Apologizing Is Terrifying: Transmission 479, 2019 August 14

2019-12-01

"It hasn't been so bad, has it?" I ask toward the end of the program. "Yes and no" is probably the most appropriate answer. As objectively as I can, I'll try to suggest that the first 70 minutes or so of this broadcast are pretty non-catastrophic. Even so, listening back, I feel like I am just forcing my new agenda. As usual, the music is decent, but. "Magic's Message" is just a bad track, toxic in its masculinity and its free-enterprise bootstrapping. I shouldn't have played it, but for some reason I thought it worked as a segue. So much for that...

"Magic's Message" is just a bad track, toxic in its masculinity and its free-enterprise bootstrapping. I shouldn't have played it, but for some reason I thought it worked as a segue. So much for that organizing concept. Naturally the show fell apart after that. Fortunately it's a brief unraveling.

This transmission is better than the previous couple of outings, but I must confess that it's one of a few false dawns before things really improve (October, I think? sorry). I had to be very angry on this night because things had really come apart at work and I knew that I had to make a change. (I did, and it feels great!) Also, the Catharsis Family Circus was moving, and in this Critical End Time I was losing my noodle. Another hiatus was around the corner, though I didn't know it yet. Maybe it was a mental health break?

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 August 14, 2100-2300:

"Original Trailer" | Dolenz | Lingua Franca | Exit Records
"You Are Heaven Sent" | Nicolette | The Rebirth of Cool 4 | Island
"Respect My Snack Foods" | DJ Marcelle / Another Nice Mess | One Place For the First Time | Jahmoni Music
"Akoko Ba" | Gyedu-Blay Ambolley | The Message | Analog Africa
"Rapping and Rocking the House" | The Funky Four Plus One More | Back In The Day (Old School Hip Hop From The Block Party Era) | BGP
"Ireme" | Ariwo | Quasi | MANANA//Records
"Migration" | Nitin Sawhney | The Rebirth of Cool 4 | Island
"Eine Kleine Hedmusik" | Coldcut | Ninja Cuts - Funkjazztical Tricknology | Ninja Tune
"Vibes and Stuff" | A Tribe Called Quest | The Low End Theory | Jive
"When You're Near" | Guru | Jazzmatazz Volume: 1 | ChrysalisEMI Records (USA)
"Things About To Disappear" | Alessandro Adriani | Morphic Dreams | Stroboscopic Artefacts
"Horizons" | LTJ Bukem | The Rebirth of Cool 4 | Island
"Trade On Azul" | kangding ray | Predawn Qualia EP | ara
"Alternative Theme from Gay Man’s Guide to Safer Sex" | Coil | The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex + 2 | Musique Pour La Danse
"Dalis Car" | Dalis Car | The Waking Hour | Beggars Banquet
"Knife Slits Water [Peel 1981]" | A Certain Ratio | Sextet | Factory Benelux
"Empathy" | Ellen Allien | Alientronic | BPitch Control
"Magic's Message (There Has To Be A Better Way)" | Mr. Magic | Back In The Day (Old School Hip Hop From The Block Party Era) | BGP
"Stranger On the Shore" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Atlantic
"Adieu" | Anadol | Uzun Havalar | Pingipung