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A Dream So Pure I Cannot Find a Heart That Will Endure It: Transmission 228, 2015 August 12

Here is some airtime I was supposed to be using, and I think I used it well. While I am kind of "finished" with themed programs, I will organize a show around an idea from time to time; this time, it was dead people, on account of the "Listening Parlour" selection, whose performers, ironically, are all still alive, as far as I know. That's just how it worked out. Anyway, happy birthday to Lawrence Hayward, aka "Lawrence"--I'm sure he is or was listening.

Do you ever find yourself repelled by music not because of the music itself, but because of the demographic that seems to enjoy it? I am guilty of this. But I have an anecdote to share, about someone else, and Felt. Somehow I didn't latch onto Felt's music until Poem of the River, but of course you could hardly turn on college radio in the mid-80s and avoid hearing "Primitive Painters." So of course the KDVS library contained this record, and of course the record cover featured sticker dialogue. "Only trendy Sacramentans like this music," or something like that, was the most prominent review. We had a DJ there, maybe he had Aspergers or something, or was just an ass (in either case I totally sympathize) who would frequently dismiss records in this way. Beware anything "trendy Sacramentans" were into, basically. Once Mr. D and I did a session "Live in Studio A," following this person's program, and he said on air that our band name made us sound like we were "from Sacramento."

Sacramento, for those who aren't familiar, is the state capital, about 20 minutes up the road from where I grew up (and did undergrad). If not for that, it would be Fresno North. It doesn't have much going for it. It is the home of Cake (the band) and Tesla (the band). The television program Eight Is Enough was set there. It was home to Rush Limbaugh before he "went national." So, a dismal place, then--a former colleague said, "you have these two rivers converging, and they collect all the bad energy from what happens in the Legislature." I can't argue. Anyway, I doubt there have ever been more than five "trendy" people in Sacramento at any one time. I never found them threatening, but clearly opinions differ.

Lady Catharsis and I moved "back" to Sacramento in the late 1990s. On my first full day there I rode my bicycle to the record store and bought a record by Denim. Was I (am I) a trendy Sacramentan? I've been called worse.

I don't know if Section 25 were ever accused of being a favorite of trendy Sacramentans, but I'll die with them in my record collection too, whatever that makes me.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 12, 2100-2300:

1. "Beneath the Blade" / "Inspiration" | Section 25 | From the Hip | Factory
2. "Quiet Life" | Japan | Exorcising Ghosts | Virgin
3. "The Friend Catcher" | The Birthday Party | Hits | 4AD
4. "Jenny Ondioline" | Stereolab | Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements | Duophonic - Elektra
5. "Make It Funky, Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4" | James Brown | Make It Funky (The Big Payback: 1971-1975) | Polydor
6. "I'm Comin' Down" | Primal Scream | Screamadelica | Creation - Sire
7. "All The People I Like Are Those That Are Dead" | Felt | Forever Breathes the Lonely Word | Creation | "Listening Parlour"
8. "Endless, Nameless" | Nirvana | The Nevermind & In Utero Singles | Geffen
9. "The Golden King" | Snakefinger's Vestal Virgins | Night of Desirable Objects | Ralph
10. "Devious Woman" | Singers & Players | War of Words | On-U Sound
11. "Herbert Harper's Free Press News" | Muddy Waters | Electric Mud | Chess
12. "Joy" | Isaac Hayes | Joy | Stax - Enterprise
13. "Further Back and Faster" | Coil | Love's Secret Domain | Threshold House
14. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (A Capella Mix / Special Edit Radio Mix)" | Negativland | U2 | SST

I took a ride through the pretty music.

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He Asked No Questions, He Had Few Conversations: Transmission 227, 2015 August 11

"Don't tell me crime don't pay," as some guy said once. Here I am, snatching airtime that is not mine, to carry out the irrational, unconscious mission of this program. It was Jah Wobble's birthday, so there is a Jah Wobble record involved, but that is a long-ish story whose time has not yet come. Hopefully someday soon.

Technical and other notes: on this night I think I plugged the "AUX IN" cable into my digital recorder, instead of AUX OUT, so I had to take the digital file from the station's computer, which means that it is post-compression with a few artifacts. Sorry about that. I will try to be better. Elsewhere, I cut off the first however many seconds of Siouxsie's "Halloween." (The Dream Syndicate's "Halloween" is intact.) (I think this is the second time I've played two tracks called "Halloween" in the same program, and that neither of these programs happened to fall on October 31. I am taking a page out of Catharsis Junior's handbook. She has no sense of time, and it is wonderful in a way.)

Finally, Meat Beat Manifesto returns! You know, in a previous life, I interviewed Jack Dangers. I no longer have the cassette, but the transcription did make it into a zine. I don't think it's been reproduced on the web. If I can find it and I'm not too embarrassed by it, I'll post it here sometime.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 11, 2100-2300:

1. "Can't Stand Losing You (Can't Stand Losing Dub)" | DubXanne | The Police in Dub | Echo Beach
2. "Agelast" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Kasm02 | Kasm
3. "El Bawaba" | EEK | Kahraba | Nashazphone
4. "Snake Charmer" / "Hold on to Your Dreams" | Jah Wobble / The Edge / Holger Czukay | Snake Charmer EP | Island | "Physical Evidence"
5. "II" | Ah! Kosmos | Flesh | Denovali
6. "Greenpoint" | Prurient | Frozen Niagara Falls | Profound Lore
7. "It Was a Camel" | Jah Wobble / The Edge / Holger Czukay | Snake Charmer EP | Island | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Achtung" | Automat | Plusminus | Bureau B
9. "I and I Survive" | Bad Brains | Rock for Light | PVC
10. "Crime Don't Pay" | Joe Jackson Band | Beat Crazy | A & M | "Listening Parlour"
11. "Anton II" | Robag Wruhme | Cybekks | Pampa
12. "Auto Destruction" | Barry Adamson | Moss Side Story | Mute
13. "Snake Charmer Reprise" | Jah Wobble / The Edge / Holger Czukay | Snake Charmer EP | Island | "Physical Evidence"
14. "In the Kingdom #19" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
15. "Detroit Trickle Down" | Kinski | 7 (or 8) | Kill Rock Stars
16. "Halloween" | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Voices On The Air (The Peel Sessions) | Polydor
17. "Sleazy" | Jah Wobble / The Edge / Holger Czukay | Snake Charmer EP | Island | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Refractions in the Plastic Pulse" | Stereolab | Dots and Loops | Elektra
19. "Halloween" | The Dream Syndicate | The Days of Wine and Roses | Omnivore

But I wouldn't know where to begin.

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Trying Every Now and Then: Transmission 226, 2015 August 8

Live on a hot August night we were (probably), and here is the audio to prove it. This program exceeds the usual two-hour timeframe because I followed roller derby (!), which ended before the hour. I tried to give the roller derby audience something gentle (albeit dark, it seems!) to suck them in before dropping the heavy stuff on them.

In retrospect, this seems to be one of those "arc" programs--rockist and the beginning, techist at the end--but it is good anyway. I am sure that on the night I was feeling triggered, as I have felt when doing radio for the last two months. When will that end?

Summers just are not what they were. I had a better title in mind for this episode, but it's gone now. Probably for the best.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 8, 2100-2300:

1. "Signed D.C." | Love | Love | Elektra
2. "Earthmover" | Blind Idiot God | Before Ever After | Indivisible
3. "Mr. Green" | Whipped Cream | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
   
4. "Child" | Valet | Nature | kranky
5. "Buddha of Compassion" | Jah Wobble | Redux - Anthology 1978-2015 | Cherry Red
6. "We Five" | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Uptown Top Ranking | VP
7. "Divided Alien" | Brian Harris | On My Knees | self-released
8. "Signed D.C. [acoustic version]" | Spirea X | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Kahraba" | EEK | Kahraba | Nashazphone
10. "Clear Off!" | The Fall | The Wonderful and Frightening Escape Route To... | Beggars Banquet
11. "Gold" | Celestial Tribes | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Aphelion" | Loop | Array 1 | ATP
13. "Bubblegum" | Sonic Youth | EVOL | Goofin'
14. "All Over My Face (Scam Mix)" | New Fast Automatic Daffodils | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Northern Lights" | Cobblestone Jazz | Northern Lights | Itiswhatitis
16. "Liquid Metal [Remix]" | Bomb the Bass | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Casanova 70" | Air | Premiers Symptomes | Rhino
18. "Looking at the Starz" | LOYOTO | Looking at the Starz | Upon You
19. "Dirty Disco II - Premix" | Section 25 | From The Hip | Factory Benelux
20. "When a Lion Awakens" | Definition of Sound | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Moonbuilding 2073 AD" | The Orb | Moonbuilding 2073 AD | Kompakt
22. "Miracle" | System 7 | Volume Two | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Gelk" | Autechre | Peel Session 2 | Warp

yes, but you don't understand

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How Much Further Do I Need To Go: Transmission 225, 2015 August 5

Here I am, back again to the world of posting. It seems very much the same, which is a relief; I'd hate to have to learn new things. Anyway, here is a very summery program, to me at least. Your sensibilities may differ.

