WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from March 4, 2021

Listener comments!
	6:43pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	🥁 6:48pm Aitch: Where to next we wonder?
	6:48pm Flash Strap: One final dive into the Montparnasse 2000 series for some of the synthiest offerings yet
	6:49pm Flash Strap: Hi Aitch!
	🥁 6:56pm chresti: Hello !Flash and Aitch and explorers!
	6:56pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! Just about to launch here
	🥁 6:59pm Aitch: The word Moog has me excited already
	7:00pm Flash Strap: here we gooooo
	7:01pm melinda: Ready for Montparnasse!
	7:01pm doctorjazz: Hellllooooo Explorers!
	7:01pm Flash Strap: me too Aitch! that's a cool cover too
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda! Hi Doc!
	7:02pm Shaw: Alriiiiight... Greetings!
	🥁 7:02pm WR: 'allo explorers.
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Back at ya Shaw! Hi WR!
	7:05pm Flash Strap: this Ariel Kalma record is so cool
	7:05pm Shaw: Love wandering the Library halls
	🥁 7:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...not a quiet Library, particularly...
	7:06pm TDK60: Hi Flash, roomies.
	7:07pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev, Hi TDK!
	7:08pm Flash Strap: me too shaw, there's so much to read here
	7:10pm Flash Strap: really good underwater library LP, this Borreani
	🥁 7:13pm WR: i think Bathymorphoses is what you get during a relaxing hot bath.
	🥁 7:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Idea: Create a Soundtrack ahead of time - & only then get various Directors to make a film for it...
	7:14pm Scott67: G'day Flash & Room Roamers! 😎🤙🌏☀️
	7:14pm Flash Strap: @rev: that's the basic concept of library music in a way but yeah that would be cool to see executed in a different context
	7:15pm Flash Strap: Hi Scott!
	🥁 7:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Idea : 24/7 Library Music Stream.
	7:19pm TDK60: So, groovy up here, on my carpet.
	7:19pm Flash Strap: I once snorkeled in Belize with this playing on underwater headphones, i was full of wonder lemme tell ya
	7:20pm Flash Strap: I don't have enough for a 24/7 stream yet but i am working on some underwater library shows for some day
	🥁 7:22pm chresti: I once lived somewhere that had a carpet like this green background.
	7:23pm Flash Strap: i like green carpet
	🥁 7:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Idea: Make the Pop-Ups in Archives continuous - one episode of a program after another. Virtually every program its own stream...
	7:24pm Frog Mover: Good Kalma zone
	7:24pm Flash Strap: this track is such a wall of humid jungle sound
	7:25pm Flash Strap: that's a pretty cool idea Rev
	7:25pm TDK60: I hope the band has rubber mats, Flash.
	🥁 7:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Electric cicada jawsharp.
	7:25pm Flash Strap: Hey hey Frog Mo!
	7:28pm Scott67: I have Lime Green carpet in my bedroom Flash. By choice! 👍😎💚
	🥁 7:30pm WR: Number Six chops down the tree? What is he up to now?
	🥁 7:34pm WR: i was wondering. "An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) and 6,000 metres (20,000 ft). Lying generally between the foot of a continental rise and a mid-ocean ridge, abyssal plains cover more than 50% of the Earth's surface." - from Wikipedia
	7:35pm Flash Strap: @Scott: never had a carpeted bathroom but that sounds cool honestly
	7:36pm Flash Strap: @WR: i love to picture it w/ that music
	🥁 7:37pm chresti: Haha TDK60, safety first!
	7:39pm Flash Strap: "Running Poping" is not a typo
	7:39pm βrian: Unfortunately the camo carpet combined with a pale yellow font color makes the playlist an accessibility nightmare. Nice noise, though, for sure.
	7:41pm Flash Strap: Hi Brian!
	🥁 7:42pm chresti: βrian, adjusting the contrast/light helps me see better.
	🥁 7:42pm WR: interesting, βrian, assuming you can read this, would have thought the yellow is light enough to not be an issue.
	7:43pm TDK60: Chresti, Once in a band I was in, we played a house party in a basement, realized when setting up it was hot somehow. So I went out, bought 5 driver mud mats!
	🥁 7:44pm chresti: Provides more cushioning too, TDK60.
	7:44pm Flash Strap: the moog sounds on this record are sublime – the compositions are generally not my bag. tho i usually love harry breuer
	7:44pm Scott67: Bedroom Flash! But believe it or not it was carpet made for bathrooms. The guy thought I was mad. But it's over 40 years down & going strong. I bought the house I grew up in, so asked for the carpet as a kid, but still love it.
	7:45pm Flash Strap: @Scott: whoops that makes more sense
	7:46pm Flash Strap: good choice imo
	7:48pm Flash Strap: this very groovy Giordano record is regarded by many library aficionados as a major classic of the genre
	7:48pm Scott67: I have seen a carpeted bathroom in a house, and it kinda creeped me out. Wondering what fluids it had absorbed & critters lived within.
	7:49pm Flash Strap: yeah for sure but I bet it is nice on those toes on a cold night
	7:51pm melinda: I looked up one of the houses I lived in as a kid on Zillow and it looked like it had the same carpet! The 1950s kitchen cabinetry and bathrooms were still the same. It was kind of nice to see, even though it was from a not happy time in life.
	🥁 7:51pm chresti: Yeah, Scott67, I remember mildew smelling squishy carpets in bathrooms.
	7:51pm Scott67: Totally, but this was right up to and around the toilet. So night visits would get a little damp I imagine.
	7:52pm melinda: Bathroom carpet is just not right.
	7:52pm Clifffiscal: I feel like this song is chasing me.
	7:52pm Flash Strap: Hi Cliff! it is
	7:53pm Flash Strap: it really is so aggressive
	7:54pm Scott67: I was recently in a Hospital which was carpeted through out. It freaked me out to think what was in that stuff.
	7:54pm Flash Strap: original Liuto release has a very good cover: img.discogs.com...
	7:55pm Scott67: It's chasing you in stove pipe trousers, so you'll be okay.
	7:55pm Flash Strap: carpeted hospital, hmmm, yikes
	7:55pm Clifffiscal: Hi Evan + all. Yes what an unrelenting. Wow that cover is great as well
	🥁 7:55pm chresti: Wow melinda, like a time capsule. I can't imagine. We pretty much trashed the carpets/hardwood floors, walls, etc. in all the houses we lived in growing up.
	7:56pm Scott67: And I was in for surgery! 🤤
	🥁 7:57pm chresti: Maybe they shampoo it regularly, Scott.
	7:58pm Flash Strap: Surgery! hope all is well now Scott
	7:58pm TDK60: Mud mats is the way to go.
	🥁 7:59pm chresti: Do they come in designer colors, TDK60?
	8:00pm TDK60: By now? You can probably get a WFMU mud mat these days..
	8:00pm Scott67: That just means the critters have really healthy hair chresti. 😎
	8:01pm Flash Strap: one more visit from maestro Camille Sauvage – love him
	8:01pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Evan, Explorers
	8:02pm Scott67: G'day coel, yes my secret is out. I've been double streaming. 😎🤙
	8:03pm HyperDose: Just gonna Pink Panther my way in here, don't mind me!
	8:04pm Scott67: Karate attack!! HyperD... ✋🤛
	🥁 8:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Trinidad had nothing on Quadrimom. Just sayin'.
	8:06pm coelacanth∅: it's safe with me Scott. no one else has to know
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth! Hyperdose!
	8:07pm coelacanth∅: ...where's the usual explorer's room background?
	8:07pm Flash Strap: haha Rev
	8:07pm HyperDose: @Scott How did you see me? o.O Evening, Flash Strap!
	8:08pm Flash Strap: i love around-the-world records and this one is great imo
	8:08pm Scott67: Ninja vision, in HD!
	8:09pm HyperDose: Tour du Monde, that's funny. My dad would label my mother's Christmas presents "Chef du Monde" since she worked as a French pastry chef.
	8:10pm Scott67: Love the Gamelan, sounds a bit like monkey dance chant too.
	8:11pm coelacanth∅: Flash is the green cloth background malfunctioning? ...temporarily, i hope? (i check past playlists and it "boring blue" on those too)
	8:12pm Scott67: Still green fabric here Coel!
	8:12pm coelacanth∅: see chrestì? rattly, buzzy kalimbas!
	8:12pm Flash Strap: @scott: yeah it's a bit of an odd flattened blend of the two
	8:12pm TDK60: Coel, it's okay for me but I use a desktop screen. You use a small device?
	8:13pm Flash Strap: i'm still so green, C.
	8:14pm Scott67: Gotta love a tabla, or North African equivalent.
	8:14pm coelacanth∅: TDK no -laptop with remote monitor. Thanks... it's firefox, making things worse with every update.
