, Show Mercy: Transmission 381, 2017 November 29

Here is the first post-Thanksgiving program, and therefore the first program of our sixth year on the air. It continues to blow my mind that they let me keep doing this. Back in 2012 I thought maybe I would get ten programs out of my WRFI experience if I didn't offend anybody. That I remain fixated on this--"wow, unbelievable"--and don't just accept it and move forward is what my therapist would call a "frozen shutdown response." I am working on it, I promise.

Ok, I am amused that right off the bat I called the Fort Romeau tune "EMO II." I don't care what anyone thinks. That is accurate. Synths and drum machines from "that time" are emotional. I am realizing that music is a time machine and there is an increasing list of rides I don't want to take. Fort Romeau--if you're reading--I enjoyoed your track!

Do your best this week not to freeze or shut down.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 November 29, 2100-2300:

1. "Emu II" | Fort Romeau | Emulators | Running Back
2. "Raining Horses" | Shit and Shine | Some People Really Know How to Live | Editions Mego
3. "The Truth (Shall Save Us)" | Foundars 15 | Fire Woman | Comb & Razor
4. "Exclam" | Trickfinger | John Frusciante presents Trickfinger II | Acid Test
5. "E.I.A. (Emergency In Africa)" | Daniel Dzidzonu | Unknownland | Zephyrus
6. "Quelqu'un Est Jaloux (Someone Is Jealous)" | Delin T. Guillory & Lewis Lafleur | Aimer et Perdre: To Love & To Lose: Songs, 1917-1934 | Angry Mom Archives | "The Listening Parlour"
7. "You Will Find Out" | Fake Laugh | Fake Laugh | Headcount
8. "T" | Sites 'n Sounds | The Night Is so Dark | Slovenly
9. "Upside Your Head" | Thee Headcoats | The Jimmy Reed Experience | Get Hip | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Final Transmission" | Jochen Heym | Sononaut | Stonedwave
11. "Map to the Stars" | Ducktails | Jersey Devil | New Images
12. "Bright Lights, Big City" | Thee Headcoats | The Jimmy Reed Experience | Get Hip | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Lullabies for the Lost and Forgotten" | Beastie Respond | Information City | Foul Up
14. "Gentle Soul" | Four Tet | New Energy | Text
15. "Honest I Do" | Thee Headcoats | The Jimmy Reed Experience | Get Hip | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Impotent Garden" | Violence | Human Dust To Fertilize the Impotent Garden | PTP
17. "Natural Tradition" | Beaches | Second of Spring | Chapter Music
18. "Simple Things" | Carmen Villain | Infinite Avenue | Smalltown Supersound
19. "Hay Fever" | 14 Iced Bears | 14 Iced Bears [reissue] | Optic Nerve
20. "Silver Lining" | Makoto | Salvation | Hospital
21. "Out Here" | Lord of the Isles | Permanent Vacation X (10 Years Label Anniversary) | Permanent Vacation
22. "High and Lonesome" | Thee Headcoats | The Jimmy Reed Experience | Get Hip | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Vespa" | Bicep | Bicep | Ninja Tune
24. "Cielo" | Tensnake | Permanent Vacation X (10 Years Label Anniversary) | Permanent Vacation
25. "Fade Away" | Dead Man's Chest | Trilogy Dubs, Vol. 3 | Ingredients
26. "I Remember" | Thee Headcoats | The Jimmy Reed Experience | Get Hip | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Party in the Dark" | Mogwai | Every Country's Sun | Rock Action
28. "Ain't That Lovin' You Baby" | Thee Headcoats | The Jimmy Reed Experience | Get Hip | "Physical Evidence"
29. "The Strange Silence" | John Talabot | Permanent Vacation X (10 Years Label Anniversary) | Permanent Vacation
30. "Theta v5 (Repetir)" | Existente | Theta Series | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)

awkwardly blissing out

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You've Made Me Suspicious of People Who Are Kind: Transmission 380, 2017 November 19

Looking back at this, the final program of our fifth year, I'm feeling better than I did the last time out. It's a slight improvement, but improvement matters! Fitting, isn't it, that this is a fill-in program, as there's no possible way we could have averaged 76 programs a year without them?! And here I was thinking that 2017 had been a light year in terms of this. As always, my perception is a bit off.

