WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from February 28, 2019

Listener comments!
	6:36pm Flash Strap: Good evening Explorers
	🥁 6:39pm chresti: Good afternoon!
	6:56pm Flash Strap: Hello Chresti!
	6:58pm listener james from westwood: How do, Flash and all!
	6:59pm Little Danny: Heya Flash, hey all
	7:00pm JtotheK: Ahoy there Flash and Explorers!!!
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi James! LD! JtotheK! wonderful to see you all, missed you last Thursday
	7:05pm Flash Strap: great mix on that Sebesky track: clavinet and moog, very good bedfellows
	7:06pm Flash Strap: how do you say Czjzek I wonder? is it like Zizek?
	7:10pm Flash Strap: very interesting soundwaves on this recording
	🥁 7:16pm chresti: Missed you last week, as well. Zajek? or Shejek? -my guess
	🥁 7:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: As a kid - had this MultiBand Radio - & could twiddle tuner & dials & get sounds a lot like some of these....
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev Rab!
	🥁 7:17pm chresti: What is the visual from?
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Thanks Chresti, at least we had Wednesday
	7:17pm TDK60: Hi Flash. Last week we just stayed on the comments board here and talked about the songs on the Drummer shuffle. It was unusual fun. But glad you're back.
	7:18pm Flash Strap: @Chresti: 50watts.com...
	7:19pm passiflora: :D
	🥁 7:20pm chresti: Yeah-that was fun@TDK @Flash-Estonian
	7:20pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK! I'm glad to be back and sorry to have been gone! it was funny on my return to see the comments went on without me
	7:21pm Flash Strap: absolutely sublime performance from Gary Windo on saxophone here. tears to my eyes, every time. perfect complement to the compositional/lyrical play Wyatt is up to
	7:22pm Flash Strap: hi Passiflora! wonderful, wonderful
	🥁 7:23pm chresti: Glad you got to see how TDK provided in depth info on each track
	7:23pm Flash Strap: @chresti: yeah! Estonian art can be extremely interesting and unique, I've found. that whole series is amazing. Owl used to use some of those for his stuff in the Holy Warbles days
	7:25pm Flash Strap: ha, yes indeed
	7:26pm TDK60: chresti: don't know how deep. But it was fun trying to keep up. (Reminds me that DJs just don't sit there humming.)
	7:28pm Flash Strap: I try to do my share of humming in between furiously typing data into fields but yeah I'm a busy boy over here usually
	7:28pm listener james from westwood: Oh, tasty Bley-Peacock.
	7:30pm Flash Strap: BIG agree, James
	7:33pm TDK60: ..this is some fun hehe.
	7:37pm Flash Strap: Roxy Music's deep psychedelic explorations are just godlike in my book
	🥁 7:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ya just gotta find the right 70s.
	7:38pm Flash Strap: true in many ways, Rev
	7:43pm TDK60: ..a pal gently nudged me to For Your Pleasure, I hadn't known, one of their edgier ones.
	🥁 7:43pm chresti: Nice bed music sound
	7:49pm TDK60: wow, you know some reggae particulars there...
	7:53pm TDK60: >..is the Paragons cut more ska-into-rock steady period?
	7:53pm Flash Strap: @TDK : I do what I can
	7:55pm Flash Strap: yeah for sure. Erroll brown mixed some of their stuff for the various Trasure Isle dub records (mostly credited to Tommy McCook or Arthur Duke Reid) but not till the mid 70s I think
	7:55pm northguineahills: I have many Treasure Isle rekkids, I got in Bed-Stuy's Kulture Lion, sadly now deceased. Unfortunately, now deceased. Most Treasure Isle rekkids had strips of vinyl coming off and the label way off center (into the groove)
	7:56pm Flash Strap: that sounds about right, NGH! but man they made some great music on that label
	7:56pm Flash Strap: subject of a future show or set, to be sure
	7:56pm ike: Dig.
	7:57pm Flash Strap: hi Ike ! we dig together
	🥁 7:58pm chresti: I think more rock steady-TDK60
	7:58pm doctorjazz: Hey Flash and Flash-a-teers!
	8:01pm coelacanth∅: hey Flash; Explorers
	8:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc! Hi Coelacanth!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: I still haven't seen this film, alas, but I saw it was getting a rerelease and got super jazzed
	🥁 8:03pm chresti: You're right, though@7:53 Can't think of a pre-rock steady Paragons
	🥁 8:05pm chresti: This is great, astonished I never heard it before-Babylon
	8:05pm quinn: I’m listening on headphones and this track is whhooaaaa
	8:07pm Flash Strap: @chresti: it's an astonishing scene, worth looking up both the clip and the film
	8:07pm Flash Strap: Hi Quinn! yesss to headphones
	8:07pm quinn: I’m glad you’re back
	🥁 8:08pm chresti: Hello hello everyone that arrived while I was stuck in babylon
	8:08pm Flash Strap: thanks, me too. what a bummer it was
	8:08pm hyde: hello!
	8:08pm Flash Strap: Hyddddde!
	8:13pm quinn: ehmmm this song is very cool
	8:13pm Flash Strap: this Aswad record is so crazy
	8:19pm passiflora: on a call and missed the cool songs
	8:19pm quinn: Oh it’s still cool
	8:21pm passiflora: still on I pray I'm actually muted
	8:22pm Flash Strap: haha yes passiflora, play it loud into the receiver
	8:22pm Flash Strap: amazing synth on this Joe Gibbs
	8:23pm passiflora: it's cool enmeshed
	8:25pm Flash Strap: great drums on this, esp. toward the end
	🥁 8:25pm chresti: Majestic
	8:27pm Flash Strap: Bovell (aka Blackbeard) produced the soundtrack for this film, which also stars one of the guys from Aswad (forget the name at the mo) really great soundtrack, although it should really have that Jah Shaka performance on it, and it doesn't
	8:27pm Little Danny: Yes indeed
	🥁 8:35pm chresti: Let the good times roll
	8:36pm Flash Strap: I know i played this track a long time ago on another dub show but it seemed very correct for tonight, i hope you'll all indulge the indulgence
	8:36pm TDK60: this is wild.
	🥁 8:37pm chresti: Love it
	8:38pm Flash Strap: such huge distortion on his already mountainous voice, so great
	8:40pm Little Danny: Of course we'll indulge! (I work through the same instinct when I wanna play a track I've played previously, too.)
	8:41pm Flash Strap: always a struggle
	🥁 8:43pm chresti: Me, I am someone that listens to the same record/cd/songs, months at a time
	8:43pm coelacanth∅: yes people come to wfmu for music they've never heard, but it's not an indulgence in my opinion; it's natural to play a song more than once if you like it.
	8:44pm fleep: you won't descend into Top 40 radio by repeating now and then. it's ok. and greetings.
	🥁 8:44pm chresti: Once a song grabs me, got to hear it again soon.
	8:44pm coelacanth∅: and some music makes the rounds with different djs -which is usually good...not always!
	8:45pm Flash Strap: Hi fleep! thanks for understanding my repeats all, i do it when it seems worth it
	8:45pm TDK60: I wasn't here when ya played it last anyway. So, move it up those WFMU Charts will ya?
	8:45pm coelacanth∅: (i've listened to Jessica Pratt's first album -or some of it, almost every day for months now)
	8:47pm passiflora: perfect timing. no more of that until a c r a z y saturday ;)
	🥁 8:48pm chresti: Yeah, I don't remember hearing it here before
	8:49pm TDK60: ..I once listened to an album so much, my friends began to smile at me weirdly.
	8:50pm coelacanth∅: well that's another thing...if a year or more passes between plays one would likely forget about it until they hear it again, and if it's good then it's a welcome, faint familiarity.
	🥁 8:51pm chresti: Kluster/Cluster is one, on my auto repeat music playing machine
	8:51pm passiflora: I had a Katherine Gilly song on repeat kinda recently
	🥁 8:52pm chresti: Joe Gibbs is too
	8:52pm coelacanth∅: i've done that with many albums and songs. rarely consecutively though. a friend in high school used to play songs 5-10X straight. drove me crazy!
	8:53pm passiflora: oh that sounds like me
	8:53pm passiflora: ah, what does this song sound like as if I've never heard it before, etc
	8:54pm Dean: Gang of Four's first, Entertainment: Played at least once a day, more frequently when I was at the record store. Genesis's Selling England by the Pound: Same.
	8:54pm quinn: If anyone tells you they don’t do that, there’s something sad about that person or they are lying
	8:54pm coelacanth∅: i listened to a Joe Gibbs album several times/day once, in the 90s, while trying to recover from a failed relationship. very cathartic at the time.
	8:54pm zonk ludlow: Hiya Flash been out of the loop in real time for a bit, but overjoyed to be here today. Loving the dub.
	8:54pm hyde: oh wow, Modern Harmonic is putting out a John Cage meets Sun Ra thing for record store day that has video + audio of them on stage together at Coney Island (though the audio has some silent sections and mike issues)
	8:55pm passiflora: laughed
	8:56pm coelacanth∅: Dean, that one for me too; and their 2nd, "solid gold". quinn you're probably right.
	8:57pm Flash Strap: Hi Zonk, hi Dean!
	8:58pm Uncle Michael: Hello.
	8:59pm Flash Strap: Hello, UM!
	8:59pm quinn: Tell me this is going to be a sax set
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: - or just a little saxy
	9:01pm Flash Strap: it's a sax set for now anyway
	9:02pm passiflora: reminds me of ny
	9:02pm fleep: The first time I heard St. Thomas was in St. Thomas
	9:02pm hyde: this is reminding me of the time in Woodstock when my gas heater repairman had just come from Sonny Rollins' house
	9:03pm Flash Strap: uh, damn that's a cool repairman
	9:04pm coelacanth∅: (and no points given to anyone who chimes in to say hes/he first heard "new york new york" in new york)
	9:05pm hyde: also, Sonny Rollins gave the guy a signed 2$ bill as a tip
	9:05pm Dean: It so happens that tomorrow morning I'll be waiting for the electrician or someone like him. I'll ask if he's been to Sonny's house. I first heard X's "Los Angeles" in...oh forget about it.
	9:05pm coelacanth∅: ha! that Sonny he's a good guy.
	9:06pm Dean: Should I sign the $2 bill tomorrow with my name or Sonny's?
	🥁 9:07pm chresti: That's a good story@hyde
	9:07pm Uncle Michael: Don't crush that dwarf, Dean.
	9:07pm ike: I’m going to make a totally wild out-of-left-field guess — stay with me here — but I think those lyrics a few minutes ago might’ve been... slightly suggestive!
	9:07pm Dean: Pliers at the ready. Everything, you know, is wrong.
	9:08pm coelacanth∅: i think of David S Ware when i hear Sonny Rollins because David told me Sonny was his main influence, which i think most people would never guess.
