WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from October 4, 2018

Listener comments!
	6:35pm Flash Strap: ah hello, how about a little expedition this evening?
	🥁 6:38pm chresti: Ready! All buckled in!
	6:39pm Flash Strap: Hiya Chresti!
	6:59pm Flash Strap: Ok, off we gooo
	6:59pm listener james from westwood: The cut from the Gospel story about the stormy sea on the GTDR stream into the waves was ::chef's kiss::
	7:00pm Flash Strap: oh, nice! Hi James
	🥁 7:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...drums along the Hudson...
	🥁 7:05pm JtotheK: salutations Flash, hello Explorers. 'typee' is (yet another) book on my ever-expanding to-read pile. this show may prompt me to move it up a bit.
	🥁 7:06pm JtotheK: ***come for the music, stay for the comment board chatter where JtotheK talks non-stop about his piles.
	7:07pm Flash Strap: Hi RevRab!
	🥁 7:07pm chresti: Yay piles!
	7:08pm geezerette: Sauntering in a sarong. :)
	7:08pm Flash Strap: Hi J_K! and hello to your piles! Typee is pretty cool, you can really feel its influence on basically every exotica artifact that would follow it. My copy had some excellent illustrations as well, which I enjoyed
	7:08pm Flash Strap: Hi Geezerette!
	7:08pm geezerette: ...barefoot.
	🥁 7:09pm chresti: you should talk to Franco about piles...
	7:10pm doctorjazz: Hey Explorers Nice to hear Duke!
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc! always love to get some Duke in the mix
	7:12pm Flash Strap: love this Merrill version of Mountain High, Valley Low
	7:12pm geezerette: Evan, those images remind me of Covarrubias illustrations.
	7:14pm Flash Strap: that's precisely who it is!
	7:14pm geezerette: Howdy, Evan and adventurers!
	7:15pm Flash Strap: this little library LP recorded at Umiliani's Sound Work Shop studios, I believe
	7:18pm Flash Strap: Covarrubias' work on this book is gorgeous, but it really is mind-boggling how often he'll directly contradict the details in the text. the book is all descriptions and barely any plot, so it strikes me weird to just draw things that specifically aren't described.
	🥁 7:19pm chresti: Hi howdy! Geeze and yalls!
	7:19pm northguineahills: If we're explorers, why are we stuck in a room? ;p
	7:20pm Flash Strap: "what's the deal with explorers rooms? seriously folks,"
	7:20pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH! how goes?
	🥁 7:22pm chresti: It's a nice room. With rugs and skins and comfortable chairs and an excellent sound system
	7:23pm northguineahills: Better then yesterday, just at my first (albeit small) meal in two days. Actually got a decent night's sleep last night. I find seeing art or live music (and the booze) helps (like I did last night).
	🥁 7:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...maybe it's Harry Smith's room ...or just a good MadMen stylee pickup line ...or some Edwardian gathering of Mi'Lauds...
	🥁 7:24pm chresti: Some rattan...and bamboo bar
	🥁 7:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Zappa's instructions to Clapton saying a few words for his rekkid: ...'sound like EricBurdon on acid'...
	7:25pm geezerette: cf.collectorsweekly.com... sovietchest.ucoz.ru... cf.collectorsweekly.com... Green Manions
	7:25pm Flash Strap: masks and maps adorn the walls, strange images and sculptures abound, trophies of expeditions past
	🥁 7:26pm chresti: bark cloth
	7:27pm Flash Strap: love Brother Ah's stuff
	🥁 7:27pm chresti: large globe...
	7:28pm Flash Strap: many globes, yes
	🥁 7:29pm chresti: telescope...
	🥁 7:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...more than a passing acquaintance w/ H.G. Wells...
	7:32pm doctorjazz: Brother Ah.... Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh...... Really liked that !
	7:32pm geezerette: beautiful. soothing. just wild enough...
	7:34pm northguineahills: I believe the April 2017 issue of the Wire has an excellent article on Brother Ah/
	🥁 7:34pm chresti: is there a movie?
	7:35pm geezerette: img-fotki.yandex.ru... Wow!
	🥁 7:39pm chresti: en.wikipedia.org...
	🥁 7:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Love 'Winds' - whatever Zappa said, btw...
	7:42pm Flash Strap: @G: that's such a good one, almost used it for the page tonight!
	7:42pm Flash Strap: @NGH: oh, i need to read that then!
	7:43pm Flash Strap: @Chresti: not that I know of! maybe though
	7:44pm Flash Strap: @Doc: me too brother @Rev: me too brother
	7:45pm Flash Strap: love all weird outsider organ-exotica
	7:47pm Little Danny: Hey Flash, hey all. I'm in right place
	🥁 7:47pm chresti: Last of the Pagans- says it's based on Typee
	7:48pm Flash Strap: Hi LD! @chresti: gotta see it then
	7:48pm geezerette: I love his work, all of it! Found a pristine copy of Green Mansions in a used books store, gave it to a friend as a present. Sometimes wish I'd kept it though. Man, I really want tiny spare ribs and fried bananas now!
	7:49pm Flash Strap: gotta say, I finally got around to watching To Have and Have Not and can barely recommend it highly enough
	7:50pm geezerette: Chresti, intriguing!
	🥁 7:50pm chresti: one of my favorites...
	7:51pm geezerette: Mine too. :)
	7:51pm Flash Strap: i had no idea it was such a hot slab of exotica, on top of everything else. what a flick! Bacall is beyond brilliant of course
	7:54pm geezerette: Have you guys seen Key Largo? Bet you'd love it!
	7:54pm northguineahills: I dare you to find an WFMU dj who hasn't played Sun Ra....
	7:54pm Flash Strap: @G: it's pretty good!
	7:55pm Flash Strap: @NGH: can't be done
	7:56pm geezerette: Really digging the tranquil vibe today. No outside world.
	7:57pm Flash Strap: I'm glad, G. for better or worse, that's the show tonight, just exotic timelessness. the welcome doldrums
	🥁 7:59pm chresti: Like this orbit
	8:00pm hyde: i'm here in spirit, but my internet is a mess tonight.
	8:00pm Little Danny: great segue Flash
	8:00pm Flash Strap: Hyde! sorry about your messnet, miss ya pal
	8:01pm quinn: take me away
	8:01pm Flash Strap: @LD: thanks man
	8:01pm Flash Strap: ah Quinn! with us in the flesh! wonderful to see you!
	🥁 8:02pm chresti: I'm listening on bluetooth headphones and it's a little behind the playlist on the laptop
	8:02pm melinda: hi friends
	8:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:03pm northguineahills: The guiro on that Eden Ahbez was excellently recorded and played. @chresti: I'm listening via my phone and bluetooth hedfons, and I'm really behind!
	🥁 8:04pm chresti: wow-nice recording!
	🥁 8:04pm chresti: @island girl
	8:05pm Flash Strap: wow you guys are really behind! see you in the future pals
	8:06pm Flash Strap: but yeah that whole Ahbez record is a masterpiece on basically every level
	🥁 8:06pm chresti: ngh-exactly! that instrument stood out, thanks for ID-ing it!
	8:08pm Flash Strap: next track is of Little Danny provenance. not the only one of the night but this one i've never seen anywhere else
	🥁 8:08pm chresti: with all this heat, there are fans blowing...Headphones are required!
	🥁 8:10pm chresti: not only am I behind, I'm extremely slow at typing!
	8:12pm Little Danny: Oh man that 45. All-timer. Thanks, Evan!
	8:13pm TDK60: I am now signed in.
	8:13pm Flash Strap: thanks to YOU pal
	8:13pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK!
	8:14pm northguineahills: ooh, Mort Garson!
	8:16pm Flash Strap: rare Garson here. no one ever talks about this record, i find
	8:16pm Little Danny: damn I had no idea that this Mort Garson existed
	8:17pm Little Danny: How's the rest of the LP?
	8:19pm Flash Strap: it;s pretty cool! it's a soundtrack, so a little shapeless. like the satanci records a bit, but with less scary vibes, somewhat more descriptive in a cinematic way
	8:20pm Flash Strap: *satanic
	🥁 8:20pm JtotheK: @Little Danny - neither. did. i. internet research shows 2 tracks were issued again on later Garson records.
	8:25pm listener james from westwood: Bloody brilliant show thus far!!
	8:25pm Flash Strap: thanks, James!
	8:26pm Little Danny: Thanks for the intel. Incredible set
	8:28pm northguineahills: Why yes, I do have Forbidden Island (first Martin Denny record I found).
	8:29pm northguineahills: oh, and nice Ducktails (they're nice live).
	8:31pm TDK60: Anyone seen the 'Ed Wood' movie? There's a scene at a party with a weirdo organist.
	8:32pm Little Danny: Thanks Evan. I'm credited as the researcher and curator on that set.
	🥁 8:33pm JtotheK: @TDK - excellent film. in fact, i referenced it earlier this week - though i embarrassed myself by initially remarking about 'amazing kreskin' when i meant 'amazing criswell'. imagine how foolish i looked.
	8:34pm Little Danny: Heh, I have no idea. I'll have to go reread my notes on it
	8:37pm hyde: aahhhh, i am finally connected
	8:41pm still b/p: My main recall scene from Ed Wood bio-flick is one of his typically awful scenes being shot, and then the set is accidently and quite obviously bumped by actor and shake-wobbled. He's asked about a retake. He says with pleasant enthusiasm that it's fine.
	8:42pm Flash Strap: @LD: I had no idea! but it had your fingerprints all over it!
	8:42pm Flash Strap: Hi B/P!
	8:42pm Little Danny: Very fine taboo exposition. Spot on in nailing it to a specific context in academic anthropology
	8:43pm Flash Strap: @TDK: if i remember right, that scene is a take on Korla Pandit?
	8:44pm Flash Strap: @LD: i'd love to either read or write a book on the history of "taboo" and its usage
	8:45pm TDK60: Didn't know K Pandit, DJ FS. Will hafta look up!...
	8:46pm Flash Strap: back to the Numero Uno comp: now that I know that you worked on it, I desperately need to get a physical copy so I can luxuriate in real space with it
	8:46pm Flash Strap: *numero group! what's wrong with me today
	8:48pm Little Danny: Lemme email ya Evan
	8:48pm still b/p: This may now be my favorite version of Stranger in Paradise.
	8:48pm TDK60: Wow, Wikipedia says Korla Pandit played a cameo in Ed Wood. Now I know; learning about exotica right here!
	8:49pm Flash Strap: oh, that's right! it's actually him?
	8:49pm Little Danny: There are some amazing Pandit stories out there. There's also a documentary floating around, though I've not seen it
	8:51pm still b/p: If Pandit hadn't actually existed, David Lynch would've invented him in one of his movies.
	🥁 8:52pm JtotheK: Re: The Korla documentary - it's worth a watch! (I caught on one of the streaming services.)
	8:52pm Flash Strap: the director sent me a screening link and asked me to write about it, back when it came out, but i didn't have the time and so never watched it. sort of a missed opportunity, though, who knows if it's any good? not me, anyway
	8:52pm Flash Strap: ah damn, JtotheK knows!
	8:52pm quinn: oo that guitar oo
	8:52pm quinn: or whatever it was
	8:53pm Little Danny: Would you consider this lavishly arranged Umiliani a library record, Evan?
	8:55pm Flash Strap: there was a period where I was researching Pandit and all these otherwise pretty interesting articles on postcolonial identity myths were behaving as though he were an actual Indian man, from India, which he is not. one of those strange holes in knowledge that you see from time to time. i think he's from St. louis, and he's African-American
	8:56pm doctorjazz: Alright, time to leave the office, loving the sounds, catch you next time
	8:57pm still b/p: If you snap a paddle in a starfish canoe, does it regrow/repair itself?
	8:58pm Flash Strap: @LD: basically, yeah. it's actually extremely spare, compared to the film work. all done on custom synths in his home studio, for his own label. I don't know how hard he tried to get them in the production circuit though. they're basically private press, or pure research, like a lot of Oram's or Raymond Scott's stuff
	8:59pm northguineahills: That Shoji Yokouchi was new to me, dig! @Evan: You're correct about Pandit (another random record I bought on a whim, b/c it had the word, "organ" in it.
	9:00pm quinn: oo i love this too
	9:01pm Flash Strap: that's a weird LP, NGH! I found it on a blog but can't confirm any further info about it. real group though
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: greetings Evan and Explorers
	9:02pm Flash Strap: hi hi Coelacanth!
	9:04pm coelacanth∅: type e ...that's my blood type. very rare.
	9:04pm quinn: i love how velvety
	9:05pm Flash Strap: this one is a hoot! www.discogs.com...
	9:06pm Flash Strap: img.discogs.com...
	9:06pm Little Danny: Thanks Flash. I have that LP and had no idea those were synths!
	9:06pm Flash Strap: img.discogs.com...
	9:06pm coelacanth∅: i'm generally happy with mbiras and xylophones (actual xylophones)
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: so, what does "typee" mean?
	9:07pm Flash Strap: I think it's a mix, he used a lot of real percussion instruments but also experimented a lot so it's hard to say. cool LP to have !
	9:08pm Flash Strap: do you think of it as a library LP? curious
	9:09pm Flash Strap: @C.: it's the title of Melville's novel, an account of his time spent as a sort-of captive among the Typee people of Nukuheva in the Marquesas
	9:12pm coelacanth∅: okay,thank you. so, that Umiliani track maybe wasn't an actual wooden percussion instrument?
	9:15pm Flash Strap: that last one probably was, yeah. i don't know about the tracks from Polinesia, i shouldn't have said it was "all done" on synths, i just meant that that was his big thing on those records. real solo in the studio recordings, with a big emphasis on exploring his machines, even while he's playing with exotic wthnomusicology
	9:15pm Flash Strap: *ethnomusicology
	9:16pm coelacanth∅: if so i'm impressed by the sound gotten from a synthesiser!
	🥁 9:17pm chresti: whatchamusicology
	9:17pm Little Danny: Nope, I have a buncha those Umiliani Omicrons but have never bothered to really research 'em. Clearly they were manufactured as themed sets, if not marketed that way. (That's why I wondered if they were used in the library sense in the '70s and '80s
	9:17pm northguineahills: Loved the Chaino. leaving work, ciaos!!!
	9:17pm coelacanth∅: chresti!
	9:19pm Flash Strap: ciao bella NGH
	🥁 9:19pm chresti: coelacanthe!
	9:20pm Flash Strap: at the least, they're as library-adjacent as you can be, down to the conceptual framing and aesthetic. The lines blur there, esp. with guys like Umiliani who did do so much library work.
	🥁 9:20pm chresti: howdy!
	9:23pm still b/p: I'm pretty sure I want the Shango! album.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: it's a good one! great trippy organ in places
	9:24pm TDK60: Slow dance surf.
	9:28pm quinn: harry!
	9:29pm TDK60: Wow Laurie A. surprises...hadn't heard that in a while
	9:30pm Flash Strap: me either TDK. not my favorite album of here in terms of production but her writing never fails
	9:35pm TDK60: Saw her once, about 2 years before this album.
	9:36pm Flash Strap: i saw her last year and she was really incredible. with phillip glass, who sort of wasn't but that's ok
	9:39pm northguineahills: Made it home!
	9:39pm northguineahills: Made it home!
	9:39pm Flash Strap: great to have ya back have ya back NGH
	9:41pm geezerette: @Evan, great show, (of course !). Thanks always!
	9:44pm TDK60: well, finally in my pajamas, bathrobe, slippers, with pipe in mouth, reading Life on the easy chair.
	9:46pm DN: fantastic show
	9:47pm Dean: I'll pony up next week. Re: christi's location, it's not san gay-bree-ELL. It's san GAY-bree-uhl.
	9:47pm Dean: Er, chresti.
	🥁 9:48pm chresti: crispy
	9:49pm Dean: Also, received an email today from Discrepant featuring a new album with a cover designed by...Evan Crankshaw. Mike Cooper, Tropical Gothic: http://www.discrepant.net/products/625894-mike-cooper-tropical-gothic?ct=t%28NEW%3A+Kink+Gong+%2F+Death+in+Haiti_COPY_01%29&mc_cid=5fe5383c06&mc_eid=%5BUNIQID%5D
	9:50pm coelacanth∅: pussycats one of his best albums, largely overlooked.
