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Gun For Hire, No Business Attire: Transmission 286, 2016 June 29

This was an odd(er than usual) program, but a good one. The Senior Catharses gave this one their hearty approval, for reasons which are not clear. But after the summer I have had, I am not one to look sideways at any kind remarks. What is it about summer?

I heard Captain Halcyon over the weekend. He did a tremendous program. Why can't that happen to me? It's been nothing but sloppiness, wall to wall, for about two months now. We haven't scratched the surface.

For some reason I decided that I would play 31 songs on this night, which seems way too many, although "Trace" and "Among Wolves" are worth the price of admission. (Admission is free, but you know what I mean.)

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 June 29, 2100-2300:

1. "Ocean Girl" | Ummagma | Frequency | Moon Sounds
2. "Shine" | Bailter Space | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
3. "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" | The Smiths | The World Won't Listen [reissue] | Sire
4. "Ex Cop" | The Rattler Proxy | Follow | Lurid Music
5. "All Alone" | Prince Buster | I Feel The Spirit | Dynamite! | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Re-Entry" | Ramleh | Circular Time | Crucial Blast
7. "Among Wolves" | Tim Green | Among Wolves | Cocoon
8. "Rinky-Dink" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Rumble
9. "Soul of Africa" | Prince Buster | I Feel The Spirit | Dynamite! | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Mazda - Killing Sound Version (feat. Rider Shafique & Bogues)" | Aisha Devi | Of Matter and Spirit (Remixes) | Houndstooth
11. "Trace" | Little Annie | Trace | Tin Angel
12. "We Shall Overcome" | Prince Buster | I Feel The Spirit | Dynamite! | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Dancing" | Bauhaus | Mask [reissue] | Beggars Banquet - Hostess
14. "Scarlet" | Lush | Origami | 4AD
15. "Funky Cowboy" | Goober & The Peas | The Complete Works of Goober & The Peas | Kinetic | "Listening Parlour"
16. "Wash All Your Troubles Away" | Prince Buster | I Feel The Spirit | Dynamite! | "Physical Evidence"
17. "No Doubt" | Grand Pianoramax | Soundwave | Mental Groove
18. "The Miry Verge" | Garry Bradbury | Yakovlevian Torque | No.
19. "Satellite 581" | CB-R | DRSL | Cut Mistake
20. "Last Train to London" | Prince Buster | I Feel The Spirit | Dynamite! | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Outlands" | The Orb | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld [reissue] | WAU! Mr. Modo - Island
22. "Naadiis Orbit" | Dagir Du | Uriel Wavv | Seagrave
23. "Hold Them" | Prince Buster | I Feel The Spirit | Dynamite! | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Hiraeth" | Lone | Levitate | R & S
25. "The Ryan Factor" | Jack Ketch and the Crowmen | Brimfull of Hate | M'Lady's
26. "I Feel the Spirit" | Prince Buster | I Feel The Spirit | Dynamite! | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Self Portrait" | The Durutti Column | LC [reissue] | Factory Benelux
28. "E.T. Special" | Impact All-Stars | Java Java Java Java - Instrumentals Dubwise Versions | Get On Down
29. "Statistical Order" | Dalhous | The Composite Moods Collection, Vol. 1: House Number 44 | Blackest Ever Black
30. "In the Courtyard" | CFCF | On Vacation | International Feel
31. "A Bluish Shadow" | Kowton | Utility | Livity Sound

over the hills and valleys

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Feel Like A Soldier, Look Like A Thief: Transmission 285, 2016 June 22

Wow wow wow, you guys, I was getting nostalgic for a minute, as I am prone to do when the heat scrambles my brain, and I came across this post. It is sort of an anniversary--anniversaries, for me, are big things--and I thought I'd just, you know, check in with the past. ALMOST NEVER A GOOD IDEA.

What a strange mix of anger and naivete was there! And if only calm and wisdom had taken their place! But, for real, things are much better now that I can observe things at the station from afar. I do almost feel like a sage at times, though cynicism and self-concept will not permit it fully. I have also taken to calling myself "emeritus."

