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Franchises of the Mind: Transmission 312, 2016 December 17

Sometimes I cannot explain why or how I do this, except to suggest that maybe it is either a way of staying tethered to reality or as a performance of normativity and calm. There is probably a little of both in this program. I don't know what it is about the "ides" of December or thereabouts, but it has a way of ushering me into some new, toxic phase of life. This year did not disappoint. Maybe, on this particular night, I decided that instead of being too upset to do radio, I was too upset not to do radio.

Or maybe it was a holiday-related chance to play Half Man Half Biscuit. That too seems to make sense, in hindsight. What a crazy time this must have been. I have already repressed most of it, though the body seems to remember. For extra difficulty I crammed three dozen tracks into this broadcast. Guilt and shame, my therapist tells me, are major forces in my life.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 17, 2100-2300:

1. "The Dawn Breaking Crystals" | Resonance | Light Continuum | El Hombre Bala
2. "No More Dreams II" | 1991 | No More Dreams | No More Dreams
3. "Young Narrator In The Breakers" | Pavo Pavo | Young Narrator In The Breakers | Bella Union
4. "Destination Highrise" | Dubkasm meets Iration Steppas | CM4400 EP | Dubkasm
5. "Musicawi Silt" | The Daktaris | Beyond Addis Vol.2 (Modern Ethiopian Dance Grooves Inspired by Swinging Addis) | Trikont
6. "Arthur's Farm / All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit" | Half Man Half Biscuit | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Out There In The Dark" | Riyeh1 | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
8. "What You Do To Me" | Daydreams | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
9. "In the Jungle - Vocal Version" | The Hygrades | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 2 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
10. "These Sounds" | Keith Leblanc | Sherwood At The Controls Volume 2: 1985-1990 | On-U Sound
11. "Corolla" | Soft Grid | Corolla | Antime
12. "El Casino Royale" | Lynn Tait & The Jets | First Class Rock Steady | VP
13. "Old Tige" | Half Man Half Biscuit | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Splash" | Camberwell Now | The EP Collection | Modern Classics
15. "The One" | Magic Castles | Starflower | A Recordings
16. "PR Theme" | Cowtown | Paranormal Romance | Hot Salvation
17. "The Stage Says No" | Matt Christensen | Honeymoons | Miasmah
18. "Can't Feel My Soul" | Churrus | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Helicat" | Second Storey | Bismuth | Houndstooth
20. "D'y Ken Ted Moult?" | Half Man Half Biscuit | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
21. "3415" | Waterhouse | Empty Gallery EP | Decisions
22. "Rock a Tone Dub" | Errol Brown | Orthodox Dub | Dub Store
23. "El Salvador" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Upright
24. "The Trumpton Riots" | Half Man Half Biscuit | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Untitled" | The Fashion Focus | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "Fake Health" | Katie Dey | Flood Network | Joy Void
27. "SaturdayNiteDrive" | Seekers International | LoversDedicationStation | Bokeh Versions
28. "Subconscious" | SB-SIX | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
29. "Tiutiunnyk - Live in Manchester" | The Ukrainians | Evolutsiya | Eastblok
30. "Push" | The Dead Suns | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
31. "Portuguese Dream" | Fatso Jetson | Idle Hands | Heavy Psych Sounds
32. "Leonardo's Formula" | Isan | Glass Bird Movement | Morr Music
33. "Celebrated Summer" | Echodrone | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
34. "The Weedy Burton" | The Cure | Three Imaginary Boys | Rhino
35. "Sold" | HE3Dless | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick
36. "Holdgaze - Legiac Remix" | Funckarma | Frequencies of the Mind III | Mindtrick

You Drift Until You Brutalize

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Memory Serves Us To Serve You: Transmission 311, 2016 December 14

"What is good for the future, what was good for the past?" Here is a program that happened 43 days ago [or whenever, depending upon when you read this!]. And it is a GREAT one, I say, with complete objectivity. Not even too many downer tracks to be found here, unless we count Dead Can Dance, and I guess we must. There is a really funny story about John Peel playing a session version of that track, but I don't have the reference in front of me, so you'll just have to do that homework.

Also, fittingly, given the quality and the mood, this is another "last program from a dead universe." And you thought I was finished with themes! This universe--for there are many--was/is a personal one, and dear god is the new one bleak. Thank goodness for mixtapes--among other things, they remind us of what we were, and what we might still be.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Jewelries" | Tross | The Walrus EP | Hoga Nord
2. "Eden" | Jurgen Paape | Kompakt: Total 16 | Kompakt
3. "Kingdom of D'mt" | Karl Hector & The Malcouns | Beyond Addis Vol.2 (Modern Ethiopian Dance Grooves Inspired by Swinging Addis) | Trikont
4. "Harmonie Als Ziel der Welt" | Dubblestandart | Dub Realistic | Echo Beach
5. "Seriously No" | Voiski | I'll Be Your Maple Pecan Tonight | Dekmantel
6. "I Have Got No Money" | Peace | Black Power | Now-Again
7. "Heaven & Earth - Part 2" | Paul Woolford | Heaven & Earth | Aus
8. "Suggestion" | Coaches | Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
9. "Decide" | Lifetones | For a Reason | Light in the Attic
10. "Squad Up (feat. The Soft Pink Truth)" | True Neutral Crew | Soft Rules | Deathbomb Arc
11. "Day 1" | Roger23 | Extended Play | Ilian Tape
12. "Collapse" | Vaghe Stelle | The Full Steam Ahead: The Prologue | Other People
13. "Sadness Pale" | Has a Shadow | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "Machines" | Anenon | Petrol | Friends of Friends
15. "94" | Manon Meurt | Manon Meurt | Label Obscura
16. "For Those In Peril" | Camberwell Now | The EP Collection | Modern Classics
17. "Stalker State" | Videodrones | Mondo Ferox | El Paraiso
18. "Smallpox Champion" | Rei Clone | Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Disturbed Minds" | Reiner Zonneveld | Megacity Servant | Stil Vor Talent
20. "Illusion" | Miyagi | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | hafendisko
21. "Soleil levant" | Sin | Bass Tension | Antipod
22. "High" | The Spiracles | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Ocean" | Dead Can Dance | Dead Can Dance [reissue] | 4AD
24. "Stuzzicadenti" | Cosmic Analog Ensemble | Beyond Addis Vol.2 (Modern Ethiopian Dance Grooves Inspired by Swinging Addis) | Trikont
25. "First - Consider the Lilies" | The Orb | COW / Chill Out, World! | Kompakt
26. "Trending" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Pages of Aquarius | Metropolis
27. "Akasha" | CVN | Exposure | Where To Now?

four legs good, no legs best

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Cruising Altitude Departure 19, 2016 March 13

[GUEST POST]

Dear Bombasticons, I am back! Momentarily, at least. Here, as my colleague "kid catharsis" would say, a program from a universe that has now closed down. I need hardly point out that I don't remember the exact background circumstances, be they political or cultural or emotional. Clearly, though, this was a springtime broadcast, and it is unnaturally warm right now, as it probably always will be, "going forward," so it seems appropriate enough.

All that said, it sounds to me like this was an almost playful program, and I especially enjoyed the shortness of the playlist and the duration of the tunes. One of these days we will do a program that is just one hour-long tune--at least if I am permitted on the air in the future. There have been other broadcasts since this one, but I don't have a regular airtime at the moment.

