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Saturday Feb 15, 2020
Saturday Feb 15, 2020
Sports radio chuds would call a fixture like this a "trap game." The "birthday episode" was last week. The milestone episode is next week. This is just a low-stakes Wednesday night radio shift, right? Just routine stuff, our usual but always awesome "special time together."
As always, these engagements don't work out as planned (the question, "why do we never plan differently," has never been answered). The studio computers decided to do a Maximum Overdrive on me, which explains why Slowness magically keeps pausing and why at one point Stereolab is playing from two different sources. (It does not explain why I survived to write about the experience). I cannot say I did much better, talking over Karyyn and messing up The Miller Sisters in every possible way.
Since this program was broadcast, 73 days ago now, I've gone on the air 12 times. At the gym I am listening to a transmission from 38 days ago. I'm currently editing a sound file from 31 days ago--5 shows ago. I've had a lot of time and distraction to buffer this awkward experience, and I have to say it's working!
I did get praise for playing Chris and Cosey, as one should! And the segue from David J to Flying Lotus was a special moment. Truly "I Know Not What I Do" but, like the proverbial monkeys working at typewriters I will arbitrarily produce brilliance if you give me enough time.
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 December 4, 2100-2300:
- "Sand & Stone" | Slowness | Berths | Schoolkids
- "Italian Shoes Continuum" | Stereolab | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in The Milky Night (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
- "I Am the Sweeper (Macerator Remix)" | Diane Marie Kloba | D.M.K vs S.K.1.2.3 | self-released
- "For the Future" | Elmono | Cooper's Dream EP | Tectonic
- "SEGMENT & THE LINE" | KARYYN | The Quanta Series | Mute
- "The 21st Century Is Killing Me" | The Membranes | What Nature Gives...Nature Takes Away | Cherry Red
- "Home Is Where the Music is" | rRoxymore | Face to Phase | Don't Be Afraid
- "4 Cantos" | Bixiga 70 | Quebra Cabeca | Glitterbeat
- "We Are Coming Home - 2 Paris Septembre Re-edit" | Pat Thomas | Disco Highlife Reedit Series Vol. 2 | Comet
- "Penalties of Love" | Sequoyah Murray | Before You Begin | Thrill Jockey
- "Pictures Of You" | The Royal Landscaping Society | Disintegration Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
- "DAY 1" | Islam Chipsy & EEK | Kahraman | 100Copies
- "whisper" | serpentwithfeet | soil | Secretly Canadian
- "Talk To Me" | Chris and Cosey | Songs of Love & Lust [reissue] | Conspiracy International
- "Boganga & sandia" | AMMAR 808 | Maghreb United | Glitterbeat
- "There's No Right Way To Do Me Wrong" | The Miller Sisters | Hillbilly Fillies & Rockin' Chicks | Charly | "The Listening Parlour"
- "Closedown" | Os Gambitos ft. Mari Bonanomi | Disintegration Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
- "هيلا Hela" | Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy | Whities 023 (The Act Of Falling From The 8th Floor) | Whities"
- "Uneffable" | Creep Show | Uneffable | Bella Union
- "Vernissage Anticonspiratoria" | Repetentes 2008 | Galaxia Fini | Superconscious
- "The Auteur (Redux The Starlet's Cut)" | David J | Missive to an Angel from the Halls of Infamy and Allure | Glass Modern
- "Golden Axe" | Flying Lotus | Presents INFINITY Infinitum Maida Vale Session | WARP
- "Self Stockholm Syndrome" | Bambounou | Musique Ambiante Française - Vol. 2 | Tigersushi
- "I Know Not What I Do" | AFRODEUTSCHE | RR001 | River Rapid
We don't have to become anything else
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Thursday Feb 13, 2020
They Don't Call Me Loverboy for Nothing: Transmission 498, 2019 November 27
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
"The spirits are with us tonight," I say to my co-pilot, Lady Catharsis. It's true--this was a good program on a festive occasion. Since its inception on Thanksgiving Eve 2012, the Bombastic hullabaloo has claimed the Wednesday of Thanksgiving Week, a "moveable feast," as its birthday. For various reasons we haven't always been able to observe it. We were able to mark it in 2013; I won't link to that one because, reasons. Inexplicably in 2014 the program had moved to Tuesday night, but I was gifted the opportunity to make something special happen.
