Favoriting Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from March 23, 2017 Favoriting

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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro          
Neu!  Hallogallo   Favoriting Neu!  1972    0:01:51 (Pop-up)
Kraftwerk  K2 (Ruckzuck)   Favoriting Live on Bremen Radio, 1971  1971  Klaus Dinger, Michael Rother, Florian Schneider  0:11:10 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Kraftwerk 
Kling Klang   Favoriting
Kraftwerk 2 
 
 
0:29:51 (Pop-up)
Neu!  Negativland   Favoriting Neu!  1972    0:39:57 (Pop-up)
Neu!  Super   Favoriting Neu! 2  1973    0:49:01 (Pop-up)
Neu!  Super 78   Favoriting Neu! 2  1973    0:52:05 (Pop-up)
Neu!  Super 16   Favoriting Neu! 2  1973    0:53:42 (Pop-up)
Neu!  Lila Engel (Lilac Angel)   Favoriting Neu! 2  1973    0:57:07 (Pop-up)
Neu!  Leb Wohl   Favoriting Neu! 75  1975  Rother solo  1:01:27 (Pop-up)
Neu!  Hero   Favoriting Neu! 75  1975  Dinger, with Thomas Dinger & Hans Lampe (later of La Düsseldorf)  1:09:30 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Neu! 
E-Musik   Favoriting
Neu! 75 
 
 
1:15:24 (Pop-up)
Harmonia  Dino   Favoriting Musik von Harmonia  1974    1:25:44 (Pop-up)
Harmonia  Tiki-Taka at Harmonia Studio In Forst   Favoriting Documents 1975  1975  early version of "Walky-Talky" from the album Deluxe  1:28:05 (Pop-up)
Harmonia  Monza (Rauf und Runter)   Favoriting Deluxe  1975    1:33:48 (Pop-up)
Moebius & Plank  Conditionierer   Favoriting Material  1981    1:40:25 (Pop-up)
Michael Rother  Feuerland   Favoriting Flammende Herzen  1977  (with Jaki Liebezeit on drums)  1:49:03 (Pop-up)
Michael Rother  Sterntaler   Favoriting Sterntaler  1978  (with Jaki Liebezeit on drums)  1:55:49 (Pop-up)
Michael Rother  KM 8   Favoriting Katzenmusik  1979  (with Jaki Liebezeit on drums)  2:02:08 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Michael Rother 
Klangkörper   Favoriting
Fernwärme 
1982 
 
2:03:46 (Pop-up)
La Düsseldorf  Düsseldorf   Favoriting La Düsseldorf  1976    2:13:54 (Pop-up)
La Düsseldorf  White Overalls   Favoriting Viva  1978  produced by La Düsseldorf, 1st Dinger studio recording without Plank  2:27:33 (Pop-up)
Thomas Dinger  Für Dich   Favoriting Für Mich  1982    2:28:30 (Pop-up)
Klaus Dinger + Rheinita Bella Düsseldorf  Pipi AA   Favoriting Néondian  1985  tracks finished with the help of Plank  2:37:50 (Pop-up)
Neu!  KD   Favoriting Neu! 86  1985/86  AKA Neu! 4. unofficially released (by DInger) for many years, later remastered/mixed by Rother and released 2010 "KD" contains components of another Neu! 86 track called "La Bomba (Stop Apartheid World-Wide!)"  2:42:14 (Pop-up)
Neu!  Drive (Grundfunken)   Favoriting Neu! 86  1985/86    2:43:26 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Neu! 
Bush-Drum   Favoriting
Neu! 4 
1985/86 
 
2:45:55 (Pop-up)
Neu!  Weissensee   Favoriting Neu!  1972    2:53:21 (Pop-up)
Neu!  Untitled   Favoriting 6 May 1972 (Non-Public Test)  1972  universally dismissed early non-public live recording. I think it's sort of cool  2:58:38 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:53pm
Flash Strap:

Ready to ride, explorers? To the endless end?
Avatar 7:02pm
geezerette:

Take us there Evan!
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Geezerette! How are you this evening?
Avatar 7:04pm
geezerette:

Great! You? Energy is high. :)
Avatar 7:04pm
hyde:

what in the
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Hyde! What in the what?
Avatar 7:06pm
Flash Strap:

I'm ok, spent the whole day trying and failing to get my house back online then at the last moment booked it to a friend's house and set up and started broadcasting in a mad rush
Avatar 7:07pm
hyde:

@Flash yikes. stressful.
Avatar 7:07pm
Flash Strap:

also, I'm very generally pleased because I got to meet Roedelius last night
Avatar 7:08pm
hyde:

@Flash holy heck
Avatar 7:09pm
hyde:

@Flash did you just see him on an NC street corner or what
Avatar 7:11pm
hyde:

and oh yeah, i forgot all about this: helllllloooooooooo geezerette
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
Ike:

Greetings!
Avatar 7:12pm
geezerette:

hiya hyde! Digging the groooooooooooove.
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

he played a show in town, weirdly enough. he's so ancient now. we talked about Durch die Wuste, though he could barely understand me.
"that was my first solo album," he said, wistfully. "I know" I said. That was it, really, but it was nice. The show was cool, sort of too short but really interesting
Avatar 7:13pm
Scraps:

ah yeah
h'lo h'lo
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Ike!
Avatar 7:13pm
geezerette:

hi Ike!
Avatar 7:14pm
hyde:

Ike!
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Scraps!
Avatar 7:14pm
Scraps:

wow, Roedelius! just... wow
Avatar 7:15pm
geezerette:

Hey Scraps!
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

Lineup on this session is Klaus Dinger, Michael Rother, and Florian Schneider. No Ralf! More Neu! than Kraftwerk in a lot of ways... Neu! formed just after this.
Avatar 7:16pm
Scraps:

hey geeeeeeezerette!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
doctorjazz:

Hi all! Pretty pooped here (had tickets to see Wilco last night, which I gave up for various reasons, can't imagine what I'd feel like now if I DID go.
Great sounds!
Avatar 7:17pm
hyde:

i feel like every wfmu show i've listened to this week is really inspired. the goal got met and the shackles are off.
Avatar 7:17pm
Scraps:

haha road warrior! man that was awesome
Avatar 7:19pm
geezerette:

He's in his eighties now! Great that he's still performing. You're lucky!
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Doc! Glad to have you! I bet Wilco is jealous of me for once
Avatar 7:20pm
Flash Strap:

He seems really old, but also really healthy, and surprisingly large. He's a small giant!
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

This whole show is so crazy. Doesn't sound like Kraftwerk, even early Kraftwerk, and the guitar is so heavy it barely sounds like Rother.
Avatar 7:27pm
hyde:

this sounds like helicopter music
Avatar 7:28pm
Flash Strap:

for helicopters, by helicopters
  7:28pm
JtotheK:

Hi Flash, hi Explorers. Tuned in while prepping dinner and enjoying the sounds!
Avatar 7:29pm
23 Wolves:

This music is killing! MOTORIN'!
Avatar 7:30pm
geezerette:

From the U.K. Guardian, 7-7-2006: "Handy catch-all though it is, krautrock is more a geographical term than a musical one, because 1970s German rock came in so many forms: Neu!'s frictionless rhythms, Can's funky abandon, Kraftwerk's immaculate machine music. Quiet trailblazer Hans-Joachim Roedelius gravitates towards what long-time admirer and sometime collaborator Brian Eno dubbed "discreet music": pastoral mantras as clean and fluid as running water. If the term didn't already mean something else, you could call it trance. This handsome 31-track collection only brushes the surface of his impressively diverse work, spread over about 80 albums. Both of his essential groups are featured - the pensive ripple of Cluster, with Dieter Moebius, and the quirky energy of Harmonia, with Moebius and Neu!'s Michael Rother - as are tasters for his first project (1968's Human Being) and his latest (2005's Lunz). Throughout, there is the bewitching sound of a man humbly mapping out his own world."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Little Danny:

Oh I am looking forward to this show

Hi Flash! Hi all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
doctorjazz:

I would NEVER have guessed Kraftwerk just listening!

(Flash, Wilco got NOTHING on you!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Little Danny:

Have you heard "Live 1974" by Harmonia, Flash? Recently released, superb
Avatar 7:40pm
hyde:

@LD hmmm that sounds good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
doctorjazz:

I would NEVER have guessed Kraftwerk just listening!

(Flash, Wilco got NOTHING on you!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
doctorjazz:

Oops, double post, sorry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
doctorjazz:

(what some folks won't do for attention! I really should get back to work, check in in a bit...)
Avatar 7:42pm
Flash Strap:

Live '74 is amazing Danny! Some of my favorite stuff of theirs, really. They're even better live in a lot of ways! Nothing from that one tonight, but I do have a track coming up from Documents 1975, which is Harmonia live in their studio in Forst
Avatar 7:43pm
Flash Strap:

Seriously, Doc, it sounds so little like them, even their early stuff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Little Danny:

Oh, awesome - don't know Documents 1975!
Avatar 7:44pm
Flash Strap:

Oh and Hi JtotheK! And 23 Wolves! Splendid riding with you!
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

This is my favorite Neu! track. This is maybe my favorite guitar track. Though I just learned that some of it may be Dinger's treated koto (!)
Avatar 7:46pm
Flash Strap:

YES
Avatar 7:49pm
Flash Strap:

get ready to hear this one at a couple different speeds!
Avatar 7:54pm
Flash Strap:

What a ballsy move... no money? we'll just fuck with the tracks we do have!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Gary:

Hey there!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Little Danny:

I don't think I'd properly appreciated the similarities between "Super" (correct speed) and Can's "Father Cannot Yell" until you played the former, just now
Avatar 7:57pm
Scraps:

some people really hate this because of that.
Avatar 7:59pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Gary!

