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Shallowness is Forever: Transmission 238, 2015 September 29

Slowly the present is coming into focus, as we are less than a month behind the times with this latest posting. This is another "fill-in" episode--September was strangely full of these, and mostly devoid of "regular" hump-night programs--and I was in the mood for some "proper rock," hence BIFF BANG POW! (with a heartfelt endorsement from Junior). Could it really be two years since we last featured a BBP record? I suppose it must be. What a night that was. What a night this was.

Elsewhere, in blasts from the past, I just heard out of the blue from a veritable LEGEND, which reminds me. There is a Hall of Legends, and we are not finished with it. I have just been...asleep, mostly, let's call it that. For nine months, I guess. But in the words of Mike Myers's "Middle Aged Man" character, "I'M WORKING ON IT!" Thank you for your patience.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 29, 2100-2300:

1. "The Smoke of Hashish" | Hashish | Outer Spaced | Subliminal Sounds
2. "Electric Sugar Child" | Biff Bang Pow! | Love Is Forever | Creation - Relativity | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Moonface" | Kolsch | 1983 | Kompakt
4. "Land Of Dub Version" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Back On The Controls | Rolling Lion - Upsetter
5. "Itilla ihene dagh aitma" | Terakaft | Alone (Tenere) | Outhere
6. "Still Warm" | The KVB | Flaamingos / The KVB | felte
7. "X-Theme" | The Exorcist GBG | The Exorcist GBG | Hoga Nord
8. "Dirt" | The Stooges | Fun House | Elektra
9. "Startripper" | Biff Bang Pow! | Love Is Forever | Creation - Relativity | "Physical Evidence"
10. "The Night Sky" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
11. "Where the Two Rivers Kiss in Belgrade" | Elintseeker | Geography of the Heart | PLOP
12. "aftern00n" | yuk. | a n a k | Leaving
13. "Electrodes" | Osynlige Mann | Snake Eye / Electrodes | Hoga Nord
14. "Split Second" | Vin Gordon & The Aggrovators | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
15. "Stopped My Heart" | Holly Golightly | Slowtown Now! | Damaged Goods
16. "She Haunts" | Biff Bang Pow! | Love Is Forever | Creation - Relativity | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Shallowness is the root of all evil" | Lee Bannon | Pattern of Excel | Ninja Tune
18. "Naked" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys
19. "Tradicion destructiva" | Romperayo | Romperayo | Discrepant
20. "BBQ in Karantina" | Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra | Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra | Discrepant
21. "Present for Sally" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Kasm02 | Kasm
22. "Glass" | Hanno Leichtmann | Unfinished Portrait of Youth Today | Karlrecords
23. "Kodaje" | Tal National | Zoy Zoy | Fatcat
24. "Dark in Mind" | Biff Bang Pow! | Love Is Forever | Creation - Relativity | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Sundowner" | Kitchen's Floor | Battle of Brisbane | Bruit Direct
26. "Don't Work Hard" | J. C. Satan | J. C. Satan | Born bad
27. "Il Collo et la Collana 10" | Rayon | Il Collo et la Collana | Alien Transistor
28. "You've Heard It Before" | The Durutti Column | Another Setting [reissue] | Factory Benelux
29. "Close" | Biff Bang Pow! | Love Is Forever | Creation - Relativity | "Physical Evidence"
30. "Bassekouni" | Bassekou Koyate + Ngoni Ba | Ba Power | Glitterbeat
31. "Mulholland" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky

my eyes are closed, my lips are sealed

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Trying to Capture Something That Was Beyond My Capabilities: Transmission 237, 2015 September 22

Here is yet another fill-in program, one which I did a few weeks ago. This one has more "purpose" than many of them do, I guess, aided by the occasion of (King) Sunny Ade's birthday and some personal correspondence with an old friend. Not that some of my shows lack purpose, but...ah, you know by now, probably.

As with Felix da Housecat, I didn't do proper justice to the Sunny Ade record, but that is just how things work out sometimes. "Leave them wanting more," as they say in the theatre--not that I've ever fully embraced that idea, but I have to play something at the upcoming "Festival of Evidence," don't I? Elsewhere, it's the usual quality you've come to expect, complete with baffling segues and adventures in pronunciation. This is my brand.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 22, 2100-2300:

1. "Intro" | John Beltran | Espais | Delsin
2. "Angels and Devils" | Love & Rockets | Express | Big Time - RCA
3. "Branca" | Pega Monstro | Alfarroba | Upset the Rhythm
4. "CHNNL" | Funkstorung | Funkstorung | Monkeytown
5. "War and Friction" | I Roy | If Deejay Was Your Trade | Blood and Fire
6. "Constant Star" | Sunny Ade and His Green Spot Band | Vol. 4 - Stereo Recording in London | African Songs | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Space Burial" | We Never Learned To Live | Silently, I Threw Them Skyward | Holy Roar
8. "Death Trap - Steppers Mix" | Tommy McCook | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
9. "Lullaby" | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Candyman | Wonderland - Polydor
10. "Halycon + On + On" | Orbital | Orbital 2 (Brown Album) | Rhino
11. "Rosa Decidua" | Coil | Autumn Equinox: Amethyst Deceivers | Eskaton
12. "FAC 21" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky
13. "From Her to Eternity" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Wings of Desire | Nonesuch
14. "Blood of Babylon Dub - unreleased dubplate mix" | The Aggrovators | Bunny 'Striker' Lee & Friends: Next Cut! Dub Plates, Rare Sides & Unreleased Cuts | Pressure Sounds
15. "Auburn Blaze" | Appleblim | Avebury | Ammunition
16. "New Earth" | Kreidler | Kollektion 04 - Bureau B (Compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
17. "Chief Lekan Salami" | Sunny Ade and His Green Spot Band | Vol. 4 - Stereo Recording in London | African Songs | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Circus" | Lushes | Service Industry | felte
19. "Highway" | Hey Mother Death | Highway | Paper Bag
20. "Transfer" | Alexandre Francisco Diaphra | Diaphra's Blackbook of the Beats | Mental Groove
21. "Slow Tapes" | Angels Dust | Slow Tapes | Hit+Run
22. "Major General Adebayo" | Sunny Ade and His Green Spot Band | Vol. 4 - Stereo Recording in London | African Songs | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Qu'ran" | Brian Eno & David Byrne | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | Sire
24. "Singularity" | Stephan Bodzin | Singularity | Life and Death
25. "All You Got Is Your Word - Instrumental" | Souls of Mischief | There Is Only Now (Remix) | Linear Labs
26. "Mr. Adenaike (Ololu)" | Sunny Ade and His Green Spot Band | Vol. 4 - Stereo Recording in London | African Songs | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Kundalini Tremolos" | Faust | Kollektion 04 - Bureau B (Compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
28. "Obscura Somnia" | God is an Astronaut | Helios / Erebus | Revive
29. "Kortestrasse After Midnight" | Elintseeker | Geography of the Heart | PLOP

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Through A Lovely Analog Console, Which Apparently Doesn't Matter: Transmission 236, 2015 September 16

"Sorry we're late, but here we are." As with NBA teams, the second night of a "back to back" often produces an inferior display, but such is not the case here. This was a fun program to do, and it has been fun listening back. No features, just goodness. True, it falls apart at the end, when I seem to forget that a) this is a show about segues and b) my "job" is sometimes to provide information and novelty. But you can't have everything.

I'm reminded today of 5th grade, when for a short time I was learning to play the viola. I was not particularly good, and I was just playing in a group of kids, not taking private lessons or anything. One day at the end of class I went for my instrument case...and it wasn't there. I knew that I had brought it back to my regular classroom, but it was nowhere to be seen, and my teacher didn't know anything about it. We looked everywhere, without success.

The next day, a dismal, rainy Saturday, my whole family, including my little siblings (aged 7 and 4 at the time) searched the school grounds and the neighboring park for my instrument case, again without luck. That was one of the worst days. It was gone--nothing to be done. My biggest fear at the time was that my viola (borrowed from the school supply) was worth, like, $10,000 or something, and my family would be hopelessly in debt (it was a lot of money in 1978) on account of something that I was sure was my fault. Give me a break; I was a child.

