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Thursday Jan 30, 2020
Greatness in Me, You Can't Make Me Feel Less: Transmission 489, 2019 October 16
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
"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:
- "Mahonena" | Ny Anjarasoa | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
- "Standing Crosswise in the Square" | Craig Leon | Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon | RVNG Int'l
- "Wilder" | Jübl | DNA Cowboys | Eighth Son Records
- "Megamanic" | Bob Mould | The Last Dog and Pony Show | Rykodisc | "The Listening Parlour"
- "Dark Luminosity" | Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell | Realm of Spells | self-released
- "Not a second glance" | Hula | Voice | Klanggalerie
- "Low Voltage and Meat" | The Grief Brothers | Thirty Five Years on Woodfield Street | Country Mile
- "T 3.5" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
- "Xscape" | NNYZ? | Automation | Kahvi Collective
- "Final Form" | Sampa the Great | The Return | Ninja Tune
- "Needyunow" | (((O))) | ((( 1 ))) | The Sundrop Garden
- "Mhadjar Yassouf Idjan" | Tinariwen | Amadjar | Wedge
- "Panama" | The Wedding Present | Jump In, The Water's Fine | Come Play With Me / Scopitones
- "Elelemi" | Julie Coker | A Life in the Limelight: Lagos Disco & Itsekiri Highlife, 1976-1981 | Kalita
- "Jallaad" | Sarathy Korwar | More Arriving | Leaf
- "Ten Days (Douglas Deep Mix)" | Diane Marie Kloba | D.M.K vs S.K.1.2.3 | self-released
- "Wild Atlantic" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
- "Diagonals (Instrumental)" | Stereolab | Dots and Loops (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
- "Mizik Bel" | Esnard Boisdur | Mizik Bel | Favorite
- "In a Cage (feat. Moor Mother)" | Zonal | In a Cage | Relapse
- "KYOKAI" | Slikback | Lasakaneku / Tomo | Hakuna Kulala
- "I'm Not Always Where My Body Is - Varg Remix" | Aisha Devi | I'm Not Always Where My Body Is - Varg Remix | Houndstooth
- "Untitled VI" | Kelman Duran | Two Suns | Point Records
- "LCD" | Ummagma | Compass | Leonard Skully
- "Eh! Yaye" | Zazou / Bikaye / CY1 | Noir Et Blanc | Crammed Discs
- "invoice" | serpentwithfeet | soil | Secretly Canadian
- "Planemo" | elAstrum | Freqmod | Kahvi Collective
- "A Push Towards The Stars" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
- "Okitwoye - Peter Power Remix" | ODD OKODDO | Okitwoye | Pingipung
just a sing-song for the mute
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Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Despite All My Rage, We Still in a Daze: Transmission 488, 2019 October 13
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
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:
- "Indo" | NNYZ? | Automation | Kahvi Collective
- "You're the One I Idolise" | CTMF | You're the One I Idolise | Damaged Goods
- "Buildings" | The I-Burnettes | The Sound of Leamington Spa | Firestation Records
- "Billy the Bastard" | The Grief Brothers | Thirty Five Years on Woodfield Street | Country Mile
- "Bus Stop Bravado" | The Irony Board | Unfinished Business | The Beautiful Music
- "Took the Train Alone (Macerator Remix)" | Diane Marie Kloba | D.M.K vs S.K.1.2.3 | self-released
- "Tomorrow Never Knows" | Brian | Idiolect | self-released
- "Tokatoka" | Kaiamba Orchestra | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
- "Wire - Leaping Dub" | Massive Attack | Massive Attack V Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98) | UMC / Virgin
- "Zaka Tiako Mamolaka Keriko" | Atrefy Andriana | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
- "ECTODUB" | Velvet Negroni | NEON BROWN | 4AD
- "Pretoria" | Tonton David | Le blues des racailles | Because Music
- "Vimana Shastra" | elAstrum | Summer Vacation | Kahvi Collective
- "Izahay Mpamita" | Mahaleo | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
