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U_D_M Detour 25, 2016 December 18

[GUEST POST]

Happy holidays, from Guy LeBatard! No doubt, the more pedantic among you will point out that it is currently August, but time means nothing to me. Please find attached a program that I did...sometime. It strikes me, in retrospect, as rather pleasing. Though I sound a bit down "on tape," I was delivering appropriate mindlessness for the listening area, and beyond.

I am discovering that a trait I share with kid catharsis, who "hosts" this archive, is a desire for shallowness of affect above all things. Is it standing in for authenticity, humility, lack of commercial appeal? This could certainly be. Words, effort, "balls-out" commitment--I don't know what to do with these, in all honesty. I prefer states of being, undisturbed. A death wish? That's for someone else to figure out, in their free time.

U_D_M playlist, 2016 December 18, 1700-1800:

1. "Timebomb - VIP Mix" | John Tejada | Timebomb | Palette
2. "Prelog Strain" | Init | Correspondant Compilation 04 | Correspondant
3. "At Les" | Carl Craig | More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art | SSR
4. "Broncos - Natureboy Gold & Marlon Hoffstadt Rework" | Marlon Hoffstadt | Coach Mike | Retrograde
5. "Trans-Atlantic Journey? We've Been Here!" | Damon Bell | Stand By Me EP | Burek
6. "Hedione" | La Fleur | Hedione EP | Watergate
7. "Poseidon" | Woo York | Realm of Consciousness | Afterlife
8. "2nd Movement" | Johannes Brecht | 10 Years DIYnamic | DIYnamic
9. "Seaside Special" | Fantastic Man | Permanent Vacation 4 | Permanent Vacation

impressions of Don

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U_D_M Detour 24, 2016 November 13

[GUEST POST]

Punching in once again, I am Guy LeBatard. Being a "radio regular," and chronicling that regularity, made me a little bit sick, looking back. And we shouldn't look back anyway. So I did not, but at the moment I am feeling dragged back into responsibility by forces I do not understand. It seems I can only quet them by pressing onward.

What sort of spectacular fascination you might craft from this hour of radio escapes me, but what's new? I find the content here a bit more "organic" than usual, without the segues necessarily being that way. Conscious resistance? Sure, we can call it that. Words don't mean anything anymore.

U_D_M playlist, 2016 November 13, 1700-1800:

1. "Love Cry" | Four Tet | There Is Love In You | Domino USA
2. "Jekaterinburg" | Adriatique | 10 Years DIYnamic | DIYnamic
3. "New York, New York" | Ponty Mython | Deep Love 100 | Dirt Crew
4. "Emeralds" | Locked Groove | Realm of Consciousness | Afterlife
5. "The Choice" | Redshape | Cocoon Compilation P | Cocoon
6. "Miami Logic" | Metronomy | Summer 08 | Because Music
7. "Psycho Hub" | Matthew Oh | Psycho Hub EP | Taped Artifact
8. "Solitaire" | Quenum | Solitaire | Cadenza
9. "Ivys Boogie" | Prins Emanuel | Permanent Vacation 4 | Permanent Vacation

we've been here

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Occasionally Lucid Commentary: Transmission 359, 2017 July 26

Currently having a lot of thoughts about time. This is the final broadcast before the Catharsis Family goes on vacation. We haven't done this in FIVE YEARS. Much has changed since then. BOMBAST was not a thing in summer 2012--for that matter, WRFI was barely a thing. I was a "gentleman of leisure" at the time--I guess that's called "taking a gap year" now, though mine was more than a year. I almost went feral. I would have been happy to stay in the wilds of California and never return to society.

ANYWAY.

Listening back to this program was strangely dissociative (dissociating?). Though it is SO RECENT (we're all caught up, for a fleeting moment) I seem to remember none of it. What was I doing at the time? How had I chanced upon these tunes? While I'm doing my own (poor) David Byrne imitation, I'm going to find an arbitrary, unrelated hill that I'm willing to die on--"The Overload" sounds more like Joy Division, in style and substance (even though reportedly the band had only heard about JD) than 90% of "postpunk" strivers. Read someone dissing this track yesterday and I just won't have it.

ANYWAY.

Things get rough toward the end, or perhaps just lazy, but it's all good.