Only it wasn't gone. I found out two days later that someone had returned it to the school, smashed to bits. That seemed a rather pointed gesture--it wasn't enough just to take the viola from me, and/or destroy it; people had to know these things had been done--and it wasn't lost on me that it hadn't happened to anyone else's instrument, just mine.

I'm musing about this because lately I've encountered senseless opposition to my work and creativity, this program being one facet of that. It's always been there, I guess, but its acuteness comes and goes.

It explains why I have felt for a long time that my "art," such as it is, is most effective when I see it as a weapon. If it ever feels that way, to you, this is part of the reason, and it's not your fault.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Hounds of Love" | The Futureheads | The Futureheads | Sire
2. "Coastlines and Laughter" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
3. "Right Hand" | Ghetto Ghouls | Collisions | Monofonus
4. "Does It Matter Irene? (radio session version)" | The Mothmen | Pay Attention! | On-U Sound
5. "Tisnant an Chatma" | Tamikrest | Taksera | Glitterbeat
6. "Push Thru the Veil" | Herbcraft | Wot Oz | Woodsist
7. "Walk Now..." | Orbital | Orbital 2 (Brown Album) | Rhino
8. "Shattered Lens" | Sunday Painters | 4th Annual Report | What's Your Rupture?
9. "Breaking the Hex" | Gnod | Infinity Machines | Rocket
10. "Hop the Railings" | Hey Colossus | Radio Static High | Rocket
11. "Flood of Mendoza" | The Butterscotch Cathedral | The Butterscotch Cathedral | Trouble In Mind
12. "Das Katerer" | The Fall | The Unutterable | Let Them Eat Vinyl
13. "Crank" | Palm | Trading Basics | Inflated
14. "Native Willow" | Will Samson & Heimer | Animal Hands | Karaoke Kalk
15. "Open Room in Hell" | The Ukiah Drag | Crypt Cruiser | Wharf Cat
16. "The Earth Melts into Red Gashes Like the Mouths of Whales" | Pyramids | A Northern Meadow | Profound Lore
17. "DerDieDas" | Kolsch | 1983 | Kompakt
18. "Sonic Instruments of War #01" | Kerridge | Sonic Instruments of War | Contort
19. "Who's Foolin' Who?" | Karl Hector & The Malcouns | Unstraight Ahead | Now-Again
20. "Rock Steady" | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Uptown Top Ranking | VP
21. "Shatner" | The Wedding Present | George Best [reissue] | Edsel
22. "Nowhere" | Valet | Nature | kranky
23. "Green Light" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
24. "The Theme from Judge Judy" | EXEK | The Theme from Judge Judy | Homeless Vinyl
25. "In Another Way" | My Bloody Valentine | m b v | MBV
26. "3 Speed Limiters" | Christian Fitness | love letters in the age of steam | Prescriptions
27. "White Werewolf" | Weird Owl | Interstellar Skeletal | A Recordings
28. "Slipping Into Darkness" | The Senior Allstars | DUB from Jamdown - Darker than Blue | Echo Beach
29. "Austin Texas Mental Hospital Part 1" [excerpt] | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky

I didn't touch another instrument for six years

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Before God, What Kind of Thing Is It? Transmission 235, 2015 September 15

Hello again, radio friends. It's a new day, and I bring you a new sound file. As I try to feel better about myself today than I did yesterday, I can assure you that I feel better about this program than the last one I posted. Sometimes a program has to overcome: this one, in particular, was another "early evening" fill-in; I didn't think the occasion merited a "Physical Evidence" segment, so there was none; it was "playlist reporting" time, making the optimal strategy that of playing the fewest, longest tracks I could. And yet.

Sometimes it is just really satisfying to spin a long record, and ease back in the "captain's chair" with nothing to do but listen. This was a good night, company in the station notwithstanding. Life is never free of drama, but volume knobs can always be cranked. "Without Mercy," "Lucy Conrad," and "Hydro" sound especially good loud. You're welcome.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 15, 1900-2100:

1. "You're Lionel Richie" | Mogwai | Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | Sub Pop
2. "Red Lights" | Carl Craig | More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art | SSR
3. "Without Mercy II" | The Durutti Column | Without Mercy | Factory - Airea
4. "Lucy Conrad, Excellent Liar" | Buick | Sweatertongue | Lather
5. "I Think We're Tiffany" | Warlock Pinchers | Morrissey Rides a Cockhorse | Tupelo
6. "Zarbi" | Eat Static | Planet Dog - Peel Sessions - Peel Your Head | Strange Fruit
7. "Crazy About Love" | Wire | The Peel Sessions Album | Strange Fruit
8. "Gasfarming [excerpt]" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky
9. "Hydro" | Unrest | Cath Carroll | 4AD

chicken and chips

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Bring Some Good Vibes and Your Nice Sunglasses: Transmission 234, 2015 September 3

Happy "Throwback Thursday," everyone. Remember last month? Man, seems like not much time has passed. Anyway, here is an early-evening show that I did as a fill-in. For once, in the "Joe Show" time slot, I tried to emulate his "After Dinner Dance Party" feature and played half an hour of Orbital. Elsewhere, there are miscues and horrible segues and not nearly enough of Felix Da Housecat [SORRY]. But this audio file is what happened that night.

It is a weird, dark time. This week, for once, I have been feeling not my own mortality but WRFI's. Everybody in community radio is worried about money, and death is always hanging over just about every station. Strangely I was/am at peace with it. People and ideals are falling by the wayside. Just last night I found out that a respected colleague is on "indefinite hiatus" for reasons that are unknown and probably none of my business. And there are signs, like this sound file right here, that I am on the air much too often.

These days I am trying really hard to love myself, be happy, and be nice. How would I grade myself on this? "Incomplete," probably.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 3, 1900-2100:

1. "Prime Mover" | Antigone | Cantor Dust | Token
2. "Analog City" | Felix Da Housecat | Kittenz And Thee Glitz | City Rockers | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Lush 3.1" / "Lush 3.2" / "Impact (The Earth is Burning)" / "Remind" | Orbital | Orbital 2 (Brown Album) | Rhino
4. "A Touch of Rot" | 39 Clocks | Subnarcotic | Luxury Products
5. "The Evil That Men Do - Pablo's Version" | Yo La Tengo | President Yo La Tengo / New Wave Hot Dogs | Matador
6. "TV at 7PM" | Birdstriking | Birdstriking | A Recordings
7. "Second Skin" | The Chameleons | John Peel Sessions | Blue Apple
8. "Slapback" | Node | Node | Deviant
9. "Voicemail with Miss Kittin" | Felix Da Housecat | Kittenz And Thee Glitz | City Rockers | "Physical Evidence"
10. "So Sad Today" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
11. "Cloche - Tuff City Kids Disco Mix" | Fort Romeau | Frankfurt Versions | Spectral
12. "Walk With Me" | Felix Da Housecat | Kittenz And Thee Glitz | City Rockers | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Girls, Amen" | High Wolf | Growing Wild | Leaving
14. "Secret Girl" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
15. "Opal" | Pisetzky | Off the Map | Just This
16. "Silver Screen Shower Scene" | Felix Da Housecat | Kittenz And Thee Glitz | City Rockers | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Set It Up" | Woolfy vs. Projections | Stations | Permanent Vacation
18. "Morgen Abend" | Tiefschwarz | Left | Watergate
19. "Austin Texas Mental Hospital, Part 2" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky

what would they say if they ever knew

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Now I Try and Do Things Right: Transmission 233, 2015 September 2

Progress: we're now "just" one month behind in our postings. I have been wondering to myself whether my laziness about this is symptomatic of something. I have this problem in life, you see; I read meaning into things where there is none, most of the time, anyway.

Big ups to Lady Catharsis for gifting me a membership in the "Friends of the World Order of Ancient Headcoats" or whatever it's called. The Kyra record featured in this broadcast is the first salvo in a series of Medway-related reissues, and there will be more to come. This is a crazy record, perfect for a crazy evening; it is just the sort of thing that would have irritated me when I was younger and had a crippling perfectionism in my taste.

