Blue Futurist Exterior: Transmission 89, 2013 December 29

'SUP, as the kids like to say. Please find attached another program, the last of 2013. This one, number 89, happened a day after number 88, but is no worse for all the exhaustion and burnout. I hope that doesn't indicate any deeper problem with the show in general. I know I screwed up with the cueing on that Metronomy song, and maybe with Anna Calvi as well--or was that a different episode?--but I'm not remembering any other major errors.

I've been having some feelings, you guys. This is a personal failing that I'm going to share with you, here, right now: I frequently don't have the sort of experiences that music [or art in general] is supposed to make me have. Take something like happy hardcore, for example. I don't hate it, by any means, but it doesn't make me happy, per se. Nor does it seem to be the musical expression of happiness. Does that make sense? We'll move on anyway.

Take saudade. There's a rich and ongoing tradition of awesome, beautiful music that assumes this name, but it does not evoke this feeling in me. Nor does it seem to be the musical expression of this concept. The name and the thing that takes the name don't connect for me. Again, a personal failing, I'm certain. But do you know--there is a small body of music that does take me to that place. Within that category are a couple of songs from Movement, "Chosen Time" being one. And--to bring it all together--the extended set in the second hour of this program, going all the way from Acid Mothers Temple to Burial, and containing the aforementioned song, is some good stuff, you guys. That's the dream.

What else produces unintentional saudade for me? That's for another time.

BOMBAST playlist, 2013 December 29, 1400-1600:

1. "Stealth Dub" | Blind Idiot God | Blind Idiot God | SST
2. "Protoplasm" | Black Rain | Protoplasm | Blackest Ever Black
3. "The Truth Will Set You Free - Gagarin Mix" | Suns of Arqa | Ancient Temples EP | Mariko
4. "First Aspect of the Same Thing" | The Durutti Column | The Return of the Durutti Column | Factory Benelux
5. "Broken Dreams" | Special Request | Soul Music | Houndstooth
6. "I'm Aquarius" | Metronomy | I'm Aquarius | Because
7. "Loose Sutures" | Fuzz | Fuzz | In the Red
8. "Circle of Fifths - Tool" | Holden | Circle of Fifths | Border Community
9. "One Breath" | Anna Calvi | One Breath | Domino
10. "Manon" | Aebeloe | Manon | Farver
11. "Planet Golden Love" | Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno | Doobie Wonderland | Parallax Sounds
12. "Breedle" | Extrawelt | The Inkling | Traum
13. "Blues Is Loss" | Polvo | Siberia | Merge
14. "Beyond the Drone" | Saint Rich | Beyond the Drone | Merge
15. "Interlude I" | §un §pells | βunβet - Live at the Chanticleer 5/30/13 | Bandcamp self-release
16. "Chosen Time" | New Order | Movement | London - Rhino
    
17. "Come Down to Us" | Burial | Rival Dealer | Hyperdub
18. "You Can Stay But You Gotta Go" | Quasi | Mole City | Kill Rock Stars
19. "Tundra" | Teen Daze | Glacier | Lefse
20. "Pyramid Scheme to Heaven" | Raccoon Fighter | Zil | Papercup
21. "Cryo" | Oneohtrix Point Never | R Plus Seven | Warp

next time: why "Leeds?" Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis