WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from August 18, 2022

Listener comments!
	6:30pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	7:00pm Scott67: G'day Evan & Exploratory! 🌏☀️📻🎶🔭😎🤙🍻
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Scott!
	7:02pm StringOFperils: Hi. Percolating along to the tones
	7:02pm Little Danny: hell yeah evan, so good to have you back!
	7:03pm Little Danny: p.s. yer art today is extra gorgeous-
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Great to BE back LD! are you currently in the process of relocating?
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi SoP!
	7:05pm Little Danny: i am officially relocated! listening, unpacking, and yelling about shelf reassembly as i type
	7:05pm Flash Strap: p.s. thanks, I threw it together at the absolute last minute when I couldn't find an image that worked for the show
	7:05pm Little Danny: (cbf won't be returning 'til sep 1 tho)
	7:05pm Flash Strap: congrats man, hope you love it
	🥁 7:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Good to be in Thuh Rooom !
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hey Rev!
	🥁 7:06pm Aitch: Where to? Hey all.
	7:07pm Flash Strap: Hey Aitch! Where to indeed
	🥁 7:07pm Aitch: You can drive, I'll look out the window
	7:08pm StringOFperils: Yes, congrats LD! Exciting new horizons
	🥁 7:08pm WR: Well, it ain't Last Train to Clarksville, but I'll take it. In fact, prefer it.
	7:09pm Webhamster Henry: Good evening, All Explorers.
	7:10pm Flash Strap: Hey hey WR! and WH!
	7:13pm Webhamster Henry: I saw this Laurie A. show at BAM.
	7:14pm Flash Strap: that must have been pretty cool WH
	7:14pm Webhamster Henry: Also: I JUST USED MY WFMU OVEN MITT!
	🥁 7:15pm Aitch: There's been some crazy waves here this year. You might like some of this for the 'Scope L Danny www.youtube.com...
	7:17pm Flash Strap: that too must have been pretty cool, WH
	🥁 7:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...gonna go check a band in the park here for a minute ...shouldn't take too long...
	7:22pm Flash Strap: Just picked up this System Tandem LP, had never heard or head of it before, it's been a real delight. Czech duo
	7:22pm Flash Strap: catch ya later Rev, have fun
	7:25pm StringOFperils: I like it. Good soundtrack for a hand-painted film
	7:25pm Flash Strap: 1 of 2 Japo label LPs I grabbed, the other being a Ken Hyder's Talisker that I'm over the moon to have... but I'll spin that another night I think
	7:25pm Flash Strap: true SoP
	7:28pm melinda: hello chums
	7:28pm Flash Strap: ah hello Melinda!
	7:29pm Doug Schulkind: What's your stories, evening glories?!
	7:29pm doctorjazz: Hi, Explorers!
	7:36pm StringOFperils: Can't wait to hear this....yet.....I must....some philosopher covered all of this
	7:37pm melinda: always up for surf
	7:39pm Flash Strap: Hello Glorious Douglious! Aloha Doc Jazz!
	7:40pm Flash Strap: cover for this Besombes-Rizet is a smoking classic: i.discogs.com...
	7:41pm Flash Strap: back cover like a motorik Withnail & I: i.discogs.com...
	7:42pm StringOFperils: Looks pretty smoky in the car. Probably the guy with the pipe
	7:46pm Flash Strap: getting smoky in these headphones
	7:46pm StringOFperils: I can understand how you'd need this
	7:47pm Flash Strap: elsewhere on this LP they jam their way into what is essentially the most tripped out Doctor Who theme ever recorded. though you can hear shades of that here as well
	🥁 7:48pm Aitch: Synthi-Soit is fun
	7:48pm Flash Strap: it's been reissued numerous times but almost exclusively as a single LP, this was my one and only chance to cop the original tracklist double LP
	7:49pm StringOFperils: Always nice to take home a piece of the big puzzle
	7:49pm Flash Strap: perfectly said SoP
	7:53pm Flash Strap: just bonkers, somewhat Faust-like in its disregard for coherence, very weird stuff. great drums swinging through at times
	7:55pm Little Danny: Whoa
	7:55pm Little Danny: Incredible
	7:57pm Little Danny: Aitch thanks for the sick wave footage, duly grabbed, coming soon to the fos
	7:59pm Flash Strap: Phillipe Besombes here again, handling the synths on this Ferrari track, recorded 1975
	8:00pm coelacanth∅: good evening Evan, Explorers
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: i really need to bone up on Luc Ferrari, lotta blind spots there i suspect, but I love him
	🥁 8:04pm Aitch: L Danny the view from in the water probably scarier, and yes they're all just in front of a cliff. www.youtube.com...
	8:04pm melinda: cool sounds
	8:09pm Flash Strap: you may recall L'infonie from a show earlier this year where I did a set exploring their legendary discography, which includes one of the coolest takes on Terry Riley's In C
	🥁 8:13pm Aitch: Need a tall wig and a satin suit for this one
	8:14pm Flash Strap: very tall
	8:14pm StringOFperils: I take it they're from Quebec, and I don't even know about them. Once upon a CBC time, I would have
	8:15pm Flash Strap: need a fresh Bach pun
	🥁 8:15pm Aitch: Bach to the future?
	8:15pm StringOFperils: You scratch my Bach, and I'll...make you buy me new one
	8:16pm Flash Strap: they're from Montreal
	8:16pm Flash Strap: sorry Bach to the Future is NOT FRESH
	🥁 8:17pm Aitch: sorry, that was the wrong tree then
	8:18pm Flash Strap: i think they're from Montreal anyway. if i recall correctly
	8:18pm StringOFperils: Most likely.
	8:19pm Flash Strap: @aitch: well if i could have though of one i would have said it. perhaps bach puns have been simply cooked like eggs
	🥁 8:20pm Aitch: It's OK, we've all got your bach
	8:20pm Flash Strap: raking Bachs in the hot sun
	8:21pm still b/p: DJ in the Bach, Puffed wig top, Diggin' the scene, With a Baroque lean..
	8:22pm Flash Strap: B/P! i laughed !
	8:22pm StringOFperils: ^^ *thinks outside the Bachs
	8:23pm Flash Strap: most of this Harvester "Remains" comp is yet mysterious to me, still exploring it i suppose
	8:23pm Flash Strap: @soP: i.discogs.com...
	8:24pm Flash Strap: but i've been really tickled by this Medieval Machine recently. so to speak
	8:24pm StringOFperils: Ha ha ha. Seems I've seen that before, but still....inevitable I guess.
	8:25pm Flash Strap: great garage record actually. I think Doug turned me on to it
	8:30pm Flash Strap: this legendary, utterly mythical Swedish outfit has had many names: Pärson Sound → International Harvester → Harvester → Träd, Gräs Och Stenar. then later, Träden
	8:30pm Ignore Function: Great show so far, Flash Strap.
	8:30pm Flash Strap: Hi IF!
	8:34pm Flash Strap: god damn, what a band
	8:41pm Flash Strap: precursor to the surf sound which is to come in the next set, in a funny way
	🥁 8:42pm Aitch: I think you played some Lard Free before and I loved it then too
	8:44pm Flash Strap: they're so mindblowing, i have no idea why i haven't been obsessed with them for years but despite some listening sessions in the past / interest in other Artman projects, I feel i'm just now discovering them for myself. overjoyed to share in that
	🥁 8:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Band in park went longer than I thot ....but now I'ma take the long way home & listen to this here with some 4G gawshdarnit...
	8:47pm Flash Strap: this track must be one of my favorite Schmidt compositions post-Can, seems clear to me that it predicts his Gormenghast stuff
	8:47pm Little Danny: This is fantastic!
	8:47pm Flash Strap: Hey Rev welcome back! just in time for the surf hour anyway
	8:48pm Flash Strap: such a huge cosmic sound on this, vast but feels very very close to you, like it's pushing into your personal space bit by bit
	🥁 8:49pm Aitch: I'm expecting aliens any minute now
	8:51pm StringOFperils: I have the 90s reissue of Toy Planet on CD, with the plain red cover. The original cover is charming, too bad, but...shifting tastes
	8:52pm Webhamster Henry: I'm going to have to catch this with headphones on.
	8:52pm Flash Strap: man, the original cover is admittedly corny and a little amateurish if you look close but the '90 cover has no charm for me whatsoever, i hate when they do that
	8:53pm Flash Strap: as a cover art guy, you know. gotta be a crank about that kinda thing
	8:57pm StringOFperils: Absolutely!
	9:01pm Little Danny: :)
	9:03pm Little Danny: I’m grocery shopping rn but yeah from memory I believe that this was a session nominally “produced” by Shorty Rogers with session whiz Jerry Cole on guitar. Or some such. Love the little “Quiet Village” ostinato!
	9:04pm Flash Strap: that sounds about right, thanks for the deets LD!
	🥁 9:04pm Aitch: Very snazzy
	9:06pm PaulRobeson1922: Hi Hi Hi
	9:06pm Flash Strap: great sound from the Vy-Dels here
	9:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Paul!
	9:06pm Little Danny: Hell yeah
	9:07pm StringOFperils: Watching aitch's surfer footage to this set!
	9:09pm Uncle Michael: Man, I love the Tedeschi-Trucks Band!
	9:09pm Flash Strap: i wonder if it's possible Sven Libaek could have produced the Denvermen, i understand he had something to do with a lot of the Australian surf records
	9:10pm PaulRobeson1922: Sunshine, came softly, through my ah’ window today
	9:10pm Flash Strap: Haha Hi UM!
	9:11pm StringOFperils: UM. HA HA
	9:11pm doctorjazz: This brings back my accordion lessins as a child-played this (called The Wedding Waltz) weekly for months, despised it!
	9:12pm Uncle Michael: Hi! (and I really do)
	9:12pm doctorjazz: (might have moved on to another tune if I ever practiced...)
	9:12pm Flash Strap: if anyone can rescue it for you Doc, it's gotta be my man Terry
	9:13pm Uncle Michael: You might never have taken up medicine!
	9:14pm doctorjazz: True dat, worked out ok ..
	9:14pm StringOFperils: But then again you might have been the cold fusion reactor of accordion.
	9:15pm StringOFperils: This timeline has good in-flight music
	9:15pm doctorjazz: Love Prisoner of Love!
	9:16pm Flash Strap: a little Santo&Johnny inspired triptych here
	🥁 9:16pm Aitch: A bit more punishment here from a different spot. www.youtube.com...
	9:18pm still b/p: That felt lonely...like sitting alone at the bar with a misshapen umbrella in my drink and no bouffant girl to dance with.
	9:19pm Flash Strap: so true B/P
	9:20pm Flash Strap: i mean i really felt that
	9:20pm still b/p: Cuz they all go for the guy who was playing impromptu ACCORDION in the bar before!
	9:21pm doctorjazz: It's BAAAAAAAACCCCCKKKKK!!!!!
	9:22pm Flash Strap: this Centuries track was produced by Tommy Falcone, who was in fact an accordionist
	9:22pm Flash Strap: Falcone of the Cleopatra label, i should say
	9:23pm StringOFperils: Tommy Falcone. Classic name.
	9:23pm still b/p: My dad practiced accordion for years -- don't know if he ever played out. He later took up the bones and, past age 90, sat in on a session or two at the Irish bars EVERY week.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: truly, the man was from New jersey
	9:25pm Little Danny: All time fave, this
	9:25pm Flash Strap: Jim Messina, later of Buffalo Springfield (who have some great surf tunes in their repertoire too)
	9:26pm Flash Strap: @LD: so so good it's crazy
	9:26pm Scott67: Thanks Evan! Sadly for me Exotic Alien Interlude for me must end early. Gotta head to see Mum & Dad while the Sun is out. Cheers all! 🌏☀️🍻✌️😎🤙
	9:26pm Uncle Michael: Kenny's partner.
	9:26pm Flash Strap: see ya Scott! hi to mom & pop
	9:27pm Little Danny: Wow!
	9:28pm still b/p: All the learnin' now. Couldn'ta told you Messina had surfy dragster history and was in BS and Poco.
	9:28pm StringOFperils: That Jesters record sounded like the antecedent to The Ventures' 1968 theme for Hawaii 5-O, with the surfy rolling drum breaks
	9:29pm Flash Strap: LOVE the Jokers, a Belgian surf outfit
	🥁 9:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Fonky Library Surf (??) been both somewhat incongruous for treading the NewHampshuh nighttime streets but also a perfect mood floater...
	9:33pm Flash Strap: The Flamethrowers I believe were from Detroit. one of the most landlocked-sounding and savage surf groups
	🥁 9:34pm Aitch: This Flamethrowers is fab
	9:34pm Flash Strap: Joe Meek production on The Traitors
	9:34pm doctorjazz: Also Loggins and Messina...
	9:34pm Flash Strap: @Rev: I've actually been slowly working up a set of library surf
	🥁 9:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...also worth remembering the part Surf played in advancing Gittar chops - & amplifiers alike ...as well obviously as being a phase for so many soon to be GarageRawkers - & Psych freakers... Actual Surf Culture of course one of the first real Rawk-Related DIY DropOut scenes - with the Drag Racers too. A lot more than it's often credited with...
	9:38pm Flash Strap: @Rev: so true, also a major bridge between exotica and psychedelia, an axe i delight in grinding
	🥁 9:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...damn but this could easily be a little box of Surf Nuggets all pressed up & distributed ...don't know much - but seems to me...
	9:40pm still b/p: Vereee stereooooo.
	9:40pm Flash Strap: ah wouldn't that be a dream! of course i'm partly drawing from some wonderful comps - Rare Surf, Lost Legends, etc.
	9:40pm StringOFperils: It did have connections to Beat culture for sure. Post-war teens with cash and freedom enough to skip work and school to ride that pipeline and maybe play a little bongos
	9:42pm Flash Strap: crazy how much Link Wray sticks out even among classic surf, he's just in another sonic world
	9:42pm Flash Strap: @SoP: very true
	🥁 9:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...also - nobody hears enuff Shadows, imho. Especially me.
	9:44pm still b/p: Man, was hard back then to decide which developing milieu basket to put my eggs in -- outlaw motorcycle club or surf scene.
	🥁 9:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Mods & Rawkers in a way...
	9:44pm Flash Strap: Jack Nitzche production on this Epps may account for the surprise surfiness
	9:46pm Little Danny: flash @9:38: agreed, agreed, and 10000% agreed
	9:48pm doctorjazz: Gotta run for a bit, thanks, Flash, fun show!
	🥁 9:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Those showbiz financed L.A. studios - while TheBeatles were in some four-track Classical studio in Olde England. With white-coated oh-fficial Empire engineers fortunately...
	🥁 9:48pm Aitch: love the huge drum fills
	9:49pm Flash Strap: See ya Doc! thanks for hanging out!
	🥁 9:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Third Star to the Left' - referencing old poetry ? How many years before Hendrix's 'Third Stone From the Sun' that says 'you'll never hear Surf Music again' ??...
	9:52pm Ignore Function: Never get tired of this stuff.
	🥁 9:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...there's James Marshall Hendrix - a poor kid from Seattle - out of the Army in Kentucky or something - this kid ages before the Internet or even Rawk Journalism ...& they say he knew all these obscure Gittar Records somehow...
	🥁 9:55pm Aitch: Calvin Cool was cool indeed, might have to play that bach later. Great show Evan, thanks.
	🥁 9:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Just hella kewl. ~ TY Always DJ FlashStrap ! ~
	10:00pm Little Danny: best damn show, thank you evan so inspiring!
	🥁 10:01pm WR: Thank you!
	10:01pm Flash Strap: Thank you all! see you next week
	10:04pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from August 18, 2022

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Irmin Schmidt & Bruno Spoerri	Rapido de Noir (Last Train to Eternity)	Toy Planet	Spoon Records	1981		0:01:54 (Pop-up)
Ludmila Nunes & Tim Gick	Pull The String That Bares My Chest	Songs for Theremin & Saxophone	Not On Label	2022		0:08:31 (Pop-up)
Laurie Anderson	Neon Duet (For Violin and Neon Bow)	United States Live	Warner Bros. Records	1984		0:10:52 (Pop-up)
Ernst Reijseger / Alan "Gunga" Purves	Dijsco	Cellotape & Scotchtape	DATA Records	1982		0:14:33 (Pop-up)
Jiří Stivín, Rudolf Dašek	What's Your Story	System Tandem	Japo Records	1975		0:20:44 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Tropical Forest – Number Six Chops Down the Tree					0:28:26 (Pop-up)
Besombes - Rizet	Synthi-Soit II "Synthi-Soit II" by "Besombes - Rizet"	Pôle	Tapioca	1976		0:37:40 (Pop-up)
Luc Ferrari	Feb 17th, 1975 "Feb 17th, 1975" by "Luc Ferrari"	Atelier De Libération De La Musique	Alga Marghen	2018	rec. 1975	0:58:26 (Pop-up)
L'Infonie	Concerto En Re Mineur (Allegro)	Vol. 333	Kot'Ai	1972		1:06:46 (Pop-up)
G. Barigozzi - F. Fabor - O. Rocchi	Voli Di Sax	Stressorama Nº2	Fonovideo	1974		1:15:07 (Pop-up)
International Harvester	Gigan / Medieval Machine	Remains	Silence	2018	rec. 1969	1:18:37 (Pop-up)
Harvester	Kristallen Den Fina "Kristallen Den Fina" by "Harvester"	Hemåt	Decibel Records	1969		1:28:15 (Pop-up)
Lard Free	Acide Framboise "Acide Framboise" by "Lard Free"	Gilbert Artman's Lard Free	Vamp Records	1973		1:34:42 (Pop-up)
Heldon	Ballade Pour Puig Antich – Revolutionnaire Assassine En Espagne	Electronique Guerilla	Disjuncta	1974		1:41:12 (Pop-up)
Irmin Schmidt & Bruno Spoerri	Toy Planet	Toy Planet	Spoon Records	1981		1:43:57 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Acitoxe "Acitoxe"					1:52:20 (Pop-up)
Calvin Cool	El Tecolote "El Tecolote" by "Calvin Cool"	Beach Bash / El Tecolote 7"	CRC Charter	1963		2:02:11 (Pop-up)
The Vy-Dels	Unknown "Unknown" by "The Vy-Dels"	Unknown / What I'm Gonna Do 7"	Garnet Records	1965		2:03:59 (Pop-up)
The Denvermen	Mystery Wave "Mystery Wave" by "The Denvermen"	Let's Go Surfside with the Denvermen	RCA	1963		2:06:24 (Pop-up)
Takeshi Terauchi and Bunnys	Danube Wave Waltz	Let's Go Classics	King	1967		2:08:26 (Pop-up)
The Gems	Slave-Girl "Slave-Girl" by "The Gems"	Slave-Girl / Hernando's Hideaway 7"	Uptown Records	1961		2:10:51 (Pop-up)
Santo & Johnny	Prisoner of Love "Prisoner of Love" by "Santo & Johnny"	Encore	Canadian American Records, Ltd.	1960		2:12:50 (Pop-up)
Pete Drake & His Talking Steel Guitar	Sleep Walk	Forever	Smash Records	1964		2:15:11 (Pop-up)
Jerry Byrd	Sleepy Serenade "Sleepy Serenade" by "Jerry Byrd"	Byrd Of Paradise	Monument	1961		2:17:29 (Pop-up)
The Centuries	Anniversary Hop "Anniversary Hop" by "The Centuries"	Anniversary Hop / Theme of The Centuries 7"	Carlton	1963		2:19:40 (Pop-up)
The Nu-Trons	Wild Side "Wild Side" by "The Nu-Trons"	Surfin' on Wave Nine	King	1963		2:21:53 (Pop-up)
Jim Messina & His Jesters	The Jester	The Dragsters	Audio Fidelity	1964		2:23:56 (Pop-up)
The Jokers	Baia "Baia" by "The Jokers"	New Sound	Arcade Records	1968		2:26:22 (Pop-up)
PJ & The Galaxies	Rise & Fall Of Flingle Bunt	Rare Surf Volume 1 – The South Bay Bands	AVI Records	1991		2:29:12 (Pop-up)
The Flamethrowers	The Knights Caper	Suzette / The Knights Caper 7"	Clix	1960		2:31:47 (Pop-up)
The Packabeats	The Traitors "The Traitors" by "The Packabeats"	Evening in Paris / The Traitors 7"	Pye Records	1962		2:33:42 (Pop-up)
The Surfriders	Rum Runner "Rum Runner" by "The Surfriders"	Surfbeat Volume 2	Vault	1963		2:36:11 (Pop-up)
Dick Dale And His Del-Tones	Surfin' Rebel	Summer Surf	Capitol	1964		2:38:28 (Pop-up)
Link Wray And His Ray Men	Dinosaur	Jack The Ripper	Swan	1963		2:40:27 (Pop-up)
Preston Epps	Bongo in Pastel "Bongo in Pastel" by "Preston Epps"	Bongo Bongo Bongo	Original Sound	1960		2:42:33 (Pop-up)
Tom & Jerry	Moonlight Surfer "Moonlight Surfer" by "Tom & Jerry"	Surfin' Hootenanny	Mercury	1963		2:44:39 (Pop-up)
The Nocturnes	Third Star To the Left	Rare Surf Volume 2 – The South Bay Bands	AVI Records	1995		2:47:04 (Pop-up)
The "Sleepwalk" Guitars Of Dan & Dale	Eve of Explosion	Theme From Thunderball and Other Themes	Diplomat	1965		2:48:40 (Pop-up)
Calvin Cool & the Surf Knobs	Fog Horn	The Surfer's Beat	CRC Charter	1963		2:50:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Off Shore "Off Shore"					2:53:04 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:30pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	7:00pm Scott67: G'day Evan & Exploratory! 🌏☀️📻🎶🔭😎🤙🍻
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Scott!
	7:02pm StringOFperils: Hi. Percolating along to the tones
	7:02pm Little Danny: hell yeah evan, so good to have you back!
	7:03pm Little Danny: p.s. yer art today is extra gorgeous-
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Great to BE back LD! are you currently in the process of relocating?
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi SoP!
	7:05pm Little Danny: i am officially relocated! listening, unpacking, and yelling about shelf reassembly as i type
	7:05pm Flash Strap: p.s. thanks, I threw it together at the absolute last minute when I couldn't find an image that worked for the show
	7:05pm Little Danny: (cbf won't be returning 'til sep 1 tho)
	7:05pm Flash Strap: congrats man, hope you love it
	🥁 7:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Good to be in Thuh Rooom !
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hey Rev!
	🥁 7:06pm Aitch: Where to? Hey all.
	7:07pm Flash Strap: Hey Aitch! Where to indeed
	🥁 7:07pm Aitch: You can drive, I'll look out the window
	7:08pm StringOFperils: Yes, congrats LD! Exciting new horizons
	🥁 7:08pm WR: Well, it ain't Last Train to Clarksville, but I'll take it. In fact, prefer it.
	7:09pm Webhamster Henry: Good evening, All Explorers.
	7:10pm Flash Strap: Hey hey WR! and WH!
	7:13pm Webhamster Henry: I saw this Laurie A. show at BAM.
	7:14pm Flash Strap: that must have been pretty cool WH
	7:14pm Webhamster Henry: Also: I JUST USED MY WFMU OVEN MITT!
	🥁 7:15pm Aitch: There's been some crazy waves here this year. You might like some of this for the 'Scope L Danny www.youtube.com...
	7:17pm Flash Strap: that too must have been pretty cool, WH
	🥁 7:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...gonna go check a band in the park here for a minute ...shouldn't take too long...
	7:22pm Flash Strap: Just picked up this System Tandem LP, had never heard or head of it before, it's been a real delight. Czech duo
	7:22pm Flash Strap: catch ya later Rev, have fun
	7:25pm StringOFperils: I like it. Good soundtrack for a hand-painted film
	7:25pm Flash Strap: 1 of 2 Japo label LPs I grabbed, the other being a Ken Hyder's Talisker that I'm over the moon to have... but I'll spin that another night I think
	7:25pm Flash Strap: true SoP
	7:28pm melinda: hello chums
	7:28pm Flash Strap: ah hello Melinda!
	7:29pm Doug Schulkind: What's your stories, evening glories?!
	7:29pm doctorjazz: Hi, Explorers!
	7:36pm StringOFperils: Can't wait to hear this....yet.....I must....some philosopher covered all of this
	7:37pm melinda: always up for surf
	7:39pm Flash Strap: Hello Glorious Douglious! Aloha Doc Jazz!
	7:40pm Flash Strap: cover for this Besombes-Rizet is a smoking classic: i.discogs.com...
	7:41pm Flash Strap: back cover like a motorik Withnail & I: i.discogs.com...
	7:42pm StringOFperils: Looks pretty smoky in the car. Probably the guy with the pipe
	7:46pm Flash Strap: getting smoky in these headphones
	7:46pm StringOFperils: I can understand how you'd need this
	7:47pm Flash Strap: elsewhere on this LP they jam their way into what is essentially the most tripped out Doctor Who theme ever recorded. though you can hear shades of that here as well
	🥁 7:48pm Aitch: Synthi-Soit is fun
	7:48pm Flash Strap: it's been reissued numerous times but almost exclusively as a single LP, this was my one and only chance to cop the original tracklist double LP
	7:49pm StringOFperils: Always nice to take home a piece of the big puzzle
	7:49pm Flash Strap: perfectly said SoP
	7:53pm Flash Strap: just bonkers, somewhat Faust-like in its disregard for coherence, very weird stuff. great drums swinging through at times
	7:55pm Little Danny: Whoa
	7:55pm Little Danny: Incredible
	7:57pm Little Danny: Aitch thanks for the sick wave footage, duly grabbed, coming soon to the fos
	7:59pm Flash Strap: Phillipe Besombes here again, handling the synths on this Ferrari track, recorded 1975
	8:00pm coelacanth∅: good evening Evan, Explorers
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: i really need to bone up on Luc Ferrari, lotta blind spots there i suspect, but I love him
	🥁 8:04pm Aitch: L Danny the view from in the water probably scarier, and yes they're all just in front of a cliff. www.youtube.com...
	8:04pm melinda: cool sounds
	8:09pm Flash Strap: you may recall L'infonie from a show earlier this year where I did a set exploring their legendary discography, which includes one of the coolest takes on Terry Riley's In C
	🥁 8:13pm Aitch: Need a tall wig and a satin suit for this one
	8:14pm Flash Strap: very tall
	8:14pm StringOFperils: I take it they're from Quebec, and I don't even know about them. Once upon a CBC time, I would have
	8:15pm Flash Strap: need a fresh Bach pun
	🥁 8:15pm Aitch: Bach to the future?
	8:15pm StringOFperils: You scratch my Bach, and I'll...make you buy me new one
	8:16pm Flash Strap: they're from Montreal
	8:16pm Flash Strap: sorry Bach to the Future is NOT FRESH
	🥁 8:17pm Aitch: sorry, that was the wrong tree then
	8:18pm Flash Strap: i think they're from Montreal anyway. if i recall correctly
	8:18pm StringOFperils: Most likely.
	8:19pm Flash Strap: @aitch: well if i could have though of one i would have said it. perhaps bach puns have been simply cooked like eggs
	🥁 8:20pm Aitch: It's OK, we've all got your bach
	8:20pm Flash Strap: raking Bachs in the hot sun
	8:21pm still b/p: DJ in the Bach, Puffed wig top, Diggin' the scene, With a Baroque lean..
	8:22pm Flash Strap: B/P! i laughed !
	8:22pm StringOFperils: ^^ *thinks outside the Bachs
	8:23pm Flash Strap: most of this Harvester "Remains" comp is yet mysterious to me, still exploring it i suppose
	8:23pm Flash Strap: @soP: i.discogs.com...
	8:24pm Flash Strap: but i've been really tickled by this Medieval Machine recently. so to speak
	8:24pm StringOFperils: Ha ha ha. Seems I've seen that before, but still....inevitable I guess.
	8:25pm Flash Strap: great garage record actually. I think Doug turned me on to it
	8:30pm Flash Strap: this legendary, utterly mythical Swedish outfit has had many names: Pärson Sound → International Harvester → Harvester → Träd, Gräs Och Stenar. then later, Träden
	8:30pm Ignore Function: Great show so far, Flash Strap.
	8:30pm Flash Strap: Hi IF!
	8:34pm Flash Strap: god damn, what a band
	8:41pm Flash Strap: precursor to the surf sound which is to come in the next set, in a funny way
	🥁 8:42pm Aitch: I think you played some Lard Free before and I loved it then too
	8:44pm Flash Strap: they're so mindblowing, i have no idea why i haven't been obsessed with them for years but despite some listening sessions in the past / interest in other Artman projects, I feel i'm just now discovering them for myself. overjoyed to share in that
	🥁 8:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Band in park went longer than I thot ....but now I'ma take the long way home & listen to this here with some 4G gawshdarnit...
	8:47pm Flash Strap: this track must be one of my favorite Schmidt compositions post-Can, seems clear to me that it predicts his Gormenghast stuff
	8:47pm Little Danny: This is fantastic!
	8:47pm Flash Strap: Hey Rev welcome back! just in time for the surf hour anyway
	8:48pm Flash Strap: such a huge cosmic sound on this, vast but feels very very close to you, like it's pushing into your personal space bit by bit
	🥁 8:49pm Aitch: I'm expecting aliens any minute now
	8:51pm StringOFperils: I have the 90s reissue of Toy Planet on CD, with the plain red cover. The original cover is charming, too bad, but...shifting tastes
	8:52pm Webhamster Henry: I'm going to have to catch this with headphones on.
	8:52pm Flash Strap: man, the original cover is admittedly corny and a little amateurish if you look close but the '90 cover has no charm for me whatsoever, i hate when they do that
	8:53pm Flash Strap: as a cover art guy, you know. gotta be a crank about that kinda thing
	8:57pm StringOFperils: Absolutely!
	9:01pm Little Danny: :)
	9:03pm Little Danny: I’m grocery shopping rn but yeah from memory I believe that this was a session nominally “produced” by Shorty Rogers with session whiz Jerry Cole on guitar. Or some such. Love the little “Quiet Village” ostinato!
	9:04pm Flash Strap: that sounds about right, thanks for the deets LD!
	🥁 9:04pm Aitch: Very snazzy
	9:06pm PaulRobeson1922: Hi Hi Hi
	9:06pm Flash Strap: great sound from the Vy-Dels here
	9:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Paul!
	9:06pm Little Danny: Hell yeah
	9:07pm StringOFperils: Watching aitch's surfer footage to this set!
	9:09pm Uncle Michael: Man, I love the Tedeschi-Trucks Band!
	9:09pm Flash Strap: i wonder if it's possible Sven Libaek could have produced the Denvermen, i understand he had something to do with a lot of the Australian surf records
	9:10pm PaulRobeson1922: Sunshine, came softly, through my ah’ window today
	9:10pm Flash Strap: Haha Hi UM!
	9:11pm StringOFperils: UM. HA HA
	9:11pm doctorjazz: This brings back my accordion lessins as a child-played this (called The Wedding Waltz) weekly for months, despised it!
	9:12pm Uncle Michael: Hi! (and I really do)
	9:12pm doctorjazz: (might have moved on to another tune if I ever practiced...)
	9:12pm Flash Strap: if anyone can rescue it for you Doc, it's gotta be my man Terry
	9:13pm Uncle Michael: You might never have taken up medicine!
	9:14pm doctorjazz: True dat, worked out ok ..
	9:14pm StringOFperils: But then again you might have been the cold fusion reactor of accordion.
	9:15pm StringOFperils: This timeline has good in-flight music
	9:15pm doctorjazz: Love Prisoner of Love!
	9:16pm Flash Strap: a little Santo&Johnny inspired triptych here
	🥁 9:16pm Aitch: A bit more punishment here from a different spot. www.youtube.com...
	9:18pm still b/p: That felt lonely...like sitting alone at the bar with a misshapen umbrella in my drink and no bouffant girl to dance with.
	9:19pm Flash Strap: so true B/P
	9:20pm Flash Strap: i mean i really felt that
	9:20pm still b/p: Cuz they all go for the guy who was playing impromptu ACCORDION in the bar before!
	9:21pm doctorjazz: It's BAAAAAAAACCCCCKKKKK!!!!!
	9:22pm Flash Strap: this Centuries track was produced by Tommy Falcone, who was in fact an accordionist
	9:22pm Flash Strap: Falcone of the Cleopatra label, i should say
	9:23pm StringOFperils: Tommy Falcone. Classic name.
	9:23pm still b/p: My dad practiced accordion for years -- don't know if he ever played out. He later took up the bones and, past age 90, sat in on a session or two at the Irish bars EVERY week.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: truly, the man was from New jersey
	9:25pm Little Danny: All time fave, this
	9:25pm Flash Strap: Jim Messina, later of Buffalo Springfield (who have some great surf tunes in their repertoire too)
	9:26pm Flash Strap: @LD: so so good it's crazy
	9:26pm Scott67: Thanks Evan! Sadly for me Exotic Alien Interlude for me must end early. Gotta head to see Mum & Dad while the Sun is out. Cheers all! 🌏☀️🍻✌️😎🤙
	9:26pm Uncle Michael: Kenny's partner.
	9:26pm Flash Strap: see ya Scott! hi to mom & pop
	9:27pm Little Danny: Wow!
	9:28pm still b/p: All the learnin' now. Couldn'ta told you Messina had surfy dragster history and was in BS and Poco.
	9:28pm StringOFperils: That Jesters record sounded like the antecedent to The Ventures' 1968 theme for Hawaii 5-O, with the surfy rolling drum breaks
	9:29pm Flash Strap: LOVE the Jokers, a Belgian surf outfit
	🥁 9:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Fonky Library Surf (??) been both somewhat incongruous for treading the NewHampshuh nighttime streets but also a perfect mood floater...
	9:33pm Flash Strap: The Flamethrowers I believe were from Detroit. one of the most landlocked-sounding and savage surf groups
	🥁 9:34pm Aitch: This Flamethrowers is fab
	9:34pm Flash Strap: Joe Meek production on The Traitors
	9:34pm doctorjazz: Also Loggins and Messina...
	9:34pm Flash Strap: @Rev: I've actually been slowly working up a set of library surf
	🥁 9:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...also worth remembering the part Surf played in advancing Gittar chops - & amplifiers alike ...as well obviously as being a phase for so many soon to be GarageRawkers - & Psych freakers... Actual Surf Culture of course one of the first real Rawk-Related DIY DropOut scenes - with the Drag Racers too. A lot more than it's often credited with...
	9:38pm Flash Strap: @Rev: so true, also a major bridge between exotica and psychedelia, an axe i delight in grinding
	🥁 9:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...damn but this could easily be a little box of Surf Nuggets all pressed up & distributed ...don't know much - but seems to me...
	9:40pm still b/p: Vereee stereooooo.
	9:40pm Flash Strap: ah wouldn't that be a dream! of course i'm partly drawing from some wonderful comps - Rare Surf, Lost Legends, etc.
	9:40pm StringOFperils: It did have connections to Beat culture for sure. Post-war teens with cash and freedom enough to skip work and school to ride that pipeline and maybe play a little bongos
	9:42pm Flash Strap: crazy how much Link Wray sticks out even among classic surf, he's just in another sonic world
	9:42pm Flash Strap: @SoP: very true
	🥁 9:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...also - nobody hears enuff Shadows, imho. Especially me.
	9:44pm still b/p: Man, was hard back then to decide which developing milieu basket to put my eggs in -- outlaw motorcycle club or surf scene.
	🥁 9:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Mods & Rawkers in a way...
	9:44pm Flash Strap: Jack Nitzche production on this Epps may account for the surprise surfiness
	9:46pm Little Danny: flash @9:38: agreed, agreed, and 10000% agreed
	9:48pm doctorjazz: Gotta run for a bit, thanks, Flash, fun show!
	🥁 9:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Those showbiz financed L.A. studios - while TheBeatles were in some four-track Classical studio in Olde England. With white-coated oh-fficial Empire engineers fortunately...
	🥁 9:48pm Aitch: love the huge drum fills
	9:49pm Flash Strap: See ya Doc! thanks for hanging out!
	🥁 9:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Third Star to the Left' - referencing old poetry ? How many years before Hendrix's 'Third Stone From the Sun' that says 'you'll never hear Surf Music again' ??...
	9:52pm Ignore Function: Never get tired of this stuff.
	🥁 9:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...there's James Marshall Hendrix - a poor kid from Seattle - out of the Army in Kentucky or something - this kid ages before the Internet or even Rawk Journalism ...& they say he knew all these obscure Gittar Records somehow...
	🥁 9:55pm Aitch: Calvin Cool was cool indeed, might have to play that bach later. Great show Evan, thanks.
	🥁 9:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Just hella kewl. ~ TY Always DJ FlashStrap ! ~
	10:00pm Little Danny: best damn show, thank you evan so inspiring!
	🥁 10:01pm WR: Thank you!
	10:01pm Flash Strap: Thank you all! see you next week
	10:04pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from August 18, 2022

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