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

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Favoriting May 27, 2021: Mystic and Severe

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Artist Track Album Label Year Approx. start time
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Les Rallizes Denudes  Night of the Assassin   Favoriting Heavier Than a Death in the Family  Not on Label  1977  0:01:48 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys  I Went to Sleep (A Capella / 2018 Mix)   Favoriting I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions  Columbia  1969 / 2018  0:13:30 (Pop-up)
Os Tincoãs  Cordeira de Naña   Favoriting Os Tincoãs  RCA Victor  1977  0:15:00 (Pop-up)
Eddie Harris  I Don't Want Nobody   Favoriting I Need Some Money  Atlantic  1975  0:17:54 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Volcanic Activity  
 
 
 
0:29:48 (Pop-up)
Harmonia  Ueber Ottenstein   Favoriting Live 1974  Grönland Records  2007  0:38:56 (Pop-up)
Cluster  Fabrik, Hamburg 1972   Favoriting Konzerte 1972 /1977  Bureau B  2017  0:47:11 (Pop-up)
Kraftwerk  K4   Favoriting Live on Bremen Radio, 1971  Not on Label  1971  1:08:30 (Pop-up)
Harmonia  Live At Onkel Pö In Hamburg   Favoriting Documents 1975  Grönland Records  2015  1:19:39 (Pop-up)
Cluster & Farnbauer  Service   Favoriting Live in Vienna 1980  Important Records  2010  1:28:38 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Haunted Planet / Psychedelic Mood  
 
 
 
2:00:37 (Pop-up)
The Crystalites  The Undertaker   Favoriting The Undertaker / Stop That Man 7"  Crystal Records  1970  2:13:51 (Pop-up)
Ennio Morricone  Death Rides A Horse   Favoriting Death Rides A Horse (Da Uomo A Uomo) (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)  Dagored  1967 / 2017  2:16:13 (Pop-up)
Roy Richards  Death Rides A Horse   Favoriting Hard Time / Death Rides A Horse 7"  Crab  1969  2:19:53 (Pop-up)
Ennio Morricone  Monody for Guitar   Favoriting Death Rides A Horse (Da Uomo A Uomo) (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)      2:22:38 (Pop-up)
King Stitt  Lee Van Cleef   Favoriting Lee Van Cleef / Dance beat (Real Sweet) 7"  New Beat Records  1969  2:25:19 (Pop-up)
The Crystalites  The Bad   Favoriting The Bad 7"  (Blank Label)  1969  2:28:07 (Pop-up)
Ennio Morricone  Mystic and Severe / Anger and Sorrow   Favoriting Death Rides A Horse (Da Uomo A Uomo) (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)      2:30:46 (Pop-up)
The Crystalites  Overtaker   Favoriting Overtaker 7"  Crystal Records  1970  2:36:46 (Pop-up)
The Hippy Boys  Death Rides A Horse (Mixie's (Pop A Top))   Favoriting Melting Pot / Death Rides A Horse 7"  Unity  1970  2:40:06 (Pop-up)
The Hippy Boys  Death Rides A Horse   Favoriting Death Rides A Horse / I Am Lonely 7"  (Blank Label)  1969  2:42:40 (Pop-up)
The Hippy Boys  Death Rides   Favoriting Alli Button / Death Rides 7"  Amalgamated Records  1969  2:46:00 (Pop-up)
Ennio Morricone  Death Rides A Horse (Vocals: Raoul)   Favoriting Da Uomo A Uomo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)  GDM  1967 / 2004  2:48:39 (Pop-up)
The Crystalites  Undertaker's Burial   Favoriting Undertaker's Burial / Ghost Rider 7"  Crystal Records  1970  2:51:55 (Pop-up)

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Bells Of My Soul  
 
 
 
2:55:04 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Flash Strap:

Hello explorers!
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TDK60:

DJ Flash, hello!
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Alex In Illinois:

Hello
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Asheville Jon:

ready for tonight's ride!
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chresti:

Hi Flash and explorer TDK60!
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listener james from westwood:

Evening, one and all!
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Scott67:

G'day Flash & Finders!
✌😎🔎🌏🌞
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jaywbabcock:

RALLIZES
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chresti:

Hi explorer Jon and explorers!
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Clifffiscal:

I love the Denudes!
Avatar ♥ 7:02pm
TDK60:

Hello citizen explorer chresti. \\ //
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HyperDose:

Hey Evan! 😃🧭🚢
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chresti:

\\ //
  7:02pm
Gary via app:

Who-hoo!
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Flash Strap:

Wow look at all these wonderful people in here
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Aitch:

Tally ho!
Avatar 7:03pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

RAWK
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Scott67:

Is that a Terry Gilliam Python Sky Evan?👍😎
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Gary! Hi Chresti! Hey Hyperdose! Aitch! TDK! My man Cliff! Jay! Rev Rab! Scott! Asheville Jon! Alex in IL! Listener James!
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

@Scott: no it's a 19th illustration of the sky after krakatoa if i recall correctly but I see the resemblance
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:06pm
Scott67:

Cool, Gilliam did appropriate most of his animation imagery. So maybe it's both?
Avatar 7:06pm
Flash Strap:

i never want this track to end, which is why i keep playing it. playing it tonight as an excuse to play it one more time today
Avatar 7:07pm
Flash Strap:

quite possible scott, he was an inveterate collagist
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Flash Strap:

you can see more from that series of illustrations here: publicdomainreview.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:08pm
Aitch:

So not a nipple with whipped cream then?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:08pm
WR:

Hi all.

Evan, this is the first I've heard of your Les Rallizes Denudes dependency. Tell us more.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Who was it just told us LesRD highjacked a plane to NorthKorea ?? SuzyHotrod ?? No...
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

@aitch: as Scott says, maybe it's both
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:09pm
Scott67:

Cheers Evan!👍😎
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TDK60:

..not a kernel of popcorn at the moment of pop?
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Aitch:

Wild track, good lord.
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WR:

It wasn't Les Rallizes Denudes but one of their members was associated with extremist group that had a could of major incidents.
Avatar 7:10pm
Flash Strap:

Hi WR: actually I'm basically a total newb to them, i've heard before but never on my own speed, this is the only track on which i have a dependency and its a recentish one at that. will explore further soon
Avatar 7:11pm
Flash Strap:

@tdk: nature repeats itself endlessly in its forms
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Scott67:

Loved these Japanese Distorted fuzz freaks since first hearing them on FMU.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:12pm
Aitch:

Theme music for a rough night out in the Golden Gai
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:12pm
WR:

Ahah, Flash, I have a considerable stash of Les Rallizes Denudes, including videos. Will send you a list.
Avatar 7:13pm
jaywbabcock:

Many of us are Denudes addicts. There's more good stuff,a ltho' this is one of the best. Lotsa info available via Julian Cope/Head Heritage website.
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

please do WR
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Thot: BeachBoys as Queen precursor...
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Flash Strap:

I believe that Jay! LRD are a major aspect of Cope's Japrocksampler from what i understand
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Flash Strap:

@rev: probably valid
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jaywbabcock:

www.headheritage.co.uk...
  7:19pm
Doug Schulkind:

Good evening, Sir Flash and Explorerers!
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Flash Strap:

figure it's been enough years since i spun this eddie harris, god how i love it (he's singing through his sax btw)
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Flash Strap:

Good Evening, Doug the Magnificent
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HyperDose:

You were right Evan, awesome group we have here this evening!
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Little Danny:

Hi Evan, hi explorrrs
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Artie:

Good evening, Strappers!
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Little Danny:

Whup missed Les Rallizes
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Flash Strap:

Hi LD! Evening Artie!
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Little Danny:

Great Eddie Harris track! Got this on 45!
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Flash Strap:

i'm torn between hitting the reggae-spagh. western set or the live harmonia/cluster set next. you can tip the scales here, dear listeners
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Frog Mover:

Evening rooom! This Eddie is so nice damn!
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Flash Strap:

had no idea this had a 45 release - is it a 2-sider or shortened?
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Flash Strap:

Hello there Frog Mo!
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Little Danny:

I will never not step in the same line as Harmonia
  7:27pm
Gary via app:

I vote for Cluster, but chiming in about the awesome of this track
Avatar 7:27pm
Flash Strap:

it shall be so my fellow DJs
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Little Danny:

Shortened version, Flash, paired with "I Need Some Money" on the plug side.
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Flash Strap:

it's so damn damn good Gary
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Little Danny:

So atmospheric.
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Flash Strap:

@gary, whoever needs to hear it: not only is this album great but he also has a whole album of singing through his sax that's very similar and very magical called Eddie Harris Sings the Blues
Avatar ♥ 7:29pm
TDK60:

Fun laid back track!
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northguineahills:

Just got my first jab. Had to cancel my my first appointment two weeks back due a migraine. (nearest place was 14km away, must be a FL thang.
Avatar ♥ 7:31pm
northguineahills:

The Japanese Red Army was still real thing when I lived there in the 80s.....
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TDK60:

Good, NGH.
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HyperDose:

Definitely feeling a reggae spagh western set after Trouble's amazing ska/dancehall set this morning
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WR:

@7:19 @jaywbabcock: thank you for the link.
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doctorjazz:

Hi Flash and Flashketeers!
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Flash Strap:

Hi NGH! Hi Doc!
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Flash Strap:

yes, thanks Jay!
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quinn:

singing thru a sax? wee-hooooo
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Flash Strap:

if you'd like to get on our mailing list, you can send a request to the email address drummer@wfmu.org, or go here: tinyletter.com...

fyi we do not share our mailing list with anyone ever
Avatar 7:41pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Quinn! wonderful to see you as ever
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Flash Strap:

one of my favorite live albums, this live 74
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Scott67:

Awesome NGH!👍😎 Just got of phone to my GP, regards getting my first.
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quinn:

i went a saw this rallizes denudes documentary at spectacle theater a buncha years ago and I remember thinking it was really boring even tho I enjoy them
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Flash Strap:

@quinn: i can imagine. I once had a really fun showing of some of my work at spectacle, cool spot
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Flash Strap:

but music docs often bore me
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Flash Strap:

@hyperdose: LD and Gary beat ya to the vote but rest easy the spaghetti reggae awaits on the other side of this wormhole
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TDK60:

It seems to me this combo was around the curve before most, it seems.
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northguineahills:

being bored sounds painful, Flash, what if you were bored by a bored boar?
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Flash Strap:

i don;t put a ton of stock in this kind of rock mythologizing per se, but not for no reason did Bowie and Eno anoint Harmonia the best group in existence at the time
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Flash Strap:

@NGH: to quote Zardoz "anything to relieve the boredom"
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WR:

so interesting how a common sounding electronic rhythm track was just right on that Harmonia track.
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TDK60:

19friggin72.
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Flash Strap:

early Cluster, utterly lacking either that rhythmic element or their later pastoral aspect, is a much more difficult journey. but often deeply rewarding
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chresti:

re: N Korea
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northguineahills:

I have a cluster reissue box set somewhere....
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chresti:

A crazy year for me 1972 was.
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Flash Strap:

what's that about N Korea? did i miss
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chresti:

Starting with not being aware of Cluster at the time.

That's where the bass player of LRD is or was, after hijacking a plane to N Korea? RevRab mentioned it earlier, sorry.
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

<hey everyone!
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Flash Strap:

oh right yes indeed: en.wikipedia.org...
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Flash Strap:

Hi Cha Cha!
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Now, this Cluster piece sounds a lot like Throbbing Gristle's Second Annual Report, only some 5 years earlier.
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Flash Strap:

yeah early Cluster is extremely Throbbing and industrial sounding
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Shaw:

Good evenin' Flash and all. Fantastic sounds!
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Flash Strap:

hi Shaw!
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Thanks for playing this, might have to get a digital something of this from Cluster's bandcamp if not an actual physical release.
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

yeah man we are floating in space, i mean we are in a formless zone and there is very little to orient ourselves by
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chresti:

I think it was Scott W who mentioned it.
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Frog Mover:

Sounds of a dark engine room on a spaceship
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TDK60:

I thought chresti was gonna say Cluster secretly played for the N. Korean politburo.
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HyperDose:

OK who wants a tostada?
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Flash Strap:

@Cha Cha: my pleasure, i love Cluster in all its forms. the other half of this release is a very cool concert at Festival International De La Science-Fiction, Metz 1977
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melinda:

hi everyone!
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Flash Strap:

@TDK: i had some similar thought! very intrigued
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Flash Strap:

@FM: yeah but outside looking in perhaps
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Flash Strap:

Hi Melinda!
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chresti:

Oh wow, at first I thought you wrote "homeless zone". Am I trippin' or what.
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Flash Strap:

you're trippin' pal!
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

I think one of the first ever bands to play North Korea was Finnish (like me) Sielun Veljet, 1989.
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Flash Strap:

i had no idea! are they good?
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Flash Strap:

or rather, should i check them out?
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chresti:

Hi HyperD, Franco's bringing home burritos, thanks though.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...been in the tub not @ the keyboard
...this is all kewl as hell...
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quinn:

my husband walked in and said "oh wow they're playing your song" ha
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northguineahills:

huh, I always thought Laibach was the first Western band to play in North Korea.... (was that 2016?)
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TDK60:

Was Fabrik a club? Art space?
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Doug Schulkind:

Just watched my cat catch and devour a chipmunk. How's your evening goin'?
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