Personal note: in real and virtual life the past few days (and indeed our entire new epoch) have been characterized by panic and disc(h)ord. It is important that we hang on to the friends we have, and forgive our trespasses while there is still time.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2016 March 13, 1500-1600 EDT:

1. "Buddha Machine 5 loop 02" | FM3 | Buddha Machine 5 | CVMK
2. "Watertowers" | Steve Hauschildt | Air Texture Vol. IV | Air Texture
3. "Mahler Remix 2" | Fennesz | Mahler Remix | Touch
4. "The Byte of Spring Parts 1-4" | Edward Ka-Spel | The Byte of Spring | Bandcamp self-release

use flash cards if necessary

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You Don't Change, Or I Don't Notice Your Changing: Transmission 310, 2016 December 7

We are now 48 days behind the times (at least I am; I should not presume to speak for you). I sound tired in the introduction, which is not a good omen, but it is probably the truth. "Tell me, when is it better?" asks the first song--when, indeed. There is also a weird kind of survivor's guilt, as I had just read about five would-be radio colleagues perishing in the recent Ghost Ship fire. "In my little way," I say, what I do is for them. Sadly, my ways are always little. I lack even the energy to "oscillate wildly" (or otherwise) and half-heartedly encourage you, gentle listener(s), to do that on your own.

So perhaps I didn't offer a strong alternative to the live-television performance of Hairspray, with which I was directly "competing." SORRY. In this time I am trying hard to cling to what I can--maybe even to believe what I can, such as my therapist's observation (on this day) that I am "an adorable geek." Words to live up to, if one must keep living.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 December 7, 2100-2300:

1. "When Is It Better" | Brutalist Architecture In The Sun | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
2. "Cutty Sark - Trade Winds - Pearl Divers" | Camberwell Now | The EP Collection | Modern Classics
3. "Guiding Star" | Lobby Boys | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
4. "Jupiter Sunrise" | Kollektiv Turmstrasse | 10 Years Diynamic | DIYnamic
5. "The Style Is Death" | Forever Grey | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Midnight Orchestra" | Petar Dundov | At The Turn of Equilibrium | Music Man
7. "Raw Beat" | Bernard Fevre | Black Devil Disco Club Presents: Orbit Ceremony 77 | Medical
8. "Life in Cannan" | Ceejebs | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 2 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
9. "Mulanje" | Ulterior Motive | Beating Heart - Malawi | Beating Heart
10. "Anymore" | Shield Patterns | Mirror Breathing | Gizeh
11. "traces" | Cavern of Anti-Matter | I'm the unknown | Duophonic
12. "Everything Flows" | Car Crash Sisters | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
13. "Fishes Bones" | Wire | Nocturnal Koreans | Pinkflag
14. "Oscillate Wildly" | The Smiths | The World Won't Listen [reissue] | Sire
15. "Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club)" | Tom Waits | Small Change | Asylum | "Listening Parlour"
16. "- What Did You Know, What Did You Care?" | Penny Rimbaud's L'Academie des Vanites | Yes Sir, The Truth of Revolution | Cold Spring
17. "I Can Tell" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Upright
18. "I Am Lonely" | The Heptones | First Class Rock Steady | VP
19. "Dub 100" | MM Studio | Good Star Dubs | Album Label
20. "She Saw Me" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
21. "Loathsome And Wild" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's
22. "Stone the Flower" | The Hykkers | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 1 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
23. "Turn Your Illness Into A Weapon" | SPR | Mental Health | Hoga Nord
24. "Sea of Tranquility" | Lone | Levitate | R & S
25. "A Strange Day" | Soviet X-Ray Record Club | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "Song To The Cynic" | Veil | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
27. "Friday, I'm In Love" | Twinpine(s) | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
28. "Flak" | Death in Vegas | Transmission | Drone

pockets full of sadness

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Unaware, Certainly, of Some Imminent Disaster: Transmission 309, 2016 November 30

Here begins my current run of not flaking out on airdates, and also not being pre-empted. From this vantage point, so far, so good. Perhaps the general zeitgeist is furnishing me with enough anger to broadcast with competence--or maybe the inconsistency of my schedule has rendered me unfamiliar enough with the control booth for me to be immune to complacency. Whichever it is, I can testify that you are in good hands with this program. Maybe a bit too much from the Blog That Celebrates Itself, about which I can only say that I'm not receiving any kickbacks.

