WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 12, 2017

Listener comments!
	6:54pm Flash Strap: Evening explorers! Gonna be a warm night in here
	6:57pm Ehd: Hi Flash, warm nights in the winter are great!
	7:00pm JtotheK: Hi Flash, good evening fellow explorers!
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: How do, Flash and all!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Ehd, J_K, Listener Jaaaaames! Welcome, welcome welcome!
	7:04pm hyde: Flash Strap never ever ever does what he should
	7:04pm MrFab: Got my pith helmet, my khakis, riding crop tucked under my arm...ready to explore, eh what?
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Mr. Fab, beware the rebels in that getup now Hyde, you get me, you really get me
	7:07pm MrFab: Oh, the natives are restless tonight?
	7:09pm Flash Strap: This track has obsessed me of late, feverishly so
	7:10pm Flash Strap: in a manner of speaking, yes, Mr. Fab
	7:10pm doctorjazz: Hello!
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Dr. Jazz! Hello friend
	7:13pm Flash Strap: This track is gonna stay with you all, mark my words. It will haunt your dreams, replace your original shadow
	7:13pm MrFab: How can i work dancing around in my chair like this? My coworkers probly wonder about me as it is...
	7:15pm geezerette: Hey Evan and intrepids!
	7:15pm geezerette: Love the image. :)
	7:18pm hyde: hiya, geezerette!
	7:21pm geezerette: Hyde! How you doin' buddy?
	7:22pm hyde: i'm getting by. long weekend comin' ;)
	7:23pm geezerette: YAY! :D
	7:24pm geezerette: Evan this is a great track!
	7:24pm Flash Strap: Hi Geezerette! Welcome friend!
	7:25pm Flash Strap: I agree. I love Lancelot's voice: "you hear me man?"
	7:25pm geezerette: Thanks Evan! :)
	7:26pm geezerette: Exactly! That was the line that grabbed me.
	7:28pm Flash Strap: it's crazy how much that line actually makes you sit up and listen
	7:29pm geezerette: When I was a kid I was in Nassau for Junkanoo. Stunning. Eye opening.
	7:29pm Scraps deSelby: dah dee, dee dah. h'lo, h'lo.
	7:30pm Flash Strap: Would love to see that someday, geezerette H'lo deSelby! What's scrappin'?
	7:31pm Little Danny: Evening Flash and all!
	7:31pm Flash Strap: such a groove
	7:32pm Little Danny: Evan: I've listened to last week's Explorer's Room three times over the last seven days. One of the greats
	7:32pm Scraps: beeble, babble. hey hey.
	7:32pm Flash Strap: LD, what a pleasure!
	7:35pm Flash Strap: damn man that means the actual valley of the saroos to me. Thanks LD, truly
	7:36pm geezerette: God ,I lLOVE this!
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Wild Fire is just insanely intense
	7:37pm geezerette: Words and delivery. No foolin'.
	7:37pm Flash Strap: sort of a Whitfield-era Temptations thing going, but just inferno furious about it
	7:39pm geezerette: Yeah, the intensity.
	7:42pm Flash Strap: we got another Wild Fire track coming in not too long... REALLY GOOD group. looking high and low for their 4 LPs and it ain't as easy as I'd like. Pretty much just have stuff from comps
	7:45pm geezerette: Well thanks for introducing us to them!
	7:47pm Flash Strap: well, my great pleasure indeed
	7:47pm geezerette: "Star Wars Rapso", anthem for winter of '17.
	7:48pm Flash Strap: haha seriously
	7:51pm Flash Strap: on a related note, I saw that new Star War and thought it was sort of ok. Like it had a sort of interesting subtext if you cared to give it that sort of generosity as a viewer
	7:52pm Flash Strap: not that you should, necessarily.
	7:54pm Flash Strap: some heavy groove from the mighty Shadow here! hits like a sledgehammer
	7:54pm doctorjazz: The best thing about the new Star Wars (that I haven't seen yet) is that it enabled me to get the old films to watch with the kids. Just finished Stranger Things with my daughter, creepy.
	7:55pm geezerette: ha,I always look for reasons to though. :) (@7:52)
	7:57pm Flash Strap: I liked Stranger Things. I'm from the same area as the Duffy Brothers, and grew up right near a mysterious gov. facility (with all this myth/urban legend stuff built up around it), which they drew on for the show. so that made it relevant to my boyhood
	7:58pm yellowbird: That last track knocked me out.
	7:58pm doctorjazz: I liked it too (as did my 18 year old...she didn't want to turn it off ever).
	8:00pm Flash Strap: @G: it did have some semblance of an actual revolutionary effort, sans magic noblemen Jedi, which plugs into the zeitgeist of this foul time and grants it a kind of relevance. Also it's just a better flick than Force Awakens, not that that says much
	8:00pm doctorjazz: Leaving the office, put on the app in the car, fun show, night all!
	8:00pm Flash Strap: Hi Yellowbird! Welcome friendo!
	8:01pm hyde: i haven't seen Stranger Things, but i liked what i have heard of the soundtrack
	8:02pm yellowbird: evenin' Flash. I'm liking these rich sounds.
	8:02pm hyde: i also confess i'm a little ambivalent about Star Wars...
	8:03pm listener james from westwood: This set is a whole lotta fun. And I too have heard good things re: Stranger Things.
	8:04pm listener james from westwood: I say that as an 80s kid, a former D&D player, and a Winona Ryder fan.
	8:04pm Flash Strap: adios, Doc! Thanks!
	8:04pm melinda: hi folks!
	8:06pm hyde: hey melinda!
