Some People Are Just Into Appearances: Transmission 144, 2014 August 12

We are positively hurtling towards an exciting finish to the week, as my obsessive-compulsive tendencies vie with my desire to get the latest Hall of Legends episode posted. This program happened because...oh, what am I saying? This was a regular "alpha" program, mostly new (and newly-reissued) stuff bookended by a couple of 1980s chestnuts/tributes. Structurally problematic? Yes, but people matter, whether they are post-punk heroes or "dear friends" of a personal sort.

Mistakes: have I made a few? You know it. Mostly, though, this is well-executed. At least with this "No Label" release, all four of the songs came off without a hitch. Which is nice--that Odd Numbers EP is pleasing on many levels.

Special shout-out to listener Matt, who clued me in to DAMA/LIBRA. And to Mount Kimbie, whose album title I did remember a bit later: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth. There.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 August 12, 2100-2300:

1. "Forever Now" | Psychedelic Furs | Forever Now | Columbia
2. "Space Boots Foots to Foots" | Alien Whale | Alien Whale EP | Care In The Community
3. "Sliding Door" | Odd Numbers | Break Even | No Label | "Physical Evidence"
4. "The Dawn Song / Ritual 1" | The Royal Family And The Poor | The Temple Of The 13th Tribe | Mannequin
5. "Copy My Dub" | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Back On The Controls | Rolling Lion - Upsetter
6. "Emin Emineina Chouweyne" | Noura Mint Seymali | Tzenni | Glitterbeat
7. "Four Horsemen" | Tijuana Panthers | Wayne Interest | Innovative Leisure
8. "Piper's Delight" | Odd Numbers | Break Even | No Label | "Physical Evidence"
9. "Screen Shot" | Swans | To Be Kind | Young God
10. "Only Medicine" | DAMA/LIBRA | Claw | Northern Spy
11. "Primary" | Alex Niggemann | Materium | Poker Flat
12. "UFOTube" | Odd Numbers | Break Even | No Label | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Push Na Ya" | Karl Hector & The Malcouns | Unstraight Ahead | Now-Again
14. "Roma Feb 18" | High Heels Breaker | High Heels Breaker | Drumpoet Community
15. "Dub of Meaning" | Dub Club | Meaning of Dub | Stones Throw
16. "You Can't See" | Haunted By Hallucinations | Haunted By Hallucinations | Herakles
17. "III.IIIII" | Papir | III + IIII | El Paraiso
18. "You Took Your Time - Lee Gamble Remix" | Mount Kimbie | CSFLY Remixes | Warp
19. "Riviera" | Odd Numbers | Break Even | No Label | "Physical Evidence"
20. "Cathedral" | Felt | Primitive Painters | Cherry Red

next time: higher electronic states. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis