WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from September 26, 2019

Listener comments!
	6:49pm Flash Strap: Hello explorers!
	🥁 6:58pm chresti: Hi Flash and folks!
	7:01pm hyde: hello!
	7:02pm Franco Twinkie: Flash! You outdid yourself with this particular piece of art. Sometimes it's as simple as two opposing elements.
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! Hi Hyde! Hi Franco!
	🥁 7:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Presence of the Living Myth
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Thanks brother, just a little collage I've got set aside for (possibly) bigger things... was just staring into space in the studio this morning and realized it worked for the show today so I scanned it in
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev!
	7:06pm Franco Twinkie: Yes it does. Have you ever been to Florence?
	7:08pm Flash Strap: I wish, I've only been to Venice. I've always wanted to see Florence
	7:11pm doctorjazz: Sun Ra! Hey, Explorers!
	7:11pm Flash Strap: I've always loved this composition, I can't remember when I got ahold of this live version from the Paris tapes but it was very exciting to me. the original is under three minutes, this one clocks in at 15
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	7:16pm Flash Strap: this track is insane
	7:17pm Franco Twinkie: Well, If you ever go, there is this odd museum called The Specula that is devoted to eviscerated bodies recreated in wax. For scientific research of course. But, as a side deal they also have these dioramas of hell, also done in wax, with heaps and piles of tormented souls about the size of Gumby.
	7:18pm Flash Strap: Holy shit Franco I am dying to see that place
	7:20pm Flash Strap: similar, but doubtless not quite that cool, I was at the Mütter museum earlier this summer. no hell diorama though
	🥁 7:20pm chresti: This is real Funny Farm music!
	7:20pm Franco Twinkie: That and Florentine pizza! A terrific afternoon.
	🥁 7:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: My soul is not only about the size of Gumby - but I reckon a similar consistency...which - if it is going to be tortured - is damn fortunate...
	7:23pm Flash Strap: I think the title translated means "madness" maybe something more like "madwoman", not sure
	7:23pm hyde: i'm reading this old naturalists book on Florida wildlife, and right now he's explaining the perils of hot-bugs and muck itch. Fun! Couple chapters ago he was talking about some fish he called a pusselgut, and i still have no clue what that is.
	7:24pm Flash Strap: you're goin straight to heaven whether you like it or not Rev
	7:24pm Flash Strap: wow that sounds amazing Hyde, I've never heard any of those terms before, thrillingly archaic
	7:26pm Flash Strap: in a follow-up to a long-ago show theme, I'm finally reading Zama, highly recommended
	7:27pm hyde: @Flash the guy is great (Archie Carr). he's a great scientist but then he busts out these old timey country names that are hilarious
	7:27pm Flash Strap: i love that stuff, i'll have to check it out
	7:27pm hyde: @Flash ooh, i gotta read that. and that's still the only Lucretia Martel i haven't seen.
	7:28pm Flash Strap: great great great movie. only one of hers i've seen though, which i need to remedy asap
	🥁 7:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: en.wikipedia.org...
	7:30pm hyde: i love La Cienaga and The Headless Woman
	7:31pm hyde: Holy Girl is good too, but the other two are better imo
	7:33pm Flash Strap: @Rev: I know, controversial production. I love it man, I love what she does with strings generally but its great to hear them juxtaposed against a work she didn't specifically compose
	🥁 7:34pm chresti: That makes me think of ' A Modern Herbal', hyde,
	7:34pm Flash Strap: @hyde; which one should I watch first? I will abide by your recommendation so i don't have to choose
	7:37pm hyde: @Flash i'd watch La Cienaga first. it's a little rough since it's her first movie, but still great. Headless Woman is a lot more polished and confident, so probably best to watch chronologically
	🥁 7:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well - losing Trane in Jazz was like losing Hendrix in Rawk. We can only wonder What If - & what would their interaction w/ what came later have been... Jazz Lecturer Gordon Vernick said he imagines Coltrane going on to play shakuhachi on a mountaintop or something... I reckon Alice had as much idea as anyone.
	7:44pm Quinn: Ooh I tuned in at the right time
	7:44pm Flash Strap: @Hyde: I'm on it
	7:45pm Flash Strap: Hi Quinn! indeed
	7:45pm hyde: @chresti hmmm, i need to check that out
	7:45pm Flash Strap: never bad to drop in and find Terry Riley already at work
	7:47pm Quinn: And this tone is so liquidy and pleasant
	7:48pm Flash Strap: i know, it's like every note is a drop of mercury
	7:49pm passiflora: listening and enjoying on the train
	7:50pm Flash Strap: earlier today I was listening to that Terry Riley In C with the big band that shows up on some editions of Reed Streams, extremely interesting. he's just so great
	7:51pm Flash Strap: hi passiflora! perfect for the train
	7:54pm hyde: @Flash yeah, that's fantastic
	8:00pm Flash Strap: love the guitar sound on Live 74, it's really one of my favorite live albums
	8:01pm Passaic River Blues: Not too long ago a commenter tracked down the episode where a disgruntled listener lobbed the infamous "this shit sounds like marbles in a blender" insult at Bryce. I always assumed it was in response to Bryce playing some cool extreme noise, like totally-out-there, atonal, overwhelmingly dissonant craziness. But, as it turns out, that guy was reacting to a long set of Terry Riley! Beautiful and mostly melodic Terry Riley pieces!
	8:03pm melinda: hi folks!
	8:06pm hyde: @PRB haha
	8:06pm hyde: hi melinda!
	8:07pm Flash Strap: Hi PBR! I'm trying but I can't even respond to that man's foolishness
	8:07pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:08pm hyde: also, i hope Bryce responded by saying "i've heard marbles in a blender, sir. this is not marbles in a blender"
	8:09pm Flash Strap: probably not even an original line is the sad part
	8:11pm Flash Strap: I never listen to these early Cluster / Kluster albums enough, they're not as easy to jump into as Zuckerzeit and everything after but they're so good
	8:13pm Passaic River Blues: @hyde: hahaha I don't recall, but knowing Bryce it was likely something witty. "Nah, man. This is the marbles in a blender DUB HOUSE REMIX!"
	8:13pm melinda: @hyde haha
	8:15pm Flash Strap: this whole Urban Sax album is so mesmerizing
	8:16pm melinda: I get that Terry Riley is not everyone's cup of tea but the comparison is just lame.
	8:17pm melinda: The marbles in blender t-shirt that it spawned is totally cool.
	8:19pm Flash Strap: really incredibly underrated LP, this Schnitzler
	8:20pm Passaic River Blues: @Melinda: absolutely! I try not to begrudge anyone their preferences or personal taste, but it just seems so incongruous to what was being played. And yeah, that insult was actually a gift which spawned a fantastic t-shirt. Urban Sax = incredible
	8:20pm melinda: Anyone else outside the JC area bummed that they can't attend the Plants & Synths show at Monty Hall? I am.
	8:20pm Flash Strap: "Con" also rereleased w/ bonus tracks under the title "Ballet Statique" – highly recommended
	🥁 8:21pm chresti: I rate it highly
	8:21pm Flash Strap: @melinda: i am now!
	8:21pm melinda: What group or groups is Con associated with?
	8:23pm Flash Strap: Conrad Schnitzler started off in Tangerine Dream, before leaving to do his own thing. Joined Kluster as well; after he left, they became Cluster.
	8:23pm melinda: Olivia's show this week had a similar theme, really great.
	8:25pm Flash Strap: looks like it was a good one
	8:27pm Flash Strap: this track is really one of my very favorite synth compositions for a kind of moving, spatial quality... really feels like it's filling the space, and suddenly you're occupying & moving through a new zone
	🥁 8:28pm chresti: I have a Curiosum cd
	8:29pm Flash Strap: @chresti: good record, that
	🥁 8:31pm chresti: I've taken many naps while this is playing
	🥁 8:31pm chresti: talk about atmosphere
	8:32pm Flash Strap: seriously
	🥁 8:32pm chresti: @Con
	8:34pm Flash Strap: of course
	8:37pm Little Danny: Evenin' Flash and fellow explozzz
	8:38pm Flash Strap: I've never considered this to be a particularly good job from Mick, but it has always fascinated me as a kind of document with a discomfiting occult power (as with most Anger soundtrack pieces, Bobby Beausoleil's in particular)
	8:38pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	8:39pm northguineahills: I love this version of my demon brother...
	8:40pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH!
	8:41pm Little Danny: I've talked about it before, but the inclusion of the Paris Sisters in Anger's Kustom Kar Kommandos had a huge impact on my appreciation of '60s pop
	8:42pm Flash Strap: mine too! I watched an omnibus of his largely by chance while in high school and it had a huge impact in almost every way, my eyes peeled and reformed
	8:52pm geezerette: Hello,Evan and gang. Our ISP is holding us prisoner, off & on, off & on...grrr!!!! I'll listen to this in the future but I'd rather listen now. Curse you, ATT. :( Love the artwork. :D
	8:53pm Flash Strap: Hi Geezerette! damn them, damn AT&T
	8:53pm Little Danny: The 'Bajas just played my neck o' the woods - El Paso - with Stereolab. Was that the lineup you saw, Flash?
	8:54pm Flash Strap: @G: and thank you, friend. always great to have you in the room, regardless the circumstances
	8:54pm geezerette: Haha! Thank you, Evan!
	8:54pm melinda: From the name Bitchin Bajas I would not have guessed this would be the sound. I like it.
	8:55pm Flash Strap: @LD: no, they just played a very small room with some local acts. maybe 35 people in a university coffeehouse. not a bad show! and I bought the record, which we're hearing
	8:56pm Little Danny: @Melinda: their name is a little embarrassing
	8:57pm Flash Strap: @LD: I decided to go largely because I think I remember you liking them, and I thought I should give them a better shake than I had previously. Agree the name is not to my taste
	8:58pm TDK60: Hello. I'd seen this band name before, thinking it a surf band.
	8:59pm Flash Strap: @LD: did you see them with Stereolab?
	8:59pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK!
	9:02pm Little Danny: Nope, I was outta town unfortch. I heard good things about that show, however
	9:03pm hyde: good stuff
	9:05pm Flash Strap: yeah, really pretty strong I think
	9:09pm coelacanth∅: greetings Evan; Explorers
	9:10pm Flash Strap: Hello Coelacanth!
	9:10pm melinda: @LD I didn't want to be too harsh since I like their sound but I agree
	9:12pm melinda: The motor in my vacuum cleaner has gone on the fritz, and I've got a lot of vacuuming to do. Oh dear. Looks like there is a service center nearby though.
	9:14pm Flash Strap: i want to imagine a vacuum repair shop sort of like a cobbler's shop, sort of anachronistic and full of special tools. i hope it doesn't just have like car dealership vibes
	9:18pm Doug Schulkind: Good evening my dear Flash! Good evening handsome listeners!
	9:18pm coelacanth∅: i'm actually slightly surprised anyone fixes vacuum cleaners any more on this apparently disposable planet. this is good news!
	9:18pm Flash Strap: Typhonian Highlife = Spencer Clark = Monopoly Child Star Searchers
	9:19pm Flash Strap: Good evening dear handsome Doug! how fares thee?
	9:21pm Quinn: Omg you played Urban Sax
	9:21pm Flash Strap: @Coelacanth: I agree
	9:21pm hyde: love this
	9:22pm Franco Twinkie: I was at the library, so I can't comment on the music. But I will comment on the comments. Bitchin Bajas sounds like an Ensenada style fish taco restaurant that would have surfboards stuck on the wall. Kind of stupid, but maybe really good. I wonder if that was that what they were thinking when they chose that name?
	9:22pm Doug Schulkind: Fare me well!
	9:24pm melinda: According to the internet there is still a Miele store and service center where I went to buy replacement vacuum bags many years ago. It was a little space, I don't remember if there were tools on the walls. Not like an appliance showroom at least.
	9:25pm melinda: @Franco exactly!
	9:26pm Flash Strap: I think they may have wanted to throw people off taking them too seriously, even though their music has a real sheen of "seriousness" – in a way it's really cool that a heady synth trio could be thought of in the same way, as having the same function even, as a trashy surf group, just by picking that name – but even so ...
	9:28pm TDK60: I want to start a dark noise band called something like Dry Creek String Band.
	9:29pm Franco Twinkie: Well, it's a good strategy to have people dismiss you, then totally upend their assumptions.
	9:29pm Flash Strap: @Franco: true, & respect to that I have to say
	9:31pm Flash Strap: the #1 Magic Lantern outing for sure, (imo)
	9:32pm Quinn: Now these are some bitchin’ bajas
	9:33pm coelacanth∅: TDK that should do the trick!
	9:33pm Flash Strap: @Q: haha yes
	9:33pm coelacanth∅: (literally)
	9:34pm Flash Strap: i've said it before but I really love the cover art for this, and the way it sets the stage for the psych to come: img.discogs.com...
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: oh yeah great cover!
	9:40pm Franco Twinkie: Magic Lantern reminds me of when I was in junior high school and I saw this local band called The Magic Mirror. The guys looked like sit-com hippies, and in between songs the singer would hold up a mirror and say "Magic mirror time is 9:34..." or something like that. Now that was stupid!
	9:41pm Flash Strap: that's hilarious Franco
	9:42pm Quinn: Oh I love this noodling. Also saxophone makes everything better.
	9:42pm passi: I missed shinki chen!
	9:43pm Flash Strap: no sax on this alas
	9:43pm passiflora: in a venue restroom
	9:43pm Quinn: I thought I heard saxophone in it!
	9:43pm Flash Strap: hello again passi in the john
	9:44pm Flash Strap: phantom sax - not bad, I say it'll have to do for now!
	9:44pm passif: hahaha
	9:46pm coelacanth∅: sounds a bit mellotronny though. not complaining.
	9:47pm Flash Strap: this lineup would sound great with a mellotron in tow
	9:47pm Quinn: Come on, I know you hear that in there
	9:48pm coelacanth∅: i feel like they are trying to (and coming close to) sound like a mellotron's in there
	9:48pm coelacanth∅: (and the one magic lantern album that's not on bandcamp)
	9:49pm northguineahills: Dug that Magic Lantern!
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: Quinn do you dream about saxophones? baritone? soprano? the illusive bass saxophone? ...plastic ones in the hands of experts?
	9:53pm Little Danny: Terrific show, Evan!
	9:54pm Flash Strap: @C: definitely they are
	9:54pm Flash Strap: Thanks LD! see you next door in your beautiful room
	9:54pm Quinn: Coelacanth... every night. It is my curse but it also fills me with a sort of deep, deep peace that I cannot describe.
	9:55pm Flash Strap: @Q: I thought I may have heard it enough to check the liner notes for sax personnel, but I must conclude it is a phantom horn
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: Really great explorertoring tonight, thanks Flash!
	9:55pm Flash Strap: Glad to hear it NGH!
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: haha ...Quinn it could be so much worse!
	9:55pm Little Danny: There's a wicker chair with your name on it at the Cool Blue Flame: wfmu.org... Come on in and relax!
	9:56pm Flash Strap: that is a good way of life, Quinn
	9:57pm Flash Strap: this track title may translate to "You Limit the Lightning"
	9:57pm coelacanth∅: yeah maybe i can dream about mellotrons tonight
	9:57pm Flash Strap: oooh, i dream about mellotrons sometimes for sure
	9:58pm Quinn: This sound, talk about plinking and twinkling
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: weirdly (though probably not, to someone who knows how to interpret these things) i very rarely dream about anything music-related.
	9:59pm Franco Twinkie: I will dream about men in capes.
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	9:59pm Flash Strap: that's it my friends! good night and many thanks!
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: Freud wants to have a word with you Franco

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from September 26, 2019

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September 26, 2019: Angels & Demons Deep Listening

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments
	Intro "Intro"
Sun Ra and his Mythic Science Arkestra	Angels And Demons At Play	The Paris Tapes: Live At Le Théâtre Du Châtelet 1971	Kindred Spirits	2010
J.A. Caesar	狂女節 (Kyōjo-Bushi)	Jasumon		1972	from the Shuji Terayama (of Tenjō Sajiki) film, Jasumon
John Coltrane	Living Space "Living Space" by "John Coltrane"	Infinity	Impulse!	1972
Music behind DJ:	Safari "Safari"
Terry Riley	Desert of Ice "Desert of Ice" by "Terry Riley"	Shri Camel	CBS Masterworks	1980	performed live on a Yamaha YC-45-D electronic organ
Harmonia	Schaumburg "Schaumburg" by "Harmonia"	Live 1974	Grönland Records	2007
Cluster	Plas "Plas" by "Cluster"	Cluster II	Brain / Metronome	1972
Pierre Henry / Gilbert Artman / Urban Sax	Gate Of Paradise	Paradise Lost	Philips	1982
Conrad Schnitzler	Electric Garden	Con	Egg	1978
Speed, Glue & Shinki	Song for an Angel	Speed, Glue & Shinki	Atlantic	1972
Mick Jagger	Invocation Of My Demon Brother	Anger Rising	Saturn Records	2006	rec. 1968 for the Kenneth Anger film, Invocation Of My Demon Brother
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra	Angels And Demons At Play	Angels and Demons at Play	El Saturn Records	1967
Music behind DJ:	Pool "Pool"
Bitchin Bajas	Angels And Demons At Play	Bajas Fresh	Drag City	2017	"Written-By – Le Sony'r Ra"
Bitchin Bajas	Yonaguni "Yonaguni" by "Bitchin Bajas"	Bajas Fresh	Drag City	2017
Jonathan Fitoussi and Clemens Hourrière	Lights Sequence	Five Steps	Versatile Records	2015	entirely on Buchla synthesizer
Jonathan Fitoussi and Clemens Hourrière	Water Mirrors	Espace Timbrés	Versatile Records	2018	"mostly" on Buchla synthesizer
Typhonian Highlife	Oracle Of Egret, Siracusa Sicily	The World Of Shells	Sun Ark	2017
Magic Lantern	On The Dime "On The Dime" by "Magic Lantern"	Platoon	Not Not Fun	2010
Magic Lantern	Friendship "Friendship" by "Magic Lantern"	Platoon	Not Not Fun	2010
Music behind DJ:	Denny Tag "Denny Tag"			19??
