WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from October 31, 2024

Listener comments!
	6:58pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Flash, ghouls, goblins, et al.!
	7:01pm Aitch: Let’s go! Hey all. Leaving hospital today, so happy!
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi James!
	7:02pm flannery: hello!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hey Aitch! oh my goodness that is wonderful news!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Flannery!
	🥁 7:03pm tom tom the pipers son: hello again evan...fabio mentioned alessandro alessandroni.... on his show, but i don't think mentioned his library music...just his whistling for morriconi... the same alessandroni...right?
	🥁 7:03pm WR: Looks like it going to be a Halloween Dance Party!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Tiger Twist" by "Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orches... cool little single, going from canned jungle to faux-live
	7:04pm Flash Strap: hey Tom Tom! absolutely yes
	7:04pm Flash Strap: hey WR!
	7:05pm pot8o: hi everyone!
	🥁 7:05pm tom tom the pipers son: congrats aitch...may the road rise with you...
	7:05pm StringOFperils: "Oh, good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Hollywood. I think everyone enjoys a nice murder... provided he is not the victim."__Alfred 'Dub' Hitchcock
	7:06pm Flash Strap: both these first singles are tracks from the film Tropico di Notte, a mondo or mondo-adjacent italian film about Venezuela (dir. Renzo Russo)
	🥁 7:06pm tom tom the pipers son: alfred "dub" hitchcock...hahaha!!!!
	7:07pm Flash Strap: hey Pot8o! Hi SoP!
	7:07pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Twistin' Gypsy" by "Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orc... this one's from the film "Sexy" which we'll hear a bit more from later on
	🥁 7:08pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:05 i can picture hitch and lee perry in some beautiful working partnership
	7:08pm spodiodi: greetings, Falsh and Explorers
	7:09pm Flash Strap: hey there Spodi!
	7:09pm StringOFperils: Hi Flash! Pretty sure I've heard Tiger Twist in another film also...an Italian film
	7:09pm spodiodi: Flash* sorry
	7:10pm StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:08 Ha ha. Yeah... the munchies would explain that physique....hmmm
	7:10pm Little Danny: Hi Evan, all!
	🥁 7:10pm Alex from Media: Hi Flash and explorers! My what big bands you have!
	7:10pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Rumeno Swing" by "Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orche... Sciascia's origins as a musician are on the violin, and it's a delight to hear him when he picks it up
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hey LD! Hi Alex!
	7:12pm Doug Schulkind: All Treat no Trick radio!!
	7:12pm Flash Strap: Hey Doug!
	🥁 7:12pm WR: ↳ Aitch @7:01 Yay! Looking forward to continued positive updates as your health improves.
	🥁 7:12pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:10 i think hitchcock did one of those tv intros in those old time vibrating strap weight loss machines
	7:13pm StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:12 I remember that one. :)
	7:13pm spodiodi: ↳ Aitch @7:01 congratulations, Aitch! glad to hear it
	7:15pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Tropico Del Noche" by "Pinto Varez" Pinto Varez shows up all over Vedette, especially in their run of non-library latin exploitation records - it's a pseudonym for Francesco Anselmo, who recorded plenty under his own name & was art director for Vedette
	🥁 7:16pm WR: ↳ Song: "Tropico Del Noche" by "Pinto Varez" sounds like it was recorded further back than '62. May just be the studio & equipment they had.
	7:18pm Flash Strap: ↳ WR @7:16 it's possible, the dates are all over the place due to repeated reissuing. but i believe those tracks were recorded for the film they first showed up in, which was '61
	🥁 7:19pm chresti: Hi Flash and explorers!
	7:20pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti!
	7:20pm StringOFperils: Probably something like monophonic machines being used. 'Bouncing' tracks to get a final mix results in degeneration of the sound quality each time you do it. It gets murky and out of phase
	🥁 7:22pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @7:18 re: disco tech....roger dean art work would fit nicely with these recordings ...maybe reissues
	🥁 7:22pm chresti: ↳ Aitch @7:01 Hoo-ray!
	🥁 7:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ Good ♃Thursday FMUvianz ~
	7:23pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:22 haha if you ask me there's already plenty of Roger Dean art!
	7:25pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Eccentrico ST-3" by "Armando Sciascia" i think it was hearing Little Danny play this track on his show that inspired me to put this one together
	7:25pm Flash Strap: hey hey HEY Rev!
	7:25pm Little Danny: i love this album!!
	🥁 7:26pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @7:23 yes was not thinking about that... just trying another context... the artwork never resonated with me as a kid
	🥁 7:26pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Eccentrico ST-3" by "Armando Sciascia" Before samples?
	7:27pm northguineahills: flash!
	7:27pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:26 i'm hot and cold on him but he certainly has his place in history
	🥁 7:27pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Eccentrico ST-3" by "Armando Sciascia" this is like the pink panther theme put through a brian wilson smile blender
	7:27pm Flash Strap: ↳ Little Danny @7:25 it really is one of the best of Vedette
	🥁 7:27pm chresti: ↳ chresti @7:26 not really
	7:27pm Flash Strap: NGH!
	7:31pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Lepus & Columba" by "Armando Sciascia and His Orc... finally managed to track down a rip of this record this morning & hastily included it into tonight's lineup. extremely akin to Russ Garcia's Fantastica
	🥁 7:31pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @7:27 i think those 70's illustrators were SO marketed to teen pocketbooks they are a little mentally stunted
	🥁 7:32pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:31 or arrested rather
	7:34pm spodiodi: ↳ chresti @7:19 hi chresti!\\//
	7:34pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:31 to Dean's credit, he did work in a variety of styles and experiment quite a bit, though it never got him that far from his starting position really. Frazetta on the other hand... childish. no offense to Frazetta lovers intended
	🥁 7:35pm chresti: ↳ spodiodi @7:34 hi spodi!\\//
	🥁 7:35pm tom tom the pipers son: oh....hmmm
	🥁 7:38pm tom tom the pipers son: i am digging armando scascia... doesn't quite fit in with "exotica" label
	7:40pm StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:38 Aural imaginationscapes that don't involve erupting volcanoes and virgin sacrifice
	🥁 7:40pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Delirium" by "Fabio Fabor" these are groovy....
	7:40pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:38 gonna hear lots of him tonight!
	🥁 7:42pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:40 funny how the two things were always put together...wonder why that was. (chin scratch)
	7:43pm StringOFperils: This stuff has a lot of humour in it. It reminds me of Juan Esquivel's music, in that way.
	7:45pm headcleaner: Evening, peoples. Thighs, anyone?
	🥁 7:47pm tom tom the pipers son: how much of this library music was actually heard by the populace of the time... or was it just industry people?
	7:47pm pot8o: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:47 it probably showed up in ads, radio bed music, film soundtracks, and elevators
	7:48pm pot8o: tv soundtracks and advertising is where a lot of this stuff showed up it seems
	🥁 7:51pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ pot8o @7:47 right, i know...but was wondering if they were an analogy to les baxter in the states and were available as albums
	7:53pm StringOFperils: No one would have heard these things in their entirety. Now, we crowd around one of these pieces, attentively, like people pouring over a rare fossil which was, back in the day, just another Archaeopteryx flying by in the background.....
	🥁 7:54pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:53 ha...! right....
	7:54pm Flash Strap: hey hey headcleaner!
	7:56pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:51 library records were almost never commercially available at all, but many of these are a little different in that they were soundtracks to widely-seen films that were also sold as commercially available soundtrack albums
	🥁 7:57pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @7:56 ah, so it did make it's way into people's homes...
	7:58pm Flash Strap: he just dances on that violin man
	🥁 8:00pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @7:58 the name joe venuti pops into my head, though i can't really remember his playing
	8:00pm StringOFperils: This stuff seems more like soundtrack music than mere library music, the stock photography of sound...this in particular sounds like part of Taxi Driver
	8:00pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:57 a lot of this did have a life as bachelor-pad music, no doubt
	8:01pm Little Danny: This is the stuff
	8:01pm StringOFperils: ↳ Little Danny @8:01 Sure is!
	🥁 8:02pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @8:00 yes...but was also thinking /wondering if henri mancini was listening to come up with pink panther theme
	8:02pm StringOFperils: It's all grist for the mill
	🥁 8:02pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @8:00 thx ...
	8:02pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @8:00 yeah they recorded a lot of this for those mondo films, then repackaged them as cheescake singles, then re-repackaged them as library music, then often re-re-packaged them as soundtrack albums again but with different art. some of them started as commerically available jazz records as well
	8:04pm StringOFperils: ↳ Flash Strap @8:02 Fascinating to think about
	8:07pm Little Danny: Nicely observed!
	8:08pm Carmichael: Hola Flash y compadres
	8:08pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Interludio Cubano" by "Armando Sciascia" High-Tension Sexy
	8:08pm Little Danny: Evan deserves some recognition for taking on the Byzantine pressing machinations of both JA music AND Italian production music
	8:08pm Flash Strap: hey Carm!
	8:09pm StringOFperils: ↳ Flash Strap @8:08 That should be your show descriptor, Evan!
	8:10pm Flash Strap: ↳ Little Danny @8:08 thank you LD, truly these are byzantine caverns
	🥁 8:12pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Passione Incas" by "Armando Sciascia" I would not think of this as Inca music
	🥁 8:13pm chresti: Only 150 to go!
	🥁 8:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I hadn't the slightest knowledge of even the existence of the entire Genre of Library Music until a small handful of years ago & because of FMU & probly this very Program...
	8:14pm Flash Strap: ↳ chresti @8:12 absolutely not, no. i don't know how often Sciascia or whoever would have known what scene he was scoring, when it comes to those Mondo films. plus lots of those scenes were just staged in Cinecitta with utmost fakeness
	8:15pm StringOFperils: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:13 Ditto. At least, not the term 'library music'. Things get re-contextualized over time. Like prog rock. Certainly no such beast at the time it was originally made.
	8:15pm Flash Strap: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:13 WFMU exists to open doors to new worlds, and so does Explorers Room
	🥁 8:15pm chresti: I like the fake looking movie genre!
	🥁 8:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Flash Strap @8:15 ...not commercially available Genre finds home ...well, here.
	🥁 8:17pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @8:13 23 thousand loverall...raised about 50 thou today
	8:18pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:17 wow!
	8:18pm StringOFperils: These really are the coolest arrangements. That Farfisa organ against the twang, and these loopy horns....and the tempo, the reverb...so great.
	8:19pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @8:18 yeah i love that one, it's just so cool
	🥁 8:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ StringOFperils @8:18 Such a beguiling thing to ponder. If Soundtrack represents a Music freed from the usual constraints of palettes ...but bound to specific Imagery &/or Narrative ...then if Library Musics are the opposite end of that telescope - using any palette to conjure Imagery &/or Narrative that are not specific - that don't exist - yet...
	8:23pm Flash Strap: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:22 huge part of why i love it, right there
	8:24pm Little Danny: All these wonderful organ sounds
	🥁 8:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:22 ...or maybe kaleidoscope, better than telescope...
	🥁 8:24pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:22 that's a v interesting point
	🥁 8:24pm Alex from Media: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:22 Thank you for the Library music definition. Was pondering.
	8:26pm Carmichael: Morticia and Gomez would dance to this 🕺
	8:26pm Flash Strap: ↳ Carmichael @8:26 precisely!
	8:26pm StringOFperils: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:24 Maybe just scope: evoking a general area of emotional response (?)
	8:28pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Tocco Di Fata / Pallone Sgonfiato / Foresta In Al... here we have a little smattering of jingles/flashes/links
	🥁 8:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ StringOFperils @8:26 Yeah well - cinemascope. Very much relating to Psychedelia & Exotica & Visionary Arts. Hallucinatory Musics in a sense...
	8:30pm spodiodi: ↳ Carmichael @8:26 ⭐️🙂
	🥁 8:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:28 ...but also every Genre has a Market & an objective & a motive in that sense ...& being introduced to Library Musics is like ...a whole other section in the Museum of Natural Sciences that way manner of speaking...
	🥁 8:31pm tom tom the pipers son: another possible definition of library music i that its just sonic carpentry making "furniture" music, leaving a space for interpretation, awaiting a user to really complete it.... i think it's giving it too much credit to imply that it's visionary
	8:31pm Flash Strap: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:31 absolutely speaking my mind here, Rev
	8:32pm StringOFperils: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:28 Cinecittà scope for sure. Wouldn't be surprised if a few (many?) of these session players also took direction from people like Nino Rota on any given week.
	🥁 8:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:31 Yes - it's very Crafty in that sense. Absolutely. A sonic Bauhaus as well as a Surrealism.
	8:33pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:31 sometimes it's one, sometimes the other. Roger Roger, Umiliani, Alessandroni, many others i would easily characterize as visionary, at least at times
	8:34pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @8:32 absolutely yes
	8:35pm Flash Strap: next one is really something special, imo
	8:35pm Little Danny: ↳ Song: "Eccentrico ST-3" by "Armando Sciascia" oh this is killer
	🥁 8:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...it partners well with Exotica here in the Room - as well as the Avant or Prgressive @ times...
	🥁 8:36pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @8:33 ok....i'm just implying it may "visionary" but without a "visionary" or author....in some way like catherdrals but on a minor scale
	8:36pm Little Danny: ↳ Little Danny @8:35 oof sorry i meant the Bruno Battisti D'Amario
	8:37pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Interludio Swing in Mi" by "Bruno Battisti D'Amario" i think you'll dig this one especially LD
	8:37pm Little Danny: the one d'amario album i know also has some super cool use of reverb and guitar
	8:37pm Little Danny: ↳ Flash Strap @8:37 it's glorious
	8:37pm Flash Strap: reminds me of one of those VU/Another View instrumentals
	8:38pm StringOFperils: Agreed! Vrry cool little vignette for guitar.