- "Suabala" | Bantou Mentale | Suabala | Glitterbeat
- "Rapela" | Falafa | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
- "Far Reaching Shadows" | Nots | 3 | Upset the Rhythm
- "Mitamiyo" | Mendes & Mendes | Radio Verde: Cape Verdean Dancefloor Music (Compiled By Americo Brito & Arp Frique) | Rush Hour
- "Rumble On Arab St (Kitsch Kub Remix)" | Rude Audio | Street Light Interference | Zirkus
- "Untitled VI" | Kelman Duran | Two Suns | Point Records
- "Imagine a Place" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
- "T 3.5" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
- "Jade Fade" | James Clarke Five | Parloursounds [reissue] | The Beautiful Music
- "Let Love In" | Breakwater | Release the Beast | Be With
- "Rhythm Machine (excerpt)" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
- "In a Cage (feat. Moor Mother)" | Zonal | In a Cage | Relapse Records
- "Rhythm Machine (excerpt)" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
- "Truth (2019 Remaster)" | Goldie | Saturnz Return (2019 Remaster) | London
- "The Emergency Kisses" | Stereolab | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in The Milky Night (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
- "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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Monday Jan 27, 2020
Melt the House, Wake the World: Transmission 487, 2019 October 9
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Monday Jan 27, 2020
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:
- "Infintro" | ((( O ))) | ((( 1 ))) | The Sundrop Garden
- "T 3.3" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
- "Dive" | Flame 2 | Dive / Rain | PRESSURE
- "Risingson (Setting Sun Dub Two)" | Massive Attack | Massive Attack V Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98) | UMC / Virgin
- "Demonz (2019 Remaster)" | Goldie | Saturnz Return (2019 Remaster) | London
- "Takanadobabble" | Download | 44 Days | Artoffact
- "Heaven (feat. Whosane)" | Sampa the Great | The Return | Ninja Tune
- "Les Yper Sound" | Stereolab | Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
- "Friendly Fires" | Section 25 | Always Now | Factory Benelux
- "Everything Intensifies" | CTMF | You're the One I Idolise | Damaged Goods
- "In and Out of Order" | Algebra Mothers | A-Moms = Algebra Mothers | Third Man
- "Stay Close to Me" | Bad Brains | Omega Sessions | Victory
- "Elizabethan Reggae" | Boris Gardner | Monkey Business | Trojan
- "Don't Stay Out Late" | Kentrick Patrick | This Is Ska Too! | Music Club
- "Dread Lion" | The Upsetters | Super Ape | Island / Get On Down
- "Challaban" | Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar | Trance | RealWorld
- "Isn't It a Pity" | Penny Rimbaud | War & Peace - Single | One Little Indian
- "Ten Notes On a Summer's Day (Vocal)" | Crass | Ten Notes On a Summer's Day | Caroline
- "Sentimental Lady" | Medicine | Scarred for Life | Drawing Room
- "NESTER" | Velvet Negroni | NEON BROWN | 4AD
- "Release the Beast" | Breakwater | Release the Beast | Be With
- "Sunflower (I Love You More)" | Sequoyah Murray | Before You Begin | Thrill Jockey
- "Jazzpianodance (Winters Remix)" | Javonntte | Drumma | Waella's Choice
- "Black Flight (feat. Saul Williams)" | Moor Mother | Black Flight (feat. Saul Williams) | Don Giovanni
- "No You" | Kelman Duran | No You | Point
- "Sleepy Time" | Jeff Mills | Sight Sound and Space | Axis
fourteen joys and a will to be merry
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Monday Jan 27, 2020
The Night Is Made of Rocks: Transmission 486, 2019 October 5
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Monday Jan 27, 2020
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:
- "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
- "Turn On, Tune In, Find Joy" | Freakpower | The Rebirth Of Cool Volume 3 | 4th & Broadway
- "Blue Jays" | Sequoyah Murray | Before You Begin | Thrill Jockey
- "Nouveau Western" | MC Solaar | The Rebirth Of Cool Volume 3 | 4th & Broadway
- "The Flower Called Nowhere" | Stereolab | Dots and Loops (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
- "Rain" | Flame 2 | Dive / Rain | PRESSURE
- "Okitwoye" | ODD OKODDO | Okitwoye | Pingipung
- "One True Path" | Section 25 | Always Now | Factory Benelux
- "Radio Tenere: Goudel Mollo Swagger" | unknown artists | Radio Niger | Sublime Frequencies
- "Soaliza" | Terak' Anosy Group | Alefa Madagascar | Strut
- "Itous Ohar" | Tinariwen | Amadjar | Wedge
- "Icy Forest" | Faizal Mostrixx | Ghosts | Byrd Out
- "Razana Tsy Ho Meloko" | Michael | Alefa Madagascar | Strut
- "Sleeping Trees" | Nina Soul | Feel Like Jumping: The Best of Studio One Women | Heartbeat
- "Feel Like Jumping" | Marcia Griffiths | Feel Like Jumping: The Best of Studio One Women | Heartbeat
- "Ȏdy Ȏdy (Tsy Mentsy Mandroso)" | Saka dit The King | Alefa Madagascar | Strut
- "Umculo Kawupheli (No End To Music)" | The Mahotella Queens | Soweto Never Sleeps (Classic Female Zulu Jive) | Shanachie
- "Lady" | Fela Ransome-Kuti And The Africa '70 | Shakara | Knitting Factory
no need to hurry, there's all the time
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Saturday Jan 25, 2020
Can't Be Trusted 'Cause You're Living in the Past: Transmission 485, 2019 October 2
Saturday Jan 25, 2020
Saturday Jan 25, 2020
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:
- "Here We Go" | Sequoyah Murray | Before You Begin | Thrill Jockey
- "Tende II" | Les Filles de Illighadad | African Acid Is The Future: Ambiance II | The Vinyl Factory
- "Andosy Mora" | Jean Kely Et Basth | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
- "Guiding Dub" | Impact Allstars | Java Java Java Java - Instrumentals Dubwise Versions | Get On Down
- "Amboliako Fary" | Charles Maurin Poty | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
- "Tucheza (Esa Extended Mix)" | Ze Spirits Band | Esa Presents Amandla: Music to the People | Soundway
- "Ngôma Hoe" | Papa James | Alefa Madagascar ! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
- "Masters of War" | Penny Rimbaud | War & Peace | One Little Indian
- "We'er Gone" | CTMF | Brave Protector | Burger / Damaged Goods
- "Strobo Acceleration" | Stereolab | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in The Milky Night (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
- "Avante Juventude" | Os Anjos | Angola Soundtrack 2 - Hypnosis, Distortion & Other Innovations 1969 - 1978 | Analog Africa
- "OMG" | Sampa the Great | The Return | Ninja Tune
- "The Message" | Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five | The Message | Sugar Hill
- "Megablast" | Public Enemy | Yo! Bum Rush The Show | Def Jam
- "After Images" | Moor Mother | After Images | Don Giovanni
- "Reading University Jam With New Order" | Section 25 | Always Now | Factory Benelux
- "Dj Beat" | Tonton David | Le blues des racailles | Because Music
- "Sîfó (feat. Dion Monti)" | Nonku Phiri | Esa Presents Amandla: Music to the People | Soundway
- "Hello Ya'll" | Shinehead | Unity | Elektra
- "Nine Street Dub" | Sly & The Revolutionaries Meet Lloyd Parks, We The People Band And Roots Radics | Trench Town Dub | Original Music
- "Picture or No Picture" | Michael Smith | Mi Cyaan Believe It | Island
- "Bliss" | Yatta | Wahala | Purple Tape Pedigree
- "Want Fi Goh Rave" | Linton Kwesi Johnson | Forces of Victory | Island
- "For You" | Jübl | DNA Cowboys | Eighth Son
- "CHOIR BOY" / "SCRATCHERS" | Velvet Negroni | NEON BROWN | 4AD
- "For the Angels (Live)" | Dax Pierson | Live in Oakland | Ratskin
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Thursday Jan 23, 2020
When One Road Close, Another One Go Open: Transmission 484, 2019 September 25
Thursday Jan 23, 2020
Thursday Jan 23, 2020
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:
- "Freak" | Tappa Zukie | Freak | Stars / Jah Fingers
- "Fa No Dem Ara" | Gyedu-Blay Ambolley | Simigwa | Academy LPs
- "Lonesome Stranger" | Aroop Roy | Good Times EP | Boogie Cafe
- "Pulukwani Centre" | The Boyoyo Boys | Back In Town | Rounder
- "Moramora Zoky" | Soymanga | Alefa Madagascar | Strut
- "Mama" | Roger Georges | Alefa Madagascar | Strut
- "Road Close (Dance Dub)" | Tony Allen | Africafunk: The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless
- "Vivid Dreams, Misunderstood" | Rose | Mental Flooding | M.I.S.T. Records
- "Ignorance Is Strength" | Normil Hawaiians | What's Going On | Upset The Rhythm
- "Leaving Babylon" | Bad Brains | Bad Brains | ROIR
- "Space Movement Section 1" | Creation Rebel | Starship Africa | On-U Sound
- "B. B. Gasy" | Les Pepitos Et Leur Ensemble | Alefa Madagascar | Strut
- "Vive Le Renouveau" | El Rego et ses Commandos | El Rego | Daptone
- "True Love" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
- "Blue Milk" | Stereolab | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in The Milky Night (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / Warp Records
- "T 3.2" | Carter Tutti Void | Triumvirate | Conspiracy International
- "Nightlights" | Fa Le Brou | Penrose | Kahvi Collective
- "Clstlbng" | Tracey | Biostar | Dial
the truth will do you no good here
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Monday Jan 20, 2020
U_D_M Detour 39, 2019 September 21
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
[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:
- "Gilgamesh - Timboletti Remix" | Elfenberg | 20 Jahre SOS Jubiläums Compilation | 3000°
- "My Queen" | Snips | London Livin' EP | Barbershop
- "Northeast" | Martin Buttrich | Northeast / Southwest | Planet E
- "Uri's Song (feat. Wiretapping)" | Ciel | Why Me? | Spectral Sound
- "IV" | Achim Maerz | Experiments | Don't Be Afraid
- "Lumen" | Luke Hess | Facette | Echocord Colour
- "Washed Out" | Sousk | Shelter | Souvenir
- "Aztec Code" | Pletnev | Aztec Code / Daywalker | Fleeting Wax
- "Space Bubbles" | Seahawks & Laraaji | Spaciousness: Music Without Boundaries | Lo Recordings
some say he's naive
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
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:
- "Amandrai" | Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder | Talking Timbuktu | World Circuit
- "FEEL LET" | Velvet Negroni | NEON BROWN | 4AD
- "Love Me Forever" | Carlton and the Shoes | Full Up: Best of Studio One volume 2 | Hearbeat
- "A Ye Wa" | Sunny Ade and His Green Spot Band | Vol. 4 - Stereo Recording in London | African Songs
- "Big Mistake" | The Bassies | Full Up: Best of Studio One volume 2 | Hearbeat
- "Tomorrow Is Already Here" | Stereolab | Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
- "Sally Sensation" | CTMF | Brave Protector | Burger / Damaged Goods
- "Crooked Smile" | The Galileo 7 | There Is Only Now | Damaged Goods
- "It's a Vanity" | Gabo Brown & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo | African Scream Contest | Analog Africa
- "Gate of Zion" | The Ethiopian | Full Up: Best of Studio One volume 2 | Heartbeat
- "Sun Slips Over" | Jübl | Quiet Sun Slips Over | Eighth Son
- "He's The One" | Ike & Tina | Raw Soul | Mojo Magazine
- "Gradual Release" | Ivan Black | Modern City Scapes | vanguardista
- "System Error (feat. Moor Mother)" | Zonal | System Error | Relapse
- "Injure the Swallow" | The Pull of Autumn | Afterglow | RBM
- "Öppen För Stängda Dörrar" | Kungens Män | Chef | Riot Season
- "Migena and the Frozen Roses" | David J | Migena and the Frozen Roses | Glass Modern
- "The Glow Beneath the Lazy Heights" | Rose | Mental Flooding | M.I.S.T.
- "Espiritú" | Laroye | Colombia 26a | Tiff's Joints
- "Origins" | 4T Thieves and Pandacetamol | She danced on the sand | Kahvi Collective
- "Secret" | Landing | Bells In New Towns | El Paraiso
- "Your Turn To Learn" | Eric Random | Two Faced | Klanggalerie
- "Omblivious" | Dragon Welding | These Are Dangerous Times EP | A Turntable Friend
time to really find out why
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Monday Jan 20, 2020
U_D_M Detour 38, 2019 September 14
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
[GUEST POST]
Guy LeBatard here (or there, then.) Another opportunity for broadcast adventure had arisen, so I seized it. Sadly, there is nothing remarkable about this program except for the near-complete failure of the station's equipment. It must be a sign of our age that "duress" stands in for "excitement," but we can't do anything about our age. Or can we?
Did you know that a million people are striking in the streets of Paris? Did you know that 250 million workers have walked off the job in India? Les soixante-huitards live on. In the form of other people, 52 years later, but we take what we can. Settling is also a sign of the age.
U_D_M playlist, 2019 September 14, 1900-2000:
- "Soma" | Donald's House | Dan's Dancing EP | Touch From A Distance
- "The Future Is Here" | International Anything | Cocoon Compilation R | Cocoon
- "Memory Traces" | Lunate | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
- "Delusions of Grandeur" | Pépe | Aerial | Let's Play House
- "The Adverse Within" | Stare5 | Void Swimmer | Epm Music
- "You Know Too Much" | Dionigi | Correspondant Compilation 02 | Correspondant
- "Galaxianii" | Anii | Aniitime | Kompakt
- "Blauracke" | Dominik Eulberg | Bienenfresser & Blauracke | Apus Apus
washed out
Friday Jan 17, 2020
Friday Jan 17, 2020
I never know quite what to do on this most sacred of American days. The only musical take I have on it is my feeling that we should never have abandoned "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the 7th-inning stretch. (Is there any more positive sign that the terrorists have won?) I'm fairly certain that every time (!) I have wound up with a program on September 11 I have just plowed ahead with my "regular" agenda, whatever that was at the time. What is that? Churchillian?
Anyway on this day I had taken a new job and escaped two bad ones. Yay, me! I even got to announce my departure during a "department meeting" that I had been dreading (and which had become dreadful for all the reasons I'd feared). Every worker's dream!
So I had some bad energy to release. Not sure what "Expensive Shit" had to do with any of this, but there it is, in the playlist all the same. I also don't know why I went with a solid block of English reggae at the top of the program. Reaching back to earlier times, I guess, when maybe I felt more free? Was that my true energy on this day? So friendly was the universe at this moment that even I think this program was good.
BOMBAST playlist, 2019 September 11, 2100-2300:
- "Madam Medusa" | UB40 | The UB40 File | Virgin Records
- "Sound System" | Steel Pulse | Reggae Greats | Mango / Island
- "Reggae Fi Peach" | Linton Kwesi Johnson | Bass Culture | Mango
- "Jah Dub Man" | Dennis Bovell | Dub 4 Daze | Glitterbeat
- "Prosopagnosia" | Territroy | Skulls & Plants | Dekmantel
- "Temper Temper" | Goldie | Saturnz Return [reissue] | London
- "Sugar" | Nice Girl | Chill Pill | Public Possession
- "Sanctuary" | Deep Nalström | Naive Melodies | Natural Selection
- "Stealth Mode" | Ras G | Echo Expansion | Dublab
- "Nasa Arab 2" | Coil | The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex + 2 | Musique Pour La Danse
- "Adulting" | Mis+Ress | Dispellers | Sound in Silence
- "Urban Void" | Bleak Fiction + Rådiövölnå | Urban Void | M.I.S.T. Records
- "Expensive Shit" | Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 | Africafunk: The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless
- "Bathing in the Aquamarine Neon" | Rose | Mental Flooding | M.I.S.T. Records
- "Zangai" | Hoshina Anniversary | Zangai | Musar Recordings
- "I Loved Alone [...] [Edgar Allan Poe]" | Proyecto Lazarus | I Loved Alone [...] [Edgar Allan Poe] | M.I.S.T. Records
- "Pause" | park jiha | Philos | tak:til
- "Contronatura" | Stereolab | Dots and Loops (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
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