WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from June 9, 2022

Listener comments!
	6:41pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	6:59pm Yvang: Hello! Ready to explore!
	🥁 6:59pm Aitch: More Tubby, very good. The undersides.
	6:59pm Flash Strap: Hello Yvang! here we go
	7:00pm Flash Strap: Hi Aitch! the oversides
	7:01pm Scott67: G'day Evan & Explorers! ☕😎🤙👣🎶📻🌏🌻
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Scott!
	🥁 7:01pm chresti: Hi Flash and explorers!
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti!
	7:02pm neveract: Hi Flash .. Jumping in here from your plug on Kip's show.
	7:03pm Flash Strap: starting with a couple tracks that correspond to where we left off last week, but after that we'll go in the same order as last week's playlist (except where I couldn't find / there doesn't exist another version)
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Neveract! welcome aboard!
	🥁 7:04pm Will the Sound Guy: Hi Evan and all!!!
	7:04pm doctorjazz: I'm sure I've heard this somewhere, not this version (The Abyssinias) Hi Flash, Flashers!
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Will! Hi Doc!
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Satta Massagana is one of the most used/reused riddims in existence, seemingly endless variations out there
	🥁 7:06pm WR: Reflections. By acclamation by one and all, giving thanks to the nation.
	7:06pm Flash Strap: last week we heard one of several takes on Satta Massagana by Augustus Pablo
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hi WR!
	7:08pm Flash Strap: originally rec. 1969 by the Abyssinians for Coxsone Dodd, who decided not to release it. 2 years later they managed to buy back the tapes and released it on their own Clinch label & had a big hit with it. the rest is history
	🥁 7:08pm WR: I do have one Weed Beat 45. Don't remember what it is.
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hearing the original Jamaican mix of this Spear track - not the much better known, inferior Chris Blackwell int'l mix
	7:10pm Flash Strap: tho last week's Invasion dub was not of this recording, but Jackie Edwards' version
	🥁 7:10pm WR: What is your source? Orig. LP or ?
	7:11pm Flash Strap: @WR: Weed Beat has very pleasing label design but I don't know the label very well i don't think
	7:12pm Flash Strap: @WR: of which?
	7:14pm Flash Strap: oops
	🥁 7:16pm WR: The Burning Spear. My Weed Beat record isn't very memorable music (I don't even remember what it is!) but it is a 45 from Jamaica that somehow ended up in my hand.
	7:16pm Flash Strap: This riddim originates with Johnnie Clark's "Everyday Wandering" produced by Rupie Edwards, and versioned out in endless reps by Rupie, usually on his Success label, including on an all-one-riddim LP called Ire Feelings
	7:17pm Flash Strap: The original Spear mix is supposedly impossible to find, not even been reissued i don't think. i found someone's vinyl rip
	7:18pm Flash Strap: great Harry Mudie production on this Heptones
	🥁 7:18pm WR: Beautiful Heptones.
	7:19pm Flash Strap: one of my favorites of theirs
	7:21pm Flash Strap: first of several Killer Miller cuts tonight
	🥁 7:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hallo ! Market chores & railtrail constitutional done... Another exposition of sheer magnificence I see...
	7:26pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev!
	7:26pm HyperDose: This is wonderful
	7:27pm Flash Strap: up next, one of my alltime favorite tracks, definitely seen a few spins in the Room before tonight but never grows old
	7:27pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyperdose!
	7:28pm Flash Strap: Should have mentioned, great Niney production on that Trevor track
	🥁 7:28pm Aitch: Trevor seems an unlikely name?
	7:29pm HyperDose: Similar to Lee Scratch Perry production?
	7:29pm Flash Strap: haha i remember when SNL did Ras Trent asking myself, haven't they heard of Ranking Trevor?
	7:30pm Flash Strap: @HD: yeah deep like Lee, truly a visionary work from Zukie, years ahead
	7:32pm Flash Strap: This abyssinians comes from the 1976 LP, but Declaration of Rights was first released all the way back in 1970 for Coxsone
	🥁 7:33pm WR: Great song, well worth every version. Declaration of Rights.
	7:34pm StringOFperils: Hi Flash. I always thought there was an earlier incarnation of that song...
	🥁 7:34pm WR: You've got me full on skanking. Let this be my exercise time, sure am not getting any more work done.
	7:34pm Franco Twinkie: Man Ah Warrior - one of my all time ALL TIME favorites. Comical illogical dream music in the darkest night. Tapper Zukie never sounded this insane on subsequent records.
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi SoP!
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Franco! I totally agree and share your love for it, I'll never tire of hearing it, it really is a singular masterpiece
	7:36pm Franco Twinkie: Righty-o Flash! I have to go find perfect apricots right now.
	🥁 7:37pm chresti: WR it is exercise time!
	7:37pm Flash Strap: best of luck in your quest!
	7:37pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks!
	🥁 7:38pm chresti: I never heard this version of cus cus.
	7:39pm Flash Strap: the crispest, crunchiest version
	🥁 7:42pm chresti: Order?
	🥁 7:51pm chresti: Nothing can escape the judgement
	7:52pm Flash Strap: @Chresti: everything will be in the same order as last week, with the exception of those Abyssinian tracks at the top, and anything I don't have an alternate for. is that what you meant?
	7:53pm Flash Strap: I know we just heard this track maybe 3 weeks ago but how could I not?
	🥁 7:55pm chresti: @Flash, just unawares of any order?
	7:57pm Flash Strap: confused what you mean my dear friend, sorry if i'm being obtuse
	🥁 7:58pm Mantarray: hello there explorers!! late but ready to continue where we left off last week.
	🥁 7:58pm chresti: www.discogs.com...
	🥁 7:59pm chresti: ^I had the title wrong
	7:59pm Flash Strap: Hi Mantarray!
	8:00pm Flash Strap: Ali Baba poised to transform into the unfortunate and wicked barber, who is in for the ultimate trouble
	🥁 8:00pm chresti: No, I'm sorry for not paying attention closely!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: all good, all beautiful
	🥁 8:02pm WR: Have heard many dub / remix of Shave the Barber before but never this version. So basic, so fundamental. Gorgeous!
	8:03pm Flash Strap: it is a very confusing world even when you do pay close attention
	8:03pm StringOFperils: It's MORE confusing, IMO
	8:03pm Flash Strap: @WR: i believe it's an Errol Brown mix, an alternate to the one he did on Pleasure Dub. it's included on reissues of that album as a bonus. a personal fave
	🥁 8:06pm chresti: Ah, thanks for the barber shaving story!
	8:06pm Flash Strap: shave the barber ---- unleash WW3 on the barber: a very harsh escalation
	8:07pm StringOFperils: No one appreciates a bad haircut
	8:08pm Flash Strap: this jah stitch really makes me laugh. i mean if i were doug i'd say i'm in stitches over it
	🥁 8:08pm chresti: Ha StringO
	8:10pm Flash Strap: had to resist the urge to play Watty Burnett's version again, but Lord Tanamo's is so good
	8:11pm Flash Strap: written by Tony Joe White, made famous by Brook Benton, brought to Jamaica by Lord Tanamo's version, and later given incredible treatment by Watty Burnett and Lee Perry. A song's fantastic voyage
	8:14pm Flash Strap: last week we heard a dub on this riddim, Swing & Dub, that was a bonus track on Dub Me. So tonight we'll hear the dub that made the album AND a vocal version (tho not the Morwells, as i prefer the Melodians version)
	8:24pm Flash Strap: Chinna's guitar on these Jacob Miller tracks goes monstrously hard
	8:29pm coelacanth∅: Jacob "Killer" Miller... saaaayn'
	8:29pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Evan, Explorers
	8:30pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	8:30pm Robm: Hello fellow explorers want to avoid those hearings tonight
	8:30pm Flash Strap: immensely fun vocal from Miller here
	8:30pm Flash Strap: Hi Robm!
	8:31pm Robm: Hey flash strap
	🥁 8:33pm WR: Lloyd Jones & Mudies All Stars new to me. Like the harmony singing, the melody, the rig, the end of the empire theme.
	8:35pm Flash Strap: totally agree WR, it's kind of a perfect single
	8:37pm northguineahills: stalag!
	8:38pm Flash Strap: Stalag = a Winston Riley production. his own dub of Stalag on Meditation Dub is an all-time favorite
	8:38pm Flash Strap: Hey NGH!
	8:39pm coelacanth∅: i have rome on a comp that made no mention of mudies all stars. i'd like to hear more from them
	8:39pm Robm: @NGH howdy
	🥁 8:40pm WR: Roar!
	8:41pm Flash Strap: @C: Harry Mudie's stuff is always pretty good, often amazing
	🥁 8:42pm chresti: I love this skank any way you play it!
	🥁 8:44pm chresti: Don't trouble trouble the barber
	8:44pm coelacanth∅: hmmm, Harry Mudie -pronounced "moody"? i remember vaguely from an interview but essentially unfamiliar
	🥁 8:45pm WR: Is this the originator for the dubs with that SAY SO vocal call out, sounds like it. Agustus Pablo did a version, I think. Maybe others.
	8:46pm Flash Strap: @C: that's right. we heard from him last week, his album of dubs+string arrangements with Tubby is a gold classic
	8:46pm coelacanth∅: - but now i wonder how many songs i know from comps that just neglected to mention them with the lead singer
	8:49pm northguineahills: u baldy mon!
	8:50pm coelacanth∅: i should admit now that last week i listened but paid little attention to the playlist, as i was working
	🥁 8:50pm WR: Gah, I listened to so much dub and version and reggae 45s (that a friend was collecting) during a short period in the mid 70s, And they were plenty cloudy listening sessions. So I have fuzzy fuzzy memory but lights me up when I hear something familiar.
	8:52pm doctorjazz: Been fun, gotta run, thanks Evan!
	🥁 8:54pm chresti: That version of Movie Star was slower than I've heard, makes it extra spooky
	8:55pm coelacanth∅: i have a Jacob Miller album that if it's a comp i never knew; but it's called "dread dread", and that song is called dread dread
	8:55pm coelacanth∅: 'night doc
	8:56pm HyperDose: This is such a wild show!
	8:58pm Flash Strap: Adios Doc! have a great night
	8:58pm northguineahills: I haven't heard this version of Keep on Knocking,,,,,
	9:00pm Flash Strap: @NGH: it's Killer! @Hyper: that's the goal! gotta keep it wild
	9:00pm coelacanth∅: never heard this song. not the same song as Marley's or Little Richard's
	9:02pm Flash Strap: @chresti: i thought the same thing! had never heard it till i started putting together this show
	9:02pm coelacanth∅: Miller idolized Marley and entitled several songs with those of Marley songs. Albert Griffiths did it too, and the wailing souls.
	9:09pm Zipperhead7: This looks like another fantastic show -- will have to stream later 'cause I'm watching the Jan. 6 hearings, which are even more damning than anticipated.
	9:10pm northguineahills: I love this Prophets version, now only to have Trinity on the flipside (Jesus Dread is on the controls here).
	9:10pm Flash Strap: Hi Zipperhead!
	9:12pm Flash Strap: yeah i wasn't able to work too many toasts into this one, regrettably
	9:16pm northguineahills: Cornel Campbell did some good work later w/ the Rhythm & Sound guys (originally from Basic Channel, of Berlin minimal techno and ambience fame).
	9:18pm Flash Strap: I've not heard that NGH, sounds interesting
	9:18pm Flash Strap: an all-time great anti-litter track
	9:21pm Flash Strap: "Glen Richard as Jah Glen" or as he's better known, Glen Brown
	🥁 9:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...a watch party of strange Japanese films has my eyes - but my ears are here...
	9:23pm Flash Strap: whatcha watchin Rev?
	🥁 9:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It's a Group called G-Mania : www.facebook.com... - usually Kaiju themed - tonight it's : OROCHI THE EIGHT-HEADED DRAGON ▪︎THE THREE TREASURES ▪︎THE LITTLE PRINCE AND THE EIGHT-HEADED DRAGON - all with many-headed serpents. Samurai legendary times stuff...
	9:29pm Flash Strap: sounds great!
	🥁 9:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Shinto mythological actually...
	🥁 9:39pm WR: Whoa ! Big band Satta Masa Ganna! Interesting.
	9:39pm northguineahills: what WR said!
	9:39pm Flash Strap: One of several Cedric Im Brooks recorded! this is the biggest band version though
	9:40pm Flash Strap: United Africa is a great record btw
	9:41pm abbazabba: Hi Flash Strap! I’ve loved this tonight. Thank you
	9:42pm Flash Strap: Hello Abbazabba! my great pleasure truly. thanks for tuning in
	9:42pm Franco Twinkie: Sounds like I never left.
	🥁 9:42pm WR: Looking at the discogs credits for United Africa! Amazing line up.
	9:44pm Flash Strap: welcome back Franco!
	🥁 9:44pm WR: The sounds are always here for you Franco.
	9:46pm Franco Twinkie: WR, one of these days I'm going to get a device. I swear!
	🥁 9:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Reminds me of the few tracks on 'Garage Rawk' comps I own that have horns. Figure they were just HighSchool players.
	🥁 9:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...yerknow that thing their intonations are not all synched up like Pros exactly...
	🥁 9:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ FlashStrap ~
	🥁 9:55pm Aitch: Great listening Evan, thanks.
	9:55pm Flash Strap: My pleasure dear Rev
	9:55pm Flash Strap: Thank YOU Aitch!
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: Brilliant! Thanks Evan!
	9:56pm northguineahills: perfect irie vibes for the day....
	9:56pm Akiva: Late check in. Thanks, as ever.
	9:57pm Flash Strap: Hey there Akiva!
	9:58pm Flash Strap: okay that's it for me! up next is Discotech Underground!: wfmu.org...
	🥁 10:00pm chresti: Thanks Flash!
	10:09pm Franco Twinkie: Thanky Evan.
	🥁 10:19pm WR: So so wonderful. This week and last week what you played totally in my wheel house as they say but 90% totally sparkly new to my ears. THank you Thank you!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from June 9, 2022

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June 9, 2022: King Tubby Part 2, Reversing the Versions

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
The Abyssinians	Satta Amasa Gana "Satta Amasa Gana" by "The Abyssinians"	Satta Amasa Gana / Thunderstorm 7"	Clinch	1971	0:01:18 (Pop-up)
The Abyssinians	Mabrak "Mabrak" by "The Abyssinians"	Mabrak / Issat 7"	Clinch	1971	0:04:54 (Pop-up)
Burning Spear	The Invasion "The Invasion" by "Burning Spear"	Marcus Garvey	Fox	1975	0:08:47 (Pop-up)
Milton Henry	What Can I Do "What Can I Do" by "Milton Henry"	What Can I Do / Strictly Dub 7"	Success	1974	0:11:34 (Pop-up)
The Heaven Singers	Rasta Dreadlocks	Rasta Dreadlocks / Dreadlocks Dub 7"	Success	1974	0:15:17 (Pop-up)
Heptones	Love Without Feeling "Love Without Feeling" by "Heptones"	Love Without Feeling / Jungle Feeling 7"	Jungle	1973	0:18:26 (Pop-up)
Jacob Miller	False Rasta "False Rasta" by "Jacob Miller"	False Rasta / Hungry Town Skank 7"	Yard Music	1977	0:20:50 (Pop-up)
Ranking Trevor	Whip Them Jah Jah "Whip Them Jah Jah" by "Ranking Trevor"	Pure Ranking 12"	Sufferers Heights	1979	0:23:44 (Pop-up)
Tapper Zukie	Man Ah Warrior "Man Ah Warrior" by "Tapper Zukie"	Man Ah Warrior	Count Shelly	1973	0:28:04 (Pop-up)
The Abyssinians	Declaration of Rights	Satta Massagana	Penetrate	1976	0:31:29 (Pop-up)
Prince Alla	Stone "Stone" by "Prince Alla"	Stone 7"	Freedom Sounds	1976	0:34:29 (Pop-up)
Horace Andy	Cus Cus "Cus Cus" by "Horace Andy"	Cus Cus / Watch Your Step 7"	Blacker Dread	197?	0:37:28 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	King Kong Escapes "King Kong Escapes"				0:39:57 (Pop-up)
Johnnie Clarke	Enter Into His Gates With Praise	Enter Into His Gates With Praise / This A The Hardest Version 7"	Attack	1974	0:50:45 (Pop-up)
B.B. Seaton	I Feel Lost "I Feel Lost" by "B.B. Seaton"	I Feel Lost 7"	Micron Music Limited	1975	0:53:04 (Pop-up)
Maxie Romeo	Natty Dread Take Over	Natty Dread Take Over / A Laughing Version 7"	Justice	1974	0:55:38 (Pop-up)
John Holt	Ali Baba "Ali Baba" by "John Holt"	Ali Baba 7"	Treasure Isle	1969	0:58:51 (Pop-up)
Tommy McCook & the Supersonic	I Shave The Barber	I Shave The Barber / Barbering 7"	High Note	1975	1:01:42 (Pop-up)
Dirty Harry	Poor Barber "Poor Barber" by "Dirty Harry"	The Barber Feel It / Poor Barber 7"	Jackpot	1976	1:04:31 (Pop-up)
Jah Stitch	Bury The Barber "Bury The Barber" by "Jah Stitch"	Bury The Barber / The End of the Barber 7"	Jackpot	1975	1:07:16 (Pop-up)
Lord Tanamo	Rainy Night in Georgia	Rainy Night in Georgia / You'll Want to Come Back 7"	Studio One	1970	1:10:02 (Pop-up)
Morwells Unlimited	Lightning & Thunder	Dub Me	Morwell Esq.	1975	1:13:55 (Pop-up)
The Melodians	Swing & Dine "Swing & Dine" by "The Melodians"	I Could Be A King / Swing & Dine 7"	Gay Feet	1968	1:17:29 (Pop-up)
Errol Dunkley	Movie Star "Movie Star" by "Errol Dunkley"	Movie Star 7"	African Museum	1975	1:20:35 (Pop-up)
Jacob Miller	Land Called Home "Land Called Home" by "Jacob Miller"	Jacob "Killer" Miller	Top Ranking	1977	1:23:47 (Pop-up)
Jacob Miller	Dreada Dread "Dreada Dread" by "Jacob Miller"	Tenement Yard	Jam Sounds	1976	1:28:34 (Pop-up)
Lloyd Jones & Mudies All Stars	Rome	Rome 7"	Moodisc Records	1970	1:31:35 (Pop-up)
Lord Creator	Kingston Town "Kingston Town" by "Lord Creator"	Kingston Town / Holly Holy 7"	Clan Disc	1970	1:34:13 (Pop-up)
Ansel Collins	Stalag 17 "Stalag 17" by "Ansel Collins"	All Nations Bow / Stalag 17 7"	Romax	1974	1:37:27 (Pop-up)
Johnnie Clarke	Don't Trouble Trouble	Don't Trouble Trouble / A Ruffer Version 7"	Jackpot	1976	1:40:20 (Pop-up)
Paul Whiteman	Say So "Say So" by "Paul Whiteman"	Say So 7"	Rockers	197?	1:44:13 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Underway "Underway"				1:47:07 (Pop-up)
Jacob Miller	Keep On Knocking / Knocking Version	Keep On Knocking / Knocking Version 7"	Rockers	1974	1:57:54 (Pop-up)
Yabby You	Conquering Dub "Conquering Dub" by "Yabby You"	King Tubby's Prophesy Of Dub	Prophets	1976	2:03:06 (Pop-up)
The Prophets	Jah Vengeance "Jah Vengeance" by "The Prophets"	Conquering Lion	Micron Music Limited	1975	2:06:24 (Pop-up)
The Prophets	Plague on the Land "Plague on the Land" by "The Prophets"	Walls of Jerusalem	Prophets	1976	2:09:02 (Pop-up)
Cornel Campbell	Have Mercy Oh Jah	Have Mercy Oh Jah / Thunder Rock 7"	Weed Beat	1976	2:12:02 (Pop-up)
Leroy Smart	Get Smart "Get Smart" by "Leroy Smart"	Get Smart 7"	Hot City	1975	2:15:12 (Pop-up)
Sylford Walker	Clensyness is Godlyness	Clensyness is Godlyness / Assack Lawn No 1 Dub 7"	South East Music	197?	2:17:30 (Pop-up)
Glen Richard as Jah Glen	Save Our Nation	Save Our Nation / Survival Dub 7"	South East Music Limited	197?	2:21:09 (Pop-up)
The Skatalites	Seven Seal / African Roots	The Legendary Skatalites	Penetrate	1976	2:24:56 (Pop-up)
One Love	The Slave Trade "The Slave Trade" by "One Love"	The Slave Trade 7"	Lightning Records	1977	2:31:44 (Pop-up)
Earl Zero	Blackbird "Blackbird" by "Earl Zero"	Blackbird 7"	Freedom Sounds	1978	2:35:14 (Pop-up)
Cedric "Im" Brooks	Satta Masa Ganna	United Africa	Water Lily	1978	2:38:58 (Pop-up)
Dennis Alcapone, Dave Barker, I. Pablo, Skin, Flesh & Bones	String Hanger	Calling One Thousand Dread Locks	Chalwa	1978	2:45:50 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Bells Of My Soul "Bells Of My Soul"				2:48:01 (Pop-up)
Winston Riley	Stalag Dub "Stalag Dub" by "Winston Riley"	Meditation Dub	Techniques	1977	2:55:21 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:41pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	6:59pm Yvang: Hello! Ready to explore!
	🥁 6:59pm Aitch: More Tubby, very good. The undersides.
	6:59pm Flash Strap: Hello Yvang! here we go
	7:00pm Flash Strap: Hi Aitch! the oversides
	7:01pm Scott67: G'day Evan & Explorers! ☕😎🤙👣🎶📻🌏🌻
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Scott!
	🥁 7:01pm chresti: Hi Flash and explorers!
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti!
	7:02pm neveract: Hi Flash .. Jumping in here from your plug on Kip's show.
	7:03pm Flash Strap: starting with a couple tracks that correspond to where we left off last week, but after that we'll go in the same order as last week's playlist (except where I couldn't find / there doesn't exist another version)
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Neveract! welcome aboard!
	🥁 7:04pm Will the Sound Guy: Hi Evan and all!!!
	7:04pm doctorjazz: I'm sure I've heard this somewhere, not this version (The Abyssinias) Hi Flash, Flashers!
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Will! Hi Doc!
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Satta Massagana is one of the most used/reused riddims in existence, seemingly endless variations out there
	🥁 7:06pm WR: Reflections. By acclamation by one and all, giving thanks to the nation.
	7:06pm Flash Strap: last week we heard one of several takes on Satta Massagana by Augustus Pablo
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hi WR!
	7:08pm Flash Strap: originally rec. 1969 by the Abyssinians for Coxsone Dodd, who decided not to release it. 2 years later they managed to buy back the tapes and released it on their own Clinch label & had a big hit with it. the rest is history
	🥁 7:08pm WR: I do have one Weed Beat 45. Don't remember what it is.
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hearing the original Jamaican mix of this Spear track - not the much better known, inferior Chris Blackwell int'l mix
	7:10pm Flash Strap: tho last week's Invasion dub was not of this recording, but Jackie Edwards' version
	🥁 7:10pm WR: What is your source? Orig. LP or ?
	7:11pm Flash Strap: @WR: Weed Beat has very pleasing label design but I don't know the label very well i don't think
	7:12pm Flash Strap: @WR: of which?
	7:14pm Flash Strap: oops
	🥁 7:16pm WR: The Burning Spear. My Weed Beat record isn't very memorable music (I don't even remember what it is!) but it is a 45 from Jamaica that somehow ended up in my hand.
	7:16pm Flash Strap: This riddim originates with Johnnie Clark's "Everyday Wandering" produced by Rupie Edwards, and versioned out in endless reps by Rupie, usually on his Success label, including on an all-one-riddim LP called Ire Feelings
	7:17pm Flash Strap: The original Spear mix is supposedly impossible to find, not even been reissued i don't think. i found someone's vinyl rip
	7:18pm Flash Strap: great Harry Mudie production on this Heptones
	🥁 7:18pm WR: Beautiful Heptones.
	7:19pm Flash Strap: one of my favorites of theirs
	7:21pm Flash Strap: first of several Killer Miller cuts tonight
	🥁 7:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hallo ! Market chores & railtrail constitutional done... Another exposition of sheer magnificence I see...
	7:26pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev!
	7:26pm HyperDose: This is wonderful
	7:27pm Flash Strap: up next, one of my alltime favorite tracks, definitely seen a few spins in the Room before tonight but never grows old
	7:27pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyperdose!
	7:28pm Flash Strap: Should have mentioned, great Niney production on that Trevor track
	🥁 7:28pm Aitch: Trevor seems an unlikely name?
	7:29pm HyperDose: Similar to Lee Scratch Perry production?
	7:29pm Flash Strap: haha i remember when SNL did Ras Trent asking myself, haven't they heard of Ranking Trevor?
	7:30pm Flash Strap: @HD: yeah deep like Lee, truly a visionary work from Zukie, years ahead
	7:32pm Flash Strap: This abyssinians comes from the 1976 LP, but Declaration of Rights was first released all the way back in 1970 for Coxsone
	🥁 7:33pm WR: Great song, well worth every version. Declaration of Rights.
	7:34pm StringOFperils: Hi Flash. I always thought there was an earlier incarnation of that song...
	🥁 7:34pm WR: You've got me full on skanking. Let this be my exercise time, sure am not getting any more work done.
	7:34pm Franco Twinkie: Man Ah Warrior - one of my all time ALL TIME favorites. Comical illogical dream music in the darkest night. Tapper Zukie never sounded this insane on subsequent records.
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi SoP!
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Franco! I totally agree and share your love for it, I'll never tire of hearing it, it really is a singular masterpiece
	7:36pm Franco Twinkie: Righty-o Flash! I have to go find perfect apricots right now.
	🥁 7:37pm chresti: WR it is exercise time!
	7:37pm Flash Strap: best of luck in your quest!
	7:37pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks!
	🥁 7:38pm chresti: I never heard this version of cus cus.
	7:39pm Flash Strap: the crispest, crunchiest version
	🥁 7:42pm chresti: Order?
	🥁 7:51pm chresti: Nothing can escape the judgement
	7:52pm Flash Strap: @Chresti: everything will be in the same order as last week, with the exception of those Abyssinian tracks at the top, and anything I don't have an alternate for. is that what you meant?
	7:53pm Flash Strap: I know we just heard this track maybe 3 weeks ago but how could I not?
	🥁 7:55pm chresti: @Flash, just unawares of any order?
	7:57pm Flash Strap: confused what you mean my dear friend, sorry if i'm being obtuse
	🥁 7:58pm Mantarray: hello there explorers!! late but ready to continue where we left off last week.
	🥁 7:58pm chresti: www.discogs.com...
	🥁 7:59pm chresti: ^I had the title wrong
	7:59pm Flash Strap: Hi Mantarray!
	8:00pm Flash Strap: Ali Baba poised to transform into the unfortunate and wicked barber, who is in for the ultimate trouble
	🥁 8:00pm chresti: No, I'm sorry for not paying attention closely!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: all good, all beautiful
	🥁 8:02pm WR: Have heard many dub / remix of Shave the Barber before but never this version. So basic, so fundamental. Gorgeous!
	8:03pm Flash Strap: it is a very confusing world even when you do pay close attention
	8:03pm StringOFperils: It's MORE confusing, IMO
	8:03pm Flash Strap: @WR: i believe it's an Errol Brown mix, an alternate to the one he did on Pleasure Dub. it's included on reissues of that album as a bonus. a personal fave
	🥁 8:06pm chresti: Ah, thanks for the barber shaving story!
	8:06pm Flash Strap: shave the barber ---- unleash WW3 on the barber: a very harsh escalation
	8:07pm StringOFperils: No one appreciates a bad haircut
	8:08pm Flash Strap: this jah stitch really makes me laugh. i mean if i were doug i'd say i'm in stitches over it
	🥁 8:08pm chresti: Ha StringO
	8:10pm Flash Strap: had to resist the urge to play Watty Burnett's version again, but Lord Tanamo's is so good
	8:11pm Flash Strap: written by Tony Joe White, made famous by Brook Benton, brought to Jamaica by Lord Tanamo's version, and later given incredible treatment by Watty Burnett and Lee Perry. A song's fantastic voyage
	8:14pm Flash Strap: last week we heard a dub on this riddim, Swing & Dub, that was a bonus track on Dub Me. So tonight we'll hear the dub that made the album AND a vocal version (tho not the Morwells, as i prefer the Melodians version)
	8:24pm Flash Strap: Chinna's guitar on these Jacob Miller tracks goes monstrously hard
	8:29pm coelacanth∅: Jacob "Killer" Miller... saaaayn'
	8:29pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Evan, Explorers
	8:30pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	8:30pm Robm: Hello fellow explorers want to avoid those hearings tonight
	8:30pm Flash Strap: immensely fun vocal from Miller here
	8:30pm Flash Strap: Hi Robm!
	8:31pm Robm: Hey flash strap
	🥁 8:33pm WR: Lloyd Jones & Mudies All Stars new to me. Like the harmony singing, the melody, the rig, the end of the empire theme.
	8:35pm Flash Strap: totally agree WR, it's kind of a perfect single
	8:37pm northguineahills: stalag!
	8:38pm Flash Strap: Stalag = a Winston Riley production. his own dub of Stalag on Meditation Dub is an all-time favorite
	8:38pm Flash Strap: Hey NGH!
	8:39pm coelacanth∅: i have rome on a comp that made no mention of mudies all stars. i'd like to hear more from them
	8:39pm Robm: @NGH howdy
	🥁 8:40pm WR: Roar!
	8:41pm Flash Strap: @C: Harry Mudie's stuff is always pretty good, often amazing
	🥁 8:42pm chresti: I love this skank any way you play it!
	🥁 8:44pm chresti: Don't trouble trouble the barber
	8:44pm coelacanth∅: hmmm, Harry Mudie -pronounced "moody"? i remember vaguely from an interview but essentially unfamiliar
	🥁 8:45pm WR: Is this the originator for the dubs with that SAY SO vocal call out, sounds like it. Agustus Pablo did a version, I think. Maybe others.
	8:46pm Flash Strap: @C: that's right. we heard from him last week, his album of dubs+string arrangements with Tubby is a gold classic
	8:46pm coelacanth∅: - but now i wonder how many songs i know from comps that just neglected to mention them with the lead singer
	8:49pm northguineahills: u baldy mon!
	8:50pm coelacanth∅: i should admit now that last week i listened but paid little attention to the playlist, as i was working
	🥁 8:50pm WR: Gah, I listened to so much dub and version and reggae 45s (that a friend was collecting) during a short period in the mid 70s, And they were plenty cloudy listening sessions. So I have fuzzy fuzzy memory but lights me up when I hear something familiar.
	8:52pm doctorjazz: Been fun, gotta run, thanks Evan!
	🥁 8:54pm chresti: That version of Movie Star was slower than I've heard, makes it extra spooky
	8:55pm coelacanth∅: i have a Jacob Miller album that if it's a comp i never knew; but it's called "dread dread", and that song is called dread dread
	8:55pm coelacanth∅: 'night doc
	8:56pm HyperDose: This is such a wild show!
	8:58pm Flash Strap: Adios Doc! have a great night
	8:58pm northguineahills: I haven't heard this version of Keep on Knocking,,,,,
	9:00pm Flash Strap: @NGH: it's Killer! @Hyper: that's the goal! gotta keep it wild
	9:00pm coelacanth∅: never heard this song. not the same song as Marley's or Little Richard's
	9:02pm Flash Strap: @chresti: i thought the same thing! had never heard it till i started putting together this show
	9:02pm coelacanth∅: Miller idolized Marley and entitled several songs with those of Marley songs. Albert Griffiths did it too, and the wailing souls.
	9:09pm Zipperhead7: This looks like another fantastic show -- will have to stream later 'cause I'm watching the Jan. 6 hearings, which are even more damning than anticipated.
	9:10pm northguineahills: I love this Prophets version, now only to have Trinity on the flipside (Jesus Dread is on the controls here).
	9:10pm Flash Strap: Hi Zipperhead!
	9:12pm Flash Strap: yeah i wasn't able to work too many toasts into this one, regrettably
	9:16pm northguineahills: Cornel Campbell did some good work later w/ the Rhythm & Sound guys (originally from Basic Channel, of Berlin minimal techno and ambience fame).
	9:18pm Flash Strap: I've not heard that NGH, sounds interesting
	9:18pm Flash Strap: an all-time great anti-litter track
	9:21pm Flash Strap: "Glen Richard as Jah Glen" or as he's better known, Glen Brown
	🥁 9:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...a watch party of strange Japanese films has my eyes - but my ears are here...
	9:23pm Flash Strap: whatcha watchin Rev?
	🥁 9:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It's a Group called G-Mania : www.facebook.com... - usually Kaiju themed - tonight it's : OROCHI THE EIGHT-HEADED DRAGON ▪︎THE THREE TREASURES ▪︎THE LITTLE PRINCE AND THE EIGHT-HEADED DRAGON - all with many-headed serpents. Samurai legendary times stuff...
	9:29pm Flash Strap: sounds great!
	🥁 9:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Shinto mythological actually...
	🥁 9:39pm WR: Whoa ! Big band Satta Masa Ganna! Interesting.
	9:39pm northguineahills: what WR said!
	9:39pm Flash Strap: One of several Cedric Im Brooks recorded! this is the biggest band version though
	9:40pm Flash Strap: United Africa is a great record btw
	9:41pm abbazabba: Hi Flash Strap! I’ve loved this tonight. Thank you
	9:42pm Flash Strap: Hello Abbazabba! my great pleasure truly. thanks for tuning in
	9:42pm Franco Twinkie: Sounds like I never left.
	🥁 9:42pm WR: Looking at the discogs credits for United Africa! Amazing line up.
	9:44pm Flash Strap: welcome back Franco!
	🥁 9:44pm WR: The sounds are always here for you Franco.
	9:46pm Franco Twinkie: WR, one of these days I'm going to get a device. I swear!
	🥁 9:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Reminds me of the few tracks on 'Garage Rawk' comps I own that have horns. Figure they were just HighSchool players.
	🥁 9:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...yerknow that thing their intonations are not all synched up like Pros exactly...
	🥁 9:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ FlashStrap ~
	🥁 9:55pm Aitch: Great listening Evan, thanks.
	9:55pm Flash Strap: My pleasure dear Rev
	9:55pm Flash Strap: Thank YOU Aitch!
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: Brilliant! Thanks Evan!
	9:56pm northguineahills: perfect irie vibes for the day....
	9:56pm Akiva: Late check in. Thanks, as ever.
	9:57pm Flash Strap: Hey there Akiva!
	9:58pm Flash Strap: okay that's it for me! up next is Discotech Underground!: wfmu.org...
	🥁 10:00pm chresti: Thanks Flash!
	10:09pm Franco Twinkie: Thanky Evan.
	🥁 10:19pm WR: So so wonderful. This week and last week what you played totally in my wheel house as they say but 90% totally sparkly new to my ears. THank you Thank you!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from June 9, 2022

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