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U_D_M Detour 38, 2019 September 14

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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:

1. "Soma" | Donald's House | Dan's Dancing EP | Touch From A Distance
2. "The Future Is Here" | International Anything | Cocoon Compilation R | Cocoon
3. "Memory Traces" | Lunate | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
4. "Delusions of Grandeur" | Pépe | Aerial | Let's Play House
5. "The Adverse Within" | Stare5 | Void Swimmer | Epm Music
6. "You Know Too Much" | Dionigi | Correspondant Compilation 02 | Correspondant
7. "Galaxianii" | Anii | Aniitime | Kompakt
8. "Blauracke" | Dominik Eulberg | Bienenfresser & Blauracke | Apus Apus

washed out

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From Childhood's Hour I Have Not Been As Others Were: Transmission 482, 2019 September 11

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:

1. "Madam Medusa" | UB40 | The UB40 File | Virgin Records
2. "Sound System" | Steel Pulse | Reggae Greats | Mango / Island
3. "Reggae Fi Peach" | Linton Kwesi Johnson | Bass Culture | Mango
4. "Jah Dub Man" | Dennis Bovell | Dub 4 Daze | Glitterbeat
5. "Prosopagnosia" | Territroy | Skulls & Plants | Dekmantel
6. "Temper Temper" | Goldie | Saturnz Return [reissue] | London
7. "Sugar" | Nice Girl | Chill Pill | Public Possession
8. "Sanctuary" | Deep Nalström | Naive Melodies | Natural Selection
9. "Stealth Mode" | Ras G | Echo Expansion | Dublab
10. "Nasa Arab 2" | Coil | The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex + 2 | Musique Pour La Danse
11. "Adulting" | Mis+Ress | Dispellers | Sound in Silence
12. "Urban Void" | Bleak Fiction + Rådiövölnå | Urban Void | M.I.S.T. Records
13. "Expensive Shit" | Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 | Africafunk: The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless
14. "Bathing in the Aquamarine Neon" | Rose | Mental Flooding | M.I.S.T. Records
15. "Zangai" | Hoshina Anniversary | Zangai | Musar Recordings
16. "I Loved Alone [...] [Edgar Allan Poe]" | Proyecto Lazarus | I Loved Alone [...] [Edgar Allan Poe] | M.I.S.T. Records
17. "Pause" | park jiha | Philos | tak:til
18. "Contronatura" | Stereolab | Dots and Loops (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP

This is the future of an illusion

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Business Is Ok But I Miss Working with the Young Folks: Transmission 481, 2019 September 8

As I listen back to these episodes I realize that my hiatus should have been longer. Looking at my notes I see the repetition of several key phrases, such as "didn't make sense," "ill-conceived," "wasn't great," "for reasons unknown," and so on. Back in the summer I decided on an agenda--and I'm still committed to it!--but I was pursuing it so relentlessly that I was trampling on such time-honored values as "currency" and "competence." And on nights like this, I was even stealing extra airtime (or filling in for under-the-weather colleagues, take your pick) to do it!

This is probably not profound advice and I probably heard it from someone I don't even respect much, but knowing how you're going to begin and end a program is key. "Sutra" is the best kind of opening for me. And "Insight?" Maybe "not great," as someone is fond of saying, but it got me out the door, as Okada did on the last outing. What about the middle? Maybe if you sift through it you'll find some special moments--I think the best song of 2019 is in there, somewhere!

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 September 8, 2100-2300:

1. "Sutra" | Section 25 | Always Now | Factory Benelux
2. "Eternal Lights" | Julian Muller | Frustration | Arts Collective
3. "Harnessed Black Holes" | London Modular Alliance | Precious Materials | Applied Rhythmic Technology
4. "A Lil Close" | Sneaks | Highway Hypnosis | Merge
5. "Love Can Lose" | The Milkshakes | Punk Rock ist nicht tot | Damaged Goods
6. "Easing - Version" | George & Glen Miller | Easing | Soundway
7. "Change of Tide" | Grotto II | At Last... | Odion Livingstone
8. "CONFETTI" | Velvet Negroni | NEON BROWN | 4AD
9. "Everybody Ought to Make a Change" | Sleepy John Estes | The Blues Of Sleepy John Estes Volume Two 1938-1940 | Swaggie
10. "I'm Sorry" | Bo Diddley | Go Bo Diddley | Rumble
11. "Werewerenci" | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa De Kayes | L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa De Kayes | Kindred Spirits
12. "Slow Train" | Hot & Rich With Lynn Taitt & The Jets And Beverleys Allstars | Rocksteady | Reggae Retro
13. "Shearing You" | Prince Buster | Judge Dread Rock Steady / She Was a Rough Rider | DOJO
14. "Paco" | Shellac | The End of Radio | Touch and Go Records
15. "Jogging" | Richard Dawson | Jogging | Domino
16. "Sunday Night" | Rosaire | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
17. "Little Birds, Moonbath" | Yu Su | Roll With The Punches | Second Circle
18. "Insight" | Buildings In Motion | Insight | vanguardista

Forgive me for i knew not what I was saying

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Off and On He's Been Here, Guess He'll Never Go Home: Transmission 480, 2019 September 4

We are revisiting a period where I must have made it my mission to reach Episode 500 before year's end. (I succeeded!) If anything, this program is about processing the past, through the present, and these next couple dozen entries will endeavor to do that. This program was the first after (another) three-week hiatus, this one more or less voluntary as I finally lost my mind somewhere in mid-August and decided that I had to change jobs and change houses at the same time, and that I had no time for anything else (I was pretty much right about this.)

This transmission did little to work through these feelings, though it did continue my relentless and impulsive new agenda. I tried to mix the old with the new, to varying degrees of technical and conceptual. The first 45 minutes or so had me thinking that this program was somewhat special. I was wrong about this. Following Hugh Mane with Jimi Hendrix was not great. Then again, the "crazy" set was not that crazy. People tell me that my perception is off, so maybe I am not a reliable narrator. With this in mind, I think there may be some post-production magic on the Isaac Hayes segue, but it's too long ago to remember. I'm fairly sure that the D.K. transition was abrupt, but I didn't know how else to get to Okada, which was the whole point. Another episode in the bag, and we survived it.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 September 4, 2100-2300:

1. "Djanfa Magni" | Tidiani Koné & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo | African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds from Benin & Togo 70s | Analog Africa
2. "Kogn. Dissonanz" | JakoJako | Aequilibration - EP | Leisure System
3. "Omlagus Garfungiloops" | Coil | The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex + 2 | Musique Pour La Danse
4. "Give It To Me" | Isaac Hayes | Harlem Shuffle | Plastic
5. "Mirror In My Room" | Lifted | 2 | PAN
6. "Performance Review" | John Tejada | Performance Review - EP | Palette
7. "Child of Love" | Hugh Mane | Voodoo Questions | Running Back
8. "Voodoo Chile" | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Electric Ladyland | Reprise
9. "Billiard Player Song" | Shellac | The End of Radio | Touch and Go Records
10. "Pretend" | CTMF | Brave Protector | Burger / Damaged Goods
11. "How Could You Love Me" | Big Joanie | Sistahs | Daydream Library Series
12. "Bo's Bounce" / "You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover" | Bo Diddley | His Greatest Sides: Volume One | Chess
13. "Alice Mae" | R. L. Burnside | Mr. Wizard | Fat Possum Records
14. "Voices" | D.K. | Riding for a Fall | Antinote
15. "I Still Wake Up Thinking You Are By My Side" | OKADA | Life Is But An Empty Dream | n5MD

Do you want to change your situation

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U_D_M Detour 37, 2019 August 31

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Greetings from dead time. I am Guy, and sometimes I do radio and post here. The attached file is a detour from the summer, but eternal summer is upon us now, so how old is it, really? Anyway, this was the first "Saturday night" of the "academic year," both ridiculous constructs, but those willing to throw away their leisure time on the passive consumption of radio content could find me, living my best possible life to this here soundtrack.

If I remember correctly, and I probably do, this night was filled with references and suggestions. Alcyon? It does sound familiar. Feel live? I did and I do. Alternative Faction? Surely a "kid catharsis" musical entity waiting to happen. It was also a night of solidity and opacity, a monolithic beat experience in which you could lose yourself. And I think I did? But I came back, and I will be back again.

U_D_M playlist, 2019 August 31, 1900-2000:

1. "Paradigm Shift" | Greg Gow | Paradigm Shift | Planet E
2. "Naja" | Pawas feat. Arooj Aftab | India Gets Physical, Vol. 1 | Get Physical
3. "All States of Dawn" | Smallpeople | Afterglow | Smallville
4. "Alcyon" | Simon Vuarambon | A Winter Sampler | All Day I Dream
5. "Feel Live" | Massimiliano Pagliara | Feel Live | Live at Robert Johnson
6. "Alternative Faction" | Casey Tucker | Alternative Faction | Love Notes
7. "Cannot Compare" | Frits Wentink & DJ Boring | Shall Not Fade - 3 Years of Service | Shall Not Fade
8. "Cosmic Child (Thomas T & Anish – Remix)" | Greg Shepherd | Divine | finefood

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Apologizing Is Terrifying: Transmission 479, 2019 August 14

"It hasn't been so bad, has it?" I ask toward the end of the program. "Yes and no" is probably the most appropriate answer. As objectively as I can, I'll try to suggest that the first 70 minutes or so of this broadcast are pretty non-catastrophic. Even so, listening back, I feel like I am just forcing my new agenda. As usual, the music is decent, but.

"Magic's Message" is just a bad track, toxic in its masculinity and its free-enterprise bootstrapping. I shouldn't have played it, but for some reason I thought it worked as a segue. So much for that organizing concept. Naturally the show fell apart after that. Fortunately it's a brief unraveling.

This transmission is better than the previous couple of outings, but I must confess that it's one of a few false dawns before things really improve (October, I think? sorry). I had to be very angry on this night because things had really come apart at work and I knew that I had to make a change. (I did, and it feels great!) Also, the Catharsis Family Circus was moving, and in this Critical End Time I was losing my noodle. Another hiatus was around the corner, though I didn't know it yet. Maybe it was a mental health break?

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 August 14, 2100-2300:

1. "Original Trailer" | Dolenz | Lingua Franca | Exit Records
2. "You Are Heaven Sent" | Nicolette | The Rebirth of Cool 4 | Island
3. "Respect My Snack Foods" | DJ Marcelle / Another Nice Mess | One Place For the First Time | Jahmoni Music
4. "Akoko Ba" | Gyedu-Blay Ambolley | The Message | Analog Africa
5. "Rapping and Rocking the House" | The Funky Four Plus One More | Back In The Day (Old School Hip Hop From The Block Party Era) | BGP
6. "Ireme" | Ariwo | Quasi | MANANA//Records
7. "Migration" | Nitin Sawhney | The Rebirth of Cool 4 | Island
8. "Eine Kleine Hedmusik" | Coldcut | Ninja Cuts - Funkjazztical Tricknology | Ninja Tune
9. "Vibes and Stuff" | A Tribe Called Quest | The Low End Theory | Jive
10. "When You're Near" | Guru | Jazzmatazz Volume: 1 | ChrysalisEMI Records (USA)
11. "Things About To Disappear" | Alessandro Adriani | Morphic Dreams | Stroboscopic Artefacts
12. "Horizons" | LTJ Bukem | The Rebirth of Cool 4 | Island
13. "Trade On Azul" | kangding ray | Predawn Qualia EP | ara
14. "Alternative Theme from Gay Man’s Guide to Safer Sex" | Coil | The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex + 2 | Musique Pour La Danse
15. "Dalis Car" | Dalis Car | The Waking Hour | Beggars Banquet
16. "Knife Slits Water [Peel 1981]" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
17. "Empathy" | Ellen Allien | Alientronic | BPitch Control
18. "Magic's Message (There Has To Be A Better Way)" | Mr. Magic | Back In The Day (Old School Hip Hop From The Block Party Era) | BGP
19. "Stranger On the Shore" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Atlantic
20. "Adieu" | Anadol | Uzun Havalar | Pingipung

New concepts are being created almost daily

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She Reassured Me with an Unfamiliar Line: Transmission 478, 2019 August 9

I'll begin by saying that we experienced the sublime in this episode. It was fleeting, but you have to take positivity when you get it. Somehow I made Johnny Cash fade into Roni Size gracefully, so there's at least one reason to listen to this episode. Other than that, maybe the set with The Clash and Linton Kwesi Johnson was ok.

Otherwise this episode was pretty close to the nadir. When I wasn't incoherent (I should have just said that I thought the Wanda Jackson CD was from 2004 or something) I was more or less un-PC (I should have kept my mouth shut about the origins of Coil's record and don't know why I didn't). And where I wasn't either of those things I was trampling King Sunny Ade's music (I always seem to) and ruining Lefty Frizzell segues (though I don't know if that's avoidable). I feel like I was visibly and audibly upset here, and this might be rock bottom. I'm think maybe I even scared Lady Catharsis, who is well accustomed to my negativity.

I am a little reassured to find that at this time last year I was doing terrible shows as well. What is it about summer? Wait, I know. Hopefully that is changing soon. At least I can tell you that Lady C and I have done programs since this one, and they've been better.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 August 9, 2100-2300:

1. "Longshot Kick the Bucket / Liquidator / Skinhead Moonstomp (The Skinhead Symphony in Three Movements)" | The Specials | The BBC Sessions | EMI
2. "Shakin' All Over" | Wanda Jackson | The Party Ain't Over | Third Man
3. "Dawning (Version)" | 23 Skidoo | Beyond Time | Les Disques Du Crepuscule
4. "Blue Flower" | Mazzy Star | She Hangs Brightly | Capitol Records
5. "Secret 77" | Bad Brains | I Against I | SST
6. "Black Heart" | Keith Hudson & Soul Syndicate | Heavyweight Sound: A Blood and Fire Sampler | Blood & Fire
7. "Mo Beru Agba" | King Sunny Ade | Juju Music | Island Records Ltd.
8. "Train to Glory / The Whip" | The Ethiopians | The Original Reggae Hitsound Of The Ethiopians | Trojan
9. "Tondibama" | Amadou Balake | Bar Konon Moussou Bar | Kindred Spirits
10. "The Kneeling Drunkard's Plea" | Johnny Cash | Love God Murder | Columbia / Legacy / American
11. "Ballet Dance" | Roni Size | The Rebirth of Cool Seven | Island
12. "Bankrobber / Robber Dub" | The Clash | Black Market Clash | Epic
13. "Reality Poem / Wat About Di Workin Claas?" | Linton Kwesi Johnson | In Concert with the Dub Band | LKJ Records
14. "Run 'Em Off" | Lefty Frizzell | The Best of Lefty Frizzell | Rhino
15. "Lunar Baedeker, Odious Oasis" | Parviz | Zerzura | Omena
16. "Summer Wine" | Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood | Fairy Tales & Fantasies: The Best Of Nancy & Lee | Rhino
17. "Theme From The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex" | Coil | The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex + 2 | Musique Pour La Danse
18. "El Harb" | Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects | Shabeesation | Rykodisc

Havin' the tremors in the thighbone

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You've Been At It So Long It's Chronic: Transmission 477, 2019 August 7

Since the last program, big things had happened in my life and in the world. Toni Morrison had died, and to be honest I could not mourn her properly. I had been assigned Beloved in some undergraduate literature class, and I had read it, but I was so scattered at that stage of life I could not take it in. I was not living authentically and I was stretched to my limit even then. And, to be honest, I haven't been a reader of fiction for a good 30 years now. But her quote about racism being a distraction, something that pointlessly eats up time in your one precious life, resonates with me, so I feel like a light has gone out. Then of course there was the Walmart shooting in El Paso, a place where I lived briefly and miserably. So an act of literal white supremacist violence followed my summer of figurative, linguistic and behavioral white violence. I apologize if I am not making sense of this here, but I promise you it made sense to me at the time and still does even now. To articulate this here is kind of a duty but also a distraction.

Lady Catharsis and I had also become homeowners this week, something I never thought would happen after my career was ruined ten years ago. To this day I still can't quite believe it and, sure enough, I still haven't finished unboxing. But certainly during the first week of August we were in the thick of moving and I was completely out of my mind with rage and panic.

I have very little to say about this program because it reflects my terrible inner life. I've given it a couple of tries, and maybe I can stipulate that the music between the segues is good. Possibly. But this truly is "Bombast"--it merely takes up space on this night, preventing license-threatening silence between 9 and 11 pm. And it's inconsistently successful even at that.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 August 7, 2100-2300:

1. "Omoto" | Odomore Osarenren And Ẹwaẹn Ọsẹtin Stars | Ọyọetigbe - The Birth Of A Child | Dig This Way
2. "Repeat Offender" | Rude Audio | Street Light Interference | Zirkus
3. "Carry Me - Cosey Fanni Tutti Rework" | Penelope Trappes | Carry Me - Cosey Fanni Tutti Rework | Houndstooth
4. "Into The Light" | Where We Sleep | Experiments In The Dark | self-released
5. "Shall Not Dwell In Wickedness" | Prince Far I | Voice of Thunder | Get On Down
6. "Soul Fire" | Gato Negro | Dub Or Die Vol 2 | ROIR Europe / Danceteria
7. "Jpiya" | Bamba Pana | Poaa | Nyege Nyege Tapes
8. "Satellite" | TV on the Radio | Young Liars - EP | Touch and Go
9. "Flying 3/4" | elAstrum | Freqmod | Kahvi Collective
10. "Otzi The Iceman" | Nymfo | Pictures on Silence | Dispatch
11. "[Ear-Lips]" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Opaque Couche | Flexidisc
12. "Exploding Frogs" | Coil | The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex + 2 | Musique Pour La Danse
13. "Tuareg" | Brian | Not Retiring | self-released
14. "Encrypted" | The Dirtbombs | Consistency Is The Enemy | Cass
15. "Ghosts" / "The End of Radio" / "Canada" | Shellac | The End of Radio | Touch and Go
16. "I Just Wanna Make Love to You" / "Give Me Love" | The Gories | Live in Detroit 5/27/88 (The Shaw Tapes) | Third Man
17. "Deni Kelen Be Koko" | Lobi Traore | The Lobi Traore Group | Honest Jon's
18. "Ou C'est Lui Ou C'est Moi" | Vincent Ahehehinnou | African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds from Benin & Togo 70s | Analog Africa

You could call it dead air; I think that's rude

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Rest in Power, Emma Durutti: Transmission 476, 2019 July 31

The three-week hiatus that preceded this program didn't do me much good, and at the time of this broadcast I wasn't living my best life. My therapist had been telling me for weeks that my "power" was increasing, but she must have been referring to some other power than "competent radio hosting." It is true that I had stepped into a leadership vacuum at work and perhaps had made an awful summer better for some people, but to say that severely underestimates how awful the summer was and glosses over the toll it took on me. I'm trying to be as specific as possible about my feelings and as general as possible about certain other people. Surely you've seen online "defenses" of "the humanities" in this age of STEM and neoliberal rationalization of everything that higher education tries to do. One common defense is to gesture toward Venture Capital and Silicon Valley and say, "look at how racist and sexist and exploitative and generally non-empathetic these things are--this is why people should study literature and philosophy!" Let me tell you something. I've been studying and working in the humanities for three decades, and, specifically over the last three years at this "theory camp" that is a sort of finishing school for future (or would-be) "academic rockstars" in these fields. I could talk to you all day about how immersion in "the humanities" or "the arts" is no inoculation against racism or classicism or narcissism or sociopathic indifference to suffering. We'll leave it at that.

So this was the first show I did after a rather explosive ending (I don't dare say "traumatic," but it was definitely "a lot," as the kids say) to summer camp; out of practice and with a recently acquired Xmal Deutschland record in hand I was straddling the boundary between the new noise I wanted to make and the remnants of what I used to think I was doing. Sometimes it worked, but there are moments that are not authentically "me." I didn't really enjoy the set that that had Reigning Sound in it, apologies to them. I could also have jettisoned The National and Holly Herndon; at some point in my past a person I don't remember having been must have thought they would make good segues. They didn't. "What year is it," I ask, unable to figure out why I am playing three 4AD artists on this night when we all know that only one was ever truly good, and that was a long time ago.

But I can tell you that this broadcast is not even "rock bottom," so there's probably some content here that you will enjoy.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 July 31, 2100-2300:

1. "Entrance" | Merz, Laraaji, Shahzad Ismaily | Dream of Sleep and Wakes of Sound | Merz
2. "Home [live]" | The Durutti Column | Obey the Time [reissue] | Factory Benelux
3. "White Rhino - Sound Culture Remix" | Chicago Afrobeat Project Featuring Tony Allen | What Goes Up (Remixed) | Future Rootz
4. "Gaussian" | Com Truise | Persuasion System | Ghostly International
5. "Who Gives a Damn" | Grotto | Grotto II: Wait...No Hurry | Livingstone Studio
6. "Big Takeover" | Bad Brains | Rock for Light | PVC
7. "Art-I-Ficial" | X-Ray Spex | Germfree Adolescents | Real Gone Music
8. "Eiland" | Xmal Deutschland | Tocsin | 4AD
9. "Nasa Arab" | Coil | The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex + 2 | Musique Pour La Danse
10. "Call Me #1" | Reigning Sound | Abdication... For Your Love | Merge
11. "Birth" | Holly Herndon | PROTO | 4AD
12. "All Of Us Waning In The Firmament" | Nonconnah | Seek Not Your Fortune | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
13. "Oyo Ka Jojo" | Les Volcans De La Capital | African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds from Benin & Togo 70s | Analog Africa
14. "P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)" | Parliament | Greatest Hits (The Bomb) - Parliament | Casablanca / Polygram
15. "Dust Swirls In Strange Light" | The National | I Am Easy To Find | 4AD
16. "Anti-Body" | FACS | Lifelike | Trouble In Mind
17. "Des Etoile Electroniques - Demo" | Stereolab | Mars Audiac Quintet (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic / WARP
18. "Subtraction" | Sleaford Mods | Eton Alive | Extreme Eating
19. "They Made Them Up" | C Cat Trance | Screaming Ghosts | Emotional Rescue / Malka Tuti
20. "Time Safari - Ambient Version" | Clarian | Time Safari | Kompakt

Prepare yourself for the final quest

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Maybe You Should Know That I Suffer from Sudden, Startling Revelations: Transmission 475, 2019 July 10

It's a shame that I wasn't even drunk at the time of this broadcast. Such a state might have explained utterances like "I'm out of sorts" and "I'm all messed up." These were true statements attempting to excuse my sloppiness and unpreparedness, but in keeping with the times, I was upset about things outside the studio. The situation at "theory camp" had deteriorated further, branching out into ableism and just generally bad academic and leadership practice with what I will only refer to here as "the Hegel incident."

I was full of righteous anger. Check my commentary on the protest against "detention camps" and my call to action. True to my hypocritical form, I wound up not attending this demonstration two nights later. I wonder what my excuse was on that night. It doesn't matter. I wasn't living my best life at this time.

Alternating between good and bad segues, unable to remember the provenance of things, I produced a show that maybe has a few moments but is best left in the past. But all this being said, I do get off a couple of good rants. MOJO magazine did put the recently-deceased Syd Barrett on the cover but not the recently-deceased James Brown, and I don't know how to explain that other than racism or pandering to a racist audience (and is there a difference?); Hot Casa's packaging is a crime. Interesting that I deliver both of these comments with the same fire. It's typical of how shallow I have always been. Not that this will help, but it's a good thing I'm about to go on hiatus for three weeks.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 July 10, 2100-2300:

1. "Thank You for Talkin' to Me Africa" | Sly & The Family Stone | Anthology | Epic
2. "Sharevari" | The Dirtbombs | Party Store | In The Red
3. "I Remember Louder" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
4. "Don't Step on My Shoes" | Ezy & Isaac | Soul Rock | Hot Casa
5. "In the Hole" | The Bar-Kays | The Roots of Hip Hop (Music Guide Vol. 2) | Mojo Magazine
6. "Patience" | The Funkees | Now I'm a Man | PMG
7. "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" | Isaac Hayes | Greatest Hits | Stax
8. "Cold World (feat. Opal Onyx)" / "Dear John" | Little Annie | Trace | Tin Angel
9. "Fenchurch St." | Renegade Pharmacy | Recovery Position | self-released
10. "Zenti Baby" | Eric Random | Two Faced | Klanggalerie
11. "Frustration" | Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Afrika 70 | I Go Shout Plenty!!! | Kalakuta Sunrise - Knitting Factory
12. "Yallah! Imshi,Imshi" | Brian | Not Retiring | self-released
13. "If 6 Was 9" | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Axis: Bold As Love | Reprise
14. "The Boat Is Sinking" | Benjamin Zephaniah | The Zulu Compilation | Zulu
15. "Realigned Dub" | African Head Charge | Super Mystic Brakes | On-U Sound
16. "Maggot Brain" | Funkadelic | Greatest Hits 1976-1981 | Charly

Many things is on my mind, words is in the way

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