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Emergency Festivals Are Still Festive: Transmission 248, 2015 November 28

WELL, well well. Look at us, all caught up at last. Our newer, lazier schedule has reaped at least one benefit, thank goodness. Here is a program that happened on really short notice because DJ Kristi was sick a few nights ago. Because all critics become voices in my head, this felt like stealing, even although a hypothetical, objective observer (as elusive as the "frictionless surface" of elementary physics problems) might call this "helping."

As is often the case, I was multitasking, so you must take the good segues with the bad. Or not--I guess you could always find a more professional mixtape to listen to. I really did think "Rat Race" would work, and I didn't mean to screw up "Senses" as badly as I did. Finally, OF COURSE the last Joy Division song was "Twenty Four Hours," the ditty that launched a thousand bass tones--or is it one bass tone reiterated a thousand times? Anyway, a part of me knew this in the moment but managed to botch the backannouncing, as I always seem to.

I did manage to tae care of some "business" here, in Festival of Evidence v3.1, that I had meant to take care of a couple of weeks ago when we did the "real thing." But who's to say what's real?

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 November 28, 1900-2100:

1. "Prism Split (A Scrying Song)" | Campbell Irvine | Reunion of Two Bodies | Infrastructure New York
2. "Elektro (He Held the World in His Iron Grip)" | Stereolab | Low Fi | Too Pure
3. "Suicide" | Spacemen 3 | Losing Touch with Your Mind | Munster
4. "Incubation / Wilderness / Twenty Four Hours" | Joy Division | Preston 28 February 1980 | Drastic Plastic
5. "Slicer Dubplate (Version 2)" | Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed
6. "Urban Gamelan" | 23 Skidoo | Beyond Time | Les Disques Du Crepuscule
7. "Moussa Poussy Galore!" | Unknown Artists | Radio Niger | Sublime Frequencies
8. "Harmonics" | Fridge | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed
9. "What in the World" | The Other Side | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 1 | Crypt
10. "Senses" | New Order | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit
11. "Egbe Board" | Sunny Ade and His Green Spot Band | Vol. 4 - Stereo Recording in London | African Songs
12. "Overload" | Interference | Volume 3 | Volume
13. "Rat Race" | The Specials | The BBC Sessions | EMI
14. "Cavatina" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort
15. "Love Cuts" | Chris & Cosey | Action | LD
16. "Happy Hour" | Felix Da Housecat | Kittenz And Thee Glitz | City Rockers
17. "Panic" | Coil | Panic | Threshold Archves
18. "Sunburst" | Loop | Wolf Flow | Reactor
19. "Let's Sail Away (Remix)" | Honey Tongue | Volume 3 | Volume

when they see me they run away

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That Ghost That Lives in Your Head: Transmission 247, 2015 November 18

Presenting the final program of Year Three of this Phantastic Voyage. It strikes me that, were WRFI a college station, and Transmission One had marked the beginning of "freshman" year," I would be a "senior" now. Deep, man.

Basic math tells me that I've averaged 82 programs per year, which is, like, a lot. Look for me to slow down some. Some. More scarcity and more thought-per-program can only increase value, right? That is the theory I am going with.

Nevertheless this here is a good episode, despite being pretty unremarkable. Goodness shouldn't be remarkable, and in the case of BOMBAST I don't think it is. How do you like that, voices in my head? Anyway I have remarked enough about it. Time for you to listen.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 November 18, 2100-2300:

