Episodes

Thursday Jul 10, 2014
The Ugly American: Transmission 135, 2014 July 4
Thursday Jul 10, 2014
Thursday Jul 10, 2014
Occasionally airtime just lands in my lap and I must figure out what to do with it. This is one of those times. The "Time Spent Listening" people were out of town, most of them, and Guy LeBatard was off chasing some Situationist adventure or other. The Fourth of July being the most redneck of all holidays, I often like to spend it hiding in a dark, quiet place, so the Kenny Ritter Memorial Studio seemed pretty hospitable on this day.
Confession: I just don't have as many records by Americans as I probably should, being one. It's mostly Africans, Jamaicans, and lots of Britons. I don't know what the explanation is. I could definitely use some more Bo Diddley, though. On that note, the only thing "more American" than Bo Diddley is money, and this was yet another program where I had to talk about it, so that happens.
BOMBAST playlist, 2014 July 4, 1900-2100:
"How Far Can Too Far Go?" | The Cramps | A Date With Elvis | Big Beat
"Yella Pocahontas" | Champion Jack Dupree | Forever And Ever | Rounder
"Legs" | Massacre | Hard Cell | Celluloid
"No No Man (part one)" | Steven Jesse Bernstein | Prison | Sub Pop
"Sabrosa" | The Beastie Boys | The In Sound From Way Out! | Capitol
"Balanced On It's Own Flame" | Labradford | A Stable Reference | kranky
"That's The Way" | Tom Waits | The Black Rider | Island
"My Disco" | Big Black | Headache | Touch And Go
"Johnsonius" | David Johansen | A Diamond Hidden In The Mouth Of A Corpse | Giorno Poetry Systems
"Blind" | TV On The Radio | Young Liars | Touch And Go
"Sharevari" | The Dirtbombs | Party Store | In The Red
"Tiger In Your Tank" | Phantom 309 | A Sinister Alphabet | Tupelo
"Shine" | For Against | Echelons | Independent Project
"Waiting Room" | Fugazi | 13 Songs | Dischord
"Omaha" | The Golden Palominos | Hard Cell | Celluloid
"NOBO" | Tijuana Panthers | Wayne Interest | Innovative Leisure
"Lixus (Version Analogique)" | Keith Fullerton Whitman | Schöner Flußengel | kranky
"The Whispering Queen" | Here Are The Facts You Requested | Western Summit | Bandcamp self-release
"Ineffect" | Material | Seven Souls | Virgin
"Dreamland" | Carl Craig | More Songs About Food And Revolutionary Art | Planet E
"Mall Muzak: Building A Highway / Puppy Polka / Party Girls" | David Byrne | Sounds From True Stories | Sire
"Artificial Heart" | Soul Asylum | Clam Dip And Other Delights | Twin/Tone
"Total Trash" | Sonic Youth | Daydream Nation | Goofin'
"Road Runner" | Bo Diddley | His Greatest Sides Volume 1 | Chess
"Blaming The Messenger" | Pell Mell | Flow | SST
next time: open attachments, tk. 2. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Wednesday Jul 09, 2014
We Don't Pull A PBS: Transmission 134, 2014 July 1
Wednesday Jul 09, 2014
Wednesday Jul 09, 2014
Plowing forward is what we do best. Accordingly, here we were on a disgustingly hot Tuesday evening, soccer-themed record in hand. What's that? The USA had crashed out of the World Cup a couple of hours earlier? So what? The English Disease samples recordings from league matches, not internationals, you say? Do I look like I GAF? You will listen to this AND LIKE IT.
Elsewhere, I do my best to panhandle with dignity. I'm not cut out for it. I fancy myself an amateur Marxist but in all my endeavors I seem to be about the superstructure, never about the base. Like at least one of my heroes I simply don't like talking about money. Nevertheless this episode captures my attempt to talk about it, before I get tired and let the pre-recorded spots take over.
BOMBAST playlist, 2014 July 1, 2100-2300:
- "Leroy's Boots" | The Barmy Army | The English Disease | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
- "Nino" | Kreidler | ABC | Bureau B
- "The Streets" | Automat | Automat | Bureau B
- "Devo" | The Barmy Army | The English Disease | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
- "Sphynx" | Etch | Old School Methods | Keysound
- "Wreck Up My Life" | Leroy Smart | The Don Tells It Like It Is | Bunny Lee
- "Stationary" | Silo | Work | Novennial Paralysis
- "Song of the Second Moon" | Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan | Music From Planet Earth | Stag-O-Lee
- "Olara" | Moebius, Story & Leidecker | Snowghost Pieces | Bureau B
- "Psycho + The Wombles of Div. 1" | The Barmy Army | The English Disease | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
- "Come Up Version" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Back On The Controls | Rolling Lion - Upsetter
- "Mind the Gap" | The Barmy Army | The English Disease | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
- "Summus" | Throwing Snow | Pathfinder | Houndstooth
- "Cows Hum In The Fields" | Officer! | Dead Unique | Blackest Ever Black
- "Gaping Void - Wire Fish Remix" | Korablove | Gaping Void | High-Jack
- "El Paraiso" | Causa Sui | Live at Freak Valley | El Paraiso
- "Stadium Rock" | The Barmy Army | The English Disease | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
- "Trilogy: A) The Wonder B) Hyperstation Z) Eliminator Jr." | Sonic Youth | Daydream Nation | Goofin'
- "Que Sera" | The Barmy Army | The English Disease | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"

Monday Jul 07, 2014
Monday Jul 07, 2014
We return to the ordinary extraordinariness of the "alpha" program. I share a "Mr. D" anecdote that I hope I got right; otherwise embarrassment, my frequent companion, will return. Also, there's a skip in my brand new Design A Wave record that interferes with everyone's enjoyment of "Pentatonic Skull." Post-play inspection revealed that it was a long, curly hair that must have been sitting on the turntable mat. DAMN YOU STEPH.
It was dead hard to find a UB40 song I felt like playing. Little-known fact: when this program began nearly two years ago [!], I had a lot of free time on my hands, you guys. I was looking for some stuff to get into. Someone [was it Lady Catharsis?] suggested that I blog or something. I even created a Blogger [TM] page, which I suppose still exists. What kind of stuff was I going to write about? I guess the kind of material that might have caught Guy LeBatard's eye, for lack of a better description. Anyway I was this close to writing a "think" piece about the bankruptcy (both literal and...) of UB40. But then, like the Knight Bus, along came WRFI to spare everyone from that. And I haven't had free time since, thank goodness.
BOMBAST playlist, 2014 June 24, 2100-2300:
- "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?" | Black Uhuru | Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music | Mango
- "Time For Re-Arranges" | Design A Wave | A.R.M. 1 | No Label | "Physical Evidence"
- "Defenestrate" | Moebius, Story & Leidecker | Snowghost Pieces | Bureau B
- "Surfacer" | 14 Iced Bears | Hold On Inside | Cherry Red
- "Lee's Special (Dubplate Cut)" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Back On The Controls | Rolling Lion - Upsetter
- "Xenitis, At Last" | Fontarrian | VLV | Antime
- "Haunted By Hallucinations" | Haunted By Hallucinations | Haunted By Hallucinations | Herakles
- "Knock On Wood" | Voltage | Slitherama - Psychedelic Tokyo 1966-1969 | Bamboo
- "Reflection" | Section 25 | From the Hip | Factory Benelux
- "Cerebellum" | Design A Wave | A.R.M. 1 | No Label | "Physical Evidence"
- "Bosque" | Bomba Estereo | Elegancia Tropical | Soundway
- "Eric's Trip" | Sonic Youth | Daydream Nation | Goofin'
- "Almost" | Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | Martin | Factory | "Listening Parlour"
- "Tonight Saddam Walks Amidst Ruins" | Vatican Shadow | Remember Your Black Day | Hospital Productions
- "Far As I Can See (feat. City Culture & Stally) - Triple Discomix" | The Breadwinners | As Far As I Can See (Disco Special) | Horus
- "Sir William Wray" | The Fall | Sir William Wray | Cherry Red
- "Weird F" | Design A Wave | A.R.M. 1 | No Label | "Physical Evidence"
- "Folitician" | UB40 | UB40 Live | Disky
- "Xmas In Australia" | Xmal Deutschland | Tocsin | 4AD
- "Pentatonic Skull" | Design A Wave | A.R.M. 1 | No Label | "Physical Evidence"
- "Starlight Club" | Dirtmusic | Lion City | Glitterbeat
- "Shinkansen East" | Node | Node 2 | DiN

Thursday Jul 03, 2014
Live In Studio B - I Fucking Love You: Transmission 132, 2014 June 19
Thursday Jul 03, 2014
