Favoriting Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from October 22, 2015 Favoriting

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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 October 22, 2015: Exotica Project 45s
45 RPM singles from the incredible Exotica Project: http://exoticaproject.com/

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Artist Track Album Year
  Intro      
Martin Denny  Quiet Village   Favoriting b/w Llama Serenade  1958 
Manny Duran & Orchestra  Tabu   Favoriting   1960 

Music behind DJ:
 
Caribbean Lagoon  
 
 
The Three Bars feat. Nicky Roberts  Caribbean Cruise   Favoriting    
Harvey Anderson Modern Jazz Quartet  Jivaro   Favoriting    
Pasquale & The Lunar-Tiks  Moon Madness   Favoriting    
George Loa - Maui Loa (Little Brother)  Cosmic Climax (Polynesian Chant of Green Creation)   Favoriting    
Elmo Garcia and His Orchestra  Island Love Chant   Favoriting    
Red Garrison & His Zodiacs  Chant of the Jungle   Favoriting    
Mel Gray with Johnny Mical's Orchestra and the Elmo Russ Singers  Mambo Jungle   Favoriting    
Al Simms Sextet  (Jungle) Slave Dance   Favoriting    
Yusef Lateef  Jungle Flute   Favoriting    
Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra  Jungle Flute   Favoriting    
Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra  Flute Nightmare   Favoriting    
Del-Tones  Taboo   Favoriting    
Felix and His Fabulous Cats  Savage Girl   Favoriting    
Jack Medell and His Orchestra  Umbé   Favoriting    

Music behind DJ:
Thurston Knudson 
 
 
 
Bill Justis  The Dark Continent Contribution   Favoriting    
The Afro-Americans - Sticks Evans - Lila St. John  Africa Laments   Favoriting    
The James Arr Septette  Congo Elegy   Favoriting    
Ray Johnson  Blue Congo   Favoriting    
Nick Fatool, Dick Eckels, Phil Stephens  The Big Noise From Watusi, Part II   Favoriting    
The Luna Brothers Trio  Mozambique   Favoriting    
Bob Keene Orchestra  Swahili   Favoriting    
The Johnny Noubarian Quartet  Tanganyika   Favoriting    
Gene Sikora & The Irrationals  Tanganyika   Favoriting   1959 
Billy Saint featuring Bill Osborne Combo  Tanganyika   Favoriting    

Music behind DJ:
Thurston Knudson 
 
 
 
Joann Auborn and the Rays  Tanganyika   Favoriting    
The Passions  Jungle Drums   Favoriting    
Don Sargent and the Buddies  Voodoo Kiss   Favoriting   1959 
Carmen Lesay  Voo Doo   Favoriting    
Joan Joyce Trio  Captured   Favoriting    
Jeri Simpson  In My Black Lace   Favoriting   1957 
Sylvie Mora  Taboo   Favoriting   1960 
The Fabulous Pearls  Jungle Bunny   Favoriting    
Kali Bahlu  Lonely Teardrops   Favoriting   1966/67 
Carmen Lesay  Sunset Mood   Favoriting   1960 
Darla Hood and the Fabulous Modesto Orchestra  My "Quiet Village"   Favoriting   1959 

Music behind DJ:
Thurston Knudson 
 
 
 
Tony Martinez and his Mambo Combo  The Black Sleep   Favoriting    
Les Baxter  The Left Arm of Buddha   Favoriting    
Rita Moss  Zatika, Part 1   Favoriting    
Dave Brubeck Featuring Ragu  Raga Theme for Ragu   Favoriting    
Andre Brummer  Tumba   Favoriting    
Otis Freeman  Mambo Arribique   Favoriting    
The Merits  Arabian Jerk   Favoriting    
Johnny Lewis Trio and Millie  Snake Hips   Favoriting    
Ross Anderson Chorus and Orch.  Tam-Bu Theme   Favoriting    
Cindy & Sue (Bob Worth at the Artisan Organ at International Sound)  Temple Love   Favoriting    
Tommy Burchard and His Cordovox  Romero Sunset   Favoriting    
The Islanders  Forbidden Island   Favoriting    
The Glenrays  Egyptian Nightmare   Favoriting    

Music behind DJ:
 
Caribbean Lagoon  
 
 
The Charades  Flamingo   Favoriting   1964 
Peggy Lee  Where Flamingos Fly   Favoriting    
Bill Osborn  Bamboo and Rice   Favoriting    
Eden Ahbez (Nature Boy)  Tobago   Favoriting    
The Kicks  Mist   Favoriting    
Orpheus Four  Caverns   Favoriting    
Johnny Spencer and the Kona Koasters  Maui Rain   Favoriting    
Bruce Norman Quintet  Keeper of the Sea   Favoriting   1963 
Martha Raye with Phil Moore Orchestra  Lotus Land   Favoriting    

Music behind DJ:
 
Pacific Ocean  
 
 
The La Bombas  Taboo   Favoriting    
H.B. Barnum and His Orchestra  Quiet Village Cha Cha   Favoriting    


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Avatar 3:56pm
Flash Strap:

45 RPM singles from the incredible Exotica Project: exoticaproject.com

The Exotica Project is the product of the labor and passion of Dan Shiman, who also tends this fabulous garden of 45s: www.officenaps.com
Avatar ♥ 7:01pm
Carmichael:

Ooooh, this is gonna be great!
Avatar ♥ 7:01pm
hyde:

wow, that's new to me. the "Nowhere Town" 100 looks amazing too.
Avatar 7:02pm
ndbob:

evening Evan, Carmichael, everyone!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm
Little Danny:

Needless to say I'm looking forward to this show. Evan rules.
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hey guys! Hyde, Carmichael, Bob! I think this is gonna be great, these tunes are kingly good
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

Aw shucks! Welcome, Danny! You're the guest of honor
Avatar ♥ 7:04pm
Carmichael:

I need to put on my smoking jacket and mix myself a vodka martini.
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

Oh you really should! Though rum would be more appropriate, if you don't mind my saying so
Avatar 7:07pm
ndbob:

Yep Danny - I certainly think of you when I think of Exotica 45s:)
Avatar ♥ 7:09pm
Carmichael:

I was channeling Jack Cassidy.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:18pm
JtotheK:

hi everybody! i'm happy to be able to tune in live tonight - normally i catch this program via the archive, it's always great!
Avatar 7:20pm
Flash Strap:

Jack Cassidy is always welcome in this room
Avatar 7:20pm
Flash Strap:

Hi there J to the K!
Avatar 7:24pm
Flash Strap:

This one is nuuuuts
Avatar ♥ 7:26pm
hyde:

if anyone needs me, i'll be outside naked and howling
Avatar 7:27pm
Flash Strap:

@Hyde: well that's what I needed you for, so carry on
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

God this stuff is so good
Avatar 7:35pm
Flash Strap:

Little bit o' Deano in this guy's style, weirdly
Avatar 7:37pm
Flash Strap:

That last track was so sloppy, this one's so precise and lovely
Avatar ♥ 7:38pm
Carmichael:

I found a live Danny Kapoi Trio LP at a garage sale the other day.
Avatar 7:38pm
Flash Strap:

how is it? I've never heard that
Avatar 7:41pm
Flash Strap:

Man o man: Yusef Lateef
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:51pm
JtotheK:

Felix and His Fabulous Cats -- cool name, cool track!
Avatar 7:52pm
Flash Strap:

yeah that one was red-hot
Avatar ♥ 7:54pm
hyde:

if Little Danny is still here just an FYI: the Penny West and Lucky Penny Trio tune in Nowhere Town is missing
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:54pm
coelacanth:

Ahoy Cap'n Flash and explorers!
Avatar 7:58pm
ndbob:

excellent first hour Evan and Danny = catch the rest on the archive
Avatar 8:00pm
Flash Strap:

See ya Bob! Hello Coelo!
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

How are we all doing tonight? Gettin' steamy?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:04pm
Little Danny:

Evan: Definitely agree that Yusef was America's foremost proponent of exoticism and exotica in jazz. Also Lateef, along with Sun Ra, made explicit references to Les Baxter.

hyde: Thank you! Duly fixed.
Avatar 8:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...singles' lounge ?...
Avatar ♥ 8:07pm
hyde:

@little danny no, thank *you*! that stuff looks amazing and these 45s that Flash is playing are killer too.
Avatar 8:07pm
Flash Strap:

Lateef really did! Some of the most explicit exotica quotes ever, really. I know Sun Ra admired Baxter, but I'm not sure I've ever noticed anything as explicit what Lateef did... but there's so much Sun Ra out there
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

Hey hey RRN63
Avatar ♥ 8:09pm
hyde:

there's so much out there Sun Ra out there
Avatar 8:11pm
Flash Strap:

Anybody heard that Sun Ra lecture at Berkeley? I just got it from Willard's Wormholes and have been listening to bits of it. It's, you know, OUT THERE
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:11pm
coelacanth:

i love this 45s image; i love this show; i love my salad; i love these ripe olives; i love this relative luxury!
(...i don't love that i find it so difficult to get answers regarding dividing donation credit between different shows.)
Avatar 8:13pm
Flash Strap:

This show loves you, Coe bro!

I'm not sure I can help with your query as I am total newbie to this stuff, but what do you mean, exactly? I think you can donate however much or little to any number of shows
Avatar 8:15pm
Flash Strap:

and oh yeah, those are just Dan's labels shopped on top of a pic of one of my hawaiian shirts I took to use for a Mike Cooper-themed show a ways back
Avatar 8:17pm
Flash Strap:

we'll hear every one of those 45s (from the image) tonight, by the way
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:21pm
JtotheK:

@Flash Strap -- re: Sun Ra lecture -- glad you mentioned it...a friend emailed me about it last month, I totally forgot to give it a listen...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:23pm
coelacanth:

i asked Joe & he said the system can only divide a $50. donation up 3 ways; but now i think i may be able to give more and i don't know if that limit is because it can only be divided in $15. increments or because -only into 3,regardless of the amount.
(i'd like to divide it by 4)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:23pm
JtotheK:

and the link I was sent contains the reading list for his course ... quite a few books I should seek out.
Avatar ♥ 8:24pm
hyde:

weird, it's so warm here tonight the tree frogs are out again. i thought the 25 degree nights sunday and monday put the kibosh on that.
Avatar 8:25pm
Flash Strap:

Ok, yeah, I can't help at all, C. Good luck and thanks for donating to WFMU, seriously. 'course, you got that swag for life so, you're basically royalty
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:28pm
Doug Schulkind:

Exotica Project rules! Explorers Room rocks!
Avatar 8:35pm
Flash Strap:

Oh, Doug! YOU are the ruler who rules!
Avatar 8:38pm
Flash Strap:

"to the pagan I love"

GOD
Avatar 8:39pm
Flash Strap:

It's devilish ward here too, Hyde! Amazing weather in this rotten city tonight
Avatar 8:40pm
Flash Strap:

devilish warm, I should say. "ward" sounds like I have weird plans for Robin, Boy Wonder
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:41pm
coelacanth:

i tried. i have to contact Joe again.
- i'm safer waiting 'till next week anyway!
Avatar 8:43pm
Flash Strap:

Just went past the halfway point! Let's keep rolling to 200%, buy WFMU a new juicer
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:44pm
coelacanth:

maybe i'm wrong,but "to the pagan i love" seems like -then it was considered a taboo; but now it would be scandalous.
Avatar 8:44pm
Flash Strap:

thanks Dan, as if you haven't contributed enough you lion
Avatar 8:46pm
Flash Strap:

the next song is seeeeeeexy, get ready
Avatar 8:48pm
Flash Strap:

I mean, this one actually borders on fetish art, in a way. in a good way
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:49pm
JtotheK:

oh my...getting quite hot n bothered over here...
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

!
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

This one, man... holy shit
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:54pm
Little Danny:

Haha, I was wondering if the Fabulous Pearls 45 might show up.
Avatar 8:55pm
Flash Strap:

How could it NOT

OH MY GOD
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

and this track, I mean, wow... what a freaky thing
Avatar ♥ 8:57pm
hyde:

wow, this song
Avatar 8:59pm
Flash Strap:

This is one of your favorites, if I recall, Dan. It's so good
Avatar 9:01pm
Flash Strap:

This is the one, I think you could argue, that's sung from the perspective of the Other lusting after the Western figure.

