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U_D_M Detour 15, 2015 January 9

[GUEST POST]

Guy here. I "mixed it up" on this program, playing some things from the "catalogue" and veering off my usual course. In theory I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. In reality it requires permission, because I have standards.

I wonder whatever became of jungling and junglism. Apparently people still do these things, though I shudder to think it--already there are retrospectives. I can't deal with people living in the past. (That is what cassettes are for, why they are so dangerous, and why they come in convenient containers.) Anyway, it seemed for a while like an interesting escape. albeit an introverted one. Is it possible that when an escape route is deemed useless and dormant that it becomes interesting? Maybe this program answers that, but it's for someone else to decide.

What this program does answer is whether I can distinguish Boards of Canada from Mogwai. The answer is no. I cannot tell one Scottish entity from another. They all look the same to me. Except Kid Catharsis's wife--she is hot.

U_D_M playlist, 2015 January 9, 1600-1700:

1. "Ye Ye" | Daphni | Pinnacles / Ye Ye | Text
2. "Horrid" | Zomby | With Love | 4AD
3. "Kiss of Def" | The Durutti Column | Obey the Time | Factory Once
4. "Moonrise" | Peaking Lights | Lucifer | Mexican Summer
5. "Ballet Dance" | Roni Size | The Rebirth of Cool Seven | Island
6. "Whitelabel Unity" | Shitmat | One Foot in the Rave | Planet Mu
7. "Raindance" | Lone | Galaxy Garden | R & S
8. "Aeiou" | Afriqua | Concomitance / Aeiou | 2nd Drop
9. "Glory Gongs" | Forest Swords | Dagger Paths | Olde English Spelling Bee
10. "C-Beams" | Pariah | Safehouses | R & S
11. "SeeSea" | Machinedrum | Vapor City | Ninjatume
12. "Amo Bishop Roden" | Boards of Canada | In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country | Warp

the unbearable lightness

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Cruising Altitude Departure 15, 2014 December 20

[GUEST POST]

It's Captain Halcyon again. This is a yuletide program from another time, one we might call the olden days, when I was on the air semi-regularly. This hour of music seems more grounded than many of my other broadcasts. I was going through a phase--at least that's how I remember it.

The phrase going through my head as I listen to this episode is "strong element of the haphazard." Not that you have to think about that while listening of course--I am just sharing. In that sense, anyway, this is a successful program. Part of my rehabilitation is the embrace of safe risks. There isn't much that's safer than appearing by surprise on a small radio station in the middle of nowhere and then re-posting through the internet. (But who knows where this may lead. Future manifestations may be more robust.) Still, breaking out of my self-imposed aesthetic boundaries is a baby step, and the world is not baby-proofed.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 December 20, 1400-1500:

1. "Fractal Liaison" | System 7 | System 7 | Ten
2. "Jane 16 (for Pale Saints)" | Harold Budd | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux
   
3. "Apollyan in D" | Michael Tanner | Nightingale Variations | Kooky
   
4. "Malice / Freak Flag" | The Legendary Pink Dots | 10 to the Power of 9 | Rustblade
5. "Iris" | Dream Police | Hypnotized | Sacred Bones
   
6. "Silva Pslamus" | Laurie Laptop | Nightingale Variations | Kooky
7. "The Lord Is Out of Control - Nils Frahm Remix" | Mogwai | Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1. | Rock Action
   
8. "Bloody and Blunt" | Budd - Fraser - Guthrie - Raymonde | The Moon and the Melodies | 4AD - Relativity
   
9. "Deja Vu - Ambient" | Vince Watson | Deja Vu | Ovum
10. "Sonar Conversation" | Conforce | Machine Conspiracy | Delsin
11. "Awakening to A..." | Prefuse 73 | Security Screenings | WARP
12. "Migration" | Micronormous | Nightingale Variations | Kooky
13. "Rain in Coffee" | Bee Mask | When We Were Eating Unripe Pears | Editions Mego
    

special silent guest

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Cruising Altitude Departure 14, 2014 November 22

[GUEST POST]

I have been watching too many TED talk videos of late. Granted, often "too many" can mean "one," but I have been on a sort of kick. Trying to make oneself feel better through video is not a thing I have found to work, in any situation. So I thought I would maybe share a few tunes, you know, do something halfway outgoing, and see how that turned out.

This program dates from a long, long, long time ago, but as Kid Catharsis has tried to explain to me in his secondhand way, there is no universal "now." To fast-forward through the argument, I am relieved of guilt related to negligence. There is no way in this particular universe that this program could post at another time.

On the other hand, I suppose I should not take encouragement from the compliments I received when this program first aired, one from a teacher of experimental music. These listeners had no choice in the matter either.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 November 22, 1400-1500:

1. "The Friend I've Lost" | Ernesto Ferreyra | Some Kind of Sign | Cadenza
2. "4" | Conrad Schnitzler | Gelb | Bureau B
   
3. "IX" | Raspberry Bulbs | Privacy | Blackest Ever Black
   
4. "HTH020 - The Haxan Cloak's Cloud of Witness" | Akkord | HTH030 | Houndstooth
5. "Warm Bodies" | Herva | Instant Broadcast | Delsin
6. "Berth" | BNJMN | Coil | Delsin
7. "Stara Rzeka" | Stara Rzeka | Stara Rzeka | Infinite Greyscale
   
8. "Diploid" | Nurse With Wound & Graham Bowers | Diploid (Parade Epilogue) | Red Wharf
   
9. "En Masse" | Locsil | Sea Island | kranky
   

heavy dose of HB

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Take My Sins and Take My Tablets: Transmission 263, 2016 February 10

I don't know myself anymore. I don't recognize this person whose podcast site is up to date, and who experiences only the most negligible temporal displacement from the content he posts. It is always some first-world problem or other, and that is what this week offers.

Lately I have been pondering the "semiotics" of effects in music, and aspiring to / fantasizing about writing something about them. I'm sure it has been done, generally, but perhaps not about the specific things I'd like to discuss in my "what everyone gets wrong about" thinkpiece(s)-to-be. The fear, which I must overcome (especially since, as I say, others have done it, so why not), is that all this talk is peripheral to, parasitical upon what is important.

So I won't say much about Dennis Bovell, or his new record, or dub music in general, here. In the end it is about the erasure of words and the bodily experience. So click on the triangle and get into that stuff.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 February 10, 2100-2300:

1. "Sowiesoso" | Cluster | Kollektion 4 - Bureau B (compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
2. "Sea" | Gary Bromley | Outside | Assembly Field
   
3. "Dub Mood (Dubplate Mix)" | Alter Echo & E3 | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
   
4. "Tell Me" | God Bullies | Dope, Guns & Fucking in the Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
   
5. "Zaion Dubb" | Dennis Bovell | Dub 4 Daze | Glitterbeat | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Quicksand Beach Party" | The Missing Brazilians | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
   
7. "Dude Can Dance" | Natural Magic | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
   
8. "The 3rd Time We Opened the Capsule" | Kitchens of Distinction | Still In a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
   
9. "Dark Parade" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel
10. "Captain Rondo" | Za! | Loloismo | Audacious
11. "Top Level Dub" | Dennis Bovell | Dub 4 Daze | Glitterbeat | "Physical Evidence"
12. "I Exhale" | Underworld | I Exhale | Universal
13. "Dub Affair" | Dennis Bovell | Dub 4 Daze | Glitterbeat | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Orthogonal" | Natan H | Erklingen EP | Taped Artifact
    
15. "Bronx Cheer" | Mercury Rev | Still In a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
16. "Aged Dub" | Dennis Bovell | Dub 4 Daze | Glitterbeat | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Spooky Vibes" | Blind Mr. Jones | Still In a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
18. "1977" | Thee Mighty Caesars | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
19. "By Tomorrow" | Black Tambourine | Still In a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
20. "Vulnerability" | OKADA | Impermanence | n5MD
21. "Tuned Dub" | Dennis Bovell | Dub 4 Daze | Glitterbeat | "Physical Evidence"
22. "It Might Drizzle Until September" | Daniel Stefanik | Aftermath | Dissonant
23. "Loveblind" | Secret Shine | Still In a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
24. "Dub Guide" | Dennis Bovell | Dub 4 Daze | Glitterbeat | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Leaving" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope | Numero Group
    

what little I know (of Montreal)

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Seven by Kevin: Transmission 262, 2016 February 3

Enjoy it while it lasts, Bombasticons: the website is now up to date! [Well, my part of it, anyway.] The backlog is exhausted, the tapes canned, the archive archived. Feels good--until the morning after the next one, anyway.

And what a good show this is! [Content-wise, at any rate.] Admittedly I had to "grow" into some of the things on A Factory Quartet, Kevin Hewick's sets among them. Young Me didn't want to know, but then young me was a [bigger] idiot. Is this a record I'm glad I kept around? Of course not. I wasn't wise enough not to sell it and then have to find it again. So there is no lesson here, just good tunes with attitude.

As for the verbiage, it sounds like I am having fun, which is reassuring. I've done a lot of these, you know. 5 years' worth of "weekly" programs in just over 3 years, and without chemical enhancements--it is mind-boggling to an easily-boggled mind. Never knowing what to say when I turn on the mic is just part of the adventure.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 February 3, 2100-2300:

1. "This Is a Dance Hit" | Mr. T.C. | Soundtrack for Strangers | Optimo Trax
2. "Effigy (I'm Not An)" | Ministry | With Sympathy | Music on Vinyl
3. "Ma Penda" | Orchestre Bawobab | Senegal 70 (Sonic Gems from the 70s) | Analog Africa
4. "PianomanX" | SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
5. "Independence Day" | The Comsat Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel
6. "Low Strung" | Jawbox | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
7. "Radio Waves" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships (Live at the Museum of Liverpool) | White Noise
8. "Hunting Tigers out in India" | The Tea Jennies | Unicorns, Monsters and Goats | self-released
9. "Lots 'O Life" | The Lonely Moans | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
10. "If Everybody Had a Notion" | Earth Jerks | The West Is a Mess | Ba Da Bing!
11. "Hog-Tied Over You" | Tennessee Ernie Ford And Ella Mae Morse With Cliffie Stone & Orchestra | Hillbilly Music... Thank God! Vol. 1 | Bug / Capitol | "Listening Parlour"
12. "Africa" | Orchestre G.M.I. | Senegal 70 (Sonic Gems from the 70s) | Analog Africa
13. "Falling for You" | Martyn | Falling for You | Ostgut Ton
14. "Moving Coil" | Sergie Rezza | Sergie Rezza | desire
15. "On My Mind" | King Midas Sound / Fennesz | Edition 1 | NInja Tune
16. "World 2UR - (Prod. by Skelli Skel)" | Old Grape God | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
17. "Mermaids" | Wonderfulsound | Sea Organ | Wonderfulsound
18. "Rollin Ruffs" | Gulls | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
19. "Flipcam" | Okokon | Turkson Side | Other People
20. "Matrix of Perfection" | Servotron | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
21. "Sugar Your Mind" | Swallow | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
22. "The Confuser (Dub Mix)" | Elite Beat | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
23. "Rubble" / "1940" / "A Little Feeling" / "Forget" / "Morphia" / "The Enchanted Kiss" / "Haystack" | Kevin Hewick | A Factory Quartet | Factory | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Man Sees the Face, God Sees the Heart" | Roman Flugel | Monday Brain | Hypercolour

you're on the never never

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Everyone Gets Heaven: Transmission 261, 2016 February 2

In what is now a statutorily rare gesture, I fill in for "The Griot Hour" on that stupidest of holidays, Groundhog Day. I won't develop or improve old theories here, but merely reiterate one: that a given music's inability to sit alongside other musics is directly proportional to its greatness. So here we have the much-plagiarized, little-appreciated Curve in the "Physical Evidence" feature. None of this is to say that all the other segues in the program, or even most of them, make sense. The fault is not in our records, but in our selves.

At this time of writing we are pouring one out for Skeptical Sunday, one of the few WRFI programs that pre-dated the launch of this one. I'm feeling aware of my own mortality in this moment. I don't know why this came on so suddenly, this realization that I do have "seniority" and have definitely logged more hours on air at this station than any other music host. What's it all for, I wonder.

I do try to launch into personal and political rants only when the issues directly involve me, so I'll simply note here that free-form radio stations "are" little more than the people who comprise them. That is the point, the upside and the downside. Personally I've been feeling the "downside" more often than not lately, as one beloved host after another closes up shop. I only feel the losses and I don't know what we're getting from the newbies, because I simply don't know. I've chosen not to know, so the responsibility is mine in a way, which is part of what hurts about this.

Anyway, that's quite enough, especially since I might be sufficiently crazy to try another post today. Happy Tuesday, everybody!

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 February 2, 2100-2300:

1. "Die Like a Dog" | Curve | Radio Sessions | Anxious | "Physical Evidence"
2. "Secondo Percorso" | Pietro Riparbelli | Vacuum | Dirter
3. "Mama Words" | Brain Damage | Walk the Walk | Jarring Effects
4. "The Magical Party" | The Silent Ones | The Magical Party | Kompakt
5. "Ten Little Girls" | Curve | Radio Sessions | Anxious | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Action Candy" | Surgery | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
7. "Firestarter" | Brian Harris | Behind the Mask | self-released
8. "Woodland Rock" | Ty Segall | Ty Rex | Goner
9. "Split Into Fractions" | Curve | Radio Sessions | Anxious | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Excalibur" | Fracture | Tempa Allstars, Vol. 8 | Tempa
11. "Love" | Acre | Better Strangers | Tectonic
12. "Arms Out" | Curve | Radio Sessions | Anxious | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Ariyo" | Dieuf-Dieul de Thies | Senegal 70 (Sonic Gems from the 70s) | Analog Africa
14. "Take Me Beyond" | Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation | Take Me Beyond | Rocket
15. "Coast Is Clear" | Curve | Radio Sessions | Anxious | "Physical Evidence"
16. "If We Amplify Everything, We Hear Nothing" | Demons | The Wrong Person Spec | District Six
17. "PGL - Pretty Good Looking" | Lonely Walk | Teen | Born Bad
18. "Bad Times" | Lubricated Goat | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
19. "Free Jazz" | Strategy | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
20. "Free HiFi Internet" | Emmanuelle | Emmanuelle | DEEWEE
21. "Horror Head" | Curve | Radio Sessions | Anxious | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Restless in Thought" | Basic Soul Unit | Under the Same Sky | Dekmantel
23. "Belle Ile En Mer Dub Night - The Humble Bee 'The Noises in Andrew's Head' Mix" | A New Line (Related) | Our Lady of Perpetual Fucking Succour | Home Assembly
24. "A Washed Out Monkey Star Halo" | Steel Pole Bath Tub | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
25. "The Subdubba Beat - Stockholmia Glue Mix - Prins Thomas Edit" | Ü | Paradise Goulash Versions | Eskimo

didn't get out of the building in time

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You'll Forget About Life, You'll Forget About Time: Transmission 260, 2016 January 27

Here is another program that came off well, featuring that unicorn of the "Physical Evidence" bestiary, the non-streamable 4AD record. There must be a story behind the non-spotification of "The Mercy Seat," but I have no idea what it is. I was and was not paying attention during this time, no matter how many people say that the 80s and 90s were "my era."

I will tell you this: if it weren't for 4AD releases from 1988 / 1989 / 1990, I would pretty much have no recollection of those years at all. I know that I was in school, that I was in a band, that I worked as a barista, that no one used the term "barista," that I was seeing someone, that I was doing theatre, and that I wasn't eating meat. That seems like a lot but if you scratch beneath the surface you just get a bland, creamy nougat of vagueness. (My counselor and I are working on this.)

But damned if I don't have every last thing 4AD put out during this time. If I'm giving Ultra Vivid Scene short shrift here it's because I wasn't particularly a fan of theirs (well, his, but in the case of this record they are a "they"). [KURT RALSKE: if you're reading this please don't be offended, I said the same thing about Bowie, so my words don't mean anything except that my taste is probably bad.] But this is a good and good-sounding record.

Scheduling reminder: again, I express some uncertainty about the program schedule in this broadcast because I didn't know it at the time, but we are staying at 2100 Eastern Time on Wednesdays, so there's that, if you happen to like any of this.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 January 27, 2100-2300:

1. "Gimmer Dot" | Bailter Space | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
2. "Sun Is Shining" | The Upsetters | Mr. Perry I Presume | Pressure Sounds
3. "Avebury" | Appleblim | Avebury | Ammunition
4. "Lacrimosa" | Architectural | Amour | Wolfskuil
5. "Lost Week-End" | Wanda Jackson | There's a Party Goin' On | Rumble | "Listening Parlour"
6. "Projekt 2 Kraut" | Markus Oehlen | Wanne 4 | Infinite Greyscale
7. "Everywhere a Bruk" | Seekers International | Her Imperial Majesty | Boomarm Nation
8. "Mercy Seat" | Ultra Vivid Scene | Mercy Seat | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Hot Cross Buns" | Bill Wells | Nursery Rhymes | Karaoke Kalk
10. "Sugar Coated Stucco" | Supernova | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
11. "Leningrad" | Cayetano | The Right Time | Klik
12. "Stekker Forever!" | Deadbeat | Walls and Dimensions | BLKRTZ
13. "Final Flight Excerpts 1-4" | Vision Heat | The Chosen Themes - Program II | Root Strata
14. "Find What You Love and Let It Kill You" | Hurricane #1 | Find What You Love and Let It Kill You | Tapete
15. "NAZ" | The Wharves | NAZ / My Will | Upset the Rhythm
16. "ae0UN93R" | Iskeletor | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
17. "Inner Flight" | Primal Scream | Screamadelica [reissue] | Sony
18. "Earthstrong Steppas" | PDX Mandem | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
19. "H Like In Heaven" | Ultra Vivid Scene | Mercy Seat | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Baby" | The Comsat Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel
21. "Red Bath" | Boss Hogg | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
22. "Obsolete Frameworks" | Colossal Yes | Surrounded by Progress | Ba-Da Bing!
23. "The Fog" | Normil Hawaiians | Return of the Ranters | Upset the Rhythm
24. "Imidiwan N'assouf (Alter Echo's VIP Dub of the Dub!)" | Hama & Krucial Kuts | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
25. "Kiko Medina" | Le Tropical Jazz | Senegal 70 (Sonic Gems from the 70s) | Analog Africa
26. "A Harmonious Approach" | Gulls Rhythm Force | Family Album 2016 | Boomarm Nation
27. "Perle" | M.ono | Volle Schnauze EP | Heist
28. "Codine" | Ultra Vivid Scene | Mercy Seat | 4AD | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Spread the Fear" | Evil Blizzard | Everybody Come to Church | Louder Than War
30. "IX - Synthapella Version" | Stephan Bodzin | Powers of Ten (Remixes) | Herzblut
31. "What You Want" | Huxley | What You Want | No Idea's Original

don't get paranoid with me

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The Angels Only Look the Other Way: Transmission 259, 2016 January 20

A foul mood has come over me, so please indulge me while I speak of happy golden days of yore. "Friend of Bombast" Jeremy once insisted that I play "Hungarian Love Song" on a radio show at my old station, and steered my parents toward Bloody Nonsense (in my mind still the best Jazz Butcher compilation) when they were feeling a bit squeamish about buying the album that was at the top of my Christmas wishlist that year [link NSFWish; bizarrely I still don't own that one.] So the Jazz Butcher and I go way back.

On two different occasions, I saw the Jazz Butcher perform. One gig was during the Creation years, and another was much later, albeit with the inimitable Max Eider, now back in the fold. We didn't get David J on that night, as promised, but you can't have everything. Now: I didn't track down a copy of Hamburg until a few years after this latter gig, so that concert, while post-"fame" in a way, was the closest I got to experiencing the "glory years" of the band. I personally don't think that the Jazz Butcher without Max Eider is much of a thing at all, although I will say that the 1990 gig did include, pace the gigography, an encore in which the Jazz Butcher was joined by opening act The Blue Aeroplanes (I think there were, like, eighty of them) for a ripping version of "Caroline Wheeler's Birthday Present" (and, IIRC, "Sweet Jane"). That was a good time.

[MEMORY UPDATE] I just recalled what I think is a funny thing. Another "Friend of Bombast," Jen, once rebuffed a cassette of Jazz Butcher songs that I had made for her. "He is too English," she explained. [This, from a Smiths fan!] It got me thinking that there are, I guess, many ways to be English [including the categories "insufficiently English" and "just English enough"], but what I suspect comes off as "too English" is the Oxfordian thing, which, let's face it, only Ride have worn well. MORE IMPORTANTLY, I think this program needs a new feature, because you can never have enough. "Reflections on Rejected Mixtapes" seems like a strong candidate, no shortage of material there.

Anyway, I have a few more "Physical Evidence"-worthy Jazz Butcher records; hopefully the show survives long enough for me to get to them.

