Favoriting Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from September 29, 2022 Favoriting

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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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Favoriting September 29, 2022: Into the Maelstrom: Pôle Records, 1975-1977

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
Besombes - Rizet  Haute Pression   Favoriting Pôle  Pôle Records  1975    0:01:39 (Pop-up)
Philippe Besombes  La Plage / Rugby   Favoriting Libra  Pôle Records  1975    0:12:28 (Pop-up)
Fluence  A Few Reasons to Stay – A Few Reasons to Split   Favoriting Fluence  Pôle Records  1975  Fluence = Pascal Comelade (feat. Richard Pinhas, guitar)  0:17:08 (Pop-up)
Subversion  Kaliani   Favoriting Subversion  Pôle Records  1976    0:31:31 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Tropical Forest – Number Six Chops Down the Tree  
 
 
 
 
0:35:43 (Pop-up)
Pôle  Kotrill   Favoriting Kotrill  Pôle Records  1975  (excerpt)  0:46:08 (Pop-up)
Pôle  Inside the Dream   Favoriting Inside the Dream  Pôle Records  1975  (excerpt)  0:56:12 (Pop-up)
Pataphonie  Structure Poubelle   Favoriting Pataphonie  Pôle Records  1975  (excerpt)  1:05:36 (Pop-up)
Henri Roger  Images...   Favoriting Images...  Pôle Records  1975    1:15:03 (Pop-up)
Philippe Besombes  Jaune / PJF 261   Favoriting Libra  Pôle Records  1975    1:33:59 (Pop-up)
Besombes - Rizet  Lundi Matin   Favoriting Pôle  Pôle Records  1975    1:39:07 (Pop-up)
Fluence  Barcelona Tango   Favoriting Fluence  Pôle Records  1975    1:44:41 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Underway  
 
 
 
 
1:47:33 (Pop-up)
Subversion  Le Tube De L'Ete   Favoriting Subversion  Pôle Records  1976    1:56:46 (Pop-up)
Philippe Besombes  Poursuite / La Ville   Favoriting Libra  Pôle Records  1975    1:59:37 (Pop-up)
Verto  Et Terre / Ether   Favoriting Krig / Volubilis  Pôle Records  1976  w/ members of Potemkine  2:05:14 (Pop-up)
Potemkine  Foetus   Favoriting Foetus  Pôle Records  1976    2:09:58 (Pop-up)
Potemkine  Hymne   Favoriting Foetus  Pôle Records  1976    2:16:18 (Pop-up)
Melody  Merry-Go-Round   Favoriting Come Fly With Me  Pôle Records  1976    2:18:14 (Pop-up)
Emergency Exit  Une Ville   Favoriting Sortie De Secours  Pôle Records  1976  (excerpt)  2:25:32 (Pop-up)
Trans-Europe Express  Living For The Rock And Roll   Favoriting Living For The Rock And Roll  Pôle Records  1977    2:30:28 (Pop-up)
Mahogany Brain  Tongues-Movie: Docteur Cloud   Favoriting Smooth Sick Lights  Pôle Records  1976    2:33:13 (Pop-up)
Philippe Grancher  3000 Miles Away   Favoriting 3000 Miles Away  Pôle Records  1976    2:36:13 (Pop-up)
Subversion  L'Arbre Mort   Favoriting Subversion  Pôle Records  1976    2:45:08 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Bells Of My Soul  
 
 
 
 
2:50:17 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:38pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Explorers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Scott67:

G'day Evan & Pole-ar Explorers!
🌏☀️📻🎶🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
  7:01pm
listener James from Westwood:

Evening, Flash and all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
chresti:

Hi Flash and explorers!
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Scott! James! Chresti!
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

kicking it off with my favorite track of the night
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
squidbeak:

Hi Flash and all🇫🇷🙏😍
Avatar 7:07pm
Flash Strap:

Hey Squidbeak!
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WR:

Hi peoples
Avatar 7:08pm
Flash Strap:

hey WR!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Little Danny:

a certified ER classic!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Little Danny:

hi evan hi erybody
Avatar 7:11pm
Flash Strap:

Hey LD! starting with a big classsic before we head down the murky sidestreets
Avatar 7:11pm
Flash Strap:

this one's gonna be extra murky tonight
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
adamdoesit:

Hi Flash and explorers. This'd be good music to pump up tires to. I dig it.
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Adam! i totally agree
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
Doug Schulkind:

Murk me, baby.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
melinda:

hi friends
Avatar 7:16pm
Flash Strap:

Hey Doug! Murkish Delight tonight
Avatar 7:16pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Melinda!
Avatar 7:16pm
Flash Strap:

Libra is such a cool, crazy album
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

This Fluence is Pascal Comelade's first album, which is cool enough, but it also has a little guest guitar from Heldon's Richard Pinhas
Avatar 7:22pm
Ike:

Cool.
Avatar 7:23pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Ike!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
Little Danny:

gorgeous drones, wow!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
melinda:

yes, lovely
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
Little Danny:

is this typical of this album?
Avatar 7:30pm
Flash Strap:

it is most of the album! there's another short track that we'll hear later on that's much more predictive of Comelade's later sound, and the other sidelong track is similar in some ways but much less lovely
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

much better to find a version of it from the "My Degeneration" reissue than a rip of the original, sound quality-wise
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
Mantarray:

Heya exolorers! Tuning in for a while from good ol' Brighton, UK
Avatar 7:32pm
Flash Strap:

Hey Mantarray! not your usual stomping grounds
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Franco Twinkie:

Howdy Flash!
  7:36pm
Mr. Jackpots:

Hello! I love Pole records! Looking forward to listening to this show : )
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Mantarray:

Not the usual but a favourite of mine. As always, though, happy to be here!
  7:41pm
Andrés Miranda:

HAUTE - HAUTE - HAUTE Pression!!!!!
Avatar 7:47pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Mr. Jackpot! Hello Andrés! Howdy Franco!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
StringOFperils:

Hello, Flash, and travellers!
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

listening to the 1st Pôle LP is like wading through a marsh and having some difficulty with it
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

Hi SoP!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
adamdoesit:

Marshin' chronicles.
Avatar 7:51pm
Flash Strap:

hahaha perfect
Avatar 7:54pm
neveract:

Hey Flash and all Explorers.. Had to be late today.. had a doc AND dentist appt.. ugh!
Avatar 7:54pm
Flash Strap:

hey Never, better late than
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Evening ! Been enjoying outside as on my foodforage.
Avatar 7:55pm
Flash Strap:

Hey Rev!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...G-mania Watch Party this Thurs. evening (now) is 1950s Harryhausen - Earth Vs. FlyingSaucers this moment. Soundtrack here works fine. :D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Franco Twinkie:

Neveract, hello!
Avatar 7:58pm
Flash Strap:

ah that sounds just right Rev
Avatar 8:00pm
neveract:

Hey Franco! .. and chresti
Avatar 8:01pm
TDK60:

Flash, it's been a while.
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

hey TDK!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Franco Twinkie:

RR, hey! I went to a screening of Jason and the Argonauts at The Egyptian Theater in Hollywood and Ray Harryhausen was there!
  8:04pm
Robm:

Hello fellow explorers
Avatar 8:05pm
Flash Strap:

most of the rest of the record is broad synthy blizzard stuff, but i've always been most taken with this quiet guitar section
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Franco wow. He came from LA with Forrest J. Ackerman & Bradbury. Later he moved to England. Maybe his best work that too.
Avatar 8:05pm
Flash Strap:

Hey there Robm!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...with 1950s Washington D.C. suitably wrecked by the Saucers - were on to Italy with the Ymir for 20 Million Miles to Earth...
  8:07pm
Robm:

Hi flash strap
@RRN63 howdy
@Franco howdy
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Hullo Robm & All
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Franco - (about) what year that screening ?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Franco Twinkie:

RR, I went to Forry's house when he lived in Los Feliz. For lovers of sci-fi ephemera, it's like dying and going to heaven

I'm not sure. I went there so much it's all kind of blurry. But Chris D who was the lead singer of The Flesh Eaters introduced him!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Jayzus Franco.
Avatar 8:14pm
Flash Strap:

that is so cool Franco
Avatar 8:18pm
Flash Strap:

Roger on a Yamaha YC 45 D organ here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Aitch:

In late, hey explorers
Avatar 8:23pm
Flash Strap:

Hey Aitch!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
chresti:

hey neveract
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
StringOFperils:

This just in: Spacey sounds elicit positive response
Avatar 8:25pm
Flash Strap:

love to hear it SoP!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
chresti:

take me away spacey sound guys!
Avatar 8:27pm
Flash Strap:

some more structured stuff to come before long. we're even gonna rock out in the most vulgar sense a little later on. also will hit on some Magma-esque Zeuhl sounds
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
StringOFperils:

Big lava for Magma
Avatar 8:29pm
Flash Strap:

I really don't know Magma terribly well to be honest but i'm willing to learn
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
StringOFperils:

I heard something more recent lately that I wasn't fond of, but otherwise
Avatar 8:32pm
Flash Strap:

have been listening to Magma's Inédits recently as it was put out by Tapioca, who bought all the Pôle masters & reissued them throughout the 70s. seems pretty good to me
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
StringOFperils:

A worthy addition to any respectable repository of weirdness
Avatar 8:35pm
Flash Strap:

this Besombes track is utterly heroic to me
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Aitch:

Enjoying the spacey sounds
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
Franco Twinkie:

Oh man, this is the shit!
Avatar 8:41pm
Flash Strap:

yeah this one kicks ass
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Franco Twinkie:

It has a slight Weather Report vibe, but less jazzy.
  8:42pm
Quinn:

Oui oui
Avatar 8:43pm
Flash Strap:

Hey Quinn! yeah, sax + synths is the ticket!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Franco Twinkie:

Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter on mushrooms.
Avatar 8:46pm
Flash Strap:

a lot of this stuff has real shroom energy i think
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
Franco Twinkie:

'shroom energy all day - everyday.
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

love this Subversion track
Avatar 8:58pm
Hams:

yeah, flash. glad to hear this number.
Avatar 8:58pm
Flash Strap:

hey Hams!
Avatar 8:59pm
Hams:

good evenin'!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Uncle Michael:

How-DEEE!
Avatar 9:00pm
Flash Strap:

Hey hey Uncle!
Avatar 9:08pm
Flash Strap:

Verto = Jean Pierre Grasset, who often performed solo guitar w/ feedback delay ala Gottsching, etc. but is here backed by members of Potemkine, who also released an album on Pôle
Avatar 9:09pm
Flash Strap:

Potemkine being the main representatives of the Zeuhl sound so far as Pôle's catalog goes
  9:13pm
northguineahills:

Living the dream. The lake behind my apt burst it’s banks this morning and flooded my apt w/ knee high water. I was later put into a small unfinished apt on the second floor. 16 hours later, still no power. Volunteering at the mission, we have random homeless sprawled in the cafeteria floor as well as the usual homeless in the dorm. And, I jerry-rigged the op w/ my laptop, phone, a generator, and a floodlight, outside alone, under a shelter. Good times (saved most of my clothes and books, thankfully).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

JAYZUS ngh. Love & power (personal & literal) to you brother.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
StringOFperils:

Glad you can be with us, ngh!
Avatar 9:15pm
Flash Strap:

oh no NGH! oh god that sounds incredibly stressful, i hate to think how much you & others couldn't save but I'm so glad to hear you're OK!
Avatar 9:15pm
Flash Strap:

our thoughts are with you friend
Avatar 9:16pm
TDK60:

Good luck, NGH.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
adamdoesit:

ngh. That's awful. Wishing you dryness.

Turning in. Thanks, Flash Strap.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

What I believe is called a disaster.
Just saw a pic from S. Carolina in the storm - any number of boats tossed & piled up on the shore. Kind of image all the verbiage doesn't quite communicate...
Avatar 9:19pm
Flash Strap:

adios adam! thanks for tuning in
  9:21pm
northguineahills:

Someone has to keep this mission (literally) running.
Avatar 9:22pm
Flash Strap:

Ian's headed our way tomorrow morning. i had a tree fall and very nearly pulverize me a month ago so i'm a little jumpy about high winds these days. but it looks like we'll be ok, we're pretty far inland
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Photo is actually FLA :
www.pbs.org...
Avatar 9:23pm
Flash Strap:

bless you NGH
Avatar 9:24pm
Flash Strap:

this Melody LP was recorded (by Philippe Besombes) as a demo, which resulted in them getting a deal with the Vogue label. this song is on both records, in different forms
  9:28pm
northguineahills:

@RevRabbit: it’s like the aftermath of a drunken boat orgy.
  9:29pm
northguineahills:

At least it finally feels like autumn, 65F/17C
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Both my sympathies & my admiration ngh.
Gotta win that giant lottery & set this sh*tty world right.
  9:31pm
northguineahills:

All of the trees here fell on the other properties, luckily. When Irma hit Gainesville, my neighbor’s tree fell onto my driveway barely missing my house. Luckily, I was able to evacuate for that one. Stay safe from inebriated trees in Ian’s wake, Evan!
Avatar 9:32pm
Flash Strap:

thanks NGH, you too! i hate when they fall
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
Aitch:

Let there be rock!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
Aitch:

Had to check the stream hadn't dropped out..
Avatar 9:34pm
Flash Strap:

this Mahogany Brain LP was recorded by Jef Gilson
Avatar 9:34pm
Flash Strap:

@Aitch: i know, very unlikely I would have ever played that track outside of this specific show theme
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
StringOFperils:

1977. They wanted to believe.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
Franco Twinkie:

That Trans -Europe Express was like been fifteen years old again. Pass that joint, brother.
Avatar 9:37pm
Flash Strap:

Mahogany Brain is such a stultifying group
Avatar 9:38pm
Flash Strap:

Both Besombes and Rizet involved in the recording of this Grancher project
Avatar 9:40pm
TDK60:

Somewhat distant, far out.
Avatar 9:41pm
Flash Strap:

too far to walk
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I do not hate the RawkaRollas & I cannot lie.
Not entirely or all the time anyhow.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
StringOFperils:

Very influenced by early King Crimson
Avatar 🥁 9:49pm
jaywbabcock:

SUBVERSION! Obv KC and Genesis but also all those Argentine prog bands
Avatar 9:50pm
Flash Strap:

hey Jay!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:50pm
StringOFperils:

Yes, by 1975 there was no shortage of this stuff
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
chresti:

Sheesh ngh! Are you near Gainsville?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
Little Danny:

thank you evan!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Little Danny:

chaos ahoy: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Richy4619:

extending my virtual support yr way, NGH. i was just in FL last week visiting my mom. she's ok!
Avatar 9:54pm
TDK60:

Merci, DJ Flash! See you soon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:56pm
Doug Schulkind:

Thank you thank you, Evan. Wonderful show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
StringOFperils:

Thanks, Evan. I'd say it in Kobaïan, but....
Avatar 9:57pm
neveract:

Thank you Flash!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Oh yeah ! Great the tech mess rectified in one week.
~ TY Always DJ FS ~
Avatar 9:58pm
Hams:

appreciate it, flash!
Avatar 9:59pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks all for tuning in! see you next week and next door
Avatar 🥁 10:00pm
jaywbabcock:

Never heard Subversion before, very psyched, thx Evan
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Scott67:

Thanks Evan, I was outside as you ended mate.🍻😎🤙💨🍺
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:06am
chresti:

Thanks Flash!
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