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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
Organisation  Noitasinagro   Favoriting Tone Float  RCA Victor  1970    0:01:17 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Wolfgang Dauner's Et Cetera  Es Soll Ein Stück Vom Willie Sein   Favoriting Live  MPS Records  1973    0:08:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Embryo  Call   Favoriting Steig Aus  Philips  1973  Featuring Jimmy Jackson, Mal Waldron  0:17:12 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Can  Oh Yeah   Favoriting Tago Mago  United Artists Records  1971    0:34:27 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Tropical Forest – Number Six Chops Down the Tree  
 
 
 
 
0:41:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jan Garbarek Quartet  Beast of Kommodo   Favoriting Afric Pepperbird  ECM Records  1970    0:50:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bennie Maupin  Ensenada   Favoriting The Jewel in the Lotus  ECM Records  1974    1:02:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Marion Brown  Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun   Favoriting Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun  ECM Records  1970    1:10:26 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Robin Kenyatta  We'll Be So Happy   Favoriting Girl From Martinique  ECM Records  1970    1:27:14 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Wolfgang Dauner  Bruch   Favoriting Output  ECM Records  1970    1:32:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Terje Rypdal  Tough Enough   Favoriting Terje Rypdal  ECM Records  1971    1:37:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Dave Liebman  The Call   Favoriting Drum Ode  ECM Records  1975    1:41:45 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Mal Waldron  Boo   Favoriting Free At Last  ECM Records  1970    1:46:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
King Kong Escapes  
 
 
 
 
1:49:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Techniques  What Love Can Do   Favoriting Gay Feet  Gay Feet  1965    1:58:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Uniques  Ah-Yuh   Favoriting Ah-Yuh / Just A Mirage 7"  Trojan Records  1969    2:00:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Heptones  I Do Love You   Favoriting I Do Love You 7"  Wizz-Dom  1972    2:03:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
King Medious  This World   Favoriting This World / Midious Sernade 7"  Justice League  1973    2:06:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Page One  Warrior and Babylon   Favoriting Rock A Dub  Jamaica Sound  1978    2:09:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Shortier The President  No Peace   Favoriting No Peace / War 7"  Town-N-Country  197?    2:12:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus  Mr. Brown   Favoriting Rastafari  Grounation  1975    2:15:08 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Cedric Im Brooks & The Light of Saba  Sound   Favoriting The Magical Light Of Saba  Honest Jon's Records  2003  1978  2:19:08 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Prophets  School Days Dub   Favoriting Walls of Jerusalem  Prophets  1976  aka Yabby You meets King Tubby  2:20:56 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Mighty Two  Fulfillment   Favoriting Two Sevens Clash / Fulfillment 7"  Joe Gibbs Record Globe  1977    2:24:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bullwackie's All Stars  Meditation Dub   Favoriting Free For All  Aires  1975    2:27:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Big Joe  In The Ghetto   Favoriting In The Ghetto / Satta Riddim 7"  Live and Love  1977    2:31:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Black Roots Players  Ghetto Dub   Favoriting Ghetto-Ology Dubwise  Black Roots  1980  aka "Ghetto-Ology Dub"  2:34:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lloyd Parks  Famine   Favoriting Girl in the Morning  Trojan Records  1975    2:36:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Afrotones  All For One   Favoriting If I'm In A Corner / All For One 7"  Gay Feet  1968    2:40:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Coolers  Birds of the Air   Favoriting Heart Beat / Birds of the Air 7"  Pama Records  1968    2:43:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Winston Riley  Man Of My Word Dub   Favoriting Meditation Dub  Techniques  1977    2:46:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Kingstonians  Love Is The Greatest Science   Favoriting Love Is The Greatest Science / Why Wipe The Smile From Your Face 7"  Caltone  1968    2:48:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Bells of My Soul  
 
 
 
 
2:51:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Avatar 6:34pm
Flash Strap:

Good evening Explorers!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:43pm
WR:

Hi Flash! The album jackets pictured portend great sounds!
Avatar 6:54pm
Flash Strap:

hey WR! yeah i'm looking forward to all this stuff, myself
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm
Aitch:

Let's go!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Hi Evan and all!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm
Manta:

Hello!!
  7:01pm
Samfiman:

Let's go Flash!greetings to all!
Avatar 7:01pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Aitch! Hi Will! Hi Manta!
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Flash Strap:

Hey there Samfiman!
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Noitasinagro" by "Organisation"
early krautrock group famously containing pre-Kraftwerk Ralf and Florian. Produced by Conny Plank
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:03pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

+ evening +
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

Hello hello Rev!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:09pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...you avant heard anything yet...
Avatar 7:11pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Es Soll Ein Stück Vom Willie Sein" by "Wolfgang D...
would love to know how this was achieved live, sounds very much like tape music - tho of course possibly it is prepared tape music, played live & accompanied with the other instruments
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:12pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Flash Strap @7:11
Itself tricky enuff to have frustrated many.
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

very squiggly stuff from Dauner's keys here
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

the man loved to get squiggly
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:14pm
Little Danny:

hello!!!
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chresti:

Hi Flash and explorers!
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

hey LD!
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Flash Strap:

Aloha Chresti!
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 7:15pm
northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Noitasinagro" by "Organisation"
as mentioned before, i found this rekkid at my mother's charity shop (that usually only had clothes, food, and furniture), that was donated, w/o the record sleeve. best free record i ever found....
Avatar 7:16pm
Flash Strap:

↳ northguineahills @7:15
incredible find, almost totally unbelievable!
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 7:18pm
northguineahills:

↳ Flash Strap @7:16
(i used to get my clothes there in hs/college, as they had some funky stuff donated by the recently deceased. (and also free, since me mum ran the place)
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Call" by "Embryo"
last week we heard Mal Waldron's incredible "The Call" from the Japo records album of the same name - tonight we hear it re-recorded by Mal with the krautrock freak group Embryo, with Jimmy Jackson once again in the mix
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

↳ northguineahills @7:18
i used to hang around backstage at thrift stores with my mom too - found some cool records but never anything so rare/cool as that. not even close
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 7:23pm
northguineahills:

↳ Flash Strap @7:19
didn't have the album cover, so i had to put into another one...(it was weird, i was just digging through the donations, and it was w/ a lot old large books).
Avatar 7:23pm
Flash Strap:

hasn't been *all* that long since I played this last, but after listening to the Japo recording with Jackson, Weber and Braceful I couldn't resist getting back into the Embryo version. still so wild to me that Mal did 2 albums with this crew
Avatar 7:24pm
Flash Strap:

↳ northguineahills @7:23
too bad about the cover, not a bad sleeve, art by Comus in fact... but hardly the essential element!
Avatar 7:26pm
Flash Strap:

Jimmy Jackson's mellotron is a whole heavenly host back there
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:27pm
pot8o:

hi everyone!
Avatar 7:28pm
Flash Strap:

hey pot8o!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:30pm
pot8o:

↳ northguineahills @7:15
ngh! what a find!
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 7:31pm
northguineahills:

↳ pot8o @7:30
the only other stuff i found there, was MOR rock records, so yeah i was rather chuffed when i found it...
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 7:32pm
northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Call" by "Embryo"
i have this record (but paid through the teeth for it [ok, $16 in 2002])
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:34pm
pot8o:

↳ Song: "Oh Yeah" by "Can"
i have this record!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:34pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Well, I missed Organisation and Wolfgang Dauner, but I tuned in just in time to hear the last few notes of Embryo and this great Can number. I can live with that! Hi Flash Strap and friends!
Avatar 7:35pm
Flash Strap:

Heya Wendy!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:35pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ pot8o @7:34
Me too!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:35pm
pot8o:

↳ Wendy del Formaggio @7:34
wendy! for those playing at home, 3 out of the 4 artists are on the nww list
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:35pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ pot8o @7:34
Also, hi pot8o!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:35pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ pot8o @7:35
Yay!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:35pm
Kat in the chat:

that was my next question pot8o
Avatar 7:36pm
Flash Strap:

↳ pot8o @7:35
who's not on? prob the Dauner
Avatar 7:36pm
Flash Strap:

hey Kat!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:36pm
pot8o:

↳ Flash Strap @7:36
embryo, surprisingly
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 7:37pm
northguineahills:

↳ pot8o @7:34
i didn't get my first can record until i was 24 (they were hard to find in 2000)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:37pm
Little Danny:

all-timer
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:37pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Oh Yeah" by "Can"
...not afraid to play the Hits...
Avatar 7:37pm
Flash Strap:

↳ pot8o @7:36
huh!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:37pm
Kat in the chat:

hey Flash, Wendo, ngh, pot80, and the rest of y'all
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:37pm
Alex from Media:

Hey Flash and Explorers!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:37pm
tom tom the pipers son:

Hello Evan and all...mobile https for time being
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 7:37pm
northguineahills:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:35
katerina!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:37pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ pot8o @7:36
that is surprising
Avatar 7:37pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:37
sometimes ya gotta do it. god this song's just pure gold
Avatar 7:38pm
Flash Strap:

hey Tom Tom!
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northguineahills:

↳ Little Danny @7:37
ELLL DEEEE!!!!
Avatar 7:38pm
Flash Strap:

Alex!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:38pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Flash Strap @7:37
Pure medicine.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:38pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:37
Fabio was playing some hits today too
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:38pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

I'm pretty sure I recommended this book to you all already, but in case anyone missed it, go get yourself a copy of "Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock" from your local library or here: bookshop.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:38pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:37
Howdy!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:39pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ Alex from Media @7:37
Alex!
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northguineahills:

↳ Wendy del Formaggio @7:35
hi! (wait, i was just chatting w/ you!)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:39pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ northguineahills @7:39
NGH! Long time no see! Possibly 15 minutes ago in the dining room.
Avatar 7:41pm
Flash Strap:

Jaki is just so slammin on this one. everything is so perfect, everyone is at their best, the editing is spot-on. what a killer
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:41pm
Alex from Media:

↳ Wendy del Formaggio @7:39
Wendy!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:41pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ Flash Strap @7:41
I was just gonna say something like that. This part of the song is HOT!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:41pm
pot8o:

↳ pot8o @7:34
i bought the reissue in lawrence a while back, when i saw gy!be back in november
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:43pm
Alex from Media:

↳ Wendy del Formaggio @7:41
I credit you for waking me up to Krautrock. Wound up buying Tago Mago on CD. WHich begs the question is digital the best way to appreciate it?
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 7:44pm
northguineahills:

↳ Flash Strap @7:41
his drum philosophy, was not to play in time, or try, but keep it monotonic, and it works so well!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:45pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ Alex from Media @7:43
Aww shucks, I'm so glad to know that, Alex! Honestly, I don't know the answer to your question. I have it on CD. Some audiophiles might prefer the LP, but they're allowed to do that. I'm happy with my CD and have nothing with which to compare it.
  ♥ 7:49pm
A.J. MACHETE:

↳ Wendy del Formaggio @7:45
Fondly seeing YOU here. Hello, all as well.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 7:49pm
northguineahills:

↳ pot8o @7:41
the first time i went to nyc (before i moved there), i went w/ my gf, and spent $500 on records, and we couldn't go out and do anything. she was pissed as we had to also scrounge for change from the car in GA on our way back to FL just to get enough gas to get home (i was 23)

priorities i know (i was like a kid in a candy store in the record stores)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:51pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ A.J. MACHETE @7:49
Hello A.J. MACHETE! Yay!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Alex from Media @7:43
no bad way to dig Tago Mago as long as the sound is good and the speakers are loud
Avatar 7:52pm
Flash Strap:

Hello AJ!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:52pm
Alex from Media:

↳ Flash Strap @7:51
Done and done!
  7:53pm
Samfiman:

↳ Song: "Beast of Kommodo" by "Jan Garbarek Quartet"
tuff bass line here! (goes without saying would like to see it forward in the mix!) loving the show
Avatar 7:54pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Beast of Kommodo" by "Jan Garbarek Quartet"
title track on this album is absolute aces as well but this track truly is a Beast
Avatar 7:54pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Samfiman @7:53
Andersen is so deep on the thing, incredible bassist
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:55pm
pot8o:

i prefer vinyl, but that's mostly because i like the feeling of it, the crackles and pops of the surface noise, carefully having to alphabetize my bookshelf

it's a pain in the ass, but i like that it's a pain in the ass, the convenience of streaming just (to me at least) makes the listening experience a lot more detached and impersonal

there's no charm to it, there's no surface noise, i can cue it up on command without having to peruse through discogs or hit the local record shop, i don't have to wait with bated breath for that krautrock release to be reissued because original copies go for $700
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 7:56pm
northguineahills:

↳ pot8o @7:55
as a dj, i have no preference of media, but i like the tactile aspect of vinyl, for the manipulation of the sound when need be...
  ♥ 7:57pm
A.J. MACHETE:

↳ Flash Strap @7:54
I have to thank you, as I did Kim Sorise, for completing record 1 of Bitches Brew within the same week.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:57pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ pot8o @7:55
I love LPs for those reasons, too. I love CDs because I spend a lot of time in the car by myself. It's a really good place to fully absorb music.
Avatar 7:57pm
Flash Strap:

↳ A.J. MACHETE @7:57
the pleasure's all mine
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:58pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ northguineahills @7:56
WORD!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:58pm
Alex from Media:

↳ pot8o @7:55
Hey pot8o! That leads me to another question. because the crackles and pops bug me I was thinking of purchasing a record cleaning device. Any suggestions from the chat as to whether such devices are effective.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 7:58pm
northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Beast of Kommodo" by "Jan Garbarek Quartet"
most of my jan gabarek stuff is from the late 70s and early 80s, and is more easy listening musak than this...
Avatar 7:58pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Wendy del Formaggio @7:57
CDs in the car is my jam as well
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Flash Strap:

↳ northguineahills @7:58
very true
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:00pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ Flash Strap @7:58
Especially because most radio is such garbage.
I can stream WFMU thru my mobile phone into my car stereo, but this is a rural place where I often lose service.
Avatar 8:00pm
Flash Strap:

he did a lot of stuff with ECM going forward, all generally much more in line with the house ECM sound at whatever stage of development it was in at any given time
  8:01pm
flannery:

hello!
Avatar 8:01pm
Flash Strap:

hey Flannery!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:02pm
pot8o:

↳ Alex from Media @7:58
audiotechnica does a really good record brush if you're on a budget
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Flash Strap @8:00
(much of which, i should say, is excellent!)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:03pm
Kat in the chat:

flannery! I listened earlier today to your archive from this week, really lovely
  8:03pm
Little Danny:

Wow LOVE this
  8:03pm
flannery:

thanks kat :)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:03pm
pot8o:

i have a keith jarrett record where he's a sideman alongside charlie haden, it's definitely aligned with that ambient, mildly avant-garde, proto-windham hill aesthetic most late 70s/early 80s ecm releases have
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:03pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ Song: "Ensenada" by "Bennie Maupin"
This is bee-yoo-tee-ful!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:04pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Song: "Ensenada" by "Bennie Maupin"
oooh
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Ensenada" by "Bennie Maupin"
Bass – Buster Williams
Drums – Billy Hart
Drums, Marimba – Frederick Waits
Percussion – Bill Summers
Piano, Electric Piano – Herbie Hancock
Producer – Manfred Eicher
Reeds, Voice, Glockenspiel, Composed By – Bennie Maupin
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 8:04pm
northguineahills:

for all of you ecm fans, ricardo villalobos and max loderbaer were given access to ecm's back catalog and sampled it for a double LP. it's not even minimal techno, but sublime ambient: ecmrecords.com...
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 8:05pm
northguineahills:

↳ northguineahills @8:04
(perfect for kat)
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Ensenada" by "Bennie Maupin"
yeah this one's so splendid
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 8:06pm
Canuck Bob:

Hi Flash Been drawing and listening. Great show so far. Hope everybody's doin' OK
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:06pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ northguineahills @8:05
haha, I think that got buried in my bandcamp wishlist, I definitely know of it
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Flash Strap:

Hey Bob!
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Flash Strap:

↳ northguineahills @8:04
this sounds cool, i'll have to dig it later
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:08pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ Flash Strap @8:04
I always love marimba and glockenspiel. Hooray for things you can hit that make different notes!
Avatar 8:09pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Wendy del Formaggio @8:08
truly
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:11pm
pot8o:

↳ northguineahills @8:04
right when i was about to do something similar... :p
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:12pm
chresti:

↳ Wendy del Formaggio @8:08
Here hear!
Avatar 8:12pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun" by "Marion Brown"
virtually unclassifiable panoramic landscape music. prepare to ambulate a sonic world

Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Percussion, Contrabass Clarinet, Suona [Chinese Musette] – Anthony Braxton
Alto Saxophone, Zurna [Zomari], Percussion – Marion Brown
Bass, Percussion – Jack Gregg
Percussion – Andrew Cyrille
Piano, Bells, Gong, Percussion – Chick Corea
Producer – Manfred Eicher
Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Flute [Wooden], Idiophone [Acorn], Bells, Percussion, Alto Flute – Bennie Maupin
Voice, Percussion – Jeanne Lee
Voice, Piano, Percussion – Gayle Palmore
Avatar 8:14pm
Flash Strap:

what a lineup, it's insane
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:15pm
pot8o:

↳ pot8o @8:11
was going to work on a release involving sampling of ambient, jazz, classical, etc into this lengthy piece a la some of the caretaker's output or terry riley's poppy nogood

got access to a vst a friend of a friend made which randomly chops, fades, reverses samples you throw in there
Avatar 8:15pm
Flash Strap:

↳ pot8o @8:15
sounds cool
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J in LA:

Great drive home. Thanks for the tunes!
Avatar 8:18pm
Flash Strap:

Hey there J in LA! my pleasure pal
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J in LA:

↳ Flash Strap @8:18
I'll catch the rest of the show later😁
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:19pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ Flash Strap @8:14
I was just thinking that...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:24pm
pot8o:

↳ Song: "Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun" by "Marion Brown"
a review of this album called it a more serene art ensemble of chicago
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Flash Strap:

↳ pot8o @8:24
that checks out
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "We'll Be So Happy" by "Robin Kenyatta"
joining Kenyatta on this one we have: Arild Andersen, Wolfgang Dauner, and Fred Braceful
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:29pm
pot8o:

jazz harpsichord?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:30pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ pot8o @8:29
Whatever it is, it's jumping right out of my extremely modest Klipsch bookshelf speakers and dancing around my living room
  8:30pm
boboboboplasticlanddrumr:

great tunes!!!
Avatar 8:31pm
Flash Strap:

↳ pot8o @8:29
it's a clavinet. love jazz harpsichord or any soundalike
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Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ Song: "We'll Be So Happy" by "Robin Kenyatta"
This is stunning.
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northguineahills:

↳ pot8o @8:29
when i was college. i had a friend who inherited an electric harpsichord. man, was that fun to play!!!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Kat in the chat @8:30
yeah i've always thought it was mixed almost bizarrely prominently, WAY forward in the mix. which is weird because if you listen closely to the bass, they're in total dialogue
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Flash Strap:

hey bobobob!
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Kat in the chat:

↳ Flash Strap @8:32
you're right
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pot8o:

↳ Song: "Bruch" by "Wolfgang Dauner"
shame this album is rarer than hen's teeth, it's awesome

always wanted to know how dauner got all of these sounds, sounds more like musique concrete than free jazz
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Bruch" by "Wolfgang Dauner"
a Dauner trio: with Eberhard Weber, and Braceful again
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Flash Strap:

↳ pot8o @8:33
i totally agree, he's performing sorcery here
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pot8o:

↳ Flash Strap @8:34
i think what's going on is weber running his guitar through all sorts of filters, dauner's using a bunch of synths, and braceful is doing some jamie muir-esque stuff with homemade percussion
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Flash Strap:

it's the same clavinet we just heard on the Kenyatta, but run through a ring modulator (i think he uses it on the kenyatta too, but more sparingly)
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northguineahills:

↳ pot8o @8:33
hens hatch w/ a tooth. but being from ia, you already know that...😉
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Tough Enough" by "Terje Rypdal"
as with last week, Rypdal is joined here by:
Electric Bass – Bjørnar Andresen
Electric Piano – Bobo Stenson
Oboe, English Horn – Ekkehard Fintl
Percussion – Jon Christensen
Producer – Manfred Eicher
Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet – Jan Garbarek
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Flash Strap:

↳ Flash Strap @8:39
(w/ the exception of a bass switch from Arild Andersen to B. Andresen)
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pot8o:

we really went from electroacoustic free improv to bluesy jazz rock a la ginger baker's air force or mountain w/o vocals
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Flash Strap:

↳ pot8o @8:40
yeah that one really is a rock jam. very subtle details tho
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pot8o:

early ecm was super eclectic and i love it
  8:43pm
Little Danny:

WOW
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Little Danny:

man this rips
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "The Call" by "Dave Liebman"
Liebman, coming off his white-hot work with Miles, on his second ECM LP. some very cool stuff
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Flash Strap:

↳ Little Danny @8:43
yeah it's a stomper!
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Flash Strap:

Bob Moses on drums there
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Boo" by "Mal Waldron"
and we close the set with this, from the very first ECM LP
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Kat in the chat:

great set!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Kat in the chat @8:47
glad you dug it!
  8:52pm
bobobob:

and ECM used good vinyl
  8:52pm
bobobob:

wassssup lil Danny
  🥁 ♥ 8:53pm
Quinn02:

just want to say that last week's reggae set great. I had it on repeat this week.
  🥁 ♥ 8:53pm
Quinn02:

was great
  8:54pm
Booboboplasticland:

I seen Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy live in Milwaukee one time
  8:56pm
bobobob:

seen Eberhard Weber live in Evanston IL....one time ..extra added as drummer John Marshall
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Flash Strap:

↳ Quinn02 @8:53
hey Quinn2! Love to hear it, hope this one treats you right as well
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Little Danny:

hey bob :)
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "What Love Can Do" by "The Techniques"
god i love this slide guitar - rare in reggae
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Flash Strap:

↳ Booboboplasticland @8:54
must have been amazing
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Flash Strap:

The Uniques never fail ya. what a group
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Alex from Media:

↳ Song: "I Do Love You" by "The Heptones"
Such great crooning!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "I Do Love You" by "The Heptones"
possibly my favorite Heptones side, if i really had to pick
  9:06pm
Skye:

Hi, first time caller here. Just want to say Explorers Room was my gateway program on WFMU and I'm always glad when I can catch it!
- w/ love from Brooklyn
-
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Flash Strap:

Hey Skye! positively honored to be the gateway, thanks for dropping in!
  9:08pm
Skye:

You're welcome. I'll be tuned in to the end but dropping *out* shortly (with my first toke of the day ;) )
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "This World" by "King Medious"
woman lick pipe, sling gun, screw face... this world can be beautiful, man
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Flash Strap:

↳ Skye @9:08
great time to do it, just about to swing into the dub
  9:09pm
Samfiman:

↳ Song: "This World" by "King Medious"
was susan cadogan before or after this? i keep hearin' the fever!
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chresti:

↳ Song: "This World" by "King Medious"
Fever!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Samfiman @9:09
cadogan's Fever was after the Medious, but all were based on Junior Byles' Fever
  9:11pm
Skye:

Who's listening with a subwoofer? Essential for dub reggae imo!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Warrior and Babylon" by "Page One"
"Page One" is nobody - this is a dub of Dillinger's "Dread No Warrior" but i don't know who's dubbing
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chresti:

↳ chresti @9:09
ridm
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Skye:

Damn, I wish I'd caught the start of this—Embryo is my favorite band on the planet right now (big krautrock nut here)
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chresti:

↳ Skye @9:11
fancy!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Skye @9:13
hell yeah, i'm especially obsessed with the Embryo & Mal Waldron LPs, I can't quit 'em
  9:14pm
Skye:

↳ chresti @9:13
No, I'm a cheap date really 😁
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "No Peace" by "Shortier The President"
very very nice Errol T / Mighty Two dub on the flip
  9:15pm
Skye:

↳ Flash Strap @9:14
Mal Waldron is a legend, they still have his "What It Is" in their set list occasionally! Highly, highly recommend their last album Auf Auf from '21—Embryo lebt!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Skye @9:15
i've not heard that, i'll check it out! I don't know many of their late releases, other than that great NNCK collab
  9:17pm
Skye:

Warm Canto had popped up a few times recently, too. Never been to Germany but I've a good friend who does who records their shows whenever she can.
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Flash Strap:

↳ Skye @9:17
love their Warm Canto (and all other versions of Warm Canto)
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Mr. Brown" by "Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus"
Ras Michael so funky and tight here
  9:19pm
Skye:

↳ Flash Strap @9:17
They had sort of a cooling off period after that NNCK album until their comeback in 2016 with It Do, which was basically a collab between the founder Christian Burchard and his daughter Marja. Then Christian passed, and now Marja is in charge and doing fantastically! Not many bands you can truly say have been going nonstop since 1969....
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Flash Strap:

↳ Skye @9:19
i had no idea she was running the show! interesting
  9:20pm
Skye:

↳ Song: "Sound" by "Cedric Im Brooks & The Light of Saba"
Now that's a groove!
  9:22pm
Skye:

↳ Flash Strap @9:20
She's done a terrific job of blending the old with the new. A true musical savant, just like her dad!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Skye @9:22
so good to hear
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Fulfillment" by "The Mighty Two"
a glorious version, this
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tom tom the pipers son:

hey flashtrap…. back home glad i’m catchin’ dub….
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Flash Strap:

hey welcome back Tom Tom!
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WR:

↳ Song: "Fulfillment" by "The Mighty Two"
Interesting Version
  9:28pm
Skye:

I'm listening on my home system with definitive brand multi stereo speakers and subwoofer.... I might never have dreamed of owning a subwoofer had I not gotten all that for free from a departing neighbor years ago... All this to say, turn up the bass!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Meditation Dub" by "Bullwackie's All Stars"
that cardboard box THUMP of a lot of Wackie's drums. love it
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @9:29
ah… though they were red-lining...
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tom tom the pipers son:

thought
  9:32pm
Skye:

My dad went to Jamaica once... joined a parade there and puffed a giant spliff rolled up in newspaper... And fell straight on his ass. 😁
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Aitch:

↳ Skye @9:28
Dub needs sub
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Ghetto Dub" by "Black Roots Players"
from the dub LP version of Sugar Minott's 1979 Ghetto-Ology album
  9:36pm
Skye:

Sly lyrical allusions to Otis Redding!
  9:36pm
Little Danny:

Wow what a sweet guitar break 😻
  9:37pm
Little Danny:

Was that an ebow?
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Famine" by "Lloyd Parks"
unbelievable to quote "I saw mommy kissing santa clause" on piano and have it turn out SO beautifully
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Flash Strap:

↳ Little Danny @9:37
i don't know, it sounded so cool
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A.J. MACHETE:

Ghetto-ology… I’m a scholar now.
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Flash Strap:

god i love this production
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @9:37
makes it sound like a bacharach quote...
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:39
haha yes, so classy sounding! stately, even
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "All For One" by "The Afrotones"
love this vocal, very wide on the vowels
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @9:40
touches of "walk on by"…. "do you...san jose"
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "All For One" by "The Afrotones"
the organ riff sounded “bellowy” like mimicking accordion
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:43
i heard that, yeah good way to describe it
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Birds of the Air" by "The Coolers"
defining guitar rifff
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:45
truly, this is the Stuff
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @9:45
a lot of it in the recording too…
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Man Of My Word Dub" by "Winston Riley"
dub of the Techniques 1969 "man of my word". I love this album to death
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wimpy:

Too busy to chat but great show as always, thanks flash!
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Aitch:

↳ Flash Strap @9:47
Fab show Evan, working here, great soundtrack!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Love Is The Greatest Science" by "The Kingstonians"
quite jimmy cliff-esque
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Flash Strap:

"Love Is The Greatest Science" is among the greatest song titles of all time in my opinion
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Flash Strap:

Hey Wimpy! glad you dug it
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Flash Strap:

↳ Aitch @9:49
love to hear it pal!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @9:49
almost…”in every dreamhouse, a heartache...
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Alex from Media:

Thanks Flash!
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tom tom the pipers son:

oh wow…. the credits…. thanks evan…!
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WR:

The Bells of My Soul arrive to let us know that another exploration is coming to a close. Thank you! Flash Strap! Joyous!
  9:55pm
Mik Han:

Hey Explorer DJ, your 'theme music/the music you speak over' Is off the hook great! Routinely listen to you in my shop and when I hear it, everything seems a-o-k!
Thank you!
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pot8o:

thanks flash strap! have a great week everyone!
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Little Danny:

thank you as ever evan... loved it!
  9:58pm
Samfiman:

awesome show!
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Little Danny:

wfmu.org... come on over!
  9:59pm
Skye:

Thanks for a very enjoyable final hour or so of the show, FS! Will go to the archive to hear the part before which I missed... Viva Explorers Room, viva WFMU!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Mik Han @9:55
hey hey Mik Han! glad you dig it friend
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Flash Strap:

Thanks everyone! have a great one! see you soon
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AMYGDALA:

Super-sweet sounds this evening - many thanks Flash!
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