Re. the endgame of the program: nope, not happening any time soon. it's fine. Everything's fine.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 June 22, 2100-2300:

1. "Freeway" | K-X-P | III, Pt. 2 | Svart
2. "Story" | Dieter Moebius | Nurton | Bureau B
3. "Slimer Smile" | Sequoyah Tiger | Ta-Ta-Ta-Time | Morr Music
4. "Locked-in Syndrome" | ^L_ | The Outsider | Antime
5. "Copper Wire" | The Range | Potential | Domino
6. "Hyper Martino" | Michele Mininni | Hyper Martino | Les Temps Perdu
7. "Jimmy Jazz" | The Clash | London Calling [reissue] | Columbia - Sony
8. "Bell Blender" | Phon.o | Afterglow | Tectonic
9. "Cold World / Dear John" | Little Annie | Trace | Tin Angel
10. "This Purgatory (Stuart Braithwaite - Mogwai Remix)" | Spectres | This Purgatory (Stuart Braithwaite - Mogwai Remix) | Sonic Cathedral
11. "Evacuate" | Dextro | Into the Crossing | 16k
12. "Untitled" | Youngsta & DJ Distance | Tempa Allstars, Vol. 8 | Tempa
13. "Backtail Was Heavy" | Lone | Levitate | R & S
14. "Rendezvous" | Princess Century | Rendezvous | Paper Bag
15. "Fixed Rope" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope | Numero Group
16. "Young Freedom" | Francis Lai | Cosmic Machine: The Sequel (Remixes) EP | Because Music
17. "Switchblade Smile" | Whipping Boy | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
18. "Imidiwan Ahi Sigidam" | Tinariwen | Live in Paris | Wedge
19. "Naab Dub" | Konrad Wehrmeister | Cosmos #1 | SVS
20. "No Handle" | Visuals | The State of Things | Thesongsays
21. "Hair of the Dog" | Bauhaus | Mask [reissue] | Beggars Banquet - Hostess
22. "Ain't No Rock 'n' Roll Rookie" | Johnny Moped | It's A Real Cool Baby | Damaged Goods
23. "The Earl of Suave" | Thee Headcoats | Elementary Headcoats [reissue] | Damaged Goods
24. "Candyman" | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Classic Album Selection Volume Two | Polydor
25. "Things Will Never Be The Same" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
26. "Inchworm" | Battles | Gloss Drop | WARP
27. "Op De Laatste Rij, Daar Zwijgt Ge Niet" | Daghraven | #1 | Consouling Sounds

without a doubt

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Breakfast At Eric's: Transmission 284, 2016 June 18

This episode is another instance of life giving me just about what I deserve. I was filling in for "Exterior Realms" (as I do way too often these days) and DJ Midwife, whose show preceded mine, took it upon herself to spin my first record. This is standard operating procedure at the station by the way, and applies to everyone's program but mine, this exception being a source of confusion and bemusement to all. Launched into the the world without asking to be, I had no choice but to improvise my way forward. It WAS midwifery.

It was mostly going pretty well until I miscued a Smiths record, and after that I kind of didn't want to know. I'm not sure how many mistakes I made--after the first one it more or less doesn't matter. That is a DEEP PERSONAL ISSUE and I should get it examined.

A historical note: that Tinderbox album by Siouxsie and the Banshees is just really, really great. I remember this one falling through the cracks, as it were--the hardcore Siouxsie fans thinking it was too "pop," pop enthusiasts finding it too weird and depressing ("she doesn't even sing in tune," etc). Punk Rockers! Squares! You were all wrong about this! I am doing it right! Be more like me!

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 June 18, 2100-2300:

1. "Bitter" | Lush | Origami | 4AD
2. "Weya" | Manu Dibango | Africafunk: The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Grey Melody" | Microworld | Orange Sun | Curle
4. "The Sweetest Chill" / "This Unrest" / "Cities in Dust" | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Classic Album Selection Volume Two | Polydor
5. "Alpha Wheel" | Lone | Levitate | R & S
6. "Hail the King" | Walli & The Afro Caravan | Africafunk: The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Circle VIII (Fraud)" | Pact Infernal | The Descent Chapter II | Samurai Horo
8. "One Dub - Mix II" | MM Studio | Good Star Dubs | Album Label
9. "Skype" | Suzanne Kraft | DJ-Safety | Kitjen
10. "The Camera" | Karl Bartos | Communication | Trocadero
11. "Larry" | Kevin Hewick | All Was Numbered | Hacienda
12. "Fresh" | Alex Gopher | Back to Basics EP | Go 4 Music
13. "XTC" | DJ Koze | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | hafendisko
14. "Phase Out" | MMOTHS | Luneworks | Because Music
15. "Don't Go" | Yaz | Upstairs At Eric's | Mute - Sire | "Listening Parlour"
16. "Aruca" | Medicine | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
17. "235" | Pearl River Sound | Somed Tapes, Vol. 1 | Seagrave
18. "Shakespeare's Sister" | The Smiths | The World Won't Listen [reissue] | Sire
19. "Megaton" | Vecchio | Africafunk: The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless | "Physical Evidence"
20. "She Has A Way" | Little Annie | Trace | Tin Angel
21. "Easy Window" | Lust For Youth | Compassion | Sacred Bones
22. "Saturday Night" | HQFU | HQFU Mini Album | Instinctive Racoon
23. "Ajo" | Peter King | Africafunk: The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Body" | Anenon | Petrol | Friends of Friends
25. "Somebody Up There Likes You" | Simple Minds | New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) | Virgin
26. "Charly stories" | Whizz Kid | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
27. "Splendid Nausea" | Extrawelt | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | hafendisko

this is all we do

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Come Inside And Be All You've Dreamed Of: Transmission 283, 2016 June 15

It seems a lifetime ago, but at some point in early-mid June I was scheduled to do a show on a Saturday evening, but I was meant not to. I don't mean to alarm anyone, but ever since then my programs have been a bit...erratic. This was the first such program.

Retreating into the familiar territory of the Volume series felt good; honestly, though, I never thought I would inhabit this place. I felt things took a downward turn at around issue 6, but it's probably 1993's fault and not the publication's.

"The Mirror" is probably my soundtrack for the summer and beyond, in case you were wondering. No? Well, you're welcome, regardless.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 June 15, 2100-2300:

1. "Working Hard Or Hardly Working" | Killdozer | Volume Six | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
2. "No-one Driving" | The Soft Moon | He's a Liquid | Metamatic
3. "Ova Nova" | Underworld | Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future | Astralwerks
4. "92 Degrees" / "Land's End" | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Classic Album Selection Volume Two | Polydor
5. "The Mirror" | Gnod | Mirror | Rocket
6. "One Tribe" | The Drum Club | Volume Six | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Such Great Heights" | Vincenzo | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | hafendisko
8. "Break It You Buy It" | Little Annie | Trace | Tin Angel
9. "Ultraviolet Love Scene" | Loom | European Heartache | Gobstopper
10. "Also With You" | Unmen | Volume Six | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Saturn Inc." | Drab Majesty | Completely Careless: 2012-2015 | Dais
12. "Closing Distance" | Robin Lee | The Delaware Road | Buried Treasure
13. "Downer" | Lush | Origami | 4AD
14. "Keepsake" | Senseless Things | Volume Six | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
15. "International" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships (Live at the Museum of Liverpool) | White Noise
16. "My Machines (featuring Gary Numan)" | Battles | Gloss Drop | WARP
17. "The Protectors" | Mikael Seifu | Zelalem | Rvng Int'l
18. "Cut Throat (Remix)" | Ultra Vivid Scene | Volume Six | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Star 6 & 7 8 9" | The Orb | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld [reissue] | WAU! Mr. Modo - Island
20. "Why Not" | good guy mikesh | Cookies EP | Spiel
21. "Keep Moving On" | Gallon Drunk | Volume Six | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Ardent" | Kangding Ray | Ardent / Swallows | Stroboscopic Artefacts

discordant limbs watch unimpressed

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You Ain't Seen Nothing Till You've Seen the Invisible: Transmission 282, 2016 June 9

Time was, I would be D.T.B. ("Down To Broadcast"--yes, I know, my life is sad) at any time. Midnight, 7am, mid-afternoon, you name it. Now it seems I'm only comfortable in my "regular" time, late but not too late, nearly full darkness, one foot dangling off the edge of the pier at Safe Harbor. So it feels increasingly adventurous do shake things up and do radio at even a slightly different time, as I did for this dinnertime program.

Also, I used not to care for whom or what I was substituting. Can indifference be tiring? What a shock to my system that would be. Anyway, in some cases I have come to respect given programs and feel the gravity of replacing a certain host, or at least understand that a certain audience expecting a certain thing doesn't necessarily want my thing, and therefore stay away.

"I'm not clever like Joe," I say at one point during this program. If I recall correctly I used to think I was, but the world has taught me otherwise. At least I know good after-dinner dance music when I hear it. So there is some of that here.

Still, I doubt I picked up any new listeners with this program. I can't really be more than what I am.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 June 9, 1900-2100:

1. "Moonbuilding 2073 AD (Wolfgang Voigt Antiretroambientpsycholkamix)" | The Orb | Moonbuilding 2073 AD Remixes / Sin in Space, Pt. 1 | Kompakt
2. "Echolana" | Dorian Pimpernel & Forever Pavot | Moonshine, Vol. 1 | Born Bad
3. "How To Never Wake Up" | Guido Mobius | Batagur Baska | Shitkatapult
4. "Midlife Lazarus" | Little Annie | Trace | Tin Angel
5. "Mask" | Bauhaus | Mask [reissue] | Beggars Banquet - Hostess
6. "Money Changes Everything" | The Smiths | The World Won't Listen [reissue] | Sire
7. "Cycle 6 - Nigel Wiesehan Remix" | Matt Dunkley | Cycles EP | Village Green
8. "A1" | Prins Thomas | Principe Del Norte | Smalltown Supersound
9. "B-1' - live at Unit, 18 April 2015" | Nisennenmondai | #N/A | On-U Sound
10. "Guetta Life" | eMMplekz | Rook to TN34 | Mordant
11. "Cooker" | Morgan | Gettin' to Business / Cooker | Funk 45
12. "What Time Is Love? (LP Mix)" | The KLF | The White Room | Arista | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Make It Rain" | The KLF | The White Room | Arista | "Physical Evidence"
14. "3 A.M. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)" | The KLF | The White Room | Arista | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Church of the KLF" | The KLF | The White Room | Arista | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Last Train to Trancentral (Live From The Lost Continent)" | The KLF | The White Room | Arista | "Physical Evidence"
17. "9 Movements" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released
18. "Future Imperfect" | Detroit Swindle | In Reverse EP | Heist
19. "Pink Tones" | Laila | Laila | DEEWEE
20. "Then Is Now" | Kevin Hewick | All Was Numbered | Hacienda
21. "Good Touch (feat. Egle Sirvydyte) [Matthew Herbert Remix]" | Catz 'n Dogz | Basic Colour Theory Remixed | Pets
22. "Danny" | The Durutti Column | LC [reissue] | Factory Benelux

no one driving

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While Your Charm Is Considered Disarming: Transmission 281, 2016 June 8

This one time, I was in the same room as Tony Allen. He was part of a panel at our local Africana Center, and he was giving a "tutorial" on the drums. His kit was set up in the room and everything. It--he--had a massive sound and that is as much as I can say about that. I'm really here to share some quotes.

Having invited members of the audience to come up and play the drums so that he could explain his technique, he gave a listen to this one hipster for about 30 seconds. "You play drums?" he asked, as the dude nodded sheepishly. "For real? In a band?"

Other pearls of wisdom:

"The first time I heard Art Blakey, I asked, 'is someone playing the cymbal for him?'"
"When I said, 'I don't like to play solos,' I didn't mean 'I don't play solos.'"
"It sounds simple. It's not so fucking simple."
"When you play with me, you don't riff. I don't riff. I keep you down there. You sit."

I actually had tickets to see him play that night, albeit with a Local Wannabe Afrobeat Ensemble who shall remain nameless, but my taste for that was soured when members of said Local Wannabe Afrobeat Ensemble, during the talk, put Mr. Allen in the impossible position of having to say complimentary things about Local White Guys Who Appropriate Afrobeat. I didn't want to support that, but then again my ticket was already purchased, so I suppose I did. I am not so smart! At any rate I hope Tony took most of the money.

That's as close as I get to a Fela story, except to say that listening to his music convinced me to change my home listening habits, and in my home studio noodling, my production habits. Keep the EQ flat, let the speakers do the work, things sound best when they sound like themselves. Thank you, Fela.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 June 8, 2100-2300:

1. "La Facon Dont La Machine Vers L'Arriere - Al Lover Remix" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | La Facon Dont La Machine Vers L'Arriere | A Records
2. "Hurricane Malcolm" | Connie Price & The Keystones | Wildflowers (The Expanded Version) | Now-Again
3. "St. Vitus Dance" | Bauhaus | 5 Albums | Beggars Banquet - Hostess
4. "I Go Shout Plenty" | Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Afrika 70 | I Go Shout Plenty!!! | Kalakuta Sunrise - Knitting Factory | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Red Sun in June" | Causa Sui | Summer Sessions, Vol. 1 | El Paraiso
6. "Eidfjord" | Dessin Bizarre | Air Frais | Fluttery
7. "You Better Run" | Little Annie | Trace | Tin Angel
8. "Tide" | La Boum Fatale | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | hafendisko
9. "Russian Glass" | Commodo | How What Time | Black Acre
10. "Nano" | The Comet Is Coming | Channel The Spirits | Leaf
11. "Night Games" | The KVB | ...Of Desire | Metropolis
12. "Some Velvet Morning" | Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood | Fairy Tales & Fantasies: The Best of Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazelwood | Rhino | "Listening Parlour"
13. "Golden Lights" | The Smiths | The World Won't Listen [reissue] | Sire
14. "Panes" | Anenon | Petrol | Friends of Friends
15. "Raccoon Society" | Maxim Wolzyn & Bartellow | Cosmos #1 | SVS
16. "Some Velvet Morning" | Thin White Rope | When Worlds Collide | Munster
17. "Hullo" | Kettel | Wingtip | DUB
18. "If This Is" | Revbjelde | The Delaware Road | Buried Treasure
19. "Partys Fall" | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Classic Album Selection Volume Two | Polydor
20. "Cryin' Shames" | The Blue Angel Lounge | In Times 2006-2010 | 8MM Musik
21. "Frustration" | Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Afrika 70 | I Go Shout Plenty!!! | Kalakuta Sunrise - Knitting Factory | "Physical Evidence"
22. "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld: Live Mix Mk 10" | The Orb | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld [reissue] | WAU! Mr. Modo - Island

when I'm done, this calls for anaesthetic

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We Can Go for a Walk Where It's Quiet and Dry, and Talk About Precious Things: Transmission 280, 2016 June 1

We began a busy June with a busy show. In it, we conducted a good deal of business--Physical Evidence, Listening Parlour, and a couple of "post-punk" birthday observances. We mean them all, even Lady Catharsis, who is really laboring through her introduction to "Work Hard."

It's always the 30th anniversary of something, but this year seems to be the 30th anniversary of quite a bit--or so it seems to a person of my age and sensibility. The Queen Is Dead, released just as school was getting out, was the soundtrack of that summer, the last of Smithdom, and much more. Lady Catharsis does not go for the title tune, but she is nuts.

400 Blows were the soundtrack of that fall, though, "Movin'" blowing my mind just as college was beginning to blow my mind. I paid more attention to the tunes than to classes, I have to admit. The inauspicious beginnings of a mediocre career--but I still have the records, which does not seem like a bad deal.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 June 1, 2100-2300:

1. "The Queen Is Dead" | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead | Rough Trade - Sire
2. "Post Apocalyptic Love Song (The End)" | Johnny Moped | It's A Real Cool Baby | Damaged Goods
3. "Little Jewel" | Blackie & The Oohoos | Lacuna | Unday
4. "Breakdown" | 400 Blows | Look | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Kiri" | CB-R | DRSL | Cut Mistake
6. "Susan" | The Goon Sax | Up to Anything | Chapter Music
7. "Back Side of the Moon" | The Orb | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld [reissue] | WAU! Mr. Modo - Island
8. "Riots Over London" | 400 Blows | Look | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Scrimshaw" | Anna Meredith | Varmints | Moshi Moshi
10. "Protein" | Tropicana | Cosmos #1 | SVS
11. "The Charmer" | 400 Blows | Look | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Nought Marie" | Little Annie | Trace | Tin Angel
13. "Enigma" | The Durutti Column | LC [reissue] | Factory Benelux
14. "Play For Today" | The Cure | Staring At The Sea - The Singles | Fiction - Elektra
15. "Femern" | Matt Karmil | ++++ | PNN
16. "Hollow Hills" | Bauhaus | Mask [reissue] | Beggars Banquet - Hostess
17. "Etheriel" | Lush | Origami | 4AD
18. "Fred Wesley Suffers Spontaneous Human Combustion" | 400 Blows | Look | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Maersk Recorder" | Matthew Collings | A Requiem for Edward Snowden | Denovali
20. "Broken Violin (Afternoon Recording)" | Waterhouse | Empty Gallery EP | Decisions
21. "Curfew" | Fatima Al Qadiri | Brute | Hyperdub
22. "Work Hard (East End Remix)" | Depeche Mode | Everything Counts (In Larger Amounts) | Mute - Sire | "Listening Parlour"
23. "Movin'" | 400 Blows | Look | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
24. "La fin de la guerre" | Dorian Pimpernel & Julian Gasc | Moonshine, Vol. 1 | Born Bad
25. "Break Through" | Funkees | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again
26. "Regular" | The Range | Potential | Domino
27. "The Morality of Altitude" | 400 Blows | Look | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"

what an accessory

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Wandering Up And Down Those Avenues Of Sin: Transmission 279, 2016 May 18

Again we've reached a point where the website is shamefully out of date. Friend of Bombast Mateu says he has run out of things to listen to, so like an arthritic tortoise I spring into action. Here is a Medway Night that happened nearly a month ago.

I recall things beginning well enough, and then somewhere the segues just stopped working. With (The(e)) Milkshakes it is always this way. I managed to fulfill an Antibalas request, about three weeks late, but I have no idea whether Drummer John was listening, or if he has internet. Maybe someone reading this can tell him it happened.

