WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 10, 2019

Listener comments!
	5:51pm passiflora: excited for this
	5:56pm Flash Strap: Hi Passiflora! me too actually, some extremely weird stuff in the works for tonight
	🥁 6:24pm chresti: Hello! Excuse me while I make some coffee...
	6:25pm Flash Strap: make yourself quite at home Chresti!
	6:59pm Flash Strap: ok explorers we're live, ready to begin in one minute
	7:03pm Flash Strap: and we're off! a little prelude: Brainticket was a Swiss-based progressive / kraut / kosmische band, headed by Belgian flautist / keyboardist / etc. Joël Vandroogenbroeck Joël Vandroogenbroeck is the dominant figure in the Coloursound library, and this Brainticket album contains the seeds of much of the music to come this evening
	7:04pm Carmichael: A Hello Its Me vibe to it.
	7:05pm hyde: i wish my name was Vandroogenbroeck
	7:05pm Flash Strap: hello Carmichael! how wonderful to see you this evening
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hyde Vandroogenbroeck in the house, hello!
	7:06pm Carmichael: Thought I’d drop by. Your shows are always stellar.
	7:06pm doctorjazz: Hey Flash and Explorer out there
	🥁 7:06pm chresti: Carmichael has good vibes
	7:07pm Flash Strap: hey doc!
	🥁 7:08pm chresti: I would like the name Biomechanoid
	7:08pm Flash Strap: Thanks Carm! perhaps tonight even interstellar
	7:09pm Flash Strap: @chresti: granted, but you must maintain the umlaut
	7:11pm northguineahills: I think the only likewise show I can do is all of the Environments Recs, I'm only missing one, I could do almost a full day....
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Nice, NGH! hello and welcome
	7:13pm Flash Strap: i love this track
	7:15pm Flash Strap: Florian Voelxen = Gunter Greffenius, the founder of Coloursound and musician
	7:17pm Flash Strap: his wife, Waltraud Greffenius, painted most of these covers. the first is by H.R. Giger, however. and the Meditations is by Vandroogenbroeck's wife, as i recall
	7:18pm Flash Strap: "Fairy Tale" is an all-timer, imo
	🥁 7:21pm chresti: Space Face looks interesting.
	7:23pm Flash Strap: re Space Face: one of the better covers, i think, and a pretty cool LP by Klaus Weiss
	🥁 7:25pm chresti: Some of the artwork reminds me of stained glass windows from the 70s.
	7:27pm Flash Strap: absolutely, yeah
	7:30pm Flash Strap: really dig the astral-projection psych of these Meditations LPs
	7:31pm hyde: i cn almost see Robert Monroe floating by
	7:32pm Flash Strap: yes
	🥁 7:33pm chresti: There's a cd set with 18 cds
	🥁 7:34pm chresti: (I'm perusing Discogs)
	🥁 7:36pm chresti: www.discogs.com...
	🥁 7:40pm chresti: I wonder why the aliases, contractual limitations?
	7:41pm TDK60: Hello.
	🥁 7:42pm chresti: They sure put out a lot in 1980! Hello.
	7:45pm Flash Strap: Hello TDK!
	7:46pm hyde: this stuff is great
	7:46pm Flash Strap: @chresti: that's a decent set, for sure
	🥁 7:49pm chresti: TDK60- are you having eggnog today?
	🥁 7:50pm chresti: Agree with hyde.
	7:51pm Flash Strap: i agree with hyde too - this track is sending me
	7:51pm passiflora: I like this. almost some microstoria in there, weirdly enough
	7:52pm hyde: ooh, my LP copy of Carl Weingarten's Living in the Distant Present just showed up!
	🥁 7:53pm chresti: I'm with you on continuing the series, if you run out of time...@flash
	7:53pm Flash Strap: that makes sense, it really does have a very forward thinking sound, reminds me of Sun Araw as well
	7:53pm Flash Strap: very nice Hyde!
	7:54pm Flash Strap: @chresti: there will definitely be at least one more at some point, but there's enough material from the label to do 5, probably
	7:55pm northguineahills: Definitely a Sun Araw vibe (well, their non reggae side).
	7:55pm Flash Strap: right
	7:59pm Flash Strap: god, some great sounds and textures in this piece
	8:00pm hyde: yeah, cool
	🥁 8:00pm chresti: Wow
	8:02pm Flash Strap: there are a few Brainticket records from around this same time - they took a break between 1973 and 1979 or something like that - and they sound a lot like that. but that track stands on its own, maybe, as uniquely good
	8:02pm melinda: hi friends!
	🥁 8:02pm chresti: Which is your favorite?
	🥁 8:02pm chresti: Hi melinda!
	8:03pm Flash Strap: which what? sorry
	8:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	🥁 8:03pm chresti: You said earlier that you might not get to your favorite...
	8:04pm TDK60: chresti: a little bit of eggnog left. Probably gone at the market.
	8:05pm Flash Strap: ah yes, I'm particularly partial to CS 19, John Tender's Fantasyland (not pictured below). but equally so to Birth of Earth
	🥁 8:05pm chresti: Alessandro-great. Add a little milk to stretch it out?
	8:05pm Flash Strap: i'll probably open the next coloursound show with a passel of fantasyland tracks
	8:06pm Flash Strap: he really is a marvel, Alessandroni. Really cool guitar on this
	🥁 8:07pm chresti: www.discogs.com...
	8:08pm Flash Strap: zillions of recordings with this guy
	8:09pm TDK60: ..so,Colorsound records was some German hippies running a psych-library-music outfit? True_ False_ Not Quite_
	8:10pm Flash Strap: so awesome how severely industrial a sound he gets from a guitar and a little tin can percussion
	8:11pm Flash Strap: true enough, TDK
	8:14pm Flash Strap: love the primordial – nothing more exotic, nothing more psychedelic, than the primordial ooze
	8:17pm little danny: Heya Evan, hey all
	8:18pm melinda: I like the primordial ooze too
	8:18pm Flash Strap: Hey LD! how goes?
	8:19pm melinda: The German hippies do it once again.
	8:19pm TDK60: a real oozey find, an archive of sound. / did they market these LPs generally or toward radio stations? both?
	8:20pm melinda: I first accidentally typed German hippoes, which would have been funny.
	8:21pm Flash Strap: in general, library music was unavailable to the public, just for licensing purposes - TV, film, etc.
	8:21pm TDK60: yeah Melinda, those Deutsche Langhaare did it up.
	🥁 8:21pm chresti: Haha! @melinda
	8:22pm little danny: (Quick aside re:Cool Blue Flame. Internet service has been atrocious here the last day and a half. Like, 10 minutes out with 30 seconds back on. Sooo, I’m gonna try to crank the engine up tonight but I may have to eject if it seems impossible. I’ll keep y’all posted. END PSA)
	8:23pm Flash Strap: good luck Danny! I hate to see you out for another week as you're sorely missed around here. on the other hand, i don't wish a spotty service show on anyone, what a pain
	8:23pm Flash Strap: this is such a magical track (mutation)
	8:25pm TDK60: so, "You're hearing it here first!, on the Give The Drummer Stream at W. F. M. U. !!!!"
	8:26pm little danny: Thanks Flash! Wish I could do it all from my phone somehow, and kill my data plan
	8:27pm Flash Strap: wish i could loan you some of mine, but i only have 3 mbps to begin with
	🥁 8:27pm chresti: OOOooo...hope it works@lil' danny!
	8:29pm Flash Strap: love these archaeo-ethonological forgery series
	8:32pm Flash Strap: animatronic diorama in stereo
	8:35pm still b/p: I was imagining musicians with that standard "evolution of man" art/graphic set in front of them as the score they're playing.
	🥁 8:35pm chresti: Some of those percussion sounds made me think of John Baker
	8:37pm passiflora: love those generic industry titles...oronzo di fillipi's meccanizzazione has wonderfully generic and appropriately titled tracks also
	🥁 8:37pm chresti: Haha-sb/p
	🥁 8:41pm chresti: This has a Chinese feel to it
	8:41pm Flash Strap: @still b/p: exactly! almost got one of those for the playlist art, actually, my studio is piled with that sort of thing at the moment
	8:42pm Flash Strap: also, warm welcome b/p!
	8:43pm Flash Strap: @passiflora: exactly! and that's such a great record.. what label is that? i should do a show on that label just so i can play meccanizzazione
	8:44pm TDK60: ..this is great stuff; gonna have to remember to come back to this show when it becomes an archive... a library of library.
	8:44pm Doug Schulkind: G’d evening, Admiral!
	8:45pm passiflora: Leo
	8:45pm Flash Strap: oh gosh it's Leo, pretty obscure offerings on that one, i only have a handful
	8:46pm passiflora: I've put it to little public library videos because it's just too perfect
	8:46pm Flash Strap: G'd evening Doug!
	8:46pm hyde: oh, dang i missed the Alessandroni stuff when i was getting dinner. will have to back via Archiveland
	8:47pm passiflora: Industry themed show, maybe
	8:47pm Flash Strap: little more Alessandroni in the works but you missed the best of it
	8:47pm passiflora: italian industry XD
	8:47pm northguineahills: I missed the alessandroni stuff when I went to the pharmacy.
	8:48pm TDK60: this sounds like a bassier thumb piano.
