radiobombast

About radiobombast

music program on WRFI Community Radio, 88.1 FM Ithaca / 91.9 FM Watkins Glen

Publisher

Kid Catharsis

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Apr 2021

Latest episode

27 Jul 2024

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Jul 2024

   We're Not Alone, It's Hard To Tell: Transmission 530, 2020 June 10

   “Our Pandemic Radio Adventure” continues, and I’m back on my bullshit–by that I mean counting the mixtapes I’ve had to assemble for you. What must I have been thinking–that this would end soon? Dear listener, we have eleven months to go!Listeners will experience a hefty serving of music “randomly found in my twitter timeline”--there was a lot of that at this time. People and organizations were responding to Current Events in whatever way they could. This week had seen the infamous “post a black square” day on social media (a gesture adopted by the famously non-racist Washington Redskins, among others); it had also seen the repurposing of the fledgling Bandcamp Friday phenomenon as a fundraiser for activist groups. “Throw some coins in the bucket in the direction of social justice,” I plead. To my current embarrassment some of the music that accompanied this crowdfunding sounds eager and pandering, as if the artists were hoping their songs might be deployed as interstitial music on Democracy Now! or some such. I won’t name names; perhaps you can guess by listening.I relax my policy of “not calling people out” to take a shot at Juno Records, whose shipment to me was apparently traveling the wrong way around the globe, as it was two months late. Lockdown be damned, I am a needy consumer! At least I admit that I am being “petty.”Mispronouncing “Kilamanzego” as “kill-a-man-zay-go” (instead of “kill a man’s ego”) is something I can only admit to now, as I was cluelessly butchering it at the time with blithe confidence.And while we’re on the topic, were we really “starting to talk about” returning to live broadcasts? In June 2020? Good grief! BOMBAST playlist, 2020 June 10, 2100-2300: "Just Feel" | Jessica Ashman | Just Feel | self-released"Da Daa" | archr | Hayashi | Bonsai"Forward" | Markus Floats | Third Album | Constellation"Equal Rights + Justice" | Eusebeia | Equal Rights + Justice EP | Western Lore"Too Shay" | King Britt | Back 2 Black | Black Catalogue 2020"Running From The Cops (live on KEXP)" | Phantogram | Talk - Action = Zero: A Compilation Benefitting Black Lives Matter | Rough Trade Publishing / Bank Robber Music"Lost In Space / Great Scott / 22-26" | Thundercat | It Is What It Is | Brainfeeder"Unknown Future [feat. Law, Kola Nut]" | Tim Reaper | More Lanterns EP | Repertoire"A Call To Young Lawyers" | Matthew Caws | Talk - Action = Zero: A Compilation Benefitting Black Lives Matter | Rough Trade Publishing / Bank Robber Music"Forward Again" | Markus Floats | Third Album | Constellation"Moanin' At Midnight" | Howlin' Wolf | Silver Disc: 25 Years Of Ace | Ace"A Call To Arms (BLM 1312 Redux)" | thisquietarmy | Talk - Action = Zero: A Compilation Benefitting Black Lives Matter | Rough Trade Publishing / Bank Robber Music"Kokrokoo" | Santrofi | Alewa | Out Here"Enter" | Nailah Hunter | Spells | LEAVING RECORDS"It's Over" | Karyn Kuhl | Talk - Action = Zero: A Compilation Benefitting Black Lives Matter | Rough Trade Publishing / Bank Robber Music"Shadow" | Moor Jewelry | True Opera | Don Giovanni"Just A Little Bit" | Tim Carman & The Street 45s | Talk - Action = Zero: A Compilation Benefitting Black Lives Matter | Rough Trade Publishing / Bank Robber Music"These Hands Are Up" | Mourning [A] BLKstar | These Hands Are Up | Don Giovanni"ALB19 17" | Loraine James | FYAI Demos + Ditched Album | self-released"What Comes Next" | Worriers | Talk - Action = Zero: A Compilation Benefitting Black Lives Matter | Rough Trade Publishing / Bank Robber Music"Everything Goes Black" | Kilamanzego | These Roots Are On Fire EP | self-released"Side B1 / Side B2" | A Space for Sound | Sound Bath Mixtape Vol. 1 | Purple Tape Pedigree all the lying, all the stealing, all the cheating is working https://www.facebook.com/radiobombast?ref=hl https://twitter.com/KidCatharsis

2. 

   20 Jul 2024

   Now, Later, Never and Ever: Transmission 529, 2020 June 3

   It’s been a tough week, hasn’t it? INDEED IT HAS.This episode finds me  losing count of the number of times I’ve had to submit a pre-recorded program. Whatevs, counting is for nerds anyway.Trying to get through the week as best I can–by playing tunes that are “dear to me,” I say--but this is a lie! So many of these tunes were pretty new to me. Maybe they became “dear” quickly, but due to my supposed shallowness of affect I doubt it.I’d just stopped drinking in the previous week, so the whole George Floyd thing found me without a protective emotional buffer. I sound tired and dead inside despite how angry I must have been. Maybe just exasperated. Everything had come to a grinding halt except the state-sanctioned murder of black people.Anyway–”No Agreement” is definitely a song that has been dear to me for a long time. No lie about that one. You wouldn’t think someone would gravitate toward a Fela record the way people gravitate toward a 4ad or Factory record but I really dug the sleeves on those Celluloid reissues of Fela records in the 80s. And then, listening to the recordings changed the way I listened to music, just like 4ad had once upon a time. Also “No Agreement Today, No Agreement Tomorrow” would be a fitting title for my memoir, if only anyone wanted to read it or if I wanted to write it in the first place.I don’t talk much in this episode, I must really have been at the end of words, as they say. I sound a little more peppy at the end of hour 1 than I did at the beginning. “Short, angry tunes” await in the second hour, “appropriate for this time”–if that’s your mood, that’s something to look forward to. This, at long last,  is the truth! BOMBAST playlist, 2020 June 3, 2100-2300: "The Breathtaking Blast" | Tradition | Captain Ganja and the Space Patrol | Bokeh Versions "In a Budget Dancehall" | Mdou Moctar & Elite Beat | Mdou Moctar Meets Elite Beat In a Budget Dancehall | Boomarm Nation "Follow Me" | Oneness of Juju | African Rhythms 1970-1982 | Strut "Ngigna Loko" | Ngalle Jojo | Africa Airways Six (Mile High Funk 1974 - 1981) | Africa Seven "Oorun" | Guedra Guedra كدرة كدرة | Son of Sun | On The Corner "Kwabena amoah" | Santrofi | Alewa | Out Here "Lonesome" | Loraine James | FYAI Demos + Ditched Album | self-released "No Agreement" | Fela Anikulapo Kuti with Africa 70 | No Agreement | Terrascape "The Garden" | Stef Fi | Girlhood | self-released "Ndomo" | Jude Bondeze | Africa Airways Six (Mile High Funk 1974 - 1981) | Africa Seven "87BABIES" | Nelson Bandela | Bandela BeatTape 007 - MACRO | self-released "Tamatant" | Kel Assouf | Glitterbeat_tak:til_2019 | Glitterbeat "seedless" | serpentwithfeet | soil | Secretly Canadian "SUN" | Versis | Versis | self-released "Unrequited Love" | Thundercat | It Is What It Is | Brainfeeder "Me Ton Le Gbe (Pachanga Fon)" | Orchestre Super Borgou De Parakou | The Bariba Sound 1970-1976 | Analog Africa "Rubber Necks" | Handle | In Threes | Upset The Rhythm "Bumpy's Lament" | Isaac Hayes | Shaft (Music From the Soundtrack) | Stax "Healing Father" | African Head Charge | Songs of Praise [reissue] | On-U Sound "Judgement" | Moor Jewelry | True Opera | Don Giovanni "Cut Me My Cheque feat. Alberto Solis" | Kah & McKenzie | Avon Garde | Avon Terror Corps "Dream Palette" | Yves Tumor | Heaven to a Tortured Mind | WARP "Freeze Corleone 667 - Ekip VS Heavy Teeth - Shadow On Flesh" | Hajj | Hash-Ups Vol.1 | Strike a Posse "Hard (Stars Remix)" | Mourning [A] BLKstar | The Cycle | Don Giovanni "Black Weirdo" | Kilamanzego | Hayashi | Bonsai "We're A Winner" | Curtis Mayfield | Harlem Shuffle | Plastic public service announcement for all the people out there https://www.facebook.com/radiobombast?ref=hl https://twitter.com/KidCatharsis

3. 

   10 Dec 2023

   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 Pil

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