See you August 16.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 July 26, 2100-2300:

1. "007 Shanty Town" | Desmond Dekker | Monkey Business | Trojan
2. "Zhao Hua" | HVAD & Pan Daijing | Mono No Aware | PAN
3. "Empty Chamber" | Grails | Chalice Hymnal | Temporary Residence Limited
4. "Throwing Lines" | Kelly Lee Owens | Kelly Lee Owens | Smalltown Supersound
5. "Splatter" | LTGL | The Gold Play | Tangram
6. "Coming Down" | Bowery Electric | Beat: 20th Anniversary Edition | kranky
7. "Filthy Sun in Diminished Light" | Cindytalk | The Labyrinth of the Straight Line | Editions Mego
8. "Ascension" | The Comet Is Coming | Death to the Planet | Leaf
9. "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate" | Mission of Burma | Vs. | Matador
10. "I Live in Eastcote" | Brian Harris | Washed Up Man | self-released
11. "Dead West" | Moon Duo | Killing Time [reissue] | Sacred Bones
12. "Kelmeh Oula" | Kinematik | Ala' | Ruptured
13. "Fracture" | Kailin | Fracture | Mistry
14. "Cosmic Child" | Greg Shepherd | Divine EP | Finefood
15. "Je Ne Veux Pas Travailler" | Unkonwn Artist | unknown album | unknown label | "The Listening Parlour"
16. "Dandelions" | Terminal Cheesecake | Dandelion Sauce of the Ancients | Box
17. "Contact the Fact" | Lyfe Indoors | New Dark Age, A Tribute to the Sound | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
18. "Space Movement Section 4" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
19. "Citizen Lane" | Orange Crate Art | Quantum Distortion in Empty Space | self-released
20. "Another Dark Hour" | Noveller | A Pink Sunset For No One | Fire
21. "Memories" | Stefano Ghittoni & DJ Rocca | Atemporal Space Tests | Schema
22. "Night Moves" | Basic Rhythm | The Basics | Type
23. "Real Man" | Gnod | JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE | Rocket
24. "///" | Second Woman | S/W | Spectrum Spools
25. "Beat on the Brat" | Between the Cities Are Stars | Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, A Ramones Reverence | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "Sunclue" | Samuel Rohrer | Range of Regularity | Arjunamusic
27. "Strangers" | Raphael Danilo | Strangers | Pauls Musique

indifference on the wind

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Cleaner Lyrics, For the Most Part: Transmission 358, 2017 July 22

Welcome to Installment Four of the Junior Experiment. It occurs to me that we had a short-lived feature once (I think it was literally once) which we called "Junior Selector," in which some tune that struck Junior's fancy at the moment made it to air in the same way "Listening Parlour" tunes do. IIRC it was "Kether Hot Knives" by A Certain Ratio, of all things. What taste! And where did it go?

I should not waste too much time lamenting, because on this occasion she brings in "a Stones record we both agree on" (there are only a few!). She gets nervous when I remind her that her promise that the tunes are suitable for daytime airplay will only bring us more scrutiny, but not nervous enough to opine quite candidly on the subject of "You Can't Always Get What You Want." I have changed my mind about something I said during the program. I hope that Mick and Keef ARE listening, and, gents, I hope you drop my daughter a note--she would love that.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 July 22, 1700-1900:

1. "Nishapur" | Mythic Sunship | Land Between Rivers | El Paraiso
2. "Midnight Rambler" | The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed | London
3. "You Got the Silver" | The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed | London
4. "Monkey Man" | The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed | London
5. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" | The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed | London
6. "As Tears Go By" | Naomi & The Boys | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
7. "I'd Like To Know" | Naomi & The Boys | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
8. "How to Catch a Girl" | Rita Chao & The Quests | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
9. "Hanky Panky" | Nancy Sit | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
10. "My Boy Lollipop" | Sakura & The Quests | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
11. "Come Back When You Grow Up" | Nancy Sit | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
12. "Fever" | Nancy Sit | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
13. "Runaway Girl" | U-Roy | Dread In A Babylon | Get On Down
14. "Chalice in the Palace" | U-Roy | Dread In A Babylon | Get On Down
15. "I Can't Love Another" | U-Roy | Dread In A Babylon | Get On Down
16. "Dreadlocks Dread" | U-Roy | Dread In A Babylon | Get On Down
17. "The Great Psalms" | U-Roy | Dread In A Babylon | Get On Down
18. "Black Mollies" | S U R V I V E | Survive | Holodeck
19. "Scalar Wave" | S U R V I V E | Survive | Holodeck
20. "Shunting Yard" | S U R V I V E | Survive | Holodeck
21. "Dirge" | S U R V I V E | Survive | Holodeck
22. "I Want a Dog" | Dirk von Lowtzow | Dirk von Lowtzow Plays Pet Shop Boys & Neil Young | Martin Hossbach

workin' an' practicin'