1. "Opening" / "What's a Man's Paris" | Darker My Love | Darker My Love | Dangerbird
2. "Slow Figure" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released
3. "Won't Change" | Husker Du | A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Radial Drill" | New Age Steppers | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
5. "Sto Nisi Tis Afroditis" | Baby Guru | Sunshine Special | Klik
6. "Out of the Frying Pan..." | David Van Tieghem | A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Big Noise, Big Deal" | The Wake | Tidal Wave of Hype | Les Temps Modernes
8. "Ima Mma Uyem" | Mary Afi Usuah | Ekpenyong Abasi | Voodoo Funk
9. "Neither His Nor Yours" | Coil | A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Yukkuri Henshin" | Bill Horist | Mutei: Music for Davida Monk's Dream Pavilion | Important
11. "Stebeni's Theme" | African Head Charge | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
12. "Moroccan Trip" | Billa Qause | Rhodes Inspirational: From East to West | Klik
13. "20rpm" | Coppe' | 20rpm | Mango + Sweetrice
14. "Boiling Point" | The Soundcarriers | In a Moment...Ghost Box | Ghost Box
15. "Dead Man's Shoes" | Cabaret Voltaire | A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Constraint" | Visionist | Safe | PAN
17. "Selfed Out" | The Ambivalent | Phase Doubt | Ovum
18. "Obscurant - Inna Loft Mix by Call Super" | Gonno | Obscurant | International Feel
19. "U1-U8" | Martyn | Falling for You | Ostgut Ton
20. "Nah" | Laurel Halo | In Situ | Honest Jon's
21. "Johnsonius" | David Johansen | A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems | "Physical Evidence"
22. "AA Side" | Donato Dozzy | Cassandra | Claque
23. "Tenement Lover" | Jessica Hagedorn and the Gangster Choir | A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Motioning" | Mind Over Mirrors | The Voice Calling | Immune
25. "The Colour of Love - X-Port Version" | System 7 | X-Port | A-Wave
26. "Kein Weg - with Schneider TM" | Barbara Morgenstern | Beide | Monika Enterprise
27. "Sunday's Child" | Hidden Rivers | Where Moss Grows | Serein
28. "System High-Rise Reprise" | Colossal Yes | Surrounded by Progress | Ba-Da Bing!

actually twenty four hours

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Skin in the Game: Transmission 246, 2015 November 11

Those of you who hopped on board recently may not know that I used to write album reviews. So I'm telling you: I used to write album reviews. I can't remember whether it was a paid gig--it was not a "living," nor was it an internship; it was most likely aspirational voluntarism. ANYWAY. Once, a good friend said about one of my reviews: "I think you got carried away with your words." I probably did. And this is just my prose. Imagine what my spoken discourse must be like: an automatic writing exercise without the magic, and with sound.

Which brings us to this particular episode of the program, an unusual one for a few reasons. On account of our fall fundraiser, I have a co-host, Domenic [a good co-host, as you will discover--the roster of people I will tolerate in the booth has increased!], and we talk a LOT, you guys. I should not talk this much. More on this topic in a moment. Also it is the "Festival of Evidence" v3.0, and not a particularly well-curated festival, but you can't have everything. I was improvising, and toward the end I limited myself to cds, due to, let's call it, "listener response." Some of these tunes have aired previously on the program, but as Mr. Lee told me when half-heartedly trying to sell me on a compilation that would be redundant for me, "the songs appear in an unfamiliar order, though."

Talking--good grief, where to start. I certainly was interested in discussing the Happy Mondays, something I guess someone has to do. I was unfair to Fugazi. They were easily as important as Pixies, probably moreso as time has passed, but I was a 4AD chump back in the day. I am not proud of it, it's just a disclosure. Also, Gallon Drunk were a great band in the 2000s and are still a great band right at this moment. Finally, I can't speak for Domenic, but I am here to bash NPR, whenever you like. Come get some.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 November 11, 2100-2300:

1. "Domain in Grey" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released
2. "Your Love" | No Trend with Lydia Lunch | Heart of Darkness | Widowspeak
3. "Toothpick the Size of a Skyscraper" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68
4. "Desmond" | Happy Mondays | Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) | Factory
5. "The Grunt" | The J.B.'s | These Are The J.B.'s | Now-Again
6. "Bo Diddley Is A Lover" | The Liverbirds | Girls With Guitars | Ace
7. "I Be The Prophet" | Nearly God | Nearly God | Durban Poison - Island
8. "Hatisitose" | The Bhundu Boys | Shabini | Discafrique
9. "Flood" | Pell Mell | Flow | SST
10. "Forget My Name" | The Flaming Stars | Songs From the Bar Room Floor | Vinyl Japan
11. "Swallow My Pride" | Fastbacks | Sub Pop 200 | Sub Pop - Tupelo
12. "Slo-Glyde" | The Durutti Column | Return Of The Sporadic Recordings | Kooky
13. "False Starts" | Andy Fairley | System Vertigo | On-U Sound

surrounded by progress

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Terror Takes the Sound Before You Make It: Transmission 245, 2015 November 4

Hello Radio Friends, here is the first of the November episodes, and a good one if I may say so. It turns out that I may, and so I do, in this new spirit of affirmation I am trying on. Feels good. Hope you enjoy it.

As I've said (probably too often), I was a bit too young to experience "punk" as it unfolded, and the same goes for "industrial" (what I would call the "real" industrial, but don't get me started, as there isn't enough time). The first I heard of "Chris and Cozy" (as I thought, before actually seeing one of their records, they called themselves) was "October Love Song," about which I can't decide whether it was the best or worst thing they've done. Either way I loved it and still do. Their records are special, whether they are the clinical studio material or the grainy live performances such as those captured on Action. Historical note: I seem to recall Mr. D having a vinyl copy of this album, which I hope he has held onto, otherwise I will have to cry.

And I have done enough crying this fall.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 November 4, 2100-2300:

1. "Crucial Dub" | Prince Jammy | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
2. "Shivers" | Chris & Cosey | Action | LD | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Sparks" | Stephan Hinz | Unsentimental EP | Second State Audio
4. "My Desire - Synkro Remix" | Chris Coco | Rhodes Inspirational: From East to West | Klik
5. "Syko - Round's Slow Response Mix" | Kenton Slash Demon | Syko - Round's Slow Response Mix | Future Classic
6. "The Luxury of Living Day by Day" | Pan-Pot | The Other | Second State Audio
7. "Bordeaux (live at WOMAD)" | The Durutti Column | Another Setting [reissue] | Factory Benelux
8. "Error" | Monolake | D E C | imbalance computer music
9. "Pertronics" | Lloyd Cole | 1D (Electronics 2012-2014) | Bureau B
10. "Hasenheide" | Mogwai | CENTRAL BELTERS | ROCK ACTION
11. "Delerium" | Chris & Cosey | Action | LD | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Noche triler" | Mecanica Popular | Noche triler | Names You Can Trust
13. "Resurrection Version 2" | Anti Hero | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
14. "Headcleaner" | Shackleton | Deliverance Series No. 3 | Woe to the Septic Heart
15. "Alpha 5" | Ami Shavit | In Alpha Mood | Finders Keepers
16. "Send the Magick Down" | Chris & Cosey | Action | LD | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Man Made of co2" | Man or Astro-Man? | 1000x | Touch and Go
18. "Garden Ghost" | Gossamer | Garden Ghost | self-released
19. "Kaleidoscope" | Ride | Nowhere25 | Ride Music
20. "Hollow Moon" | Magic Castles | Starflower | A Recordings
21. "Les Claviers de Couleurs" | Astrobal & Tom Terrien | Dis Cover - Donna Regina As Recorded By | Karaoke Kalk
22. "Talk to Me" | Chris & Cosey | Action | LD | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Samurai" | Faultnaut | Rhodes Inspirational: From East to West | Klik
24. "(M) Modesty" | Clap! Clap! | Simple | Black Acre
25. "Messages" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships (Live at the Museum of Liverpool) | White Noise
26. "Silver Ziggurats" | Weird Owl | Interstellar Skeletal | A Recordings
27. "Low Blood Minus" | bossFYTE | Paralellabyes | DETROIT UNDERGROUND

armistices are sacred

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The Look of a Stranger Is Almost a Smile: Transmission 244, 2015 October 28

I went on quite a rant last time out, so I'll try to keep this entry mostly positive. Let's try some remembrances. This Loop record featured in the program brings me back to a simpler, more active time. Back in this period I would walk or bike my way through my problems, instead of eating and drinking my way through them. Apparently I had a lot of free time and not much food or drink. I would frequently have on my Walkman, because that's what we had in those days. Undoubtedly the music I listened to was loud, repetitive, and not-complex, whether it was self-made or other-made. I highly recommend this as a cheap and valuable therapy. I am after all a doctor.

Also, this Loop record (to which I once again do not do justice, although I guess there's always the imminent "Festival of Evidence" to rectify things) kind of reminds me of one particular turning point in history at which I decided I just "didn't get" where music was going. These people and Spacemen 3 were a really nice alternative in the late 1980s to the Seattle scene, and Wax Trax, and that god-awful "Acid House" coming from England. Just play one chord, run it through a fuzz/wah or a "repeat percussion," and repeat. Forever.

I prefer this, by the way, over Main and the other things Robert Hampson has done since. There is a Legend (to be precise, someone who could easily be a legend if they would just answer their damn email) with whom I would love to discuss this particular topic: the notion that sometimes you start out great and don't need to "develop." But that's for another day.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 October 28, 2100-2300:

1. "Venus" | The Exorcist GBG | The Exorcist GBG | Hoga Nord
2. "Out of India" | Sun Temple Circus | Sun Temple Circus - Live | FUEGO
3. "In the World of Moomin" | Folamour | Chapeau Rouge | Fauxpas
4. "Kirin: Yama No Kami: Tango" | Bill Horist | Mutei: Music for Davida Monk's Dream Pavilion | Important
5. "Mother" | Brian Dove / Danzig | not on album | self-released
6. "Rocket USA" | Loop | Wolf Flow | Reactor | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Make My Nana" | Schlammpeitziger | Dis Cover - Donna Regina As Recorded By | Karaoke Kalk
8. "Sleepless" | Pan-Pot | The Other | Second State Audio
9. "Off the Beaten Track" | African Head Charge | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
10. "Send We a Sign" | Seekers International | Her Imperial Majesty | Boomarm Nation
11. "Buffer Underun" | bossFYTE | Paralellabyes | DETROIT UNDERGROUND
12. "Sunrise" | New Order | Low-Life | Rhino
13. "Blinding Horses - Stableboy Version" | Regis | Manbait | Blackest Ever Black
14. "Bleeding Star" | The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience | I Like Rain: The Story of the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience | Fire
15. "Comanche" | Thee Headcoats | Elementary Headcoats [reissue] | Damaged Goods
16. "Straight to Your Heart" | Loop | Wolf Flow | Reactor | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Interruptions" | Urban Force | The Outer Space Connections | Ornaments
18. "Unke" | Smallpeople & Rau | Smallville Ways - Ten Years | Smallville
19. "Mojave Trail" | Night Plane | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
20. "Soundhead" | Loop | Wolf Flow | Reactor | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Smile in the Crowd" | The Durutti Column | Another Setting [reissue] | Factory Benelux
22. "Level 1" | Luca Agnelli | Solaris | Upon You
23. "Collision" | Loop | Wolf Flow | Reactor | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Fractal Shift" | Byron Westbrook | Precipice | Root Strata

taking sides again

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No, I Don't Know, Too: Transmission 243, 2015 October 21

"You sound stuck," a Friend of Bombast tells me. It's true. I am. I'm working on it; whether I'm "doing my best" remains to be seen. It's been a weird four months or so, but tbh the entire ride has been weird.

I was recently reminded that I'll be missing the 3rd birthday (observed) of this program on account of being at DJ Segundo's crib for Thanksgiving. That (the cancellation) seems about right, pretty much par for our current course. But why was I reminded of this? Because at a recent station fundraiser party I was told by a colleague that it sounded like I was on the air all the time (I'm not). There is always too much of me, it seems, dating back to when there was none of me.

Do you know why the Wednesday prior to Thanksgiving, "Thanksgiving eve," if you like, is the program's observed birthday? Because we had just about the softest "soft launch" in the history of radio. A supportive (dare I say rogue?) board member of WRFI snuck me onair, basically, on a night when there would be very few people listening. There was no other way--I couldn't have airtime just for the asking, as others at the station soon received, much less was I going to be cold-called and asked to do a show, as others were. I heard at the time that some board members were opposed to my having a program. Never mind that a white volunteer who started on the same day I did had already been given a program, there was of course nothing differential about my not being given one. There never is. (That person, bee-tee-dubs, is no longer with the station, having ghosted us a couple of years ago, while I'm still here doing off-the-air stuff, but don't let that convince you that the station ever bets on the wrong horse.)

So anyway, here is one of the best, or worst, or most typical programs I have done in my three years at WRFI. Your phone or .mp3 player will try to convince you that it's approximately two hours long, but don't let that stop you thinking it's more like four, or twenty, or whatever fits your narrative.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 October 21, 2100-2300:

1. "At Dusk" | Brian Ellis & Brian Grainger | At Dusk | El Paraiso
2. "Feeder" | Coil | Wrong Eye | Threshold Archives
3. "Basile" | Sergie Rezza | Sergie Rezza | desire
4. "The Courtesy House" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope | Numero Group
5. "Kiiro No Sekai" | J Girls | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-1969 | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Water Dancer" | Jens-Uwe Beyer | The Emissary | Kompakt
7. "Church of All Images - Regis Version" | Vatican Shadow | Manbait | Blackest Ever Black
8. "Ame Agari No Samba" | Ryoko Moriyama | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-1969 | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Spent Time" | The Durutti Column | Another Setting [reissue] | Factory Benelux
10. "Plant Lilies at My Head - Alternate Version" | Tropic of Cancer | Manbait | Blackest Ever Black
11. "Tsukikage No Rendezvous" | Keiko Mari | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-1969 | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Die Anderen" | Kolsch | 1983 | Kompakt
13. "Aurat (Tool)" | Aisha Devi | Of Matter and Spirit | Houndstooth
14. "Asian Rebel" | Suns of Arqa | Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics | On-U Sound
15. "Prismatic" | Byron Westbrook | Precipice | Root Strata
16. "Alpha 4" | Ami Shavit | In Alpha Mood | Finders Keepers
17. "Taste of Cindy" | The Jesus and Mary Chain | Psychocandy - Barrowlands Live | Edsel
18. "Freak Love" | Gossamer | Garden Ghost | self-released
19. "Prismacolor" | Pittsburgh Track Authority | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
20. "Sharock No.1" | Mie Nakao | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-1969 | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Sodawaltz" | Ms. John Soda | Loom | Morr
22. "This Foundry - Regis Version" | Raime | Manbait | Blackest Ever Black
23. "Easy Sun" | Dead Fader | Dosage EP | Touchin' Bass
24. "Suki Sa Suki Sa Suki Sa" | Nana Kinomi & Leo Beats | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-1969 | "Physical Evidence"
25. "The Circle Is Binding" | Master Musicians of Bukkake | Further West Quad Cult | Important
26. "Tafouk tele" | Terakaft | Alone (Tenere) | Outhere
27. "Taiyou Wa Naite Iru" | Ayumi Ishida | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-1969 | Big Beat | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Dsa" | Black Wing | ...Is Doomed | The Flenser
29. "Realtime" | Conforce | Presentism | Delsin

do you want to bang heads with me

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Revenge Is Sweet to Those Who Have Never Known Anything Sweet: Transmission 242, 2015 October 14

Sometimes I really do have only a grab-bag of tunes that don't really fit together except in some fleeting and forgotten syntax in my head, or, if you prefer, an amateur Cubist puzzle. This was one of those times. I just had some stuff I felt like hearing and sharing.

I was correct, bee-tee-dubs, when I pointed out that Don't Let The Hope Close Down was the only record released on the Hope Springs label. I know how that goes--I, too, appeared once on a record that was the only thing its "parent company" ever issued. Similarly, "my" record was not successful. Dissimilarly, it was not a thing I wanted to hear on this night! I do listen to it, though, sometimes, when I'm alone. Like Hope, it failed to save anything, except maybe a decent folk tune, for posterity. We'll see.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 October 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Sample D." | Front 242 | Back Catalogue | Wax Trax!
2. "Shadows in Hibernation" | We Never Learned To Live | Silently, I Threw Them Skyward | Holy Roar
3. "Mona" | Thee Milkshakes | Don't Let the Hope Close Down | Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Scrambler - with Robert Lippok" | Barbara Morgenstern | Beide | Monika Enterprise
5. "Beyond - Karmon Remix" | Benotmane | Stil Vor Talent Berlin - Teufelsberg | Stil Vor Talent
6. "Дикие Пляжи" | Вальс | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
7. "Let There Be More Darkness" | Robyn Hitchcock | Don't Let the Hope Close Down| Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
8. "The End of It All 2015 Mix" | John Tejada | The End of It All 2015 Mix | Palette
9. "From Me to You" | Mary Afi Usuah | Ekpenyong Abasi | Voodoo Funk
10. "Nimrud" | Laurel Halo | In Situ | Honest Jon's
11. "Hush" | Killdozer | For Ladies Only | Touch & Go
12. "Through a Glass" | Tall Boys | Don't Let the Hope Close Down| Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Charles Windsor" | McCarthy | I Am a Wallet | Cherry Red
14. "Don't Bring Me Round" | The Telescopes | Hidden Fields | Tapete
15. "The Underestimated Man" | The Vibes | Don't Let the Hope Close Down | Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Ruiner" | OKADA | Impermanence | N5MD
17. "Blood Dunza - unreleased dubplate mix" | Johnny Clarke, DJ | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
18. "What the New Breed Say" | The Sting-Rays | Don't Let the Hope Close Down| Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Strays" | Rat Columns | Fooling Around | Blackest Ever Black
20. "Crazy When I Hear That Beat" | The Dead Beats | Don't Let the Hope Close Down| Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Wait for Me" | Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin | Wait For Me | Hot Casa
22. "Ballad of the Distrances (parts 1 & 2)" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky
23. "Hush" | The Prisoners | Don't Let the Hope Close Down| Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Nao Consegues" | Pega Monstro | Alfarroba | Upset the Rhythm
25. "He Was Human and Belonged with Humans - Regis Version" | Dalhous | Manbait | Blackest Ever Black
26. "Your Attention" | Pan-Pot | The Other | Second State Audio
27. "Tears in My Beer" | Roddy Radiation & The Tearjerkers | Don't Let the Hope Close Down | Hope Springs | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Saturna's Black Belt" | Natural Snow Buildings | Terror's Horns | Ba Da Bing!
29. "Kritikal & X" | M.E.S.H. | Piteous Gate | PAN

i've heard it before, still i need more and more

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Let's Send the Sucker Headfirst Into Space: Transmission 241, 2015 October 7

Here is another broadcast, this one regularly scheduled, as they all seem to be these days. It wasn't a special occasion, but I decided it was finally time for a special disc, the Brain in the Wire compilation (I am really into comps these days). I wrote a while back about a three-disc collection of Wax Trax! material not aging well; this one has aged well and I am still into it.

I actually don't remember any slip-ups from this episode, so I guess that's good. Probably some inexplicable segues, as always. Oh, and some weirdness in the voice-overs. Talking--I am not so good at it, which is probably why this is my medium of choice.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 October 7, 2100-2300:

1. "Je te vois" | Police des Moeurs | Ceux Qui Restent | Mannequin
2. "296-16" | Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator | Con-Struct | Bureau B
3. "Mieva Do" | Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin | Wait For Me | Hot Casa
4. "Vice Versa Dub" | Tino | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Silver Lining" | Anchorsong | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
6. "The Old Empire" | Kasra V | Atlantis | Love in Public Spaces
7. "The Apollo Creed" | Ku-Ling Bros | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Dream of a Child" | The Durutti Column | Another Setting [reissue] | Factory Benelux
9. "Saved (Readwriteerror mix)" | Bowery Electric | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Amelia" | Industrial Revelation | Liberation & The Kingdom of Nri | self-released
11. "It's a Disgrace Dub - unreleased dubplate mix" | The Aggrovators | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
12. "Old Sparky" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Pie Eyed and Sky High" | Tim Love Lee | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
14. "You Can't Win" | Matmos | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Insides - Roman Flugel Remix" | Fort Romeau | Frankfurt Versions | Spectral
16. "Structures" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Big Big Girl - unreleased mix" | Linval Thompson | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
18. "Outlines" | The KVB | Flaamingos / The KVB | felte
19. "inflatable" | Lee Bannon | Pattern of Excel | ninja tune
20. "Primate Change" | The Host | Esalen Lectures | Touch Sensitive
21. "Argent - Tom Furse Extrapolation" | Jane Weaver | Mission Desire | Finders Keepers
22. "The Gorgon - Steppers Cut unreleased mix" | Cornell Campbell | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
23. "Pregnant Cheerleader Theme Song" | Kid 606 | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Leave Me Alone" | New Order | Power, Corruption & Lies | Rhino
25. "Requiem for Dying Mothers (Version I, Zamachowski Op. 87)" | Stars of the Lid | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed | "Physical Evidence"

total surveillance, every day

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I Won't Be Waiting Here Like Undiscovered Treasure: Transmission 240, 2015 October 4

Happy October, Bombasticons! Here, for various reasons, is the last of the "fill-in" programs to date. It is a good one, featureless though it is. Listening back, I found myself thinking a couple of times, "this is an incredible show." I'm not prone to doing this. Anyway.

Ramping down my activity so that I'm only doing the once-weekly radio thing has been good. It has allowed me to devote time to "other things." I guess. It makes the shows seem more important, more valuable somehow.

This program is a good nocturnal listen. For some reason (besides the fact that it's good) I decided to play all of Simon Scott's Insomni. I don't know why--seems more like the sort of thing Halcyon would play, but he doesn't seem to be around, and the piece might be too "nighttime" for him anyway.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 October 4, 2100-2300:

1. "You Are Dissolved" | Jane Weaver | Mission Desire | Finders Keepers
2. "Horizonte Dos" | C.P.I. | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
3. "Enforcement" | Vin Gordon & The Aggrovators | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
4. "Rub Your Eyes" | Lushes | Service Industry | felte
5. "Blue Moon" | cabaal | Atavistic | Hyperpron
6. "Amfmpm" | Carlton Melton | Out to Sea | Agitated
7. "Energy Warning" | Boards of Canada | Geogaddi | Warp
8. "Nusrat" | Flowers Must Die | Montana / Nusrat | Hoga Nord
9. "Music Of Your Own" | People Like Us | Recyclopaedia Britannica | Mess Media
10. "Satta Dread Dub" | Scientist | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
11. "Movements II" | Anzano | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
12. "Austin Texas Mental Hospital Part 3" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky
13. "NIK" | Tempelhof | Moon Rock Volume 3 | Throne of Blood
14. "The Only Direction in Concrete" | Prefuse 73 | The Only She Chapters | Warp
15. "Insomni" | Simon Scott | Insomni | Ash International
16. "Holdfast" | bachjulianna | not on album | Soundcloud self-release

you get these words wrong, every time

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So Agitated That I'm So Agitated: Transmission 239, 2015 September 30

Those who follow this program (there are some such people, right?) are well aware that this website is woefully behind the times. Here, unexpectedly, is a post-hoc rationalization of all that: a special (albeit regularly scheduled) episode featuring pre-release PHYSICAL EVIDENCE (the best kind), which I promised not to post until after the release date. That was five days ago, so HOW FRESH IS THIS? Pretty fresh, by our standards.

The Post-Creation EP by The Julia Sound is a loud, beautiful mess, reminding me of some of the great EPs from the golden years of EPs, while not really sounding like any of them in particular. It was so nice to receive mail, and to be reminded that this program makes at least a small difference sometimes. September was a crap month otherwise--this release gave it the fiery funeral it deserved.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 30, 2100-2300:

1. "Dreams Are Like Water" | This Mortal Coil | Blood | 4AD
2. "Colourless Water" | Kyrill & Redford | Stil Vor Talent Berlin - Teufelsberg | Stil Vor Talent
3. "Crisis" | Chain of Flowers | Chain of Flowers | A L T E R
4. "Slow Figure" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Post-Mortem, Post Boredom" | Darker My Love | Darker My Love | Dangerbird
6. "Kaannetty huulipuna" | Olimpia Splendid | Olimpia Splendid | Fonal
7. "Bordeaux" | The Durutti Column | Another Setting [reissue] | Factory Benelux
8. "Serpentara" | Dusty Kid | The Arsonist | Isolade
9. "You Know the Way" | The Telescopes | Hidden Fields | Tapete
10. "Operation Negligee" | Kinski | 7 (or 8) | Kill Rock Stars
11. "The Substance of Grief Is Not Imaginary" | Pyramids | A Northern Meadow | Profound Lore
12. "9 Movements" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Swallows and Swifts" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
14. "Montana" | Flowers Must Die | Montana / Nusrat | Hoga Nord
15. "Moebius Strip (Suspension)" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Split from the Sun" | Weird Owl | Interstellar Skeletal | A Recordings
17. "Baby Talk" | Lush | Scar | 4AD
18. "Interlude with Jim Reid" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Agitated" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys
20. "It's a Disgrace - unreleased dubplate mix" | Johnny Clarke | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
21. "Feedback Song" | Flying Saucer Attack | Chorus | Drag City
22. "Domain in Grey" | The Julia Sound | Post-Creation | self-released | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Never Be The Same" | Ulrich Schnauss | Goodbye | Domino

the breathing is loud, at any rate

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