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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 August 4, 2016: Heat Waves, Echoes Hypnotiques

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
Nigel Shipway  Desert Heat   Favoriting Wildlife  Bruton  1979    0:00:57 (Pop-up)
Art Farmer  Heat Wave   Favoriting Aztec Suite    1959    0:02:10 (Pop-up)
Mighty Sparrow  Saltfish   Favoriting Sparrow vs. The Rest    1976  (as SPARROOOWWW)  0:04:09 (Pop-up)
Lee Perry  Favorite Dish   Favoriting Roast Fish, Collie Weed and Cornbread    1978    0:07:40 (Pop-up)
Lee Perry  Roast Fish & Corn Bread   Favoriting Roast Fish, Collie Weed and Cornbread        0:11:16 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
John Barry 
Body Heat   Favoriting
Body Heat OST 
 
1983 
 
0:14:23 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters  Black Panta   Favoriting The Upsetters 14 Dub Black Board Jungle    1973    0:23:37 (Pop-up)
Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus  Wicked Got to Go   Favoriting Love Thy Neighbour    1979  with Lee Perry in some capacity  0:27:03 (Pop-up)
Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus with Jazzboe Abubaka  Jazzboe Abubaka at Large   Favoriting Tribute to Emperor Rastafori    1976    0:32:32 (Pop-up)
Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus with Jazzboe Abubaka  Needs Understanding   Favoriting Tribute to Emperor Rastafori        0:35:28 (Pop-up)
The Congos  Ark of the Covenant   Favoriting Heart Of The Congos    1977  Prod. Lee Perry at Black Ark studio  0:38:19 (Pop-up)
Junior Murvin  Lucifer   Favoriting Police & Thieves    1977  Prod. Lee Perry at Black Ark studio  0:44:20 (Pop-up)
Junior Murvin  Working in the Corn Field   Favoriting Police & Thieves      Prod. Lee Perry at Black Ark studio  0:47:30 (Pop-up)
Max Romeo  Warning Warning   Favoriting Revelation Time    1975  with Lee Perry in some capacity  0:51:04 (Pop-up)
Black Ark Players  Lion   Favoriting Black Ark In Dub    1980    0:54:47 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Bob Marley & The Wailers 
Dracula   Favoriting
Soul Rebels 
 
1970 
Prod. Lee Perry 
0:58:31 (Pop-up)
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou  Gan Tche Kpo   Favoriting Echos Hypnotiques (From the Vaults of Albarika Store 1969-1979)      Benin  1:07:14 (Pop-up)
Docteur Nico & Orchestra African Fiesta  Pauline   Favoriting Slows Classiques De La Musique Congolaise Vol.2    1967  Congo  1:15:04 (Pop-up)
Bembeya Jazz National  Ballake   Favoriting The Syliphone Years    1974  Guinea  1:19:31 (Pop-up)
Bembeya Jazz National  Alalake   Favoriting The Syliphone Years    1970  Guinea  1:29:05 (Pop-up)
Guelewar  President Jawara – Abdou Diouf   Favoriting Halleli N'Dakarou    1982  Senegal / Senegambia (rec. live at the Canary Club in Kaolack, Senegal 1982)  1:31:33 (Pop-up)
Karantamba  Ndigal   Favoriting Ndigal    1984  Senegambia / Gambia (rec. live at Sangomar Night Club, Senegal 1984)  1:40:34 (Pop-up)
Karantamba  Na Dinding Fatty   Favoriting Ndigal        1:49:10 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
John Barry 
I'm Burning Up   Favoriting
Body Heat OST 
 
 
 
1:58:40 (Pop-up)
Phil Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble  The Spanish Suite (Martina, Delores, & Marguirite)   Favoriting The Spanish Suite (Martina, Delores, & Marguirite)  Katalyst  1968/2009    2:15:24 (Pop-up)
Joe Venuti  Heat Wave   Favoriting Rumba Jazz: A History of Latin Jazz and Dance Music 1919-1945        2:52:16 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Les Baxter 
Deep Night   Favoriting
Caribbean Moonlight 
 
 
 
2:55:15 (Pop-up)


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Avatar 6:52pm
Flash Strap:

Good evening shade-seekers
Avatar 6:57pm
ndbob:

evening Evan and everyone!
Avatar 6:58pm
Flash Strap:

evening bob!
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

Saltfish: it's sweeter than meat!
Avatar 7:05pm
ndbob:

yes it is:)
Avatar 7:07pm
northguineahills:

Oh man, now I want achee and saltfish!
Avatar 7:07pm
ndbob:

evening NGH!
Avatar 7:08pm
Flash Strap:

NGH! Hello masked man
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

There is something so bizarre about hearing a guy talk about how much food he likes to eat while a baby just wails endlessly in the background
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
melinda:

hi all! Where's the top photo from? I like it.
Avatar 7:10pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Melinda! That's Lee Scratch Perry's Black Ark studio
Avatar 7:10pm
northguineahills:

helloos everyone!
Avatar 7:11pm
ndbob:

Heya Melinda!
Avatar 7:11pm
Flash Strap:

and below we see the fabulous Docteur Nico, of the Congo, I believe
Avatar 7:26pm
Flash Strap:

This track is so cavernous
Avatar 7:27pm
ndbob:

indeed Evan
Avatar 7:29pm
hyde:

hi all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
JtotheK:

hi everyone. looking forward to exploring with you all for a while this evening.
Avatar 7:30pm
Flash Strap:

Hyde, JtotheK! So wonderful to have you both amongst us
Avatar 7:31pm
ndbob:

Evening Hyde and JtotheK
Avatar 7:32pm
hyde:

hiya, ndb
Avatar 7:35pm
Flash Strap:

Ras Michael, by the way, also recorded under the name Dadawah, just in case you're more familiar with that name, particularly due to the conspicuous awesomeness of Dadawah's LP Peace & Love
Avatar 7:36pm
northguineahills:

Thanks Flash, gotta jet!
Avatar 7:37pm
Flash Strap:

hate to see you go, NGH, love to watch you jet
Avatar 7:40pm
Flash Strap:

I know this song is so obvious to play right now but damn I needed to hear it
Avatar 7:46pm
Flash Strap:

no uncertain terms, here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
JtotheK:

hello ndbob.
Avatar 7:54pm
Flash Strap:

Max Romeo with a bloodthirsty class-consciousness!
Avatar 7:58pm
Flash Strap:

bout to move us into new territory
Avatar 7:58pm
ndbob:

excellent first hour Evan! catch the rest on the archive
Avatar 7:59pm
hyde:

i love this dub that's the bed tune
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Way kewl.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
JtotheK:

@hyde - hip hop group Styles of Beyond sampled that Dracula track for their song 'Mr. Brown'. Haven't listened to Styles of Beyond in a long time!
Avatar 8:10pm
Flash Strap:

Me too Hyde! I'm not much of a Bob Marley guy to be honest but that track is so crunchy and thick it can't be denied. Rest of that particular album is good too, obviously.
Avatar 8:10pm
Flash Strap:

Heya Rabbit! How are ya
Avatar 8:13pm
Flash Strap:

Lord have mercy the guitar on this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Ike:

Excellent!
Avatar 8:16pm
Flash Strap:

Ike-cellent!
Avatar 8:16pm
hyde:

@JtotheK hmmm, i don't know Styles of Beyond....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The book 'Shadow Dancing in the USA' by Michael Ventura finally connected the dots for me beyond doubt
- from Rawk to Blues to Vodoun.
I had a whole long period I was really into finding out about this - & Rawk as Murican Vodoun is till something I think about a lot...
Avatar 8:17pm
Flash Strap:

This is one of the great electric guitar recordings of all time, all time, as far as I'm concerned
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
melinda:

That's an intriguing concept, Rabbit.
Avatar 8:18pm
Flash Strap:

sounds like a good read there, ravvit
Avatar 8:22pm
Flash Strap:

electric / slide guitar just sort of spread all over the world in a way similar to the accordion, total phenomenon of early modernity, and so the music forms it influenced/grafted itself onto/syncretized by crossing&merging genres is all tangled up together in the most wonderful, often inseparably interconnected ways.
Avatar 8:24pm
Flash Strap:

The atmosphere on this track is incredible
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I'm enchanted by 'African Guitar' - which is a stupid broad ill-informed term, of course...There's the relation to Blues (the Root of...all our Music) - but w/out Slavery - & also, a whole different way of relating to the Instrument & its' place in Ensembles - relating more to kora & things...

Yeah - slide. No one's sure! Was it Hawaiin @ 1st? There's the Diddley Bow - which is when you nail a broom wire into your Delta sharecropper's shack wall & play it like a slide because there's nothing else available...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Amazing tracks. & probably (?) basically no one came close to hearing them in Europe or the U.S. @ the actual time...
Avatar 8:29pm
Flash Strap:

without slavery per se, but with intense imperial relations, usually ongoing, and thus often highly political

That Diddley Bow sounds so interesting, I'd love to see an illustration
Avatar 8:29pm
Flash Strap:

yeah, it'd be so interesting to visit an alternate universe where this stuff influenced US guitar music to a greater extent
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

John Lennon was still trying to get Muricans to even become aware of Reggae @ the time...
Avatar 8:37pm
Flash Strap:

So jazzed by the mini-moog all over this track
Avatar 8:38pm
Flash Strap:

lyrics, which I do not have, seem to concern the impending Senegambian federation engineered by the 2 titular presidents
Avatar 8:40pm
Flash Strap:

that was Guelewar post-founding member Bai Janha, now we'll hear a Janha post-Guelewar project
Avatar 8:41pm
Flash Strap:

playing here with students of a music school which he founded
Avatar 8:45pm
Flash Strap:

look at how cool this fuckin guy is: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 8:48pm
Flash Strap:

i like this so much i'm gonna play another
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
melinda:

I like Karantamba
Avatar 8:50pm
Flash Strap:

Really want to know what Na Dinding Fatty means
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

It's like - know about Fela Kuti - but not one of these guys. Utterly amazing.
Avatar 8:52pm
hyde:

killer drums!
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

me too melinda! as amazing as Guelewar (and all that encompasses: Super Eagles, Alligator, etc.) is, this might actually be my favorite record from the whole group history. which is interesting, because it's an ensemble with basically just one professional musician and a bunch of young students
Avatar 8:53pm
Flash Strap:

KILLER drums!
Avatar 8:55pm
Flash Strap:

@Rev: as great as Fela Kuti is, it's sort of a shame how much real estate he (and a few others of course) eats up in the public's consciousness of African music.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- the largest continent - about as many countries as there are U.S. states.
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JtotheK:

enjoyed the program tonight, will have to check the rest out via archives. Thanks Flash Strap! Cheers everyone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Little Danny:

Hi Flash! Just now tuned in.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:11pm
Little Danny:

Oh shit, is that the official pronunciation of "Cohran"? I've been doing it all wrong if so.
Avatar 9:14pm
Flash Strap:

Oh shit

Maybe I am the one who is wrong! What do you say? I hate this part of the job
Avatar 9:15pm
hyde:

heh, dj problems
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
coelacanth:

greetings Flash and Explorers

...is that (<) the inside of the arc?
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

Hi-C! indeed.
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

Bye JtotheK! See you in the hall of records
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
coelacanth:

Oh shit, i missed a whole bunch of reggae.
Avatar 9:18pm
Flash Strap:

That you did! I was like, WHERE'S THAT FISH, I'M PLAYING ALL THIS REGGAE

you also missed some fish-oriented songs, but maybe that's a blessing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Little Danny:

I've always said "COE -RIN." Accent on the "COE."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Little Danny:

also, hi coel and hyde!
Avatar 9:20pm
Flash Strap:

Oh, and I said, I guess, Corran. Like just slushin it... well, we're not so different, you and I
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21pm
Little Danny:

Haha, you are correct sir.
Avatar 9:21pm
hyde:

hi, little danny!
Avatar 9:22pm
Flash Strap:

At least neither of us say Cochran
Avatar 9:23pm
Flash Strap:

buzzing is at its worst here, will subside a bit shortly
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:25pm
coelacanth:

@9:18 Haha! fish songs! - as if i wasn't gonna come back to the archive anyway!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
coelacanth:

...hi Hyde and LD!
Avatar 9:27pm
hyde:

heya, coelacanth
  9:28pm
Ed:

Hi Evan, late to the party, but I made it!
Avatar 9:29pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Ed! Better some Ed than none at all!
Avatar 9:32pm
Flash Strap:

I love the concept of this piece. So much fin de siecle art music exploits the exotic-ness of Spanish (and others, especially Greek and Slavic) folkloric music and incorporates it into essentially European academic works–such as Ravel's Bolero–it feels revolutionary to do a similar thing but bend it, not to European tradition but to African/American
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
coelacanth:

i'm cooking and may have missed the concept, but sure am enjoying it!
Avatar 9:35pm
Flash Strap:

and it symbolically reclaims, as so much Afrocentric/Afrofuturist/etc. works do (most typically with Egyptian/North African civilizations), an African (Moorish) cultural heritage long marginalized by dominant western-centric hegemonic understandings of history
  9:36pm
Jeff g.:

Great set!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...there was 'Sketches of Spain'...Arthur Lee was fond of that...
Avatar 9:37pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks Jeff G-man
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Little Danny:

God this is great. Had never actually heard Spanish Suite previously.
Avatar 9:38pm
Flash Strap:

Great to have you among us
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Flash Strap:

SO glad to hear that, Danny. If just one person has heard this for the first time, it was definitely worth playing the whole thing. Even sweeter if it's you my comrade.
  9:41pm
Jeff g.:

Or rather: great suite!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:42pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...but this would've been before 'Bitches Brew' - which it now reminds me of w/ the soprano sax...
Avatar 9:42pm
Flash Strap:

you played this killer Cohran cut the other night, and I was just scramblin to find its source so I could hear it again later... and then realized, it's from Malcolm X Memorial, which I have and have heard many times.... I felt the fool, but on the other hand, you made me hear it anew, which is to be treeasured
Avatar 9:44pm
Flash Strap:

classic exotic trope of the wordless vocal; this is a work in intense dialogue with early 20th century classical music
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Flash Strap:

and then it just explodes!!! so good
  9:45pm
slawooy:

This suite is the best thing I've ever fucking heard full f stop !
Avatar 9:46pm
Flash Strap:

YES slawooy and what a pleasure to make your acquaintance
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Uncle Michael:

Been loving the hell out of this Suite, Evan.
  9:47pm
Jeff g.:

(Fwiw, I tend to say COE-ran. Like, Sebastian Coe ran a mile.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
Little Danny:

Indeed, and I'm stoked that it was a sweet rediscovery for you. Though what I played was the superior 45-only version of "El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz." The LP is fire, too - goes without saying.
Avatar 9:48pm
Flash Strap:

Uncle Michael in the Room! Great to see you pal, glad you're diggin it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Coltrane reflected back - himself influenced by Sun Ra's John Gilmore. Shortly after he passed ('67). Bittersweet.
Avatar 9:48pm
Flash Strap:

That must account for its seeming unfamiliarity, LD
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
Uncle Michael:

I just finished huffin' and puffin' over my show or I'd have chimed in sooner.
Avatar 9:49pm
Flash Strap:

I know, it's so hard to catch other shows when you've got one to cook up each week
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Thx for playing this.
Avatar 9:49pm
hyde:

this Cohran is new to me as well. Fantastic.
Avatar 9:50pm
Flash Strap:

well, my pleasure to be sure
  9:51pm
Jeff g.:

Mr Cohran is still making music, I believe. Or was, pretty recently.
Avatar 9:53pm
Flash Strap:

yeah, really great stuff in fact
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Little Danny:

Hi all, before Flash concludes another sterling ep of Explorer's Room, I'd like to cordially invite all to join me in the next laboratory (British pronunciation) over: wfmu.org...
Avatar 9:55pm
hyde:

thanks flash!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
Uncle Michael:

Thanks Evan.
  9:57pm
Jeff g.:

Thanks, many.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
Doug Schulkind:

A whole lotta favorite dishes served up exquisitely, expertly.
  9:57pm
Jeff g.:

*man!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Little Danny is up next on the Drummer Stream with The Cool Blue Flame. Stick around for more great greatness.

Playlist: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
coelacanth:

Thanks Evan!
Avatar 10:00pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks to you all for listening!
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