Typically, I can't wrap my mind around some of these segues. How could I have thought these would work? For every "Big Dream from a Small Room" into "Fool Babe" (not sure how that one made it into the program but there it is), there's an Akkord into The Smiths (not sure how much longer I can indulge my Morrissey fixation publicly). There is, additionally, at least one point where I begin to play a song for the second time on the night. But I am pretty sure it is a good song, and quality matters.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 November 19, 2100-2300:

1. "Extricate" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
2. "The Great Dying" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold
3. "Big Dream from a Small Room" | Brian Harris | My Sister's Wedding | self-released
4. "Fool Babe" | Shelley Short | Pacific City | Mississippi Modern
5. "Crisis" | Gerry Read | New Junk City | Ramp Recordings
6. "Greenland" | The Wedding Present | Going, Going... | Scopitones
7. "Moonflower" | Auburn Lull | Hypha | Azure Vista
8. "This Is Your Life" | Glaxo Babies | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
9. "A Single Hellfire Missile Costs $100,000" | Ben Frost | The Centre Cannot Hold | Mute
10. "Dead Pop Stars" | Altered Images | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
11. "Static Burn" | Lina Tullgren | Won | Captured Tracks
12. "Gaslighter" | Faerground Accidents | Co-Morbid | Louder Than War
13. "Set Me Free" | THE TINOPENERS | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
14. "Ghost" | The Horrors | V | Wolf Tone
15. "Fire With Fire" | Fred V & Grafix | Cinematic Party Music | Hospital
16. "Wild Dub" | Generation X | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
17. "Instrumental" | Florist | If Blue Could Be Happiness | Double Double Whammy
18. "I'd Rather Spend My Time With You" | Flamin' Groovies | Fantastic Plastic | Sonic Kicks / Severn
19. "Jamaica 88" | Psychic Health | Exclusion | Time No Place
20. "Strain" | Chelsea Wolfe | Hiss Spun | Sargent House
21. "DRUMMER MAN" | Tonight | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
22. "Chainsaw Massacre" | Utopia Production | Trax Test (Excerpts from the Modular Network 1981-1987) | Ecstatic
23. "It's Coming to a Point" | Sløtface | Try Not to Freak Out | Propeller
24. "Trybuna Ludu" | B-Sides | Trax Test (Excerpts from the Modular Network 1981-1987) | Ecstatic
25. "Unite et Litre" | Baloji | 64 Bits & Malachite | Bella Union
26. "First Time" | The Boys | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
27. "You Are Me And I Am You" | Jesu Sun Kil Moon | 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth | Caldo Verde
28. "Midnight Cowboy" | Acetone | 1992 - 2001 | Light in the Attic
29. "Big Shot" | Bark Psychosis | Hex | Fire
30. "Do the Robot" | The Saints | Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave | Edsel
31. "Surgical Lights (Mike Butler Mix)" | Kids On A Crime Spree | Split EP | Emotional Response
32. "Momento Mori" | Siriusmo | Comic | Monkeytown
33. "Night Train" | John Barera & Will Martin | Proceed to the Root | 2MR
34. "RCVR" | Akkord | RCVR / XMTR | Houndstooth
35. "Never Had No One Ever - Demo" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead [box set] | Rhino
36. "Something Changed" | A House in the Trees | What Am I Supposed To Do? | Handsome Dad
37. "Volumes" | Minor Science | Whities 012 | Whities

emo, too

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Asterisks in My Eyelids: Transmission 379, 2017 November 15

Lately I have been thinking a good deal about negativity--what its uses might be, what it says about the bearer, what it does to the soul. Depression has such a strong hold on me these days! But this is somewhat true of all days, my dear Bombasticons. Sometimes I even doubt that this program nourishes me, though I can't imagine life without it. And I might have to--a "little bird" tells me that our recent fundraiser generated some 20% of the station's annual budget. Should I rue the missing 80% or take delight that people love us enough to give what they gave? Should I borrow future grief over programs that won't air or should I be grateful that I have done nearly 400 of these?

Musical notes: that Durutti record, though legendary, arrived in awful shape for a new record--so much for ambivalence about negativity! But seriously, what is wrong with vinyl these days? I have had a couple of similar experiences recently. Segues--who gives a toss? In this program they are fairly bad, and hopefully the songs compensate for that.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 November 15, 2100-2300:

1. "Slam Dunk in a Black Hole" | The Comet Is Coming | Channel The Spirits | Leaf
2. "Bad Blood" | Emperor | Critical Music Presents: 15 Years of Underground Sonics | Critical Music
3. "Florence Sunset" | The Durutti Column | Greetings Three | Tiger Bay | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Passenger" | El Mahdy Jr. (feat. Hamorabi 13th imam) | Time to Sell the Golden Teeth | Boomarm Nation
5. "Nowhere" | Lone Taxidermist | Trifle | Memetune
6. "He's Royal" | ATKI2 | Tribute to Disc Shop Zero | Idle Hands
7. "Deep Think, Straight Talk" | Arthur Miles | Night Flight | All My Thoughts
8. "Voices" | Indian Wells | Where the World Ends | Friends of Friends
9. "For Friends in Italy" | The Durutti Column | Greetings Three | Tiger Bay | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Boy with a Gun" | The Names | German Nights | Factory Benelux
11. "octobre" | exm | Modulus | Touched
12. "A Lot Of Wind" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
13. "Meng" | Iona Fortune | Tao Of I | Optimo
14. "State of Presence" | Pional | Permanent Vacation X (10 Years Label Anniversary) | Permanent Vacation
15. "Jigsaw" | My Nu Leng & Friction | Portal EP | Shogun
16. "Mechta" | DJ Heure | Mechta | Distant Hawaii
17. "I'm Drifting" | Mystic Eyes | Mysterious | Burning Sounds
18. "All That Love and Maths Can Do" | The Durutti Column | Greetings Three | Tiger Bay | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Nescience Is Not Ignorance" | Sim Hutchins | Vantablank Stare EP | UIQ
20. "Yellow Coat" | Screamin' Jay Hawkins | At Home with Screamin' Jay Hawkins | Cornbread
21. "Souviens-toi (feat. Hasawa)" | Labelle | univers-ile | Infine
22. "This Is Dissent" | Nordra | Nordra | Sige
23. "San Giovanni Dawn" | The Durutti Column | Greetings Three | Tiger Bay | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Tuesday Paris Texas" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 8 | Hippie Dance

cinematic party music

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From Luxury to Landfill: Transmission 378, 2017 November 8

If fundraising programs mark the beginning of a programming year, may I welcome you to the first "normal" program of the new year. Our form was mostly good on this night, save for playing the wrong Vic Chesnutt track. We are at the point in our lives where we realize we are simply never going to improve at certain things. If only this realization came with a feeling of calm!.

In hindsight, this night was an observance, though no appropriate planning went into it. Some years ago, November 8 marked the final night of a previous life. You might call it "another brown world!" Anyway, that's gone. What remains is the shallow-affect person who runs this corner of the broadcasting world. At least he has decent taste.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 November 8, 2100-2300:

1. "Intro" | Mars89 | Lucid Dream EP | Bokeh Versions
2. "Little Fugue" | Vic Chesnutt | West of Rome | New West | "The Listening Parlour"
3. "Mermaid (pусалка)" | Kedr Livanskiy | Ariadna | 2MR
4. "Shadowplay" | Joy Division | Silhouettes & Statues - A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986 | Cherry Red
5. "Another Brown World" | Coil | Another Brown World / Baby Food | Sub Rosa | "Physical Evidence"
6. "OBAFGKM" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold
7. "Cascades" | Indian Wells | Where the World Ends | Friends of Friends
8. "Swerve" | Phace / Mefjus | Wastemen | Neosignal
9. "Fluid Mechanics" | Reso | Kodama | RX0
10. "TM" | Nosaj Thing | Parallels | Innovative Leisure
11. "Rock Hopper" | Whiney | Talisman | ed School Music
12. "Sing! Harpy" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
13. "Q Bird" | Pyrit | UFO | Bookmaker
14. "Reflections" | Diagnos | Diagnos | Control Freak Kitten
15. "Unnatural Instinct" | Belief Defect | Decadent yet Depraved | Raster Noton
16. "Deserts" | zeta | Bird | Blank Editions
17. "Baby Food" | Coil | Another Brown World / Baby Food | Sub Rosa | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Brother, You're Complicated" | Robert Sotelo | Cusp | Upset the Rhythm
19. "Canções do Vento Sul" | Stereociti | Reflexions | Groovement
20. "Platforms - Empty Version" | Fatima Yamaha | Dekmantel 10 Years 05 | Dekmantel
21. "Precision & Decay" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | The Punishment of Luxury | 100%
22. "The Wonderman" | Oscar Holgado | Citadel | Soiree
23. "Zulu Blues" | Pugilist & Mystik | Zulu Blues | Navy Cut
24. "Sublingual" | Antwood | Sponsored Content | Planet Mu
25. "Newwave Project" | Kuniyuki | Newwave Project | Mule Musiq

