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  • Maybe Heaven Is All That’s There: Transmission 415, 2018 July 15

    An opportunity arose for me to do a stand-in appearance, so in I stood. Not only that, but it was an early-evening show, despite the fact that I've been telling myself for years that I don't work in daylight (that would be Captain Halcyon's role, but he has flown off to "bluer skies," whatever that means). So on at least three levels this was a "throwback" kind of program, the third being that, like the previous outing, I played some stuff I'd played before, and notably long pieces. What can I say? This summer is making me want to regress.


    On that note--I thought long and hard about it while the track was playing, and awesome though it is, I don't think I can hear "The Fatal Day" anymore, given some things that are happening. That is rough. I remember first hearing it--of course--in the studio at KDVS, loud enough to make the walls shake. (If you aren't blown away by that experience, there is something wrong with you; there was a Godflesh tune with which I had a similar experience.) It was one of those 4AD summers, of which there seem to have been many. I suspect that multiple people did what I proceeded to do--surreptitiously "borrowing" the record from the station's library (a state crime over which you could lose any financial aid you were receiving) so I could tape it at home. Good times! Whatever happened to that stupid, fearless kid? Only the stupid remains, I think.


    Should I confess to a criminal offense every time I post a program? That seems like a good journey to embark on.


    BOMBAST playlist, 2018 July 15, 1900-2100:


    1. "Rocket USA" | Thin White Rope | Bottom Feeders | Zippo

  • "The Fatal Day" | In Camera | Fin | 4AD

  • "Flood" | Pell Mell | Flow | SST

  • "Archimedes" / "Parellelogram" / "Radio Wolna" / "Porpoise" | UBEK | Ubek | Sucata Tapes

  • "Video 586" | New Order | Video 586 | Touch

  • "Daily Disco" / "Swing" / "The Evening's Young" / "Pin Ball Cha Cha" | Yello | 1980-1985 The New Mix In One Go | Vertigo

  • "Ase" | King Sunny Ade | Aura | Mango

  • "Fire-Eater" | The Wolfgang Press | The Legendary Wolfgang Press and Other Tall Stories | 4AD

  • "The Gospel Comes to New Guinea" | 23 Skidoo | The Gospel Comes to New Guinea | Fetish