Wosenylhe Meberku	ንጉስ ፡ ዋይ ፡ ንጉስ	ወሰንየለህ መብረቁ (Original Recording of Axum)	Axum Electronics	19??

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Listener comments!
	6:49pm Flash Strap: Hello explorers!
	🥁 6:58pm chresti: Hi Flash and folks!
	7:01pm hyde: hello!
	7:02pm Franco Twinkie: Flash! You outdid yourself with this particular piece of art. Sometimes it's as simple as two opposing elements.
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! Hi Hyde! Hi Franco!
	🥁 7:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Presence of the Living Myth
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Thanks brother, just a little collage I've got set aside for (possibly) bigger things... was just staring into space in the studio this morning and realized it worked for the show today so I scanned it in
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev!
	7:06pm Franco Twinkie: Yes it does. Have you ever been to Florence?
	7:08pm Flash Strap: I wish, I've only been to Venice. I've always wanted to see Florence
	7:11pm doctorjazz: Sun Ra! Hey, Explorers!
	7:11pm Flash Strap: I've always loved this composition, I can't remember when I got ahold of this live version from the Paris tapes but it was very exciting to me. the original is under three minutes, this one clocks in at 15
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	7:16pm Flash Strap: this track is insane
	7:17pm Franco Twinkie: Well, If you ever go, there is this odd museum called The Specula that is devoted to eviscerated bodies recreated in wax. For scientific research of course. But, as a side deal they also have these dioramas of hell, also done in wax, with heaps and piles of tormented souls about the size of Gumby.
	7:18pm Flash Strap: Holy shit Franco I am dying to see that place
	7:20pm Flash Strap: similar, but doubtless not quite that cool, I was at the Mütter museum earlier this summer. no hell diorama though
	🥁 7:20pm chresti: This is real Funny Farm music!
	7:20pm Franco Twinkie: That and Florentine pizza! A terrific afternoon.
	🥁 7:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: My soul is not only about the size of Gumby - but I reckon a similar consistency...which - if it is going to be tortured - is damn fortunate...
	7:23pm Flash Strap: I think the title translated means "madness" maybe something more like "madwoman", not sure
	7:23pm hyde: i'm reading this old naturalists book on Florida wildlife, and right now he's explaining the perils of hot-bugs and muck itch. Fun! Couple chapters ago he was talking about some fish he called a pusselgut, and i still have no clue what that is.
	7:24pm Flash Strap: you're goin straight to heaven whether you like it or not Rev
	7:24pm Flash Strap: wow that sounds amazing Hyde, I've never heard any of those terms before, thrillingly archaic
	7:26pm Flash Strap: in a follow-up to a long-ago show theme, I'm finally reading Zama, highly recommended
	7:27pm hyde: @Flash the guy is great (Archie Carr). he's a great scientist but then he busts out these old timey country names that are hilarious
	7:27pm Flash Strap: i love that stuff, i'll have to check it out
	7:27pm hyde: @Flash ooh, i gotta read that. and that's still the only Lucretia Martel i haven't seen.
	7:28pm Flash Strap: great great great movie. only one of hers i've seen though, which i need to remedy asap
	🥁 7:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: en.wikipedia.org...
	7:30pm hyde: i love La Cienaga and The Headless Woman
	7:31pm hyde: Holy Girl is good too, but the other two are better imo
	7:33pm Flash Strap: @Rev: I know, controversial production. I love it man, I love what she does with strings generally but its great to hear them juxtaposed against a work she didn't specifically compose
	🥁 7:34pm chresti: That makes me think of ' A Modern Herbal', hyde,
	7:34pm Flash Strap: @hyde; which one should I watch first? I will abide by your recommendation so i don't have to choose
	7:37pm hyde: @Flash i'd watch La Cienaga first. it's a little rough since it's her first movie, but still great. Headless Woman is a lot more polished and confident, so probably best to watch chronologically
	🥁 7:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well - losing Trane in Jazz was like losing Hendrix in Rawk. We can only wonder What If - & what would their interaction w/ what came later have been... Jazz Lecturer Gordon Vernick said he imagines Coltrane going on to play shakuhachi on a mountaintop or something... I reckon Alice had as much idea as anyone.
	7:44pm Quinn: Ooh I tuned in at the right time
	7:44pm Flash Strap: @Hyde: I'm on it
	7:45pm Flash Strap: Hi Quinn! indeed
	7:45pm hyde: @chresti hmmm, i need to check that out
	7:45pm Flash Strap: never bad to drop in and find Terry Riley already at work
	7:47pm Quinn: And this tone is so liquidy and pleasant
	7:48pm Flash Strap: i know, it's like every note is a drop of mercury
	7:49pm passiflora: listening and enjoying on the train
	7:50pm Flash Strap: earlier today I was listening to that Terry Riley In C with the big band that shows up on some editions of Reed Streams, extremely interesting. he's just so great
	7:51pm Flash Strap: hi passiflora! perfect for the train
	7:54pm hyde: @Flash yeah, that's fantastic
	8:00pm Flash Strap: love the guitar sound on Live 74, it's really one of my favorite live albums
	8:01pm Passaic River Blues: Not too long ago a commenter tracked down the episode where a disgruntled listener lobbed the infamous "this shit sounds like marbles in a blender" insult at Bryce. I always assumed it was in response to Bryce playing some cool extreme noise, like totally-out-there, atonal, overwhelmingly dissonant craziness. But, as it turns out, that guy was reacting to a long set of Terry Riley! Beautiful and mostly melodic Terry Riley pieces!
	8:03pm melinda: hi folks!
	8:06pm hyde: @PRB haha
	8:06pm hyde: hi melinda!
	8:07pm Flash Strap: Hi PBR! I'm trying but I can't even respond to that man's foolishness
	8:07pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:08pm hyde: also, i hope Bryce responded by saying "i've heard marbles in a blender, sir. this is not marbles in a blender"
	8:09pm Flash Strap: probably not even an original line is the sad part
	8:11pm Flash Strap: I never listen to these early Cluster / Kluster albums enough, they're not as easy to jump into as Zuckerzeit and everything after but they're so good
	8:13pm Passaic River Blues: @hyde: hahaha I don't recall, but knowing Bryce it was likely something witty. "Nah, man. This is the marbles in a blender DUB HOUSE REMIX!"
	8:13pm melinda: @hyde haha
	8:15pm Flash Strap: this whole Urban Sax album is so mesmerizing
	8:16pm melinda: I get that Terry Riley is not everyone's cup of tea but the comparison is just lame.
	8:17pm melinda: The marbles in blender t-shirt that it spawned is totally cool.
	8:19pm Flash Strap: really incredibly underrated LP, this Schnitzler
	8:20pm Passaic River Blues: @Melinda: absolutely! I try not to begrudge anyone their preferences or personal taste, but it just seems so incongruous to what was being played. And yeah, that insult was actually a gift which spawned a fantastic t-shirt. Urban Sax = incredible
	8:20pm melinda: Anyone else outside the JC area bummed that they can't attend the Plants & Synths show at Monty Hall? I am.
	8:20pm Flash Strap: "Con" also rereleased w/ bonus tracks under the title "Ballet Statique" – highly recommended
	🥁 8:21pm chresti: I rate it highly
	8:21pm Flash Strap: @melinda: i am now!
	8:21pm melinda: What group or groups is Con associated with?
	8:23pm Flash Strap: Conrad Schnitzler started off in Tangerine Dream, before leaving to do his own thing. Joined Kluster as well; after he left, they became Cluster.
	8:23pm melinda: Olivia's show this week had a similar theme, really great.
	8:25pm Flash Strap: looks like it was a good one
	8:27pm Flash Strap: this track is really one of my very favorite synth compositions for a kind of moving, spatial quality... really feels like it's filling the space, and suddenly you're occupying & moving through a new zone
	🥁 8:28pm chresti: I have a Curiosum cd
	8:29pm Flash Strap: @chresti: good record, that
	🥁 8:31pm chresti: I've taken many naps while this is playing
	🥁 8:31pm chresti: talk about atmosphere
	8:32pm Flash Strap: seriously
	🥁 8:32pm chresti: @Con
	8:34pm Flash Strap: of course
	8:37pm Little Danny: Evenin' Flash and fellow explozzz
	8:38pm Flash Strap: I've never considered this to be a particularly good job from Mick, but it has always fascinated me as a kind of document with a discomfiting occult power (as with most Anger soundtrack pieces, Bobby Beausoleil's in particular)
	8:38pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	8:39pm northguineahills: I love this version of my demon brother...
	8:40pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH!
	8:41pm Little Danny: I've talked about it before, but the inclusion of the Paris Sisters in Anger's Kustom Kar Kommandos had a huge impact on my appreciation of '60s pop
	8:42pm Flash Strap: mine too! I watched an omnibus of his largely by chance while in high school and it had a huge impact in almost every way, my eyes peeled and reformed
	8:52pm geezerette: Hello,Evan and gang. Our ISP is holding us prisoner, off & on, off & on...grrr!!!! I'll listen to this in the future but I'd rather listen now. Curse you, ATT. :( Love the artwork. :D
	8:53pm Flash Strap: Hi Geezerette! damn them, damn AT&T
	8:53pm Little Danny: The 'Bajas just played my neck o' the woods - El Paso - with Stereolab. Was that the lineup you saw, Flash?
	8:54pm Flash Strap: @G: and thank you, friend. always great to have you in the room, regardless the circumstances
	8:54pm geezerette: Haha! Thank you, Evan!
	8:54pm melinda: From the name Bitchin Bajas I would not have guessed this would be the sound. I like it.
	8:55pm Flash Strap: @LD: no, they just played a very small room with some local acts. maybe 35 people in a university coffeehouse. not a bad show! and I bought the record, which we're hearing
	8:56pm Little Danny: @Melinda: their name is a little embarrassing
	8:57pm Flash Strap: @LD: I decided to go largely because I think I remember you liking them, and I thought I should give them a better shake than I had previously. Agree the name is not to my taste
	8:58pm TDK60: Hello. I'd seen this band name before, thinking it a surf band.
	8:59pm Flash Strap: @LD: did you see them with Stereolab?
	8:59pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK!
	9:02pm Little Danny: Nope, I was outta town unfortch. I heard good things about that show, however
	9:03pm hyde: good stuff
	9:05pm Flash Strap: yeah, really pretty strong I think
	9:09pm coelacanth∅: greetings Evan; Explorers
	9:10pm Flash Strap: Hello Coelacanth!
	9:10pm melinda: @LD I didn't want to be too harsh since I like their sound but I agree
	9:12pm melinda: The motor in my vacuum cleaner has gone on the fritz, and I've got a lot of vacuuming to do. Oh dear. Looks like there is a service center nearby though.
	9:14pm Flash Strap: i want to imagine a vacuum repair shop sort of like a cobbler's shop, sort of anachronistic and full of special tools. i hope it doesn't just have like car dealership vibes
	9:18pm Doug Schulkind: Good evening my dear Flash! Good evening handsome listeners!
	9:18pm coelacanth∅: i'm actually slightly surprised anyone fixes vacuum cleaners any more on this apparently disposable planet. this is good news!
	9:18pm Flash Strap: Typhonian Highlife = Spencer Clark = Monopoly Child Star Searchers
	9:19pm Flash Strap: Good evening dear handsome Doug! how fares thee?
	9:21pm Quinn: Omg you played Urban Sax
	9:21pm Flash Strap: @Coelacanth: I agree
	9:21pm hyde: love this
	9:22pm Franco Twinkie: I was at the library, so I can't comment on the music. But I will comment on the comments. Bitchin Bajas sounds like an Ensenada style fish taco restaurant that would have surfboards stuck on the wall. Kind of stupid, but maybe really good. I wonder if that was that what they were thinking when they chose that name?
	9:22pm Doug Schulkind: Fare me well!
	9:24pm melinda: According to the internet there is still a Miele store and service center where I went to buy replacement vacuum bags many years ago. It was a little space, I don't remember if there were tools on the walls. Not like an appliance showroom at least.
	9:25pm melinda: @Franco exactly!
	9:26pm Flash Strap: I think they may have wanted to throw people off taking them too seriously, even though their music has a real sheen of "seriousness" – in a way it's really cool that a heady synth trio could be thought of in the same way, as having the same function even, as a trashy surf group, just by picking that name – but even so ...
	9:28pm TDK60: I want to start a dark noise band called something like Dry Creek String Band.
	9:29pm Franco Twinkie: Well, it's a good strategy to have people dismiss you, then totally upend their assumptions.
	9:29pm Flash Strap: @Franco: true, & respect to that I have to say
	9:31pm Flash Strap: the #1 Magic Lantern outing for sure, (imo)
	9:32pm Quinn: Now these are some bitchin’ bajas
	9:33pm coelacanth∅: TDK that should do the trick!
	9:33pm Flash Strap: @Q: haha yes
	9:33pm coelacanth∅: (literally)
	9:34pm Flash Strap: i've said it before but I really love the cover art for this, and the way it sets the stage for the psych to come: img.discogs.com...
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: oh yeah great cover!
	9:40pm Franco Twinkie: Magic Lantern reminds me of when I was in junior high school and I saw this local band called The Magic Mirror. The guys looked like sit-com hippies, and in between songs the singer would hold up a mirror and say "Magic mirror time is 9:34..." or something like that. Now that was stupid!
	9:41pm Flash Strap: that's hilarious Franco
	9:42pm Quinn: Oh I love this noodling. Also saxophone makes everything better.
	9:42pm passi: I missed shinki chen!
	9:43pm Flash Strap: no sax on this alas
	9:43pm passiflora: in a venue restroom
	9:43pm Quinn: I thought I heard saxophone in it!
	9:43pm Flash Strap: hello again passi in the john
	9:44pm Flash Strap: phantom sax - not bad, I say it'll have to do for now!
	9:44pm passif: hahaha
	9:46pm coelacanth∅: sounds a bit mellotronny though. not complaining.
	9:47pm Flash Strap: this lineup would sound great with a mellotron in tow
	9:47pm Quinn: Come on, I know you hear that in there
	9:48pm coelacanth∅: i feel like they are trying to (and coming close to) sound like a mellotron's in there
	9:48pm coelacanth∅: (and the one magic lantern album that's not on bandcamp)
	9:49pm northguineahills: Dug that Magic Lantern!
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: Quinn do you dream about saxophones? baritone? soprano? the illusive bass saxophone? ...plastic ones in the hands of experts?
	9:53pm Little Danny: Terrific show, Evan!
	9:54pm Flash Strap: @C: definitely they are
	9:54pm Flash Strap: Thanks LD! see you next door in your beautiful room
	9:54pm Quinn: Coelacanth... every night. It is my curse but it also fills me with a sort of deep, deep peace that I cannot describe.
	9:55pm Flash Strap: @Q: I thought I may have heard it enough to check the liner notes for sax personnel, but I must conclude it is a phantom horn
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: Really great explorertoring tonight, thanks Flash!
	9:55pm Flash Strap: Glad to hear it NGH!
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: haha ...Quinn it could be so much worse!
	9:55pm Little Danny: There's a wicker chair with your name on it at the Cool Blue Flame: wfmu.org... Come on in and relax!
	9:56pm Flash Strap: that is a good way of life, Quinn
	9:57pm Flash Strap: this track title may translate to "You Limit the Lightning"
	9:57pm coelacanth∅: yeah maybe i can dream about mellotrons tonight
	9:57pm Flash Strap: oooh, i dream about mellotrons sometimes for sure
	9:58pm Quinn: This sound, talk about plinking and twinkling
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: weirdly (though probably not, to someone who knows how to interpret these things) i very rarely dream about anything music-related.
	9:59pm Franco Twinkie: I will dream about men in capes.
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	9:59pm Flash Strap: that's it my friends! good night and many thanks!
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: Freud wants to have a word with you Franco

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from September 26, 2019

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