	8:14pm Scott67: Jaws Harp is big in Mongolian music isn't?
	8:15pm HyperDose: @coel Remember when we all had to jump ship when Firefox got so unstable, they had to redo all the code to make Quantum? Still my favorite browser though.
	8:15pm Flash Strap: i've been with firefox forever
	8:18pm Flash Strap: Hyperdose is that gif from Taxi? I think i'd like to see that scene
	8:20pm Scott67: Firefox on my computers. But tablets make life hard if you use non preferred browsers. But then I dunno a thing about software, so they could be bullshiting me.
	8:20pm HyperDose: @Flash It is! Let me try and find it on youtube.
	🥁 8:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Kaufman & DeVito.
	8:20pm TDK60: Clerks in U.S. senate still reading the pandemic relief bill, (since 3:26 PM). \|\| This lovely idyll bucolic is doing a riff similar to Fauré.
	8:21pm Flash Strap: that seems true Scott
	8:22pm coelacanth∅: firefox was my first and still i rarely use safari...only for a few things that firefox refuses to work correctly with. (no trace of chrome anywhere on any of my computers...which took a lot of effort)
	🥁 8:23pm chresti: coel, try ftzing with the color/contrast settings
	8:24pm TDK60: It was basically the same melody formation, but with notes changed, from 'Pelléas et Mélisande' by Fauré.
	🥁 8:24pm WR: Melinda, if you are still there, your comment sent me into a zillow search of my childhood homes. no interior photos but interesting. .
	8:25pm Flash Strap: good ear, TDK - i don't know Fauré well enough to catch that
	8:25pm HyperDose: @WR I do that with Google Earth from time to time. Take a trip through the old neighborhood with street view.
	🥁 8:25pm chresti: I call this background color Kenmore Green, after the place I had lived with it.
	🥁 8:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...if it ain't Baroque, don't ftze it...
	8:26pm Flash Strap: but a lot of classical-esque library stuff is pretty much doing soundalikes of well-known pieces
	🥁 8:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Such a Luddite. Never thot of GoogleEarthing old places... & never heard of Zillow...
	8:27pm coelacanth∅: chresti i just did. none of my preferences have been changed - as far as what's visible to me anyway. firefox has been fucking around for a long time...gradually getting worse. it's never played Danny's flame o scope more than ~50% of the time, and often wont play embedded videos or sound. and this isn't the first time a website suddenly (or not suddenly) wouldn't work right.
	8:29pm HyperDose: @coel Do you use privacy badger or any similar extension that may be blocking the background script?
	🥁 8:30pm chresti: Oh, earthquakes hit New Zealand today www.tsunami.gov
	8:30pm TDK60: This background I dig Flash, looks like an old jungle shirt fabric or older style summertime tent fabric.
	🥁 8:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & you now it's all Crapitalist Proprietary bullish*t to not make things retro-compatible... they're just high on their own over-engineered horsefarts...
	🥁 8:31pm Aitch: I'll occasionally use Firefox if Safari doesn't work for some sites, but Safari does Flame O Scope well, but my office stuff is all Mac. No Chrome allowed. Working so not paying too much attention to individual tracks, but loving the sounds Mr Strap
	🥁 8:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: NZ : 8.1 !!
	8:32pm Scott67: Coel. youtu.be...
	🥁 8:33pm chresti: I have Chrome with Bing attempting to conquer it.
	8:34pm Scott67: RevoR, and Tsunami Warnings.
	8:34pm HyperDose: Chrome is my preferred browser for any sort of streaming (with the exception of radio streams which I play through VLC). Chrome's cache management is great. Firefox finally gives you the option to delete the cache without deleting site data so you stay logged into everything, just wished it auto managed it better.
	8:35pm coelacanth∅: Thanks hyperDose i have no extensions, and never have. only 2 plug-ins, which are supposedly necessary. it's alright.
	8:38pm HyperDose: @Scott That show helped me discover the brilliant mind of Noel Fielding. But I really think Matt Berry takes it for best performance. Have you seen the awful pilot for the US version?
	8:40pm coelacanth∅: RR @830 i know. that's what it's about. i actually had to buy a new (refurbished) computer 2-3 years ago solely for that reason. the old (snow leopard,c.2008) computer works fine to this day asnd i still use it, but it's incompatible with many websites and programs...which is the selfish choice that programmers and manufacturers make.
	8:41pm melinda: I love the IT Crowd, my sister gave me the whole series on DVD and I've got a half season left.
	8:41pm Scott67: HyperD, mercifully no! Matt Berry is brilliant! Have you seen Toast of London?
	8:41pm coelacanth∅: chrome functions very much like a virus in the computer.
	8:42pm melinda: My sister also gave me a CD by Matt Berry and I was several shows in before I realized it was the same person.
	8:42pm Scott67: Coel I just reloaded this page, and for a split second the background was blue, then the green dropped in.
	8:44pm coelacanth∅: ...a virus that works well for certain things because of the money deals between capitalist entities. anything that works well with chrome could work as well with other, less evil browsers, if the choice was made to make that so.
	8:44pm Flash Strap: @TDK: thanks pal! it's a book-cover textile, but i was hoping for a jute wall in a natural history museum look, sort of
	🥁 8:45pm chresti: I just have 2 light🔅🔆adjustment keys on my laptop that I futz around with.
	8:45pm Little Danny: Hi Evan, hi fronds.
	8:45pm melinda: I always thought of the background as one of the old books on the shelves lining the walls of the Explorers Room.
	8:46pm Scott67: Flash, that's what it says to me. The covering of a map pinboard.
	8:46pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	8:46pm Flash Strap: @melinda: that is literally the case!
	8:47pm HyperDose: @Scott I haven't, but I'll get it tonight. I assume you watch What We Do in the Shadows? @melinda His voice is unmistakable to me and I giggle with glee every time I see him appear in something. Was the CD stand up?
	8:47pm Little Danny: Adore both What We Do in the Shadows and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Need to dig into IT Crowd lo these many years later.
	8:48pm melinda: @LD is that the series or the movie WWDITS? I think the series is on a service I don't have, loved the movie.
	8:48pm TDK60: Ah, a book cover. Hardback.
	8:49pm Flash Strap: great wild sounds on Schizophreny here, officially kicking off the synthi portion of the evening
	8:49pm HyperDose: Super excited for Thor :Love & Thunder. In my opinion, Taika made the funniest Marvel movie and still kept it on-brand.
	8:49pm melinda: pew pew
	🥁 8:49pm WR: WWDITS is on Hulu. which i get basic level with my phone.
	8:50pm HyperDose: @melinda The movie is great, but the series really let it blossom into the gothy circus it was always meant to be.
	8:51pm melinda: @HyperDose no, it's music! The title is Witch Hazel, I believe. Pretty good, with some track titles that cracked me up upon first reading, such as Accident at a Harvest Festival.
	8:51pm Scott67: HyperD, yep! he has a big back catalogue. Check out, Snuff Box.
	🥁 8:51pm chresti: I recall a discussion about the book covers. I originally thought of a woven fabric wallcovering.
	8:52pm melinda: (HD that was directed at your previous question)
	8:53pm Scott67: youtu.be...
	8:53pm Flash Strap: god this is such a magical record
	8:54pm Little Danny: @Melinda: Both. I knew and loved the movie for years. I was really worried about the series but it is sooo good. You'll like it if you liked the movie. The cast is a revelation.
	8:54pm Flash Strap: one of the series crown jewels as far as i'm concerned
	8:54pm coelacanth∅: i might've thought of just old fabric, but the faded edged always made me think of a book.
	8:54pm northguineahills: I'm back, from my perambulation. I'm here, to stand clear, of a jeer to make this stear, for all of us lose fear w/ a wee bit of beer...
	8:54pm Little Danny: I played this Ariel Kalma track a week or two ago!
	8:55pm melinda: trippy
	8:55pm Flash Strap: i have to say - i liked the movie and ultimately couldn't abide the show but i can tell i'm in the minority worldwide
	8:55pm northguineahills: still not clear of spelling mistakes.....
	8:55pm Flash Strap: @LD: great minds my friend - it's a hell of a track
	8:55pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH!
	8:56pm Little Danny: I know this album but very little else of Kalma's catalog. Is this Interfrequence an anomaly or are their other Kalma releases that cover this blissed-out territory?
	8:56pm HyperDose: @melinda Oh, not surprised though, considering how talented he is. Thank you and Scott for the recs! :) @Little Danny I still can't get through the trial episode with Tilda, Trejo, and the special vc'd guest without laughing until I cry.
	8:56pm northguineahills: LD played this last week!
	8:57pm coelacanth∅: i think it just switched to the stream?
	8:57pm coelacanth∅: ...yeah, for sure
	8:57pm Flash Strap: @LD: He's got a lot of great stuff - i feel like you actually know his album Osmose but if you don't that's like this but more so ; Music for Dream and Love is really good too
	8:58pm Little Danny: Thanks Evan, duly downloading!
	8:58pm Scott67: Cheers here NGH! I have a beer! 🍺😎🤙
	🥁 8:58pm chresti: We were at the hotel lounge for a sec coel.
	8:59pm coelacanth∅: haha chresti yup
	9:00pm Shaw: Have to say, I've been really digging' the Ariel Kalma selections tonight as well
	9:01pm northguineahills: @Scott: just a Red Bull w/ tear (am I still rhyming and timing), got to speak w/ the missus after I wake up.....(beer ready on deck).
	9:02pm Flash Strap: @Shaw: he's really amazing, really love everything of his I've heard
	9:02pm coelacanth∅: got the seeming-more-beautiful-than-ever green fabric back. 'turns out the tracker setting i chose a month or 2 ago ("strict") isn't compatible with this webpage, after yesterday's firefox update; even though it's worked fine for all that time
	9:03pm Flash Strap: @Coelacanth: i think it was just for a second? i hope anyway
	9:03pm coelacanth∅: Flash yes...maybe 30 seconds
	9:04pm Flash Strap: wish it was zero seconds and I really mean it
	9:05pm coelacanth∅: and Thanks to y'all with suggestions about my computer issue.
	9:05pm Flash Strap: watched Godzilla Vs Gigan the other day, really enjoyed it. for you Zilla heads out there
	9:05pm HyperDose: I prefer record miscues. Stream switches feel like they have some sinister witchcraft behind them.
	🥁 9:06pm chresti: Try taping colored film layers as a way to adjust the screen.
	9:06pm coelacanth∅: haha Evan the interruption was indeed a very different vibe! but not terrible
	9:06pm Little Danny: Haha chresti
	9:07pm northguineahills: I usually hate most tourists here, but I randomly was wearing a Chealsea jersey, some random family from Boston gave me beer in the hallwy as they were Blues fans as well (and they won today). So, after last week's GOP CPAC w/ maskless assholes, I found some humanity in random humans here.
	9:07pm Scott67: NGH, say hi! 😎🤙
	9:08pm coelacanth∅: chrestì i could make a collage out of different colored lens filters
	9:08pm northguineahills: Digging this Gaston Borreani....
	9:08pm Scott67: Flash, I'm a Kaiju fan man!! 🐊
	🥁 9:09pm chresti: Were you listening to the Randoms, ngh?
	9:09pm Little Danny: Yeah, this is great.
	9:09pm Flash Strap: this track makes incredible looking waveforms in the archive recording
	9:10pm Flash Strap: @Scott: i'm working my way through them, loved every one so far
	🥁 9:10pm chresti: An overlay of colored circles!
	9:11pm Flash Strap: really want to see the original King Kong Vs Godzilla in good quality
	🥁 9:11pm chresti: Hi LD!
	9:12pm Little Danny: (hi chresti!)
	9:12pm HyperDose: @Flash I want to get into putting hidden messages in audio spectrals. It looks so fun!
	9:13pm Flash Strap: go for it HD
	9:13pm Scott67: Flash, there's a lot of stuff on your National Film Archives site. Which I can fortunately access from Australia. 😎
	🥁 9:14pm chresti: Hyperdose, what are audio spectrals?
	9:14pm Flash Strap: i should check that out
	9:15pm Flash Strap: i've been just going through the Zillas on the Criterion Channel but they don't have the Kong and I am a big Kong man
	9:15pm Clifffiscal: This is incredible
	9:15pm Little Danny: @scott: Do you have link? Are referring to an archive.org section?
	9:16pm Flash Strap: @Cliff: I agree! he only did one library record sadly & does not seem to have other releases tho i know he still makes music in some capacity
	9:17pm Scott67: LD, not sure. Will look into it soon. On phone to Mum at moment. 👍
	9:17pm Flash Strap: hi mum
	9:17pm HyperDose: @chresti A spectrogram is basically when you zoom in on the frequencies of an audio waveform. It looks like this: upload.wikimedia.org... This program is freeware and lets you see the spectrals of any file with audio, just drag and drop the file into the program window: www.spek.cc
	9:18pm Little Danny: Get mum in the chat, Scott!
	9:19pm HyperDose: @chresti I mostly use it for checking to see if audio files are transcodes or not. Transcodes are when someone takes a poor quality audio file and converts it to a higher bitrate (the problem being you can't add fidelity that wasn't there in the first place).
	9:21pm Little Danny: @HyperD: are you an audio engineer? Trancoding is the boogie man of my illegally downloaded MP3s via SoulSeek.
	9:21pm Clifffiscal: I'll have to hear more. As usual much to look into based on your show!
	🥁 9:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...had to go out & forage for foodthings. Good to be back before it ends...
	9:22pm Little Danny: I guessed it's spelled "bogeyman"
	🥁 9:23pm chresti: Wow, a new foreign thing for me to ponder, thanks Hyper!
	9:23pm Flash Strap: @cliff: re: Borreani: doublechecking just now, i guess he actually did 2 LPs for the De Wolfe label at least (under pseudonyms) but i don't know them
	9:24pm HyperDose: @Little Danny Soulseek is still pretty good, but always gotta be careful and scan whatever you get from there. I have a tool that rips tracks from a streaming service in either MP3 320 or FLAC. No risk, no transcodes. Convince sm Ken to hire me, and it's yours (and every other DJ who wants it)!
	9:25pm Little Danny: I will start the petition, HyperD!
	9:25pm Flash Strap: This Hypothese is a big record for 80s synth-focused library heads
	9:26pm Little Danny: @hyperD: I have a small arsenal of tools of prising audio from the web, but nothing that scans for transcoding.
	9:30pm Flash Strap: here we have a final offering from Daniel J. White, whose Folklore album seems to be at least partially a rehash of his Musique Pour... series which started the label off
	9:30pm HyperDose: @Flash All the keys have been reminding me of the amazing vintage synths SubTokyoShop fixes up. They have a lovely instagram for analog heads to nerd out over: www.instagram.com...
	9:33pm Little Danny: That image with all the Roland Space Echo units, holy crap.
	9:34pm northguineahills: moar JP Decerf!
	9:34pm HyperDose: @Little Danny We should talk. I'd be more than happy to assist in any way I can. Feel free to drop an email, should you ever feel so inclined.
	9:36pm Little Danny: @HyperD: Perhaps after the dust of the marathon clears? Thank you!
	9:36pm Flash Strap: you got it NGH
	9:38pm coelacanth∅: one thing i sometimes do with low bitrate mp3s, on the rare occasion i deal with them, is transfer it to analogue tape. (and then possibly to cd) this, though obviously not increasing the quality technically, sometimes can make such files sound more natural.
	9:38pm Flash Strap: interesting process Coelacanth
	9:39pm Flash Strap: great weird sound on this Bivouac
	9:39pm Flash Strap: @C:(I totally get it, btw)
	9:40pm HyperDose: @Little Danny Sounds like a plan! @coel you're "deep frying" your audio!
	9:40pm Little Danny: Yeah, coela, that's a really cool idea. I can see how it would add the distracting warmth of sweet hiss if nothing else.
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: i like that analogy!
	🥁 9:41pm chresti: I love that string/didgeridoo sound on Bivouac.
	9:42pm Little Danny: Kinda like the way mono needles trick my ears into making battered 45s sound slightly less battered than stereo needles.
	9:42pm Flash Strap: me too chresti, really unique sound
	9:42pm TDK60: Wanna play hackysack, chresti?
	9:42pm coelacanth∅: right Danny...and tends to subdue hissy digital artifacts, usually from cymbals
	9:42pm Little Danny: That arpeggiation is some well known synth, no? I wish I knew my synths by ear.
	🥁 9:43pm chresti: Hackysack? Sure! How?
	9:43pm Flash Strap: me too LD, i have no idea. need to go to synth skool
	9:43pm TDK60: So, tape hiss is okay, but cymbal hiss is not bliss.
	9:44pm HyperDose: Has to be either a sinusoidal, triangular, or square sinewave...the choice is yours!
	9:44pm coelacanth∅: TDK, just so.
	🥁 9:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...like the Spanish gittar riff @ the beginning of 'Bungalow Bill' by TheBeatles was in fact a Moog setting...
	9:45pm TDK60: chresti, I was hoping that a didgereedoo enthusiast like thee would want to play hackysack for a minute (before we head into the Dead show...)
	9:45pm Flash Strap: @rev: wait what's the story there? I don't know that
	9:46pm coelacanth∅: lossy digital files' artifacts sound like what they are: unnatural. - not a sound you would find in a non-digital world.
	🥁 9:46pm chresti: Tape hiss describes my tinnitus. Ah, did not know about dead hacky sacky.
	🥁 9:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah now that I think of it - always say they didn't;t have synths til Abbey Road - the last album recorded. But George had a big Moog by the White Album... don't think they used it for anything else there... Oh Wait ! A mellotron setting ?! No... nit for a Spanish gittar scale ...maybe ??
	9:47pm Little Danny: Exactly, coela, and I'm someone who seeks out the lowest possible fidelities in my '50s rock 'n' roll 45s.
	9:48pm coelacanth∅: damn, Rabbit that very interesting tidbit got by me until now!
	9:48pm northguineahills: thought it was Jean-Jaques Perrey!
	9:48pm Little Danny: Brilliant show, by the way, Evan. Totally absorbed in the music and chat here tonight.
	9:48pm TDK60: Me too, chresti. I have constant cymbal hiss-like tinnitus.
	🥁 9:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...yeah actually a Mellotron setting / tape now I think of it... No Beatle fingers on strings for that flourish...
	9:49pm coelacanth∅: ngh me too
	9:49pm HyperDose: @coel And dither is just hiding your flaws, but everyone uses it. Kind of have to for digital formats since they're expected to be perfect. But once you go over a 16-bit depth, dither isn't needed. Strange.
	🥁 9:50pm chresti: We are the hissy ear generation.
	9:50pm coelacanth∅: oh.. IT IS! never mind
	🥁 9:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah Mellotron : en.wikipedia.org...
	9:51pm northguineahills: Thanks Evan, time to call the missus....
	9:51pm Ignore Function: Fun show tonight, FS.
	9:51pm still b/p: We are. Mine for a while recently included the slight sense of increased ambient air and sound pressure with the ringing, not pain or significant pressure, but dwelling in that sort of after-a-firecracker quality.
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: HyperD now do i have to look into dither? is it a good tool for folks working in an analogue/low-end digital recording realm?
	9:53pm TDK60: REvrab, Yes, but even if a mellotron setting, some guitarist was originally recorded, right?
	🥁 9:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...got to come back & read all the Audio Wisdom I missed here...
	🥁 9:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TDK : Yeah - but not in TheBeatles ! :)
	9:53pm Little Danny: Don't ever change, beauties: wfmu.org... Hope to see y'all next door!
	9:53pm HyperDose: @coel Not at all. It's to hide quantization errors. So if you're working with synths and the like, then yes you'll need it. But most DAWs apply it automatically now.
	9:54pm TDK60: Some Flamenco guitarist..?
	🥁 9:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TDK : I get the impression unidentified...
	🥁 9:55pm WR: It has been a wondrous ride. Thank you Evan!
	9:55pm TDK60: Senate clerks still reading. (See CSPAN.) \|\| Thanks, Flash.
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: Dither? Haha.
	9:56pm still b/p: I missed almost all the fuzzy warbles. Bugger.
	9:56pm Scott67: Thanks for the audio exploration Flash. Stay intrepid All! 😎🤙🌏☀️
	🥁 9:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yes TY As Ever Evan.
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: cool,Thanks HyperD. no synthesizers here ...except an old casio ct670... i don't think those qualify as synthesizers... but i still have trouble making the distinction
	9:56pm Flash Strap: Hi IF, BP! thanks for saying hi
	9:56pm HyperDose: Thank you Flash Strap! This was as both educational and highly enjoyable.
	9:57pm Flash Strap: thank you all, thank you each and every one
	9:57pm Flash Strap: it has been ––––My Pleasure
	🥁 9:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Synths a huge lacuna in my music nut knowledge too... Shameful really.
	9:57pm Shaw: Thanks Flash! Wonderful show!
	🥁 9:58pm chresti: not long lasting I hope, still b/p. Mine gets louder at times.
	9:58pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	🥁 9:59pm chresti: Thanks Flash! Incredible as usual.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from March 4, 2021

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March 4, 2021: Pulsating Forests & Underwater Suspense: Editions Montparnasse 2000 Part 5

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Ariel Kalma	Barimpa "Barimpa" by "Ariel Kalma"	Interfrequence	Montparnasse 2000	1980	MP 120	0:01:29 (Pop-up)
Ariel Kalma	Retour D'Elle "Retour D'Elle" by "Ariel Kalma"	Interfrequence	Montparnasse 2000	1980		0:03:48 (Pop-up)
G. Gallo – Guy Pedersen	Ponctuation Spaciale (a, b, c) / Laboratoire Spacial (a)	Suspense	Montparnasse 2000	1980	MP 121	0:06:34 (Pop-up)
Gaston Borreani	Bathymorphoses 2º Partie	Rêve Abyssal	Montparnasse 2000	1980	MP 122	0:09:11 (Pop-up)
Gaston Borreani	Aquarium "Aquarium" by "Gaston Borreani"	Rêve Abyssal	Montparnasse 2000	1980		0:15:29 (Pop-up)
Gaston Borreani	Cirrus "Cirrus" by "Gaston Borreani"	Rêve Abyssal	Montparnasse 2000	1980		0:16:59 (Pop-up)
Roland Hollinger	Selections from Peaceful Dreams	Peaceful Dreams	Montparnasse 2000	1980	MP 129	0:20:29 (Pop-up)
Ariel Kalma	Merry Forest "Merry Forest" by "Ariel Kalma"	Interfrequence	Montparnasse 2000	1980		0:22:34 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Tropical Forest – Number Six Chops Down the Tree					0:26:47 (Pop-up)
Guy Boyer & Guy Pedersen	Attila "Attila" by "Guy Boyer & Guy Pedersen"	Images	Montparnasse 2000	1977	MP 105	0:35:26 (Pop-up)
Guy Boyer & Guy Pedersen	Danse Moldave	Images				0:36:46 (Pop-up)
Guy Boyer & Guy Pedersen	Running Poping	Images				0:39:45 (Pop-up)
Pat Prilly & Harry Breuer	Mod Ghost (Le Fantôme Des Bermudes)	Moog is Moog		1977	MP 106	0:42:30 (Pop-up)
Jacky Giordano	Moving, Grooving "Moving, Grooving" by "Jacky Giordano"	Pop In... Devil's Train		1977	MP 107	0:45:51 (Pop-up)
Jacky Giordano	Bombe Hachée "Bombe Hachée" by "Jacky Giordano"	Pop In... Devil's Train				0:48:00 (Pop-up)
Jacky Giordano	Tabla Minor "Tabla Minor" by "Jacky Giordano"	Pop In... Devil's Train				0:50:35 (Pop-up)
Piero Umiliani	Commandos "Commandos" by "Piero Umiliani"	Guerre et Destruction 1			MP 108 (orig. rel. on Liuto, 1972)	0:52:09 (Pop-up)
Piero Umiliani	Recrutement "Recrutement" by "Piero Umiliani"	Guerre et Destruction 1				0:54:38 (Pop-up)
Piero Umiliani	Dynamique Militaire	Guerre et Destruction 2			MP 109 (orig. rel. on Liuto, 1972)	0:57:36 (Pop-up)
Piero Umiliani	Patrouille "Patrouille" by "Piero Umiliani"	Guerre et Destruction 2				0:59:40 (Pop-up)
Frank Peters	Hiram "Hiram" by "Frank Peters"	Vibes in Liberty			MP 110 (Frank Peters = Camille Sauvage)	1:00:58 (Pop-up)
Michel Delaporte	Cuba "Cuba" by "Michel Delaporte"	Le Tour Du Monde Des Percussions		1978	MP 111	1:04:12 (Pop-up)
Michel Delaporte	Trinidad "Trinidad" by "Michel Delaporte"	Le Tour Du Monde Des Percussions				1:05:06 (Pop-up)
Michel Delaporte	Haiti "Haiti" by "Michel Delaporte"	Le Tour Du Monde Des Percussions				1:06:03 (Pop-up)
Michel Delaporte	Andes "Andes" by "Michel Delaporte"	Le Tour Du Monde Des Percussions				1:07:03 (Pop-up)
Michel Delaporte	Bolivie "Bolivie" by "Michel Delaporte"	Le Tour Du Monde Des Percussions				1:07:58 (Pop-up)
Michel Delaporte	Indonésie "Indonésie" by "Michel Delaporte"	Le Tour Du Monde Des Percussions				1:08:57 (Pop-up)
Michel Delaporte	Ceylan-Bali "Ceylan-Bali" by "Michel Delaporte"	Le Tour Du Monde Des Percussions				1:10:11 (Pop-up)
