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Project from Within the Cosmic Truth Which Is Yourself: Transmission 320, 2017 January 21

Here is my most recent "fill-in" program and the last one for the foreseeable future. (Just watch--tomorrow night someone will have an emergency and there I--THE HERO--will be.) It was predictable, but nonetheless worthy of remark, that Danny and I were both subbing for female DJs who had gone down to Washington DC to do some actual work. I must have done a good job--I managed to convince one (admittedly baked) caller that I was DJ Penelope. No doubt the whole "not talking" thing that I have lately pushed to extremes must have helped, but in the spirit of giving myself credit, I would like to think it was the music too.

This was an "overflow" program, consisting of a bunch of things that I hadn't managed to fit in over the course of the last year or so. Naturally I forced them to co-habitate and, occasionally, the segues were not terrible. I suppose more than a few of these were things I'd meant to play the night I opted out of radio on account of hitting my head. Dear god, how long ago was that, and was it where my troubles began? At any rate, I was true to my word, I think: this program may divert you but it will teach you nothing.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 January 21, 2100-2300:

1. "Beige Mantis" | Joey Anderson | Invisible Switch | Dekmantel
2. "Bad Man Dub" | Singers and Players | War of Version | On-U Sound
3. "Ghost Covenant" | CW/A | Words Unspoken, Acts Undone | Parachute
4. "He's a Liquid (feat. Gazelle Twin)" | Wrangler | He's a Liquid | Metamatic
5. "Naked" | Underspreche | Split | Optimo Trax
6. "Melody Dub" | Bim Sherman | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
7. "You're an Orchestra in the Cosmos - Rhodes Version" | Sebastian Mullaert | You're an Orchestra in the Cosmos | Green
8. "Schwefel" | Oliver Huntemann | Pech & Schwefel | Senso Sounds
9. "030" | Lonelady | He's a Liquid | Metamatic
10. "Roffa Yet" | Phil Pratt | Star Wars Dub | Burning Sounds
11. "Jono Filling Bin Bags" | Dog Chocolate | Snack Fans | Upset the Rhythm
12. "Lovely Day Reprise" | Grand Pianoramax | Soundwave | Mental Groove
13. "Hatem Imam the Love of the Millions" | Praed | The Fabrication of Silver Dreams | Annihaya
14. "Satya" | Yokoo | Satya EP | Kindisch
15. "4-2-Nite" | Gary Todd | Nora Lilian | BPitch Control
16. "Stay Awake" | ASA MOTO | Stay Awake / Wanowan Efem | DEEWEE
17. "Grass Will Grow" | John Lemke | Nomad Frequencies | Denovali
18. "Basement Life" | Superchunk | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
19. "In These Times" | Tranquil Eyes | Domestic Landscape, Vol. 2: Underrated Synth Classics 1982-1990 | Domestica
20. "Hippies" | Tigerskin | Time of Descent EP | Dirt Crew
21. "Six Six Sixties" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats | Industrial - Mute
22. "Incubator" | Ramleh | Circular Time | Crucial Blast
23. "Hard and Tenderly" | The Residents | Shadowland | MVD Audio

god knows it's true, but I think that the devil knows it too

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Quand les masques tombent: Transmission 319, 2017 January 18

There have been many such programs lately, but here is yet another recording from a genre that could be termed "final shows from historical eras now passed." I tell you what, I "went out" with a bang. This is one for the pantheon. And we didn't even need "The Listening Parlour" or "Physical Evidence" to make it happen! You will be very satisfied with this mixtape or I will pay back every penny you spent on it.

A time capsule, but not evergreen: we do find ourselves reading promo copy for a "make your voice heard" feature related to the (then-) impending inauguration. Very quaint, this gestaltly therapy of speaking "truth" to power. I may regret not having done more of this in my life, but I also have my doubts. Imagining you have some degree of control and influence: must (have) be(en) nice. Pretty sure I will die wondering what that is like.

But enough ranting. A new era dawns, and there are at least four more programs in it!