	8:49pm Flash Strap: really does TDK
	8:50pm Flash Strap: hell i don't need an excuse to play meccanizzazione, but now i want the challenge of scraping together enough Leo records to do something with them
	8:51pm passiflora: luce industriale e magia
	8:52pm passiflora: sounds fun @Flash Strap
	8:54pm Flash Strap: Imme Atwood on harp, seems to be her only credit
	8:58pm Flash Strap: not alessandroni's best LP, this
	8:59pm Flash Strap: real Mort Garson sound on Digital Song
	9:02pm Flash Strap: bit of a Wendy Carlos / Tomita sound on Dancing Electrons
	9:02pm Uncle Michael: Those Mort Garson astrology records...
	9:02pm Flash Strap: Heya Uncle!
	9:03pm passiflora: the western tradition
	9:03pm Uncle Michael: Hey, Evan...you inadvertently sent me on a crazy production music quest...the booty was at 138,000 tracks and counting this morning.
	9:04pm Flash Strap: holy smokes Uncle happy to have deranged you so
	9:04pm hyde: @UM haha
	9:05pm Flash Strap: and then Cycles really reminds me of Laurie Spiegel
	9:08pm Flash Strap: really cool percussion & well recorded
	9:09pm Flash Strap: @UM: what labels, besides tele music, make up that astonishing figure?
	9:10pm Uncle Michael: I'd not be lying if I said hundreds of labels. So many I'd never heard of.
	9:12pm Flash Strap: i love to hear it, UM
	🥁 9:13pm chresti: Sounds like a bounty UM
	9:13pm Flash Strap: this is such a cool track, and what a title, Kinetic Sculptures
	9:15pm Flash Strap: i know i've heard this track used in something before
	9:16pm TDK60: ..a site says Coloursound had 84 releases [each cover there]. www.apmmusic.com...
	9:19pm Flash Strap: I think they actually had 85 LPs, then switched to CD and did a lot more
	9:19pm TDK60: ah...more.
	9:19pm Uncle Michael: I have 115 Coloursound titles.
	9:20pm still b/p: I still got a stack of production music on vinyl, 70s - 80s. I think Uncle Michael expressed interest a few years back. But how they gonna get to heartland from NE coast? Schulkind Roof-Rack Courier Service on one of his summer pass-throughs will get 'em as far as FMU or PA. Shhh...don't tell him. I'll just secure a carton on the car when he stops somewhere nearby for ice cream.
	9:21pm TDK60: so, I'm surrounded by "library" types. heh.
	9:21pm Flash Strap: toss em on a raft and float em south to me b/p
	🥁 9:21pm chresti: haha
	9:22pm Uncle Michael: still b/p....that's generous of you, but as you note...impractical
	9:25pm Flash Strap: really cool Brainticket track. i never really went for Cottonwood Hill or the 1st LP, so I thought not so much of Brainticket till I heard Celestial Ocean, which knocks my socks off
	9:30pm TDK60: ..you could throw that Brainticket right in there between Gentle Giant and early Genesis and Van Der Graaf Generator, or etc. (in a hypothetical prog segment).
	9:31pm hyde: fading from playlist to listen from bed. thanks!
	🥁 9:32pm chresti: Yeah, that one sounded like a soundtrack to...mannix, or something.
	9:34pm Flash Strap: my pleasure sleepy Hyde
	9:34pm Flash Strap: great vocal on this
	🥁 9:34pm chresti: Alright, Space Face!
	9:36pm Flash Strap: finally, we made it to Space Face! title track is the best track on there but it's all pretty cool
	🥁 9:37pm chresti: The title alone makes it an automatic winner
	9:37pm Flash Strap: without a doubt
	9:38pm passiflora: scawwy
	9:39pm passiflora: oh nm scary w/ regalia
	9:40pm Doug Schulkind: One of the great name of names!
	9:41pm Flash Strap: oh yeah. him of the legendary names!
	9:42pm TDK60: this is his, A.A., whistling?
	9:42pm Flash Strap: you betcha
	9:45pm TDK60: that spaghetti western whistle that sounds like an early synth or such?
	9:46pm Flash Strap: a little more brainticket after this? i think so
	9:46pm Flash Strap: i'm not sure, i'd have to check and listen more closely
	9:47pm passiflora: ticket-in, ticket-out
	9:47pm Flash Strap: squeaky balloon
	9:48pm TDK60: I wonder if these west Germans knew about the east German cosmic exercise spacey music.
	9:48pm melinda: @TDK haha
	9:50pm Franco Twinkie: Is this cooking music? I say yes!
	9:50pm Flash Strap: Hi Franco! cook away pal
	9:51pm northguineahills: Thanks Evan, episode is clicky-starred!
	9:51pm TDK60: ..this Brainticket is '73, round same time as Klaus Schulze was getting his sound going too, eh.
	9:52pm Flash Strap: this section just wraps it all up, man, damn
	9:53pm Flash Strap: oh yeah, concurrent with all that stuff, the first Harmonia, Cluster, on and on
	9:53pm TDK60: ..I can imagine cassettes being smuggled across walls..
	9:53pm Flash Strap: my immense pleasure NGH with the stars
	9:53pm coelacanth∅: i caught about 10 minutes in the beginning and now just 10 minutes left. i don't think i can fill in the blanks without help
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: ...Thankful for archives
	9:55pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, Flash!
	9:55pm Franco Twinkie: Coel, just imagine you are speeding thru a translucent green garden hose.
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: aAhhhh Franco - got it!
	9:57pm TDK60: this show was fun never heard this music; odd that for some it was only background music.
	9:57pm coelacanth∅: man you grow persimmons too? mmm
	9:57pm passiflora: good night
	🥁 9:58pm chresti: Who's a space case? (space face)Thanks, Flash!
	9:58pm Franco Twinkie: Farmers market, but this is it for the season.
	9:59pm Flash Strap: Hi and night to ya Coelacanth! And to all else present: thank you, it's been my great pleasure, and a very good night to you. see you next week
	🥁 9:59pm chresti: Goodnight!
	9:59pm still b/p: Didn't Sun Ra say Space is the Face? No, wait... Thanks for ambience and noodles.
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan have a great weekend
	8:37pm quinn: ooh how did i miss this, this show is my dream come true
	9:51am ?: Dear, inside me, wondering what happened .......... and well, the blog just was not updated, since the program in WFMU is Still as usual. I looked for you on Instagram, hahahahaha, of course I'm not the only Ninja. Uncle Joel helped me a lot to develop my potential as an Artist and he turned me into Carnivore Dragon.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 10, 2019

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January 10, 2019: In the Coloursound Library: Continuous Atmospheric Sounds for Enigmatic Landscapes, Metaphysical Situations and Prehistorical Periods

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Brainticket	Egyptian Kings "Egyptian Kings" by "Brainticket"	Celestial Ocean	RCA Victor	1973		0:00:24 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Dark Plasma	Biomechanoïd	Coloursound Library	1980	CS1	0:06:05 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Elements "Elements" by "Joël Vandroogenbroeck"	Biomechanoïd	Coloursound Library	1980		0:07:39 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Interstellar Insects	Biomechanoïd	Coloursound Library	1980		0:09:45 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck & Florian Voelxen	Strange Morning	Contemporary Pastoral and Ethnic Sounds	Coloursound Library	1980	CS2 Florian Voelxen = Gunter Greffenius	0:11:41 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck & Florian Voelxen	Cascades	Contemporary Pastoral and Ethnic Sounds	Coloursound Library	1980		0:13:48 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck & Walt Rockman	Fairy Tale	Contemporary Pastoral and Ethnic Sounds	Coloursound Library	1980	Walt Rockman = Gerhard Narholz	0:16:25 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck & Walt Rockman	Rocks	Contemporary Pastoral and Ethnic Sounds	Coloursound Library	1980		0:19:35 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck & Florian Voelxen	Raven's Dance	Contemporary Pastoral and Ethnic Sounds	Coloursound Library	1980		0:22:29 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Sand and Wind	Meditations Vol. 1	Coloursound Library	1980	CS3 - with Mac Prindy (Gunter Greffenius); "Continuous atmospheric sounds for enigmatic landscapes, metaphysical situations and prehistorical periods."	0:25:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Group Meditation	Meditations Vol. 1			with M. Monsen (Gunter Greffenius)	0:32:34 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Contemplation	Meditations Vol. 2	Coloursound Library	1980	CS4 - with M. Monsen (Gunter Greffenius)	0:44:49 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	A Romantic Place	Romance and Drama	Coloursound Library	1980	CS5	1:01:56 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Transport	Light and Heavy Industry	Coloursound Library	1980	CS6	1:03:34 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Communication	Light and Heavy Industry				1:05:40 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Transfer "Transfer" by "Alessandro Alessandroni"	Light and Heavy Industry				1:07:30 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Production Line	Light and Heavy Industry				1:09:54 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Birth of Earth	Birth of Earth	Coloursound Library	1980	CS7 - with M. Monsen (aka Gunter Greffenius) and Sammy Burdson (aka Gunter Greffenius)	1:10:54 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Volcanic Activity	Birth of Earth				1:12:13 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Marine Fauna	Birth of Earth				1:14:39 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Reptiles "Reptiles" by "Joël Vandroogenbroeck"	Birth of Earth				1:16:59 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Dinosaurs "Dinosaurs" by "Joël Vandroogenbroeck"	Birth of Earth				1:19:25 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Mutation "Mutation" by "Joël Vandroogenbroeck"	Birth of Earth				1:21:45 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Homo Erectus / Homo Africanus / Cro Magnon	Birth of Earth				1:25:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brainticket	Adventure Part 2 "Adventure Part 2" by "Brainticket"	Adventure	Brainticket	1980		1:32:26 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Lost Continents	Lost Continents	Coloursound Library	1980	CS8	1:40:06 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Lemurian Harmonics	Lost Continents				1:41:46 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Bowed String	Lost Continents				1:43:41 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Gondwana "Gondwana" by "Joël Vandroogenbroeck"	Lost Continents				1:45:22 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Migrations Mu	Lost Continents				1:47:37 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck / Imme Atwood	Crazy Flute	Open Air Impressions	Coloursound Library	1981	CS9	1:50:34 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck / Imme Atwood	Sound Colours	Open Air Impressions				1:52:33 (Pop-up)
Gil Flat	Emotional Motion 1 "Emotional Motion 1" by "Gil Flat"	Slowly Romantically	Coloursound Library	1981	CS10 - Gil Flat = Hans Ehrlinger	1:55:03 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Guitar Poetry 2	Guitar Poetry	Coloursound Library	1981	CS11	1:57:14 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Digital Song	Computer Blossoms	Coloursound Library	1981	CS12	1:58:47 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Dancing Electrons	Computer Blossoms				2:04:58 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Cycles "Cycles" by "Joël Vandroogenbroeck"	Computer Blossoms				2:05:11 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Allegro Mechanico	Industrial Retrospect	Coloursound Library	1981	CS13 - with Eric Allen and Frank Reidy (percussion)	2:06:55 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Steam Valves	Industrial Retrospect				2:09:26 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck	Kinetic Sculptures	Industrial Retrospect				2:11:14 (Pop-up)
Florian Voelxen / Mladen Franko	Life Today	Reflective Moods	Coloursound Library	1981	CS14	2:14:21 (Pop-up)
The Denny Motion Group	Mysterious Waltz	Small Talk	Coloursound Library	1981	CS15	2:17:42 (Pop-up)
Brainticket	Era of Technology "Era of Technology" by "Brainticket"	Celestial Ocean	RCA Victor	1973		2:19:53 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brainticket	Voyage Part 2 "Voyage Part 2" by "Brainticket"	Voyage	Brainticket	1982		2:26:04 (Pop-up)
Eric Vann	Space Face "Space Face" by "Eric Vann"	Space Face	Coloursound Library	1981	CS16 - Eric Vann=Joël Vandroogenbroeck	2:32:58 (Pop-up)
Eric Vann	Satellite 202 "Satellite 202" by "Eric Vann"	Space Face				2:35:11 (Pop-up)
Eric Vann	Spaceship 202 "Spaceship 202" by "Eric Vann"	Space Face				2:36:48 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Forced March	War	Coloursound Library	1981	CS17	2:38:26 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Atomic Aftermath	War				2:40:00 (Pop-up)
Klaus Weiss	Wide Open Space Motion	Open Space Motion (Underscores)	Coloursound Library	1981	CS18	2:42:05 (Pop-up)
Klaus Weiss	Departure For Universe	Open Space Motion (Underscores)				2:44:35 (Pop-up)
Brainticket	To Another Universe / The Space Between	Celestial Ocean	RCA Victor	1973		2:46:33 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brainticket	Cosmic Wind "Cosmic Wind" by "Brainticket"					2:54:28 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	5:51pm passiflora: excited for this
	5:56pm Flash Strap: Hi Passiflora! me too actually, some extremely weird stuff in the works for tonight
	🥁 6:24pm chresti: Hello! Excuse me while I make some coffee...
	6:25pm Flash Strap: make yourself quite at home Chresti!
	6:59pm Flash Strap: ok explorers we're live, ready to begin in one minute
	7:03pm Flash Strap: and we're off! a little prelude: Brainticket was a Swiss-based progressive / kraut / kosmische band, headed by Belgian flautist / keyboardist / etc. Joël Vandroogenbroeck Joël Vandroogenbroeck is the dominant figure in the Coloursound library, and this Brainticket album contains the seeds of much of the music to come this evening
	7:04pm Carmichael: A Hello Its Me vibe to it.
	7:05pm hyde: i wish my name was Vandroogenbroeck
	7:05pm Flash Strap: hello Carmichael! how wonderful to see you this evening
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hyde Vandroogenbroeck in the house, hello!
	7:06pm Carmichael: Thought I’d drop by. Your shows are always stellar.
	7:06pm doctorjazz: Hey Flash and Explorer out there
	🥁 7:06pm chresti: Carmichael has good vibes
	7:07pm Flash Strap: hey doc!
	🥁 7:08pm chresti: I would like the name Biomechanoid
	7:08pm Flash Strap: Thanks Carm! perhaps tonight even interstellar
	7:09pm Flash Strap: @chresti: granted, but you must maintain the umlaut
	7:11pm northguineahills: I think the only likewise show I can do is all of the Environments Recs, I'm only missing one, I could do almost a full day....
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Nice, NGH! hello and welcome
	7:13pm Flash Strap: i love this track
	7:15pm Flash Strap: Florian Voelxen = Gunter Greffenius, the founder of Coloursound and musician
	7:17pm Flash Strap: his wife, Waltraud Greffenius, painted most of these covers. the first is by H.R. Giger, however. and the Meditations is by Vandroogenbroeck's wife, as i recall
	7:18pm Flash Strap: "Fairy Tale" is an all-timer, imo
	🥁 7:21pm chresti: Space Face looks interesting.
	7:23pm Flash Strap: re Space Face: one of the better covers, i think, and a pretty cool LP by Klaus Weiss
	🥁 7:25pm chresti: Some of the artwork reminds me of stained glass windows from the 70s.
	7:27pm Flash Strap: absolutely, yeah
	7:30pm Flash Strap: really dig the astral-projection psych of these Meditations LPs
	7:31pm hyde: i cn almost see Robert Monroe floating by
	7:32pm Flash Strap: yes
	🥁 7:33pm chresti: There's a cd set with 18 cds
	🥁 7:34pm chresti: (I'm perusing Discogs)
	🥁 7:36pm chresti: www.discogs.com...
	🥁 7:40pm chresti: I wonder why the aliases, contractual limitations?
	7:41pm TDK60: Hello.
	🥁 7:42pm chresti: They sure put out a lot in 1980! Hello.
	7:45pm Flash Strap: Hello TDK!
	7:46pm hyde: this stuff is great
	7:46pm Flash Strap: @chresti: that's a decent set, for sure
	🥁 7:49pm chresti: TDK60- are you having eggnog today?
	🥁 7:50pm chresti: Agree with hyde.
	7:51pm Flash Strap: i agree with hyde too - this track is sending me
	7:51pm passiflora: I like this. almost some microstoria in there, weirdly enough
	7:52pm hyde: ooh, my LP copy of Carl Weingarten's Living in the Distant Present just showed up!
	🥁 7:53pm chresti: I'm with you on continuing the series, if you run out of time...@flash
	7:53pm Flash Strap: that makes sense, it really does have a very forward thinking sound, reminds me of Sun Araw as well
	7:53pm Flash Strap: very nice Hyde!
	7:54pm Flash Strap: @chresti: there will definitely be at least one more at some point, but there's enough material from the label to do 5, probably
	7:55pm northguineahills: Definitely a Sun Araw vibe (well, their non reggae side).
	7:55pm Flash Strap: right
	7:59pm Flash Strap: god, some great sounds and textures in this piece
	8:00pm hyde: yeah, cool
	🥁 8:00pm chresti: Wow
	8:02pm Flash Strap: there are a few Brainticket records from around this same time - they took a break between 1973 and 1979 or something like that - and they sound a lot like that. but that track stands on its own, maybe, as uniquely good
	8:02pm melinda: hi friends!
	🥁 8:02pm chresti: Which is your favorite?
	🥁 8:02pm chresti: Hi melinda!
	8:03pm Flash Strap: which what? sorry
	8:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	🥁 8:03pm chresti: You said earlier that you might not get to your favorite...
	8:04pm TDK60: chresti: a little bit of eggnog left. Probably gone at the market.
	8:05pm Flash Strap: ah yes, I'm particularly partial to CS 19, John Tender's Fantasyland (not pictured below). but equally so to Birth of Earth
	🥁 8:05pm chresti: Alessandro-great. Add a little milk to stretch it out?
	8:05pm Flash Strap: i'll probably open the next coloursound show with a passel of fantasyland tracks
	8:06pm Flash Strap: he really is a marvel, Alessandroni. Really cool guitar on this
	🥁 8:07pm chresti: www.discogs.com...
	8:08pm Flash Strap: zillions of recordings with this guy
	8:09pm TDK60: ..so,Colorsound records was some German hippies running a psych-library-music outfit? True_ False_ Not Quite_
	8:10pm Flash Strap: so awesome how severely industrial a sound he gets from a guitar and a little tin can percussion
	8:11pm Flash Strap: true enough, TDK
	8:14pm Flash Strap: love the primordial – nothing more exotic, nothing more psychedelic, than the primordial ooze
	8:17pm little danny: Heya Evan, hey all
	8:18pm melinda: I like the primordial ooze too
	8:18pm Flash Strap: Hey LD! how goes?
	8:19pm melinda: The German hippies do it once again.
	8:19pm TDK60: a real oozey find, an archive of sound. / did they market these LPs generally or toward radio stations? both?
	8:20pm melinda: I first accidentally typed German hippoes, which would have been funny.
	8:21pm Flash Strap: in general, library music was unavailable to the public, just for licensing purposes - TV, film, etc.
	8:21pm TDK60: yeah Melinda, those Deutsche Langhaare did it up.
	🥁 8:21pm chresti: Haha! @melinda
	8:22pm little danny: (Quick aside re:Cool Blue Flame. Internet service has been atrocious here the last day and a half. Like, 10 minutes out with 30 seconds back on. Sooo, I’m gonna try to crank the engine up tonight but I may have to eject if it seems impossible. I’ll keep y’all posted. END PSA)
	8:23pm Flash Strap: good luck Danny! I hate to see you out for another week as you're sorely missed around here. on the other hand, i don't wish a spotty service show on anyone, what a pain
	8:23pm Flash Strap: this is such a magical track (mutation)
	8:25pm TDK60: so, "You're hearing it here first!, on the Give The Drummer Stream at W. F. M. U. !!!!"
	8:26pm little danny: Thanks Flash! Wish I could do it all from my phone somehow, and kill my data plan
	8:27pm Flash Strap: wish i could loan you some of mine, but i only have 3 mbps to begin with
	🥁 8:27pm chresti: OOOooo...hope it works@lil' danny!
	8:29pm Flash Strap: love these archaeo-ethonological forgery series
	8:32pm Flash Strap: animatronic diorama in stereo
	8:35pm still b/p: I was imagining musicians with that standard "evolution of man" art/graphic set in front of them as the score they're playing.
	🥁 8:35pm chresti: Some of those percussion sounds made me think of John Baker
	8:37pm passiflora: love those generic industry titles...oronzo di fillipi's meccanizzazione has wonderfully generic and appropriately titled tracks also
	🥁 8:37pm chresti: Haha-sb/p
	🥁 8:41pm chresti: This has a Chinese feel to it
	8:41pm Flash Strap: @still b/p: exactly! almost got one of those for the playlist art, actually, my studio is piled with that sort of thing at the moment
	8:42pm Flash Strap: also, warm welcome b/p!
	8:43pm Flash Strap: @passiflora: exactly! and that's such a great record.. what label is that? i should do a show on that label just so i can play meccanizzazione
	8:44pm TDK60: ..this is great stuff; gonna have to remember to come back to this show when it becomes an archive... a library of library.
	8:44pm Doug Schulkind: G’d evening, Admiral!
	8:45pm passiflora: Leo
	8:45pm Flash Strap: oh gosh it's Leo, pretty obscure offerings on that one, i only have a handful
	8:46pm passiflora: I've put it to little public library videos because it's just too perfect
	8:46pm Flash Strap: G'd evening Doug!
	8:46pm hyde: oh, dang i missed the Alessandroni stuff when i was getting dinner. will have to back via Archiveland
	8:47pm passiflora: Industry themed show, maybe
	8:47pm Flash Strap: little more Alessandroni in the works but you missed the best of it
	8:47pm passiflora: italian industry XD
	8:47pm northguineahills: I missed the alessandroni stuff when I went to the pharmacy.
	8:48pm TDK60: this sounds like a bassier thumb piano.
	8:49pm Flash Strap: really does TDK
	8:50pm Flash Strap: hell i don't need an excuse to play meccanizzazione, but now i want the challenge of scraping together enough Leo records to do something with them
	8:51pm passiflora: luce industriale e magia
	8:52pm passiflora: sounds fun @Flash Strap
	8:54pm Flash Strap: Imme Atwood on harp, seems to be her only credit
	8:58pm Flash Strap: not alessandroni's best LP, this
	8:59pm Flash Strap: real Mort Garson sound on Digital Song
	9:02pm Flash Strap: bit of a Wendy Carlos / Tomita sound on Dancing Electrons
	9:02pm Uncle Michael: Those Mort Garson astrology records...
	9:02pm Flash Strap: Heya Uncle!
	9:03pm passiflora: the western tradition
	9:03pm Uncle Michael: Hey, Evan...you inadvertently sent me on a crazy production music quest...the booty was at 138,000 tracks and counting this morning.
	9:04pm Flash Strap: holy smokes Uncle happy to have deranged you so
	9:04pm hyde: @UM haha
	9:05pm Flash Strap: and then Cycles really reminds me of Laurie Spiegel
	9:08pm Flash Strap: really cool percussion & well recorded
	9:09pm Flash Strap: @UM: what labels, besides tele music, make up that astonishing figure?
	9:10pm Uncle Michael: I'd not be lying if I said hundreds of labels. So many I'd never heard of.
	9:12pm Flash Strap: i love to hear it, UM
	🥁 9:13pm chresti: Sounds like a bounty UM
	9:13pm Flash Strap: this is such a cool track, and what a title, Kinetic Sculptures
	9:15pm Flash Strap: i know i've heard this track used in something before
	9:16pm TDK60: ..a site says Coloursound had 84 releases [each cover there]. www.apmmusic.com...
	9:19pm Flash Strap: I think they actually had 85 LPs, then switched to CD and did a lot more
	9:19pm TDK60: ah...more.
	9:19pm Uncle Michael: I have 115 Coloursound titles.
	9:20pm still b/p: I still got a stack of production music on vinyl, 70s - 80s. I think Uncle Michael expressed interest a few years back. But how they gonna get to heartland from NE coast? Schulkind Roof-Rack Courier Service on one of his summer pass-throughs will get 'em as far as FMU or PA. Shhh...don't tell him. I'll just secure a carton on the car when he stops somewhere nearby for ice cream.
	9:21pm TDK60: so, I'm surrounded by "library" types. heh.
	9:21pm Flash Strap: toss em on a raft and float em south to me b/p
	🥁 9:21pm chresti: haha
	9:22pm Uncle Michael: still b/p....that's generous of you, but as you note...impractical
	9:25pm Flash Strap: really cool Brainticket track. i never really went for Cottonwood Hill or the 1st LP, so I thought not so much of Brainticket till I heard Celestial Ocean, which knocks my socks off
	9:30pm TDK60: ..you could throw that Brainticket right in there between Gentle Giant and early Genesis and Van Der Graaf Generator, or etc. (in a hypothetical prog segment).
	9:31pm hyde: fading from playlist to listen from bed. thanks!
	🥁 9:32pm chresti: Yeah, that one sounded like a soundtrack to...mannix, or something.
	9:34pm Flash Strap: my pleasure sleepy Hyde
	9:34pm Flash Strap: great vocal on this
	🥁 9:34pm chresti: Alright, Space Face!
	9:36pm Flash Strap: finally, we made it to Space Face! title track is the best track on there but it's all pretty cool
	🥁 9:37pm chresti: The title alone makes it an automatic winner
	9:37pm Flash Strap: without a doubt
	9:38pm passiflora: scawwy
	9:39pm passiflora: oh nm scary w/ regalia
	9:40pm Doug Schulkind: One of the great name of names!
	9:41pm Flash Strap: oh yeah. him of the legendary names!
	9:42pm TDK60: this is his, A.A., whistling?
	9:42pm Flash Strap: you betcha
	9:45pm TDK60: that spaghetti western whistle that sounds like an early synth or such?
	9:46pm Flash Strap: a little more brainticket after this? i think so
	9:46pm Flash Strap: i'm not sure, i'd have to check and listen more closely
	9:47pm passiflora: ticket-in, ticket-out
	9:47pm Flash Strap: squeaky balloon
	9:48pm TDK60: I wonder if these west Germans knew about the east German cosmic exercise spacey music.
	9:48pm melinda: @TDK haha
	9:50pm Franco Twinkie: Is this cooking music? I say yes!
	9:50pm Flash Strap: Hi Franco! cook away pal
	9:51pm northguineahills: Thanks Evan, episode is clicky-starred!
	9:51pm TDK60: ..this Brainticket is '73, round same time as Klaus Schulze was getting his sound going too, eh.
	9:52pm Flash Strap: this section just wraps it all up, man, damn
	9:53pm Flash Strap: oh yeah, concurrent with all that stuff, the first Harmonia, Cluster, on and on
	9:53pm TDK60: ..I can imagine cassettes being smuggled across walls..
	9:53pm Flash Strap: my immense pleasure NGH with the stars
	9:53pm coelacanth∅: i caught about 10 minutes in the beginning and now just 10 minutes left. i don't think i can fill in the blanks without help
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: ...Thankful for archives
	9:55pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, Flash!
	9:55pm Franco Twinkie: Coel, just imagine you are speeding thru a translucent green garden hose.
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: aAhhhh Franco - got it!
	9:57pm TDK60: this show was fun never heard this music; odd that for some it was only background music.
	9:57pm coelacanth∅: man you grow persimmons too? mmm
	9:57pm passiflora: good night
	🥁 9:58pm chresti: Who's a space case? (space face)Thanks, Flash!
	9:58pm Franco Twinkie: Farmers market, but this is it for the season.
	9:59pm Flash Strap: Hi and night to ya Coelacanth! And to all else present: thank you, it's been my great pleasure, and a very good night to you. see you next week
	🥁 9:59pm chresti: Goodnight!
	9:59pm still b/p: Didn't Sun Ra say Space is the Face? No, wait... Thanks for ambience and noodles.
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan have a great weekend
	8:37pm quinn: ooh how did i miss this, this show is my dream come true
	9:51am ?: Dear, inside me, wondering what happened .......... and well, the blog just was not updated, since the program in WFMU is Still as usual. I looked for you on Instagram, hahahahaha, of course I'm not the only Ninja. Uncle Joel helped me a lot to develop my potential as an Artist and he turned me into Carnivore Dragon.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 10, 2019

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