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Arrive from Nowhere and Go Straight Back There: Transmission 332, 2017 March 28

Confession time: I often play the "I don't recall" game with these mixtapes if enough time has passed, and I'm often exaggerating. The memories are there; either I lack the will or energy to retrieve them, or I deem them too dull to recount here. Which, given the average quality of my posts, is saying QUITE A BIT. This broadcast, though, is a more profound and truer case. Not only do I not know why I did this program, I didn't know why I was doing it when I did it!

Hope you find it enjoyable!

Anyway--in "seriousness"--there is some stuff here that should be spread more widely than I can spread it, and which I've kind of neglected. Which "might" be stretched into an excuse for this weird, early-evening excursion. So big ups and apologies to G.S. Schray, Whore Paint, Blown Out, Ben Frost, and July Skies. "The rest shall keep as they are."

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 March 28, 1900-2100:

1. "Boredom" | Jack Ketch and the Crowmen | Brimfull of Hate | M'Lady's
2. "The Zion Terrorist" | Muslimgauze | Jerusalaam | Staalplaat
3. "Muhajirun" | Alter Echo & E3 | Family Album 2017 | Boomarm Nation
4. "I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)" | The Age of Colored Lizards | Forever and Again, A Tribute to My Bloody Valentine | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
5. "Phase II" | Blown Out | New Cruiser | Riot Season
6. "Hey Joe" | Azna de L'Ader | Agrim Agadez: Musique Guitare De La Republique Du Niger | Sahel Sounds
7. "Bring On The Dancing Horses" | The Electric Lazarus | Gods Will Be Gods - A Reverence To The Bunnymen | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "My Boyfriend Went To New York And He Didn't Invite Me" | Milk Toast | CD16 | Impermeable
9. "The Unused Detail" | G.S. Schray | Gabriel | Last Resort
10. "Atak Mfat Eyen" | Sunny Risky & The Vitamin Explosion | Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) | Comb & Razor Sound
11. "Emergence" | Noveller | A Pink Sunset For No One | Fire
12. "I See You've Washed Your Hands Again" | Ben Frost | The Wasp Factory | Bedroom Community
13. "Mossadegh's revenge for 52" | Saint Abdullah | Family Album 2017 | Boomarm Nation
14. "Avant-Garde" | Beate Bartel | Instrumentals for Sirens | Moabit
15. "Hibernation" | Pipe's Not Dead | Colors Compilations - Violet "Dreampop" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "Waste" | Whore Paint | Ultra Sound | Translation Loss
17. "Motorbath" | Soft Error | Mechanism | Village Green
18. "Fallen to Earth, Pt. II" | Paul H. Williams | Fallen to Earth | The Wormhole
19. "Seventh Sun" | Camu | Family Album 2017 | Boomarm Nation
20. "Toree Bahrstad" | Ryan James Ford | Realm of Consciousness | Afterlife
21. "Wish I Was Dead" | Spationauts | Colors Compilations - Orange "Psychedelic" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
22. "Breach" | A Projection | Framework | Tapete
23. "Trans-pop express II" | Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche | Pas pire pop (I Love You So Much) | Constellation
24. "Quirly Stu" | Leroy | Bambadea | Schamoni
25. "Holidays to Wales" | July Skies | The Weather Clock | Caught By the River
26. "Venus" | This Blinding Light | Colors Compilations - Orange "Psychedelic" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
27. "Paradise Syndrom" | Savas Pascalidis | Breakaway | I/Y

It was my own brainwave

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This Is The Day Someone Remembers What You Said: Transmission 331, 2017 March 22

One of the functions of this program, I have learned, is to teach me to appreciate what I have. Long ago I bought the "Peel Sessions" EP by The Mighty Wah!--because I will buy just about any Peel Session--and was, how shall we say this, underwhelmed. BUT that was a previous life--during graduate school, or the tenure chase, I am sure--and I am 100% certain I was out of my mind and unable to listen properly. Currently, I am still out of my mind, but a better listener. And wouldn't you know it--I find myself enjoying these tunes.

So, since this airdate was Pete Wylie's birthday, according to my long list of birthdays, why not give this a spin? As the kids are wont to say, #YOLO. Looking back, I realize I started some station beef on this day by cracking wise about a conspiracy theorist who fancied himself qualified to be our news director. Life is about stupid risks! Increasingly so, as it is getting shorter and shorter, now that our healthcare system is a smoldering ruin. Look for me to play whatever I want and start hella beef in the near future!

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 March 22, 2100-2300:

1. "Won't Forget to Die" | Aquarian Blood | Last Nite in Paradise | Goner
2. "Altogether" | Basic Nature ft. Adrian (Black Cloud) | Just for a Life, A Homage to Slowdive | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
3. "Yuh Learn" | The Mighty Wah! | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Tehilim" | Yotam Avni | Tehilim | Stroboscopic Artefacts
5. "Landfill" | E.Bias | Emmanuel Bias | Kick & Clap
6. "Is This Music" | Waitress | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
7. "Art School Confidential" | Punctuation Club | CD16 | Impermeable
8. "Better Scream" | The Mighty Wah! | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
9. "The Prophet Sequence" | Shackleton / Vengeance Tenfold | Sferic Ghost Transmits | Honest Jon's
10. "Organ Loops" | Specimens | Sculptures | First Terrace
11. "Planet" | Current 93 | Honeysuckle Aeons [reissue] | Coptic Cat
12. "Empty Morning" | Lake Ruth | Colors Compilations - Violet "Dreampop" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
13. "Luger" | Sonic Deception | Ghost Army | Radio Bongo
14. "Weekends" | The Mighty Wah! | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Herzog on a Bus" | Soft Grid | Corolla | Antime
16. "Dagger" | Scarlina | Just for a Life, A Homage to Slowdive | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
17. "Prelude" | Hecker | A Script for Machine Synthesis | Editions Mego
18. "Foul Play" | Lillet Blanc | CD16 | Impermeable
19. "Let's Go" | Tristesse Contemporaine | Stop and Start | Record Makers
20. "Basement Blues; The Story Of The Blues" | The Mighty Wah! | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Paco" | Claude Rodap | Beletronic | Rush Hour
22. "Go Again" | Jawbones | High And Low And Low And High | 8MM
23. "Shine" | Plant Cell | Just for a Life, A Homage to Slowdive | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "Red Chevrolet" | Butch Hancock | Split & Slide II | Rainlight | "Listening Parlour"
25. "Dance" | Chi | The Original Recordings | Astral Industries
26. "Oiseaux de proie" | Alcest | Kodama | Prophecy
27. "No Id - Slamboree Remix" | Zion Train | Versions | Universal Egg
28. "Room 69" | Kian T | Room 69 | Toy Tonics

I can feel it but I can't see it

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Recognize Your Perfection: Transmission 330, 2017 March 15

Seems like "we" just (relatively speaking) "spoke." But here we are again, with another mixtape and another series of things that don't quite rise to the level of "thoughts." It was fun, listening back to this program on a warm day--at the time of broadcast it was rather cold, as we had just endured a blizzard of semi-historic proportions. Our local Ivy League institution, which--you will never be this macho--"never" closes, actually cancelled classes, events, and staff work for 28 hours. And not a moment too soon--they made the announcement in the middle of the workday, after people had already risked their safety getting to campus. Anyway.

More pertinent to us, and our shared love of tunes, it was the Ides of March. I am too lazy to look this up at the moment, but I am not sure I have done a WRFI program on this calendar date before. And what better to feature than a Thee Mighty Caesars record? I am nothing if not groaningly obvious. Thankfully, Lady Catharsis is also part of our crew, and her selection gives us a break from the inevitability of everything.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 March 15, 2100-2300:

1. "Modern Day Virgin Sacrifice" | Alice Bag | Alice Bag | Don Giovanni
2. "Ten Bears of the Comanches" | Thee Mighty Caesars | Caesars Remains | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Cut Me Loose" | Lady Wray | Queen Alone | Big Crown
4. "In a Hole" | Mordecai | Abstract Recipe | Richie Records / Testostertunes
5. "Los dias" | Eva & John | CD16 | Impermeable
6. "I'm the unknown" | Cavern of Anti-Matter | I'm the unknown | Duophonic
7. "Da Capo Al Coda" | Taso | New Start | Teklife
8. "Death of a Mighty Caesar" | Thee Mighty Caesars | Caesars Remains | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Ily" | Mythologen | Mythologen | Hoga Nord
10. "Melody's Actual Echo Chamber" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Open Minds Now Close | A Records
11. "I Just Wanna Make Love To You" | Thee Mighty Caesars | Caesars Remains | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Shrine" | Ian Boddy | As Above So Below | DiN
13. "AmenBreadren (feat. Sipreano)" | Seekers International | Presents the RaggaPreservation Society EP | Diskotopia
14. "Expressway" | Simic | COROT-7b | Acid Camp
15. "Cadalina" | Thee Mighty Caesars | Caesars Remains | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Intervention Sol" | Ulrich Schnauss / Jonas Munk | Passage | Azure Vista
17. "I Will Get Numb" | The Us | Colors Compilations - Violet "Dreampop" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
18. "Defect" | Benoit Pioulard | The Benoit Pioulard Listening Matter | kranky
19. "I'm Gonna Make You Mine" | Thee Mighty Caesars | Caesars Remains | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
20. "The Colorful Dreams of the Cross Dressing Killer" | The Bunny Tylers | Glitches and Drones 2013-2016 | Ruptured
21. "Dreams Burn Down" | Ten Million Lights | Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
22. "Budget Dancehall (SKRS Dub I-Wah)" | Elite Beat | Family Album 2017 | Boomarm Nation
23. "The Swag" | Thee Mighty Caesars | Caesars Remains | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
24. "On Thin Ice" | Eric Random & The Bedlamites | Ishmael | Klanggalerie
25. "Two Whoops And a Holler" | Jean Shepard | Hillbilly Music... Thank God! Vol. 1 | Bug / Capitol | "Listening Parlour"
26. "Turquoise Days" | Melampus | Gods Will Be Gods - A Reverence To The Bunnymen | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
27. "Better Off Dead" | Thee Mighty Caesars | Caesars Remains | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Anderes Osterlied" | Fragile | That's Desire / Here We Are EP | Fragile
29. "Keep Your Hands Off My Child" | Thee Mighty Caesars | Caesars Remains | Hangman | "Physical Evidence"
30. "New Cruiser" | Blown Out | New Cruiser | Riot Season
31. "Aerug" | Pharmakustik | Pulsed Lavage | No.

mixed with the legends of stars

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Can Your Mind Travel Dimensions That Far: Transmission 329, 2017 March 10

It has been a while. It has always been a while; it will always be a while. But we return, with exactly what you demand from the internet: content. This program came a couple of days after a "regularly scheduled" one, which either excuses more sloppiness or unleashes an unusual degree of competence. Listening to this again, I think it is the latter. That is what feels like the truth, anyway.

Things "hung together" more than usual on this night, in both "content and technique." I remember receiving an in-show phone call from our general manager to discuss some unrelated things. He relayed some kudos, and we never look sideways at praise from Caesar. He was also concerned about some foul language in the program, but then remembered it was after 10pm, so all was "good." Whew!

I really did not want to talk much on this Friday night--basically life in microcosm these days. It means either something very good or very bad.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 March 10, 2100-2300:

1. "Glossolina" | Jaws | Object Dom | Hundebiss
2. "Sawara" | Le Motel | The Gold Play | Tangram
3. "Zombie Stomp" | OvO | Creatura | Dio Drone
4. "Yelen" | Luka Productions | Fasokan | Sahelsounds
5. "Lose My Breath" | Astral Lite | Forever and Again, A Tribute to My Bloody Valentine | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Baptism of Fire" | Zos Kia | Transparent | Cold Spring
7. "As One" | Mustard Gas And Roses | Becoming | The Mylene Sheath
8. "Das Haus" | Clemens K. | Reverie | Moody
9. "The Village" | Leroy | Bambadea | Schamoni
10. "Punctual Sleepy Soft Power" | Sendai | Ground and Figure | Editions Mego
11. "Articles of Secession" | Ithaca Psychogeographic Liberation Front | Articles of Secession | Bandcamp self-release
12. "Festus" | Camera | Phantom of Liberty | Bureau B
13. "Motto" | Francois Virot | Marginal Spots | Born Bad
14. "Sankt" | Vit Fana | Irrgang | Northern Electronics
15. "Cloudless Climes and Starry Skies" | July Skies | The English Cold [reissue] | Caroline True
16. "Sometimes" | Tonemirror | Forever and Again, A Tribute to My Bloody Valentine | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
17. "Koudedazamin" | Tinariwen | Live in Paris | Wedge
18. "Dronz 2 - End" | Richard Pinhas | Reverse | Bureau B
19. "Salamanders" | frank Hurricane | Mountain Brew Light | Feeding Tube
20. "The State I'm In" | Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation | The State (I'm In) | Rocket
21. "Bags" | Public Image Ltd | Album | Universal
22. "Runaway" | Brian Harris | The Macaw In The Park | self-released
23. "Gellow Mold" | The Prefab Messiahs | Colors Compilations - Orange "Psychedelic" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "No More Dreams VII" | 1991 | No More Dreams | No More Dreams
25. "Prologue" | Mirco Magnani + Ernesto Tomasini | Madame E. | Undogmatisch
26. "Wyatt's Inspection" | Anthony Child | Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle, Vol. 2 | Editions Mego
27. "40 Days" | The Cigarettes | Just for a Life, A Homage to Slowdive | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
28. "Observatorio" | Toilettes | CD16 | Impermeable
29. "Turkey Girl" | Annie Anxiety | Soul Possession [reissue] | Dais
30. "Two Voices" | K. Leimer | Land of Look Behind | Palace of Lights
31. "Silicon Chip" | Basil Kirchin | Silicon Chip | Trunk
32. "Broken and Bad" | Coldharbourstores | Wilderness | Enraptured
33. "Dreaming of You" | Ivy's Void | Ivy's Void | Oraculo
34. "The Sign (feat Halibab Matador)" | LoneBlue | The Gold Play | Tangram
35. "Canopy Days" | You Still Have Friends | The Never Years | M.I.S.T.
36. "Lost in Progress" | Simonn | Lost Journey EP | Night Tide

just when the thought occurs, the panic will pass

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I'm Barely Moving, I'm Steady Motion: Transmission -7, 1989 June 30