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 January 18, 2100-2300:

1. "Perfume Well" | Box and the Twins | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
2. "Spoiler" | Baloji | 64 Bits & Malachite | Bella Union
3. "Euridyce" | Known Rebel | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
4. "Strong Proud Stupid and Superior" | Grebenstein | Strong Proud Stupid and Superior | Downwards
5. "Aphanes" | Af Ursin | Aura Legato | Blackest Ever Black
6. "interdiction" | Black Marble | It's Immaterial | Ghostly International
7. "Fordland" | The Wedding Present | Going, Going... | Scopitones
8. "Brooklyn Shuffle" | Phon.o | Fractions | BPitch Control
9. "The 120 4x4 (Natural Magic DUB)" | Elite Beat | Family Album 2017 | Boomarm Nation
10. "Vapour Trail" | Lone | Levitate | R & S
11. "Symmetry" | Max Cooper | Emergence | Mesh
12. "ZZZ" | Kaput! | Tendres Tenebres | Crudites Tapes
13. "Exiled" | Guest Directors | Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "Primary" | In Her Eye | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
15. "Leviathan" | Helen Money | Become Zero | Thrill Jockey
16. "7th# Disaster" | The Julia Sound | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
17. "Cubist Camouflage" | Huerco S. | For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) | Proibito
18. "Distant Skies" | Travelling Wave | Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Never Returner" | Ramleh | Circular Time | Crucial Blast
20. "Rise" | Public Image Ltd | Album | Universal
21. "The Macaw In The Park" | Brian Harris | The Macaw In The Park | self-released
22. "The Elusive Chaperon (Intro)" | Ovum Hum | Summer Casts Shadows | Kowloon
23. "Larga Division (Long Division)" | Siwomat | Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "Dedication (Remix)" | The Fall | Wise Ol' Man EP | Cherry Red
25. "More Honey" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Damaged Goods
26. "Rules" | nebulo | Safari Suites, Vol. II | Seagrave
27. "Blinkar Reprise" | It's a Fine Line | It's a Fine Line | Kill the DJ

he's a click track

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Cruising Altitude Departure 21, 2016 July 23

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Hello, listeners and readers of Bombast. I am Captain Halcyon, back with another program from last summer. These morning departures are uncommonly good. This particular broadcast went so well that I decided to play songs on a regular basis last fall (albeit in the afternoon, sadly). I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

These recordings are intended to "tide you over." I have been gone for a while. But I am coming back soon. Sunset is getting later every day. Flight season approaches.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2016 July 23, 1000-1100 EDT:

1. "Morning Sun" | Landing | Third Sight | El Paraiso
2. "A Room With No Air" | Red Stars Over Tokyo | Deconstructing Happiness | Testtoon
3. "From There To Here" | Les Halles | Sentient | Not Not Fun
4. "Vitre" | Stephane LaPorte | Fourrure Sounds, Vol. 2 | Antinote
5. "Mutter - Beatless" | Konstantin Sibold | Mutter | Running Back
6. "White Heat" | Dave Harrington Group | Become Alive | Other People
7. "Spaired Long" | Moby | Hotel: Ambient | Mute

ready let's go

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Best Thing for You To Do Is Hide: Transmission 318, 2017 January 11

From full-featured to featureless goes our program this time out. This is not to say that it is soup--this broadcast strikes me as more of a grab bag of sounds. Admittedly, my review of this mixtape has been a bit unfocused--busy with work, and preoccupied by some emotional crisis or other, I didn't get a good pass of the first hour. The second does contain one truly sublime moment, the passage going from Juan Atkins through PAAR. That is the good stuff, which is not to say that it isn't all good stuff.

I was a bit short on words during this outing. It's just been the case with me lately. Nothing would please me more than to tell you it comes from a time of relative calm--but I am not destined for pleasure. I also clam up in times of anxiety and dread, which this certainly is for many of us, though I have my own reasons

Oh, I thought of one more positive thing--there's some Tross on this mixtape. That is definitely worth hearing once or twice.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 January 11, 2100-2300:

1. "The Sun Is In My Eyes" | Citrus Clouds | Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
2. "False Readings On" | Eluvium | False Readings On | Temporary Residence Limited
3. "Gravity" | Mind Against | Realm of Consciousness | Afterlife
4. "so close" | Sela | homemade jams from jules & jessica's kitchen | Error Broadcast
5. "Vino La Medo Na Aziaxo O" | Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin | Wait For Me | Hot Casa
6. "BubblersInter-rude (feat. Sipreano)" | Seekers International | Presents the RaggaPreservation Society EP | Diskotopia
7. "Talar" | Queridas | Colors Compilations - Violet "Dreampop" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "State of Stretch" | Evs | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
9. "Polar Magazine" | zwischenFall | Sandy Eyes | Dark Entries
10. "Buoyantly Grounded" | Josh Wink | Cocoon Compilation P | Cocoon
11. "Dari Fog Nakhla" | El Mahdy Jr. & XJ | Family Album 2017 | Boomarm Nation
12. "Venice with Girls" | The Fall | Wise Ol' Man EP | Cherry Red
13. "Claustromania" | Tross | The Walrus EP | Hoga Nord
14. "Anbessa (feat. Manu Dibango)" | Akale Wube | Beyond Addis Vol.2 (Modern Ethiopian Dance Grooves Inspired by Swinging Addis) | Trikont
15. "Wicked City (When Jah Come)" | Mark Mood | Family Album 2017 | Boomarm Nation
16. "Transport" | Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald | Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald Present Borderland: Transport | Tresor
17. "Slow Song" | Rival Consoles | Night Melody | Erased Tapes
18. "Pure" | PAAR | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Raspy Draw" | Northern Draw | Family Album 2017 | Boomarm Nation
20. "Sieve Stack" | FIS | From Patterns to Details | Subtext
21. "Night" | Joel Graham | Geomancy | Music from Memory
22. "Borderline Spamming" | Blessed Initiative | Blessed Initiative | Subtext
23. "Ije Udo" | The Magnificent Zenians | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 1 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
24. "Friend of Mine" | Mr. Mitch | Boxed003 | Boxed
25. "The Shape" | KHOMPA | The Shape of Drums to Come | Monotreme
26. "Mordendo - Ketev Remix" | Black Manual | Mordendo (Remixed) | Portals Editions

i'm terrified of tomorrow

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We Let In Light and We Banish Shade: Transmission 317, 2017 January 4

Flying solo again on this outing, I took care of some unfinished business. Since xmas is technically a twelve-day observance--more on this momentarily*--I empty this year's quiver of holiday tunes. Five weeks after the fact, it doesn't sound clever; still, I don't regret it. More importantly, we deliver a "full-featured program," the first for some time, with a pertinent track from Lady C and A Certain Ratio occupying the prestigious "Physical Evidence" chair. This, too, was a belated seasonal observance. As I say, I would have liked to do this on the Winter Solstice (because you can't always play Coil; even I can't), but "things happened." The Old & The New is probably not a solstice record for you, but it is for me, a souvenir from a trip to Tower Records in Los Angeles during an ill-fated vacation, the guilt and shame of which I still carry. "Sounds Like Something Dirty," indeed. (In case you didn't know, this archive is also my diary, so deal.)

*I insist on stretching out the yuletide forever, by the way, on account of the recurring childhood trauma of watching my next-door neighbors throw their Christmas tree into the street, like clockwork, every December 26. That seemed wrong to young, Catholic Master Catharsis, as it does to older, lapsed Kid Catharsis. Apologies if I have told this story before--one only has so many to tell.

BOMBAST playlist, 2017 January 4, 2100-2300:

1. "In This Heat?" | Whore Paint | Ultra Sound | Translation Loss
2. "Hark The Herald Angels Sing" | The Fall | The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 | Castle
3. "Blown Away" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Driving Through Darkness" | Controlled Bleeding | Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps | Artoffact
5. "Rifle" | Swellbound | Colors Compilations - Violet "Dreampop" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Po d'Terra" | Joao Cirilo | Space Echo (The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed) | Now-Again
7. "I Can't Stand It" | The Specials | More Specials | Chrysalis | "Listening Parlour"
8. "Half Half" | Ice Eyes | New Frame | Seagrave
9. "#6" | Nisennenmondai | #6 | On-U Sound
10. "Wild Party" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Clanging Chimes of Doom" | The Misters of Circe | Clanging Chimes of Doom | Bandcamp self-release
12. "Thin Boys" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Yesteryear" | AMyn | Best Heard In Shadows EP | Apollo
14. "Slip 7 Sideways" | The 7th Plain | Chronicles I | A-TON
15. "Jolly Rock 'n Roll Christmas" | Brian Harris | The Christmas Album | self-released
16. "Padded Cell (Area Man Remix)" | Violet Age | Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
17. "Fields" | Bukra | Family Album 2017 | Boomarm Nation
18. "Shack Up" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Our Decade" | MY DISCO | Severe Remixes | Downwards
20. "I Want Elvis For Christmas" | Eddie Cochran | Yule Cool | Virgin
21. "Life's A Scream" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Somewhere Away" | Vibrissae | Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze" | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "No-One Cries No More" | Tom Furse | Interludes | Mind Meld
24. "Jaguar" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Damaged Goods
25. "Imi (Emoji)" | Shonen Knife | Adventure | Damnably
26. "Sounds Like Something Dirty" | A Certain Ratio | The Old & The New | Factory | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Gratitude" | Noemi Bolojan | VA Compilation #4 | Assembly Field

fed up and devious

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Night Is Warm and the Stars Are Bright: Transmission 316, 2016 December 31

Since we all had a free night, and the last night of the "calendar year" is a useless observance, the entire Catharsis Family Circus rolled into the WRFI studios. It was the first time we had done this in a while, so for those who don't live with her every day, Junior's performance on this episode is something of a...revelation, I daresay. I would be happy to listen to her program, if she had one, but I will also settle for her being a frequent guest on my program and deflating my pretensions (although considering Their Satanic Majesties Request a "masterpiece" is not a pretension). Elsewhere, Lady Catharsis shares a half-dozen "depressing" tunes with us, I completely botch a segue from Wanda Jackson to Thee Michelle Gun Elephant (I swear that one should have worked), and I play THE WRONG JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU-MU TRACK at the end of the program (it was supposed to be "Burn the Bastards").

I'm sure that, with all its shortcomings (at least I see them that way), this program will be a favorite for you listeners. More voices, actual debate, anyone in the studio besides me, etc. I know how these things work. So I guess it was good to close up 2016--a godawful year!--with a "good" show. We actually didn't do "that much" radio in 2016, "only" 60 programs, thanks to some wise policy (don't quote me on that) from management and my own hypering down. Here's to even fewer--and better--programs in 2017!

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 31, 2100-2300:

1. "Let's Spend the Night Together" | Muddy Waters | Electric Mud | Chess
2. "Kassi Ma Sumaya / Don't Cry" | Lobi Traore Group | Lobi Traore Group | Honest Jon's
3. "Blue Yodel #6" | Wanda Jackson | The Party Ain't Over | Third Man
4. "Lily" | Thee Michelle Gun Elephant | Collection | Alive
5. "Badhead" | Buick | Sweatertongue | Lather
6. "Down On The Street" | The Stooges | Fun House | Elektra - Rhino
7. "Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice" | Richard "Rabbit" Brown | Aimer et Perdre: To Love And To Lose | Angry Mom Archives
8. "Honey (Alternate Mix)" | Spacemen 3 | Losing Touch With Your Mind | Munster
9. "Fin Roh" | Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects | Shabeesation | Rykodisc
10. "Citadel" / "In Another Land" | The Rolling Stones | Their Satanic Majesties Request | London
11. "The Last Amethyst Deceiver" | Coil | The Ape of Naples | Important
12. "Too Late" | The Stoneman Family | Aimer et Perdre: To Love And To Lose | Angry Mom Archives
13. "Facing East" | Thievery Corporation | The Richest Man In Babylon | Eighteenth Street Lounge
14. "The Art of Parties" | Japan | Exorcising Ghosts | Virgin
15. "I Need A Man" | Barbara Pittman | Hillbilly Fillies & Rockin' Chicks | Charly
16. "December" | Teenage Fanclub | Bandwagonesque | Creation - Geffen
17. "Radha Krsna" | Suns of Arqa | Solar Activity | 1979-2001    EMI
18. "False Hearted Lover's Blues" | Dock Boggs | Aimer et Perdre: To Love And To Lose | Angry Mom Archives
19. "Whitney Joins the JAMs" | The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu | Shag Times | KLF Communications

late in time behold him come

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Haven't Got a Good Mind for the Details: Transmission 315, 2016 December 28