	🥁 9:08pm chresti: haha Dean
	9:08pm hyde: @coel huh, that is interesting
	9:09pm Flash Strap: @ike: yeah that's a rowdy lyric with a strange attitude
	9:10pm coelacanth∅: hyde, if i try i can hear it in his "ballads"; but that's not how people tend to think of David Ware. (at least not me)
	9:10pm Flash Strap: @C: i would not have guessed that at all
	9:10pm northguineahills: the last four selections are amazing!
	9:11pm Flash Strap: glad you're diggin NGH, I'm diggin too
	9:12pm passiflora: ugh so good
	🥁 9:13pm chresti: So great!
	9:14pm quinn: mm!
	9:14pm Flash Strap: god damn, this version is even better than the first one I ever heard, from the Willisau Concerts
	9:14pm passiflora: seriously
	9:15pm northguineahills: ok, never heard this Joe Mcphee, dayum!
	9:15pm Flash Strap: i'm feeling it harder than i expected
	9:16pm Flash Strap: i'm in space, i'm in a cave, i've dissolved
	9:16pm quinn: I can’t imagine seeing this live
	9:17pm TDK60: come back Flash...
	9:17pm passiflora: oh gosh
	9:23pm Dean: Oh, yeah. I have this Steele LP.
	9:24pm Flash Strap: what a strange LP, really cool stuff from him and Cage
	9:25pm Flash Strap: With Eno, Robert Wyatt, Steve Beresford, etc.
	9:25pm Flash Strap: no sax on this cut, which i love
	9:26pm quinn: perfect title
	9:26pm Flash Strap: no actual sax, i should say
	9:26pm Dean: Well, they're distant. Pretty sure I bought this for the Eno, kept it for the Cage.
	9:27pm Little Danny: dang, this Steele is so good
	9:27pm Flash Strap: the cage stuff is great, I got it for the Wyatt, but the winner is the Steele, for me
	9:27pm Uncle Michael: sax is implied
	9:28pm Flash Strap: @UM: i n c r e d i b l e
	9:28pm Dean: One must reed between the lines.
	9:28pm Flash Strap: like a sniper
	9:28pm coelacanth∅: this one slipped past me at the time, when i was buying everything with Brian Eno's name on it. (and since then as well, until now)
	9:29pm hyde: this is super cool
	9:31pm coelacanth∅: ...speaking of
	9:32pm Uncle Michael: I love listening to Wyatt sing.
	9:32pm northguineahills: Ok, never heard Wyatt/Eno do Cage either....
	9:33pm coelacanth∅: ...and regarding Robert Wyatt, and also the earlier subject, i've been obsessed (not for the first time in my Life) with Wyatt's version (and chic's as well) of at last i am free.
	9:34pm Flash Strap: his voice is an unrepeatable phenomenon
	9:34pm Flash Strap: such a mindblowing cover, coelacanth
	9:34pm passiflora: his Silence affected me
	9:34pm Flash Strap: yes
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: wow! it's an Enofest!
	9:36pm quinn: I listen to his song Worship on repeat like... all the time
	9:37pm Flash Strap: i didn't have this track planned but i ended up with a little extra time and i thought it might fit... Eno, sax, bloops and bleeps, echo... feeling good about the move
	9:37pm passiflora: golden stripe
	🥁 9:38pm chresti: and the voices-poifect
	9:38pm Dean: Out of a commitment to dicktegrity, I have to note that I think Eno is overrated. I rarely get the sense he gives much of a damn about what he's doing.
	9:38pm Flash Strap: @quinn: excellent. i've been on another in an endless series of obsessive periods with Rock Bottom myself Shleep is due for another visit, i'm realizing
	9:39pm Uncle Michael: wish I could have seen Roxy with Eno
	9:40pm Flash Strap: i'll agree with you that he's overrated by a certain (inevitable) degree and leave it at that
	9:41pm Flash Strap: @UM have you ever watched those TV appearances they did, I think on German TV, from this period? love those, Eno is so bizarre
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: i've not heard more Wyatt albums that those i've heard; but rock bottom is great! little red riding hood hit the road made a prime showing in a recent sound collage.
	9:41pm still b/p: Just arrived and Bogus Man! Whaaaa? Mising the earlier part of the show is...bogus! Saw Roxy without Eno, '76.
	9:41pm Flash Strap: and Ferry is never more lizardlike, really. like sweating wax, his face
	9:41pm Uncle Michael: Yes, I have. They're great.
	9:42pm Flash Strap: hi b/p!
	9:42pm Flash Strap: ah good. i figured. so great
	9:43pm coelacanth∅: i don't think every person on earth knows the name Brian Eno, therefore i think he's not overrated.
	9:43pm passiflora: carefully incensed room
	9:43pm TDK60: thatsa some 1973.
	🥁 9:44pm chresti: I think 76 was when I saw Roxy
	9:44pm quinn: Every crossword player knows his name
	9:44pm Flash Strap: his participation on Low is both under- and overrated, often at the same time by the same people
	9:44pm Uncle Michael: didn't see 'em till '79
	🥁 9:44pm chresti: haha coel
	9:45pm passiflora: I sat next to a professional(?) crossworder at a recent event, from Iowa. He urged me to get the NYT crossword app
	9:45pm still b/p: When I bring him up to recommend his essay on the value of informal singing, I'm surprised how many don't know him, either form Roxy or solo ro other projects or all the producing of major acts recordings. Sometimes they think they've heard the name...kinda.
