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I Lose Myself in the Rituals of Bad Art and Failure: Transmission 303, 2016 September 28

It feels terrific that posting a broadcast six days after it happened feels "late," and I need terrific feelings this week. I've been sick, healthy, sick again. I've forgotten my "homework" for therapy, as I realized only one day before my session. Early in the program's history, I put out a public call for an unpaid intern; that position is still available!

The night on which the broadcast happened was more or less the beginning of all of this. I began with a tired feeling and it went downhill from there. These things happen. Sarcasm got the better of me in places (apologies, Slaughtered Saint), sloppiness in others (I'll let you decide whether John Tejada segue-ing into Iggy Pop provides enjoyment). I do think that the Jenny Hval song makes it all worth it, though.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 September 28, 2100-2300:

1. "First Light" | Kidnap Kid | Beating Heart - Malawi | Beating Heart
2. "Apex" | Merrin Karras | Apex | A Strangely Isolated Place
3. "Celeste" | Teleporter 4 | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
4. "The Big Hand" | Plasticstatic | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
5. "I Against I" | Bad Brains | Omega Sessions | Victory
6. "Nailed It - Tunnel Signs Remix" | Roe Deers | Sad Drummer EP | Nein
7. "Wolfgang" | YES SET | Wolfgang | Glyk
8. "El Amor Es Mas Frio Que La Muerte" | Slaughtered Saint | Odio y Desprecio | La Notte di Architetto
9. "Isotropofunk" | Daniele Baldelli | Cosmic Temple Chapter 3 | Mondo Groove
10. "Flying Buttress" | Setaoc Mass | Cipher | Figure
11. "End of Earth" | The Comet Is Coming | Channel The Spirits | Leaf
12. "Integrator" | John Tejada | Kompakt: Total 16 | Kompakt
13. "Neighborhood Threat" | Iggy Pop | Lust for Life | 4 Men With Beards
14. "The Biz" | The Transgressors | Beyond Addis Vol.2 (Modern Ethiopian Dance Grooves Inspired by Swinging Addis) | Trikont
15. "Llaman a la Puerta" | Alex Under | Kompakt: Total 16 | Kompakt
16. "Conceptual Romance" | Jenny Hval | Musik Zur Zeit | Spex
17. "Mesmerism" | Dead Can Dance | Spleen and Ideal [reissue] | 4AD
18. "Come Near Me (feat. Ghostpoet)" | Massive Attack | The Spoils / Come Near Me | Melankolic
19. "Alcaline" | Mais | Bass Tension | Antipod
20. "Ba Ba Boom" | The Jamaicans | First Class Rock Steady | VP
21. "Let Me Sleep" | Map.ache | Permanent Vacation 4 | Permanent Vacation
22. "Ascension / Ascension (Instrumental)" | David J. & Tim Newman | The Day That David Bowie Died | A Records
23. "Strange Attraction" | Bloom Waves | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "Mirameko" | Sonna | Keep It Together | Temporary Residence Limited
25. "Rising Light" | Marielle V Jakobsons | Star Core | Thrill Jockey
26. "Side Walk Rider" | Phil Pratt | Star Wars Dub | Burning Sounds
27. "Slow Light" | Immersion | Analogue Creatures | swim

you think it can't go on forever

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Supposing We're All Wished Right Out Of Space: Transmission 302, 2016 September 21

Having, admittedly, taken more radio shifts than have been my share, I am finding four years on that I have done radio on many days of the year. Almost any given day is the "anniversary" of some broadcast or other. This is very convenient for social-media "memories" and "throwbacks." HOWEVER, September 21 was terra nova--until last week, when I FINALLY had the opportunity to play that Earth, Wind & Fire song on the night it describes.

This was indeed a program of only blue talk and love. As usual my segues (which I do actually plan) surprised me with their strangeness at times, which I guess means that my conscious planning is the equivalent of blindfolding myself and reaching into a record bag. Is following "Charlotte Sometimes" with "September" insanity or genius? It's a fine line, as an old acquaintance of mine would say.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 September 21, 2100-2300:

1. "Acirfa" | New Adventures in HiFi | TBT003 | Truth Be Told
2. "Forty Four" | Biting Tongues | Libreville | Paragon | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Scene d'amour" | Pierre Vassiliu | Ils (Bande originale du film de Jean-Daniel Simon) | Born Bad
4. "Into the Fourth Dimension" | The Orb | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld [reissue] | WAU! Mr. Modo - Island
5. "Charlotte Sometimes" | Walk Onto Sun | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "September" | Earth, Wind & Fire | Earth, Wind & Fire: Greatest Hits | Columbia - Legacy
7. "The Presence of Your Grace" | Linda Guilala | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "First Use All the G's" | Biting Tongues | Libreville | Paragon | "Physical Evidence"
9. "ABC Rocksteady" | The Gaylads | First Class Rock Steady | VP
10. "The Exploding Boy" | Creation Myth | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
11. "Spreepark" | Hi & Saberhagen | Permanent Vacation 4 | Permanent Vacation
12. "Smash the Strategic Hamlets" | Biting Tongues | Libreville | Paragon | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Got to Get Away" | The Paragons | First Class Rock Steady | VP
14. "Sentado na Pracinha" | Americo Brito | Space Echo (The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed) | Now-Again
15. "In Between Days" | Scene Noir | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "- Sweet Jesus, Have Mercy On Them" | Penny Rimbaud's L'Academie des Vanites | Yes Sir, The Truth of Revolution | Cold Spring
17. "Live It" | Biting Tongues | Libreville | Paragon | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Long Time Me No See You Girl" | The Sensations | First Class Rock Steady | VP
19. "Grey Sedan - Kim Gordon Version" | Wild Style Lion | Wild Style Lion | I'm Single
20. "B1" | Convextion | Acido 22 | Acido
21. "SHC Burn" | Flavor Crystals | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
22. "It from Bit" | Flanger | Spinner | Nonplace
23. "You Don't Care" | The Techniques | First Class Rock Steady | VP
24. "The Toucanostra" / "Doctor Restore He Sight" | Biting Tongues | Libreville | Paragon | "Physical Evidence"
25. "I Am Confessing" | R Elizabeth | Rough Imaginary | Home Normal

like fireworks and heaven

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U_D_M Detour 22, 2015 December 18

[GUEST POST]

Guy LeBatard "checking in." At long last, and after many boring pleas and threats, I am posting the most "recent" radio diversion in my series. I should say "my" series because it technically belongs to no one, but up to and including this time of writing I am the only one willing to drive this bus. THE HIGHER, THE FEWER. The question is, drive the bus where? And through what?

The answer is a hedonistic safespace existing within the dimension of audio, where "beats and stuff" liberate your consciousness from the prison of thought. And "through" meritorious programs such as The Slow Drift (which I replaced on this night), which invite the experience of actual art. BORING.

After a nine-month hiatus (so far) it may seem as though I am eulogizing the program, but there will be more opportunities for us to escape together.

U_D_M playlist, 2015 December 18, 1900-2000:

1. "Too Many Circuses, Not Enough Freaks" | Kabale Und Liebe | Sammy Hoboken EP | Soweso
2. "The Arpeggio" | Steve Bug | Simple, Thick & Raw | Poker Flat
3. "I" | Folamour | Chapeau Rouge | Fauxpas
4. "Lolita - Warehouse Mix" | Special Request | Soul Music | Houndstooth
5. "Typeface / Greyscale - Vatican Shadow's The World Is Complete" | Akkord | HTH030 | Houndstooth
6. "Constellation" | Rafael Cerato | Four to the Floor 01 | DIYnamic
7. "Night Rider (feat. Undo)" | Metope | Black Beauty Remixes | Areal

wasted, empirically

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Here Am I, Your Special Island: Transmission 301, 2016 September 14

I don't know if I was anyone's maple pecan on this night, but I was in good spirits. Having resolved to speak more words, I powered through unexpected frogs in the throat and impromptu references to people such as "Dennis Provell." I insisted multiple times, without actually knowing, that Y Records was "out of Bristol"--this turned out to be true!--and that people "didn't like" The Birth of the Y (I have no idea about this other than what I've concluded from seeing this record, ready to be had for the price of a cheap cocktail, just about everywhere). How I wound up with this record in my collection, not thoroughly enjoying it myself for many years, until just now, I really couldn't tell you. But there it is. You're welcome.