@LD: yeah, I sometimes hear Liebezeit credited with the motorik sound, and I'm pretty incredulous, and then I remember the proto-motorik, Mo Tucker influenced sound of Monster Movies and it makes some sense
Avatar 8:00pm
Flash Strap:

@Scraps: for sure. Understandably so, though I get pretty into it on a good day
Avatar 8:00pm
Scraps:

ballsy = lazy, to some people.

not me, but i don't think it's a revelation, either
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Little Danny:

It does kinda go back to VU in some way
Avatar 8:02pm
Scraps:

ack, i didn't see your last message before i posted my last.
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

@ Scraps: I hear ya

@ LD: definitely
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

all good scraps me lad!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
melinda:

Hi explorers!
Avatar 8:05pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Melinda!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
melinda:

Looks like a great show.
Avatar 8:06pm
Flash Strap:

Can anyone guess how I'm going to end this set, I wonder. it's an inevitable pick
Avatar 8:07pm
hyde:

woo hoo, melinda!
Avatar 8:07pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks, Melinda, I hope so anyway!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Flash & Explorers
Avatar 8:09pm
Flash Strap:

Hi C!

and this is how: it had to be Hero
Avatar 8:12pm
Flash Strap:

This track is so sAVAGe
Avatar 8:27pm
geezerette:

Evan, your shows are always so beautifully structured.
Wonderful how that amplifies and clarifies the music.
You make it shine,man.
Avatar 8:29pm
Flash Strap:

That means so much, Geezerette, thank you. I try, I really try!

Some feel that Harmonia is the ultimate krautrock group. Where do we stand on that one, all?
Avatar 8:30pm
Flash Strap:

also, this is such a hilariously fast reading of Walky-Talky from Deluxe (almost half the length) that it's almost like one of those Neu! 2 "remixes"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
doctorjazz:

Now this sounds more like I'd picture Kraftwerk sounding, this Harmonia track.
(I know incredibly little about all this stuff, definitely getting a schooling).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
melinda:

I don't know much about Neu!, Harmonia, or Kraftwerk but I always like hearing them on WFMU, so it's nice to have a show of this theme.
Avatar 8:35pm
Flash Strap:

Speaking of sounding-like, it's sort of odd at this time that Rother (w/Harmonia) would do something that sounds SO much like his old buddy Dinger. I'd love to know the story - this sounds so much more like Dinger's side of Neu! 75, which was recorded later in the same year
Avatar 8:37pm
Flash Strap:

next up, we have a track w/ neither Dinger or Rother, but a Moebius & Plank track from 1981 that shows the enduring motorik influence. Then on to Rother's sleepy cosmic country drives!
Avatar 8:40pm
Flash Strap:

love this track. Moebius&Plank are the best
Avatar 8:41pm
quinn:

I never thought of Harmonia as the *ultimate* krautrock group. But I don't know that I have an alternate in mind.
Avatar 8:43pm
Scraps:

Because Krautrock is not a style, I can't feel that anyone is the ultimate Krautrock.
Avatar 8:43pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Quinn!

Well put, Scraps.
Avatar 8:45pm
Scraps:

But boy, I like Moebius
Avatar 8:45pm
quinn:

this track is goofy
Avatar 8:45pm
geezerette:

punk in a T. Rex kind of way
Avatar 8:47pm
Flash Strap:

Scraps, Quinn, Geezerette: you all speak my mind

I really think M&P recorded 2 of the best records of all time when they got together for this and Rastakraut Pasta. Playful, but basically just as good as the best Harmonia or Cluster
Avatar 8:48pm
geezerette:

& the country western/western swing thing... :)
Avatar 8:50pm
Flash Strap:

This, just like almost everything else so far, recorded with and by Conny Plank
Avatar 8:51pm
Flash Strap:

It's funny to hear Liebezeit play something so simple. He works a lot of subtle variation into it
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

This is sort of the idealized, every-Rother composition, at least of this period
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
doctorjazz:

Like Sterntaler, sounds like it could be an anthem of some sort, maybe for a soccer/futball game.
Time to hit the road, thanks Flash!
Avatar 8:59pm
Flash Strap:

a little boring, a little sentimental. But nonetheless: Motorik
Avatar 9:00pm
Flash Strap:

totally, Doc! drive safe, friend
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
melinda:

White overalls? heehee
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

I know, ridiculous

you can see an early attempt at the white overalls thing in this video foe Neu!'s "Hero". Basically La Düsseldorf losing their minds in their duds while Rother sits on the side and noodles, looking visibly depressed to be there
Avatar 9:19pm
Flash Strap:

pretty epic track, this
Avatar 9:20pm
northguineahills:

I'm totally not going to bookmark this archive ;)
Avatar 9:22pm
Flash Strap:

Hi NGH! definitely don't!
Avatar 9:22pm
Flash Strap:

insane vocals!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
coelacanth∅:

Evan, i was out of earshot for "tiki taka" & the comments compelled me to back up my player for a taste of it. i backed up to your last mic break for bearing (which i didn't need!) and heard you mention that "ambient" music originally meant "background" music - which i remember, when Eno started his ambient series...
but for me, ambient means "surrounding", or "engulfing". there's no such thing as background music for me. if it's audible, i'm listening to it.
Avatar 9:26pm
Flash Strap:

I totally agree. Really what I meant was that I see the distinction between previous incarnations of ambient or mood music or background music and the Eno-era "ambient" ethos to be slightly dubious, that most psychedelic bands had played with being ambient in much the same way as Harmonia would do (even though Harmonia did it better for the most part)
Avatar 9:33pm
Flash Strap:

also I didn't mean to imply that ambient and background were synonymous for Eno's intentions. I was mainly addressing sentiments such as these:

"Perhaps Eno's reason for praising Harmonia so highly was that their music fit the requirements of ambient rock. Its music was equally suitable for active or passive listening. The careful listener found his/her attentions rewarded by the musical activities and sounds, but Harmonia's music was also capable of setting a sonic environment."

Which is a significant musical concept, which I hold dear, and which definitely predates the Eno or the 1970s. I just wanted to stress the continuity between that and things that would have been described in their time as "background"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
coelacanth∅:

- i guess i'll hear everything you said when i revisit this expedition.
(and revisit it i shall)
Avatar 9:35pm
Flash Strap:

well, give it a listen I guess, but I was also left with a feeling that I hadn't adequately expressed what I meant to express, and I thank you for the opportunity to clarify myself
Avatar 9:36pm
Flash Strap:

wild cover on this one, looks very contemporary somehow, but also SUPER NYC GLAM: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 9:37pm
Flash Strap:

Then there's this shock to the system: img.discogs.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
coelacanth∅:

haha! i'm not going to forsake what i'm hearing now to back up again! but i already knew i'd listen to the whole program again, at least because i've missed a lot of it.
...but in that moment when i happened to hear that sentence, i did also hear something about you laughing at the notion, no?
-you may have been more clear than you give yourself credit for!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
Little Danny:

Flash, I've had yer show on whilst putting together my own - I already know this is one I'll be revisiting many times! So much great new-old material from a scene that I love, and that I thought I already knew pretty well
Avatar 9:44pm
Flash Strap:

Perhaps, C! I never know how well I've made a point and later I worry about it endlessly

SO glad LD! So damn glad!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
coelacanth∅:

(and in case it is i who wasn't clear -which is kind of my m.o., my initial comment wasn't at odds with anything you said. i was only speaking for my own perspective)
Avatar 9:51pm
hyde:

cool show. thanx.
Avatar 9:52pm
Flash Strap:

No, I get you C.! I always love a good dialogue man
Avatar 9:52pm
quinn:

Yehhhhhh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Flash! This Autobahn stretches on in the coming two hours: wfmu.org...

Join me, bitte!
Avatar 9:54pm
Hams in Athens:

great job! some good ol'-fashioned german music.
Avatar 9:54pm
Flash Strap:

My pleasure Hyde!

Right with ya, Quinn
Avatar 9:55pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Hams! Thanks man
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Flash Strap:

SUCH good guitar here, my GOD
Avatar 9:56pm
quinn:

so good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
coelacanth∅:

Brilliant program Evan! Thanks!
Avatar 9:58pm
northguineahills:

Yeah coelacanth∅, Even when I listen to Eno's first excursions in ambience, or post-Cagean atmospheres, the sound is still the center of my focus. When Bernhard Gunter says to play below the threshold of being audible, I turn it all the way up!

Thanks Flash!
Avatar 9:58pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks all!
Avatar 10:00pm
Scraps:

Thanks, Flash!
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