Dear friends,

About a month ago it struck me that I was approaching the 30th anniversary of my first solo program on college radio. After consulting the college catalog and ye olde internet, I deduced that I must have debuted on April 10, 1987. So here we are.

I'll have more to say about that when I post the sound file of the program I'm doing tonight, but because I enjoy punishment, I went up to the attic this past weekend and found an old show tape. It isn't the debut program, or even one from that academic term, or EVEN one from that calendar year, but it seems to capture some of the spirit of "young me" and that time. At least it will have to, because it's the oldest show tape I have!

It's summer, 1989, and I am 20 years old. I sound it! (Though I think maybe the cassette is playing a tiny bit faster than normal speed.) I also sound nervous and out of breath every time I speak, and self-critical without the self-effacing humor which is my trademark. What was happening to me? I almost never had any kind of plan back then; I would usually bring a small handful of my own records (and it was all records--we didn't bring CD players on board until about 1991, I think)--always including a few compilations--and then make decisions on the fly, running back and forth between the library (a small, small part of it pictured here) and the console. It could have been that. Let's go with that explanation.

Musically, it seems to me that this program is just chestnuts, wall to wall. I am probably biased, but I do remember repeating myself a lot, which makes it a greater shame that I don't have an earlier tape, from a time when it wasn't repetition. I seem to have been much more interested in the past then (albeit the recent past, although a year or two felt like a lifetime back then) than I am now. I certainly wasn't adhering to the station's "currency" rules, at least not during the part of the program captured by these 84 minutes. Music "added" at the station within the prior 3 months was supposed to comprise 30% of our playlists, but the only "current" I know of for sure on this tape is "Into the White," which Discogs tells me was a mere 11 days old at the time of this broadcast (then-GF and I would see the Pixies in San Francisco 3 and a half weeks later; I walked up to Joey Santiago in the bar and strangely he was not delighted to speak to me!) It's possible that Pay It All Back Volume 2 was fairly new to us down in the basement of Freeborn Hall, but I doubt it.

tl;dr this tape finds me doing pretty much exactly what I'd expect me to do. TWO This Mortal Coil songs?! FIVE On-U Sound tracks in the first 45 minutes? Whatever. I am surprised we don't hear from Cocteau Twins, Durutti Column, or Section 25, but I guess even I knew when I was going over the line (or, more likely, I had played them in the first 90 minutes of the program, not captured here).

Other notes: I left in the promo and underwriting spots. We used to have some legendary ads. I miss Sharon MacKenzie (am I spelling that correctly?) and her program. If I recall, she was music director for a while (and never dragged me about my playlists!). She also cracked everyone up in a station meeting this one time when she said, "everyone knows how much I love 7-inches." Maybe you had to be there. Also: Woodstock's Pizza is still a thing! They had better be, as I and everyone I knew gave them so much of our money over the years. I would love to tell you that my program had a high profile sponsor that had chosen me specifically, but our underwriting arrangements did not work that way and everyone was subject to the "luck" of the draw (you're welcome, Woodstock's).

I almost forgot: who is this "Q-TIP" fellow? Why, it's me, of course, with an ill-chosen DJ handle dating from 1987 (TWO YEARS BEFORE A TRIBE CALLED QUEST BECAME FAMOUS, I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW). The name was based on some haircut I must have been sporting at the time, or recently. There was a DJ at the station named "Ridgewood Ray," a slightly older fellow (probably early 30s, which of course meant old to me) who objected to the name. We were a non-commercial radio station, you see, so he insisted that I should call myself "Cotton Swab." I didn't take his advice. Ray was great--he had been at Tower Records in New York City on the day in 1980 when they were giving out free copies of Joy Division's "Komakino" flexidisc. He gifted me his copy because he could think of no one else at the station who'd appreciate it more than I would. He was right about this--and still is!

"Ernst and Deborah" were a couple, these two classical DJs who hated--HATED--following my program, but the program directors, seemingly, would always arrange the schedule so that they did (hmm). They--or one of them, anyway--lived next door to my then-GF's place as well. They got to hear every fight we had, and every other sort of episode. What they would have given to hear Tackhead instead, at any of those times!

