WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from November 4, 2021

Listener comments!
	6:57pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	🥁 7:01pm jaywbabcock: Evan thank you again for the great service you did us all last week. And every week.
	🥁 7:01pm chresti: Hi Flash and X-plorers!
	7:02pm Anon: Good evening everyone
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hello Jay! my incredible pleasure, thank you for enjoying
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! Welcome aboard Anon
	7:05pm Flash Strap: man the entrance of the rhythm in this composition is exquisite
	7:07pm doctorjazz: Hello Flasheroonio!
	🥁 7:08pm Aitch: Off we go again
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Once upon a time there was a special show in the Room about this very collaboration b/t Harriott & Mayer, if you've never heard and would like to hear more: wfmu.org...
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc! Hi Aitch!
	7:10pm Flash Strap: great to have you both aboard
	7:12pm Flash Strap: percussion on Exotic Two such a divine golden clatter
	7:20pm Flash Strap: This Guy Warren record always delivers, man I love it
	7:21pm Flash Strap: Had a little Guy Warren special show a while back too: wfmu.org...
	7:23pm Little Danny: yeah a Flash classic!
	🥁 7:23pm Will the Sound Guy: Hi Evan and all!!!
	7:23pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	7:24pm Flash Strap: Hi Will!
	7:25pm JtotheK: took a chance on a cheapo copy of that Guy Warren, great record. Ahoy everyone!
	7:26pm Flash Strap: Hi JtotheK! it's a killer, that was a great pickup especially if it was on the cheap
	7:27pm Little Danny: that little piano figure is so spooky
	7:28pm Flash Strap: Chick Corea is at his absolute best on this LP imo, very eerie, insistent, entrancing
	7:28pm JtotheK: Yeah I have had decent luck on less than great condition records, often under-graded to these ears.
	7:28pm JtotheK: Still need this bath house Pete Rock record though.
	7:29pm Flash Strap: @J-K: yeah you really never know - i was just wondering if i should take a chance on a VG Guy Warren LP, in fact
	7:30pm Flash Strap: both of La Roca's LPs are endlessly great but very hard to get
	7:31pm Flash Strap: this Sciascia sounding a little bit like La Roca's "Dancing Girls" from Bath
	7:34pm TDK60: Flash, hello. May I sit?
	7:34pm JtotheK: The Turkish Women record was reissued on the Muse label as Chick Corea “Bliss” and reasonably priced copies are online. Internet research shows “Bliss” got pulled though for legal reasons. It’s an option!
	7:34pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK! sit, lay down, levitate. choose your pleasure
	7:36pm Flash Strap: as an album cover maniac and Ingres lover I'm afraid Bliss would never do! unless i saw it in a true dollar bin, in which case I wouldn't hesitate
	7:39pm Doug Schulkind: The Pete LaRoca LP is a monster. Chick is a roiling maelstrom of dark joy. John Gilmore is a massive sequoia of wise wisdom. LaRoca plays like an octopus in a washing machine.
	7:40pm Flash Strap: Hi Doug! Booker's cooking on bass too. Such magic
	7:41pm Little Danny: octopus in a washing machine huh
	7:42pm Flash Strap: haha
	7:45pm Little Danny: wow this Della Humphrey is wild! i only know her from a coupla good soul 45s on a philly label
	7:46pm Flash Strap: i know! it's her only reggae cut
	7:46pm Flash Strap: tho i thought she was strictly Miami?
	🥁 7:47pm chresti: Fabulous
	🥁 7:47pm Aitch: Della track very good
	7:47pm Little Danny: hmm not sure flash! maybe just philly in label only
	7:58pm Flash Strap: yeah you're right LD, ARCTIC is philly
	7:59pm Little Danny: classic track! oh yes so arctic was a philly label but they had distro/release deals with Clarence Reid and Frank Williams and buncha Miami acts. Very specific city-to-city connection
	7:59pm Flash Strap: Della looking extremely good here: img.discogs.com...
	8:00pm Flash Strap: @LD: very interesting, that puts the pieces together
	8:05pm Flash Strap: "In November 1967 Terry Riley performed an All Night Concert in Philadelphia under the moniker Poppy Nogood. A form of happening where Terry improvised on soprano saxophone and tape-delay feed-back system, otherwise known as the "time-lag accumulator". The "All Night Flight" concert held in the Philadelphia art school began at 10pm and lasted until dawn. Attendees were encouraged to bring along sleeping bags and make a full evening of it. One of those that attended operated a disco in Philadelphia and commissioned Terry to compose a "theme" for the night-club. The result is the plundering and appropriation of an obscure R&B tune "You're Nogood" [sic] ['You're No Good' by Harvey Averne] in a mix of moog, tape-loops, and feed-back system."