Years and years ago, I had come to view Thanksgiving as my favorite holiday; about a decade ago it took on some baggage. In 2009 my previous life ended, and the unraveling began in November. Thanksgiving happened a couple of weeks later, and (I like to think) unrelatedly Junior had a meltdown right before dinner. I haven't really been able to tolerate yelling since; is that TMI? Anyway, for a couple of years everything in my life got worse; I was in a really dark place in the time period I describe in this broadcast, when my personal hero Jim Murphy foisted me upon the innocent listeners of the Southern Tier on that fateful night. He saved my life, and he redeemed Thanksgiving--except for the whole genocide thing, I guess, which I am inexcusably bracketing.
There's also the fact that between 2014 and 2018 the Catharsis Family was living in a tiny upstairs apartment, having been chased out of our previous rental by a psychotic landlord who (I'm not kidding) traumatized me and probably the rest of my family as well. A minor inconvenience in all this was that our kitchen was too small to prepare big meals, and we would travel out of state to my brother's house for Thanksgiving each of these years. In 2019 we finally grew up and bought a house, so we stuck around over the break.
Hey, you know, sorry if this is personal and non-musical and dull but the program is me, I am the program, this is the archive, write me for a refund if you like.
Since this program was broadcast, 78 days ago now, I've gone on the air 13 times. I just finished listening to a transmission from 44 days ago. I'm currently editing a sound file from 29 days ago--5 shows ago. I just did a show last night and am awake in the pre-dawn hours because for some reason I couldn't sleep. Yet somehow my memory is sharpening. I don't even know if that is idiomatically correct but it feels right so I am going with it.
Anyway there were good vibes flying around the studio on this night. The research team was busy, "informing" our listeners about needle time, Jeremy Clarkson, and Two Thousand Maniacs!, among other things. "Records as gifts" was our theme for the evening, and for once a themed program was non-disastrous. I can't speak for Lady Catharsis but as I peruse this playlist I am glad to say that I'm no longer the person I was when I received any of these records, thankful though I was and am. Every day brings new possibilities!
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 November 27, 2100-2300:
- "Big Sex" | T.A.G. | Big Sex | Sweatbox
- "Spanish Castle Magic" | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | BBC Sessions | MCA / Experience Hendrix
- "Fabric" | Toiling Midgets | Son | Matador
- "May This Be Love" | Thin White Rope | Squatter's Rights | Frontier
- "Are You Ready To Come? (With Me) Pt.1" | USAries | Personal Space (Electronic Soul 1974 - 1984) | Chocolate Industries
- "Do You Love Me?" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Let Love In | BMG / Mute
- "Do Your Thing" | Isaac Hayes | Shaft (Music From the Soundtrack) | Stax
- "Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad" | Wanda Jackson | Rockin' With Wanda | Wax Love
- "Hot Doggie" | Colourbox | Colourbox (box set) | 4AD
- "Fire" | The Buff Medways | Fire | Friends Of The Buff Medway Fanciers Association
- "Manic Depression" | Throwing Muses | Firepile E.P. (Part One) | 4AD
- "Winter (John Peel Session 15/9/81)" | The Fall | Hex Enduction Hour [reissue] | Cherry Red
- "Loverboy" | Wally Lewis | The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1: 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from "Nashville West" | Bear Family
- "Get It Together" | James Brown | Star Time | Polydor
- "Shut Up" | Here Are the Facts You Requested | Shocks + Struts | Elevator Pop Gallery
- "Time to Go Home" | Otis G. Johnson | Personal Space (Electronic Soul 1974 - 1984) | Chocolate Industries
Done got wise of the way you do it
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Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
People Are Telling You, "Be in the Moment": Transmission 497, 2019 November 20
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
We made it! But where? The end of the pre-holiday period, of course. Since I write this with the advantage of hindsight, I can share with you my current feeling that maybe the period between Thanksgiving and New Year's is the only part of my radio calendar that matters. But I don't know how to have that period without also grinding out content for the other 47 weeks of the year, so until I figure it out we'll have to make it through programs like this one. Together.
Since this program was broadcast, 83 days ago now, I've gone on the air 13 times. I just finished listening to a transmission from 49 days ago. I'm currently editing a sound file from 31 days ago--5 shows ago. I've come a long way since I began this chronicle of guilt.
Before I finish posting this I want to take a moment to congratulate Special Interest, as their song was number 12,000 in this ongoing radio adventure. Surely the honor means a lot to them, so it's important for them to know. When we reach episode 500 I'll have some other statistics that will also interest no one. Other things did happen on this broadcast. Despite some crazy song choices, it sounded great, and the segue between Flying Lotus and The Comet Is Coming was absolutely out of this world. Who cares if it was obvious?