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Spiritually and Emotionally Uplifting Properties: Transmission 357, 2017 July 19

I wonder what my opinion of this program was on the night. It couldn't have been as favorable as it is right now, because upon playback it is AWESOME. But then, it is ten days later--#theorycamp is ended, my mind is finally clearing, and my own greatness is revealed to me at last. Do you want excellence in content and technique? It is all here.

Sadly I do not own this Jazz Butcher compilation on vinyl--if I recall correctly, Friend of Bombast Jeremy does, or did once. I forget whether his copy came with the elusive 7" whose contents did not make it onto this cd (but did land on one of the other umpteen Jazz Butcher anthologies, and on iTunes, so they would not be "Physical Evidence" anyway, I guess). ANYWAY, this release and I go way back. I could probably have done with a similar degree of familiarity with Those Who Walk Away, probably playing that tune because I liked its ambience but finding myself totally unnerved by the "content" and needing to read PSAs over it.

I also have some opinions on record titles. "Oriental Special" is, I'm sure, meant to be ironic, but it's 2017 and that doesn't work. Also, "Madonnawhore?" I will take any random Shit and Shine title over that, seven days a week.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 July 19, 2100-2300:

1. "Agrim Agadez" | Etran de L'Air | Agrim Agadez: Musique Guitare De La Republique Du Niger | Sahel Sounds
2. "Golden Egg" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
3. "Groovin' In The Bus Lane" | The Jazz Butcher | Big Questions | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
4. "If I Was With A Woman" | Ian Dury | New Boots And Panties!! [reissue] | Demon
5. "Bruma" | Humberto Polar | Anatema | Discos Mono
6. "The Pill" | Loretta Lynn | The Definitive Collection | MCA Nashville / Decca | "The Listening Parlour"
7. "Sit and Cry" | Pat Kelly | Lonely Man | Burning Sounds
8. "Sounds from the Hosseinieh" | Saint Abdullah | The Sounds of Evil - Vol. 1 | Boomarm Nation
9. "Conspiracy" | The Jazz Butcher | Big Questions | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Alabaster" | Alberich / Lussuria | Borgia | Hospital Productions
11. "She Hacked My Head" | Brian Harris | Washed Up Man | self-released
12. "Forever" | The Jazz Butcher | Big Questions | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Who / Blank Pass" | You Still Have Friends | The Never Years | M.I.S.T.
14. "Marsoul Alhoub" | Abdou El Omari | Nuits de Printemps avec Abdou El Omari | Radio Martiko
15. "People" | Voilaaa | Des promesses | Favorite
16. "54-46 Was My Number" | Toots & The Maytals | Monkey Business | Trojan
17. "Inner Space" | El Nino & The Southern Oscillations | El Nino & The Southern Oscillations | Innovative Leisure
18. "First Partially Recollected Conversation" | Those Who Walk Away | The Infected Mass | Constellation
19. "With Your Love - Quarion Remix" | Marbert Rocel | In The Beginning Remixes | Compost
20. "Sharon Signs to Cherry Red" | The Kamikaze Pilots | Sharon Signs to Cherry Red [reissue] | Night School
21. "Mersey" | The Jazz Butcher | Big Questions | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
22. "New Dark Age" / "Hot House" | The Sound | From the Lion's Mouth | Korova
23. "El Mundo Sera Feliz" | Tobias | Eyes In The Center | Ostgut Ton
24. "Death Dentist" | The Jazz Butcher | Big Questions | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Blackout" | Chalk Outlines | Come On Feel The NoiZe, BraZil Class '17 | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "Parsifal" | Toby Driver | Madonnawhore | Flenser
27. "The Hairbrush and the Tank" | The Jazz Butcher | Big Questions | Glass | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Your House" | Paco Sala | The Silent Season | Denovali
29. "My Boy Lollipop" | Sakura & The Quests | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
30. "Vortex" | Fred P | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture

honest to goodness airwaves

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Missing from My Own Head: Transmission 356, 2017 July 16

I invite you to enjoy another fill-in program that I'm not sure how I stumbled into, except by saying yes. Recently I watched this YouTube video with Henry Rollins (I know), in which he talked about why he basically "said yes" to every "opportunity" because he wanted to work as much as possible to stave off a return to Haagen-Dazs store management, or something like that. The difference between him and me is that he gets paid. (That's the only difference.) Anyway, here I am, spinning tunes and not managing an ice cream store, so hopefully something is accomplished here.

