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Festival of Evidence v2.1: Transmission 185, 2015 February 7

BOMBAST doesn't do moderation. Hour-long programs are for other people. It's either a feature-length film or a sitcom for us. This is one of the latter, staged as part of some radio station "house party" whose end-use I do not grasp.

The idea, supposedly, was that we would have a party at the station for staff, and that instead of having usual programming run at that time (which would have been just fine, and perfectly party-ish), we should "take advantage" of the presence of multiple djs and have several of them do short sets. I guess the benefit is that it prevents one person from being sequestered away from the party for a prolonged time, and that sequestration wouldn't be fun for anyone who likes parties. And I suppose another benefit is that the listener at home (or wherever) could get a sampling of different programs without investing too much time.

All the same it must be awkward, listening in on a "party" to which one isn't really invited. We are at pains to say that we're a community radio station ("we're your community radio station!") and that of course you should feel free to come down to the studio and walk right in on whatever we're doing. But only sociopaths crash parties where they don't know anyone. Is that what we want? [ed. apparently, "yes."]

Well. I don't "work" parties as a DJ [it shows] and I can barely attend parties as a human. But if someone is giving out airtime I am all over it. What's the alternative, that someone else should occupy this half-hour? That simply won't do. I'm convinced that I'm special, one way or the other. I was born with the moon VOID OF COURSE, don't you know. I'm destined to be either Spinoza or one of the dudes who torched Alexandria. Am I "John Peel" special? Of course not. Peel was a teacher. I have nothing to teach anybody. You can ask around--I would start with the attendees of the last party for which I made a mix tape, if you can track them down.

I have spent many an hour being upstaged by unruly young people, and this is one such episode. Say hello to Nikkolai, everyone. I would love to have him on future programs, and just let him interject wherever most or least appropriate. I fear that he has bigger and better things to do.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 February 7, 2030-2100:

1. "Rocking Steady" | Hot & Rich | Rocksteady - with Lynn Taitt & The Jets and Beverleys All Stars | Reggae Retro | "Physical Evidence"
2. "Tearjerker" | The Creepers | Rock 'N' Roll Liquorice Flavour | Red Rhino | "Physical Evidence"
3. "I'm Nowhere" | The Durutti Column | Return of the Sporadic Recordings | Kooky | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Pentatonic Skull" | Design A Wave | A.R.M. 1 | No Label | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Cybernetic" | The Grid | Volume 5 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Look for the Question Mark" | Wallflowers (Wally Waller & The Strange Flowers) | In Fuzz We Trust | Stag-O-Lee | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Rise Dub" | Annie Anxiety Bandez | As I Lie In Your Arms | One Little Indian | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Bye Bye Baby" | Prince Buster | Judge Dread Rock Steady / She Was A Rough Rider | DOJO | "Physical Evidence"

next time: lucha libre. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

We Are At Once Nowhere and Everywhere: Transmission 184, 2015 February 3

New month, new and more competent approach. And a new theme song to boot, courtesy of The Tea Jennies. I am charmed speechless by this. Anyway, this was a fun night. That J.B.'s record is really, really good, you guys.

Also, you should really consider checking out the rest of that Loscil EP on Bandcamp. It is truly sublime, and supports a good cause.

I think I might actually be out of things to say. I do remember predicting once that if nothing went wrong I wouldn't have anything to discuss, and this seems to be one of those times. Happy February!

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 February 3:

1. "I Wanna Be Famous In Ithaca" | The Tea Jennies | Senseless Violins | not on label
2. "Decoy Point" | Ultramarine | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux
3. "Saturday Mourning" | The Skull Defekts | Street Metal | Monkeytown
4. "I'll Ze" | The J.B.'s | These Are The J.B.'s | Now-Again | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Kali" | Envee | U Know Warsoul EP | Pets
6. "Stereometry" | A2B2C2 | John Beltran Presents: Music For Machines | Delsin
7. "Beat On The Brat" | Ramones | Morrissey Curates the Ramones | Rhino
8. "When You Feel It Grunt If You Can" | The J.B.'s | These Are The J.B.'s | Now-Again | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Art Ebb Lull Us" | Brassica | Man Is Deaf | Civil Music
10. "Observatory" | Roland Tings | Roland Tings | Internasjonal
11. "Lucioles" | Loscil | For Greta | Bandcamp self-release
12. "Sommadub" | Sir Horatio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
13. "Miguel El Salam" | Forever Pavot | Rhapsode | Born Bad
14. "These Are The J.B.'s Pt. I & Pt. II" | The J.B.'s | These Are The J.B.'s | Now-Again | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Object 15" | The Notwist | Messier Objects | Alien Transistor
16. "Pearls Girl" | Underworld | Second Toughest In The Infants | Universal [Japan]
17. "Four Dark Traps" | Paul Haig | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux
18. "Outer East" | Horse Lords | Hidden Cities | NNA Tapes
19. "Saturn" | Teielte & Sonar Soul | U Know Warsoul EP | Pets

next time: introducing Nikkolai. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Stay With Me, You'll See The Hard Times Changing For Better: Transmission 183, 2015 January 27

Hoo boy, where to start? This is a radio program, I think it's safe to say. It definitely aired on the radio. What else it has going for it...well, I like to think the selection is good. There's that. At least I played the A Certain Ratio tracks without errors [that I can remember]. There are probably 1 or 2 really good segues in here [but I don't remember]. Otherwise, let's just call my continued presence on the air "managerial privilege." There are miscued songs, dead air, cueing noises in the middle of songs already playing, you name it. This sound file has been touched up so as not to sound as awful as it probably did on the night, and I know somewhere in the archive I blathered on about a documentary philosophy in my postings, but we all deserve a Lena Dunham moment every now and then.

In my defense I was probably dinking around with my laptop trying and failing to get a wifi connection at the studio, you see, so I was hella distracted. As a manager type at the station I've been ultraconservative about our networking setup because seemingly every time someone tweaks it the system goes haywire. And--what do you know--someone had tweaked it the previous weekend, and haywire had been achieved. I believe on this night I even threatened to quit my "job" at the station--talk about WhiteWhining ^(TM)! Anyway, the next time I visited the station, everything worked, although there was no explanation for it--other than the Radio gods telling me it's not my time yet.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 January 27, 2100-2300:

1. "Age of Consent" | New Order | Power, Corruption & Lies | Factory
2. "Real Cool Trash" | Tav Falco and His Unapproachable Panther Burns | Tav Falco's Wild & Exotic World Of Musical Obscurities | Stag-O-Lee
3. "Lovin' Just My Style" | The Caravelles | The Best Arizona Garage Bands 1967-1970 | HDM
4. "Another (Terminal)" | Le Revelateur | Air Texture, Vol. IV | Air Texture
5. "Skipscada [Peel 1981]" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Mirage" | The Cannanes and Steward | Communicating at An Unknown Rate | Chapter
7. "Gangster of Love" | Bliss | The Best Arizona Garage Bands 1967-1970 | HDM
8. "Mr. X" | Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux
9. "Trembling Hands" | Magic Castles | Sky Sounds | A Recordings
10. "Dive Bomber" | The Carnations | The Best Arizona Garage Bands 1967-1970 | HDM
11. "Stella" | Ultramarine | Every Man And Woman Is A Star | Rough Trade
12. "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Kicking Against The Pricks [reissue] | Mute
13. "P.S. Goodbye" | The Chameleons | John Peel Sessions | Blue Apple
14. "Mmm Skyscraper I Love You" | Underworld | Dubnobasswithmyheadman | Universal [Japan]
15. "Djin Ku Djin" | Vaudou Game | Apiafo | Hot Casa
16. "Knife Slits Water [Peel 1981]" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Gary" | Shellac | Dude Incredible | Touch & Go
18. "Long Arm" | Gulls | Patterns Is Life | Boomarm Nation
19. "Sante" | Vaghe Stelle | Air Texture, Vol. IV | Air Texture
20. "Colour Screen" | Fenin | Werkschau03 | Shitkatapult
21. "Day One [Peel 1981]" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role" | Swearing at Motorists | While Laughing, the Joker Tells the Truth | A Recordings
23. "Silver Machine" | Brian Harris | Behind the Mask | self-released
24. "Modern World" | Wrangler | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux
25. "Clowns and Ballerinas" | Negativland | A Big 10-8 Place | Seeland
26. "Faint Light" | Egokind & Ozean | Transition | Traum
27. "Stylomezzo" | Gebruder Teichmann | Werkschau03 | Shitkatapult

next time: the new theme song. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Hero Time: Transmission 182, 2015 January 25

A few Sundays ago, I threw myself into a radio program on very short notice. It is a real Winter of Sickness in the listening area. I forget exactly what it was or who it was on this particular day, but someone couldn't go, so I did. I think maybe some work was happening, or supposed to happen, with the airplay computer, which would preclude airing pre-recorded material, so a warm body was necessary. I decided to be it; perhaps I even convinced myself that it would be like "the first time" at WRFI. That is my sickness.

Sadly it wasn't novel or nostalgic, but it was a pretty well-executed show for a while, multi-tasking notwithstanding. The selection was "haphazard," as I advertised, but things have a strange way of fitting together either better than I expect or much, much worse. I really did biff the beginning of that Cramps tune, though.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 January 25, 1600-1730:

1. "Weird Gear" | Ultramarine | Every Man And Woman Is A Star | Rough Trade
2. "Metropolis" | NTFO & Karmon | Composit | DIYNamic
3. "Bring It On Down" | Karl Hector & The Malcouns | Unstraight Ahead | Now-Again
4. "Love Walls" | Ted Alexander | XXX | Stem
5. "Afro-Soul" | Manu Dibango | Africadelic | Aurora
6. "Ghost Lights" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68
7. "Take Me I'm Yours (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session - 24 May 1988)" | The Wedding Present | Bizarro [reissue] | Edsel
8. "Rolling Stone" | The Dub Club | Foundation Come Again | Stones Throw
9. "Inside Out (feat. Katharina Busch)" | High Heels Breaker | High Heels Breaker | Drumpoet Community
10. "The Mechanics of Joy" | Echologist | The Mechanics of Joy | Prologue
11. "Two Months Off" | Underworld | A Hundred Days Off | Universal [Japan]
12. "Mr. Smart" | Leroy Smart | The Don Tells It Like It Is | Bunny Lee
13. "Helios" | Rival Consoles | Rival Consoles | Erased Tapes
14. "People Ain't No Good" | The Cramps | A Date With Elvis | Big Beat
15. "Looking From A Hilltop - BBC Version" | Section 25 | From The Hip | Factory Benelux
16. "Soon" | Bostro Pesopeo | Cheer Up EP | Permanent Vacation

next time: the absolute worst. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

It's Her Hall of Vengeance, She Does What She Likes: Transmission 181, 2015 January 20

Most of the time, unless you have had a specific experience, you can't make judgments about what someone else having that experience conducts themselves. But at the same time, if you've had the experience, it teaches you that you can't judge anyway. I certainly had heard Still by Joy Division--and that awful moment in the live set where the keyboard runs out of batteries, or whatever happens to it--before I was in a band. But having been onstage while things went catastrophically wrong, I can no longer remember what I thought about that passage before. I only have access to what I think when I hear it now--"yes, that's a real thing." No doubt the Preston record is a similar listening experience, and probably will be for you, and is probably metaphoric w/ regard to the sloppiness of this program.

Thankfully it's been long enough since I listened to it that I can't identify the specific things that went wrong, but I'm sure they are still evident, if I wasn't so embarrassed as to cut them out. I don't think we've reached that point yet in our run of January programs, but I can promise you it's coming. I can say that the Senior Catharses were quite complimentary about this program, though. I suppose that's because of the Rootsman and Celtarabia, which is as good a guess as any.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 January 20, 2100-2300:

1. "Sparkle" | Blende | The Green Collection | Eskimo
2. "Valley of the Kings" | The Rootsman Meets Celtarabia | Intifada / Valley of the Kings | Partial | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Low Rider" | War | The Very Best of War | Avenue - Rhino | "Hall of Vengeance"
4. "Heat" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | "plus minus" EP | 'a'
5. "British Summertime" / "Saratoga" | Ultramarine | Every Man And Woman Is A Star | Rough Trade
6. "Something In The Way" | Tricky | Adrian Thaws | False Idols
7. "It Makes The Room Look Bigger" | Half Man Half Biscuit | Saucy Haulage Ballads | Probe Plus
8. "Valley of Dub" | The Rootsman Meets Celtarabia | Intifada / Valley of the Kings | Partial | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Looking Inwardly" | The Chameleons | John Peel Sessions | Blue Apple
10. "I Idolize You" | Gail Harris with The Wailers | Girls With Guitars | Ace
11. "Prepare" | Pulshar | Blood & Mathematics | Desolat
12. "Ghost Note" | Kraak & Smaak | The Green Collection | Eskimo
13. "Climb That Tree" | She Trinity | Girls With Guitars | Ace
14. "PF01" | Tuff City Kids | Parallel Forest EP | Internasjonal
15. "Mesh" | New Order | 1981-Factus 8R-1982 | Warner
16. "Stones" | The Ace of Cups | Girls With Guitars | Ace
17. "Rialto" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
18. "Intifada" | The Rootsman | Intifada / Valley of the Kings | Partial | "Physical Evidence"
19. "DNA" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68
20. "She Cracked" | Jonathan Richman | The Modern Lovers | Beserkley
21. "Pourquoi Es Tu Devenue Si Raisonnable?" | The Wedding Present | George Best [reissue] | Edsel
22. "Compliant" | Shellac | Dude Incredible | Touch & Go
23. "The Eternal / Heart and Soul" | Joy Division | Preston 28 February 1980 | Drastic Plastic
24. "She Cracked" | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Through The Looking Glass | Polydor
25. "Intifada Dub" | The Rootsman | Intifada / Valley of the Kings | Partial | "Physical Evidence"

next time: a time slot in question. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Did I Say Rockstudy? Transmission 180, 2015 January 13

Trying to emerge from hibernation; I wish I had something better to serve for breakfast. This was the first of a string of semi-disastrous programs that filled a very weird January. I've said many a time that my sharpest radio focus comes from radio anger, so I guess the corollary is that happiness is sloppiness. But I don't remember being happy at this time, so I don't know where that leaves us.

Anyway, we do have another installment of the "Hall of Vengeance," a gathering of artists that is coalescing very slowly, for no good reason. And I was very happy to find the Rocksteady record, even though it does have sort of an "Eddie Murphy as Clarence the Fifth Beatle" thing going. But the groove wins out, always!

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 January 13, 2100-2300:

1. "Discovery" | Ultramarine | Every Man And Woman Is A Star | Rough Trade
2. "Drain" | Khost | Copper Lock Hell | Cold Spring
3. "Deep Conga" | Gulls | Patterns Is Life | Boomarm Nation
4. "Candomble (Dreems Remix)" | Thomas H | Multi Culti Japan | Multi Culti
5. "It's Not Unusual" | The Wedding Present | Bizarro [reissue] | Edsel
6. "Don't Fall" | The Chameleons | John Peel Sessions | Blue Apple
7. "Slow Train" | Hot & Rich | Rocksteady - with Lynn Taitt & The Jets and Beverleys All Stars | Reggae Retro | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Ithaca Chasma of Tethys" | Moonpunk | Live | Bandcamp self-release
9. "It's Not Unusual" | Belly | Moon | Sire - Reprise
10. "Shakin' All Over" | Wanda Jackson | The Party Ain't Over | Third Man
11. "NYC" | Lost Girls | Lost Girls | 3 Loop
12. "Race Mixing" | Lydia Lunch Retrovirus | 3x3 EP | Bandcamp self-release
13. "Outta Reach" | She | Girls With Guitars | Ace
14. "Mango Walk" | Hot & Rich | Rocksteady - with Lynn Taitt & The Jets and Beverleys All Stars | Reggae Retro | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Black Crow King" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | The Firstborn Is Dead [reissue] | Mute
16. "Guantanamera" | Hot & Rich | Rocksteady - with Lynn Taitt & The Jets and Beverleys All Stars | Reggae Retro | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Interplanetary Music - Dub" | Mickey Moonlight | Multi Culti Japan | Multi Culti
18. "The Prince" | Madness | One Step Beyond | Stiff - Nova
19. "Zambesi" | Hot & Rich | Rocksteady - with Lynn Taitt & The Jets and Beverleys All Stars | Reggae Retro | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Wari Vo Dubwise" | Mark Ernestus | Glitterbeat: Dubs & Versions I | Glitterbeat
21. "Day One" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
22. "Raindance" | Call Super | Suzi Ecto | Houndstooth
23. "What the Heck Them Expect" | Deadbeat and Paul St. Hilaire | The Infinity Dub Sessions | BLKRTZ
24. "Chic Cheer" | Chic | C'est Chic | Atlantic | "Hall of Vengeance"
25. "On My Mind" | Hot & Rich | Rocksteady - with Lynn Taitt & The Jets and Beverleys All Stars | Reggae Retro | "Physical Evidence"
26. "Shakin' All Over" | Raylene & The Blue Angels | Girls With Guitars | Ace
27. "Font Hill" | Hot & Rich | Rocksteady - with Lynn Taitt & The Jets and Beverleys All Stars | Reggae Retro | "Physical Evidence"
28. "International Girl" | The Beas | Girls With Guitars | Ace
29. "Sediments" | Losoul | Immanent EP | Another Picture

next time: summer in the valley of dub. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

The Hall of Legends - Heidi Berry: Transmission 179, 2015 January 6

We herewith induct Heidi Berry into the BOMBAST Hall of Legends, where she joins The Durutti Column, John Peel, Breathless, This Mortal Coil, The Wolfgang Press, The Dub Syndicate, A.R.Kane, Little Annie, Dif Juz, Prince Far I, Coil [part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4], Billy Childish, Stereolab [charter members], and The Fall [charter members].

Welcome to all, but first-time visitors especially. I hope you stick around and listen to a "regular" program or two sometime, whether live or at your convenience. This website is not just an archive of the program, but a blog / diary / collection of unpublishable prose / whatever. It's free to you, so I make no apologies for what's here! You want audio only? Just page-down until you find the link.

"I don't like singer-songwriters," I once told my boss at the record store. We were arguing the merits of...oh, probably better if I don't say. "Ah, this must have been before Heidi Berry," you are thinking. No--it's still true, I don't like singer-songwriters. (Regular listeners will have gleaned this.) But I do like Heidi Berry's music, and always have. That it hasn't turned me on to Nick Drake, or Sandy Denny, or Tim Hardin, or Bridget St. John, or whoever, could well say something about my shortcomings as a person. Or maybe, instead, it says something about the Heidi Berry records, and what complete experiences they are.

In the Lost Girls liner notes, Patrick Fitzgerald describes Heidi's voice as "stately...demanding to be heard." And it did make this demand of me, under circumstances that now seem completely accidental.

We've been over the issue of compilations. I love them, but not everyone does. Why I bought Doing It For The Kids, exactly, I don't know. It must have had something to do with liking Felt, and how difficult it was to find Creation records 6000 miles from London, and how dirt-cheap this record was. [Aside--if you think I never wrote to Alan McGee about how expensive Creation records were, much less wrapped that note around a demo tape to which he never responded, YOU DON'T KNOW ME AT ALL.] Anyway, I remember getting hold of it sometime around its release, listening to it once, not having it make an impression on my addled, distracted consciousness.

For whatever reason I was drawn back to it sometime later, no doubt during some adolescent crisis or other. I found myself listening to it really late at night, and quietly, so as not to wake my roommates. Somehow, amidst all the "boy rock bands," it was that song that stood out: "Northshore Train," with that voice, insistent. "who is THIS?" I more or less told myself it didn't matter, because I'd never see one of her records. Oh, well; at least I'd have this tune, which was much better than nothing.