	🥁 8:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Met a young woman from Trinidad. I thot then - the most beautiful human being I had ever seen: a mix of races that made her - pretty much Golden.
	8:12pm Scraps: YES. Especially reggae compilations. I always try and find the albums.
	8:14pm Scraps: RevRab: Oh yes. Bjork, Phoebe Cates... makes me almost believe in God.
	8:17pm Flash Strap: @Hyde: it is always ok and even right to be ambivalent about a Disney franchise. Stuff like that, I don't even view as "entertainment" so much as a text to be analyzed and batted around
	8:18pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda! Great to see you!
	8:19pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Evan and Explorers
	8:20pm Flash Strap: Hi fish brother!
	8:23pm Flash Strap: Mtume is so funky man
	8:24pm coelacanth∅: ...agreed @8.17 on both points! (except i don't have much experience for analyzing and battering star wars - because of my ambivalence!)
	8:26pm ?: Oh man, the Ghetto Brothers. Such a great one
	8:27pm Flash Strap: I have to admit that I really like the original trilogy, esp. the first two and the first act of the 3rd (Jabba's palace, in the original unedited version, is so crazy Orientalist). But I break with Star Wars fans pretty much categorically
	8:27pm Little Danny: Last comment from "?" re: Ghetto Brothers was me
	8:28pm Flash Strap: Aha, so Danny is the Mysterion! Yeah, probably their best tune in my book. Great record.
	🥁 8:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: There are worse mass phenoms than StarWars. I was a SciFi magazine nerd before the 1st came out - & was ready for an amalgamation of Tolkien & '2001'. It's got the Force & Joe Campbell Hero stuff - but it also turned out a prototype of the Blockbusters - all sensationalism & no story. Meh. Potential squandered. Japanese Anime - that rawks!... ...Now FMU - this astounds w/ range & quality. I mean - really. A Thursday off work - engaged & informed for hours on end - & it's just one day. Gary last night sharing his Thai adventures. Tonight the Caribbean...
	8:30pm hyde: @Flash it's not the Disney thing, really. I should explain. i saw the first one when it came out, when i was 14. i liked it ok, but wasn't crazy about it. i knew enough about old movies that i saw where it was coming from, but didn't connect with it. not that it was a ripoff--i mean, Once Upon a Time in the West does that kind of history riffing, and i love it. by the time Empire dropped, i was a 17-18 year old punk rocker, and so i just never connected with it. since i've seen it plenty and it's clearly the best Star Wars movie. but i just never managed to get on board the train during my formative years. so subsequently, when i saw the last of the original trilogy and then the next three, i really just couldn't get it. becasue well, the second trilogy is bad. i did see the force awakens, and enjoyed it. it's an entertaining, well made movie and yet...to me, there is just a lot of fan service that is about things that i don't really care about because i have never connected so much with the originals. i don't begrudge anyne who is a fan the things that make them excited about it, but that is just not me. and that is my star wars story. i will see rogue one, since i like Gareth Edwards as a director. and i'll see whatever the next real one is called, since i like Rian Johnson as a director. And i suspect they'll be fine. But i suspect still at arm's length....
	8:32pm Flash Strap: @rev:It really is a death knell for New hollywood. And mark me down as a Campbell skeptic in a big way. But it's also a tremendous act of pastiche, and I really love those first flicks despite all
	8:35pm Flash Strap: Just wanna backtrack and say if anyone has any concrete info about that tremendous Fidel Castro / Belita Palma track, I'd be very curious to know
	🥁 8:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It's got some stuff. 'I'm not afraid Yoda!' '...You will be.' He managed to get some Zen into dull-normals' heads. Just...well I think we're on the same page. I'm much like Hyde here - it came too late. I had Tolkien & the real SciFi - & it wasn't enuff. It's curious what one becomes a fanboy of or does not...Miyazaki - now that has the Awe for me...the anime Akira - gnarly visuals & ideas...let the Japanese do Star Wars - they could rock it...
	8:38pm Flash Strap: I can dig where you're coming from, Hyde
	8:39pm Zev Deans: Hey, Evan, been digging the show, havent heard from ya in a while, congrats on the move, buddy
	8:42pm Flash Strap: Zev my man! Thanks brother. We should catch up, I wanna know what you're into
	8:44pm Zev Deans: I'm INTO your show, buddy!! I was just listening to a Roger Corman interview, and found out that HE was the guy tasked with changing and re-releasing that soviet scifi exotic movie into an American release,
	8:45pm Zev Deans: The one you recut and mixed for the Spectacle show
	8:45pm Flash Strap: and he turned it over to Bogdonavich, right?
	8:46pm Zev Deans: And it turns out that Corman had his intern, a fresh-out-of-school Francis Ford Coppola, do all the cutting to remove the soviet anti-American elements
	8:46pm hyde: Voyage To the Planet of Prehistoric Women? now THAT i can connect with!
	8:47pm Flash Strap: I know bogdanovich did some reshoots for another release of it, titled Voyage To the Planet of Prehistoric Women, as opposed to Voyage To the Prehistoric Planet
	8:48pm Zev Deans: Anyway, I'm working on something vaguely... similar. Hit me up sometime, I may have some projects in the not-so-distant future for collab... LOVE YOUR SHOW, and that Henri Rousseau painting gave me the perfect pitch idea yesterday, thanks for all, give me a ring sometime
	8:48pm coelacanth∅: to be fair, i'm not into ANY movie enough to make me care about the sequels. i've never instigated watching a movie; never been to a theatre alone; never made a plan to watch a movie on tv; never rented a movie to watch alone... i would like to watch the entire original star trek series though, some day, and maybe the original twilight zones as well.
