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Drastic Plastic: Transmission 62, 2013 September 18

We herewith complete the induction of the mighty Coil into the BOMBAST Hall of Legends. Lady Catharsis even informs me that she enjoyed one of their songs tonight. I told you this was the most beautiful single of the bunch, did I not? As we steadily approach normalcy, we also throw in a host of new tunes and take care of some long-unfinished business.

It seems like we just talked, and I guess we did. There's a sizable backlog of BOMBAST programs, and I'm working my way through them as best I can. I believe this post gets you caught up on the "regularly scheduled" episodes, with the "impromptu" or "fill-in" episodes to come--Cthulu willing, we'll have them all posted by the end of the month.

This episode is a weird, dynamic set. I wouldn't necessarily say it's one of the "best," but it does contain many textures, moods, and energies, which was the original "dream." It's always a strange night when Coil is playing--what would life be without strange nights?

BOMBAST playlist, 2013 September 18, 2100-2300:

1. "Arabesque" | Scarper! | Unfurl | Plexus
2. "All Systems to Go" | Man or Astro-Man? | Defcon 5...4...3...2...1 | Communicating Vessels
3. "Downing Street Rock" | Winston Edwards & Blackbeard | Dub Conference | Studio 16
4. "The Auto-Asphyxiating Hierophant" | Coil | Autumn Equinox - Amethyst Deceivers | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Rise Before Zod - Acid Pauli's 'Things That Fly' Remix" | Zod | Rebel Rave 3 | Crosstown Rebels
6. "Oh Come On" | The Julie Ruin | Run Fast | The Julie Ruin
7. "D.R.I.N.K." | The Jazz Butcher | Draining the Glass | Nectar | "Listening Parlour"
8. "Regel" | Coil | Autumn Equinox - Amethyst Deceivers | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Wicked Dem Drop" | The Dub Club | Foundation Come Again | Stones Throw
10. "Sonny's Burning" | The Birthday Party | The Bad Seed / Mutiny! | Drastic Plastic
11. "Renata" | Holden | The Inheritors | Border Community
12. "Jhonn Balance" | Wooden Wand | Blood Oaths of the New Blues | Fire
13. "Rosa Decidua" | Coil | Autumn Equinox - Amethyst Deceivers | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
14. "Sweet Jane" | The Velvet Underground | The Best of the Velvet Underground | Verve | "Listening Parlour"
15. "Heaven Star" | 14 Iced Bears | Hold On Inside | Cherry Red
16. "Slow Poisons" | Dead Confederate | In the Marrow | Spiderbomb
17. "All Our Forts Are With You" | Wild Billy Chyldish & The Chatham Forts | All Our Forts Are With You | Damaged Goods
18. "Two Night Stand" | Arkist | Two Night Stand | Inhale
19. "Amethyst Deceivers" | Coil | Autumn Equinox - Amethyst Deceivers | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Stirling" | Der Dritte Raum | Morgenland | Der Dritte Raum
21. "Can't Stop the Prophet" | faltyDL | Atlantis | Ninja Tune
22. "Switches" | Coil | Autumn Equinox - Amethyst Deceivers | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"

next time: depends on what we're talking about. If it's a podcast, it's overflow night. If it's a live show, it's a dub revival and a record Pitchfork doesn't like, as if that's not a merit badge. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

We Are Hour to Hour: Transmission 61, 2013 September 11

We inaugurate the new season at WRFI with a fully-loaded program of features and regular stuff. It's mostly rock and techno tonight. The reggae and Afro-pop will come, in time.

Did you miss me? I certainly missed you. Retro August was just crazy. Did you know? I did eight Bombast programs in July, and nine in August. That is entirely too much radio for me, and too much me for radio. I went so far down the rabbit hole that I found myself doing these extracurricular excursions, to be discussed at some other time. At any rate, it is good to be back on the horse, and down to one horse. For now. I think.

Somewhere in the middle of this program, if you listen closely to one of the voice-overs, you can hear raised voices in the background. Radio people: we argue with great frequency! For once, I was not involved. Good times.

BOMBAST playlist, 2013 September 11, 2100-2300:

1. "Sugarblast" | Dr. Phibes & The House of Wax Equations | Volume One | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
2. "Schneeland" | Der Dritte Raum | Morgenland | Der Dritte Raum
3. "The Scarlett Empress" | College | Teenage Color | Invada
4. "Don't Send Me No Flowers" | The Blue and the Gray | Don't Send Me No Flowers | Get Hip
5. "Spitfire" | Public Service Broadcasting | Inform - Educate - Entertain | Test Card
6. "Flying to Vegas" | Papa Sprain | Volume One | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
7. "Homage" | Causa Sui | Euporie Tide | El Paraiso
8. "King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | B-Sides & Rarities | Mute | "Listening Parlour"
9. "Year of the Glad" | Marnie Stern | The Chronicles of Marnia | Kill Rock Stars
10. "Falling" | Nico Purman | Rebel Rave 3 | Crosstown Rebels
11. "Rain of Colour" | Tom Demac | Little Bits That Matter | Pets
12. "Florence" | 14 Iced Bears | Hold On Inside | Cherry Red
13. "Mind" | Talking Heads | Fear of Music | Sire - Rhino
14. "Night Drive" | Part Time | PDA | Mexican Summer
15. "Nasty Dan" | Johnny Cash | The Johnny Cash Children's Album | Columbia | "Listening Parlour"
16. "Loner" | Burial | Kindred | Hyperdub
17. "Upmanship Down" | Daisy Chainsaw | Volume One | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Guitar Voodoo" | The Darkside | Volume One | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
19. "Leftovers" | Siriusmo | Enthusiast | Monkeytown
20. "Drips//Auntie's Harp" | Flying Lotus | Cosmogramma | Warp
21. "Wit[z]" | Valentin Stip | Angst | Clown & Sunset
22. "Love Mad" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Volume One | Volume | "Physical Evidence"
23. "Porno Bass" | 23 Skidoo | Seven Songs | Ronin

Next time: Coil enshrinement Part Four. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Closer, or Is It Closer? Transmission 59, 2013 September 4

The final regularly scheduled BOMBAST of the WRFI summer season is a return to the usual BOMBAST thing, whatever that is--circa January. No "Physical Evidence," not on account of a shortage but instead because I simply couldn't make it work this time around. The "Listening Parlour," however, is open, although Lady Catharsis is not in a talking mood. This show felt good and is good, even if it was a wobbly first step on the road to normalcy.

"Retro August" has taken a toll, physically and mentally. Still, some things remain. I continue to say ridiculous stuff like "a movie ticket giving-away." Perhaps these gaffes will always be with us. I'm beginning to think so.

BOMBAST playlist, 2013 September 4, 2100-2300:

format = "Song Title" | Artist | Release Title | Label

1. "Black Steel" | Tricky | Maxinquaye | Island
2. "Making Love in Dub" | The Orb featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry| More Tales from the Orbservatory | Cooking Vinyl
3. "Polar" | Solyst | Lead | Bureau B
4. "Footprints in the Snow" / "Nothing Is Not Done | Flux | Uncarved Block | One Little Indian
5. "Our Lips Are Sealed" | Fun Boy Three | Our Lips Are Sealed | Chrysalis | "Listening Parlour"
6. "Crowds" | Cold Showers | Still Life | Dais
7. "Bania" | Hassan Hakmoun and Zahar | Trance | Realworld
8. "Jammin'" | Show-B | Compost Black #93 | Compost Black
9. "Time Fades" | Will Saul Presents CLOSE | Closer | Studio K7
10. "Fly on the Wall" | The Jesus Lizard | Down | Touch & Go
11. "Peter Gunn" | The Art of Noise featuring Duane Eddy | Peter Gunn | China - Chrysalis | "Listening Parlour"
12. "When the Night - Breakbot Remix" | Para One | When the Night | Because
13. "Interstice" | Steven Tang | Disconnect to Connect | Smallville
14. "My Father in Hong Kong 1961" | Gold Panda | Half of Where You Live | Ghostly International
15. "Between Waves" | Shortcircles | Between Waves | Plug Research
16. "Swallowed" | Jessica Bailiff | Kompilation | Kranky
17. "Falling - II" | Lace Curtain | Falling/Running EP | Mexican Summer
18. "Misbehave" | Chumbawamba | (Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave | Agit Prop
19. "Melting Moments" | The Cannanes | Howling at All Hours | Chapter
20. "The Musical Rogues" | Wild Billy Chyldish & The Chatham Forts | All Our Forts Are With You | Damaged Goods

Next time: all the regular features, and fish. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis

Rudy Tambala Interview, Part Two

Here is the second part of an interview I conducted with Rudy Tambala of A.R.Kane. Portions of this conversation appeared in the Hall of Legends special featuring A.R.Kane's music. This is the "full" recording, with everything in its proper context. Part One is available here.

This chat happened via Skype on August 26, 2013, about two weeks after we'd talked the first time. I had some "big picture" questions in mind, some of them perhaps misguided, but that's the sort of thing that happens when you've only read about a thing rather than having experienced it firsthand. As I've written elsewhere, the Bombast program is somehow about making things difficult for myself, and one aspect of that is "looking for sense where possibly there is none."

Still, I think the answers we get in this portion of the interview are worth it. "Long live difficult."

Thanks again to Rudy Tambala for being so generous with his time.

Rudy Tambala Interview, Part One

Here is the first part of an interview I conducted with Rudy Tambala of A.R.Kane. Portions of this conversation appeared in the Hall of Legends special featuring A.R.Kane's music. Here's the "full" recording, with everything in its proper context.

This is the basic "music interview" material--how the band formed, label intrigue, recording processes, and so forth. However, it does reveal the importance of Janet Jackson and Jellybean Benitez as "influences" (don't take my word for it, just listen) and Rudy shares with us a humorous incident brought on by the band's move to 4AD.

Just so you know, listeners--I passed up a trip to look at eagles, for goodness' sake, and eat delicious local ice cream, so this conversation could happen. Do you see what sacrifices I make in order to bring you this stuff? Rudy, for his part, was late for dinner, which is why we had to cut this off and agree to speak another time--he too deserves your special thanks, for this and of course for the music. Part Two coming soon is available here.

Yes I know I can look at eagles whenever, but still.

Little Annie: Full Interview

This is the recording of an interview I conducted with Little Annie on August 20, 2013. I was in the control room of WRFI and she was...somewhere else. I wish the phone connection had been better, but it was good enough.

Portions of this interview aired on the Hall of Legends special featuring Little Annie's music. Actually, that's a bit understated--most of it appears there. But here's the whole thing, in order, with everything in its proper context.

It was quite an honor to speak to Little Annie, whose music I have followed for a long time. I hope the conversation is as fun for you as it was for me.

Bed Music: Transmission 58, 2013 August 31

This program aired live at the end of a miserable, sticky day typical of Ithaca summer. Lady Catharsis and I raced over, full of meat from a barbecue party we had just attended. We proceeded to spin a dazzling collection of 45rpm records, although it could have been even more dazzling had we been a bit more careful.

I turned 45 this past week. This is not news--anyone could have deduced my age from the anecdotes I've left here and there on the site. Fellow Board Member Nicholas asked me, at the beginning of the week, "Are you going to do all 45s? I missed that chance." That sounded haunting, almost like the hammer and bell in The Magician's Nephew or something. I didn't want to go through life wondering what might have been. Of course, the week's regularly scheduled BOMBAST had been the A.R.Kane Hall of Legends induction. But there was "free airtime" Saturday night [aside--there's been way too much of that this summer], and LC actually wanted to do a show while Catharsis Junior was at a friend's slumber party, so there you are. The answer to the question I pose early on in the program is "definitely not sad."

Things we would have played, had they not turned out to be 33 1/3 RPM after all: two that I don't want to give away, since they will be "Listening Parlour" selections on the next regular program--have to use up that turkey somehow. Also, something by Lee "Scratch" Perry [btw thanks, Mojo Magazine, for giving your readers the worst vinyl format possible, that was almost as awesome as the time you didn't put James Brown on the cover when he died], and also this, by Hall of Legends inductees Dif Juz, which someone stashed away in the wrong record sleeve.

Anyway, what would the program be without crises, mistakes, and mistake-fueled crises?

BOMBAST playlist, 2013 August 31, 1900-2100:

format = "Song Title" | Artist | Release Title | Label

1. "Baby I Love You So" | Colourbox | Baby I Love You So | 4AD
2. "Rocket USA" | Loop | Wolf Flow | Reactor
3. "What She Said" | The Smiths | Shakespeare's Sister | Rough Trade
4. "Shift Away" | Trisomie 21 | Shift Away | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
5. "The Key" | Kristin Hersh | Your Ghost | 4AD
6. "Don't Go (Remix and Re-Remix)" | Yaz | Don't Go | Sire
7. "Waiting for the Man" | Bauhaus | Ziggy Stardust | Beggars Banquet
8. "Dance Away" | Roxy Music | Dance Away | Atco
9. "Jakarta" | Trisomie 21 | Shift Away | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
10. "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" | The Specials | Ghost Town | Two-Tone
11. "Rocket USA" | Thin White Rope | Bottom Feeders | Zippo
12. "Good Vibrations" | Psychic TV | The Magickal Mystery D-Tour EP | Temple
13. "Give It To Me" | Rick James | Give It To Me | Gordy - Motown
14. "Thieves Like Us (instrumental)" | New Order | Murder | Factory Benelux
15. "Waiting for the Man" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Messages | DinDisc
16. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" | Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart | Factory
17. "Ravishing Delight" | Trisomie 21 | Shift Away | Play It Again Sam | "Physical Evidence"
18. "Nancy Sin" | Beat Happening | Nancy Sin | Sub Pop
19. "We Got the Beat" | Poison Idea | Taken By Surprise | Sub Pop
20. "Primitive Painters" | Felt | Primitive Painters | Cherry Red

next time: back to the usual Bombast hullabaloo, finally.

The Hall of Legends - A.R.Kane: Transmission 57, 2013 August 28

Tonight we converse with another Legend, this time Rudy Tambala of A.R.Kane. That band enters the Hall of Legends, where they join The Fall, Stereolab, Billy Childish, Coil, Prince Far I, Dif Juz, and Little Annie. Considering that we've played over 800 different artists in the nine months the program has aired, the Hall of Legends is an exclusive club. Nevertheless, the Induction Committee will adjourn while a new wing is built.

Every visitor to the site is a precious snowflake to me (yes, even the spambots!). Some of you, no doubt, are visiting for the first time, having been lured here by A.R.Kane. A special welcome to you. Enjoy what the site has to offer, even if from your perspective it's only this post. BOMBAST is a relatively new thing, but we have many episodes available here. 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, but if it floats your boat as well, that's fine. Audio's at the bottom of the post if this is all TMI.

We have written too much about A.R.Kane, as some of you have heard, either from them or from me. (No, I'm not linking to it! Show some initiative.) Whether you're familiar with A.R.Kane's musical output or not, the contents of this program will teach you more about it than I could. I can only speak authoritatively about my own experiences:

• My first sighting of the Lollita record, and this progression of thought--first, "nice cover star"; then, "impressive knife"; finally (after reading the sticker comment promising "Big Black meets The Durutti Column"), "if this is anywhere in that ballpark I'll love it"
• The entire autumn of 1987, when I couldn't get the sound of "Haunting" out of my head
• Plugging my weak drum machine into my pathetic guitar amp because it was the closest I could get to that sound
• Experiencing chills in the middle of "Baby Milk Snatcher" when the guitars drop out

There are certainly more, but as I've mentioned elsewhere the golden years of A.R.Kane coincided with what is more or less a "missing period" for me, which is probably just as well. Less rhapsody to clutter anyone else's impression of the music or the time.

At any rate, there are many descriptors, associations, and likenesses that people toss around when discussing A.R.Kane. If you haven't encountered these classifications and similes, so much the better. To me, there are reasons A.R.Kane belong in the Hall of Legends more than certain "fellow travelers" whose vectors might overlap (although we should never say never). If these reasons aren't apparent to you after listening to this program, I certainly can't help you with words. But I do hope this amounts to a good use of your time. And if it clears the room, that could also be considered success.

BOMBAST playlist, 2013 August 28, 2100-2300:

format = "Song Title" [Artist, Album, Label]

1. "Sado-Masochism Is a Must" [A.R.Kane, Lollita, 4AD]
2. "When You're Sad" [A.R.Kane, When You're Sad, One Little Indian]
3. "Baby Milk Snatcher" [A.R.Kane, Up Home!, Rough Trade]
4. "Sperm Travels Like Juggernaut" [A.R.Kane, Love-Sick, Rough Trade]
5. "Anitina (The First Time I See She Dance)" [M|A|R|R|S, Pump Up the Volume, 4AD]
6. "Haunting" [A.R.Kane, When You're Sad, One Little Indian]
7. "Spermwhale Trip Over" [A.R.Kane, Sixty-Nine, Rough Trade]
8. "The Sun Falls Into the Sea" [A.R.Kane, Sixty-Nine, Rough Trade]
9. "The Madonna Is With Child" [A.R.Kane, Sixty-Nine, Rough Trade]
10. "Spanish Quay (3)" [A.R.Kane, Sixty-Nine, Rough Trade]
11. "Listen Up! (Pulsar Mix)" [A.R.K, Listen Up!, Rough Trade] | "Physical Evidence"
12. "Pop" [A.R.Kane, "i", Rough Trade]
13. "Back Home / Down" [A.R.Kane, "i", Rough Trade]
14. "Green Hazed Daze" [A.R.Kane, Love-Sick, Rough Trade]
15. "Supervixens" [A.R.Kane, "i", Rough Trade]
16. "Lollita" [A.R.Kane, Lollita, 4AD]
17. "Up [demo]" [A.R.Kane, Soundcloud self-release]

next time: who can possibly know? Probably the usual. Enjoy the music!

The Hall of Legends - Little Annie: Transmission 55, 2013 August 21

We herewith induct Little Annie into the Bombast Hall of Legends! She graces the show with an interview to accompany a full-length special on her music. She's been at this for 30 years, many of which are chronicled in her book, You Can't Sing the Blues While Drinking Milk--it is true, by the way, that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame library has a copy; it's the only library in WorldCat that does. I've never spoken to anyone who had one foot in the Hall of Fame and another in the Hall of Legends, and this was a special pleasure.

I'm grateful for all site visitors, but I want to give a special welcome to first-timers, you know, those who wouldn't have found us but for Little Annie. Feel free to poke around, there's plenty of stuff that might interest you. There's some information on the Hall of Legends here, and a surprisingly current rundown of the Bombast "concept" here. My posts are mostly for me, since I don't have another blog--this will hopefully serve as a memoir, or maybe even the replacement "me" post-Singularity, but some of them might make interesting reading for someone. If that's not you, it's cool, feel free to scroll down to the bottom of this post where the audio is.

Still reading? Okay! Especially on Induction Nights, I like to let the music speak for itself, since rambling gets me into trouble. But I do have a personal story to share. It's "how I discovered Little Annie's music," so it's a story about the old days.

At KDVS all the new records we added to the collection bore a blank sticker on the front cover, so that deejays could comment on the music. Supposedly, the intent was that people would use this space to describe or classify a record's contents--just to be helpful, so that hardcore punk deejays, let's say, didn't waste a lot of time pulling and previewing records that turned out to be ambient new age, let's say. [Or vice versa!] Looking back, this wasn't such a great idea. People should have been exposed to more surprises. I know I should have been.

Anyway, every now and then the "sticker discourse" would move past the usual small talk ["metal crossover," "better than ever," "remember when this band was good?"] and take on a life of its own. Here's one of those times. In 1987, we received a white-label test pressing of this record from One Little Indian [what a VIP status we had, for a 5000-watt station 6,000 miles away!]--we weren't sure of the song titles, so we could barely label the disc, but I guess someone in the "music director" circle must have known of "Annie Anxiety" from her Crass period, so there was that.

All I remember is that song A2 ["Down by the Station," as it turns out] ignited one of the most intense "sticker debates" I witnessed in my time at KDVS. More and more stickers had to be added as the flame war continued, and if I remember correctly it carried over to the back of the generic sleeve. What was all the fuss about? The instrumental backing, "naturally." I've written previously about the arguments we used to have, which must seem silly now to everyone except those who still think that music dies a little bit whenever someone powers up a drum machine. But at our "college rock" station [at the time it could still be called that, without irony], in our sleepy little town, there were plenty of people who thought that way, and they were pissed that someone had the temerity to make a record that didn't sound to them like music. It's odd, in retrospect, that of all records it should have been this one that triggered such an outburst. Maybe Neubauten and Test Dept. skated by because they weren't "dance" music or something; it's certainly plausible.

Lost on these people was the fact that the record actually did feature live musicians with some pretty solid pedigrees [but then, without a proper sleeve, how could anyone know?]--it wouldn't surprise me if people who actually liked London Underground and African Head Charge records found themselves "asking rhetorically" if any talent or imagination had been necessary to make this thing. Also lost on the complainers was the argument that ripped jeans, a Marshall stack, and a "bad attitude" add up to a cliché of their own. There really wasn't much for us to do back then, so when we weren't partying with each other we diverted ourselves by screaming ideology at each other. God I miss that time.

I was only 19, and it was my first year at the station, so I observed this raging colloquium without participating, but I did know two things. I liked the vocal, and I had always felt [as did the singer, though I wouldn't discover this for a long time] that machines were soothing and musical. I didn't know at the time who this "Annie" person was, but I was on her side then and have been ever since. It is a good place to be.

BOMBAST playlist, 2013 August 21, 2100-2300:

format = "Song Title" [Artist, Album, Label]

1. "Sit on Down" [Little Annie, Songs from the Coal Mine Canary, Durtro / Jnana]
2. "Everything and More" [Little Annie, Volume 4, Volume]
3. "As I Lie in Your Arms" [Annie Anxiety Bandez, As I Lie in Your Arms, One Little Indian] / "Physical Evidence"
4. "Le Mangers Heureux" [Little Annie, In Dread with Little Annie, On-U Sound]
5. "Gown of Tears" [Little Annie & Baby Dee, State of Grace, Tin Angel]
6. "Third Gear Kills" [Annie Anxiety, Soul Possession, Southern]
7. "Down by the Station" [Annie Anxiety Bandez, As I Lie in Your Arms, One Little Indian] / "Physical Evidence"
8. "Smile" [Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch, Peace (for Mom), Brainwashed]
9. "Thirteen Things I Did Today" [Little Annie, Interiors, Invisible]
10. "Chicken Delight" [Little Annie & The Legally Jammin', Little Annie & The Legally Jammin', Italic]
11. "I Think of You" [Little Annie, Short and Sweet, On-U Sound]
12. "Rise" [Annie Anxiety Bandez, As I Lie in Your Arms, One Little Indian] / "Physical Evidence"
13. "The Birdie Song" / "Dreams and Light" [The Wolfgang Press, Queer, 4AD]
14. "Private Dancer" [Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch, When Good Things Happen to Bad Pianos, Durtro / Jnana]
15. "Hello Horror" [Annie Anxiety, Barbed Wire Halo, Crass]
16. "Lullaby" [Little Annie, Brain in the Wire, Brainwashed]
17. "Hier Encore" [Annie Anxiety Bandez, Jackamo, Southern]
18. "Bless Those (Little Annie's Prayer)" [Little Annie, Short and Sweet, On-U Sound]

next time: dare we hope for another induction?

Small Mammal With Whom I Live A Lie: Transmission 53, 2013 August 14

We travel far and wide, and sometimes use magic, to bring you the best tunes here at Bombast. This week we feature Sound d'Afrique, one from the vaults, "literally"--as well as some internet treasures and illicit gems. Things turned out to be less musically "weird" than emotionally so. I just can't work up any feelings about the experience--I couldn't when it was happening, and I can't now! "Shallowness of affect," I'm telling you. There is this Kids in the Hall monologue / short in which Bruce McCulloch talks about "a dog for whom I feel nothing." To me this show is that dog. But it is a really cute dog, you guys:

Maybe someday this program and I will have a moment. That'd be nice! I'm not up to it right now. I'm just having a week. The music is good, though; I wouldn't lie to you about that. That Toiling Midgets bandcamp site is something everyone should visit, as is the Osaka Music Concern soundcloud. [thx Brian!] Finally, the "other" b-side of The Julia Sound's new single is available here. Apparently they are trying to set up a show in Ithaca--again, that'd be nice! As for A.R.Kane, whose song TJS covers, they will have their moment, sooner or later.

BOMBAST playlist, 2013 August 14, 2100-2300:

1. DJ Hell and Klaus Nomi: "Cold Song 2013 - DJ Hell Official Remix" [International Deejay Gigolo]
2. Pablo: "Bo Mbanda" [Mango] / "Physical Evidence"
3. Jaw & Kevork Keshishian: "Hazihi Laylaty - Soul Clap Remix" [Circus Company]
4. Asia Argento & Tim Burgess: "Ours" [Nuun]
5. Hooded Fang: "Trasher" [Full Time Hobby]
6. Sampleman: "Meadow Meal" [Soundcloud self-release]
7. UNER: "Bonheur, Pt. 1" [Cadenza]
8. Kambou Clement: "Dounougnan" [Mango] / "Physical Evidence"
9. Jay Farrar: "Damn Shame" [Artemis / Sheridan Square] / "Listening Parlour"
10. Jeri-Jeri with Ale & Khadim Mboup: "Casamance" [Ndagga]
11. Camera: "Meteor" [8MM Musik]
12. Toiling Midgets: "Snothead Goonsquad" [Bandcamp self-release]
13. Julia Holter: "Horns Surrounding Me" [Domino]
14. Etoile de Dakar: "Jalo" [Mango] / "Physical Evidence"
15. The Human League: "Being Boiled" [Caroline / Virgin] / "Listening Parlour"
16. Section 25: "Bad News Week" [Factory Benelux]
17. Tijuana Panthers: "Forbidden Fruit" [Innovative Leisure]
18. Mount Kimbie: "You Took Your Time" [Warp]
19. The Charlatans: "Over Rising" [Volume]
20. The Julia Sound: "When You're Sad" [Bandcamp self-release]

p.s. I wasn't aware of it when I was on the air--bad news travelling slowly, I guess--but Charlatans drummer Jon Brookes passed on this Tuesday. May he rest in peace.