This morning I sat with Catharsis Junior as she finished a homework assignment. She was mired in self-criticism and paralysis. I told her that she should just write fearlessly. It seems to have worked. So there is your free bit of wisdom for the day. Now, to learn how to follow my own advice.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 September 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Musical Mob" | Shenoda | Chromatics EP | Aus
2. "Searching for a Feeling" | Maximum Joy | Birth of the Y | Y Records | "Physical Evidence"
3. "In Your House" | The Infinite Seas | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
4. "Turnover" | Evvolves | Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
5. "Infinite Floor" | Dylan Cameron | Infinite Floor | Holodeck
6. "After the Romance" | Chris Reeves | Birth of the Y | Y Records | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Silent Water" | Closing Eyes | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "Mantra de Sombras" | Dead Procession | Rituals e Mantras do Meodo + Demos | Dunkelheit Productions
9. "Bali Ha'i" | Disconnection | Birth of the Y | Y Records | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Remnants / Shadow Scheme" | Marconi Union | Ghost Stations | Just Music
11. "Fates Unknown" | Tin Man, Josef K & Winter Son | Acid Test 11 | Acid Test
12. "Amai Ndiwulule" | Ibibio Sound Machine | Beating Heart - Malawi | Beating Heart
13. "Guns, Bombs, Handgrenades" | R.A.P.P. featuring Archie Poole | Birth of the Y | Y Records | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Channel 10 - Live Dub" | Isan | Rough Imaginary | Home Normal
15. "Acidalia" | Inland | Infrastructure Facticity | Infrastructure New York
16. "Some Passions (Version)" | Colder | Goodbye | Bataille
17. "The Presence of the Abnormal (Collapsing Circuit Mix)" | Oppenheimer Mk II | Another Nightmare | Peripheral Minimal
18. "Acteon" | Vakula | Cyclicality Between Procyon and Gomesia | Dekmantel
19. "Ungawa Pt. 2 (Way Out Guyana) Remix" | Pulsallama | Birth of the Y | Y Records | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Little Boy Blue" | Pat Kelly | First Class Rock Steady | VP
21. "StillUgly!" | Seekers International | LoversDedicationStation | Bokeh Versions
22. "Lullaby" | Coloring Electric Like | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Too Pieces" | Yaz | Upstairs At Eric's | Mute - Sire | "Listening Parlour"
24. "Had to Have His Grass (Cloud Dub)" | Dubblestandart | Dub Realistic | Echo Beach
25. "Rough Imaginary" | R Elizabeth | Rough Imaginary | Home Normal
26. "Last Train To Ecstasy" | The Melodians | First Class Rock Steady | VP
27. "Sorry, Somehow" | Monographic | These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
28. "Island Charm" | Plantman | To the Lighthouse | Arlen
29. "Go to a Mountain & Cry for a Vision" | Voiski | I'll Be Your Maple Pecan Tonight | Dekmantel

changing the minds of pretenders

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Running Towards Nothing: Transmission 300, 2016 September 7

Welcome to the much-dreaded, and therefore totally downplayed, occasion of our 300th episode. The Oedipal feelings have come and not exactly gone. I'm doing my best to cope with the inevitability of this program/era being the real thing. (But what a loaded "rehearsal" the previous program/era was.) If this seems like "vaguebooking" to you, you must either do some further reading on this website or let it go.

Anyway, because this night was additionally someone else's occasion, we brought back "Physical Evidence" rather abruptly, and with a typically wide-of-the-mark selection. Aside from that there is a lot of "free Bandcamp compilation from Brazil" stuff going on in this episode, and I don't feel the least bit ashamed. Would you?

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 September 7, 2100-2300:

1. "Wise Ol' Man (Instrumental)" | The Fall | Wise Ol' Man EP | Cherry Red
2. "Have Love Will Travel" | Taylor meets Thee Headcoatees | Taylor meets Thee Headcoatees | Lissy's | "Physical Evidence"
3. "I Am The Upsetter" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | First Class Rock Steady | VP
4. "Salvage and Reclaimation" | Hoofus | The Blow, Vol. 1 | Front & Follow
5. "The Rain" | Colder | The Rain | Bataille
6. "I'm So Tired" | Blacksalt | Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
7. "Gifts of the Bloom - Live" | Paco Sala | Rough Imaginary | Home Normal
8. "Shot Down in Flames" | AC/DC | Highway to Hell | Atlantic | "Listening Parlour"
9. "Mouth" | Anenon | Petrol | Friends of Friends
10. "Fire In Cairo" | Mauk e Os Cadillacs Malditos | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
11. "Life and Limb" | Diluvia | Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
12. "Bigmouth Strikes Again" | The Smiths | The World Won't Listen [reissue] | Sire
13. "Green" | Protein | The Secret Garden | Alien Transistor
14. "Pictures of You" | Blankenberge | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
15. "Deep Inside" | Taylor meets Thee Headcoatees | Taylor meets Thee Headcoatees | Lissy's | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Hold Me Tight" | Johnny Nash | First Class Rock Steady | VP
17. "Where Are the Children Hitler Kissed?" | Thee Headcoats | The Messerschmitt Pilot's Severed Hand | Damaged Goods
18. "Section 2 - We Are the Poets" | Penny Rimbaud's L'Academie des Vanites | Yes Sir, The Truth of Revolution | Cold Spring
19. "Meet Jacqueline" / "You Know You Can't Resist" | Taylor meets Thee Headcoatees | Taylor meets Thee Headcoatees | Lissy's | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Left With a Broken Heart" | The Paragons | First Class Rock Steady | VP
21. "Say That You're Mine" | Taylor meets Thee Headcoatees | Taylor meets Thee Headcoatees | Lissy's | "Physical Evidence"
22. "The Fatal Impact" | Dead Can Dance | Dead Can Dance [reissue] | 4AD
23. "A Change Is Gonna Come" | Ken Parker | First Class Rock Steady | VP
24. "Ruined Rig (Contaminated)" | Belarisk | Moments in Shapeshifting | Type
25. "State IIX_Interlude III" | Roger23 | Extended Play | Ilian Tape
26. "Tell Me" | Sky H1 | Motion | Codes
27. "A Forest" | 8 6 S A N D A L S | The Cure in Other Voices | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
28. "Gagarin" | Tross | The Walrus EP | Hoga Nord
29. "Symmetrical / Asymmetrical" | Jah Wobble and the Invaders of the Heart | Everything Is No Thing | Jah Wobble
30. "Tunnel" | Minami Deutsch | Tunnel / New Pastoral Life | Hoga Nord
31. "Teenage Death" | Puberty | Puberty | Born Bad
32. "Kyra's Vowels" | Taylor meets Thee Headcoatees | Taylor meets Thee Headcoatees | Lissy's | "Physical Evidence"

nothing to do but wait for the pain

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U_D_M Detour 21, 2015 November 30

[GUEST POST]

Bonjour! Guy posting again, with a program that more or less fell in the forest without making a sound. It was spontaneous, what with Sarah, the usual host at this time, having thrown out her back or something like that. I am not one to squander a chance to exploit anyone's misfortune. So anxious was I to hear some beats--and who among us has not been there--I forgot to advertise my appearance on the radio, nearly forgot to record it, and then forgot where I stored the recording. All of that is resolved here, for better or for worse.

I see that I managed to play The Orb for a second consecutive outing, and I rue the oversight. We are indeed turning what was once an adventure into a reliable site of consumption.

U_D_M playlist, 2015 November 30, 2300-0000:

1. "Love Walls" | Ted Alexander | XXX | Stem
   
2. "Gaping Void" | Korablove | Gaping Void | High-Jack
   
3. "What Matters" | Leibniz | What Matters | Fourth Wave
   
4. "Mobius" | Traumer | Dedust | Desolat
   
5. "Sugar High" | Steve Parker | Sugar High EP | Ovum
   
6. "Alpha Bit" | Marc Houle | Cola Party | Items & Things
   
7. "Distance" | Woo York | The Valley of Songs | Life and Death
8. "Into the Fourth Dimension" | The Orb | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld | WAU! Mr. Modo - Island
   

a freak in search of a circus

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Something Might Happen, But I'm So Tired of That Word: Transmission 299, 2016 August 31

Bringing our insane summer to a close (by force of will, in defiance of nature and calendar), this program seemed besieged by problems I can now no longer identify. You'll just have to listen to find out what they were. I know that at one point in the evening one of the cd channels on the console was greatly favoring the right channel over the left. The solution was hitting a button over and over again. Retro consoles are cute that way. Anyway, it was a night like that.