I don't know why or how we wound up with Siouxsie as a featured performer on this night, but again, maybe the zeitgeist has something to do with that. Speaking of which--30 years ago Friend of Bombast Mr. D and I shared a dorm room, and he had a cassette of Nocturne, which was on Heavy Rotation [if I recall correctly I also had Tinderbox and Once Upon a Time]. This should probably have made my recent "Teen Top Ten" list (that thing on Facebook that everyone was doing a week or so ago) but I didn't want to "backload" my list with cool stuff I was listening to in my late teens. Honesty is our policy. Nevertheless I remember Siouxsie annoying the hell out of our neighbors, but what were we going to do--sit on our hands and listen to the Van Halen* and Eddie Money enjoyed by the other residents of Gilmore Hall?

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 November 30, 2100-2300:

1. "Intro" | Weval | Weval | Kompakt
2. "Hong Kong Garden" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Waiting Room" | Soft Wounds | Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
4. "Known to All" | The Cobra Lamps | The Cobra Lamps EP | A Records
5. "Nowhere" | Choreography | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Metal Baby" | The Skating Party | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
7. "Cannons" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
8. "1048" | NHK yx Koyxen | Doom Steppy Reverb | Diagonal
9. "The Unknown" | Dillon | Live at Haus der Berliner Festspiele | BPitch Control
10. "Metal Postcard" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Edgeland Industries" | Hoofus | The Blow, Vol. 1 | Front & Follow
12. "Slipping into Darkness" | The Funkees | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 2 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
13. "Lucid Dream" | Benedikt Frey | Permanent Vacation 4 | Permanent Vacation
14. "A.F.Y." | Dinner | Psychic Lovers | Captured Tracks
15. "You Fill Me" | Jacob Korn | Cocoon Compilation P | Cocoon
16. "Voodoo Dolly" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
17. "What You Do To Me / Satan" | Bi-Latheral | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
18. "Trytosphere" | Sebastien Leger | Oracle EP | Loveland
19. "Our Westchester Pizzeria Is a Huge Success" | Radionics Radio | An Album of Musical Radionic Thought-Frequencies | Sub Rosa
20. "Soldiers of Love" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Upright
21. "Placebo Effect" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
22. "2X202-ST5" | Aphex Twin | Cheetah EP | WARP
23. "Powerline" | Sciflyer | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "Hope and Ramati" | Stimming | 10 Years Diynamic | DIYnamic
25. "Three Hills" | Daniel Lanois | Goodbye to Language | Red Floor - ANTI-
26. "Your Interruption" | C. Diab | No Perfect Wave | Injazero
27. "Float" | Tirogo | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 1 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
28. "Playground Twist" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Perennial Comforts" | Benoit Pioulard | The Benoit Pioulard Listening Matter | kranky
30. "December" | Klam | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
31. "Helter Skelter" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"

the band was awful, and so were the tunes

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Derange and Disengage Everything: Transmission 308, 2016 November 16

As I write this, we are about four hours into the Trump era. And we're still here! This is a victory, no matter what anyone thinks. Ages ago, on the night of the program I attach here, I could not have anticipated such euphoria. But life takes you to some funny places.

This is a solid program, well-executed. Depending on your perspective, it is a stunningly eclectic mix or emotionally all over the place. Is there a space for both to co-exist? Sure! But, on re-listening, I am quite pleased. I was making good radio at this time. I think the real "key" to the program is the last 20 minutes, though--not so much "giving up" as feeling like we are about to make it out of this thing alive and wanting to do just one big, basic thing.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 November 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Starsign" | Tonemirror | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
2. "Allo Rechte" | Vox Populi! | Aither | Emotional Rescue
3. "No Id - Fleck Remix" | Zion Train | Versions | Universal Egg
4. "Heavy Metal II" | Celestial | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
5. "Heart Divided" | Psychic Twin | Strange Diary | Polyvinyl
6. "The Drumpet Show" | H.O.S.H. | 10 Years Diynamic | DIYnamic
7. "Where You Are" | Twwth | Dislocation | Signal Life
8. "What You Should Know About Me" | Jan Jelinek & Masayoshi Fujita | Schaum | Faitiche
9. "Ordine Pubblico" | Starfuckers | Sinistri | Parachute
10. "Come Back" | Theodore Nemy | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 2 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
11. "In The Field With Brian" | Datach'i | System | Time Signal
12. "The Concept" | Fir Cone Children | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
13. "Diddy Wah Diddy" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's
14. "A Short Term Effect" | The Cure | Pornography | Rhino
15. "Echo Party" | Pussy Mothers | The Number 1 | Optimo
16. "Flying" | JAGUWAR | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
17. "Statue With Eyes" | The Cyrillic Typewriter | Your True Emblem | Jaz
18. "...and why not?" | Higher Authorities | Neptune | Domino
19. "Brimfull of Hate" | Jack Ketch and the Crowmen | Brimfull of Hate | M'Lady's
20. "The Concept" | Champanes | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
21. "Know How" | Camberwell Now | The EP Collection | Modern Classics
22. "I Beat As I Sleep As I Dream" | Tomorrow The Rain Will Fall Upwards | Wreck His Days | Blackest Ever Black
23. "Forjados no Sistema" | Wonder Dark | The Darkside of TBCTI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "Pass and Go (Demo Version)" | Colder | The Rain | Bataille
25. "Born Under A Good Sign" | Day Trip | TBTCI loves TFC | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
26. "German Trained Unit 4" | N.M.O. | Nordic Mediterranean Organization / Numerous Miscommunications Occur | Diagonal
27. "Close To Me" | Novanta | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
28. "Tendre goeland" | Youkounkoun | Tendres Tenebres | Crudites Tapes
29. "Clouds Into Midnight" | Matt Carlson / Michael Stirling / Doug Theriault | Aakash | Root Strata

my time is water down the drain

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Just You and Me and Our Conspiracies: Transmission 307, 2016 November 9

The Wednesday prior to this program, something had happened that set me off--not being an actual diarist, I don't even remember anymore what it was. Having reached what I feel is Old Age for Radio, and no longer feeling I *have* to seize every moment of available airtime, I recused myself from the scheduled Bombastic extravaganza. "No way I'll feel this badly a week from now," I thought. The universe is hilarious in its cruelty sometimes.

Is it all my fault, then, the end of democracy? Might things have gone differently in the Rust Belt had listeners heard Alt-Right Frog in time for it to influence their choices? Surely, in at least one multiverse, this must be what happened. I wonder what it's like there. Here, at least on this night, things seem mostly "normal," perhaps with a bit more humor mixed into the darkness than usual. There is a Milkshakes reissue, because daddy likes the Milkshakes and we're going to hear what daddy wants to play, and like it.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 November 9, 2100-2300:

1. "Dormir" | Nicolalala | Tendres Tenebres | Crudites Tapes
2. "Mauser" | Sonic Deception | Ghost Army | Radio Bongo
3. "Goodbye Girl" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Upright | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Cave of Brahma" | The Sorcerers | Beyond Addis Vol.2 (Modern Ethiopian Dance Grooves Inspired by Swinging Addis) | Trikont
5. "Let's Stomp" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Upright | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Section 1 - Our Generation" | Penny Rimbaud's L'Academie des Vanites | Yes Sir, The Truth of Revolution | Cold Spring
7. "Ten Sleep" | The Wedding Present | Going, Going... | Scopitones
8. "Three Imaginary Boys" | Lautmusik | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
9. "You Can Only Lose" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Upright | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Shot By Both Sides" | Swayzak | In Flanders Field EP | Curle
11. "Falling Forward" | John Chantler | Which Way to Leave? | Room 40
12. "It's Not Funny Anymore" | Corrosive Water | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
13. "Cadillac" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Upright | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Seraphin" | Portable | Alan Abrahams | K7
15. "OverGirlX" | Seekers International | LoversDedicationStation | Bokeh Versions
16. "Consequences of Love - Chris and Cosey Remix" | Death in Vegas | Consequences of Love | Drone
17. "Shimmy Shake" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Upright | "Physical Evidence"
18. "40 Bears" | Thom Sonny Green | High Anxiety | Infectious
19. "I Think I Am" | Sky H1 | Motion | Codes
20. "Alt-Right Frog: Act One" | Vinny's Vipers | Alt-Right Frog: A Rock Operetta | Bandcamp self-release
21. "Fantome" | Ray Yours & The F | Tendres Tenebres | Crudites Tapes
22. "Hunted" | Vortex | Moloch | Cyclic Law
23. "Keep On Moving" | The Hygrades | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 1 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
24. "Harvest" | IX Tab | The Blow, Vol. 1 | Front & Follow
25. "Tell Me Child" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Upright | "Physical Evidence"
26. "Dreader Than Dread" | Honey Boy Martin | First Class Rock Steady | VP
27. "Little Minnie" | The Milkshakes | After School Session | Upright | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Lullaby" | LUR LUR | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
29. "I Need a Horse" | Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin | Wait For Me | Hot Casa
30. "Alt-Right Frog: Act Two" | Vinny's Vipers | Alt-Right Frog: A Rock Operetta | Bandcamp self-release

sweet darkness of sleep

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As We Push Back the Frontiers of Science: Transmission 306, 2016 October 26

No one outside Russia could have foreseen this at the time, but here is my final program from another universe that is now closed down. On air, I chuckle to myself (and whoever else is listening) about the final presidential debate, which had pre-empted me on the prior Wednesday night (more on this momentarily). What an innocent time that was. The mood of the show seems to reflect it--all over the place but not caring, and happy, if you squint your ears really hard. At least it lands this way on me.

I have been pre-empted somewhat often, you know--at least relative to other WRFI personalities. It's also true that I have done a LOT of radio here, which I guess increases the odds. But Wednesday seems to be either the night on which a lot of special things happen (like my show, usually) or a night the Universe does not want me to occupy. I do feel targeted by the universe sometimes. Most of the time. All the time.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 October 26, 2100-2300:

1. "Linger a While" | Mystic Eyes | Mysterious | Burning Sounds
2. "Mystery of the Fence" | Camberwell Now | The EP Collection | Modern Classics
3. "What's Going On" | L.A. Drones! feat. Bruce Moreland (Wall of Voodoo) | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
4. "- They Can Be Stopped" | Penny Rimbaud's L'Academie des Vanites | Yes Sir, The Truth of Revolution | Cold Spring
5. "Nana Chan" | Lahun | Slow Love EP | Apollo
6. "Lies" | Tale of Us | Realm of Consciousness | Afterlife
7. "Subterranean Homesick Alien (feat. Junior Jazz)" | Easy Star All-Stars | Radiodread | Easy Star
8. "The Deer Song" | Sweet Williams | Please Let Me Sleep On Your Tonight | Gringo
9. "Topiary" | Xeno & Oaklander | Topiary | Ghostly International
10. "The Ploughs & Machines" | Hoofus & IX Tab | The Blow, Vol. 1 | Front & Follow
11. "Lonely Heartaches" | The Claendonians | First Class Rock Steady | VP
12. "Ridge B ~76(degrees) S ~94.75(degrees) E ~3750m" | Aria Rostami & Daniel Blomquist | Wandering Eye | Glacial Movements
13. "Terms of Psychic Warfare" | Sonder | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "E Go Betta - Dub" | Dele Sosimi meets Prince Fatty / Nostalgia 77 | You No Fit To Touch Am In Dub | Wah Wah 45s
15. "Want" | Pipe's Not Dead ! feat. Krissy Vanderwoude (Whimsical) | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "Sacrifice" | Thisquietarmy | The New Testament | Discolexique
17. "Advent" | Dead Can Dance | Spleen and Ideal [reissue] | 4AD
18. "Fast Moving Cars" | Carla dal Forno | Fast Moving Cars | Blackest Ever Black
19. "Mwana Wa" | Afriquoi | Beating Heart - Malawi | Beating Heart
20. "Karma No Kusari" | Kiki Hitomi | Karma No Kusari | Jahtari
21. "Over My Dreams" | Doric | Sleep of Reason | Peripheral Minimal
22. "DinnerScene" | Seekers International | LoversDedicationStation | Bokeh Versions
23. "Early Mafia" | The Dub Syndicate | Sherwood At The Controls Volume 2: 1985-1990 | On-U Sound
24. "Fallen to Earth, Pt. 1" | Paul H. Williams | Fallen to Earth | The Wormhole
25. "Four Guitars" | Ex-Easter Island Head | Twenty-Two Strings | Low Point
26. "That Day" | Fany Havest | Space Echo (The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed) | Now-Again
27. "Moon Dust" | Magic Castles | Starflower | A Recordings
28. "Spinner" | Flanger | Spinner | Nonplace
29. "New Pastoral Life" | Minami Deutsch | Tunnel / New Pastoral Life | Hoga Nord
30. "Africable" | Luke Vibert | Beating Heart - Malawi | Beating Heart