Perhaps some platonic ideal of an archive-follower will point out that it's not in fact true that I do better on Sunday nights than other fill-in opportunities, and perhaps even better than the usual Wednesday night thing. But to me it feels like it IS true. Good form is on display here, not to mention a "no fucks given" attitude that really needs to surface more often. Plus I had a useful, friendly interaction with a record label in real time--you'll have to listen to find out the when and what.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 July 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Track 1 / Track 2" | Benedict Drew | Crawling Through Tory Slime | Mana
2. "Birds of Texas" | Faust | Fresh Air | Bureau B
3. "How I Learned To Love The Bomb" | The Dupont Circles | Holding Hands Under a Cloudless Sky: A Tribute to the Television Personalities Volume 4 | The Beautiful Music
4. "Broken Pen" | Churrus | Come On Feel The NoiZe, BraZil Class '17 | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
5. "Bits of Glass" | Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers | GOTHS!!! | VaVa
6. "I Hope He's Everything You Wanted Me To Be..." | The Just Joans | Holding Hands Under a Cloudless Sky: A Tribute to the Television Personalities Volume 4 | The Beautiful Music
7. "Golden Boy" | Mind Gamers | Power of Power | Record Makers
8. "Someone To Share My Life With" | Todd Shuster | Holding Hands Under a Cloudless Sky: A Tribute to the Television Personalities Volume 4 | The Beautiful Music
9. "Pulse Cathedral" | Desto | Immortality | Signal Life
10. "Lapsus" | Arce | Lapsus EP | M.I.S.T.
11. "They Deserve Death" | Vatican Shadow | Rubbish of the Floodwaters | Ostgut Ton
12. "Stop And Smell The Roses" | Robert Scott | Holding Hands Under a Cloudless Sky: A Tribute to the Television Personalities Volume 4 | The Beautiful Music
13. "Dua" | Ko Shin Moon | Ko Shin Moon | Akuphone
14. "Lower Life" | Robedoor | New Age Sewage | Not Not Fun
15. "Dancing Rain" | Gaussian Curve | The Distance | Music From Memory
16. "Just Breathe" | Rowan Box | Just Breathe / Muffler | M.I.S.T.
17. "Научитесь отпускать" | Bleak Fiction | Late Notes | M.I.S.T.
18. "Treijas" | Selffish | He She Them Us | Serein
19. "A Sea of Snakes" | A Wire Around Your Neck | One Step Closer to the End / A Sea of Snakes | M.I.S.T.
20. "I Face The Wall" | Black Needle Noise with Dr Strangefryer | Before The Tears Came | Black Needle Noise
21. "You Are Special And You Always Will Be" | The Puddle | Holding Hands Under a Cloudless Sky: A Tribute to the Television Personalities Volume 4 | The Beautiful Music
22. "The Season Is Ours" | Flying Saucer Attack | Flying Saucer Attack [reissue] | VHF
23. "Agartha Stories" | Bruscagin & Visnadi | Agartha Stories | Siamese

Time heals all, but what is time

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Get Nowhere Twice As Fast: Transmission 355, 2017 July 13

We should get this out of the way first: on this program, which sees Junior and me continuing our "schtick" of playing entire sides, there's a wonderful set of Television Personalities covers. Admittedly, I had never really come across this band's music--except when I did. Its fingerprints are all over the early Creation Records catalog, and not just in the Times (naturally)--tell me that Biff Bang Pow! didn't spend their entire "career," as good as it was, trying to re-create "She's My Yoko." This material is not very typical of what we do here at BOMBAST, but it is simply too good. Does this mean anything?

I am more struck by the juxtaposition (or is it?) of Simon & Garfunkel and Joy Division, to be honest.

Junior has said that Simon & Garfunkel make "the only pop music that [she] can listen to without wanting to vomit," which is not only an endorsement but an attestation that The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the other two anchors of her growing collection, are (at times) something other than pop. (She's pretty sharp.) Anyway, I come not to bury or praise Simon & Garfunkel, only to say that I genuinely don't understand them and never have. I can't inhabit these songs--except for "I Am A Rock"--and I can't fathom doing so. Imagine listening to "The 59th Street Bridge Song" and thinking, "this expresses me," or wanting this to be the case. I would run from anyone who did.

I remember this one time in catechism class when our teacher analyzed "The Sound of Silence"--supposedly as a warning against idol worship (?)--so I suppose that's something one can do. I have similar memories of U2 and Howard Jones lyrics going "under the microscope" at this or that Catholic Youth Group function. Good times!

One can be a Simon & Garfunkel person, or a Joy Division person, or neither, but certainly not both. Prove me wrong. Show me a living specimen.

Tag me as a "Joy Division person," which means--I don't really know what. I have a personal history with Closer, certainly, and like a friend it is always different when I come back to it. But I find, upon this listen, that I don't see myself in it, and I'm not sure how I ever did. These songs are too individual, too personal (maybe "The Eternal" transcends this). No doubt you've seen it referred to--callously and tritely--as Ian Curtis's suicide note (it probably isn't), but it certainly couldn't pass as anyone else's. Junior, once again, is right to find this "not that bad"--there is no reason to treat this anguish as yours. It's not.

Finally, "Pocket Love" isn't the most "dance party"-worthy tune there is, but it will have to do.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 July 13, 1900-2100:

1. "Godstar" | Psychic TV | Godstar | Temple
2. "Mrs. Robinson" | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits | Columbia
3. "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits | Columbia
4. "The Boxer" | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits | Columbia
5. "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits | Columbia
6. "The Sound Of Silence" | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits | Columbia
7. "I Am A Rock" | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits | Columbia
8. "Scarborough Fair / Canticle" | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits | Columbia
9. "Look Back In Anger" | The Yellow Melodies | Holding Hands Under A Cloudless Sky (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 4) | The Beautiful Music
10. "Silly Things Lovers Do" | Simon Bish & Andy Fonda | Holding Hands Under A Cloudless Sky (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 4) | The Beautiful Music
11. "Jackanory Stories" | Dot Dash | Holding Hands Under A Cloudless Sky (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 4) | The Beautiful Music
12. "Strangely Beautiful" | The Steinbecks | Holding Hands Under A Cloudless Sky (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 4) | The Beautiful Music
13. "The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming" | Skytone | Holding Hands Under A Cloudless Sky (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 4) | The Beautiful Music
14. "A Good and Faithful Servant" | Jeremy | Holding Hands Under A Cloudless Sky (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 4) | The Beautiful Music
15. "How I Learned To Love The Bomb" | Paul Bonin & The Chosen Few | Holding Hands Under A Cloudless Sky (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 4) | The Beautiful Music
16. "Stop and Smell the Roses" | The Penelopes | Holding Hands Under A Cloudless Sky (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 4) | The Beautiful Music
17. "Honey for the Bears" | The Milestone Band | Holding Hands Under A Cloudless Sky (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 4) | The Beautiful Music
18. "She's My Yoko" | Bright Lights, Big Zombie | Holding Hands Under A Cloudless Sky (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 4) | The Beautiful Music
19. "She Lives for the Moment" | Pretty Eyes for Captain America | Holding Hands Under A Cloudless Sky (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 4) | The Beautiful Music
20. "Heart and Soul" | Joy Division | Closer [reissue] | Factory
21. "Twenty Four Hours" | Joy Division | Closer [reissue] | Factory
22. "The Eternal" | Joy Division | Closer [reissue] | Factory
23. "Decades" | Joy Division | Closer [reissue] | Factory
24. "Pocket Love" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 3 | Hippie Dance

golden boy

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Presumably, Supposably: Transmission 354, 2017 July 12

This program was the first of a two-night stint, so I needed to make it good, and it was. "Featureless, so plain to see, a loaded gun won't--" what? Where was I? I drifted off there for a second. Ah yes--no "Physical Evidence" here, I was (& am) still under summertime duress, but there is a trip to the "Listening Parlour." Lady Catharsis, by this point, was making a decent recovery from her bump on the head, but she has little to say about Stereolab. I'm realizing that I have never said much about Stereolab. They're gRRReat! Peng! and Switched On were essential parts of the soundtrack to Graduate School for both of us--shout out to House of Records, btw.

