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Fast Forward and Reversing: Transmission 118, 2014 April 22

Here is an episode of "Test Pattern," a weekly late-night time slot we have at WRFI. Usually it is occupied by fill-in hosts or trainees, and as an absolute last resort it may contain pre-recorded, syndicated programming. For once I am not an absolute last resort! Anyway, on this particular night no one stepped in to fill the time, but I could, so I did.

Anyway, sometimes the program sounds like "Bombast," but not always. I am tempted to say that at times it sounds like what Captain Halcyon might do, were he willing to fly at night. Elsewhere it sounds like its own thing. The Andrew Liles pieces, by the way, have such beautiful visual waveforms--I'm too lazy to post them, so you will just have to take my word for it. Or not.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 April 22, 2300 - 0100 2014 April 23:

1. "No Respects - Intro" | The Fall | Re-Mit | Cherry Red
2. "In the Wood" | Dusty Kid | III | Isolade
3. "Waste Park" | Cloud Becomes Your Hand | Rocks or Cakes | Northern Spy
4. "The Pest" | Clay Rendering | Waters Above the Firmament | Hospital Productions
5. "Chaos Pilot" | Islaja | S U U | Monika Enterprise
6. "Tiefdruck-Hochdruck" | Boozoo Bajou | 4 | Apollo
7. "Saarbrooklyn (Saint Harrows)" | Fontarrian | VLV | Antime
8. "Fast Forward Through Time" | Andrew Liles | Fast Forward Through Time (Illusion Four) | United Dairies | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Maze Impact" | Gamertag | You Don't Know Me | All City Dublin
10. "The Reasons" | Deru | Trying to Remember | Merck
11. "Friend of All That Lives" | Dominik Eulberg & Gabriel Ananda | Friend of All That Lives | Traum
12. "Southerner" | Peter Buck | I Am Back To Blow Your Mind Once Again | Mississippi
13. "Dye the Water Green" | Bibio | The Green EP | Warp
14. "Reversing Through Time" | Andrew Liles | Fast Forward Through Time (Illusion Four) | United Dairies | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Unprepared Piano" | Black Light District | A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room | Eskaton
16. "The Gates of Ancient Cities" | Chris and Cosey | Reflection | Wax Trax
17. "Mireille" | Causa Sui | Live at Freak Valley | El Paraiso
18. "Lullaby" | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Candyman | Wonderland - Polydor

next time: a stadium rock detour. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

The Truth Is Out There: Transmission 117, 2014 April 20

Several times have I said this, but it bears repeating: weird stuff happens when I do daytime radio. On this Easter broadcast, I was visited by what seemed like a spirit (could it have been...?). In other miraculous news, the pitch variation on Turntable 2 seemed to work in favor of This Mortal Coil, not that Lady Catharsis would care.

This impromptu / emergency broadcast began a crazy thirteen-day stretch in which I somehow fell into doing six shows. So I am now at that end of the pendulum swing, contemplating the ultimate mortality of this program or at least just craving a bit of time off. I don't even seem to care about fading out the Jazz Butcher song at the end, although Gabriela of "Alcance Latino" is a force of nature and it is just best to get out of her way, which I did.

Of course I remember that this show has some kind of impulse/mission which I can't articulate, and that I "have to" keep going for some reason. Since I last posted, I've received some positive reinforcement in that regard, so we press on. Announcement to come soon.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 April 20, 1730-1900

1. "Welcome" | Planningtorock | All Love's Legal | Human Level
2. "Working Everyday" | Deadbeat and Paul St. Hilaire | The Infinity Dub Sessions | BLKRTZ
3. "Enter Paradise" | Vatican Shadow | Remember Your Black Day | Hospital Productions
4. "Gotta Get Inside That Boy's Mind" | Thee Headcoatees | Have Love Will Travel | Vinyl Japan
5. "Temple Walking" | Clay Rendering | Waters Above the Firmament | Hospital Productions
6. "The Exit Sign" | Gallon Drunk | The Soul of The Hour | Clouds Hill
7. "New Machine Sales" | Colo | UR | KI
8. "Hundert" | Gamertag | You Don't Know Me | All City Dublin
9. "Goddess" | Chrome Sparks | Goddess | Future Classic
10. "Utsira" | Boozoo Bajou | 4 | Apollo
11. "African Battle" | Manu Dibango | Africadelic | Aurora
12. "Skipscada" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Universal Sound
13. "Rise (Instrumental)" | Public Image Ltd. | Rise | Virgin
14. "Firebrothers" / "Thais (I)" / "I Must Have Been Blind" / "A Heart of Glass" | This Mortal Coil | Filigree & Shadow | 4AD
15. "I Don't Like It Like That" | The Bobbettes | Beat From Badsville, Vol. 3 | Stag-O-Lee
16. "Zombie Love" | The Jazz Butcher | The Gift of Music | Glass

next time: the return of United Dairies! Enjoy the music. --kid catharsis

Angry Mom Records: Transmission 116, 2014 April 16

George from Angry Mom Records stops by, with a bunch of vinyl to spin. This was a good time, and a good show. As a bonus, he absolved me of "too much time spent in record stores," at least partially--perhaps a President or a Pope might have done more, but I will take what I can get.

Notes on the program: (a) I meant to play something I'd once purchased at No Radio Records, but didn't get around to it, much to my regret; (b) the stories about my time in Amsterdam are, "sadly," true--even the "internet cafes" (good grief, remember those?) were hash bars, but I was really using them for the internet; (c) I manage to get the French translation wrong, even though it's right there on the record cover: "perdre" is the infinitive of the verb, hence "to lose"; (d) all other anomalies can be chalked up to my usual raggedness.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 April 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Bombast" | The Fall | This Nation's Saving Grace | Beggars Banquet
2. "Lufuala Ndonga" | Konono No. 1 | Congotronics | Crammed Discs
3. "Epirotiko Mirologi (Lament from Epirus)" | Alexis Zoumbas | A Lament for Epirus 1926-1928 | Angry Mom
4. "Gaida Moni (Single Line Dance)" | The Harisis Group | The Recordings of the Harisis Group From Northern Greece | Angry Mom
5. "Muntilor" | Dogtroep | III | not on label
6. "Pente Meres Pantremeni (Five Days Married)" | Halkias Brothers Folk Orchestra | Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song And Dance From Northern Greece, 1928-1958 | Angry Mom
7. "Raw Umber" | A Primary Industry | Ultramarine | Sweatbox
8. "Snarls Radical!" | Elsa & The Awesomeawesomes | Elsa & The Awesomeawesomes | Angry Mom
9. "Imitator (Landau Remake)" | Rootsman | Versions of the Unseen | BSI
10. "Lower Manhattan" | Johnny Dowd | Lower Manhattan | Angry Mom
11. "Menstrual Man" | Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti | Fragments from Work in Progress | 4AD
12. "Bran Mash and Crushed Beans" | People Like Us | Jumble Massive | Soleilmoon
13. "Loaded" | Blow | Overrated | Angry Mom
14. "Suggestion" / "Glue Man" | Fugazi | Thirteen Songs | Dischord
15. "Roswell" | Peter Buck | I Am Back to Blow Your Mind Once Again | Mississippi
16. "Aimer et Perdre (To Love & To Lose)" | Cleoma & Joe Falcon | Aimer Et Perdre: To Love & To Lose: Songs, 1917-1934 | Angry Mom
17. "Signal" / "Host" / "Blowing In The Instrument (excerpt)" | Zoviet:France | Misfits, Loony Tunes, and Squalid Criminals | Red Rhino

next time: easter miracles, or just zombies? Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Dub Night: Transmission 115, 2014 April 14

Back in January--it must have been--DJ Leon and I were talking radio over a pint and decided to do a collaborative show sometime. I thought at the time that "sometime" would probably happen in a few days. But here we are, in April, and "Dub Night" is finally upon us. Listen to this one with your "large bins" engaged.

This was pretty much improvisational, and a lot of good material went unused. So of course we'll have to do it again. Sometime.

My initiation into reggae was sort of backwards, as many of my initiations have been. I knew and loved dub well before I developed a taste for roots. As I mention in the program, Linton Kwesi Johnson was the catalyst; I loved the old On-U Sound records, especially Dub Syndicate and Singers & Players, as well. What I didn't think to mention in the program was that I had "formative radio experiences" with two great reggae DJs at my hometown station.