	8:48pm Flash Strap: man that flick has had a crazy journey. I was watching Solaris the other day and it had some of the same actors in the early scenes I didn't know that about Coppola though! I mean Wow
	8:49pm Zev Deans: yeah, they had to get rid of the communist elements (which I've never seen), so he was tasked with editing them out
	8:50pm hyde: love Bogdanovich. ever seen Saint Jack, the one he shot in secret in Singapore in the 70's? that was one of the best rediscoveries of last year for me.
	🥁 8:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: As you know: Corman always came in under budget & ahead of schedule - made what, 100s of films? Legs up to people like Coppola...& he's this Trash monger! @coel: I'm like that too - & I wonder if the interwebz have messed my attention span even! How can I sit & watch one dumb thing for hours?! There's - stuff going on - now...
	8:51pm Flash Strap: I have seen What's Up Doc and Paper Moon a dozen times each, he's so good
	8:51pm hyde: @coelecanth ha. i stayed in a friend's house over new year's with cable, and there were BOTH original Twilight Zone and original Star Trek marathons on. watched a lot of those...
	8:53pm Flash Strap: Zev: you got it. Soon, we talk.
	🥁 8:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Star Trek took all the SciFi & many Science concepts & popularized them - lightyears & time travel paradoxes & so on. Stuff everybody knows now. Most programs were 1/2-hour - that show literally taught me what an hour was. I wonder what I'd think now...
	8:54pm hyde: @Flash Strap love those. and Targets. Targets is genius. also saw They All Laughed for the first time last year--also really, really good. But man, i loved Saint Jack.
	8:55pm Doug Schulkind: Love is Flash/Strap.
	8:55pm hyde: @RevRab it's still entertaining as hell
	🥁 8:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Right.
	8:56pm Flash Strap: I gotta see St. Jack then !
	8:57pm Flash Strap: Doooooooug is 10/10, 2 thumbs up!
	8:58pm Little Danny: Epic set Flash. Lovin' it!
	8:58pm hyde: there's a book about the Making of Saint Jack that is insanely priced at Amazon (www.amazon.com...) but i contacted the author on twitter & he said he'd sell me one for 25$. i should probably do that.
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: RR, i know what you mean. i always liked the fact that i could listen to music and do something else simultaneously- which i couldn't do with tv. i do waste a bit of time though - getting sucked in to one youboob video after another; or a wikipedia wormhole. i'm defying myself!
	9:03pm coelacanth∅: hyde @8.51, that makes me happy! (though i wish i did that)
	9:08pm Flash Strap: hysterical lyrics here
	9:09pm quinn: many delights
	9:10pm Flash Strap: did I misspeak and say that the Duke Lumumba LP was called Burning Jungle? Meant to say Jungle Funk
	9:11pm Flash Strap: Hello Quinn and warm welcome!
	9:12pm Flash Strap: Duke himself: img.discogs.com...
	9:13pm Flash Strap: gorgeous drums on this cut
	9:14pm Doug Schulkind: I once enjoyed some heavy petting with my high school sweetheart in the back of her '73 Lincoln Continental while waiting on an early morning gas line during the 1980 oil crisis. We each had volunteered separately to our parents to drive over to the local gas station and wait on line until it opened. We parked in line back to back and then "waited" in her vehicle. Possibly the smartest tricky thing I've ever done.
	9:15pm hyde: @Doug sly dog
	9:16pm melinda: Nice funk.
	9:17pm Flash Strap: I love hearing your adventures in the necking sciences Doug
	9:18pm geezerette: Lovely voice! :D
	9:18pm melinda: I had been doing a good job of limiting social media for a while but just got sucked into arguing against clueless political commentary on facebook. Closed it for the night, now it's Explorers Room and nothing else!
	9:19pm hyde: @Doug another great angle is that the '73 Lincoln Continental probably got about 8 miles to the gallon.
	9:19pm Flash Strap: This is a funny track: great dance funk, but not a great Ofege track, as it doesn't contain a crazy, indulgent, stoned, brilliant guitar solo
	9:19pm geezerette: Good call melinda!
	9:20pm Little Danny: P&P classique! God I love this sound
	9:20pm Doug Schulkind: More like 8 gallons per mile, hyde.
	9:20pm hyde: @melinda heh. there's just no winning at that. welcome to the funk.
	9:21pm Flash Strap: exactly, LD! yes!
	9:24pm geezerette: This is backtracking but "Last Picture Show" kills me every time, & I absolutely love the way Bogdanovich used music. Of course, Hank Williams is a huge favorite of mine. Gotta find "Saint Jack" now!
	9:26pm quinn: what ofege track should i refer to if i am interested in crazy, indulgent, stoned, brilliant guitar solos?
	9:27pm Flash Strap: man I haven't seen Picture Show in so long. Time for a rewatch! Also, I really like whole passages of Nickelodeon, even though I'm not sure I like the film as a whole
	9:27pm geezerette: ( I've been wanting rum since 7:00. ) :D
	9:29pm melinda: I think I saw Nickelodeon as a kid, haven't thought about it in ages.
	9:29pm Flash Strap: Quinn: I'll just point you towards the first few LPs and I think you just can't lose: www.discogs.com... And Geezerette: I've been HAVING rum since 7:00
	9:30pm hyde: i never have seen Nickleodeon...
	9:30pm melinda: I've heard of Saint Jack but didn't know it was filmed in secret. That makes it more interesting.
	9:31pm geezerette: Agree! I don't think it's a great film but enjoyed it anyway. Another thing about"Picture Show" is the stunning B&W photography. Sucker for that. Ha! Cheers then Evan!
	9:31pm Flash Strap: has a pretty good scene where Ryan O'Neal and Burt Reynolds basically box their way through and over a whole dustbowl farm. It's weird to watch them fight, esp. since O'neal is the better of the two
	9:31pm melinda: On a different theme, the last film I saw was the FMU doc, Sex and Broadcasting. Everyone should see it who hasn't yet!
	9:33pm melinda: 70s films set in Texas makes me think of Days of Heaven. Though I believe it was filmed in the Dakotas or somewhere like that.
	9:36pm geezerette: melinda,is it on a streaming service? "Days of Heaven" is a great silent film. Loose the soundtrack with it's awful narration and it's a magnificent movie. But then, I like silent movies.
	9:37pm geezerette: King Khan,wow!
	9:41pm melinda: Sex and Broadcasting is on amazon, and I think maybe Netflix too. I haven't seen Days of Heaven in a while but I remember finding the Linda Manz character and her narration interesting (I think it was her). Mostly it was the cinematography.
	9:42pm Flash Strap: the 4 singles from this project are pretty outrageous, highly recommended: khannibalism.bandcamp.com
	9:42pm melinda: Oh, it's Ian Svenonius. He's great. performed locally a few times and I always miss it.
	9:45pm Little Danny: Oh wow "Black Power" is just great. There's a bit of the Chambers Brothers' "Time Has Come Today" to it
	9:49pm Flash Strap: This track is hysterical to me. Black Stalin. Robot voice+squigglesynths. What the hell, what a joy
	9:49pm Flash Strap: Agree, LD
	9:50pm melinda: It is kinda crazy, in a good way. Robot knows the truth.
	9:51pm quinn: ticks all the boxes
	9:52pm Flash Strap: hahaha check... check... yep, this checks out.
	9:56pm melinda: That documentary sounds good.
	9:56pm Little Danny: The fun rages on here: wfmu.org... You betta be there!
	9:57pm quinn: dang it why do i always tune in at the end
	9:58pm geezerette: Great show AGAIN Evan! Happy Weekend.
	9:58pm coelacanth∅: g, i wouldn't have known i am familiar with Bogdonovitch; but the last picture show is one of my all-time favorites.
	9:59pm Doug Schulkind: On to Danny Maximus! Flash Strap, you continue to astound and delight.
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	10:00pm Flash Strap: my question exactly, listener quinn! why must you deprive us?
	10:00pm hyde: thanks, man!
	10:01pm geezerette: Yay coel! Paper Moon also great. :)
	10:01pm Flash Strap: Thanks Melinda, Thanks C, Thanks Doug you sly whisperer, thanks Hyde, thanks all and much love, good night

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 12, 2017

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January 12, 2017: The Rebels are Coming to Town

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
The Lost Generation	The Young, Tough and the Terrible	Young, Tough And Terrible	1972	Chicago	0:01:25 (Pop-up)
Lancelot Layne	Blow'Way "Blow'Way" by "Lancelot Layne"	Afro'Dadian / Blow'Way 7"	197?	Trinidad	0:04:24 (Pop-up)
Shadow	D'Hardest "D'Hardest" by "Shadow"	D'Hardest 12"	1980	Trinidad	0:07:10 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Lost Generation	The Lost Generation (Instrumental)	Young, Tough And Terrible			0:14:12 (Pop-up)
Lancelot Layne	Make Life Easy on Me	Who Could Help Me / Make Life Easy on Me 7"	197?	Trinidad	0:22:51 (Pop-up)
Lancelot Layne	Carnival Drum Song	Neo Calypso	197?	Trinidad	0:25:24 (Pop-up)
Network Rapso Riddum Band	Ring de Bell	Ring de Bell / Ring de Bell (Festival Version) 7"	1987	Trinidad (with Brother Resistance)	0:28:40 (Pop-up)
Oluko Imo	Imo "Imo" by "Oluko Imo"	Imo 7"	197?	Trinidad (with Black Truth Rhythm Band)	0:31:48 (Pop-up)
Wild Fire	Check It Out "Check It Out" by "Wild Fire"	Check It	1976	Trinidad	0:35:00 (Pop-up)
Elsworth James & Just Fab Deltones	Calypso Music	Message from the Islands		Trinidad	0:38:28 (Pop-up)
Clarence Curvan & His Mod Sounds	Calypsoul	Calypsoul 70: Caribbean Soul & Calypso Crossover 1969-1979		Trinidad	0:40:35 (Pop-up)
Brother Resistance	Star Warz Rapso	Rapso Take Over	1986	Trinidad (with Network [Rapso] Riddum Band)	0:43:54 (Pop-up)
Shadow	Let's Get It Together "Let's Get It Together" by "Shadow"	Sweet Sweet Dreams	1984	Trinidad	0:51:06 (Pop-up)
Wild Fire	The Rebels "The Rebels" by "Wild Fire"	Time is the Answer	1980	Trinidad	0:59:18 (Pop-up)
Executor	I Don't Know How The Young Men Living	Calypsos From Trinidad: Politics, Intrigue and Violence in the 1930's	193?	Trinidad	1:01:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brother Resistance	Wars in Space Dub	Rapso Take Over			1:04:19 (Pop-up)
Mtume	Body Sounds "Body Sounds" by "Mtume"	Rebirth Cycle	1977	NYC	1:14:28 (Pop-up)
Mtume	Umoja "Umoja" by "Mtume"	Rebirth Cycle	1977	NYC	1:18:33 (Pop-up)
Ghetto Brothers	Viva Puerto Rico Libre	Power-Fuerza	1972	Bronx	1:23:20 (Pop-up)
Belita Palma	Fidel Castro "Fidel Castro" by "Belita Palma"	?	19??	Angola	1:29:10 (Pop-up)
Duo Ouro Negro	Amanhã "Amanhã" by "Duo Ouro Negro"	Blackground	1971	Angola	1:32:33 (Pop-up)
Rikki Ililonga	Musamuseke "Musamuseke" by "Rikki Ililonga"	Zambia	1975	Zambia	1:35:47 (Pop-up)
African Brothers Band International	Kyeremirekuku	Tribute to D.K.	1980	Ghana	1:38:50 (Pop-up)
Pasteur Lappé	As Far as I Can Remember (Memories)	The Sekele Movement 12"	19??	Cameroon	1:45:48 (Pop-up)
Lumumba	Love Is 50/50 "Love Is 50/50" by "Lumumba"	Lumumba	1974	Ghana (Duke Lumumba & Rim Kwaku Obeng)	1:52:26 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Pharoah Sanders	Nigerian Juju Highlife				1:58:58 (Pop-up)
Rim Kwaku Obeng	Gas Line "Gas Line" by "Rim Kwaku Obeng"	Rim Arrives	1980	Ghana	2:08:02 (Pop-up)
Duke Lumumba	Jungle Funk "Jungle Funk" by "Duke Lumumba"	Jungle Funk	1969	Ghana	2:11:29 (Pop-up)
Ofege	Burning Jungle "Burning Jungle" by "Ofege"	How Do You Feel	1978	Nigeria	2:15:46 (Pop-up)
Cloud One	Atmosphere Strut "Atmosphere Strut" by "Cloud One"	Atmosphere Strut	1976	NYC	2:19:54 (Pop-up)
McNeal & Niles	One Slave, One Gun	Thrust	1979	Akron, OH	2:27:55 (Pop-up)
The Lost Generation	This is the Lost Generation	Young, Tough And Terrible	1972	Chicago	2:32:59 (Pop-up)
King Khan	Children Of The World "Children Of The World" by "King Khan"	Children Of The World / Gone Are The Times 7"	2016	Soundtrack to documentary about the Invaders, of Memphis	2:36:20 (Pop-up)
King Khan feat. Ian Svenonius	Hurtin' Class	Hurtin' Class / Hurtin' Class (Instrumental) 7"	2016	Soundtrack to documentary about the Invaders, of Memphis	2:39:09 (Pop-up)
The Peace	Black Power "Black Power" by "The Peace"	Black Power	1975	Zambia	2:42:41 (Pop-up)
Black Stalin	Better Days "Better Days" by "Black Stalin"	You Ask For It	1984	Trinidad	2:45:03 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Southern Tropical Harmony Steel Band	Limbo				2:52:52 (Pop-up)
Shadow	D'Hardest "D'Hardest" by "Shadow"	D'Hardest 12"	1980	Trinidad	2:58:23 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:54pm Flash Strap: Evening explorers! Gonna be a warm night in here
	6:57pm Ehd: Hi Flash, warm nights in the winter are great!
	7:00pm JtotheK: Hi Flash, good evening fellow explorers!
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: How do, Flash and all!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Ehd, J_K, Listener Jaaaaames! Welcome, welcome welcome!
	7:04pm hyde: Flash Strap never ever ever does what he should
	7:04pm MrFab: Got my pith helmet, my khakis, riding crop tucked under my arm...ready to explore, eh what?
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Mr. Fab, beware the rebels in that getup now Hyde, you get me, you really get me
	7:07pm MrFab: Oh, the natives are restless tonight?
	7:09pm Flash Strap: This track has obsessed me of late, feverishly so
	7:10pm Flash Strap: in a manner of speaking, yes, Mr. Fab
	7:10pm doctorjazz: Hello!
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Dr. Jazz! Hello friend
	7:13pm Flash Strap: This track is gonna stay with you all, mark my words. It will haunt your dreams, replace your original shadow
	7:13pm MrFab: How can i work dancing around in my chair like this? My coworkers probly wonder about me as it is...
	7:15pm geezerette: Hey Evan and intrepids!
	7:15pm geezerette: Love the image. :)
	7:18pm hyde: hiya, geezerette!
	7:21pm geezerette: Hyde! How you doin' buddy?
	7:22pm hyde: i'm getting by. long weekend comin' ;)
	7:23pm geezerette: YAY! :D
	7:24pm geezerette: Evan this is a great track!
	7:24pm Flash Strap: Hi Geezerette! Welcome friend!
	7:25pm Flash Strap: I agree. I love Lancelot's voice: "you hear me man?"
	7:25pm geezerette: Thanks Evan! :)
	7:26pm geezerette: Exactly! That was the line that grabbed me.
	7:28pm Flash Strap: it's crazy how much that line actually makes you sit up and listen
	7:29pm geezerette: When I was a kid I was in Nassau for Junkanoo. Stunning. Eye opening.
	7:29pm Scraps deSelby: dah dee, dee dah. h'lo, h'lo.
	7:30pm Flash Strap: Would love to see that someday, geezerette H'lo deSelby! What's scrappin'?
	7:31pm Little Danny: Evening Flash and all!
	7:31pm Flash Strap: such a groove
	7:32pm Little Danny: Evan: I've listened to last week's Explorer's Room three times over the last seven days. One of the greats
	7:32pm Scraps: beeble, babble. hey hey.
	7:32pm Flash Strap: LD, what a pleasure!
	7:35pm Flash Strap: damn man that means the actual valley of the saroos to me. Thanks LD, truly
	7:36pm geezerette: God ,I lLOVE this!
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Wild Fire is just insanely intense
	7:37pm geezerette: Words and delivery. No foolin'.
	7:37pm Flash Strap: sort of a Whitfield-era Temptations thing going, but just inferno furious about it
	7:39pm geezerette: Yeah, the intensity.
	7:42pm Flash Strap: we got another Wild Fire track coming in not too long... REALLY GOOD group. looking high and low for their 4 LPs and it ain't as easy as I'd like. Pretty much just have stuff from comps
	7:45pm geezerette: Well thanks for introducing us to them!
	7:47pm Flash Strap: well, my great pleasure indeed
	7:47pm geezerette: "Star Wars Rapso", anthem for winter of '17.
	7:48pm Flash Strap: haha seriously
	7:51pm Flash Strap: on a related note, I saw that new Star War and thought it was sort of ok. Like it had a sort of interesting subtext if you cared to give it that sort of generosity as a viewer
	7:52pm Flash Strap: not that you should, necessarily.
	7:54pm Flash Strap: some heavy groove from the mighty Shadow here! hits like a sledgehammer
	7:54pm doctorjazz: The best thing about the new Star Wars (that I haven't seen yet) is that it enabled me to get the old films to watch with the kids. Just finished Stranger Things with my daughter, creepy.
	7:55pm geezerette: ha,I always look for reasons to though. :) (@7:52)
	7:57pm Flash Strap: I liked Stranger Things. I'm from the same area as the Duffy Brothers, and grew up right near a mysterious gov. facility (with all this myth/urban legend stuff built up around it), which they drew on for the show. so that made it relevant to my boyhood
	7:58pm yellowbird: That last track knocked me out.
	7:58pm doctorjazz: I liked it too (as did my 18 year old...she didn't want to turn it off ever).
	8:00pm Flash Strap: @G: it did have some semblance of an actual revolutionary effort, sans magic noblemen Jedi, which plugs into the zeitgeist of this foul time and grants it a kind of relevance. Also it's just a better flick than Force Awakens, not that that says much
	8:00pm doctorjazz: Leaving the office, put on the app in the car, fun show, night all!
	8:00pm Flash Strap: Hi Yellowbird! Welcome friendo!
	8:01pm hyde: i haven't seen Stranger Things, but i liked what i have heard of the soundtrack
	8:02pm yellowbird: evenin' Flash. I'm liking these rich sounds.
	8:02pm hyde: i also confess i'm a little ambivalent about Star Wars...
	8:03pm listener james from westwood: This set is a whole lotta fun. And I too have heard good things re: Stranger Things.
	8:04pm listener james from westwood: I say that as an 80s kid, a former D&D player, and a Winona Ryder fan.
	8:04pm Flash Strap: adios, Doc! Thanks!
	8:04pm melinda: hi folks!
	8:06pm hyde: hey melinda!
	🥁 8:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Met a young woman from Trinidad. I thot then - the most beautiful human being I had ever seen: a mix of races that made her - pretty much Golden.
	8:12pm Scraps: YES. Especially reggae compilations. I always try and find the albums.
	8:14pm Scraps: RevRab: Oh yes. Bjork, Phoebe Cates... makes me almost believe in God.
	8:17pm Flash Strap: @Hyde: it is always ok and even right to be ambivalent about a Disney franchise. Stuff like that, I don't even view as "entertainment" so much as a text to be analyzed and batted around
	8:18pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda! Great to see you!
	8:19pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Evan and Explorers
	8:20pm Flash Strap: Hi fish brother!
	8:23pm Flash Strap: Mtume is so funky man
	8:24pm coelacanth∅: ...agreed @8.17 on both points! (except i don't have much experience for analyzing and battering star wars - because of my ambivalence!)
	8:26pm ?: Oh man, the Ghetto Brothers. Such a great one
	8:27pm Flash Strap: I have to admit that I really like the original trilogy, esp. the first two and the first act of the 3rd (Jabba's palace, in the original unedited version, is so crazy Orientalist). But I break with Star Wars fans pretty much categorically
	8:27pm Little Danny: Last comment from "?" re: Ghetto Brothers was me
	8:28pm Flash Strap: Aha, so Danny is the Mysterion! Yeah, probably their best tune in my book. Great record.
	🥁 8:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: There are worse mass phenoms than StarWars. I was a SciFi magazine nerd before the 1st came out - & was ready for an amalgamation of Tolkien & '2001'. It's got the Force & Joe Campbell Hero stuff - but it also turned out a prototype of the Blockbusters - all sensationalism & no story. Meh. Potential squandered. Japanese Anime - that rawks!... ...Now FMU - this astounds w/ range & quality. I mean - really. A Thursday off work - engaged & informed for hours on end - & it's just one day. Gary last night sharing his Thai adventures. Tonight the Caribbean...
	8:30pm hyde: @Flash it's not the Disney thing, really. I should explain. i saw the first one when it came out, when i was 14. i liked it ok, but wasn't crazy about it. i knew enough about old movies that i saw where it was coming from, but didn't connect with it. not that it was a ripoff--i mean, Once Upon a Time in the West does that kind of history riffing, and i love it. by the time Empire dropped, i was a 17-18 year old punk rocker, and so i just never connected with it. since i've seen it plenty and it's clearly the best Star Wars movie. but i just never managed to get on board the train during my formative years. so subsequently, when i saw the last of the original trilogy and then the next three, i really just couldn't get it. becasue well, the second trilogy is bad. i did see the force awakens, and enjoyed it. it's an entertaining, well made movie and yet...to me, there is just a lot of fan service that is about things that i don't really care about because i have never connected so much with the originals. i don't begrudge anyne who is a fan the things that make them excited about it, but that is just not me. and that is my star wars story. i will see rogue one, since i like Gareth Edwards as a director. and i'll see whatever the next real one is called, since i like Rian Johnson as a director. And i suspect they'll be fine. But i suspect still at arm's length....
	8:32pm Flash Strap: @rev:It really is a death knell for New hollywood. And mark me down as a Campbell skeptic in a big way. But it's also a tremendous act of pastiche, and I really love those first flicks despite all
	8:35pm Flash Strap: Just wanna backtrack and say if anyone has any concrete info about that tremendous Fidel Castro / Belita Palma track, I'd be very curious to know
	🥁 8:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It's got some stuff. 'I'm not afraid Yoda!' '...You will be.' He managed to get some Zen into dull-normals' heads. Just...well I think we're on the same page. I'm much like Hyde here - it came too late. I had Tolkien & the real SciFi - & it wasn't enuff. It's curious what one becomes a fanboy of or does not...Miyazaki - now that has the Awe for me...the anime Akira - gnarly visuals & ideas...let the Japanese do Star Wars - they could rock it...
	8:38pm Flash Strap: I can dig where you're coming from, Hyde
	8:39pm Zev Deans: Hey, Evan, been digging the show, havent heard from ya in a while, congrats on the move, buddy
	8:42pm Flash Strap: Zev my man! Thanks brother. We should catch up, I wanna know what you're into
	8:44pm Zev Deans: I'm INTO your show, buddy!! I was just listening to a Roger Corman interview, and found out that HE was the guy tasked with changing and re-releasing that soviet scifi exotic movie into an American release,
	8:45pm Zev Deans: The one you recut and mixed for the Spectacle show
	8:45pm Flash Strap: and he turned it over to Bogdonavich, right?
	8:46pm Zev Deans: And it turns out that Corman had his intern, a fresh-out-of-school Francis Ford Coppola, do all the cutting to remove the soviet anti-American elements
	8:46pm hyde: Voyage To the Planet of Prehistoric Women? now THAT i can connect with!
	8:47pm Flash Strap: I know bogdanovich did some reshoots for another release of it, titled Voyage To the Planet of Prehistoric Women, as opposed to Voyage To the Prehistoric Planet
	8:48pm Zev Deans: Anyway, I'm working on something vaguely... similar. Hit me up sometime, I may have some projects in the not-so-distant future for collab... LOVE YOUR SHOW, and that Henri Rousseau painting gave me the perfect pitch idea yesterday, thanks for all, give me a ring sometime
	8:48pm coelacanth∅: to be fair, i'm not into ANY movie enough to make me care about the sequels. i've never instigated watching a movie; never been to a theatre alone; never made a plan to watch a movie on tv; never rented a movie to watch alone... i would like to watch the entire original star trek series though, some day, and maybe the original twilight zones as well.
	8:48pm Flash Strap: man that flick has had a crazy journey. I was watching Solaris the other day and it had some of the same actors in the early scenes I didn't know that about Coppola though! I mean Wow
	8:49pm Zev Deans: yeah, they had to get rid of the communist elements (which I've never seen), so he was tasked with editing them out
	8:50pm hyde: love Bogdanovich. ever seen Saint Jack, the one he shot in secret in Singapore in the 70's? that was one of the best rediscoveries of last year for me.
	🥁 8:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: As you know: Corman always came in under budget & ahead of schedule - made what, 100s of films? Legs up to people like Coppola...& he's this Trash monger! @coel: I'm like that too - & I wonder if the interwebz have messed my attention span even! How can I sit & watch one dumb thing for hours?! There's - stuff going on - now...
	8:51pm Flash Strap: I have seen What's Up Doc and Paper Moon a dozen times each, he's so good
	8:51pm hyde: @coelecanth ha. i stayed in a friend's house over new year's with cable, and there were BOTH original Twilight Zone and original Star Trek marathons on. watched a lot of those...
	8:53pm Flash Strap: Zev: you got it. Soon, we talk.
	🥁 8:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Star Trek took all the SciFi & many Science concepts & popularized them - lightyears & time travel paradoxes & so on. Stuff everybody knows now. Most programs were 1/2-hour - that show literally taught me what an hour was. I wonder what I'd think now...
	8:54pm hyde: @Flash Strap love those. and Targets. Targets is genius. also saw They All Laughed for the first time last year--also really, really good. But man, i loved Saint Jack.
	8:55pm Doug Schulkind: Love is Flash/Strap.
	8:55pm hyde: @RevRab it's still entertaining as hell
	🥁 8:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Right.
	8:56pm Flash Strap: I gotta see St. Jack then !
	8:57pm Flash Strap: Doooooooug is 10/10, 2 thumbs up!
	8:58pm Little Danny: Epic set Flash. Lovin' it!
	8:58pm hyde: there's a book about the Making of Saint Jack that is insanely priced at Amazon (www.amazon.com...) but i contacted the author on twitter & he said he'd sell me one for 25$. i should probably do that.
	9:01pm coelacanth∅: RR, i know what you mean. i always liked the fact that i could listen to music and do something else simultaneously- which i couldn't do with tv. i do waste a bit of time though - getting sucked in to one youboob video after another; or a wikipedia wormhole. i'm defying myself!
	9:03pm coelacanth∅: hyde @8.51, that makes me happy! (though i wish i did that)
	9:08pm Flash Strap: hysterical lyrics here
	9:09pm quinn: many delights
	9:10pm Flash Strap: did I misspeak and say that the Duke Lumumba LP was called Burning Jungle? Meant to say Jungle Funk
	9:11pm Flash Strap: Hello Quinn and warm welcome!
	9:12pm Flash Strap: Duke himself: img.discogs.com...
	9:13pm Flash Strap: gorgeous drums on this cut
	9:14pm Doug Schulkind: I once enjoyed some heavy petting with my high school sweetheart in the back of her '73 Lincoln Continental while waiting on an early morning gas line during the 1980 oil crisis. We each had volunteered separately to our parents to drive over to the local gas station and wait on line until it opened. We parked in line back to back and then "waited" in her vehicle. Possibly the smartest tricky thing I've ever done.
	9:15pm hyde: @Doug sly dog
	9:16pm melinda: Nice funk.
	9:17pm Flash Strap: I love hearing your adventures in the necking sciences Doug
	9:18pm geezerette: Lovely voice! :D
	9:18pm melinda: I had been doing a good job of limiting social media for a while but just got sucked into arguing against clueless political commentary on facebook. Closed it for the night, now it's Explorers Room and nothing else!
	9:19pm hyde: @Doug another great angle is that the '73 Lincoln Continental probably got about 8 miles to the gallon.
	9:19pm Flash Strap: This is a funny track: great dance funk, but not a great Ofege track, as it doesn't contain a crazy, indulgent, stoned, brilliant guitar solo
	9:19pm geezerette: Good call melinda!
	9:20pm Little Danny: P&P classique! God I love this sound
	9:20pm Doug Schulkind: More like 8 gallons per mile, hyde.
	9:20pm hyde: @melinda heh. there's just no winning at that. welcome to the funk.
	9:21pm Flash Strap: exactly, LD! yes!
	9:24pm geezerette: This is backtracking but "Last Picture Show" kills me every time, & I absolutely love the way Bogdanovich used music. Of course, Hank Williams is a huge favorite of mine. Gotta find "Saint Jack" now!
	9:26pm quinn: what ofege track should i refer to if i am interested in crazy, indulgent, stoned, brilliant guitar solos?
	9:27pm Flash Strap: man I haven't seen Picture Show in so long. Time for a rewatch! Also, I really like whole passages of Nickelodeon, even though I'm not sure I like the film as a whole
	9:27pm geezerette: ( I've been wanting rum since 7:00. ) :D
	9:29pm melinda: I think I saw Nickelodeon as a kid, haven't thought about it in ages.
	9:29pm Flash Strap: Quinn: I'll just point you towards the first few LPs and I think you just can't lose: www.discogs.com... And Geezerette: I've been HAVING rum since 7:00
	9:30pm hyde: i never have seen Nickleodeon...
	9:30pm melinda: I've heard of Saint Jack but didn't know it was filmed in secret. That makes it more interesting.
	9:31pm geezerette: Agree! I don't think it's a great film but enjoyed it anyway. Another thing about"Picture Show" is the stunning B&W photography. Sucker for that. Ha! Cheers then Evan!
	9:31pm Flash Strap: has a pretty good scene where Ryan O'Neal and Burt Reynolds basically box their way through and over a whole dustbowl farm. It's weird to watch them fight, esp. since O'neal is the better of the two
	9:31pm melinda: On a different theme, the last film I saw was the FMU doc, Sex and Broadcasting. Everyone should see it who hasn't yet!
	9:33pm melinda: 70s films set in Texas makes me think of Days of Heaven. Though I believe it was filmed in the Dakotas or somewhere like that.
	9:36pm geezerette: melinda,is it on a streaming service? "Days of Heaven" is a great silent film. Loose the soundtrack with it's awful narration and it's a magnificent movie. But then, I like silent movies.
	9:37pm geezerette: King Khan,wow!
	9:41pm melinda: Sex and Broadcasting is on amazon, and I think maybe Netflix too. I haven't seen Days of Heaven in a while but I remember finding the Linda Manz character and her narration interesting (I think it was her). Mostly it was the cinematography.
	9:42pm Flash Strap: the 4 singles from this project are pretty outrageous, highly recommended: khannibalism.bandcamp.com
	9:42pm melinda: Oh, it's Ian Svenonius. He's great. performed locally a few times and I always miss it.
	9:45pm Little Danny: Oh wow "Black Power" is just great. There's a bit of the Chambers Brothers' "Time Has Come Today" to it
	9:49pm Flash Strap: This track is hysterical to me. Black Stalin. Robot voice+squigglesynths. What the hell, what a joy
	9:49pm Flash Strap: Agree, LD
	9:50pm melinda: It is kinda crazy, in a good way. Robot knows the truth.
	9:51pm quinn: ticks all the boxes
	9:52pm Flash Strap: hahaha check... check... yep, this checks out.
	9:56pm melinda: That documentary sounds good.
	9:56pm Little Danny: The fun rages on here: wfmu.org... You betta be there!
	9:57pm quinn: dang it why do i always tune in at the end
	9:58pm geezerette: Great show AGAIN Evan! Happy Weekend.
	9:58pm coelacanth∅: g, i wouldn't have known i am familiar with Bogdonovitch; but the last picture show is one of my all-time favorites.
	9:59pm Doug Schulkind: On to Danny Maximus! Flash Strap, you continue to astound and delight.
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	10:00pm Flash Strap: my question exactly, listener quinn! why must you deprive us?
	10:00pm hyde: thanks, man!
	10:01pm geezerette: Yay coel! Paper Moon also great. :)
	10:01pm Flash Strap: Thanks Melinda, Thanks C, Thanks Doug you sly whisperer, thanks Hyde, thanks all and much love, good night

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 12, 2017

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