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I Can't Answer Why, But I Can Tell You How: Transmission 256, 2015 December 30

It's funny, once again, how the inexplicable and intolerable time lag between a show's airing and its posting creates awkwardness. I thought, at the time, that I was opening the show with "merely" the new David Bowie single, and not the opening paragraph of a goodbye note. I miss 2015. Anyway, the "tribute" show comes later; this is just the regular regular.

But what a good program this is, if I do say so, and I do. I somehow managed not to get to as much of Volume Four as I would have liked, but I am gratified to see from the images on Discogs that it is indeed "World's End Limited" that produced this fine series of compilation zines, for a while. And if it wasn't the name of the label, someone needs to take this up, stat. The world's end is coming, after all.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 30, 2100-2300:

1. "Blackstar" | David Bowie | Blackstar | Sony
2. "Animal Space" | New Age Steppers | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
3. "Don't Fight It, Feel It" | Primal Scream | Screamadelica [reissue] | Sony
4. "Soul Kiss" | Spectrum | Volume Four | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Satta Dread - unreleased alternate cut" | Wayne Jarrett | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
6. "Bulletproof (Adrian Sherwood Remix)" | Pop Will Eat Itself | Volume Four | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Do While Apple-X" | Oval | 94 diskont | Thrill Jockey
8. "Inner Systems" | Prequel Tapes | Inner Systems | Rcoupd
9. "Bury Yourself" | Vert | The Days Within | Shitkatapult
10. "Home Is the Range" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Demon
11. "Firepile (remix)" | Throwing Muses | Volume Four | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Successive Pleasure" | My Disco | Severe | Temporary Residence
13. "Music of the Spheres" | Cara Stacey | Things That Grow | Kit
14. "In Norwegen ganz verwegen" | Shackleton | Deliverance Series No. 3 | Woe to the Septic Heart
15. "Shine" | Flower Sermon | Volume Four | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Sons of the Serpent" | Mark McGuire | Beyond Belief | Dead Oceans
17. "The Ascent" | Ramleh | Circular Time | Crucial Blast
18. "Ode to Joy" | B Music | Ghosts of Christmas Past (Remake) | Les Disques du Crepuscule
19. "My Insatiable One (New Piano Version)" | Suede | Volume Four | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Braids" | Aris Kindt | Floods | Scissor & Thread
21. "We, The Inspired" | Butterfly Child | Volume Four | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Distant Trees" | Pharaon de Winter | Pharaon de Winter | Because Music
23. "The Caterpillar" | The Cure | Staring at the Sea - The Singles | Elektra
24. "Dizzy Talks" | Kito Jempere | Deep Love 15 | Dirt Crew
25. "If Nobody Had an Ocean" | Earth Jerks | The West Is a Mess | Ba Da Bing!

angels are mathematical

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What Kind of Dance Is This, Nothing Happens: Transmission 255, 2015 December 29

This seemed like a "downer" of a program when I listened back to it, but looking at the playlist I can't see why, except for the obvious. More on that momentarily. It probably had something to do with my mood, which proves as always that I am not fit to assess anything. My counselor tells me that we need to do some deep, background work but that my self-esteem is so wrecked that such work will probably make me feel worse about myself instead of better. So--how is your 2016?

Anyway, this is the first of a couple of Comsat Angels-themed episodes, which maybe explains the melancholy atmosphere of this particular audio file. It's weird--these records are so good and yet they just didn't make it into my circle of whatever, back in the day. I'm sure my old radio station had some stuff, but I don't remember anyone playing it; I had no friends who were into this band, never saw their records in a local store, etc. This seems like one of the quaint little things about pre-globalization. I remember having a copy of Surfer Rosa early on, loaning it to someone, having that person loan it to someone else, having an insanely hard time tracking my record down, and not getting it back until nearly a year later, by which point seemingly everyone I knew was a Pixies fan. For many an influential record, the roles were reversed--I depend on others and am by no means a tastemaker, no matter what my twitter bio says--but I can't for the life of me understand why Comsat Angels bypassed all of us. Clearly, though, it's never too late to be an emo kid.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 29, 1900-2100:

1. "Let's Boogie" | The Exorcist GBG | The Exorcist GBG | Hoga Nord
2. "Waiting for a Miracle" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Chic Psychedelic - X-Port Version" | System 7 | X-Port    A-Wave
4. "Higher than the Sun (A Dub Symphony in Two Parts)" | Primal Scream | Screamadelica [reissue] | Sony
5. "Dark Planet - Modeselektor Remix" | Shed | Dark Planet | 50Weapoons
6. "Loss - Regis Version" | Ike Yard | Manbait | Blackest Ever Black
7. "Waiting for a Miracle (John Peel Session)" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
8. "A Friend Indeed Dub" | The Aggrovators | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
9. "Real Story" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Cruisin' the IDR" | Workin' Man Noise Unit | Play Loud | Riot Season
11. "Red Planet" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
12. "77 Emerging Strips" | Little Annie | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
13. "Ju Ju Money (John Peel Session)" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
14. "The Unbecoming" | Perils | Perils | Desire Path
15. "Patient Days" | Clay Rendering | Snowthorn | Hospital Productions
16. "Le moi inacheve" | Police des Moeurs | Ceux Qui Restent | Mannequin
17. "Specimen No. 2" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Configuracion de Ataque" | Leandro Fresco | Pop Ambient 2016 | Kompakt
19. "Deep End" | Pye Corner Audio | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
20. "All of the Time" | Shop Assistants | Will Anything Happen | Blue Guitar / Chrysalis
21. "Independence Day (John Peel Session)" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Three of Five" | Tapage | Five & Six | Tympanik
23. "Silhouettes" | Thick Pigeon | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule
24. "Monkey Pilot" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Meditation No 2" | Laraaji | Ambient 3: Day of Radiance | Glitterbeat
26. "Postcard" | The Comast Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Just Like Honey (Demo - Oct 84)" | The Jesus and Mary Chain | Just Like Honey | Blanco Y Negro
28. "Debris" | WSR | Stainless | Contort

fresh deliveries for paid-up members

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Amateurism Arises When the Culture Around You Won't Let You Out of Where You Are: Transmission 254, 2015 December 23

Last June, when "The Dark Parade" ended, we moved our broadcast time from Tuesdays to Wednesdays. I have a thing about calendars, dates, and observances--part of me wanted not to appear on the same dates I broadcast last year ("that rules out a lot of dates," murmurs the chorus) but a hump night return was more important. So, anyway, here we are again with another Festivus observance. Last year's was so cheerful, in comparison, but this is a well-put-together program that I hope will give someone comfort at some point, maybe even right now.

It is good to see the back of this week. I am sick, both medically and at heart. It seems like everyone is dying. We're also being jobbed out of a proper winter, and my reverse seasonal affect isn't having it. I am grateful in these times for friends (update--"Reinhardt" and I made brief contact), friendly acquaintances (thanks to Leslie W for the copy of "1") and fleeting respites from my chronic, overstated anguish.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 23, 2100-2300:

1. "Black Candy" | Beat Happening | Look Around | Domino
2. "Can I take your order" | Leslie Winer & CM von Hausswolff | 1 | Monotype | "Physical Evidence"
   
3. "Unterwasser" | Max Wurden | Pop Ambient 2016 | Kompakt
4. "The History of Coal" | Normil Hawaiians | Return of the Ranters | Upset the Rhythm
5. "I Could Have Died" | J. C. Satan | J. C. Satan | Born bad
6. "Weatherman" | Leslie Winer & CM von Hausswolff | 1 | Monotype | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Death In Reverse" | MONO | Transcendental | Pelagic
8. "(P) Playfulness" | Clap! Clap! | Simple | Black Acre
9. "Travel Is Dangerous" | Mogwai | CENTRAL BELTERS | ROCK ACTION
10. "Rocking Carol" | B Music | Ghosts of Christmas Past (Remake) | Les Disques du Crepuscule
11. "Never Get Burn" | Twinkle Brothers | Beyond the Front Line | Front Line / Virgin
12. "I'll Be Mother" | Leslie Winer & CM von Hausswolff | 1 | Monotype | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Commercial" | Circuit Breaker | My Descent into Capital | Harbinger Sound
14. "Lighthouse Hustle" | Senking | Closing Ice | Raster-Noton
15. "Blue Green" | The Future Sound of London | Archived 8 | Jumpin' & Pumpin'
16. "Talked to Some of Them" | Leslie Winer & CM von Hausswolff | 1 | Monotype | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Magic, Art & Bells" | Early Mammal | Take a Lover | Riot Season
18. "Queen Mary" | Benjamin Brunn | Smallville Ways - Ten Years | Smallville
19. "This Discreet Organ" | Leslie Winer & CM von Hausswolff | 1 | Monotype | "Physical Evidence"
20. "HRM TX" | Benjamin Damage | Obsidian | 50Weapons
21. "Up to You" | Marbert Rocel | In the Beginning | Compost
22. "Catching Clouds in Outerspace" | Marco Bernardi | Spoken Word of Lie | Brokntoys
23. "Guiding Star" | Teenage Fanclub | Bandwagonesque | Creation - DGC

the transitive property

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Accidental Christmas Tunes To Come: Transmission 253, 2015 December 22

I have nothing to say about this particular program--except that maybe I expected a bit more from a tune called "We Met Bernard Sumner at a Christmas Party Last Night," that one has a bit of a "We Didn't Start the Fire" thing going* --so I will just drop a couple of thoughts here, or maybe "musings," if they don't rise to the level of thoughts.

I never owned any iteration of The Ghosts of Christmas Past until a day or two before this program. I knew that Crepuscule had released the 73rd different edition of this collection this fall, but I opted for the original record, mostly because I preferred the cover art. I'm sure the cd is perfectly good, but I am a jerk like this a lot of the time. I need THE WHOLE PACKAGE to be just right, or I will have "issues." It got me thinking whether aesthetics and curation are just fascism for people who are squeamish about actual violence.

Also, perhaps a bit of mental clarity is beginning to kick in on account of some changes of habit, but this was the year I decided I really wasn't into Christmas music per se. Every song I heard, unless it was attributed as "traditional," struck me as a crass novelty, which they really are. I am slow enough to have realized this just now. (By the way, people really WENT IN HARD on "Wonderful Christmas Time" by Paul McCartney this year, as though it just dawned on us all that maybe it's not so good. But I will tell you that there is no universe in which that is a worse song than The Beach Boys' "Little Saint Nick.") Anyway, I have always associated certain non-observant recordings with December, or Christmas time, if you prefer. We'll get to those, but that's for next time.

"Always Christmas, and Never Winter."

*it does have a good beat, and you can dance to it.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 22, 2100-2300:

1. "Cathedral Bloody Lady" | Eric Feremans | The Antwerp Killer | Finders Keepers
2. "Prayer for a Cheaper Christmas" | Swinging Buildings | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Downhearted Holidays" | Voiski | Breaths Written Outside Gloom | Delsin
4. "Baby I Love You So" | Jacob Miller | Classic Rockers | Island Jamaica
5. "Death Sentences" | Black Wing | ...Is Doomed | The Flenser
6. "Weinachtrap" | Tuxedomoon | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Distance" | Ziro | Lionheart | Crazylegs
8. "Afghan Farmer Driving Cattle" | The Mothmen | Pay Attention! | On-U Sound
9. "Christiana" | Paul Haig | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Nefelibata" | Mario Hammer | L'esprit de L'escalier | Traum
11. "Devils Dub Plate" | The Upsetters | Mr. Perry I Presume | Pressure Sounds
12. "Genetic Engineering" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships (Live at the Museum of Liverpool) | White Noise
13. "Gros Sabots" | The Flabbergast | No. 1 | Circus Company
14. "Feinherb" | Wurden & Pfeiffer | Pop Ambient 2016 | Kompakt
15. "Cream or Christians" | Michael Nyman | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
16. "We Met Bernard Sumner at a Christmas Party Last Night" | Marsheaux | Ghosts of Christmas Past (Remake) | Les Disques du Crepuscule
17. "Ahmadiya" | Martyn | Falling for You | Ostgut Ton
18. "Honolulu 25 Dicembre 1990" | Magazzini Criminali | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Afraid of the Dark" | Gentleman's Dub Club | The Big Smoke | Easy Star
20. "Tokyo Twilight" | The Names | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Tamiditin" | Tinariwen | Live in Paris | Wedge
22. "Lointaine AC" | The Young Gods | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
23. "Hot Club of Christ" | Aztec Camera | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Megalith" | Akkord | Obelisk | Houndstooth
25. "Peep Show International" | Simon Topping | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"
26. "Tw33tz" | Phon.o | Tw33tz / Oscillate | 50Weapons
27. "Renes" | Lloyd Cole | 1D (Electronics 2012-2014) | Bureau B
28. "Tuntuna rebajada" | Romperayo | Romperayo | Discrepant
29. "One Christmas for Your Thoughts" | The Durutti Column | Chantons Noël - Ghosts Of Christmas Past | Les Disques du Crepuscule | "Physical Evidence"

a dictatorship without tears

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Everyone Has To Have an Interest: Transmission 252, 2015 December 16

There were many things going wrong behind the scenes on this particular night. Fortunately most of them don't make it to the foreground of this broadcast. But I can tell you, I was confused and frazzled as it was happening. It has been nice, listening to it after the fact and actually hearing the tunes.

Sometimes a band survives for a long time and through many iterations, but only some of their records seem to represent them as you'd like to remember them. The Wedding Present record featured in this broadcast is one of those. Also there are records that give you strong memories of hopeful times, "core memories," let's call them [yes, I just watched Inside Out, and yes, I cried]. That record is also one of those.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Deconstrucction" | Radar Men from the Moon | Subversive I | Fuzz Club
2. "Ashwini" | Kujuu | Kardan | For Those Who Know
3. "Move Me" | Kellerkind | Stil Vor Talent Berlin - Teufelsberg | Stil Vor Talent
4. "Who-Dun-It?" | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Uptown Top Ranking | VP
5. "B Side" | El Mahdy Jr. | Ghost Tapes | Discrepant
6. "Vasya Vasyl'ok" | The Wedding Present | Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela | RCA | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Colour Me In" | Certain Creatures | Vipassana | Styles Upon Styles
8. "Hyper Ho" | Telepathe | Destroyer | Young Cubs
9. "NEU 5" | Basti Grub | NEU | Hohenregler
10. "Distant Worlds" | Meteor Musik | Asteriu | Kasset
11. "Adera" | Aisha Devi | Of Matter and Spirit | Houndstooth
12. "Her Imperial Majesty" | Seekers International | Her Imperial Majesty | Boomarm Nation
13. "Hude Dnipro Hude" | The Wedding Present | Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela | RCA | "Physical Evidence"
14. "1987 (interlude)" | Shape Worship | A City Remembrancer | Front and Follow
15. "Not All Bad - Not All Good" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa
16. "Youts of Today - Harry J 2015" | Brain Damage | Walk the Walk | Jarring Effects
17. "Verkhovyno" | The Wedding Present | Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela | RCA | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Doomed" | Kitchen's Floor | Battle of Brisbane | Bruit Direct
19. "Crate Diggin on Planet Omnom" | Luke Hess | Adventures in Deep Space | Echocord Colour
20. "Ocean Drift" | Debukas | Forward to the Past 3 EP 2 | Poker Flat
21. "Zadumav Didochok" | The Wedding Present | Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela | RCA | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Tit for Tat" | Bruce Haack | Haackula | Telephone Explosion
23. "Tired" | Dead Fader | Dosage EP | Touchin' Bass
24. "Davni Chasy" | The Wedding Present | Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela | RCA | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Provincial Disco" | The Wake | Tidal Wave of Hype | Les Temps Modernes
26. "Amor Fati - Peverelist Remix" | Hodge | Amor Fati / Tilikum | Livity Sound

I will try to do sensible things

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Can't Cry When I Don't Have Your Shoulder: Transmission 251, 2015 December 9

The second night of a "back-to-back"--we did several of these last month. I might have mentioned this last time out, but December is prime time for filling in on the radio. People (a) get busy and (b) go away. In the olden days it was a joy to take on extra broadcast opportunities around the annual gifting holiday. I am trying to re-access feelings these days. I don't know if it's working.

I do know that I have achieved a particular kind of notoriety, in that my behavior is more or less the cause of a new station policy limiting the frequency of fill-in appearances. One consideration for "Hall of Fame" status in sports is whether an athlete has changed the game in some way, for example causing a strategic re-think or the introduction of new rules to level the "playing field." So there is that. I definitely have Hall-of-Fame peskiness and endurance, if not quality. There is a question of whether the rule can really be about me when I helped to draft it, but we will let the judges decide.

Anyway, as it turns out, this long-winded humblebrag is a bit out of place, as December 9 was a regularly-scheduled appearance for me. Timing: it has never been my strong suit. As I predicted, this show was a bit angrier and more ragged than the previous night. But it is also full of TR-707 sounds, as promised, so no complaining.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 9, 2100-2300:

1. "Into the Dark" | Siglo XX | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
   
2. "Late" | Mouse on Mars | Dis Cover - Donna Regina As Recorded By | Karaoke Kalk
3. "Luther" | Black Wing | ...Is Doomed | The Flenser
4. "I Bite Through It" | Oneohtrix Point Never | Garden of Delete | Warp
5. "Sweet Soul Music - Live at the 100 Club, London / 1977" | The Jam | Fire and Skill: The Jam Live | Polydor
6. "Bad Seeds" | Beat Happening | Look Around | Domino
7. "Love on a Pale Green Post Stamp (live)" | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Labor and Enchantment" | Bill Orcutt | Colonial Donuts | Palilalia
9. "Chemical Specialist" | Creation Rebel / New Age Steppers | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
10. "A Day" | Dole | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Belbury Poly Logotone" | Belbury Poly | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
12. "Robert Earl" | Christina Vantzou | No. 3 | kranky
13. "Love and Pain" | The Neon Judgement | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Daniel" | Iron Curtis | Smallville Ways - Ten Years | Smallville
15. "Laika" | Moon Zero | Moon Zero | Denovali
16. "Psychedelic Conveyor Belt" | Gossamer | Garden Ghost | self-released
17. "Night Beach" | Brian Ellis & Brian Grainger | At Dusk | El Paraiso
18. "The Lift" | The Weathermen | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
19. "All Around and Inside" | Anthony Child | Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle, Vol. 1 | Editions Mego
20. "Do You Know My Name" | Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin | Wait For Me | Hot Casa
21. "Meltintu" | Call Super | Migrant | Houndstooth
22. "Fooling Around - Long Version" | Rat Columns | Fooling Around | Blackest Ever Black
23. "Harley David" | The Bollock Brothers | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Intermission" | Feindrehstar | Love & Hoppiness | Musik Krause
25. "Bad Day" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa
26. "Waiting For" | Trisomie 21 | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Phil vs David" | The Black Dog | Neither/Neither | Dust Science
28. "Moebius Strip (Suspension)" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released
29. "Dance Ritual I feat. Anbuley" | Auntie Flo | Theory of Flo | Huntleys + Palmers
30. "I Comb My Hair" | Co La | No No | Kemado
31. "Blood of Babylon - unreleased dubplate mix" | Barrington Spence | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
32. "Fratello Mare" | Mike Cooper | Fratello Mare | Room40
33. "You're Gonna Need That When He's Gone" | Bing & Ruth | City Lake | RVNG
34. "Prick" | Steve Lake | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"

i don't know what's wrong with the youts

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Maybe We Are Thinking the Same Thing: Transmission 250, 2015 December 8

Yo yo yo, happy 2016 denizens of the podcast site. We are back, feeling heavier and not terribly refreshed from our holiday, such as it was. Here is our sesquicentennial episode, occuring--as is our tradition with milestones--without fanfare, on short notice, and in a fill-in context. I am still working on figuring out why it is so much fun do do radio when I am "not supposed to." Updates will follow.

Anyway, this was a good night. As I say during the broadcast, the Ezy & Isaac record is quite special and continues to get better in my estimation, for what it's worth. We got real-time positive feedback--hooray for affirmation!--and a request that actually fit in with what we were doing. A BANNER EVENING.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 December 8, 1900-2100:

1. "Echoes of Progress" | Colossal Yes | Surrounded by Progress | Ba-Da Bing!
2. "Take Off!!!" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa | "Physical Evidence"
3. "DarkLord" | Deradoorian | The Expanding Flower Planet | Anticon
4. "Lay Beside You" | Joy White | Mr. Perry I Presume | Pressure Sounds
5. "Come to the Feast" | The 4th Coming | Strange Things (The Complete Works, 1970-1974) | Now-Again
6. "Burn True" | Coppe' | 20rpm | Mango + Sweetrice
7. "All We Need Is Love" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Way of Life" | New Order | Brotherhood | Rhino
9. "Eclipse" | Robot Koch | Hypermoment | Monkeytown
10. "Arp 188" | Steve Moore | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
11. "Situation" | Laurel Halo | In Situ | Honest Jon's
12. "A Form of Love" | Chevel | Blurse | Stroboscopic Artefacts
13. "Don't Step on My Shoes" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa | "Physical Evidence"
14. "The Night Sky" | Mark Van Hoen | Nightvision | Saint Marie
15. "Monday Generation" | Baby Guru | Sunshine Special | Klik
16. "Lift Me Up" | Console | Dis Cover - Donna Regina As Recorded By | Karaoke Kalk
17. "Bawagbe" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Czas Poczeka (Chyba)" | Catz 'n Dogz | Basic Colour Theory | Pets
19. "E=facé-C2" | Anklepants | Social-Patching-And the pixel Pageant faced boy | Love Love
20. "Dancing Horse (Logotone)" | The Focus Group | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
21. "I Fell Like a Fucking Flower" | Kinski | 7 (or 8) | Kill Rock Stars
22. "Absence" | The Telescopes | Hidden Fields | Tapete
23. "I'm Ready for You Baby" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa | "Physical Evidence"
24. "I've Said" | Visionist | Safe | PAN
25. "Aylmeri Bracelet" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope | Numero Group
26. "Mandarin Rabbit (LaGuardia)" | ULYSSES | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
27. "Holding Back (My Love) - Shan Funhouse Mix" | Tensnake | In the End (Remixes) | Running Back
28. "Edgewater Prelude" | Steve Hauschildt | Where All Is Fled | kranky
29. "Fly...Night Bird" | Roy Buchanan | You're Not Alone | Atlantic
30. "Tears of Modernism" | Pinkcourtesyphone | Sentimental Something | Important
31. "Sad to See You Go Away" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa | "Physical Evidence"
32. "This I'm Not Telling You" | Die Goldenen Zitronen | Flogging a Dead Frog | Altin Village & Mine
33. "Kunta Kinte Dub" | Singers and Players | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound

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U_D_M Detour 14, 2014 November 14

Bonjour, LeBatard here, “here” being an undisclosed location in the not-frozen North. I didn’t buy you anything for Christmas, but I do have this program from the somewhat distant past to share with you. It cost me more than you know.

Since I am a free spirit, I often occupy the booth alone, but on this night I am joined for the first and only time. My co-host’s name is Faustine de la Rue, and she is, twice over. She and I plow through a multifaceted soundtrack for hedonism and adventure. We also butcher the entertainment calendar, and I injure myself in the studio. IT IS A DANGEROUS LIFE.

U_D_M playlist, 2014 November 14, 1900-2000:

1. "Mold Trip" | William Kouam Djoko | Satisfied | mobilee
2. "Flying Suns" | UNER | Tune 432 | DIYNamic
3. "Ringbahn" | Maxim Wolzyn | Intercity Express | SVS
4. "For You - Deepchord Reconstruction #1" | Fluxion | Broadwalk Tales Remix | Echocord
5. "Forbidden Place" | Esa | Serenity In A Forbidden Place | Burek
6. "Looking From A Hilltop (Stephen Morris Mix)" | Section 25 | From the Hip [30th anniversary reissue] | Factory Benelux
7. "No. No... (John Tejada Mix)" | The Field | Kompakt: Total 14 | Kompakt
8. "In Your System" | Tin Man | ODE | Acid Test

boreds of canada

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If You Finish, There's Hot Chocolate: Transmission 249, 2015 December 2

"You need to figure out how to be nice to yourself." Both Lady Catharsis and my counselor tell me this, so I am guessing there is some truth to it. This will take some figuring, but I can start by saying this is a pretty good program, verbal gaffes notwithstanding.

I really, really embarrassed DJ Andrea with what I said about her program in the beginning. Were we joking? I'm not sure. I will say that everything I tell anyone about BOMBAST is meant to be repeated. I have no reservations about it. At any rate we do struggle to find an audience for our music programs at WRFI, stranded as we are between an older demographic that doesn't know how to use computers and a younger demographic that doesn't get its music from the radio. Is either demographic "white?" This is Ithaca, son. (...and Watkins Glen.)

BOMBAST has always strived to be music for depressed, middle-aged people of mixed race who may also suffer from anxiety and various "adaptive strategies" gone wrong. However many of us there are! I think we have succeeded, and I'm not even "being nice" to myself when I say that. I honestly think it is the truth.

As for repeating the words that other people say, I will strive to be better. "You had a thought," my counselor told me today, "but you didn't act on it." I don't always have to, except when I do.

