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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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Favoriting June 20, 2019: Last Train / Guinée Discothèque

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
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U. Roy  This Station Rule the Nation   Favoriting This Station Rule the Nation / Angle-Lala 7"  Treasure Isle  1970  as "Hugh Roy"; b/w with Nora Dean  0:01:19 (Pop-up)
Roland Alphonso with Baba Brooks Band  Nuclear Weapon   Favoriting Love Your Neighbor / Nuclear Weapon 7"  Treasure Isle  1965    0:03:37 (Pop-up)
The Melodians  Last Train to Expo '67   Favoriting Last Train to Expo '67 / Expo 7"  Treasure Isle  1967    0:06:15 (Pop-up)
Rail Band  Duga   Favoriting Rail Band  RCAM  1973  aka Orchestre Rail-Band De Bamako; aka Super Rail Band Of The Buffet Hotel Del La Gare De Bamako, Mali  0:09:34 (Pop-up)
Bembeya Jazz National  Petit Sekou   Favoriting Discothèque 76  Editions Syliphone Conakry  1977    0:17:18 (Pop-up)
Kouyate Sory Kandia  Dyandjon   Favoriting L'Épopée du Mandingue  Editions Syliphone Conakry  1972    0:23:19 (Pop-up)
The Ethiopians  What A Pain   Favoriting What A Pain / Pain Version 7"  Song Bird  1971    0:32:09 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Undisputed Truth 

Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite the World) / Friendship Train   Favoriting

The Undisputed Truth 

 

1971 

 

0:34:25 (Pop-up)
The Ethiopians  Socialism Train   Favoriting Socialism Train 7"  Opians  1975    0:45:16 (Pop-up)
The Ethiopians  Train to Glory   Favoriting Engine 54  Doctor Bird / WIRL  1968    0:47:38 (Pop-up)
The Reggae Boys  The Reggae Train   Favoriting The Reggae Train / Dolly House on Fire 7"  Amalgamated Records  1969    0:50:38 (Pop-up)
Jah Woosh  This Train   Favoriting Jah Woosh  Cactus  1974    0:53:05 (Pop-up)
Dennis Alcapone  Train to Glory   Favoriting Dread Capone  Live and Love  1975    0:55:58 (Pop-up)
The Ethiopians  Train to Skaville   Favoriting Engine 54  Doctor Bird / WIRL  1968    0:59:40 (Pop-up)
Jackie Mittoo & the Soul Brothers  Train to Skaville   Favoriting Last Train to Skaville  Soul Jazz  2003  rec. b/t 1965-67  1:02:22 (Pop-up)
Byron Lee & The Dragonaires  Psychadelic Train   Favoriting Tighten Up  Dynamic Sounds  1969    1:05:00 (Pop-up)
Scotty  Clean Race (Psychadelic Train)   Favoriting Clean Race / Version Train 7"  Song Bird  1972    1:07:20 (Pop-up)
Cornel Campbell & The Aggrovators  Reggay Train Dub   Favoriting Trojan Dub Rarities  Trojan  2005  rec. 197?  1:10:36 (Pop-up)
Desmond Dekker & The Aces  Rude Boy Train   Favoriting 007 Shanty Town  Doctor Bird  1968    1:13:38 (Pop-up)
Raphael Green & Doctor Alimantado  Rasta Train   Favoriting Arkology  Island Jamaica  2005  Lee Perry; previously unreleased alternate mix, orig.on Upsetter label 1977  1:15:54 (Pop-up)
Junior Murvin + Dillinger  Roots Train (Extended Mix)   Favoriting Arkology  Island Jamaica  2005  orig. vers. 1977, Junior Murvin, "Police & Thieves"  1:21:05 (Pop-up)
Keith & Tex  Leaving On That Train   Favoriting Rock Steady Party  Crystal Records  1967  Derrick Harriott compilation  1:29:43 (Pop-up)
Scotty  Draw Your Brakes   Favoriting Draw Your Brakes 7"  Crystal Records  1971  Toast on Keith & Tex "Stop That Train"  1:32:49 (Pop-up)
The Ethiopians  Engine 54   Favoriting Engine 54  Doctor Bird / WIRL  1968    1:35:49 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Markko Polo Adventurers 

Train to Ranchipur   Favoriting

Orienta 

 

 

 

1:38:12 (Pop-up)
Demba Camara Et Son Groupe  Exhumation Folklorique   Favoriting Discothèque 70  Editions Syliphone Conakry  1971    1:51:23 (Pop-up)
Virtuose Diabate  Sankaranka   Favoriting Discothèque 71  Editions Syliphone Conakry  1971    1:58:02 (Pop-up)
Myriam's Quintette  Solo Quintette   Favoriting Discothèque 71  Editions Syliphone Conakry  1971    2:04:33 (Pop-up)
Pivi et les Balladins  Samba   Favoriting Discothèque 72  Editions Syliphone Conakry  1973    2:08:00 (Pop-up)
Keletigui et Ses Tambourinis  Miri Magnin   Favoriting Discothèque 73  Editions Syliphone Conakry  1975    2:13:51 (Pop-up)
Camayenne Sofa  Könönin   Favoriting Discothèque 74  Editions Syliphone Conakry  1975    2:18:38 (Pop-up)
Super Boiro Band  So I Si Sa   Favoriting Discothèque 74  Editions Syliphone Conakry  1975    2:26:59 (Pop-up)
Super Boiro Band  Kha Mu Lan Ma   Favoriting Discothèque 75  Editions Syliphone Conakry  1975    2:33:00 (Pop-up)
Bembeya Jazz National  Ah Kani   Favoriting Discothèque 76  Editions Syliphone Conakry  1977    2:40:03 (Pop-up)
Bembeya Jazz National  Telephone   Favoriting Discothèque 76  Editions Syliphone Conakry  1977    2:46:25 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

Typewriter Underwater Bongo  

 

 

 

 

2:51:46 (Pop-up)
The Ethiopians  Pain Version   Favoriting What A Pain / Pain Version 7"  Song Bird  1971    2:58:16 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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chresti:

Hello room! And train station!
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Flash Strap:

Hello Chresti!
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Flash Strap:

bout to enter the station here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
doctorjazz:

Reporting in for duty SIR!
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listener james from westwood:

::searches 27 pieces of luggage for ticket::
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
chresti:

This station rule the nation!
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Doc! James!
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

@chresti: it does, it does
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

nice chug on Nuclear weapon
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
chresti:

love the chug and the whistle
Avatar 7:08pm
Flash Strap:

choo choo explorers
Avatar 7:12pm
Flash Strap:

Love the sound of Rail Band, imagine hearing this in Mali's coolest train station bar
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
chresti:

Digging it, that guitar
Avatar 7:17pm
Flash Strap:

pretty sure it's Djelimady Tounkara, an extremely prominent & influential Malian guitarist
Avatar 7:20pm
Flash Strap:

Is Petit Sekou one of the best songs ever recorded? my heart says yeeeeeees
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
doctorjazz:

They was great!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
chresti:

Totally
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

HUGE vocal from Kouyate Sory Kandia, sounds like 100 people at once
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
chresti:

soundz llive
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
Little Danny:

Heya Flash, heya exploreurs
Avatar 7:26pm
Flash Strap:

aloo LD!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
chresti:

Hey Danny
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hello, explorers. A friend of mine went to Jamaica once and brought me some Bob Marley postage stamps.
Avatar 7:28pm
Flash Strap:

Hiya Ken! gotta love a good exotic stamp
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
Little Danny:

chresti: Hi! Franco partied pretty heavy during Kris's Tuesday night show while you were out of town. Keep an eye on him.
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

Kouyate Sory Kandia on the cover of a different album, spreading his arms as his vocal just engulfs the world: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
chresti:

Oh I know, he's sleeping it off right now! There wasn't very good internet where I was the last couple days @Danny
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
chresti:

Love your backing track, Flash.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Little Danny:

I have that experience when I dig start digging deeper into new-to-music music, esp. of the non-Western variety. So much music to sort out, so much crazy context to wrap your around, so much history and culture to unpack
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
Little Danny:

*new-to-me
Avatar 7:46pm
Flash Strap:

@LD: boy don't i know it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
chresti:

Love the Ethiopians
Avatar 7:47pm
Flash Strap:

only 2 releases on the Opians label from what i can tell
  7:47pm
Doug Schulkind:

I’m aboard, oh baby!
  7:47pm
jefff:

hahaha that was great
Avatar 7:49pm
Flash Strap:

Glad to have you Doug, 'cause we're bound for glory baby
Avatar 7:49pm
jefff:

train gang
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Flash Strap:

Hi Jefff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Little Danny:

Heh, so many train-related Ethiopians tracks. Played their "Train to Skaville" here recently.
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

yes train gang choo choo all aboard
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coelacanth∅:

greetings Evan & Explorers
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Little Danny:

Trains in general are a very interesting theme both musically (chucka-chucka-chucka) and metaphorically
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
doctorjazz:

People Get Ready had to show up sooner or later, this is a great version!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Little Danny:

which is to say I love this set thusfar
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Flash Strap:

@LD: Train to Skaville will absolutely reappear this evening & in duplicate
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
chresti:

I'm curious about Dolly House on fire
Avatar 7:52pm
Flash Strap:

Coelacanth, brother!
Avatar 7:53pm
Flash Strap:

@chresti: me too, i don;t have it but i need it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
chresti:

Trains have a lot of mileage
  7:53pm
Doug Schulkind:

@Little Danny
Personally, I’m drawn to the chucka-chucka-chucka metaphor.
Avatar 7:54pm
Flash Strap:

i love "as i would say" as a resting phrase for toasters
Avatar 7:56pm
still b/p:

Good evening trainees and gandy dancers.

Was in Stonington yesterday, Doug. Out on a lobster boat for a brief spin. Veddy nice.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
chresti:

..train songs, that is.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Little Danny:

Trains are a major presence here in west Tejas. They also sound intensely good up close. And also from a distance.
Avatar 7:57pm
Flash Strap:

hey hey B/P
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Flash Strap:

@chresti: well it's true either way you slice it
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Flash Strap:

@LD: wish we had a lot more trains here in the east. near where i live there's a very old disused train track just running through the woods, people's backyards
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Little Danny:

Now I wanna steal this idea and do an entire train-related show.

VU's "Run Run Run" is a very good train song that both sounds like a train, and discusses trains
Avatar 7:59pm
Flash Strap:

very true, love that song
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Little Danny:

@Flash. Nice! I have a very peculiar fascination with abandoned train tracks
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Flash Strap:

a while back i did a train-exotica show
  8:00pm
Martinibomb:

Real fun mix today thanks for the tunes!
Avatar 8:01pm
Flash Strap:

my pleasure Martinibomb
  8:01pm
Doug Schulkind:

@still b/p
I will be in Stonington in about six weeks.
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

great train sounds from the Ethiopians, every time. they just get trains man
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
doctorjazz:

Great stuff! Taking off, check in again later. Thanks, Evan!
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

safe travels Doc!
Avatar 8:05pm
still b/p:

The fog in Stonington harbor and around islands came in and out and in and out. Boat was named Cat Sass.

Amtrak station is a few blocks from me, so the occasional train horn is nice. Down by the Portland waterfront, a narrow-gauge operation has a good old higher-pitched whistle.
I don't mind watching a crossing train if I ain't trying to get somewhere quick. Nice thing about Amtrak, if one holds you up at a crossing, is they're shorties.
Avatar 8:05pm
fleep:

Returning from the primitive wilds of Ralphs with ginger honey beets and mandarin oranges. Greetings, Evan and explorers.
Avatar 8:06pm
Flash Strap:

greetings, beloved pater fleep, and welcome back from the wilds
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
chresti:

Ralphs can get pretty wild, glad you survived, fleep
Avatar 8:09pm
Flash Strap:

Scotty is such a curious guy, love his toasts
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
chresti:

This is toaster train heaven!
Avatar 8:13pm
Flash Strap:

don;t know who mixed this "dub rarity" but i really dig it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Franco Twinkie:

Fleep the Bold explorer! I myself am planning an expedition into that heart of darkness known as Pavilions capture a tub of vanilla ice cream.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
chresti:

And harmony heaven
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Flash Strap:

Hi Franco!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
chresti:

Which one@Flash?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Franco Twinkie:

Flash!
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chresti:

gotta get this one..
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Flash Strap:

@chresti: Reggay Train Dub
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Flash Strap:

very nice reprise of Rude Boy Train, love this kind of stuff
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
chresti:

King Tubby?
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Flash Strap:

wonderfully sloppy mix from perry here on rasta train
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Flash Strap:

@chresti: sounds like him to me, yeah
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Franco Twinkie:

Never heard that Dr. Alimantado before.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
northguineahills:

The circumferencial railway line was wiped out in Jamaica in the early 90s and never rebuilt (the last I heard).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
northguineahills:

(by a hurricane).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Little Danny:

@NGH: fascinating. Railroad transport is a very interesting angle on modern Jamaican history, I'm thinking. (And music, too, obviously.)
Avatar 8:25pm
Flash Strap:

hi ngh!
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Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

whhooo whooo! all aboard!
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chresti:

join the skank train, Granny!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
northguineahills:

The Limeys built it in 1845, and it there have been trials to rehabilitate it in the last few years, but the they lack the full funding
Avatar 8:31pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Granny!
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still b/p:

Saw a cartoon when I was a kid: two hobos next to an open-doored parked boxcar, and one says, "I've never been able to find this featherbedding they talk about."
It was many years later that I realized the joke wasn't just about a comfy lie-down when he grabs a ride.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Franco Twinkie:

Granny, don't you think it's peculiar that you can't take a train directly from Los Angeles to San Francisco? You have to go to Oakland first, and THEN take a bus to the city! Ass backwards if you ask me, but of course no one is asking me.
Avatar 8:34pm
Flash Strap:

this was the first reggae song i heard, as a kid, that really sunk its hooks in me. incredible vibes, beyond-exquisite toast
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
chresti:

This is on Cool Breeze, where I first heard it
Avatar 8:35pm
Flash Strap:

for me, Harder they Come soundtrack LP
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
chresti:

*Big Youth
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
northguineahills:

@Franco: You can't take Amtrak from Jacksonville to Miami direct, even though there are tracks on the east coast. You have to go to Tampa, then Miami, and it takes 10 hours, thanks to CSX owning all of the tracks (usually a 5 hour drive w/o traffic).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

Franco Twinkie: yes, SF is inconveniently out of the way of the interstate traffic routes. I have many memories of riding the Coast Starlight all night (from Washington State) and arriving at the East Bay Station in the morning. Sleepily taking the bus across the Bay Bridge and feeling a thrill when i saw Coit Tower and Alcatraz. Sometimes my mom and i would take the northbound back to Washington in the evening!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Franco Twinkie:

American business savvy.
Avatar 8:39pm
still b/p:

Franco, always been that way? I took a train from West Texas to San Francisco (without sleeping berth, oy!), and going from LA to SF I don't remember a hook segment to Oakland.
Avatar 8:40pm
still b/p:

Trip was '83.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
chresti:

Always @still b/p
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
Franco Twinkie:

Well, there had to be a train station in SF at some point. Where did it go?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
chresti:

You can take BART from places other than Oakland, to get to SF, still have to switch trains.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

I think the only way a train could get to sf without a bridge would be from the peninsula/San Jose direction. We do have CalTrain. Otherwise, it would have to cross the water somehow.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
northguineahills:

I didn't hear the Cornel Campbell, but the 70s he was usually produced by Tubby. The Aggrovators had Lee Perry do a few of their's.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Franco Twinkie:

Still b/p, I always drive, but one day I said what the hell. I'll never do that again.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

Fremont still has the steam engine train you can ride! And a silent film theatre!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
northguineahills:

Which Guinea, this is relevant to my interests!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

And a Bollywood multiplex!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
northguineahills:

ahh, just Guinea, (Conakry)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
chresti:

Does it have a gift shop? They might have train music @Granny
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Franco Twinkie:

I remember train tracks down by Mission Bay, but of course it's all city of glass google crap city down there now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

I've never been to Jamaica, but i did take a train all the way across Cuba! They bragged that it was the only operational railroad in the Caribbean.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
northguineahills:

I was lucky enough to visit Jamaica and stay at a friend's aunt's house while she was on vacation, away from the tourists (in Port Antonio).
Avatar 8:53pm
Flash Strap:

Demba Camara is from Senegal, and until his death in '73 sang with Bembeya jazz Nat'l, among other projects such as this
Avatar 8:54pm
still b/p:

Someone please to be writing and recording hard-energy, strong-tempo blues song: Glass Google Crap City.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Franco Twinkie:

Ha!
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

interesting quotation / connection with the Bembeya all-time banger Super Tentemba there ("aye, aye, aye!")
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
coelacanth∅:

beautiful
Avatar 9:00pm
Flash Strap:

is this song about Thomas Sankara? wish i had the language skills for this. Sankaranka also recorded by classic groups Balla et ses Balladins & Pivi et les Balladins (who we'll hear shortly)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
chresti:

I went to Jamaica (Negril, Kingston) once, in 1990-91, with my then husband. Harrowing Taxi ride from Montego Bay to Negril.
Avatar 9:02pm
Flash Strap:

i once went to negril as well, and managed to get taken from there into the hills for some very interesting experiences. i was very young, wish to return one day
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passiflora:

really enjoying this
Avatar 9:03pm
Flash Strap:

taxi ride was also very harrowing
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Flash Strap:

hi passiflora, me too
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Little Danny:

"Solo Quintette." Wow. Unstoppable groove.
Avatar 9:05pm
Flash Strap:

insane groove here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Little Danny:

Beat you!
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Flash Strap:

haha danny once again we think alike
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Little Danny:

It's also vaguely familiar from some other context. Like, maybe, Nuyorican boogaloo?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Little Danny:

Oh shit, it's "Watermelon Man."
Avatar 9:07pm
Flash Strap:

sort of a Dorothy Ashby thing going with the harp + groove, c. Afro-Harping
  9:07pm
Martinibomb:

this is awesome!
Avatar 9:08pm
Flash Strap:

@LD: oh dam is it really?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Little Danny:

I mean, the chorus was. I think there was something slightly different going on with the verse. Will re-listen.
Avatar 9:09pm
Flash Strap:

very cool though
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Flash Strap:

outrageous attack on Samba, what an onslaught
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Flash Strap:

guitar is so wild
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Flash Strap:

Boiro Band also does a version of Samba but it's not quite as crazy to my ears
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Flash Strap:

cool organ, awesome guitar, great vocals, the Tambourinis have it all man
Avatar 9:20pm
Flash Strap:

Camayenne Sofa representing the Camayenne region of Guinea. more organ magic here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:21pm
doctorjazz:

I back, catching Sofa on the sofa.
Avatar 9:21pm
Flash Strap:

welcome back to the fold, doc
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Flash Strap:

Super Boiro Band is so damn good. gonna do 2 in a row of these guys
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
doctorjazz:

Reminds me of King Sunny Are (these past few tracks), but that's my frame of reference.
Avatar 9:35pm
Flash Strap:

i get that, esp. with the echo on the guitars you sometimes get. similar to some Congolese guitar music as well. different rhythms between them all though
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
doctorjazz:

The jams have a similar fell to me.
Avatar 9:37pm
Flash Strap:

wow
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Flash Strap:

cool intro to the organ solo there
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
doctorjazz:

Typo corrections...similar feel, the one above, and, of course Sunny Ade the one before.
Avatar 9:42pm
Flash Strap:

read ya loud and clear doc
Avatar 9:43pm
still b/p:

I had a cassette of Sunny Ade thirty years ago -- my introduction to that realm of music; I think it was recorded off radio. What happened to it?
Avatar 9:44pm
fleep:

Ah, so much missed. Cable TV problems. Please hold for the next representative (cheeseball music). Much better to listen to you.
Avatar 9:45pm
Flash Strap:

glad to have ya back fleep
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Flash Strap:

wonder what was on it, b/p
Avatar 9:47pm
fleep:

my first Sunny Ade was also a cassette dubbed by a friend in Carmel. Still got it. JuJu Music and Synchro System.
Avatar 9:47pm
Flash Strap:

good stuff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
coelacanth∅:

s b/p -oh, i've got it. it was under the passenger seat and my foot found it, so i swiped it.
sorry.
...i can dub you a copy if you want.
Avatar 9:51pm
Flash Strap:

really lively vocal here, instantly brings a smile
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
doctorjazz:

You have a working cassette deck,Coel? Mine bit the dust a long time ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
coelacanth∅:

actually my introduction to King Sunny Ade was a legit label release cassette my aunt gave me, which had the full album on both sides.
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Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

Thanks for all the great tunes!
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still b/p:

Juju Music and Synchro System, yes! I believe it was mono, cuz it was recorded when the community radio station was mono.
Yes, coel, I'll take a dub, instead of original with all dat floor grit inside the case and the sticky food leavin's on it.
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Little Danny:

What Granny said.
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Little Danny:

Hope to see y'all in the next block over: wfmu.org...
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doctorjazz:

I great there's a cassette revival happening (bands bring them to sell at shows...cheaper than vinyl).
CD revival should be coming soon (eight track seems not to have any appeal).
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doctorjazz:

Ditto GST!
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northguineahills:

You should do all of the Guineas; Guinea-Bisaau, Equatorial Guinea, Suriname (Dutch Guinea), Guyana, French Guinea, Brazilian state of Amepa (used to be Portuguese Guinea), and Papua New Guinea!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:56pm
coelacanth∅:

doc, at this point i have 5!
i have a $15. yard sale find that can't record but sounds good; a yamaha 4-track c.1996; a back-up tascam 4-track that someone gave me...
then when my father checked out in december i (eventually) took an old nikko deck -all mechanical, no bullshit "touch-controls" or anything; and a sony dual deck that makes fairly shitty recordings (and probably always has)
  9:57pm
hebdo:

<3
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northguineahills:

Thanks, Flash!
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chresti:

Thanks Flash, so great!
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doctorjazz:

Cool, Coel (been wanting to say that)
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coelacanth∅:

s b/p i do have the vinyls of those albums, which i'd gladly record for ya; but at this point i think you can obtain them more easily on the stickywebs.
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fleep:

Archive for sure, thanks Flash
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Flash Strap:

Thanks everyone for tuning in and hanging out, catch you in that Blue Room we love so well
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chresti:

I saw Ade at the Greek
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coelacanth∅:

well, i'm trying to get rid of stuff (selling on ebay and cl) but i think hanging on to the cassette decks is a good idea.
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Martinibomb:

Thanks Flash!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan!
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passiflora:

:)
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