A quick turnaround between the prior show and this one, but that is how things work sometimes in this fast-paced life I lead. Nominally this was my "regular," Wednesday-night program and should have been "superior" to the hullabaloo on Monday the 26th, but it is tough to tell. I was certainly having a week. I managed to get myself professionally handcuffed and about ten different kinds of depressed while theoretically "on vacation." Let no one tell you I don't do amazing things.

I can say with some confidence that this seems to be "a program of two halves," perhaps fitting for what I like to think of as a mixtape. There is a brooding, downtempo first-half and a lurching, menacing, rocking second half. So were this a literal trail mix and not a metaphorical one, it could use some shaking. But my life has entered an "inefficient and inaccurate" phase. The first draft of just about everything I do needs serious revision, and sometimes there just isn't a second draft.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 28, 2100-2300:

1. "Frequencies of the Mind III Intro" | Atiq | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
2. "The Simplest Equation" | Pye Corner Audio | Run for the Shadows EP | Lapsus
3. "Concerto for Monkey and Oscillator" | Silver Apples | Clinging to a Dream | Chickencoop
4. "Failed State" | Spokes | Flight EP | Coyote
5. "No Angels" | Little Annie & The Legally Jammin | Little Annie & The Legally Jammin | Italic
6. "Odio y Desprecio" | Slaughtered Saint | Odio y Desprecio | La Notte di Architetto
7. "Winter" | The Silence Kit | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "Arizona" | Thom Sonny Green | High Anxiety | Infectious
9. "Sex Ghost" | Izzy True | Nope | Don Giovanni
10. "If Only All Elevators Played Music Like This" | Tom Furse | Interludes | Mind Meld
11. "Forever Bob - Terry Francis Remix" | Grant Dell | Forever Bob EP | Giant
12. "Spirit of Dunkirk" | Camberwell Now | The EP Collection | Modern Classics
13. "The Great Musical Battle" | Derrick Morgan | First Class Rock Steady | VP
14. "Catharsis" | Merrin Karras | Apex | A Strangely Isolated Place
15. "Miyazaki" | Wolf Muller & Cass. | The Sound of Glades | International Feel
16. "Reflecting Lights - Kaytlin Aurelia Smith Mix" | The Field | Kompakt: Total 16 | Kompakt
17. "The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill" | Dirty Sidewalks | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
18. "Delusion" | Tangent | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
19. "Chartered Trips" | Frana | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
20. "Programmed" | Alice Bag | Alice Bag | Don Giovanni
21. "Which Clapp" | Phil Pratt | Star Wars Dub | Burning Sounds
22. "Tell Me" | P.R.O. | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 1 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
23. "Vorel" | Russian Circles | Guidance | Sargent House
24. "Threshold" | Mustard Gas And Roses | Becoming | The Mylene Sheath
25. "The Good Mind" | CTMF | SQ 1 | Damaged Goods
26. "Louie Louie" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's
27. "Hear Mi Name Call (feat. Bionic Singer)" | Casio Love | Hear Mi Name Call | Cubiculo
28. "Tennents And A Tango Tan" | Penny Rimbaud's L'Academie des Vanites | Yes Sir, The Truth of Revolution | Cold Spring
29. "The Maria Sessions (Part Three)" | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Maria Sessions | Soleilmoon

not exactly vastly improving

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Cruising Altitude Departure 20, 2016 June 4

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Halcyon here, with an irregularly regular checkin. I am probably an ill-fitting substitute for Radio Days, but from time to time I fill in for that crew. This is one such time, from last summer. Ithaca is normally quite calm on a Saturday morning, even in the late morning; however, if I recall correctly, this was a "festival" weekend. I needed to create my own "quiet space," and this was it.

Nevertheless, I see that I had re-entered the world of "long" playlists and short songs, which is perhaps not a good development. And it's a bit "mainstream" too, as some local teen is wont to say. I cannot always be sublime. There's always "Matthewdavid," whoever he is. His stuff is pretty "out there," or "in there," whichever.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2016 June 4, 1000-1100 EDT:

1. "Memorize Them Well" | Secret Boyfriend | Memory Care Unit | Blackest Ever Black
2. "River in the Sea" | Dennis Young | Wave (Electronic Music 1984-1988) | Bureau B
3. "TD-Mem" | Baumann / Koek | Baumann / Koek | Bureau B
4. "Santiago quatro" | Underworld | Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future | Astralwerks
5. "Otis Walks Into the Woods" | Mary Lattimore | At the Dam | Ghostly International
6. "Love's Harp" | Matthewdavid's Mindflight | Trust the Glide and Guide | Leaving
7. "E" | Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Felicia Atkinson | Comme un seul narcisse | Shelter Press
8. "Alpine Morning" | The Orb | Alpine | Kompakt
9. "Restless Wings" | Emika | Flashbacks | Emika

happiness, deconstructed

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You Want It, You Buy It, You Forget It: Transmission 314, 2016 December 26

It is amazing to think that the xmas holidays were a mere five weeks ago. Seems more like five lifetimes. We should be grateful to have survived them all! Anyway, enough romance and nostalgia still attach themselves to the yuletide that I jump at the chance to do radio around this time, so here I am, "sitting in," as usual. I still have not managed to do a program on the 24th, and probably won't, ever, but I guess having Lady C in my life is a decent trade-off.

Funnily enough, I don't really manage to make the "festive" thing happen on this night. It would come soon enough--as I said earlier, I am just behind with a lot of things this year. (And not to say that Thee Headcoats and Ramleh aren't festive in their own ways). I seem happy enough to do what I am doing, but who is to say? It was generations ago.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 26, 2100-2300:

1. "New Brain" | Off World | 1 | Constellation
2. "Ballad of S. Starling" | Faten Kanaan | The Botanist & The Archaeologist | Polytechnic Youth
3. "Inside the Wheel" | Atiq | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
4. "The Life I Ruin" | Flowers for Bodysnatchers | Love Like Blood | Cryochamber
5. "Refugee Dub" | Alpha & Omega / Ras Tinny | No Beginning No End | Steppas
6. "We Suck TV Shows Online" | Dubblestandart | Dub Realistic | Echo Beach
7. "noR3gRts" | Ziur | Deeform | Objects Limited
8. "Born To Love You" | The Sensations | First Class Rock Steady | VP
9. "Element Unknown" | Camberwell Now | The EP Collection | Modern Classics
10. "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Drinker" | Portable | Alan Abrahams | K7
11. "Samara" | Magic Castles | Starflower | A Recordings
12. "Empty Words" | Bowery Electric | Beat: 20th Anniversary Edition | kranky
13. "Proem" | XAM Duo | XAM Duo | Sonic Cathedral
14. "Lump Sum Slum Lord (Dabrye Dirt Drum Remix)" | Mophono | Lump Sum Slum Lord | CB
15. "Arpeggiator" | Petal Head | Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "Demby Surround" | The Travel | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
17. "Newtons Cradle - FaltyDL Remix" | Grandbrothers | Dilation Remixes | Film
18. "Nameless Lake" | Roman Flugel | All The Right Noises | Dial
19. "(Another) Hour of the Grubber" | Ashtray Navigations | To Make A Fool Ask, And You Are The First | Blackest Ever Black
20. "What's My Name" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's
21. "Wonder When" | Sofie Letitre | Take To Heels | Division
22. "In the Cut" | Eusebia | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
23. "Forever One" | Phaeleh | Illusion of the Tale | Undertow
24. "Siemens Und Halske" | Carre | Grey Scale | Alter
25. "Every Time You Knock Me Down" | Kiki Hitomi | Karma No Kusari | Jahtari
26. "Monotron" | Emanuele Rizzuto | Hand Made Illusions | Kapvt Mvndi
27. "Enter" | Kutmah | BLK/SMR | Hit & Run
28. "Slow Love" | Lahun | Slow Love EP | Apollo
29. "Coal and Dust" | Paradox Obscur | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
30. "Cleansed" | Boom Bip | Sun Choke | Lex
31. "American Womanhood" | Ramleh | Circular Time | Crucial Blast
32. "Living in a French Movie" | Hante | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself

no one could break me like you

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Consensus Or Confession, I Don't Recognize Depression: Transmission 313, 2016 December 21