Which isn't to say it's not a Western fantasy: it is
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:01pm
JtotheK:

I'm starting to realize I may as well star the entire playlist. Great show!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:11pm
Doug Schulkind:

Holy schmoly! Explorers Room is a scant $220 from zonking the goal! ZONK people ZONK! Do it directly here: www.wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:16pm
Doug Schulkind:

Greetings to you, Little Danny. You are a most exalted dignitary around these Drummer Stream parts!
Avatar 9:18pm
Flash Strap:

Indeed he is
Avatar 9:19pm
Flash Strap:

classic timetravel track
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:21pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Doug!

"Left Arm of Buddha:" HELL YES. A side that I'll never tire of.
Avatar 9:21pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...these put me in mind of 'Beware of the Blob'...
Avatar ♥ 9:21pm
northguineahills:

I made it!
Avatar 9:22pm
Flash Strap:

@ Danny: Me. Either! One of Baxter's great oddities... how did it never make an LP?
Avatar 9:23pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Hi Hi NGH! Lots more to come!
Avatar 9:27pm
Flash Strap:

Danny, what;s the deal on that Black Sleep track? It's so relatively bizarre, I'm really curious if you know its secrets
Avatar 9:36pm
Flash Strap:

Some hints of Taboo here
Avatar ♥ 9:44pm
hyde:

huh, the cordovox. huh.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:44pm
Doug Schulkind:

Danny, just sent you an email...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:45pm
Little Danny:

Can't remember if you mentioned it, but "Black Sheep" is a Les Baxter composition. Its flipside "Robin's Mambo" appeared on Martinez's Dancing On The Sunset Strip LP (featuring pianist Eddie Cano & bongo king Jack Constanzo), so it seems likely they were involved. I don't know. Tony Martinez cut some other killer Latin jazz sides with an exotic feel, including "Pharoah's Curse," "Mambo Celeste" and "Ican."
Avatar 9:51pm
Flash Strap:

That's a crazy Baxter composition! I wish I had more of his one-off weird stuff like that
Avatar 9:52pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Fascinating stuff. Appreciate it.
Avatar 9:52pm
Flash Strap:

Is it really listed as Black Sheep?
Avatar 9:54pm
Flash Strap:

I love this one SO M U C H
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:57pm
coelacanth:

this is beautiful!
Avatar 10:00pm
Flash Strap:

This is basically an instrumental version of the title track from Eden's Island
Avatar ♥ 10:01pm
northguineahills:

Thanks Flash! Sorry I've been making potato pesto pasta.
Avatar 10:02pm
Flash Strap:

that doesn't sound like something to be sorry about
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:04pm
Doug Schulkind:

Once again, Flash Strap has taken us to uncharted magnificence! And we're in EXTRA time yet again. This is the only radio show that has no set ending time. It's just over when the slight jostle of boat against pier wakes us from our reverie. Captain Flash has brought us safely home again.

Please give a thoughtful and beloved donation to WFMU in the name of this marvelous endeavor! Do it here, do it now: www.wfmu.org...
Avatar 10:05pm
Flash Strap:

Was listening to this and wondering where I'd heard it before; it's called "Le Berber" on the Afro-Soultet's Afrodesia. The 'Tet share some members with The Orph. 4
Avatar 10:06pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks Doug!

Do as the man says, gentle people!
Avatar ♥ 10:10pm
hyde:

ok, this was amazing and all, but it's time for me to fade. see you all around the streams & etc. thanks Flash!
Avatar 10:11pm
Flash Strap:

You hung in there as long as anyone could expect, Hyde. Sweet dreams and off to Lotus land with you
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:12pm
coelacanth:

Doug - i already emailed Joe, but do YOU know the answer to my query stated earlier here? (@8:23)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:13pm
coelacanth:

g'night hyde! you all howled-out?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:18pm
coelacanth:

there was a tune somewhere between 8 & 9 that is the basic melody of dj Keili's show's theme song. when i listen to the archive i'll figure it out,i hope.
Avatar 10:19pm
Flash Strap:

So glad you're still with us, C.-man
Avatar 10:20pm
Flash Strap:

great birds on this one
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:21pm
coelacanth:

yes i know i was quiet,but been here the whole time.
...Thanks Evan you've been a splendid guide!
'night y'all.
(yeah this is great!)
Avatar 10:23pm
Flash Strap:

you've been a splendid member of this expedition, ancient fish friend

night night
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