every day I gather flies

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We Move Like Children Think Sometimes: Transmission 305, 2016 October 12

Hhhhokay, I am trying to rebuild this habit of posting, semi-regularly. With luck, this will be two shows posted since my last program. This pace would allow us to catch up...sometime later, maybe in the spring. I am doing my best, honestly. You do have other stuff to listen to, yes? I am thinking you do.

Listening back to this episode, I don't have many "deep thoughts" about what happened. Indeed, what *did* happen? Sounds like the usual, e.g. nothing much. But what a good program this is! I have actually been making some fine radio in this otherwise silent time. "Dark and sad" is the phrase that comes to mind about this program, but you will probably find that not to be the case all the way through.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 October 12, 2100-2300:

1. "I Sense" | Concrete Twin | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
2. "Ninni" | Karen | Tendres Tenebres | Crudites Tapes
3. "Sycamore" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope | Numero Group
4. "Merchandise" | Sunshine and the Rain | Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
5. "Rinse Out All Contaminants (with Ernesto Tomasini)" | Shackleton | Devotional Songs (with Ernesto Tomasini) | Honest Jon's
6. "Machines" | Fontan | Polar Star EP | Hoga Nord
7. "It Bleeds" | One Unique Signal | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "Devil May Care" | Terence Fixmer | Beneath the Skin | Ostgut Ton
9. "Woody Echoes" | nebulo | Safari Suites, Vol. II | Seagrave
10. "Drama" | 18+ | Collect | Houndstooth
11. "Please Tell Mother" | The Orange Kyte | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
12. "Beautiful People - Alternative Instrumental 1" | Mark Pritchard | Beautiful People | WARP
13. "Hardly Getting Over It" | Super Napkin | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "Eehpyroc" | Faten Kanaan | The Botanist & The Archaeologist | Polytechnic Youth
15. "Wave 6" | Matthew Styles | Metro | Ostgut Ton
16. "A Night Like This" | Static Daydream | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
17. "Drowning Time" | Eluvium | False Readings On | Temporary Residence Limited
18. "Soledad" | Jazzdefector | VA Compilation #4 | Assembly Field
19. "Four Pipes" | Gain Stage | Elevated Noise | Portals Editions
20. "Hybrid" | Sky H1 | Motion | Codes
21. "White Sparks" | Marielle V Jakobsons | Star Core | Thrill Jockey
22. "#6 - Chris Carter Remix" | Nisennenmondai | #6 | On-U Sound
23. "The Indicator" | The Cobra Lamps | The Cobra Lamps EP | A Records
24. "One" | The Dead C | Trouble | Ba Da Bing!

in the hour of darkness

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Tight As Slow Motion But Crazed With Devotion: Transmission 304, 2016 October 5

How...how have you been? Much has happened since we last "spoke." There's been a coup, apparently; you've probably heard about that. I've been up and I've been down; I'm supposed to go back "up" on the advice of my counselor and nurse; maybe this means more posting? We'll have to see. Anyway, here is a program, from a different time and universe.