40 days in the past, there were two hours on a Wednesday evening that we shared together. Or maybe we didn't, and now's your chance--except I'm probably doing something else at the moment, so find a friend and share this with them. This Solstice program was capably executed, technically, anyway, though maybe not in terms of content. James Brown made it into the mix with one of the most dreary (although, this year, strangely appropriate) xmas tunes you're likely to hear. And there was a chestnut, the Pixies in this case, dealing with some non-specific holiday or other.

Now, I had meant to don a sonic hair-shirt on this night and channel the memory of past transgressions through the medium of A Certain Ratio. But that didn't happen, because, as James says, "I waited a little too long" to get things together. This is where all my troubles seem to begin! So instead we get this strange roller-coaster of a show that seems to make sense for about the first hour and then again at the very end, but loses its shape in the middle--another metaphor for just about everything I do. The best that can be said is that I took the Chameleons' advice. So should you.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 21, 2100-2300:

1. "Intro" | Tiger & Woods | On The Green Again | Tiger & Woods
2. "Blot (Remix)" | Tabor Radosti | Egregor | Klanggalerie
3. "A Thing Or Two (Grapefruit Remix)" | Copy | Chosen Atmospheric Remixes | Gold Robot
4. "Antilogue" | Hiroshimabend | Dddirzzz | Klanggalerie
5. "Ponakin {White Thorn}" | Belarisk | Moments in Shapeshifting | Type
6. "Aham / Realm of the Wild Woman" | Medicine Voice | I and Thou | Provenance
7. "Santa Claus, Santa Claus" | James Brown | Funky Christmas | Polydor
8. "Tabidaichi (Departure)" | Kiki Hitomi | Karma No Kusari | Jahtari
9. "Shorobun / Funayurei" | Dakota Suite / Vampillia | The Sea Is Never Full | Karaoke Kalk
10. "Don't Fall" | The Chameleons | Script of the Bridge [reissue] | Blue Apple
11. "Trolley of Thought" | Delete (RU) | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
12. "Broken Bow" | The Wedding Present | Going, Going... | Scopitones
13. "Oblivious (feat. Beaver Sheppard)" | Brandt Brauer Frick | Joy | Because Music
14. "These Windows Are Pistons, Pt. 2" | Sonna | Keep It Together | Temporary Residence Limited
15. "Safari Strut" | Whitefield Brothers | Beyond Addis Vol.2 (Modern Ethiopian Dance Grooves Inspired by Swinging Addis) | Trikont
16. "Clampdown" | The Clash | London Calling [reissue] | Columbia - Sony
17. "Binary" | Douglas Dare | Aforger | Erased Tapes
18. "The Letter" | Sybarite | Waver the Absolute | Temporary Residence Limited
19. "Natalia" | Bitori | Bitori (Legend of Funana, the Forbidden Music of the Cape Verde Islands) | Analog Africa
20. "Life Awaits You" | Damon Bell | Stand By Me EP | Burek
21. "Abismo" | Balvanera | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
22. "All Cats Are Grey" | Echodrone | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Tomato Song" | Patrick Cowley / Candida Royalle | Candida Cosmica | Dark Entries
24. "Un Etrange Baiser" | Kriistal Ann | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
25. "Nec Mergitur" | Oiseaux-Tempete | Unworks & Rarities 2012-2015 | Sub Rosa
26. "Bath White" | 50footwave | Bath White | HHBTM
27. "The Holiday Song" | Pixies | Come On Pilgrim | 4AD - Rough Trade
28. "Terrorize My Heart (Disco Dub)" | 79.5 | Terrorize My Heart Pt 1 & 2 | Big Crown
29. "Leaves" | Nicolas Jaar | Sirens | Other People
30. "Peel Me" | Kim Myhr | Bloom | Hubro
31. "Diazepam Dreams" | Franz Kirmann | Elysian Park | Denovali

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