WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from September 2, 2021

Listener comments!
	7:00pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	7:00pm Scott67: G'day Evan & Explorers! 👍😎🔭🌏
	7:00pm StringOFperils: Pipecock no die!
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Scott! Hi String!
	🥁 7:01pm WR: Riddum, come forward!
	7:02pm Shaw: Greetings Flash and explorers
	7:02pm Flash Strap: hi WR!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Shaw!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: let the music flooooooow
	7:03pm Chili MacPagoda: The fryer in the background lifts Kentucky Skank over the top. Pure genius - RIP Lee Scratch. Thank you for putting this show together!
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi Chili! an amazing production
	7:04pm StringOFperils: Extra Krispy
	7:05pm listener James from Westwood: Evening, Flash and all!
	🥁 7:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Awlright. This is great.
	7:06pm Kelly: Weeeeird I was just playing this album last night!
	🥁 7:07pm WR: headphones on. Volume UP,
	7:07pm Flash Strap: Hi James! Hi Rev! Hi Kelly – nothing weird about spinning Hear of the Congos on any given night imo
	7:08pm Doug Schulkind: Heavy Evan is just Scratching the surface.
	7:08pm Flash Strap: "even the ants were saved in Noah's sugar pan" is such exquisite lyricism
	7:08pm Flash Strap: Disco Devil Doug in the mix!
	7:10pm Frog Mover: We're all safe in the Explorer's Ark this eve. So glad to see him twice in past few years
	7:11pm Flash Strap: so hard to pick just one track from this record for tonight
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hi Frog Mo!
	7:11pm Frog Mover: Just had this on earlier today so essential
	7:12pm Doug Schulkind: You let the track pick you, Ev. You let the track pick you.
	7:12pm Flash Strap: is this his first cow sound effect? honestly don't know but lord it wouldn't be his last
	7:14pm Flash Strap: @Doug so true
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Full vocal version to the Bird in Hand dub on Return of the Super Ape, hadn't ever heard this one until this week
	7:26pm Flash Strap: Black Panta one of the biggest dubs, by which i mean it manifests a giant sound, huge footprints across the soundstage
	7:27pm Franco Twinkie: Flash!
	7:28pm Flash Strap: Franco!
	7:29pm Flash Strap: "river" is one of the most beautiful and purely sensual things Perry ever cut, blows me away every time
	7:30pm Scott67: G'day Franco.👍😎👣
	7:32pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Scott! Gotta deliver a pie, so Ill be off the grid for awhile.
	7:34pm bigplanetnoise: Hey Flash - sounding great!!
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Hi BPN! thanks
	🥁 7:39pm Aitch: Late to class. Hi Explorers
	7:43pm quinn: oh its so nice to be here live
	7:47pm TDK60: Flash Strap. I'm late but I found the Room.
	7:52pm Flash Strap: Hi Aitch! Quinn! TDK! great to have you in here, friends
	7:56pm melinda: hi chums
	7:57pm Flash Strap: the dubbing on Revolution Dub is so unusually dry for Perry, really harsh shifts and drops
	7:57pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	7:58pm Flash Strap: Kojak benefits from a great riddim and vocal snippets from Bunny Clarke as well
	🥁 7:58pm Aitch: Fantastic
	7:58pm TDK60: One might say, Perry used silence as an instrument, a color.
	8:00pm coelacanth∅: greetings Evan, Explorers
	🥁 8:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Can we say - no Dub, no HipHop as we know it. No Perry, no Dub as we know it ?
	8:00pm Flash Strap: @TDK: excellent point, indeed, he's not given enough credit for this, there's so much focus on his uses of density, clutter, reverb. but he uses silence just as well
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Hi coelacanth!
	8:01pm TDK60: This M. Romeo, what a masterpiece!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: @Rev: we certainly would have had dub, but as we know it? certainly not. but also his contribution transcends the genres he directly expanded or predicted and leaks into all areas of sound experimentation
	8:03pm Flash Strap: @TDK: solid gold
	🥁 8:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...cause it seems to me he's like Monk or SydBarrett - these neurodivergents who introduce completely new vocabulary into the general vernacular.
	8:05pm Flash Strap: @Rev: definitely on that Sun Ra level with Hieronymous Bosch
	8:06pm Flash Strap: deeply mystic, uniquely vernacular & contemporaneous, and intentionally, personally surreal
	8:07pm coelacanth∅: (this is dreader locks, not militant rock...in case it matters!)
	8:08pm adampsyche: killin it
	8:09pm Flash Strap: @C: it's a weird b-side but it is Militant Rock, Dreader Locks production is more full, esp. on the vocal end. A lot of his B-sides weren't strictly dubs but weird reworkings of the vocal
	8:10pm Flash Strap: unless i whoopsied somewhere but pretty sure
	8:10pm Flash Strap: Hi Adam & thanks
	8:11pm Little Danny: Hi Evan, hi exploreurs!
	🥁 8:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...also that invaluable & powerful handful of Artist-Producer amalgams - like Brian Wilson - challenging themselves with how many dimensions of sound & music one head can contain...
	8:12pm Flash Strap: Hi LD! gonna miss ya tonight
	8:12pm coelacanth∅: i don't know; but i have it on both a Junior Byles lp and a Lee Perry comp on cd, called "dreader locks". doesn't necessarily mean you whoopsied!
	🥁 8:12pm WR: Junior Murvin!
	8:13pm Flash Strap: @C: Dreader Locks is almost identical to Militant Rock but it is different, i had to do a close listen to both as I got confused when planning to use it
	8:14pm Flash Strap: @WR: #1 Murvin track for me
	8:15pm TDK60: such a driving beat, will run right over ya...
	8:15pm coelacanth∅: wow! okay i have to listen again. i didn't even notice. i was "singing" along to it!
	8:16pm Flash Strap: i played this track not long ago but i couldn't not play it again here... probably my favorite Congos cut ever
	8:17pm doctorjazz: Hey Flash and Flashterettes!
	8:17pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	8:17pm chresti phone: Hi Flash and explorers! I finally got a signal while driving Franco’s truck sound system! Starting at Kojak
	8:18pm Doug Schulkind: My fave Scratch track for its sheer audacity is "Judgment in a Babylon." Pretty nifty cover art, too: www.discogs.com...
	8:18pm Flash Strap: @C: i'm gonna have to triple check when this is over
	8:19pm Little Danny: Hi Flash! Thanks. The show is in the best hands. I'll be hanging out either way.
	8:19pm chresti phone: Stuck in traffic during war in Babylon, I was singing along loudly!
	8:19pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! I gotta admit I was missing you, glad you're with us! drive safe
	8:21pm Flash Strap: @Doug: damn i have never heard that! gotta check it out pronto
	🥁 8:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Really appreciate this exposition.
	8:22pm Flash Strap: this might be my favorite song, just in heaven when it's on
	8:23pm solo mon: Yeahhhh get it Evan!
	8:23pm Little Danny: I am studying that studio photo intently, love that the book is open to a diagram of the vascular system
	8:24pm Doug Schulkind: @Flash It's the number in which Perry accuses Chris Blackwell of murdering Bob Marley. he also swears to having seen Blackwell drinking the blood of a chicken from a run glass. He's a vampire. He's a vampire. He's a vampire.
	8:25pm Flash Strap: @LD: I was digging that detail too, partly because there is always a book open to a vascular system in my own cluttered studio
	🥁 8:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Heavy shit.
	8:25pm Flash Strap: @Doug: i know that's why I have to hear it! i crave truth!
	8:26pm Doug Schulkind: Rumor had it that Blackwell sent his "henchmen" out to buy up every last copy. Then he threatened to get litigious, and the record was pulled.
	8:27pm Flash Strap: trying to remember his nickname around Kingston in the 60s, it was a derogatory reversal, i think Whitepoorly?
	8:28pm coelacanth∅: that picture shows the ark near the point of ignition
	8:29pm Flash Strap: @C: dangerously awesome in there
	8:31pm coelacanth∅: i see now what the problem was, why the ark had to be torched... he's got that horse shoe open-down!
	8:32pm Flash Strap: speaking of danger, reverb levels reaching apocalyptic
	8:33pm Ignore Function: Great job steering the Ark, FS.
	8:34pm Flash Strap: Thanks and hello to you IF!
	8:34pm Andres: Hi, Evan! Loving tonight’s selections!! I’m settled in and soaking it up.
	8:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Andres!
	8:35pm coelacanth∅: damn. about my favorite base track. - yet another variation on it i haven't heard
	8:35pm Flash Strap: one of his best & most beloved riddims, he used it so often
	8:35pm coelacanth∅: (and i have at least 7)
	8:36pm Flash Strap: won't be the last of the evening!
	8:36pm Clifffiscal: Beautiful sounds today Evan
	8:36pm coelacanth∅: "lion a de winner" ...turned my world around!
	8:37pm Flash Strap: tho i had to resist the urge to do a big riddim collection of this one, or the chase the devil riddim, etc.... too much i had to fit in
	8:37pm Flash Strap: Hi Cliff! indeed
	8:38pm Andres: Bass pouring out of speakers like I haven’t heard in too long! Great!
	8:39pm coelacanth∅: you could fill 3 hours with words of my mouth, chase the devil, police & thieves and 3 others!
	8:40pm solo mon: Really loving it, flash. The photo and the sounds:-)
	8:40pm Flash Strap: I know & I thought about it!
	8:41pm Flash Strap: @Solo: pleased to know it friend
	8:41pm solo mon: Andres! and I didn’t say hello earlier… hello!
	8:45pm Flash Strap: love how he uses a drum machine, so basic and yet such a singular vibe
	8:48pm Little Danny: I love the producers who use their recording sessions as a way to convey the sounds/spaces in their head.
	🥁 8:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Alchemy is truly the right word - the confluence of the Technical & the Creative.
	8:49pm Flash Strap: very unusual recording with 2 musicians brought to Jamaica from Zaire by a French label and evidently stranded there until Perry helped them out
	8:49pm Andres: Hey, solo mon! Apologies for my tardiness of late. Always appreciate every moment I’m tuned in to your shows!
	8:51pm Flash Strap: nice sax from Deadly Headly
	🥁 8:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Talent hits a target no one else can hit - Genus hits a target no one else can see.' - Schopenhauer As I always say - special appreciation for those Artists who create their own Palette.
	8:52pm Little Danny: Love that, Rev
	8:52pm Flash Strap: @rev: perfect
	8:53pm TDK60: Roast Fish and Cornbread a fave. That hypnotic organ. And bell? It makes me hungry too, heh.
	8:54pm Flash Strap: face greasy with fish fry just from listening
	8:54pm Flash Strap: i guess it's roast fish but it always makes me think of the other for some reason
	8:56pm Little Danny: Damn this is good
	🥁 8:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bread & Feesh - Biblical even.
	8:56pm Flash Strap: good point Rev. from "bad food" to good food
	8:58pm Flash Strap: god what a vocal, powerful
	9:11pm coelacanth∅: {smileyface emoticon}
	🥁 9:12pm chresti: Made it! Move outta my way indeed!
	9:12pm Flash Strap: Welcome aboard Chresti! great to see you in person
	9:13pm Flash Strap: Words of My Mouth is such a beautiful side it's almost unbearable, it aches
	9:15pm Constantly Choking: Hey everyone! tuning in late to the show but it's sounding great Flash Strap
	9:15pm Flash Strap: Hi there CC!
	9:17pm TDK60: \\ // chresti, welcome up to the deck.
	🥁 9:19pm chresti: TDK60 \\ //, thanks!
	9:21pm Little Danny: I'm enough of a Jamaican music neophyte not to know but do riddims refer to rhythm tracks that got recycled for different recordings, or is it something loftier than that?
	9:23pm Flash Strap: pretty much on the money LD
	9:23pm Andres: I stepped out for an errand. Car radio had local community station with program doing up their Lee Perry tribute! Universal love!
	9:25pm spodiodi: aloha, Flash and Explorers!
	9:25pm coelacanth∅: i'm blanking out on the other, i think more well-known song using this riddim. . .
	9:26pm coelacanth∅: olá spodiodi
	9:26pm Flash Strap: Hi Spodiodi!
	9:27pm Scott67: G'day spodi & coel.👍😎
	9:28pm Scott67: G'day Andres.👍😎
	9:29pm Flash Strap: @Coelacanth: finally got a free second to triple check that situation with Militant Rock and you were totally right man, my error was the result of two separate mislabeled versions, one "confirming" the other. driven unreasonably crazy by this
	9:29pm spodiodi: yø, coelØ g'day, Scott67
	9:29pm Scott67: G'day Danny.✌😎
	9:29pm solo mon: Spodi! Hellodi
	9:30pm Flash Strap: you tried to warn me but did i listen
	9:30pm Scott67: G'day solo & RevoR.👍😎
	9:31pm solo mon: Scott g’day!
	9:31pm Scott67: G'day chresti & TDK.👍😎
	9:31pm Andres: Hey, Scott! 🌞🔥🍻🏝🇯🇲
	9:31pm Flash Strap: early upsetters LPs could be a little plain but every once in a while a wild emission like this emerges
	9:32pm Constantly Choking: definitely feeling this
	9:32pm spodiodi: yo solo olo olo olo mon -- btw, i'm going to start using "olo" instead of "lol" in an ongoing shout-out to you and all the laughs you generously serve 🙏 (i hope it catches on B^) )
	9:33pm solo mon: OLO !!!
	9:33pm Flash Strap: organ on Touch of Fire is magic
	9:33pm spodiodi: TDK, chresti 🙏 vulcan represent \\//
	9:34pm coelacanth∅: hey g'day Scott!
	9:34pm solo mon: This song is like a cool creepy caper. Love it.
	9:34pm Scott67: Got a phone call from Mum,☎ heavy stuff during Lockdown, so wasn't eyes on chat. Think I've caught up with everyone. Fuck I need a beer now! Cheers dears! 🍻😎💜
	9:34pm Flash Strap: best to your mum Scott
	9:34pm ARB: Hi Flash and all!
	9:35pm Scott67: G'day CC.👍😎🎨
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: Evan that kind of can haunt me until i find out! now i'm looking over song titles to spark a memory about that freedom fighter track!
	9:35pm Little Danny: Scottttt hello!
	9:35pm TDK60: Hi Scott67, hi Spodi \\ /. Does Sulu like reggae?
	9:35pm spodiodi: President ARB! looking Snazzy as ever
	9:35pm Scott67: Thanks Evan.✌😎🌷
	9:35pm Marco Esquandolas: Hi Flash Strap, totally loving these instrumental scratch jams
	9:36pm Constantly Choking: Hope the heaviness aint too heavy Scott ✌
	9:36pm spodiodi: Sulu is more into drum and bass, i think
	9:37pm Scott67: G'day ARB, ARB-O-SCUM is ready to fire!🔥
	9:37pm Flash Strap: Hi ARB!
	9:37pm Flash Strap: Hi Marco! Glad to hear it
	9:40pm Flash Strap: up next, a Junior Murvin track that I think really finds new things to do with his signature delivery and never fails to fascinate me
	9:40pm ARB: Thanks Spodi! G'day Sc(um)ott!
	9:40pm solo mon: Hey Constantly Choking, it’s me… your long lost friend, Constantly Toking!
	9:40pm TDK60: lift me off the carpet...
	9:41pm Constantly Choking: CT! it's been so long since I've seen your pot smogged mug!
	9:42pm doctorjazz: Thanks Flash, great company!
	9:42pm Scum67🐙: ARB, I like it!👍😎
	9:42pm solo mon: Sweet jam, Flash.
	9:43pm Flash Strap: this song has a third act twist that i just adore
	9:43pm Flash Strap: musically, i mean. not really narratively
	9:44pm coelacanth∅: nice, gypsy woman
	9:45pm Scum67🐙: Cheers CC, gets heavier the further it's carried. Friends here help lighten the load. ✌😎
	9:48pm Ken From Hyde Park: Just got here for the scratchfest.
	9:48pm solo mon: Smogged mug olo
	9:49pm Flash Strap: Hi Ken! just about to close down the shop but glad to have you brother
	9:50pm Akiva: Late hello. RIP to the itchy perrywinkle.
	9:50pm Little Danny: Don't go anywhere.
	9:50pm Little Danny: Because ARB has flown in from the Sheena stream with two hours of the radio magic lantern that is her ARBITRARIUM. Tonight only you also get ARB's accompanying video stream, the FLARB-O-SCOPE. You better be there: wfmu.org...
	9:51pm StringOFperils: Almost the blunt end. What a catalogue there is attached to LSP. Never be another.
	9:51pm Flash Strap: Hi Akiva!
	9:52pm Flash Strap: @SoP: you ain't kiddin
	9:54pm spodiodi: thanks for the tribute, Flash! glad i caught some of it
	9:54pm Constantly Choking: Great show Flash Strap!
	9:55pm Doug Schulkind: Up next, live from Mexico City, its ARB with The Arbitrarium, filling in for Little Danny: wfmu.org...
	9:55pm Andres: Thanks, Evan! Appreciate and love the tribute!
	9:55pm TDK60: Thanks Flash!
	9:56pm solo mon: Thank you Flash!
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: Brilliant program Evan Thanks!
	9:56pm Doug Schulkind: Scorching offerings, Flash Strap. The time simply flew by!
	9:58pm ARB: Beautiful show Flash, thank you! and thanks Drummer friends for all the fanfare!
	9:58pm StringOFperils: Thank you, Evan. Great survey!
	🥁 9:58pm Aitch: Will be going back over this one thanks.
	9:58pm Scott67: Thanks Evan, strapping stuff man! ✌😎👣🎶📻🌏
	🥁 9:59pm chresti: tHanks Flash!
	9:59pm Flash Strap: Thanks for listening dear ones
	9:59pm Filip: thanks for the show!!! Lee Skratch Perry was the BOMB!
	9:59pm Shaw: Thanks Flash! Amazing tribute
	🥁 10:00pm WR: Thank you!
	🥁 10:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Wow. Thank You.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from September 2, 2021

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September 2, 2021: Alchemist in the Black Ark

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
The Upsetters	Kentucky Skank "Kentucky Skank" by "The Upsetters"	Double Seven	Trojan	1973		0:01:23 (Pop-up)
	Lee Perry and Son in The Black Ark "Lee Perry and Son in The Black Ark"					0:04:51 (Pop-up)
The Congos	Ark of the Covenant "Ark of the Covenant" by "The Congos"	Heart of the Congos	Black Art	1978		0:05:37 (Pop-up)
Charlie Ace, The Upsetters	Cow Thief Skank	Cow Thief Skank / 7 3/4 Skank 7"	Upsetter	1973		0:11:51 (Pop-up)
Sam Carty	Milte Hi Akhen (Bird in Hand)	Play On Mr. Music: Lee Perry Black Ark Days	Rock A Shacka	2020	recorded c. 1976	0:15:16 (Pop-up)
Naushad	Milte Hi Akhen "Milte Hi Akhen" by "Naushad"	Babul	His Master's Voice	1976	soundtrack to 1950 Bollywood film, voc. by Talat Mahmood & Shamshad Begum, lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni	0:19:03 (Pop-up)
	Lee Perry and Son in The Black Ark "Lee Perry and Son in The Black Ark"					0:22:01 (Pop-up)
Upsetters	Black Panta "Black Panta" by "Upsetters"	14 Dub Blackboard Jungle	Auralux Recordings	2004	orig. 1973	0:24:15 (Pop-up)
Zap Pow	River "River" by "Zap Pow"	River / River Stone 7"	Zap Pow	1977		0:28:44 (Pop-up)
The Creators	Kimble "Kimble" by "The Creators"	Jackpot / Kimble 7"	Amalgamated Records	1968		0:32:09 (Pop-up)
Lee King Perry	I Am The Upsetter "I Am The Upsetter" by "Lee King Perry"	I Am The Upsetter / Thank You Baby 7"	Amalgamated Records	1968		0:35:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	King Kong Escapes "King Kong Escapes"					0:38:22 (Pop-up)
Lee Perry & The Upsetters	Dub Revolution (Part 1)	Arkology	Island Jamaica	1997	rec. around 1975, previously unreleased alt. mix	0:51:25 (Pop-up)
Lee Perry & The Upsetters	Kojak "Kojak" by "Lee Perry & The Upsetters"	Revolution Dub	Cactus	1975		0:54:54 (Pop-up)
Max Romeo & The Upsetters	War Ina Babylon	War Ina Babylon	Federal Records	1976		0:58:34 (Pop-up)
Junior Byles, Upsetters	Dreader Locks	Dreader Locks / Militant Rock 7"	Orchid	1974		1:03:17 (Pop-up)
Max Romeo	Fire Fe The Vatican "Fire Fe The Vatican" by "Max Romeo"	Fire Fe The Vatican / Leggo 7"	Black Art	1976		1:07:04 (Pop-up)
Junior Murvin	Tedious "Tedious" by "Junior Murvin"	Police & Thieves	Island	1977		1:10:48 (Pop-up)
The Congos	Neckodeemus "Neckodeemus" by "The Congos"	Neckodeemus / Solid Foundation 12"	Upsetter	1977		1:15:14 (Pop-up)
Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus	Hear River Jordan Roll	Love Thy Neighbour	Jah Life	1979		1:23:45 (Pop-up)
The Grace Thrillers	I Would Know Him	I've Got A Love	Showers of Blessings	1975		1:27:57 (Pop-up)
Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus	Jesus Christus is the King (Dreadlock)	Do You Know 12"	Jah Life	2013	rec. 1978 at Black Ark during Love Thy Neighbour sessions	1:30:12 (Pop-up)
Brad Osborne & The Towerchanters	Little Flute Chant	Scratch and Company – Chapter 1 The Upsetters	Clocktower Records	1981		1:34:13 (Pop-up)
Jah Lion	Wisdom "Wisdom" by "Jah Lion"	Columbia Colly	Upsetter / Island	1976		1:38:02 (Pop-up)