	9:45pm Uncle Michael: good money in crosswording?
	9:46pm Flash Strap: great unexpected moogy sound on this track
	9:46pm passiflora: laughing
	9:46pm Flash Strap: not sure what it is, but those low end blarps are pretty moogish
	9:47pm passiflora: swimmy
	9:47pm coelacanth∅: i just don't think he gets credit beyond what he deserves credit for. if one doesn't like his music, fine. some people don't like the beatles or Neil Young or John Coltrane....but his contribution to music and to countless individual artists is immeasurable.
	9:47pm quinn: “Blarp” is our word for baby spitup
	9:48pm coelacanth∅: hahaha
	9:49pm northguineahills: The first time I saw dj Spooky, he played the Sun Ra/John Cage LP. Thankfully, since then, it's been played at WFMU and I found it online.
	9:49pm still b/p: I think one of the Oblique Strategies is "Underrate the thing, then overrate it."
	9:50pm passiflora: and here we are ^
	9:54pm TDK60: I have found this show engaging, rhythmic, spacey, and worthy of fine ratings.
	🥁 9:54pm chresti: I don't think I've rated Eno one way or "nother -generally hold him in high esteem
	9:54pm Little Danny: thanks Evan!!!
	9:54pm quinn: Night night
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: Haha TDK60
	9:55pm Little Danny: The next further planet beckons: wfmu.org... All are welcome!
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: Good night and thanks Flash!
	9:56pm Flash Strap: Thank you for your kind rating, TDK! Good night and thanks to all, catch you at least for a few minutes in the next room
	9:56pm passiflora: :milky_way:
	9:58pm doctorjazz: This is great !!! Thanks ,Flash!
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! see y'all over there (>) i heard there'll be blueberries. yum.
	9:59pm passiflora: I need to go back and hear the bit I missed

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from February 28, 2019

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February 28, 2019: Mystik Sounds, Distant Pleasures

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Don Sebesky	Cosmic Force / Water Brother	The Distant Galaxy	Verve	1968		0:00:16 (Pop-up)
Hans-Joachim Roedelius	Immergruen	Wasser Im Wind	Schalter	1982	wr. & sax by Alexander Czjzek	0:04:47 (Pop-up)
Steve Lacy	Feline "Feline" by "Steve Lacy"	Straws	Cramps / DIVerso	1977		0:07:05 (Pop-up)
Joe McPhee	Spaces "Spaces" by "Joe McPhee"	Rotation	Hat Hut	1977	Synthesizer by John Snyder; rec. live 1976 at "Jazz in Basel" concerts	0:09:33 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt	Alife "Alife" by "Robert Wyatt"	Rock Bottom	Virgin	1974		0:18:34 (Pop-up)
Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show	Climbing Aspirations	Revenge: The Bigger the Love, the Greater the Hate	Polydor	1971		0:25:07 (Pop-up)
Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show	A Loss of Consciousness	Revenge: The Bigger the Love, the Greater the Hate	Polydor	1971		0:26:39 (Pop-up)
Roxy Music	For Your Pleasure "For Your Pleasure" by "Roxy Music"	For Your Pleasure	Island	1973		0:33:33 (Pop-up)
The Paragons	On The Beach "On The Beach" by "The Paragons"	On The Beach	Treasure Isle	1967		0:40:10 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Wim Mertens	Mildly Skeeming "Mildly Skeeming" by "Wim Mertens"	Struggle for Pleasure	Les Disques Du Crépuscule	1983	reissue bonus track orig. LP released under artist name Soft Verdict	0:42:28 (Pop-up)
Soft Verdict	Insert Coin "Insert Coin" by "Soft Verdict"	For Amusement Only	Les Disques Du Crépuscule	1982		0:50:35 (Pop-up)
V.D.B. Joel	Martian Invaders "Martian Invaders" by "V.D.B. Joel"	Video Games & Data Movements	Coloursound	1987		0:51:30 (Pop-up)
Prince Jammy	Martian Encounter "Martian Encounter" by "Prince Jammy"	Prince Jammy Destroys the Invaders...	Greensleeves	1982		0:52:30 (Pop-up)
Prince Jammy	War In The Asteroid Belt	Prince Jammy Destroys the Invaders...	Greensleeves	1982		0:56:43 (Pop-up)
V.D.B. Joel	Vampire Chaser "Vampire Chaser" by "V.D.B. Joel"	Video Games & Data Movements	Coloursound	1987		0:58:54 (Pop-up)
Jah Shaka Sound System	Babylon "Babylon" by "Jah Shaka Sound System"	Live mix performed in the Franco Rosso film, "Babylon"		1980		1:00:46 (Pop-up)
Soft Verdict	8 Ball "8 Ball" by "Soft Verdict"	For Amusement Only	Les Disques Du Crépuscule	1982		1:03:40 (Pop-up)
Beaver & Krause	Periodic: Rectangular 1/2 - Swept (L2)	The Nonesuch Guide To Electronic Music	Nonesuch	1968		1:04:34 (Pop-up)
Mad Professor	Psychologically Yours / South African Crossfire	Dub Me Crazy!!	Ariwa	1982		1:05:35 (Pop-up)
Beaver & Krause	Periodic: Triangular - Swept	The Nonesuch Guide To Electronic Music	Nonesuch	1968		1:10:39 (Pop-up)
Aswad	Dub Fire "Dub Fire" by "Aswad"	A New Chapter of Dub	Island	1982	mix: Michael "Reuben" Campbell	1:11:45 (Pop-up)
Aswad	Truth "Truth" by "Aswad"	A New Chapter of Dub	Island	1982	mix: Michael "Reuben" Campbell	1:15:36 (Pop-up)
Beaver & Krause	Periodic: Sawtooth-Swept	The Nonesuch Guide To Electronic Music	Nonesuch	1968		1:19:42 (Pop-up)
Joe Gibbs & The Professionals	Social Justice	Majestic Dub	Joe Gibbs Record Globe	1979		1:20:49 (Pop-up)
Dennis Bovell	Manhunter "Manhunter" by "Dennis Bovell"	Babylon (The Original Soundtrack)	Chrysalis	1980		1:23:45 (Pop-up)
Louis & Bebe Barron	Battle With The Invisible Monster	Forbidden Planet	Small Planet Records	1978	1956	1:28:24 (Pop-up)
Suns Of Arqa featuring Prince Far-I	Acid Tabla (Re-Mix)	G.D. Magick	Antler Records	1983	Adrian Sherwood mix; no Far-I on this	1:29:26 (Pop-up)
V.D.B. Joel	Pin-Balls "Pin-Balls" by "V.D.B. Joel"	Video Games & Data Movements	Coloursound	1987		1:32:20 (Pop-up)
Soft Verdict	Gorf "Gorf" by "Soft Verdict"	For Amusement Only	Les Disques Du Crépuscule	1982		1:33:10 (Pop-up)
Prince Far I & the Arabs	Plant Up	Cry Tuff Dub Encounter Chapter 3	Daddy Cool	1980	mixed by (uncredited) Adrian Sherwood	1:34:38 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Soft Verdict	Mystik "Mystik" by "Soft Verdict"	For Amusement Only	Les Disques Du Crépuscule	1982		1:41:48 (Pop-up)
Lord Kitchener & Fitzroy Coleman's Trinidad Rangers	Saxophone No. 2	Saxophone No. 2 / Too Late Kitch 78	Melodisc	19??		1:55:56 (Pop-up)
David Murray	After All This "After All This" by "David Murray"	Sur-Real Saxophone	Horo Records	1978		1:58:26 (Pop-up)
Sonny Rollins	St. Thomas "St. Thomas" by "Sonny Rollins"	Saxophone Colossus	Prestige	1956		2:00:12 (Pop-up)
Joe McPhee	Bahamian Folksong "Bahamian Folksong" by "Joe McPhee"	Rotation	Hat Hut	1977	Synthesizer by John Snyder; rec. live 1976 at "Jazz in Basel" concerts	2:06:51 (Pop-up)
Cedric Im Brooks & The Divine Light	Third World (Afro Beat)	From Mento To Reggae To Third World Music	Doctor Bird	1973		2:17:35 (Pop-up)
Jan Steele	Distant Saxophones "Distant Saxophones" by "Jan Steele"	Voices and Instruments	Obscure / Island	1976	prod. Brian Eno	2:20:17 (Pop-up)
John Cage	Experiences No. 2 "Experiences No. 2" by "John Cage"	Voices and Instruments	Obscure / Island	1976	voc. Robert Wyatt; lyric by ee cummings; prod. Brian Eno	2:30:21 (Pop-up)
Roxy Music	The Bogus Man "The Bogus Man" by "Roxy Music"	For Your Pleasure	Island	1973		2:35:18 (Pop-up)
Jesus Acosta & the Professionals	A Part of Being With You	From Belize With Love	CES	1978		2:44:33 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Dennis Bovell	Jazterpiece "Jazterpiece" by "Dennis Bovell"	Babylon (The Original Soundtrack)				2:48:59 (Pop-up)
Hans-Joachim Roedelius	Am Stadrand	Wasser Im Wind				2:55:26 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:36pm Flash Strap: Good evening Explorers
	🥁 6:39pm chresti: Good afternoon!
	6:56pm Flash Strap: Hello Chresti!
	6:58pm listener james from westwood: How do, Flash and all!
	6:59pm Little Danny: Heya Flash, hey all
	7:00pm JtotheK: Ahoy there Flash and Explorers!!!
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi James! LD! JtotheK! wonderful to see you all, missed you last Thursday
	7:05pm Flash Strap: great mix on that Sebesky track: clavinet and moog, very good bedfellows
	7:06pm Flash Strap: how do you say Czjzek I wonder? is it like Zizek?
	7:10pm Flash Strap: very interesting soundwaves on this recording
	🥁 7:16pm chresti: Missed you last week, as well. Zajek? or Shejek? -my guess
	🥁 7:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: As a kid - had this MultiBand Radio - & could twiddle tuner & dials & get sounds a lot like some of these....
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev Rab!
	🥁 7:17pm chresti: What is the visual from?
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Thanks Chresti, at least we had Wednesday
	7:17pm TDK60: Hi Flash. Last week we just stayed on the comments board here and talked about the songs on the Drummer shuffle. It was unusual fun. But glad you're back.
	7:18pm Flash Strap: @Chresti: 50watts.com...
	7:19pm passiflora: :D
	🥁 7:20pm chresti: Yeah-that was fun@TDK @Flash-Estonian
	7:20pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK! I'm glad to be back and sorry to have been gone! it was funny on my return to see the comments went on without me
	7:21pm Flash Strap: absolutely sublime performance from Gary Windo on saxophone here. tears to my eyes, every time. perfect complement to the compositional/lyrical play Wyatt is up to
	7:22pm Flash Strap: hi Passiflora! wonderful, wonderful
	🥁 7:23pm chresti: Glad you got to see how TDK provided in depth info on each track
	7:23pm Flash Strap: @chresti: yeah! Estonian art can be extremely interesting and unique, I've found. that whole series is amazing. Owl used to use some of those for his stuff in the Holy Warbles days
	7:25pm Flash Strap: ha, yes indeed
	7:26pm TDK60: chresti: don't know how deep. But it was fun trying to keep up. (Reminds me that DJs just don't sit there humming.)
	7:28pm Flash Strap: I try to do my share of humming in between furiously typing data into fields but yeah I'm a busy boy over here usually
	7:28pm listener james from westwood: Oh, tasty Bley-Peacock.
	7:30pm Flash Strap: BIG agree, James
	7:33pm TDK60: ..this is some fun hehe.
	7:37pm Flash Strap: Roxy Music's deep psychedelic explorations are just godlike in my book
	🥁 7:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ya just gotta find the right 70s.
	7:38pm Flash Strap: true in many ways, Rev
	7:43pm TDK60: ..a pal gently nudged me to For Your Pleasure, I hadn't known, one of their edgier ones.
	🥁 7:43pm chresti: Nice bed music sound
	7:49pm TDK60: wow, you know some reggae particulars there...
	7:53pm TDK60: >..is the Paragons cut more ska-into-rock steady period?
	7:53pm Flash Strap: @TDK : I do what I can
	7:55pm Flash Strap: yeah for sure. Erroll brown mixed some of their stuff for the various Trasure Isle dub records (mostly credited to Tommy McCook or Arthur Duke Reid) but not till the mid 70s I think
	7:55pm northguineahills: I have many Treasure Isle rekkids, I got in Bed-Stuy's Kulture Lion, sadly now deceased. Unfortunately, now deceased. Most Treasure Isle rekkids had strips of vinyl coming off and the label way off center (into the groove)
	7:56pm Flash Strap: that sounds about right, NGH! but man they made some great music on that label
	7:56pm Flash Strap: subject of a future show or set, to be sure
	7:56pm ike: Dig.
	7:57pm Flash Strap: hi Ike ! we dig together
	🥁 7:58pm chresti: I think more rock steady-TDK60
	7:58pm doctorjazz: Hey Flash and Flash-a-teers!
	8:01pm coelacanth∅: hey Flash; Explorers
	8:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc! Hi Coelacanth!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: I still haven't seen this film, alas, but I saw it was getting a rerelease and got super jazzed
	🥁 8:03pm chresti: You're right, though@7:53 Can't think of a pre-rock steady Paragons
	🥁 8:05pm chresti: This is great, astonished I never heard it before-Babylon
	8:05pm quinn: I’m listening on headphones and this track is whhooaaaa
	8:07pm Flash Strap: @chresti: it's an astonishing scene, worth looking up both the clip and the film
	8:07pm Flash Strap: Hi Quinn! yesss to headphones
	8:07pm quinn: I’m glad you’re back
	🥁 8:08pm chresti: Hello hello everyone that arrived while I was stuck in babylon
	8:08pm Flash Strap: thanks, me too. what a bummer it was
	8:08pm hyde: hello!
	8:08pm Flash Strap: Hyddddde!
	8:13pm quinn: ehmmm this song is very cool
	8:13pm Flash Strap: this Aswad record is so crazy
	8:19pm passiflora: on a call and missed the cool songs
	8:19pm quinn: Oh it’s still cool
	8:21pm passiflora: still on I pray I'm actually muted
	8:22pm Flash Strap: haha yes passiflora, play it loud into the receiver
	8:22pm Flash Strap: amazing synth on this Joe Gibbs
	8:23pm passiflora: it's cool enmeshed
	8:25pm Flash Strap: great drums on this, esp. toward the end
	🥁 8:25pm chresti: Majestic
	8:27pm Flash Strap: Bovell (aka Blackbeard) produced the soundtrack for this film, which also stars one of the guys from Aswad (forget the name at the mo) really great soundtrack, although it should really have that Jah Shaka performance on it, and it doesn't
	8:27pm Little Danny: Yes indeed
	🥁 8:35pm chresti: Let the good times roll
	8:36pm Flash Strap: I know i played this track a long time ago on another dub show but it seemed very correct for tonight, i hope you'll all indulge the indulgence
	8:36pm TDK60: this is wild.
	🥁 8:37pm chresti: Love it
	8:38pm Flash Strap: such huge distortion on his already mountainous voice, so great
	8:40pm Little Danny: Of course we'll indulge! (I work through the same instinct when I wanna play a track I've played previously, too.)
	8:41pm Flash Strap: always a struggle
	🥁 8:43pm chresti: Me, I am someone that listens to the same record/cd/songs, months at a time
	8:43pm coelacanth∅: yes people come to wfmu for music they've never heard, but it's not an indulgence in my opinion; it's natural to play a song more than once if you like it.
	8:44pm fleep: you won't descend into Top 40 radio by repeating now and then. it's ok. and greetings.
	🥁 8:44pm chresti: Once a song grabs me, got to hear it again soon.
	8:44pm coelacanth∅: and some music makes the rounds with different djs -which is usually good...not always!
	8:45pm Flash Strap: Hi fleep! thanks for understanding my repeats all, i do it when it seems worth it
	8:45pm TDK60: I wasn't here when ya played it last anyway. So, move it up those WFMU Charts will ya?
	8:45pm coelacanth∅: (i've listened to Jessica Pratt's first album -or some of it, almost every day for months now)
	8:47pm passiflora: perfect timing. no more of that until a c r a z y saturday ;)
	🥁 8:48pm chresti: Yeah, I don't remember hearing it here before
	8:49pm TDK60: ..I once listened to an album so much, my friends began to smile at me weirdly.
	8:50pm coelacanth∅: well that's another thing...if a year or more passes between plays one would likely forget about it until they hear it again, and if it's good then it's a welcome, faint familiarity.
	🥁 8:51pm chresti: Kluster/Cluster is one, on my auto repeat music playing machine
	8:51pm passiflora: I had a Katherine Gilly song on repeat kinda recently
	🥁 8:52pm chresti: Joe Gibbs is too
	8:52pm coelacanth∅: i've done that with many albums and songs. rarely consecutively though. a friend in high school used to play songs 5-10X straight. drove me crazy!
	8:53pm passiflora: oh that sounds like me
	8:53pm passiflora: ah, what does this song sound like as if I've never heard it before, etc
	8:54pm Dean: Gang of Four's first, Entertainment: Played at least once a day, more frequently when I was at the record store. Genesis's Selling England by the Pound: Same.
	8:54pm quinn: If anyone tells you they don’t do that, there’s something sad about that person or they are lying
	8:54pm coelacanth∅: i listened to a Joe Gibbs album several times/day once, in the 90s, while trying to recover from a failed relationship. very cathartic at the time.
	8:54pm zonk ludlow: Hiya Flash been out of the loop in real time for a bit, but overjoyed to be here today. Loving the dub.
	8:54pm hyde: oh wow, Modern Harmonic is putting out a John Cage meets Sun Ra thing for record store day that has video + audio of them on stage together at Coney Island (though the audio has some silent sections and mike issues)
	8:55pm passiflora: laughed
	8:56pm coelacanth∅: Dean, that one for me too; and their 2nd, "solid gold". quinn you're probably right.
	8:57pm Flash Strap: Hi Zonk, hi Dean!
	8:58pm Uncle Michael: Hello.
	8:59pm Flash Strap: Hello, UM!
	8:59pm quinn: Tell me this is going to be a sax set
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: - or just a little saxy
	9:01pm Flash Strap: it's a sax set for now anyway
	9:02pm passiflora: reminds me of ny
	9:02pm fleep: The first time I heard St. Thomas was in St. Thomas
	9:02pm hyde: this is reminding me of the time in Woodstock when my gas heater repairman had just come from Sonny Rollins' house
	9:03pm Flash Strap: uh, damn that's a cool repairman
	9:04pm coelacanth∅: (and no points given to anyone who chimes in to say hes/he first heard "new york new york" in new york)
	9:05pm hyde: also, Sonny Rollins gave the guy a signed 2$ bill as a tip
	9:05pm Dean: It so happens that tomorrow morning I'll be waiting for the electrician or someone like him. I'll ask if he's been to Sonny's house. I first heard X's "Los Angeles" in...oh forget about it.
	9:05pm coelacanth∅: ha! that Sonny he's a good guy.
	9:06pm Dean: Should I sign the $2 bill tomorrow with my name or Sonny's?
	🥁 9:07pm chresti: That's a good story@hyde
	9:07pm Uncle Michael: Don't crush that dwarf, Dean.
	9:07pm ike: I’m going to make a totally wild out-of-left-field guess — stay with me here — but I think those lyrics a few minutes ago might’ve been... slightly suggestive!
	9:07pm Dean: Pliers at the ready. Everything, you know, is wrong.
	9:08pm coelacanth∅: i think of David S Ware when i hear Sonny Rollins because David told me Sonny was his main influence, which i think most people would never guess.
	🥁 9:08pm chresti: haha Dean
	9:08pm hyde: @coel huh, that is interesting
	9:09pm Flash Strap: @ike: yeah that's a rowdy lyric with a strange attitude
	9:10pm coelacanth∅: hyde, if i try i can hear it in his "ballads"; but that's not how people tend to think of David Ware. (at least not me)
	9:10pm Flash Strap: @C: i would not have guessed that at all
	9:10pm northguineahills: the last four selections are amazing!
	9:11pm Flash Strap: glad you're diggin NGH, I'm diggin too
	9:12pm passiflora: ugh so good
	🥁 9:13pm chresti: So great!
	9:14pm quinn: mm!
	9:14pm Flash Strap: god damn, this version is even better than the first one I ever heard, from the Willisau Concerts
	9:14pm passiflora: seriously
	9:15pm northguineahills: ok, never heard this Joe Mcphee, dayum!
	9:15pm Flash Strap: i'm feeling it harder than i expected
	9:16pm Flash Strap: i'm in space, i'm in a cave, i've dissolved
	9:16pm quinn: I can’t imagine seeing this live
	9:17pm TDK60: come back Flash...
	9:17pm passiflora: oh gosh
	9:23pm Dean: Oh, yeah. I have this Steele LP.
	9:24pm Flash Strap: what a strange LP, really cool stuff from him and Cage
	9:25pm Flash Strap: With Eno, Robert Wyatt, Steve Beresford, etc.
	9:25pm Flash Strap: no sax on this cut, which i love
	9:26pm quinn: perfect title
	9:26pm Flash Strap: no actual sax, i should say
	9:26pm Dean: Well, they're distant. Pretty sure I bought this for the Eno, kept it for the Cage.
	9:27pm Little Danny: dang, this Steele is so good
	9:27pm Flash Strap: the cage stuff is great, I got it for the Wyatt, but the winner is the Steele, for me
	9:27pm Uncle Michael: sax is implied
	9:28pm Flash Strap: @UM: i n c r e d i b l e
	9:28pm Dean: One must reed between the lines.
	9:28pm Flash Strap: like a sniper
	9:28pm coelacanth∅: this one slipped past me at the time, when i was buying everything with Brian Eno's name on it. (and since then as well, until now)
	9:29pm hyde: this is super cool
	9:31pm coelacanth∅: ...speaking of
	9:32pm Uncle Michael: I love listening to Wyatt sing.
	9:32pm northguineahills: Ok, never heard Wyatt/Eno do Cage either....
	9:33pm coelacanth∅: ...and regarding Robert Wyatt, and also the earlier subject, i've been obsessed (not for the first time in my Life) with Wyatt's version (and chic's as well) of at last i am free.
	9:34pm Flash Strap: his voice is an unrepeatable phenomenon
	9:34pm Flash Strap: such a mindblowing cover, coelacanth
	9:34pm passiflora: his Silence affected me
	9:34pm Flash Strap: yes
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: wow! it's an Enofest!
	9:36pm quinn: I listen to his song Worship on repeat like... all the time
	9:37pm Flash Strap: i didn't have this track planned but i ended up with a little extra time and i thought it might fit... Eno, sax, bloops and bleeps, echo... feeling good about the move
	9:37pm passiflora: golden stripe
	🥁 9:38pm chresti: and the voices-poifect
	9:38pm Dean: Out of a commitment to dicktegrity, I have to note that I think Eno is overrated. I rarely get the sense he gives much of a damn about what he's doing.
	9:38pm Flash Strap: @quinn: excellent. i've been on another in an endless series of obsessive periods with Rock Bottom myself Shleep is due for another visit, i'm realizing
	9:39pm Uncle Michael: wish I could have seen Roxy with Eno
	9:40pm Flash Strap: i'll agree with you that he's overrated by a certain (inevitable) degree and leave it at that
	9:41pm Flash Strap: @UM have you ever watched those TV appearances they did, I think on German TV, from this period? love those, Eno is so bizarre
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: i've not heard more Wyatt albums that those i've heard; but rock bottom is great! little red riding hood hit the road made a prime showing in a recent sound collage.
	9:41pm still b/p: Just arrived and Bogus Man! Whaaaa? Mising the earlier part of the show is...bogus! Saw Roxy without Eno, '76.
	9:41pm Flash Strap: and Ferry is never more lizardlike, really. like sweating wax, his face
	9:41pm Uncle Michael: Yes, I have. They're great.
	9:42pm Flash Strap: hi b/p!
	9:42pm Flash Strap: ah good. i figured. so great
	9:43pm coelacanth∅: i don't think every person on earth knows the name Brian Eno, therefore i think he's not overrated.
	9:43pm passiflora: carefully incensed room
	9:43pm TDK60: thatsa some 1973.
	🥁 9:44pm chresti: I think 76 was when I saw Roxy
	9:44pm quinn: Every crossword player knows his name
	9:44pm Flash Strap: his participation on Low is both under- and overrated, often at the same time by the same people
	9:44pm Uncle Michael: didn't see 'em till '79
	🥁 9:44pm chresti: haha coel
	9:45pm passiflora: I sat next to a professional(?) crossworder at a recent event, from Iowa. He urged me to get the NYT crossword app
	9:45pm still b/p: When I bring him up to recommend his essay on the value of informal singing, I'm surprised how many don't know him, either form Roxy or solo ro other projects or all the producing of major acts recordings. Sometimes they think they've heard the name...kinda.
	9:45pm Uncle Michael: good money in crosswording?
	9:46pm Flash Strap: great unexpected moogy sound on this track
	9:46pm passiflora: laughing
	9:46pm Flash Strap: not sure what it is, but those low end blarps are pretty moogish
	9:47pm passiflora: swimmy
	9:47pm coelacanth∅: i just don't think he gets credit beyond what he deserves credit for. if one doesn't like his music, fine. some people don't like the beatles or Neil Young or John Coltrane....but his contribution to music and to countless individual artists is immeasurable.
	9:47pm quinn: “Blarp” is our word for baby spitup
	9:48pm coelacanth∅: hahaha
	9:49pm northguineahills: The first time I saw dj Spooky, he played the Sun Ra/John Cage LP. Thankfully, since then, it's been played at WFMU and I found it online.
	9:49pm still b/p: I think one of the Oblique Strategies is "Underrate the thing, then overrate it."
	9:50pm passiflora: and here we are ^
	9:54pm TDK60: I have found this show engaging, rhythmic, spacey, and worthy of fine ratings.
	🥁 9:54pm chresti: I don't think I've rated Eno one way or "nother -generally hold him in high esteem
	9:54pm Little Danny: thanks Evan!!!
	9:54pm quinn: Night night
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: Haha TDK60
	9:55pm Little Danny: The next further planet beckons: wfmu.org... All are welcome!
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: Good night and thanks Flash!
	9:56pm Flash Strap: Thank you for your kind rating, TDK! Good night and thanks to all, catch you at least for a few minutes in the next room
	9:56pm passiflora: :milky_way:
	9:58pm doctorjazz: This is great !!! Thanks ,Flash!
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! see y'all over there (>) i heard there'll be blueberries. yum.
	9:59pm passiflora: I need to go back and hear the bit I missed

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from February 28, 2019

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