BOMBAST PLAYLIST, 2015 December 2, 2100-2300:

1. "Le coeur de la ville bat pour nous" | Police des Moeurs | Ceux Qui Restent | Mannequin
2. "Eye of the Lens" | The Comsat Angels | Eye of the Lens | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Flicker - Dag Rosenqvist Remix" | Graveyard Tapes | I'm on Fire (White Rooms Remixes) | Lost Tribe
4. "Terrain" | Julia Kent | Asperities | Leaf
5. "Obsidian" | Benjamin Damage | Obsidian | 50Weapons
6. "At Sea" | The Comsat Angels | Eye of the Lens | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Almost There" | John Foxx & The Belbury Circle | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
8. "Access Granted" | Gregor Garnutsi | Dark Acid V | Clan Destine
9. "Life Inside a Paradox" | Lost Horizons | Rainy Day Record / Life Inside a Paradox | Bella Union
10. "More Basile" | Sergie Rezza | Sergie Rezza | desire
11. "Sirens" | Ms. John Soda | Loom | Morr
12. "Charlie" | Loscil | Plume [reissue] | kranky
13. "288-1" | Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator | Con-Struct | Bureau B
14. "Stupid People" | Evil Blizzard | Everybody Come to Church | Louder Than War
15. "Gone" | The Comsat Angels | Eye of the Lens | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
16. "End" | Monuments | From the Future: The 1982-1983 Tapes | Mannequin
17. "Horse Thief" | Birds of Prey | Birds of Prey | Kathexis
18. "Return to White Mountain" | Master Musicians of Bukkake | Further West Quad Cult | Important
19. "Mind-Body Problems" | CW/A | Words Unspoken, Acts Undone | Parachute
20. "Here and Now" | Ride | Nowhere25 | Ride Music
21. "Joke Shop" | The Wake | Make It Loud | Les Temps Modernes
22. "Another World" | The Comsat Angels | Eye of the Lens | Polydor | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Music For Commercials" | Coil | The Consequences of Raising Hell | Threshold Archives
24. "The Sedge" | Max Loderbauer / Claudio Putin / Samuel Rohrer | ambiq 2 | Arjunamusic
25. "Rainy Day Record" | Mercury Rev | Rainy Day Record / Life Inside a Paradox | Bella Union
26. "Attaining the Third State" | Roj | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
27. "The Sea" | Coma | This Side of Paradise | Kompakt
28. "courtmis" | aldenwels | but why hide? | JASS

I can't find anyone to doubt it

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Cruising Altitude Departure 13, 2014 November 8

Hello friends, it's me, the Captain. Or, let's say, "a" Captain. This life has taken many things away from me but I will always have that. Mind you, I don't always bring this up. It is irrelevant in most social contexts. Every now and then someone will address me in this way, taking me aback (and back). I try, like my colleagues at this site, to live in the present.

And yet: here is a departure from a year ago, posting just now, so it appears I am not doing such a good job. Apologies. It is hard work, my sinecure, my self-repair, and...other tasks. Anyway, this program was, I think, a transition out of an "earthy" phase I went through last fall. Every now and then I must remind myself, it seems, of my proper element. The goal is "pure ego life," whatever the Mattson 2 say.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2014 November 8, 1400-1500:

1. "Sadness On A Cloud" | Monolog | Merge | Ad Noiseam
2. "Explorer / Cartographer" | Ormonde | Cartographer / Explorer | Gizeh
3. "Devon Saturday" | Tarwater | Adrift | Bureau B
4. "Holding" | Grouper | Ruins | Kranky
5. "Military Saints II" | Virile Games | Wounded Laurel | Hospital
6. "Veery" | Off Land | Quinarian | Psychonavigation
7. "Day Drift" | Koshi Kamata | Seven Most | Offshoot
8. "Astral" | Marcelus | Shine | Tresor
9. "In Repair" | (ghost) | A Vast And Decaying Appearance | n5MD
10. "For You - Deepchord Reconstruction #2" | Fluxion | Broadwalk Tales Remix | Echocord
11. "Blue Anchor" | Kemper Norton | Loor | Front And Follow
12. "Pure Ego Death" | The Mattson 2 | Agar | Um Yeah Arts
13. "Federn Kegeln" | Springintgut & F.S. Blumm | The Bird and White Noise | Pingipung
14. "Cataracts" | Objekt | Flatland | PAN

a warm body

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