	8:38pm Little Danny: Ooo I hear that!
	🥁 8:38pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:36 well not the best analogy some medieval architects are known...later ones are like gaudi and le violette
	🥁 8:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...very textural in tonalities. Design Tapestries. Would be interesting MDMA Musics ...maybe. Comparisons to Minimalism & Rave maybe possible...
	8:41pm Flash Strap: ↳ Little Danny @8:37 i was trying to remember what Battisti albums i know from other labels, i bet i know the one you mean but i didn't have time to look into it. good associations with his name, i know
	8:43pm Little Danny: ↳ Flash Strap @8:41 timbri musicali N° 4 is the one i know, now i need to look further into him too!
	8:44pm Flash Strap: ↳ Little Danny @8:43 oh i don't know that one! Cooper is one of the labels on my to-do list, i know very little from it
	8:45pm StringOFperils: I think this is the third take on Ravel I've heard so far this evening. I love it.
	🥁 8:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...industrial production cloth. Or isn't this a bit Baroque. Or - are they Abstracts. One of these things where the relation of Form & Content keeps my brain wondering exactly what's happening to it...
	8:46pm Flash Strap: ↳ Flash Strap @8:44 part of the Leonardi family, which i've done multiple shows on and yet still have something like 10 labels i'm still trying to track down discographies for
	8:48pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @8:45 haha probably yeah! he definitely reuses little devices quite a bit
	8:58pm Discotech Underground: Hey Flash, thought I'd come back and listen for a while. I like the library music shows you do sometimes.
	9:03pm StringOFperils: Oh man, I'll be singing this all week...ha ha...it'll get me through next week
	9:03pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @9:03 haha yes you probably will, i can attest
	9:04pm Flash Strap: Hey Kip! thanks for dropping in brother!
	🥁 9:05pm tom tom the pipers son: does the fact that the library music's musicians were punching a clock change or add a layer of meaning to the music? does it bring authorship into question? or to use a big small word is library music "thingafied" or reified in a different way than say thelonius monk
	🥁 9:05pm tom tom the pipers son: thel;onius monk record
	9:06pm spodiodi: thanks for the show, Flash! (probably won't be here at the end-- very slow shower pending) happy halloween! see you next time, and see you all soon
	🥁 9:07pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:05 i just have an itch about library music that i can't quite scratch
	9:08pm pot8o: great music to study to
	9:08pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:05 i think the answer to that would really change depending on who ran the studio and who was running the session - some of this stuff contains personal experiments that would be much less clock-punchy than the nightclub music they would have come up playing. some of it is pure kitsch, the clunkiness of which makes it interesting later. it's just a big world. lots of studios were run by artists, others were big conglomerates. Umiliani recorded a lot of stuff in his personal dungeon
	🥁 9:09pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @9:08 thanks that makes me less itchy
	9:10pm Flash Strap: ↳ Flash Strap @9:08 but also i'd say that your question gets at one of the major aspects of this whole thing (tho it applies to lots of other music as well, really)
	9:10pm Flash Strap: ↳ spodiodi @9:06 have a great shower my friend
	9:11pm spodiodi: thanks!
	9:13pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Conversazione in Jazz" by "Armando Sciascia" this particular LP, released as party of the library series in 1967, was initially a commercially-available jazz LP, released 1963. nice art: i.discogs.com...
	9:13pm Flash Strap: ↳ Flash Strap @9:13 *part of the
	🥁 9:15pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @9:10 yes... that crossed my mind, but with other music isn't there a creative interval that happens before the clock is punched, rather than it being all on the clock.....just a thought...you don't have to reply...i'm being a bit of a pain in the ass
	9:17pm StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:05 Reification is one of those terms from Marxist cultural analysis, like Walter Benjamin's 'aura'. Is 'library music' less real than other musics? Is it just clunky non-art? Is it any less representative of complex social/psychological relationships than Wagner? My feeling is that those notions always have to co-exist with something 'over there', which is just being a sensual being and opening your leaves to the sun. Nailing it down with language kinda kills the joy, as much as I do like to think in terms.
	9:17pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:15 i think there's generally the same impulses in this as in any other music, it just has a weird distribution system & lends itself to more prolific recording, which puts it somewhere between say, muzak ensembles on one hand and jazz combos that all work with each other on the other
	🥁 9:18pm chresti: I back after falling into a Ravel wormhole
	9:19pm Flash Strap: ↳ chresti @9:18 one of the best wormholes to fall into
	🥁 9:19pm chresti: ↳ Flash Strap @9:19 totally!
	🥁 9:20pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @9:17 yes, thanks.... my thinking just got locked in a mental lock groove and was not listening anymore
	9:21pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @9:17 yeah, for example a pop group has to serve the master of the audience AND the label - a library musician maybe just has to record whatever the hell they feel like that day - especially if they're their own boss, like Sciascia. the audience is much less important. what is the more free or true art, who knows. just depends
	🥁 9:21pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @9:17 yes thanks...
	9:22pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:21 on the other hand someone may have said "don't come out till you have 3 LPs worth of light upbeat office/industrial themes, whether you want to or not"
	9:23pm StringOFperils: ↳ Flash Strap @9:21 It seems to strive for something universal, and it has a sense of play that requires engagement. I don't hear anyone just phoning it in.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Disperazione" by "Armando Sciascia" this record is mostly material from the spaghetti western film "Tre Colpi di Winchester Per Ringo"
	9:24pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @9:23 well that's partly because i pick the best stuff believe me!
	9:24pm Little Danny: Haha love this!
	9:25pm Flash Strap: ↳ Flash Strap @9:23 the Ringo films were huge, but i don't think i've seen this one
	🥁 9:25pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @9:22 ha! ....have to jump in the shower....so thanks evan.....good evening commenters
	9:25pm StringOFperils: ↳ Flash Strap @9:24 I DO very much believe you, Evan! You're my sherpa on this mountain!
	9:26pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:25 another showerer! i'm losing everyone to bathtime
	9:27pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Assonanza in Mi" by "New Dimensions Quartetto" very glad to be back around to this record, a very special one i think. next one from it is great, a bit Miles-y
	🥁 9:29pm tom tom the pipers son: i'll b e listening from shower...
	9:29pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Libero Gioco" by "New Dimensions Quartetto" i definitely would have put this one on Jazzmutations if i was as familiar with it then as i am now
	9:29pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:29 that's a good combo actually, nice
	9:29pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Flash! The music you're playing is perfect for my post-leave raking nap. Very vivid images were bouncing around in my head.
	9:30pm Flash Strap: hey Franco! nice
	9:34pm StringOFperils: I'm going to stay filthy so I can ride this thing out.
	9:34pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Hippy Three" by "Pinto Varez" this track written by Max Raffeng, aka Maria Augusta Bruni, who later married fabio Fabor
	🥁 9:34pm Alex from Media: Thanks Flash! Gonna move along. I've enjoyed the comments as much as the music today. Everyone kudos. You are part of what makes WFMU great.
	9:36pm Flash Strap: happy trails, Alex! thanks for hanging out (& the same to you, re: making FMU great)
	9:36pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @9:34 excellent
	9:38pm Little Danny: Wow… absolutely gorgeous
	9:39pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Flash Strap @9:34 Since we're not handing out candy tonight, the kids can just rattle our locked front gate and sway to Hippy Three and Hua' Hua' Rock... ...the front door is wide open!
	9:40pm Flash Strap: ↳ Little Danny @9:38 a nice one!
	9:42pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Dielettrico (Dielectric)" by "Armando Sciascia" everything on this album is just so heavy and trippy
	9:44pm headcleaner: ↳ Song: "Il Vento Dell'Est" by "Armando Sciascia" Thanks, Flash - a lot of (mostly) inner space happenings these have been, tonite - which makes me glad I stayed in
	9:44pm Little Danny: oh hell yeah
	9:45pm Flash Strap: ↳ headcleaner @9:44 my pleasure, thanks for stayin' in with me
	🥁 9:47pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)" by "Armando Sci... cool track...the descending bass riff is reminding me of a song i can't place
	🥁 9:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)" by "Armando Sci... ...absolutely love this...
	9:48pm Flash Strap: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:47 yeah that one's a stomper
	🥁 9:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)" by "Armando Sci... ...put me in mind of Stravinsky, JimiHendrix & Bernard Hermann. & finally PinkFloyd... But that's me probly...
	9:50pm Flash Strap: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:48 i can dig it all, yeah
	🥁 9:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Asteroidal" by "Fabio Fabor" ...like outtakes from Satanic Majesties...
	9:51pm StringOFperils: Or a Goblin album
	9:52pm Flash Strap: makes me think of Ferrante & Teicher more than anything
	9:53pm StringOFperils: Makes me think I think too much. I think...not sure....
	9:53pm Little Danny: incredible sounds tonight evan THANK YOU
	🥁 9:53pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks again evan...
	9:53pm Franco Twinkie: Thank you Flash.
	9:54pm StringOFperils: Happy Halloween everyone! Thanks, Flash, that was excellent!
	🥁 9:55pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)" by "Armando Sci... the descending bass..."getting nowhere fast"
	9:55pm Little Danny: loop to hell ⭕⭕⭕ wfmu.org... the slow loop to hell ⭕⭕⭕ the slow loop to hell ⭕⭕⭕ the slow loop
	9:56pm Asheville Jon: Thanks Evan
	9:58pm pot8o: thanks flash strap! have a great week everyone!
	🥁 9:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ FS ~
	9:59pm Flash Strap: thanks everyone! catch ya next time around! and you better believe i'll be seeing you NEXT DOOR, IN THE FLAME
	🥁 10:00pm WR: Thank you! Very Much! Flash Strap! Very cinematic twist to the program tonight.
	10:21pm chresti: Hi little danny and flambos!
	🥁 12:23am chresti: thanks Flash!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from October 31, 2024

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October 31, 2024: A World of Nights: In the Vedette Music Library

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra	Tiger Twist	Tiger Twist / Bi-A-Bi-Chuca 7"	Vedette	1962		0:01:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra	Figaro Twist	Figaro Twist / Swing Rhapsody 7"	Vedette	1961		0:05:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra	Twistin' Gypsy	Twistin' Gypsy / Luna D'Estate 7"	Vedette	1962		0:07:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra	Rumeno Swing	Sexy (EP) 7"	Vedette	1962		0:09:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pinto Varez	Tropico Del Noche "Tropico Del Noche" by "Pinto Varez"	Tropico Del Noche / Zumba Vacilon 7"	Vedette	1962	aka Francesco Anselmo	0:12:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pinto Varez	Zumba Vacilon "Zumba Vacilon" by "Pinto Varez"	Tropico Del Noche / Zumba Vacilon 7"	Vedette	1962		0:15:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
New Dimensions Quartetto	Occhi Nella Notte	Digressioni Dal Vero (Digressions from the Truth)	Vedette	1968	Armando Sciascia	0:18:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
New Dimensions Quartetto	Nebbia E Blues	Digressioni Dal Vero (Digressions from the Truth)	Vedette	1968	Armando Sciascia	0:20:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Eccentrico ST-3 "Eccentrico ST-3" by "Armando Sciascia"	Impressions In Rhythm & Sound	Vedette Records "On-The-Scene" Series	1970		0:24:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Cerotico "Cerotico" by "Armando Sciascia"	Impressions In Rhythm & Sound	Vedette Records "On-The-Scene" Series	1970		0:27:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia and His Orchestra	Lepus & Columba	Dreams of Another World	Vedette / Ember Mood Music Library	196?		0:30:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia and His Orchestra	Orion's Hunt	Dreams of Another World	Vedette / Ember Mood Music Library	196?		0:34:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fabio Fabor	Vulcan's Dream "Vulcan's Dream" by "Fabio Fabor"	Aleatoric Piano Collages	Vedette Records "On-The-Scene" Series	1970		0:37:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fabio Fabor	Delirium "Delirium" by "Fabio Fabor"	Aleatoric Piano Collages	Vedette Records "On-The-Scene" Series	1970		0:39:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra	Giungla	Giungla / Hot Twist 7"	Vedette	1961/2		0:40:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Tropical Forest – Number Six Chops Down the Tree					0:43:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Pizzicato Cha Cha	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 3	Vedette		Vol. 3	0:54:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Danza Fantastica	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 3				0:55:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Ombre Nascoste "Ombre Nascoste" by "Armando Sciascia"	Suspence			Vol. 4	0:59:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Città al Neon "Città al Neon" by "Armando Sciascia"	Suspence				1:02:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Suspence "Suspence" by "Armando Sciascia"	Suspence				1:03:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Peter Hamilton	Incubo Di Bongos "Incubo Di Bongos" by "Peter Hamilton"	Musica Di Commento			Vol. 7	1:04:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Interludio Cubano	Colonna Sonora Del Film «Sexy Ad Alta Tensione»			Vol. 8	1:07:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Passione Incas "Passione Incas" by "Armando Sciascia"	Colonna Sonora Del Film «Sexy Ad Alta Tensione»				1:08:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Ostinazione "Ostinazione" by "Armando Sciascia"	Colonna Sonora Del Film «Sexy Ad Alta Tensione»				1:11:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra	Rito Esotico	Colori in Brass			Vol. 9	1:13:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Art Black Combo	Mattino Di Fuoco "Mattino Di Fuoco" by "Art Black Combo"	Combo Special			Vol. 10	1:16:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia and His Orchestra	Balletto Sul Ghiaccio (Ballet on Ice)	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 11			Vol. 11	1:19:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia and His Orchestra	Strada Solitaria (Long Lonely Street)	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 11				1:22:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia and His Orchestra	Zig-Zag Cha Cha	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 11				1:24:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Stasera Cha Cha "Stasera Cha Cha" by "Armando Sciascia"	Brief Interludes / Happy-Time Themes			Vol. 13	1:26:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Tocco Di Fata / Pallone Sgonfiato / Foresta In Allarme / Ombre Di Fantasmi / Semaforo Verde / Ultimo Addio / Su Il Sipario / Cala Il Sipario / Caduta Massi	For Ember Mood Music Library			Vol. 15	1:27:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra	Estasi Tropicana	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 17			Vol. 17 (aka "Vacanze D'Aprile")	1:31:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bruno Battisti D'Amario	Basso Solo	Guitar Fantasia			Vol. 18	1:33:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bruno Battisti D'Amario	Interludio Swing in Mi	Guitar Fantasia				1:36:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Ballata Triste "Ballata Triste" by "Armando Sciascia"	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 19			Vol. 19 (1st rel. as "Mondo Caldo Di Notte" OST double album)	1:39:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Bolero Orientale	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 19				1:42:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Fantasia Africana	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 19				1:45:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Afro Mood "Afro Mood" by "Armando Sciascia"	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 20			Vol. 20 (also 1st rel. as part of the "Mondo Caldo Di Notte" OST double album)	1:49:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Chango Frenesy "Chango Frenesy" by "Armando Sciascia"	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 20				1:51:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Safari "Safari"					1:53:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Sexy World (Vocal)	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 22			Vol. 22 (also released as "Sexy" - 1962 OST)	2:03:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Easy Macumba "Easy Macumba" by "Armando Sciascia"	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 22				2:04:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Mare Calmo "Mare Calmo" by "Armando Sciascia"	Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 22				2:06:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Conversazione in Jazz	Conversazioni in Jazz			Vol. 23	2:11:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Nevrosi D'Ansia "Nevrosi D'Ansia" by "Armando Sciascia"	Metempsyco (Colonna Sonora Del Film)			Vol. 24	2:15:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Annie's Theme "Annie's Theme" by "Armando Sciascia"	Metempsyco (Colonna Sonora Del Film)				2:17:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Disperazione "Disperazione" by "Armando Sciascia"	Drammatico E Suspense			Vol. 25	2:20:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Macumba Desesperada	Drammatico E Suspense				2:22:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Vendetta Selvaggia	Drammatico E Suspense				2:25:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
New Dimensions Quartetto	Assonanza in Mi	Digressioni Dal Vero (Digressions from the Truth)			Vol. 27	2:26:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
New Dimensions Quartetto	Libero Gioco	Digressioni Dal Vero (Digressions from the Truth)				2:29:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pinto Varez	Hippy Three "Hippy Three" by "Pinto Varez"	Motivi Al Volante			Vol. 29	2:31:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bruno Battisti D'Amario	Hua' Hua' Rock	Musica Per Tutte Le Ore			Vol. 31	2:34:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Il Vento Dell'Est	2 Programmi "Top"			Vol. 32	2:36:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cesco Anselmo	Electric Jump "Electric Jump" by "Cesco Anselmo"	Merry Music	Vedette Records "On-The-Scene" Series		Vol. 34, 1st of the "On-The-Scene" series	2:38:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Dielettrico (Dielectric)	Impressions In Rhythm & Sound			Vol. 36	2:41:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia	Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)	Impressions In Rhythm & Sound				2:44:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fabio Fabor	Ninfee "Ninfee" by "Fabio Fabor"	Aleatoric Piano Collages			Vol. 37	2:47:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fabio Fabor	Asteroidal "Asteroidal" by "Fabio Fabor"	Aleatoric Piano Collages				2:49:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Bells of My Soul "Bells of My Soul"					2:52:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:58pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Flash, ghouls, goblins, et al.!
	7:01pm Aitch: Let’s go! Hey all. Leaving hospital today, so happy!
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi James!
	7:02pm flannery: hello!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hey Aitch! oh my goodness that is wonderful news!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Flannery!
	🥁 7:03pm tom tom the pipers son: hello again evan...fabio mentioned alessandro alessandroni.... on his show, but i don't think mentioned his library music...just his whistling for morriconi... the same alessandroni...right?
	🥁 7:03pm WR: Looks like it going to be a Halloween Dance Party!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Tiger Twist" by "Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orches... cool little single, going from canned jungle to faux-live
	7:04pm Flash Strap: hey Tom Tom! absolutely yes
	7:04pm Flash Strap: hey WR!
	7:05pm pot8o: hi everyone!
	🥁 7:05pm tom tom the pipers son: congrats aitch...may the road rise with you...
	7:05pm StringOFperils: "Oh, good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Hollywood. I think everyone enjoys a nice murder... provided he is not the victim."__Alfred 'Dub' Hitchcock
	7:06pm Flash Strap: both these first singles are tracks from the film Tropico di Notte, a mondo or mondo-adjacent italian film about Venezuela (dir. Renzo Russo)
	🥁 7:06pm tom tom the pipers son: alfred "dub" hitchcock...hahaha!!!!
	7:07pm Flash Strap: hey Pot8o! Hi SoP!
	7:07pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Twistin' Gypsy" by "Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orc... this one's from the film "Sexy" which we'll hear a bit more from later on
	🥁 7:08pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:05 i can picture hitch and lee perry in some beautiful working partnership
	7:08pm spodiodi: greetings, Falsh and Explorers
	7:09pm Flash Strap: hey there Spodi!
	7:09pm StringOFperils: Hi Flash! Pretty sure I've heard Tiger Twist in another film also...an Italian film
	7:09pm spodiodi: Flash* sorry
	7:10pm StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:08 Ha ha. Yeah... the munchies would explain that physique....hmmm
	7:10pm Little Danny: Hi Evan, all!
	🥁 7:10pm Alex from Media: Hi Flash and explorers! My what big bands you have!
	7:10pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Rumeno Swing" by "Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orche... Sciascia's origins as a musician are on the violin, and it's a delight to hear him when he picks it up
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hey LD! Hi Alex!
	7:12pm Doug Schulkind: All Treat no Trick radio!!
	7:12pm Flash Strap: Hey Doug!
	🥁 7:12pm WR: ↳ Aitch @7:01 Yay! Looking forward to continued positive updates as your health improves.
	🥁 7:12pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:10 i think hitchcock did one of those tv intros in those old time vibrating strap weight loss machines
	7:13pm StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:12 I remember that one. :)
	7:13pm spodiodi: ↳ Aitch @7:01 congratulations, Aitch! glad to hear it
	7:15pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Tropico Del Noche" by "Pinto Varez" Pinto Varez shows up all over Vedette, especially in their run of non-library latin exploitation records - it's a pseudonym for Francesco Anselmo, who recorded plenty under his own name & was art director for Vedette
	🥁 7:16pm WR: ↳ Song: "Tropico Del Noche" by "Pinto Varez" sounds like it was recorded further back than '62. May just be the studio & equipment they had.
	7:18pm Flash Strap: ↳ WR @7:16 it's possible, the dates are all over the place due to repeated reissuing. but i believe those tracks were recorded for the film they first showed up in, which was '61
	🥁 7:19pm chresti: Hi Flash and explorers!
	7:20pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti!
	7:20pm StringOFperils: Probably something like monophonic machines being used. 'Bouncing' tracks to get a final mix results in degeneration of the sound quality each time you do it. It gets murky and out of phase
	🥁 7:22pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @7:18 re: disco tech....roger dean art work would fit nicely with these recordings ...maybe reissues
	🥁 7:22pm chresti: ↳ Aitch @7:01 Hoo-ray!
	🥁 7:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ Good ♃Thursday FMUvianz ~
	7:23pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:22 haha if you ask me there's already plenty of Roger Dean art!
	7:25pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Eccentrico ST-3" by "Armando Sciascia" i think it was hearing Little Danny play this track on his show that inspired me to put this one together
	7:25pm Flash Strap: hey hey HEY Rev!
	7:25pm Little Danny: i love this album!!
	🥁 7:26pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @7:23 yes was not thinking about that... just trying another context... the artwork never resonated with me as a kid
	🥁 7:26pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Eccentrico ST-3" by "Armando Sciascia" Before samples?
	7:27pm northguineahills: flash!
	7:27pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:26 i'm hot and cold on him but he certainly has his place in history
	🥁 7:27pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Eccentrico ST-3" by "Armando Sciascia" this is like the pink panther theme put through a brian wilson smile blender
	7:27pm Flash Strap: ↳ Little Danny @7:25 it really is one of the best of Vedette
	🥁 7:27pm chresti: ↳ chresti @7:26 not really
	7:27pm Flash Strap: NGH!
	7:31pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Lepus & Columba" by "Armando Sciascia and His Orc... finally managed to track down a rip of this record this morning & hastily included it into tonight's lineup. extremely akin to Russ Garcia's Fantastica
	🥁 7:31pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @7:27 i think those 70's illustrators were SO marketed to teen pocketbooks they are a little mentally stunted
	🥁 7:32pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:31 or arrested rather
	7:34pm spodiodi: ↳ chresti @7:19 hi chresti!\\//
	7:34pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:31 to Dean's credit, he did work in a variety of styles and experiment quite a bit, though it never got him that far from his starting position really. Frazetta on the other hand... childish. no offense to Frazetta lovers intended
	🥁 7:35pm chresti: ↳ spodiodi @7:34 hi spodi!\\//
	🥁 7:35pm tom tom the pipers son: oh....hmmm
	🥁 7:38pm tom tom the pipers son: i am digging armando scascia... doesn't quite fit in with "exotica" label
	7:40pm StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:38 Aural imaginationscapes that don't involve erupting volcanoes and virgin sacrifice
	🥁 7:40pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Delirium" by "Fabio Fabor" these are groovy....
	7:40pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:38 gonna hear lots of him tonight!
	🥁 7:42pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:40 funny how the two things were always put together...wonder why that was. (chin scratch)
	7:43pm StringOFperils: This stuff has a lot of humour in it. It reminds me of Juan Esquivel's music, in that way.
	7:45pm headcleaner: Evening, peoples. Thighs, anyone?
	🥁 7:47pm tom tom the pipers son: how much of this library music was actually heard by the populace of the time... or was it just industry people?
	7:47pm pot8o: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:47 it probably showed up in ads, radio bed music, film soundtracks, and elevators
	7:48pm pot8o: tv soundtracks and advertising is where a lot of this stuff showed up it seems
	🥁 7:51pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ pot8o @7:47 right, i know...but was wondering if they were an analogy to les baxter in the states and were available as albums
	7:53pm StringOFperils: No one would have heard these things in their entirety. Now, we crowd around one of these pieces, attentively, like people pouring over a rare fossil which was, back in the day, just another Archaeopteryx flying by in the background.....
	🥁 7:54pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:53 ha...! right....
	7:54pm Flash Strap: hey hey headcleaner!
	7:56pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:51 library records were almost never commercially available at all, but many of these are a little different in that they were soundtracks to widely-seen films that were also sold as commercially available soundtrack albums
	🥁 7:57pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @7:56 ah, so it did make it's way into people's homes...
	7:58pm Flash Strap: he just dances on that violin man
	🥁 8:00pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @7:58 the name joe venuti pops into my head, though i can't really remember his playing
	8:00pm StringOFperils: This stuff seems more like soundtrack music than mere library music, the stock photography of sound...this in particular sounds like part of Taxi Driver
	8:00pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:57 a lot of this did have a life as bachelor-pad music, no doubt
	8:01pm Little Danny: This is the stuff
	8:01pm StringOFperils: ↳ Little Danny @8:01 Sure is!
	🥁 8:02pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @8:00 yes...but was also thinking /wondering if henri mancini was listening to come up with pink panther theme
	8:02pm StringOFperils: It's all grist for the mill
	🥁 8:02pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @8:00 thx ...
	8:02pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @8:00 yeah they recorded a lot of this for those mondo films, then repackaged them as cheescake singles, then re-repackaged them as library music, then often re-re-packaged them as soundtrack albums again but with different art. some of them started as commerically available jazz records as well
	8:04pm StringOFperils: ↳ Flash Strap @8:02 Fascinating to think about
	8:07pm Little Danny: Nicely observed!
	8:08pm Carmichael: Hola Flash y compadres
	8:08pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Interludio Cubano" by "Armando Sciascia" High-Tension Sexy
	8:08pm Little Danny: Evan deserves some recognition for taking on the Byzantine pressing machinations of both JA music AND Italian production music
	8:08pm Flash Strap: hey Carm!
	8:09pm StringOFperils: ↳ Flash Strap @8:08 That should be your show descriptor, Evan!
	8:10pm Flash Strap: ↳ Little Danny @8:08 thank you LD, truly these are byzantine caverns
	🥁 8:12pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Passione Incas" by "Armando Sciascia" I would not think of this as Inca music
	🥁 8:13pm chresti: Only 150 to go!
	🥁 8:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I hadn't the slightest knowledge of even the existence of the entire Genre of Library Music until a small handful of years ago & because of FMU & probly this very Program...
	8:14pm Flash Strap: ↳ chresti @8:12 absolutely not, no. i don't know how often Sciascia or whoever would have known what scene he was scoring, when it comes to those Mondo films. plus lots of those scenes were just staged in Cinecitta with utmost fakeness
	8:15pm StringOFperils: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:13 Ditto. At least, not the term 'library music'. Things get re-contextualized over time. Like prog rock. Certainly no such beast at the time it was originally made.
	8:15pm Flash Strap: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:13 WFMU exists to open doors to new worlds, and so does Explorers Room
	🥁 8:15pm chresti: I like the fake looking movie genre!
	🥁 8:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Flash Strap @8:15 ...not commercially available Genre finds home ...well, here.
	🥁 8:17pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @8:13 23 thousand loverall...raised about 50 thou today
	8:18pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:17 wow!
	8:18pm StringOFperils: These really are the coolest arrangements. That Farfisa organ against the twang, and these loopy horns....and the tempo, the reverb...so great.
	8:19pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @8:18 yeah i love that one, it's just so cool
	🥁 8:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ StringOFperils @8:18 Such a beguiling thing to ponder. If Soundtrack represents a Music freed from the usual constraints of palettes ...but bound to specific Imagery &/or Narrative ...then if Library Musics are the opposite end of that telescope - using any palette to conjure Imagery &/or Narrative that are not specific - that don't exist - yet...
	8:23pm Flash Strap: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:22 huge part of why i love it, right there
	8:24pm Little Danny: All these wonderful organ sounds
	🥁 8:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:22 ...or maybe kaleidoscope, better than telescope...
	🥁 8:24pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:22 that's a v interesting point
	🥁 8:24pm Alex from Media: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:22 Thank you for the Library music definition. Was pondering.
	8:26pm Carmichael: Morticia and Gomez would dance to this 🕺
	8:26pm Flash Strap: ↳ Carmichael @8:26 precisely!
	8:26pm StringOFperils: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:24 Maybe just scope: evoking a general area of emotional response (?)
	8:28pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Tocco Di Fata / Pallone Sgonfiato / Foresta In Al... here we have a little smattering of jingles/flashes/links
	🥁 8:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ StringOFperils @8:26 Yeah well - cinemascope. Very much relating to Psychedelia & Exotica & Visionary Arts. Hallucinatory Musics in a sense...
	8:30pm spodiodi: ↳ Carmichael @8:26 ⭐️🙂
	🥁 8:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:28 ...but also every Genre has a Market & an objective & a motive in that sense ...& being introduced to Library Musics is like ...a whole other section in the Museum of Natural Sciences that way manner of speaking...
	🥁 8:31pm tom tom the pipers son: another possible definition of library music i that its just sonic carpentry making "furniture" music, leaving a space for interpretation, awaiting a user to really complete it.... i think it's giving it too much credit to imply that it's visionary
	8:31pm Flash Strap: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:31 absolutely speaking my mind here, Rev
	8:32pm StringOFperils: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:28 Cinecittà scope for sure. Wouldn't be surprised if a few (many?) of these session players also took direction from people like Nino Rota on any given week.
	🥁 8:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:31 Yes - it's very Crafty in that sense. Absolutely. A sonic Bauhaus as well as a Surrealism.
	8:33pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:31 sometimes it's one, sometimes the other. Roger Roger, Umiliani, Alessandroni, many others i would easily characterize as visionary, at least at times
	8:34pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @8:32 absolutely yes
	8:35pm Flash Strap: next one is really something special, imo
	8:35pm Little Danny: ↳ Song: "Eccentrico ST-3" by "Armando Sciascia" oh this is killer
	🥁 8:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...it partners well with Exotica here in the Room - as well as the Avant or Prgressive @ times...
	🥁 8:36pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @8:33 ok....i'm just implying it may "visionary" but without a "visionary" or author....in some way like catherdrals but on a minor scale
	8:36pm Little Danny: ↳ Little Danny @8:35 oof sorry i meant the Bruno Battisti D'Amario
	8:37pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Interludio Swing in Mi" by "Bruno Battisti D'Amario" i think you'll dig this one especially LD
	8:37pm Little Danny: the one d'amario album i know also has some super cool use of reverb and guitar
	8:37pm Little Danny: ↳ Flash Strap @8:37 it's glorious
	8:37pm Flash Strap: reminds me of one of those VU/Another View instrumentals
	8:38pm StringOFperils: Agreed! Vrry cool little vignette for guitar.
	8:38pm Little Danny: Ooo I hear that!
	🥁 8:38pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:36 well not the best analogy some medieval architects are known...later ones are like gaudi and le violette
	🥁 8:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...very textural in tonalities. Design Tapestries. Would be interesting MDMA Musics ...maybe. Comparisons to Minimalism & Rave maybe possible...
	8:41pm Flash Strap: ↳ Little Danny @8:37 i was trying to remember what Battisti albums i know from other labels, i bet i know the one you mean but i didn't have time to look into it. good associations with his name, i know
	8:43pm Little Danny: ↳ Flash Strap @8:41 timbri musicali N° 4 is the one i know, now i need to look further into him too!
	8:44pm Flash Strap: ↳ Little Danny @8:43 oh i don't know that one! Cooper is one of the labels on my to-do list, i know very little from it
	8:45pm StringOFperils: I think this is the third take on Ravel I've heard so far this evening. I love it.
	🥁 8:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...industrial production cloth. Or isn't this a bit Baroque. Or - are they Abstracts. One of these things where the relation of Form & Content keeps my brain wondering exactly what's happening to it...
	8:46pm Flash Strap: ↳ Flash Strap @8:44 part of the Leonardi family, which i've done multiple shows on and yet still have something like 10 labels i'm still trying to track down discographies for
	8:48pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @8:45 haha probably yeah! he definitely reuses little devices quite a bit
	8:58pm Discotech Underground: Hey Flash, thought I'd come back and listen for a while. I like the library music shows you do sometimes.
	9:03pm StringOFperils: Oh man, I'll be singing this all week...ha ha...it'll get me through next week
	9:03pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @9:03 haha yes you probably will, i can attest
	9:04pm Flash Strap: Hey Kip! thanks for dropping in brother!
	🥁 9:05pm tom tom the pipers son: does the fact that the library music's musicians were punching a clock change or add a layer of meaning to the music? does it bring authorship into question? or to use a big small word is library music "thingafied" or reified in a different way than say thelonius monk
	🥁 9:05pm tom tom the pipers son: thel;onius monk record
	9:06pm spodiodi: thanks for the show, Flash! (probably won't be here at the end-- very slow shower pending) happy halloween! see you next time, and see you all soon
	🥁 9:07pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:05 i just have an itch about library music that i can't quite scratch
	9:08pm pot8o: great music to study to
	9:08pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:05 i think the answer to that would really change depending on who ran the studio and who was running the session - some of this stuff contains personal experiments that would be much less clock-punchy than the nightclub music they would have come up playing. some of it is pure kitsch, the clunkiness of which makes it interesting later. it's just a big world. lots of studios were run by artists, others were big conglomerates. Umiliani recorded a lot of stuff in his personal dungeon
	🥁 9:09pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @9:08 thanks that makes me less itchy
	9:10pm Flash Strap: ↳ Flash Strap @9:08 but also i'd say that your question gets at one of the major aspects of this whole thing (tho it applies to lots of other music as well, really)
	9:10pm Flash Strap: ↳ spodiodi @9:06 have a great shower my friend
	9:11pm spodiodi: thanks!
	9:13pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Conversazione in Jazz" by "Armando Sciascia" this particular LP, released as party of the library series in 1967, was initially a commercially-available jazz LP, released 1963. nice art: i.discogs.com...
	9:13pm Flash Strap: ↳ Flash Strap @9:13 *part of the
	🥁 9:15pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @9:10 yes... that crossed my mind, but with other music isn't there a creative interval that happens before the clock is punched, rather than it being all on the clock.....just a thought...you don't have to reply...i'm being a bit of a pain in the ass
	9:17pm StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:05 Reification is one of those terms from Marxist cultural analysis, like Walter Benjamin's 'aura'. Is 'library music' less real than other musics? Is it just clunky non-art? Is it any less representative of complex social/psychological relationships than Wagner? My feeling is that those notions always have to co-exist with something 'over there', which is just being a sensual being and opening your leaves to the sun. Nailing it down with language kinda kills the joy, as much as I do like to think in terms.
	9:17pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:15 i think there's generally the same impulses in this as in any other music, it just has a weird distribution system & lends itself to more prolific recording, which puts it somewhere between say, muzak ensembles on one hand and jazz combos that all work with each other on the other
	🥁 9:18pm chresti: I back after falling into a Ravel wormhole
	9:19pm Flash Strap: ↳ chresti @9:18 one of the best wormholes to fall into
	🥁 9:19pm chresti: ↳ Flash Strap @9:19 totally!
	🥁 9:20pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @9:17 yes, thanks.... my thinking just got locked in a mental lock groove and was not listening anymore
	9:21pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @9:17 yeah, for example a pop group has to serve the master of the audience AND the label - a library musician maybe just has to record whatever the hell they feel like that day - especially if they're their own boss, like Sciascia. the audience is much less important. what is the more free or true art, who knows. just depends
	🥁 9:21pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @9:17 yes thanks...
	9:22pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:21 on the other hand someone may have said "don't come out till you have 3 LPs worth of light upbeat office/industrial themes, whether you want to or not"
	9:23pm StringOFperils: ↳ Flash Strap @9:21 It seems to strive for something universal, and it has a sense of play that requires engagement. I don't hear anyone just phoning it in.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Disperazione" by "Armando Sciascia" this record is mostly material from the spaghetti western film "Tre Colpi di Winchester Per Ringo"
	9:24pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @9:23 well that's partly because i pick the best stuff believe me!
	9:24pm Little Danny: Haha love this!
	9:25pm Flash Strap: ↳ Flash Strap @9:23 the Ringo films were huge, but i don't think i've seen this one
	🥁 9:25pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Flash Strap @9:22 ha! ....have to jump in the shower....so thanks evan.....good evening commenters
	9:25pm StringOFperils: ↳ Flash Strap @9:24 I DO very much believe you, Evan! You're my sherpa on this mountain!
	9:26pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:25 another showerer! i'm losing everyone to bathtime
	9:27pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Assonanza in Mi" by "New Dimensions Quartetto" very glad to be back around to this record, a very special one i think. next one from it is great, a bit Miles-y
	🥁 9:29pm tom tom the pipers son: i'll b e listening from shower...
	9:29pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Libero Gioco" by "New Dimensions Quartetto" i definitely would have put this one on Jazzmutations if i was as familiar with it then as i am now
	9:29pm Flash Strap: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:29 that's a good combo actually, nice
	9:29pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Flash! The music you're playing is perfect for my post-leave raking nap. Very vivid images were bouncing around in my head.
	9:30pm Flash Strap: hey Franco! nice
	9:34pm StringOFperils: I'm going to stay filthy so I can ride this thing out.
	9:34pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Hippy Three" by "Pinto Varez" this track written by Max Raffeng, aka Maria Augusta Bruni, who later married fabio Fabor
	🥁 9:34pm Alex from Media: Thanks Flash! Gonna move along. I've enjoyed the comments as much as the music today. Everyone kudos. You are part of what makes WFMU great.
	9:36pm Flash Strap: happy trails, Alex! thanks for hanging out (& the same to you, re: making FMU great)
	9:36pm Flash Strap: ↳ StringOFperils @9:34 excellent
	9:38pm Little Danny: Wow… absolutely gorgeous
	9:39pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Flash Strap @9:34 Since we're not handing out candy tonight, the kids can just rattle our locked front gate and sway to Hippy Three and Hua' Hua' Rock... ...the front door is wide open!
	9:40pm Flash Strap: ↳ Little Danny @9:38 a nice one!
	9:42pm Flash Strap: ↳ Song: "Dielettrico (Dielectric)" by "Armando Sciascia" everything on this album is just so heavy and trippy
	9:44pm headcleaner: ↳ Song: "Il Vento Dell'Est" by "Armando Sciascia" Thanks, Flash - a lot of (mostly) inner space happenings these have been, tonite - which makes me glad I stayed in
	9:44pm Little Danny: oh hell yeah
	9:45pm Flash Strap: ↳ headcleaner @9:44 my pleasure, thanks for stayin' in with me
	🥁 9:47pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)" by "Armando Sci... cool track...the descending bass riff is reminding me of a song i can't place
	🥁 9:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)" by "Armando Sci... ...absolutely love this...
	9:48pm Flash Strap: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:47 yeah that one's a stomper
	🥁 9:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)" by "Armando Sci... ...put me in mind of Stravinsky, JimiHendrix & Bernard Hermann. & finally PinkFloyd... But that's me probly...
	9:50pm Flash Strap: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:48 i can dig it all, yeah
	🥁 9:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Asteroidal" by "Fabio Fabor" ...like outtakes from Satanic Majesties...
	9:51pm StringOFperils: Or a Goblin album
	9:52pm Flash Strap: makes me think of Ferrante & Teicher more than anything
	9:53pm StringOFperils: Makes me think I think too much. I think...not sure....
	9:53pm Little Danny: incredible sounds tonight evan THANK YOU
	🥁 9:53pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks again evan...
	9:53pm Franco Twinkie: Thank you Flash.
	9:54pm StringOFperils: Happy Halloween everyone! Thanks, Flash, that was excellent!
	🥁 9:55pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)" by "Armando Sci... the descending bass..."getting nowhere fast"
	9:55pm Little Danny: loop to hell ⭕⭕⭕ wfmu.org... the slow loop to hell ⭕⭕⭕ the slow loop to hell ⭕⭕⭕ the slow loop
	9:56pm Asheville Jon: Thanks Evan
	9:58pm pot8o: thanks flash strap! have a great week everyone!
	🥁 9:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ FS ~
	9:59pm Flash Strap: thanks everyone! catch ya next time around! and you better believe i'll be seeing you NEXT DOOR, IN THE FLAME
	🥁 10:00pm WR: Thank you! Very Much! Flash Strap! Very cinematic twist to the program tonight.
	10:21pm chresti: Hi little danny and flambos!
	🥁 12:23am chresti: thanks Flash!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from October 31, 2024

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