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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 July 2, 2020: The Earth's Rotation

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
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Masterfleet  First Voyage   Favoriting High on the Sea  Sussex  1973    0:00:56 (Pop-up)
Starship Commander Wooooo Wooooo  Mastership   Favoriting Mastership  Mastership Records  1981    0:02:00 (Pop-up)
Lyn Christopher  Take Me With You   Favoriting Take Me With You / Unrequited 7"  Paramount  1973    0:07:51 (Pop-up)
King Lee! featuring Quintron  Tire Shop (Parts 1 & 2)   Favoriting Tire Shop 7"  Goner Records  2010    0:10:56 (Pop-up)
Eric Lou Root  Don't Worry (side A excerpt)   Favoriting Don't Worry  Wortel Production  1987  orig. only 6 copies; reissued Red Light Records  0:18:05 (Pop-up)
Dennis Alcapone / Keith Hudson  Spanish Omega   Favoriting Dynamic Fashion Way / Spanish Omega 7"  Inbidimts  1970  aka "Spanish Amigo"; toast of Ken Boothe's "Old Fashioned Way"  0:23:48 (Pop-up)
U-Roy / Keith Hudson  Dynamic Fashion Way   Favoriting Dynamic Fashion Way / Spanish Omega 7"  Inbidimts  1970  toast of Ken Boothe's "Old Fashioned Way"  0:28:11 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Underway  
 
 
 
 
0:29:26 (Pop-up)
E. Artemiev, Yu. Bogdanov  Паруса = Voiles   Favoriting Метаморфозы = Metamorphoses  Мелодия  1980    0:37:29 (Pop-up)
Медео  Охотник, Cюита = Hunter, Suite   Ансамбль «Медео» (Ensemble Medeo)  Мелодия  1985    0:40:35 (Pop-up)
B. Petrov  The Earth's Rotation = Вращение Земли / First Meeting = Первая Встреча   Favoriting Memory, Rock Ballet = Память, Рок-Балет  Мелодия  1986    0:50:49 (Pop-up)
Sergei Djokanov  The Green Desert   Favoriting The Green Desert  Balkanton  1985  rec. at Bulgarian National Radio  0:55:02 (Pop-up)
The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Choir  Pilentze Pee   Favoriting Les Mystères Des Voix Bulgaires (Volume 1)  Disques Cellier   1975    0:59:35 (Pop-up)
Holger Czukay  Hollywood Symphony   Favoriting Movies  Harvest / EMI Electrola  1979    1:02:11 (Pop-up)
Cluster  Hollywood   Favoriting Zuckerzeit  Brain  1974    1:16:46 (Pop-up)
Neu!  Hallogallo   Favoriting Neu!  Brain  1972    1:21:18 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Les Metiers et Borneo  
 
 
 
 
1:30:56 (Pop-up)
Guelewar  Cilss   Favoriting Halleli N'Dakarou  Teranga Beat  2011  rec. live at Canari Club de Kaolack, Senegal, 1972  1:41:01 (Pop-up)
Ifang Bondi  Xaleli Africa   Favoriting "Saraba"  Disques Griot  1978    1:48:50 (Pop-up)
Karantamba  Titi   Favoriting Ndigal  Teranga Beat  2012  rec. live at Sangomar nightclub in Thies, Senegal 1984  1:58:22 (Pop-up)
Unknown Artist  Deoula (Solo de Kora)   Favoriting Sons Nouveaux D'une Nation Nouvelle – La République de Guinée  Tempo International  1962    2:06:37 (Pop-up)
Orchestre Tout Puissant Likembé Konono Nº1  Mungua-Muanga   Favoriting Zaïre: Musiques Urbaines À Kinshasa  Ocora  1989  rec. live 1978  2:11:52 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Bells of My Soul  
 
 
 
 
2:40:31 (Pop-up)
Alton Ellis  Big Bad Boy   Favoriting Big Bad Boy / Big Bad Boy Version 7"  Mafia  1972  prod. Keith Hudson  2:50:25 (Pop-up)
Don T. Junior / Keith Hudson  Evil Spirit   Favoriting Satan Side / Evil Spirit 7"  Duke Records  1972  aka Don Drummond  2:52:21 (Pop-up)
Ken Boothe  Old Fashion Way   Favoriting Old Fashion Way / Spanish Omega 7"  Inbidimts  1970  prod. Keith Hudson  2:54:43 (Pop-up)
Keith Hudson  Satan Side   Favoriting Satan Side / Evil Spirit 7"  Duke Records  1972    2:57:21 (Pop-up)


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Flash Strap:

hellllllo explorers
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doctorjazz:

Hellllo, Flash!
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passiflora:

listening over birdsong in the park
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chresti:

Hi Flllash and exxplorers!
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Carmichael:

Heya Flash and holidayers.
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Aitch:

Nice day for a sail.
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Flash Strap:

Hi Doc!

Hello Passiflora & birds!

Hi Chresti!
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Flash Strap:

Welcome aboard Carm & Aitch
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listener james from westwood:

Wooooo! How dooooo, all of you?
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Flash Strap:

Hello James! trying to get my sailin' smooth here, how about yourself
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listener james from westwood:

Managing as best one can, as always with greater ease with WFMU on in the room!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Kids.
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Flash Strap:

hiya Rev
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Lotta Disco of late? Summer thing?
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Flash Strap:

great production on this Lyn Christopher man
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Well if so '73 was ahead of the curve...
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WR:

Hi all drummer explorers. Evan, the artwork is sorta like Dali but more raw than anything I remember from him. Seems like something from some one with vocabulary of Dali and Max Ernst or something.
Avatar 7:13pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Deffo Dali - bit Muralist - Bosch even here or there...
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Flash Strap:

Hi WR, it's Masson, who was just as big in the movement as Dali or Ernst, so that makes sense; at that time Surrealism was much more collectivist with regards to individual aesthetic as well
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

Masson the great proponent of "automatic drawing", hugely influential on Dali's own Paranoiac-critical method
Avatar 7:20pm
Flash Strap:

forgot about this Eric Lou Root for a long time, putting it on again it's still incredibly awesome
Avatar 7:21pm
Frog Mover:

Evening y'all! Nothin like some good Root
Avatar 7:21pm
Flash Strap:

Hey there Frog Mo
Avatar 7:22pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Interesting !
Amusical Eelektric Gittar abuse - now we're in my little wheelhouse...
Avatar ♥ 7:23pm
TDK60:

What's happnin?
Avatar 7:23pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Interesting re Masson. Cheers.
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

Hey TDK!
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Flash Strap:

@Rev: I think you'd really dig Masson's stuff actually, highly demented
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Flash Strap:

also demented: that Root guitar abuse, I agree
Avatar 7:27pm
Flash Strap:

"might I remind you, the studio real cloudy"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:29pm
Little Danny:

Hey Flash, hey all
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Flash Strap:

Hi LD!
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Little Danny:

This Soviet electronic ambience is all brand new to me, I wonder what kinda synths they're using?
Avatar 7:41pm
Flash Strap:

I wonder too - that first track was the Synthy-100 though
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:43pm
Little Danny:

I'm lovin' it all either way. There's something indefinably '80s Soviet era about it to me, maybe it's the guitar tones
Avatar 7:44pm
Flash Strap:

definitely
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Flash Strap:

here's the cover for the next selection, speaking of indefinably '80s Soviet era: img.discogs.com...
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Frog Mover:

Diggin this Soviet funk!
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Little Danny:

Oh wow yes
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Flash Strap:

me too froggy
Avatar 7:49pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Watching 'How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin' (which reportedly even Gorbachev acknowledges) - & the lengths they went to then to create Gittars. They stole Stalinist loudspeakes off poles - &tc. Quite a doc.
Avatar 7:49pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...earlier decades...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Eventually the State just went into the record biz...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Before that just getting Music was like Drugs here...
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Flash Strap:

next up a little synth from Bulgaria: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 7:59pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

....trying for a Synth / Voix de Bulgare pun but nuthin'...
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Flash Strap:

there ya go pal
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

It's them!
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Little Danny:

Is there a music theory name for this kind of (ultra-close?) harmony?
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melinda:

Hi gang!
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Flash Strap:

Hi Melinda!
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Flash Strap:

not sure LD, but I'd like to know
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Flash Strap:

simply one of my very favorite albums, this
Avatar 8:04pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Do they not have their own 'half Eastern' scale - correlating to their unique geography?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- intervals...
Avatar 8:09pm
Flash Strap:

Czukay's compositions on this LP meander in this beautiful way, they feel unpredictable to me no matter how many times I've heard them
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Flash Strap:

of course we have Liebezeit on drums here, but I think on this track we have Czukay on virtually every other instrument
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Flash Strap:

& editing/producing naturally. tho Conny Plank is credited as an advisor
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Even if they're all you - having to track everything together thru those meanders...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...called a Composer I reckon...
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TDK60:

Groovy stuff.
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chresti:

Yeah.
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Flash Strap:

man this one's a classic for a reason
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TDK60:

love unusual bass sounds.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:21pm
Little Danny:

Motorik's platonic ideal.
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melinda:

So good.
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Flash Strap:

@LD: truly
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Somehow them calling themselves 'New' has never become ironic...
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Little Danny:

@RR63: truly a transcendent project, Neu! Beyond reproach in my book.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, what's Neu!?
Avatar 8:26pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Ken! imagining a cover of What's Neu! Püssykat that's 11 minutes long and has a perfect motorik beat
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Flash Strap:

a Tom Jones Vocoder album
  8:29pm
colin:

Great show, really enjoying it. Thanks Ken
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Flash Strap:

Hi Colin
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I think of Cope calling Stereolab 'French Jazz' & Krautrock pretenders...tho' I am FrancoAmerican & love Jazz & Stereolab.
Avatar 8:42pm
Flash Strap:

crucial use of mini-moog in a lot of Guelewar / Bai Janha stuff. really visceral sound
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Flash Strap:

Bai Janha, nicknamed "Sweet Fingers" btw
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

If I were on a track with an ensemble this rhymically intricate but groovy & loose - I would think it a real high point of my life!
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Flash Strap:

seriously
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

So together but such an imminent recording.
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Flash Strap:

I agree, they're so vivid and intense to listen to
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Flash Strap:

vocals here by Ali Harb, I believe. Guitar by Banha
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Flash Strap:

it might actually be Papa Touray on vocals. not super familiar with Ifang Bondi's lineup
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

First exposure to any Vocal remotely comparable probably Hugh Masekala in Monterey Pop film sounding loud & angry but soulful - always blew my mind as a little kid.
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Flash Strap:

This album is Bai Janha with a group of somewhat unpolished younger musicians, very loose and experimental session. I've seen a a few reviewers deride it's "amateurish" elements but I've always adored it. pulsing with vitality I say
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yeah thx to whoever recorded these!
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TDK60:

This is hopping along. I dig it.
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Flash Strap:

i love this record so much... i'm loving it more with each minute, this evening
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chresti:

I love this kora.
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Flash Strap:

following this kora solo, a massive super-amplified workout on likembe from Zaire
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Flash Strap:

@chresti: me too, it's so bloody elegant
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Should listen to some African music every day. Be very healthy.
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Little Danny:

This is great
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Little Danny:

This too is great!
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TDK60:

I see (saw) some kora guys playing on subway platforms; must be noisy to focus, but most have amps.
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Flash Strap:

these guys from Zaire generally play for specific tribal events, such as mourning, etc. - depending on the prestige of the family involved, often for as long as a week at a time. truly endurance music. this track is a morning song - instrumental so as to give the singers a little time to rest after singing all night. this particular ensemble actually hails from Angola
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Little Danny:

GOOD MORNING, ZAIRE!
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Flash Strap:

crazy homemade amplifier set up, great blown-out guitar mic sound on the likembe, pushed through a wall of six speakers
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Flash Strap:

love the cover of this cassette: img.discogs.com...
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Aitch:

A lovely winter morning here in Sydney, enjoying the show as I work.
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TDK60:

Well, this energetic orchestra obviously had their wheaties and vitamins.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

COVER!
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chresti:

Do they have khat in Zaire? Thats a good pick-me-up I hear.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Kicking out the jams, in other words.
  9:26pm
Ike:

Very cool.
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Flash Strap:

ecstatic
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Flash Strap:

hi there Ike
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Flash Strap:

@chresti: i wonder what it's like to have a little khat
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:29pm
WR:

Since khat has been mentioned a few times in last couple of days took a look at the wikipedia page for it. It is illegal in all forms in the USA but "In 1980, the WHO classified the plant as a drug of abuse that can produce mild to moderate psychological dependence (less than tobacco or alcohol)"
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Frog Mover:

Damn this is hot!
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Flash Strap:

orig. released by Ocora as a double cassette, which is the better version from the CD as far as I can tell, since the runtime for everything is longer
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Flash Strap:

damn now that's a sound
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WR:

Never have seen Ocora cassettes, met a guy in the late 70s who had many of their LPs.
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Flash Strap:

they have so many releases, it's crazy
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chresti:

I forget who told me recently that you have to chew a lot of it to feel anything.
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WR:

Was curious about the sound, so put in headphones. Wondering if stereo and yes it was, presume it was typical quality equipment of its time, Nagra and a couple of good microphones. Sounded really good, will listen to it again with the headphones.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:42pm
chresti:

..and have it with lime (not the fruit) like coca leave chewing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:46pm
Franco Twinkie:

Flash, I saw Konono#1 play downtown L.A. a few years ago. I was pretty sick, but I went anyway, I mean they don't play around here everyday. I had a fever and I think that added to the experience.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:47pm
coelacanth∅:

hey y'all is the booze all gone?
... any music left?
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Little Danny:

Massive show, Evan
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WR:

The wikipedia page has a lot of detail, no mention of needing something else to help release the active substance, "Its fresh leaves and tops are chewed or, less frequently, dried and consumed as tea, to achieve a state of euphoria and stimulation; it also has anorectic (appetite-reducing) side effects. The leaves or the soft part of the stem can be chewed with either chewing gum or fried peanuts to make it easier to chew. "
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Flash Strap:

that's amazing, Franco!
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Flash Strap:

it's feverish music for sure
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Flash Strap:

Hi Coelacanth!
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Little Danny:

Hope y'all can join me: wfmu.org... Thought I'd licked last week's video streaming issues but apparently it's still erroring out for some of ya. Will likely disable after 15 minutes or so if true.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:52pm
coelacanth∅:

they're a few years away from figuring out how to profit from khat
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Flash Strap:

thanks LD
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chresti:

That would be the lime, WR. Calcium carbonate.
Thanks Flash, and love Keith Hudson!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:53pm
Franco Twinkie:

I tried, but no one wanted to go with me. After the show I had trouble walking back to my truck.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:54pm
coelacanth∅:

hey Evan sorry i've missed most of the show
was driving
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doctorjazz:

Thanks, Evan!
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TDK60:

Good night.
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chresti:

Uncle Michael's twitch doesn't seem to have issues, Danny, but then he's not playing videos.
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Flash Strap:

no prob, C., the archives are always there for you
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chresti:

TDK60 good night.
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Little Danny:

@chresti: thanks yeah I'm gonna have to get UM's wisdom
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Flash Strap:

good night all, please join Scott who'll be in my stead and please rejoin me here in two weeks when i'll be refreshed and playing much Peruvian gold
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:58pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan enjoy your time away.
and Thanks for hooking us up with Mr. McDowell
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Flash Strap:

my great pleasure, C.
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chresti:

I thought he was saying safe and sound, before I learned it was satan side.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

THX
  10:03pm
MattfromNewOrleans:

Hi everyone. Due to the chat not working in mobile safari, I’ll mostly just be listening.
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WR:

oops, time flies, Thank you Evan, hope you can fully enjoy your time off. Thank you for fun and energizing (like khat?, LOL) show tonight.
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