WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from September 16, 2021

Listener comments!
	6:02pm Little Danny: Yeah Flash! Awesome to have ya back!
	6:36pm Flash Strap: Hi LD! Thanks brother, great to be back!
	6:37pm Flash Strap: What's for dinner here: Tonight in the Explorers Room we revisit our last program, a tribute to Lee Scratch Perry, and replay the whole show with B-sides, dubs & versions, and alternate riddim uses of each of last week's tracks.
	🥁 7:00pm WR: oomph. Seems you are still Upset about the transitioning of The Upsetter! Our ears and minds are benefiting, Bring it again, Version!
	🥁 7:01pm chresti: Hi Flash and explorers!
	🥁 7:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Excellent.
	7:02pm Scott67: G'day Evan & Explorers! 👍😎👣🌳🌞🌏
	7:02pm HyperDose: Ready to receive the healing
	🥁 7:02pm chresti: Yay scorcher!
	7:02pm Pauly from Clifton: Hi Flash Strap, folks!
	7:02pm chris in the redwoods: hey, Flash, Little Danne, WR, chresti, RevRab, Scott, HyperDose, everyone.
	7:02pm Discotech Underground: Sorry for running over a few seconds! Have a great show!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi WR! I just spent my week off getting really obsessed with how many ways i could do this show, I couldn't help it
	7:03pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Flash and all!
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! Rev! Scott! HyperDose! Pauly! Chris! Kip! James! What splendid company
	🥁 7:04pm chresti: I just got out of the shower!
	7:05pm Flash Strap: @chresti: hope you scrubbed the Scratch way
	🥁 7:06pm WR: A rub a dub Chresti!
	🥁 7:08pm chresti: I'd love to have a skank for every household chore!
	7:09pm Gary: Howdy!
	7:09pm Flash Strap: gonna be a few out-and-out substitutions (thematically relevant of course) tonight but for the most part everything directly corresponds to last week's selections
	7:09pm Scott67: G'day again Chris.👍😎🌳
	7:10pm Flash Strap: Hi Gary!
	🥁 7:10pm WR: Heavy Heavy Flash Strap! You're going deep.
	7:11pm Flash Strap: nice chaotic version here, opening with a snippet from The Staple Singers' "This Old Town (People In This Town)"
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Charlie Ace's vocals as well
	7:11pm TDK60: Hi Flashy Evan. More Perry!
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK!
	7:15pm solo mon: Flaaaash! Welcome back.
	7:15pm Flash Strap: hi Solo Mon!
	7:16pm davefromtoronto: i'm ape for this show!
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Crab Yars one of those late 70s Perry cuts where he's just painting with pure sound, just all colors here man
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Hi Dape!
	7:18pm solo mon: Gorgeous
	7:18pm Doug Schulkind: This program is B-Sides the point.
	7:18pm davefromtoronto: ouch...
	7:18pm Little Danny: Yeah I love this! Hi friends!
	7:18pm Flash Strap: B-side myself to see you here Doug!
	7:18pm Little Danny: dammit Doug
	7:19pm Frog Mover: Hey y'all! Good call, never wanna leave the ark
	7:21pm Flash Strap: Hi Frog Mo! I couldn't tear myself away man
	7:22pm Flash Strap: great to see ya dave, sorry about the dape thing, it just isn't a funflation when you look at it or say it
	7:23pm chris in the redwoods: damn this is great. that's a dollar in the pun jar, Doug. lol.
	7:23pm Doug Schulkind: @chris in the redwoods I bankrupted myself ages ago.
	7:24pm davefromtoronto: dub brubeck
	7:24pm Flash Strap: Zap Pow, aka David Madden, probably cut this track in the Ark around the same time as the incredible River 7" we heard last week (and which we will hear the entirety of tonight)
	7:25pm Gary: Regarding Doug's puns, I'm not going to take A Side
	🥁 7:25pm Aitch: Good morning all. More Lee Scratch is good, that last show was brilliant Flash.
	7:25pm davefromtoronto: hey flash i knew what you meant! so glad i landed here. amazing sounds!
	7:25pm Flash Strap: the third dub take five i've played in the last couple of months
	7:26pm Flash Strap: Hi Aitch! excellent
	7:27pm davefromtoronto: puns ahoy!
	7:28pm Flash Strap: Gary, i'm laffin at that one man
	7:30pm Scott67: The only things to make it better, would be. A fat jay, a Red Stripe Lager & a Caribbean Beach hut. 🍺✌😎👣💨🌊🌞
	🥁 7:30pm chresti: Hha Gary, never to be out punned!
	7:30pm Flash Strap: this is just one of the most artful singles of all time, pure liquid sound painted on your brain
	7:30pm Scott67: Or West Indian even!👍😉
	7:32pm Little Danny: Yeah Flash it does really evoke a flowing river to my ears
	7:32pm solo mon: So trippy
	7:33pm HyperDose: Hey chris in redwoods, been a while! GARY! I was tuned into your show last week and we never heard you come on mic. Hope all is well. You were missed!
	7:33pm Flash Strap: really sublime, i'm ever in awe of it, tears in my eyes, tripping out
	7:33pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): tripping in!
	7:33pm HyperDose: likes Solo Mon's comment
	7:34pm Flash Strap: Hi Hi Baba B!
	7:34pm zzz: amazing @flash strap! missed the tribute to perry last week will check it but loving the b-sides/versions tonight
	🥁 7:34pm chresti: MX BABA BEEKINS!
	7:34pm Scott67: That bloody baby!!
	7:35pm Flash Strap: such a harsh transition, you're all quite welcome
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi ZZZ!
	7:35pm Scott67: G'day Baba.B. Not meaning you there. 👍😎🌺🐝
	7:35pm Gary: @HyperDose, my apologies! I had to be in NJ to stage manage a 2-day annual meeting
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Lee's pretty pissed at Joe Gibbs here
	🥁 7:36pm chresti: First baby sample.
	7:37pm Little Danny: Chresti wins!
	7:37pm HyperDose: No apologies needed! We were speculating if it may have been Ida related. Glad to see you're marked as safe! Hope you had fun in my neck of the woods. :)
	7:37pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): hey, Flash! CHRESTIKINS! solo! HyperDose! zzz! Gary! davefromtoronto! Good morning, Aitch and Scott!
	🥁 7:38pm chresti: Thank you, Little Danny baby!
	7:39pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): and Doug! Little Danny!
	7:39pm Scott67: Dis ep be gettin da gold star from me ja!💜🎵🎶📻 😎👉🌟
	7:39pm Little Danny: ❤️️❤️️ chresti
	7:39pm Little Danny: we meet again Baba!
	7:40pm davefromtoronto: howdy baba bee - are you related to baba booey?
	7:40pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): LD: in all the right places! :-)
	7:41pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): davefromtoronto: oh, golly! I hope not?!?!?!
	🥁 7:46pm chresti: I am in full support of repeat plays. Mostly.
	7:49pm HyperDose: Sry MxBB. Still trying to figure out how to escape from Disney jail!
	7:53pm solo mon: Baba Bee, HyperD, LD, chresti hi friends.
	7:53pm Flash Strap: Respect & Gratitude for your stance on repeat plays Chresti
	7:54pm solo mon: Excursion on the version
	🥁 7:55pm Aitch: was goin' on solo mon?
	🥁 7:57pm chresti: That Dub Revelutions guitar is razor sharp! Holo solo!
	7:57pm solo mon: Aitch ! Gettin ready to blow some smoke. How are ya?
	7:58pm HyperDose: I got 5 on it, Solo!
	7:58pm Flash Strap: War Ina Babylon is a genius tier record for so many reasons but chief among them is its incredible use of backup vocals, the sound is sublime and they just welcome you inside the song
	🥁 7:58pm chresti: I love Niney the Observer too.
	7:59pm solo mon: Terpy slurpy HyperD
	7:59pm Flash Strap: @Chresti: yeah! that sharp dry sound is part of what makes the record so unique and splendid, more evidence of this forthcoming immediately
	7:59pm Flash Strap: little Niney in the mix tonight too
	8:00pm zzz: war ina babylon is best ever level
	8:00pm coelacanth∅: hi Evan, Explorers
	8:01pm coelacanth∅: (been in and out here) Welcome back!
	8:01pm Flash Strap: agreed zzz
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Hi coelacanth!
	8:02pm TDK60: Yeah, War in a Bablyon is great.
	8:03pm Flash Strap: savage use of pan, sandpaper-dry effects, very fitting this is on the cactus label
	🥁 8:05pm chresti: Yeah TDK60 \\ // and zzz!
	🥁 8:06pm Will the Sound Guy: Hey all, coming in here to chill for a bit. Hi Evan and all!
	8:07pm Flash Strap: Hi there Chill Will! reminds me of Chill Wills: ilarge.lisimg.com...
	8:08pm northguineahills: Been trying to get unemployment as per usual for the last few hours, and the website goes dark at 8pm. Tomorrow. Damn, missed last week's Upsetter set.... (been listening to GTDS since, 5:30, wish FL Unemployment wasn't so Byzatine.
	8:10pm northguineahills: what was the Congos dub, earlier? (not including that Lee produced Heart of the Congos)
	8:11pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH! great to see you pal That sounds rough, awful website & awful rules, stay strong brother
	8:12pm Flash Strap: @NGH: last week I played Ark of the Covenant so tonight I played its single's B-side, Noah Sugar Pan (which is a dub of Ark)
	8:12pm northguineahills: ah, thanks!
	8:13pm TDK60: Hi chresti, NGH, other skankers..
	🥁 8:14pm Aitch: you can smell the smoke in this set, cue sounds of the hubbly-bubbly
	8:14pm Flash Strap: this Babylose is in place of last week's "Fire fe the Vatican", which does have a B-side (a toast by Jah Lion if i recall) but i was seduced to play this instead, partly because it contains elements that made it into Scratch's "Soul Fire" & Niney's "Blood & Fire"
	8:15pm zzz: lee perry tributes across fmu-land the past few weeks have been uniformly great. so much amazing stuff, so many surprises and heard many new-to-me gems on various shows
	8:16pm Flash Strap: @zzz: he contained and created such multitudes
	8:17pm coelacanth∅: i don't want to dis Junior Murvin, but i generally like the dub versions better
	🥁 8:17pm Will the Sound Guy: I'm only listening on my phone, I would probably be better off with headphones to feel scratch's brilliance cutting through
	8:17pm Flash Strap: @Aitch: the smoke was so central to Perry's practice in the 70s, it is said that he would blow smoke into the mic so that it would "enter the music" – I believe this can be heard on several recordings
	8:18pm coelacanth∅: - and into the tape as it turned!
	8:18pm Flash Strap: @C: the vocal of Tedious is my fave Murvin track so I can't say that here but generally I agree, he is so good but also a little one-note at times
	8:21pm Flash Strap: @C, re: the tape: yes, god I love that. a truly mystical belief and action ... that is why I call him an alchemist – they believed in a scientific process but also that the alchemist must be in a transcendent state for the process to even work
	8:23pm Flash Strap: @will: any way is a good way but man i'm in headphones now of course and it's so good just to hear the stereodynamics if nothing else, he really uses his pans like a whole sonic vocabulary
	8:25pm Gary: I'm missing the pans b/c I have a single-speaker thing, but it's bass-heavy, so
	8:25pm Scott67: G'day NGH! Good to see ya mate! I hear you about Social Insecurity Departments man, it's a Global issue. ✌😎
	8:26pm chris in the redwoods: must break away from this excellence for a walk and some fresh air. thanks, Flash Strap! peace and love, y'all.
	8:27pm Little Danny: incredible way to bring in the "Norwegian Wood" melody
	8:27pm Scott67: Enjoy Chris!✌😎👣🌳🌳🌳🌳
	8:29pm Flash Strap: @gary: an equally-important dimension, plus i best enjoy these sounds in the open air, generally
	8:30pm Flash Strap: @LD: i know man, it shows up so often in reggae music but perhaps never so majestically
	8:30pm Flash Strap: fond adios Chris
	8:30pm coelacanth∅: tchau chris
	8:31pm Flash Strap: Stop Pay The Price For Sin, i believe, recorded at the Ark around the same time as Love thy Neighbour
	8:31pm Gary: I'm so used to being engulfed in the phones, yeah, but this is better in a lotta ways. Damn. I need real speakers now?
	8:34pm Flash Strap: whatever works gary!
	8:35pm Flash Strap: astonishingly gorgeous stuff from Ras Michael & esp. Earl Chinna Smith on guitar
	8:35pm TDK60: Ras Michael & all about as roots as it gets in reggae?
	8:36pm doctorjazz: Always prefer real speakers, but butoften use headphones or a Bluetooth speaker for convenience. (...hi!)
	8:37pm Flash Strap: @TDK: he knows few peers in that regard, i'll say that much
	8:37pm Flash Strap: Hi & warm welcome Doc!
	8:40pm Flash Strap: Among Perry's most well-loved riddims, Fever
	8:40pm solo mon: Hay fever !
	8:41pm Flash Strap: that squeaky door, i mean my god
	8:42pm Flash Strap: borrowing from Perry's own production of Susan Cadogan's Fever
	8:42pm solo mon: Squeaky door solo!
	8:43pm Little Danny: Just put my headphones on, this is so good
	8:46pm Flash Strap: my favorite Lee Perry / Bob Marley production here
	8:47pm coelacanth∅: hey doc
	8:48pm Flash Strap: god what a perfect song. devastatingly good
	8:48pm Little Danny: that organ tone is so nasty
	8:49pm Flash Strap: it's so fat and sudden! he just lays it on with a trowel!
	8:49pm Little Danny: Truly, I wanted more!
	8:51pm Flash Strap: very happy to get another chance to highlight this incredibly unique collaboration so soon
	8:53pm Flash Strap: Lee Perry, Deadly Headly, and two wonderful artists from Zaire abandoned in Jamaica by their label. magic
	8:57pm TDK60: Never heard this Mengieb; great. 7"?
	8:57pm Flash Strap: @TDK: they cut a whole album in fact!
	8:59pm doctorjazz: Hey, Coel!
	9:02pm Flash Strap: what a good soul song we have here, lord
	9:05pm solo mon: Unravelution
	9:15pm TDK60: Yeah, anything with gnarly organ has to be noted.
	9:16pm StringOFperils: Righteous mixdown.
	9:17pm Flash Strap: Hi there String'O!
	9:19pm Flash Strap: @solo mon: your avatar is starting to really enchant me
	9:21pm Flash Strap: Time has a really cool finish, startlingly effective in its simplicity
	9:25pm northguineahills: Isn't collie weed callaloo, (one of my favorite dark leafy greens).
	9:26pm coelacanth∅: i've only heard collie to refer to cannabis
	9:26pm Flash Strap: i believe it basically refers to ganja from Colombia, considered to be the best at the time
	9:26pm coelacanth∅: ngh how do you prepare callaloo?
	9:28pm TDK60: Yeah I thought it was Colombian herb. What is callaloo?
	9:30pm spot: Man, I thought it was collard greens! So naive.
	9:30pm Little Danny: wow
	9:30pm coelacanth∅: around here it's a weed that most people pull up. i've harvested it to consume it but aboted when i realised i didn't know how to cook it
	9:31pm coelacanth∅: (aborted)
	9:31pm Little Danny: the tape delay here is perfect
	9:31pm TDK60: spot: Well, after Collie, some steamed collards would be nice.
	9:32pm Flash Strap: @LD: really cool version, i'd not heard it till very recently myself, love it
	9:33pm Flash Strap: @TDK: with some roast fish? oh man and some corn bread
	🥁 9:34pm chresti: Cook low and slow with fat, coel?
	9:34pm TDK60: !!! I could live on that for months Flash!
	9:34pm coelacanth∅: also there's apparently a "red" and a "white" calliloo. there was an old jamaican guy neighboring me at the community garden that said one is much better than the other. i don't remember which one he said is better.
	9:34pm Flash Strap: Tight Spot with Dave Barker is so much better than the solely instro version
	9:34pm Flash Strap: @Chresti: inevitably yes i'd say. if it's a dark green
	9:36pm northguineahills: Callaloo is made from many leafy greens, from water spinach, to pokeweed, even leaves from okra (not a species specific plant, but only for the finally taste). It has to be steamed or boliled many times (due to toxins in the leafs), usually w/ other veggies and spices for flavor.
	9:36pm coelacanth∅: chresti i guess that's always a good bet! ... or eat it raw
	9:37pm Flash Strap: very cool to hear Bob & Lee trading bars on a song made much more famous by Dave Barker (w/ Perry's production of course). His vocal can't really be improved on but this is still cool
	9:39pm Flash Strap: always cool to hear the Norman Whitfield / Temptations influence on Jamaican music
	9:39pm solo mon: Poke salat is pretty toxic unless you cook the fuck out of it.
	9:40pm TDK60: Was this the rock steady period, Flash?
	9:40pm coelacanth∅: that's right -ngh i now remember reading that. -still, there was a plant this guy showed me, called it callaloo. quick image search tells me he was pointing out amaranth.
	9:40pm northguineahills: Yeah, Poke weed needs to be boiled and strained at least four times.
	9:42pm solo mon: For some reason there’s a forest of Poke Sallet in my back yard. A very pretty plant.
	9:42pm Flash Strap: @TDK: rock steady transitioning to reggae period, though i'm fuzzy on the exacts
	9:43pm Little Danny: We'll be mishandling fireworks at the Cool Blue Flame: wfmu.org... Hope to see y'all there!
	9:44pm Little Danny: Thank you Evan, loved the whole evening!
	9:44pm Flash Strap: i've managed to nearly eradicate poke weed in my yard, digging up their roots is pretty incredible. they look like damn mandrake roots
	🥁 9:44pm chresti: This has a Leslie Kong sound to it.
	9:44pm coelacanth∅: we have a beautiful forest of invasive species in the yard here. lots of poke, sumac and knotweed -and some kind of gorgeous tree with large leaves and foot-long bean pods...?
	🥁 9:45pm chresti: @News Flash
	9:45pm TDK60: Background voices on this!
	9:46pm Flash Strap: My incredible pleasure LD, looking forward to the cool blue fireworks
	🥁 9:46pm chresti: Silvertones!
	9:46pm coelacanth∅: i'm trying to count how many of the tracks played here tonight i listened to earlier today in the car! (the "words" comp)
	9:46pm Flash Strap: unbelievably gorgeous track from the silvertones
	9:47pm Flash Strap: don't know that comp i don't think, but it sounds good to me!
	9:49pm coelacanth∅: it's excellent! - though it seems you have much of it on other albums. still i can send it along if you'd like
	9:50pm northguineahills: (never tried it, I want to, I need to go deep woods in the South to find some, or just do it myself).
	🥁 9:50pm Will the Sound Guy: Such great plays Flash Strap! I was only going to pop in here from 8-9, but I'm going to depart at 10...
	9:52pm Flash Strap: Thanks Will! come back any time friend, stay as long as you like
	9:52pm TDK60: Thanks for putting together this part II of your Scratch program, Flash.
	9:52pm Flash Strap: @C.: looks like I have Chapter 2 of Words? I can probably find Ch.1 if I don't have it somewhere already
	9:53pm Flash Strap: @TDK: my pleasure! truly
	9:53pm northguineahills: Tostaada time, thanks to I and I and Evan!
	🥁 9:53pm Aitch: fab show Evan, b-side myself, starred it for later
	9:54pm Scott67: Thanks Evan! Great flipside exploration Show! ✌😎👣💜🎵🎶📻🌞🌏
	🥁 9:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Incredible. TY Always DJ Flash Strap.
	9:54pm slugluv1313: been listening in lurk mode, so loving these vibes -- infinite thanks and praises, Evan!
	9:56pm drowsy: Drive by posting to say this show has been so enjoyable, thank you Flash Strap.
	9:56pm Doug Schulkind: Thanks so much, Heavy Ev!
	9:56pm zzz: thx flash strap!
	9:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	🥁 10:00pm chresti: So good, thank you Flash!
	10:00pm Flash Strap: Hi slugluv, drowsy! and thank you all for kindly listening, you honor me - see you next week explorers!
	5:08pm Passaic River Blues: So ready for this show!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from September 16, 2021

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September 16, 2021: Alchemist in the Black Ark (Version)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Upsetters	Bathroom Skank "Bathroom Skank" by "Upsetters"	Bathroom Skank / One-Room Skank 7"	Upset Records	1973	0:01:35 (Pop-up)
Upsetter	Noah Sugar Pan "Noah Sugar Pan" by "Upsetter"	Ark of the Covenant / Noah Sugar Pan 7"	Black Art	1977	0:05:39 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters	7 3/4 Skank "7 3/4 Skank" by "The Upsetters"	Cow Thief Skank / 7 3/4 Skank 7"	Upsetter	1973	0:08:55 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters	Bird in Hand / Crab Yars	Return of the Super Ape	Upsetters	1978	0:12:20 (Pop-up)
Upsetters	V/S Panta Rock "V/S Panta Rock" by "Upsetters"	14 Dub Blackboard Jungle	Auralux Recordings	1973 / 2004	0:19:05 (Pop-up)
Zap Pow	River Flow On "River Flow On" by "Zap Pow"	Nowhere / Respect 12"	Kingston Connexion	2017	0:22:32 (Pop-up)
Zap Pow	River / River Stone "River / River Stone" by "Zap Pow"	River / River Stone 7"	Zap Pow	1977	0:26:39 (Pop-up)
Lee (King) Perry	People Funny Boy	People Funny Boy / Blowing in the Wind 7"	Upset	1968	0:33:57 (Pop-up)
Lee King Perry	Thank You Baby "Thank You Baby" by "Lee King Perry"	I Am The Upsetter / Thank You Baby 7"	Amalgamated Records	1968	0:36:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Upsetting Rhythm #3 "Upsetting Rhythm #3"				0:39:29 (Pop-up)
Lee Perry & The Upsetters	Dub Revelutions	Revolution Dub	Cactus	1975	0:52:03 (Pop-up)
Max Romeo & The Upsetters	Tan and See	War Ina Babylon	Federal Records	1976	0:55:32 (Pop-up)
Lee Perry & The Upsetters	Woman's Dub	Revolution Dub	Cactus	1975	1:00:05 (Pop-up)
The Upsetter	Revelation Dub "Revelation Dub" by "The Upsetter"	War Ina Babylon (It Sipple Out Deh) / Revelation Dub 7"	Upsetters	1976	1:03:27 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters	Militant Rock "Militant Rock" by "The Upsetters"	Dreader Locks / Militant Rock 7"	Dip	1974	1:08:25 (Pop-up)
Maxie, Niney & Scratch	Babylose Burning	Babylose Burning / Lion of Judah 7"	Justice League	197?	1:11:50 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters	Tedious Dub "Tedious Dub" by "The Upsetters"	Tedious 7"	Orchid	1977	1:14:24 (Pop-up)
Congo	Solid Foundation "Solid Foundation" by "Congo"	Neckodeemus / Solid Foundation 12"	Upsetter	1977	1:18:50 (Pop-up)
Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus	Times is Drawing Nigh	Love Thy Neighbour	Jah Life	1979	1:24:43 (Pop-up)
Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus	Stop Pay The Price For Sin	Disarmament	Trojan	1981	1:29:58 (Pop-up)
Johnny Lover & The Towerchanters	Who You Gonna Run To	Scratch and Company – Chapter 1 The Upsetters	Clocktower Records	1981	1:35:12 (Pop-up)
Jah Lion	Hay Fever "Hay Fever" by "Jah Lion"	Colombia Colly	Island Records	1976	1:39:44 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters	Fever Grass "Fever Grass" by "The Upsetters"	Blackboard Jungle Dub	Clocktower Records	1981	1:41:55 (Pop-up)
Bob Marley & The Wailers	Mr. Brown	Mr. Brown / Dracula 7"	Upsetter	1971	1:45:36 (Pop-up)
Seke Molenga & Kalo Kawongolo	Mengieb	Seke Molenga & Kalo Kawangolo	Sonafric	1979	1:49:02 (Pop-up)
Lee Perry	Soul Fire "Soul Fire" by "Lee Perry"	Roast Fish, Collie Weed, & Corn Bread	Lion of Judah	1978	1:56:04 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Riley	Woman Gotta Have Love	Woman Gotta Have Love / Womans Version 7"	Micron Music Limited	1975	1:59:54 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Mondo Island "Mondo Island"				2:02:39 (Pop-up)
Upsetters	Words (Version) "Words (Version)" by "Upsetters"	Words Of My Mouth 7"	Upsetter	1973	2:16:46 (Pop-up)
Upsetters	Time (Version) "Time (Version)" by "Upsetters"	Time 7"	Upsetter	1974	2:19:28 (Pop-up)
Dr. Alimantado	Can't Conquer Natty Dreadlocks	Best Dressed Chicken In Town	Greensleeves Records	1978	2:22:00 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters	Orthodox Dub "Orthodox Dub" by "The Upsetters"	Forward with Jah Orthodox / Orthodox Dub 7"	Upsetter	1978	2:25:25 (Pop-up)
Upsetters	Iron Wolf "Iron Wolf" by "Upsetters"	Freedom Fighter / Iron Wolf 7"	Locks	1975	2:29:50 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters (with Dave Barker)	Tight Spot	Tight Spot / Knock On Wood 7"	Upsetter	1970	2:32:07 (Pop-up)
Bob Marley & Lee Perry	Shocks Almighty	Lost Treasures of the Ark	Jet Star	1998	2:34:39 (Pop-up)
Dave Barker Meets The Upsetters	Runaway Child	Prisoner of Love	Upsetter	1970	2:38:09 (Pop-up)
Leo Graham	News Flash "News Flash" by "Leo Graham"	News Flash / Flashing Echo 7"	Underground	1973	2:40:41 (Pop-up)
The Silvertones	Rejoice Jah Jah Children	Silver Bullets	Trojan	1973	2:44:00 (Pop-up)
Max Romeo & The Upsetters	I Chase The Devil	War Ina Babylon	Federal Records	1976	2:47:15 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters	Sunshine Showdown (Version)	Sunshine Showdown 7"	Downtown	1973	2:50:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Upsetting Rhythm #3 "Upsetting Rhythm #3"				2:52:52 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:02pm Little Danny: Yeah Flash! Awesome to have ya back!
	6:36pm Flash Strap: Hi LD! Thanks brother, great to be back!
	6:37pm Flash Strap: What's for dinner here: Tonight in the Explorers Room we revisit our last program, a tribute to Lee Scratch Perry, and replay the whole show with B-sides, dubs & versions, and alternate riddim uses of each of last week's tracks.
	🥁 7:00pm WR: oomph. Seems you are still Upset about the transitioning of The Upsetter! Our ears and minds are benefiting, Bring it again, Version!
	🥁 7:01pm chresti: Hi Flash and explorers!
	🥁 7:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Excellent.
	7:02pm Scott67: G'day Evan & Explorers! 👍😎👣🌳🌞🌏
	7:02pm HyperDose: Ready to receive the healing
	🥁 7:02pm chresti: Yay scorcher!
	7:02pm Pauly from Clifton: Hi Flash Strap, folks!
	7:02pm chris in the redwoods: hey, Flash, Little Danne, WR, chresti, RevRab, Scott, HyperDose, everyone.
	7:02pm Discotech Underground: Sorry for running over a few seconds! Have a great show!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi WR! I just spent my week off getting really obsessed with how many ways i could do this show, I couldn't help it
	7:03pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Flash and all!
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! Rev! Scott! HyperDose! Pauly! Chris! Kip! James! What splendid company
	🥁 7:04pm chresti: I just got out of the shower!
	7:05pm Flash Strap: @chresti: hope you scrubbed the Scratch way
	🥁 7:06pm WR: A rub a dub Chresti!
	🥁 7:08pm chresti: I'd love to have a skank for every household chore!
	7:09pm Gary: Howdy!
	7:09pm Flash Strap: gonna be a few out-and-out substitutions (thematically relevant of course) tonight but for the most part everything directly corresponds to last week's selections
	7:09pm Scott67: G'day again Chris.👍😎🌳
	7:10pm Flash Strap: Hi Gary!
	🥁 7:10pm WR: Heavy Heavy Flash Strap! You're going deep.
	7:11pm Flash Strap: nice chaotic version here, opening with a snippet from The Staple Singers' "This Old Town (People In This Town)"
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Charlie Ace's vocals as well
	7:11pm TDK60: Hi Flashy Evan. More Perry!
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK!
	7:15pm solo mon: Flaaaash! Welcome back.
	7:15pm Flash Strap: hi Solo Mon!
	7:16pm davefromtoronto: i'm ape for this show!
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Crab Yars one of those late 70s Perry cuts where he's just painting with pure sound, just all colors here man
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Hi Dape!
	7:18pm solo mon: Gorgeous
	7:18pm Doug Schulkind: This program is B-Sides the point.
	7:18pm davefromtoronto: ouch...
	7:18pm Little Danny: Yeah I love this! Hi friends!
	7:18pm Flash Strap: B-side myself to see you here Doug!
	7:18pm Little Danny: dammit Doug
	7:19pm Frog Mover: Hey y'all! Good call, never wanna leave the ark
	7:21pm Flash Strap: Hi Frog Mo! I couldn't tear myself away man
	7:22pm Flash Strap: great to see ya dave, sorry about the dape thing, it just isn't a funflation when you look at it or say it
	7:23pm chris in the redwoods: damn this is great. that's a dollar in the pun jar, Doug. lol.
	7:23pm Doug Schulkind: @chris in the redwoods I bankrupted myself ages ago.
	7:24pm davefromtoronto: dub brubeck
	7:24pm Flash Strap: Zap Pow, aka David Madden, probably cut this track in the Ark around the same time as the incredible River 7" we heard last week (and which we will hear the entirety of tonight)
	7:25pm Gary: Regarding Doug's puns, I'm not going to take A Side
	🥁 7:25pm Aitch: Good morning all. More Lee Scratch is good, that last show was brilliant Flash.
	7:25pm davefromtoronto: hey flash i knew what you meant! so glad i landed here. amazing sounds!
	7:25pm Flash Strap: the third dub take five i've played in the last couple of months
	7:26pm Flash Strap: Hi Aitch! excellent
	7:27pm davefromtoronto: puns ahoy!
	7:28pm Flash Strap: Gary, i'm laffin at that one man
	7:30pm Scott67: The only things to make it better, would be. A fat jay, a Red Stripe Lager & a Caribbean Beach hut. 🍺✌😎👣💨🌊🌞
	🥁 7:30pm chresti: Hha Gary, never to be out punned!
	7:30pm Flash Strap: this is just one of the most artful singles of all time, pure liquid sound painted on your brain
	7:30pm Scott67: Or West Indian even!👍😉
	7:32pm Little Danny: Yeah Flash it does really evoke a flowing river to my ears
	7:32pm solo mon: So trippy
	7:33pm HyperDose: Hey chris in redwoods, been a while! GARY! I was tuned into your show last week and we never heard you come on mic. Hope all is well. You were missed!
	7:33pm Flash Strap: really sublime, i'm ever in awe of it, tears in my eyes, tripping out
	7:33pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): tripping in!
	7:33pm HyperDose: likes Solo Mon's comment
	7:34pm Flash Strap: Hi Hi Baba B!
	7:34pm zzz: amazing @flash strap! missed the tribute to perry last week will check it but loving the b-sides/versions tonight
	🥁 7:34pm chresti: MX BABA BEEKINS!
	7:34pm Scott67: That bloody baby!!
	7:35pm Flash Strap: such a harsh transition, you're all quite welcome
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi ZZZ!
	7:35pm Scott67: G'day Baba.B. Not meaning you there. 👍😎🌺🐝
	7:35pm Gary: @HyperDose, my apologies! I had to be in NJ to stage manage a 2-day annual meeting
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Lee's pretty pissed at Joe Gibbs here
	🥁 7:36pm chresti: First baby sample.
	7:37pm Little Danny: Chresti wins!
	7:37pm HyperDose: No apologies needed! We were speculating if it may have been Ida related. Glad to see you're marked as safe! Hope you had fun in my neck of the woods. :)
	7:37pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): hey, Flash! CHRESTIKINS! solo! HyperDose! zzz! Gary! davefromtoronto! Good morning, Aitch and Scott!
	🥁 7:38pm chresti: Thank you, Little Danny baby!
	7:39pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): and Doug! Little Danny!
	7:39pm Scott67: Dis ep be gettin da gold star from me ja!💜🎵🎶📻 😎👉🌟
	7:39pm Little Danny: ❤️️❤️️ chresti
	7:39pm Little Danny: we meet again Baba!
	7:40pm davefromtoronto: howdy baba bee - are you related to baba booey?
	7:40pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): LD: in all the right places! :-)
	7:41pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): davefromtoronto: oh, golly! I hope not?!?!?!
	🥁 7:46pm chresti: I am in full support of repeat plays. Mostly.
	7:49pm HyperDose: Sry MxBB. Still trying to figure out how to escape from Disney jail!
	7:53pm solo mon: Baba Bee, HyperD, LD, chresti hi friends.
	7:53pm Flash Strap: Respect & Gratitude for your stance on repeat plays Chresti
	7:54pm solo mon: Excursion on the version
	🥁 7:55pm Aitch: was goin' on solo mon?
	🥁 7:57pm chresti: That Dub Revelutions guitar is razor sharp! Holo solo!
	7:57pm solo mon: Aitch ! Gettin ready to blow some smoke. How are ya?
	7:58pm HyperDose: I got 5 on it, Solo!
	7:58pm Flash Strap: War Ina Babylon is a genius tier record for so many reasons but chief among them is its incredible use of backup vocals, the sound is sublime and they just welcome you inside the song
	🥁 7:58pm chresti: I love Niney the Observer too.
	7:59pm solo mon: Terpy slurpy HyperD
	7:59pm Flash Strap: @Chresti: yeah! that sharp dry sound is part of what makes the record so unique and splendid, more evidence of this forthcoming immediately
	7:59pm Flash Strap: little Niney in the mix tonight too
	8:00pm zzz: war ina babylon is best ever level
	8:00pm coelacanth∅: hi Evan, Explorers
	8:01pm coelacanth∅: (been in and out here) Welcome back!
	8:01pm Flash Strap: agreed zzz
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Hi coelacanth!
	8:02pm TDK60: Yeah, War in a Bablyon is great.
	8:03pm Flash Strap: savage use of pan, sandpaper-dry effects, very fitting this is on the cactus label
	🥁 8:05pm chresti: Yeah TDK60 \\ // and zzz!
	🥁 8:06pm Will the Sound Guy: Hey all, coming in here to chill for a bit. Hi Evan and all!
	8:07pm Flash Strap: Hi there Chill Will! reminds me of Chill Wills: ilarge.lisimg.com...
	8:08pm northguineahills: Been trying to get unemployment as per usual for the last few hours, and the website goes dark at 8pm. Tomorrow. Damn, missed last week's Upsetter set.... (been listening to GTDS since, 5:30, wish FL Unemployment wasn't so Byzatine.
	8:10pm northguineahills: what was the Congos dub, earlier? (not including that Lee produced Heart of the Congos)
	8:11pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH! great to see you pal That sounds rough, awful website & awful rules, stay strong brother
	8:12pm Flash Strap: @NGH: last week I played Ark of the Covenant so tonight I played its single's B-side, Noah Sugar Pan (which is a dub of Ark)
	8:12pm northguineahills: ah, thanks!
	8:13pm TDK60: Hi chresti, NGH, other skankers..
	🥁 8:14pm Aitch: you can smell the smoke in this set, cue sounds of the hubbly-bubbly
	8:14pm Flash Strap: this Babylose is in place of last week's "Fire fe the Vatican", which does have a B-side (a toast by Jah Lion if i recall) but i was seduced to play this instead, partly because it contains elements that made it into Scratch's "Soul Fire" & Niney's "Blood & Fire"
	8:15pm zzz: lee perry tributes across fmu-land the past few weeks have been uniformly great. so much amazing stuff, so many surprises and heard many new-to-me gems on various shows
	8:16pm Flash Strap: @zzz: he contained and created such multitudes
	8:17pm coelacanth∅: i don't want to dis Junior Murvin, but i generally like the dub versions better
	🥁 8:17pm Will the Sound Guy: I'm only listening on my phone, I would probably be better off with headphones to feel scratch's brilliance cutting through
	8:17pm Flash Strap: @Aitch: the smoke was so central to Perry's practice in the 70s, it is said that he would blow smoke into the mic so that it would "enter the music" – I believe this can be heard on several recordings
	8:18pm coelacanth∅: - and into the tape as it turned!
	8:18pm Flash Strap: @C: the vocal of Tedious is my fave Murvin track so I can't say that here but generally I agree, he is so good but also a little one-note at times
	8:21pm Flash Strap: @C, re: the tape: yes, god I love that. a truly mystical belief and action ... that is why I call him an alchemist – they believed in a scientific process but also that the alchemist must be in a transcendent state for the process to even work
	8:23pm Flash Strap: @will: any way is a good way but man i'm in headphones now of course and it's so good just to hear the stereodynamics if nothing else, he really uses his pans like a whole sonic vocabulary
	8:25pm Gary: I'm missing the pans b/c I have a single-speaker thing, but it's bass-heavy, so
	8:25pm Scott67: G'day NGH! Good to see ya mate! I hear you about Social Insecurity Departments man, it's a Global issue. ✌😎
	8:26pm chris in the redwoods: must break away from this excellence for a walk and some fresh air. thanks, Flash Strap! peace and love, y'all.
	8:27pm Little Danny: incredible way to bring in the "Norwegian Wood" melody
	8:27pm Scott67: Enjoy Chris!✌😎👣🌳🌳🌳🌳
	8:29pm Flash Strap: @gary: an equally-important dimension, plus i best enjoy these sounds in the open air, generally
	8:30pm Flash Strap: @LD: i know man, it shows up so often in reggae music but perhaps never so majestically
	8:30pm Flash Strap: fond adios Chris
	8:30pm coelacanth∅: tchau chris
	8:31pm Flash Strap: Stop Pay The Price For Sin, i believe, recorded at the Ark around the same time as Love thy Neighbour
	8:31pm Gary: I'm so used to being engulfed in the phones, yeah, but this is better in a lotta ways. Damn. I need real speakers now?
	8:34pm Flash Strap: whatever works gary!
	8:35pm Flash Strap: astonishingly gorgeous stuff from Ras Michael & esp. Earl Chinna Smith on guitar
	8:35pm TDK60: Ras Michael & all about as roots as it gets in reggae?
	8:36pm doctorjazz: Always prefer real speakers, but butoften use headphones or a Bluetooth speaker for convenience. (...hi!)
	8:37pm Flash Strap: @TDK: he knows few peers in that regard, i'll say that much
	8:37pm Flash Strap: Hi & warm welcome Doc!
	8:40pm Flash Strap: Among Perry's most well-loved riddims, Fever
	8:40pm solo mon: Hay fever !
	8:41pm Flash Strap: that squeaky door, i mean my god
	8:42pm Flash Strap: borrowing from Perry's own production of Susan Cadogan's Fever
	8:42pm solo mon: Squeaky door solo!
	8:43pm Little Danny: Just put my headphones on, this is so good
	8:46pm Flash Strap: my favorite Lee Perry / Bob Marley production here
	8:47pm coelacanth∅: hey doc
	8:48pm Flash Strap: god what a perfect song. devastatingly good
	8:48pm Little Danny: that organ tone is so nasty
	8:49pm Flash Strap: it's so fat and sudden! he just lays it on with a trowel!
	8:49pm Little Danny: Truly, I wanted more!
	8:51pm Flash Strap: very happy to get another chance to highlight this incredibly unique collaboration so soon
	8:53pm Flash Strap: Lee Perry, Deadly Headly, and two wonderful artists from Zaire abandoned in Jamaica by their label. magic
	8:57pm TDK60: Never heard this Mengieb; great. 7"?
	8:57pm Flash Strap: @TDK: they cut a whole album in fact!
	8:59pm doctorjazz: Hey, Coel!
	9:02pm Flash Strap: what a good soul song we have here, lord
	9:05pm solo mon: Unravelution
	9:15pm TDK60: Yeah, anything with gnarly organ has to be noted.
	9:16pm StringOFperils: Righteous mixdown.
	9:17pm Flash Strap: Hi there String'O!
	9:19pm Flash Strap: @solo mon: your avatar is starting to really enchant me
	9:21pm Flash Strap: Time has a really cool finish, startlingly effective in its simplicity
	9:25pm northguineahills: Isn't collie weed callaloo, (one of my favorite dark leafy greens).
	9:26pm coelacanth∅: i've only heard collie to refer to cannabis
	9:26pm Flash Strap: i believe it basically refers to ganja from Colombia, considered to be the best at the time
	9:26pm coelacanth∅: ngh how do you prepare callaloo?
	9:28pm TDK60: Yeah I thought it was Colombian herb. What is callaloo?
	9:30pm spot: Man, I thought it was collard greens! So naive.
	9:30pm Little Danny: wow
	9:30pm coelacanth∅: around here it's a weed that most people pull up. i've harvested it to consume it but aboted when i realised i didn't know how to cook it
	9:31pm coelacanth∅: (aborted)
	9:31pm Little Danny: the tape delay here is perfect
	9:31pm TDK60: spot: Well, after Collie, some steamed collards would be nice.
	9:32pm Flash Strap: @LD: really cool version, i'd not heard it till very recently myself, love it
	9:33pm Flash Strap: @TDK: with some roast fish? oh man and some corn bread
	🥁 9:34pm chresti: Cook low and slow with fat, coel?
	9:34pm TDK60: !!! I could live on that for months Flash!
	9:34pm coelacanth∅: also there's apparently a "red" and a "white" calliloo. there was an old jamaican guy neighboring me at the community garden that said one is much better than the other. i don't remember which one he said is better.
	9:34pm Flash Strap: Tight Spot with Dave Barker is so much better than the solely instro version
	9:34pm Flash Strap: @Chresti: inevitably yes i'd say. if it's a dark green
	9:36pm northguineahills: Callaloo is made from many leafy greens, from water spinach, to pokeweed, even leaves from okra (not a species specific plant, but only for the finally taste). It has to be steamed or boliled many times (due to toxins in the leafs), usually w/ other veggies and spices for flavor.
	9:36pm coelacanth∅: chresti i guess that's always a good bet! ... or eat it raw
	9:37pm Flash Strap: very cool to hear Bob & Lee trading bars on a song made much more famous by Dave Barker (w/ Perry's production of course). His vocal can't really be improved on but this is still cool
	9:39pm Flash Strap: always cool to hear the Norman Whitfield / Temptations influence on Jamaican music
	9:39pm solo mon: Poke salat is pretty toxic unless you cook the fuck out of it.
	9:40pm TDK60: Was this the rock steady period, Flash?
	9:40pm coelacanth∅: that's right -ngh i now remember reading that. -still, there was a plant this guy showed me, called it callaloo. quick image search tells me he was pointing out amaranth.
	9:40pm northguineahills: Yeah, Poke weed needs to be boiled and strained at least four times.
	9:42pm solo mon: For some reason there’s a forest of Poke Sallet in my back yard. A very pretty plant.
	9:42pm Flash Strap: @TDK: rock steady transitioning to reggae period, though i'm fuzzy on the exacts
	9:43pm Little Danny: We'll be mishandling fireworks at the Cool Blue Flame: wfmu.org... Hope to see y'all there!
	9:44pm Little Danny: Thank you Evan, loved the whole evening!
	9:44pm Flash Strap: i've managed to nearly eradicate poke weed in my yard, digging up their roots is pretty incredible. they look like damn mandrake roots
	🥁 9:44pm chresti: This has a Leslie Kong sound to it.
	9:44pm coelacanth∅: we have a beautiful forest of invasive species in the yard here. lots of poke, sumac and knotweed -and some kind of gorgeous tree with large leaves and foot-long bean pods...?
	🥁 9:45pm chresti: @News Flash
	9:45pm TDK60: Background voices on this!
	9:46pm Flash Strap: My incredible pleasure LD, looking forward to the cool blue fireworks
	🥁 9:46pm chresti: Silvertones!
	9:46pm coelacanth∅: i'm trying to count how many of the tracks played here tonight i listened to earlier today in the car! (the "words" comp)
	9:46pm Flash Strap: unbelievably gorgeous track from the silvertones
	9:47pm Flash Strap: don't know that comp i don't think, but it sounds good to me!
	9:49pm coelacanth∅: it's excellent! - though it seems you have much of it on other albums. still i can send it along if you'd like
	9:50pm northguineahills: (never tried it, I want to, I need to go deep woods in the South to find some, or just do it myself).
	🥁 9:50pm Will the Sound Guy: Such great plays Flash Strap! I was only going to pop in here from 8-9, but I'm going to depart at 10...
	9:52pm Flash Strap: Thanks Will! come back any time friend, stay as long as you like
	9:52pm TDK60: Thanks for putting together this part II of your Scratch program, Flash.
	9:52pm Flash Strap: @C.: looks like I have Chapter 2 of Words? I can probably find Ch.1 if I don't have it somewhere already
	9:53pm Flash Strap: @TDK: my pleasure! truly
	9:53pm northguineahills: Tostaada time, thanks to I and I and Evan!
	🥁 9:53pm Aitch: fab show Evan, b-side myself, starred it for later
	9:54pm Scott67: Thanks Evan! Great flipside exploration Show! ✌😎👣💜🎵🎶📻🌞🌏
	🥁 9:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Incredible. TY Always DJ Flash Strap.
	9:54pm slugluv1313: been listening in lurk mode, so loving these vibes -- infinite thanks and praises, Evan!
	9:56pm drowsy: Drive by posting to say this show has been so enjoyable, thank you Flash Strap.
	9:56pm Doug Schulkind: Thanks so much, Heavy Ev!
	9:56pm zzz: thx flash strap!
	9:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	🥁 10:00pm chresti: So good, thank you Flash!
	10:00pm Flash Strap: Hi slugluv, drowsy! and thank you all for kindly listening, you honor me - see you next week explorers!
	5:08pm Passaic River Blues: So ready for this show!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from September 16, 2021

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