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We Smoked in Heaven and We Laughed Off Hell: Transmission 363, 2017 August 23

Feels like regular service for the first time in nearly a month. I was in my usual time slot--following "the Fre(ida) Pile"--and Junior was in town, so the bit didn't have to be delivered via Apple voice memo. This program gives me pleasure, more than I expected (if only I could feel this in real time!), despite segues about which I can only say that I must have understood at some point what I was trying to do. A listener phoned in to give kudos, which is distressingly rare.

And, "finally," Happy Mondays provided the featured disc--heavy, I can report, on the Squirrel and G-Man era tunes. (Hot take: that album is better than Bummed.) Early entries in the "Physical Evidence" series included anecdotes about the actual disc played--who was the person who found himself able to write these??? I'm not up to it, other than to say that the aforementioned Squirrel got me through a very tough time. This (John) Peel Sessions disc doesn't ring a bell in terms of when I acquired it, though I just implied why I did so.

The Sound have made appearances in some recent playlists, I think because The Blog That Celebrates Itself put out a tribute and I decided I would rather hear the originals. Poor Adrian Borland: his band, like the Chameleons and the Comsat Angels, was something that simply missed me when it was happening. Blame it on radio, or record distributors, or whatever. White Postpunk Guys, all--playing them to see if they can make me feel anything. At times they do.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 August 23, 2100-2300:

1. "VII" | Mere | Mere III | Home Normal
2. "Freaky Dancin'" | Happy Mondays | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Stay Loose" | Phil Pratt | Star Wars Dub | Burning Sounds
4. "Alghoroub" | Abdou El Omari | Nuits de Printemps avec Abdou El Omari | Radio Martiko
5. "Kuff Dam" | Happy Mondays | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Saunton" | London Modular Alliance | Home Grown EP | Hypercolour
7. "Sanctuary - Dub" | Dele Sosimi meets Prince Fatty / Nostalgia 77 | You No Fit To Touch Am In Dub | Wah Wah 45s
8. "Mad Cyril" | Happy Mondays | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Killing Time" | Moon Duo | Killing Time [reissue] | Sacred Bones
10. "Olive Oil" | Happy Mondays | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Soulful Dub" | Impact All-Stars | Java Java Java Java - Instrumentals Dubwise Versions | Get On Down
12. "17. October - Eomac Remix" | Rotkeller | Atheos | Threnes
13. "Do It Better" | Happy Mondays | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Song" | Iona Fortune | Tao Of I | Optimo
15. "steal" | Brian Harris | Washed Up Man | self-released
16. "Inside" | 14 Iced Bears | 14 Iced Bears [reissue] | Optic Nerve
17. "Cob 20" | Happy Mondays | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Misophonic" | Grey Hairs | Serious Business | Gringo
19. "Mirage" | Mefjus | Critical Music Presents: 15 Years of Underground Sonics | Critical Music
20. "Total Recall" | The Sound | Heads & Hearts | Statik
21. "I Like You So Much Better When I'm Down" | Mieta | Come On Feel The NoiZe, BraZil Class '17 | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
22. "Capture" | Baloji | 64 Bits & Malachite | Bella Union
23. "3:11" | Inventing Masks | 2nd | Error Broadcast
24. "Mix Zwei - Tolouse Low Trax Mix" | Ogoya Nengo / The Dodo Women's Group | On Mande Versions | Tal
25. "Mary Jane Dub" | Alter Echo & E3 | Mary Jane | Moonshine
26. "5th Dimensions" | The Orb | COW / Chill Out, World! | Kompakt
27. "Tart Tart" | Happy Mondays | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"

hills you don't take and roads you can't climb

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Everybody Tests the Membrane, But No One Pushes Through: Transmission 362, 2017 August 16

This transmission marks our return to the (all too) regular Wednesday night time, after a terrible but mercifully brief hiatus. Lady Catharsis and Junior were still out of town--both had to "phone in" their voiceovers--and I was still helping myself to multiple courses of dessert every night. August is usually a rough month for me, for numerous reasons, but this one set a new standard. I felt bad about this program on the night, but as usual it is actually quite decent and good in places.

Since this was Charlottesville / sheetcake week and we were all learning (or relearning) how to deal and not deal with Nazis, it seems fitting that I'm featuring a record firmly rooted in the Reagan era. Because of Bitburg and other things we used to tell ourselves that the Nazis were among us then--who knows, they might have been--such an innocent time! If nostalgia is all I have to offer, we might as well make it interesting.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 August 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Tragedy Storm" | Typhoon | Bite the Drum | Bikini | "Physical Evidence"
2. "Slit" | Mythic Sunship | Land Between Rivers | El Paraiso
3. "Brixton" | Autocreation | Mettle. | Medical
4. "Outer Space" | Typhoon | Bite the Drum | Bikini | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Desire" | The Sound | Jeopardy | Korova
6. "Please" | Blanck Mass | World Eater | Sacred Bones
7. "Red Girl" | Dollkraut | Holy Ghost People | Dischi Autunno
8. "The Source" | Causa Sui | Live in Copenhagen | El Paraiso
9. "Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds" | The Mountain Goats | Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds | Merge
10. "Azabache Necklace Brought to Protect My Daughter" | The Horoscope | Misogyny Stone | Wharf Cat
11. "Phobia" | Typhoon | Bite the Drum | Bikini | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Days of Silver" | The Terminals | Antiseptic | Ba Da Bing!
13. "Red Cabin" | Justin Walter | Unseen Forces | kranky
14. "Arakis" | Typhoon | Bite the Drum | Bikini | "Physical Evidence"
15. "I've Been Wrong" | Jack Ketch and the Crowmen | Brimfull of Hate | M'Lady's
16. "Israelites" | Desmond Dekker | Monkey Business | Trojan
17. "Animal Pen" | American Music Club | United Kingdom | Demon | "Listening Parlour"
18. "Blyth" | Ben Frost | The Wasp Factory | Bedroom Community
19. "Operaatio satamassa" | Tomutonttu | Kevatjuhla | Alter
20. "ShowtimeBaby" | Seekers International | LoversDedicationStation | Bokeh Versions
21. "Way, Way Out" | Shadow | Sweet Sweet Dreams | Analog Africa
22. "Does It Hurt" | Typhoon | Bite the Drum | Bikini | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Moon's Milk (Eternal Phase)" | Electric Sewer Age | Moon's Milk in Final Phase | Soleilmoon
24. "Subtemple" | Burial | Subtemple / Beachfires | Hyperdub
25. "Black Lighter" | Schilling | Hella | Apparel Tonic
26. "Miracle Steps" | Jon Hassell | Miracle Steps (Music from the Fourth World 1983-2017) | Optimo
27. "5th Dimensions - Jorg Burger Dschungeloper Mix" | The Orb | The Cow Remixes - Sin In Space, Pt. 3 | Kompakt

now you're wising up

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I Don't Want To Hear About Your Doom: Transmission 361, 2017 August 12

As I warned in the prior episode, I was flying solo for this one. I daresay I was already desperately lonely, though I had dropped off Lady Catharsis and Junior at the airport a mere 12 hours earlier. What can I tell you? I am not a strong person, I guess. Fortunately, even the weak can make decent radio.

Re. "the opinion portion of the program": I feel compelled to say it does seem weird, first of all, for anyone to release a five-cd set in 2017. Probably even weirder to think that the world was thirsty for a rambling goth retrospective. Though I am known to wear black and listen to Bauhaus I have never had a membership card, so (not even perhaps) I am not in the best position to comment on this. Would love to hear some testimony on how, say, The Bolshoi exemplify this genre. Or is it a case wherein if I have to ask I will never know?

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 August 12, 1900-2100:

1. "9 Elms Over River Eno - The Field Remix" | The Orb | The Cow Remixes - Sin In Space, Pt. 3 | Kompakt
2. "RND21" | I Kill Kane | Come On Feel The NoiZe, BraZil Class '17 | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
3. "PUSH" | Kolsch | Speciher 97 | Kompakt Extra
4. "Dead and Re-Buried" | Alien Sex Fiend | Silhouettes & Statues - A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986 | Cherry Red
5. "D'Hardest" | Shadow | Sweet Sweet Dreams | Analog Africa
6. "I Always Wanted To Be an Ostrich" | Lava Divers | Come On Feel The NoiZe, BraZil Class '17 | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
7. "Who Could Be Proud" | Jack Ketch and the Crowmen | Brimfull of Hate | M'Lady's
8. "Bittersweet" | Stellamaris | Come On Feel The NoiZe, BraZil Class '17 | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
9. "Pop Makossa Invasion" | Dream Stars | Pop Makossa - The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984 | Analog Africa
10. "Poisoned Seed" | Alice Bag | Alice Bag | Don Giovanni
11. "Cracked Soil" | The Dead Suns | Come On Feel The NoiZe, BraZil Class '17 | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
12. "Gallery of Shame" | Lowlife | Silhouettes & Statues - A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986 | Cherry Red
13. "High Tide" | Mythic Sunship | Land Between Rivers | El Paraiso
14. "Страсть" | Bleak Fiction | Late Notes | M.I.S.T.
15. "Less than Human" | The Chameleons | Script of the Bridge [reissue] | Blue Apple
16. "Freaks" | Winter Waves | Come On Feel The NoiZe, BraZil Class '17 | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
17. "Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven" | Love and Rockets | Silhouettes & Statues - A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986 | Cherry Red
18. "Chapado Pra Fazer Pose (Jesus Saves)" | Duelectrum | Come On Feel The NoiZe, BraZil Class '17 | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Vahana" | Pisetzky | Tears of a Rough Machine | Just This
20. "Deslizes" | Venus in Fuzz | Come On Feel The NoiZe, BraZil Class '17 | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
21. "Watch Your Time" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
22. "Queen of the North" | The Sorry Shop | Come On Feel The NoiZe, BraZil Class '17 | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Cay" | You Still Have Friends | The Never Years | M.I.S.T.

never is a dream

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Here Comes the Bishop's Daughter: Transmission 360, 2017 August 5

Surprise! You probably thought you were rid of me for two weeks, but fate and jetBlue Airlines have made you their bitch. Because here I am, along with Junior, in Ithaca when we should be in California, and delivering an unfavorable substitute to a very in-favor program.

Notes: at one point in the show I use the phrase "hotel airport," of which I am sure there is one somewhere, but Syracuse is not such a place. We got an almost-free meal out of it, and that is the absolute best that can be said. We also discussed libertarian eclipse preparation, about which I seem to have been wrong, at least locally: eclipse glasses were given out freely at the local observatory, while in stock (nevertheless I missed out). I'll be damned, though, if there isn't some backwater town somewhere in the "path of totality" where you had to pay for them. I'd bet money on it, if I had money. ALSO I haven't bothered to fact-check that eclipse in '93 or '94 that I referred to, so I'm not sure whether El Paso was "in the path" or not. Waiting to sit with that embarrassment, when it comes, as it surely will. Finally, I will never understand the fascination with female voices on the radio--some listener wrote in asking Junior's age, while mine, to my knowledge, has never been a matter for speculation among our listeners. At any rate, Junior delivers the perfect answer; you will just have to listen for it.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 August 5, 1900-2100:

1. "Gangri" | Fontan | Fontan | Hoga Nord
2. "Nautilus" | Fontan | Fontan | Hoga Nord
3. "Sen Sen No Sen" | Fontan | Fontan | Hoga Nord
4. "Shadows" | Fontan | Fontan | Hoga Nord
5. "Sympathy For The Devil" | The Rolling Stones | Beggars Banquet | London
6. "No Expectations" | The Rolling Stones | Beggars Banquet | London
7. "Dear Doctor" | The Rolling Stones | Beggars Banquet | London
8. "Parachute Woman" | The Rolling Stones | Beggars Banquet | London
9. "Jig-Saw Puzzle" | The Rolling Stones | Beggars Banquet | London
10. "C'est Le Vent" | Modern Cosmology | Summer Long | Elefant
11. "The Source" | Modern Cosmology | Summer Long | Elefant
12. "Djakarta 3001 - Short Version" | Komodo Kolektif | Sumantras | Invisible Inc
13. "Relaxing Mood" | King Tubby & The Aggrovators | Dubbing in the Backyard | Pressure Sounds
14. "Adventure" | King Tubby & The Aggrovators | Dubbing in the Backyard | Pressure Sounds
15. "Warm Weather" | King Tubby & The Aggrovators | Dubbing in the Backyard | Pressure Sounds
16. "Summers Eve" | King Tubby & The Aggrovators | Dubbing in the Backyard | Pressure Sounds
17. "Easy Mood" | King Tubby & The Aggrovators | Dubbing in the Backyard | Pressure Sounds
18. "Yawneb Pt. 1" | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe | Two Orb Reel | More Than Human
19. "The Crystal World" | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe | Two Orb Reel | More Than Human
20. "The Singing Towers" | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe | Two Orb Reel | More Than Human
21. "Interzone Bureau Desk" | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe | Two Orb Reel | More Than Human
22. "Like Night and the New Sea" | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe | Two Orb Reel | More Than Human
23. "The Dead Past" | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe | Two Orb Reel | More Than Human
24. "Tanis Ark" | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe | Two Orb Reel | More Than Human
25. "Telassar" | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe | Two Orb Reel | More Than Human
26. "Yawneb Pt. 2" | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe | Two Orb Reel | More Than Human

for you, America

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U_D_M Detour 31, 2017 February 19

[GUEST POST]

SHEDDING STEWARDSHIP of the Bombastic web archive, it is I, Guy LeBatard, with what is my last ever transmission, for now. Whether I knew it at the time doesn't matter, but it sounds like I did. Boring as it already was to push these sausages through the tube on schedule, apparently the following Sunday was "another dreadful day of sunlight and warmth," so I ghosted. I wonder if Captain Halcyon did a program, but it's not my responsibility. This transmission is "good" where it needs to be and "bad" where it is meant to be. Since there are no endings in nature, and we lack the bravery to face those we construct, let's say that someday I may return spontaneously. kid catharsis has a phrase about this that he is saving for his own time, so as a grudging bourgeois gesture in recognition of his hospitality, I will not steal it.

Fuck sunsets.

U_D_M playlist, 2017 February 19, 1700-1800:

1. "Frankfurt Advice - Heretic Remix" | Andrew Weatherall | Consolamentum | Rotter's Golf Club
2. "Keep Pushin - Session Victim Remix" | Boris Dlugosch | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | Hafendisko
3. "Moqui Marble" | Bjorn Storig | 10 Years Stil Vor Talent Presented By Oliver Koletzki | Stil Vor Talent
4. "Hang Out" | Steven Wobblejay | Hang Out EP | Quintessentials
5. "Narcotic Luv" | Javi Redondo | Correspondant Compilation 04 | Correspondant
6. "Overview Effect - Luke Hess Remix" | Richard Fearless | Overview Effect Remixes | Drone
7. "Room(s)" | The Friend | Balearic Fisting / Fuck Sunsets | Clan Destine
8. "Decade" | Thyladomid | 10 Years Diynamic | DIYnamic
9. "Floating Pressure" | Niko Schwind | 10 Years Stil Vor Talent Presented By Oliver Koletzki | Stil Vor Talent

conduct around constructs

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U_D_M Detour 30, 2017 February 12

[GUEST POST]

STILL IN CONTROL of the Bombastic web archive, it is I, Guy LeBatard, whether you like it or not. If not, make your own adventures. This broadcast did happen on a "dark afternoon"--sadly my appointed time of day was becoming brighter and brighter, and my brief season of transmitting was nearing its end. But this is a good program, suitable for whatever! Vertical, orizzontal, diagonal, your activities may vary. A technical note: I didn't know and couldn't decide how to pronounce Ryan Crosson's name, but on reflection I do prefer "croissant." Ryan--I do not love you because you are tasty; you are tasty because I love you. Think on this.

U_D_M playlist, 2017 February 12, 1700-1800:

1. "Bambi Hands" | Ryan Crosson | MDRNTY001 | MDRNTY
2. "I Don't Want To Watch You Read - The Golden Filter Remix" | Marc Houle | Silver Siding EP | Innervisions
3. "Orizzonte" | Luca Ballerini | Dots & Pearls 3 | Coccon
4. "Abstract of Expression" | The Durutti Column | Fidelity | Les Disques du Crepuscule
5. "E" | Prins Thomas | Principe Del Norte | Smalltown Supersound
6. "Screaming With A Blocked Nose" | Arnaldo | Psychic Advisor | Smallville
7. "E to E - Ge-Ology Remix feat MdCL" | Adesse Versions | Push It Along EP | Heist
8. "Waiting Ground" | Frank & Tony | Waiting Ground | Scissor & Thread

i love narcotics

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U_D_M Detour 29, 2017 February 5

[GUEST POST]

YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE at a post by Guy LeBatard, accompanying another sonic adventure in mindless hedonism. "This unfolds" now, wherever you happen to be, but its "original" airing, if it was not always already happening somewhere in block time, was on the day of The Big Football Game. Not that the association means anything, but "real" time listeners got a taste of the violence of spectacle prior to the spectacle of violence, if in fact there is a relevant difference.

Bring on the rotary cocktails and permanent vacations!

U_D_M playlist, 2017 February 5, 1700-1800:

1. "Nehmet und Esset" | Deo & Z-Man | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | Hafendisko
2. "This Unfolds" | Four Tet | There Is Love In You | Domino USA
3. "Die Wiederkehr" | Obscure Shape & SHDW | Realm of Consciousness | Afterlife
4. "Dawn 808" | Lawrence | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | Hafendisko
5. "Wee Hours" | Echonomist | Dusk EP | Rotary Cocktail
6. "The Lattice" | Petar Dundov | At The Turn of Equilibrium | Music Man
7. "South of Mel" | Adam Johnson | Chigliak | Merck
8. "Brooklyn Bridge" | Alex Burkat | Permanent Vacation 4 | Permanent Vacation

expression of the abstract

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U_D_M Detour 28, 2017 January 29

[GUEST POST]

From the end of the world--do we dare to dream?--it is Guy LeBatard, bringing you another hour of my "less easily decipherable than I thought" program. Since all culture is simultaneous now I won't bother with telling you what "was" happening when I spun these tunes, but I can assure you that this abdication is NOT because I don't "remember." What is happening NOW is what matters, if anything does.

U_D_M playlist, 2017 January 29, 1700-1800:

1. "Dawn - Green Mix" | Joris Voorn | This Story Until Now | Green
2. "Water Vein - DJ Yogurt & Moja Remix" | Asian Psilocybe Foundation | Water Vein EP | Mental Groove
3. "Freudian Slip" | Arnaud Rebotini | Zone 27: Danger Zone - EP | Vinyl Factory
4. "Acidwave" | Omar V & Mario Aparicio | Vi kal it AEsid | Full Pupp
5. "Autopop" | Adam Johnson | Chigliak | Merck
6. "N.2guts" | Einzelkind & Robin Scholz | Cocoon Compilation P | Cocoon
7. "Frequency Graven" | Drafted | Frames From the Lake EP | Balans
8. "Surf Smurf - Rebolledo Short Version" | Munk & Rebolledo | Mushroom House EP1 | Toy Tonics
9. "Ping-Pong" | The Durutti Column | The Return of the Sporadic Recordings | Kooky

3,000 miles east of Mel

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U_D_M Detour 27, 2017 January 8

[GUEST POST]

Bonjour! Guy LeBatard, checking in with another program from the "distant" past. The pipeline is drying up. We are nearing the end. But here is an hour's worth of good "entertainment," or whatever. Were I the type to write long treatises--I never "showed much promise," or so they told me--I would figure out whether I find it more distasteful that music is made to be used as a backdrop for some other activity or that some musicians insist that you give their product your full attention.

It is a good thing that I am not that type!

Anyway, kid catharsis tells me that this was a very satisfying listen while he was punishing himself on the arc-trainer, so I suppose we are to trust him?

U_D_M playlist, 2017 January 8, 1700-1800:

1. "Electrica Salsa (feat. Sven Vath) [Roman Flugel Remix]" | Off | Electrica Salsa Revisited (feat. Sven Vath) | Cocoon
2. "Four Squares" | Adam Johnson | Chigliak | Merck
3. "St3am" | Nico Purman | Pattern Recognition | Vakant
4. "Frustration" | Carl Craig | More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art | SSR
5. "No Fool" | Tensnake | Freundchen EP | True Romance
6. "Should I Stay" | Magdalena | 10 Years DIYnamic | DIYnamic
7. "I Gave My Love (Shan & Gerd Janson Edit)" | Move D | Move D Presents House Grooves Vol. 1 | Misfit Melodies
8. "Differentiator" | Gregor Tresher & Petar Dundov | Spike | Cocoon
9. "Lolog" | Alex Under | Kompakt: Total 16 | Kompakt

gonna take you right into the

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U_D_M Detour 26, 2017 January 1

[GUEST POST]

Guy LeBatard here, wishing you the best of luck in 2017. I was spending the holidays "down south," with the Catharsis family. Some of "kid's" clumsiness must have rubbed off on me. This is a clumsy hour and a dreaded symmetrical selection. Plus, I played the same Carl Craig tune for the second program in a row. "Honor thy error as a hidden intention?" Get stuffed, Brian Eno, and go back to making music for shopping malls or whatever it is you do.

U_D_M playlist, 2017 January 1, 1700-1800:

1. "Orion - Luci's Travel" | Luciano | Alma Sounds | Cadenza
2. "Interstellar" | Hugh Mane | Permanent Vacation 4 | Permanent Vacation
3. "At Les" | Carl Craig | More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art | SSR
4. "Impressions of a Dawn (Alba in 4/4)" | Luca Ballerina | Dots & Pearls 3 | Coccon
5. "The Change - Jacques Renault Remix" | Baldo | The Change | Good Ratio
6. "Disappear" | Julia Govor & Kamran Sadeghi | Dots & Pearls 3 | Coccon
7. "Border" | Matthew Styles | Metro | Ostgut Ton
8. "False Readings On" | Eluvium | False Readings On | Temporary Residence Limited

electrical salsa

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