One was Gary Saylin, who, I think, might still be there. He had a daytime weekend show on which he played roots, ska, African, and Hawaiian (!) music. It was a really upbeat show, but I was too heavy & depressed to truly appreciate it fully back in the day.

Then there was Nahum Chandler, a.k.a. "The Sorcerer," who brought the heavy heaviness on Sunday nights. He was a poet as well, which fit perfectly with the LKJ / Bovell stuff he would occasionally play, as well as Michael Smith, whose record graces this program. I do have a faint recollection of walking into the studio one night, after having come on board, and seeing a mysterious cloud hovering beneath the studio ceiling one night when the Sorcerer was at the controls. I say "faint" because I don't fully trust my recollection and don't want to get him in trouble; that would have been against the rules, don't you know.

I am neither as smiley as Gary nor as substantial as the Sorcerer. I can only be neurotic and distracted self, with a little help from time to time.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 April 14, 1900-2100

1. "Dub Poem" | Mutabaruka | The Mystery Unfolds | Tuff Gong
2. "Janet Dub" | Billy Boyo | The Very Best of Me | L & R
3. "Harder Shade of Black" | Augustus Pablo | Santic + Friends: An Even Harder Shade of Black | Pressure Sounds
4. "Reminiah Dub" | Sly and the Revolutionaries | Reminah Dub | Original Music
5. "Picture or No Picture" | Michael Smith | Mi Cyaan Believe It | Mango UK | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Dub Fire" | Aswad | Crucial Tracks (Best of Aswad) | Mango
7. "Original Raggamuffin Dub" | Michael Prophet / Scion Success / John Holt | Super Star Mix Tp. 2 | Life Music
8. "Ai Bod" | Llwybr Llaethog | Da! | Side Effects
9. "Streets of Gold (Version)" | The Heptones | release unknown | label unknown
10. "Ganja Smuggling Version" | Roots Radics Band | Ganja Smuggling | Jah Guidance
11. "Black 'n' White" / "Mi Feel It" | Michael Smith | Mi Cyaan Believe It | Mango UK | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Old Time Dub" | Mungo's Hi-Fi | Sound System Champions | Scotch Bonnet
13. "Free 1" | Sound Iration | Sound Iration In Dub | WAU! Mr. Modo
14. "Immortal Drums" | Bongo Herman | Soldier Round the Corner | TEEM
15. "Fire" | 23 Skidoo | Urban Gamelan | Illuminated
16. "Only Jah Dub" | Roots Radics Meet Soul Syndicate | In Dub | Razor Sound
17. "Three Blind Mice" / "Three Times Three" | Leo Graham | Shocks of Mighty 1969-1974 | Attack
18. "Headline News" | Mikey Dread | African Anthem | Cruise
19. "Looks Like We're Shy One Horse / Shoot Out" | Colourbox | Baby I Love You So | 4AD
20. "Cosmic Jugalbandi (Part 1)" | Suns of Arqa | Solar Activity 1979-2001 | EMI
21. "Black Heart" | Keith Hudson & Soul Syndicate | Heavyweight Sound | Blood & Fire
22. "Satan Side" | The Dub Syndicate | Classic Selection Volume 1 | On-U Sound
23. "Love & Fire" | Ruts DC / Mad Professor | Dub or Die Vol:2 | ROIR
24. "Give Me Little Dub Music" | Michael Smith | Mi Cyaan Believe It | Mango UK | "Physical Evidence"

next time: a mother, enraged. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Vocoders in the Spring: Transmission 114, 2014 April 13

As I think I have explained before--but who knows? I cannot retain anything these days--sometimes I am on the air as a pretense for getting other things done at the station. This was such a time. The computer needed special attention, and DJ Dronestrike was grounded, so there I was, as I so often seem to be.

It's a safe bet--though I don't know where you would book it--that some anomalous stuff happened during this broadcast. And I don't mean Tom Snyder's Manson interview. But we are what we are, at this point. That His Name Is Alive track comes dangerously close to the irony I once promised not to deliver, but I do like it. I do.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 April 13, 2300-0100 April 14:

1. "Dream Topping" | The Durutti Column | The Guitar and Other Machines | Factory Once
2. "No Accommodation for Lagos" | Tony Allen & Afrika 70 | No Accommodation for Lagos | Kindred Spirits
3. "Conscience" | 400 Blows | If I Kissed Her I'd Have to Kill Her First | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
4. "Crazy Talk" | The Loafers | Beat From Badsville, Vol. 3 | Stag-O-Lee
5. "Declaration of Intent (remixed)" | 400 Blows | If I Kissed Her I'd Have to Kill Her First | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
6. "What Wouldn't You Do" | Fay | Deathwatch | Time No Place
7. "What is there to protect" | Minilogue | The Island of If | Cocoon
8. "Tarzan" | Glen Reeves and His Rock-Billys | Beat From Badsville, Vol. 3 | Stag-O-Lee
9. "Flipside" | Fedele, SINN, & Louis Kolben | Colourful Summer Sampler | Colourful
10. "Sunday Owls" | Fenster | The Pink Caves | Morr
11. "Lapwing Chant" | 400 Blows | If I Kissed Her I'd Have to Kill Her First | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Pangaea Ultima" | Steve Moore | Pangaea Ultima | Spectrum Spools
13. "Synced Below" | Massimiliano Pagliara | Correspondant Compilation 02 | Correspondant
14. "For Jackie M" | 400 Blows | If I Kissed Her I'd Have to Kill Her First | Illuminated | "Physical Evidence"
15. "Man on the Silver Mountain" | His Name Is Alive | The Dirt Eaters | 4AD
16. "Surrealchemist" | Stereolab | Peng! | Too Pure
17. "Speak Silence" | Drumcell | Speak Silence | CLR

next time: immortal dubs. enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Deconstruction Services: Transmission 113, 2014 April 9

We seem to have entered one of those periods in which I can do nothing right. This episode has some technical errors in it--thank goodness the WRFI mission statement urges us to "strive" for excellence. If it weren't for the striving, I would just be bad sometimes.

Ok, I am just bad sometimes.

Anyway, I did mean well. I do love the old Adrian Sherwood singles, even the later, more "processed" sounding ones such as "Sharp As A Needle." Liverpool, by the way, did go on to beat Man City four days later, so I can at least say I did no harm.

Finally, where on earth is Michael Allen? Does he tweet? (Does he use Google Alert?) This forum has rustled up some celebrities, intentionally and unintentionally. This would be an intentional case.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 April 9, 2100-2300:

1. "Cream Theme" | Mouse on Mars | Spezmodia | Monkeytown
2. "Sharp As A Needle" | The Barmy Army | Sharp As A Needle | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Flipsville" | Stormy Gayle | Beat From Badsville, Vol. 3 | Stag-O-Lee
4. "Myrrh Is Rising" | Clay Rendering | Waters Above the Firmament | Hospital Productions
5. "Pinball Cha-Cha" | Yello | 1980-85 The New Mix In One Go | Vertigo
6. "The Island of If" | Minilogue | The Island of If | Cocoon
7. "Coco Serenade" | The Left Arm of Buddha | Monkey's Affair | Stag-O-Lee
8. "Hustler" | Tony Allen & Africa 70 | Jealousy | Kindred Spirits
9. "Hiwa-Mata Noboru" | The Golden Cups | Big Lizard Stomp - Teen Trash from Psychedelic Tokyo 1966-1969 | Bamboo
10. "Western Electric" | Lord of the Isles | 301C Symphony | Permanent Vacation
11. "Softcore (Chloe Remix)" | Troy Pierce | Softcore EP | Items & Things
12. "Yo Sa Bi Da" | The Mops | Slitherama - Psychedelic Tokyo 1966-1969 | Bamboo
13. "Future Modular" | Planetary Assault Systems | Future Modular EP | Mote Evolver
14. "Death in Vegas (Richard Fearless)" | AV | Mort a Vegas EP | Police - Modulor
15. "Sharp As A Needle (Bonus Beats)" | The Barmy Army | Sharp As A Needle | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"
16. "God Is Not a Dick" | 50 Foot Wave | not on album | self-released
17. "Time" | Monkey Safari | Watching the Stars | Monaberry
18. "Bless My Brother" | The Wolfgang Press | Standing Up Straight | 4AD
19. "Mean, Mean Man" | Wanda Jackson | Beat From Badsville, Vol. 3 | Stag-O-Lee
20. "Seit Nuin" | Dalglish | Niaiw Ot Vile | PAN
21. "Face I" / "Face II" | Fay | Deathwatch | Time No Place
22. "Syskreem" | Gamertag | You Don't Know Me | All City Dublin
23. "Hot" | DJ Cam | Westside 2004-2007 | Inflamable
24. "Quiet Pillage" | 23 Skidoo | Seven Songs | Ronin
25. "Jungle Fever" | The Playboys | Beat From Badsville, Vol. 3 | Stag-O-Lee
26. "England 2 Yugoslavia 0" | The Barmy Army | Sharp As A Needle | On-U Sound | "Physical Evidence"

next time: sometimes you find yourself apologizing for being on the air. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

My Show Is Not Weird Enough: Transmission 112, 2014 April 2

I (mistakenly) believed we'd kick off a relatively sedate April with this program. Not that the program itself is mellow--Radio Niger is a wildly exciting release--but that I figured we might actually get caught up around here. HA. Slowly, I am learning that increased staff means increased variables, and increased chaos. Slowly I am learning this.

Anyway, yes, Radio Niger--it puts me and us to shame. I wonder (because I am too lazy to do the research myself, you see) whether Niger has any kind of FCC restricting what you can and can't do on the air. I do like looking for excuses, as my social betters have told me again and again. But we are coming up short around here, as even a partial listen to this album will tell you. Too much NPR, not enough "auto-tuning our own scene."

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 April 2, 2100-2300:

1. "Gluttony - Dompteur Mooner Edit" | Rinder & Lewis | Elaste Volume 4 | Compost
2. "Death on the Back of the Neck" | Unknown Artists | Radio Niger | Sublime Frequencies | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Cutty Sark" | Vic Chesnutt | Drunk | New West | "Listening Parlour"
4. "Logun" | Meta Meta | MetaL MetaL | Mais Um Discos
5. "Auto-Tune Your Own Scene!" | Unknown Artists | Radio Niger | Sublime Frequencies | "Physical Evidence"
6. "Horizon Effect" | Lord of the Isles | 301C Symphony | Permanent Vacation
7. "Inside Looking Out" | The Spiders | Slitherama - Psychedelic Tokyo 1966-1969 | Bamboo
8. "Speak Silence - Slumberman Remix" | Drumcell | Speak Silence | CLR
9. "Agadez Fatimata" | Unknown Artists | Radio Niger | Sublime Frequencies | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Broken Trains" | Patterns | Waking Lines | Melodic
11. "What I'd Say" | The Sharp Hawks | Slitherama - Psychedelic Tokyo 1966-1969 | Bamboo
12. "Hula" | Man Power | Correspondant Compilation 02 | Correspondant
13. "Disco Maghreb" | El Mahdy Jr & Gulls | Rai Dubs | Boomarm Nation
14. "Phonetrik" | Boozoo Bajou | 4 | Apollo
15. "Hauka Possession Splendor" | Unknown Artists | Radio Niger | Sublime Frequencies | "Physical Evidence"
16. "Exodus" | Footsie | King Original, Vol. 3 | Braindead
17. "Omega Oscillator" | Jakob Skott | Amor Fati | El Paraiso
18. "Sahel Drum-Machine Gun" | Unknown Artists | Radio Niger | Sublime Frequencies | "Physical Evidence"
19. "East of Memphis" | Twilight Circus | Dub from the Secret Vaults | ROIR
20. "Paradise" | Vince Watson | Planet Funk | Poker Flat

next time: keep hope in your heart and you'll never walk alone. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

It's 3 a.m. Somewhere: Transmission 111, 2014 March 29

This "bonus" program happened on a Saturday evening. DJ Helen was ill, and...you know the rest. I was unprepared for this one--note how it sounds just as "prepared" as all my shows.

A lazy dj thing I used to do, back in the old days, was to play really long tracks. In theory, this gave me a chance to calm down and get organized. I don't remember either of those things happeneing all that often. At any rate, I more or less reverted to that on this evening, with "Bug in the Bass Bin" reviving our neglected "Croix de Bombast" feature. Not that it's unpleasant or anything.

Piece by piece, I'm confessing everything.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 March 29, 2000-2200

1. "Intro - Family" | Wen | Signals | Keysound
2. "Got My Mojo Working" | The Golden Cups | Big Lizard Stomp - Teen Trash from Psychedelic Tokyo 1966-1969 | Bamboo
3. "Yere Africa" | Peter King | Omo Lewa | Secret Stash
4. "14.06.13" | Hardway Bros | Correspondant Compilation 02 | Correspondant
5. "No Soul" | Khan | The Enlightenment Machine | Album Label
6. "Caltrops" | Geoffroy Mugwump & DC Salas | Correspondant Compilation 02 | Correspondant
7. "R4 Dub" | El Mahdy Jr & XJ | Rai Dubs | Boomarm Nation
8. "Fyne" | Lord of the Isles | 301C Symphony | Permanent Vacation
9. "Arabian Calypso" | The Left Arm of Buddha | Monkey's Affair | Stag-O-Lee
10. "Excess Mortality" | Conforce | Kinetic Image | Delsin
11. "Gimme Some Lovin'" | The Savage | Slitherama - Psychedelic Tokyo 1966-1969 | Bamboo
12. "Ooze" | Streetwalker | Ooze EP | Diagonal
13. "Bug in the Bass Bin" | The Dirtbombs | Party Store | In the Red
14. "Real Up" | Gulls | Patterns Is Life | Boomarm Nation
15. "Volition" | Andy Fairley | Fishfood vs The Birth of Sharon | Bristol Archive
16. "Before the Fire" | Gallon Drunk | Before the Fire | Clouds Hill
17. "Future Modular - Subtracted Mix" | Planetary Assault Systems | Future Modular EP | Mote Evolver
18. "3AM" | Patrice Scott | Dubfire - a Transmission | Sci+ Tec

next time: outlaw radio. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

He'll Pop Your Dreams Like They Were Bubbles: Transmission 110, 2014 March 26

Oh, hi there. How have you been? Good, good. So you're still listening, huh? Wow. Okay. Here, have a mixtape.

Things were supposed to happen on this night, and other things happened instead. Anyway, it is true that "Medway nights are always special," even if they are backup plans and even though there have only been maybe 3 of them. Truth is truth.

Much has happened since I last posted something. A lot of it not good! But the station got a live twitter feed right in the studio, so I had to join. I guess. Here I am.

What's funniest about this is that Lady Catharsis joined too, and she has more followers than I do. I think I said in my first-ever WRFI show that she'd be more popular than I would.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 March 26, 2100-2300:

1. "Stairs" | The Soft Hills | Departure | Tapete
2. "The Supreme Court" | Bostro Pesopeo | Cheer Up EP | Permanent Vacation
3. "Black Elk Speaks" | Thee Mighty Caesars | Medway Powerhouse Vol. 1 | Hangman
4. "Lunar" | Wen | Signals | Keysound
5. "The Train Kept A Rollin'" | Auntie Vegetable | Medway Powerhouse Vol. 1 | Hangman
6. "Survivability Inside the Bubble" | Colo | UR | KI
7. "Converse" | Red Rack 'Em | I Trusted You | RAMP
8. "All the Time" | Tom Waits | Orphans | ANTI-
9. "Sex Is a Language" | Andy Fairley | Fishfood vs The Birth of Sharon | Bristol Archive
10. "Panarama Bar Shit" | Vtgnike | Dubna | Other People
11. "Second to No One" | The Discords | Medway Powerhouse Vol. 1 | Hangman
12. "Raga: Madhuvanti" | Charanjit Singh | Elaste Volume 4 | Compost
13. "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" | Leonard Nimoy | Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner | UMG
14. "Peugeot 504 (Gulls Mix)" | El Mahdy Jr & XJ | Rai Dubs | Boomarm Nation
15. "Hard Lovin' Man" | The Gruffmen | Medway Powerhouse Vol. 1 | Hangman
16. "Exploding Head Movie" | Stereolab, Nurse With Wound | Crumb Duck | self-released
17. "Ivor" | The Daggermen | Medway Powerhouse Vol. 1 | Hangman
18. "P.P.O. Kissin' Behinds" | Sleaford Mods | Austerity Dogs | Sleaford Mods
19. "Everything's Alright" | Outcast | Slitherama - Psychedelic Tokyo 1966-1969 | Bamboo
20. "Monkey's Affair" | The Left Arm of Buddha | Monkey's Affair | Stag-O-Lee
21. "The Kingdom of Heaven Is At Hand" | Michoacan | The Blue Collection | Eskimo
22. "Nenekri - Kalabrese Remix Multi Culti Edit" | Crowdpleaser | Nenekri (Remixes) | Multi Culti
23. "Fire" | Auntie Vegetable | Medway Powerhouse Vol. 1 | Hangman
24. "Mighty Mighty" | Baby Huey | The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend | Curtom
25. "Borstal Breakout" | Bored | Scuzz | Bang!
26. "Yellow" | Schiller | Sun (Chill Out Edition) | 7star
27. "If You Knew" | Thor's Hammer | If You Knew: Icelandic Punk & Beat '65-'67! | Ugly Pop
28. "The End (Will Be Pretty)" | Khan | The Enlightenment Machine | Album Label

next time: croix de Bombast returns. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Senses Take Over As We Start To Float: Transmission 109, 2014 March 23

Appearances notwithstanding, I am not on the air "90 percent of the time" [sheesh] and only occasionally do I have an "itch" to do something aside from the regular Wednesday night "mothership" program. My life outside of radio is a full and imaginative one (alright, perhaps not imaginative), and BOMBAST takes work (again, appearances notwithstanding). I don't always have a specific thing to do with extra airtime, so these extra programs tend to happen after failed attempts to give it away.

Happily this program is a whole 'nother thing. The day prior, I was just living my "full and imaginative" life when what should appear in my inbox but a couple of audio files sent by Rudy Tambala? He should require no introduction, but in case you need one, he was effectively one-half of Hall of Legends inductees A.R.Kane. He also had a hand in M|A|R|R|S, Inrain, and Sufi. The audio files were unreleased demos, recorded with Alison Shaw of Cranes fame, as well as...ugh, linking makes me tired. Anyway, HEY LOOK, a collaboration between good musical people.

So this was an occasion, you see--and I was just about to put out a call for someone to fill this time on Sunday afternoon, but instead decided to hoard it all to myself, which I think is what some of my colleagues imagine I do in every case anyway.

Welcome, then, to the premiere of "Open Attachments," another hastily-named feature on the program, although I think this one might stick.

ps yes I know these are not exclusive but still.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 March 23, 1600-1730:

1. "Behind the Hourglass - Alex Smoke Remix" | Avatism | Adamant Remixes #1 | Vakant
2. "For Delia" | Sun Spells | not on album | Soundcloud self-release
3. "Biology3 (demo)" | Tambala / Shaw | unreleased | "Open Attachments"
4. "Holidays" | Colo | UR | KI
5. "The Speed of Fear" | Gallon Drunk | The Soul of The Hour | Clouds Hill
6. "Move Along" | Cranes | Worlds | Dadaphonic
7. "Nobody Knows the Trouble Us People Had Seen" | Rufus Harley | Re-Creation of the Gods | Transparency
8. "Stratosfear" | Seven & Dubtek | Live from the Future | Uprise
9. "Such a Little Girl" | Nikki Sudden & Jacobites | Texas | Creation
10. "Johnny B Goode" | The Spiders | Big Lizard Stomp - Teen Trash from Psychedelic Tokyo 1966-1969 | Bamboo
11. "Fool (demo)" | Tambala / Shaw | unreleased | "Open Attachments"
12. "The Day I Come Alive" | Michael A Grammar | Random Vision | Melodic
13. "Blackmail" | Altarboy | Slow Ghost | Wonder Wet
14. "Better Days" | Thor's Hammer | If You Knew: Icelandic Punk & Beat '65-'67! | Ugly Pop
15. "Enoemos" | Sixth June | Pleasure | Mannequin
16. "Wishing Well (feat. Barbarossa)" | Mario & Vidis | Undercover | Silence Family
17. "Up" | A.R.Kane | Up Home! | Rough Trade

next time: a Medway night. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis