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All About the Screaming: Transmission 466, 2019 May 18

There was no "occasion" for Lady Catharsis's appearance on this Saturday night fill-in occurrence of the Bombast thing. Much to my relief, there wasn't much "happening" in the world to serve as background noise or motivation. There were just (strangely) a hundred minutes for us to reiterate our musical (non) vision to the world. The preceding program, a pre-recorded one, ran over time and strangely advertised a show that was not about to happen. (Note to management, if they're still monitoring my posts: we're losing our definition of "evergreen" here; call it "evergreen creep" or whatever you like, but people need to do their own edits.)

Short though it was--and made to seem shorter by the inclusion of a very long Stereolab opener that I probably mispronounced--it was an eventful evening. We put the "crack research team" on the case of Sandie Shaw's early records. We discussed the place of Colourbox in the 4AD universe (and I feel like decreeing that we are finished with that--the time for discussion is past). We learned a lot about Lady C's wild early college years ("I got my ear pierced and everything"). And we played a number that we also played at our wedding, all those years ago! You'll have to guess, but it's not difficult.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 May 18, 2000-2200:

1. "Jenny Ondioline" | Stereolab | Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements | Duophonic / WARP
2. "Only Lonely" | Divinyls | Desperate | Chrysalis
3. "The Moon Is Blue" | Colourbox | The Moon Is Blue | 4AD
4. "Pale Blue Eyes" | Moe Tucker | I'm Sticking With You: An Introduction To Moe Tucker | Modern Harmonic
5. "Stasher" | The Coathangers | The Devil You Know | Suicide Squeeze
6. "I Can't Stand the Rain" | Liela Moss | A Little Bit of Rain | Bella Union
7. "Mississippi Kite" | Kristin Hersh | Crooked [reissue] | Fire
8. "I'll Stop At Nothing" | Sandie Shaw | Sandie Shaw | Reprise
9. "Cries and Whispers" | LoneLady | Cries and Whispers | WARP
10. "Insomnia" | Lena Raine | Oneknowing | Local Action
11. "Jewel (Cut Rough)" | Propaganda | Duel | ZTT / Island
12. "Little Red Shoes" | Loretta Lynn | Van Lear Rose | Interscope
13. "Walk The Dog" | Laurie Anderson | O Superman | Warner Bros.
14. "Black Room" | Jun Mayuzumi | Nippon Girls | Big Beat
15. "Here's Looking at You" | Blondie | AutoAmerican | Chrysalis

When we were together everything was so grand

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Saying Nothing So You Don't Have To Lie: Transmission 465, 2019 May 15

Let's review the "notes" from this episode:
"Lagged a bit going into [the Brian Jonestown Massacre] but a great first hour!"
"Very rockist in hour 2"--true
"Alborosie detour was much needed but didn't make sense"--sadly, also true
"Messed up segue out of Bilge Pump"--I was anxious, what can I say?
"Hugs for Chelsea is so fucking compressed"--this is the truest thing I wrote down about this program, but you know what, the judge just said that Chelsea Manning is going to be in prison for more than an additional year and will have to pay like half a million dollars in fines, so you know what, just buy the damn benefit and cope with it.

My listening and posting cycle is getting a bit faster; I've gotten so fed up with the disappearance of my free time that I'm even more determined to carve out moments and comment about these broadcasts and the deteriorating state of everything. What I'm saying is that I haven't listened to this, like, a dozen times like I have done with some other "recent" episodes, so my raw notes will have to do. I know that at around this time I was bitching online about some kind of disaster capitalism as it related to art and human tragedy. You know, as one does. I am guessing I will have more to say about this as I approach a state of "being caught up" on this website, but that state is not now.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 May 15, 2100-2300:

1. "Creatures" | Section 25 | Elektra | Klanggalerie
2. "Mother Seletta" | Karl Hector & The Malcouns | Mother Seletta | Now-Again
3. "Hurrican Felix" | Repeat | Repeats | Delsin
4. "Different Angle" | Davis | Ordinary Sleep | Live at Robert Johnson
5. "Deep River - The Payback Mix" | Little Axe | Deep River | On-U Sound
6. "This Is Just a Modern Love Song" | TB | Night Heat | Permanent Vacation
7. "Northern Lights" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
8. "Mea Culpa" | Brian Eno - David Byrne | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | Sire
9. "Glide Path" | Chicago Odense Ensemble | Chicago Odense Ensemble | El Paraiso
10. "Boys Keep Swinging" | Gudrun Gut | Moment | Monika
11. "Fix" | The Sisters of Mercy | The Reptile House E.P. | Merciful Release
12. "Always Now" | Bromide | Magic Coins | Scratchy Records
13. "Everything Is Falling Apart" | Teenage Fanclub | Everything Is Falling Apart | Merge
14. "Remember Me This" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | 'a' records
15. "Void Heirlooms Beneath The Floorboards" | Nonconnah | Dead Roses, Digged up Zombies, Broken Pieces of Diamonds, Live Cats | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
16. "Heartbeats" | Piroshka | Brickbat | Bella Union
17. "Derdriu's Vision" | Mac-Talla Nan Creag | The Sorrow of Derdriu | Firecracker
18. "Caffeine Blues" | Ulrich Schnauss / Jonas Munk | Passage | Azure Vista
19. "Christopher" | The Claim | Boomy Tella | A Turntable Friend
20. "Runes of Abandonment" | Ted Leo | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
21. "Surveillance Dub" | Alborosie | Alborosie Meets Roots Radics: Dub For The Radicals | Greensleeves
22. "Manzana de la Discordia" | Bilge Pump | We Love You | Gringo
23. "Aileen" | Louise Distras | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
24. "FLIES" | RAT BOY | INTERNATIONALLY UNKNOWN | Helicat / Epitaph
25. "They Told Me Too" | Ty Segall & Freedom Band | Deforming Lobes | Drag City
26. "Mi defensa personal" | Arista Fiera | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
27. "Amelia" | Cocteau Twins | Treasure [reissue] | 4AD
28. "Strange" | Galaxie 500 | On Fire [reissue] | 20|20|20
29. "Pretty Wraith (I Remember You)" | Brian | Fading Starlight | self-released
30. "Bronze Age Babies" | Beaches | Second of Spring | Chapter Music
31. "We Fought For America" | Hunter Complex | Open Sea | Death Waltz
32. "Scrub Your Ego" | Suso Saiz | Nothing Is Objective | Music From Memory

Come find me down in Mexico

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That Little Problem Our Boys in Engineering Find So Entertaining: Transmission 464, 2019 May 8

Dear listener / reader, I hope you will appreciate that I am working under duress right now. My Summer of Movement and Racism (or is that Movement Racism?) shows no signs of slowing down, and yet I am compelled to keep posting--or, as those less generous among you would say, "to post." How the sausage is made--it's actually "market forces" that are pushing me. I'm wasting the money I spend at this website by not filling up my allotted server space these last couple of months, and it's bothering me. So my botherment is your gain, as I present to you another program from what I like to call "before."

Late in the broadcast I refer to this as a "disorganized evening," which it really isn't. Surely I was kicking myself for hitting a wrong button in Djay Pro and making Causa Sui loop back to the beginning, something I don't even acknowledge when I am back-announcing. Nicholas Hill would be proud of me for that. Elsewhere, my notes say "segue from Deafkids to XXL sounds like a mistake but isn't." Damn right, and a good summary of the overall outing. Mission accomplished.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 May 8, 2100-2300:

1. "Better Dead Than Alien" | Asok | Better Dead Than Alien | M>O>S
2. "Virus da Imagem do Ser" | Deafkids | Metaprogramacao | Neurot
3. "Lemoning" | XXL aka Xiu Xiu / Larsen | Puff O'Gigio | Bad Paintings
4. "Agua (Re-Edit)" | First Floor | You Dubn't Know | Local Talk
5. "Sweet Love" | Glen Ayers | The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1 | Bear Family | "The Listening Parlour"
6. "Vibraciones Doradas [excerpt]" | Causa Sui | Vibraciones Doradas | El Paraiso
7. "Reproduktionsfunktion" | Botschaft | Glaspalast - Eine Zusammenstellung von Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten | Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten
8. "Heal" | John Tejada | Dead Start Program | Kompakt
9. "Sidi kommi" | AMMAR 808 | Maghreb United | Glitterbeat
10. "Perfect Life" | Pete Astor | Spilt Milk | Slumberland
11. "Ohoho Gedama" | Mahmoud Ahmed | Ere Mela Mela | Hannibal
12. "Doubt" | Stereolab | Switched On [reissue] | Slumberland
13. "Verglas" | Stereocilia | The Silence That Follows | Drone Rock
14. "One And A Half Years Later" | BELP | Crocodile | SVS
15. "Yes, O Yes" | The Fall | I Am Kurious Oranj | Beggars Banquet
16. "Lotus" | Voetvolk | The Sea Within | Rotkat
17. "Dawn: Making an Effort" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
18. "Far From Me" | BUNNI | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Whistling For His Love" | Danielle Dax | Dark Adapted Eye | Rubellan Remasters
20. "Children's Song" | Evan Greer | she/her/they/them | Don Giovanni
21. "DAWAN" | Apparat | LP5 | Mute
22. "Booming and Zooming" | Tom Tom Club | Tom Tom Club [reissue] | Real Gone
23. "Radio Prague" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Dazzle Ships [reissue] | Virgin
24. "Ten Sleep" | The Wedding Present | Marc Riley Sessions Volume 3 | Hatch
25. "Dope For Guns" | The Ruts | The Crack [reissue] | Virgin
26. "Lunar Eye" | Giuda | Overdrive | Rise Above
27. "Tutti" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | TUTTI | Conspiracy International
28. "The Lady Vanishes" | Thin White Rope | The Ruby Sea [reissue] | Frontier
29. "Good Times" | Ex Hex | It's Real | Merge
30. "Touchdown" | Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band | The Serpent's Mouth | Big Crown
31. "Floating Tone" | Ivan Black | Harmonic Neuism | vanguardista
32. "Vibra" | Richard Barbieri | Vibra | Kscope

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Cruising Altitude Departure 32, 2019 May 4

[GUEST POST]

Halcyon here, the "good captain," as I like to think of myself, bringing you another audio transcript of a gentle Saturday morning from long ago. For civic infrastructure trivia buffs, this should have bookended street repairs near the radio station that had just begun when I embarked on my previous departure, but this was not the case. More evidence that I shouldn't concern myself with what is on the ground. People keep trying to tell me. Who knows if I will ever listen.

I am hereby giving myself credit for reigniting Kid Catharsis's interest in Laraaji by playing today's lengthy opening piece. Why shouldn't I? Structurally, things get more hectic after that point, the changes coming faster and faster. Is that reminiscent of something? Does that do anything for you, listener? Is it perhaps none of my business?

As always, this was a "pop-up" program, and I don't know if or when I will be allowed to do this again. Life is contingency.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2019 May 4, 1000-1100:

1. "Equinox" | Laraaji & Lyghte | Celestial Realms | Morning Trip
2. "Side A" | Not Waving / Jim O'Rourke | Side A / Side B | Diagonal
3. "Hal - Wolfgang Voigt Mix" | Soulsavers | Pop Ambient 2017 | Kompakt
4. "New Dawn" | Seahawks | Eyes of the Moon | Cascine
5. "Nordmeer" | Benoît Honoré Pioulard, Sean Curtis Patrick | Avocationals | Beacon Sound
6. "Hawaii et Papaye" | Papillon | Cercueil flottant | Sucata Tapes
7. "Discovery" | Dravier | Spirit Channels | Not Not Fun
8. "Cerulean Skull" | DJ Rubio | Western Medicine | Man Band

channel spirits

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Let Me Take You Down the Corridors of My Life: Transmission 463, 2019 May 1

I must admit that I've been looking through my social media timelines for clues as to what was happening at the time these old programs were aired. It's been so long, and we seem to have passed through so many worlds, that I have reached a new order of magnitude of not-remembering, if that even makes sense. (Apologies, I am on my second vodka-and-Pompelmo as I write this.) Anyway, I must not have been doing much on social media at around this time. And it's just as well. Do you remember when Facebook and Twitter were fun? Or am I just hallucinating? At any rate it has been a crazy couple of months, I have been extremely offline, and I have little idea what is going on in the world.

This program is from a different era, and it begins a bit low-key. It gets going eventually, and I admit that I like where it goes. But it sounds foreign to me, for long stretches. How things have changed. This warrants an explanation, and I will try to provide it, by and by. But for now, try to live with the sounds.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 May 1, 2100-2300:

1. "Siraba Kele" | Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band | Siri Ba Kele | Sublime Frequencies
2. "Down in the Ghostness of Darkness" | Lonnie Holley | MITH | Jagjaguwar
3. "To Binge (sucks)" | Michael Valentine and the Heartaches | Michael Valentine | self-released
4. "Metal Gear Rex" | Gaijin Blues | Gaijin Blues | Shapes of Rhythm
5. "Labyrinth" | KineStatics | Labyrinth | FireScope
6. "Soo Soo Mungha" | Orchestre Abass | De Bassari Togo | Analog Africa
7. "I Worship the Sun" | Felt | Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty [reissue] | Cherry Red
8. "Paddle Boat" | Ernest Moon | Ba-jesus | BOBOS
9. "Ghosts" | Nancy Babich | Time Adds Up | self-released
10. "Babylon's Burning" | The Ruts | The Crack [reissue] | Virgin
11. "ProVision L-3 (#Resist Version)" | Against Me! | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
12. "Mi Globo De Nieve" | Donna Regina | Transient | Karaoke Kalk
13. "Different to Me" | Wire | Pink Flag | Pink Flag
14. "Dekondor" | Tiliboo Afrobeat | Two Tribes | Agogo
15. "Boyfriend Shirt" | Cherushii & Maria Minerva | Cherushii & Maria Minerva | 100% Silk
16. "Hell Is Round The Corner" | Tricky | Maxinquaye [reissue] | Island
17. "Come Along" | Nocow | Atoner | Rekids
18. "Don't Place Your Happiness in the Hands of Another" | The Telescopes | Exploding Head Syndrome | Tapete
19. "Prismatic Gateway" | Pye Corner Audio | Hollow Earth | Ghost Box
20. "Rock 'N' Roll / Night Clubbing" | The Human League | Travelogue | Caroline / Virgin | "The Listening Parlour"
21. "Black Noise - Afrikan Sciences Remix" | Khalab | Black Noise 2084 (Remixed) | On the Corner
22. "Mutations - Version" | Evan Caminiti | Refraction | Make Noise
23. "Mystic Dreams" | Adam F | Hold Tight / Mystic Dreams | Infrared
24. "The Pit" | Mike Cooper | Tropical Gothic | Discrepant
25. "The Boy" | XIII | Eocity | Gang of Ducks
26. "La Resistencia" | Perlita | Caballo Rojo | Lovemonk
27. "W.F.L." | FEELS | Post Earth | Wichita
28. "It's Good To Try" | Laurence Guy | Making Music Is Bad For Your Self Esteem | Studio Barnhus
29. "Hit the Lip" | The Senior Service | The Girl In The Glass Case | Damaged Goods
30. "Commercial Suicide Man" | The Nightingales with Vic Godard | Commercial Suicide Man | Tiny Global Productions
31. "Black Opium" | Martina Lussi | Diffusion is a Force | Latency

You humans are wondering where I am

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But What Does It Matter? Transmission 462, 2019 April 24

Serendipitously, I guess, I am trying to recall this program at the right time. I see that on this day "what we were enduring" was a tedious and stupid political argument about whether the incarcerated should have the right to vote. (They should.) And now, in the sweltering heat of a July that is surely cooler than any we will see in the future, I am compelled to think about "carceral logic," how it affects me, whether I embrace it, etc. It's been a wild ride at "theory camp" this year.

I would say I deserve "congratulations" somewhere on the spectrum of irony for managing to get three months behind in my postings, which is a record. What can I say? Life intrudes. We're trying to buy a house, and I am trying to be good at the things in my life that don't involve radio, for once. And I am also trying to sleep. As always, if you're unhappy with the service around here, we offer full refunds.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 April 24, 2100-2300:

1. "Windshield Wiper Rex" | Guided By Voices | Zeppelin over China | GBV Inc.
2. "Seneca" | Pedro Vian | Pedro Vian | Modern Obscure Music
3. "Fallen Name" | Landing | Bells In New Towns | El Paraiso
4. "Find a Way" | Asok | Better Dead Than Alien | M>O>S
5. "If All the People Took Acid" | FaltyDL | If All the People Took Acid | Blueberry
6. "Is This Your First Time? (Artificial Remix)" | Sobriquet | 3AM Spares | Efficient Space
7. "Toxin" | Eric Random | Two Faced | Klanggalerie
8. "I Am The Audience" | Brian Harris | No Fixed Adobe | self-released
9. "This Must Be Bedlam" | Piroshka | Brickbat | Bella Union
10. "Ella" | Pete Cannon | Sick Music 2019 | Hospital
11. "Heaven, Listen" | Weval | The Weight | Kompakt
12. "Ich Bin Klang" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Don't Get Lost | A Records
13. "Sidiki's Jam" | Sex Judas feat. Ricky | Go Down Judas | Optimo
14. "Bluebird" | Makoto X Hugh Hardie | Sick Music 2019 | Hospital
15. "Walking Distance" | Buzzcocks | Love Bites | Domino
16. "Obstacles" | Holly Golightly | Do The Get Along | Damaged Goods
17. "Coral" | Matt Robertson | Entology | Tape Club
18. "Stingray Nebula" | OUER | Stingray Nebula EP | Dirt Crew
19. "Rider from Nempnett Thrubwell" | Melodic Energy Commission | Migration of the Snails | Telephone Explosion
20. "Alyochan" | Kel Assouf | Black Tenere | Glitterbeat
21. "Another Thing" | HOMESHAKE | Helium | Sinderlyn
22. "Double Helix" | Brother Nebula | Going Clear EP | Touch from a Distance
23. "Echoes of you" | Ghost Transmission | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "We Are the Asteroid!" | Extrawelt | Unknown | Cocoon
25. "The Man With X-Ray Eyes" | Bauhaus | Mask [reissue] | Beggars Banquet
26. "Love Theme" | Scuba | Displaced Soundtracks Vol. 2 | Life and Death
27. "Real" | m a g g i e . w a v | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
28. "Suite For Jupiter" | MJ Lallo | Take Me with You [reissue] | Seance Centre
29. "Helix" | Tracey | Metamorphosis | Aus
30. "Sightlines" | Method One | Stomping Grounds EP | Commercial Suicide
31. "Rehndim" | Chris Carter | Chemistry Lessons Volume 1 | Mute

Feel at peace at altitude

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Validate What You Create: Transmission 461, 2019 April 23

I swear to god I will never be "good" at social media. Maybe it is because I am too old and maybe it is because I have lost the ability to master things, but I "lose" people and transactions for the dumbest and most unfathomable of reasons. This time it was over a discussion about Spotify and its connection to our station's "DJ" software which we are using, perhaps illicitly, as airplay software. It has always struck me as odd that nonprofit radio stations should pay any kind of royalties for doing artists the favor of publicizing their music, but that is a concession I have made in my dotage and tiredness. But to think that playing shoddy mp3 files on an "unauthorized" platform is a violation of some terms and conditions, and that Spotify stans on Twitter would "enforce" these for free, is completely beyond me. Consider me corncobbed. Add to this the fact that Lady C and I had an offer for a house rejected in favor of someone who threw down a quarter million dollars in cash, and that there was yet another station meeting prior to this program in which I felt thoroughly disrespected, and it was a "blastedly awful" day.

Anyway, this surprise edition of the program earned me a couple of nice interactions with local proprietor "Drummer John" who appreciated Cosey Fanni Tutti and Blind Idiot God. He told me I was helping him transcend. Transcend what I don't know. But if that isn't the point of all this I don't have a clue what is.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 April 23, 2100-2300:

1. "Unifying the Center (Abstract)" | Jayda G | Significant Changes | Ninja Tune
2. "Chelsea Girl" | Drones Club | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
3. "Are You Fine?" | Laurence Guy | Making Music Is Bad For Your Self Esteem | Studio Barnhus
4. "Contra - Indications" | The Durutti Column | Obey The Time [reissue] | Factory Benelux
5. "Sophic Ripple" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | TUTTI | Conspiracy International
6. "Winter Bloom" | Jon Porras | Voices of the Air | Ba Da Bing!
7. "Couleurs" | La Houle | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "Like Mary" | The Dream Syndicate | How Did I Find Myself Here? | Anti
9. "For You" | Secret Shine | There Is Only Now | Saint Marie
10. "What I Deserve" | Where We Sleep | Experiments In The Dark | self-released
11. "Bobira" | Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band | Siri Ba Kele | Sublime Frequencies
12. "Hideaway" | King Tubby & The Aggrovators | Dubbing in the Backyard | Pressure Sounds
13. "Happy Birthday" | The Wedding Present | John Peel Sessions 1987-1990 | Strange Fruit
14. "Freaked (Title Version)" | Blind Idiot God | Undertow [reissue] | Indivisible
15. "Love Is The Answer" | Healin' of the Nations | Take Us Home - Boston Roots Reggae: 1979 to 1988 | Cultures of Soul
16. "Next Week Thursday (Dub)" | Little Axe | London Blues | Echo Beach
17. "Demon Seed/Demon Flower" | The Membranes | What Nature Gives...Nature Takes Away | Cherry Red
18. "Six Six Sixties" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats | Mute
19. "From Here To Now" | Kill the Moose | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
20. "Too Cold For Your Eyes" | Bremen | Enter Silence | Blackest Ever Black
21. "Number 10" | Giuda | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
22. "Stay" | Soon, She Said | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Grmi Seva" | KineStatics | Labyrinth | FireScope
24. "A Single Life" | Renegade Pharmacy | Recovery Position | self-released
25. "abundance10edit[2 R8's, FZ20m & a 909]" | Aphex Twin | Collapse EP | WARP

Praised be the embrace of soft sleep

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Of Course You'll Scoff: Transmission 460, 2019 April 17

My notes from this show are brief and (surprise!) quite self-critical. "Djay Pro fucks up The Twilight Sad," I wrote; "I fucked up the segue too....The Wedding Present, as well! It seems to hate them....I messed up 'Minxed Driks.'" So it was a typical night out, it seems. Maybe a little bit rockist, listening back (again and again and again as I have put off writing this "entry"); Meat Beat Manifesto and Stratis don't really seem to fit but without them this show would not really be me. And it must be me because I am it.

On this day--maybe not that much was happening in the world. I think maybe this was the day someone did Pete Buttigieg cosplay, with the presidential candidate whipping a fake Christ on a cross. I have always found Easter LARPing to be the strangest and worst. Locally, the Squirrel Nut Zippers were in town and an alarming number of people my age were excited about this. Re-evaluating our tastes in the 90s seems to be something we were doing in the Spring of 2019. But--not sorry--I was right about the swing revival then and I am right about it now? How's that? I am sure the people who actually attended the gig on this night firmly believe the same thing about themselves. This must be the polarization that everyone is talking about.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 April 17, 2100-2300:

1. "Pin Drop" | Meat Beat Manifesto | Pin Drop | self-released
2. "Keep It All To Myself" | The Twilight Sad | IT WON'T BE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME | Rock Action
3. "Acknowledgement" | The Mattson 2 | Play "A Love Supreme" | Spiritual Pajamas
4. "Heatwave (Coming Towards You)" | Camila Fuchs | Heart Pressed Between Stones | ATP
5. "Theatre" | Stratis | New Face | Dark Entries
6. "Leave the Planet" | Galaxie 500 | On Fire [reissue] | 20|20|20
7. "Girls! Girls! Girls!" | Liz Phair | Girly-Sound to Guyville | Matador
8. "Fake Haka For E.C." | Poomse | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
9. "Guardia Castle" | Gaijin Blues | Gaijin Blues | Shapes of Rhythm
10. "Two Faced" | Eric Random | Two Faced | Klanggalerie
11. "Rose" | Slowness | Berths | Schoolkids
12. "Generation" | Wesqk Coast | S.T.A.S.H. | OOH-Sounds
13. "Check Sound Check" | Jac Berrocal / David Fenech / Vincent Epplay | Ice Exposure | Blackest Ever Black
14. "Outdoor Miner" | Wire | Chairs Missing | Pink Flag
15. "The Revelation Dub" | Alborosie | Alborosie Meets Roots Radics: Dub For The Radicals | Greensleeves
16. "Hanging By a Thread" | Cowbell | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
17. "The Intruder" | The Senior Service | The Girl In The Glass Case | Damaged Goods
18. "Suffocation as a Modern Pretext" | Neurotic Friends | The New Adventures of TBTCI | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Two Bridges" | The Wedding Present | Marc Riley Sessions Volume 2 | Hatch
20. "Take Us Home" | Danny Tucker | Take Us Home - Boston Roots Reggae: 1979 to 1988 | Cultures of Soul
21. "Enter Silence" | Bremen | Enter Silence | Blackest Ever Black
22. "To Pass Through The Walls And Vanish" | Nonconnah | Dead Roses, Digged up Zombies, Broken Pieces of Diamonds, Live Cats | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
23. "Minxed Driks" | Ernest Moon | Ba-jesus | BOBOS
24. "Eden 1.1" | Croatian Amor | Isa | Posh Isolation
25. "Imitation Pearls" | David J | Crocodile Tears And The Velvet Cosh [reissue] | Glass Modern
26. "Love Pours Out of My Heart" | Miss Ludella Black | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
27. "Drawing of a Lake" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope (II) | Numero Group
28. "Bucket List No.2" | Dragon Welding | Dragon Welding | A Turntable Friend
29. "The Clown Song" | Thin White Rope | The Ruby Sea [reissue] | Frontier
30. "The Uneven Ritual" | K. Leimer | Imposed Order / Imposed Absence | Palace of Lights
31. "Mexican Bandits" | Felt | The Splendour of Fear [Reissue] | Cherry Red
32. "Into My Arms" | Kill The Moose | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
33. "One Flesh" | The Chameleons | What Does Anything Mean? Basically | Blue Apple
34. "Good Morning Sir" | Guided By Voices | Zeppelin over China | GBV Inc.
35. "Get Clear" | The Room in the Wood | The Mars E.P. | A Turntable Friend
36. "Sloppy Homework" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.

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I'll Have To Stay By Your Side: Transmission 459, 2019 April 10

A long time has passed since I posted something, and I sincerely apologize. It's crazy season for me, work-wise: so crazy that I have a "student assistant" now. And apparently I am pathological enough to have burned through the first one, so good luck to that person's replacement. I have mentioned it before, but BOMBAST could really use an intern or something as well. But since I have the kind of program where I can't even give away free movie tickets, apparently, I am guessing there isn't much interest. So it goes.

How the sausage is made: I have a running "note" on my phone where I jot down real-time observations of my programs. "I hate this show so fucking much," I wrote on the night this aired. I must have had some sort of plan, but nothing was going right. My computer and the station's computers both decided to work against me. I did not help by throwing together some truly awful segues. I swear, the songs are good! And I promise to do better, or at least not any worse.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 April 10, 2100-2300:

1. "Cannot Be Saved" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Cannot Be Saved | 'a'
2. "Mother Earth" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
3. "Last Shift" | Stingray | Air Texture Vol. VI | Air Texture
4. "Chappers Said So" | CYRK | Superior Things | Vakant
5. "Sing Shed Sing" | Billy Childish and Sexton Ming | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
6. "Flabba Dub Step" | Alborosie | Alborosie Meets Roots Radics: Dub For The Radicals | Greensleeves
7. "Mossegades" | Ultim Cavall | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
8. "Too Hot" | Tight Knit | Too Hot | Not Unloved
9. "This Is But A Dream" | The Underground Youth | Montage Images Of Lust & Fear | Fuzz Club
10. "Mythenquai" | Lowtec | Light Surfing | Avenue 66
11. "Fenix" | Galaxina | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
12. "Jah Light" | Zion Initation | Take Us Home - Boston Roots Reggae: 1979 to 1988 | Cultures of Soul
13. "City of Refuge" | Blackout Transmission | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
14. "The More I See You" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Organisation [reissue] | Virgin
15. "You're a Taxi, I'm a Cab" | Hooray for Humans | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "Move In Blue - Homeward Mix" | James Place | Still Waves To A Whisper | Umor Rex
17. "Heart (feat. Moro)" | Lotic | Power | Tri Angle
18. "Glassvegas" | Ambros Chapel | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
19. "Melamed" | Afriqua | Vice / Principle | R & S
20. "Lawrence of California" | Mekons | Deserted | Bloodshot
21. "Cell" | NNYz? | Aetiology | Kahvi Collective
22. "How Far Is Spaced-Out?" | Lonnie Holley | MITH | Jagjaguwar
23. "Unravel Together" | Vieo Abiungo | The Dregs | Lost Tribe Sound
24. "Spells" | Nils Frahm | Encores 2 | Erased Tapes
25. "Eyes Embrace" | Plains Apparition | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
26. "Purple Crested Lourie" | Constantijn Lange | Elysian Fields | Laut & Luise

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M Is For The Mean Things That This Mean Man Does: Transmission 458, 2019 April 3

I don't know how I developed the theory, or superstition, that when I only do one program per week I am more careful, less mistake-prone. That idea is certainly undermined by this program that you find here. As "always" I had the best of intentions but not necessarily the best ideas, in the moment. Somehow I desired to play a Lemonheads song, and to play it after Karate Hiroshima (whose segue I think I biffed, if memory serves). Similarly I deemed it wise to play Wire after Pavo Pavo, and to play "Deceased Squirrel on the Phone" (featuring Bob Vratnicek--YES, LISTENERS, THAT BOB VRATNICEK!) after Dexter Story. At some point in WRFI's history we promised to strive for "excellence in content and technique," but who could predict that the arc of striving bent so gradually toward its goal?

At least I'm pretty sure I got Simon Raymonde's birthday correct, and as I have become fond of saying, "I'm sure he's listening."

Not much to add in the category of "what we were enduring this week," or "what were we healing from," or whatever it was I was calling that recurring diary feature. I think maybe a major centrist candidate entered the presidential race this week, so it looks like we'll all get to revisit the ill-conceived compromises of years past. I already do this constantly, in my head, so welcome to my world, everybody.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 April 3, 2100-2300:

1. "Idra" | Marvin & Guy | Solar Warriors | Life & Death
2. "Quisquose" | Cocteau Twins | Aikea-Guinea | 4AD
3. "Rushing the Acid Frat" | Stephen Malkmus | Groove Denied | Matador
4. "El Diablo Me Va a Llevar" | Nicola Cruz | Siku | ZZK
5. "The Light In My Little Girl's Eyes" | The Legendary Pink Dots | Any Day Now [reissue] | Metropolis
6. "Lo que quieras que sea, seré por ti" | Karate Hiroshima | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
7. "TAQN" | The Lemonheads | Varshons 2 | Fire
8. "Dive" | Bauhaus | In the Flat Field [reissue] | 4AD
9. "Evolution" | brim liski | Duels | Latenight Weeknight
10. "On The Road" | Yamila | Iras Fajro | Forbidden Colours
11. "Louder" | Pure Morning | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 3 - Viva Mexico! | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
12. "Manuwar" | Cairo Liberation Front | Eurabia, Vol. 1 | Byrd Out
13. "Close To Your Ego" | Pavo Pavo | Close To Your Ego | Bella Union
14. "Sand in My Joints" | Wire | Chairs Missing [reissue] | Pink Flag
15. "Midwest Flower" | Thin White Rope | The Ruby Sea [reissue] | Frontier
16. "Dubba Black" | Errol Brown | Orthodox Dub | Dub Store
17. "Behind the Wall" | Stranded | Celine's Dilemma EP | Optimo
18. "Birdsnest" | The Wedding Present | Going, Going... | Scopitones
19. "Secret Snake" | Objekt | Cocoon Crush | PAN
20. "I Never Could Tell You" | Business of Dreams | Ripe for Anarchy | Slumberland
21. "I Love Girls (He Loves Girls)" | Fat Cops | Fat Cops | self-released
22. "Deseo" | Apartmentos Acapulco | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Trace of You" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope (II) | Numero Group
24. "Worship & Passion" | Pablo's Eye | Dark Matter | Stroom
25. "TV Romance" | MELTNET | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
26. "First Tube" | Midland | Displaced Soundtracks Vol. 2 | Life and Death
27. "Electric Gurage" | Dexter Story | Electric Gurage | Soundway
28. "Catman" | Deceased Squirrel on the Phone (Feat. Bob Vratnicek) | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
29. "KAMA" | Mooner | O.M. | Outer Battery
30. "Capitalism" | Ernest Moon | Ba-jesus | BOBOS
31. "Red the Sign Post (alternate version)" | Fifty Foot Hose | Bad Trips | Modern Harmonic
32. "4AM" | NNYz? | Aetiology | Kahvi Collective
33. "Shimmering Bomb" | Stabudown Productions | Strange Rabbits | Diagonal
34. "Twice The Lovin' (In Half The Time)" | Jean Shepard and Speedy West | Hillbilly Music...Thank God! Volume 1 | Bug / Capitol | "The Listening Parlour"
35. "Soul City" | Bowery Electric | Lushlife [reissue] | Beggars Banquet

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