I remember

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Catharsis Family Values: Transmission 377, 2017 November 1

Welcome to Festival of Evidence v4.0! It has been two years since we did this--my time slot during last year's fundraiser coincided with an awful presidential debate (if that is not a redundancy)--and it is definitely worth the wait. The entire Bombast crew is here, with fundraising specialist Godfrey on "the other side of the partition," and a good time is had by all. We even managed to make some money on this night.

Notes: it still embarrasses me, two and a half weeks later, that I accidentally played Siouxsie twice. I did manage to explain "Milkshake Duck" to Godfrey but we have not gotten around to explaining "family values" or "Stranger Things" to Junior, which is probably for the best. I may have gotten my recollection of John Peel's death wrong in my tiresome anecdote. That would not surprise me at all. I don't remember who was actually on the air the night he died. I should really stop telling stories, or at least make some new ones.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 November 1, 2100-2300:

1. "Gamaleh" | Banco de Gaia | Planet Dog - Peel Your Head: The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit
2. "Think Jazz, Think Punk Attitude" | Nurse With Wound | Foxtrot | Chalice
3. "Enola Gay" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | URGH! A Music War | A & M
4. "Olof Palme" | The Jazz Butcher | Big Questions | Glass
5. "Voulez Vous" | Ham | Buffalo Virgin | One Little Indian
6. "Bad Reputation" | Joan Jett | URGH! A Music War | A & M
7. "Dopes to Infinity" | Monster Magnet | Volume 14 - Reading '95 Special | Volume
8. "Beyond and Back" | X | URGH! A Music War | A & M
9. "The Snow" | Coil | Love's Secret Domain | Threshold House
10. "Polyacid Blue" | Cassegrain & Tin Man | Infrastructure Facticity | Infrastructure New York
11. "Dark Parade 1 (Demo)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel
12. "Tear It Up" | The Cramps | URGH! A Music War | A & M
13. "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan
14. "Overground" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor
15. "Down in the Park" | Gary Numan | URGH! A Music War | A & M
16. "Do the Du" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory
17. "Metal Postcard" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor
18. "The Colour Hurts" | Curve | Radio Sessions | Anxious
19. "Come Again" | Au Pairs | URGH! A Music War | A & M
20. "Another Journey" | O Yuki Conjugate | Nightlands | Final Image

for their own ends

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Join the Queue of Future Has-Beens: Transmission 376, 2017 October 25

This broadcast is full of mistakes, some staged and some spontaneous. It is true, what I say about the Internet reminding me that October 25 is the date on which John Peel died; also true is my implication that "planning" to play a John Peel session on this night was a happy accident. But it's all downhill from there. "30 years ago"--not 13? And no correction? Ugh. "4 A's AT Maida Vale?" How long have I owned this record? Additional miscues can be found on the tape. I won't go on about this.

Last time out I complained about the absence (or tardiness, if you're feeling generous) of autumn. Now, it's here with a vengeance--rain, flooding, winds, slippery decaying leaves stuck to everything. And cyclical death is in the air. Station management is sending messages of doom and panic at every opportunity. Who knows how dire things really are, or how long the endgame might take to unfold. Watch and see if things get more chestnutty around here--that will be a sign.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 October 25, 2100-2300:

1. "Tropisme" | Police Des Moeurs | Dedales | Mannequin
2. "New Ark Subatomic Energy" | Lee "Scratch" Perry + Subatomic Sound System | Super Ape Returns to Conquer | Echo Beach
3. "Sore" | Ruby My Dear | Basic | Love Love
4. "F-'oldin' Money" | The Fall | The Marshall Suite [reissue] | Let Them Eat Vinyl
5. "Black Dwarf" | Marc Riley with The Creepers | 4 A's From Maida Vale | In Tape | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Neusi" | Rodinia | Ex Anima | Now-Again
7. "Moon's Milk (Waxing)" | Electric Sewer Age | Moon's Milk in Final Phase | Soleilmoon
8. "Two Man Gang" | Les Big Byrd | Two Man Gang | PNK SLM
9. "No More Parties" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold
10. "Temazcal" | Iñigo Vontier | Aluxes | Lumiere Noire
11. "Bard of Woking" | Marc Riley with The Creepers | 4 A's From Maida Vale | In Tape | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Dekdektiven Roker Om Natten [Figga]" | Motorpsycho | Begynnelser | Rune Grammofon
13. "Day One" | Primitive Trust | Fallen Down | Aus
14. "^" | Why the Eye? | Why the Eye? | Plynt
15. "Ankh" | Clarian | Kompakt: Total 17 | Kompakt
16. "Deep Shelter" | Xordox | Neospection | Editions Mego
17. "Goin' Rate" | Marc Riley with The Creepers | 4 A's From Maida Vale | In Tape | "Physical Evidence"
18. "In My Dreams" | ANOHNI | Paradise | Rough Trade
19. "Vihrea Ovi" | Luxos | Now and Then | Optimo Music So Low
20. "Spark Out" | Jutland Songs | Charm on the Chain / Spark Out | Gringo
21. "The Law of Misunderstanding" | Dieter von Deurne and the Politics | Dieter von Deurne and the Politics | Morr
22. "Cold Fish" | Marc Riley with The Creepers | 4 A's From Maida Vale | In Tape | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Die Ballade vom Frosch" | Gaudi | Magnetic | Rarenoise
24. "You No Fit Touch Am - Dub" | Dele Sosimi meets Prince Fatty / Nostalgia 77 | You No Fit Touch Am In Dub | Wah Wah 45s
25. "Internal Exile" | Wire | Nocturnal Koreans | Pinkflag
26. "Cool Cats" | Tony Allen | The Source | Blue Note
27. "Give And Take" | Matthias Reiling | Nie Wieder Streit | Lehult
28. "Plenitude" | Davis | Perle | Live at Robert Johnson
29. "The Depth" | Grant | No Lights | Lobster Theremin

war against whom

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Where People Feel No Anguish and Need No Hate: Transmission 375, 2017 October 18

Please find attached a program that is dark and nocturnal--they are not the same thing, but both qualities are here. And herein I burn through my last remaining piece of Physical Evidence having to do with A Certain Ratio. Surely there are more, in the world. I just don't happen to own any of them. Were you under the impression that this program was about anything other than my collection, my taste, me? You have my deepest apologies.

Autumn hasn't been very autumnal around here. Usually at this time of year I am quite preoccupied with some act of self-sabotage, but for various reasons--is it weather? Or my new meds?--that doesn't seem to be happening. IT IS VERY DISORIENTING. I actually found myself feeling good about this program, in real time. And it is indeed good, "me-ness" be damned.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 October 18, 2100-2300:

1. "Ash" | Equus | Somewhere III | Something Happening Somewhere
2. "First Communication" | Causa Sui | Live in Copenhagen | El Paraiso
3. "Marco's Mango" | Mallard | Verte | Rhythm Section International
4. "Elyseiska falten" | Bandhagens Musikforening | Protokoll A | Northern Electronics
5. "Skit #1 (Outbound)" | Earl Grey | Headwinds | Inperspective
6. "Her Daily Black" | Lali Puna | Two Windows | Morr Music
7. "Tomboyz" | Marc Houle | Secret Weapons, Part 9 | Innervisions
8. "All Night Party" | A Certain Ratio | The Graveyard and the Ballroom | Universal Sound | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Oceans" | A Certain Ratio | The Graveyard and the Ballroom | Universal Sound | "Physical Evidence"
10. "The Choir" | A Certain Ratio | The Graveyard and the Ballroom | Universal Sound | "Physical Evidence"
11. "The Fox" | A Certain Ratio | The Graveyard and the Ballroom | Universal Sound | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Suspect" | A Certain Ratio | The Graveyard and the Ballroom | Universal Sound | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Flight" | A Certain Ratio | The Graveyard and the Ballroom | Universal Sound | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Genotype / Phenotype" | A Certain Ratio | The Graveyard and the Ballroom | Universal Sound | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Forward Motion - Phuture-T Remix" | Greenleaf | Remixes I | Pinecone Moonshine
16. "Inchana Massina" | Ali Farka Toure | The Source [reissue] | World Circuit
17. "Two Thousand and Seventeen" | Four Tet | New Energy | Text
18. "Charnel Ground" | Section 25 | Silhouettes & Statues - A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986 | Cherry Red
19. "False Awakening" | Ian Hicks | Now and Then | Optimo Music So Low
20. "onryo" | Denial of Service | Contour & Shape EP | FILM
21. "Wolf Eater" | Pete Bassman | Lost In Space | Hoga Nord
22. "Stay Up Zimbabwe" | Bro. Valentino | Stay Up Zimbabwe / Ah Wo (Brand New Revolution) | Analog Africa
23. "Bill Is Dead" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
24. "Long Long Way" | Jah Wobble | The Lago Years | Emotional Rescue
25. "Theta v1 (Repetir)" | Existente | Theta Series | Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda)

what do you want for your 15 grand

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In Fact This Is Very Serious; I Have Nothing To Regret: Transmission 374, 2017 October 11

Now is the time to listen to us, as we are on a good run. I exude confidence, or whatever comes closest to it on my emotional palette, when I suggest that Mathew Johnson might compensate for an abandoned Chaka Khan track. With apologies to Mathew Johnson, I was mistaken about this--what could compensate?--but this program is close to the dream. I even got--and fulfilled!--a request from someone, dare I say, outside the ill-defined demographic. I initially thought they were asking for something called "Big Far," which really should exist, but Big Star will do nicely (though I must say, despite knowing what the lyrics of "For You" say, Third seems to me a record for December, not October).

"Lucid Dreaming"--it's happening.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 October 11, 2100-2300:

1. "Decompression - Ambient Pressure Mix" | Mathew Jonson | Mathew Jonson Presents the Decompression Remixes | Freedom Engine
2. "Not Harmed" | Borusiade | Compilation 05 | Correspondant
3. "German Friendship" | Patricia | Several Shades of the Same Color | Spectral Sound
4. "Gun" | Terry | Remember Terry | Upset the Rhythm
5. "(A Dancing Master Such As) Mr. Confess" | The Mekons | The English Dancing Master | CNT Productions | "Physical Evidence"
6. "The Mixer (Peel Session)" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
7. "Liquid Mirror" | Anton Kubikov | Whatness | Kompakt
8. "If That's What Love Is" | Paul Messis | Holding Hands Under a Cloudless Sky: A Tribute to the Television Personalities Volume 4 | The Beautiful Music
9. "Bluesin" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 5 | Hippie Dance
10. "For You" | Big Star | Third / Sister Lovers | PVC
11. "pushing feeling / nothing" | yshf | more time EP | M.I.S.T.
12. "IfUWantMe" | Seekers International | LoversDedicationStation | Bokeh Versions
13. "Tsamiko Makedonias" | Alexis Zoumbas | A Lament for Epirus, 1926-1928 | Angry Mom | "The Listening Parlour"
14. "When the Sun Comes Up" | Diagnos | Diagnos | Control Freak Kitten
15. "XMTR" | Akkord | RCVR / XMTR | Houndstooth
16. "Parson's Farewell" | The Mekons | The English Dancing Master | CNT Productions | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Lumpur" | Schneider Kacirek | Radius Walk | Bureau B
18. "Her Beauty" | Quantum Collage | Lucid Dreaming | Ouie
19. "No Country Dance" | The Mekons | The English Dancing Master | CNT Productions | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Cooper's Return" | Cass. | Youth Sessions | Emotional Response
21. "The Last Dance" | The Mekons | The English Dancing Master | CNT Productions | "Physical Evidence"
22. "5 118 574" | Carpenter Brut | CARPENTERBRUTLIVE | Caroline
23. "More Love" | Pat Ndoye | Pop Makossa - The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984 | Analog Africa

these are the greatest times

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