The thing about working at record stores, though--sooner or later everything comes through. In comes a seller, looking to unload Below the Waves and Firefly: yoink! "Wonder what she's up to now," I thought, with a few more Creation comps (there certainly were a lot of them) in my collection, and no sign. This must have been 1991--news travelled so slowly pre-internet. Then, a few months later, 4AD and Warners trumpet their ill-fated marriage with yet another compilation--the Lilliput cd/book/t-shirt combo [you know I still have the shirt], with--what?--WHAT--on it? A Heidi Berry song? But what's she doing here? And how did my store and my radio station miss her latest album, which was almost a year old at this point? [I'm telling you, life was rough.] Anyway, my point, to the extent that there is one, is about accidents, and music falling into one's hands against all probability.

I've learned, often the hard way, that nothing is meant to happen. There is only what actually happens. Happily this music crossed my path (those comps are good for something), and now it's crossing yours, if it hasn't done so already.

But here's another thing I said once: "I have to listen to Heidi Berry records all day." I said this just the other day, to Lady Catharsis, as I was finalizing the tracklist you see below. Listen: you'd do well to hear a record with Heidi Berry on it every day [I AM A DOCTOR AND I PRESCRIBE THIS], just like you'd probably enjoy a decadent dessert every day. All day, though? "I wish I could be more direct sometimes," Heidi tells me in the interview, but personally I couldn't take much more directness than what I think is already on display in these records. Noise, beats, bleep-bloop, textural studies, distancing? This I can listen to all day. There's plenty of it archived on this site--knock yourself out! It's perfectly cool, I have much fun with it, but TBH it doesn't always demand to be heard. Is that a new criterion for Legend status? What do we call it--intensity? I'll have to think on it.

Anyway, thank-you to Heidi for her music and time. And to you, for your indulgence.

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 January 6, 2100-2300:

1. "Needle's Eye" | Lost Girls | Lost Girls | 3 Loop
2. "Scheherezade" | Heidi Berry | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
3. "Gather All the Hours" | Heidi Berry | Below the Waves and Firefly | Rockville | "Physical Evidence"
4. "For the Rose" / "Follow" / "Ariel" / "Dawn" | Heidi Berry | Heidi Berry | 4AD
5. "Abduction" | Lost Girls | Lost Girls | 3 Loop
6. "Up In The Air" | Heidi Berry | Love | 4AD
7. "Nobody Tells on You" | Heidi Berry | Below the Waves and Firefly | Rockville | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Unholy Light" | Heidi Berry | The Moon and the Sun | 4AD
9. "Firefly" | Heidi Berry | Below the Waves and Firefly | Rockville | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Houses Made of Wood" | Heidi Berry | Below the Waves and Firefly | Rockville | "Physical Evidence"
11. "Below the Waves" | Heidi Berry | Below the Waves and Firefly | Rockville | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Forgiven" | Lost Girls | Lost Girls | 3 Loop
13. "Folk Fuck" | Lost Girls | Lost Girls | 3 Loop
14. "All Fall Away" | Lost Girls | Lost Girls | 3 Loop
15. "You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie" | Heidi Berry | The Moon and the Sun | 4AD
16. "Japanese" | Lost Girls | Lost Girls | 3 Loop
17. "The Mountain" | Heidi Berry | Miracle | 4AD
18. "All For You" | Heidi Berry | Below the Waves and Firefly | Rockville | "Physical Evidence"

next time: how about one of Patrick's songs? Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Dandies in the Soundtrack: Transmission 178, 2015 January 1

Here I am, I always am. This first show of 2015 was always going to be more of a hodge-podge than usual, seeing as I had little time, for some reason, to put it together, and frankly, I'm a little tired! But when you play 34-minute tracks [award yourself a croix de Bombast, by the way] that leaves you fewer segues to flub, not that I didn't make a heroic effort. This new tic I have developed, starting the first song half-way through, is a nice personal touch. I'm always chasing the next thing.

Aside from the "exclusives" / "forthcomings" from the Factory Benelux disc, most of these songs were things I'd sat on for a long time, unable to find "proper" contexts for them. Especially Snuff Crew (I do picture them as these two Restoration dudes in justaucorps, sipping hot chocolate and comparing snuff boxes--what, do you think the band name refers to something else?). It's been a while since I've done a proper "overflow" program, and probably will be a while again, so I hope you enjoy this one.

