WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 5, 2017

Listener comments!
	6:52pm MrFab: Am I ever looking forward to this show - was feeling SpaceAge-y just the other day. Listened to the "UltraLounge Space-capades" album for the first time in ages.
	6:52pm Ehd: HI Evan!
	6:53pm Flash Strap: Evening all! Let's explore space and time
	6:53pm Ehd: Hello MrFab
	6:54pm Flash Strap: Hi Ehd! Mr Fab! Glad this is gonna hit the spot for ya, Fab
	6:58pm JtotheK: Good evening Mr Flash Strap and explorers.
	6:59pm MrFab: Hi gang! Yeah, you are right on my (cosmic) wavelength today Evan. Here's a scary thought: those Ultralounge comps came out 22 years ago. We are almost as far removed from the exotica/Lounge revival as the revival was from the original exotica era.
	6:59pm Flash Strap: Hi there, J-K! Happy New Year, all
	7:02pm Flash Strap: I was thinking that not too long ago, and that I was very glad to be part of the 3rd wave, or whatever you'd call the current moment in Explorers Rooms
	7:07pm Flash Strap: we're gonna mess around in time before we focus on the age of space. gotta get to the future somehow
	7:10pm hyde: ohmigod, the Ultra Lounge comps came out 22 years ago? don't mind me while i reach for my rheumatiz medicine
	7:12pm Scraps: hey h'lo
	7:12pm Flash Strap: Hi Old Hyde
	7:13pm Flash Strap: H'lo y'self Scraps
	7:15pm hyde: i'll admit that as a kid, i spent an inordinate amount of time pondering the "which three books to take" question from the george pal time machine movie
	7:16pm Flash Strap: what were your childhood choices? I must know!
	7:16pm hyde: which, now that i think about it, is probably another reason to reach for the rheumatiz medicine
	7:17pm doctorjazz: Nice stuff!
	7:18pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	7:23pm hyde: @flash i would go back and forth. i knew i would need something practical, and my brother had stuff like Bradford Angier's How To Live in the Woods and the Army Guide To Survival, so I would generally pick one of those. But i'd also need fiction and history! so I would likely go for The Phantom Tollbooth or one of the John Christopher Tripods books and then something like what my father would read as general history, like the Kenneth Clark Civilization. But there were so many choices! It used to torture me to try and pick three.
	7:23pm Flash Strap: holy moly this is a weird record.
	7:25pm Little Danny: This William Loose is wonderful - hi Flash, hi all!
	7:27pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	7:29pm Little Danny: Flash, I can't think of a better DJ to send up The Future for three hours! Loving this so much
	7:29pm Scraps: God, it sounds like Firesign
	7:31pm Flash Strap: I can think of one, LD. You know who
	7:32pm Scraps: I so loved the Tripods books. And Norton Juster, too, but the Tripods books felt like I was living them.
	7:33pm JtotheK: That Moog Indigo lp continues to elude me. Cool track!
	7:34pm hyde: this show is reminding me that the future of space travel used to be hopeful, and not some weird Elon Musk vision of leaving behind a scorched earth. @Scraps i actually reread some of the Tripods books as an adult maybe 15 years ago, and they totally stood up. They are really good.
	7:35pm Flash Strap: "WE GOTTA LOTTA WORK FOR YA WELCOME TO THE FUTURE BOYS"
	7:35pm Scraps: When I joined science fiction fandom, I discovered John Christopher's books were boys books. There were nothing to involve girls; almost no female characters at all.
	7:37pm hyde: @Scraps yeah, agreed. they don't stand up on that angle.
	7:38pm MrFab: Had the pleasure to meet both JJ Perrey and Morton Subotnick. Not at the same time.
	7:40pm Little Danny: Wait, moog, so I thought it was rhymed with "rogue."
	7:43pm Flash Strap: Well, that's definitely how Moog is pronounced, but I didn't want to spoil JJP's Mood Indigo pun
	7:43pm MrFab: You are correct Danny. Been trying to tell peeps that for years!
	7:46pm Flash Strap: Had I said Mogue Indigo, it would have been a case of pronouncing the name/instrument right but nonetheless pronouncing the name of the LP very wrong. Classic DJ Catch 22
	7:46pm hyde: the DJ's Dilemma
	7:47pm Scraps deSelby: i'm going to listen not comment now. I'm in my room, which means i'm on my ipad. Two or three of the playlists suddenly end on the comments; I don't see them, and can't travel out the bottom of the screen. Explorers Room is one of them. (I posted just now in my office; I'm going to go back to my room. See ya!)
	7:47pm Flash Strap: jealous of both encounters, Fab
	7:47pm Little Danny: Haha, I love it. You did the right thing Flash!
	7:48pm Doug Schulkind: Oh hey! I was just over on WFMU's test stream working out technical issues with the stream's next new show! (Special word of mystery: It will be from an "international" location.)
	7:48pm Flash Strap: Hi Doug! New exotic flavour of show!
	7:49pm Flash Strap: will miss ya, Scraps, but all i really need is your ears
	7:50pm Flash Strap: ok, here we are, this is the best space album ever probably. MOOOON GAAAS
	7:51pm hyde: i for one look forward to the new wfmu pirate broadcasts coming from an undisclosed offshore location
	7:52pm Flash Strap: me too Hyde
	7:53pm Flash Strap: This is one of the greatest records of all time, all time
	7:58pm Doug Schulkind: Two of my favorite phrases in the English language: "Flash Strap" and "This is one of the greatest records of all time." Preferably when uttered together.
	8:00pm Flash Strap: aw shucks, you're gonna make me nudge the dirt with my toe! You're gonna make me demur!
	8:02pm JtotheK: Moon Gas is great, gets spun at the JtotheK household frequently.
	8:03pm Flash Strap: So great, J-K!
	8:04pm Doug Schulkind: Doug Payne has a nice little write-up on Moon Gas: dougpayne.blogspot.com...
	8:04pm melinda: hi Evan & friends! Space theme, yes!
	8:05pm Flash Strap: I always thought this Song Of The Second Moon material sounded pretty adventurous, even in the context of 1968... but then I found out it originally dates to 1957! Yowza
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:08pm hyde: yay, melinda!
	8:11pm melinda: It's fun to hear different versions of Future music, Nardini vs. Meek for instance.
	8:14pm melinda: I've been watching old Star Trek recently, this show fits nicely.
	8:14pm Flash Strap: I thought it might be, Melinda! I'm glad you agree
	8:14pm Little Danny: I wish the rest of the Raumpatrouille soundtrack was that good
	8:15pm Flash Strap: god i love old Trek
	8:16pm hyde: @melinda heh, i watched a bung=ch of old Treks recently too. someone (the BBC channel? which seems weird) had a New Year's weekend marathon. I saw tribbles, and Nazis, and Chicago gangsters. Good times, good times.
	8:17pm Flash Strap: haha me too. Couple great LD/Office Naps tracks coming up, btw.
	8:19pm hyde: huh, in case you're wondering, by bung=ch, i mean "bunch". sheesh.
	8:19pm Flash Strap: love the one with the two Kirks! I REALLY love Kirk for some reason. Such an underrated performance, in a way
	8:20pm Little Danny: Ahhhh, "Moon Mist"
	8:21pm melinda: I only really started watching a couple of years ago. As a child I thought it was boring and looked ugly, though I liked Spock. I think he came across as a large handsome elf, the Vulcan coldness trait was over my head.
	8:22pm hyde: @Flash Strap there is something about Shatner's overacting that is somehow oddly appealing. The othet New Year's weekend thing that i saw was the Twilight Zone with him in the airplane with the gremlin, which is just beyond amazing
	8:22pm Ike: Original Trek is great. Be sure also to watch the underrated Star Trek: DS9 if you haven't before. It's a great show, but as with TNG, you must skip most of season 1, when it went through terrible growing pains. All of Trek is on Netflix (U.S.).
	8:22pm Doug Schulkind: Oh boy am I loving this.
	8:23pm Flash Strap: for all appreciation and all queries related to Moon Mist and Footprints on the Moon, I direct you to Little Danny, the SOURCE
	8:23pm melinda: Saw Tribbles for the first time last night, before that it was an episode featuring one of the actors from Bob Newhart's therapy group, kind of an odd and unexpected casting.
	8:24pm hyde: @melinda Leonard Nimoy is pretty much just a great actor. i love to watch him and Shatner together, because one is a great actor and one is a bad actor, but the chemistry still works. it's sort of unbelievable.
	8:25pm melinda: @hyde: Shatner really grows on you, it's true. Watch him enough and the overacting seems normal. I agree they had good chemistry.
	8:26pm Little Danny: Thanks Flash!
	8:26pm Doug Schulkind: Flash Strap/Little Danny = Lou Gehrig/Babe Ruth
	8:28pm melinda: It was exciting and kind of weird to see Nimoy in the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the first non-Spock role I remember.
	8:28pm Ike: This ancient relic of a website can help you figure out which Trek episodes you MUST skip: www.joereiss.net... Anything rating below a 6.0-ish average in this survey is generally an episode so unbelievably terrible (and/or unbelievably boring) that it will cause your face to melt off of your face (TM Dave Hill).
	8:30pm hyde: @melinda i love the Philip Kaufman Body Snatchers
	8:33pm melinda: It's great, isn't it? I couldn't fully appreciate it at first viewing (I was only seven and it was quite scary, too) but watched again as an adult and loved it.
	8:33pm Little Danny: I love you Doug
	8:34pm hyde: i think Kaufman had a great directorial run from The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid right on up thru The Right Stuff. and then he just seemed to spit the bit and disappear.
	8:35pm melinda: I haven't seen either of those, maybe I should check them out.
	8:36pm MrFab: Crew members in groovy miniskirts and bouffants, the opening theme, cheesy action and fx, alien babes in bikinis, and Nimoy 'n' Shatner - the Abbot and Costello of sci-fi. Yep, the original Trek's the only one for me.
	8:37pm Flash Strap: I'm just going to say it: I think Shatner's work on the original series, and some of the flicks too, is very very good. I think he's a good actor! Not now, or even for some time, in his bilious self-parody phase, but I think the guy is insanely talented
	8:37pm melinda: @Ike: thanks for the recommendation. I liked TNG, don't remember if I saw any of the 1st season.
	8:38pm Doug Schulkind: @Little Danny If I may quote Teri Garr's Inga from Young Frankenstein: "The feeling is mootchull!"
	8:38pm hyde: The Right Stuff is the last movie that i went to in a theater that had an intermission! it's good, but pretty long. Great Northfield is one of the great 70's westerns, imo.
	8:39pm Flash Strap: re: the Shat – not that he's not hilarious and absurd in the best of times
	8:40pm Flash Strap: this LP is the source of the awesome image atop this page right now, btw
	8:41pm hyde: @Flash i get that. i mostly have an aversion to overacting, which is why i guess i think he is "bad". but he also kind of falls into the category of scenery chewers like Lee Marvin, who are so invested in their scenery chewing that it becomes enjoyable in its own right
	8:42pm ἶ k ε: I took my laptop into the bathroom and this show sounded especially GREAT in there. It's the tile, I guess.
	8:42pm DL in LA: Lovin' the show.
	8:44pm glenn: shatner received a whole lot of critical acclaim when he was on stage at the stratford festival. his over acting is basically what keeps him working.
	8:44pm Flash Strap: I hear you Hyde. Lee Marvin is so amazing though
	8:44pm Flash Strap: Hi Hi DL in LA! Hi Glenn!
	8:46pm melinda: Monsters of Jupiter sounded like old Trek music.
	8:47pm Flash Strap: totally, Melinda
	8:48pm Flash Strap: belated Hi to you Ike, with the tile bathroom!
	8:49pm hyde: i love Lee Marvin. but there is no denying his attempts to utterly dominate any scene that he is in, ever. it is just his thing.
	8:50pm doctorjazz: Gotta run, but been enjoying the celestial sounds!
	8:51pm Flash Strap: absolutely, especially the master class: The Wild One there are exceptions though. He's entirely taciturn sometimes, such as Boorman's Point Blank. I love him in Dirty Dozen so much
	8:53pm Flash Strap: adios Doc, been great having you in the office tonight
	9:00pm still b/p: Hiya. Here to have my Tang topped off.
	9:02pm hyde: @Flash in Point Blank he is fantastic, but even there i feel like he is turning being taciturn into something that, i don't know, smolders. which is not generally what you'd expect from taciturnity. don't get me wrong; i think he's great. i actually think that a lot of what i think gives him gravity as an actor is that he really was a combat marine. he killed people and got shot twice in wwII and ended up an actor sort of by happenstance. the roles i really like him in are the early 50's western stuff where he projects real menace, and the late 60's war movies where it's clear he knows what war is actually like. he still kind of overdoes it, acting wise, but that's ok by me.
	9:03pm Flash Strap: Hi B/P and B/P's tang!
	9:06pm Flash Strap: agree, agree, agree, Hyde
	9:08pm melinda: hi b/p!
	9:09pm still b/p: Good evening, melinda and all. It's like Mr. Blonde from Reservoir Dogs is here in the circle: "I bet you're a big Lee Marvin fan aren't ya. Yeah me too. I love that guy."
	9:10pm quinn: awh bummed i tuned in late, yet glad to be here .｡o○☆*ﾟ+.☆｡+ﾟ
	9:18pm Flash Strap: Hi Quinn! glad to have ya, late or whenever
	9:29pm Flash Strap: next one's a doozy, heads up
	9:32pm Flash Strap: SUCH good SAX
	9:36pm quinn: saxophone is the queen of instruments
	9:37pm MrFab: Gave it a noir feel. Space-Age Noir, a genre whose time has come.
	9:38pm Flash Strap: yes and yes!
	9:38pm melinda: This is kind of Trekky, too.
	9:39pm still b/p: ...with plenty of shots of stripey light coming into dark offices or apartments through Venusian blinds.
	9:39pm Flash Strap: Trek's music is such through and through exotica sometimes. It's one of the reasons I love it
	9:39pm Doug Schulkind: My beloved is making this amazing caramelized onion tort for dinner. It smells otherwordly. The thing is, it's taking forever and we haven't had dinner yet. (If this were Madrid, it would be right on time.) The other thing is, I get to listen to the entire Explorers Room. This is a good thing.
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: greetings Evan and Explorers -almost missed the flight completely...
	9:42pm Flash Strap: Time for some slow tort reform! Hi C! Great to see ya pal!
	9:44pm MrFab: b/p: "Venusian blinds" - I see what you did there!
	9:45pm coelacanth∅: (i have been enjoying for 15-20 min... and wondering what the King of instruments is. ...is it the mellotron??)
	9:47pm GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO: For those preparing to tune in tomorrow morning at 6am (ET) for DJ Micah's debut broadcast on the Drummer Stream... Due to unforeseen circumstances, he will not be on tomorrow. But you will get: GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME (9-noon) Featuring a Soultacular program featuring the soul gems that closed every GTDS show of 2016. (And the best track is always saved for last.) HINKY DINKY TIME (12-3pm) Uncle Michael has a cool entirely crowdsourced radio show in store for you tomorrow. Place a request on UM's playlist beginning at 7:30am (here: wfmu.org... ) and get it played on the show! THE JASON ELBOGEN SHOW (3-6pm) Live from Studio C at WFMU in Jersey City, NJ! [all times eastern] In short, it'll be a long day of loving radio!
	9:47pm hyde: aw, it's coelecanth! imo, the king of instruments, my friend, is the drum. the drum!
	9:49pm hyde: @Doug. whoa. i'll be at work for your show (insert sad face here) but home for the Hinky and Dinky. need to remember to post a request in the AM!
	9:49pm Little Danny: Superb show Evan! I know I'll be returning to the archive soon
	9:50pm still b/p: So I had to take a closer look at the Flash Strap icon...and then I took a search-hop and follow-click to a site -- mm-mmmm -- full of mid-20th century illustration. Now look what you've done/where I'm going!
	9:50pm Little Danny: Why dontcha pull up a chair over at the Cool Blue Flame? wfmu.org...
	9:51pm GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO: Little Cool Blue Danny here!!! wfmu.org...
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: hy, hyde! well if the drum ain't king, it's the God of instruments.
	9:53pm Flash Strap: I found that illustration in a really cool little book of almost no scientific or anthropologic value, about mesoamerican artifacts, b/p
	9:53pm Flash Strap: Thanks LD!
	9:54pm Flash Strap: For the record, the Explorers Room recognizes NO king, of instruments or otherwise! Down with kings!
	9:57pm hyde: in light of recent events, the peasant of instruments is the drum!
	9:59pm hyde: {note: i'm like that guy in Catch 22 who welcomes anyone who takes over the town}
	9:59pm Flash Strap: very wisely anti-royalist of you, revolutionary Hyde, viva la dictatorship of the drummertariat And with this last exquisite selection from the wonderful MOON GAS, I bid you all a most good night. Thanks for listening!
	10:00pm hyde: thanks, great show!
	10:02pm coelacanth: (oops) ...Thanks Evan!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 5, 2017

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January 5, 2017: Through a Veil of Moon Mist: Adventures in Time & Space

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"				Nasa Voyager recording, Jupiter Sounds
P. Willsher & K. Chesher	Time Machine	Electroshake	DeWolfe	1968		0:02:24 (Pop-up)
Bill Stern (Narrator), Bill Simon (Music)	The Time Machine	Stories Adapted From Classics Illustrated Magazine: Space Stories And Sounds		1959		0:04:27 (Pop-up)
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra	Time Machine	Adventure in Time		1956		0:11:54 (Pop-up)
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra	World Without Time	Adventure in Time		1956		0:14:32 (Pop-up)
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra	The Minute	Adventure in Time		1956		0:17:42 (Pop-up)
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra	The Stone Age	Adventure in Time		1956		0:20:37 (Pop-up)
William Loose	Time and Space "Time and Space" by "William Loose"	Capitol Hi-Q Series D 107-108 - Oceans & Ghosts				0:23:46 (Pop-up)
David Hoyt Kimball	Inchiesta Sul Futuro	Atmosfere N. 1	Le Monde	1971		0:25:15 (Pop-up)
Bernie Green and His Orchestra	Futura	Futura	RCA Stereo Action	1961		0:26:31 (Pop-up)
Raymond Scott	General Motors: Futurama	Manhattan Research, Inc.				0:28:25 (Pop-up)
Jean-Jacques Perrey	Passport to the Future	Moog Indigo		1970		0:29:19 (Pop-up)
Sally Starr	City in Space "City in Space" by "Sally Starr"	Sally Starr's Adventure To The Moon		1959		0:31:54 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Morton Subotnick	Silver Apples of the Moon	Silver Apples of the Moon				0:34:53 (Pop-up)
Jimmie Haskell	Blast Off "Blast Off" by "Jimmie Haskell"	Count Down!		1959		0:42:06 (Pop-up)
Jimmie Haskell	Weightlessness Blues	Count Down!		1959		0:43:25 (Pop-up)
Jimmie Haskell	Moonlight Cha Cha Cha	Count Down!		1959		0:45:55 (Pop-up)
Jimmie Haskell	Moon Mist "Moon Mist" by "Jimmie Haskell"	Count Down!		1959		0:47:37 (Pop-up)
Dick Hyman / Mary Mayo	Moon Gas "Moon Gas" by "Dick Hyman / Mary Mayo"	Moon Gas		1963		0:50:10 (Pop-up)
Dick Hyman / Mary Mayo	Stella by Starlight	Moon Gas		1963		0:51:35 (Pop-up)
Dick Hyman / Mary Mayo	Maid of the Moon	Moon Gas		1963		0:54:29 (Pop-up)
Dick Hyman / Mary Mayo	Space Reflex (Blues in 5/4)	Moon Gas		1963		0:57:11 (Pop-up)
Kid Baltan	Sonic of the Second Moon	Song Of The Second Moon: The Sonic Vibrations Of Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan		1968	orig. released under a different name in 1957	1:00:21 (Pop-up)
Tom Dissevelt	Moon Maid "Moon Maid" by "Tom Dissevelt"	Song Of The Second Moon: The Sonic Vibrations Of Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan		1968		1:03:03 (Pop-up)
Joe Meek & The Blue Men	Orbit Around The Moon	I Hear A New World		1960		1:06:15 (Pop-up)
Nino Nardini	Découverte Lunaire "Découverte Lunaire" by "Nino Nardini"	Musique Pour Le Futur	Mondiophone/Crea Sound	1970		1:08:47 (Pop-up)
Nino Nardini	Station X "Station X" by "Nino Nardini"	Musique Pour Le Futur	Mondiophone/Crea Sound	1970		1:09:31 (Pop-up)
Brian Harnetty	The Moon "The Moon" by "Brian Harnetty"	The Star Faced One: From the Sun Ra / El Saturn Archives				1:11:32 (Pop-up)
Peter Thomas Sound Orchester	Bolero on the Moon Rocks	Raumpatrouille - Space Patrol - Commando Spatial	Phillips	1966		1:12:50 (Pop-up)
Harry Revel & Leslie Baxter & Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman	Mist o' the Moon	Music Out Of The Moon: Music Unusual Featuring The Theremin		1947		1:14:59 (Pop-up)
The Blue Jeans	Moon Mist "Moon Mist" by "The Blue Jeans"	D.J. Theme / Moon Mist 7"		1965		1:17:23 (Pop-up)
The Johnny Harris Orchestra	Footprints on the Moon	Footprints on the Moon / Lulu's Theme 7"		1969		1:20:38 (Pop-up)
Marty Manning	The Moon is Low "The Moon is Low" by "Marty Manning"	The Twilight Zone - A Sound Adventure In Space		1961		1:23:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Ventures	The Fourth Dimension	Ventures in Space				1:25:35 (Pop-up)
Marty Manning	The Unknown "The Unknown" by "Marty Manning"	The Twilight Zone - A Sound Adventure In Space		1961		1:34:24 (Pop-up)
Marty Manning	Forbidden Planet "Forbidden Planet" by "Marty Manning"	The Twilight Zone - A Sound Adventure In Space		1961		1:37:15 (Pop-up)
Russ Garcia	Volcanoes on Mercury "Volcanoes on Mercury" by "Russ Garcia"	Fantastica: Music from Outer Space		1958		1:38:26 (Pop-up)
Russ Garcia	Monsters of Jupiter "Monsters of Jupiter" by "Russ Garcia"	Fantastica: Music from Outer Space		1958		1:42:33 (Pop-up)
Ferrante & Teicher	Man From Mars "Man From Mars" by "Ferrante & Teicher"	Soundproof!		1956		1:45:06 (Pop-up)
Joe Meek & The Blue Men	Valley of the Saroos	I Hear A New World		1960		1:47:46 (Pop-up)
Joe Meek & The Blue Men	Love Dance of the Saroos	I Hear A New World		1960		1:51:21 (Pop-up)
Douglas Wood	Boy on Space "Boy on Space" by "Douglas Wood"	Rythm - Industrial Underscore	Studio G	1976		1:52:54 (Pop-up)
Augustyn Bloch	Women in the Space	Unusual Sounds Vol.1 – Reflections	Sonoton			1:54:41 (Pop-up)
Mel Henke	Woman in Space "Woman in Space" by "Mel Henke"	La Dolce Henke		1962		1:56:30 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine	Outer Space "Outer Space" by "Ken Nordine"	Son of Word Jazz		1957		1:58:32 (Pop-up)
Vera Gray/Desmond Briscoe	Journey into Space	Listen, Move And Dance No. 4 - Moving Percussion And Electronic Sound Pictures		1966		2:01:54 (Pop-up)
John Hill	Clear in the Black "Clear in the Black" by "John Hill"	Six Moons of Jupiter		1970	followed by The Emptiness Cries, followed by Still In Our Dreaming	2:03:24 (Pop-up)
Joe Meek & The Blue Men	I Hear a New World	I Hear A New World		1960		2:04:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Les Baxter	"Les Baxter"	Space Escapade		1958		2:06:40 (Pop-up)
Bobby Christian & His Orchestra	Midnight Sun	Strings for a Space Age		1962		2:16:35 (Pop-up)
Paul Tanner, Andre Montero & His Orchestra	Misty Moon Blues	Music for Heavenly Bodies		1959	Tanner on theremin	2:19:37 (Pop-up)
Fred Lowery	Moon Love "Moon Love" by "Fred Lowery"	Walking Along Kicking the Leaves		1957		2:20:36 (Pop-up)
Roy Harte and Milt Holland	Moonrays	Perfect Percussion: The 44 Instruments of Roy Harte and Milt Holland		1961		2:23:11 (Pop-up)
Martin Denny / Si Zentner	Tribe of the Moon	Exotica Suite		1962	comp. Les Baxter	2:25:28 (Pop-up)
Ferrante & Teicher	Orchids in the Moonlight	Soundblast - The Sound Of Tomorrow Today!		1956		2:27:43 (Pop-up)
The Out-Islanders	Moon Mist "Moon Mist" by "The Out-Islanders"	Polynesian Fantasy		1961		2:30:25 (Pop-up)
Warren Barker	Moonflowers "Moonflowers" by "Warren Barker"	William Holden Presents: A Musical Touch of Far Away Places		1959		2:33:23 (Pop-up)
Dominic Frontiere	Moon Goddess (Ixchel)	Pagan Festival - An Exotic Love Ritual For Orchestra		1959		2:35:50 (Pop-up)
Don Ralke	Moon Goddess "Moon Goddess" by "Don Ralke"	The Savage and the Sensuous Bongos				2:38:25 (Pop-up)
The Ventures	Love Goddess of Venus	Ventures in Space		1964		2:41:18 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Paul Tanner, Andre Montero & His Orchestra	20th Century Venus	Music for Heavenly Bodies				2:45:10 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter	"Les Baxter"	Space Escapade		1958		2:51:00 (Pop-up)
Dick Hyman / Mary Mayo	Isn't It Odd?	Moon Gas				2:56:56 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:52pm MrFab: Am I ever looking forward to this show - was feeling SpaceAge-y just the other day. Listened to the "UltraLounge Space-capades" album for the first time in ages.
	6:52pm Ehd: HI Evan!
	6:53pm Flash Strap: Evening all! Let's explore space and time
	6:53pm Ehd: Hello MrFab
	6:54pm Flash Strap: Hi Ehd! Mr Fab! Glad this is gonna hit the spot for ya, Fab
	6:58pm JtotheK: Good evening Mr Flash Strap and explorers.
	6:59pm MrFab: Hi gang! Yeah, you are right on my (cosmic) wavelength today Evan. Here's a scary thought: those Ultralounge comps came out 22 years ago. We are almost as far removed from the exotica/Lounge revival as the revival was from the original exotica era.
	6:59pm Flash Strap: Hi there, J-K! Happy New Year, all
	7:02pm Flash Strap: I was thinking that not too long ago, and that I was very glad to be part of the 3rd wave, or whatever you'd call the current moment in Explorers Rooms
	7:07pm Flash Strap: we're gonna mess around in time before we focus on the age of space. gotta get to the future somehow
	7:10pm hyde: ohmigod, the Ultra Lounge comps came out 22 years ago? don't mind me while i reach for my rheumatiz medicine
	7:12pm Scraps: hey h'lo
	7:12pm Flash Strap: Hi Old Hyde
	7:13pm Flash Strap: H'lo y'self Scraps
	7:15pm hyde: i'll admit that as a kid, i spent an inordinate amount of time pondering the "which three books to take" question from the george pal time machine movie
	7:16pm Flash Strap: what were your childhood choices? I must know!
	7:16pm hyde: which, now that i think about it, is probably another reason to reach for the rheumatiz medicine
	7:17pm doctorjazz: Nice stuff!
	7:18pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	7:23pm hyde: @flash i would go back and forth. i knew i would need something practical, and my brother had stuff like Bradford Angier's How To Live in the Woods and the Army Guide To Survival, so I would generally pick one of those. But i'd also need fiction and history! so I would likely go for The Phantom Tollbooth or one of the John Christopher Tripods books and then something like what my father would read as general history, like the Kenneth Clark Civilization. But there were so many choices! It used to torture me to try and pick three.
	7:23pm Flash Strap: holy moly this is a weird record.
	7:25pm Little Danny: This William Loose is wonderful - hi Flash, hi all!
	7:27pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	7:29pm Little Danny: Flash, I can't think of a better DJ to send up The Future for three hours! Loving this so much
	7:29pm Scraps: God, it sounds like Firesign
	7:31pm Flash Strap: I can think of one, LD. You know who
	7:32pm Scraps: I so loved the Tripods books. And Norton Juster, too, but the Tripods books felt like I was living them.
	7:33pm JtotheK: That Moog Indigo lp continues to elude me. Cool track!
	7:34pm hyde: this show is reminding me that the future of space travel used to be hopeful, and not some weird Elon Musk vision of leaving behind a scorched earth. @Scraps i actually reread some of the Tripods books as an adult maybe 15 years ago, and they totally stood up. They are really good.
	7:35pm Flash Strap: "WE GOTTA LOTTA WORK FOR YA WELCOME TO THE FUTURE BOYS"
	7:35pm Scraps: When I joined science fiction fandom, I discovered John Christopher's books were boys books. There were nothing to involve girls; almost no female characters at all.
	7:37pm hyde: @Scraps yeah, agreed. they don't stand up on that angle.
	7:38pm MrFab: Had the pleasure to meet both JJ Perrey and Morton Subotnick. Not at the same time.
	7:40pm Little Danny: Wait, moog, so I thought it was rhymed with "rogue."
	7:43pm Flash Strap: Well, that's definitely how Moog is pronounced, but I didn't want to spoil JJP's Mood Indigo pun
	7:43pm MrFab: You are correct Danny. Been trying to tell peeps that for years!
	7:46pm Flash Strap: Had I said Mogue Indigo, it would have been a case of pronouncing the name/instrument right but nonetheless pronouncing the name of the LP very wrong. Classic DJ Catch 22
	7:46pm hyde: the DJ's Dilemma
	7:47pm Scraps deSelby: i'm going to listen not comment now. I'm in my room, which means i'm on my ipad. Two or three of the playlists suddenly end on the comments; I don't see them, and can't travel out the bottom of the screen. Explorers Room is one of them. (I posted just now in my office; I'm going to go back to my room. See ya!)
	7:47pm Flash Strap: jealous of both encounters, Fab
	7:47pm Little Danny: Haha, I love it. You did the right thing Flash!
	7:48pm Doug Schulkind: Oh hey! I was just over on WFMU's test stream working out technical issues with the stream's next new show! (Special word of mystery: It will be from an "international" location.)
	7:48pm Flash Strap: Hi Doug! New exotic flavour of show!
	7:49pm Flash Strap: will miss ya, Scraps, but all i really need is your ears
	7:50pm Flash Strap: ok, here we are, this is the best space album ever probably. MOOOON GAAAS
	7:51pm hyde: i for one look forward to the new wfmu pirate broadcasts coming from an undisclosed offshore location
	7:52pm Flash Strap: me too Hyde
	7:53pm Flash Strap: This is one of the greatest records of all time, all time
	7:58pm Doug Schulkind: Two of my favorite phrases in the English language: "Flash Strap" and "This is one of the greatest records of all time." Preferably when uttered together.
	8:00pm Flash Strap: aw shucks, you're gonna make me nudge the dirt with my toe! You're gonna make me demur!
	8:02pm JtotheK: Moon Gas is great, gets spun at the JtotheK household frequently.
	8:03pm Flash Strap: So great, J-K!
	8:04pm Doug Schulkind: Doug Payne has a nice little write-up on Moon Gas: dougpayne.blogspot.com...
	8:04pm melinda: hi Evan & friends! Space theme, yes!
	8:05pm Flash Strap: I always thought this Song Of The Second Moon material sounded pretty adventurous, even in the context of 1968... but then I found out it originally dates to 1957! Yowza
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:08pm hyde: yay, melinda!
	8:11pm melinda: It's fun to hear different versions of Future music, Nardini vs. Meek for instance.
	8:14pm melinda: I've been watching old Star Trek recently, this show fits nicely.
	8:14pm Flash Strap: I thought it might be, Melinda! I'm glad you agree
	8:14pm Little Danny: I wish the rest of the Raumpatrouille soundtrack was that good
	8:15pm Flash Strap: god i love old Trek
	8:16pm hyde: @melinda heh, i watched a bung=ch of old Treks recently too. someone (the BBC channel? which seems weird) had a New Year's weekend marathon. I saw tribbles, and Nazis, and Chicago gangsters. Good times, good times.
	8:17pm Flash Strap: haha me too. Couple great LD/Office Naps tracks coming up, btw.
	8:19pm hyde: huh, in case you're wondering, by bung=ch, i mean "bunch". sheesh.
	8:19pm Flash Strap: love the one with the two Kirks! I REALLY love Kirk for some reason. Such an underrated performance, in a way
	8:20pm Little Danny: Ahhhh, "Moon Mist"
	8:21pm melinda: I only really started watching a couple of years ago. As a child I thought it was boring and looked ugly, though I liked Spock. I think he came across as a large handsome elf, the Vulcan coldness trait was over my head.
	8:22pm hyde: @Flash Strap there is something about Shatner's overacting that is somehow oddly appealing. The othet New Year's weekend thing that i saw was the Twilight Zone with him in the airplane with the gremlin, which is just beyond amazing
	8:22pm Ike: Original Trek is great. Be sure also to watch the underrated Star Trek: DS9 if you haven't before. It's a great show, but as with TNG, you must skip most of season 1, when it went through terrible growing pains. All of Trek is on Netflix (U.S.).
	8:22pm Doug Schulkind: Oh boy am I loving this.
	8:23pm Flash Strap: for all appreciation and all queries related to Moon Mist and Footprints on the Moon, I direct you to Little Danny, the SOURCE
	8:23pm melinda: Saw Tribbles for the first time last night, before that it was an episode featuring one of the actors from Bob Newhart's therapy group, kind of an odd and unexpected casting.
	8:24pm hyde: @melinda Leonard Nimoy is pretty much just a great actor. i love to watch him and Shatner together, because one is a great actor and one is a bad actor, but the chemistry still works. it's sort of unbelievable.
	8:25pm melinda: @hyde: Shatner really grows on you, it's true. Watch him enough and the overacting seems normal. I agree they had good chemistry.
	8:26pm Little Danny: Thanks Flash!
	8:26pm Doug Schulkind: Flash Strap/Little Danny = Lou Gehrig/Babe Ruth
	8:28pm melinda: It was exciting and kind of weird to see Nimoy in the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the first non-Spock role I remember.
	8:28pm Ike: This ancient relic of a website can help you figure out which Trek episodes you MUST skip: www.joereiss.net... Anything rating below a 6.0-ish average in this survey is generally an episode so unbelievably terrible (and/or unbelievably boring) that it will cause your face to melt off of your face (TM Dave Hill).
	8:30pm hyde: @melinda i love the Philip Kaufman Body Snatchers
	8:33pm melinda: It's great, isn't it? I couldn't fully appreciate it at first viewing (I was only seven and it was quite scary, too) but watched again as an adult and loved it.
	8:33pm Little Danny: I love you Doug
	8:34pm hyde: i think Kaufman had a great directorial run from The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid right on up thru The Right Stuff. and then he just seemed to spit the bit and disappear.
	8:35pm melinda: I haven't seen either of those, maybe I should check them out.
	8:36pm MrFab: Crew members in groovy miniskirts and bouffants, the opening theme, cheesy action and fx, alien babes in bikinis, and Nimoy 'n' Shatner - the Abbot and Costello of sci-fi. Yep, the original Trek's the only one for me.
	8:37pm Flash Strap: I'm just going to say it: I think Shatner's work on the original series, and some of the flicks too, is very very good. I think he's a good actor! Not now, or even for some time, in his bilious self-parody phase, but I think the guy is insanely talented
	8:37pm melinda: @Ike: thanks for the recommendation. I liked TNG, don't remember if I saw any of the 1st season.
	8:38pm Doug Schulkind: @Little Danny If I may quote Teri Garr's Inga from Young Frankenstein: "The feeling is mootchull!"
	8:38pm hyde: The Right Stuff is the last movie that i went to in a theater that had an intermission! it's good, but pretty long. Great Northfield is one of the great 70's westerns, imo.
	8:39pm Flash Strap: re: the Shat – not that he's not hilarious and absurd in the best of times
	8:40pm Flash Strap: this LP is the source of the awesome image atop this page right now, btw
	8:41pm hyde: @Flash i get that. i mostly have an aversion to overacting, which is why i guess i think he is "bad". but he also kind of falls into the category of scenery chewers like Lee Marvin, who are so invested in their scenery chewing that it becomes enjoyable in its own right
	8:42pm ἶ k ε: I took my laptop into the bathroom and this show sounded especially GREAT in there. It's the tile, I guess.
	8:42pm DL in LA: Lovin' the show.
	8:44pm glenn: shatner received a whole lot of critical acclaim when he was on stage at the stratford festival. his over acting is basically what keeps him working.
	8:44pm Flash Strap: I hear you Hyde. Lee Marvin is so amazing though
	8:44pm Flash Strap: Hi Hi DL in LA! Hi Glenn!
	8:46pm melinda: Monsters of Jupiter sounded like old Trek music.
	8:47pm Flash Strap: totally, Melinda
	8:48pm Flash Strap: belated Hi to you Ike, with the tile bathroom!
	8:49pm hyde: i love Lee Marvin. but there is no denying his attempts to utterly dominate any scene that he is in, ever. it is just his thing.
	8:50pm doctorjazz: Gotta run, but been enjoying the celestial sounds!
	8:51pm Flash Strap: absolutely, especially the master class: The Wild One there are exceptions though. He's entirely taciturn sometimes, such as Boorman's Point Blank. I love him in Dirty Dozen so much
	8:53pm Flash Strap: adios Doc, been great having you in the office tonight
	9:00pm still b/p: Hiya. Here to have my Tang topped off.
	9:02pm hyde: @Flash in Point Blank he is fantastic, but even there i feel like he is turning being taciturn into something that, i don't know, smolders. which is not generally what you'd expect from taciturnity. don't get me wrong; i think he's great. i actually think that a lot of what i think gives him gravity as an actor is that he really was a combat marine. he killed people and got shot twice in wwII and ended up an actor sort of by happenstance. the roles i really like him in are the early 50's western stuff where he projects real menace, and the late 60's war movies where it's clear he knows what war is actually like. he still kind of overdoes it, acting wise, but that's ok by me.
	9:03pm Flash Strap: Hi B/P and B/P's tang!
	9:06pm Flash Strap: agree, agree, agree, Hyde
	9:08pm melinda: hi b/p!
	9:09pm still b/p: Good evening, melinda and all. It's like Mr. Blonde from Reservoir Dogs is here in the circle: "I bet you're a big Lee Marvin fan aren't ya. Yeah me too. I love that guy."
	9:10pm quinn: awh bummed i tuned in late, yet glad to be here .｡o○☆*ﾟ+.☆｡+ﾟ
	9:18pm Flash Strap: Hi Quinn! glad to have ya, late or whenever
	9:29pm Flash Strap: next one's a doozy, heads up
	9:32pm Flash Strap: SUCH good SAX
	9:36pm quinn: saxophone is the queen of instruments
	9:37pm MrFab: Gave it a noir feel. Space-Age Noir, a genre whose time has come.
	9:38pm Flash Strap: yes and yes!
	9:38pm melinda: This is kind of Trekky, too.
	9:39pm still b/p: ...with plenty of shots of stripey light coming into dark offices or apartments through Venusian blinds.
	9:39pm Flash Strap: Trek's music is such through and through exotica sometimes. It's one of the reasons I love it
	9:39pm Doug Schulkind: My beloved is making this amazing caramelized onion tort for dinner. It smells otherwordly. The thing is, it's taking forever and we haven't had dinner yet. (If this were Madrid, it would be right on time.) The other thing is, I get to listen to the entire Explorers Room. This is a good thing.
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: greetings Evan and Explorers -almost missed the flight completely...
	9:42pm Flash Strap: Time for some slow tort reform! Hi C! Great to see ya pal!
	9:44pm MrFab: b/p: "Venusian blinds" - I see what you did there!
	9:45pm coelacanth∅: (i have been enjoying for 15-20 min... and wondering what the King of instruments is. ...is it the mellotron??)
	9:47pm GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO: For those preparing to tune in tomorrow morning at 6am (ET) for DJ Micah's debut broadcast on the Drummer Stream... Due to unforeseen circumstances, he will not be on tomorrow. But you will get: GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME (9-noon) Featuring a Soultacular program featuring the soul gems that closed every GTDS show of 2016. (And the best track is always saved for last.) HINKY DINKY TIME (12-3pm) Uncle Michael has a cool entirely crowdsourced radio show in store for you tomorrow. Place a request on UM's playlist beginning at 7:30am (here: wfmu.org... ) and get it played on the show! THE JASON ELBOGEN SHOW (3-6pm) Live from Studio C at WFMU in Jersey City, NJ! [all times eastern] In short, it'll be a long day of loving radio!
	9:47pm hyde: aw, it's coelecanth! imo, the king of instruments, my friend, is the drum. the drum!
	9:49pm hyde: @Doug. whoa. i'll be at work for your show (insert sad face here) but home for the Hinky and Dinky. need to remember to post a request in the AM!
	9:49pm Little Danny: Superb show Evan! I know I'll be returning to the archive soon
	9:50pm still b/p: So I had to take a closer look at the Flash Strap icon...and then I took a search-hop and follow-click to a site -- mm-mmmm -- full of mid-20th century illustration. Now look what you've done/where I'm going!
	9:50pm Little Danny: Why dontcha pull up a chair over at the Cool Blue Flame? wfmu.org...
	9:51pm GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO: Little Cool Blue Danny here!!! wfmu.org...
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: hy, hyde! well if the drum ain't king, it's the God of instruments.
	9:53pm Flash Strap: I found that illustration in a really cool little book of almost no scientific or anthropologic value, about mesoamerican artifacts, b/p
	9:53pm Flash Strap: Thanks LD!
	9:54pm Flash Strap: For the record, the Explorers Room recognizes NO king, of instruments or otherwise! Down with kings!
	9:57pm hyde: in light of recent events, the peasant of instruments is the drum!
	9:59pm hyde: {note: i'm like that guy in Catch 22 who welcomes anyone who takes over the town}
	9:59pm Flash Strap: very wisely anti-royalist of you, revolutionary Hyde, viva la dictatorship of the drummertariat And with this last exquisite selection from the wonderful MOON GAS, I bid you all a most good night. Thanks for listening!
	10:00pm hyde: thanks, great show!
	10:02pm coelacanth: (oops) ...Thanks Evan!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 5, 2017

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