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Everything Is One, You Have Nothing To Do with It: Transmission 457, 2019 March 27

Welcome to the second night of a back-to-back engagement. No doubt, I must have been tired. But unlike the previous outing, this was "my" shift. Accordingly, this time around my mistakes were fewer (I think) and more routine (I think). So this is a typical program, I guess you'd say, and typically good too, though once again I've heard it way too much since.

That week people were really worked up about this (trolling?) retrospective of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. Maybe it is a generational thing, but I didn't regard that album as any good at the time and I don't think it has improved with age. It was certainly on "heavy rotation" on local corporate "alternative" radio--this did not endear it to me, but in fairness it didn't stand a chance when Liz Phair's Exile In Guyville was totally already out there (and which, incidentally, has aged well).

It got me thinking about a couple of things--first, the 90s, the total memory of which makes me shudder. I have issues with self-disgust in general, but I really don't like the person I was in that decade. How inconvenient it is that many of my life-defining experiences happened then. Coincidentally, or maybe not, I don't find myself liking a lot of music from that period, either, though I mostly still enjoy now what little I did then. Maybe it's just me but I feel like, collectively, we need to have a talk about what went on during that time.

Second, that nihilistic (and rightly loathed) critique is exactly the sort of thing I might write had I remained in the "various businesses" that paid me to do so. My own flawed decision-making and the pointless and cruel interventions of others have spared us all that fate. But, however late I am coming around to it, I daresay that I am finally learning to distinguish between the harmless and the harmful. Most of the time it is ok to let people like things--this must be what the kids mean when they say "just keep scrolling." But punk-style negation is very hard to unlearn. I am working on it, dear friends.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 March 27, 2100-2300:

1. "Dusty Fingers - Metrik Remix" | S.P.Y. | Sick Music 2019 | Hospital
2. "Everything In Colour" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
3. "All Men Are Dogs" | Harlem | Oh Boy | Female Fantasy
4. "I Feel Better All Over" | Ferlin Husky | The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 2 | Bear Family
5. "Goku" | Taylor Graves | Brainfeeder X | Brainfeeder
6. "Chapel O' Love" | b l u e s c r e e n | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
7. "Skunk" | A Certain Ratio | Mind Made Up [reissue] | Mute
8. "We Are the Snare" | Spare Snare | Sounds Recorded by Steve Albini | Chute
9. "God Bless You" | Sone Institute | Where Moth and Rust Consume | Front and Follow
10. "Sanity Starts At Home" | The Claim | Boomy Tella | A Turntable Friend
11. "Wolfbane" | The Orb | No Sounds Are Out of Bounds | Cooking Vinyl
12. "Real Eyes" | NNYz? | Aetiology | Kahvi Collective
13. "Another the Letter" | Wire | Chairs Missing [reissue] | Pink Flag
14. "Join The Dots" | Dragon Welding | Dragon Welding | A Turntable Friend
15. "They Kept Walking" | Frieder Nagel | Distract Robots | Infine
16. "Heroes" | A Merge Group | A Merge Group Plays "Heroes" | Merge
17. "Harry" | Bauhaus | The Bela Session | Leaving Records
18. "White Star Liner" | Public Service Broadcasting | White Star Liner | PIAS
19. "Hold Me, You Idiot" | b l u e__ΔCID | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
20. "It's Over" | CTMF | SQ 1 | Damaged Goods
21. "Help Me Mary" | Liz Phair | Girly-Sound to Guyville | Matador
22. "Blissos" | Lauer | Power | Running Back
23. "Split" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | TUTTI | Conspiracy International
24. "Champion of the Arena Dub" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
25. "Day Tripper" | Pom Poko | Birthday | Bella Union
26. "Want You" | Tight Knit | Too Hot | Not Unloved
27. "Ballare Sulla Tua Tomba" | Futuropaco | Futuropaco | El Paraiso
28. "Stranger Than Kindness" | Curl | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
29. "The Other Light" | David Vassalotti | Guitar Dream | Wharf Cat
30. "Bartender's Rag" | Thin White Rope | The Ruby Sea [reissue] | Frontier
31. "Soundtrack to the Daily Grind" | Graham Day And The Gaolers | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
32. "She's a Girl" | The Amps | Pacer | 4AD
33. "Night Time Diamonds" | Brian | EJOG | self-released
34. "Smooth False Foxglove" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope (II) | Numero Group
35. "Sing a Song - Live at Clouds Hill" | Tom Allan & The Strangest | Sing a Song (Live at Clouds Hill) | Clouds Hill

My hands are full and I only care about myself

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He's Scandinavian, That's Why I'm Confused: Transmission 456, 2019 March 26

Karmic debt accrues, I feel, when I sit in on another DJ's time slot. I wonder if anyone else feels this--it strikes me as odd now that I've sat down to write about it. The DJ has requested a substitute, so I'm not depriving them of anything. Might someone else have wanted this time? There's always a chance, but most of our vacated slots go unclaimed, despite public perception that I take them all. (It's true that I'm on a particular mission in calendar year 2019, but I'm trying to do only one of these appearances per month.) Still I feel that I don't belong here--a recurring theme of late, as it happens--and so my being here must come with a cost.