Thanks for listening.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 May 18, 2100-2300:

1. "And We Begin" | Loose Capacitor | The Delaware Road | Buried Treasure
2. "Green Hornet" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Around the World with the Prophets" | The (Hypothetical) Prophets | Around the World With | Infine
4. "ROM" | Thug Entrancer | Arcology | Software
5. "Uprising (Parts 1 & 2)" | Antibalas with Jojo Quo | Africafunk: Return to the Original Sound of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless
6. "C'est de l'or" | Forever Pavot & Dorian Pimpernel | Moonshine, Vol. 1 | Born Bad
7. "Stones for Throwing" | Cavalier Song | Blezard | God Unknown
8. "Dark Entries" | Bauhaus | 5 Albums | Beggars Banquet - Hostess
9. "You Did Her Wrong" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Patience" | Lifetones | For a Reason | Light in the Attic
11. "There Is So Much Static (feat. Eivind Aarset)" | Tortusa | I Know This Place: The Eiving Aarset Collages | Jazzland
12. "It's You" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Leaves Me Cold" | Lush | Origami | 4AD
14. "My Zippo" | King Snake Roost | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
15. "Wise Ol' Man (edit)" | The Fall | Wise Ol' Man EP | Cherry Red
16. "Transgalactic World Eater" | BLOWN OUT | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
17. "Don't Love Another" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Uwe" | Tobias Schmid | Hamburg Elektronisch 3 | hafendisko
19. "Bardo" | Fontan | Babylon EP | Hoga Nord
20. "General Belgrano" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Coming Home" | Wells Fargo | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again
22. "Cruising Central Ave" | The 4th Coming | Strange Things (The Complete Works, 1970-1974) | Now-Again
23. "Brand New Cadillac" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
24. "To Believe" | K-X-P | III, Pt. 2 | Svart
25. "Dreamt Person v3" | Venetian Snares | Traditional Synthesizer Music | Planet Mu
26. "Ambassador of Love" | Milkshakes | 19th Nervous Shakedown | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Over It" | Junior Boys | Big Black Coat | City Slang
28. "Helena" | Yndi Halda | Under Summer | Big Scary Monsters

you should hear me play piano

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A Presence Conjured From Thin Air: Transmission 278, 2016 May 14

Another successful journey to the "Exterior Realms" (at least I think so) gives me the opportunity to go "off-topic" and give you a more general update. I promised last time that I would share another story from the Senior Catharses' visit as well. Fortunately we can put our hands together in this case.

Grandpa Catharsis asked me why I hadn't done any interviews latey, pointing out that the Hall of Legends specials were one of his favorite things about this program. That's nice! (In my tradition of turning every compliment into a negative, I started wondering what might be wrong with regular, non-interview programs like this one.) It just so happened that we drove down to DJ Segundo's crib for a short visit and HE asked me the same thing, so clearly we are facing a wavelength with room for more than one person.

Very well--let's talk about the Hall of Legends and why it has been dormant. Turns out there is no legitimate reason except What Is Going On With Me, so I'll discuss that. [REMEMBER: this is my diary, so GTFO if you are not entertained.]

Sometime around the HOL interview with the great Breathless I experienced a personal trauma that was as serious as it was ridiculous. In a way I couldn't actually believe it was happening, in real-time, and didn't read much significance in my immediate response to it. Surveying the damage in retrospect, I stopped going to the gym (which for me substitutes for depression meds), gained weight, increased my alcohol consumption, and generally became very angry.

"But Breathless was not the most recent Hall of Legends special," I hear you saying. (I do not actually hear this, except in an imagined conversation with the Platonic Ideal of a Regular Listener.) It's true. Three months later we spoke to the legendary Vini Reilly, but I literally can't tell you how long that was in the planning, and it just kind of happened one day. A little over a month after that, we did the Heidi Berry interview. But that was "in the pipeline" when the Breathless thing was happening, because the legendary Ari was prescient enough, and kind enough, to ask if I'd like to be placed in contact with the legendary Heidi and I wasn't a big enough idiot to say "no." So because I am a PROFESSIONAL (albeit an unskilled and unpaid one) I held it together long enough to see that through. And then we stopped.

MEANWHILE I was supplementing my permanent half-time sinecure with temporary half-time sinecures that filled me with despair. I continued to do the job of Program Director at WRFI all by myself although there were nominally two of us; there were negative aspects of that which were practical, personal, and racial, none of which helped with my demeanor or general outlook. When I "quit" that position last June I somehow found ways to become more angry, more bitter, and more destructive. I KNOW: I am special this way.

Amazingly, last (summer? fall?) I did get up the nerve to contact a Legend In Waiting, and we had a promising dialogue in some etherspace or other. Something was going to happen, and then it fell through, because I have become a flake. I also received an assurance from one already-Legend that something could be arranged with yet another Legend In Waiting, but this never happened because the person in question never uses the internet. At least that is why I'm telling myself it never happened. I am capable of protecting myself sometimes.