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 November 20, 2100-2300:
- "Nasty Boy" | Törsh | Nasty Days | Zissou
- "Cricket Pit" | 4T Thieves and Pandacetamol | She danced on the sand | Kahvi Collective
- "Breathe" | Slowness | Berths | Schoolkids
- "Fall In" | Chikaya | Test of Time | False Idols
- "Black Precious Colour" | Felixson Ngasia & The Survivals | Nigeria 70: No Wahala: Highlife, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973-1987 | Strut
- "T 3.6" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
- "Ten Notes On a Summer's Day - Instrumental Mix" | Crass | Ten Notes On a Summer's Day | Caroline
- "Between Spaces" | Deep Nalström | Naive Melodies | Natural Selection
- "Mundiya Loju" | M.A. Jaiyesimi & His Crescent Bros Band | Nigeria 70: No Wahala: Highlife, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973-1987 | Strut
- "Hemmingway's Tell" | Kristin Hersh | Spark Meet Gasoline | self-released | "The Listening Parlour"
- "Engineered Uncertainty" | Moor Mother | Analog Fluids of Solid Black Holes | Don Giovanni
- "There's a Rainbow" | James Clarke Five | Parloursounds [reissue] | The Beautiful Music
- "World Leader Pretend" | Corrections | Welcome To The Occupation, A Reverence to R.E.M. | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
- "Love Break" | DJ Marky | Should I | Innerground
- "Fluid (Bound 2)" | Special Interest | Spiraling | Anxious
- "G-Star" | Jeff Mills | SIGHT SOUND AND SPACE | Axis
- "Come And Play In The Milky Night" | Stereolab | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in The Milky Night (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
- "Crystal Clear" | Goldie | Saturnz Return (2019 Remaster) | London
- "Lamuka" | Zazou / Bikaye / CY1 | Noir Et Blanc | Crammed Discs
- "Meteo Dreams" | elAstrum | Freqmod | Kahvi Collective
- "Lage - African Acid Is The Future Outerlude" | Edmony Krater | African Acid Is The Future: Ambiance II | The Vinyl Factory
- "119 Black Key Experiment (Continuation Interlude)" | Fred P | Lush Culture | Perpetual Sound
- "Resplandor" | John Beltran | Resol | Red Shield
- "MmmHmm" | Flying Lotus | Presents INFINITY Infinitum Maida Vale Session | WARP
- "The Softness of the Present" / "The Afterlife" | The Comet Is Coming | The Afterlife | Impulse
- "Heal You" | TENNIN | Test of Time | False Idols
Come and stay, bring the stars
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Monday Feb 10, 2020
You Can't Arrest Me, I Pay Rent Here: Transmission 496, 2019 November 16
Monday Feb 10, 2020
Monday Feb 10, 2020
This is a type of experience I am increasingly struggling to make sense of as time passes. It's a Saturday night and I have volunteered to do radio, by myself. It seems like I was just basking in solitude, but that was a Wednesday night, which I know will be "me time." Maybe in the olden days this strategy of "filling up free time with radio" was partly a way of keeping myself out of trouble, and maybe it still is, but I really am trying to limit these appearances that don't have a point. At this time I know I was trying to reach Transmission 500 by Christmas, for reasons I no longer understand. 2019 was work.
Since this program was broadcast, 86 days ago now, I've gone on the air 14 times. At the gym I am listening to a transmission from 48 days ago. I'm currently editing a sound file from 30 days ago--5 shows ago. Is it day I'm seeing?
Was I really just saying I'd started doing programs that made me proud again? Yikes. I hope you enjoy the airplay software glitches and random noises from my own laptop that manifest here. Also, I think I played a couple of tracks that in hindsight seem like bad choices, departures from my own taste meant as favors for other people. I need to stop doing this. Let me just make a blanket statement--friends, I love you. But this is my program. Maybe I am just overreacting; I seem to remember being angry on the arc trainer when I listened back to this. I am frequently angry at the gym. "Have a good time," my loved ones tell me. Sure thing!
Okay, let's try this again--things get better from here.
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 November 16, 2000-2200:
- "Dispossession" | Algiers | Dispossession | Matador
- "I Wonder" | Sequoyah Murray | Before You Begin | Thrill Jockey
- "The Warmest Rain" | The Durutti Column | Obey The Time [reissue] | Factory Benelux
- "Party" | Spontaneous Overthrow | All About Money | Numero Group
- "Junkyard" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Angel in the Detail | Metropolis
- "In My Shoes" | Leeroy Thornhill | Test of Time | False Idols
- "Loathe" | Your 33 Black Angels | Eternities I | self-released
- "Mars - Won't Save Us" | The Room in the Wood | The Mars E.P. | A Turntable Friend
- "Joan Of Arc (Maid of Orleans)" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Architecture and Morality | Virgin
- "Wonder Y" | A Certain Ratio | acr:set | Mute
- "Psychotic Machine" | Loudspeaker | One Little Indian's Greatest Hits Volume One | One Little Indian
- "Sancho e Pingo" | Gonzo | Ruido(s) | Discrepant
- "Everybody Needs Dub" | The Aggrovators | Dubbing At King Tubby's | VP
- "Nights in Helsinki" | Last Nubian | The Reunion EP | Blaq Numbers
- "Rahjak" | NNYZ? | Automation | Kahvi Collective
- "Goo Goo Eyes" | Algebra Mothers | A-Moms = Algebra Mothers | Third Man
- "Anyway" | The Artpress | The Sound of Leamington Spa | Firestation Records
- "Deep Heart (Macerator Remix)" | Diane Marie Kloba | D.M.K vs S.K.1.2.3 | self-released
- "Golden Ball" | Stereolab | Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
- "Hidden Track" | The 1865 | Don't Tread On We! | Mass Appeal
- "Mosaic" | David J | Missive to an Angel from the Halls of Infamy and Allure | Glass Modern
- "Bookworm" | The Irony Board | Unfinished Business | The Beautiful Music
- "Rolling" | Michael Kiwanuka | KIWANUKA | Polydor
- "Save Urself (feat Nubya Garcia)" | Amy True | Oonops Drops Vol. 2 | Agogo
- "Madea" | Tenesha the Wordsmith | Peacocks & Other Savage Beasts | On the Corner
- "Without Sense" | Milbentia | Last Days | Virtual Soundsystem
- "Nothin' Man" | R.L. Burnside | Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down | Fat Possum
- "It's Not Me" | Stephen Mallinder | Um Dada | Dais
- "p-string" | Aphex Twin | Peel Session 2 | WARP
- "Des gouttes" | DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson | Aimez ces airs | Hot Casa
local on-air talent, tonight it's me
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Sunday Feb 09, 2020
Forget Your Worries, Embrace Abundance: Transmission 495, 2019 November 13
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
Much to my relief, I am flying solo on this broadcast. There are no drugged-out (or just oppositional-defiant, or whatever) unwelcome guests in the control booth. We've finally reached the current run of programs I can take pride in. I go through periods where I wonder what the payoff is, but lately I have just been enjoying the two hours of alone time that this program gives me every week, blasting the studio monitors and just basically enjoying stuff. There is a lot to unpack there, not least the literal unboxing that needs to happen in my new crib, so that I can finally blast records there one day (hopefully).
Since this program was broadcast, 88 days ago now, I've gone on the air 15 times. At the gym I am listening to a transmission from 46 days ago. I'm currently editing a sound file from 32 days ago--5 shows ago. It's all coming together, collapsing into vague almost-rememberance.
Recently I'd visited this biannual record fair that comes to Ithaca. Normally it's a sad waste of time, but on this occasion I found a sealed copy of Yello's 1983 album You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess. This is one of many "rosebuds" for me, an album from my youth that I once had, inexplicably discarded, and desperately pined for. (I did actually see Citizen Kane once, in case you're wondering--I know you aren't--but I am not watching it again just to make sure I am deploying this reference correctly.) Anyway, "Salut Mayoumba" makes an appearance on this night, as part of a crazy and sublime triptych. So there's at least one moment to look forward to.
