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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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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
Edgar Froese  Epsilon in Malaysian Pale   Favoriting Epsilon in Malaysian Pale  Virgin  1975    0:01:57 (Pop-up)
Luis Pérez  Ipan In Xiktli Metztli   Favoriting Ipan In Xiktli Metzli, México Mágico Cósmico, En El Ombligo De La Luna  ISSSTE  1981    0:18:03 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Crivellamento  
 
 
 
 
0:38:06 (Pop-up)
Robert Turman  Miao   Favoriting Flux  Self-Released  1981    0:45:19 (Pop-up)
Fripp & Eno  The Heavenly Music Corporation   Favoriting (No Pussyfooting)  Island Records  1973    1:01:18 (Pop-up)
Absolute Elsewhere  Chariots of the Gods / Return to the Stars   Favoriting In Search of Ancient Gods  Warner Bros.  1976    1:20:57 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys  Feel Flows   Favoriting Surf's Up  Reprise  1971    1:39:45 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Pool  
 
 
 
 
1:44:32 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey  Amuck   Favoriting Orgy in Rhythm Vol. 2  Blue Note  1957    1:53:29 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey  Elephant Walk   Favoriting Orgy in Rhythm Vol. 2  Blue Note  1957  vocal by Sabu  1:58:46 (Pop-up)
King Errisson  Alone   Favoriting The King Arrives  Canyon Records  1970    2:05:51 (Pop-up)
Cymande  Bird   Favoriting Second Time Around  Janus  1973    2:13:59 (Pop-up)
Black Truth Rhythm Band  Ifetayo   Favoriting Ifetayo  Charlie's Records  1976    2:18:19 (Pop-up)
Cedric Brooks & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari  Song for South Africa   Favoriting One Truth  Visions  1980    2:24:01 (Pop-up)
Dr. John, The Night Tripper  Zu Zu Mamou   Favoriting The Sun, Moon & Herbs  ATCO  1971    2:34:34 (Pop-up)
King Errisson  Dance After the Feast   Favoriting The King Arrives  Canyon Records  1970    2:42:40 (Pop-up)
Exuma  Dambala   Favoriting Exuma  Mercury  1970    2:47:56 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Les Metiers et Borneo  
 
 
 
 
2:53:11 (Pop-up)
J.B. Lenoir  The Whale Has Swallowed Me   Favoriting Alabama Blues  CBS  1966    2:59:07 (Pop-up)


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Avatar 6:29pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Explorers! gonna do a deep listen tonight, really sink in
Avatar 6:51pm
Flash Strap:

paintings by Hilma af Klint (en.wikipedia.org...)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:53pm
chresti:

Hi Flash and explorers!
Avatar 7:01pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Chresti!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
Fuzzy:

Well OK! Howdy all!
Avatar 7:02pm
Frog Mover:

Hello! Need all the head flow I can get these days
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hiya Fuzzy!
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Frog Mo - we'll get deep in those brains and start a frog flow
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

This is my favorite Froese album, including Tangerine Dream. I really think it might be the peak record for the EF/TD sound
Avatar 7:07pm
Frog Mover:

Excellent! Dig these paintings a lot
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

a later Froese solo compilation ("Electronic Dreams") included the track "Maroubra Bay" (from this LP) but accidentally recorded it backwards – I'll likely play that on an upcoming show
Avatar 7:11pm
Flash Strap:

@FM: Hilma af Klint was pretty unbelievable, predating all the canonical abstract modern painters. I remember seeing her work for the first time at the venice biennale and being blown away, then checking the dates and being utterly demolished
  7:12pm
northguineahills:

Almost done w/ work. Hear ya at the hotel.
Avatar 7:12pm
Flash Strap:

NGH! hello friend
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
chresti:

Hmm, .backwards sounds interesting
Avatar 7:17pm
Flash Strap:

getting really into backwards stuff right now, have a whole thing planned for October on this theme
Avatar 7:22pm
Flash Strap:

This album's design is very good, great cover, cool fonts, nice gatefold: www.discogs.com...
Avatar 7:24pm
Flash Strap:

very surprising but this track really starts to sound like that excellent Besombes-Rizet synth workout we recently heard (which itself sounded a lot like the Dr. Who theme)
Avatar 7:25pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Lovely mystery
Avatar 7:26pm
Flash Strap:

hello Kenzo!
Avatar 7:28pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

What medium do you have this on?
Avatar 7:29pm
Flash Strap:

only mp3, regretfully, why do you ask
Avatar 7:29pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I just...want to hear it as excellently as is possible.
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

yeah this could be better but it's all I got
Avatar 7:32pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

It couldn't be better
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
WR:

Hello Evan and all. I would not have guessed these sounds are to evoke Ipan In Xiktli Metztli
Avatar 7:34pm
Flash Strap:

used to be somewhat rare but i see its been reissued a few times now, I should see if any of those constitute an upgrade nonetheless
Avatar 7:35pm
Flash Strap:

Hi WR! yeah this album is all over the place, one of the more synthy records Pérez did but all his stuff that I've heard is so great
  7:35pm
Doug Schulkind:

I have ROOMitoid EARthritis!
Avatar 7:36pm
Flash Strap:

hahahaha hi Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
WR:

someone has a reissue on bandcamp
mrbongo.bandcamp.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
WR:

a little bit of info there as well as the statement that they did license it from Perez. Froese I've known, Perez new to me.
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

that's good to hear WR
Avatar 7:47pm
northguineahills:

ok, finally back,...
Avatar 7:47pm
Flash Strap:

really zoned out to this track the other day and felt like I was hearing it for the first time, very exotic
Avatar 7:47pm
northguineahills:

ha, Doug!
Avatar 7:47pm
Flash Strap:

welcome back NGH
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Little Danny:

Oh hell this is a playlist. Hi Flash, hi explorateurs!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Little Danny:

Love Robert Turman (at least the stuff I've heard - this and the Beyond Painting CD)
Avatar 7:51pm
Flash Strap:

Hi LD! I'm not actually familiar with much beyond Flux, something I should fix
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
WR:

I was in a meeting up until just before my comment. I didn't have the volume up enough to really hear the details of the work, was just hearing overall texture. I'll re-listen.

Turman new to me. Lovely flow and tones.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Little Danny:

Honestly I've enjoyed Turman's music but couldn't tell you a darn thing about him or his milieu
Avatar 7:56pm
northguineahills:

Yeah, Turman is new to me too! Loverly stuff!
Avatar 7:57pm
Flash Strap:

me either, i once read that Flux was crucial, so I got it and I liked it and that's sort of it. I hadn't listened to it for a long time until just recently
Avatar 7:57pm
Flash Strap:

but the first half of this album is very minimal-exotic and I really respond to it
Avatar 7:58pm
Flash Strap:

he's part of some corner of that 80s industrial scene that I don't really know how to parse
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

in terms of method: "Brian Eno invited Robert Fripp to his London home studio in September 1972. Eno was experimenting with a tape system developed by Terry Riley and Pauline Oliveros where two reel-to-reel tape recorders were set up side-by side. Sounds recorded on the first deck would be played back by the second deck, and then routed back into the first deck to create a long looping tape delay. Fripp played guitar over Eno's loops, while Eno selectively looped or recorded Fripp's guitar without looping it"
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

it's very pleasant to hold the album art in your mind as you hear it as well: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Aitch:

In late, the Fripp / Eno nice
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Aitch!
  8:05pm
?:

Very good and warm. Got a nice little cassette of this and Evening Star.
Avatar 8:06pm
Frog Mover:

whoops that was me. accidentally logged off
Avatar 8:06pm
Flash Strap:

I have "heard" this album for many years but to be honest I'd never given it the time for a Serious Listen until recently and I found I really didn't know it at all
Avatar 8:07pm
Flash Strap:

it's very good, esp. this side. also reissued with some reversed versions
Avatar 8:11pm
Flash Strap:

really is heavenly, borders on religious
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
chresti:

robertturman.bandcamp.com
Avatar 8:16pm
Frog Mover:

Trippy too
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
chresti:

Seems like ET borrowed from this
Avatar 8:19pm
Flash Strap:

these waves really throb the mind
Avatar 8:21pm
Flash Strap:

had never heard this until Dean recommended it 2 weeks ago
Avatar 8:25pm
Flash Strap:

Bill Bruford on drums
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Doug Schulkind:

My brother Flash Strap. It is a stunning wonder how you have achieved the marvelous capacity to make the music you play better for having been played by you. Simply the acme.
Avatar 8:30pm
Flash Strap:

I do what I can to my best – you humble me dear friend
Avatar 8:33pm
Flash Strap:

meant to say "I do what i can to do my best" which is close enough to gibberish already, my god
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Little Danny:

Fascinating, there was an entirely different Peter Thomas soundtrack to this as well. Musta been the German version soundtrack.
Avatar 8:34pm
Flash Strap:

too deep in the waves to type right
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Little Danny:

This is incredible btw
Avatar 8:35pm
Flash Strap:

I picked up that Thomas soundtrack after hearing it on your show, LD! but this is no soundtrack, just a concept album. Däniken's stuff was crazy popular at the time
Avatar 8:36pm
Flash Strap:

(Erich von Däniken, who wrote Chariots of the Gods and kicked off a lot of ripe UFO-archaeology foolishness)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Little Danny:

Wow, okay, that's wild! Hadn't realized it all stemmed from a book.

Anyone read the book? Looks very '70s sci-fi
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Little Danny:

...or what Flash just said above
Avatar 8:39pm
ARB:

Hi Flash Strap, Little Danny & Explorers!
Avatar 8:39pm
Flash Strap:

hi ARB!
Avatar 8:40pm
ARB:

Tropicaza here with me sends thanks for playing this song!
Avatar 8:40pm
Flash Strap:

my pleasure
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
chresti:

Hi ARB! It´s yellow outside! Say hi to Tropicaza!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
Little Danny:

Hi hi hey ARB
Avatar 8:41pm
ARB:

Hi Chresti! Hi yellow!
Avatar 8:42pm
Flash Strap:

oh jesus Chresti i forgot you guys were under colored skies
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
WR:

Totally unexpected Beach Boys and totally love the segue. I remember a few friends all laying on the floor with the sound so loud that the floor was vibrating. There are some serious low end to the album.
Avatar 8:43pm
Flash Strap:

it's got some gorgeous production, and this one is so experimental
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
coelacanth∅:

hello Evan & Explorers
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
chresti:

I remember the ads for Chariots of the Gods.
Hi coel
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
coelacanth∅:

i bought (no pussyfooting) because i was infatuated with Eno's first 2 solo albums. i was confounded and disappointed at first but was intrigued enough to keep playing it, and thus allowing it to change my Life profoundly.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
coelacanth∅:

hi chresti!
Avatar 8:55pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Coelacanth! that's sort of the story of the album's reception as well - it lost tons of money, caused a great deal of consternation, was sold at drastic discount... and ultimately achieved status as a daring, forwardthinking classic
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
chresti:

I didnt really pay attention to the latter Eno until about 10 years ago when I started liking more instrumental music.
Avatar 8:56pm
Flash Strap:

the space on these orgy in rhythm albums destroys me, the drums are just god's pure thunder, it really couldn't get better
Avatar 8:59pm
Flash Strap:

Sabu Martinez is such a gift to the world
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
Little Danny:

I don't think I'd appreciated how much the drum sound of Sabu's Sorcery LP musta been informed by Orgy in Rhythm
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Little Danny:

Similar spaciousness, that is.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
chresti:

These came out the year I was born.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Little Danny:

"Amuck" was probably named for you Chresti
Avatar 9:03pm
Flash Strap:

Totally, LD - I think he did a lot of stuff with Art Blakey & some with Horace Silver too, and had his own Blue Note LP as bandleader so when he did Sorcery and Safari he must have been so sharp
Avatar 9:07pm
Flash Strap:

The King here is from Nassau, Bahamas. While working as a musician there, in 1965, he appeared in Thunderball, playing the congas, and got a much wider recognition from that. Sessioned for Sammy Davis Jr. and later did just a ton of stuff for Motown. this is from his first solo LP
Avatar 9:07pm
Flash Strap:

it's a hit and miss record but the hits hit hard
Avatar 9:08pm
Flash Strap:

it's really high time I did some kind of Sabu special, maybe this october
Avatar 9:11pm
Flash Strap:

gettin a little out with it, splendid
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
chresti:

Haha Danny, probably
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Little Danny:

Love that little mellow guitar accent hitting the occasional high note
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

me too LD, it's so sweet
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

like a glimpse of sky
Avatar 9:19pm
Flash Strap:

that synth (moog i'd guess) has such a gnarly sound, really reminds me of that unique sound Guelewar gets from mini-moog
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21pm
coelacanth∅:

Flash didn't you do a Sabu special once?
someone did; i'd guess you first.
- maybe Gary Sullivan...
Avatar 9:22pm
Flash Strap:

wasn't me! though i have played a lot of Sabu
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
coelacanth∅:

it looks like it may've been Irwin
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
Little Danny:

You're battin' 10,000 this evening Evan
Avatar 9:24pm
Flash Strap:

that'd make a lot of sense C.
Avatar 9:25pm
Flash Strap:

why thank you LD my brother
Avatar 9:27pm
Flash Strap:

very underrated record from Cedric Im Brooks, One Truth. Great performances on here
Avatar 9:28pm
Flash Strap:

probably doesn't help that it has a real budget CD-reissue looking original LP cover: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 9:29pm
Flash Strap:

no disrespect to the outfit intended, it's an excellent all red ensemble
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
coelacanth∅:

oh oh i don't like those snake eggs
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
WR:

I've been working too much and not properly focusing on the music. The Good Doctor called and I had to stop work to heed his incantationsl
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
chresti:

What do snake eggs do?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
coelacanth∅:

i don't know but it must be bad
Avatar 9:40pm
Flash Strap:

the end result is that you could have snake eggs in your head, not ideal. this could lead to snakes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:40pm
coelacanth∅:

see? i guess you end up with eggs in your head
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:40pm
coelacanth∅:

haha Evan
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
coelacanth∅:

...'might depend on the invocation uttered whilst using snake eggs
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:42pm
Little Danny:

That's ouroboros for ya
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:45pm
Aitch:

Digging the King.
Avatar 9:45pm
Flash Strap:

killer sax from Preston Love on this
Avatar 9:51pm
Flash Strap:

love that "Sacred Foot Drum" he's playing
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
WR:

Friend of mine played with Exuma for a few years around 1980. Exuma is a really nice guy, and great cook. He did a few club dates where buffet dinner was included with admission.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
chresti:

Wow WR!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
Little Danny:

Look I've lit some candles for y'all: wfmu.org...

Hope to see y'all in a coupla minutes!
Avatar 9:58pm
Flash Strap:

that's amazing WR, i mean wow
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan! take care
Avatar 9:59pm
Flash Strap:

cool drum on this track, i love the sound
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
WR:

Thank you Evan. Outstanding superb program tonight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
coelacanth∅:

- and may add another Wow! to that @9.52 WR?
Avatar 10:00pm
Flash Strap:

my pleasure Coelacanth, WR!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
chresti:

Thanks Flash!
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