Reading about John Peel these days (what's new?), Lady C having bought me a copy of Good Night and Good Riddance, which is a Very Large Book. Feeling inadequate as I am probably doomed to do, thinking about my hesitance to speak and my shallowness of affect when I do speak. Missing the days of adventure but knowing that I can't get off this carousel and hope to get back on.

What's happening with you?

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 August 31, 2100-2300:

1. "Mr. Romance" | Izzy True | Nope | Don Giovanni
   
2. "Spanish Bombs" | The Clash | London Calling [reissue] | Columbia - Sony
   
3. "Track II" | Circles | Structures (Unreleased Material 1985-1989) | Bureau B
   
4. "Dark Mistake" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope | Numero Group
   
5. "SQ 1" | CTMF | A Glimpse of Another Time | Damaged Goods
   
6. "Disheartened" | OKADA | Okada | Fluttery
7. "Sealand" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships (Live at the Museum of Liverpool) | White Noise
   
8. "Catnip" | Parlour | Parlour | Temporary Residence Limited
   
9. "Prisoner on the Lost Planet" | The Senior Service | The Girl in the Glass Case | Damaged Goods
   
10. "Four" | The Dead C | Trouble | Ba Da Bing!
    
11. "New Hope" | Petar Dundov | At the Turn of Equilibrium | Music Man
    
12. "Lucid Sapphire" | Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation | Repetitions EP | Rocket
13. "Conrad" | Yellow6 | VA Compilation #4 | Assembly Field
    
14. "Eccentric Man" | Brian Harris | On My Knees | self-released
15. "oil for water 2" | Psionics | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
    
16. "The Feelings" | Tony Grey and The Black 7 | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 2 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
17. "Exit Music (For a Dub)" | Easy Star All-Stars | Radiodread | Easy Star
    
18. "Nguluwe" | Unknown Artists | Beating Heart - Malawi (Originals) - Recorded by Hugh Tracey | Beating Heart
    
19. "Last One There" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
20. "And Let Me Drift Away" | The Planets Collide feat. Bens Simms | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
    
21. "Up To Anything" | The Goon Sax | Up To Anything | Chapter Music
    
22. "Marre" | Benoit Pioulard | Seize / Marre | Backwards
23. "Buddah of Compassion" | Jah Wobble | Mu | Let Them Eat Vinyl
    
24. "Arpeggiator Ii" | Vini Reilly | The Sporadic Recordings | TTTTTTTTT

theoretically, not quite

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U_D_M Detour 20, 2015 October 30

[GUEST POST]

Guy, returning. Here is another program I did last October. Why take so long to post it, you ask? It is all dead time anyway, what is your hurry?

This broadcast came on the heels of another, four nights prior, if we must be exact. Lacking time to prepare, I engaged in a bit of nostalgia. It would embarrass me, if I had shame.

Additionally I was a bit distracted by all the hub-bub about the imminent Halloween observance, something I regard as a sanctioned, (therefore) woeful festival of escapism and gluttony of the worst kind (the indiscriminate kind). It seems to me the only thing to do is to play tricks instead of allowing oneself to be placated with "treats." No one ever seems to have anything interesting in mind. Had I a place to live, I would refuse to buy candy and tell each plastic-clad visitor, "I have nothing for you, so you will have to trick me." I suppose it's best for everyone that I don't settle down, preferring instead to drift.

U_D_M playlist, 2015 October 30, 1900-2000:

1. "(I'm) In Deep (Featuring Mark E. Smith)" | Coldcut | What's That Noise? | Tommy Boy - Reprise
   
2. "Blue Room" | The Orb | u.f.orb | Island Red Label
   
3. "Freedom" | 400 Blows | The New Lords on the Block | Concrete Productions
   
4. "No Government As a Way of Life" | Nicolette | No Government | Talkin' Loud
   
5. "Re:Rise (Re:Search Mix)" | Chris & Cosey | Twist | T & B Vinyl
   
6. "The End of It All 2015 Mix" | John Tejada | The End of It All 2015 Mix | Palette
7. "God Says No to Tomorrow" | Timeshard | Planet Dog - Peel Your Head: The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit
   

what matters?

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You Say You Love the Shadow: Transmission 298, 2016 August 24

Welcome to the first Bombast of the local academic year. I have made this observation before, but it seems timely again now: the show has entered "senior year" territory on the college radio timescale. Which is not to rule out eventual super-senior or "old timer who just won't get out of the way" status; nevertheless it is illustrative. I find myself reminiscing about the "olden days," which are, like, 2013, and thinking of that early time as "innocent" (it so was not).

Facebook's "memory" engine reminded me that this interview happened once upon a time (and thanks to Eric for hosting me, and apologies to him and everyone else for my insistence on appearing in my "deejay persona" and not as the actual me). It got me thinking about the conceptual framework of this program and whether I've strayed from it (I don't think I have, but maybe I'm not the best judge). If I do say so myself--and I do--I think we've been remarkably consistent over the nearly 300 hullabaloos that we have hosted. Listen for yourself--here's Transmission 1 (shoddy sound quality, such was WRFI-ness back then).

It really is, as I say, a special thing to be on the radio. I was talking to my mental health professional last week about the ongoing crisis in my life that is free time; I told her that radio was the last leisure-time activity in my life that I would jettison. "I think it broke my heart," I said, "not to be on the radio. It took me 20 years to notice it, but I realized it when I got back on." This is true.

Thank you, listener(s), for helping me hold my heart together.


BOMBAST playlist, 2016 August 24, 2100-2300:

1. "Please Before You Go" | Justine Never Knew The Rules | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
2. "96 Frames Per Second" | Christian Naujoks | Wave | Dial
3. "Colwyn Bay" | Function / Inland | Infrastructure Facticity | Infrastructure New York
4. "Alma Gama" | Felipe Venegas | Alma Sounds | Cadenza
5. "I Don't Care - Dub" | Dele Sosimi meets Prince Fatty / Nostalgia 77 | You No Fit To Touch Am In Dub | Wah Wah 45s
6. "Revelation" | Alva Lewis | First Class Rock Steady | VP
7. "Dream Scene" | Throwing Shade | Beating Heart - Malawi | Beating Heart
8. "Napoleon Solo" | Lynn Tait & The Jets | First Class Rock Steady | VP
9. "Ratted Out" | 50footwave | Bath White | HHBTM
10. "The Prophecy" | The Comet Is Coming | Channel The Spirits | Leaf
11. "Lembe Dub" | Bixiga 70 | The Copan Connection: Bixiga 70 Meets Victor Rice | Glitterbeat
12. "The Beatitude" | The Uniques | First Class Rock Steady | VP
13. "Fast Fluing Fluid" | Pete Bassman | Lost In Space | Hoga Nord
14. "Otonarabi" | Foodman | Ez Minzoku | Orange Milk
15. "3D Jesus Ashtray" | Acid Barretts | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "Sleepwalkers" | Lone | Levitate | R & S
17. "Meet Your Doom!" | Weightausend | Meet Your Doom! (Green Death) | Haunter
18. "Doctors" | True Neutral Crew | Soft Rules | Deathbomb Arc
19. "Agbe fe avi" | Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin | Wait For Me | Hot Casa
20. "Kassiber" | Efdemin | Infrastructure Facticity | Infrastructure New York
21. "Try" | Kiara Lewis | Too | Editions Mego
22. "Steel Dreaming" | IX Tab & Hoofus | The Blow, Vol. 1 | Front & Follow
23. "Ndalama Ndi Satana" | Unknown Artists | Beating Heart - Malawi (Originals) - Recorded by Hugh Tracey | Beating Heart
24. "ForkedTongues" | Seekers International | LoversDedicationStation | Bokeh Versions
25. "TWG Recovery" | Paco Sala | Rough Imaginary | Home Normal
26. "Expectation" | Nino Nardini, Eddie Warner & Roger Roger | Space Oddities: Studio Ganaro (1972-1982) | Born Bad
27. "Sets & Rises" | Tarentel | From Bone to Satellite | Temporary Residence
28. "It Points to the Clue" | CTMF | SQ 1 | Damaged Goods
29. "The Day That David Bowie Died" | David J. & Federale | The Day That David Bowie Died | A Records
30. "The Essential Wander" | Dalhous | Run for the Shadows EP | Lapsus
31. "Black Letter Day" | Jose Soberanes | VA Compilation #4 | Assembly Field
32. "Canticle of Creatures" | Lucy | Self Mythology | Stroboscopic Artefacts
33. "Transform" | Setaoc Mass | Cipher | Figure

no longer bound by reality

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A Cheap Affair, A Sordid Truth: Transmission 297, 2016 August 19

I mentioned in a recent post that the August 8 program, which maybe should not have happened, was a bookend. Here is the other, and again, this program maybe should not have happened. I was filling in for Conference of the Birds, feeling compelled because it was the 19th. You know, a lot of things have happened in my life on the 19th of this or that month. Almost all of them have been bad things. (Thankfully, this show was not a bad thing. It is quite good.)

Maybe some of you don't remember the era of handwritten correspondence, when bad news really did travel slowly. You couldn't get a text or an email or a DM or a "poke" or whatever the latest techno-horror is. Life as you know it might be over, only you wouldn't know it. The truth was on its way. I remember one August when I was blissfully unaware for five days that my heart had been cuisinarted. Is that a liminal state? It was certainly "death from above," I can tell you that.

Good thing I'm over it now.

Technical note: this program was recorded on our new auto-recording software at the station because I was so busy talking to DJ Drew about smartphone plans (there's me, being a luddite again) that I forgot to turn my own recorder on. I think it sounds pretty decent! ALSO there is a hilarious segment in here somewhere in which I give myself a real-time geography lesson. Not to be missed.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 August 19, 2100-2300:

1. "Rupture" | Oneirogen | Convivium | Denovali
2. "Dislocation Is Only The Beginning" | Campbell Irvine | Infrastructure Facticity | Infrastructure New York
3. "Londawi" | M.A.X. | Beating Heart - Malawi | Beating Heart
4. "Another Witnessed by Resolution" | Dalhous | Run for the Shadows EP | Lapsus
5. "Sea Slug" | David Toop | Entities Inertias Faint Beings | Room40
6. "Lightyears" | Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald | Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald Present Borderland: Transport | Tresor
7. "Amai Ndinlule" | Unknown Artists | Beating Heart - Malawi (Originals) - Recorded by Hugh Tracey | Beating Heart
8. "Kulira" | Clap! Clap! | Beating Heart - Malawi | Beating Heart
9. "Wrong 'Em Boyo" | The Clash | London Calling [reissue] | Columbia - Sony
10. "Beautiful Daddy" | Ofo and Black Company | Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 1 (1972-1977) | Now-Again
11. "Corre Riba, Corre Baixo" | Abel Lima | Space Echo (The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed) | Now-Again
12. "Time Leaves Us" | Tross | The Walrus EP | Hoga Nord
13. "To Forget" | Manon Meurt | Manon Meurt | Label Obscura
14. "Lovewasinme - feat. Kim Gordon" | Wild Style Lion | Wild Style Lion | I'm Single
15. "She's Leaving" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships (Live at the Museum of Liverpool) | White Noise
16. "Morning Crisis" | Vaghe Stelle | The Full Steam Ahead: The Prologue | Other People
17. "Leavin' Here" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
18. "State IIX_Interlude II" | Roger23 | Extended Play | Ilian Tape
19. "The Change" | Baldo | The Change | Good Ratio
20. "Eyes" | My Nu Leng | Beating Heart - Malawi | Beating Heart
21. "God's Not A Dick" | 50footwave | Bath White | HHBTM
22. "The Believers" | Jack Ketch and the Crowmen | Brimfull of Hate | M'Lady's
23. "Bitching Song" | Little Annie | Trace | Tin Angel
24. "Ildefons" | Camera | Phantom of Liberty | Bureau B
25. "Lewasi Ndijarabasu" | Unknown Artists | Beating Heart - Malawi (Originals) - Recorded by Hugh Tracey | Beating Heart
26. "KILL" | Brian Harris | Impossible Songs | self-released
27. "Corralito" | Christian Naujoks | Wave | Dial
28. "Your Cradle" | Trux | Trux | Office Recordings
29. "Ceres" | ASC | The Farthest Reaches | Auxiliary

everybody lies, but it was true this time

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