Thus, out the window flew one possible way of spending my newfound free time as a non-management type at the radio station. Other possible hobbies went unexplored as well. I was, as I concluded, using alcohol at night to self-medicate. It is very good at killing feelings! How anxiously I looked forward each day to the murder of my feelings.

In October I came around to thinking that maybe this was a bad idea, that this daily homicide wasn't taking me anywhere good, so with Lady Catharsis's help I stopped altogether. But the Feelings, which I had decided I needed to feel, were so awful, and the lack of medication so excruciating, that I filled the void not with productivity but with food. Because of course I can't just suffer from depression and PTSD and anxiety. THAT is boring. I must also have Binge Eating Disorder and Body Dysmorphia in my life to keep things interesting.

(It's funny to think that, all the while, I've been doing this ridiculous little program on the reg, cracking up at my mistakes like nothing relevant is actually happening around it or me. But this has saved, and is saving, my life, as LC tells me, so there's that.)

I started having suicidal "ideation" --if you know how that might differ from "thoughts," please explain it to me--in November of last year, and I was able to keep them at bay only by telling myself "you wouldn't just kill some random kid's dad, or some random woman's husband, so how can you do anything to Catharsis Junior's dad, or Lady Catharsis's husband?" Meaning that I had to get outside my own self to see me as something worth preserving, in the abstract. I figured that maybe the time had come for me to talk to somebody, so I did.

Things are not miraculously better--it has taken work--but some healing is taking place. I can "containerize" the feelings and set standards and boundaries for myself--these are novelties! My work situation has improved in ways that it could not have done for 2015 me. So, yeah.

Anyway, were I a Legend I would not have wanted to talk to this community radio jackass in a bad mindframe (there's something to add to the ol' email signature) for any amount of time, much less for the amount of time I demand from people, MUCH MUCH LESS the TWO times poor Andrew Gray was subjected to the experience.

So that's why the Hall of Legends hasn't had anything happen in seventeen months. But things are revving up again. I have to convince that one Legend that I am not actually a flake. Maybe I will send them a link to this. I have a feeling they might understand.

I sincerely hope that if you need to talk to someone, you find a person. Or that if you need something like an amateur radio hour to keep you tethered to this world, you find an outlet. Maybe we can be that outlet. It's working for me.

Thanks for listening.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 May 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Jah I" | Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters | Mr. Perry I Presume | Pressure Sounds
   
2. "Blackhole" | Deviant Amps | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
3. "What a World!" | Parade of Sinners | Domestic Landscape, Vol. 2: Underrated Synth Classics 1982-1990 | Domestica
4. "Bubble" | Stabat Stable | Ultrissima on the Junk's Moon | Cache Cache
5. "Angora - Fairmont Remix" | Ricardo Tobar | Ricardo Tobar - Collection Remixes Pt. 1 | Cocoon
6. "R-Type" | Anna Meredith | Varmints | Moshi Moshi
7. "She Wore Lilacs in Her Hair" | Magic Castles | Starflower | A Recordings
8. "Head Body" | Not Waving | Animals | Diagonal
9. "Shanpan" | Roger West | En Asie | In Paradisum
10. "The Wheel" | PJ Harvey | The Wheel | Island
11. "Sequencer Roll" | Baumann / Koek | Baumann / Koek | Bureau B
12. "I Had A Dream (instrumental)" | 5 Revolutions | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again
13. "Macka Talk" | Mabrak | Drum Talk | Dug Out
14. "Foxtits Funkdrive" | Zach Christ | Sonic Doucheclap | Husoptageiser
15. "Aokigahara (feat. Tobi)" | Asian Psilocybe Foundation | Water Vein EP | Mental Groove
16. "Galacticon" | Ummagma | Frequency | Moon Sounds
17. "break glass actions" | Cavern of Anti-Matter | void beats / invocation trex | Duophonic
18. "Powers of Ten - Marco Plex & Shall Ocin Remix" | Stephan Bodzin | Powers of Ten (remixes) | Herzblut
19. "Comin' Home Baby" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Rumble
20. "The Shag" | Trouble & Strife | The Delaware Road | Buried Treasure
21. "Thousands Below" | 12z | Trembling Air | Other People
22. "Always" | Flying Saucer Attack | Chorus [reissue] | Drag City
23. "The Sombre" | Shallow Sanction | Without Light | Alter
24. "Numbered" | Wire | Nocturnal Koreans | Pinkflag
25. "Earth (Gaia)" | The Orb | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld [reissue] | WAU! Mr. Modo - Island
26. "Bestandteil" | Irmler | Bestandteil | Klangbad
27. "Favourite Descending Intervals" | The Durutti Column | Amigos Em Portugal | Durutti
    

For you I steal, for you I kill

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Don't You Roll So Slow: Transmission 277, 2016 May 11

a propos of nothing, I have a thought I'd like to share, since I can't remember anything about this particular program except that the tunes were good and that Lady Catharsis chose one. My thought is about elitism as it pertains to music. Maybe it is about wilful obscurity, and maybe it is about both things, and maybe it is halfway coherent. We try.

