WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 21, 2016

Listener comments!
	6:50pm listener james from westwood: Here I am thinking those records are Marathon prizes we can win for pledging! Ah, we still win big by hearing them tonight. Howdy all!
	6:51pm Gary: Howdy!
	6:53pm Flash Strap: Hey there! you fine fellows are a little early, what a pleasant surprise! come on in and make yourselves at home
	6:56pm Gary: I'm going to be on the couch with a book
	6:58pm hyde: i'm going to be in the shower. but i can hear you in there!
	6:59pm ndbob: evening Evan and everyone!
	7:00pm Ed: HI!
	7:00pm Flash Strap: Hyde, Gary, Bob, James so great to see you all
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Ed!
	7:06pm listener james from westwood: I do love this style of chant.
	7:08pm Flash Strap: It's such a wild musical concept
	7:08pm Little Danny: Evening, all. Gorgeous album covers, Flash.
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hey there Danny! How you doing?
	7:11pm Flash Strap: I just found these, and some others, two days ago. at a thrift shop that draws from a community which, y'know, is generally unlikely to have these kinds of records around. so it felt extra special
	7:11pm Little Danny: Good, man! Hoping that next Thursday's gonna inaugurate some shit for the one-two radio punch.
	7:14pm Flash Strap: that's great news, but it tears me up that i won't be there for that first one-two! I'm off the air for the next two weeks, alas
	7:14pm listener james from westwood: Always be searching!
	7:15pm Stepchild: Hiya everyone! And BIG thanks for sharing those covers along with the music, Flash...
	7:15pm ndbob: Heya Danny
	7:16pm Flash Strap: Hello and welcome Stepchild. Glad you appreciate these covers, they really excite my sensibilities. Such lurid, visceral design
	7:20pm Stepchild: BAM! indeed
	7:24pm Little Danny: I remember when I first D/L'd the Pedro Santos from yer blog. Magic.
	7:29pm Flash Strap: it's sooooo good. i wish i had a better copy, mine sounds sort of crummy. relatively crummy for something so good i mean
	7:30pm Stepchild: Flash I've got to keep a discogs window open while I listen to your show. I've just got to! And it's saying the catalog number following the Bali 7", LD 340, is also a 7" and it dates it to 1957, FWIW.
	7:33pm hyde: did you say your Musique du Bali label was trashed? there's clean scans of a copy in the Bibliotheque Nationale: gallica.bnf.fr... de France
	7:33pm Flash Strap: oh interesting, i wasn't able to discern the date. 57 makes sense
	7:34pm Flash Strap: no, the label's fine, it's just in french and i was a little bamboozled trying to sort it all out
	7:37pm Flash Strap: @Stepchild: i do that too, by the way. it's pretty fun using discogs to dig deeper on anything you hear
	7:39pm Stepchild: Now /that/ is an amazing resource, hyde! I am keeping that one.
	7:39pm Flash Strap: yeah i gotta explore that !
	7:41pm Stepchild: Wikipedia en Francois knows a bit about the BAM label some of which hasn't made its way to discogs... fr.wikipedia.org...
	7:42pm hyde: the French are good about their libraries and film archives.
	7:48pm Flash Strap: This record has some wild stuff. I like how it's recorded, lots of ambient noises
	7:53pm ndbob: Incredible that you found these at a thrift shop Evan
	7:55pm Flash Strap: I've found some really unbelievable things in thrift shops–some funk and jazz LPs that I still can't believe I paid less than 50 bucks for, let alone 50 cents–but these are certainly among the most unlikely, literally exotic in every way, thrift shop finds of my life
	7:56pm Flash Strap: these beautiful birds
	7:57pm ndbob: I found some interesting records in North Dakota - not a lot there but minimal competition
	7:58pm Flash Strap: that counts for a lot!
	7:58pm ndbob: Time to go - excellent show Evan - so you will be off the next two weeks?
	7:59pm Flash Strap: that's how i've found so many great exotica records i think. just less competition for the genre in general
	8:00pm Flash Strap: hate to see you leave, bob! yeah, next two weeks I'll be gone. But Danny will be debuting, so don't miss that!
	8:00pm hyde: the thrift store finds are the best, because you know the chances are so low in among all those Perry Como, Foghat and 101 Strings lp's
	8:00pm melinda: howdy Flash & explorers!
	8:01pm ndbob: I won't - i love Danny's blogs
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Melinda! wonderful!
	8:01pm ndbob: Heya Melinda!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: me too bob, me too
	8:02pm ndbob: There's one great 101 Strings record actually
	8:02pm Flash Strap: there's a couple!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: which one do you love bob?
	8:03pm melinda: hi bob!
	8:03pm hyde: @Flash i remember hearing you say that once before. i'm still a little skeptical, heh. hi Melinda!
	8:04pm ndbob: both - Office Naps and the exotica 45s blogs?
	8:05pm Flash Strap: well, Les Baxter did two of them I think... not his best two, but interesting. then there's a few with great lurid value
	8:05pm Flash Strap: @bob: i meant which 101 strings
	8:05pm ndbob: the space pop one
	8:06pm ndbob: Music from 2001? can't remember the exact title
	8:08pm hyde: i'll allow that i have never dove deep enough into 101 strings to say there aren't good ones. but what i've heard i haven't liked. i could change my mind someday!
	8:09pm ndbob: @hyde the one I mentioned is realy different form their usual schlock
	8:10pm hyde: Little Danny's blogs are all good. I really love the Lonely Beat one, myself.
	8:10pm hyde: @ndb noted!
	8:13pm ndbob: astro sounds from beyond the year 2000 - on youtube
	8:15pm Flash Strap: 101 really does usually do nothing for me, but there's so many that they just had to do a good one occasionally. haven't heard 2000 before, Bob, but I'm going to
	8:15pm melinda: I like the Fleetwoods.
	8:17pm ndbob: @Evan well worth hearing @Melinda me too - so many good records
	🥁 8:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...the years between Elvis & the Beatles are sort of haunting...a David Lynch thing almost...
	8:18pm hyde: Gary Troxel of the Fleetwoods married his high school sweetheart in 1960, and they're apparently still hitched!
	8:19pm ndbob: there was an important Supreme Court case over grandparents rights - where Troxel was the plantiff
	8:20pm Flash Strap: Fleetwoods are blowing my mind right now... I could play them all night
	8:20pm Flash Strap: Troxel is turning out to be an interesting fellow
	8:20pm hyde: @ndbob wow!
	8:20pm ndbob: @Rev my favorite era maybe
	8:21pm Flash Strap: oh and hi, Rabbit!
	8:23pm hyde: i went through a big doo wop phase a long time ago. i should dust off some of those records. Flamingo Serenade comes out a lot (i mean, how could it not? that record is a mind blower), but so many I haven't played in years....
	8:24pm melinda: I heard 'Tragedy' by the Fleetwoods on Bob Brainen's show a while back and bought the song but didn't explore further, so it's nice to hear more of them tonight.
	8:25pm ndbob: www.oyez.org...
	8:25pm Flash Strap: I'll play some more of theirs another night, I'm still sort of working my way through. I really love so much of it... and I think i'm due for another doowop phase myself
	8:26pm ndbob: I'm always ina doowop phase - Tragedy is a cover of the Thomas Wayne song
	8:26pm Flash Strap: that's an intense case, bob
	8:28pm ndbob: @Evan indeed - it's hard to pick a favorite genre - bit maybe doowop
	8:30pm coelacanth: hello Evan and all
	8:32pm Flash Strap: Hi there, C
	8:34pm melinda: Hi-C
	8:34pm Flash Strap: drums are so cool on this one
	8:35pm hyde: picking a favorite genre of music? i'm passing on even trying to think that one through!
	8:35pm Flash Strap: @ Hyde:me too.
	8:38pm ndbob: Not that I don't like a vast number of genres - but it terms of time doowop I think wins out
	8:39pm Stepchild: doowop concret tossup
	8:40pm Stepchild: this, though!!
	8:41pm David in Cleveland: Hi, folks.. Favorite genre.. I'm torn between Japanese pop music and '60s-'70s African rumba..
	8:43pm Flash Strap: Hey there David with the interesting taste!
	8:44pm hyde: all i know is, i'm not picking Gregorian chants.
	8:46pm Little Danny: God this Pedro Santos track RIGHT NOW. (and thanx all for yer kind comments)
	8:46pm David in Cleveland: Thanks.. there's a lot.. Bollywood, Indian classical, SE Asia..
	8:48pm Flash Strap: @Danny: I actually had other stuff planned for this moment, but the Santos took me over like a mania
	8:48pm Flash Strap: @Hyde: no way that's white people music
	8:49pm melinda: @hyde: t's easier to exclude categories than to picks faves, isn't it?
	8:49pm melinda: that was supposed to be 'it's' but t's works.
	8:50pm Flash Strap: t's better than 'tis, even
	8:51pm ndbob: It's hard for me to exclude any category though - maybe slick 70s and 80s R and B ballads
	8:51pm Flash Strap: this track is too good, i don't think we're gonna make it
	8:52pm Flash Strap: I feel wonderful excluding cali punk bands post-ska-revival even the good ones, who cares maybe even pre ska-revival
	8:53pm Flash Strap: also Aerosmith
	8:54pm ndbob: I could exclude the post 1970 Grateful Dead
	8:57pm hyde: i would exclude Spyrogyra style jazz fusion. but i'm afraid if we start naming all our exclusions, someone's gonna get their toes stepped on. i'm already looking a little bit askance at that cali punk thing ;)
	9:00pm ndbob: I don't mind having my metaphorical toes stepped on:)
	9:04pm Stepchild: well, music was all I ever dug about church. I see it was intentional on their part...
	9:05pm melinda: I don't like metal. Maybe a few things here and there.
	9:05pm Flash Strap: haha truly sorry Hyde! nobody defending Aerosmith though, I see
	9:06pm Flash Strap: "a funny man" I love that
	9:06pm hyde: haha, i can take it. it wouldn't be any fun if we all didn't love & hate some different things
	9:07pm ndbob: Exactly Hyde - GTDS couldn't be what it is if we did
	9:07pm melinda: I hate many things but not sure how to categorize them.
	9:08pm Stepchild: "Let's agree to disagree" "I don't agree to that"
	9:08pm Flash Strap: i DON'T hate the perfect harmonies on this track, I'll tell you that
	9:09pm melinda: Yeah, Prince Buster is good stuff!
	9:10pm hyde: i should make it clear i'm not standing up for Green Day
	9:10pm Flash Strap: I would never think that of you, Hyde. Or wish it upon your enemy
	9:11pm Flash Strap: i seriously don't understand how Horace Andy's voice can sound like this.
	9:12pm melinda: One time I was playing the Carpenters at work and a customer expressed sympathy, thinking I had been forced to play them. I let them know it was my choice and they felt bad but I thought it was funny.
	9:12pm coelacanth: i respect the members of green day much more than i like their music.
	9:13pm Flash Strap: boy, i know that exact sort of moment, Melinda
	9:13pm ndbob: I really like the Carpenters - I really disliked them at the time - took decades to appreciate them
	9:14pm northguineahills: I love this Lennie Hibert. I first got it on a Soul Jazz Studio One comp.
	9:14pm melinda: Bob I probably would have felt the same way had I been an adult during their peak popularity.
	9:15pm Little Danny: @Melinda - Man, I have massive love for the Carpenters, though, like ndbob, it took some deprogramming to get there. So much humanity in Karen's voice.
	9:15pm Flash Strap: NGH! Hey there pal Whole LP's incredible if you've never heard it, tho i'm sure you have by now
	9:15pm hyde: @Melinda that's hilarious. i'm with ndb on this one--i hated the Carpenters for a long time,then got on board. when i was in a bad lounge band we used to cover "Close To You" and after awhile i really started to dig it.
	9:16pm ndbob: @melinda some of it was what I associated them with - kids who voted for Nixon, etc - though looking back that seems really silly
	9:16pm Flash Strap: she really is tremendous at times, and they did some pretty well-composed songs
	9:16pm David in Cleveland: Just stepped out for a minute.. Sirius XM playing a Prince tribute right now on their '80s channel.. people calling in with stories..
	9:17pm Flash Strap: hard to compete with a Prince tribute on a night like this dammit what a year
	9:17pm ndbob: I think Richard Chamberlain dd the original "Close to You"
	9:17pm hyde: i'll say, i've heard some pretty amazing Prince stories today
	9:18pm David in Cleveland: Flash! Dude, you just played Horace Andy, that's my guy!! I collect Horace Andy albums!!
	9:18pm coelacanth: not just Prince...
	9:19pm Flash Strap: He's amazing, David!
	9:20pm hyde: yeah. i love that Horace Andy Skylarking record you posted. i had never heard it before.
	9:20pm Flash Strap: I think that this is basically a perfect song, and I marvel at it
	9:20pm coelacanth: i once had a formal complaint brought against me for playing too much reggae!
	9:20pm David in Cleveland: Under appreciated. Sleepy is still doing stuff in the studio. I've been his fan since 1980.. his was my first reggae record
	9:21pm melinda: I love playing vintage smooth tunes in the store where I work. It's generally not what people expect to hear, yet it doesn't cross over into 'inappropriate for a retail environment', which much of my taste could. It's hard to know and I tend to push the boundaries. I once got a positive customer response to the Langley Schools Music Project, so I played it again, only to have another customer get mean and contemptuous and leave the store.
	9:21pm hyde: @coelecanth ok, that is also hilarious
	9:22pm melinda: coelecanth we can't please everyone. I would think reggae would be fairly safe.
	9:22pm ndbob: Ah the Langley Schools - great stuff - I remember when Irwin played it for the first time - announcing it as a major discovery.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: @Melinda: that's really funny @C: that's even funnier because it involves a formal complaint, the ultimate indignity
	9:25pm ndbob: I got asked to take off music I was playing a few times when I worked in a video store - but I could usually get away with some pretty odd stuff.
	9:25pm Flash Strap: @bob: that's crazy to think about. seems like when i was coming up that was long-established legend, foundational stuff
	9:26pm hyde: @melinda The Flamingoes' aforementioned Flamingo Serenade would be perfect for that sort of thing. it's so smooth, and yet at bottom is so very strange sounding
	9:26pm Flash Strap: totally hyde
	9:27pm ndbob: @Evan it was on the Incorrect Music Show - the second FMU show I ever listened to after Charlie
	9:27pm coelacanth: kinda funny then. definitely funny now! ...i did try to be democratic. i'd wait after each tape and no one ever played anything, so i chose again. it wasn't always reggae, but i guess all that world music shit sounded the same to them!
	9:30pm melinda: I learned of Langley Schools long before I started listening to WFMU, and when I started listening to more programs here and learned that Irwin was the producer it made me even more excited about WFMU.
	🥁 9:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: What a great set.
	9:33pm Stepchild: even if there was too much reggae!
	9:33pm melinda: The couple who liked the Langley Schools at first thought there was a chorus of children practicing in the next room when they heard it. Which tickled me.
	9:34pm coelacanth: some of the earliest svengali moves wfmu made with me were negativland. (the earliest was balanese gamelan music in 1977) ...now, after 2 members last year, another has moved on. (2 days ago, on his birthday.)
	9:36pm hyde: @c right, negativland. that was the other guy who checked out today. i saw those guys play live once, it was wild.
	9:37pm coelacanth: that was only the second time i've heard Nora Dean. the other song is "mojo girl". good to hear the rare rootsy reggae with a female vocal.
	9:39pm coelacanth: man, hyde. i'm a tad envious! 'never saw them.
	9:43pm hyde: it was great. they did this thing with a toaster--they came out, put two slices of bread in it, popped it down and just left it while they played. it created more smoke than any dry ice show i've ever seen in my life, just totally filled the club.
	9:44pm coelacanth: hahaha! that's perfect!
	🥁 9:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& how far is The Andrew Sisters in 1941 from Chuck Berry really?...
	9:46pm Flash Strap: seriously rabbit!
	🥁 9:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...well - it's Boogie...
	9:48pm coelacanth: and now to reveal my stupidity...when i first heard negativland on fmu, c. 1980, i thought it was a bunch of samples being mixed live by the dj! i was very impressed!
	9:51pm ndbob: excellent show Evan - glad I could stick around!
	9:51pm Flash Strap: me too Bob!
	🥁 9:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well - talk of FreeForm Radio - some college radio used to be pretty out there before the 'Republican Revolution' took the funds away for everything & the universe had to be monetized & therefore mainstreamed...much as HipHop used to be more adventurous before Sampling rights laws came down hard...
	9:53pm hyde: @c you know the Internet Archive has the full Over the Edge Radio archive, yes?
	9:53pm David in Cleveland: After "Explorer's Room" I recommend "Music of Africa" on KBCS Seattle, 10pm-midnight
	9:54pm coelacanth: hyde...whut?!! - where have i been all my life?
	🥁 9:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Do or DIY with People Like Us' is a related species to those: wfmu.org/playlists/PL
	9:56pm northguineahills: Thanks Flash!
	9:56pm hyde: @c yeah, 941 shows. it's here: archive.org... thanks Mr. Flash Strap!
	9:56pm listener james from westwood: Many thanks, Evan--enjoy your time away!
	9:57pm melinda: Do or DIY is one of those I keep meaning to check out more of. I was won over by The Muppet Christ Superstar in December.
	9:58pm melinda: Have a good expedition, Flash!
	9:58pm coelacanth: hyde, i blurrily recall a mention of that when Don or Ian died. i think i was such a wreck that i never followed up. ...Thanks for that link.
	9:59pm David in Cleveland: Enjoy your exploring, sir
	10:00pm coelacanth: Thanks Evan and enjoy your time away. ciao explorers.
	10:00pm Flash Strap: Thanks all! Great being here with you tonight, and I look forward to being with you again in two weeks. Au revoir
	10:04pm coelacanth: (rest in peace Richard Lyons. rest in peace Prince Rogers Nelson.)

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 21, 2016

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

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April 21, 2016: Visages et Chants du Monde

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments
	Intro "Intro"
Pedro Santos	Advertência "Advertência" by "Pedro Santos"	Krishnanda	CBS	1968
Orchestre de Gamelan et Chanteurs de Pliatan	Side A: Ketiak, Djanger	Musique de Bali	Disques BAM		(under the direction of A.A. GDE Mandera)
Fon	Side B "Side B" by "Fon"	Collection Radiodiffusion Outre-Mer: Rythmes et Chants du Dahomey	Disques BAM		Danses Royales D'Abomey Avec Chant En Langue Vieux Fon; Musique Populaire Fon
Music behind DJ: Pedro Santos	Dual "Dual" by "Pedro Santos"
Unknown	Side B Musique de Bali "Side B Musique de Bali" by "Unknown"	Musique de Bali	Visages du Monde		B1-Gamelan B2-Seruling B3-Gengong B4-Priere Indo-Balinaise B5-Bumbung
Pedro Santos	Ritual Negro "Ritual Negro" by "Pedro Santos"	Krishnanda		1968
Pedro Santos	Agua Viva "Agua Viva" by "Pedro Santos"	Krishnanda		1968
Unknown	Side B Au Coeur du Soudan	Au Coeur du Soudan	Le Chant du Monde		Bobo Oule, Bambara, Peul, and Songhai music
The Fleetwoods	Mr. Blue "Mr. Blue" by "The Fleetwoods"	Mr. Blue		1959
Music behind DJ: Frantz Casseus	"Frantz Casseus"
The Fleetwoods	Outside My Window "Outside My Window" by "The Fleetwoods"	Outside My Window 7"		1960
The Fleetwoods	Graduation's Here "Graduation's Here" by "The Fleetwoods"	Graduation's Here 7"		1959
The Fleetwoods	The Great Imposter	The Great Imposter 7"		1961
Los Fronterizos	Kyrie, Gloria, Credo	Misa Criolla		1965	composed by Ariel Ramirez
Pedro Santos	Savana "Savana" by "Pedro Santos"	Krishnanda		1968
Baden Powell	Sorongaio "Sorongaio" by "Baden Powell"	O Melhor de Baden Powell		1973	composed by Pedro Santos
Pedro Santos	Flor de Lotus "Flor de Lotus" by "Pedro Santos"	Krishnanda		1968
Baden Powell & Jimmy Pratt	Coisa N° 1	O Melhor de Baden Powell		1973
Pedro Santos	Um Só "Um Só" by "Pedro Santos"	Krishnanda		1968
Pedro Santos	Sem Sombra "Sem Sombra" by "Pedro Santos"	Krishnanda		1968
Baden Powell	Canto "Canto" by "Baden Powell"	É De Lei		1972
Music behind DJ: Pedro Santos	Aranbindu "Aranbindu" by "Pedro Santos"
Prince Buster	Ten Commandments "Ten Commandments" by "Prince Buster"	Prince Buster Sings His Hit Song Ten Commandments		1967
Prince Buster	Is Life Worth Living	Prince Buster Sings His Hit Song Ten Commandments		1967
Horace Andy	Mamie Blue "Mamie Blue" by "Horace Andy"	Skylarking		1972
Lennie Hibbert	Village Soul "Village Soul" by "Lennie Hibbert"	Creation		1969
Desmond Dekker & The Aces	Coconut Water	Intensified		1968
Barrington Spence	Contemplating Mind	Clement "Coxsone" Dodd: Musical Fever 1967-68		1989
Scotty	Monkey Drop "Monkey Drop" by "Scotty"	The Crystalites / Scotty ‎– Trinity / Monkey Drop 7" single		1972
Nora Dean	Barb Wire "Barb Wire" by "Nora Dean"	Nora Dean / The Brons ‎– Barbwire / Calypso Mama 7" single		1969
Lennie Hibbert	Chinese Beauty "Chinese Beauty" by "Lennie Hibbert"	More Creation		1971
Prince and Princess Buster	Ten Commandments From Woman To Man	Prince Buster Sings His Hit Song Ten Commandments		1967
Music behind DJ: Herman Chin Loy	"Herman Chin Loy"	Aquarius Dub
The Andrews Sisters	Hula-Ba-Luau "Hula-Ba-Luau" by "The Andrews Sisters"			1941	from the 1941 film "In the Navy"
The Chordettes	Moonlight on the Ganges	Moonlight On The Ganges / Let The Rest Of The World Go By		1951
Johnnie Ray	Lotus Blossom "Lotus Blossom" by "Johnnie Ray"	The Big Beat		1957
Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin	Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei	Missa Luba		1958
Music behind DJ: Les Baxter	Deep Night "Deep Night" by "Les Baxter"	Caribbean Moonlight
The René Paulo Group	How Deep is the Ocean	Tropical Heat Wave	LIFE

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Listener comments!
	6:50pm listener james from westwood: Here I am thinking those records are Marathon prizes we can win for pledging! Ah, we still win big by hearing them tonight. Howdy all!
	6:51pm Gary: Howdy!
	6:53pm Flash Strap: Hey there! you fine fellows are a little early, what a pleasant surprise! come on in and make yourselves at home
	6:56pm Gary: I'm going to be on the couch with a book
	6:58pm hyde: i'm going to be in the shower. but i can hear you in there!
	6:59pm ndbob: evening Evan and everyone!
	7:00pm Ed: HI!
	7:00pm Flash Strap: Hyde, Gary, Bob, James so great to see you all
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Ed!
	7:06pm listener james from westwood: I do love this style of chant.
	7:08pm Flash Strap: It's such a wild musical concept
	7:08pm Little Danny: Evening, all. Gorgeous album covers, Flash.
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hey there Danny! How you doing?
	7:11pm Flash Strap: I just found these, and some others, two days ago. at a thrift shop that draws from a community which, y'know, is generally unlikely to have these kinds of records around. so it felt extra special
	7:11pm Little Danny: Good, man! Hoping that next Thursday's gonna inaugurate some shit for the one-two radio punch.
	7:14pm Flash Strap: that's great news, but it tears me up that i won't be there for that first one-two! I'm off the air for the next two weeks, alas
	7:14pm listener james from westwood: Always be searching!
	7:15pm Stepchild: Hiya everyone! And BIG thanks for sharing those covers along with the music, Flash...
	7:15pm ndbob: Heya Danny
	7:16pm Flash Strap: Hello and welcome Stepchild. Glad you appreciate these covers, they really excite my sensibilities. Such lurid, visceral design
	7:20pm Stepchild: BAM! indeed
	7:24pm Little Danny: I remember when I first D/L'd the Pedro Santos from yer blog. Magic.
	7:29pm Flash Strap: it's sooooo good. i wish i had a better copy, mine sounds sort of crummy. relatively crummy for something so good i mean
	7:30pm Stepchild: Flash I've got to keep a discogs window open while I listen to your show. I've just got to! And it's saying the catalog number following the Bali 7", LD 340, is also a 7" and it dates it to 1957, FWIW.
	7:33pm hyde: did you say your Musique du Bali label was trashed? there's clean scans of a copy in the Bibliotheque Nationale: gallica.bnf.fr... de France
	7:33pm Flash Strap: oh interesting, i wasn't able to discern the date. 57 makes sense
	7:34pm Flash Strap: no, the label's fine, it's just in french and i was a little bamboozled trying to sort it all out
	7:37pm Flash Strap: @Stepchild: i do that too, by the way. it's pretty fun using discogs to dig deeper on anything you hear
	7:39pm Stepchild: Now /that/ is an amazing resource, hyde! I am keeping that one.
	7:39pm Flash Strap: yeah i gotta explore that !
	7:41pm Stepchild: Wikipedia en Francois knows a bit about the BAM label some of which hasn't made its way to discogs... fr.wikipedia.org...
	7:42pm hyde: the French are good about their libraries and film archives.
	7:48pm Flash Strap: This record has some wild stuff. I like how it's recorded, lots of ambient noises
	7:53pm ndbob: Incredible that you found these at a thrift shop Evan
	7:55pm Flash Strap: I've found some really unbelievable things in thrift shops–some funk and jazz LPs that I still can't believe I paid less than 50 bucks for, let alone 50 cents–but these are certainly among the most unlikely, literally exotic in every way, thrift shop finds of my life
	7:56pm Flash Strap: these beautiful birds
	7:57pm ndbob: I found some interesting records in North Dakota - not a lot there but minimal competition
	7:58pm Flash Strap: that counts for a lot!
	7:58pm ndbob: Time to go - excellent show Evan - so you will be off the next two weeks?
	7:59pm Flash Strap: that's how i've found so many great exotica records i think. just less competition for the genre in general
	8:00pm Flash Strap: hate to see you leave, bob! yeah, next two weeks I'll be gone. But Danny will be debuting, so don't miss that!
	8:00pm hyde: the thrift store finds are the best, because you know the chances are so low in among all those Perry Como, Foghat and 101 Strings lp's
	8:00pm melinda: howdy Flash & explorers!
	8:01pm ndbob: I won't - i love Danny's blogs
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Melinda! wonderful!
	8:01pm ndbob: Heya Melinda!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: me too bob, me too
	8:02pm ndbob: There's one great 101 Strings record actually
	8:02pm Flash Strap: there's a couple!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: which one do you love bob?
	8:03pm melinda: hi bob!
	8:03pm hyde: @Flash i remember hearing you say that once before. i'm still a little skeptical, heh. hi Melinda!
	8:04pm ndbob: both - Office Naps and the exotica 45s blogs?
	8:05pm Flash Strap: well, Les Baxter did two of them I think... not his best two, but interesting. then there's a few with great lurid value
	8:05pm Flash Strap: @bob: i meant which 101 strings
	8:05pm ndbob: the space pop one
	8:06pm ndbob: Music from 2001? can't remember the exact title
	8:08pm hyde: i'll allow that i have never dove deep enough into 101 strings to say there aren't good ones. but what i've heard i haven't liked. i could change my mind someday!
	8:09pm ndbob: @hyde the one I mentioned is realy different form their usual schlock
	8:10pm hyde: Little Danny's blogs are all good. I really love the Lonely Beat one, myself.
	8:10pm hyde: @ndb noted!
	8:13pm ndbob: astro sounds from beyond the year 2000 - on youtube
	8:15pm Flash Strap: 101 really does usually do nothing for me, but there's so many that they just had to do a good one occasionally. haven't heard 2000 before, Bob, but I'm going to
	8:15pm melinda: I like the Fleetwoods.
	8:17pm ndbob: @Evan well worth hearing @Melinda me too - so many good records
	🥁 8:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...the years between Elvis & the Beatles are sort of haunting...a David Lynch thing almost...
	8:18pm hyde: Gary Troxel of the Fleetwoods married his high school sweetheart in 1960, and they're apparently still hitched!
	8:19pm ndbob: there was an important Supreme Court case over grandparents rights - where Troxel was the plantiff
	8:20pm Flash Strap: Fleetwoods are blowing my mind right now... I could play them all night
	8:20pm Flash Strap: Troxel is turning out to be an interesting fellow
	8:20pm hyde: @ndbob wow!
	8:20pm ndbob: @Rev my favorite era maybe
	8:21pm Flash Strap: oh and hi, Rabbit!
	8:23pm hyde: i went through a big doo wop phase a long time ago. i should dust off some of those records. Flamingo Serenade comes out a lot (i mean, how could it not? that record is a mind blower), but so many I haven't played in years....
	8:24pm melinda: I heard 'Tragedy' by the Fleetwoods on Bob Brainen's show a while back and bought the song but didn't explore further, so it's nice to hear more of them tonight.
	8:25pm ndbob: www.oyez.org...
	8:25pm Flash Strap: I'll play some more of theirs another night, I'm still sort of working my way through. I really love so much of it... and I think i'm due for another doowop phase myself
	8:26pm ndbob: I'm always ina doowop phase - Tragedy is a cover of the Thomas Wayne song
	8:26pm Flash Strap: that's an intense case, bob
	8:28pm ndbob: @Evan indeed - it's hard to pick a favorite genre - bit maybe doowop
	8:30pm coelacanth: hello Evan and all
	8:32pm Flash Strap: Hi there, C
	8:34pm melinda: Hi-C
	8:34pm Flash Strap: drums are so cool on this one
	8:35pm hyde: picking a favorite genre of music? i'm passing on even trying to think that one through!
	8:35pm Flash Strap: @ Hyde:me too.
	8:38pm ndbob: Not that I don't like a vast number of genres - but it terms of time doowop I think wins out
	8:39pm Stepchild: doowop concret tossup
	8:40pm Stepchild: this, though!!
	8:41pm David in Cleveland: Hi, folks.. Favorite genre.. I'm torn between Japanese pop music and '60s-'70s African rumba..
	8:43pm Flash Strap: Hey there David with the interesting taste!
	8:44pm hyde: all i know is, i'm not picking Gregorian chants.
	8:46pm Little Danny: God this Pedro Santos track RIGHT NOW. (and thanx all for yer kind comments)
	8:46pm David in Cleveland: Thanks.. there's a lot.. Bollywood, Indian classical, SE Asia..
	8:48pm Flash Strap: @Danny: I actually had other stuff planned for this moment, but the Santos took me over like a mania
	8:48pm Flash Strap: @Hyde: no way that's white people music
	8:49pm melinda: @hyde: t's easier to exclude categories than to picks faves, isn't it?
	8:49pm melinda: that was supposed to be 'it's' but t's works.
	8:50pm Flash Strap: t's better than 'tis, even
	8:51pm ndbob: It's hard for me to exclude any category though - maybe slick 70s and 80s R and B ballads
	8:51pm Flash Strap: this track is too good, i don't think we're gonna make it
	8:52pm Flash Strap: I feel wonderful excluding cali punk bands post-ska-revival even the good ones, who cares maybe even pre ska-revival
	8:53pm Flash Strap: also Aerosmith
	8:54pm ndbob: I could exclude the post 1970 Grateful Dead
	8:57pm hyde: i would exclude Spyrogyra style jazz fusion. but i'm afraid if we start naming all our exclusions, someone's gonna get their toes stepped on. i'm already looking a little bit askance at that cali punk thing ;)
	9:00pm ndbob: I don't mind having my metaphorical toes stepped on:)
	9:04pm Stepchild: well, music was all I ever dug about church. I see it was intentional on their part...
	9:05pm melinda: I don't like metal. Maybe a few things here and there.
	9:05pm Flash Strap: haha truly sorry Hyde! nobody defending Aerosmith though, I see
	9:06pm Flash Strap: "a funny man" I love that
	9:06pm hyde: haha, i can take it. it wouldn't be any fun if we all didn't love & hate some different things
	9:07pm ndbob: Exactly Hyde - GTDS couldn't be what it is if we did
	9:07pm melinda: I hate many things but not sure how to categorize them.
	9:08pm Stepchild: "Let's agree to disagree" "I don't agree to that"
	9:08pm Flash Strap: i DON'T hate the perfect harmonies on this track, I'll tell you that
	9:09pm melinda: Yeah, Prince Buster is good stuff!
	9:10pm hyde: i should make it clear i'm not standing up for Green Day
	9:10pm Flash Strap: I would never think that of you, Hyde. Or wish it upon your enemy
	9:11pm Flash Strap: i seriously don't understand how Horace Andy's voice can sound like this.
	9:12pm melinda: One time I was playing the Carpenters at work and a customer expressed sympathy, thinking I had been forced to play them. I let them know it was my choice and they felt bad but I thought it was funny.
	9:12pm coelacanth: i respect the members of green day much more than i like their music.
	9:13pm Flash Strap: boy, i know that exact sort of moment, Melinda
	9:13pm ndbob: I really like the Carpenters - I really disliked them at the time - took decades to appreciate them
	9:14pm northguineahills: I love this Lennie Hibert. I first got it on a Soul Jazz Studio One comp.
	9:14pm melinda: Bob I probably would have felt the same way had I been an adult during their peak popularity.
	9:15pm Little Danny: @Melinda - Man, I have massive love for the Carpenters, though, like ndbob, it took some deprogramming to get there. So much humanity in Karen's voice.
	9:15pm Flash Strap: NGH! Hey there pal Whole LP's incredible if you've never heard it, tho i'm sure you have by now
	9:15pm hyde: @Melinda that's hilarious. i'm with ndb on this one--i hated the Carpenters for a long time,then got on board. when i was in a bad lounge band we used to cover "Close To You" and after awhile i really started to dig it.
	9:16pm ndbob: @melinda some of it was what I associated them with - kids who voted for Nixon, etc - though looking back that seems really silly
	9:16pm Flash Strap: she really is tremendous at times, and they did some pretty well-composed songs
	9:16pm David in Cleveland: Just stepped out for a minute.. Sirius XM playing a Prince tribute right now on their '80s channel.. people calling in with stories..
	9:17pm Flash Strap: hard to compete with a Prince tribute on a night like this dammit what a year
	9:17pm ndbob: I think Richard Chamberlain dd the original "Close to You"
	9:17pm hyde: i'll say, i've heard some pretty amazing Prince stories today
	9:18pm David in Cleveland: Flash! Dude, you just played Horace Andy, that's my guy!! I collect Horace Andy albums!!
	9:18pm coelacanth: not just Prince...
	9:19pm Flash Strap: He's amazing, David!
	9:20pm hyde: yeah. i love that Horace Andy Skylarking record you posted. i had never heard it before.
	9:20pm Flash Strap: I think that this is basically a perfect song, and I marvel at it
	9:20pm coelacanth: i once had a formal complaint brought against me for playing too much reggae!
	9:20pm David in Cleveland: Under appreciated. Sleepy is still doing stuff in the studio. I've been his fan since 1980.. his was my first reggae record
	9:21pm melinda: I love playing vintage smooth tunes in the store where I work. It's generally not what people expect to hear, yet it doesn't cross over into 'inappropriate for a retail environment', which much of my taste could. It's hard to know and I tend to push the boundaries. I once got a positive customer response to the Langley Schools Music Project, so I played it again, only to have another customer get mean and contemptuous and leave the store.
	9:21pm hyde: @coelecanth ok, that is also hilarious
	9:22pm melinda: coelecanth we can't please everyone. I would think reggae would be fairly safe.
	9:22pm ndbob: Ah the Langley Schools - great stuff - I remember when Irwin played it for the first time - announcing it as a major discovery.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: @Melinda: that's really funny @C: that's even funnier because it involves a formal complaint, the ultimate indignity
	9:25pm ndbob: I got asked to take off music I was playing a few times when I worked in a video store - but I could usually get away with some pretty odd stuff.
	9:25pm Flash Strap: @bob: that's crazy to think about. seems like when i was coming up that was long-established legend, foundational stuff
	9:26pm hyde: @melinda The Flamingoes' aforementioned Flamingo Serenade would be perfect for that sort of thing. it's so smooth, and yet at bottom is so very strange sounding
	9:26pm Flash Strap: totally hyde
	9:27pm ndbob: @Evan it was on the Incorrect Music Show - the second FMU show I ever listened to after Charlie
	9:27pm coelacanth: kinda funny then. definitely funny now! ...i did try to be democratic. i'd wait after each tape and no one ever played anything, so i chose again. it wasn't always reggae, but i guess all that world music shit sounded the same to them!
	9:30pm melinda: I learned of Langley Schools long before I started listening to WFMU, and when I started listening to more programs here and learned that Irwin was the producer it made me even more excited about WFMU.
	🥁 9:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: What a great set.
	9:33pm Stepchild: even if there was too much reggae!
	9:33pm melinda: The couple who liked the Langley Schools at first thought there was a chorus of children practicing in the next room when they heard it. Which tickled me.
	9:34pm coelacanth: some of the earliest svengali moves wfmu made with me were negativland. (the earliest was balanese gamelan music in 1977) ...now, after 2 members last year, another has moved on. (2 days ago, on his birthday.)
	9:36pm hyde: @c right, negativland. that was the other guy who checked out today. i saw those guys play live once, it was wild.
	9:37pm coelacanth: that was only the second time i've heard Nora Dean. the other song is "mojo girl". good to hear the rare rootsy reggae with a female vocal.
	9:39pm coelacanth: man, hyde. i'm a tad envious! 'never saw them.
	9:43pm hyde: it was great. they did this thing with a toaster--they came out, put two slices of bread in it, popped it down and just left it while they played. it created more smoke than any dry ice show i've ever seen in my life, just totally filled the club.
	9:44pm coelacanth: hahaha! that's perfect!
	🥁 9:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& how far is The Andrew Sisters in 1941 from Chuck Berry really?...
	9:46pm Flash Strap: seriously rabbit!
	🥁 9:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...well - it's Boogie...
	9:48pm coelacanth: and now to reveal my stupidity...when i first heard negativland on fmu, c. 1980, i thought it was a bunch of samples being mixed live by the dj! i was very impressed!
	9:51pm ndbob: excellent show Evan - glad I could stick around!
	9:51pm Flash Strap: me too Bob!
	🥁 9:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well - talk of FreeForm Radio - some college radio used to be pretty out there before the 'Republican Revolution' took the funds away for everything & the universe had to be monetized & therefore mainstreamed...much as HipHop used to be more adventurous before Sampling rights laws came down hard...
	9:53pm hyde: @c you know the Internet Archive has the full Over the Edge Radio archive, yes?
	9:53pm David in Cleveland: After "Explorer's Room" I recommend "Music of Africa" on KBCS Seattle, 10pm-midnight
	9:54pm coelacanth: hyde...whut?!! - where have i been all my life?
	🥁 9:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Do or DIY with People Like Us' is a related species to those: wfmu.org/playlists/PL
	9:56pm northguineahills: Thanks Flash!
	9:56pm hyde: @c yeah, 941 shows. it's here: archive.org... thanks Mr. Flash Strap!
	9:56pm listener james from westwood: Many thanks, Evan--enjoy your time away!
	9:57pm melinda: Do or DIY is one of those I keep meaning to check out more of. I was won over by The Muppet Christ Superstar in December.
	9:58pm melinda: Have a good expedition, Flash!
	9:58pm coelacanth: hyde, i blurrily recall a mention of that when Don or Ian died. i think i was such a wreck that i never followed up. ...Thanks for that link.
	9:59pm David in Cleveland: Enjoy your exploring, sir
	10:00pm coelacanth: Thanks Evan and enjoy your time away. ciao explorers.
	10:00pm Flash Strap: Thanks all! Great being here with you tonight, and I look forward to being with you again in two weeks. Au revoir
	10:04pm coelacanth: (rest in peace Richard Lyons. rest in peace Prince Rogers Nelson.)

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 21, 2016

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