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