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 November 13, 2100-2300:
- "Misirlou" | Los Shain's | El Ritmo de los Shain's | Munster
- "Deep in That *****" | Byron the Aquarius | Astral Traveling | Mutual Intentions
- "Susanoo" | Philou Louzolo | Shinobi of Wokoundou | Wokoundou
- "You Ain't The Problem" | Michael Kiwanuka | KIWANUKA | Polydor
- "Cherie Sherabou" | Saba Lou | Novum Ovum | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
- "Mizik Bel - Africaine 808 Remix" | Esnard Boisdur | Mizik Bel | Favorite
- "Last Dance" | Violet Nights & Nax | Disintegration Revisited | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
- "No One Cares" | Elizabeth The Second | No One Cares | self-released
- "Attache" | DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson | Aimez ces airs | Hot Casa
- "That Old Freight Train" | Lee Hazlewood | Love and Other Crimes | LHI | "The Listening Parlour"
- "Baclashes" / "From a dying universe" / "Inside the Victory" / "Metal Perc" | The Oracle Model | Eventide Tears | Kahvi Collective
- "Acid" | Slikback | Lasakaneku / Tomo | Hakuna Kulala
- "Controller" | Russ Gabriel | The Controller | FireScope
- "Resolve" | Joni Void | Mise En Abyme | Constellation
- "Happy Anniversary" | Baltic Noise | Out Of The Darkness | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
- "Rabbouni - Enyang Ha Remix" | Deena Abdelwahed | Khonnar Remixes | Infine
- "No Investigation" | Zonal | Wrecked | Relapse
- "Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down" | R.L. Burnside | Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down | Fat Possum
- "Salut Mayoumba" | Yello | You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess | Elektra
- "Prophet Paradise" | Cameo Blush | Murky Waters EP | Touch from a Distance
- "Natural Born Killers (Ride for Me)" | James Massiah | Natural Born Killers (Ride for Me) | Levels
- "Diagonals" | Stereolab | Dots and Loops (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
- "Dangerous Women" | Tenesha the Wordsmith | Peacocks & Other Savage Beasts | On the Corner
- "Alba" | Submotile | Ghosts Fade on Skylines | Midsummer Madness
- "Versix" | Chris Carter | Disobedient | Mute
Live in the trouble
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Friday Feb 07, 2020
Friday Feb 07, 2020
I am just going to come out and say that you can skip the first ten minutes or so of this program. Lady Catharsis and I are joined in the studio by the dj who preceded us, and who just kind of decided to stay. I have a feeling this person may have been chemically enhanced at the time (whomst among us, and so on) and it was kind of unnerving. I did my best "Doctor Hibbert" impersonation, another example of how I always seem to make bad choices in the moment. But, hey, the content is there, for the masochists, if you want it. I try my best to be honest, and to serve by disclosing things fully.
Since this program was broadcast, 90 days ago now, I've gone on the air 16 times. I just finished listening to a transmission from 58 days ago. I'm currently editing a sound file from 37 days ago--6 shows ago. And for reasons that are too boring to describe (even by my standards), I'm rushing to post this so I don't have to listen to this one again.
It's a shame because for the remaining 110 minutes this was a really good night, though it's not a good sign that Lady Catharsis doesn't bring any of her own records. She gets me talking, though. My therapist tells me I need to "show up" more in life, and here I am! Somewhere in here there's a nice little dig at pre-recorded programs and the people behind them. Look, the thing I have going for me is that despite taking up a lot of airtime I am always live and always real, except maybe when I am humoring narcotized people who won't leave the room.
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 November 9, 2000-2200:
- "No Age" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Life of the Plants | Stones Throw
- "Group Four (Security Forces Dub)" | Massive Attack | Massive Attack V Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98) | UMC / Virgin
- "Easing" | George & Glen Miller | Easing | Soundway
- "Movin'" | Brass Construction | The Best Of Brass Construction - Movin' & Changin' | EMI
- "Iyereghe" | Odomore Osarenren And Ẹwaẹn Ọsẹtin Stars | Ọyọetigbe - The Birth Of A Child | Dig This Way
- "Galaxia Fini" | Repetentes 2008 | Galaxia Fini | Superconscious
- "Our Future" | Miles Atmospheric | SkyHealer | FireScope
- "Vengeance" | Chris & Cosey | Exotika [reissue] | Conspiracy International
- "Electric Boogie" | Trinidadian Deep | Natty Dread | Visions Inc.
- "Sociodelic" | Afriqua | Colored | R & S
- "Pink Lady Lemonade (Astral Disco Queen - Coda)" | Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. | Hallelujah Mystic Garden Part Two | Important
I'm just going to say, it's a personality type
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Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
All You've Got To Lose Is Your Mind: Transmission 493, 2019 November 6
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
Somewhere I lost touch with what other people think about things and how other people perceive the world. Or is it losing commonality? Anyway, I started noticing this maybe 12, 13 years ago. There will be this event, or cultural phenomenon, and I will have a completely different impression of it than everyone around me. That seems too serious for "mere" depression, and yet I've managed to be a functional, working adult for most of that time. Unless I'm mistaken about that too--maybe none of this is actually happening.
I'm bringing this up because I felt that this show was full of mistakes and bad choices, but station general manager Felix told me that I was "killing it" on this night. I think someone else complimented me too. So I don't know how to assess this broadcast, and I don't have any way of recapturing whatever made it special. Sorry about this!
