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

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