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Bodies Up and Bodies Down, Bodies Moving All Around: Transmission 491, 2019 October 30

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:

1. "Tema" / "Dope" | Afriqua | Colored | R & S
2. "Give Love (Interlude)" | Sampa the Great | The Return | Ninja Tune
3. "If Not Now When?" | Ultramarine | Signals into Space | Les Disques du Crepuscule
4. "C/2015 V2" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Opaque Couche | Flexidisc
5. "Heliy" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | Tutti | Conspiracy International
6. "Heston" | Finlay Shakepeare | Domestic Economy | Editions Mego
7. "The Edge of the World" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
8. "Life of the Plants" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Life of the Plants | Stones Throw
9. "Chemin de fer" | Dexter Story | Bahir | Soundway
10. "Feeling You Got" | El Rego et ses Commandos | El Rego | Daptone
11. "Wanted" | Renegade Pharmacy | Recovery Position | self-released
12. "XYZ" | Boards of Canada | XYZ | WARP
13. "Happy Sad" | Jübl | DNA Cowboys | Eighth Son Records
14. "Let's Take The Time" | Sequoyah Murray | Before You Begin | Thrill Jockey Records
15. "Tenere" | Kel Assouf | Black Tenere | Glitterbeat
16. "Honam" | Orchestre Abass | De Bassari Togo | Analog Africa
17. "Driving Blind" | Chris and Cosey | Songs of Love & Lust [reissue] | Conspiracy International
18. "All About Money" | Spontaneous Overthrow | All About Money | Numero Group
19. "Microwave Mistral" | Your 33 Black Angels | Eternities I | self-released
20. "T 3.1" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
21. "Disorder Dub" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
22. "Sometimes I Wanna Dance" | Lonnie Holley | MITH | Jagjaguwar
23. "Come Home O'Shawn" | (((O))) | ((( 1 ))) | The Sundrop Garden
24. "Master's Clock" | Moor Mother | The Myth Hold Weight | Don Giovanni
25. "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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Hundreds of Miles Going Nowhere: Transmission 490, 2019 October 23

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:

1. "Decembers Embers" | The Irony Board | Unfinished Business | The Beautiful Music
2. "Blips Drips and Strips" | Stereolab | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in The Milky Night (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / Warp Records
3. "Blue Palms" | Iori | Tangerine Sky | Mule Musiq
4. "Mango (feat. Zia Ahmed)" | Sarathy Korwar | More Arriving | Leaf
5. "What You Gonna Ask For - Theo's Mix" | Theo Parrish / Lori / Silentjay | What You Gonna Ask For | Sound Signature
6. "Wake Up (Interlude)" | Sampa the Great | The Return | Ninja Tune
7. "Wallow" | The Pull of Autumn | Afterglow | RBM Records
8. "Andeha Hanarato" | Los Matadores | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
9. "City Track" | Kedr Livanskiy | Your Need | 2MR
10. "That Feeling of Falling" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
11. "T 3.4" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
12. "Fury - The Origin" | Goldie | Saturnz Return (2019 Remaster) | London
13. "Third Sync" | Rainer Veil | Vanity | Modern Love
14. "Let's Hope It Lasts the Summer" | elAstrum | Summer Vacation | Kahvi Collective
15. "Dreams (Alternate Version)" | Tombstones in Their Eyes | Open Skies | Somewherecold
16. "Jump In, The Water's Fine" | The Wedding Present | Jump In, The Water's Fine | Come Play With Me / Scopitones
17. "One Step" | Section 25 | Always Now | Factory Benelux
18. "Drift Away" | Secret Shine | There Is Only Now | Saint Marie
19. "Ocean Blue" | The Primitives | Losing Touch With My Mind: Psychedelia In Britain 1986-1990 | Cherry Red
20. "(I Walked Away From) The Girl In Yellow" | David J | Missive to an Angel from the Halls of Infamy and Allure | Glass Modern
21. "Heroes" | Flying Lotus | Flamagra | WARP
22. "Elizabeth 44" | Ummagma | Compass | Leonard Skully
23. "Jogging" | Brian | Red Rover | self-released
24. "4eva" | Kelman Duran | Two Suns | Point Records
25. "At the Point of Hustle" | Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell | Realm of Spells | self-released
26. "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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Greatness in Me, You Can't Make Me Feel Less: Transmission 489, 2019 October 16

"This is surely not rock bottom," my notes read (even my notes are pretentious), "but felt like cheating somehow, and also a program with an old agenda." Well, I did return to some very recent spins, trying to--what? correct mistakes? erase moral debts? Listening back the agenda doesn't seem that old, but I'm definitely in no position to assess that. I think the big mistake of the summer was that I tried living in the moment, but for reasons beyond my control (at least that's what I'm telling myself!) "the moment" was a kind of terrible I wasn't prepared for.

But who(m)(st) are we kidding? I make mistakes every summer.

Since this program was broadcast, 106 days ago now, I've gone on the air 19 times. I'm currently editing a sound file from 37 days ago--6 shows ago.

(One of the problems with the "chronicling and specifying my slothfulness" is that the Wednesdays keep coming, you see, and so do the radio appearances. Also, I've not been mentioning my listening habits, mostly at the gym--I just finished listening to a transmission from 71 days ago. So that's four different times I'm inhabiting at once--the past I'm trying to write about, the past I'm listening to, the past I'm editing (!), and the present I'm trying to stay afloat in. How is your existence going, friend?)

The current churn is bringing to mind some existential questions about this whole radio thing. I don't know at the moment why I do it but I know I have to. And it's not even a job! There's not even a Patreon associated with this thing (I'm either too busy or too lazy to get that together).

Will it feel better if my "four temporal planes" collapse into one? Will the questions disappear, or maybe even be answered? Stay tuned to this gripping series.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 October 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Mahonena" | Ny Anjarasoa | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
2. "Standing Crosswise in the Square" | Craig Leon | Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon | RVNG Int'l
3. "Wilder" | Jübl | DNA Cowboys | Eighth Son Records
4. "Megamanic" | Bob Mould | The Last Dog and Pony Show | Rykodisc | "The Listening Parlour"
5. "Dark Luminosity" | Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell | Realm of Spells | self-released
6. "Not a second glance" | Hula | Voice | Klanggalerie
7. "Low Voltage and Meat" | The Grief Brothers | Thirty Five Years on Woodfield Street | Country Mile
8. "T 3.5" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
9. "Xscape" | NNYZ? | Automation | Kahvi Collective
10. "Final Form" | Sampa the Great | The Return | Ninja Tune
11. "Needyunow" | (((O))) | ((( 1 ))) | The Sundrop Garden
12. "Mhadjar Yassouf Idjan" | Tinariwen | Amadjar | Wedge
13. "Panama" | The Wedding Present | Jump In, The Water's Fine | Come Play With Me / Scopitones
14. "Elelemi" | Julie Coker | A Life in the Limelight: Lagos Disco & Itsekiri Highlife, 1976-1981 | Kalita
15. "Jallaad" | Sarathy Korwar | More Arriving | Leaf
16. "Ten Days (Douglas Deep Mix)" | Diane Marie Kloba | D.M.K vs S.K.1.2.3 | self-released
17. "Wild Atlantic" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
18. "Diagonals (Instrumental)" | Stereolab | Dots and Loops (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
19. "Mizik Bel" | Esnard Boisdur | Mizik Bel | Favorite
20. "In a Cage (feat. Moor Mother)" | Zonal | In a Cage | Relapse
21. "KYOKAI" | Slikback | Lasakaneku / Tomo | Hakuna Kulala
22. "I'm Not Always Where My Body Is - Varg Remix" | Aisha Devi | I'm Not Always Where My Body Is - Varg Remix | Houndstooth
23. "Untitled VI" | Kelman Duran | Two Suns | Point Records
24. "LCD" | Ummagma | Compass | Leonard Skully
25. "Eh! Yaye" | Zazou / Bikaye / CY1 | Noir Et Blanc | Crammed Discs
26. "invoice" | serpentwithfeet | soil | Secretly Canadian
27. "Planemo" | elAstrum | Freqmod | Kahvi Collective
28. "A Push Towards The Stars" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
29. "Okitwoye - Peter Power Remix" | ODD OKODDO | Okitwoye | Pingipung

just a sing-song for the mute

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Despite All My Rage, We Still in a Daze: Transmission 488, 2019 October 13

Here we are again. I am scrambling to write something in the pre-dawn hours, and you are probably asleep and oblivious. You have no idea how I envy you! Last night I dreamed that I was being bullied; waking up from this at 1 a.m., I decided to go back to bed, only to find myself in a classroom. I was the present version of myself, that is, not a teacher and not the teacher, but of course it was a theatre classroom and worst of all a dramatic literature classroom. "I haven't thought about Angels in America in ten years," I remember myself saying (it's true!), but I'm pretty sure that the text we were discussing, and which I had not read, was not Kushner's play--but we were behaving as though it was. I think I'd rather dream about being punched.

Since this program was broadcast, 107 days ago now, I've gone on the air 19 times. I'm currently editing a sound file from 41 days ago--6 shows ago.

A weak, incoherent idea is starting to form, and it's that existing in "multiple times" like this is maybe not good for my brain? I don't know.

Whatever. This Sunday-night fill-in occasion prompted me to try some pre-planning (seems weird) and to use the station's computers again. Guy was right--we are constantly under duress. You need to bring a Plan B and a Plan C. Maybe one day we'll have reliable equipment, but we have not acquired it in ~7 years of my doing radio here, and October 13 was not going to be the day either.

It's a shame because for the first hour or so the program is pretty good. Stupidly, when the distortion began I tried to ride it out because it actually sounded "good" during Kelman Duran and Carter Tutti Void. Felix made me reboot the computer--I don't think I've felt this way since one of the program directors at KDVS ordered me to apologize to my listeners for playing a certain Cure song! (Who was saying something about living in multiple times at once?) Apologies to Ivan Black for my use of his music to cover up technical difficulties. He deserves better. We all do. Sleep well.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 October 13, 2100-2300:

1. "Indo" | NNYZ? | Automation | Kahvi Collective
2. "You're the One I Idolise" | CTMF | You're the One I Idolise | Damaged Goods
3. "Buildings" | The I-Burnettes | The Sound of Leamington Spa | Firestation Records
4. "Billy the Bastard" | The Grief Brothers | Thirty Five Years on Woodfield Street | Country Mile
5. "Bus Stop Bravado" | The Irony Board | Unfinished Business | The Beautiful Music
6. "Took the Train Alone (Macerator Remix)" | Diane Marie Kloba | D.M.K vs S.K.1.2.3 | self-released
7. "Tomorrow Never Knows" | Brian | Idiolect | self-released
8. "Tokatoka" | Kaiamba Orchestra | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
9. "Wire - Leaping Dub" | Massive Attack | Massive Attack V Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98) | UMC / Virgin
10. "Zaka Tiako Mamolaka Keriko" | Atrefy Andriana | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
11. "ECTODUB" | Velvet Negroni | NEON BROWN | 4AD
12. "Pretoria" | Tonton David | Le blues des racailles | Because Music
13. "Vimana Shastra" | elAstrum | Summer Vacation | Kahvi Collective
14. "Izahay Mpamita" | Mahaleo | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
15. "Suabala" | Bantou Mentale | Suabala | Glitterbeat
16. "Rapela" | Falafa | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
17. "Far Reaching Shadows" | Nots | 3 | Upset the Rhythm
18. "Mitamiyo" | Mendes & Mendes | Radio Verde: Cape Verdean Dancefloor Music (Compiled By Americo Brito & Arp Frique) | Rush Hour
19. "Rumble On Arab St (Kitsch Kub Remix)" | Rude Audio | Street Light Interference | Zirkus
20. "Untitled VI" | Kelman Duran | Two Suns | Point Records
21. "Imagine a Place" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
22. "T 3.5" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
23. "Jade Fade" | James Clarke Five | Parloursounds [reissue] | The Beautiful Music
24. "Let Love In" | Breakwater | Release the Beast | Be With
25. "Rhythm Machine (excerpt)" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
26. "In a Cage (feat. Moor Mother)" | Zonal | In a Cage | Relapse Records
27. "Rhythm Machine (excerpt)" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
28. "Truth (2019 Remaster)" | Goldie | Saturnz Return (2019 Remaster) | London
29. "The Emergency Kisses" | Stereolab | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in The Milky Night (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
30. "You Never Know Suzuko's Vice" | Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. | Hallelujah Mystic Garden Part Two | Important

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Melt the House, Wake the World: Transmission 487, 2019 October 9

There's this thing I do called "letting one bad moment ruin an entire program for me." In this case it's an otherwise terrific Breakwater song: I can't get over how bad the segues around it were. Currently I'm trying to rationalize my summer "paradigm shift" by telling myself that I was trying to break free of the show's initial construct, "being about segues." And by "trying to rationalize" I really mean "lying about." I don't conceive of things that well anymore, if I ever did.

Since this program aired, 110 days ago now, I've gone on the air 20 times. I'm currently editing a broadcast from 47 days ago--7 shows ago.

"Somehow" I wound up doing eight programs in October, and I have been telling myself that in this month they started being good again. I'm not yet convinced! "Don't Stay Out Late" has an appalling lyric and I shouldn't have played it. This transmission, while too good to have been the low point, was probably the breaking point. After this I would turn back to Old Methods. That's a story for next time.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 October 9, 2100-2300:

1. "Infintro" | ((( O ))) | ((( 1 ))) | The Sundrop Garden
2. "T 3.3" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
3. "Dive" | Flame 2 | Dive / Rain | PRESSURE
4. "Risingson (Setting Sun Dub Two)" | Massive Attack | Massive Attack V Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98) | UMC / Virgin
5. "Demonz (2019 Remaster)" | Goldie | Saturnz Return (2019 Remaster) | London
6. "Takanadobabble" | Download | 44 Days | Artoffact
7. "Heaven (feat. Whosane)" | Sampa the Great | The Return | Ninja Tune
8. "Les Yper Sound" | Stereolab | Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
9. "Friendly Fires" | Section 25 | Always Now | Factory Benelux
10. "Everything Intensifies" | CTMF | You're the One I Idolise | Damaged Goods
11. "In and Out of Order" | Algebra Mothers | A-Moms = Algebra Mothers | Third Man
12. "Stay Close to Me" | Bad Brains | Omega Sessions | Victory
13. "Elizabethan Reggae" | Boris Gardner | Monkey Business | Trojan
14. "Don't Stay Out Late" | Kentrick Patrick | This Is Ska Too! | Music Club
15. "Dread Lion" | The Upsetters | Super Ape | Island / Get On Down
16. "Challaban" | Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar | Trance | RealWorld
17. "Isn't It a Pity" | Penny Rimbaud | War & Peace - Single | One Little Indian
18. "Ten Notes On a Summer's Day (Vocal)" | Crass | Ten Notes On a Summer's Day | Caroline
19. "Sentimental Lady" | Medicine | Scarred for Life | Drawing Room
20. "NESTER" | Velvet Negroni | NEON BROWN | 4AD
21. "Release the Beast" | Breakwater | Release the Beast | Be With
22. "Sunflower (I Love You More)" | Sequoyah Murray | Before You Begin | Thrill Jockey
23. "Jazzpianodance (Winters Remix)" | Javonntte | Drumma | Waella's Choice
24. "Black Flight (feat. Saul Williams)" | Moor Mother | Black Flight (feat. Saul Williams) | Don Giovanni
25. "No You" | Kelman Duran | No You | Point
26. "Sleepy Time" | Jeff Mills | Sight Sound and Space | Axis

fourteen joys and a will to be merry

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The Night Is Made of Rocks: Transmission 486, 2019 October 5

It's 4 a.m. and I have woken up from a bad dream about one of my old jobs. I still have them, but at least if I am dreaming I am sleeping, I guess. It must be my destiny to be four months in the past, in both my conscious and unconscious lives.

Since this program aired, 114 days ago now, I've gone on the air 21 times. I'm currently editing a broadcast from 47 days ago--7 shows ago.

Lady Catharsis joined me on this particular broadcast, and it was good--meaning I didn't get myself into too much trouble--but we had to stick to my repertoire in order for things to work out. I guess you could say I cheated, although I'm not competing against anyone or anything but some undefined "ideal" program. It all caught up with me at the end when I announced a tune by "Feta Coolie" and then "Feta Cootie." I probably needed more sleep then, too.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 October 5, 2000-2200:

1. "Five Nights of Bleeding" / "Dread Beat An' Blood" / "Intro" / "All We Doin Is Defendin'" / "It Dread Inna Inglan" | Linton Kwesi Johnson | In Concert With the Dub Band | Shanachie
2. "Turn On, Tune In, Find Joy" | Freakpower | The Rebirth Of Cool Volume 3 | 4th & Broadway
3. "Blue Jays" | Sequoyah Murray | Before You Begin | Thrill Jockey
4. "Nouveau Western" | MC Solaar | The Rebirth Of Cool Volume 3 | 4th & Broadway
5. "The Flower Called Nowhere" | Stereolab | Dots and Loops (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
6. "Rain" | Flame 2 | Dive / Rain | PRESSURE
7. "Okitwoye" | ODD OKODDO | Okitwoye | Pingipung
8. "One True Path" | Section 25 | Always Now | Factory Benelux
9. "Radio Tenere: Goudel Mollo Swagger" | unknown artists | Radio Niger | Sublime Frequencies
10. "Soaliza" | Terak' Anosy Group | Alefa Madagascar | Strut
11. "Itous Ohar" | Tinariwen | Amadjar | Wedge
12. "Icy Forest" | Faizal Mostrixx | Ghosts | Byrd Out
13. "Razana Tsy Ho Meloko" | Michael | Alefa Madagascar | Strut
14. "Sleeping Trees" | Nina Soul | Feel Like Jumping: The Best of Studio One Women | Heartbeat
15. "Feel Like Jumping" | Marcia Griffiths | Feel Like Jumping: The Best of Studio One Women | Heartbeat
16. "Ȏdy Ȏdy (Tsy Mentsy Mandroso)" | Saka dit The King | Alefa Madagascar | Strut
17. "Umculo Kawupheli (No End To Music)" | The Mahotella Queens | Soweto Never Sleeps (Classic Female Zulu Jive) | Shanachie
18. "Lady" | Fela Ransome-Kuti And The Africa '70 | Shakara | Knitting Factory

no need to hurry, there's all the time

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Can't Be Trusted 'Cause You're Living in the Past: Transmission 485, 2019 October 2

Yeah, so it's a rainy, miserable Saturday night and I'm trying to write a blurb about two hours I spent on the radio four months ago. How is your weekend going? I'm on kind of a self-flagellation binge so I thought I would tell you how I'm doing w/r/t getting this here podcast site caught up with the present.

Since this program aired, 115 days ago now, I've done 22 additional ones. I'm currently editing a program from 45 days ago--7 shows ago. I seem to remember saying during one of these shows--I can barely tell them apart--"we might just always be four months behind," and that is feeling like an accurate prediction. Thanks for your patience, by the way!

Honestly, this particular transmission did not get so crazy until after Public Enemy, though post-production magic may obscure that (you're welcome). I'm having to accept that being "about segues" may be part of this show's past but not its future, and I'm realizing that the thing I used to do back in the olden days, that is, repeating content that I knew "worked" in the segue context, made a kind of sense. But I also have a vague feeling that better days are ahead for this here program, so it's kind of a liminal space. Comforting thoughts in this not-actually-restful time.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 October 2, 2100-2300:

1. "Here We Go" | Sequoyah Murray | Before You Begin | Thrill Jockey
2. "Tende II" | Les Filles de Illighadad | African Acid Is The Future: Ambiance II | The Vinyl Factory
3. "Andosy Mora" | Jean Kely Et Basth | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
4. "Guiding Dub" | Impact Allstars | Java Java Java Java - Instrumentals Dubwise Versions | Get On Down
5. "Amboliako Fary" | Charles Maurin Poty | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
6. "Tucheza (Esa Extended Mix)" | Ze Spirits Band | Esa Presents Amandla: Music to the People | Soundway
7. "Ngôma Hoe" | Papa James | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
8. "Masters of War" | Penny Rimbaud | War & Peace | One Little Indian
9. "We'er Gone" | CTMF | Brave Protector | Burger / Damaged Goods
10. "Strobo Acceleration" | Stereolab | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in The Milky Night (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
11. "Avante Juventude" | Os Anjos | Angola Soundtrack 2 - Hypnosis, Distortion & Other Innovations 1969 - 1978 | Analog Africa
12. "OMG" | Sampa the Great | The Return | Ninja Tune
13. "The Message" | Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five | The Message | Sugar Hill
14. "Megablast" | Public Enemy | Yo! Bum Rush The Show | Def Jam
15. "After Images" | Moor Mother | After Images | Don Giovanni
16. "Reading University Jam With New Order" | Section 25 | Always Now | Factory Benelux
17. "Dj Beat" | Tonton David | Le blues des racailles | Because Music
18. "Sîfó (feat. Dion Monti)" | Nonku Phiri | Esa Presents Amandla: Music to the People | Soundway
19. "Hello Ya'll" | Shinehead | Unity | Elektra
20. "Nine Street Dub" | Sly & The Revolutionaries Meet Lloyd Parks, We The People Band And Roots Radics | Trench Town Dub | Original Music
21. "Picture or No Picture" | Michael Smith | Mi Cyaan Believe It | Island
22. "Bliss" | Yatta | Wahala | Purple Tape Pedigree
23. "Want Fi Goh Rave" | Linton Kwesi Johnson | Forces of Victory | Island
24. "For You" | Jübl | DNA Cowboys | Eighth Son
25. "CHOIR BOY" / "SCRATCHERS" | Velvet Negroni | NEON BROWN | 4AD
26. "For the Angels (Live)" | Dax Pierson | Live in Oakland | Ratskin

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When One Road Close, Another One Go Open: Transmission 484, 2019 September 25

I know these vaguely program-related recollections mark a lot of endings. But I can't conceive of this one in any other way--it had been my final day at the two jobs I'd been cobbling together into a "professional" life for the past several years, and which were destroying me with logarithmically increasing quickness. Not really having a library of "freedom tunes" or "escape tunes" I went with the usual, which at this point in history was...I don't know what. Shockingly, we got the usual late-summer results.

At one point I promised that we would get a good segue before the end of the evening. Maybe I delivered, but going from Tony Allen into Rose was definitely not it. Maybe I don't deliver everything that I promise. So it goes. The world doesn't give me everything it promises, and I don't owe the world more than it gives me. I am resolute about that.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 September 25, 2100-2300:

1. "Freak" | Tappa Zukie | Freak | Stars / Jah Fingers
2. "Fa No Dem Ara" | Gyedu-Blay Ambolley | Simigwa | Academy LPs
3. "Lonesome Stranger" | Aroop Roy | Good Times EP | Boogie Cafe
4. "Pulukwani Centre" | The Boyoyo Boys | Back In Town | Rounder
5. "Moramora Zoky" | Soymanga | Alefa Madagascar | Strut
6. "Mama" | Roger Georges | Alefa Madagascar | Strut
7. "Road Close (Dance Dub)" | Tony Allen | Africafunk: The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless
8. "Vivid Dreams, Misunderstood" | Rose | Mental Flooding | M.I.S.T. Records
9. "Ignorance Is Strength" | Normil Hawaiians | What's Going On | Upset The Rhythm
10. "Leaving Babylon" | Bad Brains | Bad Brains | ROIR
11. "Space Movement Section 1" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa | On-U Sound
12. "B. B. Gasy" | Les Pepitos Et Leur Ensemble | Alefa Madagascar | Strut
13. "Vive Le Renouveau" | El Rego et ses Commandos | El Rego | Daptone
14. "True Love" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
15. "Blue Milk" | Stereolab | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in The Milky Night (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / Warp Records
16. "T 3.2" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
17. "Nightlights" | Fa Le Brou | Penrose | Kahvi Collective
18. "Clstlbng" | Tracey | Biostar | Dial

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U_D_M Detour 39, 2019 September 21

[GUEST POST]

It's Guy (me) again, perhaps too soon. As in radio, so it is in life. There is too much content. No one knows where it comes from. We are, perhaps, bored on the air. And on the phone. And on the couch. And in the driver's seat. And so on.

For me it is back to the frozen North. Perhaps I'll be missed. Perhaps I'll come back. Surely there are other adventures, for all of us. I leave you with a diversion that at least does not suffer from the previous one's technical difficulties. May you savor it.

U_D_M playlist, 2019 September 21, 1900-2000:

1. "Gilgamesh - Timboletti Remix" | Elfenberg | 20 Jahre SOS Jubiläums Compilation | 3000°
2. "My Queen" | Snips | London Livin' EP | Barbershop
3. "Northeast" | Martin Buttrich | Northeast / Southwest | Planet E
4. "Uri's Song (feat. Wiretapping)" | Ciel | Why Me? | Spectral Sound
5. "IV" | Achim Maerz | Experiments | Don't Be Afraid
6. "Lumen" | Luke Hess | Facette | Echocord Colour
7. "Washed Out" | Sousk | Shelter | Souvenir
8. "Aztec Code" | Pletnev | Aztec Code / Daywalker | Fleeting Wax
9. "Space Bubbles" | Seahawks & Laraaji | Spaciousness: Music Without Boundaries | Lo Recordings

some say he's naive

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If I Could Just Explain the Way My Mind Is: Transmission 483, 2019 September 18

Another week, another realization that last week's transmission was a false dawn. I spent late summer (and surely some of early fall) thinking I'd found the bottom, but I will surprise you with how low I can go. My all-too-comprehensible agenda rolls on, flattening all indicators of quality. But I'm determined to share everything here, so share this I will. I don't know, it's probably worth hearing, once, just to say you did?

Specifically, from the notes: I screwed up the transition to Carlton and the Shoes; my levels were all over the place; I seemed to hit a stride for a while but then "had to play" Ivan Black right after Ike and Tina. In my defense, the show gets fairly good after that point, but in the first hour nothing makes sense to me and I wonder if it ever did. Look, whomst among us has never made, or been, a conceptual mess? Really? None of you? Ok, never mind.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 September 18, 2100-2300:

1. "Amandrai" | Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder | Talking Timbuktu | World Circuit
2. "FEEL LET" | Velvet Negroni | NEON BROWN | 4AD
3. "Love Me Forever" | Carlton and the Shoes | Full Up: Best of Studio One volume 2 | Hearbeat
4. "A Ye Wa" | Sunny Ade and His Green Spot Band | Vol. 4 - Stereo Recording in London | African Songs
5. "Big Mistake" | The Bassies | Full Up: Best of Studio One volume 2 | Hearbeat
6. "Tomorrow Is Already Here" | Stereolab | Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
7. "Sally Sensation" | CTMF | Brave Protector | Burger / Damaged Goods
8. "Crooked Smile" | The Galileo 7 | There Is Only Now | Damaged Goods
9. "It's a Vanity" | Gabo Brown & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo | African Scream Contest | Analog Africa
10. "Gate of Zion" | The Ethiopian | Full Up: Best of Studio One volume 2 | Heartbeat
11. "Sun Slips Over" | Jübl | Quiet Sun Slips Over | Eighth Son
12. "He's The One" | Ike & Tina | Raw Soul | Mojo Magazine
13. "Gradual Release" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
14. "System Error (feat. Moor Mother)" | Zonal | System Error | Relapse
15. "Injure the Swallow" | The Pull of Autumn | Afterglow | RBM
16. "Öppen För Stängda Dörrar" | Kungens Män | Chef | Riot Season
17. "Migena and the Frozen Roses" | David J | Migena and the Frozen Roses | Glass Modern
18. "The Glow Beneath the Lazy Heights" | Rose | Mental Flooding | M.I.S.T.
19. "Espiritú" | Laroye | Colombia 26a | Tiff's Joints
20. "Origins" | 4T Thieves and Pandacetamol | She danced on the sand | Kahvi Collective
21. "Secret" | Landing | Bells In New Towns | El Paraiso
22. "Your Turn To Learn" | Eric Random | Two Faced | Klanggalerie
23. "Omblivious" | Dragon Welding | These Are Dangerous Times EP | A Turntable Friend

time to really find out why

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