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Lonely Is As Lonely Does: Transmission 351, 2017 June 28

I must write a letter to you. I must make myself clear. But just as I do many of these broadcasts "under duress" of some kind, I often write these commentaries, or remembrances, or whatever they are, on short deadlines, self-imposed (out of guilt, usually) or perceived. Occasionally I am reminded that this matters to someone, but for the most part it's an imagined, impatient reader/listener or a voice in my head cracking the whip.

ANYWAY, yes, I gave over a program, basically, to Lonely Is An Eyesore, which I describe herein as a "life-altering record" and a "gateway," and which was "enjoying" its 30th birthday "on the day" of broadcast (if you account for time zone difference). Surely in a hopeless case like mine, you will have guessed that the Senior Catharses are regular listeners--I hope I make them proud, occasionally; my mother texted me after the show to ask me what the big deal was, since I didn't explain. I PLAY RECORDS SO I *DON'T* HAVE TO TALK. But I'll try to "talk" here.

THE GATEWAY: this description is not exactly true. In spring 1987 I was playing new EP releases by Throwing Muses and The (legendary) Wolfgang Press at my old station. So I "knew" who they were. I was already familiar with Cocteau Twins (hard not to be) and This Mortal Coil. (And, "of course," the long-departed Bauhaus.) Once, during the fall term of 1986, I had binged on Hershey's Kisses while blasting Xmal Deutschland at full volume in one of the station's listening rooms and given myself a blinding headache; I would do it again! I would guess that someone had tipped me off to Dead Can Dance; "The Fatal Impact" seems like something Early Me would have played on the radio. Colourbox were also "on my radar" but I hadn't really embraced them yet.

These were merely data points, bands and records I happened to like. Though I did read record covers, it hadn't occurred to me to think about patterns. Labelthink, as I call it, hadn't overtaken me. I recall, as an adolescent, noting that Prince, The B-52's, and Devo were all on Warner Bros. records, so someone there must have had decent taste. New Order and my beloved Durutti Column records were released by something called Factory Communications Ltd., and that was a cool coincidence. I knew that I had to have Smiths records on Rough Trade, not Sire, because I wanted nothing to do with those garish yellow-and-orange labels (also that I seemed not to like anything on MCA or Arista, or the stupid rainbow / mountainscape labels; aesthetics mattered, if only vaguely). Just babbling self-musings, a baby struggling to form words it didn't understand yet.

LIFE-ALTERING: Something flipped when--sitting in my parents' house, listening to some other DJ at my station--I heard (Clan of) Xymox's "Muscoviet Musquito" and, not knowing who or what it was, decided I had to hear and own the record. But, not having caught the back-announce (I'm sure it was because one of my siblings insisted on talking to me or something), I couldn't attribute the tune. The next time I visited the station, either because I had a show to do or because I was bored, I rummaged through the "current" bins. We had received a vinyl copy of Lonely Is An Eyesore--but I had no idea what it was. It just "looked cool." Maybe I thought it looked something like a This Mortal Coil or Throwing Muses record; maybe it was just serendipity. Serendipity was strong in those days. But anyway, here was the song, and everything else: an aesthetic, a catalog, a history, what seemed, stupidly, like a way of being. I was sad and lonely (ha ha) and impressionable; records meant so, so much to me at that time.

I became a 4AD devotee, overnight, it seemed; I wasn't de-programmed until about 5 years later, and only through what must have been a long series of disappointments. It just so happens that my memories of those years are quite repressed--certainly for non-4AD reasons! This is the cause of many of my problems now, I feel. All I know is the initial rush, a blazing summer of limerance, if you will; that labelthink was upon me, that I had to have everything, and that I've never really been the same.

In my (hasty and improvised) defense--objectively I wasn't that far gone. My band did send demo tapes--universally rejected, btw--to other labels. I was not the guy at the Pixies gig who had spray-painted the 4AD logo on the back of his leather jacket. (Counterpoint--but there I was, nevertheless, at two Pixies gigs, and my leather jacket was spray-painted with something else.) I'm not the guy in the facebook fangroup who thinks he's going to blow people's minds by posting some YouTubed Cocteau Twins song we have all heard half a million times. I know, based on the remaining evidence, that there were other things happening, that I had a previous identity (musical and otherwise) that was perfectly fine, and maybe even halfway cool. But there is no denying that I was smitten, dangerously obsessed. I wanted to be this.

Had I understood at the time I first heard this record that I was seeing "light from a dead star," that this was actually, by a plausible reckoning, the end of 4AD as it presents itself here, I might not have to work so hard to recover Young, Unbroken Me. But who knew at the time?

What remains? Three of the bands on this record are in the Hall of Legends, and I can't say for certain that there won't be more. At least a couple of other Legends have had brushes with 4AD, and maybe are people whose music I might have missed had there not been some connection. Despite the fact that I've since concluded that I like the Natures Mortes and Presage(s) compilations better (and am embarrassed by how shy I sound about this when I allude to it in the program!), LIAE is a singular achievement--there are a bajillion great Creation comps, for example, but not one conceptually similiar to this--and it still "sounds good loud," as I said to Friend of Bombast Mr. D when we were texting each other during this broadcast. I'm hopeful that one of these days I'll be able to hear it again with innocent wonder.

Oh yeah, there's about an hour and eighteen minutes' worth of other music here, too. Hopefully it will mean something to someone, maybe even me, in 2047.

Pretty sure I failed to clarify anything here, but as the kids say "it is what it is." Obscene, obscure.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 June 28, 2100-2300:

1. "Stairfoot Lane Bunker - Minor Science Remix" | Special Request | Stairfoot Lane Bunker | Houndstooth
2. "The Seven Armed Drummer" | Autre | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture
3. "Your Neighbour" | Boy Robot | Final Transmission EP | City Centre Offices
4. "Reza's Final Battle" | Saint Abdullah | The Sounds of Evil - Vol. 1 | Boomarm Nation
5. "Roger Wilco's Night Out" | Marius Circus | Roger Wilco's Night Out | In The Garden
6. "Huit" | Sky H1 | Mono No Aware | PAN
7. "Saunter" | Arca | Arca | XL
8. "My Eye on You (feat. Gavin Clark)" | Toydrum | My Eye on You (To Reinvision) | Skint
9. "The Same River Once" | Rapoon | Miracle Steps (Music from the Fourth World 1983-2017) | Optimo
10. "Primitive Methods" | El Mahdy Jr. | Time to Sell the Golden Teeth | Boomarm Nation
11. "Hot Doggie" | Colourbox | Lonely Is An Eyesore | 4AD
12. "Acid, Bitter and Sad" | This Mortal Coil | Lonely Is An Eyesore | 4AD
13. "Cut the Tree" | The Wolfgang Press | Lonely Is An Eyesore | 4AD
14. "Fish" | Throwing Muses | Lonely Is An Eyesore | 4AD
15. "Frontier" | Dead Can Dance | Lonely Is An Eyesore | 4AD
16. "Hold Me Tender - feat. Urour" | Khan of Finland | Nicht nur Sex | Shitkatapult
17. "Stratos" | Julien Villa | Away | Sodasound
18. "Fukui Morning" | Claude Young | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture
19. "Don't Know Why" | Slowdive | Slowdive | Dead Oceans
20. "Definizione dell'impossibile" | Tale of Us | Endless | Deutsche Grammophon
21. "The Cotton And The Organ" | Gl. Harlev Organ Orchestra | Organ Sessions | Jahtari
22. "Crushed" | Cocteau Twins | Lonely Is An Eyesore | 4AD
23. "No Motion" | Dif Juz | Lonely Is An Eyesore | 4AD
24. "Muscoviet Musquito" | Clan of Xymox | Lonely Is An Eyesore | 4AD
25. "The Protagonist" | Dead Can Dance | Lonely Is An Eyesore | 4AD
26. "Neckless Dub" | Jay Glass Dubs | New Teeth for an Old Country | Bokeh Versions

music for presence

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It's a Fact that I Live With: Transmission 350, 2017 June 24

Did you know that I am scared of round numbers? I have a basic problem with implied symmetry in my playlists, e.g. I would rather play 29 or 31 songs in my broadcast than 30. (I have long felt this way about LPs--except for classic New Order, and all the 4AD eps from the 80s, I'm not a big fan of "the same number of tracks on each side of the record," finding the 10-song album particularly distasteful. Weird, huh.) Not too long ago, I was okay with milestones, at least--100th program, 200th program, etc. Now anything that ends in zero seems like a convenient place to call time on this adventure, or for someone else to do so.

So it was fairly cool that #350 popped up randomly as a fill-in opportunity on which Junior wanted to begin a co-hosting escapade. Not only "no meaning" but "decent co-host": I will take that. Junior had not really found her confidence or her voice, though it starts to come on near the end of this broadcast, when she begins making Gayle references. There is really not much talking on this episode; not sure what is going on with me. Maybe just chilling in the studio with a good person, and/or low-key scrambling to throw up some decent segues. Either way, good process = good results.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 June 24, 1700-1900:

1. "Intro" | Gentleman's Dub Club | Dubtopia | Easy Star
2. "The Hoima Witch and the Songye Mask" | Visions Congo | Mulago Sound Studio | Discrepant
3. "Xiao Youmei Corridor" | Soundwalk Collective | Before Music There Is Blood | Apollo
4. "Don't Turn Me Away" | Rexy | Sharon Signs to Cherry Red [reissue] | Night School
5. "Hanky Panky" | Rita Chao & The Quests | Girls in the Garage (Oriental Special Edition) | Past & Present
6. "Shooting Above The Garbage" | Carsickness | 1979-1982 | Get Hip
7. "Koko Says" | WaqWaq Kingdom | Shinsekai | Jahtari
8. "Space Movement Section 3" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
9. "Flux" | Spacetime Continuum | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture
10. "Top Eyop Odo" | Emmanual Ntia | Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) | Comb & Razor Sound
11. "Level 5" | Al Lover meets Cairo Liberation Front | Nymphaea Caerulea | Hoga Nord
12. "Bare Feet" | El Mahdy Jr. | Time to Sell the Golden Teeth | Boomarm Nation
13. "Mille Voix" | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma | Miracle Steps (Music from the Fourth World 1983-2017) | Optimo
14. "FALLING RIZLAS" | Actress | AZD | Ninja Tune
15. "Spring But Dark" | Clark | Death Peak | WARP
16. "Placebo - Byron the Aquarius Reinterpretation" | Parker Madicine | Voices & Drums EP | Heist
17. "To the Well" | Secret Shine | There Is Only Now | Saint Marie
18. "Revel" | I:Cube | Air Texture Volume V | Air Texture
19. "Dead Soul" | Hunter/Game | Dead Soul | Just This
20. "Golden Thread" | Fabian Dikof | Who | Best Works
21. "Welt 7" | Cologne Tape | Welt | Magazine
22. "You in the Horizon" | Ensemble Economique | In Silhouette | Denovali
23. "Blood & Berry" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 4 | Hippie Dance

What I like to think of as the sound of good

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Do the 'Ahhs' and Do Them Later: Transmission 349, 2017 June 21

This is more or less how I remember the dark months of May and June. It's possible that I have taken my frustration with this particular broadcast and spread it, like butter, over everything else I did in these two months, whether it warranted opprobrium or not. Ill-conceived, lazy, inattentive segues? Come get them. A featured record that skips on 3 out of 5 tracks? This is the place, fren.

Side note: I even manage to feel frustrated with Augustus Pablo, which is not a good look. But explain to me why it's a good thing that the drums are panned hard right in "King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown," like some third-rate Big Youth record. It's not even the best tune on the album that bears its name, but it fit.

This was the first program in the season of the year that I like to call #theorycamp, where work for me is best imagined as a 170-tentacled squid. You may break free of some of them, but never all of them--and even if you were to manage it, you couldn't get the experience out of your head, even on dry land. "Scuba Death," indeed! Pretty sure that during the second hour of this program I was doing work emails trying to manage some crisis or other. Apologies--send me snail mail if you want a refund for this mixtape.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 June 21, 2100-2300:

1. "Lai" | Hatti Vatti | SZUM | Most
2. "Anarcoide" | Schilling | Hella | Apparel Tonic
3. "Persistent Prick" | Serb | Qui Vive | Fizic
4. "Octopus Web" | CTM | Love Means Taking Action Remixes | Posh Isolation
5. "Autobody" | FIN | Ice Pix | Hausu Mountain
6. "Don't Lose Yourself" | Desto | Immortality | Signal Life
7. "Rosetta Stone" | Throwing Muses | Red Heaven | 4AD / Sire | "Listening Parlour"
8. "Fractions" | Phon.o | Fractions | BPitch Control
9. "King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown" | Augustus Pablo | King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown | Shanachie
10. "Better Recognize" | Illbilly Hitec | One Thing Leads to Another | Echo Beach
11. "Cosmic Carrot (Parts 1+2)" | Timeshard | Planet Dog - Peel Your Head: The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Senescence" | Scuba Death | The Worm at the Core | Further
13. "Gernkraftwerk" | Kalipo | Stiff Little Spinners, Vol. 8 | Audiolith
14. "Dog" | The Bug / Earth | Concrete Desert | Ninja Tune
15. "Ride - Kittin's Remix" | Dubfire / Miss Kittin | Ride (Remixes) | SCI & TEC Vinyl Audio
16. "Black Market" | Byul.org | Selected Tracks for Nacht Damonen | Alien Transistor
17. "Bioforms" | Eat Static | Planet Dog - Peel Your Head: The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
18. "FSG" | Daniel Brandt | Eternal Something | Erased Tapes
19. "Azzurra" | Kyo | I Musik | Posh Isolation
20. "God Says No To Tomorrow" | Timeshard | Planet Dog - Peel Your Head: The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Star Dust - Adesse Versions Remix" | Nathan Surreal | Star Dust EP | Biologic
22. "Sunspot" | Banco de Gaia | Planet Dog - Peel Your Head: The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
23. "65 BPM" | Leibniz | Online | Hundert
24. "Internal affairs" | Saint Abdullah | The Sounds of Evil - Vol. 1 | Boomarm Nation

what the leopard was seeking at that altitude

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Astral Injuries: Transmission 348, 2017 June 14

What a week this was. Six days prior to this broadcast, Lady Catharsis fell on the sidewalk and concussed herself. That was an exciting night! She had recovered just enough to do a voice-over for "The Listening Parlour" here, but really not much more than that. The darkness of "brain rest" was her prescription, and I was doing two grownups' worth of stuff. I maybe should not have done this program, but honestly there was not much else to do at this time of night. (Even more honestly, it was more like "one-and-a-half grownups' worth of stuff," since I am at best good for half of a grownup's worth of stuff on my own.)

My karmic reward for carrying on this week was to have not a single computer at the radio station working properly, and needing to resort (gasp) to playing actual records, which wasn't this week's plan. This is what I mean by "under duress." It did work out non-catastrophically--at least I think so. As usual the biggest disaster was me--referring to David Thomas as "the big man" because at the moment his name slipped my mind! (I actually did see him live once, in 1991; I did not enjoy it much, but that's beside the point.) And, of course, "Astral Injuries," which SHOULD be the name of a record label.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 June 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Now I'm a Man" | The Funkees | Now I'm A Man | PMG
2. "Tropopause" | Lusine | Sensorimotor | Ghostly International
3. "Fallen Columns" | Ø [Phase] | Submerged Metropolitan | Token
4. "Rædslernes Grønne Ø" | Videodrones | Mondo Ferox | El Paraiso
5. "Glare" | Teengirl Fantasy | 8AM | Planet Mu
6. "Space Jam 2017" | thatmanmonkz | Shade Throw EP | Dirt Crew
7. "Key Women" | The Analog Roland Orchestra | 303 and Chill | Step Recordings
8. "We Are a Mirror (feat. Douglas J McCarthy)" | ADULT | Detroit House Guests | Mute
9. "Karevaneh Karbala" | Saint Abdullah | The Sounds of Evil - Vol. 1 | Boomarm Nation
10. "Exalted Dub" | The Aggrovators | Dubbing At King Tubby's | VP
11. "Non-Alignment Pact" | Pere Ubu | Beyond Punk! | Mojo Magazine
12. "National Drone" | Hills | Alive at Roadburn | Rocket
13. "Greater Grand Crossing" | Anjou | Epithymia | kranky
14. "Night Falls on Chillicothe" | Brokeback | Illinois River Valley Blues | Thrill Jockey
15. "Love" | Jacaszek | KWIATY | Ghostly International
16. "Skagerrak" | Thomas Atzmann | Stiff Little Spinners, Vol. 8 | Audiolith
17. "Amadou" | Acid Pauli | BLD | Ouie
18. "Remote View Pt. 1" | Natan H | Atmosphere | Acid Camp
19. "Exasthrus (Pane)" | M.E.S.H. | Mono No Aware | PAN
20. "Wait For Me" | Ulrich Schnauss | No Further Ahead Than Today | Scripted Realities
21. "Never Say Never" | Romeo Void | Never Say Never | 415 / Columbia | "Listening Parlour"
22. "Part One" | The Chi Factory | The Kallikatsou Recordings | Astral Industries

You ain't hiding, you can't see

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Obnoxious Actions, Obnoxious Results: Transmission 347, 2017 June 7

You can glimpse into the past, not merely through the magic of recording, but by virtue of the content in this program. Lady Catharsis and I each produce a chestnut from our respective adolescences, separate but joined together by birthday magic. LC tells me that she saw Tom Jones perform once upon a time (in Tahoe, if I recall correctly), and that, apart from a joke in poor taste, he WAS love. Regrettably, I never saw Prince perform (except on TV during the best Super Bowl halftime in history), but his music was a strong point of identification during my sensitive years. (Have they ended?) Eschewing him for Morrissey seems, looking back, unnecessary, not to mention a mistake. Oh well. I will add it to the list.

Again, a small mistake seems to derail the whole thing, about halfway through. But Brian Harris salvages the program (and perhaps the future of British Democracy?) with his timely piece, which I played as a sort of wish, to be fulfilled by The Absolute Boy the following day.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 June 7, 2100-2300:

1. "Patellaluxation" | Monopohl | Stiff Little Spinners, Vol. 8 | Audiolith
2. "Hey Jude" | Tom Jones | This Is Tom Jones | Parrot | "Listening Parlour"
3. "A Song For Kylie Minogue" | CTMF | A Song For Kylie Minogue | Damaged Goods
4. "Bucolica" | Shelter | Zon Zon Zon | International Feel
5. "Let's Do It" | SJOB Movement | Friendship Train | Cultures of Soul
6. "ForwardTheBass" | Seekers International | Presents the RaggaPreservation Society EP | Diskotopia
7. "(Something)" | Planning For Burial | Below the House | Flenser
8. "Justforu" | Mya Gomez | Mono No Aware | PAN
9. "ADSR Eugraph" | Gnoomes | Tschak! | Rocket
10. "You Are My Enemy" | ANOHNI | Paradise | Rough Trade
11. "Linguistics" | Adrian Younge | The Electronique Void | Linear Labs
12. "Up the Down Escalator" | The Chameleons | Script of the Bridge [reissue] | Blue Apple
13. "Something In Between" | Adriatique | Siamese Anthology I | Siamese
14. "Speck of Dust" | CANNIBALE | No Mercy for Love | Born Bad
15. "Anxiety" | The Sorry Shop | Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, A Ramones Reverence | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "When You Were Mine" | Prince | Dirty Mind | Warner Bros.
17. "F.I.N.I" | Baloji | 64 Bits & Malachite | Bella Union
18. "In The Back Of A Car" | Cyanide Pills | Sliced and Diced | Damaged Goods
19. "Rise Again" | Deadbeat | Roots and Wire | BLKRTZ
20. "Space Movement Section 1" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
21. "Tuning Bell" | Marc Barreca | Aberrant Lens | Palace of Lights
22. "Blood That Ran the Rapids" | High Plains | Cinderland | kranky
23. "Der Konig und der Vogel" | Rampue | Stiff Little Spinners, Vol. 8 | Audiolith
24. "Open Invitation" | ADR | Mono No Aware | PAN
25. "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" | Screamin' Jay Hawkins | At Home with Screamin' Jay Hawkins | Cornbread
26. "Martyrdub" | Saint Abdullah | The Sounds of Evil - Vol. 1 | Boomarm Nation
27. "(I'm So Bored With) Theresa May" | Brian Harris | Washed Up Man | self-released
28. "Streets" | Dag Rosenqvist / Matthew Collings | Hello Darkness | Denovali
29. "Extreme SAT" | Shed | The Final Experiment | Monkeytown

Time itself was his demeanor

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By Pressing Down the Special Key It Plays a Little Melody: Transmission 346, 2017 May 31

It seems like the sensible way to follow a Coil night would be to do a Medway night. Sometimes (regrettably?) I exhibit some sense. So here it is--god knows how many of these we've done. I crack myself up referring to Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! as a "reunion record," but it is (was) the truth. Frequently I forget that it is no longer 1992 or shortly thereafter; that, or the realization of it, must produce the comedy. I can't figure it out.

Listening to this episode, I tried something other than the gym, which, I am gradually figuring out (after a dozen or so years), is a place of intense self-loathing. I reviewed this mostly walking around town. It was quite glorious! Ithaca in summer reminds me of my beloved D-town (as it could only do at this time of year), sunny, quiet, parched, deadly. I like what I like! Regarding the content itself, there weren't too many mistakes here, just a misplaced fader and some slightly abrupt or ill-timed cues. Nothing drastic. A couple of timely references, which seem inevitable these days--"Kid Covfefe" and the timeliness of The Orb. Not quite one for the vaults, but a good use of two hours.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 May 31, 2100-2300:

1. "Groove Is In The Heart" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Don't Get Lost | A Records
2. "Medicine Man" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Ters Okyanus" | Gevende | Kinnardi | Shalgam
4. "The Ballad of Johnny Burma" | Mission of Burma | Vs. | Matador
5. "Held" | Malibu | Mono No Aware | PAN
6. "Canceled" | Hatti Vatti | SZUM | Most
7. "Snooker Club" | Schilling | Hella | Apparel Tonic
8. "Tempest" | Dapayk & Padberg | Harbour | Fenou
9. "Who'll Be Next In Line" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Lost Unfound" | Cindytalk | The Labyrinth of the Straight Line | Editions Mego
11. "Open Universe" | The Solid Doctor | How About Some More Ether: Collected Works 90-95 | Declasse
12. "Toenail" | Scott Franka | The Gym | Quartet Series
13. "Insomnia" | Bioshi | Bedroom Tales | Original Cultures
14. "Stretch Deep - feat. Eve Essex" | James K | Mono No Aware | PAN
15. "Time's Against You" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Somnium" | Mario Batkovic | Mario Batkovic | Invada
17. "4am Exhale - Dave DK Accellerator Mix" | The Orb | The Cow Remixes - Sin In Space, Pt. 3 | Kompakt
18. "Some of us (Camp Century 4)" | You Still Have Friends | The Never Years | M.I.S.T.
19. "Babylon" | Booka Shade | Babylon | Blaufield
20. "The Girl That Radiates That Charm" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Pocket Calculator" | Kraftwerk | Computer World | Warner Bros. | "Listening Parlour"
22. "Limerence" | Yves Tumor | Mono No Aware | PAN
23. "Sad Drummer - Bird of Paradise Remix" | Roe Deers | Sad Drummer EP | Nein
24. "Toxicity" | Evan Caminiti | Toxic City Music | Dust Editions
25. "Pilgrim Trade" | Wire | Nocturnal Koreans | Pinkflag
26. "Dancing Girl" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Falling Again" | Secret Shine | There Is Only Now | Saint Marie
28. "Minute Man" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Airborne" | JFDR | Brazil | White Sun
30. "Loving Is Believing" | Thee Milkshakes | Still Talking 'Bout...Milkshakes! | Vinyl Japan | "Physical Evidence"
31. "Versatile Dub" | Jay Glass Dubs | New Teeth for an Old Country | Bokeh Versions
32. "See You Shining" | Magic Castles | Starflower | A Recordings

Is it really my fault that i just don't know

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No One Saw Him Coming, Plenty Witnessed His Remains: Transmission 345, 2017 May 24

Recently I promised only really good or really bad programs, and this is a really bad one. What makes me say that? One mistake, early on, which I blame on the computer but is really attributable to my being stupid. I have listened back to this moment three times or so and it makes me cringe. Supposedly you will have an easier time with it, provided you do not easily get embarrassed for other people. But this is the way I think--an otherwise decent show can run aground on one error.

As to what is "otherwise decent" about this broadcast--well, it is a Coil night, to begin with. In another of those "this will probably work better for you than for me" instances, these tunes are pretty chill, especially the first two lengthy ones. Recently I made the mistake of trying to listen to these on the cross-trainer, during a period of acute self-loathing. It was not very "chill!" But I know these have had what I think is their intended effect on me in the past. There is also the somewhat legendary Ramleh, who underscored the self-loathing quite nicely.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 May 24, 2100-2300:

1. "A Space Between" | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Maria Dimension | Soleilmoon
2. "Coming Apart" | Sigha | Metabolism | Token
3. "Gianna Anna - Sundrenched Remix" | Andi Otto | Via (Remixed) | Pingipung!
4. "Cadillac" | CTMF | SQ 1 | Damaged Goods
5. "The Mothership And The Fatherland" | Coil | Astral Disaster | Acme / Prescription | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Hell A" | The Bug / Earth | Concrete Desert | Ninja Tune
7. "City" | Acre | City / You Know | Brainmath
8. "Kambowa" | Mokoomba | Luyando | Out Here
9. "The Greatest Fear" | Safar | In Transit | Ruptured
10. "The Sea Priestess" | Coil | Astral Disaster | Acme / Prescription | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Intervention Stjerner" | Ulrich Schnauss / Jonas Munk | Passage | Azure Vista
12. "Just Let Them Kill Each Other" | Byul.org | Selected Tracks for Nacht Damonen | Alien Transistor
13. "Darkblue Seagrey" | Kyo | I Musik | Posh Isolation
14. "Solar Xub" | Herva | Hyper Flux | Planet Mu
15. "Colourful Flight" | Monolog / Subheim | Conviction | Denovali
16. "Best Time of My Life" | Pat Kelly | Lonely Man | Burning Sounds
17. "Any Lyfe" | Yen Towers | Love Means Taking Action Remixes | Posh Isolation
18. "Orthodox Dub" | Errol Brown | Orthodox Dub | Dub Store
19. "I Don't Want To Be The One" | Coil | Astral Disaster | Acme / Prescription | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Floating on Salt Water" | A Sagittariun | The Magick Box | Elastic Dreams
21. "Ndiguel" | Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force | Yermande | Ndagga
22. "2nd Son Syndrome" | Coil | Astral Disaster | Acme / Prescription | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Entropy" | Ramleh | Circular Time | Crucial Blast

To escape from time forever

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From Pre-Eternity to Post-Eternity: Transmission 344, 2017 May 21

True story: I told myself at around this time that I couldn't do "fill-in" appearances because (a) I was behind on posting the regularly-scheduled broadcasts that I do and (b) I was entering a really busy work period (where we are now). Like most things I promise myself, I bailed on this one. Aron called in sick, on this day, and so I found myself in the Kenny Ritter Memorial Studio a mere 24 hours after my previous fill-in appearance. I used to call stunts like this "hero time." I don't know what to call them now.

HOWEVER, whether in spite of an absence of planning or because of it, this is an excellent program. I am leaning toward the latter. Though mostly current and non-nostalgic except for the Kevin Shields birthday observance, this "mixtape" feels like the spirit of what I used to do in the olden days--long, trippy tunes with excellent segues, not the bite-size "trail mix" and rapid-fire changes I am "into" now. I am frequently reminded that young me had it together in more ways than current me does.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 May 21, 2100-2300:

1. "Loomer" | My Bloody Valentine | Loveless | Creation - Sire
2. "Let's Play Doctor" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 2 | Hippie Dance
3. "A1" | Convextion | Acido 22 | Acido
4. "Zeolites" | Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald | Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald Present Borderland: Transport | Tresor
5. "Don't Come Any Closer" | OKADA | Floating Away from the World | N5MD
6. "SIDE A" | El Mahdy Jr. | Die Before You Die | Boomarm Nation
7. "Tactus Tempus - Tonal" | A Pulse Train | Tactus Tempus | Geej
8. "Dronz 3 - Nefesh" | Richard Pinhas | Reverse | Bureau B
9. "Och Solen Sankte Sig Rod" | Hills | Alive at Roadburn | Rocket

Breakfast with a sea priestess

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Semi-Emergency Saturday: Transmission 343, 2017 May 20

Here is what I thought at the time would be a "rare" substitute appearance on the radio. "As Always I Was Wrong Again." Regardless, we are in good form on this night, even though it is early, and even though we sound like "The Magic Womb" only in places. We Are What We Are. It does feel nice to listen back to a program with few, if any, errors.

I have been looking at "memories" recently on a social-media platform that shall go unnamed. Seeing my program posts from 2016, at around this time, I note that I was panicked and error-prone then, too. (Differently, I have to say, from the 2017 version of My Self.) Well--I have to say that as of this writing I am actually feeling pretty good, some clouds have recently lifted, and I am breathing for the first time in about 8 months. So this means either some high-proficiency programs or some absolute trainwrecks to come. Nothing middling on the horizon.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 May 20, 1900-2100:

1. "Love Thirteen (Island Step)" | Why Be? | Love Means Taking Action Remixes | Posh Isolation
2. "Hover - Guitar Beatless Mix" | Amberoom | Rhit EP | Ovum
3. "Journey to Luna" | Bustic Kingley Bassey's Anansa Engineers | Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) | Comb & Razor Sound
4. "Pasadena Jam" | Louis' Band | Taste Me | Mondo Groove
5. "The crown on our heads" | Saint Abdullah | The Sounds of Evil - Vol. 1 | Boomarm Nation
6. "The Knife" | Scorpion Violente | The Stalker | Bruit Direct Disques
7. "Folle" | Mirco Magnani + Ernesto Tomasini | Madame E. | Undogmatisch
8. "Atomic Wrist Watch" | cloud seeder | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
9. "Howard Hughes Under The Microscope" | Jarvis Cocker / Chilly Gonzales | Room 29 | Deutsche Grammophon
10. "Karlie" | Gimmix | Stiff Little Spinners, Vol. 8 | Audiolith
11. "L'eternite" | Vilains Bonshommes | L'eternite Retrouvee | Hospital Productions
12. "Akananwan Isong Idung" | Monica Isaac | Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) | Comb & Razor Sound
13. "Love" | Drew McDowall | Love Means Taking Action Remixes | Posh Isolation
14. "Nyong Eyen Unen" | Cross River Nationale | Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) | Comb & Razor Sound
15. "This Perfect Day" | The Fall | The Marshall Suite [reissue] | Let Them Eat Vinyl
16. "Kilter" | Dark Sky | Kilter / Acacia | Monkeytown
17. "Starship Africa Section 3" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa [reissue] | On-U Sound
18. "ICO130" | Ghost Culture | Nucleus | Phantasy Sound
19. "Counterfeit Worlds" / "Zulawski" / "Roaming Empire" / "Altar Natives" / "Confessional Method" | UBEK | Ubek | Sucata Tapes

All the regular business

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Too Much May Kill You; A Little Will Keep You Alive: Transmission 342, 2017 May 17

I present to you the first of several "consecutive" "regular" programs in which I managed to get it together at least to the point of including "Physical Evidence." At one point in the program, I provide a "how the sausage is made" moment by explaining that sometimes things slip in or out of Spotification and that the People Like Us canon had, at some point when I wasn't looking, slipped out. The world's loss is my negligible gain. So here you go. It was a good night!

Though I feel compelled to say--"If Someone Touches You" may be triggering. It certainly turned out to be, for me, though not in the most obvious way. It just seems like the sort of thing that Young Me would have played in the olden days, to troll some Imagined Listener. That track has got me thinking (as usual) about what The Point of all this might be. I still don't know.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 May 17, 2100-2300:

1. "Still Bored" | Cyanide Pills | Sliced and Diced | Damaged Goods
2. "We Believe (Excerpt)" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Terminus Drift" | Joshua Sabin | Terminus Drift | Subtext
4. "CherylLinn" | Seekers International | LoversDedicationStation | Bokeh Versions
5. "Direction Asymmetry" | Daughter Produkt | Dreamy Harbor | Tresor
6. "Ursula Fahrt Ski" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Akan Anwan Isong Idung" | The Doves | Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) | Comb & Razor Sound
8. "Another Kind of Humor (Intro)" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Freeeze" | Baba Stiltz | Is Everything | Studio Barnhus
10. "VXOMEG" | Bill Kouligas | Mono No Aware | PAN
11. "The Sacred Erm" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Rubber Plant" | Spectres | Condition | Sonic Cathedral
13. "Blue Paint" | Fixity | The Things In The Room | Penske
14. "Lugere" | Flora Yin-Wong | Mono No Aware | PAN
15. "Yearn / Please" | You Still Have Friends | The Never Years | M.I.S.T.
16. "Take A Walk" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Xtra" | Shed | The Final Experiment | Monkeytown
18. "Tanger Blanc Return" | Muslimgauze | Jerusalaam | Staalplaat
19. "Odawah Jam" | Marcelus | Dreamy Harbor | Tresor
20. "Sing With Melodious Inarticualte Sound..." | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Omnisession#1" | Marvin Horsch | Fukushisha | Film
22. "Black Noise (Interlude)" | Adrian Younge | The Electronique Void | Linear Labs
23. "A White Truck" | High Plains | Cinderland | kranky
24. "If Someone Touches You" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Home Is Just as Good as Anyplace" | John Andrews & The Yawns | Bad Posture | Woodsist
26. "Reculer et repousser le singe" | Kink Gong | Imer Zeillos | Discrepant
27. "T424plu (Excerpt)" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Thursdays Child" | The Chameleons | Script of the Bridge [reissue] | Blue Apple
29. "Space Invaders" | Gerry & The Holograms | Gerry & The Holograms | Cache Cache
30. "What Do You Miss" | Superpitcher | The Golden Ravedays 2 | Hippie Dance
31. "Glamr" | Anjou | Epithymia | kranky

As a young man, he was quite something

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