Deep off into Mother Universe: Transmission 525, 2020 May 6

2023-07-16

Honesty time. I dread these programs between the beginning of the lockdown and the death of George Floyd. Yet somehow this program has my energy. I can’t deny it. Maybe it is inescapable. I have this thing about noting the passage of musicians into the next life. Not sure where that comes from–possibly some feeling of responsibility, like it is my job to report current events? Sometimes I really feel the loss and sometimes I don’t. It’s somehow insulting to both Peter Greenfield of the Stranglers and Ton...

Honesty time. I dread these programs between the beginning of the lockdown and the death of George Floyd.

Yet somehow this program has my energy. I can’t deny it. Maybe it is inescapable.

I have this thing about noting the passage of musicians into the next life. Not sure where that comes from–possibly some feeling of responsibility, like it is my job to report current events? Sometimes I really feel the loss and sometimes I don’t. It’s somehow insulting to both Peter Greenfield of the Stranglers and Tony Allen that I sort of put them on the same level in this way. Surely there are others at the station who care more about the Stranglers than I ever did. It’s pretentious. But, like I say, my energy.

Another true confession: I don’t like the Mark Mulcahy song but I am lucky enough to have had a true companion during the pandemic who told me to play it. Such are the facts of life.

Change is on the way, but you knew that already.

BOMBAST playlist, 2020 May 6, 2100-2300:

"Once More" | The Wedding Present | Once More | Optic Nerve
"Space Whiter" | Cry Robot | The Entity In The Cosmos | Virtual Soundsystem
"Gothic Urban Blues" | Harry Stafford | Gothic Urban Blues | Black Lagoon
"Something Better Change" | The Stranglers | Winters of Discontent | Strange Fruit
"Secretly" | Hortense Ellis | Jamaica All Stars Vol. 1 & 2 | Studio One / Coxsone
"N.E.P.A (Never Expect Power Always)" | Tony Allen | Africafunk: Return To The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa | Harmless
"cherubim" | serpentwithfeet | soil | Secretly Canadian
"Muscle Chamber" | The Naturals | Avon Garde | Avon Terror Corps
"Kissing Embers" | the Cult of Lip | Out Of The Darkness | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
"Shimmer" | The Room in the Wood | We're the Martians, Now | A Turntable Friend
"There Was Always Water" | Lonnie Holley | MITH | Jagjaguwar
"The Lowest Common Denominator" | Macerator | The Shed Collective Vol.3 | Douglas Deep
"III" | アレックス H O R R O R 666 (Tomie-13) | E.V.P. (Electronic Voice Phenomena) | Virtual Soundsystem
"A Cat(s) Deli Ma - Live Recording" | Doomsquad | Spandrels Vol 2 | self-released
"Catching Mice" | Mark Mulcahy | The Possum in the Driveway | Mezzotint | "The Listening Parlour"
"Black Treasure" | Brentford All Stars | Jamaica All Stars Vol. 1 & 2 | Studio One / Coxsone
"Dugout" | Ultramarine | This Time Last Year | Real Soon
"Asteroid Blues" | Yves Tumor | Heaven to a Tortured Mind | WARP
"Surrender To The Crags" | Electric Sewer Age | Contemplating Nothingness | Hallow Ground
"DK Mode" | CURL | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 5 - Amour pour la France | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
"Hada jil" | Aziza Brahim | Glitterbeat_tak:til_2019 | Glitterbeat
"Shed" | Walya | Avon Garde | Avon Terror Corps
"Alien Circus" | Tradition | Captain Ganja and the Space Patrol | Bokeh Versions
"4T Recordings" | Four Tet | 4T Recordings | Text
"Hold Some More" | African Head Charge | Songs of Praise [reissue] | On-U Sound
"Winds howl" | Whalt Thisney | Quiethism | Kahvi Collective
"Hong Kong to Amsterdam" | Sneaks | Highway Hypnosis | Merge
"Carnival of Souls" | Letters From Mouse | Proto Human | Kahvi Collective
"Tangerines" | Chris Carter | Chemistry Lessons Volume 1 | Mute
"You Can Have Everything" | Closing Eyes | Eternal Fidelity | Blanca