	🥁 8:07pm Will the Sound Guy: Wild, I've heard this a bunch of times ... I can dig it
	8:07pm doctorjazz: That couldn't have been on purpose (the joy of vinyl) Carla Bley had an early album where she wrote a repeating section for her band that sounds like a stuck/repeating record, fooled me at first...
	🥁 8:11pm chresti: Love it, through the earbuds.
	8:11pm Little Danny: wow, great account
	8:12pm doctorjazz: Maybe it is all deliberate (just looked at the composer...)
	🥁 8:12pm Will the Sound Guy: I'm only listening on my crummy phone, still I fun
	8:12pm Flash Strap: @chresti: some very art brut stereo dynamics
	🥁 8:12pm Aitch: This no-good is amazing
	🥁 8:13pm chresti: This Nogood is Sogood!
	8:13pm Little Danny: well played chresti hi!!!!
	8:13pm Flash Strap: it's such an unbelievable onslaught, truly apocalyptic
	8:14pm Flash Strap: @Doc: trying to remember what album that Bley piece is from, do you recall?
	🥁 8:14pm chresti: Hi Little Danny!
	🥁 8:15pm chresti: And wow 1967!
	8:17pm Little Danny: gotta be a very early pop remix (in its own way), can't think of anything quite else like it this early
	8:17pm Little Danny: * as in "remix of a pop record"
	8:18pm Flash Strap: @LD: totally, it clearly prefigures like a dozen schools of remix & sound collage
	8:18pm Flash Strap: just astonishing
	8:19pm Little Danny: totally, and i mean there are pop snippets and fragments in concrete from the start but none that so thoroughly imbue them this same way
	8:20pm Flash Strap: yeah this gets inside the song and stays there the whole time, whatever else it does. the song is central
	8:20pm melinda: that was an interesting listen with no background info
	8:21pm TDK60: The soul-hippy-noise genre was ahead of some curve, so I've heard.
	8:21pm Flash Strap: hi Melinda! i can imagine!
	8:24pm Flash Strap: that both this McKechnie & that Riley are specifically remnants of "Happening" culture really expands any conception of what these hippies were up to
	8:24pm doctorjazz: Flash, not 100% Sure (which is why I phrased it like that), think it was Musique Mecanique (but wouldn't swear to it).
	🥁 8:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hullo ! I'm late but I heard most so far...
	8:25pm doctorjazz: (Dinner Music also a possibility...)
	8:25pm Flash Strap: thanks Doc, I've been meaning to study up on that piece and you reminded me of it
	🥁 8:25pm chresti: Pierre Bastien, doc?
	8:26pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev! great to see ya
	🥁 8:26pm chresti: *Musique Mechanique
	8:27pm TDK60: (The popular imagination of "hippy" often gets cartoonish and flat in retrospect, I fear.)
	🥁 8:29pm chresti: Never mind, I think Bastien's was Meccanoid
	8:29pm Flash Strap: the avant garde elements of any moment/movement tend to get flattened out, perhaps nowhere moreso than the fabled 60s
	🥁 8:30pm chresti: Hi TDK60.
	8:31pm Flash Strap: Numero did some expanded niche releases in addendum to their Cleopatra comp: numerocleopatra.bandcamp.com...
	8:32pm TDK60: Chresti, of the westerly. Far out to be here, man.
	8:33pm Little Danny: whoa
	🥁 8:33pm chresti: Outtasite TDK60, way out.
	8:34pm Flash Strap: RIP to Mizutani, his years-ago death only just very recently announced. classic stuff from the Mystery Man
	8:38pm Little Danny: this may be the cleanest version of this track i've heard, you can really hear the pop song in there
	8:40pm Flash Strap: I think the "I Will Follow Him" bassline is a little more pronounced in the Heavier Than a Death / '77 version, but this does have a nice open sound, a laid-back lope, not unlike a Quine Tape Sister Ray
	🥁 8:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bela Lugosi's Weird
	8:42pm Flash Strap: has anyone heard that Les Rallizes / Arthur Doyle recording? Very curious but haven't heard it myself
	8:43pm Little Danny: okay wow
	🥁 8:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Hawkwind / SimplySaucer come to mind a bit ...this is crazy great.
	8:45pm Flash Strap: This "No Good" a Little Danny / Office Naps spectacular, or at least that's how it came into my life
	8:46pm mark g.: anytime i think im somewhat done obsessing over Les Rallizes Denudes, the explorers room reels me back in.
	8:46pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): hey, Flash! hey folx!
	8:47pm Little Danny: thanks flash! blushing emoji
	🥁 8:50pm chresti: Mx Baba Beekins!
	8:51pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): chrestikins!
	8:52pm TDK60: Mx Bee, evenin' thee.
	8:53pm asheville jon: Heckuva show tonight!
	8:55pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): TDK60kins!
	8:57pm doctorjazz: OK, quitting time, great show, thanks, Flash!
	🥁 8:59pm chresti: Sock it!
	8:59pm Flash Strap: Hi Baba bee! Hi Jon, thank you friend!
	8:59pm TDK60: Night Docjazz.
	8:59pm Flash Strap: bye Doc! thanks for hanging out
	🥁 8:59pm chresti: I know the Ken Booth version.
	9:00pm Flash Strap: shoo be doo
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: greetings Evan, Explorers
	9:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	9:04pm Little Danny: all goes back to Bo Diddley once again
	9:04pm Flash Strap: soooooo many versions of this riddim - which will we hear tonight i wonder
	9:05pm Flash Strap: yeah Bo & Willie Cobbs!
	9:06pm Little Danny: yes 'n' yes love it!
	🥁 9:07pm chresti: Shark attack
	9:08pm zzz: happy to slip into the explorers room just in time for this.. heyooo DJ Flashstrap
	9:08pm Flash Strap: Shark Attack! Leggo!
	9:09pm Flash Strap: One and one makes two that's true
	9:09pm Flash Strap: Hi ZZZ!
	9:11pm Little Danny: this set, man
	9:12pm Little Danny: flash do you know who originally did this specific iteration (riddim?) of "You're No Good" in Jamaican music?
	🥁 9:12pm chresti: This is the first version of You Don't Love me, I heard.
	9:12pm Flash Strap: this song references the UK crime film Sitting Target, aka Screaming Target, starring Oliver Reed & Ian McShane
	9:13pm Flash Strap: Dawn Penn's version is ground zero for this one. Big rocksteady hit
	9:14pm Little Danny: the stuttering intro is so distinct
	9:14pm Flash Strap: "Incredible – irrepressible as I would say – diabolical as I would tell you" perfect
	9:16pm Flash Strap: Screaming Target, Magnificent 7, and the next track are all Gussie Clarke productions
	9:19pm Flash Strap: the next riddim on spotlight this evening dates back to a 1967 Alton Ellis song, but we're going to start with a highly influential '77 rendition
	9:20pm zzz: heavy dub
	9:21pm Flash Strap: Black Foundation Dub is an all-time great, whole thing is killer
	9:21pm Flash Strap: Prince Far I production here
	9:21pm zzz: set just elevated..
	9:24pm zzz: jah bless prince far i + errol holt
	9:25pm Flash Strap: these are serious accusations
	9:27pm Flash Strap: Alton Ellis' original is very good – he's always at least wonderful – but Marcia Aitken's rendition spawned an immediate outpouring of versions and is generally just as exquisite as can be, possibly the definitive rendition in a way
	🥁 9:28pm Will the Sound Guy: Diggin the sweet reggae set
	9:29pm Flash Strap: This Trinity track is one of my favorite productions in any style, ever. masterpiece
	9:31pm Flash Strap: so many versions on this riddim, had to make some saaad cuts to make time
	9:32pm Flash Strap: so alas, no Ranking Trevor - Three Piece Chicken and Chips
	9:32pm zzz: yes FS @9:29! was just going to write one of my fav vocals on the trinity - “OH!!”
	9:33pm Flash Strap: Althea & Donna with one of the best singles of all time imo. another bloody masterpiece
	9:34pm zzz: nah pop no style i strictly roots! so good
	9:36pm Flash Strap: it's so cool how strident & roots-radical they are, while also talking about their cool clothes. Just like Trinity! but in their own way, i dunno man it's a converesation and i love it
	9:39pm TDK60: Love the clavinet in reggae. (Tosh had it there often.)
	9:40pm Flash Strap: me too TDK
	9:41pm Flash Strap: lot of it on Macka Dub too
	9:43pm Flash Strap: know nothing about DJ Dawn but love her sound here
	9:44pm Flash Strap: Delgado with possibly the strangest take on the riddim yet
	9:46pm Flash Strap: love the cover: img.discogs.com...
	9:46pm Little Danny: thank you evan! very transportive show this eve
	🥁 9:46pm chresti: arturia.com/products/clavinet-v/overview
	9:48pm Flash Strap: Thanks LD
	🥁 9:49pm chresti: Nevermind, need software, way over my head
	9:49pm Doug Schulkind: I do so love Exploring with you all. Pure 🔥 this evening, Mr. Strap.
	9:49pm Flash Strap: Doug you honor me and ignite my heart with this flame
	9:50pm TDK60: Chresti, I was in a combo with a clavinet, along with organ and electric piano. That particular clavinet was hard to keep in tune.
	9:52pm Little Danny: love that TDK! what kind of music did yer combo play?
	9:53pm Little Danny: the cool blue flame, where all the mics are hot: wfmu.org... up next! hope to see you there!
	9:55pm TDK60: DJ LD, that group was a sort of reggae/Afro/instrumental rock sorta combo. (Tortoise meets Talking Heads at an Augustus Pablo picnic? I dunno.)
	🥁 9:56pm chresti: They're expensive. Very cool, TDK60.
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	9:58pm TDK60: Well, Flash. That's another fine show you've gotten us into. Thanks!
	9:58pm Scott67: Thanks Evan, been out & about so couldn't check in! ✌😎👣🌞🌏
	9:58pm Little Danny: wow, TDK, excellent. any recordings?
	9:59pm TDK60: LD- not really, some home demos and live tapes.
	🥁 10:00pm chresti: Live tapes!
	10:00pm Doug Schulkind: Miss the Cool Blue Flame and you’d be the fool who blew fame. See you all over in the Flame-O-sphere.
	🥁 10:01pm chresti: Thanks for the mood boost, Flash!
	🥁 10:02pm Will the Sound Guy: Thank you Evan!!
	🥁 10:04pm WR: Looks like a great episode I missed. Went to eat Chinese food in Flushing China Town tonight. Sometimes got to make choices in life, and there is the option to listen from the archive.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from November 4, 2021

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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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November 4, 2021: A Stranger, An Outcast, Live Like a Hermit

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
The Joe Harriott Double Quintet Under the Direction of John Mayer	Raga Gaud-Saranga	Indo-Jazz Suite	Atlantic	1966		0:02:16 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Arkestra	Exotic Two	Bad & Beautiful	ABC Impulse!	1975	rec. 1961	0:10:35 (Pop-up)
James Moody and His Modernists with Chano Pozo	Tropicana	James Moody And His Modernists with Chano Pozo	Blue Note	1952		0:15:14 (Pop-up)
Guy Warren with Red Saunders Orchestra	J.A.I.S.I. (Jazz As I See It)	Africa Speaks, America Answers	Decca	1957		0:18:10 (Pop-up)
Donn Preston Group	Ghana-Cha! "Ghana-Cha!" by "Donn Preston Group"	Ghana-Cha! / Night Sounds 7"	Great Lakes Records	19??		0:22:48 (Pop-up)
Pete La Roca ‎	Bliss "Bliss" by "Pete La Roca ‎"	Turkish Women at the Bath	Douglas	1967		0:24:58 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Passione Incas "Passione Incas" by "Armando Sciascia"	Colonna Sonora Del Film «Sexy Ad Alta Tensione»	Vedette	196?		0:30:24 (Pop-up)
Charles Wolcott & His Orchestra	Inca Suite: (1.) Llama Serenade (2.) Inca Princess	Saludos Amigos!	Decca	1948		0:32:31 (Pop-up)
Nat King Cole	Brazilian Love Song	Thank You, Pretty Baby	Capitol	1967		0:35:17 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra	Brazilian Sun	When Sun Comes Out	El Saturn Records	1963		0:37:11 (Pop-up)
West African Rhythm Brothers	I Am A Stranger	London is the Place for Me 3: Ambrose Adekoya Campbell	Honest Jon's Records	2006		0:41:11 (Pop-up)
Della Humphrey	Dreamland "Dreamland" by "Della Humphrey"	Dreamland 7"	Iron Side Disc	1972		0:43:50 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Tropical Forest – Number Six Chops Down the Tree					0:46:24 (Pop-up)
Della Humphrey	Don't Make The Good Girls Go Bad	Don't Make The Good Girls Go Bad / Your Love Is All I Need 7"	ARCTIC	1968		0:56:47 (Pop-up)
Terry Riley	You're Nogood "You're Nogood" by "Terry Riley"	You're Nogood	Cortical Foundation	1967 / 2000		0:59:56 (Pop-up)
Doug McKechnie	Crazy Ray "Crazy Ray" by "Doug McKechnie"	San Francisco Moog: 1968-72	VG+ Records	2020		1:18:57 (Pop-up)
The Inner Space & Rosy Rosy	Kamera Song	Agilok & Blubbo (Thema No.1) / Kamera Song 7"	Vogue Schallplatten	1968		1:27:11 (Pop-up)