Feeling cheery & breezy at the moment, unsure why, but I am rolling with it. Listening to this episode was a bit ambulatory but mostly at the gym. That experience is a bit less self-punishing these days. Again, no idea why; maybe I am progressing, maybe just acquiescing. Maybe the quality of my programs is getting incrementally better and so the "voices in my head" are quieter on that account. "Enjoy(ing) the Silence."

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 July 12, 2100-2300:

1. "Mbre Isong (Intro)" | Isadico Dance Band | Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) | Comb & Razor Sound
2. "Purpose Awakening" | Aybee | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture
3. "Forest Lore" | Black Point | Split, Vol. 2 | Out To Lunch
4. "Untitled" | Anto | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture
5. "Launderette" | Vivien Goldman | Sharon Signs to Cherry Red [reissue] | Night School
6. "Effigy" | Verge | Emblematic Ruin | Avian
7. "Pork Chop Express" | El Michaels Affair | Return to the 37th Chamber | Big Crown
8. "Petite Mort" | Velocette | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture
9. "To the Edges" | Mind Over Mirrors | Undying Color | Paradise of Bachelors
10. "Perversion" | Stereolab | Peng! | Too Pure | "Listening Parlour"
11. "Mahin Nime" | Mamadou Kelly | Politiki | Clermont
12. "1984" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 3 | Hippie Dance
13. "7 Hours" | Chymera | Dots and Pearls 4 | Cocoon
14. "Let's Talk A Good Story - Map.ache Remix" | Phoebe Killdeer & The Shift | Perception Shift / A | Altin Village & Mine
15. "Resistance" | Galaxina | New Dark Age, A Tribute to the Sound | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "Ethel I" | Vulgata | Miracle Steps (Music from the Fourth World 1983-2017) | Optimo
17. "Waves Form - MEon Rework" | Toydrum | My Eye on You (To Reinvision) | Skint
18. "Tell Tony" | Kapote | The Body Move | Toy Tonics
19. "Love Potion #9" | Nancy Sit | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
20. "Blue River" | David Cunningham | Miracle Steps (Music from the Fourth World 1983-2017) | Optimo
21. "Ererimbot Afayung Oko" | Etubom Rex Williams & His Nigerian Artistes | Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) | Comb & Razor Sound
22. "Star Roving" | Slowdive | Slowdive | Dead Oceans
23. "Motorway" | The Legends | Nightshift | Labrador
24. "White Tigress" | Iona Fortune | Miracle Steps (Music from the Fourth World 1983-2017) | Optimo
25. "Gloom" | 1115 | Post Europe | Alien Transistor
26. "How Late It Was, How Late" | Argy | Dots and Pearls 4 | Cocoon

what can you do

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The Magic Wound: Transmission 353, 2017 July 8

The first instance having been a decent debut, Junior and I tried to do a program together again. This time we filled in for "The Magic WomB," DJ Kristi being out of town on account of her father. He is fine, by the way. On this occasion Junior brought in a record and insisted on playing an entire side of it. I have decided that this is going to be our thing.

This broadcast is full of hard truths and glimpses behind the curtain. It begins badly when I play the Fall "record" on spotify (I didn't own it yet--I swear I used to have some previous iteration of this album--how did it walk out of my collection?) but my app was set to "shuffle." If you can't handle me at my sausage-making worst, you're just not ready for me in general. We also learn that I think Junior is a better person than I am (a low bar that she had better clear) and that I have a chorus of unkind voices in my head. We should probably have saved Ian Dury for a later hour when children were less likely to be present, but Junior, at least, has heard worse. Any parent who does not play The Comet Is Coming for their child, though, should be charged with neglect.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 July 8, 1900-2100:

1. "Eat Y'Self Fitter" | The Fall | Perverted By Language | Superior Viaduct
2. "Neighborhood of Infinity" | The Fall | Perverted By Language | Superior Viaduct
3. "Garden" | The Fall | Perverted By Language | Superior Viaduct
4. "Hotel Bloedel" | The Fall | Perverted By Language | Superior Viaduct
5. "What To Do" | The Rolling Stones | More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) | London
6. "Money" | The Rolling Stones | More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) | London
7. "Come On" | The Rolling Stones | More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) | London
8. "Fortune Teller" | The Rolling Stones | More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) | London
9. "Poison Ivy" | The Rolling Stones | More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) | London
10. "Bye Bye Johnnie" | The Rolling Stones | More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) | London
11. "I Can't Be Satisfied" | The Rolling Stones | More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) | London
12. "Long Long While" | The Rolling Stones | More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) | London
13. "Beachfires" | Burial | Subtemple / Beachfires | Hyperdub
14. "Starship Africa Section 1" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
15. "Starship Africa Section 2" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
16. "Starship Africa Section 3" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
17. "Starship Africa Section 4" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
18. "Starship Africa Section 5" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
19. "Wake Up and Make Love with Me" | Ian Dury | New Boots And Panties!! [reissue] | Demon
20. "Sweet Gene Vincent" | Ian Dury | New Boots And Panties!! [reissue] | Demon
21. "I'm Partial to Your Abracadabra" | Ian Dury | New Boots And Panties!! [reissue] | Demon
22. "My Old Man" | Ian Dury | New Boots And Panties!! [reissue] | Demon
23. "Billericay Dickie" | Ian Dury | New Boots And Panties!! [reissue] | Demon
24. "Start Running" | The Comet Is Coming | Death to the Planet | Leaf
25. "Final Eclipse (Full Version)" | The Comet Is Coming | Death to the Planet | Leaf
26. "Ooh What a Life - Gerd Janson & Shan Edit" | Gibson Brothers | Ooh What a Life / Heaven | Running Back

more precisely

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Real-Time Critique Mode: Transmission 352, 2017 July 5

After the previous program, it felt nice to do a show without observances or baggage. I even manage to sound upbeat here. There's a chance that I actually was, although that allusion to "wrath" at the opening of the program must have significance. Here I confront the usual problem of trying to capture the atmosphere of something that happened weeks ago, without the aid of an actual diary (what you're reading is a fake one). But on this night we were basically halfway through the period of my work life that I call "theory camp," and things were going smoothly, so I must have been feeling breezy.

I think that, had the program's recurring features not occurred to me, this is fairly close to the Platonic Ideal of what I would be Doing With Radio. Good segues, not too much incompetence, a raft of artists I hadn't played before, and the absence of nostalgia--it's all happening. I even manage to play a tune called "July 5th" ON JULY 5TH. What spirit could have occupied my body and made such entertainment happen. It couldn't have been mere "Gas," could it?

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 July 5, 2100-2300:

1. "Gli Ragazzi Di Baia Di Puolo" | Move D | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture
2. "Panes" | Module One | Hometown | Fauxpas
3. "Candle Power II" | Rat Columns | Candle Power | Upset the Rhythm
4. "Slow Grind" | The Veldt | Symmetry | Schoolkids
5. "Asa" | Julien Villa | Away | Sodasound
6. "Virtuous Circle" | Slugabed | Inherit The Earth | Anticon
7. "Gold Toot Style" | Errol Brown | Orthodox Dub | Dub Store
8. "Narkopop 4" | GAS | Narkopop | Kompakt
9. "Miel" | Arca | Arca | XL
10. "Haole" | Totes Preesh | Head Shop Boys | Love On The Rocks
11. "Only Confusion" | Pankow | Times | Artoffact
12. "Glade Runner" | Wolf Muller & Cass. | The Sound of Glades | International Feel
13. "When My Mind Became Obsolete" | Derek Hunter Wilson | Travelogue | Beacon Sound
14. "The Trip" | Boom Bip | Sun Choke | Lex
15. "July 5th" | Horse Jumper of Love | Horse Jumper of Love | Joy Void
16. "Little Hypocrite" | Alice Bag | Alice Bag | Don Giovanni
17. "I Got Cut" | Superchunk | "I Got Cut" b/w "Up Against the Wall" | Merge
18. "Tell Me - Joe Goddard Remix" | Tuff City Kids | Tell Me / R-Mancer Remixes | Permanent Vacation
19. "Emile" | Mark Barrott | Music for Presence | International Feel
20. "Madar komakam kon" | Saint Abdullah | The Sounds of Evil - Vol. 1 | Boomarm Nation
21. "Future Song" | Akis | Space, Time And Beyond (Selected Works 1986-2016) | Into the Light
22. "Narrow Creek" | mymk | Pastorales | Tiny Gods
23. "Permafrost" | AB2088 | Sagittarius | Computer Club
24. "Howl" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 4 | Hippie Dance
25. "Lelek" | Sunshine Jones | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture
26. "Gone Against the Wind" | LAKE | Forever or Never | Tapete
27. "Twenty Bars" | Juju & Jordash | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture

Portly and with Good Grace

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