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Expression Experts: Transmission 474, 2019 July 6

"Sometimes it gets ragged," I say to Lady Catharsis in the introduction. Whatever I might have thought I meant in the moment, listening back it sounds like I was critiquing the shows that she co-hosts. Surely, deep down, I was doing that. I critique all of my shows, as a glance at this website will tell you, but I could have been more appreciative. On this night I didn't have the energy.

As advertised, it was "an awful Saturday evening at the end of an awful, awful week." We both sounded tired; the prospect of a 500th Bombast episode, which I raise, doesn't seem to excite me. It was really hot out, and we were in the middle of moving house. More importantly, as I think back, things were falling apart at the "theory camp" I was coordinating. One group of students had accused another group of racial incitement; our director, normally afloat in a frictionless, conflict-free world of contemplation, touched down to earth briefly enough to completely overreact and exacerbate the problem. Things got so bad that we couldn't even enjoy our annual lakeside barbecue (incidentally, the reason why I didn't make a radio appearance three nights prior to this) without inflammatory incidents.

tl;dr: Lady Catharsis and I thought that maybe we could just chill for a couple of hours in the studio, but because everything is affected by everything, we were wrong.

The program did have its moments. Playing Throwing Muses after R. L. Burnside was a good choice, and the Eurythmics > Afriqua > A Certain Ratio "mini-set" was fairly sublime. One of the biggest running tensions in this program is that I have a non-repetition "policy" and yet I could happily play "Knife Slits Water" every week. To think: other people tell me that they hold back a lot! Please note that Lady Catharsis gives A Certain Ratio high praise in this episode and I am glad there is a permanent record of it.

I felt I had to play Dr. Phibes, "artsy fade-in" and all, because of the ludicrous wait I had to endure for that record. "JD," whom I refer to in the voice-over, was the Discogs seller who (finally) shipped the record to me after he, um, got shingles? I don't want to be someone who trivializes suffering, but at the same time maybe I need to be someone who owns my problems? Never having had shingles I (a) can't think about it without visualizing the Terry Bradshaw commercials and (b) don't know how it might affect your ability to think about basic life stuff. Anyway, that is why I hope JD feels better and why that record made it into a very quiet last 40 minutes or so of this transmission, before a terrible Nick Cave segue finishes off the evening in proper fashion.

 

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 July 6, 2000-2200:

1. "Por Encima" | M.A.K.U SoundSystem | 5 Fuegos | PEACE & RHYTHM
2. "Meca" | Levis Vercky`s | Angola Soundtrack 2 - Hypnosis, Distortion & Other Innovations 1969 - 1978 | Analog Africa
3. "Soggy Tongues" | Vic Chesnutt | West of Rome | New West
4. "Can't Hold Out Much Longer" | Little Walter | His Best - The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection | Chess
5. "2 Brothers" / "Snake Drive" | R.L. Burnside | A Ass Pocket of Whiskey | Fat Possum
6. "Mercury" | Throwing Muses | Throwing Muses | 4AD
7. "Happy Nightmare Baby" | Opal | Happy Nightmare Baby | SST
8. "Got to Give It Up" | The Dirtbombs | Ulltraglide In Black | In The Red
9. "The Law Must Change" | Keith Mlevhu | The Bad Will Die | Strawberry Rain
10. "Aqua" | Eurythmics | Touch | RCA
11. "Vibrations" | Afriqua | Prophette | Cure Music
12. "Knife Slits Water" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
13. "Black Sheets of Rain" | Bob Mould | Black Sheets of Rain | Virgin
14. "When Push Comes To Shove" / "Dovetail" | Dr. Phibes & The House Of Wax Equations | Whirlpool | 50 Seel Street
15. "Spermwhale Trip Over" / "The Sun Falls Into the Sea" / "The Madonna Is With Child" / "Spanish Quay (3)" | A.R. Kane | Sixty Nine | One Little Indian
16. "New Morning" | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Live Seeds | Mute

It's all about what I wish would happen

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U_D_M Detour 36, 2019 June 29

[GUEST POST]

I am back and I am Guy. I decided to stay in Ithaca for an extra weekend; as luck would have it, airtime magically appeared and I seized it. I don't wear the conceptual straitjackets that kid catharsis likes to sport and am blissfully unaffected by his crises of personhood; I do as I please when it pleases me. Consider this "normal" service, more or less. You're welcome.

But to try on kid catharsis's self-critical style for a moment, it's true when I say that the beats were a bit overpowering on this excursion. I had difficulty with the station's equipment and I am not above complaining about things that I get to use for free. There wasn't enough of "me" in this program, except for the technical and conceptual mistakes. I'll post this, we'll forget them, and move on.

U_D_M playlist, 2019 June 29, 1900-2000:

1. "Jupiter Slack" | Juju & Jordash | Slack Trax, Vol. 2 | Slack Trax
2. "Vanishing Landscapes" | Mano Le Tough | Cocoon Compilation R | Cocoon
3. "Blue Velvet" | Mr. Bizz | 10 YEARS OF SCI+TEC | SCI + TEC Vinyl Audio
4. "Laid On Coco" | Törsh | ¿Tienes Fuego? | Zissou Records
5. "At Night" | Anthony Fade | What I Need | Lost Palms
6. "Visions" | Fort Romeau | Heaven & Earth | Permanent Vacation
7. "Rescue" | John Daly | It's All Around You | Couldn't Care More
8. "People Mambo" | Fred und Luna | Im Tanzrausch - EP | Compost
9. "Sakura" | Simon Scott | Soundings | Touch

Feel live

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Live Flagrant, Make People Nervous: Transmission 473, 2019 June 26

The previous program may have been opportunistic; this one was deliberate and low-key angry. "I like this thing I've started doing," proclaims our host; while I referred to the "interstitial" music by Laraaji, I could have meant the whole transmission.

I've been coy about things that happened over the summer, and the change in direction the program has taken. Let's be frank instead. I Have Basically Stopped Searching For Music By White People. (I'm calling for a complete ban on white musicians until we can figure out what's going on!) I feel like I was radicalized by more than one thing, but let's face it--it's Morrissey. Everything comes back to that guy.

There's no need to attempt a summary or listsicle here; the internet is full of them. But at some point I discovered some terrible things he'd said during the Smiths period and it became clear that he had not changed--he's always been who he is, and those around him have always known. It doesn't matter to me that his bandmates might not be racists or Brexiteers or For Britain members in 2019; 35 years ago they knew who he was and they were ok with it. That's enough.

I don't take this as a warning not to have heroes; I still kind of think heroes are important. But you have to choose them better.

I've found myself attracted to some music because of the social scenes I've been a part of, and I suppose those scenes themselves, and/or my participation in them, are part of the problem. Whether it has been "college rock" or "postpunk" or "4ad" or "industrial" I'm too often the only black person in the room, and that feeling too is a well-documented thing on the internet that doesn't require any added comment from me. So I guess not everything comes back to Morrissey. But I'm tired of stretching to imagine that people are expressing things that are inclusive of me, relevant to me. If race is such a general, clumsy heuristic, you'll have to explain to me why it is as useful as it is. Go ahead and "Sistah Souljah" me if you must, but that this would sound really ugly coming from a white person is the price you pay for owning the entire fucking world. I don't happen to have that problem.

I had also made some new friends at "theory camp" and I'd like to think that at this stage the direction the summer would take was already determined and clear. Surely that's not true? But this is a part of my "radicalization."

My inbox is still open and I am fine with music that non-terrible people of any cultural background send me. I'm also still amenable to Music From The Past that was performed by non-terrible people, at least until I learn that they actually were. That happens a lot these days. Any aggrieved parties can sue me for whatever this program is worth.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 June 26, 2100-2300:

1. "Ya Nini" | Verckys & L'Orchestre Vévé | Verckys & L'Orchestre Vévé: Congolose Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978 | Analog Africa
2. "Mama Liza" | Konono N°1 | Congotronics | Ache
3. "Mmmhmm (feat. Thundercat)" | Flying Lotus | Cosmogramma | Warp Records
4. "Genevieve (Unfinished)" | Jai Paul | Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) | XL Recordings
5. "dreams and converse" | DAWN | new breed | Local Action
6. "Beliefs" | Sneaks | Highway Hypnosis | Merge
7. "B Boy Your Best (Vocal)" / "Bonus Beats" | The Incredible Body Mechanix | B Boy Your Best | Mirage
8. "Hardrock" | Herbie Hancock | Hardrock | Columbia
9. "Mussoliki" | Bernard Ntone | Pop Makossa - The Invasive Dance Beat Of Cameroon 1976​-​1984 | Analog Africa
10. "Licking Stick 1" / "Licking Stick 2" | The Soul Kids | Toute L'Afrique Danse Vol. 10 | Hot Casa
11. "Haddi Aanan Gacaloy" | Dur-Dur Band | Dur Dur of Somalia, Vol. 1 & 2 | Analog Africa
12. "It Rough Down Ya" | I-Roy | Can't Conquer Rasta | Radiation Roots
13. "Ten Commandments" | Prince Far I | Voice of Thunder [reissue] | Get On Down
14. "Population Dub" | Tapper Zukie | Escape from Hell | Jamaican Recordings
15. "Chariot Dub" | Scientist | In the Kingdom of Dub | Superior Viaduct
16. "Connection" | Dellinger | Rhythm Shower | Get On Down
17. "We & We In Azawad" | Mdou Moctar & Elite Beat | Mdou Moctar meets Elite Beat In a Budget Dancehall | Boomarm Nation
18. "Colonial Mentality" | Fela Kuti | Black-President | Capitol

Make all the mistakes in life and still not give a damn

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U_D_M Detour 35, 2019 June 22

[GUEST POST]

C'est moi, Guy LeBatard, back here with you once more. I cannot help but notice how the tables have turned! When last I posted, it was because the impatient Kid Catharsis shamed and hounded me into sharing a broadcast. And now he is slowing things down (though I must ask, as always, relative to what?). Anyway, the time for trash talk is over. Let us dance, or run on the treadmill, or whatever we do with these sounds.

For some, this may have been a summer of disaster or upheaval, but as I live a vacation lifestyle all the time these things never touch me. I was in good form on this night, "ESPN" notwithstanding. We disavow these gaffes; we are a different person every day. The energies act upon us for a while, we are gone, we were never here.

U_D_M playlist, 2019 June 22, 1900-2000:

1. "Eye of Re" | Fort Romeau | Heaven & Earth | Permanent Vacation
2. "Aluxes" | Iñigo Vontier | Aluxes EP | Lumiere Noire
3. "Still Grey - DJ Seinfeld Mix" | Pendulum | The Reworks | Earstorm
4. "Plus Loin" | Unnayanaa ft. Erika Lernot | India Gets Physical Vol. 01 | Get Physical
5. "This One's For You" | Kassian | Faux Polynesia | Phonica White
6. "Smiling Into Eternity" | Genius of Time | Peace Bird EP | Running Back
7. "Risa" | Lorenz Rhode | Risa EP | Dirt Crew
8. "Everything Is Nice" | Sharif Laffrey | Tangier | ESP Institute
9. "Hotness - DJ Oyster Edit" | TNT | Analogue Acid Project 3 | Running Back

It's all around you

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I Feel Something I Want To Be, Lesson One: Look at Me: Transmission 472, 2019 June 19

With this here transmission I am happy to announce that rarest of occasions, the beginning of a concept. Even better: I didn't know it at the time. On this night I thought I was merely doing an "observance," finally giving June 19 the proper treatment. I am embarrassed to find that I have made radio appearances on this date on two previous occasions; if we were in the mood, we might defend me by saying I was obligated to do "other things," whether it was to continue my segmented induction of Coil into the Hall of Legends or to give a friend airtime for his otherwise unaired music. But let's be honest: at best I was more naive, more delusional then.

So how would I describe myself now? Definitely more "willful." And on this night, four months ago? Definitely determined albeit aimless. Where the Detroit set came from I'll never really know; turns out it's a pretty musical city? Meanwhile I was openly refusing requests on this night, easily impressed with my best segues (which on the night were not great), and doing the best I could with my self-imposed limitations.

In the future, as this one-time thing turns out not to be, things will open up a bit, for better and for worse. A wobbly but successful opening salvo, in the battle against...I don't know, naivete? Surely part of my "unbroken former self" was the knowledge of who I was. Ultimately the journey of this program has to take us "back" there.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 June 19, 2100-2300:

1. "(It's Not the Express) It's the J.B.'s Monaurail" | The J.B.'s | Pass the Peas: The Best of the J.B.'s (Reissue) | Polydor
2. "African Rhythms" | Oneness of Juju | Africafunk: The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless
3. "Sanctified" | The Veldt | The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur - The Drake Equation | Leonard Skully
4. "Happy Hour" | Felix Da Housecat | Kittenz And Thee Glitz | City Rockers
5. "Butterfly" | Carl Craig | More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art | SSR
6. "Kung Fu" | The Dirtbombs | Ultraglide In Black | In The Red
7. "Let's Go Out Tonight" | John Lee Hooker | The Real Folk Blues: John Lee Hooker | Chess / MCA
8. "Donuts (Outro)" / "Workinonit" / "Waves" / "Light My Fire" / "The New" / "Stop" / "People" / "The Diff'rence" | J Dilla | Donuts | Stones Throw
9. "Politicians In My Eyes" | Death | ...For the Whole World to See | Drag City
10. "She's Alright" | Muddy Waters | Electric Mud | Chess
11. "They Gave Me Away" | Champion Jack Dupree | Forever and Ever | Bullseye Blues
12. "Third Stone from the Sun" | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Are You Experienced | Reprise
13. "I Snuck Off the Slave Ship" | Lonnie Holley | MITH | Jagjaguwar

Our days of comfort, days of night

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We Are Running Out of Love in the Time of Lexapro: Transmission 471, 2019 June 12

Here we are, at the end of a concept. At least that's what I think, though as always I didn't know it at the time. I did not even "give up" on account of this night's disasters. Earlier in the evening I'd been accosted by the guy on the commons hawking his shitty rap cd; having already made the mistake of buying it a few years ago, tonight I said "no thanks" as I walked by, only for him to tell me to "shut the fuck up." Ok, happy to. It was the dreaded "playlist reporting" period at the station, but when I arrived my laptop "arbitrarily" decided it wasn't doing internet anymore, so that was a neat obstacle. I began recording my show late, as you will hear--apologies to The Durutti Column. And I couldn't give away tickets to Stop Making Sense, from which I can only conclude that absolutely no one was listening.

"What else can go wrong," I ask at one point, though without these disclosures you might not know it from hearing hour 1. Sure, the Slits segue was late, and the Underground Youth segue was too soon. (What would Bombast be, without, etc.). It's not a terrible mixtape. I might well have continued in this vein, had I not been "radicalized," for lack of a better description. But I was, so I haven't.

I'm sure the program will continue to sound just as ragged and haphazard, but maybe more intentional "going forward." And, yes, this is a difference. My therapist says I have more power now--is it because I have changed, or did I change because of it? The forensic analysis is not yet complete. But things are different now.

Was it good, while it lasted? Mostly, sure. I mean let's hope so. I spent more than six years on this.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 June 12, 2100-2300:

1. "Fridays (Up-Person Mix)" | The Durutti Column | Obey The Time [reissue] | Factory Benelux
2. "Really" | Johannes Klingbiel | It's Ok to Cry | Mireia
3. "Barbarians (feat. Disco Fries & Kassiano)" | Tommie Sunshine | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
4. "Mabbrooka" | Ifriqiyya Electrique | Laylet El Booree | Glitterbeat
5. "Take Me Home" | Follow Me Not | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
6. "Mauna Kea" | ANF | Mauna Kea | Pacific Rhythm
7. "Revival" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
8. "Over & Over" | Seahawks | Eyes of the Moon | Cascine
9. "God Codex" | Renegade Pharmacy | Recovery Position | self-released
10. "Telegraph" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships [reissue] | Virgin
11. "Petr Petr" | Minotaur Shock | MINO | Bytes
12. "Houses In Motion" | A Certain Ratio | Houses In Motion | Mute
13. "Overdrive" | Giuda | Overdrive | Rise Above
14. "Way Out" | Big Joanie | Sistahs | Daydream Library Series
15. "Charm Assault" | Ride | Weather Diaries | Wichita
16. "Zenith, Pt. 2" | The Lucid Dream | Actualisation | Holy Are You
17. "Feeling Gravitys Pull" | The Silence Kit | Welcome To The Occupation, A Reverence to R.E.M. | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
18. "Love In The Time Of Lexapro" | Oneohtrix Point Never | Love In The Time Of Lexapro | WARP
19. "Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend." | Sampleman and the Music Mutant | Newest New | self-released
20. "Freedom Fighter" | Bowery Electric | Lushlife [reissue] | Beggars Banquet
21. "Terry Waite Sez" | The Fall | Bend Sinister / The ‘Domesday’ Pay-Off Triad-Plus! | Beggars Banquet
22. "Shoplifting" | The Slits | Cut [reissue] | Island
23. "Blind II" | The Underground Youth | Montage Images Of Lust & Fear | Fuzz Club
24. "S.U.S." | The Ruts | The Crack [reissue] | Virgin
25. "The Crawler" | Ty Segall & Freedom Band | Deforming Lobes | Drag City
26. "Wheel of Yew" | Bilge Pump | We Love You | Gringo
27. "Heron" | Palms Trax | To Paradise | Dekmantel
28. "Infinity Return" | The Love Dimension | Dream Decibels | Dodecagan
29. "Djougou Yah - Perc Mix" | Laolu & Mr. Raoul K. | Djougou Yah - EP | Compost

He's an Elmer Gantry type person, don't listen to him

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Flying Aboard the Seduction 747: Transmission 470, 2019 June 7

Whatever we had bickered about earlier in the week must have resolved itself, because Lady Catharsis joined me on this broadcast, so I invite you to enjoy what is basically a two-hour trip to "The Listening Parlour." We made two observances on this night, and because I had a guest, these were a little out of balance. A little. I try to play whatever Lady Catharsis tells me to; if she brings in a dozen records I will try to play them all. Here she brings in a couple of Tom Jones records and I do the best I can with them. For my part, if I remember correctly the concept was "lounge music." I'm not sure how well I did.

Prince didn't get as much bandwidth as he deserved, though I did save "International Lover" for the all-important coda. I could have played the entirety of 1999 but I think it might have been too much for my wife. A few weeks later I was out with a few #theorycamp-ers at a dreary karaoke bar, and someone asked me what my karaoke song would be. Mind you--it would take a lot for me to do this kind of thing, and I did not have "a lot" in me on this night; but after a decent amount of thought I landed on "Little Red Corvette." I think I could at least give Sandra Bernhard a run for her money? Anyway.

Even so I like the concept of Prince even better than the reality of Prince; maybe, given things I've heard and read about him, that is inevitable. Lady C tells me that Tom Jones told an "off-color" joke at the gig she attended. Maybe we should abjure all of this music. Maybe we have made mistakes. I'm still thinking about this.

You know what isn't a mistake? You know what is a true instance of the divine reaching down and grazing my humble program ever so briefly? Something made me say "deboo" as I remember (maybe not even correctly?) Robert Studley Forrest Hughes saying it. Which led me to this clip, and ultimately the Bryan Ferry track.