Vickie & The Van Dykes	Outcast "Outcast" by "Vickie & The Van Dykes"	Cleopatra: The Girls	Cleopatra / Numero Group	196? / 2017		1:29:33 (Pop-up)
Les Rallizes Dénudés	Night of the Assassins	Double Heads	Phoenix Records	2011	rec. live 1980	1:31:58 (Pop-up)
Cresa Watson	You're No Good "You're No Good" by "Cresa Watson"	You're No Good / Salvation 7"	Charay	1969		1:44:19 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Ooze All Over The World, Doctor "Ooze All Over The World, Doctor"					1:46:38 (Pop-up)
Phillip Frazer	You Are No Good / Version You Are No Good	You Are No Good / Version You Are No Good 7"	Roots Tradition	1978		1:58:41 (Pop-up)
Dawn Penn	You Dont Love Me "You Dont Love Me" by "Dawn Penn"	You Dont Love Me / Portobello Road 7"	Studio One	1967		2:03:13 (Pop-up)
Prince Jazzbo	Fool For Love "Fool For Love" by "Prince Jazzbo"	Fool For Love 7"	Bongo Man	1972		2:06:15 (Pop-up)
Big Youth	Screaming Target (Version 2)	Screaming Target	Trojan	2014	LP orig. rel. 1972 (Jaguar Records)	2:09:21 (Pop-up)
I. Roy	Magnificent Seven "Magnificent Seven" by "I. Roy"	Magnificent Seven / Leggo Beast 7"	Puppy	1973		2:13:15 (Pop-up)
Augustus "Gussie" Clarke	No, No, No	Black Foundation Dub	Gussie Roots Sounds	1977		2:16:57 (Pop-up)
Errol Holt	Yes, Yes, Yes "Yes, Yes, Yes" by "Errol Holt"	Yes, Yes, Yes / No One Can Tell I About Jah 12"	Hitrun	1979		2:20:48 (Pop-up)
Marcia Aitken	I'm Still In Love "I'm Still In Love" by "Marcia Aitken"	I'm Still In Love 7"	Joe Gibbs Record Globe	1977		2:25:15 (Pop-up)
Trinity	Three Piece Suit "Three Piece Suit" by "Trinity"	Three Piece Suit	Joe Gibbs Record Globe	1977		2:28:51 (Pop-up)
Althea & Donna	Up Town Top Ranking	Up Town Top Ranking / Calico Suit 7"	Joe Gibbs Record Globe	1977		2:32:03 (Pop-up)
Mighty Two	Calico Suit "Calico Suit" by "Mighty Two"	Up Town Top Ranking / Calico Suit 7"	Joe Gibbs Record Globe	1977		2:35:59 (Pop-up)
D.J. Dawn & The Ranking Queens	Peace Truce Thing	Peace Truce Thing / Down By The Shore 12"	Studio One	1978		2:39:27 (Pop-up)
Junior Delgado	Live Like A Hermit	Effort	D.E.B. Music	1979		2:43:18 (Pop-up)
Dub Specialist	Pisces Dub "Pisces Dub" by "Dub Specialist"	Zodiac Sounds	Studio One	1975		2:47:08 (Pop-up)
Keith Hudson	Be Good Dub "Be Good Dub" by "Keith Hudson"	Playing It Cool & Playing It Right	Joint International	1981		2:50:31 (Pop-up)
	Bells Of My Soul "Bells Of My Soul"					2:52:43 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:57pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	🥁 7:01pm jaywbabcock: Evan thank you again for the great service you did us all last week. And every week.
	🥁 7:01pm chresti: Hi Flash and X-plorers!
	7:02pm Anon: Good evening everyone
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hello Jay! my incredible pleasure, thank you for enjoying
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! Welcome aboard Anon
	7:05pm Flash Strap: man the entrance of the rhythm in this composition is exquisite
	7:07pm doctorjazz: Hello Flasheroonio!
	🥁 7:08pm Aitch: Off we go again
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Once upon a time there was a special show in the Room about this very collaboration b/t Harriott & Mayer, if you've never heard and would like to hear more: wfmu.org...
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc! Hi Aitch!
	7:10pm Flash Strap: great to have you both aboard
	7:12pm Flash Strap: percussion on Exotic Two such a divine golden clatter
	7:20pm Flash Strap: This Guy Warren record always delivers, man I love it
	7:21pm Flash Strap: Had a little Guy Warren special show a while back too: wfmu.org...
	7:23pm Little Danny: yeah a Flash classic!
	🥁 7:23pm Will the Sound Guy: Hi Evan and all!!!
	7:23pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	7:24pm Flash Strap: Hi Will!
	7:25pm JtotheK: took a chance on a cheapo copy of that Guy Warren, great record. Ahoy everyone!
	7:26pm Flash Strap: Hi JtotheK! it's a killer, that was a great pickup especially if it was on the cheap
	7:27pm Little Danny: that little piano figure is so spooky
	7:28pm Flash Strap: Chick Corea is at his absolute best on this LP imo, very eerie, insistent, entrancing
	7:28pm JtotheK: Yeah I have had decent luck on less than great condition records, often under-graded to these ears.
	7:28pm JtotheK: Still need this bath house Pete Rock record though.
	7:29pm Flash Strap: @J-K: yeah you really never know - i was just wondering if i should take a chance on a VG Guy Warren LP, in fact
	7:30pm Flash Strap: both of La Roca's LPs are endlessly great but very hard to get
	7:31pm Flash Strap: this Sciascia sounding a little bit like La Roca's "Dancing Girls" from Bath
	7:34pm TDK60: Flash, hello. May I sit?
	7:34pm JtotheK: The Turkish Women record was reissued on the Muse label as Chick Corea “Bliss” and reasonably priced copies are online. Internet research shows “Bliss” got pulled though for legal reasons. It’s an option!
	7:34pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK! sit, lay down, levitate. choose your pleasure
	7:36pm Flash Strap: as an album cover maniac and Ingres lover I'm afraid Bliss would never do! unless i saw it in a true dollar bin, in which case I wouldn't hesitate
	7:39pm Doug Schulkind: The Pete LaRoca LP is a monster. Chick is a roiling maelstrom of dark joy. John Gilmore is a massive sequoia of wise wisdom. LaRoca plays like an octopus in a washing machine.
	7:40pm Flash Strap: Hi Doug! Booker's cooking on bass too. Such magic
	7:41pm Little Danny: octopus in a washing machine huh
	7:42pm Flash Strap: haha
	7:45pm Little Danny: wow this Della Humphrey is wild! i only know her from a coupla good soul 45s on a philly label
	7:46pm Flash Strap: i know! it's her only reggae cut
	7:46pm Flash Strap: tho i thought she was strictly Miami?
	🥁 7:47pm chresti: Fabulous
	🥁 7:47pm Aitch: Della track very good
	7:47pm Little Danny: hmm not sure flash! maybe just philly in label only
	7:58pm Flash Strap: yeah you're right LD, ARCTIC is philly
	7:59pm Little Danny: classic track! oh yes so arctic was a philly label but they had distro/release deals with Clarence Reid and Frank Williams and buncha Miami acts. Very specific city-to-city connection
	7:59pm Flash Strap: Della looking extremely good here: img.discogs.com...
	8:00pm Flash Strap: @LD: very interesting, that puts the pieces together
	8:05pm Flash Strap: "In November 1967 Terry Riley performed an All Night Concert in Philadelphia under the moniker Poppy Nogood. A form of happening where Terry improvised on soprano saxophone and tape-delay feed-back system, otherwise known as the "time-lag accumulator". The "All Night Flight" concert held in the Philadelphia art school began at 10pm and lasted until dawn. Attendees were encouraged to bring along sleeping bags and make a full evening of it. One of those that attended operated a disco in Philadelphia and commissioned Terry to compose a "theme" for the night-club. The result is the plundering and appropriation of an obscure R&B tune "You're Nogood" [sic] ['You're No Good' by Harvey Averne] in a mix of moog, tape-loops, and feed-back system."
	🥁 8:07pm Will the Sound Guy: Wild, I've heard this a bunch of times ... I can dig it
	8:07pm doctorjazz: That couldn't have been on purpose (the joy of vinyl) Carla Bley had an early album where she wrote a repeating section for her band that sounds like a stuck/repeating record, fooled me at first...
	🥁 8:11pm chresti: Love it, through the earbuds.
	8:11pm Little Danny: wow, great account
	8:12pm doctorjazz: Maybe it is all deliberate (just looked at the composer...)
	🥁 8:12pm Will the Sound Guy: I'm only listening on my crummy phone, still I fun
	8:12pm Flash Strap: @chresti: some very art brut stereo dynamics
	🥁 8:12pm Aitch: This no-good is amazing
	🥁 8:13pm chresti: This Nogood is Sogood!
	8:13pm Little Danny: well played chresti hi!!!!
	8:13pm Flash Strap: it's such an unbelievable onslaught, truly apocalyptic
	8:14pm Flash Strap: @Doc: trying to remember what album that Bley piece is from, do you recall?
	🥁 8:14pm chresti: Hi Little Danny!
	🥁 8:15pm chresti: And wow 1967!
	8:17pm Little Danny: gotta be a very early pop remix (in its own way), can't think of anything quite else like it this early
	8:17pm Little Danny: * as in "remix of a pop record"
	8:18pm Flash Strap: @LD: totally, it clearly prefigures like a dozen schools of remix & sound collage
	8:18pm Flash Strap: just astonishing
	8:19pm Little Danny: totally, and i mean there are pop snippets and fragments in concrete from the start but none that so thoroughly imbue them this same way
	8:20pm Flash Strap: yeah this gets inside the song and stays there the whole time, whatever else it does. the song is central
	8:20pm melinda: that was an interesting listen with no background info
	8:21pm TDK60: The soul-hippy-noise genre was ahead of some curve, so I've heard.
	8:21pm Flash Strap: hi Melinda! i can imagine!
	8:24pm Flash Strap: that both this McKechnie & that Riley are specifically remnants of "Happening" culture really expands any conception of what these hippies were up to
	8:24pm doctorjazz: Flash, not 100% Sure (which is why I phrased it like that), think it was Musique Mecanique (but wouldn't swear to it).
	🥁 8:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hullo ! I'm late but I heard most so far...
	8:25pm doctorjazz: (Dinner Music also a possibility...)
	8:25pm Flash Strap: thanks Doc, I've been meaning to study up on that piece and you reminded me of it
	🥁 8:25pm chresti: Pierre Bastien, doc?
	8:26pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev! great to see ya
	🥁 8:26pm chresti: *Musique Mechanique
	8:27pm TDK60: (The popular imagination of "hippy" often gets cartoonish and flat in retrospect, I fear.)
	🥁 8:29pm chresti: Never mind, I think Bastien's was Meccanoid
	8:29pm Flash Strap: the avant garde elements of any moment/movement tend to get flattened out, perhaps nowhere moreso than the fabled 60s
	🥁 8:30pm chresti: Hi TDK60.
	8:31pm Flash Strap: Numero did some expanded niche releases in addendum to their Cleopatra comp: numerocleopatra.bandcamp.com...
	8:32pm TDK60: Chresti, of the westerly. Far out to be here, man.
	8:33pm Little Danny: whoa
	🥁 8:33pm chresti: Outtasite TDK60, way out.
	8:34pm Flash Strap: RIP to Mizutani, his years-ago death only just very recently announced. classic stuff from the Mystery Man
	8:38pm Little Danny: this may be the cleanest version of this track i've heard, you can really hear the pop song in there
	8:40pm Flash Strap: I think the "I Will Follow Him" bassline is a little more pronounced in the Heavier Than a Death / '77 version, but this does have a nice open sound, a laid-back lope, not unlike a Quine Tape Sister Ray
	🥁 8:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bela Lugosi's Weird
	8:42pm Flash Strap: has anyone heard that Les Rallizes / Arthur Doyle recording? Very curious but haven't heard it myself
	8:43pm Little Danny: okay wow
	🥁 8:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Hawkwind / SimplySaucer come to mind a bit ...this is crazy great.
	8:45pm Flash Strap: This "No Good" a Little Danny / Office Naps spectacular, or at least that's how it came into my life
	8:46pm mark g.: anytime i think im somewhat done obsessing over Les Rallizes Denudes, the explorers room reels me back in.
	8:46pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): hey, Flash! hey folx!
	8:47pm Little Danny: thanks flash! blushing emoji
	🥁 8:50pm chresti: Mx Baba Beekins!
	8:51pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): chrestikins!
	8:52pm TDK60: Mx Bee, evenin' thee.
	8:53pm asheville jon: Heckuva show tonight!
	8:55pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): TDK60kins!
	8:57pm doctorjazz: OK, quitting time, great show, thanks, Flash!
	🥁 8:59pm chresti: Sock it!
	8:59pm Flash Strap: Hi Baba bee! Hi Jon, thank you friend!
	8:59pm TDK60: Night Docjazz.
	8:59pm Flash Strap: bye Doc! thanks for hanging out
	🥁 8:59pm chresti: I know the Ken Booth version.
	9:00pm Flash Strap: shoo be doo
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: greetings Evan, Explorers
	9:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	9:04pm Little Danny: all goes back to Bo Diddley once again
	9:04pm Flash Strap: soooooo many versions of this riddim - which will we hear tonight i wonder
	9:05pm Flash Strap: yeah Bo & Willie Cobbs!
	9:06pm Little Danny: yes 'n' yes love it!
	🥁 9:07pm chresti: Shark attack
	9:08pm zzz: happy to slip into the explorers room just in time for this.. heyooo DJ Flashstrap
	9:08pm Flash Strap: Shark Attack! Leggo!
	9:09pm Flash Strap: One and one makes two that's true
	9:09pm Flash Strap: Hi ZZZ!
	9:11pm Little Danny: this set, man
	9:12pm Little Danny: flash do you know who originally did this specific iteration (riddim?) of "You're No Good" in Jamaican music?
	🥁 9:12pm chresti: This is the first version of You Don't Love me, I heard.
	9:12pm Flash Strap: this song references the UK crime film Sitting Target, aka Screaming Target, starring Oliver Reed & Ian McShane
	9:13pm Flash Strap: Dawn Penn's version is ground zero for this one. Big rocksteady hit
	9:14pm Little Danny: the stuttering intro is so distinct
	9:14pm Flash Strap: "Incredible – irrepressible as I would say – diabolical as I would tell you" perfect
	9:16pm Flash Strap: Screaming Target, Magnificent 7, and the next track are all Gussie Clarke productions
	9:19pm Flash Strap: the next riddim on spotlight this evening dates back to a 1967 Alton Ellis song, but we're going to start with a highly influential '77 rendition
	9:20pm zzz: heavy dub
	9:21pm Flash Strap: Black Foundation Dub is an all-time great, whole thing is killer
	9:21pm Flash Strap: Prince Far I production here
	9:21pm zzz: set just elevated..
	9:24pm zzz: jah bless prince far i + errol holt
	9:25pm Flash Strap: these are serious accusations
	9:27pm Flash Strap: Alton Ellis' original is very good – he's always at least wonderful – but Marcia Aitken's rendition spawned an immediate outpouring of versions and is generally just as exquisite as can be, possibly the definitive rendition in a way
	🥁 9:28pm Will the Sound Guy: Diggin the sweet reggae set
	9:29pm Flash Strap: This Trinity track is one of my favorite productions in any style, ever. masterpiece
	9:31pm Flash Strap: so many versions on this riddim, had to make some saaad cuts to make time
	9:32pm Flash Strap: so alas, no Ranking Trevor - Three Piece Chicken and Chips
	9:32pm zzz: yes FS @9:29! was just going to write one of my fav vocals on the trinity - “OH!!”
	9:33pm Flash Strap: Althea & Donna with one of the best singles of all time imo. another bloody masterpiece
	9:34pm zzz: nah pop no style i strictly roots! so good
	9:36pm Flash Strap: it's so cool how strident & roots-radical they are, while also talking about their cool clothes. Just like Trinity! but in their own way, i dunno man it's a converesation and i love it
	9:39pm TDK60: Love the clavinet in reggae. (Tosh had it there often.)
	9:40pm Flash Strap: me too TDK
	9:41pm Flash Strap: lot of it on Macka Dub too
	9:43pm Flash Strap: know nothing about DJ Dawn but love her sound here
	9:44pm Flash Strap: Delgado with possibly the strangest take on the riddim yet
	9:46pm Flash Strap: love the cover: img.discogs.com...
	9:46pm Little Danny: thank you evan! very transportive show this eve
	🥁 9:46pm chresti: arturia.com/products/clavinet-v/overview
	9:48pm Flash Strap: Thanks LD
	🥁 9:49pm chresti: Nevermind, need software, way over my head
	9:49pm Doug Schulkind: I do so love Exploring with you all. Pure 🔥 this evening, Mr. Strap.
	9:49pm Flash Strap: Doug you honor me and ignite my heart with this flame
	9:50pm TDK60: Chresti, I was in a combo with a clavinet, along with organ and electric piano. That particular clavinet was hard to keep in tune.
	9:52pm Little Danny: love that TDK! what kind of music did yer combo play?
	9:53pm Little Danny: the cool blue flame, where all the mics are hot: wfmu.org... up next! hope to see you there!
	9:55pm TDK60: DJ LD, that group was a sort of reggae/Afro/instrumental rock sorta combo. (Tortoise meets Talking Heads at an Augustus Pablo picnic? I dunno.)
	🥁 9:56pm chresti: They're expensive. Very cool, TDK60.
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	9:58pm TDK60: Well, Flash. That's another fine show you've gotten us into. Thanks!
	9:58pm Scott67: Thanks Evan, been out & about so couldn't check in! ✌😎👣🌞🌏
	9:58pm Little Danny: wow, TDK, excellent. any recordings?
	9:59pm TDK60: LD- not really, some home demos and live tapes.
	🥁 10:00pm chresti: Live tapes!
	10:00pm Doug Schulkind: Miss the Cool Blue Flame and you’d be the fool who blew fame. See you all over in the Flame-O-sphere.
	🥁 10:01pm chresti: Thanks for the mood boost, Flash!
	🥁 10:02pm Will the Sound Guy: Thank you Evan!!
	🥁 10:04pm WR: Looks like a great episode I missed. Went to eat Chinese food in Flushing China Town tonight. Sometimes got to make choices in life, and there is the option to listen from the archive.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from November 4, 2021

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