Still, it's about time for a really good program, don't you think?

BOMBAST playlist, 2015 January 1, 2100-2300:

1. "Gimmie Gimmie" | The Dub Club | Foundation Come Again | Stones Throw
2. "The Hunter (Stephen Morris Mix)" | Marnie | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Karadeniz" | Karl Hector & The Malcouns | Unstraight Ahead | Now-Again
4. "Peel B" | VD [Votive Deposite] | Dedication Tone | Locative
5. "Walk Don't Run" | Los Straitjackets | Deke Dickerson Sings The Great Instrumental Hits | Yep Rock
6. "Want Fi Goh Rave" | Linton Kwesi Johnson | Di Eagle An Di Bear | Righteous Reggae
7. "Mange" | Brian Harris | Behind the Mask | Soundcloud self-release
8. "You Don't Know" | Mode | Play the Game | Codek
9. "Microgroove" | Section 25 | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Zeppelin Race" | Moonpunk | not on album | Bandcamp self-release
11. "Prejoy - Barbaric Splendour Version" | The Asphodells | Correspondant Compilation 02 | Correspondant
12. "Midwatch 1953" | The Fall | The Unutterable | Let Them Eat Vinyl
13. "What Did Your Last Servant Die Of?" | The Wedding Present | George Best [reissue] | Edsel
14. "Lights" | Snuff Crew | Behind the Masks | BPitch Control
15. "Atomium Sunrise" | Blaine Reininger | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Bring The Sun / Toussaint L'Ouverture" | Swans | To Be Kind | Young God
17. "Wobby Bomack" | The Invisible Girls | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux | "Physical Evidence"

next time: The Hall of Legends! Enjoy the music. --kid catharsis

Pipeline to Your Heart: Transmission 177, 2014 December 30

Another day, another shift. WE DOIN WORK, SON. Here is the final Bombast of 2014 and we go out with a...what, exactly? The(e) Milkshakes were a great band, and my favorite of the Billy Childish projects, and I played A LOT of them on this night, you guys. Hmm. I did discover one thing, and that is that segueing out of a Milkshakes tune is much easier than segueing into one. What "significance" that has I have no idea.

It is refreshing, though, that, judgment aside, this is a largely error-free program. I am relieved to see that I am still capable from time to time. My competence is like the tide. It comes in; it goes out. YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 December 30, 2100-2300:

1. "Kennedy" | The Wedding Present | Bizarro | Edsel
2. "Pipeline" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Suratkorps (Prins Thomas Handjagerversjon)" | Tarjei Nygard | Suratkorps | Full Pupp
4. "Geezer" | Ultramarine | Every Man And Woman Is A Star | Rough Trade
5. "Tupelo" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | The Firstborn Is Dead [reissue] | Mute
6. "Muzzled" | Maoupa Mazzocchetti | A-Tranquility | Unknown Precept
7. "Little Girl (Mumble the Peg)" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Fuck You GI" / "Fire" | 23 Skidoo | Urban Gamelan | Illuminated
9. "She Tells Me She Loves Me" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Asha" | Luke Benjamin | Keysound Recordings Presents...Certified Connections | Keysound
11. "What A Shame" | Tin Man | ODE | Acid Test
12. "Baby What's Wrong" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Snowbeam" | VD [Votive Deposite] | Dedication Tone | Locative
14. "Let Me Love You" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Key My Brain" | Mouse On Mars & Atom TM | 21 Again Collaborations, Pt. 3 | Monkeytown
16. "Boys" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
17. "Knock Yourself Out" | Eric Random | Sampler (et Sans Reproche) | Factory Benelux
18. "Graveyard Words" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Midnight Manor" | Haunted By Hallucinations | Haunted By Hallucinations | Herakles
20. "Ethereal" | Torus | Temples | Rwina
21. "The One I Get" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
22. "Pipeline" | Los Straitjackets | Deke Dickerson Sings The Great Instrumental Hits | Yep Rock
23. "Little Girl Be Good" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
24. "K's Editspot pt. 4" | Skipson | Skiption EP | Deep Vibes
25. "I Want You" | The Milkshakes | The Milkshakes' Revenge! | Hand of Glory | "Physical Evidence"
26. "Crystal" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
27. "2014.02.16" | Causa Sui | 2014.02.16 / 2012.07.04 | El Paraiso

next time: sitting in the boss's chair. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Wasn't Born To Stand In Line, I Like To Sit Around: Transmission 176, 2014 December 26

NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN. Here we are, posting on the weekend. It's still the season of giving, so here, have another program. Let's call this one the fruitcake of the bunch. There are some kernels of truth behind my amateur numerology and superstition. I'm not crazy about numbers that end in zero, so naturally when I wind up playing 30 tracks something will go wrong, and it does.

How about we start at the beginning, where I botch the intro to the Colo song? Somewhere in the middle I let my Ian Dury record play a bit too long, screwing up what was ACTUALLY a very good segue into Pink Industry (a shame, because "Don't Let Go" is a chestnut among chestnuts). Then of course something goes wrong at the end of the program; I had meant to play the Ramones earlier--god knows how I was to transition into or out of that tune--but had skipped over them somehow. Programs like this are a sign that I am happy--we had enjoyed a lovely Annual Gifting Day--if only I could be conscious of it in real time and not just in retrospect!

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 December 26, 1900-2100:

1. "Ghana" | Colo | Multi Culti Japan | Multi Culti
2. "You're Gonna Die" | Destroy All Monsters | Hot Box 1974-1994 | Munster
3. "Winter" | TV On The Radio | Seeds | Harvest
4. "Pitch Business" | Herva | Instant Broadcast | Delsin
5. "Never Get Burn" | The Twinkle Brothers | Beyond the Frontline | Front Line - Virgin
6. "Working Isn't Working" | The Primitives | Spin-O-Rama | Elefant
7. "Unfaithful (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session - 24 May 1988)" | The Wedding Present | Bizarro | Edsel
8. "Genuine Creeper" | Oozing Wound | Earth Suck | Thrill Jockey
9. "F4" | Function | Synewave Reissues Part I: 1995-97 | Infrastructure New York
10. "Lift Off" | Nagamatzu | Neural Interval | Zoharum
11. "Run Run Riddim" | Mungo's Hi Fi | Boom | Scotch Bonnet
12. "Clevor Trever" | Ian Dury | New Boots and Panties!! | Stiff
13. "Don't Let Go" | Pink Industry | Don't Let Go | Cathexis
14. "Shift F1 (Inland Edit)" | Function | Synewave Reissues Part I: 1995-97 | Infrastructure New York
15. "Schleifling" | Springintgut & F.S. Blumm | The Bird and White Noise | Pingipung
16. "This Train" | Girls At Our Best! | Pleasure | Optic Nerve
17. "The Monk" | Joris Voorn | Nobody Knows | Green
18. "Ramphodon Stellarum" | Moonpunk | not on album | Bandcamp self-release
19. "F3" | Function | Synewave Reissues Part I: 1995-97 | Infrastructure New York
20. "Soup Dumplings" | Ulli Bomans | Werkschau03 | Shitkatapult
21. "Those Words I Spoke" | (ghost) | A Vast And Decaying Appearance | n5MD
22. "Randomizzami Sto (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)" | Margot | Prins Thomas Diskomiks Selection | Internasjonal
23. "Each One Dub" | Augustus Pablo | King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown | Shanachie
24. "Homology Myself" | Tarwater | Adrift | Bureau B
25. ".44 Pistol" | R.L. Burnside | Too Bad Jim | Fat Possum
26. "Abracadubra" | Sir Horatio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
27. "Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime)" | The Dentists | Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime) | Trouble In Mind
28. "Boxing Day" | AFX | Chosen Lords | Rephlex
29. "And Suddenly" | BNJMN | Coil | Delsin
30. "Loudmouth" | Ramones | Morrissey Curates the Ramones | Rhino

next time: a large milkshake. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis