Favoriting Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from July 5, 2018 Favoriting

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro          
Archie Shepp  Invocation: Ballad For A Child   Favoriting Attica Blues  1972  Narr.: William Kunstler  0:00:47 (Pop-up)
The Coup  Not Yet Free   Favoriting Kill My Landlord  1993    0:01:18 (Pop-up)
The Coup  The Coup   Favoriting Kill My Landlord  1993    0:06:47 (Pop-up)
Archie Shepp  Attica Blues Part One   Favoriting Attica Blues Big Band, Live at the Palais des Glaces  1979    0:11:12 (Pop-up)
Archie Shepp  Attica Blues   Favoriting Attica Blues  1972    0:15:37 (Pop-up)
Archie Shepp  Invocation: Attica Blues   Favoriting Attica Blues  1972  Narr.: William Kunstler  0:20:52 (Pop-up)
The Coup  Fat Cats, Bigga Fish   Favoriting Genocide and Juice  1994    0:21:33 (Pop-up)
The Coup  Pimps (Free Stylin at the Fortune 500 Club)   Favoriting Genocide and Juice  1994    0:26:37 (Pop-up)
The Lightmen  Free As You Wanna Be   Favoriting Free As You Wanna Be  1970    0:31:40 (Pop-up)
Eugene McDaniels  Freedom Death Dance   Favoriting Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse  1971    0:39:58 (Pop-up)
Clifford Thornton  Right On!   Favoriting The Panther and the Lash  1971    0:44:11 (Pop-up)
The Coup  Dig It!   Favoriting Kill My Landlord  1993    0:47:38 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Don Cherry 
Rappin' Recipe (Instrumental)   Favoriting
Home Boy (Sister Out) 
 
 
0:51:44 (Pop-up)
Don Cherry  Alphabet City   Favoriting Home Boy (Sister Out)  1985    1:00:59 (Pop-up)
Don Cherry  Benoego   Favoriting Home Boy (Sister Out)  1985  (bonus)  1:04:27 (Pop-up)
Steel An' Skin  Acid Rain   Favoriting Acid Rain  1984    1:07:31 (Pop-up)
Steel An' Skin  Afro Punk Reggae (Dub)   Favoriting Reggae Is Here Once Again 12"  1979    1:15:58 (Pop-up)
Steel An' Skin  Fire In Soweto   Favoriting Reggae Is Here Once Again 12"  1979    1:22:33 (Pop-up)
Mushapata  Zambe Aponiyo   Favoriting Saba-Saba Fighting 12"  1980-84    1:26:39 (Pop-up)
Mushapata  Mudongo Wangu   Favoriting Saba-Saba Fighting 12"  1980-84    1:32:19 (Pop-up)
Keith Hudson  Class and Subject   Favoriting The Hudson Affair - Keith Hudson And Friends  1969-1975    1:36:24 (Pop-up)
I-Roy  Jah Lion Jungle   Favoriting The Hudson Affair - Keith Hudson And Friends  1969-1975    1:39:09 (Pop-up)
Earl Flute & Keith Hudson  The Betrayer   Favoriting The Hudson Affair - Keith Hudson And Friends  1969-1975    1:42:02 (Pop-up)
Earl Flute & Horace Andy  Peter and Judas   Favoriting The Hudson Affair - Keith Hudson And Friends  1969-1975    1:44:46 (Pop-up)
Augustus Pablo  Satan Side Version (aka Kiss 14)   Favoriting The Hudson Affair - Keith Hudson And Friends  1969-1975    1:47:16 (Pop-up)
Keith Hudson  Fight On Fight On   Favoriting The Hudson Affair - Keith Hudson And Friends  1969-1975    1:49:46 (Pop-up)
Keith Hudson  Jean You Change Everything   Favoriting The Hudson Affair - Keith Hudson And Friends  1969-1975    1:51:28 (Pop-up)
The Chuckles  Class and Subject Version   Favoriting The Hudson Affair - Keith Hudson And Friends  1969-1975    1:53:42 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Keith Hudson 
Black Heart   Favoriting
Pick a Dub 
 
 
1:55:31 (Pop-up)
Amiri Baraka, Leroi Jones w/ David Murray & Steve McCall  Class Struggle in Music I   Favoriting New Music – New Poetry  1982    2:04:35 (Pop-up)
Max Roach – Archie Shepp  Sweet Mao - 3. Le Commencement   Favoriting Force – Sweet Mao – Sud Afrika 76  1976    2:08:26 (Pop-up)
Brother D  Clappers Power   Favoriting Clappers Power 12"  1987    2:25:09 (Pop-up)
Bobby Gilliom  Gimme A Break   Favoriting Bobby Gilliom - Gimme A Break / Clappa Club - A Dub Break 12"  1983    2:29:15 (Pop-up)
Gil Scott-Heron  Re-Ron   Favoriting Re-Ron 12"  1984    2:35:06 (Pop-up)
Advanced Workers with the Anti-Imperialist Singers  You Was Dancin Need To Be Marchin So You Can Dance Some More Later   Favoriting You Was Dancin Need To Be Marchin So You Can Dance Some More Later / Better Red Let Others Be Dead 7"  1977?  Amiri Baraka  2:41:33 (Pop-up)
Archie Shepp  Ballad for a Child   Favoriting Attica Blues  1972    2:45:33 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers 
The Freedom Rider   Favoriting
The Freedom Rider 
1964 
 
2:49:36 (Pop-up)
The Jaynetts  I Wanted To Be Free   Favoriting Zell's Girls: J&S, Zell's, Baton And Dice Recordings 1955-1970      2:57:40 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 5:06pm
Flash Strap:

¡Compañeros!
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chresti:

Glad tidings Simpaticos! (in advance)
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doctorjazz:

Slightly early greetings!
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Flash Strap:

hello and hello, dear friends! just getting warmed up here, about to start and glad to have Chresti and Doc Jazz with me from the jump
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listener james from westwood:

Evening, all!!
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Little Danny:

Hey Evan, hey all
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Flash Strap:

Hi hi LD, LJW!
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northguineahills:

The Coup, nice early 90s hiphop (the second golden age, in ITHO of Billy Jam)
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

Boots is my #1
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Flash Strap:

Hi NGH!
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Flash Strap:

lyrical masterclass
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hyde:

hiya
  7:06pm
JtotheK:

Didn’t I read that Boots recently directed a feature film?
Hi everyone!
Avatar 7:08pm
hyde:

@JtotheK yeah, it's called Sorry to Bother You
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Flash Strap:

Hi Hyde!

Hi J_K, yeah, I really hope it's as good as the hype, which has it being extremely excellent
  7:09pm
JtotheK:

Yep, that was it! Thanks for jogging my memory... will have to check the film out. (Eventually.)
Avatar 7:12pm
northguineahills:

That Trump reference reminds me that my extreme right-wing uncle that he knew Trump was a Shyster back in the 80s due to being an IBM exec, he's GOP, but a never Trumper....
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

great vocal by Irene Datcher on this
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'The poor man's idea of a rich man.'
Unfortunately - that's the ticket to victory...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
chresti:

I was about to ask../
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

Hey RevRab!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

This fellow's always up for agitation... :
www.facebook.com...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...dayum...I guess this was the take!...
  7:18pm
zonk ludlow:

Morning all (Aus time). Been absent in the flesh for a bit, but overjoyed to be tuning in today in real time.
  7:18pm
chresti:

This one has a ball of confusion feel to it
Avatar 7:18pm
Flash Strap:

Hiya Zonk! great to see ya pal
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Flash Strap:

@Chresti: so true, yeah
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Flash Strap:

really is one of Shepp's coolest numbers, this
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Flash Strap:

red-hot from start to finish
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...all out of Gospel...MavisStaples being immolated...
Avatar 7:23pm
Flash Strap:

this track is a deceptively thorough piece of class-conscious writing with a denoument to die for
Avatar 7:29pm
Flash Strap:

hell yes, petroleum wars
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hyde:

i somehow missed The Coup completely. cool stuff
Avatar 7:30pm
Flash Strap:

this next part is revolting
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

@Hyde: the first two records are in constant rotation around here
Avatar 7:31pm
northguineahills:

Definitely proto-chap-hop!
Avatar 7:33pm
northguineahills:

Ok, leaving work, thanks Evan!
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Flash Strap:

my great pleasure NGH!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Nice kinda - Miles X Masekela ?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Little Danny:

Lightmen yes! Amazing this happened entirely in Houston
Avatar 7:35pm
Flash Strap:

yeah, unique sound! from Texas
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Flash Strap:

totally agree, LD
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

('LoveSupreme' riff.)
Avatar 7:37pm
Flash Strap:

Bubbha Thomas just amazing on drums here
Avatar 7:38pm
hyde:

@RevRab i almost spit my beer out when Ronnie Laws quoted John Coltrane
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Fecking great.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Overall 'BitchesBrew' thang w/ the gittar - & then this arranged horn section...so kewl...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

DAYUM
  7:41pm
JtotheK:

Great Eugene McD Record!
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Flash Strap:

god this is Eugene McDaniels at his most brilliant
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chresti:

nice title
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Flash Strap:

i love how early Eugene McDaniels sounds a lot like young Scott Walker – and then they both took their hard turns to left/avant garde material
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...just as episode of Beatle obsessive podcast comes up w/ review of 'Sometime in NYC' (w/ ''Attica State & so on) :
www.facebook.com...

...huh - like the Walker side of GilScottH...
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

such a great record, really cool cover: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 7:49pm
Flash Strap:

they did a good video for this track, btw
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I think JimMorrison would dig being sampled/?/referenced (doors' version 'BackDoorMan')...
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Asheville Jon:

i've really been enjoying the show so far.
Avatar 8:00pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Jon! glad to hear it
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melinda:

hi chums
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hyde:

hey melinda!
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Flash Strap:

Hi Melinda!
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Flash Strap:

i meant to mention this, but what makes this record interesting even when it's not too great is that its obviously influenced by no wave / 4th world / david byrne
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Flash Strap:

lookin' out my window at an incredible double rainbow
  8:06pm
zonk ludlow:

A real Sly & Robbie feel also happening here.
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

yeah
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Flash Strap:

this is not a subtle song, and I like that just fine
  8:18pm
zonk ludlow:

A lot of humankind is in need of a severe brow beating right now so a lack of subtlety is totally in order. Middle section resembles John Cooper Clark fronting a calypso steel band which floats my boat.
Avatar 8:19pm
Flash Strap:

big agree, Zonk
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Flash Strap:

this track is cool as hell
  8:25pm
zonk ludlow:

These guys are new to me. A big tip of the hat Flash, loving it.
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Flash Strap:

all the tracks of theirs I've played are on an EM reissue / comp that's also called Reggae Is Here Once Again, btw
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Uncle Michael:

good evening
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Flash Strap:

Hey there, UM!
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Flash Strap:

this whole Mushapata EP is heavy as hell, extremely worth looking into its reissue as well
  8:29pm
zonk ludlow:

Cheers Flash, already tracked a copy down.
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Uncle Michael:

Mishpuchah EP?
Avatar 8:30pm
Flash Strap:

we're all mishpocheh here
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chresti:

viva shapata!
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Flash Strap:

great cover, btw: img.discogs.com...
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Flash Strap:

"In my class, you're a subject"

this is a killer fucking lyric
Avatar 8:41pm
Flash Strap:

A little riddimology in this sequence
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hyde:

woo, love this
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Flash Strap:

Hudson is such a top guy
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hyde:

yep
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Flash Strap:

what a shambling, loose production this is
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Flash Strap:

sounds like it was a normal single that got haunted
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chresti:

house of the rising sun
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Flash Strap:

oh, true
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Flash Strap:

never noticed that
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chresti:

on Jean...
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chresti:

hard hitting roots rocking dub
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Little Danny:

Man I clearly need more Amiri - this is great
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Flash Strap:

that's weird, I was just thinking today that you might have been the one who sent that to me, because it showed up in my library at the same time as that Jazz Eschatology
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Flash Strap:

but yeah, he has some great stuff!
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Little Danny:

Nope, can't claim credit for bringing it to yer attention
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Flash Strap:

well remind me to send it to you
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Flash Strap:

actually, here's where I got it: streamsofexpression.blogspot.com...
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Flash Strap:

some of these I also have full albums for, but not New Music – New Poetry
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doctorjazz:

Like this Roach/Shepp duo... Roach did some other interesting duets, with Cecil Taylor, and Diz. Have those, this is the first I'm hearing this one. Cool!
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Flash Strap:

Dollar Brand as well, I think. I love that about Roach
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Flash Strap:

cover: img.discogs.com...
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Little Danny:

Holy crap, thanks! Funny I was just cross-referencing the New York Art Quartet LP shown at the top of that blog
Avatar 9:19pm
Flash Strap:

my pleasure!
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doctorjazz:

Late day ,time to head home, thanks for the music Flash!
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Flash Strap:

my pleasure Doc!
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hyde:

this record is aces
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Flash Strap:

yeah, it's just so powerful
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Flash Strap:

I wish Brother D made more records. he's so crystal clear
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Flash Strap:

this is another Clappers release. cool label
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Flash Strap:

I always thought this track was similar but clearly inferior to "B-Movie", but it's great on its own merits anyway
  9:41pm
zonk ludlow:

Love anything by GSH, but this is classic with what sounds like Tackhead as his backing band.
Avatar 9:42pm
Flash Strap:

yeah it's a wacky ass production
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:45pm
chresti:

I'm not familiar with Clappers, I see a couple familiar names, (Yabby U, Nicodemus...)
  9:45pm
zonk ludlow:

Bill Laswell no less.
Avatar 9:46pm
Flash Strap:

oh that's right! yeah, Bill Laswell
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Flash Strap:

Bernie Worrell too
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
chresti:

on GSH?
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Flash Strap:

Clappers was a reggae label, highly politically-oriented, pretty marxist/maoist, that also did some early hip hop, inc. the landmark Brother D single, How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise?
Avatar 9:49pm
Flash Strap:

yeah, Laswell and Worrell on that wild GSH track
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:50pm
chresti:

Rebel Rasta music
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hyde:

thanks!
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northguineahills:

Got here just in time!
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northguineahills:

Got here just in time!
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northguineahills:

Got here just in time!
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Little Danny:

Brilliant show mate
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Little Danny:

Yes! Please do join us thusly: wfmu.org...
  9:57pm
zonk ludlow:

Cheers Flash for a truly wonderful 3 hours, totally engrossing. See ya next week.
Avatar 9:58pm
Flash Strap:

thanks brothers and sisters, it was an honor as ever
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37am
Brian in UK:

Hello Flash. My favourite Keith Hudson is Brand, got a white label copy, it just drifts you along.
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