  • "The Dance #2" | Laraaji | Ambient 3: Day of Radiance | Glitterbeat

    • We are us, who is to trust

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    1 hr 58 min
  • You Will Have an Experience That Will Seem Completely Real: Transmission 414, 2018 July 4
    This program came at the end of a "day off" in which there was very little to do. This is an odd thing (I think) about Ithaca: the 4th of July is kind of vacant in terms of civic activities. The fireworks are usually the night before, for example. One doesn't hear about holiday-related festivities, though perhaps I am not listening. At any rate, I kept myself busy on this day by worrying about work--there would be a huge event the next day, but it is never too early to freak out.
    The week prior, I had found myself marvelling at what I called the "simple joy" of someone else's show. I can't say I set out deliberately to chase that this time around (which may be my problem in the first place), but I do think that on at least a subconscious level that explains why I played so many things in this program that I have played before, and so many lengthy things specifically. It felt like the old days, when I would do stuff like this all the time and not really be bothered. What a life I had then! That is what I miss, more than the person I was.
    You know what else I miss? Having an Isacc Hayes record that is in decent condition! Good grief, my copy of Joy is in bad shape. Somehow we made it through that, together, which is nice. Do you know what else we made it through? My 10,000th track played on the air at WRFI, if you can believe it--actually whether or not you believe it it is true. "Soul Soldier" is the answer to this trivia question. You're welcome.
    BOMBAST playlist, 2018 July 4, 2100-2300:
    "What Does Your Soul Look Like? Pt. 2" | DJ Shadow | Preemptive Strike | FFRR
    "Soul Soldier" | Throwing Muses | The Fat Skier | 4AD - Sire
    "Time Zones" | Negativland | Escape from Noise | SST
    "When You Feel It Grunt If You Can" | The J.B.'s | These Are the J.B.'s | Now-Again
    "Rocket U.S.A." | Suicide | Suicide | Red Star
    "The Graves at Lamphead" | Buick | Sweatertongue | Lather
    "Crawl" | Bunnydrums | Feathers Web | Funk Dungeon
    "I Luv I Jah" | Bad Brains | Omega Sessions | Victory Records
    "Ghost Lights" | The Children | Ghost Lights | Division 68
    "Joy" | Isaac Hayes | Joy | Enterprise
    "Chameleon" | Herbie Hancock | Autodrive | Columbia
    "Voodoo Chile" | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Electric Ladyland | Reprise
    "Gravitational VIII" | Landing | Bells in New Towns | El Paraiso
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    2 hr
  • Lights Flicker, Time To Start The Show: Transmission 413, 2018 June 27
    It begins. After a week off I deliver the first show of the "intense" period of my year, when the critical theory summer camp that I manage (yes) is in full swing. This is my third year of doing it, and somehow it is becoming more stressful. This may be a result of my medication (and boy do I need to find a new psychiatrist) or it may be a result of my trying to do it better (look at Mr. Model Employee over here). Whatever the cause, I find myself five pounds lighter because my stomach is full of butterflies all the time. Those who know me well, which is hardly anybody, will recognize OVEReating as my normal response to stress. So this is something greater or qualitatively different. What was I saying earlier, about bodies?
    Anyway, life still has its pleasures. On this night I got to witness a new show being born, and it is good to know that this still warms my heart. And what a terrific show it was--though mine was quite good on this night, it did not measure up to the simple joy delivered by "Rocket Morton" (whom I mistakenly referred to as "Rocket Morgan," ugh). I need to explore this idea, and on the next couple of shows I think I try.
    BOMBAST playlist, 2018 June 27, 2100-2300:
    "Gelatin Mode" | Post Animal | When I Think of You in a Castle | Polyvinyl
    "arts cool" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
    "Kungssten Bus Stop Riddim" | Shakarchi & Straneus | Steal Chickens from Men and the Future from God | Studio Barnhus
    "Funky Heaven" | A Certain Ratio | acr:mcr | Mute
    "Djougou Yah" | Laolu & Mr. Raoul K. | Djougou Yah - EP | Compost
    "Safety in Numbers" | Dirtmusic | Bu Bir Ruya | Glitterbeat
    "Water Mirrors" | Jonathan Fitoussi / Clemens Hourriere | Espaces timbres | Versatile
    "Voyage Libre (feat. LouLou Ghelichkhani)" | Thievery Corporation | Treasures from the Temple | ESL
    "Trax 11" | Rumore | Life in the Cloud | Hot Haus
    "Inna Trice" | Culross Close | Moments | Esencia
    "Kongaulois" | Baloji | 137 Avenue Kaniama | Bella Union
    "Cochi Loco" | Dual Action | Babe Beer Bar Car | Hospital Productions
    "Not in Love" | OOFT! | Intricacies of Modern Life | FOTO Recordings
    "New Horizon" | Opto Mystics | New Horizon | vibraphone
    "Persuasion" | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats [reissue] | Mute
    "Thinking About You" | Jubl | Thinking Sweet | self-released
    "Goonies Never Say Die" | Ben Frost | All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated | Mute
    "Gravitational VII" | Landing | Bells In New Towns | El Paraiso
    "Glow, Glow" | Fazer | Mara | Fazer
    "Character Collapse" | Ian Hicks | Character Collapse | So Low
    "Cosine" | Joe Ford | Colours in Sound | Shogun Audio
    "Serafin - 12" Mix" | Opal Sunn | II | Planet Sundae
    "Radiation Fog" | The Messthetics | The Messthetics | Dischord
    "Ginsterblut" | Die Wilde Jagd | Uhrwald Orange | Bureau B
    "Levitation" | K2 | Loss of Gravity | Vibraphone
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    2 hr
  • Distant Sounds Inside Your Head: Transmission 412, 2018 June 13
    Physical Evidence returns on this outing in the form of The Times, about which more soon. Little did I know at the time that this would be the penultimate Physical Evidence, but so it would. More about that...in a later diary entry, I guess. Back to the episode at hand: this is pretty good, not great, and hella...dynamic, I guess. Kudos to Ed Ball for not compressing the dickens out of himself. I'm not even sure what I mean.
    I remember buying this Times record in the summer of 1996, coming across it online right around the time I discovered that you could use the internet to buy records. I don't remember whether I was slow to that realization or not. But everything was slow back then. Somehow I purchased Beat Torture and 23 Skidoo's Seven Songs in the same order. It was ever thus! This was also right around the time I made the decision that I would try to get in shape, or at least be a bit less fat than I was. (Why on earth I make this connection I don't know, but I do.) 22 years later...I'm still trying. I've been thinking a lot lately about bodies and why they cause us so much grief, and doing so without many epiphanies, I have to say. Sadly, that too has always been the case.
    BOMBAST playlist, 2018 June 13, 2100-2300:
    "Tiny Foldable Cities - Edit" | Orbital | Tiny Foldable Cities | ACP
    "Godevil" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
    "Squid Balls" | Wild Zeros | Motormouth E.P | Nerve Centre
    "Un coq a esculape" | Lyonel Bauchet | Tone Science: Module No. 1 Structure and Forces | DiN
    "Heaven Sent Me An Angel" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
    "Moral Autonomy" | Kohl | Learned Ethics / Imposed Ethics | Umor-Rex
    "X-ALT" | Suuns | Felt | Secretly Canadian
    "Scarlet and Sapphire" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
    "Tinnitus Lullaby" | The National Jazz Trio of Scotland | Standards Vol. IV | Karaoke Kalk
    "Metsa" | Etherwood | In Stillness | Med School Music
    "psyfi" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
    "Chelsea Green" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
    "Arcangel's Thunderbird" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
    "Delirium - Conduct Remix" | Blu Mar Ten | Empire State (Remixes) | Blu Mar Ten
    "Uni Blue" | alva noto | Unieqav | Noton
    "I'll Be Your Volunteer" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
    "Hypnagogo" | Solipsism | Hypnagogo | Ambidextrous
    "Mirrors" | PTTRNS | Material Und Geschichte | Altin Village & Mine
    "Persephone" | Cocteau Twins | Treasure [reissue] | 4AD
    "Dakini" | The Veldt | Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose | self-released
    "First Time" | BAKGROUND | First Time | E-Beamz
    "Idiot Joy Showland (Peel Session)" | The Fall | The Fontana Years | UMC / Fontana
    "It Had To Happen" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
    "Shavit" | Xen & Yovav | Etmol Hayom | Malka Tuti
    "Major Magnus" | Le Millipede | The Sun Has No Money | Alien Transistor
    "On The Peace Line" | The Times | Beat Torture | Creation | "Physical Evidence"
    "Futur Parle" | Essaie Pas | New Path | DFA
    "Tangent" | Ekman | Tangent | Bedouin
    "Apsurt" | Oliver Deutschmann | Lost In A Loop EP | Mote Evolver
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    1 hr 59 min
  • Astonishing Empathy, or So It Says Here: Transmission 411, 2018 June 6
    Finally healthy, I deliver another well-executed program on this night. I might also say "well conceived," but there is a solid ROCK BLOCK in the middle of it. "There was an hour where I was really enjoying your show," Lady Catharsis tells me. I have no doubt what part she means. Nor do I have any idea how that happened. Admittedly, it's a decent hour.
    Doing standard commercial dj things ("rock blocks," "two-fer Tuesdays," "gettin' the Led out," etc.) has never really interested me, though I have been fascinated with deejaying since I was young, and I wouldn't mind if one of these days I managed to get a satin jacket or something like that out of it. One time when I was a kid my family was eating in a pizza parlour and I spotted some grown up wearing an honest-to-goodness satin jacket with a local radio station's logo emblazoned on the back. These things really existed. I went up and talked to the guy--I was maybe 11 or 12--and sure enough he was an on-air personality that I knew. Strangely, though he was not what I would call unfriendly, he was more interested in playing "Asteroids," or whatever, than in talking to me. I wonder whatever happened to the guy, whose name I of course don't remember. And I wonder whatever happened to me, that I am now deejaying for no money and not even really any swag, and not terribly interested in talking to the kids.
    BOMBAST playlist, 2018 June 6, 2100-2300:
    "Untitled Three" | Tlim Shug | Untitled | Bobby Donny
    "A Paddle Around the Drowned World" | Other Lands | Pattern Transform | Firecracker
    "Undress" | Somewhen | AFL | Ostgut Ton
    "Spotlight" | Baloji | 137 Avenue Kaniama | Bella Union
    "ceremony" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
    "Moths" | 14 Iced Bears | 14 Iced Bears [reissue] | Optic Nerve
    "The Machine" | Helios Creed | On the Dark Side of the Sun | Klanggalerie
    "obviously gone" | Brian Harris | Washed Up Man | self-released
    "You Should Always Keep in Touch with Your Friends" | The Wedding Present | Marc Riley Sessions Volume 2 | Hatch
    "Tire Eyes" | Post Animal | When I Think of You in a Castle | Polyvinyl
    "Smile" | The Fall | Perverted By Language | Superior Viaduct
    "Cosmic Rupture" | Mythic Sunship | Upheaval | El Paraiso
    "We & We in Azawad" | Mdou Moctar meets Elite Beat | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
    "When I Die" | The Autumn Sighs | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
    "Solitude" | Up High Collective | Solitude | Tangram
    "Scarlet" | Blackpool Astronomy | Lovelife, A Homage To Lush | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
    "Red Indians" | Felt | The Splendour of Fear [Reissue] | Cherry Red
    "Wildschweinbraten" | Damo Suzuki & Jelly Planet | Damo Suzuki & Jelly Planet | Purple Pyramid
    "Withdrawal" | Sicayda | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
    "Roy's Garage" | Trux | Orbiter | Avenue 66
    "Audax" | Answer Code Request | Gens | Ostgut Ton
    "Today I" | Trudge | Negative Spaces | Lost Palms
    "Slowly Descend into Madness" | Stillhead | Copenhagen | Brightest Dark Place
    "Transmission - LAPB Extended Version" | Tilbury | Execution | Radio Bongo
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    1 hr 59 min
  • No Need for You To Cry: Transmission 410, 2018 May 30
    The previous week's cold still hung over me during this program, and you can tell by the frog that I can't seem to extract from my throat. But it also left behind a trace of its magic, for this is another excellent iteration of the Bombast thing, whatever that is. (Four hundred shows and I am still figuring it out.) The added bonus is that on this night, there is no Featured Artist that Lady Catharsis cannot stand! Or is that a subtracted bonus?
    In non-musical news, my work life is coming into sharp focus. Too sharp, frankly. I am entering a seven-week period in which I have to be "on" all the time. I will wake up in the middle of the night with thoughts of tasks I have to complete. At the same time, little of it is truly within my control. Such is the life of a summer camp coordinator. Bringing it back home--what does this mean for the program? Chances are it will get really good or really bad, as psychologically much will depend on it. It's my anchor.
    BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 30, 2100-2300:
    "Too Young To Rock'N'Roll" | Calamita | Calamita | Ruptured
    "On the Radio - Intro" | OOFT! | Intricacies of Modern Life | FOTO Recordings
    "Light Pours from the Hollow" | Kensington Gore | Hexagon | More than Human
    "Vague Memories 4" | Irrelevant | Vague Memories 2 | Fauxpas
    "Unsystematic Waves" | Potter Natalizia Zen | Shut Your Eyes On The Way Out | Ecstatic
    "Conversation Policy - Illum Sphere Remix" | Night Christ | Conversation Policy | All City Dublin
    "Put a Smile on Your Face" | Durand Jones & The Indications | You and Me b/w Put a Smile on Your Face | Colemine - Dead Oceans
    "Herdhya" | Gwenno | Le Kov | Heavenly
    "VIII" | Colin Fisher | V Le Pape | Geej
    "People Are Blind" | Sworr. | Sworr. | Fair Weather Friends
    "l8r h8r" | Terekke | Improvisational Loops | Music From Memory
    "Let That Sink In" | Ant Orange | Right There | Karaoke Kalk
    "Gazing Into Diamond Mirrors" | Weirding Module | A Newer Age | Joyful Noise Recordings
    "Red Cow" | Brian Harris | Red Cow | self-released
    "Main Sequence Phase" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold
    "Laying in the Sun" | Anemone | Baby Only You & I | Fat Possum
    "Privacy" | XJ | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
    "Blissters" | Chris Carter | Chemistry Lessons Volume 1 | Mute
    "the catalyst of delusion" | Captain Wardrobe | Kronosphere | self-released
    "Proxima - 12" Mix" | Opal Sunn | II | Planet Sundae
    "Hardingfele (Release)" | Zoe Mc Pherson | String Figures | SVS
    "Oloddumare" | Silvio Astier | FAMILY ALBUM 2018 | Boomarm Nation
    "MetaGoth" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
    "Give Dem (Style)" | SKRS | Paradise Magic Traxx | Ancient Monarchy
    "The Illusion (End Credits)" | Phantoms Vs Fire | Swim | Hypersoma
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    1 hr 59 min
  • Got the Tools but Don't Know the Rules: Transmission 409, 2018 May 23
    Another week and another "industrial" record is the feature. I didn't plan it this way, but certainly none of my long-term acquaintances would be surprised. I just do what I do, I guess, circumstances notwithstanding. On this night, the circumstance was a fever (I am just getting over the accompanying cold). Am I really this dedicated? No, I had to visit the station in any case, and figured I might as well do my show, as scheduled. Someone told me once that the only reason to miss a show was on account of death--your own. I'm not that dedicated.
    It certainly didn't feel like it on the night, but this is a masterful program, if I say so, and I do. I can see, listening to Black Light District, why Lady Catharsis hates Coil so much, and maybe it stems from this very album. It's not for everyone. But it goes with everything. This would seem to argue against its greatness, according to my oft-cited theory. But, let's be honest: I have no theory, only good taste.
    BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 23, 2100-2300:
    "Tejo" | P. Adrix | Album Desconhecido | Principe
    "Clean Mind" | The Skull Defekts | The Skull Defekts | Thrill Jockey
    "Scratches and Dust" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
    "Stealth Technology" | Black Meteoric Star | No More White Presidents | Modern Obscure
    "The Green Plain, Pt. 2" | C. Diab | Exit Rumination | Injazero
    "Trapped in Atlanta" | Marco Wachs | Diversity EP | IWW
    "Blue Rats" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
    "Hunros" | Gwenno | Le Kov | Heavenly
    "Changes" | CHAPPO | DO IT | Votiv
    "Green Water" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
    "You and Me" | Durand Jones & The Indications | You and Me b/w Put a Smile on Your Face | Colemine - Dead Oceans
    "What - Interlude" | OOFT! | Intricacies of Modern Life | FOTO Recordings
    "Chalice" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
    "In My Garden" | K2 | Loss of Gravity | Vibraphone
    "Babe in the Egg of Blue" | Creta | Creta | Karl
    "Red Skeletons" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
    "Wise Bird" | D.K. | Mystery Dub EP | Second Circle
    "Too Much Choice" | The Galileo 7 | Tear Your Minds Wide Open! | Damaged Goods
    "Sent" | Afriqua | Aleph EP | R & S
    "050315 A" | Rumore | Life in the Cloud | Hot Haus
    "Die Wolfe Kommen Zuruck" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
    "Astral Trails" | Deep'a & Biri | Dominance | Black Crow
    "Laying in the Sun (Dnb Remix)" | Anemone | Baby Only You & I | Fat Possum
    "Cold Dream of an Earth Star" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"
    "Mangrove Dawn" | Joe Morris | Jacaranda Skies | Pleasure Unit
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    1 hr 58 min
  • Circa Nineteen-Eighty-One: Transmission 408, 2018 May 16
    This program finds us back in the usual Wednesday night slot, "our special time together." I was already somewhat tired from the night before--like I said, I am too old--but emotionally amped, at least, because I would be playing a cherished record, about which more below. The show begins, though, with an embarrassing gaffe as neither Andrea or I can force the second tune--which is playing--to make a sound. I should be better than this. Apologies to Ant Orange, whoever you are. Anyway, in the interest of full disclosure, I have edited some of that silence out.
    But let's talk about what we do hear. Bourbonese Qualk is a rough listen, with skips and pops aplenty, but that record has been loved. Even a perfect copy would be decidedly "lo-fi" and have its dynamics all over the place, but I think that's what its creators wanted. Why is it so dear? I feel like the home recording puts it squarely in the category of "you too can do this," and indeed it sounds in places like things Mr. D and I were trying to do back in the day. I think that, too, is intentional. I remember listening to this record a lot during a six-week period one summer when I was unemployed (how quaint that it felt like an endless stretch at the time).
    Anyway, regardless of those considerations, you could do a lot worse than "Pipe Dreams," and god knows many people have done worse.
    BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 16, 2100-2300:
    "Smallbig" | The Micronaut | Contrast | Freude am Tanzen
    "A Frozen Lake" | Ant Orange | Right There | Karaoke Kalk
    "Critical Path" | Abyss X | Pleasures of the Bull | Danse Noire
    "Saturn" | A Certain Ratio | I'd Like To See You Again [reissue] | Mute
    "Stand Above the Streams, Pt. 2B" | Jason Sharp | Stand Above the Streams | Constellation
    "Play" | Fritz Kalkbrenner | Drown | Different Spring
    "Skin Walker" | Insect Ark | Marrow Hymns | Profound Lore
    "Translucent" | Ismo Laakso | Ofelia | Sahko
    "Mean Street" / "Always There" | Bourbonese Qualk | Bourbonese Qualk | New International Recordings | "Physical Evidence"
    "LOD" | Hrtl | Sugarlump EP | Wolfskuil Limited
    "Magma" | Inigo Kennedy | Magma / Mantle | Token
    "Hypeway 101" | Duccio | Late Night Swing | Greta Cottage Workshop
    "Shock Corridor" | Bourbonese Qualk | Bourbonese Qualk | New International Recordings | "Physical Evidence"
    "Motorik" | Frank Bretschneider | Lunik | Shitkatapult
    "Prism" | C.A.R. | PINNED | Ransom Note
    "Dummy-Run" / "Unknown Trk" / "C2V" / "Obsession" | Bourbonese Qualk | Bourbonese Qualk | New International Recordings | "Physical Evidence"
    "Glory" | Liz Phair | Girly-Sound to Guyville | Matador
    "Blues at the Acropolis" | The Breeders | All Nerve | 4AD
    "The Dance" | The Skull Defekts | The Skull Defekts | Thrill Jockey
    "Zlota Skala Dub" | JANKA | Krzyzacy | U Know Me
    "Mora" | Answer Code Request | Gens | Ostgut Ton
    "Untitled" / "Black and Blues" / "Pipe Dreams" | Bourbonese Qualk | Bourbonese Qualk | New International Recordings | "Physical Evidence"
    "Kitsch Is the New Atonality" | Gosheven | The Harvest of a Quiet Eye | Opal Tapes
    "Colony" | Ian Boddy / Erik Wollo | Meridian | DiN
    "Mantodea vs. Furcifer Pardalis" | Sign Libra | Closer to the Equator | Antinote
    "Illusion" | Pure Confusion | Fuzzy Feelings Collection | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
    "Mr. Bikinis" | MIS+RESS | S/T | Somewherecold
    "Nothing New to Trash Like You" | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Don't Get Lost | A Records
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    1 hr 58 min
  • Got the Tools but Don’t Know the Rules: Transmission 409, 2018 May 23

    Another week and another "industrial" record is the feature. I didn't plan it this way, but certainly none of my long-term acquaintances would be surprised. I just do what I do, I guess, circumstances notwithstanding. On this night, the circumstance was a fever (I am just getting over the accompanying cold). Am I really this dedicated? No, I had to visit the station in any case, and figured I might as well do my show, as scheduled. Someone told me once that the only reason to miss a show was on account of death--your own. I'm not that dedicated.


    It certainly didn't feel like it on the night, but this is a masterful program, if I say so, and I do. I can see, listening to Black Light District, why Lady Catharsis hates Coil so much, and maybe it stems from this very album. It's not for everyone. But it goes with everything. This would seem to argue against its greatness, according to my oft-cited theory. But, let's be honest: I have no theory, only good taste.


    BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 23, 2100-2300:


    1. "Tejo" | P. Adrix | Album Desconhecido | Principe

  • "Clean Mind" | The Skull Defekts | The Skull Defekts | Thrill Jockey

  • "Scratches and Dust" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"

  • "Stealth Technology" | Black Meteoric Star | No More White Presidents | Modern Obscure

  • "The Green Plain, Pt. 2" | C. Diab | Exit Rumination | Injazero

  • "Trapped in Atlanta" | Marco Wachs | Diversity EP | IWW

  • "Blue Rats" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"

  • "Hunros" | Gwenno | Le Kov | Heavenly

  • "Changes" | CHAPPO | DO IT | Votiv

  • "Green Water" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"

  • "You and Me" | Durand Jones & The Indications | You and Me b/w Put a Smile on Your Face | Colemine - Dead Oceans

  • "What - Interlude" | OOFT! | Intricacies of Modern Life | FOTO Recordings

  • "Chalice" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"

  • "In My Garden" | K2 | Loss of Gravity | Vibraphone

  • "Babe in the Egg of Blue" | Creta | Creta | Karl

  • "Red Skeletons" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"

  • "Wise Bird" | D.K. | Mystery Dub EP | Second Circle

  • "Too Much Choice" | The Galileo 7 | Tear Your Minds Wide Open! | Damaged Goods

  • "Sent" | Afriqua | Aleph EP | R & S

  • "050315 A" | Rumore | Life in the Cloud | Hot Haus

  • "Die Wolfe Kommen Zuruck" | Coil Presents Black Light District | A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room | Eskaton | "Physical Evidence"

  • "Astral Trails" | Deep'a & Biri | Dominance | Black Crow
    • 1 hr 58 min
  • Every Fool Will See His Madness Crowned: Transmission 407, 2018 May 15
    Here is a rarity: an "unscheduled" appearance of the program. It is strange to think of it as an unusual thing (as we shall see), but "it is what it is." It was Andrew Eldritch's birthday, something I'd meant to observe three years ago (I think) but my chance was too late in the day: 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. I think of that as the day I decided I was "too old." (One could think of it as the day I officially became a flake, but that was a long time ago.) In 2018, we're probably past the point of anyone's caring, least of all Mr. Eldritch himself, but I don't like to leave business unfinished, so here we are. I may have been in a bit of a mood, but I think I was enjoying myself, and the segues aren't too bad. I had meant to play Spacemen 3 at the end of it all--I wasn't "giving up"--but I was bad at math on this night, so we get an excerpt.
    This program's being the first time in five months that I had made a substitute appearance does not stop my past from being a burden. Back when I lived and breathed WRFI (almost literally!) I would jump at the chance, almost any chance, to do radio. We were desperate for programming in the old days, and the station always seemed on the brink of going off-air for whatever reason. If I remember correctly there was one year when I made 91 appearances! Ye gods. Anyway, between getting older, getting busier, learning my limitations, deciding on further limitations, and so on, I've been much better at limiting myself to my allotted airtime--except, I guess, for that brief, wonderful period last year when Catharsis Junior wanted to do radio with me on the regular. Anyway, people think I am still like my old self! At a meeting recently, when we were doing introductions, I said that I do radio on Wednesday nights, and a colleague added "and on demand, apparently." Shots fired! DJ Andrea, who is going on "indefinite hiatus" from the Free Pile, says that she will take sub shifts from time to time, "if you don't take them all." OUCH. I guess it is my destiny, in this and other ways, not to escape my past. But this night was worth it.
    I wonder what I "live and breathe" now? That is a mystery.
    BOMBAST playlist, 2018 May 15, 2100-2300:
    "Curfew, Gaza" | Muslimgauze | Zul'm | Extreme
    "Jihad" | The Sisterhood | Gift | Merciful Release | "Physical Evidence"
    "A Newer Age" | Weirding Module | A Newer Age | Joyful Noise Recordings
    "7 Sweet Nation Army Dreams" | Brian Harris | 7 Sweet Nations | self-released
    "Paix/Paix" | Kaazi | Silk to Dry the Tears | 100% Silk
    "Colours" | The Sisterhood | Gift | Merciful Release | "Physical Evidence"
    "Finality" | Harrison BDP | Confusion of Sound | Piff
    "20:02 [3] starts logging #public" | Jung an Tagen | Agent Im Objekt | Editions Mego
    "Wounds and Water" | Melentini | Zrsha; Fundus Uterus | United We Fly
    "Little Love" | Primitive Trust | Little Love | Aus
    "Giving Ground" | The Sisterhood | Gift | Merciful Release | "Physical Evidence"
    "The Truth Lies" | Suns of Arqa | Land of a Thousand Churches | Arqa Sound
    "Finland Red, Egypt White" / "Rain from Heaven" | The Sisterhood | Gift | Merciful Release | "Physical Evidence"
    "An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music Pt. 1 [excerpt]" | Spacemen 3 | Dreamweapon | Superior Viaduct
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    2 hr 1 min

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