@8:06 Flash Strap: Sielun Veljet? They're madly good, superb. Especially the 1983 s/t debut. A live album, intense, like their gigs were. sadly I never saw them live, I was too young then.
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Flash Strap:

very rare and special Kraftwerk lineup: Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger in a proto-Neu! with Florian Schneider and no Ralf
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quinn:

@Doug, I watched mine do the same to a young rabbit the other day :/
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HyperDose:

I'll toast to that, Doug!
@chresti is Franco too stoned to make them?
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Flash Strap:

@quinn: haha that's a quick wit
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Flash Strap:

@TDK: not sure, actually
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Flash Strap:

I'll check that out for sure Cha Cha
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

@8:09 TDK60: I guess you cpuld call it that. I haven't been there that many times, even if I lived in Hamburg for a while. But I remember seeing Pere Ubu there in 2011
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quinn:

@Doug did the cat really eat the chipmunk? Mine just sort of toys with his victims and eventually leaves them dead and partially dismantled.
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chresti:

Was this witnessed through a window or outside, Doug?
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Flash Strap:

@doug: these violent delights (cats) have violent ends (the bloodsport you have witnessed)

had to drag a big snake out of my chicken coop the other day, that's the best I got of late with regards to animal madness
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:13pm
Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

@8:11 Flash Strap: most recommended! Especially that 1983 Sielun Veljet album, with the Czechoslovakian runner Emil Zátopek on the cover - the album also has a song with his name.
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Flash Strap:

cool
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passiflora:

🪴 hi!
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Flash Strap:

this Kraftwerk record never fails to amaze me, a lot of recognizable and prophetic elements here but yet unlike anything before or since
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Flash Strap:

Hello dear Passiflora!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:16pm
WR:

yes, let's hear it for atypical Kraftwerk!
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Flash Strap:

Rother is just such a beast on this, he'd never sound this gut-heavy again
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:19pm
Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Why Kraftwerk tend to exclude the first three albums from their discography makes no sense. This "Neu!Werk" lineup is especially cool, nice such short period of their career got documented for posterity.
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Flash Strap:

it's my favorite Kraftwerk anything, next to Florian & Schneider I think
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:21pm
chresti:

Doug, that's wild!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:21pm
Little Danny:

Incredible. Those floating bits of guitar are so distinct and great.
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Flash Strap:

@LD: totally
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quinn:

well, i'm glad this music exists
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Flash Strap:

i wish there were a hundred more live harmonia recordings
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Flash Strap:

new live Can thing coming out tomorrow, very excited for that
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Flash Strap:

me too Quinn
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:25pm
Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

@8:24 Flash Strap: please tell me more!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:26pm
Doug Schulkind:

@quinn
My cat ate almost the entire chipmunk. Left me a bit of innards to clean up. There are have been three other whole chipmunks left for me in the past ten days or so. I guess she had the hongries.
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Flash Strap:

new supposedly great sounding live album from a Stuttgart concert. i may have heard a bootleg of it at some point but the word is that this sounds amazing & it kicks off a whole series to come: www.rollingstone.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:27pm
Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

@8:26 Flash Strap: thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:29pm
Clifffiscal:

Complete agree RE live Harmonia....wish there was more. it is mesmerizing stuff
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Flash Strap:

Joshi Farnbauer = a mysterious percussionist, this seems to be his only credit, little to no additional info that I've ever seen
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passiflora:

this is nice to hear
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Flash Strap:

i love that Cluster in 1980 put on this concert that really hearkens back to their pre-Zuckerzeit sound. The guys are just so interesting & their explorations aren't really limited to period or style

when I saw Roedelius a couple of years ago he was incredibly abstract for half an hour, then played a series of lullabies
Avatar 8:38pm
Flash Strap:

i say it reminds me of their early sound, but you can hear a lot of the sparse beauty of Sowiesoso or Grosses Wasser as well, naturally
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Flash Strap:

these floating tone lines very reminiscent of Rother's guitar technique on those Harmonia tracks
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:46pm
doctorjazz:

Nothing like some German rock to end the day! Heading home, thanks Flash!
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Flash Strap:

smooth sailing Doc!
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TDK60:

This is quite a service.
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Flash Strap:

it's a tennis jam
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:51pm
Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Did anyone see them live? Cluster did two of their almost last shows in Finland November (or December?) 2010 (the very last was All Tomorrow's Parties in England) and sadly enough I did not live in Finland then nor could afford to visit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:52pm
coelacanth∅:

good evening Flash and Explorers
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:52pm
Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Did see Qluster (Roedelius' project) and Dieter Möbius solo later though.
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Flash Strap:

no but i did occasion to see Roedelius solo on his american tour a few years ago. he's a giant
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Flash Strap:

Hi there Coelacanth!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:56pm
Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Be it artistic merit or actual size, yes Roedelius is a giant. Plus he is living proof of that if you've still got "it", age is really just a number.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:56pm
Little Danny:

Until you starting doing these German sets, I had no idea the extent to which these groups were live attractions. Oh for the time machine.
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Little Danny:

Fantastic set goes without saying.
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Flash Strap:

@chacha: i really was startled by his stature, his hands were like great monuments. I got to shake one of them – and it was a great show too
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Flash Strap:

@LD: thanks and man! i really wish there were more live recordings of this whole scene. would kill for a box of live Faust bootlegs or just a couple live Neu! sets
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HyperDose:

Now we're really exploring!
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Flash Strap:

god what a score, one of his best
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:18pm
Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

My uneducated guess is that the live recordings of Harmonia from 70s could have covered a lot of their live activities. I might get it completely wrong, but it could be they were not a prolific live act, what with their studio activities with Cluster, Neu!, Harmonia and their solo stuff.
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Flash Strap:

up next, our pal from last week's Freedom Blues exploration, Roy Richards
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Flash Strap:

@chacha: that's always been my impression as well, they weren't a big touring act like Can - still... wishing for more
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Flash Strap:

Roy Richards on harmonica here
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Harmonia did play live shows between 2007 and 2008 - as it usually is with me, I missed their London 2008 show (lived there then) @ Ether Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall (OK, my excuse, I was very busy with my studies, but still - aaaarrrrgggghhh),
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Flash Strap:

Roy: img.discogs.com...
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

sorry between 2007 and 2009 I meant
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Flash Strap:

@chacha: huh i didn't know they did that actually
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

@9:21 Flash Strap: they also played ATP in New York (My Bloody Valentine-curated) in 2008. I knew of their Ether Festival gig and... really regret not going.
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Flash Strap:

damn
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Flash Strap:

Stitt is confused here – he was born with a facial deformation & later adopted the nickname The Ugly or The Ugly One – he's clearly intending an homage to Eli Wallach's character
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Little Danny:

Loving this set (and set theme).
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Flash Strap:

grazie, amico
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

This Morricone track is not reggae of course - but also has a proper bass line.
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Flash Strap:

so true
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...listening & digging everything - eyes distracted...
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Flash Strap:

love to hear it brother rev
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chresti:

Mr. Ugly, love that.
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Flash Strap:

a now well-worn Lee Perry riddim here
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Flash Strap:

the Hippy Boys loved Death Rides a Horse – and went on to basically become the Upsetters (who also have major spaghetti western element to their early records)
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northguineahills:

Thanks, Evan, I'm bouncing!
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WR:

in case i am busy at the end of the episode: masterfully curated sets of recordings you've presented today Flash Strap! Thank you! Thank you!

Onward.
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chresti:

I like that honking rhythm.
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

@9:43 Flash Strap: OK! I know shamefully little (well, nothing) about reggae, but love Lee Perry (at least up to late 70s or so?), so thanks for some badly needed education (had no idea about their existence as Hippy Boys)!
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Flash Strap:

adios NGH! thanks for hanging out pal
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Flash Strap:

Thank YOU WR!
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Flash Strap:

me too chresti!
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Little Danny:

Thanks Evan. Hugely distracting show as always.
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Little Danny:

Third door on your left: wfmu.org... Hope to see y'all there!
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Flash Strap:

anytime Chacha! lotsa reggae shows in the archives here too... last week was a doozy
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Flash Strap:

one more track after this & i'll turn you over to LD! but stay tuned to find out what happens to the Undertaker
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chresti:

A Kingstonians' (I think)tune, beautiful vocals.
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coelacanth∅:

who will undertake the burial?
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Clifffiscal:

Really great show tonight Evan. Thanks
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Shaw:

Thanks Flash! Another bunch of amazing stuff I haven't ever heard!
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HyperDose:

An absolutely phenomenal last set, which was part of an even better show. Thanks Evan!
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Scott67:

Thanks Evan, enjoyable expedition.✌😎🌏🌞
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Zetti:

Thank you!
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chresti:

*Singerman, is the song I heard
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spodiodi:

thanks, Flash!
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chresti:

Thanks Flash!
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TDK60:

A fine show, Evan. Good night.
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Thanks so much, great show from start to finish! Good Night.
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Flash Strap:

Thanks all! hi spodiodi! i'll check that out Chresti, i'm sure you're right

good night all!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan!
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