Since I've got a backlog of programs, it is time, sadly, to play the guessing game with this one. I know I've listened to it, but I don't remember exactly what mood I was in (probably a melancholy one, that seems a safe bet) or any particular comedies of errors on this night. I can tell you that I think the Mucky Sailor single is great, and that while I cannot speak for partner in crime Mr. D, I would have killed to be Heavenly Bodies in the day. It saddens me that they didn't do more things.

This may have been the night I got my Germans mixed up, come to think of it, but you'll have to listen to find out.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 August 5, 2100-2300:

1. "Taffy Come Home" | Nightingales | Mind Over Matter | Louder than War
2. "Intro" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort | "Physical Evidence"
3. "289-5" | Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator | Con-Struct | Bureau B
4. "Precession" | Loop | Array 1 | ATP
5. "Partials" | Lurka | Partials / Mach | Black Acre
6. "Albatross, Silly Albatross" | Mucky Sailor | Albatross, Silly Albatross | Care in the Community
7. "The Icon" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Down the Garden Path" | Felix Laband | Deaf Safari | Compost
9. "Auto Chip 2014-2016" | The Fall | Sub-Lingual Tablet | Cherry Red
10. "Wild at Heart" | High Wolf | Growing Wild | Leaving
11. "Rains on Me" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Standing By Your Side (45 Edit)" | Lee Fields & The Expressions | Standing By Your Side | Truth & Soul
13. "Oh Sunday" | Thomalla | Imaginary Solutions | Riotvan
14. "Sendero Luminoso" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort | "Physical Evidence"
15. "EMT 140" | Automat | Plusminus | Bureau B
16. "The Saint Became a Lush" | Psyche | Unveiling the Secret | C'est La Mort
17. "Fine Vibrations" | Weird Owl | Interstellar Skeletal | A Recordings
18. "An Obsession" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Heaven's Vape" | STL | Simply Positive | Smallville
20. "Exit" | Heavenly Bodies | Celestial | C'est La Mort | "Physical Evidence"

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Dan-U, Dan-U, Goddamn You: Transmission 224, 2015 July 29

We closed out a very weird July (aren't they all) with an "FTS" program that was probably better than the shows that came before or after. Wouldn't you know it, my digital recorder ran out of batteries near the end, so I had to rely on the post-compression recording that the station computer does automatically. I suppose the machines and I were on the same wavelength on this night.

I'd remarked a few weeks ago that I wasn't on "any relevant forums or facebook fan groups." Well, that's changed. I did give in and join the 4AD group. It's what you would expect, for better and for worse. I can't help it, I am just very curious about how people create social identities and networks around music, which seems to be the point of it all, does it not?

Anyway, as it happens with randomly moving targets all the time, someone there derailed a post to diss Colourbox, to which I can only say (because my imagination is limited) GET YOURSELF BENT, SON.

I guess I won't be making any BFFs around those parts, I can already tell.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 July 29, 2100-2300:

1. "Soul Soldier" | Throwing Muses | The Fat Skier | 4AD - Sire
2. "Summer Eyes" | The Young Gods | T.V. Sky | Play It Again Sam
3. "Radial" | Loop | Array1 | ATP
4. "Nation" | Colourbox | Colourbox | 4AD
5. "Sounds from the Big House" / "Suck on the Honey of Love" | Barry Adamson | Moss Side Story | Mute
6. "Inner Guidance" | LTJ Bukem | Journey Inwards | Good Looking - Kinetic
7. "J'Ai Dormi Sous L'Eau" | Air | Premiers Symptomes | Rhino
8. "Mouled El Ghoul" | EEK | Kahraba | Nashazphone
9. "Cheetah Guava" | Kutiman | Space Cassava | Siyal
10. "Corona" | Gwei-Lo | Gwei-Lo | Bella Union - Instinct
11. "BBF3" | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada | Constellation

pre not pro
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Relying Only on Perplexing Intangibilities: Transmission 223, 2015 July 24

This is a fill-in show that I did in place of "Conference of the Birds." I made it a Medway Night because I felt like it--as I have previously noted, this was bound to result in some awkward segues, because the Greats do not Play Nice. Mind you, that does not explain every botched transition in the program, but it does explain some.