Bob Marley	Natural Mystic "Natural Mystic" by "Bob Marley"	Natural Mystic 12"	Disco Records	1983	rec. with Lee Perry 1977 for Exodus but not used	1:41:29 (Pop-up)
Seke Molenga & Kalo Kawongolo	Bad Food	Seke Molenga & Kalo Kawangolo	Sonafric	1979	aka "From The Heart of the Congo"; rec. 1977	1:47:17 (Pop-up)
Lee Perry	Roast Fish & Corn Bread	Roast Fish, Collie Weed, & Corn Bread	Lion of Judah	1978		1:51:23 (Pop-up)
Bunny Clarke	Move Out Of My Way "Move Out Of My Way" by "Bunny Clarke"	Shocks of Mighty: Lee Perry & Friends 1969-1974	Attack	1988		1:55:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Upsetting Rhythm #2 "Upsetting Rhythm #2"					1:57:51 (Pop-up)
The Gatherers	Words of My Mouth "Words of My Mouth" by "The Gatherers"	Words Of My Mouth 7"	Upsetter	1973		2:11:37 (Pop-up)
The Gladiators	Time "Time" by "The Gladiators"	D.I.P. Presents The Upsetter	DIP	1975		2:13:59 (Pop-up)
Dr. Alimantado	Best Dressed Chicken in Town	Best Dressed Chicken In Town	Greensleeves Records	1978		2:16:14 (Pop-up)
The Mystic, The Upsetters	Forward with Jah Orthodox	Forward with Jah Orthodox / Orthodox Dub 7"	Black Art	1978 (?)		2:18:51 (Pop-up)
Bunny & Ricky, The Upsetters	Freedom Fighter	Freedom Fighter / Iron Wolf 7"	Black Art	1978 (?)		2:23:05 (Pop-up)
Upsetters	Catch This "Catch This" by "Upsetters"	Eastwood Rides Again	Trojan	1970		2:25:26 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters	Straight to the Head	The Good, The Bad And The Upsetters	Trojan	1970		2:28:47 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters	Touch of Fire "Touch of Fire" by "The Upsetters"	Return of Django	Upsetter	1969		2:31:56 (Pop-up)
Leo Graham, Upsetting Upsetters	Flashing Echo	News Flash / Flashing Echo 7"	Underground	1973		2:34:37 (Pop-up)
The Silvertones, The Upsetters	Rejoicing Skank	Rejoice Jah Jah Children / Rejoicing Skank 7"	Black Art	1978 (?)		2:37:41 (Pop-up)
Junior Murvin	Closer Together "Closer Together" by "Junior Murvin"	Bad Weed / Closer Together 12"	Upsetters	1977		2:41:01 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters	Croaking Lizard "Croaking Lizard" by "The Upsetters"	Super Ape	Island	1976		2:47:09 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters	Sunshine Showdown "Sunshine Showdown" by "The Upsetters"	Sunshine Showdown 7"	Upsetter	1973		2:50:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Upsetting Rhythm #2 "Upsetting Rhythm #2"					2:53:32 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:00pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	7:00pm Scott67: G'day Evan & Explorers! 👍😎🔭🌏
	7:00pm StringOFperils: Pipecock no die!
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Scott! Hi String!
	🥁 7:01pm WR: Riddum, come forward!
	7:02pm Shaw: Greetings Flash and explorers
	7:02pm Flash Strap: hi WR!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Shaw!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: let the music flooooooow
	7:03pm Chili MacPagoda: The fryer in the background lifts Kentucky Skank over the top. Pure genius - RIP Lee Scratch. Thank you for putting this show together!
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi Chili! an amazing production
	7:04pm StringOFperils: Extra Krispy
	7:05pm listener James from Westwood: Evening, Flash and all!
	🥁 7:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Awlright. This is great.
	7:06pm Kelly: Weeeeird I was just playing this album last night!
	🥁 7:07pm WR: headphones on. Volume UP,
	7:07pm Flash Strap: Hi James! Hi Rev! Hi Kelly – nothing weird about spinning Hear of the Congos on any given night imo
	7:08pm Doug Schulkind: Heavy Evan is just Scratching the surface.
	7:08pm Flash Strap: "even the ants were saved in Noah's sugar pan" is such exquisite lyricism
	7:08pm Flash Strap: Disco Devil Doug in the mix!
	7:10pm Frog Mover: We're all safe in the Explorer's Ark this eve. So glad to see him twice in past few years
	7:11pm Flash Strap: so hard to pick just one track from this record for tonight
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hi Frog Mo!
	7:11pm Frog Mover: Just had this on earlier today so essential
	7:12pm Doug Schulkind: You let the track pick you, Ev. You let the track pick you.
	7:12pm Flash Strap: is this his first cow sound effect? honestly don't know but lord it wouldn't be his last
	7:14pm Flash Strap: @Doug so true
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Full vocal version to the Bird in Hand dub on Return of the Super Ape, hadn't ever heard this one until this week
	7:26pm Flash Strap: Black Panta one of the biggest dubs, by which i mean it manifests a giant sound, huge footprints across the soundstage
	7:27pm Franco Twinkie: Flash!
	7:28pm Flash Strap: Franco!
	7:29pm Flash Strap: "river" is one of the most beautiful and purely sensual things Perry ever cut, blows me away every time
	7:30pm Scott67: G'day Franco.👍😎👣
	7:32pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Scott! Gotta deliver a pie, so Ill be off the grid for awhile.
	7:34pm bigplanetnoise: Hey Flash - sounding great!!
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Hi BPN! thanks
	🥁 7:39pm Aitch: Late to class. Hi Explorers
	7:43pm quinn: oh its so nice to be here live
	7:47pm TDK60: Flash Strap. I'm late but I found the Room.
	7:52pm Flash Strap: Hi Aitch! Quinn! TDK! great to have you in here, friends
	7:56pm melinda: hi chums
	7:57pm Flash Strap: the dubbing on Revolution Dub is so unusually dry for Perry, really harsh shifts and drops
	7:57pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	7:58pm Flash Strap: Kojak benefits from a great riddim and vocal snippets from Bunny Clarke as well
	🥁 7:58pm Aitch: Fantastic
	7:58pm TDK60: One might say, Perry used silence as an instrument, a color.
	8:00pm coelacanth∅: greetings Evan, Explorers
	🥁 8:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Can we say - no Dub, no HipHop as we know it. No Perry, no Dub as we know it ?
	8:00pm Flash Strap: @TDK: excellent point, indeed, he's not given enough credit for this, there's so much focus on his uses of density, clutter, reverb. but he uses silence just as well
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Hi coelacanth!
	8:01pm TDK60: This M. Romeo, what a masterpiece!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: @Rev: we certainly would have had dub, but as we know it? certainly not. but also his contribution transcends the genres he directly expanded or predicted and leaks into all areas of sound experimentation
	8:03pm Flash Strap: @TDK: solid gold
	🥁 8:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...cause it seems to me he's like Monk or SydBarrett - these neurodivergents who introduce completely new vocabulary into the general vernacular.
	8:05pm Flash Strap: @Rev: definitely on that Sun Ra level with Hieronymous Bosch
	8:06pm Flash Strap: deeply mystic, uniquely vernacular & contemporaneous, and intentionally, personally surreal
	8:07pm coelacanth∅: (this is dreader locks, not militant rock...in case it matters!)
	8:08pm adampsyche: killin it
	8:09pm Flash Strap: @C: it's a weird b-side but it is Militant Rock, Dreader Locks production is more full, esp. on the vocal end. A lot of his B-sides weren't strictly dubs but weird reworkings of the vocal
	8:10pm Flash Strap: unless i whoopsied somewhere but pretty sure
	8:10pm Flash Strap: Hi Adam & thanks
	8:11pm Little Danny: Hi Evan, hi exploreurs!
	🥁 8:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...also that invaluable & powerful handful of Artist-Producer amalgams - like Brian Wilson - challenging themselves with how many dimensions of sound & music one head can contain...
	8:12pm Flash Strap: Hi LD! gonna miss ya tonight
	8:12pm coelacanth∅: i don't know; but i have it on both a Junior Byles lp and a Lee Perry comp on cd, called "dreader locks". doesn't necessarily mean you whoopsied!
	🥁 8:12pm WR: Junior Murvin!
	8:13pm Flash Strap: @C: Dreader Locks is almost identical to Militant Rock but it is different, i had to do a close listen to both as I got confused when planning to use it
	8:14pm Flash Strap: @WR: #1 Murvin track for me
	8:15pm TDK60: such a driving beat, will run right over ya...
	8:15pm coelacanth∅: wow! okay i have to listen again. i didn't even notice. i was "singing" along to it!
	8:16pm Flash Strap: i played this track not long ago but i couldn't not play it again here... probably my favorite Congos cut ever
	8:17pm doctorjazz: Hey Flash and Flashterettes!
	8:17pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	8:17pm chresti phone: Hi Flash and explorers! I finally got a signal while driving Franco’s truck sound system! Starting at Kojak
	8:18pm Doug Schulkind: My fave Scratch track for its sheer audacity is "Judgment in a Babylon." Pretty nifty cover art, too: www.discogs.com...
	8:18pm Flash Strap: @C: i'm gonna have to triple check when this is over
	8:19pm Little Danny: Hi Flash! Thanks. The show is in the best hands. I'll be hanging out either way.
	8:19pm chresti phone: Stuck in traffic during war in Babylon, I was singing along loudly!
	8:19pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! I gotta admit I was missing you, glad you're with us! drive safe
	8:21pm Flash Strap: @Doug: damn i have never heard that! gotta check it out pronto
	🥁 8:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Really appreciate this exposition.
	8:22pm Flash Strap: this might be my favorite song, just in heaven when it's on
	8:23pm solo mon: Yeahhhh get it Evan!
	8:23pm Little Danny: I am studying that studio photo intently, love that the book is open to a diagram of the vascular system
	8:24pm Doug Schulkind: @Flash It's the number in which Perry accuses Chris Blackwell of murdering Bob Marley. he also swears to having seen Blackwell drinking the blood of a chicken from a run glass. He's a vampire. He's a vampire. He's a vampire.
	8:25pm Flash Strap: @LD: I was digging that detail too, partly because there is always a book open to a vascular system in my own cluttered studio
	🥁 8:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Heavy shit.
	8:25pm Flash Strap: @Doug: i know that's why I have to hear it! i crave truth!
	8:26pm Doug Schulkind: Rumor had it that Blackwell sent his "henchmen" out to buy up every last copy. Then he threatened to get litigious, and the record was pulled.
	8:27pm Flash Strap: trying to remember his nickname around Kingston in the 60s, it was a derogatory reversal, i think Whitepoorly?
	8:28pm coelacanth∅: that picture shows the ark near the point of ignition
	8:29pm Flash Strap: @C: dangerously awesome in there
	8:31pm coelacanth∅: i see now what the problem was, why the ark had to be torched... he's got that horse shoe open-down!
	8:32pm Flash Strap: speaking of danger, reverb levels reaching apocalyptic
	8:33pm Ignore Function: Great job steering the Ark, FS.
	8:34pm Flash Strap: Thanks and hello to you IF!
	8:34pm Andres: Hi, Evan! Loving tonight’s selections!! I’m settled in and soaking it up.
	8:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Andres!
	8:35pm coelacanth∅: damn. about my favorite base track. - yet another variation on it i haven't heard
	8:35pm Flash Strap: one of his best & most beloved riddims, he used it so often
	8:35pm coelacanth∅: (and i have at least 7)
	8:36pm Flash Strap: won't be the last of the evening!
	8:36pm Clifffiscal: Beautiful sounds today Evan
	8:36pm coelacanth∅: "lion a de winner" ...turned my world around!
	8:37pm Flash Strap: tho i had to resist the urge to do a big riddim collection of this one, or the chase the devil riddim, etc.... too much i had to fit in
	8:37pm Flash Strap: Hi Cliff! indeed
	8:38pm Andres: Bass pouring out of speakers like I haven’t heard in too long! Great!
	8:39pm coelacanth∅: you could fill 3 hours with words of my mouth, chase the devil, police & thieves and 3 others!
	8:40pm solo mon: Really loving it, flash. The photo and the sounds:-)
	8:40pm Flash Strap: I know & I thought about it!
	8:41pm Flash Strap: @Solo: pleased to know it friend
	8:41pm solo mon: Andres! and I didn’t say hello earlier… hello!
	8:45pm Flash Strap: love how he uses a drum machine, so basic and yet such a singular vibe
	8:48pm Little Danny: I love the producers who use their recording sessions as a way to convey the sounds/spaces in their head.
	🥁 8:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Alchemy is truly the right word - the confluence of the Technical & the Creative.
	8:49pm Flash Strap: very unusual recording with 2 musicians brought to Jamaica from Zaire by a French label and evidently stranded there until Perry helped them out
	8:49pm Andres: Hey, solo mon! Apologies for my tardiness of late. Always appreciate every moment I’m tuned in to your shows!
	8:51pm Flash Strap: nice sax from Deadly Headly
	🥁 8:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Talent hits a target no one else can hit - Genus hits a target no one else can see.' - Schopenhauer As I always say - special appreciation for those Artists who create their own Palette.
	8:52pm Little Danny: Love that, Rev
	8:52pm Flash Strap: @rev: perfect
	8:53pm TDK60: Roast Fish and Cornbread a fave. That hypnotic organ. And bell? It makes me hungry too, heh.
	8:54pm Flash Strap: face greasy with fish fry just from listening
	8:54pm Flash Strap: i guess it's roast fish but it always makes me think of the other for some reason
	8:56pm Little Danny: Damn this is good
	🥁 8:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bread & Feesh - Biblical even.
	8:56pm Flash Strap: good point Rev. from "bad food" to good food
	8:58pm Flash Strap: god what a vocal, powerful
	9:11pm coelacanth∅: {smileyface emoticon}
	🥁 9:12pm chresti: Made it! Move outta my way indeed!
	9:12pm Flash Strap: Welcome aboard Chresti! great to see you in person
	9:13pm Flash Strap: Words of My Mouth is such a beautiful side it's almost unbearable, it aches
	9:15pm Constantly Choking: Hey everyone! tuning in late to the show but it's sounding great Flash Strap
	9:15pm Flash Strap: Hi there CC!
	9:17pm TDK60: \\ // chresti, welcome up to the deck.
	🥁 9:19pm chresti: TDK60 \\ //, thanks!
	9:21pm Little Danny: I'm enough of a Jamaican music neophyte not to know but do riddims refer to rhythm tracks that got recycled for different recordings, or is it something loftier than that?
	9:23pm Flash Strap: pretty much on the money LD
	9:23pm Andres: I stepped out for an errand. Car radio had local community station with program doing up their Lee Perry tribute! Universal love!
	9:25pm spodiodi: aloha, Flash and Explorers!
	9:25pm coelacanth∅: i'm blanking out on the other, i think more well-known song using this riddim. . .
	9:26pm coelacanth∅: olá spodiodi
	9:26pm Flash Strap: Hi Spodiodi!
	9:27pm Scott67: G'day spodi & coel.👍😎
	9:28pm Scott67: G'day Andres.👍😎
	9:29pm Flash Strap: @Coelacanth: finally got a free second to triple check that situation with Militant Rock and you were totally right man, my error was the result of two separate mislabeled versions, one "confirming" the other. driven unreasonably crazy by this
	9:29pm spodiodi: yø, coelØ g'day, Scott67
	9:29pm Scott67: G'day Danny.✌😎
	9:29pm solo mon: Spodi! Hellodi
	9:30pm Flash Strap: you tried to warn me but did i listen
	9:30pm Scott67: G'day solo & RevoR.👍😎
	9:31pm solo mon: Scott g’day!
	9:31pm Scott67: G'day chresti & TDK.👍😎
	9:31pm Andres: Hey, Scott! 🌞🔥🍻🏝🇯🇲
	9:31pm Flash Strap: early upsetters LPs could be a little plain but every once in a while a wild emission like this emerges
	9:32pm Constantly Choking: definitely feeling this
	9:32pm spodiodi: yo solo olo olo olo mon -- btw, i'm going to start using "olo" instead of "lol" in an ongoing shout-out to you and all the laughs you generously serve 🙏 (i hope it catches on B^) )
	9:33pm solo mon: OLO !!!
	9:33pm Flash Strap: organ on Touch of Fire is magic
	9:33pm spodiodi: TDK, chresti 🙏 vulcan represent \\//
	9:34pm coelacanth∅: hey g'day Scott!
	9:34pm solo mon: This song is like a cool creepy caper. Love it.
	9:34pm Scott67: Got a phone call from Mum,☎ heavy stuff during Lockdown, so wasn't eyes on chat. Think I've caught up with everyone. Fuck I need a beer now! Cheers dears! 🍻😎💜
	9:34pm Flash Strap: best to your mum Scott
	9:34pm ARB: Hi Flash and all!
	9:35pm Scott67: G'day CC.👍😎🎨
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: Evan that kind of can haunt me until i find out! now i'm looking over song titles to spark a memory about that freedom fighter track!
	9:35pm Little Danny: Scottttt hello!
	9:35pm TDK60: Hi Scott67, hi Spodi \\ /. Does Sulu like reggae?
	9:35pm spodiodi: President ARB! looking Snazzy as ever
	9:35pm Scott67: Thanks Evan.✌😎🌷
	9:35pm Marco Esquandolas: Hi Flash Strap, totally loving these instrumental scratch jams
	9:36pm Constantly Choking: Hope the heaviness aint too heavy Scott ✌
	9:36pm spodiodi: Sulu is more into drum and bass, i think
	9:37pm Scott67: G'day ARB, ARB-O-SCUM is ready to fire!🔥
	9:37pm Flash Strap: Hi ARB!
	9:37pm Flash Strap: Hi Marco! Glad to hear it
	9:40pm Flash Strap: up next, a Junior Murvin track that I think really finds new things to do with his signature delivery and never fails to fascinate me
	9:40pm ARB: Thanks Spodi! G'day Sc(um)ott!
	9:40pm solo mon: Hey Constantly Choking, it’s me… your long lost friend, Constantly Toking!
	9:40pm TDK60: lift me off the carpet...
	9:41pm Constantly Choking: CT! it's been so long since I've seen your pot smogged mug!
	9:42pm doctorjazz: Thanks Flash, great company!
	9:42pm Scum67🐙: ARB, I like it!👍😎
	9:42pm solo mon: Sweet jam, Flash.
	9:43pm Flash Strap: this song has a third act twist that i just adore
	9:43pm Flash Strap: musically, i mean. not really narratively
	9:44pm coelacanth∅: nice, gypsy woman
	9:45pm Scum67🐙: Cheers CC, gets heavier the further it's carried. Friends here help lighten the load. ✌😎
	9:48pm Ken From Hyde Park: Just got here for the scratchfest.
	9:48pm solo mon: Smogged mug olo
	9:49pm Flash Strap: Hi Ken! just about to close down the shop but glad to have you brother
	9:50pm Akiva: Late hello. RIP to the itchy perrywinkle.
	9:50pm Little Danny: Don't go anywhere.
	9:50pm Little Danny: Because ARB has flown in from the Sheena stream with two hours of the radio magic lantern that is her ARBITRARIUM. Tonight only you also get ARB's accompanying video stream, the FLARB-O-SCOPE. You better be there: wfmu.org...
	9:51pm StringOFperils: Almost the blunt end. What a catalogue there is attached to LSP. Never be another.
	9:51pm Flash Strap: Hi Akiva!
	9:52pm Flash Strap: @SoP: you ain't kiddin
	9:54pm spodiodi: thanks for the tribute, Flash! glad i caught some of it
	9:54pm Constantly Choking: Great show Flash Strap!
	9:55pm Doug Schulkind: Up next, live from Mexico City, its ARB with The Arbitrarium, filling in for Little Danny: wfmu.org...
	9:55pm Andres: Thanks, Evan! Appreciate and love the tribute!
	9:55pm TDK60: Thanks Flash!
	9:56pm solo mon: Thank you Flash!
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: Brilliant program Evan Thanks!
	9:56pm Doug Schulkind: Scorching offerings, Flash Strap. The time simply flew by!
	9:58pm ARB: Beautiful show Flash, thank you! and thanks Drummer friends for all the fanfare!
	9:58pm StringOFperils: Thank you, Evan. Great survey!
	🥁 9:58pm Aitch: Will be going back over this one thanks.
	9:58pm Scott67: Thanks Evan, strapping stuff man! ✌😎👣🎶📻🌏
	🥁 9:59pm chresti: tHanks Flash!
	9:59pm Flash Strap: Thanks for listening dear ones
	9:59pm Filip: thanks for the show!!! Lee Skratch Perry was the BOMB!
	9:59pm Shaw: Thanks Flash! Amazing tribute
	🥁 10:00pm WR: Thank you!
	🥁 10:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Wow. Thank You.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from September 2, 2021

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