Outright Denial of the Dying and the Sane: Transmission 528, 2020 May 27

This episode and the next are about clearing the decks, a “before and after” tableau, if you will. They are about how I cannot seem to perform the deck-clearing in a spontaneous, immediate way, and how I compensate (if that’s what I am doing) by making big changes at the level of concept. All of this is a fancy way of saying (as I seem to do with increasing frequency) that it was the end of one era and the beginning of another. I guess this archive is a way of keeping it all straight.

At this time my show was still “airing” on Wednesday nights, but because Covid was keeping us all out of the studio I was required to submit pre-recorded episodes on Tuesdays. This meant that the episode had to be planned, sequenced, and pasted together at some earlier point than that. I’m dancing around the unpleasant topic of May 25, 2020. I have forgotten what I thought about George Floyd’s death in the first 48 hours afterward. Maybe at the time I considered it merely another in a long line of murders (which of course it was), another video I didn’t want to see (which it also was). 

One theory of “how music programs should respond to tragedy” is that they should offer some kind of escape, and I guess this program works in that way, if you want to see it that way. 

You know what, though? I’m through “making sandwiches” and giving a platform to my inner critic. Let him get his own, and let the haters hate (I don’t imagine anyone considers this little radio show important enough to “hate” on it). What can I tell you? I am not 100% consistent and I am always doing my best in the moment. What “my best” is will always be an elusive, ephemeral thing, as I keep re-discovering.

BOMBAST playlist, 2020 May 27, 2100-2300:

• "Righteous Vibration" | TNT Roots | Raw Dub Creator | Bokeh Versions
• "Vals" | Etxera | Cinco Segundos | Silent Method
• "Stowaway" | The Room in the Wood | We're the Martians, Now | A Turntable Friend
• "White Line Fever" | The Fall | Reformation Post T.L.C. [reissue] | Cherry Red
• "Sacrifice" | Chloral | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
• "The Last Time" | Slum of Legs | Slum of Legs | Spurge
• "Al Gore Rhythms" | The Mystery Plan | Zsa Zsa | Ten Millimeter Omega
• "They Work Every Day" | The Durutti Column | Vini Reilly [reissue] | Factory Benelux
• "Listening To The Marychain (Acoustic Version)" | The Memory Fades | Shelter | Sunday
• "Hour of the Furnaces" | Algiers | There Is No Year | Matador
• "Rocket Repairs" | Tradition | Captain Ganja and the Space Patrol | Bokeh Versions
• "DIVV VL" | Cry Robot | The Entity In The Cosmos | Virtual Soundsystem
• "Out Of Sync" | Hallows | Subtle | Phage Tapes
• "Innerstellar Love" | Thundercat | It Is What It Is | Brainfeeder
• "Kobon Lerai" | Mammane Sani | La Musique Électronique Du Niger | Sahel Sounds / Mississippi / Change
• "Gradiency" | The Billows Burn Bright | The Billows Burn Bright 2015​-​2020 | self-released   
• "DonaBonBon ft. Salvador Herrera" | Child | Mutual Aid 2020 | Bokeh Versions
• "Aislación" | Orquesta Pandroginia | Pandemia | Virtual Soundsystem
• "Queer" | Loraine James | FYAI Demos + Ditched Album | self-released
• "Kerosene!" | Yves Tumor | Heaven to a Tortured Mind | WARP
• "Forward" | Roger Robinson | Mutual Aid 2020 | Bokeh Versions
• "Tart Tart" | Happy Mondays | Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) [reissue] | London
• "A Lucen Sombras" | Berlina | Come On Feel The NoiZe, Vol. 4 - La Furia | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
• "Just Before the Bomb" | Manfred Hamil | The Shed Collective Vol.3 | Douglas Deep
• "Walk From Regio's" | Isaac Hayes | Shaft (Music From the Soundtrack) | Stax
• "Maraschino-Red Dress $8.99 at Goodwill [Ezra, Jorgen, Sam & Tim, January/February 2017, Ballistico]" | Ezra Furman | To Them We'll Always Be Freaks | self-released
• "Money Don't Grow on Trees" | Sneaks | Highway Hypnosis | Merge
• "Thought Crime" | Macerator | The Shed Collective Vol.3 | Douglas Deep
• "Poison In A Pretty Pill" | Crass | Penis Envy | Crass
• "Le Grand Macabre" | Moor Jewelry | True Opera | Don Giovanni
• "Lightyears (feat. Joshua Idehen)" | The Comet Is Coming | Channel The Spirits | Leaf
• "obfusc" | NNYz? | C-BEAMS | self-released

time won't always heal and it eats at my mind

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