We will also hear more from the Honorable Chief. That too is a great recording.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 September 2, 2100-2300:

1. "Kollaps" | Jannick Schou | Fabrik | Experimedia
2. "It's a Stick-Up" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Fyre Balls" | Ball | Fyre Balls | Horny
4. "Takes More Than 41" | Mike Ladd | Welcome to the Afterfuture | Vava
5. "Space Cassava" | Kutiman | Space Cassava | Siyal
6. "316-16" | Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator | Con-Struct | Bureau B
7. "Organic Footprints" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Frodi Ambience" | Exos | My Home Is Sonic | Delsin
9. "Shockout Get Washout" | Seekers International | Her Imperial Majesty | Boomarm Nation
10. "Perdiddle" | Carlton Melton | Out to Sea | Agitated
11. "MEN TODAY" | HEALTH | DEATH MAGIC | Loma vista
12. "Louise" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
13. "The Arsonist Part 2" | Dusty Kid | The Arsonist | Isolade
14. "Death to Our Friends" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
15. "Ah Reckon" | The Honorable Chief | The Honorable Chief Ahamefule J. Oluo | Bandcamp self-release
16. "Anna K" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Reactivation" | John Tejada | The End of It All 2015 Mix | Palette
18. "Ones" | Herbert | The Shakes | Accidental
19. "Here I Am, Here I Always Am" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Pacer" | Kolsch | 1983 | Kompakt
21. "For Robin" | Coil | not on album | Soundcloud release
22. "Mud and Root" | LHF | For the Thrown | Keysound
23. "Snake Eye" | Osynlige Mann | Snake Eye / Electrodes | Hoga Nord
24. "Hide" | Sebastian Russell | Free Fall | Fenou
25. "Tantrum Time" | F Ingers | Hide Before Dinner | Blackest Ever Black
26. "Marieke" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
27. "Phase Doubt" | The Ambivalent | Phase Doubt | Ovum
28. "Do Things Right" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Southern Orchards" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
30. "Austin Texas Mental Hospital Part 1" | Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | kranky
31. "Laughing Song" | Kyra | Here I Am, I Always Am | M'ladys | "Physical Evidence"

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It Seems Like the End of the World When You Smile: Transmission 232, 2015 August 26

In our increasingly futile quest to catch up with the present, we offer you the last program from August. Surely, there were mistakes here, but we no longer recall what they were! THEREFORE THIS IS A SOLID MIXTAPE AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED.

Let's state here, also, that we were the first at WRFI to use "mixtape" as a descriptor of content. Also, we were truly all over the "stylistic" map from the beginning, knowing as we do that the word "eclectic" means something more than "a playlist that includes Bob Dylan AND The Band." Someone needed to say these things, for the record, before our time was up.

As in life, the end is not in sight, but we face death all the time.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 26, 2100-2300:

1. "Moving On" | Arnaldo | Your Favourite Colour Is Green Yet You Dress in Black | Smallville
2. "When You Smile" | The Dream Syndicate | The Days of Wine and Roses | Omnivore
3. "Scorpions" | Oppenheimer Analysis | New Mexico | Minimal Wave
4. "RE 201" | Automat | Plusminus | Bureau B
5. "Science Fiction" | Beachbuggy | Sport Fury | Poptones | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Bad Dream" | Seapony | A Vision | Burrito Thirty
7. "The Ruined and Disused Churches of Norfolk" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
8. "La traversee" | Bon Voyage Organization | Xingye | Bon Voyage
9. "From the South" | Beachbuggy | Sport Fury | Poptones | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Wash" | Sigward | Correspondant Compilation 03 | Correspondant
11. "Dramamine" | John Tejada | Dramamine | Palette
12. "It Might Be the Jets" | Beachbuggy | Sport Fury | Poptones | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Mission Desire" | Jane Weaver | Mission Desire | Finders Keepers
14. "Outer Spaced" | Hashish | Outer Spaced | Subliminal Sounds
15. "Monday" | Orbital | Orbital 2 (Brown Album) | Rhino
16. "Mel3" | Nocow | Ravine | Fauxpas
17. "Bad Guys Wear Black" | Beachbuggy | Sport Fury | Poptones | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Combination" | Woolfy vs. Projections | Combination | Permanent Vacation
19. "Of Palm and Reef" | Mike Cooper | Fratello Mare | Room40
20. "Kickin' Back" | Beachbuggy | Sport Fury | Poptones | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Baba na ayele" | Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin | Wait For Me | Hot Casa
22. "Ebre Mbre" | Mary Afi Usuah | Ekpenyong Abasi | Voodoo Funk
23. "Cuba" | Beachbuggy | Sport Fury | Poptones | "Physical Evidence"
24. "Taking a Walk" | Sauna Youth | Distractions | Upset the Rhythm
25. "Bulletin of the International String Figure Association" | Kinski | 7 (or 8) | Kill Rock Stars

i believe we're going to live forever.

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The Darkest Night Was the Day: Transmission 231, 2015 August 25

Another weekday, another program: here's something else I did, seemingly long ago. On this night I was clearly getting some stuff out of my system; it felt good at the time, and still does, I daresay. This mixtape ripples with anger, but perhaps you will get a different impression (or, if you share mine, will find it useful at least some of the time).

Diary: lately I've been reading Memoirs of a Geezer by Jah Wobble. I have to admit that I am an unfocused reader these days; I'm unfocused about a lot of things. Something that struck me was one really brief conversation the author had with a friend in which he (re)affirmed his life's purpose. If only it were that easy! I could use that conversation, or that friend, right about now. I have been certain for a while that my "purpose" is not volunteer disc jockeying or any of the behind-the-scenes stuff I do. So all of this is just biding my time. Has if felt that way to you? And biding it for what, I wonder?

BOMBAST PLAYLIST, 2015 August 25, 2100-2300:

1. "We Shall Cleanse the World" | Revolting Cocks | Big Sexy Land | Wax Trax!
2. "Lurker" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Kasm02 | Kasm
3. "Slices of Brain I" | Folamour | Chapeau Rouge | Fauxpas
4. "Practicing To Be a Doctor" | Shit and Shine | Jealous of Shit and Shine | Riot Season
5. "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" | Barry Adamson | Moss Side Story | Mute
6. "God Made the Virus" | McCarthy | I Am a Wallet | Cherry Red
7. "To Love You Blossom" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl
8. "Should I Leave You Alone?" | Rat Columns | Fooling Around | Blackest Ever Black
9. "Inbalance 16" | Best Available Technology | Excavated Tapes, 1992-1999, Vol. 2 | Astro:Dynamics
10. "Down Down Down (Liminals Remix)" | The Radio Dept. | Occupied | Labrador
11. "A Side" | El Mahdy Jr. | Ghost Tapes | Discrepant
12. "Tom Violence" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
13. "A Ground Without A Figure" | Shuttle358 | Can you prove I was born | 12k
14. "Sound of Confusion" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Thank God for Mental Illness | A Recordings
15. "50 degrees" | Crypto Tropic | Crypto Tropic | Le Cabanon

all the good guys, they drink milk

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The Freaks and the Misfits Are All That Remain: Transmission 230, 2015 August 19

Hello again, it's me again. If you are a visitor to this site only, and don't listen live, it's been a while since you've seen or heard anything new from this program. Apologies--it's been a wild, sordid, depressing summer, as they all seem to be. In my defense, I have been doing lots of radio all the while, and you could listen live, you know.

At any rate here is a program that features one of my favorite records. Different for Domeheads was not the first Creation comp I encountered, but as Horatio would say, "it follow'd hard upon." I tend not to do well with playing records at the "appropriate" time of year but for me this will always be a summer record. "July skies" indeed, sun and anger as relentless as Slaughter Joe. This is what the last couple of months have been.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 19, 2100-2300:

1. "Intro / Into You" | The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience | I Like Rain: The Story of the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience | Fire
2. "19.8.86" | Conrad Schnitzler | Kollektion 05 (Compiled and Assembled by Thomas Fehlmann) | Bureau B
3. "To the Moon and Back" | The 23s | Flamingo | Karaoke Kalk
4. "Steam" | Gaspard de la Montaigne | Stallion | Creaked
5. "Intensive Care" | Barry Adamson | Moss Side Story | Mute
6. "Where the Traffic Goes" | The Jasmine Minks | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
7. "The Fatal Day (Brixton Rehearsal 1980)" | In Camera | Era | 4AD
8. "Heart of Darkness" | Pere Ubu | Elitism for the People 1975-1978 | Fire
9. "Paradise" | The Bodines | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Marilyn Moore" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
11. "Digital Punk" | Square Wave | Correspondant Compilation 03 | Correspondant
12. "Baby Honey" | The Pastels | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
13. "We Just Did What Happened and Nobody Came" | Sweet Billy Pilgrim | Motorcade Amnesiacs | Kscope
14. "Unrequited" | OKADA | Impermanence | N5MD
15. "Hermitage - Full Beard Mix" | Thomalla | Imaginary Solutions | Riotvan
16. "Napalm Girl" | Slaughter Joe | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Herbststimmung" | Faust | Kollektion 04 - Bureau B (Compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
18. "Peri-Natal Imprinting" | The Host | Esalen Lectures | Touch Sensitive
19. "Circa 96" | Hidden Rivers | Where Moss Grows | Serein
20. "Ghost Warrior (feat. UMO)" | Jimi Tenor | Ghost Warrior | Herakles
21. "Rally Round Jah Throne" | Bad Brains | Rock for Light | PVC
22. "Ruins - Fieldhand Remix" | Graveyard Tapes | I'm on Fire (White Rooms Remixes) | Lost Tribe
23. "One of Five" | Tapage | Five & Six | Tympanik
24. "Love and Hate" | Biff Bang Pow! | Different for Domeheads | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Garden Constellations" | July Skies | Dreaming of Spires | Rocket Girl

practicing to be.

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Witness What My Knuckles Find: Transmission 229, 2015 August 16

This was a night on which we sat in for "Seeking a Thread." The program bristles with unintentional comedy as I get things stuck in my throat and have to pronounce a battery of things beyond my capability. Oh, and there is also The Birthday Party. I am one of those people who never quite "matured" into thinking that Nick Cave "solo" was a better thing, though I enjoy his records well enough. I really miss this band, right here.

I don't remember the nature of the "many nagging complaints" to which I refer, thankfully. The thought of searching my email in search of a mildly sardonic joke scares me. Ah, sweet oblivion!

Ah, on second thought, I probably deserved whatever complaints came my way.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Nature" | Valet | Nature | kranky
2. "Laid Black" | Tiefschwarz | Left | Watergate
3. "Ding Dong Thing" | Felix Laband | Deaf Safari | Compost
4. "Release the Bats" | The Birthday Party | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Soul" | Rival Consoles | Odyssey / Sonne | Erased Tapes
6. "I Know You Can" | Leafcutter John | Resurrection | Desire Path
7. "Rowland Around in That Stuff" | The Birthday Party | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Loose" | Stooges | Fun House | Elektra
9. "Monkey Snake" | Birdstriking | Birdstriking | A Recordings
10. "The Bed's Too Big Without You (The Bed's Too Big Without Dub)" | DubXanne | The Police in Dub | Echo Beach
11. "Gravure / Continuum - Regis Whip Hand Mix" | Akkord | HTH040 | Houndstooth
12. "Loose" | The Birthday Party | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Jah The Conqueror" | Bad Brains | Live At CBGB 1982 | MVD Audio
14. "Aixo Es Miel" | Jose Padilla | So Many Colours | International Feel
15. "Anda" | Nymphalida | Loghi | Tranquillo
16. "Thangen After Dothe" | Petrels | Flailing Tomb | Denovali
17. "Something and Nothing" | The Wedding Present | George Best [reissue] | Edsel
18. "Negative Space" | ASC | Imagine the Future | Samurai
19. "One (Lake People Remix)" | Lee Burton | Busy Day For Fools - Lake People Remixes | Klik
20. "Forglemmigej" | Rosen & Spyddet | Fortuna | Posh Isolation
21. "(Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn" | The Birthday Party | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Desert - Juju & Jordash Remix" | Mahk & Morpheus | Desert | Souvenir
23. "Appalachia" | Cale Parks | Lagoon Fool | HAKT
24. "It's So Hard" | The Jesus and Mary Chain | Psychocandy - Barrowlands Live | Edsel

there's no turning back

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