Since this program was broadcast, 91 days ago now, I've gone on the air 16 times. I just finished listening to a transmission from 63 days ago. I'm currently editing a sound file from 36 days ago--6 shows ago. And I am scheduled to do a program tonight! What's going to happen? Who knows? It's so mysterious, so magical.
Honestly, looking at the playlist, it strikes me as an "overflow" type of program, a throwback, even though it was definitely a regular Wednesday night mothership occasion. I know that around this time I was a bit shaken at work and in life, having to deal with some heavy stuff. How did I do with it? You'll have to ask someone else.
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 November 6, 2100-2300:
- "Kompass" | Conny Frischauf | Affekt & Tradition | Kame House
- "Noir State Beach - The Modernist Mix" | Xu Xu Fang | Velvet Desert Music Vol. 1 | Kompakt
- "Reagan Youth" | Superchunk | What a Time to Be Alive | Merge
- "Vino della casa bianco" | The Durutti Column | Obey The Time [reissue] | Factory Benelux
- "The City Is An Animal (Nature is its Slave)" | The Membranes | What Nature Gives...Nature Takes Away | Cherry Red
- "White Out" | Kriegshög | Paint It Black / White Out | La Vida Es Un Mus
- "Radio Babylon" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Dancing In Darkness | PIAS
- "Sogio" | Julie Coker | A Life in the Limelight: Lagos Disco & Itsekiri Highlife, 1976-1981 | Kalita
- "Shilungu" | Penny Penny | Shilungu | Soundway
- "Love Cuts" | Chris and Cosey | Songs of Love & Lust [reissue] | Conspiracy International
- "Strictly DNB - Sight Unseen Remix" | Digital | Digital Remixes | Function
- "Electric Energy" | Lee Scratch Perry & Mr. Green | Super Ape Vs. 緑 "Open Door" | Tuff Kong
- "Ghost Heart" | Denise Sherwood | Pay It All Back Vol. 7 | On-U Sound
- "Parsec" | Stereolab | Dots and Loops (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
- "Mondo Segreto" | Simone De Kunovich | Mondo Nuovo Vol. 1 | Superconscious
- "Shattered Stars" | The Sorry Shop | Out Of The Darkness | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
- "Ababab - Ital Tek Remix" | Deena Abdelwahed | Khonnar Remixes | Infine
- "One of Those Mornings" | John Beltran | Hallo Androiden | Blue Arts Music
- "Missing You" | Fa Le Brou | Penrose | Kahvi Collective
- "Hinde - Julien Dyne Rework" | African Vibration | Hinde | Soundway
- "Urban Constellations" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
- "La Danza de los Diablos" | Sonido Gallo Negro | Mambo Cosmico | Glitterbeat
- "Spazzing Out (4U)" | Byron the Aquarius | Astral Traveling | Mutual Intentions
- "For the dinner" | Hardwired | Liminal | Kahvi Collectiv
- "Prize Arm" | Mecca Normal | Brand New Waves Session | Artoffact
- "Dansation - Unreleased Extended Version" | Steel City Connection | Steel City Disco | Kalita
- "Mango Habernero Wings" | Brian | Red Rover | self-released
- "Midnite" | Simon Bassline Smith | Girls / Midnite / Oh Yeah | Deep Jungle
Let's draw a map to the stars
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Monday Feb 03, 2020
Monday Feb 03, 2020
True confession: my first attempt at recounting this episode was such a dull, sausage-making drone that I bored even myself. So I'm trying again, this time with atmosphere, and maybe some mental sausage.
A couple of hours before the program, it rained. A lot. There was flooding in the area! And I think of the poor children and their parents, especially in our old hipster neighborhood, a Halloween wonderland, getting soaked in their heroic effort to keep the candy industry afloat.
I was working in the opposite direction, trying to get to the gym, probably for the first time in several days--my new job was exhausting me mentally and physically, and I had dived deeply into comfort food (and am still diving)--and taking my life into my own hands.
Rain is my least favorite weather to begin with, but particularly in Ithaca--usually if it's raining it's just the right temperature for our car to fog up uncontrollably. I could easily have mowed down some young family on my way to torture myself, and to be honest I probably felt nothing in particular about either part of this equation.
Feels like I just talked about how much I hate fundraising programs, and here I was in the control room again the next day. Like a goddamn salmon I keep returning, with tremendous effort, and I don't even get it.
Since this program was broadcast, 95 days ago now, I've gone on the air 17 times. I am listening to a transmission from 61 days ago. I'm currently editing a sound file from 41 days ago--7 shows ago. What does it amount to, this enormous task? And what will I even do when I am caught up? Anyway, October's finished, unless you count that unfortunate area of space-time where it is always still happening, forever.
Fittingly, I played a bunch of 4AD-adjacent stuff on this evening of "songs about ghosts and songs about dead people." It haunts me, or at least it haunts the person I have been, whom I carry around with me at all times. It is more "me" to stray from the "best available" in favor of the weird, personal, disturbing. And of course we made less money on this night than the last one. Sometimes I know what I'm talking about.
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 October 31, 2100-2300:
- "Ghost Lights" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68
- "I Fell In Love With a Ghost" | Rowland S. Howard / Lydia Lunch | Some Velvet Morning | 4AD
- "Your Ghost" | Kristin Hersh | The 13 Year Itch | 4AD
- "Halloween" | The Dream Syndicate | The Days of Wine and Roses | Fire America
- "56B" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Legendary Pink Dots' Hallowe'en Special 2019 | self-released
- "Keleya" | Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band | Siri Ba Kele | Sublime Frequencies
- "Ghosts" | Japan | Exorcising Ghosts | Virgin
- "Fache Ainik Ant" | Moulay Ahmed El Hassani | Atlas Electric | Hive Mind
- "Zawal" | Tinariwen | Amadjar | Wedge
- "The Jezebel Spirit" | Brian Eno - David Byrne | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | Sire
- "City of the Dead" | The Clash | Black Market Clash | Epic
- "Death From Above" | Crispy Ambulance | The Plateau Phase + Live On A Hot August Night + Peel | Factory Benelux
- "Ghosts" | Nancy Babich | Time Adds Up | self-released
- "Nachtschatten" | Xmal Deutschland | Tocsin | 4AD
- "White Sunlight" | Hunter Complex | Open Sea | Death Waltz
- "KURT KOBAIN" | Velvet Negroni | NEON BROWN | 4AD
- "Jazz Sega" | Jeanot Rabeson Et Son Orchestre | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
- "All The People I Like Are Those That Are Dead" | Felt | Forever Breathes the Lonely Word | Creation
- "The Double-Switch" | King Salami and the Cumberland Three | Kiss My Ring | Damaged Goods
- "Halloween" | Brian | Because It's Mine! | self-released
- "Sleep-Wake Cycles" | Jeff Mills | Moon (The Area of Influence) | Axis
- "Celine's Surprise" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Legendary Pink Dots' Hallowe'en Special 2019 | self-released
existing in the shadows of dreams
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Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
For this program my health had returned (that is, if I was actually sick the prior week, which I of course no longer remember). Also, I was in good spirits--a rarity during a fundraising drive. Let's be frank, I hate these things. They're just a confluence of bad stuff. Because I am a dandy and a child, I don't like to think about money; I have bad memories from previous co-hosting experiences; I don't actually enjoy talking on the radio that much. Fortunately I had Lady Catharsis riding shotgun, and DJ Feng Shui, a sympathetic colleague, "on the other side of the glass," so this was a good evening, which is pretty much all my notes say.
Since this program was broadcast, 95 days ago now, I've gone on the air 18 times. I am listening to a transmission from 60 days ago. I'm currently editing a sound file from 40 days ago--7 shows ago. [In some ways time is moving backwards.]
There's one little bit of sadness as I think back on this episode. It's that I miss the old "festivals of Evidence" that I used to do. But "Physical Evidence" is no longer a thing (Junior is fine, by the way); seemingly it had to die so that more important things could flourish. These "year end roundups" are wall-to-wall quality tunes, but they aren't really me. And yet from a fundraising perspective they are increasingly effective. Is that a "rising tide" thing for the station, or do I succeed more when I am not quite myself?
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 October 30, 2100-2300:
- "Tema" / "Dope" | Afriqua | Colored | R & S
- "Give Love (Interlude)" | Sampa the Great | The Return | Ninja Tune
- "If Not Now When?" | Ultramarine | Signals into Space | Les Disques du Crepuscule
- "C/2015 V2" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Opaque Couche | Flexidisc
- "Heliy" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | Tutti | Conspiracy International
- "Heston" | Finlay Shakepeare | Domestic Economy | Editions Mego
- "The Edge of the World" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
- "Life of the Plants" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Life of the Plants | Stones Throw
- "Chemin de fer" | Dexter Story | Bahir | Soundway
- "Feeling You Got" | El Rego et ses Commandos | El Rego | Daptone
- "Wanted" | Renegade Pharmacy | Recovery Position | self-released
- "XYZ" | Boards of Canada | XYZ | WARP
- "Happy Sad" | Jübl | DNA Cowboys | Eighth Son Records
- "Let's Take The Time" | Sequoyah Murray | Before You Begin | Thrill Jockey Records
- "Tenere" | Kel Assouf | Black Tenere | Glitterbeat
- "Honam" | Orchestre Abass | De Bassari Togo | Analog Africa
- "Driving Blind" | Chris and Cosey | Songs of Love & Lust [reissue] | Conspiracy International
- "All About Money" | Spontaneous Overthrow | All About Money | Numero Group
- "Microwave Mistral" | Your 33 Black Angels | Eternities I | self-released
- "T 3.1" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
- "Disorder Dub" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
- "Sometimes I Wanna Dance" | Lonnie Holley | MITH | Jagjaguwar
- "Come Home O'Shawn" | (((O))) | ((( 1 ))) | The Sundrop Garden
- "Master's Clock" | Moor Mother | The Myth Hold Weight | Don Giovanni
- "Exchange - Mountain Steppers Dub" | Massive Attack | Massive Attack V Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98) | UMC / Virgin
life of the party
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Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Hundreds of Miles Going Nowhere: Transmission 490, 2019 October 23
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
I sound sick and I sound like I'm using my laptop (again), which would mean that the station's equipment has predictably failed. But for me to fail less than the gear is an achievement, and I will take it. Anyway, the technical situation is due to improve, or at least that's what I hear from my inside sources.
Since this program was broadcast, 101 days ago now, I've gone on the air 18 times. I just finished listening to a transmission from 66 days ago. I'm currently editing a sound file from 39 days ago--6 shows ago.
Content-wise, this playlist looks like the "old" me, so who knows what I was thinking on this night--the usual explanation, clearing out some songs I'd been meaning to play, trying to minimize the guilt of not having played them, ignoring the bigger question of why I would have felt that way in the first place, doesn't work. I was probably finding a lot of things "not working" in my new situation. I'd started turning to comfort food and drinking more alcohol, skipping the gym, telling myself this was all temporary, etc. So thank goodness for mechanical competence, for a couple of hours at least.
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 October 23, 2100-2300:
- "Decembers Embers" | The Irony Board | Unfinished Business | The Beautiful Music
- "Blips Drips and Strips" | Stereolab | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in The Milky Night (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / Warp Records
- "Blue Palms" | Iori | Tangerine Sky | Mule Musiq
- "Mango (feat. Zia Ahmed)" | Sarathy Korwar | More Arriving | Leaf
- "What You Gonna Ask For - Theo's Mix" | Theo Parrish / Lori / Silentjay | What You Gonna Ask For | Sound Signature
- "Wake Up (Interlude)" | Sampa the Great | The Return | Ninja Tune
- "Wallow" | The Pull of Autumn | Afterglow | RBM Records
- "Andeha Hanarato" | Los Matadores | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
- "City Track" | Kedr Livanskiy | Your Need | 2MR
- "That Feeling of Falling" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
- "T 3.4" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
- "Fury - The Origin" | Goldie | Saturnz Return (2019 Remaster) | London
- "Third Sync" | Rainer Veil | Vanity | Modern Love
- "Let's Hope It Lasts the Summer" | elAstrum | Summer Vacation | Kahvi Collective
- "Dreams (Alternate Version)" | Tombstones in Their Eyes | Open Skies | Somewherecold
- "Jump In, The Water's Fine" | The Wedding Present | Jump In, The Water's Fine | Come Play With Me / Scopitones
- "One Step" | Section 25 | Always Now | Factory Benelux
- "Drift Away" | Secret Shine | There Is Only Now | Saint Marie
- "Ocean Blue" | The Primitives | Losing Touch With My Mind: Psychedelia In Britain 1986-1990 | Cherry Red
- "(I Walked Away From) The Girl In Yellow" | David J | Missive to an Angel from the Halls of Infamy and Allure | Glass Modern
- "Heroes" | Flying Lotus | Flamagra | WARP
- "Elizabeth 44" | Ummagma | Compass | Leonard Skully
- "Jogging" | Brian | Red Rover | self-released
- "4eva" | Kelman Duran | Two Suns | Point Records
- "At the Point of Hustle" | Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell | Realm of Spells | self-released
- "Oa Niny Ê" | Nino Rafah | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
easy dreams down lazy streets
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