Favoriting Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from June 8, 2017 Favoriting

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Favoriting June 8, 2017: Hingus (Breath) / Syncro (Systems)

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro         0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Anandmurti Gurumaa  Tariqat (Breath Taste)   Favoriting Zikr (Call of a Sufi)      0:01:37 (Pop-up)
King Sunny Ade and his African Beats  Synchro Feelings - Ilako   Favoriting Synchro System  1983    0:11:22 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
King Sunny Ade and his African Beats 

Syncro System Movements   Favoriting

Vol. 12 – The Original Syncro System Movements 

1974 

 

0:16:34 (Pop-up)
Kraftwerk  Atem   Favoriting Kraftwerk 2  1972  Atem = Breath  0:31:33 (Pop-up)
Daniel Arfib  Le Souffle Du Doux   Favoriting Musique Numérique  1981  Le Souffle Du Doux = "The Sweet Breath"  0:33:47 (Pop-up)
King Sunny Ade and his African Beats  Syncro Feelings   Favoriting Syncro Chapter 1  1977    0:43:48 (Pop-up)
King Sunny Ade and his African Beats  Synchro Series   Favoriting Synchro Series  1983    1:01:48 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Sun Araw 

That Geosynchronous Feeling   Favoriting

In Orbit c30 

 

 

1:17:01 (Pop-up)
Sven Grünberg  Hingus – I Osa   Favoriting Hingus  1981  Hingus = Breath  1:25:29 (Pop-up)
Sven Grünberg  Hingus – II Osa   Favoriting Hingus  1981    1:32:12 (Pop-up)
Sven Grünberg  Hingus – III Osa   Favoriting Hingus  1981    1:34:34 (Pop-up)
Sven Grünberg  Hingus – IV Osa   Favoriting Hingus  1981    1:42:03 (Pop-up)
Sun Araw  Remedial Ventilation   Favoriting Belomancie  2014    1:48:23 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Suzanne Ciani 

Second Breath   Favoriting

Lixviation 

 

 

2:03:59 (Pop-up)
Sun Araw  Flote   Favoriting Belomancie  2014    2:10:37 (Pop-up)
Admiral Dele Abiodun & His Top Hitters Band  Je Ka Jo Jojo Adawa System   Favoriting Elemu Nget On  1978    2:19:59 (Pop-up)
Ariel Kalma  Yogini Breath   Favoriting An Evolutionary Music 1972-1979      2:39:08 (Pop-up)
Iasos  The Paradise Bird Of Endless Melodies   Favoriting The Paradise Bird Of Endless Melodies      2:57:37 (Pop-up)


Listener comments!

Avatar 6:37pm
Flash Strap:

Good evening explorers! Got some good sounds on deck for you tonight
Avatar 6:53pm
Flash Strap:

jesus these birds are intense this evening
Avatar 7:01pm
Flash Strap:

I rarely credit the "intro" sounds because I usually just sort of hastily pick from a bunch of filed recordings right before the show, but this one is Iasos, "The Paradise Bird Of Endless Melodies"

really good cassette
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doctorjazz:

Hi Flash!
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Doc! How are ya?
Avatar 7:04pm
Carmichael:

Sorry, my mind was being controlled. All better now.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
doctorjazz:

Doing great, thanks! How are you and my fellow explorers?
Avatar 7:06pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Carm! How's your mind doing now that it's out of control?

I'm ok, I'm alright. Sorta pumped about that boy Corbyn, but I've been out of the loop for a couple hours now.
Avatar 7:07pm
hyde:

hello! i dig that Sven Grunberg LP, but what i dig more is the typography
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Hyde and totally, it's so good

i've been staring at it and wondering if I wish the "Hingus" was larger, or perfect as is
Avatar 7:10pm
Flash Strap:

also personally dig super hard on that Syncro typography, as well as these righteous ladies all over it
Avatar 7:13pm
hyde:

dang, Sunny Ade. that brings me back. i have probably already mentioned at some point that i saw them in Massachusetts on thir first tour of the states.
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

that must have been really good! he seems like one of those "world" crossover hits that didn't let western pop-attention ruin his sound

where did he play?
Avatar 7:20pm
hyde:

he played at this great place in Sunderland, right by UMass, where i also saw bands like X, James Brown and Muddy Waters. I think it was 1982 or 1983, right after Juju Music came out.

i think the band felt a little disappointed after only playing a couple hours, since it felt like they were just getting warmed up. but the best part was that it was winter, and after the show in the parking lot it started to snow. the whole band poured out into the lot laughing and playing around. they had never seen snow before, i think.
Avatar 7:21pm
hyde:

oh! the place was called The Rusty Nail. It burned down at some point.
Avatar 7:29pm
Flash Strap:

wild. I love that, and I am jealous you saw it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Little Danny:

Maestro Flash! Everybody!
Avatar 7:36pm
Flash Strap:

the waveforms of this recording are totally different looking than anything I've ever seen, I think
Avatar 7:36pm
Flash Strap:

LD! How's the main brain of the blue flame?
Avatar 7:38pm
Flash Strap:

really appropriate cover art: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 7:39pm
Flash Strap:

All I've found on this LP is this sentence: "Daniel Arfib translated with a computer original datas into MUSIC V language, that gives a 'numeric music'"
Avatar 7:43pm
geezerette:

This piece reminds me of indigenous Australian dream paintings, it's the didgireedo like reverberations probably.
Avatar 7:43pm
hyde:

there's some old cached stuff out there for Daniel Arfib that mentions this LP, but i'm not finding a lot either
Avatar 7:46pm
geezerette:

Sunny Ade had a sweet voice.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
David D:

Greetings Evan and everyone! Love the rhythm of the show...
Avatar 7:47pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Geezerette! That's really amazing you'd mention that, I was totally flashing back to a scene in "The Last Wave" where the character's house is flooding. That whole movie is about dreamtime – have you seen it? it's amazing

On that note! which of you recommended it to me that night when I was talking about Peter Weir and Picnic at Hanging Rock? I finally saw it a few months back and loved it immensely
Avatar 7:48pm
hyde:

@Flash that would be me. i'm glad i didn't oversell it!
Avatar 7:48pm
Flash Strap:

Pay attention, during this track, to the sound of the guitar: "This was the first juju album to use the Hawaiian guitar. Its effect was so spell-binding I still recall being a part of crowds on a Lagos street September 1977 listening in wonder to Sunny's latest innovation: it was unlike anything he had ever attempted. The long steel guitar solo 10:11ff is a rendering of a folk song by the twins, The Lijadu Sisters, "Iya O, Ololufe Mi" (My Mother, My Lover), but Sunny's guitar takes it right into the spheres!"
Avatar 7:49pm
hyde:

i *love* that movie
Avatar 7:49pm
geezerette:

Hi Evan, have always wanted to see both films but have never found them! Where are they available?

Hi Hyde!
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

I thought it was you Hyde! Yeah, it was beautiful. I loved it. Never seen another film with that particular handling of time and sensitivity to air moisture, weird as that may sound
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

Hi David D! So wonderful to see you brother, how goes it?
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Doug Schulkind:

For some, this record provide an initial entree to "world" music.
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geezerette:

Hyde, whee are Weir's films available?
Avatar 7:52pm
Flash Strap:

@G: Both are totally crucial, maybe the only Weir movies that I would call crucial (though there are some gaps what I've seen). I know Criterion put them both out, and they stream on some service... I rented them on DVD from netflix/the library
Avatar 7:53pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Doug! Indeed.
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geezerette:

Hmmm, maybe on Filmstruck...
Avatar 7:54pm
Flash Strap:

This stuff is so intro-level that I skipped over it for years in favor of "harder" stuff... but recently I've been FEELING it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
Little Danny:

@Flash: main brain is starting to spark, lingual flexibility increasing, muscles tensing
Avatar 7:55pm
hyde:

i probably said this then, but i was taking a film class at UMass and they showed the Last Wave and i went to all three screenings of it the week it showed. the only other movie i did this for was for my gangster film class when they showed Joseph h. Lewis' Gun Crazy.

@geezerette The Last Wave you can stream at iTunes (blecch) and Amazon. Picnic At Hanging Rock all over: Vudu, Youtube, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play
Avatar 7:56pm
Flash Strap:

@LD: IT LIVES
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Flash Strap:

Gun Crazy is so good
Avatar 7:57pm
hyde:

Gun Crazy is probably my favorite noir, if i don't think too much about Out of the Past
Avatar 7:57pm
geezerette:

I've always thought that American Blues & Rock are fundamentally west African, specifically Mali.
Avatar 7:58pm
Flash Strap:

oooh, never seen Out of the Past
Avatar 7:59pm
hyde:

@Flash WHAT!?!?!
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Little Danny:

Just watched the trailer for The Last Wave, looks bonkers-great
Avatar 8:01pm
hyde:

@Flash you *have* to watch Out of the Past. This one i know i'm not overselling.
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geezerette:

Gun Crazy is insane! Love that film, what an anti-heroine.

Out of the Past also great.
Avatar 8:01pm
Flash Strap:

I know man, I gotta fix it

If it helps my noir cred, I can talk about how crazy Ride the Pink Horse is
and I've read every Raymond Chandler book 4-7 times
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Little Danny:

@hyde: just noticed that The Last Wave is available on youtube: www.youtube.com...

Not the highest quality but, y'know, it's there in its entirety
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
David D:

Not bad Evan, thanks, and yourself?

And another vote for the Last Wave - I remember it just enough to know that I loved it, need to look for it online...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
David D:

Thanks for the link, Danny!
Avatar 8:03pm
hyde:

@LD that actually looks to be decent quality, really
Avatar 8:03pm
geezerette:

Just saw Ride the Pink Horse for the first time last year. Insane as well! :D
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

Out of the past added to Netflix Q. It's happening. Just gotta actually watch Godard's La Chinoise and get it out the door
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Little Danny:

@Flash, I'd love to hear some of your noir story and novel faves. And then hear an entire Explorers Room set or show based on "noir."
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

Having seen the Criterion of Last Wave, I can say that the quality is eye-popping. every molecule is on screen, and it smells like rain
Avatar 8:04pm
geezerette:

Thanks for locating Last Wave!
Avatar 8:05pm
hyde:

fwiw, we can connect Gun Crazy and Out of the Past through saying that Peggy Cummins was not only the femme fatale in Lewis' film but was also in Out of the Past director Jacques Torneur's fantastic Night of the Demon
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
doctorjazz:

Sonny Ade does indeed have a really sweet voice, and the percolating percussion beneath it highlights it.
Avatar 8:07pm
Flash Strap:

Well I'm sort of a noir novice in a lot of ways, but a giant Chandler enthusiast. I recommend to any person alive his Phillip Marlowe novels. They're all amazing, esp. Long Goodbye and Farewell, My Lovely. And The Little Sister
Avatar 8:09pm
Flash Strap:

Oh that's right! Out of the Past is directed by Jacques Torneur! Nice! I also need to see Night of the Demon, and like all his other flicks basically. he's so great
Avatar 8:09pm
Flash Strap:

This is some of King Sunny's trippiest stuff here. Super Talking Heads-y
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geezerette:

Hyde, never heard of Night of the Demon! Tournuer is one of my favorite directors.
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hyde:

ack! correction: it's Curse of the Demon, not Night of the Demon
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Flash Strap:

noted
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geezerette:

Glad you remembered, must find it.
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geezerette:

& Hi DocJazz!
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hyde:

@Flash i don't remember the specifics, but i do sort of remember that when Juju Music hit in he early 80's in the USA, it came with the David Byrne imprimatur
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doctorjazz:

That's when I first Heard it.
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doctorjazz:

Hi Geezerette!
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Flash Strap:

totally did
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doctorjazz:

It's very hypnotic....
Avatar 8:17pm
geezerette:

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts sounded so radical when it came out.
Avatar 8:18pm
hyde:

@geezerette i love that record
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geezerette:

me too Hyde.
Avatar 8:27pm
Flash Strap:

It's as good as can be!
Avatar 8:30pm
Flash Strap:

I always though parts of Hingus sounded like Alice Coltrane's orchestral stuff
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Flash Strap:

*thought
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yup.
Avatar 8:33pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Rev Rab! You agree?
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coelacanth∅:

greetings Evan and Explorers
Avatar 8:39pm
Flash Strap:

Coelacanth I like that dogface he seems like a good boy
Avatar 8:43pm
hyde:

huh, i was out in the yard listening to Grunberg and watching the bats catch bugs. it was good soundtrack
Avatar 8:43pm
Flash Strap:

That seems just about perfect, Hyde
Avatar 8:45pm
hyde:

i hope very much to be leaving upstate NY behind a soon as possible, so i'm doing my best to take in the good stuff
Avatar 8:46pm
Flash Strap:

where you headin' Hyde?
Avatar 8:46pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Listened to Ravi Coltrane talk about his mom Alice here recently:
www.npr.org...
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coelacanth∅:

Evan, he was a sweetheart ...and sometimes a dick, but he balanced out to still be a sweetheart.
...rest in peace.
Avatar 8:47pm
Flash Strap:

also: GodDAMN is that boy Corbyn gonna grab the PM seat? Somethin' to live for, that
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Flash Strap:

@C: Sounds like a dog; sounds like a friend.
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hyde:

@Flash i'm trying hard to get back to the Boston area
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Flash Strap:

Boy do I miss Boston
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hyde:

hoo boy, me too
Avatar 9:01pm
Flash Strap:

Coolidge Corner theater, the Brattle, the Harvard Film Archive

the arboretum, Forest Hills cemetery, the riverwalk, the book stores and record stores

the Harvard natural history museum, the Fogg, the MFA, the Gardner. man do i miss Boston sometimes
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coelacanth∅:

your synchro system cover is a whole lot more interesting than the cover of the album i have.
is3.mzstatic.com...
Avatar 9:07pm
geezerette:

UK Labor Party kicking ass so far. Looks like rebuff to Brexit! Nice!
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quinn:

lovely show as always
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geezerette:

Hi Coel. Very sweet doggie face, condolences.
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hyde:

@Flash i still go there on weekends to visit the gf, but i'm tired of the weekend commute. need to be there full time.

Harvard Film Archive has this *amazing* surf/psychedelia series this summer/ almost all on 16/35mm. Need to get to these : hcl.harvard.edu...
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Doug Schulkind:

Speaking of dogs, we have a good friend with a pooch named Sven. Sven sees a therapist.
Avatar 9:11pm
geezerette:

Oh no, what's Sven's problem?
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coelacanth∅:

hey g - Thanks...it's been a couple a years now. some board conversation prompted me to put it up again, but i don't remember why!
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Flash Strap:

@C: that's because they're totally different albums! although, there are variants of your album that have cooler covers. I think King Sunny has at least 4 LPs with Syncro or Synchro in the title
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Flash Strap:

Hell yes Geezerette! A step forward for the left in a world where left feet usually just get stubbed toes
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Flash Strap:

Quinn in the room! welcome Quinn!
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geezerette:

Coel it's a wonderful photo.
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Doug Schulkind:

@geez
Behavioral issues. My dog, Luna, is the only dog that Sven plays (mostly) nice with.
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coelacanth∅:

ha -didn't know that!
i haven't listened to it in few years, but i know it has a track called "synchro feelings" on it. i will come back to these archives.
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Flash Strap:

@Hyde: wow I want to see that series
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Flash Strap:

yeah, his whole syncro thing is a little confusing, there's some overlap and repeat release but some of it is re-recording and building on the original. that particular one on the page is super early and has very little of the guitar pyrotechnics of his best work
Avatar 9:18pm
Flash Strap:

i love the, how to describe it, "breathing tree" sound on this
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks,g! that was when he was pretty young, when he was just falling madly in Love with the big, fluffy golden retriever my sister had. i was holding a golf ball over my head.
Avatar 9:20pm
Flash Strap:

Some insane guitar on this one, folks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21pm
coelacanth∅:

yeah, it's a great cover, and clearly older. i was a little disappointed by synchro system, after ju ju music....just a little though.
- "aura" disappointed me a lot more!
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geezerette:

@Doug, a friend of ours had a rather petulant cat with a nasty temper. Because they were west siders they found a pet psychic. Sessions were conducted by phone. The cat meowed,(or not),into the phone and the psychic translated it's grievances to the owners.
I wish I were making this up!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
coelacanth∅:

...but Evan if that sounded very negative it's only because ju ju music blew my mind at the time.
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Flash Strap:

I really like Aura, it grew on me big time. My favorite is Synchro Series, which has a lot of overlap with Synchro System
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Flash Strap:

I always feel bad about sounding negative myself, but I'm just trying to engage critically and be honest about my reactions to things

@G: I love that story, I'm glad you're not making it up

holy moly this hawaiian guitar sort-of quoting Yellow Bird (?)
Avatar 9:29pm
geezerette:

ha,amazing.
Avatar 9:31pm
Flash Strap:

one of my very favorite juju LPs is this guy, "It's Time for Juju Music." I know I've played it before, but I almost played it again tonight. Really trippy, very modern
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
coelacanth∅:

i guess i should give 'em a new listen then. they've been in storage for maybe 20 years.
...i think there's a 4th record too, but i can't remember it right now.
- i do still listen to ju ju music every year or 2 though.
Avatar 9:32pm
Flash Strap:

This one is the absolute JAM: www.discogs.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
Little Danny:

@Flash: you do a great job of keeping it positive in general
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
coelacanth∅:

("ju ju music", the Sunny Adé album)
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Flash Strap:

@C: ah yes, that one is basically a gold standard

@LD: thanks, man! Sometimes it's important to really bag on something, but I don't think I do it much
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
coelacanth∅:

...but, did this guy informe Sunny Adé? maybe you know, but it's hard for me to tell because Adé had about a billion releases before "ju ju music" that never made it to the states.
this sounds so much like Adé's (1982) album though.
Avatar 9:39pm
Flash Strap:

No this guy is definitely drafting off Sunny's sound. tho both their discographies go back super far
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
coelacanth∅:

okay. but i must hear more of the admiral too now!
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hyde:

i love Ariel Kalma
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Flash Strap:

Love when Ariel Kalma ventures into that krautrock sound
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Flash Strap:

haha jinx hyde, sort of
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hyde:

more or less!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:44pm
Ike:

Good evening!
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Flash Strap:

Ike! Always a treat to see that little robot of yours pop up
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
coelacanth∅:

(...or fall down)
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Flash Strap:

exactly
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
Little Danny:

This Kalma piece is wonderful, and totally new to me. I clearly need to get familiar with this comp.
Avatar 9:53pm
Flash Strap:

I've sort of done this comp buffet-style so I need to get a little more familiar too. but I can say, it's good
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Evan! Great show
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Doug Schulkind:

Sublime excellence in sound purveyance, Mr Strap!
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Little Danny:

Please join me and all our radio friends! wfmu.org... More messaging from the outer realm!
Avatar 9:56pm
hyde:

thqnks!
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Flash Strap:

Thanks LD, thanks Doug, thqnks Hyde!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
Doug Schulkind:

Were it not for Little Danny, I would want to listen to this for forever.
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Doug Schulkind:

This sounds like heaven must.
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Flash Strap:

and thanks all others, see you next week, all the best to ya
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Flash Strap:

it is "endless"!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan!
  12:48am
daddio mooch:

I have the hingus (I 0sa) playing over sunny ade's synchro system.. wow.. totally wild bliss out.
  1:03am
daddio mooch:

woops... i meant Hingus (I Osa) playing over king sunny's synchro feelings- Ilako (synced of course)
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