There are some really terrible segues in this hastily assembled program, namely Gyedu-Blay Ambolley and Jon K, whose songs were too good to leave out but nonetheless didn't "fit" (hmm--ed). I also did poorly with whatever I played from the Hugs for Chelsea benefit, except maybe the track by Priests. Jello Biafra was especially jarring, but then again when is he not? (In a strange bit of symmetry, Manning has been released from prison and then promptly sent back in since this program aired, so you should really buy that comp.)

I've also been in kind of a work-life funk since this program's airing (might it go back farther than that? I'm not sure) and have found it difficult to write and post, and I guess that too is part of my debt. Also, because I have been stuck, I have listened to this episode countless times at the gym and am fully tired of several tracks herein. But you'll just have to make guesses about that.

Surely Ranking Roger's death on this day was not part of my personal punishment, but it hurt all the same. I have, in middle age, come to see The (English) Beat as a lesser entity than The Specials, but in high school only the mod kids (one of whom I could never hope to be) liked Mr. Hall and co., whereas all the theatre kids like me were in thrall to I Just Can't Stop It. This one in particular pleases me because the band's influences are on full unapologetic display. I saw many social media "tributes" around this time bizarrely linking to Dave Wakeling showcases, and am proud to say that "Rough Rider" was one thing I got completely right on this weird evening.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 March 26, 2100-2300:

1. "Morning Beam" | Ash Is | Morning Beam EP | Perfect Motion
2. "Theories of Loneliness - Wice Remix" | Deep'a & Biri | Dominance Remixes | Black Crow
3. "Live in Fiction" | The KVB | Only Now Forever | Invada
4. "Catch You Dreaming" | Ride | Tomorrow's Shore | Wichita
5. "Anyways" | FEELS | Post Earth | Wichita
6. "Peste Rossa" | Futuropaco | Futuropaco | El Paraiso
7. "Distress" | Pijn | Loss | Holy Roar
8. "Burkina Faso" | Gyedu-Blay Ambolley | The Message | Analog Africa
9. "Breathe" | Boy Is Fiction / Ghosts of Tyto Alba | A Single Beam of Light | N5MD
10. "Not Today" | The Kominas | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
11. "2nd Thought" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Organisation [reissue] | Virgin
12. "The Other Window" | Wire | 154 | Pink Flag
13. "Asafo" | Jon K | Asafo / Enye Woa | Soundway
14. "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Mellow)" | Stereolab | The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music [reissue] | Too Pure
15. "Perluv" | Robag Wruhme | Wuzzelbud FF | Hart & Tief
16. "Nothing Feels Natural" | Priests | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
17. "Speak You Me" | Coldharbourstores | Vesta | Enraptured
18. "2nd Foundation" | Jakob Skott | Instrumentality | El Paraiso
19. "This Is Almost A Happy Ending" | 48 Cameras | Chosen Songs | Stroom
20. "White People And The Damage Done" | Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine | Hugs for Chelsea: benefit for Chelsea Manning | not on label
21. "Perversions of Humankind" | ADULT. | This Behavior | Dais
22. "Marble" | Martes Niebla | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
23. "Ubary" | Kel Assouf | Black Tenere | Glitterbeat
24. "New Facts Emerge" | The Fall | New Facts Emerge | Cherry Red
25. "Wish I Had a Pretty Dog" | The Orb | No Sounds Are Out of Bounds | Cooking Vinyl
26. "Farmer C" | Alpha Stone | Stereophonic Pop Art Music | Hoga Nord Arkiv
27. "Film" | Chatham Rise | Meadowsweet | Picture in My Ear
28. "Overrated - Robin Guthrie Version" | Echo Ladies | Overrated (Robin Guthrie Version) / Rebel Rebel | Sonic Cathedral
29. "Et Avant" | Free Love | Luxury Hits | Full Ashram
30. "Pole" | A Certain Ratio | Change the Station [reissue] | Mute
31. "Rough Rider" | The English Beat | I Just Can't Stop It | I.R.S.

