You Say You Love the Shadow: Transmission 298, 2016 August 24

Welcome to the first Bombast of the local academic year. I have made this observation before, but it seems timely again now: the show has entered "senior year" territory on the college radio timescale. Which is not to rule out eventual super-senior or "old timer who just won't get out of the way" status; nevertheless it is illustrative. I find myself reminiscing about the "olden days," which are, like, 2013, and thinking of that early time as "innocent" (it so was not).

Facebook's "memory" engine reminded me that this interview happened once upon a time (and thanks to Eric for hosting me, and apologies to him and everyone else for my insistence on appearing in my "deejay persona" and not as the actual me). It got me thinking about the conceptual framework of this program and whether I've strayed from it (I don't think I have, but maybe I'm not the best judge). If I do say so myself--and I do--I think we've been remarkably consistent over the nearly 300 hullabaloos that we have hosted. Listen for yourself--here's Transmission 1 (shoddy sound quality, such was WRFI-ness back then).

It really is, as I say, a special thing to be on the radio. I was talking to my mental health professional last week about the ongoing crisis in my life that is free time; I told her that radio was the last leisure-time activity in my life that I would jettison. "I think it broke my heart," I said, "not to be on the radio. It took me 20 years to notice it, but I realized it when I got back on." This is true.

Thank you, listener(s), for helping me hold my heart together.


BOMBAST playlist, 2016 August 24, 2100-2300:

1. "Please Before You Go" | Justine Never Knew The Rules | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
2. "96 Frames Per Second" | Christian Naujoks | Wave | Dial
3. "Colwyn Bay" | Function / Inland | Infrastructure Facticity | Infrastructure New York
4. "Alma Gama" | Felipe Venegas | Alma Sounds | Cadenza
5. "I Don't Care - Dub" | Dele Sosimi meets Prince Fatty / Nostalgia 77 | You No Fit To Touch Am In Dub | Wah Wah 45s
6. "Revelation" | Alva Lewis | First Class Rock Steady | VP
7. "Dream Scene" | Throwing Shade | Beating Heart - Malawi | Beating Heart
8. "Napoleon Solo" | Lynn Tait & The Jets | First Class Rock Steady | VP
9. "Ratted Out" | 50footwave | Bath White | HHBTM
10. "The Prophecy" | The Comet Is Coming | Channel The Spirits | Leaf
11. "Lembe Dub" | Bixiga 70 | The Copan Connection: Bixiga 70 Meets Victor Rice | Glitterbeat
12. "The Beatitude" | The Uniques | First Class Rock Steady | VP
13. "Fast Fluing Fluid" | Pete Bassman | Lost In Space | Hoga Nord
14. "Otonarabi" | Foodman | Ez Minzoku | Orange Milk
15. "3D Jesus Ashtray" | Acid Barretts | Anticipating Nowhere, A Homage To The Telescopes | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
16. "Sleepwalkers" | Lone | Levitate | R & S
17. "Meet Your Doom!" | Weightausend | Meet Your Doom! (Green Death) | Haunter
18. "Doctors" | True Neutral Crew | Soft Rules | Deathbomb Arc
19. "Agbe fe avi" | Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin | Wait For Me | Hot Casa
20. "Kassiber" | Efdemin | Infrastructure Facticity | Infrastructure New York
21. "Try" | Kiara Lewis | Too | Editions Mego
22. "Steel Dreaming" | IX Tab & Hoofus | The Blow, Vol. 1 | Front & Follow
23. "Ndalama Ndi Satana" | Unknown Artists | Beating Heart - Malawi (Originals) - Recorded by Hugh Tracey | Beating Heart
24. "ForkedTongues" | Seekers International | LoversDedicationStation | Bokeh Versions
25. "TWG Recovery" | Paco Sala | Rough Imaginary | Home Normal
26. "Expectation" | Nino Nardini, Eddie Warner & Roger Roger | Space Oddities: Studio Ganaro (1972-1982) | Born Bad
27. "Sets & Rises" | Tarentel | From Bone to Satellite | Temporary Residence
28. "It Points to the Clue" | CTMF | SQ 1 | Damaged Goods
29. "The Day That David Bowie Died" | David J. & Federale | The Day That David Bowie Died | A Records
30. "The Essential Wander" | Dalhous | Run for the Shadows EP | Lapsus
31. "Black Letter Day" | Jose Soberanes | VA Compilation #4 | Assembly Field
32. "Canticle of Creatures" | Lucy | Self Mythology | Stroboscopic Artefacts
33. "Transform" | Setaoc Mass | Cipher | Figure

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