Michel Delaporte	Tibet "Tibet" by "Michel Delaporte"	Le Tour Du Monde Des Percussions				1:11:06 (Pop-up)
Michel Delaporte	Afrique De L'est Nº1	Le Tour Du Monde Des Percussions				1:12:18 (Pop-up)
Michel Delaporte	Algérie "Algérie" by "Michel Delaporte"	Le Tour Du Monde Des Percussions				1:13:11 (Pop-up)
Michel Delaporte	Vietnam "Vietnam" by "Michel Delaporte"	Le Tour Du Monde Des Percussions				1:58:49 (Pop-up)
Daniel J. White	Marche Des Partisants	Mystère Bleuté		1978	MP 112	1:15:15 (Pop-up)
Daniel J. White	Underground Waltz	Mystère Bleuté				1:16:55 (Pop-up)
René Costy	Idyle Bucolique "Idyle Bucolique" by "René Costy"	Bucolique Pastoral			MP 113	1:19:34 (Pop-up)
Cecil Wary	A Stubborn Piece "A Stubborn Piece" by "Cecil Wary"	Intimate Suite (For Piano Solo)			MP 114 (Cecil Wary = Michel Gonet)	1:22:42 (Pop-up)
Claude Moreau / Claude Duberseuil	Ballade Médievale – OP 43	Orgue Et Trompette			MP 116	1:24:39 (Pop-up)
René Costy	South Wind "South Wind" by "René Costy"	Reves & Ballades			MP 119	1:27:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Crivellamento "Crivellamento"					1:31:17 (Pop-up)
Costy & Janou	Danger "Danger" by "Costy & Janou"	Danger, Suspense et Eprouvettes			MP 117 (René Costy & Lydia Altmann)	1:43:16 (Pop-up)
Altmann & Van Waynen	Ostinato Bass	Danger, Suspense et Eprouvettes			(Lydia Altmann & Gabrielle Van Weynen)	1:45:52 (Pop-up)
Luoris & Costy	Schizophreny "Schizophreny" by "Luoris & Costy"	Danger, Suspense et Eprouvettes			(René Costy & Jacques Siroul)	1:49:00 (Pop-up)
Ariel Kalma	Danse Soeur "Danse Soeur" by "Ariel Kalma"	Interfrequence		1980	MP 120	1:51:41 (Pop-up)
Ariel Kalma	Chinassou "Chinassou" by "Ariel Kalma"	Interfrequence				1:56:54 (Pop-up)
Ariel Kalma	Source Fraiche "Source Fraiche" by "Ariel Kalma"	Interfrequence				1:58:24 (Pop-up)
G. Gallo – Guy Pedersen	Poursuite Sans Suite	Suspense		1980	MP121	2:01:16 (Pop-up)
G. Gallo – Guy Pedersen	Veloce "Veloce" by "G. Gallo – Guy Pedersen"	Suspense				2:03:42 (Pop-up)
Gaston Borreani	Port Cros "Port Cros" by "Gaston Borreani"	Rêve Abyssal		1980	MP 122	2:06:37 (Pop-up)
Gaston Borreani	Rêve Abyssal "Rêve Abyssal" by "Gaston Borreani"	Rêve Abyssal				2:09:12 (Pop-up)
Gaston Borreani	Stridanse "Stridanse" by "Gaston Borreani"	Rêve Abyssal				2:11:43 (Pop-up)
J.P. Decerf / M. Saclays	Sweet Soul	Sound ... Space		1980	MP 123	2:18:23 (Pop-up)
Roger Davy	Recorder "Recorder" by "Roger Davy"	Régénération			MP 124	2:20:58 (Pop-up)
D. Labarre / F. Schnetzer	Atoll "Atoll" by "D. Labarre / F. Schnetzer"	Hypothese			MP 125	2:23:10 (Pop-up)
D. Labarre / F. Schnetzer	Sombrero	Hypothese				2:27:15 (Pop-up)
Daniel J. White, Claudine White	Folklore Indien	Folklore			MP 126	2:30:43 (Pop-up)
J.P. Decerf	Contours "Contours" by "J.P. Decerf"	Pulsations		1980	MP 127	2:33:53 (Pop-up)
J.P. Decerf	Zontrell "Zontrell" by "J.P. Decerf"	Pulsations				2:35:52 (Pop-up)
René Roussel	Bivouac "Bivouac" by "René Roussel"	Rubriques			MP 128	2:38:23 (Pop-up)
M. Saclays	New Tropical Safari "New Tropical Safari" by "M. Saclays"	Translation		1980	MP 130	2:41:17 (Pop-up)
M. Saclays	New Translation "New Translation" by "M. Saclays"	Translation				2:44:16 (Pop-up)
Jean-Jacques Perrey & Daniel Longuein	Gagorama	Kartoonery		1980	MP 131	2:47:19 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Les Metiers et Borneo "Les Metiers et Borneo"					2:50:17 (Pop-up)
Ariel Kalma	Rep Voc "Rep Voc" by "Ariel Kalma"	Interfrequence				2:56:27 (Pop-up)
Roland Hollinger	"Roland Hollinger"	Peaceful Dreams				2:59:32 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:43pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	🥁 6:48pm Aitch: Where to next we wonder?
	6:48pm Flash Strap: One final dive into the Montparnasse 2000 series for some of the synthiest offerings yet
	6:49pm Flash Strap: Hi Aitch!
	🥁 6:56pm chresti: Hello !Flash and Aitch and explorers!
	6:56pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! Just about to launch here
	🥁 6:59pm Aitch: The word Moog has me excited already
	7:00pm Flash Strap: here we gooooo
	7:01pm melinda: Ready for Montparnasse!
	7:01pm doctorjazz: Hellllooooo Explorers!
	7:01pm Flash Strap: me too Aitch! that's a cool cover too
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda! Hi Doc!
	7:02pm Shaw: Alriiiiight... Greetings!
	🥁 7:02pm WR: 'allo explorers.
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Back at ya Shaw! Hi WR!
	7:05pm Flash Strap: this Ariel Kalma record is so cool
	7:05pm Shaw: Love wandering the Library halls
	🥁 7:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...not a quiet Library, particularly...
	7:06pm TDK60: Hi Flash, roomies.
	7:07pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev, Hi TDK!
	7:08pm Flash Strap: me too shaw, there's so much to read here
	7:10pm Flash Strap: really good underwater library LP, this Borreani
	🥁 7:13pm WR: i think Bathymorphoses is what you get during a relaxing hot bath.
	🥁 7:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Idea: Create a Soundtrack ahead of time - & only then get various Directors to make a film for it...
	7:14pm Scott67: G'day Flash & Room Roamers! 😎🤙🌏☀️
	7:14pm Flash Strap: @rev: that's the basic concept of library music in a way but yeah that would be cool to see executed in a different context
	7:15pm Flash Strap: Hi Scott!
	🥁 7:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Idea : 24/7 Library Music Stream.
	7:19pm TDK60: So, groovy up here, on my carpet.
	7:19pm Flash Strap: I once snorkeled in Belize with this playing on underwater headphones, i was full of wonder lemme tell ya
	7:20pm Flash Strap: I don't have enough for a 24/7 stream yet but i am working on some underwater library shows for some day
	🥁 7:22pm chresti: I once lived somewhere that had a carpet like this green background.
	7:23pm Flash Strap: i like green carpet
	🥁 7:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Idea: Make the Pop-Ups in Archives continuous - one episode of a program after another. Virtually every program its own stream...
	7:24pm Frog Mover: Good Kalma zone
	7:24pm Flash Strap: this track is such a wall of humid jungle sound
	7:25pm Flash Strap: that's a pretty cool idea Rev
	7:25pm TDK60: I hope the band has rubber mats, Flash.
	🥁 7:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Electric cicada jawsharp.
	7:25pm Flash Strap: Hey hey Frog Mo!
	7:28pm Scott67: I have Lime Green carpet in my bedroom Flash. By choice! 👍😎💚
	🥁 7:30pm WR: Number Six chops down the tree? What is he up to now?
	🥁 7:34pm WR: i was wondering. "An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) and 6,000 metres (20,000 ft). Lying generally between the foot of a continental rise and a mid-ocean ridge, abyssal plains cover more than 50% of the Earth's surface." - from Wikipedia
	7:35pm Flash Strap: @Scott: never had a carpeted bathroom but that sounds cool honestly
	7:36pm Flash Strap: @WR: i love to picture it w/ that music
	🥁 7:37pm chresti: Haha TDK60, safety first!
	7:39pm Flash Strap: "Running Poping" is not a typo
	7:39pm βrian: Unfortunately the camo carpet combined with a pale yellow font color makes the playlist an accessibility nightmare. Nice noise, though, for sure.
	7:41pm Flash Strap: Hi Brian!
	🥁 7:42pm chresti: βrian, adjusting the contrast/light helps me see better.
	🥁 7:42pm WR: interesting, βrian, assuming you can read this, would have thought the yellow is light enough to not be an issue.
	7:43pm TDK60: Chresti, Once in a band I was in, we played a house party in a basement, realized when setting up it was hot somehow. So I went out, bought 5 driver mud mats!
	🥁 7:44pm chresti: Provides more cushioning too, TDK60.
	7:44pm Flash Strap: the moog sounds on this record are sublime – the compositions are generally not my bag. tho i usually love harry breuer
	7:44pm Scott67: Bedroom Flash! But believe it or not it was carpet made for bathrooms. The guy thought I was mad. But it's over 40 years down & going strong. I bought the house I grew up in, so asked for the carpet as a kid, but still love it.
	7:45pm Flash Strap: @Scott: whoops that makes more sense
	7:46pm Flash Strap: good choice imo
	7:48pm Flash Strap: this very groovy Giordano record is regarded by many library aficionados as a major classic of the genre
	7:48pm Scott67: I have seen a carpeted bathroom in a house, and it kinda creeped me out. Wondering what fluids it had absorbed & critters lived within.
	7:49pm Flash Strap: yeah for sure but I bet it is nice on those toes on a cold night
	7:51pm melinda: I looked up one of the houses I lived in as a kid on Zillow and it looked like it had the same carpet! The 1950s kitchen cabinetry and bathrooms were still the same. It was kind of nice to see, even though it was from a not happy time in life.
	🥁 7:51pm chresti: Yeah, Scott67, I remember mildew smelling squishy carpets in bathrooms.
	7:51pm Scott67: Totally, but this was right up to and around the toilet. So night visits would get a little damp I imagine.
	7:52pm melinda: Bathroom carpet is just not right.
	7:52pm Clifffiscal: I feel like this song is chasing me.
	7:52pm Flash Strap: Hi Cliff! it is
	7:53pm Flash Strap: it really is so aggressive
	7:54pm Scott67: I was recently in a Hospital which was carpeted through out. It freaked me out to think what was in that stuff.
	7:54pm Flash Strap: original Liuto release has a very good cover: img.discogs.com...
	7:55pm Scott67: It's chasing you in stove pipe trousers, so you'll be okay.
	7:55pm Flash Strap: carpeted hospital, hmmm, yikes
	7:55pm Clifffiscal: Hi Evan + all. Yes what an unrelenting. Wow that cover is great as well
	🥁 7:55pm chresti: Wow melinda, like a time capsule. I can't imagine. We pretty much trashed the carpets/hardwood floors, walls, etc. in all the houses we lived in growing up.
	7:56pm Scott67: And I was in for surgery! 🤤
	🥁 7:57pm chresti: Maybe they shampoo it regularly, Scott.
	7:58pm Flash Strap: Surgery! hope all is well now Scott
	7:58pm TDK60: Mud mats is the way to go.
	🥁 7:59pm chresti: Do they come in designer colors, TDK60?
	8:00pm TDK60: By now? You can probably get a WFMU mud mat these days..
	8:00pm Scott67: That just means the critters have really healthy hair chresti. 😎
	8:01pm Flash Strap: one more visit from maestro Camille Sauvage – love him
	8:01pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Evan, Explorers
	8:02pm Scott67: G'day coel, yes my secret is out. I've been double streaming. 😎🤙
	8:03pm HyperDose: Just gonna Pink Panther my way in here, don't mind me!
	8:04pm Scott67: Karate attack!! HyperD... ✋🤛
	🥁 8:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Trinidad had nothing on Quadrimom. Just sayin'.
	8:06pm coelacanth∅: it's safe with me Scott. no one else has to know
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth! Hyperdose!
	8:07pm coelacanth∅: ...where's the usual explorer's room background?
	8:07pm Flash Strap: haha Rev
	8:07pm HyperDose: @Scott How did you see me? o.O Evening, Flash Strap!
	8:08pm Flash Strap: i love around-the-world records and this one is great imo
	8:08pm Scott67: Ninja vision, in HD!
	8:09pm HyperDose: Tour du Monde, that's funny. My dad would label my mother's Christmas presents "Chef du Monde" since she worked as a French pastry chef.
	8:10pm Scott67: Love the Gamelan, sounds a bit like monkey dance chant too.
	8:11pm coelacanth∅: Flash is the green cloth background malfunctioning? ...temporarily, i hope? (i check past playlists and it "boring blue" on those too)
	8:12pm Scott67: Still green fabric here Coel!
	8:12pm coelacanth∅: see chrestì? rattly, buzzy kalimbas!
	8:12pm Flash Strap: @scott: yeah it's a bit of an odd flattened blend of the two
	8:12pm TDK60: Coel, it's okay for me but I use a desktop screen. You use a small device?
	8:13pm Flash Strap: i'm still so green, C.
	8:14pm Scott67: Gotta love a tabla, or North African equivalent.
	8:14pm coelacanth∅: TDK no -laptop with remote monitor. Thanks... it's firefox, making things worse with every update.
	8:14pm Scott67: Jaws Harp is big in Mongolian music isn't?
	8:15pm HyperDose: @coel Remember when we all had to jump ship when Firefox got so unstable, they had to redo all the code to make Quantum? Still my favorite browser though.
	8:15pm Flash Strap: i've been with firefox forever
	8:18pm Flash Strap: Hyperdose is that gif from Taxi? I think i'd like to see that scene
	8:20pm Scott67: Firefox on my computers. But tablets make life hard if you use non preferred browsers. But then I dunno a thing about software, so they could be bullshiting me.
	8:20pm HyperDose: @Flash It is! Let me try and find it on youtube.
	🥁 8:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Kaufman & DeVito.
	8:20pm TDK60: Clerks in U.S. senate still reading the pandemic relief bill, (since 3:26 PM). \|\| This lovely idyll bucolic is doing a riff similar to Fauré.
	8:21pm Flash Strap: that seems true Scott
	8:22pm coelacanth∅: firefox was my first and still i rarely use safari...only for a few things that firefox refuses to work correctly with. (no trace of chrome anywhere on any of my computers...which took a lot of effort)
	🥁 8:23pm chresti: coel, try ftzing with the color/contrast settings
	8:24pm TDK60: It was basically the same melody formation, but with notes changed, from 'Pelléas et Mélisande' by Fauré.
	🥁 8:24pm WR: Melinda, if you are still there, your comment sent me into a zillow search of my childhood homes. no interior photos but interesting. .
	8:25pm Flash Strap: good ear, TDK - i don't know Fauré well enough to catch that
	8:25pm HyperDose: @WR I do that with Google Earth from time to time. Take a trip through the old neighborhood with street view.
	🥁 8:25pm chresti: I call this background color Kenmore Green, after the place I had lived with it.
	🥁 8:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...if it ain't Baroque, don't ftze it...
	8:26pm Flash Strap: but a lot of classical-esque library stuff is pretty much doing soundalikes of well-known pieces
	🥁 8:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Such a Luddite. Never thot of GoogleEarthing old places... & never heard of Zillow...
	8:27pm coelacanth∅: chresti i just did. none of my preferences have been changed - as far as what's visible to me anyway. firefox has been fucking around for a long time...gradually getting worse. it's never played Danny's flame o scope more than ~50% of the time, and often wont play embedded videos or sound. and this isn't the first time a website suddenly (or not suddenly) wouldn't work right.
	8:29pm HyperDose: @coel Do you use privacy badger or any similar extension that may be blocking the background script?
	🥁 8:30pm chresti: Oh, earthquakes hit New Zealand today www.tsunami.gov
	8:30pm TDK60: This background I dig Flash, looks like an old jungle shirt fabric or older style summertime tent fabric.
	🥁 8:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & you now it's all Crapitalist Proprietary bullish*t to not make things retro-compatible... they're just high on their own over-engineered horsefarts...
	🥁 8:31pm Aitch: I'll occasionally use Firefox if Safari doesn't work for some sites, but Safari does Flame O Scope well, but my office stuff is all Mac. No Chrome allowed. Working so not paying too much attention to individual tracks, but loving the sounds Mr Strap
	🥁 8:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: NZ : 8.1 !!
	8:32pm Scott67: Coel. youtu.be...
	🥁 8:33pm chresti: I have Chrome with Bing attempting to conquer it.
	8:34pm Scott67: RevoR, and Tsunami Warnings.
	8:34pm HyperDose: Chrome is my preferred browser for any sort of streaming (with the exception of radio streams which I play through VLC). Chrome's cache management is great. Firefox finally gives you the option to delete the cache without deleting site data so you stay logged into everything, just wished it auto managed it better.
	8:35pm coelacanth∅: Thanks hyperDose i have no extensions, and never have. only 2 plug-ins, which are supposedly necessary. it's alright.
	8:38pm HyperDose: @Scott That show helped me discover the brilliant mind of Noel Fielding. But I really think Matt Berry takes it for best performance. Have you seen the awful pilot for the US version?
	8:40pm coelacanth∅: RR @830 i know. that's what it's about. i actually had to buy a new (refurbished) computer 2-3 years ago solely for that reason. the old (snow leopard,c.2008) computer works fine to this day asnd i still use it, but it's incompatible with many websites and programs...which is the selfish choice that programmers and manufacturers make.
	8:41pm melinda: I love the IT Crowd, my sister gave me the whole series on DVD and I've got a half season left.
	8:41pm Scott67: HyperD, mercifully no! Matt Berry is brilliant! Have you seen Toast of London?
	8:41pm coelacanth∅: chrome functions very much like a virus in the computer.
	8:42pm melinda: My sister also gave me a CD by Matt Berry and I was several shows in before I realized it was the same person.
	8:42pm Scott67: Coel I just reloaded this page, and for a split second the background was blue, then the green dropped in.
	8:44pm coelacanth∅: ...a virus that works well for certain things because of the money deals between capitalist entities. anything that works well with chrome could work as well with other, less evil browsers, if the choice was made to make that so.
	8:44pm Flash Strap: @TDK: thanks pal! it's a book-cover textile, but i was hoping for a jute wall in a natural history museum look, sort of
	🥁 8:45pm chresti: I just have 2 light🔅🔆adjustment keys on my laptop that I futz around with.
	8:45pm Little Danny: Hi Evan, hi fronds.
	8:45pm melinda: I always thought of the background as one of the old books on the shelves lining the walls of the Explorers Room.
	8:46pm Scott67: Flash, that's what it says to me. The covering of a map pinboard.
	8:46pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	8:46pm Flash Strap: @melinda: that is literally the case!
	8:47pm HyperDose: @Scott I haven't, but I'll get it tonight. I assume you watch What We Do in the Shadows? @melinda His voice is unmistakable to me and I giggle with glee every time I see him appear in something. Was the CD stand up?
	8:47pm Little Danny: Adore both What We Do in the Shadows and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Need to dig into IT Crowd lo these many years later.
	8:48pm melinda: @LD is that the series or the movie WWDITS? I think the series is on a service I don't have, loved the movie.
	8:48pm TDK60: Ah, a book cover. Hardback.
	8:49pm Flash Strap: great wild sounds on Schizophreny here, officially kicking off the synthi portion of the evening
	8:49pm HyperDose: Super excited for Thor :Love & Thunder. In my opinion, Taika made the funniest Marvel movie and still kept it on-brand.
	8:49pm melinda: pew pew
	🥁 8:49pm WR: WWDITS is on Hulu. which i get basic level with my phone.
	8:50pm HyperDose: @melinda The movie is great, but the series really let it blossom into the gothy circus it was always meant to be.
	8:51pm melinda: @HyperDose no, it's music! The title is Witch Hazel, I believe. Pretty good, with some track titles that cracked me up upon first reading, such as Accident at a Harvest Festival.
	8:51pm Scott67: HyperD, yep! he has a big back catalogue. Check out, Snuff Box.
	🥁 8:51pm chresti: I recall a discussion about the book covers. I originally thought of a woven fabric wallcovering.
	8:52pm melinda: (HD that was directed at your previous question)
	8:53pm Scott67: youtu.be...
	8:53pm Flash Strap: god this is such a magical record
	8:54pm Little Danny: @Melinda: Both. I knew and loved the movie for years. I was really worried about the series but it is sooo good. You'll like it if you liked the movie. The cast is a revelation.
	8:54pm Flash Strap: one of the series crown jewels as far as i'm concerned
	8:54pm coelacanth∅: i might've thought of just old fabric, but the faded edged always made me think of a book.
	8:54pm northguineahills: I'm back, from my perambulation. I'm here, to stand clear, of a jeer to make this stear, for all of us lose fear w/ a wee bit of beer...
	8:54pm Little Danny: I played this Ariel Kalma track a week or two ago!
	8:55pm melinda: trippy
	8:55pm Flash Strap: i have to say - i liked the movie and ultimately couldn't abide the show but i can tell i'm in the minority worldwide
	8:55pm northguineahills: still not clear of spelling mistakes.....
	8:55pm Flash Strap: @LD: great minds my friend - it's a hell of a track
	8:55pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH!
	8:56pm Little Danny: I know this album but very little else of Kalma's catalog. Is this Interfrequence an anomaly or are their other Kalma releases that cover this blissed-out territory?
	8:56pm HyperDose: @melinda Oh, not surprised though, considering how talented he is. Thank you and Scott for the recs! :) @Little Danny I still can't get through the trial episode with Tilda, Trejo, and the special vc'd guest without laughing until I cry.
	8:56pm northguineahills: LD played this last week!
	8:57pm coelacanth∅: i think it just switched to the stream?
	8:57pm coelacanth∅: ...yeah, for sure
	8:57pm Flash Strap: @LD: He's got a lot of great stuff - i feel like you actually know his album Osmose but if you don't that's like this but more so ; Music for Dream and Love is really good too
	8:58pm Little Danny: Thanks Evan, duly downloading!
	8:58pm Scott67: Cheers here NGH! I have a beer! 🍺😎🤙
	🥁 8:58pm chresti: We were at the hotel lounge for a sec coel.
	8:59pm coelacanth∅: haha chresti yup
	9:00pm Shaw: Have to say, I've been really digging' the Ariel Kalma selections tonight as well
	9:01pm northguineahills: @Scott: just a Red Bull w/ tear (am I still rhyming and timing), got to speak w/ the missus after I wake up.....(beer ready on deck).
	9:02pm Flash Strap: @Shaw: he's really amazing, really love everything of his I've heard
	9:02pm coelacanth∅: got the seeming-more-beautiful-than-ever green fabric back. 'turns out the tracker setting i chose a month or 2 ago ("strict") isn't compatible with this webpage, after yesterday's firefox update; even though it's worked fine for all that time
	9:03pm Flash Strap: @Coelacanth: i think it was just for a second? i hope anyway
	9:03pm coelacanth∅: Flash yes...maybe 30 seconds
	9:04pm Flash Strap: wish it was zero seconds and I really mean it
	9:05pm coelacanth∅: and Thanks to y'all with suggestions about my computer issue.
	9:05pm Flash Strap: watched Godzilla Vs Gigan the other day, really enjoyed it. for you Zilla heads out there
	9:05pm HyperDose: I prefer record miscues. Stream switches feel like they have some sinister witchcraft behind them.
	🥁 9:06pm chresti: Try taping colored film layers as a way to adjust the screen.
	9:06pm coelacanth∅: haha Evan the interruption was indeed a very different vibe! but not terrible
	9:06pm Little Danny: Haha chresti
	9:07pm northguineahills: I usually hate most tourists here, but I randomly was wearing a Chealsea jersey, some random family from Boston gave me beer in the hallwy as they were Blues fans as well (and they won today). So, after last week's GOP CPAC w/ maskless assholes, I found some humanity in random humans here.
	9:07pm Scott67: NGH, say hi! 😎🤙
	9:08pm coelacanth∅: chrestì i could make a collage out of different colored lens filters
	9:08pm northguineahills: Digging this Gaston Borreani....
	9:08pm Scott67: Flash, I'm a Kaiju fan man!! 🐊
	🥁 9:09pm chresti: Were you listening to the Randoms, ngh?
	9:09pm Little Danny: Yeah, this is great.
	9:09pm Flash Strap: this track makes incredible looking waveforms in the archive recording
	9:10pm Flash Strap: @Scott: i'm working my way through them, loved every one so far
	🥁 9:10pm chresti: An overlay of colored circles!
	9:11pm Flash Strap: really want to see the original King Kong Vs Godzilla in good quality
	🥁 9:11pm chresti: Hi LD!
	9:12pm Little Danny: (hi chresti!)
	9:12pm HyperDose: @Flash I want to get into putting hidden messages in audio spectrals. It looks so fun!
	9:13pm Flash Strap: go for it HD
	9:13pm Scott67: Flash, there's a lot of stuff on your National Film Archives site. Which I can fortunately access from Australia. 😎
	🥁 9:14pm chresti: Hyperdose, what are audio spectrals?
	9:14pm Flash Strap: i should check that out
	9:15pm Flash Strap: i've been just going through the Zillas on the Criterion Channel but they don't have the Kong and I am a big Kong man
	9:15pm Clifffiscal: This is incredible
	9:15pm Little Danny: @scott: Do you have link? Are referring to an archive.org section?
	9:16pm Flash Strap: @Cliff: I agree! he only did one library record sadly & does not seem to have other releases tho i know he still makes music in some capacity
	9:17pm Scott67: LD, not sure. Will look into it soon. On phone to Mum at moment. 👍
	9:17pm Flash Strap: hi mum
	9:17pm HyperDose: @chresti A spectrogram is basically when you zoom in on the frequencies of an audio waveform. It looks like this: upload.wikimedia.org... This program is freeware and lets you see the spectrals of any file with audio, just drag and drop the file into the program window: www.spek.cc
	9:18pm Little Danny: Get mum in the chat, Scott!
	9:19pm HyperDose: @chresti I mostly use it for checking to see if audio files are transcodes or not. Transcodes are when someone takes a poor quality audio file and converts it to a higher bitrate (the problem being you can't add fidelity that wasn't there in the first place).
	9:21pm Little Danny: @HyperD: are you an audio engineer? Trancoding is the boogie man of my illegally downloaded MP3s via SoulSeek.
	9:21pm Clifffiscal: I'll have to hear more. As usual much to look into based on your show!
	🥁 9:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...had to go out & forage for foodthings. Good to be back before it ends...
	9:22pm Little Danny: I guessed it's spelled "bogeyman"
	🥁 9:23pm chresti: Wow, a new foreign thing for me to ponder, thanks Hyper!
	9:23pm Flash Strap: @cliff: re: Borreani: doublechecking just now, i guess he actually did 2 LPs for the De Wolfe label at least (under pseudonyms) but i don't know them
	9:24pm HyperDose: @Little Danny Soulseek is still pretty good, but always gotta be careful and scan whatever you get from there. I have a tool that rips tracks from a streaming service in either MP3 320 or FLAC. No risk, no transcodes. Convince sm Ken to hire me, and it's yours (and every other DJ who wants it)!
	9:25pm Little Danny: I will start the petition, HyperD!
	9:25pm Flash Strap: This Hypothese is a big record for 80s synth-focused library heads
	9:26pm Little Danny: @hyperD: I have a small arsenal of tools of prising audio from the web, but nothing that scans for transcoding.
	9:30pm Flash Strap: here we have a final offering from Daniel J. White, whose Folklore album seems to be at least partially a rehash of his Musique Pour... series which started the label off
	9:30pm HyperDose: @Flash All the keys have been reminding me of the amazing vintage synths SubTokyoShop fixes up. They have a lovely instagram for analog heads to nerd out over: www.instagram.com...
	9:33pm Little Danny: That image with all the Roland Space Echo units, holy crap.
	9:34pm northguineahills: moar JP Decerf!
	9:34pm HyperDose: @Little Danny We should talk. I'd be more than happy to assist in any way I can. Feel free to drop an email, should you ever feel so inclined.
	9:36pm Little Danny: @HyperD: Perhaps after the dust of the marathon clears? Thank you!
	9:36pm Flash Strap: you got it NGH
	9:38pm coelacanth∅: one thing i sometimes do with low bitrate mp3s, on the rare occasion i deal with them, is transfer it to analogue tape. (and then possibly to cd) this, though obviously not increasing the quality technically, sometimes can make such files sound more natural.
	9:38pm Flash Strap: interesting process Coelacanth
	9:39pm Flash Strap: great weird sound on this Bivouac
	9:39pm Flash Strap: @C:(I totally get it, btw)
	9:40pm HyperDose: @Little Danny Sounds like a plan! @coel you're "deep frying" your audio!
	9:40pm Little Danny: Yeah, coela, that's a really cool idea. I can see how it would add the distracting warmth of sweet hiss if nothing else.
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: i like that analogy!
	🥁 9:41pm chresti: I love that string/didgeridoo sound on Bivouac.
	9:42pm Little Danny: Kinda like the way mono needles trick my ears into making battered 45s sound slightly less battered than stereo needles.
	9:42pm Flash Strap: me too chresti, really unique sound
	9:42pm TDK60: Wanna play hackysack, chresti?
	9:42pm coelacanth∅: right Danny...and tends to subdue hissy digital artifacts, usually from cymbals
	9:42pm Little Danny: That arpeggiation is some well known synth, no? I wish I knew my synths by ear.
	🥁 9:43pm chresti: Hackysack? Sure! How?
	9:43pm Flash Strap: me too LD, i have no idea. need to go to synth skool
	9:43pm TDK60: So, tape hiss is okay, but cymbal hiss is not bliss.
	9:44pm HyperDose: Has to be either a sinusoidal, triangular, or square sinewave...the choice is yours!
	9:44pm coelacanth∅: TDK, just so.
	🥁 9:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...like the Spanish gittar riff @ the beginning of 'Bungalow Bill' by TheBeatles was in fact a Moog setting...
	9:45pm TDK60: chresti, I was hoping that a didgereedoo enthusiast like thee would want to play hackysack for a minute (before we head into the Dead show...)
	9:45pm Flash Strap: @rev: wait what's the story there? I don't know that
	9:46pm coelacanth∅: lossy digital files' artifacts sound like what they are: unnatural. - not a sound you would find in a non-digital world.
	🥁 9:46pm chresti: Tape hiss describes my tinnitus. Ah, did not know about dead hacky sacky.
	🥁 9:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah now that I think of it - always say they didn't;t have synths til Abbey Road - the last album recorded. But George had a big Moog by the White Album... don't think they used it for anything else there... Oh Wait ! A mellotron setting ?! No... nit for a Spanish gittar scale ...maybe ??
	9:47pm Little Danny: Exactly, coela, and I'm someone who seeks out the lowest possible fidelities in my '50s rock 'n' roll 45s.
	9:48pm coelacanth∅: damn, Rabbit that very interesting tidbit got by me until now!
	9:48pm northguineahills: thought it was Jean-Jaques Perrey!
	9:48pm Little Danny: Brilliant show, by the way, Evan. Totally absorbed in the music and chat here tonight.
	9:48pm TDK60: Me too, chresti. I have constant cymbal hiss-like tinnitus.
	🥁 9:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...yeah actually a Mellotron setting / tape now I think of it... No Beatle fingers on strings for that flourish...
	9:49pm coelacanth∅: ngh me too
	9:49pm HyperDose: @coel And dither is just hiding your flaws, but everyone uses it. Kind of have to for digital formats since they're expected to be perfect. But once you go over a 16-bit depth, dither isn't needed. Strange.
	🥁 9:50pm chresti: We are the hissy ear generation.
	9:50pm coelacanth∅: oh.. IT IS! never mind
	🥁 9:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah Mellotron : en.wikipedia.org...
	9:51pm northguineahills: Thanks Evan, time to call the missus....
	9:51pm Ignore Function: Fun show tonight, FS.
	9:51pm still b/p: We are. Mine for a while recently included the slight sense of increased ambient air and sound pressure with the ringing, not pain or significant pressure, but dwelling in that sort of after-a-firecracker quality.
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: HyperD now do i have to look into dither? is it a good tool for folks working in an analogue/low-end digital recording realm?
	9:53pm TDK60: REvrab, Yes, but even if a mellotron setting, some guitarist was originally recorded, right?
	🥁 9:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...got to come back & read all the Audio Wisdom I missed here...
	🥁 9:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TDK : Yeah - but not in TheBeatles ! :)
	9:53pm Little Danny: Don't ever change, beauties: wfmu.org... Hope to see y'all next door!
	9:53pm HyperDose: @coel Not at all. It's to hide quantization errors. So if you're working with synths and the like, then yes you'll need it. But most DAWs apply it automatically now.
	9:54pm TDK60: Some Flamenco guitarist..?
	🥁 9:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TDK : I get the impression unidentified...
	🥁 9:55pm WR: It has been a wondrous ride. Thank you Evan!
	9:55pm TDK60: Senate clerks still reading. (See CSPAN.) \|\| Thanks, Flash.
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: Dither? Haha.
	9:56pm still b/p: I missed almost all the fuzzy warbles. Bugger.
	9:56pm Scott67: Thanks for the audio exploration Flash. Stay intrepid All! 😎🤙🌏☀️
	🥁 9:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yes TY As Ever Evan.
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: cool,Thanks HyperD. no synthesizers here ...except an old casio ct670... i don't think those qualify as synthesizers... but i still have trouble making the distinction
	9:56pm Flash Strap: Hi IF, BP! thanks for saying hi
	9:56pm HyperDose: Thank you Flash Strap! This was as both educational and highly enjoyable.
	9:57pm Flash Strap: thank you all, thank you each and every one
	9:57pm Flash Strap: it has been ––––My Pleasure
	🥁 9:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Synths a huge lacuna in my music nut knowledge too... Shameful really.
	9:57pm Shaw: Thanks Flash! Wonderful show!
	🥁 9:58pm chresti: not long lasting I hope, still b/p. Mine gets louder at times.
	9:58pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	🥁 9:59pm chresti: Thanks Flash! Incredible as usual.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from March 4, 2021

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