Whimsy must have put The Birthday Party and The House of Love in the mix, but Death put Negativland there. I was indeed lucky to see them perform in the late 1980s--I think it was 1987 [the year of Escape from Noise], but I may be off by a year. At any rate I hope to god that I handled myself with a bit of maturity back then--apparently there was some reporter from the student paper who covered the show and was "freaked out." I remember it being weird and wild but I do not recall this reaction as mine, much less any written account thereof. Perhaps I'd quit that gig already. Anyway, thank goodness for the pre-internet era! Because, you see, I was not at all above pearl-clutching or collapsing onto the fainting couch. I strongly endorse that whole "right to be forgotten" thing the Euros are into.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 July 24, 2100-2300:

1. "Announcement / Quiet Please" | Negativland | Escape From Noise | SST
2. "1983" | Kolsch | 1983 | Kompakt
3. "Dalis Car" | Dalis Car | The Waking Hour | Paradox
4. "Powder" | Kinski | 7 (or 8) | Kill Rock Stars
5. "Cassandra" | Thee Milkshakes | Thee Knights of Trashe | Hangman's Daughter | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Suleika" | Gunter Schickert | Kollektion 04 - Bureau B (Compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
7. "Life in the Gladhouse" | Modern English | After the Snow | 4AD - Sire
8. "Promising" | Man Power | Correspondant Compilation 03 | Correspondant
9. "Apache" | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Uptown Top Ranking | VP
10. "You're Asking Too Much" | Thee Milkshakes | Thee Knights of Trashe | Hangman's Daughter | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Getting Old" | Felix Laband | Deaf Safari | Compost
12. "Junkyard" | The Birthday Party | Hits | 4AD
13. "Elephant Rifle" | Buzz Rodeo | Sports | Bandcamp self-release
14. "Amanaz" | Amanaz | Africa | Now-Again
15. "Girl, It No Good" | Thee Milkshakes | Thee Knights of Trashe | Hangman's Daughter | "Physical Evidence"
16. "I Don't Know Why I Love You" | The House of Love | Live At the Lexington | Cherry Red
17. "SST 282" | Automat | Plusminus | Bureau B
18. "Signs" | Valet | Nature | kranky
19. "Repent And Dub" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Back On The Controls | Rolling Lion - Upsetter
20. "I Dreamt Last Night (That I Lay Dead)" | Thee Milkshakes | Thee Knights of Trashe | Hangman's Daughter | "Physical Evidence"
21. "Writing Poetry on Your Forehead with the Tip of a Hunting Knife" | Shit and Shine | 54 Synth-Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral | Rocket
22. "Fetes" | Johannes Brecht | Trois Nocturnes | Poker Flat
23. "Indigo Birds" | Pyramids | A Northern Meadow | Profound Lore
24. "I'm Out of Control" | Thee Milkshakes | Thee Knights of Trashe | Hangman's Daughter | "Physical Evidence"
25. "Find a Way (Live on Northey Island)" | Ultramarine | not on album | Soundcloud self-release

but I just can't see reflection

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Drawing a Crowd and Threatening Everything: Transmission 222, 2015 July 22

A week or two ago I made a "generational" comment to our GM. He and I were born at around the same time and share a learned distaste for self-promotion. I remarked how differently people just a decade younger seem to behave: "They don't hide their light under a bushel," I said, "however dim it may be."

In my never-ending struggle not to grow up, I'm going to try that on for a minute. This was a good show. I have been on a run of them. You should be listening. You probably won't regret it.

Now, back to acting my age: I was young, for real, when Blind Idiot God was released. The SST affiliation does not carry the same prestige as, say, 4AD or Factory Records [though there is an SST Facebook group, god help me] but we certainly added everything that label put out, and it all wound up in "heavy rotation" though we were too cool to call it that. It was a long time ago, so my memory might be scrambled, but I think it was late 1987, sophomore year; the novelty of college was wearing off, I was ready for fall term to end, being in California I would fantasize about winter weather I had never experienced and try to will our "cold" 60-degree days into being something that looked like the photos on the back cover of this record. I think of this, randomly, as wintry music.

But enough from me. There are just too many words written about music, this website being a prime example. Another age reference--back in the pre-internet era, it was hard to find anything written about bands or records you liked, unless you were into some real dinosaur-ish acts. The Trouser Press Record Guide was something I treasured. I have three editions of that thing. Here's what they have to say about the Blind Idiot God record: "Simultaneously leaning towards heavy metal (with less ego) and reggae (with more voltage), these demonic decibel gluttons are having the time of their lives in hammer-of-the-gods territory." Sounds like fun, although "hammer of the gods territory" seems like a phrase that would make an older artist wince and one that a younger band would write about itself. So it goes.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 July 22, 2100-2300:

1. "Dino" | Harmonia | Musik von Harmonia | Universal
2. "Deep Field" | Rob Clouth | Deep Field | Leisure System
3. "German Haircut" | Flying Lotus | Cosmogramma | Warp
4. "A Safe Haven from the Problems of the Real World" | House ov Leaves | Void Transcripts | Parachute
5. "Speed Display - Richard Fearless Metal Box Mix" | Moebius, Plank, Neumeier | Speed Display | Bureau B
6. "Dark & Bright" | Blind Idiot God | Blind Idiot God | SST | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Dedication" | The Dead Heat | Void Transcripts | Parachute
8. "Swim" | Nicolas Jaar | Nymphs III | Other People
9. "CD Girl" | La Casa al Mare | This Astro | Bandcamp self-release
10. "Wide Open Spaces" | Blind Idiot God | Blind Idiot God | SST | "Physical Evidence"
11. "River of Longing" | Blank Realm | River of Longing | Fire
12. "Take One" | Front 242 | Back Catalogue | Wax Trax!
13. "Landscape" | Satoshi Tomiie | New Day | Abstract Architecture
14. "Subterranean Flight" | Blind Idiot God | Blind Idiot God | SST | "Physical Evidence"
15. "The Days of Wine and Roses" | The Dream Syndicate | The Days of Wine and Roses | Omnivore
16. "Draygo's Guilt" | The Fall | The Wonderful and Frightening Escape Route To... | Beggars Banquet
17. "Kerosene" | Big Black | Atomizer | Touch & Go
18. "He Has Plans for You" | Blue Mountain Club | Void Transcripts | Parachute
19. "The Savage Bush Hotel" | Felix Laband | Deaf Safari | Compost
20. "Picasso" | John Beltran | Safardic EP | Silhouette Noir
21. "Shifting Sand -> Tired Blood" | Blind Idiot God | Blind Idiot God | SST | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow" | Funkadelic | Motor City Madness | Westbound

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"Savage Bush Garden," oof. I regret it, truly, madly, deeply

Lose Some Sleep and Say You Tried: Transmission 221, 2015 July 15

This was a fun program, albeit (or because it was?) overdetermined. I had a plan going in, and then I had another plan, which was sort of not to have a plan, so I brought in way too much stuff and this is what happened. Window Window, "Physical Evidence" on the night, was always part of the plan and not-plan and therefore aired as planned or not-planned.

For a little while I had an in-studio guest, Alex Reed of Seeming and of this tome. He is an aspiring WRFI personality and contributed the Rhythm & Noise track to the evening's set. Making his acquaintance, and digging through the book, have got me thinking about the past, to which I am prone anyway.

I was really into Wax Trax! in the mid-80s and remember playing a lot of that stuff on the radio back then. I recently took another look at their Black Box collection, which I once owned (the metal / fishnet edition, with coasters & loose audiotape and everything), but wound up selling. Almost none of it interests me. I wonder why and how that happened, as I tend to hang onto things, emotionally if not literally. It takes quite a lot to provoke a "that's no longer me" response. You'd think I would remember such a catalyst, but apparently my drift into "shoegaze" / "dreampop" / "afrofuturism" is part of that "lost time" that my (as yet unretained) therapist and I need to unlock.

I suspect that my fascination with that music had a lot to do with my search for something that sounded like the washing machine mentioned in this interview (what a different time that was), and that at one point there was (or seemed from a distance to be) such a small set of that music that nearly all of it sufficed. I didn't like it when the music turned functional and/or got names. I didn't like it when things went showbiz (e.g. the antics of Trent Reznor). I didn't like it when it became de rigeur to sample evangelicals (Cabaret Voltaire owned that gesture from the get-go). I really didn't like it when blackness was incorporated appropriated as kitsch (h/t to Alex for articulating that one).

Maybe I don't need a therapist after all, but I still don't know when/how the cumulative effect of all this hit me.

What is ok: Coil, of course, and Chris & Cosey; the subjects of this book; Legendary Pink Dots (though they'd never be considered "industrial" by 2015 standards); Test Dept.; Bourbonese Qualk; just about everyone in the Industrial Culture Handbook (although Boyd Rice* and Genesis P-Orridge are thoroughly insufferable for various reasons). Oh, and Suicide, to whom just about everyone owes a debt.**

Almost forgot: With Sympathy by Ministry. That is ok too, fake accent and all.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 July 15, 2100-2300:

1. "Red Skeletons" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton
2. "Auto-Suggestion" | Joy Division | Substance | Factory
3. "Desert - Danton Eeprom Protofunk Rework" | Mahk & Morpheus | Desert | Souvenir
4. "Window Window" | Cassegrain & Tin Man | Window Window | Infrastructure New York | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Next Door" | Deru | Trying to Remember | Merck
6. "Without Your Eye" | Rhythm & Noise | Chasms Accord | Asphodel
7. "Moon Scapes 2703 BC" | The Orb | Moonbuilding 2073 AD | Kompakt
8. "Breathe Deep" | Cabaret Voltaire | 2 x 45 | Rough Trade
9. "Ether Ether" | Cassegrain & Tin Man | Window Window | Infrastructure New York | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Il Collo et la Collana 06" | Rayon | Il Collo et la Collana | Alien Transistor
11. "Flying Fortress" | Weird Owl | Interstellar Skeletal | A Recordings
12. "Chinese Rocks" | Johnny Thunders | I ♥ NY Punk | Mojo Magazine
13. "Anneannemin Koah'si" | Ah! Kosmos | Flesh | Denovali
14. "Seduct Seduct" | Cassegrain & Tin Man | Window Window | Infrastructure New York | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Afghani Dub" | The Mothmen | Pay Attention! | On-U Sound
16. "Central Control" / "Round Up the Usual Suspects" | Barry Adamson | Moss Side Story | Mute
17. "Crucial Tony Tries to Rescue the Space Invaders" | The Dub Syndicate | An On-U Journey Through Time & Space | On-U Sound
18. "Subliminal" | WhoMadeWho | Ember EP | Get Physical
19. "No. 29 Pareto 20/80" | Terron | Whities 003 | Whities
20. "Modulor Mix" | Air | Premiers Symptomes | Rhino
21. "Dings" | Tiefschwarz | Left | Watergate
22. "Faint Faint" | Cassegrain & Tin Man | Window Window | Infrastructure New York | "Physical Evidence"

just wondering where i fit in

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**also the Cabs. And 23 Skidoo. and Zoviet:France. I'm probably finished now.

Fiscal Evidence: Transmission 220, 2015 July 8

The chronological mess that is "podcasting" enables me to draw connections between these programs that happen "in the moment" and things that transpire later. As I write this, the transmission contained herein is 8 days old, but a funny thing happened just last night, when I was doing a program that will appear here...sometime soon. Miss Andrea asked, "What is 'Physical Evidence?' Is it a label or something?"

It ought to be, shouldn't it? I feel there's at least one original thing that's happened on this program that would work really well as a record, but it's not for me to decide. But I don't think I'd be such a good label boss. I would probably have to do the Guernica thing, but it's already been done; I don't like thinking about money & am therefore terrible with it, so some Factory-esque boondoggles and a farcical collapse would be inevitable.

Also I wouldn't live up to the feature, that is to say it wouldn't bother me if the artists wanted their work on iTunes or Spotify or Tidal or whatever. But a better name hasn't occurred to me.

Life's a bit empty since I shed some responsibilities about a month ago. I seem to be looking for adventure in whatever comes my way. Fortunately there seems to be a Hall of Legends event on the horizon; I'm hoping that keeps me out of trouble.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 July 8, 2100-2300:

1. "Colored Hearts" | Birdstriking | Birdstriking | A Recordings
2. "Cosm" | ASC | Imagine the Future | Samurai
3. "Me And My Girl" | The Zounds | Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns, Vol. 4 | Crypt
4. "Cygne" | Turzi | C | Record Makers
5. "Bootsy" | A Certain Ratio | Greetings Four | Materiali Sonori | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Olympic Mess" | Helm | Olympic Mess | PAN
7. "Decoy Point (Live on Northey Island)" | Ultramarine | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
8. "Regatta De Blanc (Regatta De Dub)" | DubXanne | The Police in Dub | Echo Beach
9. "Adrenalin lasst der Blut kochen" | Der Plan | Kollektion 04 - Bureau B (Compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
10. "Inside" | A Certain Ratio | Greetings Four | Materiali Sonori | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Dream Memory" | Ken Camden | Dream Memory | Kranky
12. "Starship Africa Pt. 1" | Creation Rebel | An On-U Journey Through Time & Space | On-U Sound
13. "Call Me Your Lover" | Mary Afi Usuah | Ekpenyong Abasi | Voodoo Funk
14. "Artemis Rise" | Dalis Car | InGladAloneness | Kscope
15. "Lamaj" | Brame & Hamo | Lamaj's Secret | Dirt Crew
16. "Fever 103°" | A Certain Ratio | Greetings Four | Materiali Sonori | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Drawn from the Scene of Crime" | Cobblestone Jazz | Northern Lights | Itiswhatitis
18. "Mental Jazz" | Eduardo de la Calle | Analog Grooves #4 | Mental Groove
19. "The Runner" | A Certain Ratio | Greetings Four | Materiali Sonori | "Physical Evidence"
20. "15" | Gregor Schnitzler | Kollektion 04 - Bureau B (Compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
21. "Goldfinger" | Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Uptown Top Ranking | VP

exploiting the hell out of the back catalogue.

I Used To Think in Complicated Ways: Transmission 219, 2015 July 6

This was a Monday night time slot I should not have claimed. I say that in retrospect because things were..."technically compromised." Sometimes I feel the radio gods punish me for taking too much airtime, but feeling also that this show could be terminated any day now, I don't know what else I ought to do.

Anyway, yeah, there are some segue difficulties at the beginning, and some equipment malfunctions at the end. I am resolved to be grateful that these things happened on an "off" night and not during the regularly-scheduled program. I can assure you that THAT program, two nights later, was great.

But this one does have Little Annie in the mix, which is ample compensation.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 July 6, 1900-2100:

1. "Snax Variation" | Gulls | Patterns Is Life | Boomarm Nation
2. "Bellevue Baby" | The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | Freedom Tower - No Wave Dance Party 2015 | Mom + Pop
3. "10 Killer Hurtz More" | Little Annie | In Dread with Little Annie (Four Pieces of Heart at 33RPM) | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Not A Sign You've Left That I Could've Found In Your Scrapbooks" | Fontarrian | VLV | Antime
5. "Pep's" | The Fabulous Three | The Best of the Fabulous Three | Truth & Soul
6. "God's Mirrorball" | The Orb | Moonbuilding 2073 AD | Kompakt
7. "Le Manger Hereux" | Little Annie | In Dread with Little Annie (Four Pieces of Heart at 33RPM) | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Expansion Naranja" | Ford Proco / Coil | Expansion Naranja | Mannequin
9. "Tonight Or Never" | La Casa al Mare | This Astro | Bandcamp self-release
10. "Small Talk" | Wetdog | Divine Times | Upset the Rhythm
11. "Untitled" | Pere Ubu | Elitism for the People 1975-1978 | Fire
12. "This Town" | Little Annie | In Dread with Little Annie (Four Pieces of Heart at 33RPM) | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
13. "The Swell" | Sølyst | Kollektion 04 - Bureau B (Compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
14. "E45" | Kolsch | 1983 | Kompakt
15. "War Dub" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Back On The Controls | Rolling Lion - Upsetter
16. "Spoilpark" | Ulli Bomans | Riven | Shitkatapult
17. "Voluta" | Walls | Urals | Ecstatic
18. "Heartbreak Kids" | Roman Flugel | Correspondant Compilation 03 | Correspondant
19. "Miss the Light" | Little Annie | In Dread with Little Annie (Four Pieces of Heart at 33RPM) | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Lion" | Valet | Nature | kranky
21. "Gravity" | Phantom Band | Kollektion 04 - Bureau B (Compiled by Richard Fearless) | Bureau B
22. "Mint" | Lifted | 1 | PAN

mental jazz, not the other kind.