	9:51pm Little Danny: I feel exactly the same way about Ports of Paradise. There's something going on with it
	9:52pm Little Danny: C'mon ashore y'all: wfmu.org...
	9:53pm TDK60: Thanks for the selections.
	9:53pm melinda: Thanks Ev!
	9:54pm Flash Strap: @Dean: I did that, yeah! hope you dig it brother
	9:54pm Flash Strap: @C: definitely, incredible record
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: something wonky stream kicked in there
	9:55pm Flash Strap: @LD; so glad you know what I mean about Ports of paradise
	9:55pm Dean: Oh, yes. I'm a fan of "grand collage artwork."
	9:57pm Flash Strap: ha, is that what it says on the site? pleased to be so grand
	9:57pm coelacanth∅: Evan the album cover too! i forget what they wanted to do that the record company said no way too, so they made that sneaky puzzle under the table.
	9:57pm coelacanth∅: ("no way" to...)
	9:58pm Flash Strap: oh, i'd love to know what they had in mind
	🥁 9:58pm chresti: Yeah! Skipping -volume Thanks Flash!
	9:59pm Flash Strap: alright explorers! thanks for joining this expedition! see you in the next fabulous room
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	9:42am 23 Wolves: Fantastic show, really enjoyed it.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from October 4, 2018

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October 4, 2018: Typee

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Dick Schory's New Percussion Ensemble	Typee	Music for Bang Baaroom and Harp	RCA Victor	1958		0:00:20 (Pop-up)
Ole Jensen and his Music / Johnny Hawksworth	Strange Journey Pt. 2	Chappell Recorded Music LPC 1047	Chappell	1972		0:03:49 (Pop-up)
Dominique Andre	Warm Journey "Warm Journey" by "Dominique Andre"	Evasion	Musical Touch Sound	197?		0:05:24 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra	Warm Valley	A Duke Ellington Panorama	Victor	1943		0:06:30 (Pop-up)
Helen Merrill	Mountain High, Valley Low	With Strings	Emarcy	1955		0:09:33 (Pop-up)
Paolo Casa	Mountains "Mountains" by "Paolo Casa"	Nature	Wild Cat	1977		0:12:20 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter Orchestra & Chorus	Magenta Mountain	African Blue	GNP Crescendo	1969		0:15:50 (Pop-up)
Phil Moore & His Orchestra	The Far Mountain	Polynesian Paradise	Strand	1959		0:18:49 (Pop-up)
Johnnie & Joe	Over the Mountain, Across the Sea	Over the Mountain, Across the Sea / My Baby's Gone On, On 7"	Chess	1957		0:21:12 (Pop-up)
Eric Burdon & The Animals	Poem By The Sea	Winds of Change	MGM	1967		0:23:26 (Pop-up)
Brother Ah	The Sea "The Sea" by "Brother Ah"	Divine Music: The Sea	Manufactured Recordings	1978		0:25:39 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Lagoon / Shark Bite "Lagoon / Shark Bite"					0:30:56 (Pop-up)
Martin Denny	Island of Dreams "Island of Dreams" by "Martin Denny"	Exotica Volume II	Liberty	1957		0:41:11 (Pop-up)
Clyde Derby	Lost Island "Lost Island" by "Clyde Derby"	Derby's Second Touch	Ruby Records	195?		0:43:25 (Pop-up)
Eddie Warner	Island in the Sun "Island in the Sun" by "Eddie Warner"	Eddie Warner Breaks the Sound Barrier in the Cotton Pickin' Lounge	Berry	195?		0:46:27 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Arkestra	Island in the Sun (extended version)	Marshall Allen Presents Sun Ra And His Arkesrtra – In the Orbit of Ra	Strut	2014		0:49:30 (Pop-up)
Eden Ahbez	Island Girl "Island Girl" by "Eden Ahbez"	Eden's Island: Music of an Enchanted Isle	Del-Fi	1960		0:59:25 (Pop-up)
Elvis Presley	Island of Love "Island of Love" by "Elvis Presley"	Blue Hawaii	RCA Victor	1961		1:01:28 (Pop-up)
Stanley Wilson	The South Seas Can-Can (Trobriand Islands)	Pagan Love	Capitol	1961		1:04:08 (Pop-up)
Modesto Duran and Orchestra	Silent Island	Fabulous Rhythms of Modesto	Raynote	1960		1:06:21 (Pop-up)
Stan Applebaum	Undiscovered Island	Columbia 7"	Columbia	1968		1:08:44 (Pop-up)
Sven Libaek	Island of Birds "Island of Birds" by "Sven Libaek"	Ron & Val Taylor's Inner Space	Festival	1973		1:11:25 (Pop-up)
Mort Garson	Walk to the Other Side of the Island	Didn't You Hear?	Custom Fidelity	1970		1:13:41 (Pop-up)
ΞLə☪ŧrɹ¡ᑦ ∑gビᑭ⏄	On the Other Side of the Island	Exotica	Galactic Research Dept. Remote Tropics Division	2012		1:16:33 (Pop-up)
Ducktails	Island Flavor "Island Flavor" by "Ducktails"	Backyard	Release the Bats	2009		1:17:40 (Pop-up)
Piero Umiliani	Ricerca Nell'Isola	La Ragazza Dalla Pelle di Luna	Omicron / Easy Tempo	1972/99	"Search on the Island"	1:20:07 (Pop-up)
Piero Umiliani	Il Santone dell'Isola	La Ragazza Dalla Pelle di Luna	Omicron / Easy Tempo	1972/99	"The High Priest of the Island"	1:22:34 (Pop-up)
Martin Denny	Forbidden Island "Forbidden Island" by "Martin Denny"	Forbidden Island: The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny	Liberty	1958		1:24:17 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gökçen Kaynatan	Lost Island "Lost Island" by "Gökçen Kaynatan"					1:27:01 (Pop-up)
Tommy Morgan	Taboo "Taboo" by "Tommy Morgan"	Tropicale	Warner Bros.	1958		1:40:58 (Pop-up)
Shoji Yokouchi Quintet	Taboo "Taboo" by "Shoji Yokouchi Quintet"	Afro Bossa	?	1967		1:43:20 (Pop-up)
Kip Anderson and the Tides	Stranger in Paradise	Shango! Night in a Quiet Village	Kapp	1965		1:46:46 (Pop-up)
The Centuries	Polynesian Paradise	The Outer Limits / Polynesian Paradise 7"	Cleopatra	1963		1:48:08 (Pop-up)
Piero Umiliani	Sotto le Palme "Sotto le Palme" by "Piero Umiliani"	Polinesia	Omicron	1975	"Under the Palm Trees"	1:50:12 (Pop-up)
Piero Umiliani	Canoe "Canoe" by "Piero Umiliani"	Polinesia	Omicron	1975		1:52:19 (Pop-up)
Andrew Richardson	Starfish Canoe "Starfish Canoe" by "Andrew Richardson"	Expanse	ARM	1984		1:55:00 (Pop-up)
Roger Roger	Coconut Coast "Coconut Coast" by "Roger Roger"	Jazz, Dramatic	Southern	1968		1:58:12 (Pop-up)
Beverly Glenn-Copeland	Sunset Village	Keyboard Fantasies	Atlast	1986		1:59:24 (Pop-up)
Piero Umiliani	Nel Villaggio "Nel Villaggio" by "Piero Umiliani"	Continente Nero	Omicron	1975	"In The Village"	2:03:06 (Pop-up)
Theophile & Bernard, The Exciting Good Guys Duo!	Quiet Village 67'	Sweet Georgia Brown / Quiet Village 67' 7"	Raydin	1967?		2:05:24 (Pop-up)
Chaino	Ceremonial Feast Dance "Ceremonial Feast Dance" by "Chaino"	Africana & Beyond!	Bacchus			2:07:54 (Pop-up)
Dominique Andre	The Juggler – Ceremonial – Rite	Evasion	Musical Touch Sound	197?		2:10:53 (Pop-up)
Zespół Instrumentalny Marka Sewena	Taniec Polinezyjski = Polinesian Dance	Księżyc Na Tahiti	Pronit	1969		2:15:38 (Pop-up)
Davy Jones and the Dolphins	Strictly Polynesian	Strictly Polynesian / Bullfight 7"	Audicon	1962		2:18:15 (Pop-up)
Kip Anderson and the Tides	Stranger on the Shore	Shango! Night in a Quiet Village	Kapp	1965		2:20:07 (Pop-up)
The Shelltones	Blue Castaway "Blue Castaway" by "The Shelltones"	Blue Castaway / Mark's Blues 7"	Band Box	1964		2:22:51 (Pop-up)
Laurie Anderson	Love Among the Sailors	Bright Red	Warner Bros.	1994		2:25:27 (Pop-up)
Harry Nilsson	Black Sails "Black Sails" by "Harry Nilsson"	Pussy Cats	RCA	1974		2:28:02 (Pop-up)
Ethel Azama	My Ship "My Ship" by "Ethel Azama"	Cool Heat	Liberty	1960		2:30:53 (Pop-up)
Vito Ricci	The Ship Was Sailing "The Ship Was Sailing" by "Vito Ricci"	Music From Memory	Creation	1985		2:33:00 (Pop-up)
Alfred Newman & Ken Darby	To You Sweetheart, Aloha	Ports of Paradise	Capitol	1960		2:37:57 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Pacific Ocean "Pacific Ocean"					2:42:39 (Pop-up)
Vincent Bell	Quiet Village "Quiet Village" by "Vincent Bell"	Pop Goes the Electric Sitar	Decca	1967		2:52:24 (Pop-up)
Dick Schory's New Percussion Ensemble	Typee	Music for Bang Baaroom and Harp	RCA Victor	1958		2:55:49 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:35pm Flash Strap: ah hello, how about a little expedition this evening?
	🥁 6:38pm chresti: Ready! All buckled in!
	6:39pm Flash Strap: Hiya Chresti!
	6:59pm Flash Strap: Ok, off we gooo
	6:59pm listener james from westwood: The cut from the Gospel story about the stormy sea on the GTDR stream into the waves was ::chef's kiss::
	7:00pm Flash Strap: oh, nice! Hi James
	🥁 7:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...drums along the Hudson...
	🥁 7:05pm JtotheK: salutations Flash, hello Explorers. 'typee' is (yet another) book on my ever-expanding to-read pile. this show may prompt me to move it up a bit.
	🥁 7:06pm JtotheK: ***come for the music, stay for the comment board chatter where JtotheK talks non-stop about his piles.
	7:07pm Flash Strap: Hi RevRab!
	🥁 7:07pm chresti: Yay piles!
	7:08pm geezerette: Sauntering in a sarong. :)
	7:08pm Flash Strap: Hi J_K! and hello to your piles! Typee is pretty cool, you can really feel its influence on basically every exotica artifact that would follow it. My copy had some excellent illustrations as well, which I enjoyed
	7:08pm Flash Strap: Hi Geezerette!
	7:08pm geezerette: ...barefoot.
	🥁 7:09pm chresti: you should talk to Franco about piles...
	7:10pm doctorjazz: Hey Explorers Nice to hear Duke!
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc! always love to get some Duke in the mix
	7:12pm Flash Strap: love this Merrill version of Mountain High, Valley Low
	7:12pm geezerette: Evan, those images remind me of Covarrubias illustrations.
	7:14pm Flash Strap: that's precisely who it is!
	7:14pm geezerette: Howdy, Evan and adventurers!
	7:15pm Flash Strap: this little library LP recorded at Umiliani's Sound Work Shop studios, I believe
	7:18pm Flash Strap: Covarrubias' work on this book is gorgeous, but it really is mind-boggling how often he'll directly contradict the details in the text. the book is all descriptions and barely any plot, so it strikes me weird to just draw things that specifically aren't described.
	🥁 7:19pm chresti: Hi howdy! Geeze and yalls!
	7:19pm northguineahills: If we're explorers, why are we stuck in a room? ;p
	7:20pm Flash Strap: "what's the deal with explorers rooms? seriously folks,"
	7:20pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH! how goes?
	🥁 7:22pm chresti: It's a nice room. With rugs and skins and comfortable chairs and an excellent sound system
	7:23pm northguineahills: Better then yesterday, just at my first (albeit small) meal in two days. Actually got a decent night's sleep last night. I find seeing art or live music (and the booze) helps (like I did last night).
	🥁 7:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...maybe it's Harry Smith's room ...or just a good MadMen stylee pickup line ...or some Edwardian gathering of Mi'Lauds...
	🥁 7:24pm chresti: Some rattan...and bamboo bar
	🥁 7:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Zappa's instructions to Clapton saying a few words for his rekkid: ...'sound like EricBurdon on acid'...
	7:25pm geezerette: cf.collectorsweekly.com... sovietchest.ucoz.ru... cf.collectorsweekly.com... Green Manions
	7:25pm Flash Strap: masks and maps adorn the walls, strange images and sculptures abound, trophies of expeditions past
	🥁 7:26pm chresti: bark cloth
	7:27pm Flash Strap: love Brother Ah's stuff
	🥁 7:27pm chresti: large globe...
	7:28pm Flash Strap: many globes, yes
	🥁 7:29pm chresti: telescope...
	🥁 7:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...more than a passing acquaintance w/ H.G. Wells...
	7:32pm doctorjazz: Brother Ah.... Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh...... Really liked that !
	7:32pm geezerette: beautiful. soothing. just wild enough...
	7:34pm northguineahills: I believe the April 2017 issue of the Wire has an excellent article on Brother Ah/
	🥁 7:34pm chresti: is there a movie?
	7:35pm geezerette: img-fotki.yandex.ru... Wow!
	🥁 7:39pm chresti: en.wikipedia.org...
	🥁 7:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Love 'Winds' - whatever Zappa said, btw...
	7:42pm Flash Strap: @G: that's such a good one, almost used it for the page tonight!
	7:42pm Flash Strap: @NGH: oh, i need to read that then!
	7:43pm Flash Strap: @Chresti: not that I know of! maybe though
	7:44pm Flash Strap: @Doc: me too brother @Rev: me too brother
	7:45pm Flash Strap: love all weird outsider organ-exotica
	7:47pm Little Danny: Hey Flash, hey all. I'm in right place
	🥁 7:47pm chresti: Last of the Pagans- says it's based on Typee
	7:48pm Flash Strap: Hi LD! @chresti: gotta see it then
	7:48pm geezerette: I love his work, all of it! Found a pristine copy of Green Mansions in a used books store, gave it to a friend as a present. Sometimes wish I'd kept it though. Man, I really want tiny spare ribs and fried bananas now!
	7:49pm Flash Strap: gotta say, I finally got around to watching To Have and Have Not and can barely recommend it highly enough
	7:50pm geezerette: Chresti, intriguing!
	🥁 7:50pm chresti: one of my favorites...
	7:51pm geezerette: Mine too. :)
	7:51pm Flash Strap: i had no idea it was such a hot slab of exotica, on top of everything else. what a flick! Bacall is beyond brilliant of course
	7:54pm geezerette: Have you guys seen Key Largo? Bet you'd love it!
	7:54pm northguineahills: I dare you to find an WFMU dj who hasn't played Sun Ra....
	7:54pm Flash Strap: @G: it's pretty good!
	7:55pm Flash Strap: @NGH: can't be done
	7:56pm geezerette: Really digging the tranquil vibe today. No outside world.
	7:57pm Flash Strap: I'm glad, G. for better or worse, that's the show tonight, just exotic timelessness. the welcome doldrums
	🥁 7:59pm chresti: Like this orbit
	8:00pm hyde: i'm here in spirit, but my internet is a mess tonight.
	8:00pm Little Danny: great segue Flash
	8:00pm Flash Strap: Hyde! sorry about your messnet, miss ya pal
	8:01pm quinn: take me away
	8:01pm Flash Strap: @LD: thanks man
	8:01pm Flash Strap: ah Quinn! with us in the flesh! wonderful to see you!
	🥁 8:02pm chresti: I'm listening on bluetooth headphones and it's a little behind the playlist on the laptop
	8:02pm melinda: hi friends
	8:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:03pm northguineahills: The guiro on that Eden Ahbez was excellently recorded and played. @chresti: I'm listening via my phone and bluetooth hedfons, and I'm really behind!
	🥁 8:04pm chresti: wow-nice recording!
	🥁 8:04pm chresti: @island girl
	8:05pm Flash Strap: wow you guys are really behind! see you in the future pals
	8:06pm Flash Strap: but yeah that whole Ahbez record is a masterpiece on basically every level
	🥁 8:06pm chresti: ngh-exactly! that instrument stood out, thanks for ID-ing it!
	8:08pm Flash Strap: next track is of Little Danny provenance. not the only one of the night but this one i've never seen anywhere else
	🥁 8:08pm chresti: with all this heat, there are fans blowing...Headphones are required!
	🥁 8:10pm chresti: not only am I behind, I'm extremely slow at typing!
	8:12pm Little Danny: Oh man that 45. All-timer. Thanks, Evan!
	8:13pm TDK60: I am now signed in.
	8:13pm Flash Strap: thanks to YOU pal
	8:13pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK!
	8:14pm northguineahills: ooh, Mort Garson!
	8:16pm Flash Strap: rare Garson here. no one ever talks about this record, i find
	8:16pm Little Danny: damn I had no idea that this Mort Garson existed
	8:17pm Little Danny: How's the rest of the LP?
	8:19pm Flash Strap: it;s pretty cool! it's a soundtrack, so a little shapeless. like the satanci records a bit, but with less scary vibes, somewhat more descriptive in a cinematic way
	8:20pm Flash Strap: *satanic
	🥁 8:20pm JtotheK: @Little Danny - neither. did. i. internet research shows 2 tracks were issued again on later Garson records.
	8:25pm listener james from westwood: Bloody brilliant show thus far!!
	8:25pm Flash Strap: thanks, James!
	8:26pm Little Danny: Thanks for the intel. Incredible set
	8:28pm northguineahills: Why yes, I do have Forbidden Island (first Martin Denny record I found).
	8:29pm northguineahills: oh, and nice Ducktails (they're nice live).
	8:31pm TDK60: Anyone seen the 'Ed Wood' movie? There's a scene at a party with a weirdo organist.
	8:32pm Little Danny: Thanks Evan. I'm credited as the researcher and curator on that set.
	🥁 8:33pm JtotheK: @TDK - excellent film. in fact, i referenced it earlier this week - though i embarrassed myself by initially remarking about 'amazing kreskin' when i meant 'amazing criswell'. imagine how foolish i looked.
	8:34pm Little Danny: Heh, I have no idea. I'll have to go reread my notes on it
	8:37pm hyde: aahhhh, i am finally connected
	8:41pm still b/p: My main recall scene from Ed Wood bio-flick is one of his typically awful scenes being shot, and then the set is accidently and quite obviously bumped by actor and shake-wobbled. He's asked about a retake. He says with pleasant enthusiasm that it's fine.
	8:42pm Flash Strap: @LD: I had no idea! but it had your fingerprints all over it!
	8:42pm Flash Strap: Hi B/P!
	8:42pm Little Danny: Very fine taboo exposition. Spot on in nailing it to a specific context in academic anthropology
	8:43pm Flash Strap: @TDK: if i remember right, that scene is a take on Korla Pandit?
	8:44pm Flash Strap: @LD: i'd love to either read or write a book on the history of "taboo" and its usage
	8:45pm TDK60: Didn't know K Pandit, DJ FS. Will hafta look up!...
	8:46pm Flash Strap: back to the Numero Uno comp: now that I know that you worked on it, I desperately need to get a physical copy so I can luxuriate in real space with it
	8:46pm Flash Strap: *numero group! what's wrong with me today
	8:48pm Little Danny: Lemme email ya Evan
	8:48pm still b/p: This may now be my favorite version of Stranger in Paradise.
	8:48pm TDK60: Wow, Wikipedia says Korla Pandit played a cameo in Ed Wood. Now I know; learning about exotica right here!
	8:49pm Flash Strap: oh, that's right! it's actually him?
	8:49pm Little Danny: There are some amazing Pandit stories out there. There's also a documentary floating around, though I've not seen it
	8:51pm still b/p: If Pandit hadn't actually existed, David Lynch would've invented him in one of his movies.
	🥁 8:52pm JtotheK: Re: The Korla documentary - it's worth a watch! (I caught on one of the streaming services.)
	8:52pm Flash Strap: the director sent me a screening link and asked me to write about it, back when it came out, but i didn't have the time and so never watched it. sort of a missed opportunity, though, who knows if it's any good? not me, anyway
	8:52pm Flash Strap: ah damn, JtotheK knows!
	8:52pm quinn: oo that guitar oo
	8:52pm quinn: or whatever it was
	8:53pm Little Danny: Would you consider this lavishly arranged Umiliani a library record, Evan?
	8:55pm Flash Strap: there was a period where I was researching Pandit and all these otherwise pretty interesting articles on postcolonial identity myths were behaving as though he were an actual Indian man, from India, which he is not. one of those strange holes in knowledge that you see from time to time. i think he's from St. louis, and he's African-American
	8:56pm doctorjazz: Alright, time to leave the office, loving the sounds, catch you next time
	8:57pm still b/p: If you snap a paddle in a starfish canoe, does it regrow/repair itself?
	8:58pm Flash Strap: @LD: basically, yeah. it's actually extremely spare, compared to the film work. all done on custom synths in his home studio, for his own label. I don't know how hard he tried to get them in the production circuit though. they're basically private press, or pure research, like a lot of Oram's or Raymond Scott's stuff
	8:59pm northguineahills: That Shoji Yokouchi was new to me, dig! @Evan: You're correct about Pandit (another random record I bought on a whim, b/c it had the word, "organ" in it.
	9:00pm quinn: oo i love this too
	9:01pm Flash Strap: that's a weird LP, NGH! I found it on a blog but can't confirm any further info about it. real group though
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: greetings Evan and Explorers
	9:02pm Flash Strap: hi hi Coelacanth!
	9:04pm coelacanth∅: type e ...that's my blood type. very rare.
	9:04pm quinn: i love how velvety
	9:05pm Flash Strap: this one is a hoot! www.discogs.com...
	9:06pm Flash Strap: img.discogs.com...
	9:06pm Little Danny: Thanks Flash. I have that LP and had no idea those were synths!
	9:06pm Flash Strap: img.discogs.com...
	9:06pm coelacanth∅: i'm generally happy with mbiras and xylophones (actual xylophones)
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: so, what does "typee" mean?
	9:07pm Flash Strap: I think it's a mix, he used a lot of real percussion instruments but also experimented a lot so it's hard to say. cool LP to have !
	9:08pm Flash Strap: do you think of it as a library LP? curious
	9:09pm Flash Strap: @C.: it's the title of Melville's novel, an account of his time spent as a sort-of captive among the Typee people of Nukuheva in the Marquesas
	9:12pm coelacanth∅: okay,thank you. so, that Umiliani track maybe wasn't an actual wooden percussion instrument?
	9:15pm Flash Strap: that last one probably was, yeah. i don't know about the tracks from Polinesia, i shouldn't have said it was "all done" on synths, i just meant that that was his big thing on those records. real solo in the studio recordings, with a big emphasis on exploring his machines, even while he's playing with exotic wthnomusicology
	9:15pm Flash Strap: *ethnomusicology
	9:16pm coelacanth∅: if so i'm impressed by the sound gotten from a synthesiser!
	🥁 9:17pm chresti: whatchamusicology
	9:17pm Little Danny: Nope, I have a buncha those Umiliani Omicrons but have never bothered to really research 'em. Clearly they were manufactured as themed sets, if not marketed that way. (That's why I wondered if they were used in the library sense in the '70s and '80s
	9:17pm northguineahills: Loved the Chaino. leaving work, ciaos!!!
	9:17pm coelacanth∅: chresti!
	9:19pm Flash Strap: ciao bella NGH
	🥁 9:19pm chresti: coelacanthe!
	9:20pm Flash Strap: at the least, they're as library-adjacent as you can be, down to the conceptual framing and aesthetic. The lines blur there, esp. with guys like Umiliani who did do so much library work.
	🥁 9:20pm chresti: howdy!
	9:23pm still b/p: I'm pretty sure I want the Shango! album.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: it's a good one! great trippy organ in places
	9:24pm TDK60: Slow dance surf.
	9:28pm quinn: harry!
	9:29pm TDK60: Wow Laurie A. surprises...hadn't heard that in a while
	9:30pm Flash Strap: me either TDK. not my favorite album of here in terms of production but her writing never fails
	9:35pm TDK60: Saw her once, about 2 years before this album.
	9:36pm Flash Strap: i saw her last year and she was really incredible. with phillip glass, who sort of wasn't but that's ok
	9:39pm northguineahills: Made it home!
	9:39pm northguineahills: Made it home!
	9:39pm Flash Strap: great to have ya back have ya back NGH
	9:41pm geezerette: @Evan, great show, (of course !). Thanks always!
	9:44pm TDK60: well, finally in my pajamas, bathrobe, slippers, with pipe in mouth, reading Life on the easy chair.
	9:46pm DN: fantastic show
	9:47pm Dean: I'll pony up next week. Re: christi's location, it's not san gay-bree-ELL. It's san GAY-bree-uhl.
	9:47pm Dean: Er, chresti.
	🥁 9:48pm chresti: crispy
	9:49pm Dean: Also, received an email today from Discrepant featuring a new album with a cover designed by...Evan Crankshaw. Mike Cooper, Tropical Gothic: http://www.discrepant.net/products/625894-mike-cooper-tropical-gothic?ct=t%28NEW%3A+Kink+Gong+%2F+Death+in+Haiti_COPY_01%29&mc_cid=5fe5383c06&mc_eid=%5BUNIQID%5D
	9:50pm coelacanth∅: pussycats one of his best albums, largely overlooked.
	9:51pm Little Danny: I feel exactly the same way about Ports of Paradise. There's something going on with it
	9:52pm Little Danny: C'mon ashore y'all: wfmu.org...
	9:53pm TDK60: Thanks for the selections.
	9:53pm melinda: Thanks Ev!
	9:54pm Flash Strap: @Dean: I did that, yeah! hope you dig it brother
	9:54pm Flash Strap: @C: definitely, incredible record
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: something wonky stream kicked in there
	9:55pm Flash Strap: @LD; so glad you know what I mean about Ports of paradise
	9:55pm Dean: Oh, yes. I'm a fan of "grand collage artwork."
	9:57pm Flash Strap: ha, is that what it says on the site? pleased to be so grand
	9:57pm coelacanth∅: Evan the album cover too! i forget what they wanted to do that the record company said no way too, so they made that sneaky puzzle under the table.
	9:57pm coelacanth∅: ("no way" to...)
	9:58pm Flash Strap: oh, i'd love to know what they had in mind
	🥁 9:58pm chresti: Yeah! Skipping -volume Thanks Flash!
	9:59pm Flash Strap: alright explorers! thanks for joining this expedition! see you in the next fabulous room
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	9:42am 23 Wolves: Fantastic show, really enjoyed it.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from October 4, 2018

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