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Favoriting October 31, 2024: A World of Nights: In the Vedette Music Library

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra  Tiger Twist   Favoriting Tiger Twist / Bi-A-Bi-Chuca 7"  Vedette  1962    0:01:26 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra  Figaro Twist   Favoriting Figaro Twist / Swing Rhapsody 7"  Vedette  1961    0:05:10 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra  Twistin' Gypsy   Favoriting Twistin' Gypsy / Luna D'Estate 7"  Vedette  1962    0:07:07 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra  Rumeno Swing   Favoriting Sexy (EP) 7"  Vedette  1962    0:09:53 (Pop-up)
Pinto Varez  Tropico Del Noche   Favoriting Tropico Del Noche / Zumba Vacilon 7"  Vedette  1962  aka Francesco Anselmo  0:12:42 (Pop-up)
Pinto Varez  Zumba Vacilon   Favoriting Tropico Del Noche / Zumba Vacilon 7"  Vedette  1962    0:15:21 (Pop-up)
New Dimensions Quartetto  Occhi Nella Notte   Favoriting Digressioni Dal Vero (Digressions from the Truth)  Vedette  1968  Armando Sciascia  0:18:21 (Pop-up)
New Dimensions Quartetto  Nebbia E Blues   Favoriting Digressioni Dal Vero (Digressions from the Truth)  Vedette  1968  Armando Sciascia  0:20:43 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Eccentrico ST-3   Favoriting Impressions In Rhythm & Sound  Vedette Records "On-The-Scene" Series  1970    0:24:11 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Cerotico   Favoriting Impressions In Rhythm & Sound  Vedette Records "On-The-Scene" Series  1970    0:27:02 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia and His Orchestra  Lepus & Columba   Favoriting Dreams of Another World  Vedette / Ember Mood Music Library  196?    0:30:03 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia and His Orchestra  Orion's Hunt   Favoriting Dreams of Another World  Vedette / Ember Mood Music Library  196?    0:34:18 (Pop-up)
Fabio Fabor  Vulcan's Dream   Favoriting Aleatoric Piano Collages  Vedette Records "On-The-Scene" Series  1970    0:37:19 (Pop-up)
Fabio Fabor  Delirium   Favoriting Aleatoric Piano Collages  Vedette Records "On-The-Scene" Series  1970    0:39:11 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra  Giungla   Favoriting Giungla / Hot Twist 7"  Vedette  1961/2    0:40:53 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Tropical Forest – Number Six Chops Down the Tree  
 
 
 
 
0:43:12 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Pizzicato Cha Cha   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 3  Vedette    Vol. 3  0:54:00 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Danza Fantastica   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 3        0:55:45 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Ombre Nascoste   Favoriting Suspence      Vol. 4  0:59:45 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Città al Neon   Favoriting Suspence        1:02:53 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Suspence   Favoriting Suspence        1:03:08 (Pop-up)
Peter Hamilton  Incubo Di Bongos   Favoriting Musica Di Commento      Vol. 7  1:04:16 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Interludio Cubano   Favoriting Colonna Sonora Del Film «Sexy Ad Alta Tensione»      Vol. 8  1:07:09 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Passione Incas   Favoriting Colonna Sonora Del Film «Sexy Ad Alta Tensione»        1:08:41 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Ostinazione   Favoriting Colonna Sonora Del Film «Sexy Ad Alta Tensione»        1:11:13 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra  Rito Esotico   Favoriting Colori in Brass      Vol. 9  1:13:58 (Pop-up)
Art Black Combo  Mattino Di Fuoco   Favoriting Combo Special      Vol. 10  1:16:22 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia and His Orchestra  Balletto Sul Ghiaccio (Ballet on Ice)   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 11      Vol. 11  1:19:03 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia and His Orchestra  Strada Solitaria (Long Lonely Street)   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 11        1:22:18 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia and His Orchestra  Zig-Zag Cha Cha   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 11        1:24:56 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Stasera Cha Cha   Favoriting Brief Interludes / Happy-Time Themes      Vol. 13  1:26:32 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Tocco Di Fata / Pallone Sgonfiato / Foresta In Allarme / Ombre Di Fantasmi / Semaforo Verde / Ultimo Addio / Su Il Sipario / Cala Il Sipario / Caduta Massi   Favoriting For Ember Mood Music Library      Vol. 15  1:27:43 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orchestra  Estasi Tropicana   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 17      Vol. 17 (aka "Vacanze D'Aprile")  1:31:42 (Pop-up)
Bruno Battisti D'Amario  Basso Solo   Favoriting Guitar Fantasia      Vol. 18  1:33:51 (Pop-up)
Bruno Battisti D'Amario  Interludio Swing in Mi   Favoriting Guitar Fantasia        1:36:30 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Ballata Triste   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 19      Vol. 19 (1st rel. as "Mondo Caldo Di Notte" OST double album)  1:39:22 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Bolero Orientale   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 19        1:42:09 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Fantasia Africana   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 19        1:45:20 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Afro Mood   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 20      Vol. 20 (also 1st rel. as part of the "Mondo Caldo Di Notte" OST double album)  1:49:03 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Chango Frenesy   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 20        1:51:40 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Safari  
 
 
 
 
1:53:48 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Sexy World (Vocal)   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 22      Vol. 22 (also released as "Sexy" - 1962 OST)  2:03:05 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Easy Macumba   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 22        2:04:53 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Mare Calmo   Favoriting Musiche Per Sonorizzazioni E Programmi Vol. 22        2:06:58 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Conversazione in Jazz   Favoriting Conversazioni in Jazz      Vol. 23  2:11:02 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Nevrosi D'Ansia   Favoriting Metempsyco (Colonna Sonora Del Film)      Vol. 24  2:15:31 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Annie's Theme   Favoriting Metempsyco (Colonna Sonora Del Film)        2:17:51 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Disperazione   Favoriting Drammatico E Suspense      Vol. 25  2:20:05 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Macumba Desesperada   Favoriting Drammatico E Suspense        2:22:46 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Vendetta Selvaggia   Favoriting Drammatico E Suspense        2:25:13 (Pop-up)
New Dimensions Quartetto  Assonanza in Mi   Favoriting Digressioni Dal Vero (Digressions from the Truth)      Vol. 27  2:26:04 (Pop-up)
New Dimensions Quartetto  Libero Gioco   Favoriting Digressioni Dal Vero (Digressions from the Truth)        2:29:10 (Pop-up)
Pinto Varez  Hippy Three   Favoriting Motivi Al Volante      Vol. 29  2:31:58 (Pop-up)
Bruno Battisti D'Amario  Hua' Hua' Rock   Favoriting Musica Per Tutte Le Ore      Vol. 31  2:34:23 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Il Vento Dell'Est   Favoriting 2 Programmi "Top"      Vol. 32  2:36:30 (Pop-up)
Cesco Anselmo  Electric Jump   Favoriting Merry Music  Vedette Records "On-The-Scene" Series    Vol. 34, 1st of the "On-The-Scene" series  2:38:58 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Dielettrico (Dielectric)   Favoriting Impressions In Rhythm & Sound      Vol. 36  2:41:29 (Pop-up)
Armando Sciascia  Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)   Favoriting Impressions In Rhythm & Sound        2:44:14 (Pop-up)
Fabio Fabor  Ninfee   Favoriting Aleatoric Piano Collages      Vol. 37  2:47:17 (Pop-up)
Fabio Fabor  Asteroidal   Favoriting Aleatoric Piano Collages        2:49:32 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Bells of My Soul  
 
 
 
 
2:52:16 (Pop-up)


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Flash Strap:

Hello Explorers!
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listener james from westwood:

Evening, Flash, ghouls, goblins, et al.!
  7:01pm
Aitch:

Let’s go!
Hey all.
Leaving hospital today, so happy!
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hi James!
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flannery:

hello!
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Flash Strap:

Hey Aitch! oh my goodness that is wonderful news!
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Flash Strap:

Hi Flannery!
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tom tom the pipers son:

hello again evan...fabio mentioned alessandro alessandroni.... on his show, but i don't think mentioned his library music...just his whistling for morriconi... the same alessandroni...right?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
WR:

Looks like it going to be a Halloween Dance Party!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Tiger Twist" by "Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orches...
cool little single, going from canned jungle to faux-live
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

hey Tom Tom! absolutely yes
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Flash Strap:

hey WR!
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pot8o:

hi everyone!
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tom tom the pipers son:

congrats aitch...may the road rise with you...
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StringOFperils:

"Oh, good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Hollywood. I think everyone enjoys a nice murder... provided he is not the victim."__Alfred 'Dub' Hitchcock
Avatar 7:06pm
Flash Strap:

both these first singles are tracks from the film Tropico di Notte, a mondo or mondo-adjacent italian film about Venezuela (dir. Renzo Russo)
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tom tom the pipers son:

alfred "dub" hitchcock...hahaha!!!!
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Flash Strap:

hey Pot8o! Hi SoP!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Twistin' Gypsy" by "Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orc...
this one's from the film "Sexy" which we'll hear a bit more from later on
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ StringOFperils @7:05
i can picture hitch and lee perry in some beautiful working partnership
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spodiodi:

greetings, Falsh and Explorers
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Flash Strap:

hey there Spodi!
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StringOFperils:

Hi Flash! Pretty sure I've heard Tiger Twist in another film also...an Italian film
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spodiodi:

Flash* sorry
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StringOFperils:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:08
Ha ha. Yeah... the munchies would explain that physique....hmmm
  7:10pm
Little Danny:

Hi Evan, all!
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Alex from Media:

Hi Flash and explorers! My what big bands you have!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Rumeno Swing" by "Armando Sciascia E La Sua Orche...
Sciascia's origins as a musician are on the violin, and it's a delight to hear him when he picks it up
Avatar 7:11pm
Flash Strap:

Hey LD! Hi Alex!
  7:12pm
Doug Schulkind:

All Treat no Trick radio!!
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Flash Strap:

Hey Doug!
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WR:

↳ Aitch @7:01
Yay! Looking forward to continued positive updates as your health improves.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ StringOFperils @7:10
i think hitchcock did one of those tv intros in those old time vibrating strap weight loss machines
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
StringOFperils:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:12
I remember that one. :)
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spodiodi:

↳ Aitch @7:01
congratulations, Aitch! glad to hear it
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Tropico Del Noche" by "Pinto Varez"
Pinto Varez shows up all over Vedette, especially in their run of non-library latin exploitation records - it's a pseudonym for Francesco Anselmo, who recorded plenty under his own name & was art director for Vedette
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Tropico Del Noche" by "Pinto Varez"
sounds like it was recorded further back than '62. May just be the studio & equipment they had.
Avatar 7:18pm
Flash Strap:

↳ WR @7:16
it's possible, the dates are all over the place due to repeated reissuing. but i believe those tracks were recorded for the film they first showed up in, which was '61
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chresti:

Hi Flash and explorers!
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Flash Strap:

Hi Chresti!
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StringOFperils:

Probably something like monophonic machines being used. 'Bouncing' tracks to get a final mix results in degeneration of the sound quality each time you do it. It gets murky and out of phase
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @7:18
re: disco tech....roger dean art work would fit nicely with these recordings ...maybe reissues
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chresti:

↳ Aitch @7:01
Hoo-ray!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ Good ♃Thursday FMUvianz ~
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:22
haha if you ask me there's already plenty of Roger Dean art!
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Eccentrico ST-3" by "Armando Sciascia"
i think it was hearing Little Danny play this track on his show that inspired me to put this one together
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Flash Strap:

hey hey HEY Rev!
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Little Danny:

i love this album!!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @7:23
yes was not thinking about that... just trying another context... the artwork never resonated with me as a kid
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chresti:

↳ Song: "Eccentrico ST-3" by "Armando Sciascia"
Before samples?
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northguineahills:

flash!
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:26
i'm hot and cold on him but he certainly has his place in history
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Eccentrico ST-3" by "Armando Sciascia"
this is like the pink panther theme put through a brian wilson smile blender
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Flash Strap:

↳ Little Danny @7:25
it really is one of the best of Vedette
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chresti:

↳ chresti @7:26
not really
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Flash Strap:

NGH!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Lepus & Columba" by "Armando Sciascia and His Orc...
finally managed to track down a rip of this record this morning & hastily included it into tonight's lineup. extremely akin to Russ Garcia's Fantastica
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @7:27
i think those 70's illustrators were SO marketed to teen pocketbooks they are a little mentally stunted
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:31
or arrested rather
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spodiodi:

↳ chresti @7:19
hi chresti!\\//
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:31
to Dean's credit, he did work in a variety of styles and experiment quite a bit, though it never got him that far from his starting position really. Frazetta on the other hand... childish. no offense to Frazetta lovers intended
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chresti:

↳ spodiodi @7:34
hi spodi!\\//
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tom tom the pipers son:

oh....hmmm
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tom tom the pipers son:

i am digging armando scascia... doesn't quite fit in with "exotica" label
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StringOFperils:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:38
Aural imaginationscapes that don't involve erupting volcanoes and virgin sacrifice
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Delirium" by "Fabio Fabor"
these are groovy....
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:38
gonna hear lots of him tonight!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ StringOFperils @7:40
funny how the two things were always put together...wonder why that was. (chin scratch)
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StringOFperils:

This stuff has a lot of humour in it. It reminds me of Juan Esquivel's music, in that way.
  7:45pm
headcleaner:

Evening, peoples. Thighs, anyone?
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tom tom the pipers son:

how much of this library music was actually heard by the populace of the time... or was it just industry people?
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pot8o:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:47
it probably showed up in ads, radio bed music, film soundtracks, and elevators
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
pot8o:

tv soundtracks and advertising is where a lot of this stuff showed up it seems
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ pot8o @7:47
right, i know...but was wondering if they were an analogy to les baxter in the states and were available as albums
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StringOFperils:

No one would have heard these things in their entirety. Now, we crowd around one of these pieces, attentively, like people pouring over a rare fossil which was, back in the day, just another Archaeopteryx flying by in the background.....
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ StringOFperils @7:53
ha...! right....
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Flash Strap:

hey hey headcleaner!
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:51
library records were almost never commercially available at all, but many of these are a little different in that they were soundtracks to widely-seen films that were also sold as commercially available soundtrack albums
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @7:56
ah, so it did make it's way into people's homes...
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Flash Strap:

he just dances on that violin man
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @7:58
the name joe venuti pops into my head, though i can't really remember his playing
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StringOFperils:

This stuff seems more like soundtrack music than mere library music, the stock photography of sound...this in particular sounds like part of Taxi Driver
Avatar 8:00pm
Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:57
a lot of this did have a life as bachelor-pad music, no doubt
  8:01pm
Little Danny:

This is the stuff
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StringOFperils:

↳ Little Danny @8:01
Sure is!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ StringOFperils @8:00
yes...but was also thinking /wondering if henri mancini was listening to come up with pink panther theme
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StringOFperils:

It's all grist for the mill
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @8:00
thx ...
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Flash Strap:

↳ StringOFperils @8:00
yeah they recorded a lot of this for those mondo films, then repackaged them as cheescake singles, then re-repackaged them as library music, then often re-re-packaged them as soundtrack albums again but with different art. some of them started as commerically available jazz records as well
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
StringOFperils:

↳ Flash Strap @8:02
Fascinating to think about
  8:07pm
Little Danny:

Nicely observed!
  8:08pm
Carmichael:

Hola Flash y compadres
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Interludio Cubano" by "Armando Sciascia"
High-Tension Sexy
  8:08pm
Little Danny:

Evan deserves some recognition for taking on the Byzantine pressing machinations of both JA music AND Italian production music
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Flash Strap:

hey Carm!
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StringOFperils:

↳ Flash Strap @8:08
That should be your show descriptor, Evan!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Little Danny @8:08
thank you LD, truly these are byzantine caverns
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
chresti:

↳ Song: "Passione Incas" by "Armando Sciascia"
I would not think of this as Inca music
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
chresti:

Only 150 to go!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I hadn't the slightest knowledge of even the *existence* of the entire Genre of Library Music until a small handful of years ago & because of FMU & probly this very Program...
Avatar 8:14pm
Flash Strap:

↳ chresti @8:12
absolutely not, no. i don't know how often Sciascia or whoever would have known what scene he was scoring, when it comes to those Mondo films. plus lots of those scenes were just staged in Cinecitta with utmost fakeness
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
StringOFperils:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:13
Ditto. At least, not the term 'library music'. Things get re-contextualized over time. Like prog rock. Certainly no such beast at the time it was originally made.
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Flash Strap:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:13
WFMU exists to open doors to new worlds, and so does Explorers Room
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
chresti:

I like the fake looking movie genre!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Flash Strap @8:15
...not commercially available Genre finds home ...well, here.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ chresti @8:13
23 thousand loverall...raised about 50 thou today
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:17
wow!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
StringOFperils:

These really are the coolest arrangements. That Farfisa organ against the twang, and these loopy horns....and the tempo, the reverb...so great.
Avatar 8:19pm
Flash Strap:

↳ StringOFperils @8:18
yeah i love that one, it's just so cool
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ StringOFperils @8:18
Such a beguiling thing to ponder.
If Soundtrack represents a Music freed from the usual constraints of palettes ...but bound to specific Imagery &/or Narrative
...then if Library Musics are the opposite end of that telescope - using any palette to conjure Imagery &/or Narrative that are not specific - that don't exist - yet...
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Flash Strap:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:22
huge part of why i love it, right there
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Little Danny:

All these wonderful organ sounds
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:22
...or maybe kaleidoscope, better than telescope...
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:22
that's a v interesting point
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Alex from Media:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:22
Thank you for the Library music definition. Was pondering.
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Carmichael:

Morticia and Gomez would dance to this 🕺
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Flash Strap:

↳ Carmichael @8:26
precisely!
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StringOFperils:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:24
Maybe just scope: evoking a general area of emotional response (?)
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Tocco Di Fata / Pallone Sgonfiato / Foresta In Al...
here we have a little smattering of jingles/flashes/links
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ StringOFperils @8:26
Yeah well - cinemascope. Very much relating to Psychedelia & Exotica & Visionary Arts. Hallucinatory Musics in a sense...
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spodiodi:

↳ Carmichael @8:26
⭐️🙂
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:28
...but also every Genre has a Market & an objective & a motive in that sense ...& being introduced to Library Musics is like ...a whole other section in the Museum of Natural Sciences that way manner of speaking...
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tom tom the pipers son:

another possible definition of library music i that its just sonic carpentry making "furniture" music, leaving a space for interpretation, awaiting a user to really complete it....
i think it's giving it too much credit to imply that it's visionary
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Flash Strap:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:31
absolutely speaking my mind here, Rev
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StringOFperils:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:28
Cinecittà scope for sure. Wouldn't be surprised if a few (many?) of these session players also took direction from people like Nino Rota on any given week.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:31
Yes - it's very Crafty in that sense. Absolutely. A sonic Bauhaus as well as a Surrealism.
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:31
sometimes it's one, sometimes the other. Roger Roger, Umiliani, Alessandroni, many others i would easily characterize as visionary, at least at times
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Flash Strap:

↳ StringOFperils @8:32
absolutely yes
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Flash Strap:

next one is really something special, imo
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Little Danny:

↳ Song: "Eccentrico ST-3" by "Armando Sciascia"
oh this is killer
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...it partners well with Exotica here in the Room - as well as the Avant or Prgressive @ times...
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @8:33
ok....i'm just implying it may "visionary" but without a "visionary" or author....in some way like catherdrals but on a minor scale
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Little Danny:

↳ Little Danny @8:35
oof sorry i meant the Bruno Battisti D'Amario
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Interludio Swing in Mi" by "Bruno Battisti D'Amario"
i think you'll dig this one especially LD
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Little Danny:

the one d'amario album i know also has some super cool use of reverb and guitar
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Little Danny:

↳ Flash Strap @8:37
it's glorious
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Flash Strap:

reminds me of one of those VU/Another View instrumentals
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StringOFperils:

Agreed! Vrry cool little vignette for guitar.
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Little Danny:

Ooo I hear that!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:36
well not the best analogy some medieval architects are known...later ones are like gaudi and le violette
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...very textural in tonalities. Design Tapestries. Would be interesting MDMA Musics ...maybe. Comparisons to Minimalism & Rave maybe possible...
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Flash Strap:

↳ Little Danny @8:37
i was trying to remember what Battisti albums i know from other labels, i bet i know the one you mean but i didn't have time to look into it. good associations with his name, i know
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Little Danny:

↳ Flash Strap @8:41
timbri musicali N° 4 is the one i know, now i need to look further into him too!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Little Danny @8:43
oh i don't know that one! Cooper is one of the labels on my to-do list, i know very little from it
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StringOFperils:

I think this is the third take on Ravel I've heard so far this evening. I love it.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...industrial production cloth. Or isn't this a bit Baroque. Or - are they Abstracts. One of these things where the relation of Form & Content keeps my brain wondering exactly what's happening to it...
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Flash Strap:

↳ Flash Strap @8:44
part of the Leonardi family, which i've done multiple shows on and yet still have something like 10 labels i'm still trying to track down discographies for
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Flash Strap:

↳ StringOFperils @8:45
haha probably yeah! he definitely reuses little devices quite a bit
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Discotech Underground:

Hey Flash, thought I'd come back and listen for a while. I like the library music shows you do sometimes.
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StringOFperils:

Oh man, I'll be singing this all week...ha ha...it'll get me through next week
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Flash Strap:

↳ StringOFperils @9:03
haha yes you probably will, i can attest
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Flash Strap:

Hey Kip! thanks for dropping in brother!
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tom tom the pipers son:

does the fact that the library music's musicians were punching a clock change or add a layer of meaning to the music? does it bring authorship into question? or to use a big small word is library music "thingafied" or reified in a different way than say thelonius monk
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tom tom the pipers son:

thel;onius monk record
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spodiodi:

thanks for the show, Flash!

(probably won't be here at the end-- very slow shower pending)

happy halloween!
see you next time, and see you all soon
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:05
i just have an itch about library music that i can't quite scratch
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pot8o:

great music to study to
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:05
i think the answer to that would really change depending on who ran the studio and who was running the session - some of this stuff contains personal experiments that would be much less clock-punchy than the nightclub music they would have come up playing. some of it is pure kitsch, the clunkiness of which makes it interesting later. it's just a big world. lots of studios were run by artists, others were big conglomerates. Umiliani recorded a lot of stuff in his personal dungeon
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @9:08
thanks that makes me less itchy
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Flash Strap:

↳ Flash Strap @9:08
but also i'd say that your question gets at one of the major aspects of this whole thing (tho it applies to lots of other music as well, really)
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Flash Strap:

↳ spodiodi @9:06
have a great shower my friend
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spodiodi:

thanks!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Conversazione in Jazz" by "Armando Sciascia"
this particular LP, released as party of the library series in 1967, was initially a commercially-available jazz LP, released 1963. nice art: i.discogs.com...
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Flash Strap:

↳ Flash Strap @9:13
*part of the
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @9:10
yes... that crossed my mind, but with other music isn't there a creative interval that happens before the clock is punched, rather than it being all on the clock.....just a thought...you don't have to reply...i'm being a bit of a pain in the ass
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StringOFperils:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:05
Reification is one of those terms from Marxist cultural analysis, like Walter Benjamin's 'aura'. Is 'library music' less real than other musics? Is it just clunky non-art? Is it any less representative of complex social/psychological relationships than Wagner? My feeling is that those notions always have to co-exist with something 'over there', which is just being a sensual being and opening your leaves to the sun. Nailing it down with language kinda kills the joy, as much as I do like to think in terms.
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:15
i think there's generally the same impulses in this as in any other music, it just has a weird distribution system & lends itself to more prolific recording, which puts it somewhere between say, muzak ensembles on one hand and jazz combos that all work with each other on the other
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chresti:

I back after falling into a Ravel wormhole
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Flash Strap:

↳ chresti @9:18
one of the best wormholes to fall into
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chresti:

↳ Flash Strap @9:19
totally!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ StringOFperils @9:17
yes, thanks.... my thinking just got locked in a mental lock groove and was not listening anymore
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Flash Strap:

↳ StringOFperils @9:17
yeah, for example a pop group has to serve the master of the audience AND the label - a library musician maybe just has to record whatever the hell they feel like that day - especially if they're their own boss, like Sciascia. the audience is much less important. what is the more free or true art, who knows. just depends
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @9:17
yes thanks...
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:21
on the other hand someone may have said "don't come out till you have 3 LPs worth of light upbeat office/industrial themes, whether you want to or not"
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StringOFperils:

↳ Flash Strap @9:21
It seems to strive for something universal, and it has a sense of play that requires engagement. I don't hear anyone just phoning it in.
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Disperazione" by "Armando Sciascia"
this record is mostly material from the spaghetti western film "Tre Colpi di Winchester Per Ringo"
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Flash Strap:

↳ StringOFperils @9:23
well that's partly because i pick the best stuff believe me!
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Little Danny:

Haha love this!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Flash Strap @9:23
the Ringo films were huge, but i don't think i've seen this one
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @9:22
ha! ....have to jump in the shower....so thanks evan.....good evening commenters
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StringOFperils:

↳ Flash Strap @9:24
I DO very much believe you, Evan! You're my sherpa on this mountain!
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:25
another showerer! i'm losing everyone to bathtime
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Assonanza in Mi" by "New Dimensions Quartetto"
very glad to be back around to this record, a very special one i think. next one from it is great, a bit Miles-y
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tom tom the pipers son:

i'll b e listening from shower...
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Libero Gioco" by "New Dimensions Quartetto"
i definitely would have put this one on Jazzmutations if i was as familiar with it then as i am now
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:29
that's a good combo actually, nice
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Franco Twinkie:

Hi Flash! The music you're playing is perfect for my post-leave raking nap. Very vivid images were bouncing around in my head.
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Flash Strap:

hey Franco! nice
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StringOFperils:

I'm going to stay filthy so I can ride this thing out.
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Hippy Three" by "Pinto Varez"
this track written by Max Raffeng, aka Maria Augusta Bruni, who later married fabio Fabor
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Alex from Media:

Thanks Flash! Gonna move along. I've enjoyed the comments as much as the music today. Everyone kudos. You are part of what makes WFMU great.
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Flash Strap:

happy trails, Alex! thanks for hanging out (& the same to you, re: making FMU great)
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Flash Strap:

↳ StringOFperils @9:34
excellent
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Little Danny:

Wow… absolutely gorgeous
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ Flash Strap @9:34
Since we're not handing out candy tonight, the kids can just rattle our locked front gate and sway to Hippy Three and Hua' Hua' Rock...

...the front door is wide open!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Little Danny @9:38
a nice one!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Dielettrico (Dielectric)" by "Armando Sciascia"
everything on this album is just so heavy and trippy
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headcleaner:

↳ Song: "Il Vento Dell'Est" by "Armando Sciascia"
Thanks, Flash - a lot of (mostly) inner space happenings these have been, tonite - which makes me glad I stayed in
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Little Danny:

oh hell yeah
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Flash Strap:

↳ headcleaner @9:44
my pleasure, thanks for stayin' in with me
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)" by "Armando Sci...
cool track...the descending bass riff is reminding me of a song i can't place
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)" by "Armando Sci...
...absolutely love this...
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Flash Strap:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:47
yeah that one's a stomper
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)" by "Armando Sci...
...put me in mind of Stravinsky, JimiHendrix & Bernard Hermann. & finally PinkFloyd... But that's me probly...
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Flash Strap:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:48
i can dig it all, yeah
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Asteroidal" by "Fabio Fabor"
...like outtakes from Satanic Majesties...
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StringOFperils:

Or a Goblin album
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Flash Strap:

makes me think of Ferrante & Teicher more than anything
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StringOFperils:

Makes me think I think too much. I think...not sure....
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Little Danny:

incredible sounds tonight evan THANK YOU
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tom tom the pipers son:

thanks again evan...
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Franco Twinkie:

Thank you Flash.
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StringOFperils:

Happy Halloween everyone! Thanks, Flash, that was excellent!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Circuito Chiuso (Closed Circuit)" by "Armando Sci...
the descending bass..."getting nowhere fast"
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Little Danny:

loop to hell ⭕⭕⭕ wfmu.org... the slow loop to hell ⭕⭕⭕ the slow loop to hell ⭕⭕⭕ the slow loop
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Asheville Jon:

Thanks Evan
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pot8o:

thanks flash strap! have a great week everyone!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ FS ~
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Flash Strap:

thanks everyone! catch ya next time around! and you better believe i'll be seeing you NEXT DOOR,
IN
THE
FLAME
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WR:

Thank you! Very Much! Flash Strap!

Very cinematic twist to the program tonight.
  10:21pm
chresti:

Hi little danny and flambos!
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chresti:

thanks Flash!
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