Perhaps I will change

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Cruising Altitude Departure 31, 2019 March 23

[GUEST POST]

Good day to you, traveler. I bring you greetings from some seven weeks after this program aired. If I recall correctly, which is never a safe bet, this was a wet, gray, somewhat cold morning in the Ithaca area. It was "Spring" by the slimmest of technicalities, though winter never seems far away here. "Sunlit but Shivering?" Maybe a little of that. "Partly sunny" is a local specialty. In any case it was a reasonable day for flying, and apparently I was needed. I rose to the challenge as I sometimes do.

This program was book-ended by two long and lovely pieces. I received a compliment on the Michael Morley tune, which made me feel nice even though I didn't create the music! What is the psychology of that, I wonder? I did not receive any praise for playing Becoming Animal, but then again it was not required. I am happy to play just about any fruit of the Cindytalk tree.

Again, this was a "surprise" program, and I have done yet another one in the meantime. I will write a report at some point, I am sure. When time allows, when it allows.

CRUISING ALTITUDE playlist, 2019 March 23, 1000-1100:

1. "Cease The Four Winds" | Michael Morley | Heavens Idleness Awaits | Thin Wrist
2. "Sky" | SLV | Berlin. Portrait In Music | Soma Quality Music
3. "Toward a Boundless Uncertainty, Sunlit But Shivering" | Benoit Pioulard | Toward a Boundless Uncertainty... | Mellotron
4. "4(E+D)4(ER=EPR)" | William Basinski | On Time Out of Time | Temporary Residence Ltd.
5. "The Courtesan Jigokudayu Sees Herself as a Skeleton in the Mirror of Hell" | Black to Comm | Seven Horses For Seven Kings | Thrill Jockey
6. "The Sky Is Ever Falling - Abul Mogard Remix" | Becoming Animal | And We Are Passing Through Silently | Houndstooth

not not fun

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We Are Your Latenight Weeknight Companion: Transmission 455, 2019 March 20

I'm finally tired of not writing and not posting. How about you? Currently I am multitasking, straddling the distant and near past, editing an episode from four days ago as I try to gather my impressions of this program from nearly two months ago. I've heard this one so many times on my iPod that I don't think I can make sense of it anymore, if I ever could. Maybe I never could.

This particular day was the "International Day of Happiness" but there's a good chance that I was not participating. It was the Iraq was anniversary (which one? I think maybe the second one, like it matters) and I think the President was trying (and probably succeeding) in banning transgender people from the military. Personally I think no one should be in the military, but it's the largest employer in this fucked-up society we have, and my tax dollars pay for it, so I kind of think everyone should be able to feed from that trough. Except Nazis, maybe. On that note, we were also still trying to wrap our heads around the Christchurch massacre, which was five days earlier, and the best our "opposition party" could do was stage some kind of symbolic vote to condemn a Muslim congresswoman, so congratulations everyone.

Predictably, this sentence from my recollection of the previous program--"I biffed a bunch of segues and got very mad at myself behind the scenes"--works perfectly well with this program too. I should probably leave it in every little thing I write about this ongoing adventure. I'm not going to tell you what was good and what was bad. You'll have to figure it out for yourself. Aren't you glad I'm back?

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 March 20, 2100-2300:

1. "African Starship" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | African Starship | On-U Sound
2. "Mother Courage" | Hula | Cut From Inside | Klanggalerie
3. "Un astronaute" | Station 17 | Ausblick | Bureau B
4. "Atuy So Kata - Patric Catani Remix" | Umeko Ando | Atuy So Kata | Pingipung
5. "Can't Wait" | Nancy Babich | Time Adds Up | self-released
6. "Blue Thunder" | Galaxie 500 | On Fire [reissue] | 20|20|20
7. "Yummer Yummer Man" | Danielle Dax | Dark Adapted Eye | Rubellan Remasters
8. "Nineteen 7" | Chris Carter | Chemistry Lessons Volume 1 | Mute
9. "Airports" | Osynlige Mann | Airports / Exodus | Hoga Nord
10. "Spillway" | Inner River | Inner River | Atomnation
11. "The Music Years" | brim liski | Duels | Latenight Weeknight
12. "Tear up the Red Sky" | The Young Gods | Tear up the Red Sky | Two Gentlemen
13. "Tolu" | Sonido Gallo Negro | Mambo Cosmico | Glitterbeat
14. "Spanish House" | Felt | The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories [reissue] | Cherry Red
15. "Favour" | Mark Stewart | Favour | On-U Sound
16. "Lancelot's Last Word" | Blue Orchids | Righteous Harmony Fist | Tiny Global Productions
17. "Daytona" | Commodo | Rikers | Deep Medi Musik
18. "It Isn't About That" | Stefano Ritteri | Mutanda | Viaggio
19. "Isolation Dub" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
20. "Fight" | Nicolas Jaar | Nymphs [reissue] | R & S
21. "The Middle Section" | Bremen | Enter Silence | Blackest Ever Black
22. "A God in an Alcove" | Bauhaus | In the Flat Field [reissue] | 4AD
23. "Love Bomb (Grinderman)" | Bone Acre | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
24. "When Whales Make Love" | Sampleman and the Music Mutant | Third Ear Music | self-released
25. "Theme #1" | Pom Poko | Birthday | Bella Union
26. "I'm Hurting" | Thee Headcoats | In Tweed We Trust [reissue] | Damaged Goods
27. "Outside" | Edwyn Collins | Outside | AED
28. "Lost in Saint Petersburg" | Lake Haze | Shall Not Fade - 3 Years of Service | Shall Not Fade
29. "Tokai Desu" | foodman | Moriyama | Palto Flats
30. "Bending" | BELP | Crocodile | SVS

Music isn't about that

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She Understands There Are Problems: Transmission 454, 2019 March 17

Alright, we're really out of date now. Familiar ground--feels good! Anyway, this is a fill-in program from about a month ago, executed in partial daylight, which Lady Catharsis and I both found somewhat confusing. I'll just make a blanket statement that this basically didn't work, for a number of reasons. Mostly it came down to me.

There were conflicting "concepts" of this program, and usually it works best when there is no concept. The "physical evidence" aspect of the show--the Wanda Jackson record--was alright. My "green" idea was lazy and bad, though in my defense I have heard people do entire "themed" programs based on entering a search term in Spotify (like, I don't know, "peace" and things like that) and playing an entire two-hour "playlist" based on songs with that term in the title. I'm reminding myself and you that I could be much worse.

Also, I biffed a bunch of segues and got very mad at myself behind the scenes. My foray into "sober history" wasn't great. But I stand by what I said about Carl Craig: you should definitely follow him!

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 March 17, 1900-2100:

1. "The Presence" | Crispy Ambulance | Live On A Hot August Night (Comprising The Presence And Concord Square) | Factory Benelux
2. "Everything's Gone Green" | New Order | Everything's Gone Green | Factory
3. "If You Don't Somebody Else Will" | Billy Gray & Wanda Jackson | Early Wanda Jackson | Bear Family
4. "Green Eyed Loco-Man" | The Fall | The Real New Fall LP (Formerly 'Country On The Click') | Action
5. "I Cried Again" | Wanda Jackson | Early Wanda Jackson | Bear Family
6. "Greenfingers" | The Camberwell Now | Meridian / Greenfingers | Modern Classics
7. "Green Light" | Sonic Youth | Evol | DGC
8. "Wasted" | Wanda Jackson | Early Wanda Jackson | Bear Family
9. "Es 30" / "Televised Green Smoke" | Carl Craig | More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art | SSR
10. "Soyoyo" | Kings Aigbologa Bucknor & His Afrodisk Beat Organisation | Katakata | Hot Casa
11. "I'd Rather Have a Broken Heart" | Wanda Jackson | Early Wanda Jackson | Bear Family
12. "Arithmetic" | Ultramarine | Signals into Space | Les Disques du Crepuscule
13. "Tears At The Grand Ole Opry" | Wanda Jackson | Early Wanda Jackson | Bear Family
14. "Forever Sunshine" | Karl Hund | Karl Hund | Violette
15. "Love on a Pale Green Post Stamp (Live)" | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Dice Are Rolling: A Play It Again Sam Records Sample | Play It Again Sam
16. "Lovin' Country Style" | Wanda Jackson | Early Wanda Jackson | Bear Family
17. "Evergreen Dazed" | Felt | Absolute Classic Masterpieces | Cherry Red
18. "Dhyana" | Efficient Refineries | Terahertz | No.

Ours is a nocturnal program

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Never Was Naive Enough To Know When I Was Wrong: Transmission 453, 2019 March 13

I see that I have fallen behind again, with the postings. I hope you enjoyed our brief getaway to the land of timeliness as much as I did. Things have been busy--at work, in life, online. Huge tasks are everywhere, as are galaxy-brain takes. Accordingly, we have grabbed a few extra opportunities to sit in the WRFI studio and chill out with music for a couple of hours at a time. I highly recommend this!, if you happen to have a community radio station near you with which you might get involved.

At this juncture of space-time we were all occupying ourselves with the "admissions scandal" involving some American universities, and some moderately rich people and their failsons and -daughters. Funny as it was to think of Lori Loughlin and company being disgraced for a minute--they will never go to jail--I can't help but feel sad for them and their kids, being not quite wealthy enough to buy the university a building, the preferred (and totally legal) way of bypassing review. And I felt sad for myself, as any higher-education imbroglio triggers damaging memories of my previous life. I was having some feelings on this night.

Somehow I couldn't mouth the words "social media addicts," which is what I am afraid I have become. And I managed to put Electric Blabla all over the place in this program. Come to think of it, that's a virtue, not a flaw.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 March 13, 2100-2300:

1. "City Hearts" | Carl Matthews | Call for World Saviours | Bureau B
2. "Blam Blam Fever" | The Specials | Encore | Island
3. "Breathing" | Ultramarine | Signals into Space | Les Disques du Crepuscule
4. "Radical Chic" | Friedrich Sunlight | Glaspalast - Eine Zusammenstellung von Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten | Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten
5. "Walpurgis Night - DJ Varsovie Sex With Ghosts Remix" | I Hate Models | Midnight Cults | Khemia
6. "The Commercial" | Wire | Pink Flag [reissue] | Pink Flag
7. "Atmosphere" | Eccentric Blabla | Glaspalast - Eine Zusammenstellung von Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten | Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten
8. "Puppet Dog" | Thin White Rope | The Ruby Sea [reissue] | Frontier
9. "Saavendra" | Dissmentado | The Best of Dissmentado | Huntleys & Palmers
10. "Linnaea" | Pariah | Here From Where We Are | Houndstooth
11. "Clavinet / Phaser" | Stefan Geissler | Glaspalast - Eine Zusammenstellung von Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten | Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten
12. "Tilly" | Cairo Liberation Front | Eurabia, Vol. 1 | Byrd Out
13. "This is Not a Game" | Philip Sanderson | On One of These Bends | Seance Centre
14. "Ekule Nugble Nu" | Orchestre Abass | De Bassari Togo | Analog Africa
15. "fragrant" | serpentwithfeet | soil | Secretly Canadian
16. "Fond Affections (Portobello Road Version)" | Rema-Rema | Fond Reflections | 4AD
17. "Tombes Oubliees" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Forgotten Graves | 'a' Records
18. "Passage" | Naibu | Manoeuvres | Horizons
19. "Corn Dolly" | The Heartwood Institute | The Corn Mother | A Year In The Country
20. "Wolferseder" | ab repeat | Glaspalast - Eine Zusammenstellung von Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten | Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten
21. "Escape and Return" | Tradition | Captain Ganja and the Space Patrol | Bokeh Versions
22. "City of Atomic Ghost" | Black Rain | Computer Soul EP | Blackest Ever Black
23. "Bjanka" | Ligovskoi | Esam | Field
24. "Weg Der Harmonie" | Zimt | Glaspalast - Eine Zusammenstellung von Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten | Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten
25. "On, On, On, On..." | Tom Tom Club | Tom Tom Club [reissue] | Real Gone
26. "What's Next?" | Piroshka | What's Next? | Bella Union
27. "Down" | NNYz? | Aetiology | Kahvi Collective
28. "Jubilee Street" | Neu Matter | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Curtains are shut, the furniture is gone

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You Can't Get Enough, But Enough Ain't the Test: Transmission 452, 2019 March 6

Here is a program for the vaults! Alright, they all* go to the vaults. But this one belongs in the "pantheon," or whatever it is we call that non-literal space where the really good ones wind up. Admittedly, the bar for entry may be low--all it takes are a solid, rocking two hours of music and a minimum of technical errors (sorry, Sunset Images) or gaffes on my part. So I hope you enjoy this one.

*They don't all make it to the vault. I am thinking of course of Transmission 19, from this very date six years ago, carelessly deleted by me. I was so crushed by this at the time--the program was so new and yet I had already sealed its fate as an imperfect time capsule. I need not have felt this way, of course, since I had already chronicled this program much better than my previous radio gig, but how I feel is how I feel.

It didn't occur to me until this week that I might at least partly reconstruct that missing program by cobbling together a streaming playlist. Why not? I suppose I am slow and/or wary to accept substitutes for the thing I want. Anyway, I did it and you can listen to it here. Funny thing about this--I was feeling not too long ago that this BOMBAST thing was perhaps winding down, that I wasn't as good in 2019 as I had been back then. But listening to this playlist and the last few shows, I'm reassured. So you're stuck with me, for a while.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 March 6, 2100-2300:

1. "Snowglobe" | Secret Shine | There Is Only Now | Saint Marie
2. "Dar a luz" | Refree | La otra mitad | Tak:til / Glitterbeat
3. "L'art Pour L'art" | Donna Regina | Transient | Karaoke Kalk
4. "24 Hours" | Silent Servant | Shadows of Death and Desire | Hospital Productions
5. "Technotown" | Stratis | New Face | Dark Entries
6. "Solidarite" | Dragon Welding | Dragon Welding | A Turntable Friend
7. "Tony Hart" | Alpha Stone | Stereophonic Pop Art Music | Hoga Nord Arkiv
8. "Acid Lab" | London Modular Alliance | INTLBLK006 | International Black
9. "A Finnish Bedtime Story" | Pas Musique | The Phoenix | Alrealon
10. "Crazy Energy Night" | Pom Poko | Crazy Energy Night | Bella Union
11. "Used To Be Friends" | Big Joanie | Sistahs | Daydream Library Series
12. "Don't Know Why" | Tajak | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 3 - Viva Mexico! | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
13. "Sarah Lee" | Bob Orrison | The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1 | Bear Family | "The Listening Parlour"
14. "ケミカルラブ" | Neon95 | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
15. "Girl With Cassettes Fritz Catlin Mix" | The Big Believe | Tania Was a Truth Teller | Loud Reminders
16. "Board" | Chogori | Heat Haze | Modularfield
17. "Picnicing" | Starlight | Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth Boogie in 1980s South Africa | Soundway
18. "Ghost Orchid - Cleveland Remix" | Benjamin Frohlich | Rude Collection | Permanent Vacation
19. "Hovercraft (edit)" | Neonian | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
20. "Home Is A Feeling" | Ride | Weather Diaries | Wichita
21. "Transmission Dub" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
22. "Stai male" | Succhiamo | Mani In Fuoco | Antinote
23. "Bronwen" | Monks Road Social | Down the Willows | Wonderfulsound
24. "Intervall" | Baby Grandmothers | Merkurius | Subliminal
25. "Dawn" | Ah! Kosmos | Beautiful Swamp | Compost
26. "When I Look up at the Sky" | Jah Wobble | In Trance | 30 Hertz
27. "No Hay Lugar" | Sunset Images | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 3 - Viva Mexico! | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
28. "Meftunum Sana" | Gaye Su Akyol | Istikarli Hayal Hakikattir | Glitterbeat
29. "Honeymoon Croon" | Bauhaus | Burning From The Inside [reissue] | Beggars Banquet
30. "The Fish Song" | Thin White Rope | The Ruby Sea [reissue] | Frontier
31. "Rebel Rebel" | Echo Ladies | Overrated (Robin Guthrie Version) / Rebel Rebel | Sonic Cathedral
32. "Tchus" | Slim Media Player | Quicksand | Pacific Rhythm

Remember when we cut off our hair

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Another Island Where No One Remembers Your Name: Transmission 451, 2019 February 27

On a day when I played Throwing Muses and Throwing Snow, I wanted to throw things. I was angry online and in life--strangely, though, not in therapy, where my counselor was telling me that "effective anger" (what is that?) is something I need to find in myself if I am ever to tap into another, more pleasant emotion. Great. During this program I was, admittedly, too busy reading (and writing?) bad tweets to keep my show on the rails--sorry, Telescopes and Brian Harris!--or answer a listener text. Someone asked me who Kenny Ritter (of "Kenny Ritter Memorial Studio" fame) was.

In my defense, that is something I used to know but no longer do. I think perhaps he was one of the original WRFI board members, back when the station was simply a repeater. He seems to have been a much-loved local activist of some sort, and a relative (or in-law?) of at least one occasional WRFI personality. Maybe a current board member, or anyone with more expertise than me (that's a large pool) could chime in here.

I should mention, before I forget, that I was graced by Drummer John's interventions--suggesting Ozric Tentacles, whom I had never heard (!), and telling me that I was helping him "transcend." I didn't ask what. It's his business, I guess.

A realization: I let the last program pass without noting that it was a milestone. I think that maybe this is good? Program 450 marked about 900 hours of airtime, which, I have always estimated, had to be the approximate amount of time I put in at my last radio gig. So I think that by every possible measure we can now consider that the rehearsal and this "the real thing," god help us. It's bewildering to ponder, and I have so many conflicting feelings about that time and its relationship to this one. Take that, therapist!

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 February 27, 2100-2300:

1. "Diapason" | Jiboia | 0000 | Discrepant
2. "Takeover (intro)" | Babe Roots / Another Channel | Takeover EP | Echocord
3. "Spark from Flint to Clay" | Ultramarine | Signals into Space | Les Disques du Crepuscule
4. "Loverman" | New Apostles | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
5. "You Were Never Here" | The Telescopes | Exploding Head Syndrome | Tapete
6. "Dress Sexy for Me" | Brian Harris | The Sun Won | self-released
7. "Serpent Tongue" | The Messthetics | The Messthetics | Dischord
8. "Sunray Venus" | Throwing Muses | Purgatory / Paradise | Happy Happy Birthday to Me | "The Listening Parlour"
9. "Paramount Lobby" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
10. "Joan Of Arc" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Architecture and Morality [reissue] | Virgin
11. "Opilio" | Lapalux | Brainfeeder X | Brainfeeder
12. "Subtitles" | Throwing Snow | Loma | Houndstooth
13. "Survey" | P.A. Hulsenbeck | Garden of Stone | Altin Village & Mine
14. "Waters" | Steeple Remove | Vonal-Axis | Fuzz Club
15. "Shattering Through" | CUTS | A Gradual Decline | Village Green
16. "Sploosh!" | Ozric Tentacles | Strangeitude | Dovetail
17. "Moe" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | TUTTI | Conspiracy International
18. "Saafiyeey Makaa Saraayeey" | Dur-Dur Band | Dur Dur of Somalia - Vol. 1, Vol. 2 | Analog Africa
19. "Jerusalem Dub" | Scientist | The Scientist in the Kingdom of Dub | Superior Viaduct
20. "Spirit Channels" | Dravier | Spirit Channels | Not Not Fun
21. "Laif of Smit" | Brainwaltzera | Epi-Log EP | Film
22. "Exposure" | Nancy Babich | Time Adds Up | self-released
23. "A Vigorous Unfolding" | Ricardo Donoso | Calibrate | Denovali
24. "Dressing up in Other People's Clothes" | Orbital | Monsters Exist | ACP
25. "The Song I Said I'd Make for You" | Prequel | Without You | Distant Hawaii

Open your mouth, you're blessed for the moment

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This Is Why First Impressions Are Often Correct: Transmission 450, 2019 February 20

Every day feels like a rollercoaster, but some are more rollercoasterish than others. I woke up last Wednesday to the news that Mermaids got their money after all, and it was encouraging to see Graham Linehan accurately described somewhere, for once. The day also brought the return of Bernie Sanders, which I should probably see as good even though it guarantees that we will be our worst selves for the next 21 months and probably beyond. In darker news, this day witnessed another plot twist in the totally disorienting Jussie Smollett saga, giving hate crime apologists everywhere ammunition to say that such things don't really happen, and making us choose between believing someone who might be an attention-seeking fraud or believing the Chicago Police Department. Oh, and there was a reminder that apparently our military breeds and harbors white nationalists, an underreported story that doesn't seem likely to end well. So--much to heal from on this night! Fortunately I am a doctor (sigh, ok I am not that kind of doctor).

Oh, I forgot one last thing--the director of the next Ghostbusters film said he was turning the franchise back over to "the fans," which made me think--what would happen if I did that with BOMBAST? It couldn't hurt--I'd like to think my listeners have better taste than anyone who gets worked up over Ghostbusters, and it's difficult to imagine people with worse technique than myself. Good grief--what was happening with those Amps and Waves of Dread segues? "Julie," which I played as a nice gesture for a Twitter friend, was a decent song but didn't fit well where I put it. I made the Orbital and Michael Head segues lag. APOLOGIES ALL AROUND. Finally, the NYZ tune was not as I recalled it, but in my defense, it was the one thing I liked on their otherwise impenetrable record. If there's one moment in this program that's "the dream" of the show, it's The Wedding Present fading into Baloji. I can't recommend it enough. Elsewhere, good tunes individually but dizzying incoherence overall. Art mirroring life!

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 February 20, 2100-2300:

1. "Meteor Shower" | Marc Romboy & Petar Dundov | Dimension D | Systematic
2. "Exodus" | Osynlige Mann | Airports / Exodus | Hoga Nord
3. "You Are Nowhere" | Rainbow Grave | Sex Threat | God Unknown
4. "Abhara" | Sonnenstadt | We've Been Hiding Too Long | Unforced
5. "Fu Manchu Dub" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
6. "Echoes" | Echolog | Longest Summer | Greta Cottage Woodpile
7. "Mom's Drunk" | The Amps | Pacer | 4AD
8. "The Mercy Seat" | Waves of Dread | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
9. "Beer Bottle Mama" | Andy Reynolds & His 101 Ranch Boys | Hillbilly Boogie! | Columbia - Legacy | "The Listening Parlour"
10. "Julie (feat. Julie Schulte)" | The Black Watch | Julie | Bandcamp self-release
11. "What Did Your Last Servant Die Of?" | The Wedding Present | George Best 30 | Scopitones
12. "Ciel d'encre" | Baloji | 137 Avenue Kaniama | Bella Union
13. "Queen Of All Saints" | Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band | Adios Señor Pussycat | Violette
14. "A Winter In Los Angeles" | Massimiliano Pagliara | Feel Live | Live at Robert Johnson
15. "Search Engine Translate" | Akito | Gone Again | Tight Knit
16. "Battered at a Scramble" | Mogwai | Every Country's Sun | Rock Action
17. "Channel the Spirits" | The Comet Is Coming | Channel The Spirits | Leaf
18. "Seen and Not Seen" | Talking Heads | Remain in Light [reissue] | Sire
19. "Jus Right" | Saine | Act Natural | Delusions of Grandeur
20. "Theme for the Lost World" | Maajo | Permanent Vacation 5 | Permanent Vacation
21. "Percussion Concussion" | Hazards of Prophecy | Minnie & Marcos | Tiff's Joints
22. "Harm Joy" | The C.I.A. | The C.I.A. | In The Red
23. "Buried Deep Within" | Orbital | Monsters Exist | ACP
24. "Wobbly" | Will Saul | Arps & Early Starts | Aus
25. "Liberty City" | Mark Stewart & The Maffia | Learning To Cope With Cowardice [reissue] | Mute
26. "Perris - Inevitable Forthcoming Netflix Docudrama Version" | Finlay Shakepeare | Routine | Editions Mego
27. "Who's out on Quaoar?" | Planet Battagon | Battagon Symphony EP | On the Corner
28. "PTSone-r60subtree119c3tta" | NYZ | Shftr Frq | The Death of Rave

That's not what I wanted to hear

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I'll Walk You Through The Heartbreak, Show You All the Outtakes: Transmission 449, 2019 February 13

Welcome to our Peter Hook birthday tribute, and our second New Order / Joy Division dance party in a six-week span. It was a tough ask, using this music to follow "Jamaican Clash," but we did the best we could. The date of this broadcast was Elliott Abrams day, on which we learned that it's apparently rude to ask basic questions about the past--at least, for a black person to do it. So I guess I needed to be careful.

Did this program "ask questions?" Not really. It didn't help that Lady Catharsis couldn't make it to the studio for "the banter that you would expect on an occasion like this"--she has a life outside radio, and I don't. So we didn't get to discuss the weirdness of being a New Order fan before discovering Joy Division, or the "divorce" and New Order's continued trading under that brand name even though Peter Hook, their most distinctive musician, is gone. And we didn't discuss our shared feeling that New Order basically ended for us around the time of "Substance," when things were rumored to be ending anyway. Anyway, the playlist doesn't lie. I'm just relieved I got some basic things correct for once, such as "Procession" being an A-side and "Turn the Heater On" being a Keith Hudson tune. Plus--bringing things back around to Abrams, I suppose--I got away with (playing) "Murder," which Lady Catharsis hates! Mostly, a good time was had--by me, and hopefully by you as well.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 February 13, 2100-2300:

1. "Disorder" | Joy Division | Still | Factory - Rhino
2. "In a Lonely Place" | New Order | Substance | Qwest
3. "The Him" | New Order | Movement | London - Rhino
4. "Procession" | New Order | 1981-1982 | Factory - Polygram
5. "Age of Consent" | New Order | Power, Corruption & Lies | Factory - Qwest
6. "Murder" | New Order | Substance | Qwest
7. "Sunrise" | New Order | Low-life | Factory - Qwest
8. "Broken Promise" | New Order | Brotherhood | Factory - Qwest
9. "Sub-culture" | New Order | Low-life | Factory - Qwest
10. "Ecstasy" | New Order | Power, Corruption & Lies | Factory - Qwest
11. "Blue Monday" | New Order | Substance | Qwest
12. "Turn The Heater On" | New Order | Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit
13. "Everything's Gone Green" | New Order | 1981-1982 | Factory - Polygram
14. "Dreams Never End" | New Order | Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit
15. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" | Joy Division | Substance | Qwest
16. "Atmosphere" | Joy Division | Substance | Qwest
17. "24 Hours" | Joy Division | The Complete BBC Recordings | True North
18. "Dead Souls" | Joy Division | Substance | Qwest
19. "Exercise One" | Joy Division | The Complete BBC Recordings | True North
20. "A Means to an End" | Joy Division | Closer | Factory - Rhino
21. "Incubation" | Joy Division | Substance | Qwest
22. "Shadowplay" | Joy Division | Unknown Pleasures | Factory - Rhino
23. "Digital" | Joy Division | Substance | Qwest
24. "Mesh" | New Order | 1981-1982 | Factory - Polygram
25. "The Sound of Music" | Joy Division | The Complete BBC Recordings | True North

I did everything, everything I wanted to

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