This past week the Senior Catharses were in town, and one of them asked us about the local music scene, about which I suggested that it is kind of nice that we have a thriving underground without anyone being "too big" [though we could maybe do with someone who was Thin White Rope-sized, but that's just a personal preference.] Then Lady Catharsis brought up that somewhat local band, X Ambassadors--they of the "Renegades" song that has aired so many times in a Jeep commercial that I never want to hear it again--not that I would have found it enjoyable in the first place, but you get "the picture." (I suggested that they don't count but LC insists that they do).

Anyway, THIS IS HOW WE GOT HERE: it really is about my never wanting to hear your song again. I don't care that you've made money from a commercial. Congratulations. Whether you are successful enough at art to quit your day job is not my business; I wish you the best. I would not recommend poverty to anyone or wish it upon anyone so harmless as an artist. (Except Billy Joel, but then he is not harmless, so my point stands.) So: knock yourself out with underscoring deals, that's part of your freedom. I may have to move on from fandom, but that's part of my freedom too. Universal balance restored.

But that other part of success--growing an audience--gave me some thinks too. I don't think, pace occasional friend of the program Alex, that social snobbery informs one's decision to move on when a favorite band "breaks." To me it is more like a response to gentrification--the cool kids are moving in, and I need to find a more reasonable neighborhood until the next cultural shift happens. Some of us like things cheap, low-key, and not crowded. No personal judgement involved.

If you would like to exercise personal judgement here, like perhaps thinking--even commenting--that it's a dire rhetorical move to liken, say, hurt feelings over a band's major-label contract to losing one's house, that's part of YOUR freedom. Yay, freedom.

More grandparent updates next time!

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 May 11, 2100-2300:

1. "Mad Dog" | Spider King | Shot to Pieces | Finders Keepers
   
2. "You Can't Sit Down" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Rumble
3. "Temp" | Trux | Trux | Office Recordings
   
4. "Stripping at the Nail" | Secret Boyfriend | Memory Care Unit | Blackest Ever Black
   
5. "Mob Hand" | The Fire Dept. | L'Oeuf D'Or | M'Lady's
6. "Circle IX (Treachery)" | Pact Infernal | The Descent Chapter II | Samurai Hero
   
7. "Alpine Evening" | The Orb | Alpine | Kompakt
8. "Nine Regal" | The Dandelion Set | The Delaware Road | Buried Treasure
   
9. "Leger Leger" | Julien Gasc, Forever Pavot & Chassol | Moonshine, Vol. 1 | Born Bad
10. "Building a bridge to you from the roof of a disused supermarket in Budapest" | Jumble Hole Clough | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
11. "Generique debut" | Pierre Vassiliu | Ils (Bande originale du film de Jean-Daniel Simon) | Born Bad
12. "Slow" | Olof Melander | The Path | Project Mooncircle
13. "4'32"" | Inventing Masks | Inventing Masks | Error Broadcast
14. "Souvenir" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships (Live at the Museum of Liverpool) | White Noise
15. "Standing Stone" | Flying Saucer Attack | Distance | Domino
16. "All Leave Cancelled (X)" | The Fall | Wise Ol' Man EP | Cherry Red
17. "Solo 3" | Nicklas Sorensen | Solo | El Paraiso
18. "Young Mountain" | Gain Stage | Elevated Noise | Portals Editions
19. "Camino" | H.O.S.H. | Cilanthropy | DIYnamic
20. "Hate Week (vox dub Dark Outside)" | Security | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
21. "Hi Fu" | Tiefschwarz | Left | Watergate
22. "EYES (Feat EazyLee RIP)" | Trinity Lo Fi | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
23. "Nom" | Benny Boeldt | 8 of Cups | Carpark
24. "Poor Magic" | Brandt Brauer Frick | Holy Night & Pure Magic | K7 / Because Music
25. "The Other Me" | Laila | Laila | DEEWEE
26. "Nine Pound Hammer" | Merle Travis | Hillbilly Music... Thank God! Vol. 1 | Bug / Capitol | "Listening Parlour"
27. "Poor Connection" | Blackfoot | Can't You Hear Me? | Now-Again
28. "Exoplanet" | ASC | The Farthest Reaches | Auxiliary

I Wore Lilacs In My Hair

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