On that note, the new WRFI schedule is upon us, and we are staying right where we are, on Hump Night, so prospects are good.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 January 20, 2100-2300:

1. "Total War (Richard Skinner Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel
2. "Take Your Ghosts" | The Japanese Girl | Sonic-Shaped Life | Munster
3. "Mandrake Handshake" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Mini Album Thingy Wingy | A Recordings
4. "Cumbia de Giza" | Musette | A Cosmic Serenade | Hapna
5. "Bour Sine" | Le Sourouba de Louga | Senegal 70 (Sonic Gems from the 70s) | Analog Africa
6. "Tied" | Oren Ambarchi & Johan Berthling | Tongue Tied | Hapna
7. "Rano Pano" | Mogwai | CENTRAL BELTERS | ROCK ACTION
8. "Victims" | Tropic of Cancer | Archive: The Downwards Singles | Blackest Ever Black
9. "Mon Explication" | Daniel Jacques | Discovery Change (Part 3) | Jadac
10. "Invocation" | Cabaret Voltaire | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule
11. "Gloss, Pt. 1" | Theo Burt | Gloss | Presto
12. "Completely sun (feat. Jarvis Cocker)" | Pilooski | Isola | Dirty
13. "Resolution (pt. 2 version 2)" | Singers & Players | Revenge of the Underdog | On-U Sound
14. "Warning!" | Peter Scion | Through My Ghost | Huntleys + Palmers
15. "Bath of Bacon" / "Soul Happy Hour" / "Death Dentist" / "Walk with the Devil" / "Rain" / "Roadrunner" | The Jazz Butcher and his Sikkorskis from Hell | Hamburg | Rebel | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Boys in Blue" | Janitor Joe | The Color of Noise | Robellion
17. "Squeeze Up (Part 2)" | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Uptown Top Ranking | VP
18. "Dance Slow" | Marbert Rocel | In the Beginning | Compost
19. "Mudlarks" | Shape Worship | A City Remembrancer | Front and Follow
20. "Come On Down and Get Saved" | Today Is the Day | The Color of Noise | Robellion
21. "Magical Journey" | Reckonwrong | Whities 005 | Whities
22. "Sophisticated Girl V.I.P" | Seekers International | Her Imperial Majesty | Boomarm Nation
23. "Street Credibility" | Family Fodder | Sunday Girls (Director's Cut) | Staubgold

feel like crawling off somewhere to die

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Sordid Details Following: Transmission 258, 2016 January 13

I never know how this program should respond when special people die. Each instance seems like a high-risk balancing act. I don't want to do too much or too little, I don't want to ignore things or use death as an opportunity, and I feel the need to respond in the spirit of the moment, whatever that is, and in line with what I am feeling, which I will immodestly say is indispensable, because without taking this into consideration it isn't clear why *I* in particular should be delivering these two hours of radio. So with all that in mind here is the first program I did after we all found out that David Bowie died.

I'd be lying if I said I was a "fan." I can't speak for Lady Catharsis, who contributes "Heroes" to the program, but I think I'm authorized to say she only has one Bowie record. His music was one of those things that, seemingly, everyone in my high school theatre ensemble was into. Being a contrarian and a jerk, I kept it at arms' length, along with a host of other things dear to the group: Pink Floyd, Dr. Who [these would have been the Colin Baker years], Sgt. Pepper's, and Kate Bush [how many airings of "Babooshka" before brain damage sets in?]. Anyway I have come around, partly, on one or two of these things.

It seems like Bowie helped many a weird listener survive adolescence, and he helped at least a couple of his friends get clean and sober. Plus, he could make life unpleasant for people who deserved it. Whatever you feel about any individual Bowie song, he didn't seem ever to do a thing he didn't want to do in order to please others. The world is undoubtedly a dimmer place in his absence. So there's that.

You were expecting something profound? It's like you don't know me.

Oh, and enjoy the Comsat Angels.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 January 13, 2100-2300:

1. "Sound and Vision" | David Bowie | The Singles Collection | EMI
2. "Motame en la tormenta" | Mecanica Popular | Noche triler | Names You Can Trust
3. "Dark Parade (John Peel Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Sequence 2" | Skatebard | CDIII | Balsa Wood
5. "Charity Begins at Home" | Eji Oyewole | Charity Begins at Home | BBE
6. "At Sea (John Peel Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
7. "El sol y la luna (feat. Judah Warsky)" | Pilooski | Isola | Dirty
8. "Locked in Water" | Whore Paint | Ultra Sound | Translation Loss
9. "Goat of the West (Demo)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Galactic Center" | Helios Creed | The Color of Noise | Robellion
11. "Be Brave (John Peel Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Alpine Dawn" | The Orb | Pop Ambient 2016 | Kompakt
13. "Prostrate" | Marshall Applewhite | Dark Acid V | Clan Destine
14. "Mass" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Scary Munsters and Super Creeps" | Brian Harris | On My Knees | self-released
16. "Heavy Snow" | STL | Message of Sound, Pt. 1 | Echocord
17. "Ashes to Ashes" | David Bowie | The Singles Collection | EMI
18. "What's in Me" | Catz 'n Dogz | Basic Colour Theory | Pets
19. "Rishi (Shit Robot vs. Rino S.)" | Shit Robot | Rishi | Kitjen
20. "Justaposition" | Tellavision | The Third Eye | Karlrecords
21. "Gush" | Co La | No No | Kemado
22. "Heave Ho" | Cows | The Color of Noise | Robellion
23. "Eye Dance (Richard Skinner Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Heroes" | David Bowie | The Singles Collection | EMI | "Listening Parlour"
25. "Paint Me As a Dead Soul" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring
26. "Jah Warble" | Al Lover | Zodiak Versions | Hoga Nord
27. "Ziggy Stardust" | Bauhaus | Spirit | Beggars Banquet

we live together, on our own

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Rush Hour of the Gods: Transmission 257, 2016 January 6

Welcome to the first program of 2016, which finds us doing something predictable, playing a Coil record, and doing something else predictable, which is sounding awesome. OF COURSE bad things happen on this program, and AS USUAL it doesn't matter. This one goes in the vault. (They all go in the vault, but some postings merit the announcement more than others.)

As the history apparently goes, "Backwards" was something that Coil began to record either with Trent Reznor of at Trent Reznor's studio. I am too lazy to google at the moment. But here, from my youTube "favorites" list, is something funny Peter Christopherson said about Nine Inch Nails:

You know what, though? I'm going to tell you something that would probably have sickened Younger Me, so it's a good thing that guy can't use a time machine to see this: I have actually come to believe in recent years that Trent Reznor is a lovely guy, or at least that he has become one. Old age is making me really soft.

Miscellaneous: the same person who called in to request Can chided me a few minutes later for playing Motorhead and not Hawkwind. People are tough to please.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 30, 2100-2300:

1. "AYOR Its in My Blood" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
2. "Stealing" | Lilies on Mars | Stealing | Lady Sometimes
3. "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" | Walls | Urals | Ecstatic
4. "Intro" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Nuclear Substation" | The Advisory Circle | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
6. "I'm Not Going Down" | Lois | Dank Jazz | Acuarela
7. "Nature Is a Language - the test" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Lonar" | The Program | The path of Least Resistance | Bandcamp self-release
9. "Dusty" | Brian Ellis & Brian Grainger | At Dusk | El Paraiso
10. "Fire of the Mind" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
11. "U.V." | Hammerhead | The Color of Noise | Robellion
12. "Passeig de Gracia" | Pina | Transit | Lapsus
13. "Phonogene" | Teeth of the Sea | Highly Deadly Black Tarantula | Rocket
14. "A Small Revolving World" | John Foxx | London Overgrown | Metamatic
15. "A Cold Cell" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Stop Suffering" | Tropic of Cancer | Stop Suffering | Blackest Ever Black
17. "Be Careful What You Wish For" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Groovy Situation" | Keith Rowe & The Upsetters | Mr. Perry I Presume | Pressure Sounds
19. "Cosmic Serpent" | The Comet Is Coming | Prophecy | Leaf
20. "Amber Rain" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Total War (John Peel Session)" | The Comsat Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel
22. "Your Head" | Helmet | The Color of Noise | Robellion
23. "Heavens Blade" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Violet Lady" | Monuments | From the Future: The 1982-1983 Tapes | Mannequin
25. "1Guarda" | Visionist | Safe | PAN
26. "Micro Dub (Say No) - Conscious Sounds" | Congo Natty | Jungle Revolution in Dub | Big Dada
27. "Fire of the Green Dragon" | Coil | Backwards | Cold Spring | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Oscura Primavera" | Can | The Lost Tapes | Spoon
29. "Travelers Who'd Seen It" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope | Numero Group
30. "Louie Louie (John Peel Session)" | Motorhead | BBC Live & In-Session | Sanctuary

drifting into my solitude, over my head

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