Of course, as fate would have it, Hughes did a racism at least one time, and so we are reminded that everything is broken.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 June 7, 2100-2300:

1. "Roseland" | Rocketnumbernine / Four Tet | Roseland | Text
2. "I Can't Stop Loving You" | Tom Jones | Live In Las Vegas | Parrot
3. "The Man With the Golden Arm" | Barry Adamson | The Man With the Golden Arm | Mute
4. "Despedida" | Dimba Diangola | Angola Soundtrack 2 - Hypnosis, Distortion & Other Innovations 1969 - 1978 | Analog Africa
5. "2HB" | Julia Holter | Maria | Human Ear
6. "Clear Skies Select Stick (Vakula Remix)" | The Greg Foat Group | Girl and Robot with Flowers Remixed EP | Jazzman
7. "Venus" | Tom Jones | Tom | Parrot
8. "Adiza Claire" | Orchestre Super Borgou De Parakou | The Bariba Sound 1970-1976 | Analog Africa
9. "Nagisa No Tenshi" | Mieko Hirota | Nippon Girls | Big Beat
10. "20 Jazz Funk Greats" | Throbbing Gristle | Greatest Hits - Entertainment Through Pain | Industrial
11. "1nce Upon A Time" | Leslie Winer | Witch | Superior Viaduct
12. "Cheree" | Suicide | Suicide | Red Star
13. "Proud Mary" | Tom Jones | Tom | Parrot
14. "Koi No Yorokobi" | Sayuri Yoshinaga With Schoolmates | Nippon Girls | Big Beat
15. "Gentleman" | Fela Kuti | Gentleman | Knitting Factory
16. "The 'In' Crowd" | Bryan Ferry | Another Time, Another Place | Island
17. "Twist and Shout" | Tom Jones | Live In Las Vegas | Parrot
18. "Anamorphose" | Stereolab | Mars Audiac Quintet (Expanded Edition) | Duophonic
19. "International Lover" | Prince | 1999 | Warner Records

I'll live my life in dreams of yesterday

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You Know How To Sing, You're a Diplomat: Transmission 469, 2019 June 5

At the beginning of June, everything was "normal" for me. Surely I was preparing for #theorycamp, all by myself, without a student assistant. I was avoiding the work that needed doing at home--getting ready for our move. Lady Catharsis and I were squabbling, whether it was about that or something else. Check out her "Listening Parlour" intro! She was not having it on this day. But she is a professional, a "diamond," if you will.

I am going through the motions in writing this blurb, just as I must have been going through the motions on this broadcast. Nevertheless it is a solid first hour, "close to the platonic ideal," as my notes say (even my notes are pretentious and full of shit). The Leathers, Captain Wardrobe, and Lurkers segues were terrible, if I recall, and I probably don't. As always, the music in between was good. All of this, though, comes with the subtext of a heavy sigh, as this "concept" of the program is approaching its end. Do you know what isn't going through the motions, though, what isn't accompanied by sighing? The Psychedelic Furs. No misgivings about that.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 June 5, 2100-2300:

1. "Marooned" | Wire | Chairs Missing | Pink Flag
2. "Sleeping Tiger" | Pete Astor | Spilt Milk | Slumberland
3. "Gravity's Angel" | Laurie Anderson | Mister Heartbreak | Warner Bros.
4. "Ecopoiesis" | Umwelt | Ecopoiesis | Voltax
5. "An ba siel" | DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson | Aimez ces airs | Hot Casa
6. "Hypochondriac" | John Tejada | Dead Start Program | Kompakt
7. "Phantom Heart" | LEATHERS | Artoffact Records 2019 | Artoffact
8. "Ivor" | The Buff Medways | Steady the Buffs [reissue] | Damaged Goods
9. "M-U-S-I-C" | Normal Brain | Lady Maid | WRWTFWW
10. "Some Day Soon - Burn Mix" | C Cat Trance | Screaming Ghosts | Emotional Rescue / Malka Tuti
11. "Sweet Dust" | Kez YM | Cross Section | Faces
12. "Dublin" | HNNY | 2014.12.31 | Omena
13. "If You Love Your Neighbor You No Go Die" | Rock Town Express | Funky Makossa | Comb & Razor
14. "Şahmeran" | Gaye Su Akyol | İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir | Glitterbeat
15. "She's a Diamond" | Opal | Early Recordings | Rough Trade | "The Listening Parlour"
16. "Lost and Found (Found Mix)" | Objekt | Cocoon Crush | PAN
17. "80s" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
18. "Meet Me" | Fred Abong | Pulsing | self-released
19. "Dry Food" | Blaine L. Reininger | The Blue Sleep | Les Disques du Crepuscule
20. "A Promise" | The Cinematic Orchestra | To Believe | Ninja Tune
21. "The Desert" | Where We Sleep | Experiments In The Dark | self-released
22. "To Sad To Tell You" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | 'a' records
23. "Super Falling Star" | Stereolab | Peng! [reissue] | Too Pure
24. "That Was Julia" | The Lurkers | Electrical Guitar | Damaged Goods
25. "President Gas" | Psychedelic Furs | Forever Now | Columbia
26. "Goya" | Mathimidori | Yosago EP | Ornaments

You have to have a party when you're in a state like this

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Kiss All Your Posters, Hold All My Letters: Transmission 468, 2019 May 29

We are getting closer. Here is another one. I hope you can enjoy these while they last. To me, these sound like someone else's program at this point. It's not literally the case, but I have been through a lot, you guys. Let's savor the innocence where it manifests itself.

On this day there were imbroglios about a razor commercial featuring a young transgender man learning to shave, and John Cleese cancelling himself over Brexit. Somewhere in the midst of all that there was a radio program that may or may not have reflected the vibes. Probably not.

"Pretty good until ill-conceived Biltmore Dive segue," my notes read. "And then of course Lali Puna was late. But the Korto segue was really good! Most things that I played from my laptop sounded terrible. The Membranes were an exception though that song sounds like eco-fascism."

2019. So it goes.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 May 29, 2100-2300:

1. "Bafia" | DJ Khalab | Black Noise 2084 | On the Corner
2. "Trouble" | Halogenix | Edition 2 | 1985 Music
3. "Safe On Hollow Ground" | Aerial Love Feed | Out Of The Darkness | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
4. "Mother - Instrumental Version" | Kongas | Afrodesia | Because Music
5. "Tectonic Breach" | Mythic Sunship | Upheaval | El Paraiso
6. "Nothing Stays" | Cyberaktif | Artoffact Records 2019 | Artoffact
7. "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" | Bauhaus | The Sky's Gone Out [reissue] | Beggars Banquet
8. "Blue Rhumba" | Scott Gilmore | Two Roomed Motel | Crammed Discs
9. "Debris" | Test Dept | Disturbance | One Little Indian
10. "Sharpened Edge" | Ivan Black | Harmonic Neuism | vanguardista
11. "Where Have They Gone" | KiDD | Chance Weekend | Zenerino
12. "Rock & Roll Cinnamon Tree" | Maggie Sue Wimberly | Hillbilly Fillies & Rockin' Chicks | Charly | "The Listening Parlour"
13. "Airmail" | Dome | Dome 1 [reissue] | Editions Mego
14. "When The Sun Collapsed" | Biltmore Dive | Out Of The Darkness | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
15. "Beatx" | Lali Puna | Being Water | Morr Music
16. "Special One" | Alpha Stone | Stereophonic Pop Art Music | Hoga Nord Arkiv
17. "Fresque" | Korto | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
18. "Hyperspace Blues" | Strand of Oaks | Eraserland | Dead Oceans
19. "Winter (The Beauty And Violence Of Nature)" | The Membranes | What Nature Gives...Nature Takes Away | Cherry Red
20. "Hotel of The Lake, 1990" | The Durutti Column | Obey The Time [reissue] | Factory Benelux
21. "Miss Globule" | Pas Musique | The Phoenix | Alrealon
22. "Saucy Jack" | The Buff Medways | 1914 [reissue] | Damaged Goods
23. "Good Looking" | Fat Cops | Fat Cops | self-released
24. "Ladies Well" | Thomas Gray / Liam Ebbs | 3 Days, 2 Nights | Analogue Attic
25. "Control" | Where We Sleep | Experiments In The Dark | self-released
26. "ILYBBY♥" | Radio藍Dream | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
27. "Quipu" | John Tejada | Dead Start Program | Kompakt

Got lost in my own skin, thought that i earned it

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Do You Ever Want To Turn Around And Go? Transmission 467, 2019 May 22

How hard is it to write a sentence? How hard to post a picture, or a sound file, or a playlist? Probably "not very," on a universal scale, but on my solipsistic spectrum of struggle they appear at one extreme, I guess. Anyway, hello, it's me! I have indeed been doing radio all this time, however it may seem to podcast-only listeners. What else have I been doing? Where do I start?

Let's just say I moved and changed jobs, and the rest is gossip.

Notably, this was Morrissey's birthday. In previous years I might have programmed accordingly, and this year I might have programmed accordingly but more antagonistically, but honestly I'm just finished. This was probably "catalyst one" of my format change / plunge off the deep end / whatever. But that's for another day.

In the meantime, this is a nearly perfect show (at least that's what my notes tell me) as far as technique is concerned, though there is a lot of rock in hour 2. In "what were we enduring on this day" news, it was indeed World Goth Day and wouldn't you know it, people in the 4AD facebook group were body-shaming Lisa Gerrard; elsewhere, known jackass Moby was discovered to have another level to him, accidentally reflected in the Stella Donnelly tune that I played. Topicality!

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 May 22, 2100-2300:

1. "Trash Can" | Jon Spencer | Spencer Sings the Hits! | In The Red
2. "Afterlight" | Evi Vine | Black // Light // White // Dark | Solemn Wave
3. "Lost My Brain" | Superchunk | What a Time to Be Alive | Merge
4. "Procession - Cargo Demo" | New Order | Movement [reissue] | Rhino
5. "Frameshift Mutation" | Umwelt | Ecopoiesis | Voltax
6. "Days of the Sunset" | 90 Process | Fuse | Lobster Theremin
7. "Spacewoman" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
8. "Genau Wie Damals" | Ulrich Schnauss / Jonas Munk | Passage | Azure Vista
9. "Time Zones" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships [reissue] | Virgin
10. "Nocebo" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Impossible Star | Flexidisc
11. "Cruel When Complete" | Dome | Dome 1 [reissue] | Editions Mego
12. "Nite Klub" | The Specials | The Specials | Chrysalis
13. "Our Love Can Destroy This Whole Fucking World" | Teeth Of The Sea | Wraith | Rocket
14. "Sonora" | Cochemea | All My Relations | Daptone
15. "Dub Along" | Lee "Scratch" Perry + Subatomic Sound System | Super Ape Returns to Conquer | Echo Beach
16. "Sister Lucifer" | Brian | Fading Starlight | self-released
17. "Snoqualmie" | MARKERS | Heaven in the Dark Earth | God Unknown
18. "Pillow Fight @ Shag Mountain" | The Orb | No Sounds Are Out of Bounds | Cooking Vinyl
19. "Radiant City" | Lake Ruth | Birds of America | Feral Child
20. "64" | Raam | Raam 8.8 | Raam
21. "Ty I Ya" | Ummagma | Caravan | Leonard Skully
22. "Of Lilies And Remains" | Bauhaus | Mask [reissue] | Beggars Banquet
23. "Old Man" | Stella Donnelly | Beware of the Dogs | Secretly Canadian
24. "World's Last Payphone" | Dot Dash | Proto Retro | The Beautiful Music
25. "Kill Devil Hills" | The Wedding Present | Marc Riley Sessions Volume 3 | Hatch
26. "Orquidea" | Consejo | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
27. "My Poor Heart" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Something Else | A Recordings
28. "Your Honour" | The Beasts | Still Here | Bang!
29. "Some Time Ago" | Victor Krummenacher | Blue Pacific | Veritas
30. "Til The Money Runs Out" | Tom Waits | Heartattack and Vine | Elektra | "The Listening Parlour"
31. "Why Not" | Man•E | Go To Slip | Taste

How lonely does it feel?

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