Almost certainly I headed out of this program for a sweltering 200-yard walk to my afternoon shift at the Cafe of Regret, which, no doubt, will be the setting of a future tale. Just trying to set the scene for you.

Listening to this yesterday afternoon was a somewhat therapeutic experience for me, good and bad. I hope you get something out of it!

playlist, 1989 June 30, 1330-1500:

1. "Dju Ya Feza" | Zazou / Bikaye / CY1 | It's A Crammed, Crammed, Crammed World! | Crammed Discs
2. "Bedward the Flying Preacher" | Singers and Players | Staggering Heights | On-U Sound
3. "Dateline Miami" | Judy Nylon | Pal Judy | On-U Sound
4. "Turn the Heater On" | New Order | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit
5. "Throw It Away" | African Head Charge | Pay It All Back Volume 2 | On-U Sound
6. "Reality" | Tackhead | Reality | On-U Sound
7. "Pressure" | 400 Blows | The Good Clean English Fist | Dojo
8. "Circular Motion" | Forehead Bros | Pay It All Back Volume 2 | On-U Sound
9. "Ha (Original Mix)" | The Anti-Group | Audio-Visual | Sweatbox
10. "Social Studies" | David Byrne | Music for the Knee Plays | ECM
11. "Drugs" | Talking Heads | Fear of Music | Sire
12. "Sixteen Days - Gathering Dust" | This Mortal Coil | Sixteen Days - Gathering Dust | 4AD
13. "Kangaroo" | Big Star | Third / Sister Lovers | PVC
14. "Kangaroo" | This Mortal Coil | It'll End In Tears | 4AD
15. "Bangkok" | Alex Chilton | The Lost Decade | Fan Club
16. "Into the White" | Pixies | Here Comes Your Man | 4AD
17. "Youthful Immortal" | Flux | Uncarved Block | One Little Indian
18. "When You're Sad" | A.R.Kane | When You're Sad | One Little Indian

emerging from a long dark tunnel

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Have I Hurt You, I Have No Choice: Transmission 328, 2017 March 8

This one went a little more smoothly, probably because I was in less of a mood to talk. Attached is a sound file from a "playlist reporting" period-show, during which I was doing more multi-tasking than usual. But surely you are here for the tunes, and not the chatter, and what tunes there are. This is the fourth in our series of Creation Compilation programs--admittedly an unfocused and sporadic series, like all of our series. In previous installments, I have tended either to Feel Things or Figure Things Out. Let's examine what happened on this night.

Apparently I am a big Ed Ball fan, because I played two of his tunes on this program. I feel like I have gotten a ton of mileage out of "Palatial," and I doubt that I am finished. "Vintage 1990," indeed. I have been marked from the start as That Kind of Guy. Maybe one day I will embrace it. "Snow": there's a graininess to the sound that brings to mind our beloved four-track recordings from that time--I did see a film about Creation at one point referencing the "cheap studios" that they preferred (namely Alaska) and I felt back in the day that this sound was accessible, reachable. "We could do this." (Ron Howard voiceover: "they could not.") The over-the-top vocal delay seems like exactly the sort of thing we would do on our recordings.

It also pleases me that I finally got around to featuring one of these records in its proper season (in my mind), indomitable winter notwithstanding. It is the sound of things coming to life.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 March 8, 2100-2300:

1. "Centigrade Duckfucker" | Zach Christ | Sonic Doucheclap | Husoptagelser
2. "Palatial II" | Love Corporation | Do You Believe In Love? - A Creation Compilation | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Floats Like Empty" | Zavala | Fantasmas | Fake Four
4. "Intro 1994" | Behind The Name | Confession | Fauxpas
5. "V.E.P.N." | Egyptrixx | Pure, Beyond Reproach | Halocline Trance
6. "Acariciando tu Alma" | Quazares | Colors Compilations - Violet "Dreampop" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
7. "Gotta See My Baby Every Day" | Sandie Shaw | Sandie Shaw | Reprise | "Listening Parlour"
8. "Saturns Return" | Swindle | Purple Walls | Butterz
9. "Sunny Sundae Smile" | High Sunn | Forever and Again, A Tribute to My Bloody Valentine | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
10. "Ghost From The Coast" | Tomorrow The Rain Will Fall Upwards | Wreck His Days | Blackest Ever Black
11. "Bad Habits" | Soft Error | Mechanism | Village Green
12. "You're Just Dead Skin to Me" | Primal Scream | Do You Believe In Love? - A Creation Compilation | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Dizzy" | I Tpame I Tvrame | Colors Compilations - Grey "Post Punk" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "Freak Outburst" | Something Pretty Beautiful | Do You Believe In Love? - A Creation Compilation | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Ground" | Emptyset | Borders | Thrill Jockey
16. "Pokkit Pokitt!! (Dub) [feat. Ayakamay]" | In Flagranti | Kachi Kachi EP | Codek
17. "Monkeys On My Roof" | L'Amour Fou | Psychic Advisor | Smallville
18. "L'inconnu" | Kurzschluss | Sammlung (Elektronische Kassettenmusik, Dusseldorf 1982-1989) | Bureau B
19. "Shrift" | Pacific | Do You Believe In Love? - A Creation Compilation | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Cigarette In Your Bed" | Li(f)e | Forever and Again, A Tribute to My Bloody Valentine | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
21. "Turn Your Head" | Stephen's Shore | CD16 | Impermeable
22. "Little Drones" | The Cobra Lamps | The Cobra Lamps EP | A Records
23. "Girl Go" | The Jazz Butcher | Do You Believe In Love? - A Creation Compilation | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Elegy, Part I" | Gidge | LNLNN | Atomnation
25. "Snow" | The Times | Do You Believe In Love? - A Creation Compilation | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
26. "Scarllet" | Apartamentos Acapulco | Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
27. "Sacred Fire" | Kurl | Sacred Fire | Haunt
28. "Bellow Organs Spine" | Ashtray Navigations | To Make A Fool Ask, And You Are The First | Blackest Ever Black
29. "Outpour" | Dead Light | Dead Light | Village Green

seceding from entropy

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No Thoughts, No Dreams, No Wishes, and No Fear: Transmission 327, 2017 March 5

We return to sloppiness and errancy with this fill-in broadcast. It is fitting, given the evening's material, and probably what I deserve. This Sunday night timeslot came open, and I seized it because it provided an opportunity for a birthday observance--David Tibet this time. (More on this momentarily.) The cold had returned, sort of, and I was featuring a record (cd, actually) that I'd been meaning to use as "Physical Evidence" for a while, so I should have been in my element. When I anticipate quality, though, it abandons me.

At some point in the program I mention the fact that the Foxtrot compilation was intended as a benefit, with the proceeds apparently funding Jhonn Balance's rehab. This always makes me sad--that he is gone, and that he suffered. I stopped drinking a couple of years ago because I was tired of being "past the point of discussion," as Peter Christopherson said of Balance on one particular night. I was tired of not feeling things--and now I'm in therapy trying to manage the feelings. I don't know, on "balance," how things are working out with me, but if online Harry Potter sorting quizzes are any indication, I have actually stopped being a Ravenclaw and have moved more firmly into Gryffindor / Hufflepuff territory. Like Dr. Johnny Fever, I am more quick-witted when on the hooch!

Related: on this night my mouth was doing weird things. At one point, when I wished David Tibet a happy birthday, I found myself sounding a bit like DJ Danelectro, which is...weird, and let's leave it at that. Also, when I mean to say "sexual assault," I instead blurt out, "sexual accounts." It is hilarious in a way, but I am clearly embarrassed by this. I go all quiet! I am an odd duck.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 March 5, 2100-2300:

1. "Too Far" | Whalo | CD16 | Impermeable
2. "Heartworms" | Coil | Foxtrot | Chalice | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Thorn" | SeeTheEye | Forever and Again, A Tribute to My Bloody Valentine | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
4. "A Quiet Time with Spaceman Sputz" | Pavo Pavo | Young Narrator In The Breakers | Bella Union
5. "Blue Bird" | Manon Meurt | Manon Meurt | Label Obscura
6. "Morning Birds" | Kristin Hersh | Crooked Beginnings EP | Yes Dear | "Listening Parlour"
7. "Molasses" | Lazy Legs | Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "Resplash" | Camberwell Now | The EP Collection | Modern Classics
9. "African Spacecraft (2092AD - Lift-Off, Journey and Landing)" | The Lay Llamas | Lay Llamas | Backwards
10. "Crazy For You" | Space Waves | Just for a Life, A Homage to Slowdive | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
11. "Den of Sables" | Dyr Faser | Trio | Bandcamp self-release
12. "Bone Frequency" | Inflatable Sideshow | Foxtrot | Chalice | "Physical Evidence"
13. "The River" | Alpha Steppa Meets High Public Sound | The River (feat. I-Sarana) | Steppas
14. "Performance (B Remix)" | Whispering Sons | Performance (B Remix) | Weyrd Son
15. "Spooky Loop" | Nurse With Wound | Foxtrot | Chalice | "Physical Evidence"
16. "To Here Knows When" | Celestial | Forever and Again, A Tribute to My Bloody Valentine | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
17. "Bonus Beat [feat. Ayakamay]" | Das Komplex | Kachi Kachi EP | Codek
18. "In My Head a Crystal Sphere Of Heavy Fluid" | Peter Christopherson | Foxtrot | Chalice | "Physical Evidence"
19. "The Wasp Factory" | Ben Frost | The Wasp Factory | Bedroom Community
20. "Girlfriend" | I Saw You Yesterday | CD16 | Impermeable
21. "Rescue" | Sonder | Gods Will Be Gods - A Reverence To The Bunnymen | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
22. "Breathe Again - Bonus 2" | Eraldo Bernocchi & Prakash Sontakke | Invisible Strings | RareNoise
23. "A Dream of The Inmost Light (for Christoph Heemann)" | Current 93 | Foxtrot | Chalice | "Physical Evidence"

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Your Septic Heart, Your Deadly Hand: Transmission 326, 2017 March 1

This is more like it. I attach here a pantheon candidate among my broadcasts--at least that is how I feel at the moment, and I am going with it. For a couple of years I've been meaning to feature the L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes record, which 1) tells you how good it is and 2) gives you an idea of the alacrity with which I move, generally. As was not the case with the previous week's record, I have no ambivalence about this one whatsoever. Mono recording--as I am pretty sure this is--is kind of fascinating, and this is a clinic, and "tone lawyers" (or even tone paralegals such as myself) will love the guitar sound.

It's also terrific when there are no glaring errors in technique. The quest for excellence never ends! On some days it is hard to focus--this day was unusually warm, somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 degrees F (mid-May weather only a few short years ago) and people around here have a way of going crazy when it gets above 40. A brief moment of horror, it was quickly overpowered by cold and snow, as if winter were a Monty Python character reminding us that she is "not dead yet." One of the reasons for this show's existence is to keep horror at bay at least once a week.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 March 1, 2100-2300:

1. "Sidi Yassa" | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes | Kindred Spirits | "Physical Evidence"
2. "Love" | Question Mark | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 2 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
3. "Glo Day" | Beattie Cobell | Treatment Works | More than Human
4. "No More Sorry" | Kosuke Oshima (The Earth Earth) | Forever and Again, A Tribute to My Bloody Valentine | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
5. "Werewerenci" | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Shangri La" | Seashine | Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
7. "Life Tends To Come And Go" | Roman Flugel | All The Right Noises | Dial
8. "Dolphin" | Milkmustache | CD16 | Impermeable
9. "Sebe Te Moyola" | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes | Kindred Spirits | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Remember the Chain" | The Skating Party | Colors Compilations - Violet "Dreampop" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
11. "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's
12. "Can't Uncorrupt" | The Cobra Lamps | The Cobra Lamps EP | A Records
13. "Hide and Scatter" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Damaged Goods
14. "Her Vowel No" | Burning House | Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
15. "Laminas" | Teleseen | Family Album 2017 | Boomarm Nation
16. "Lali" | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes | Kindred Spirits | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Fishing" | Public Image Ltd | Album | Universal
18. "Sad Shadows" | Annie Anxiety | Soul Possession [reissue] | Dais
19. "Penda (Jean Bitar)" | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes | Kindred Spirits | "Physical Evidence"
20. "TellURudeBwoy (feat. wzrdryAV)" | Seekers International | Presents the RaggaPreservation Society EP | Diskotopia
21. "Soft Gloss" | Kane Ikin | Sensory Memory | Echovolt
22. "Blooz" | Naaahhh | Themes | Blackest Ever Black
23. "Cielo" | Pure Morning | Colors Compilations - Violet "Dreampop" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself

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Do What You Dare: Transmission 325, 2017 February 22

I don't want to start a too-specific discussion of how the sausage is made around here, but as I write this I have listened to about a half-dozen terrible albums in a row. (No, I did not know beforehand that they were terrible! I am a pretty basic gentleman with pretty basic methods of self-flagellation.) I am writing this in a bad mood, you guys. Now: will this bad mood somehow embed itself in your experience of the attached mixtape? Do I impart any of my momentary energy into this act of sharing? If I understand a second-hand account of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge that a friend passed on to me, GBP's answer would be "yes." Apologies in advance!

You see, we were discussing--how shall I say it--the work of a certain musician who is a Dodgy Person (not Genesis!). And I wondered whether, shorn of any known background or context, did an instrumental piece "do the work" of said person's belief system? Apparently, the answer went, there is an energy, present in the time and space of the recording, that comes through. I like to tell myself that I'm not a person who believes in "woo," as the hip young rationalists call it, but then I do find more comfort in thinking the universe bears a specific antipathy toward me than in chalking my long trail of misfortunes up to random chance. So all of this seems plausible enough!

Truth: while I like the "Magickal Mystery D Tour" EP quite a lot, I am not a huge fan and have always enjoyed the other post-Throbbing Gristle bands a good deal more. But here I am, record in hand--NEVER SELL--and a birthday observance falls on my night of the week. I tried, really I did, but maybe some of this ambivalence transmitted, because this is a HOT MESS of a show for reasons that (on the surface) have nothing to do with Genesis. Sorry!

Then again, I may just misunderstand the magick altogether and be prone to sloppy nights on occasion.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 February 22, 2100-2300:

1. "Followed Path" | Karl Hector & the Malcouns | Beyond Addis Vol.2 (Modern Ethiopian Dance Grooves Inspired by Swinging Addis) | Trikont
2. "Feed Me With Your Kiss" | Chilindrina | Forever and Again, A Tribute to My Bloody Valentine | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
3. "The Light Is Clear In My Eyes" | Moby & The Void Pacific Choir | These Systems Are Failing | Little Idiot - Mute
4. "Roman P. (Fireball Mix)" | Psychic TV | The Magickal Mystery D Tour EP | Temple | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Checkpoint Charlie" | The City Gates | Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Sports" | Mark Feehan | M.F. II | Richie Records / Testostertunes
7. "Isis and Osiris" | Brian Harris | Cyclops | self-released
8. "All My Colours" | The Sensualists | Gods Will Be Gods - A Reverence To The Bunnymen | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
9. "When You Sleep" | Spirit System | Forever and Again, A Tribute to My Bloody Valentine | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
10. "Hex-Sex (Voodoo Mix)" | Psychic TV | The Magickal Mystery D Tour EP | Temple | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Home" | Public Image Ltd | Album | Universal
12. "Had Enough Of Love" | Yumi Yumi Hip Hop | CD16 | Impermeable
13. "Raw and Unbleached" | Simonn | Lost Journey EP | Night Tide
14. "Spor Tranquil" | Mulan Serrico | Tendres Tenebres | Crudites Tapes
15. "Come Back" | Emeterians | The Journey | VP
16. "Good Vibrations (Kundalini Mix)" | Psychic TV | The Magickal Mystery D Tour EP | Temple | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Am I asleep and dreaming" | Space Blue | Tendres Tenebres | Crudites Tapes
18. "Tune the System / Start Slow (Dry drums Motivation Vrsn)" | Gulls Rhythm Force | Family Album 2017 | Boomarm Nation
19. "No Means No" | Alice Bag | Alice Bag | Don Giovanni
20. "Currency Transfer" | Gross Net | Quantitative Easing | Touch Sensitive
21. "Interzone" | Psychic TV | The Magickal Mystery D Tour EP | Temple | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Trial of The Century" | Strategy | Family Album 2017 | Boomarm Nation
23. "A Ultima Fonte" | Cubus | Colors Compilations - Grey "Post Punk" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "Seed" | Max Cooper | Emergence | Mesh
25. "Lost In Neon" | Marconi Union | Tokyo+ | Just Music

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Cruising Altitude Departure 28, 2016 October 30

[GUEST POST]

Dear friends, it's me again, Captain Halcyon, sharing a recording for one last time--"last," for now, anyway. There was some mumbling by Guy a few weeks ago about asking me to take over his time slot, as the darkness recedes; I considered it and for a while I thought I might jump back into the business of being a "broadcast personality." But life is full and I have things to do. What things, you ask? "Secret things." Now is not the time for full disclosure.

Anyway: this is a good mix, and--dare I say it--not a sad one. So I hope, if you're listening, you are not sad. I have a feeling we will see each other again. Nothing is forever.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2016 October 30, 1700-1800 EDT:

1. "Shadow" | Jessica Bailiff | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed
2. "Mahler Remix 4" | Fennesz | Mahler Remix | Touch
3. "Hall" | Automat & Max Loderbauer | Selekt 01 | Bureau B
4. "I'm On Fire - Western Skies Motel Remix" | Graveyard Tapes | I'm on Fire (White Rooms Remixes) | Lost Tribe
5. "Seagull's Flyway" | Rhucle | A Water Letter From You | Assembly Field
6. "Changer Demain" | Adam Johnson | Chigliac | Merck
7. "There Dub" | Flying Saucer Attack | Chorus | Drag City
8. "Gulps" | Leafcutter John | Resurrection | Desire Path
9. "Down 3" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky
10. "Whales Tails" | Cocteau Twins | Victorialand | 4AD
11. "Les Preger's Tune" | The Durutti Column | Vini Reilly | Factory Once
12. "The Cave" | Daniel Lanois | Goodbye to Language | Red Floor - ANTI-

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