WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from February 9, 2017

Listener comments!
	6:56pm Flash Strap: Evening Explorers! Let's burn this thing to the ground
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: Got a gas can right here!
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Listener James brings it! Hello!
	7:10pm Flash Strap: How we doin tonight?
	7:11pm Doug Schulkind: The 9th Circuit just denied Trump's motion to overturn the stay. Good evening everyone!
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Yes. Yes. Yes. Evening Doug!
	7:18pm Doug Schulkind: This bush outside my house is a euonymus. My tush looks like a hippopotamus. The decision was unanimous!
	7:21pm listener james from westwood: Twitler is replying to this ruling in all caps, and with shitty grammar. In other words, it's a Thursday.
	7:22pm Flash Strap: What a W O R L D
	7:22pm Doug Schulkind: @Listener James I have been known to throw down a typo or ten in tweets and emails. I'm a he-man. Oops, I mean human.
	7:24pm Dave in Vermont: OK, so my daughter is newly a stoner. For like the last several months. I think I just convinced her to listen to your show even though she is extremely resistant to FMU. I told her this was the most appropriate music to listen to stoned.
	7:24pm Flash Strap: There is basically no limit to how often I can hear this track, and I have tested myself on that
	7:26pm Flash Strap: haha hi Dave!
	7:29pm hyde: hello to the gang. probably a little bit low profile tonite, but i'm around. play some Horace Andy for me!
	7:34pm Doug Schulkind: Because who would chase the Devil with a wrinkled shirt?
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyde! Not sure if I have any Horace cued up for tonight, but if there's room I'll change that
	7:38pm Flash Strap: why is your daughter resistant to the great FMU, Dave? Have you alchemized the ultimate cool into the lame with the sorcery of your dadness?
	7:38pm listener james from westwood: @Doug: I never grade tweets, message boards, emails, playlists, etc. Except his. He can go to hell and take his barely literate thumbs with him.
	7:39pm Flash Strap: I love this song
	7:40pm Doug Schulkind: I dub this song.
	7:41pm Flash Strap: brbrbrbrwoopboop this song
	7:42pm hyde: ha, no need to accommodate requests. that was just the thing i thought of
	7:44pm Flash Strap: @ James: I'd like to take those thumbs with ME. and toss em out the window of a car, into a field. you know the drill
	7:45pm Dave in Vermont: Exactly, Flash, alchemized cool into lame. That has been a real problem, but as she matures she is opening her heart and mind. Now I leave it in your hands good sir, to help her on the journey.
	7:45pm Flash Strap: @Hyde: I actually had a Horace track in mind earlier, but he got cut for something or other
	7:48pm Uncle Michael: Good evening..
	7:49pm Flash Strap: well, even my squarest shows are designed for maximum psychedelic potential to the stoned person, so I guess I've been preparing for this moment my whole life. that's what I was doing in the backyard, perparing
	7:49pm Flash Strap: I've been listening to this as Fire Fe the Cabinet
	7:52pm Flash Strap: Evening, Uncle! Always a pleasure to see your mug!
	7:54pm Flash Strap: man, i love Keith Hudson's way of things
	8:04pm coelacanth∅: o man - reggae! dub! hi Evan hello Explorers!
	🥁 8:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Not @ all perturbed by the perpetration of yer preparations. Salutations - this demand for reparations. StudioOne via StreamTwo...
	8:05pm Flash Strap: Hi C the Canth and Rev the Rab, welcome, welcome brothers
	8:06pm Flash Strap: This whole Tapper LP is too hot to touch man, it sounds like it's from another planet
	8:09pm Flash Strap: "All oppression can do is bring passion to the heights of eruprion and songs of fire we'll sing" LKJ!
	8:09pm Flash Strap: dammit *eruption
	8:10pm northguineahills: Ok, this is just what the doctor ordered.
	8:11pm Flash Strap: NGH! Hello!
	8:11pm coelacanth∅: Oku?
	8:12pm Flash Strap: No Oku tonight, I don't know why. But, there are many more nights where this music will seem right in the Room, I think
	8:13pm coelacanth∅: ah. Mutabaruka.
	8:15pm Flash Strap: That whole Mutabaruka album is soo good, for anyone who's never spent time with it
	8:16pm quinn: loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove
	8:17pm coelacanth∅: i burnt out on Mutabaruka and haven't listened to him in nearly 2 decades; except a few tracks i put in mixes. it's really good to hear it again.
	8:21pm coelacanth∅: hmm, did Max take that line from Jr. Byles, or likewise?
	8:28pm Flash Strap: Hi Quiiiiiiiiin! I need to check on that, C.!
	🥁 8:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: That Bass tone - the arrangement - the recording...
	8:31pm coelacanth∅: i looked, Evan. "dreader locks" was 1974, so first. (& Lee Perry, technically)...but who knows - maybe that line "fire in the vatican" was one of those open-source lines.
	8:31pm Flash Strap: this song is so lovely
	8:32pm Flash Strap: yeah, C. , I'm not 100% on this, but I think I've seen some Rastafari literature/rhetoric that called for the Vatican's destruction, so it has precedent in the culture
	8:33pm Flash Strap: best line: SHE BRINGS ME COFFEE IN MY FAVORITE CUP really speaks to my life
	8:35pm coelacanth∅: right. - i can't (well, i can because i must!) wait to go to the archive and hear that Max Romeo track!
	8:35pm Uncle Michael: It was great when Ray Charles wrote it!
	8:36pm Flash Strap: indeed, though he couldn't give it such an absurdly militant sound
	8:39pm Flash Strap: This riddim, based on an Alton Ellis track, will reappear this set, in various forms
	8:40pm northguineahills: Holy love, Trinity always kills!
	8:42pm Flash Strap: I know, he's totally bonkers. That Lp is sort of a crazy masterpiece... ever hear his track, Take LSD? Nutzo stuff!
	8:44pm Flash Strap: very curious Lee Perry production here
	8:44pm Flash Strap: This record actually has 2 covers of songs from Doris Duke's I'm A Loser! I mean, wow!
	8:46pm Flash Strap: here's one of em
	8:47pm coelacanth∅: new to me, this. i never heard of Tapper Zukie either, or Herman Chin Loy. i'm psyched!
	8:48pm Flash Strap: me too, man. i live for that
	🥁 8:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah - so great, & who plays this stuff?
	8:49pm Flash Strap: does no one play this stuff? or are you yankin my poor old chain?
	8:50pm Flash Strap: oh, here's that riddim again! it will appear one more time, can anyone guess?
	8:51pm coelacanth∅: no one on fmu plays rootsy reggae except extremely rarely.
	8:52pm Flash Strap: well then I will do it more! I love to do it. I figured it was well-covered turf, actually
	8:53pm coelacanth∅: Meghan (underwater theme park) filled in for Jeff Sarge twice recently and played righteous riddims.
	8:55pm Flash Strap: I should check that out this song is so legendary
	8:55pm coelacanth∅: oh - actually Small Change plays some good reggae occasionally, but he's prone to ruining good music with goofy sound effects. i wish he'd stop because his show's pretty good, in general.
	8:57pm Flash Strap: man, you know, I've never heard that show. Honestly, I spend so much time listening to music for the show that I only rarely even think to listen to anything outside the Drummer stream
	8:58pm coelacanth∅: it's weird - Nora dean has gotten airplay a few times in the last few months. "islandish", but not reggae though. i have a song "mojo girl" on a comp that's good -more reggae-ish than what i've heard on fmu.
	🥁 8:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: No seriously - where does one get informed of this? Much like 'Downtown Soulville' confounds me that it can be so great but known only to the few hardcore enthusiasts - or - I'm just the square...Was in an online group once for GarageRawk - & a guy was saying the Wailers from Tacoma were where it was @ - & Marley's were MOR or something. But I think a lot of this (esp. the earliest) is the perfect parallel to GarageRawk. The Wailers both Tacoma & Kingston. & of course this crucially informed Punk in the 70s when that happened.
	8:59pm Flash Strap: Aston "Family Man" Barrett = founding member of the Upsetters & Wailers. Some great solo LPs too. Macka Dub is one of my all-time dub records, as well as his Pick a Dub with Keith Hudson
	9:01pm Flash Strap: @C: she is sort of a Dj cult fave - i hear her on local college radio not too infrequently. her big track is pretty reggae though, the amazing Barbed Wire that last track sounds more like Eloise Louis
	9:01pm Doug Schulkind: Meghan (underwater theme park) is a wonderful DJ!
	9:03pm coelacanth∅: Really! is she still recording? ...i'll check out "barbed wire".
	9:03pm Flash Strap: much agreed, Doug!
	9:04pm Ehd: Hi Flash, and everybody! Been listening all night in the kitchen, great stuff!
	9:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Ehd! No, C., I think she recorded very little in a very short time and then went ghost: inger Nora Dean was one of reggae’s greatest mysteries including her birth year which some sources quote as 1952. She recorded solo and as a member of The Ebony Sisters, The Soul Sisters and The Soulettes. She did backing vocals on recordings by Jimmy Cliff. Although she was not a prolific artist (especially by reggae standards), a number of her songs are very fondly remembered by fans of Jamaican music as true reggae classics. No interviews with her have ever been published. Photos seemed to be non-existent.
	9:06pm coelacanth∅: well, fuck... Nora Dean died last year.
	9:06pm northguineahills: @Flash, I've missed that track. I also love his Yabby You's "Pharaoh Dub"
	9:06pm Flash Strap: that's from her discogs bio: www.discogs.com...
	9:06pm northguineahills: Holy crap, that is Eek-a-Mouse!
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: okay, Thanks i'll check that out.
	9:08pm coelacanth∅: Eek! it's Eek-a-mouse!
	🥁 9:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& when people speak of the 'Roots of Rap/HipHop' - & don't mention ReggaeToasting (since this is mostly the 70s already here)...just weird...
	9:09pm Flash Strap: Never heard Eek-a-Mouse till Doug played some awesome track of his
	9:10pm northguineahills: In Netflix's "The Get-Down", they cover the dj toasting culture in the genesis of hiphop.
	9:10pm Flash Strap: this version so superior to the album version anyway, there's that riddim again
	9:11pm northguineahills: I only have the album version. now it skips.
	9:13pm Flash Strap: album version also excellent! sorry bout the skippin though, that's a hard blow
	9:26pm hyde: oh, dang. i love this one.
	9:26pm coelacanth∅: Mr. Brown!
	9:29pm Flash Strap: yeah totally i once visited Mrs Brown's tea shop and opted NOT to have shroom tea for some reason, an instead ate the most potent marijuana cake in the world i stood so still, for so long, that a dog pooped on my foot
	9:29pm coelacanth∅: hahaha!
	9:30pm Flash Strap: all my shroomin buddies had a great trip too, but i was paralyzed. it was ridiculous!
	9:34pm coelacanth∅: so, "mr. brown" was originally written by Glen Adams (upsetters) and released after as an instrumental.("dracula")
	9:35pm Flash Strap: I feel like that Scientist stuff sometimes gets overplayed based on its cool titles, but man it's still really good stuff
	9:36pm Flash Strap: huh, well that explains it!
	9:37pm quinn: I love Scientist and have also been paralyzed by marijuana'd food
	9:38pm northguineahills: In FL, the A/C is dead, and I can't open a window b/c I don't think it's ever been open since this house was built in 1984.
	9:39pm northguineahills: opening a door, I'll deal w/ bugs and lizards tomorrow.
	9:40pm Flash Strap: i can't believe you're hot right now, NGH. jealous man
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: Holy Shi...zzle! i've wondered for about 37 years who did this! someone gave me a mixtape (in a very good, well-blended sense of the word) and i've been able to figure out what most of it is through the years, but not this.
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: okay...delay. "vampire" was the track on the tape.
	9:42pm Little Danny: Just got home and am scrambling like a fool but got ya tuned in Evan and digging it!
	9:43pm Flash Strap: Hi LD! if you need a little leg up on time just let me know Which Vampire was it, C?
	9:45pm coelacanth∅: Devon Irons...and it goes on for maybe 12-15 minutes - gets really quiet and subtle. the mixtape was entitled "space skank". a classic of mixtapes.
	9:46pm Little Danny: Thanks Evan, I think I'll be okay to start on time...
	9:46pm northguineahills: I miss NYC winters. Most of my clothes are geared for winterwear!
	9:46pm Flash Strap: That sounds cool, C.
	9:51pm coelacanth∅: yeahh i was hoping before you'd play this - or de system; or every time a ear de soun...
	9:52pm Flash Strap: I know! too many to choose! Wite Man Country really good too, or Where me Belang
	9:54pm Little Danny: Next, wherein I attempt to sustain Evan's mighty mighty: wfmu.org... Please, please join!
	9:54pm coelacanth∅: i doh have a color also! ...i don't know why i second-guessed myself before when i know him.
	9:56pm Uncle Michael: Thanks for the top-rank skank, Evan.
	9:57pm hyde: this was great, from the back section
	9:58pm coelacanth∅: haha! Thanks for the shout out Evan, but though the composer was in the upsetters, it was originally done by the wailers as "mr. brown". sorry if i was vague.
	9:59pm Doug Schulkind: Thanks for the Hot Red Flame, Flash!
	9:59pm Flash Strap: @C: ah, whoops, I rushed and I gaffed
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! you'll always lure me in with this stuff.
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: nah i wasn't specific. sorry.
	10:01pm Flash Strap: Thanks be unto you, Doug, Uncle, C., Hyde, All! See you in Danny's blue room
	4:09pm Stanley: very good show, Evan. Me loves some reggie

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from February 9, 2017

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February 9, 2017: Songs of Blood and Fire

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Mikey Dread	Comic Strip "Comic Strip" by "Mikey Dread"	African Anthem: The Mikey Dread Show Dubwise	1979		0:00:46 (Pop-up)
Mikey Dread	Comic Strip "Comic Strip" by "Mikey Dread"	Dread at the Control Dubwise	1979		0:03:58 (Pop-up)
Prince Far I	Show Me Mine Enemy "Show Me Mine Enemy" by "Prince Far I"	Under Heavy Manners	1977	Prod. Joe Gibbs	0:07:44 (Pop-up)
Peter Tosh	Them A Fe Get A Beaten	Joe Gibbs Record Globe 7"	1971	Prod. Joe Gibbs	0:11:22 (Pop-up)
Max Romeo & the Upsetters	War Ina Babylon	War Ina Babylon	1976	Prod. Lee Perry	0:13:22 (Pop-up)
Tommy McCook & The Supersonics	Dreads Leaving Babylon	Pleasure Dub	1976	mixed by Errol Brown	0:18:04 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters	Touch of Fire "Touch of Fire" by "The Upsetters"	Return of Django	1969		0:20:47 (Pop-up)
Lee Perry	Soul Fire "Soul Fire" by "Lee Perry"	Roast Fish, Collie Weed and Cornbread	1978		0:23:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Herman Chin Loy	"Herman Chin Loy"	Aquarius Dub			0:26:43 (Pop-up)
Max Romeo & the Upsetters	Chase the Devil	War Ina Babylon	1976	Prod. Lee Perry	0:33:49 (Pop-up)
Niney & the Observers	Blood & Fire	Blood & Fire / Mud & Water 7"	1971		0:36:48 (Pop-up)
Observers	Hotter Fire "Hotter Fire" by "Observers"	Big Youth "Burn Fire" / Higher Frequence "Hotter Fire" 7"	1978	aka Higher Frequence	0:39:45 (Pop-up)
Makka Bees	Fire ! "Fire !" by "Makka Bees"	Nation Fiddler / Fire ! Congo Music 7"	1977		0:42:06 (Pop-up)
Max Romeo	Fire Fe The Vatican "Fire Fe The Vatican" by "Max Romeo"	Fire Fe The Vatican / Revelation Dub 7"	1976	Prod. Lee Perry	0:45:43 (Pop-up)
Keith Hudson	Torch of Freedom "Torch of Freedom" by "Keith Hudson"	Torch of Freedom	1975		0:49:19 (Pop-up)
Keith Hudson & the Chuckles	Satan Side	Alton Ellis "You Are Mine" / Keith Hudson & the Chuckles "Satan Side" 7"	1972		0:51:37 (Pop-up)
Augustus Pablo	Satan Side Version (AKA Kiss 14)	The Hudson Affair	1972	prod. Keith Hudson	0:54:10 (Pop-up)
Desmond Dekker	Hippopotamus "Hippopotamus" by "Desmond Dekker"	Pickney Gal – Trojan Maxi 7"	1973		0:56:26 (Pop-up)
Trinity	John Saw Them Coming "John Saw Them Coming" by "Trinity"	Three Piece Suit	1977	Prod. Joe Gibbs	0:59:14 (Pop-up)
John Holt	Give Me Justice "Give Me Justice" by "John Holt"	Give Me Justice 7"	1970	Prod. Phil Prat	1:02:01 (Pop-up)
Tapper Zukie	Liberation Struggle "Liberation Struggle" by "Tapper Zukie"	Man Ah Warrior	1973		1:04:37 (Pop-up)
Linton Kwesi Johnson	All Wi Doin is Defendin	Dread Beat An' Blood ‎	1978		1:07:15 (Pop-up)
Mutabaruka	Angola Invasion "Angola Invasion" by "Mutabaruka"	Check It!	1983		1:10:11 (Pop-up)
Mutabaruka	Hard Time Loving "Hard Time Loving" by "Mutabaruka"	Check It!	1983		1:13:46 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Rupie Edwards	"Rupie Edwards"	Dub Classic			1:16:46 (Pop-up)
Alton Ellis	Joy in the Morning "Joy in the Morning" by "Alton Ellis"	Sunday Coming (Bonus tracks)	1994/1971	rec. 1994	1:26:46 (Pop-up)
Slim Smith & The Uniques	My Conversation	Creation Rockers Vol. 2	1968		1:30:09 (Pop-up)
Tapper Zukie	Future Bride "Future Bride" by "Tapper Zukie"	Man Ah Warrior	1973		1:33:07 (Pop-up)
Trinity	Three Piece Suit "Three Piece Suit" by "Trinity"	Three Piece Suit	1977	Prod. Joe Gibbs	1:36:44 (Pop-up)
Sugar Minott	Try Love "Try Love" by "Sugar Minott"	Showcase	1979	Prod. Clement Coxsone Dodd	1:39:32 (Pop-up)
Susan Cadogan	Nice and Easy "Nice and Easy" by "Susan Cadogan"	Susan Cadogan	1975/6	Prod. Lee Perry	1:42:18 (Pop-up)
Susan Cadogan	The Feeling is Right	Susan Cadogan	1975/6	Prod. Lee Perry, cover of Doris Duke/Swamp Dogg version of George Jackson's composition	1:45:54 (Pop-up)
Marcia Aitken	I'm Still in Love (With You)	Anthology - Joe Gibbs: Love Of The Common People (1967 To 1979)		Prod. Joe Gibbs	1:50:19 (Pop-up)
Nora Dean	Angie La La "Angie La La" by "Nora Dean"	Nora Dean	1971		1:52:57 (Pop-up)
Aston Barrett / Senna	Natural Woman	Natural Woman / Family Man "Woman in Dub" 12"	1981		1:55:55 (Pop-up)
Joy White	Dread Out Deh "Dread Out Deh" by "Joy White"	Sentimental Reasons	1978		2:01:44 (Pop-up)
Lady Ann	Informer "Informer" by "Lady Ann"	Lady Ann "Informer" / Joe Gibbs & the Professionals "On the Corner" 7"	1981	Prod. Joe Gibbs, with Eek-a-Mouse on backup vocals	2:05:10 (Pop-up)
Althea and Donna	Uptown Top Ranking	Althea and Donna "Uptown Top Ranking" / Mighty Two "Calico Suit" 7"	1977	Prod. Joe Gibbs	2:08:08 (Pop-up)
Althea and Donna	The West "The West" by "Althea and Donna"	Uptown Top Ranking	1978		2:12:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Jimmy Radway	Black Rights "Black Rights" by "Jimmy Radway"	Dub I			2:15:59 (Pop-up)
Bob Marley & The Wailers	Dracula "Dracula" by "Bob Marley & The Wailers"	Soul Rebels	1970	Prod. Lee Perry	2:26:11 (Pop-up)
Vulcans	Dracula "Dracula" by "Vulcans"	Star Trek	1972		2:28:51 (Pop-up)
Scientist	Blood On His Lips "Blood On His Lips" by "Scientist"	Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires	1981		2:31:45 (Pop-up)
The Upsetters	The Vampire "The Vampire" by "The Upsetters"	The Bleechers "Check Him Out" / The Upsetters "The Vampire" 7"	1969		2:35:33 (Pop-up)
Devon Irons	Vampire "Vampire" by "Devon Irons"	Lee Scratch Perry Arkology	1976?	Prod. Lee Perry	2:37:42 (Pop-up)
Trinity	Vampire "Vampire" by "Trinity"	Flag Man 7"	1979		2:40:53 (Pop-up)
The Heptones	Mr. President "Mr. President" by "The Heptones"	Heptones Disco Dub 12"	1977	Prod. Lee Perry, mixes of tracks from "Party Time"	2:45:13 (Pop-up)
Mutabaruka	Any Which Way...Freedom	Any Which Way...Freedom	1989		2:49:03 (Pop-up)
Keith Hudson	Freedom Movements "Freedom Movements" by "Keith Hudson"	Torch of Freedom	1975		2:52:28 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Upsetters	Revelation Dub "Revelation Dub" by "The Upsetters"	Lee Scratch Perry Arkology		Prod. Lee Perry	2:54:42 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:56pm Flash Strap: Evening Explorers! Let's burn this thing to the ground
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: Got a gas can right here!
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Listener James brings it! Hello!
	7:10pm Flash Strap: How we doin tonight?
	7:11pm Doug Schulkind: The 9th Circuit just denied Trump's motion to overturn the stay. Good evening everyone!
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Yes. Yes. Yes. Evening Doug!
	7:18pm Doug Schulkind: This bush outside my house is a euonymus. My tush looks like a hippopotamus. The decision was unanimous!
	7:21pm listener james from westwood: Twitler is replying to this ruling in all caps, and with shitty grammar. In other words, it's a Thursday.
	7:22pm Flash Strap: What a W O R L D
	7:22pm Doug Schulkind: @Listener James I have been known to throw down a typo or ten in tweets and emails. I'm a he-man. Oops, I mean human.
	7:24pm Dave in Vermont: OK, so my daughter is newly a stoner. For like the last several months. I think I just convinced her to listen to your show even though she is extremely resistant to FMU. I told her this was the most appropriate music to listen to stoned.
	7:24pm Flash Strap: There is basically no limit to how often I can hear this track, and I have tested myself on that
	7:26pm Flash Strap: haha hi Dave!
	7:29pm hyde: hello to the gang. probably a little bit low profile tonite, but i'm around. play some Horace Andy for me!
	7:34pm Doug Schulkind: Because who would chase the Devil with a wrinkled shirt?
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyde! Not sure if I have any Horace cued up for tonight, but if there's room I'll change that
	7:38pm Flash Strap: why is your daughter resistant to the great FMU, Dave? Have you alchemized the ultimate cool into the lame with the sorcery of your dadness?
	7:38pm listener james from westwood: @Doug: I never grade tweets, message boards, emails, playlists, etc. Except his. He can go to hell and take his barely literate thumbs with him.
	7:39pm Flash Strap: I love this song
	7:40pm Doug Schulkind: I dub this song.
	7:41pm Flash Strap: brbrbrbrwoopboop this song
	7:42pm hyde: ha, no need to accommodate requests. that was just the thing i thought of
	7:44pm Flash Strap: @ James: I'd like to take those thumbs with ME. and toss em out the window of a car, into a field. you know the drill
	7:45pm Dave in Vermont: Exactly, Flash, alchemized cool into lame. That has been a real problem, but as she matures she is opening her heart and mind. Now I leave it in your hands good sir, to help her on the journey.
	7:45pm Flash Strap: @Hyde: I actually had a Horace track in mind earlier, but he got cut for something or other
	7:48pm Uncle Michael: Good evening..
	7:49pm Flash Strap: well, even my squarest shows are designed for maximum psychedelic potential to the stoned person, so I guess I've been preparing for this moment my whole life. that's what I was doing in the backyard, perparing
	7:49pm Flash Strap: I've been listening to this as Fire Fe the Cabinet
	7:52pm Flash Strap: Evening, Uncle! Always a pleasure to see your mug!
	7:54pm Flash Strap: man, i love Keith Hudson's way of things
	8:04pm coelacanth∅: o man - reggae! dub! hi Evan hello Explorers!
	🥁 8:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Not @ all perturbed by the perpetration of yer preparations. Salutations - this demand for reparations. StudioOne via StreamTwo...
	8:05pm Flash Strap: Hi C the Canth and Rev the Rab, welcome, welcome brothers
	8:06pm Flash Strap: This whole Tapper LP is too hot to touch man, it sounds like it's from another planet
	8:09pm Flash Strap: "All oppression can do is bring passion to the heights of eruprion and songs of fire we'll sing" LKJ!
	8:09pm Flash Strap: dammit *eruption
	8:10pm northguineahills: Ok, this is just what the doctor ordered.
	8:11pm Flash Strap: NGH! Hello!
	8:11pm coelacanth∅: Oku?
	8:12pm Flash Strap: No Oku tonight, I don't know why. But, there are many more nights where this music will seem right in the Room, I think
	8:13pm coelacanth∅: ah. Mutabaruka.
	8:15pm Flash Strap: That whole Mutabaruka album is soo good, for anyone who's never spent time with it
	8:16pm quinn: loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove
	8:17pm coelacanth∅: i burnt out on Mutabaruka and haven't listened to him in nearly 2 decades; except a few tracks i put in mixes. it's really good to hear it again.
	8:21pm coelacanth∅: hmm, did Max take that line from Jr. Byles, or likewise?
	8:28pm Flash Strap: Hi Quiiiiiiiiin! I need to check on that, C.!
	🥁 8:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: That Bass tone - the arrangement - the recording...
	8:31pm coelacanth∅: i looked, Evan. "dreader locks" was 1974, so first. (& Lee Perry, technically)...but who knows - maybe that line "fire in the vatican" was one of those open-source lines.
	8:31pm Flash Strap: this song is so lovely
	8:32pm Flash Strap: yeah, C. , I'm not 100% on this, but I think I've seen some Rastafari literature/rhetoric that called for the Vatican's destruction, so it has precedent in the culture
	8:33pm Flash Strap: best line: SHE BRINGS ME COFFEE IN MY FAVORITE CUP really speaks to my life
	8:35pm coelacanth∅: right. - i can't (well, i can because i must!) wait to go to the archive and hear that Max Romeo track!
	8:35pm Uncle Michael: It was great when Ray Charles wrote it!
	8:36pm Flash Strap: indeed, though he couldn't give it such an absurdly militant sound
	8:39pm Flash Strap: This riddim, based on an Alton Ellis track, will reappear this set, in various forms
	8:40pm northguineahills: Holy love, Trinity always kills!
	8:42pm Flash Strap: I know, he's totally bonkers. That Lp is sort of a crazy masterpiece... ever hear his track, Take LSD? Nutzo stuff!
	8:44pm Flash Strap: very curious Lee Perry production here
	8:44pm Flash Strap: This record actually has 2 covers of songs from Doris Duke's I'm A Loser! I mean, wow!
	8:46pm Flash Strap: here's one of em
	8:47pm coelacanth∅: new to me, this. i never heard of Tapper Zukie either, or Herman Chin Loy. i'm psyched!
	8:48pm Flash Strap: me too, man. i live for that
	🥁 8:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah - so great, & who plays this stuff?
	8:49pm Flash Strap: does no one play this stuff? or are you yankin my poor old chain?
	8:50pm Flash Strap: oh, here's that riddim again! it will appear one more time, can anyone guess?
	8:51pm coelacanth∅: no one on fmu plays rootsy reggae except extremely rarely.
	8:52pm Flash Strap: well then I will do it more! I love to do it. I figured it was well-covered turf, actually
	8:53pm coelacanth∅: Meghan (underwater theme park) filled in for Jeff Sarge twice recently and played righteous riddims.
	8:55pm Flash Strap: I should check that out this song is so legendary
	8:55pm coelacanth∅: oh - actually Small Change plays some good reggae occasionally, but he's prone to ruining good music with goofy sound effects. i wish he'd stop because his show's pretty good, in general.
	8:57pm Flash Strap: man, you know, I've never heard that show. Honestly, I spend so much time listening to music for the show that I only rarely even think to listen to anything outside the Drummer stream
	8:58pm coelacanth∅: it's weird - Nora dean has gotten airplay a few times in the last few months. "islandish", but not reggae though. i have a song "mojo girl" on a comp that's good -more reggae-ish than what i've heard on fmu.
	🥁 8:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: No seriously - where does one get informed of this? Much like 'Downtown Soulville' confounds me that it can be so great but known only to the few hardcore enthusiasts - or - I'm just the square...Was in an online group once for GarageRawk - & a guy was saying the Wailers from Tacoma were where it was @ - & Marley's were MOR or something. But I think a lot of this (esp. the earliest) is the perfect parallel to GarageRawk. The Wailers both Tacoma & Kingston. & of course this crucially informed Punk in the 70s when that happened.
	8:59pm Flash Strap: Aston "Family Man" Barrett = founding member of the Upsetters & Wailers. Some great solo LPs too. Macka Dub is one of my all-time dub records, as well as his Pick a Dub with Keith Hudson
	9:01pm Flash Strap: @C: she is sort of a Dj cult fave - i hear her on local college radio not too infrequently. her big track is pretty reggae though, the amazing Barbed Wire that last track sounds more like Eloise Louis
	9:01pm Doug Schulkind: Meghan (underwater theme park) is a wonderful DJ!
	9:03pm coelacanth∅: Really! is she still recording? ...i'll check out "barbed wire".
	9:03pm Flash Strap: much agreed, Doug!
	9:04pm Ehd: Hi Flash, and everybody! Been listening all night in the kitchen, great stuff!
	9:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Ehd! No, C., I think she recorded very little in a very short time and then went ghost: inger Nora Dean was one of reggae’s greatest mysteries including her birth year which some sources quote as 1952. She recorded solo and as a member of The Ebony Sisters, The Soul Sisters and The Soulettes. She did backing vocals on recordings by Jimmy Cliff. Although she was not a prolific artist (especially by reggae standards), a number of her songs are very fondly remembered by fans of Jamaican music as true reggae classics. No interviews with her have ever been published. Photos seemed to be non-existent.
	9:06pm coelacanth∅: well, fuck... Nora Dean died last year.
	9:06pm northguineahills: @Flash, I've missed that track. I also love his Yabby You's "Pharaoh Dub"
	9:06pm Flash Strap: that's from her discogs bio: www.discogs.com...
	9:06pm northguineahills: Holy crap, that is Eek-a-Mouse!
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: okay, Thanks i'll check that out.
	9:08pm coelacanth∅: Eek! it's Eek-a-mouse!
	🥁 9:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& when people speak of the 'Roots of Rap/HipHop' - & don't mention ReggaeToasting (since this is mostly the 70s already here)...just weird...
	9:09pm Flash Strap: Never heard Eek-a-Mouse till Doug played some awesome track of his
	9:10pm northguineahills: In Netflix's "The Get-Down", they cover the dj toasting culture in the genesis of hiphop.
	9:10pm Flash Strap: this version so superior to the album version anyway, there's that riddim again
	9:11pm northguineahills: I only have the album version. now it skips.
	9:13pm Flash Strap: album version also excellent! sorry bout the skippin though, that's a hard blow
	9:26pm hyde: oh, dang. i love this one.
	9:26pm coelacanth∅: Mr. Brown!
	9:29pm Flash Strap: yeah totally i once visited Mrs Brown's tea shop and opted NOT to have shroom tea for some reason, an instead ate the most potent marijuana cake in the world i stood so still, for so long, that a dog pooped on my foot
	9:29pm coelacanth∅: hahaha!
	9:30pm Flash Strap: all my shroomin buddies had a great trip too, but i was paralyzed. it was ridiculous!
	9:34pm coelacanth∅: so, "mr. brown" was originally written by Glen Adams (upsetters) and released after as an instrumental.("dracula")
	9:35pm Flash Strap: I feel like that Scientist stuff sometimes gets overplayed based on its cool titles, but man it's still really good stuff
	9:36pm Flash Strap: huh, well that explains it!
	9:37pm quinn: I love Scientist and have also been paralyzed by marijuana'd food
	9:38pm northguineahills: In FL, the A/C is dead, and I can't open a window b/c I don't think it's ever been open since this house was built in 1984.
	9:39pm northguineahills: opening a door, I'll deal w/ bugs and lizards tomorrow.
	9:40pm Flash Strap: i can't believe you're hot right now, NGH. jealous man
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: Holy Shi...zzle! i've wondered for about 37 years who did this! someone gave me a mixtape (in a very good, well-blended sense of the word) and i've been able to figure out what most of it is through the years, but not this.
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: okay...delay. "vampire" was the track on the tape.
	9:42pm Little Danny: Just got home and am scrambling like a fool but got ya tuned in Evan and digging it!
	9:43pm Flash Strap: Hi LD! if you need a little leg up on time just let me know Which Vampire was it, C?
	9:45pm coelacanth∅: Devon Irons...and it goes on for maybe 12-15 minutes - gets really quiet and subtle. the mixtape was entitled "space skank". a classic of mixtapes.
	9:46pm Little Danny: Thanks Evan, I think I'll be okay to start on time...
	9:46pm northguineahills: I miss NYC winters. Most of my clothes are geared for winterwear!
	9:46pm Flash Strap: That sounds cool, C.
	9:51pm coelacanth∅: yeahh i was hoping before you'd play this - or de system; or every time a ear de soun...
	9:52pm Flash Strap: I know! too many to choose! Wite Man Country really good too, or Where me Belang
	9:54pm Little Danny: Next, wherein I attempt to sustain Evan's mighty mighty: wfmu.org... Please, please join!
	9:54pm coelacanth∅: i doh have a color also! ...i don't know why i second-guessed myself before when i know him.
	9:56pm Uncle Michael: Thanks for the top-rank skank, Evan.
	9:57pm hyde: this was great, from the back section
	9:58pm coelacanth∅: haha! Thanks for the shout out Evan, but though the composer was in the upsetters, it was originally done by the wailers as "mr. brown". sorry if i was vague.
	9:59pm Doug Schulkind: Thanks for the Hot Red Flame, Flash!
	9:59pm Flash Strap: @C: ah, whoops, I rushed and I gaffed
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! you'll always lure me in with this stuff.
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: nah i wasn't specific. sorry.
	10:01pm Flash Strap: Thanks be unto you, Doug, Uncle, C., Hyde, All! See you in Danny's blue room
	4:09pm Stanley: very good show, Evan. Me loves some reggie

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from February 9, 2017

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