Perhaps the most surprising inclusion in this night's program is the Vakula tune--and it is a tune. Proficiency! Such a rare thing in my life. So refreshing to hear what sounds like a decent guitar decently played through a decent amp. Personally I am too obsessed with texture to actually get good at playing, so mired am I in the search for the holy grail(s) of "good sound." Steve Albini calls such people "tone lawyers." I confess that I am one. More like "tone support staff," driving to work in a Honda CRV instead of a Benz, but you get the idea. I recall friend of Bombast / former bandmate Mr. D saying to me once, "you always seemed to view the guitar less as an instrument than as something to make noise with." It was true! Now that I know a few technical facts I can amend this to say, "not so much an instrument as a source of voltage."

This night continues an extended flirtation with compilations from "The Blog That Celebrates Itself." I don't know what to tell you--I am a sucker for a) compilation albums b) cover versions and c) free stuff. Oh, and also d) "shoegaze," whatever that is--strangely it does not exhibit much interest in tone-lawyering. Why I find this noteworthy I'm not sure. I probably still carry the sense memory of fearing the suspicion of the program directors at my old station: "you seem only to play stuff from four different labels." I'm not even sure anyone ever said this! (Though it would not have been unfair). Thinking makes the world.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 October 5, 2100-2300:

1. "Snake Charmer" | The Senior Service | The Girl In The Glass Case | Damaged Goods
2. "1977" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Tommasi Planet" | Vakula | Cyclicality Between Procyon and Gomesia | Dekmantel
4. "Applepie Dreams" | Wolf Muller & Cass. | The Sound of Glades | International Feel
5. "Become Zero" | Helen Money | Become Zero | Thrill Jockey
6. "High on Fire" | Bialogard | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
7. "Boredom" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Return Home" | Alva Lewis | First Class Rock Steady | VP
9. "Plastic Knife" | April Larson | VA Compilation #4 | Assembly Field
10. "Grace" | The 7th Plain | Chronicles I | A-TON
11. "Jimmy Dub" | Bixiga 70 | The Copan Connection: Bixiga 70 Meets Victor Rice | Glitterbeat
12. "Beyond Beyond / I and Thou" | Medicine Voice | I and Thou | Provenance
13. "Kuhl II" | Chi | The Original Recordings | Astral Industries
14. "The March" | Ramleh | Circular Time | Crucial Blast
15. "Darling, Let's Have Another Baby" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's | "Physical Evidence"
16. "10:15 Saturday Night" | Arirang | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
17. "Makes No Sense At All" | Never | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
18. "Love Comes In Spurts" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Perfect Needle" | Astral Lite | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
20. "Intergalafrica" | Applebottom & Petar Rabbit | Beating Heart - Malawi | Beating Heart
21. "I Don't Need It" | Weval | Kompakt: Total 16 | Kompakt
22. "StillYuhDub" | Seekers International | LoversDedicationStation | Bokeh Versions
23. "Mass Migration (dub)" | Wareika Hill Sounds | Mass Migration | Honest Jon's
24. "D-Train" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Pages of Aquarius | Metropolis
25. "Cipher" | Setaoc Mass | Cipher | Figure
26. "Deposition" | Jah Wobble and the Invaders of the Heart | Everything Is No Thing | Jah Wobble
27. "Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot!" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Wicked Dem Wicked" | Tippa Lee | Cultural Ambassador | Stones Throw
29. "Don't Gimme No Lip" | Thee Headcoats | Brother Is Dead...But Fly Is Gone! | M'Lady's | "Physical Evidence"
30. "Happy Piece for Happy People Piece" | Voiski | I'll Be Your Maple Pecan Tonight | Dekmantel
31. "Pendle By Night" | Tin Man, Josef K & Winter Son | Acid Test 11 | Acid Test

for always and ever is always

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