Thursday Jul 03, 2014
We do receive demos, you know. Every now and then someone will send tracks to WRFI in the hope that we will play them. Often the approach is a bit misguided: people assume we have a "rotation" or a "music director." Sometimes people assume we have an "audience." We just got something on the facebook page from someone south of the Equator, in the Eastern hemisphere. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
When I saw something in the "programs" inbox labelled "new Ithaca band," I thought it would be yet another thing to pass on to various disc jockeys at the station; maybe it would catch on with someone. After I listened to the soundcloud page linked therein, it caught on with ME. "TO THE JOCK-MOBILE!" I cried. This warranted investigation. "Is this guy really local?" I wondered. [Shades of "ARE YOU FOR REAL," as our own Señor Plow is fond of asking.] With the internet, who knows where anyone is really from? Sure enough, Andy is a real Ithaca person, so of course I had him come in and do a live thing. Here it is.
I tried my best not to be stupid, in the talking. It wasn't one of my better nights. Also, Andy insists on referring to someone called "Jim," and I have no idea who that is.
BOMBAST playlist, 2014 June 19 2300-0100 June 20:
- "Ahhh / Volcano (live)" | I Fucking Love You | not on album | not on label
- "Fuck Yeah (live)" | I Fucking Love You | not on album | not on label
- "Heroin Firestar AKA Angel Jones Remix)" | I Fucking Love You | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
- "Miles (live)" | I Fucking Love You | not on album | not on label
- "IFLY (live)" | I Fucking Love You | not on album | not on label
- "White Noise Dance (live)" | I Fucking Love You | not on album | not on label
- "IFLY Remix" | I Fucking Love You | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
- "Yes" | I Fucking Love You | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
- "Los Frenos" (live) | I Fucking Love You | not on album | not on label
- "Ahhh" | I Fucking Love You | not on album | Soundcloud self-release

Monday Jun 30, 2014
The Comfort You've Demanded Is Now Mandatory: Transmission 131, 2014 June 17
Monday Jun 30, 2014
Monday Jun 30, 2014
A rainy summer night and an outstanding EP from Killing Sound made for a loud, challenging, unpredictable broadcast. It is true that I hadn't been sure our Emergency Alert System notices were making it to air, but the senior Catharses assure me that they even come across the webstream. I need not have pointed the mic at our EAS receiver, but it seemed too perfect a moment, so that is preserved here.
Speaking of the internets, I am mad at them, for they have lied to me. It wasn't reallly George Clinton's birthday, so I used up "Maggot Brain" for nothing. It was a decent closer, and now I'll have to think of a new one for the actual birthday. I hate having to use my mind.
BOMBAST playlist, 2014 June 17, 2100-2300:
- "Thousand Hands" | Killing Sound | Killing Sound | Blackest Ever Black | "Physical Evidence"
- "WhiteNoiseDance - Remix" | I Fucking Love You | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
- "Les Histoires" | Abstraxion | Break of Lights | Hakt
- "A Message From Our Sponsor" | Jello Biafra | No More Cocoons | Alternative Tentacles
- "III.I" | Papir | III + IIII | El Paraiso
- "Bubblers" | Footsie | King Original, Vol. 3 | Braindead
- "Eight Methods" | Killing Sound | Killing Sound | Blackest Ever Black | "Physical Evidence"
- "The Tempest (feat. Adda Kaleh)" | Throwing Snow | Pathfinder | Houndstooth
- "Mr. Landlord (feat. Stevie) - Discomix" | The Breadwinners | As Far As I Can See (Disco Special) | Horus
- "Hey Joni" | Sonic Youth | Daydream Nation | Goofin'
- "Six Harmonies" | Killing Sound | Killing Sound | Blackest Ever Black | "Physical Evidence"
- "Prepare To Live" | Section 25 | From the Hip | Factory Benelux
- "Light" | Raz Ohara | Moksha | Album Label
- "Come Into My Sleep" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | B-Sides & Rarities | Mute | "Listening Parlour"
- "Yaak" | Moebius, Story & Leidecker | Snowghost Pieces | Bureau B
- "Water Boxing" | Killing Sound | Killing Sound | Blackest Ever Black | "Physical Evidence"
- "Bugs In Amber" | Officer! | Dead Unique | Blackest Ever Black
- "Maggot Brain" | Funkadelic | Greatest Hits 1976-1981 | Charly

Thursday Jun 26, 2014
Not As Erotic As You Might Think: Episode 130, 2014 June 10
Thursday Jun 26, 2014
Thursday Jun 26, 2014
I offer you a "regular" episode, for your listening pleasure. This was the first edition of our [now] Tuesday night program. And what a debut--the Nightingales, our providers of Physical Evidence for the evening, were rocking in full force on their new LP "FOR FUCK'S SAKE."
I'm up for a rant. Are you? How about if I go ahead anyway? First, whatever happened to the Royal Mail? Used to take 5 days to get a package to the United States. English Bombasticons: is this Cameron's fault? Why has your postal service gone to hell overnight?
Second: what is it about Radio that turns otherwise functional adults into emotwats? I swear to god you can't make a simple request of some people without them saying, "I know you've asked me to do this thing in this particular way, but what if I did it in this lame, asinine way that would never work but suits me better, because I'm that fucking precious?" I almost quit this week. But you won't get rid of me that easily, emotwats.
BOMBAST playlist, 2014 June 10, 2100-2300:
- "No Aloha (live)" | The Breeders | Live In Stockholm | Breeders Digest
- "Toasted On Both" | The Nightingales | For Fuck's Sake | self-released
- "Thoughtforms" | Lush | Scar | 4AD
- "Merry Go Round (Axel Boman Mix)" | Vincenzo & Language | Merry Go Round | Dessous
- "Warhead - BBC Version" | Section 25 | From The Hip | Factory Benelux
- "Untitled 1" | Silo | Work | Novennial Paralysis
- "Good Morning Midnight" | The Nightingales | For Fuck's Sake | self-released
- "Trommer Og Bass" | Andre Bratten | Correspondant Compilation 02 | Correspondant
- "The Gruesome Threesome" | The Nightingales | For Fuck's Sake | self-released
- "Textes" | Mr Oizo | Wrong Cops (Best Of) | Ed Banger
- "Hi Fashion" | Vtgnike | Dubna | Other People
- "Eastman Oyster" | Jakob Skott | Amor Fati | El Paraiso
- "Hey Joe" | The Golden Cups | Big Lizard Stomp - Teen Trash from Psychedelic Tokyo 1966-1969 | Bamboo
- "Dumb and Drummer" | The Nightingales | For Fuck's Sake | self-released
- "Money Money (Horace Andy vs. Robo Bass Hifi)" | Horace Andy | 16 Bit Skanks | Select Cuts
- "Disco Maghreb (Alter Echo Version)" | El Mahdy Jr | Rai Dubs | Boomarm Nation
- "From Here We Go Sublime" | The Field | From Here We Go Sublime | Kompakt
- "The Dam - The Field Remix" | The Dead Heat | Bosco | Life and Death
- "Same Old" | The Nightingales | For Fuck's Sake | self-released
- "Jennifer's Veil" | Birthday Party, The | Mutiny / The Bad Seed | Drastic Plastic
- "Threshing Ground - Alpha Steppa Remix" | J-Path | Threshing Ground | Trigram
- "The Grumbler" | Valina | Container | Trost
- "Walter White - Truth Remix" | Seven | Live from the Future | Uprise
- "Contempt" | The Nightingales | For Fuck's Sake | self-released
- "Konduktor" | Steve Parker | Sugar High EP | Ovum

Monday Jun 23, 2014
Thirteen Popes Named "Innocent": Transmission 129, 2014 June 6
Monday Jun 23, 2014
Monday Jun 23, 2014
This was a fill-in program that happened for reasons I no longer remember. That's a bit scary, given that it was only two weeks ago. But anyway, it happened shortly after the big Ivo Watts-Russell "Hall of Legends" special. It only seems like I've been on vacation since then.
Anyway, it's a nice return to the "usual" stuff--audio dropouts, ill-conceived segues, an improvised gumbo of disparate musics, and my fumbling ignorance. Who knew there were so many "Innocent" popes? Clearly not me. Anyway, the one in question had something to do with the English Civil War and opposition to Cromwell, which I guess is worth something.
This program also introduces the (now) local artist I Fucking Love You, who will appear on a couple of subsequent programs. That is also worth something.
BOMBAST playlist, 2014 June 6, 2100-2300:
- "Take Mine" | Colo | UR | KI
- "Innocent X" | Therapy? | Volume 3 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
- "Tabla Piece" | Dif Juz | Who Says So? | Red Flame
- "Peppermint Twist - 2eme Partie" | Vince Taylor et ses Play-Boys | Beat From Badsville, Vol. 3 | Stag-O-Lee
- "Better Days" | Fenster | The Pink Caves | Morr
- "The Days Before Yesterday" | Deru | Trying To Remember | Merck
- "Welcome to the Jesus Timeshare Experience" | Psychotropic Vibration | Volume 3 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
- "O (feat. Jonas Bjerre)" | Silo | Work | Novennial Paralysis
- "Just Talk" | AC Marias | One Of Our Girls (Has Gone Missing) | Mute
- "Lucifer Rising" | Farben & James DIN A4 | Farben Presents James DIN A4 | Faitiche
- "Exits" | Loops Haunt | Exits | Black Acre
- "Synthemesc" | Jakob Skott | Amor Fati | El Paraiso
- "But Not Them" | The Creatures | Voices On The Air | Polydor
- "Motorbike" | Sheep on Drugs | Volume 3 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
- "Opium Days" | Valina | Container | Trost
- "Sisterfy" | Sweet Jesus | Volume 3 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
- "Winter" | Haunted By Hallucinations | Haunted By Hallucinations | Herakles
- "The Soul of the Hour" | Gallon Drunk | The Soul of The Hour | Clouds Hill
- "Inbetween Doors" | The Coombe | The Coombe | Mannequin
- "Wall Street Version" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Back On The Controls | Rolling Lion - Upsetter
- "Fuck Yeah (remix)" | I Fucking Love You | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
- "I Feel Insane" | Daisy Chainsaw | Volume 3 | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
- "Your Weak Fire" | Boozoo Bajou | 4 | Apollo
- "Underneath the Bunker" | R.E.M. | Lifes Rich Pageant | I.R.S.
- "Reprise" | Khan | The Enlightenment Machine | Album Label

Monday Jun 23, 2014
Full Interview: Ivo Watts-Russell of This Mortal Coil and The Hope Blister
Monday Jun 23, 2014
Monday Jun 23, 2014
This is the recording of an interview I conducted with Ivo Watts-Russell on May 26, 2014. I was at chez Catharsis in Ithaca, NY, and Ivo was, I presume, at his place in New Mexico. This was a Skype-to-phone conversation.
Small pieces of this very generous interview aired on the Hall of Legends special
featuring music from This Mortal Coil and The Hope Blister.
I've said it elsewhere, but Ivo has been very gracious and friendly, and this was one of those "one thing leading to another" experiences that came together really easily. An honor and a pleasure!
Indulge me for a minute and imagine this hypothetical situation. You love music and records, but you're not a musician. You're not a singer. You're not a songwriter. You're not trained as an engineer. You know some people who do each of these things, but you don't do them yourself. But you really want to make a record of your own, and you even have some concrete ideas about what to put on it. Incidentally, you are having these ideas before the advent of laptop recording, filesharing, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and all that. So in order to make this record you're dreaming of you'll have to use a real studio and it will have to be released in a physical medium. There's also no Kickstarter to fund this. Under what circumstances could this record become reality?
"You'd probably have to own a record label." Right? And yet I don't think either of us really wanted to talk about this little detail. I certainly didn't. I've read about it quite a bit, and I didn't want to produce yet another 4AD interview. I owe a great deal to Martin Aston and Jeff Keibel, who've already asked a boatload of those questions, and whose interviews gave me a long list of answers I didn't need to seek. What I did do was try, absurdly perhaps, to talk to Ivo as though he had "merely" made some great records of his own. They are, of course, why he's in the Hall of Legends.
Technical notes: If you follow this program at all, which would flatter and bewilder me, you probably know that recording an interview is always an adventure for me. This time, I managed to capture the whole thing, on the first try, thank goodness, but not without glitches. Audacity, which was capturing Ivo's voice "solo," worked fine. For the first 49 mins or so of this audio file, that's what you're hearing when Ivo is talking, without having to listen to me say "mmm hmm," or "yeah," or anything similarly useful. However, my voice was recorded using Amolto Call Recorder (I had both programs running at once as a precaution), which was also recording Ivo, but that app pulled our respective tracks out of sync, which occasionally made it sound like I was stepping on the end of Ivo's answers and cutting him off. I'm really not that rude of a person. I swear it's the software's fault. I've tried to make the best of it with the editing, but I am amateur and proud. The second half of the interview--from about 49mins onward--is much smoother sailing. At least I hope you think so. If you're disappointed I offer you a full refund.

Thursday Jun 05, 2014
The Hall of Legends - Ivo Watts-Russell: Transmission 128, 2014 June 4
Thursday Jun 05, 2014
Thursday Jun 05, 2014
We herewith induct Ivo Watts-Russell into the BOMBAST Hall of Legends, where he joins 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].
Some of you, no doubt, are visiting for the first time,
having been lured here by the Ivo interview. A special welcome to you. Poke around as much as you like. The hyperlink above will take you to a loose description
of the Hall of Legends, and this page
describes the "idea" of the show, such as it is. The prose you find
everywhere on the site is mostly for my own entertainment, since this is
my outlet; if you enjoy it, that's a nice bonus. Audio's at
the bottom of the post if this is all TMI.
"I heard This Mortal Coil's music," I wrote to tonight's inductee, "before I knew what 4AD was, and I continue to treasure it long after I stopped caring what 4AD is." And I concede that it's weird to approach a Legend by listing things one doesn't want to discuss, but that's the way this went. Labelthink, when I was young, was a convenient shortcut to loads of interesting music, but it is a bad habit which I am striving to break. At the end of the day, it's about records, bands, and people. And records, bands, and people are awesome. A discussion of that other thing can be had at other places.
With this induction I struggle to recall silly anecdotes and things like that. There are no flashpoints of relevance; this music has just been with me for the better part of three decades. I guess I remember this time, it would have been in the period around Filigree & Shadow, in which my extended family made fun of me for liking a band with the name "This Mortal Coil." And hearing the word "pretentious" being tossed around quite a bit. But who cares? [And what did anyone think this music was pretending to be?]
The "three decades" thing: nostalgia, do you suppose? Tell me what year this music sounds like. Pre-emptively, I'll disagree. Because I just don't know. This is part of its greatness.
The music speaks for itself, and the subject speaks for himself. "I have no words," as the saying goes. Well, that's obviously false. I have a few. As always I'm amazed that anyone wants to talk to me. And, as I've told the next Hall inductees [yes, there will be a next, after a relaxing run of "normal" shows], these things wreck my nerves! Nothing to do with other people, especially Ivo, who is every bit the "angel" that Kristin Hersh describes in her book.
BOMBAST playlist, 2014 June 4, 2100-2300:
- "Song To The Siren" | This Mortal Coil | It'll End In Tears | 4AD
- "Filigree & Shadow" / "Firebrothers" / "Thais (I)" / "I Must Have Been Blind" / "A Heart Of Glass" | This Mortal Coil | Filigree & Shadow | 4AD
- "Fyt" / "Fond Affections" / "The Last Ray" | This Mortal Coil | It'll End In Tears | 4AD
- "Come Here My Love" | This Mortal Coil | Come Here My Love 10" | 4AD
- "Drugs" | This Mortal Coil | Come Here My Love 10" | 4AD
- "Ivy And Neet" / "Meniscus" / "Tears" / "Tarantula" | This Mortal Coil | Filigree & Shadow | 4AD
- "Acid, Bitter and Sad" | This Mortal Coil | Lonely Is An Eyesore | 4AD
- "Late Night" / "Ruddy and Wretched" / "Help Me Lift You Up" / "Carolyn's Song" / "D.D. and E." | This Mortal Coil | Blood | 4AD
- "Is Jesus Your Pal?" | The Hope Blister | ...smile's ok | 4AD
- "Dagger" | The Hope Blister | ...smile's ok | 4AD
- "It'll End In Tears" | This Mortal Coil | Kangaroo 7" | 4AD

Friday May 30, 2014
The Horizon Leans Forward: Transmission 127, 2014 May 28
Friday May 30, 2014
Friday May 30, 2014
A regular weekly "alpha" program gives us the chance to observe Prince Buster's birthday with the surprisingly obscure She Was A Rough Rider album as our "Physical Evidence." It seems odd, in a good way, that we are "merely" doing this on a program that is "killing time" prior to the big one next week. But that's how things go.
"Let's welcome Mars back!" says Lady Catharsis, in reference to astrology, in which she believes and with which I struggle. I'm confused: Mars isn't meant to make me feel belligerent, although I often do these days when I'm not actually doing the program. It is supposed to make things "more available." Which, strangely, they are.
Most of the segues in this program do make a lot of sense, though there's no excuse for trying to play "Rocket Man" twice, except that maybe it's a nice song. Again, the mistakes are your guarantee that this thing is real.
It is indeed true, though I can hardly believe it, that next week's program will feature a new interview with Ivo Watts-Russell. He is someone who has been mentioned in many a Hall of Legends conversation, though not in connection with his own records, which are dead great, and which we'll be discussing. Tune in, won't you?
BOMBAST playlist, 2014 May 28, 2100-2300:
- "Hard Times" | Baby Huey | The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend | Curtom
- "Walk With Love" | Prince Buster | Judge Dread Rock Steady / She Was A Rough Rider | DOJO | "Physical Evidence"
- "On Repeat" | Fenster | The Pink Caves | Morr
- "Trapdoor" | Loops Haunt | Exits | Black Acre
- "Hunters in the Snow" | Paresse | Correspondant Compilation 02 | Correspondant
- "I Don't Care" | Thor's Hammer | If You Knew: Icelandic Punk & Beat '65-'67! | Ugly Pop
- "Tenderness" | Prince Buster | Judge Dread Rock Steady / She Was A Rough Rider | DOJO | "Physical Evidence"
- "(d)ou(b)tsider" | Fontarrian | VLV | Antime
- "Ville Morose" | Nadine Shah | Ville Morose | Apollo
- "Closer Together" | Prince Buster | Judge Dread Rock Steady / She Was A Rough Rider | DOJO | "Physical Evidence"
- "Jealousy" | Tony Allen & Africa 70 | Jealousy | Kindred Spirits
- "Under Cover" | Deadbeat and Paul St. Hilaire | The Infinity Dub Sessions | BLKRTZ
- "Rocket Man" | Pearls Before Swine | The Use of Ashes | Reprise
- "The Frame" | Valina | Container | Trost
- "Satellite Rock" | Joe Tate (with the Hi-Fives) | Music From Planet Earth | Stag-O-Lee
- "The Panther" | Manu Dibango | Africadelic | Aurora
- "Dreams To Remember" | Prince Buster | Judge Dread Rock Steady / She Was A Rough Rider | DOJO | "Physical Evidence"
- "The Martian Band" | The Wildtones | Music From Planet Earth | Stag-O-Lee
- "The Inexorable Sadness of Pencils" | Silo | Work | Novennial Paralysis
- "Galactic" | Wen | Signals | Keysound
- "UR" | Colo | UR | KI
- "The Process" | Section 25 | From The Hip | Factory Benelux
- "Going To The River" | Prince Buster | Judge Dread Rock Steady / She Was A Rough Rider | DOJO | "Physical Evidence"
- "Temporary Haven" | Islaja | S U U | Monika Enterprise
- "Rastafari On Wall Street" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Back On The Controls | Rolling Lion - Upsetter
- "Horizons" | LTJ Bukem | The Rebirth of Cool Four | Island
- "Waterscape" | Kiar | Our World Is Crying (Demo Tape) | Bandcamp self-release