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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 March 28, 2024: Ace 90 / Big Funk / Harmonic Synthesism

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
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Big Youth  Ace Ninety Skank   Favoriting Ace 90 Skank / True True To My Heart 7"  Mafia  1972    0:01:18 (Pop-up)
Augustus Pablo, Hudson All Stars  Fat Baby   Favoriting Fat Baby / Fight On Fight On 7"  Mafia  1972    0:04:22 (Pop-up)
Keith Hudson & Family Man  Pick A Dub   Favoriting Pick A Dub  Mamba  1974    0:06:37 (Pop-up)
Alton Ellis  All We Need is Love   Favoriting All We Need is Love / Jericho Rock 7"  Roots Reggae  1973    0:09:58 (Pop-up)
Keith Hudson & Phillip Samuel  We Will Make   Favoriting The Hudson Affair: Keith Hudson and Friends  Earmark  2004  1972  0:11:51 (Pop-up)
Zap Pow  Broken Contract   Favoriting Reggae Limbo / Broken Contract 7"  Duke Records  1972    0:13:56 (Pop-up)
Trinity  Z 90   Favoriting Z 90 7"  Vivian Jackson (Yabby You)  1978    0:16:44 (Pop-up)
Glen Brown & King Tubby  Melodica International (Extended Mix)   Favoriting Termination Dub (1973-79)  Blood & Fire  1996    0:20:01 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

Tropical Forest – Number Six Chops Down the Tree  

 

 

 

 

0:26:41 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis  Go Ahead John   Favoriting Big Fun  Columbia  1974    0:39:52 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis  Guinnevere   Favoriting The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions  Columbia Legacy  1998  rec. 1970  1:07:51 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis  Funk / Turnaroundphrase / For Dave   Favoriting 5.25.1974 Rio De Janeiro      Miles Davis (trumpet, organ) Dave Liebman (soprano, tenor, flute) Pete Cosey (guitar, percussion – left channel) Reggie Lucas (guitar – left channel) Dominique Gaumont (guitar – right channel) Michael Henderson (electric bass) Al Foster (drums) Mtume (conga, percussion)  1:29:10 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

Underway  

 

 

 

 

2:08:58 (Pop-up)
Tod Dockstader  Harmonic   Favoriting Aerial #3  Sub Rosa  2006    2:17:12 (Pop-up)
Barry Vercoe  Sythesism   Favoriting Computer Music  Nonesuch Records  1970    2:18:29 (Pop-up)
Elisabeth Chojnacka  Moulins A Prière   Favoriting Clavecin 2000  Philips Prospective 21e Siecle  1971  Composed by Marius Constant  2:22:54 (Pop-up)
Pierre Henry  Schisme   Favoriting Futuristie  Philips / Universal  2001  rec. 1975  2:27:14 (Pop-up)
Ariel Kalma  Ballade En Sax Mineur   Favoriting French Archives Vol. II 1974-1985 – Kula Confidential  Black Sweat Records  2021  rec. 1985 in Maui  2:36:52 (Pop-up)
Terry Riley  Sri Moonshine Transcontinental Blues   Favoriting No Man's Land / Conversation With The Sirocco  Plainisphere  1996  rec. 1984  2:41:56 (Pop-up)

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Bells Of My Soul  

 

 

 

 

2:56:35 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Flash Strap:

Hello Explorers!
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neveract:

Howdy Flash!
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chresti:

Hi Flash and explorers! Making coffee!
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neveract:

↳ chresti @6:58
hi chresti!
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Flash Strap:

Hey Never! Hi Chresti!
  7:00pm
flannery:

hrllo
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Alex from Media:

Hi all! Got my pith helmet on ready to go exploring.
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Scott_Oz:

G'day Evan & Explorers! Let's get funky.. in a harmonious way of course!
🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺
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chresti:

↳ neveract @6:59
Hi neveract!
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WR:

Looks a little different, sounds... Explorers Rooms sounds.
  🥁 7:01pm
tom tom the pipers son:

good evening evan and listeners....
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

+ yes +
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Aitch:

Hey Explorers, straight into the dub, very nice
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Manta:

hello all!
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Flash Strap:

Hi Flannery! Alex! Scott! WR! Tom Tom! Rev Rab! Aitch! what a blessed crew!
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Flash Strap:

Hey Manta!
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Scott_Oz:

↳ Flash Strap @7:02
Cool show header paint smear work mate. Is that on the reverse side of glass?
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:01
totally forgot to get back to you Tom but those paintings were terrific
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neveract:

Hi flannery, Alex, Scott,, WR, tom tom, Rev, Aitch, & Manta!
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Scott_Oz:

↳ neveract @7:03
G'day neverA! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
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Flash Strap:

↳ Scott_Oz @7:03
some more info, it's a sound-painting on glass: publicdomainreview.org...
  7:04pm
little david:

Hi Flash! how sweet it is to turn on the radio and immediately be greeted by Big Youth!!! excited to be in the room!
Avatar 🥁 7:05pm
neveract:

ok.. my dog thinks I need a walk.. will listen in on the app..
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Alex from Media:

↳ neveract @7:03
up up neveract!
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Flash Strap:

Hey Little David!
  🥁 7:05pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @7:03
goodness gracious! ha!

oh thanks flash, appreciate your opinion.... not bad for a 20yr old self
  7:05pm
flannery:

fat baby … dig it
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Scott_Oz:

↳ Flash Strap @7:04
Awesome mate, tagged for a good read later!
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Flash Strap:

↳ flannery @7:05
such a good title for a melodica workout
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Little Danny:

hello!
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:05
def not bad
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Could more basic means create any more beguiling / satisfying ends.
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Flash Strap:

LD! hey brother
  7:08pm
Chajel:

Loving the dub, Flash
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Flash Strap:

hey Chajel! love to hear it
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Pick A Dub" by "Keith Hudson & Family Man"
a stone classic dub LP with an actually pretty skeletal sound
Avatar 7:10pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Starting with Dub this week instead of Ending ?...
Avatar 7:10pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "All We Need is Love" by "Alton Ellis"
a top Alton single? i'd say so... but the man's ouvre is stacked beyond belief
  7:10pm
little david:

↳ Flash Strap @7:09
i have to check out that LP, that was nice
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pot8o:

hi everyone!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:10
can't pin me down, no formula man
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Flash Strap:

↳ little david @7:10
it's killer
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Flash Strap:

Hey Pot8o!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "We Will Make" by "Keith Hudson & Phillip Samuel"
love love love Keith's croaking, laconic delivery here. deceptively nice phrasing / timing i think
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Flash Strap @7:12
Of course ! :D ...I may be wrong anyhow...
  🥁 7:14pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @7:04
the sound paintings remind me of other 19c flirtations with phenomenology in art like photograms and of course photography. was some of the interest in them involved with interests in spiritualism? they do bring to mind spirit photography athough these sound paintings aren't faked
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
Alex from Media:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:14
ectoplasm. I see it!
Avatar 7:16pm
Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:14
totally agree, really of a piece with that whole moment, rife with mysticism & esotericism
  🥁 7:16pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Alex from Media @7:15
yes they do ecto, i mean echo that
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spodiodi:

greetings, Flash and Explorers
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Flash Strap:

↳ Alex from Media @7:15
yeah and ectoplasmicism!
  7:16pm
little david:

↳ Flash Strap @7:13
a couple weeks ago you were talking about loving toasters, and i feel like you loved the Three Piece Suit LP specifically and Dillinger generally. for me Big Youth is my favorite maybe because of that intangible timing you speak of! loving it all
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Alex from Media:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:16
😂
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Flash Strap:

↳ little david @7:16
i think it's very possible Big Youth is the most well-rounded and experimental toaster. solid claim to the title of greatest. adore him
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Z 90" by "Trinity"
Trinity really handling the S90 skank riddim vocally here
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Melodica International (Extended Mix)" by "Glen B...
ok here's the first track of the evening to NOT be on the S90 skank
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chresti:

Big Youth, U Roy, and Dennis Alcapone are faves.
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Melodica International (Extended Mix)" by "Glen B...
on Wayne Jarrett's "Youth Man" - that's Wayne's vocal - and if i recall with Brown on melodica (tho at times miscredited to Pablo)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
Alex from Media:

↳ Song: "Melodica International (Extended Mix)" by "Glen B...
Did anyone make sense of that King Tubby treatise I posted here last week. It was too over my head to answer my question. But there's that mystery effect again!
  7:23pm
little david:

↳ chresti @7:22
found Dread in a Babylon a few weeks ago and have been playing it nonstop!
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Flash Strap:

↳ chresti @7:22
that's a great top 3. Alcapone is the most joyful toaster i'd say. I Roy's well in the mix as one of the greatest as well, a king & a legend
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Flash Strap:

↳ little david @7:23
VERY nice
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Flash Strap:

↳ Alex from Media @7:23
i still haven't read it but i definitely will
  🥁 7:25pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Alex from Media @7:23
was it by king tubby?
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chresti:

↳ little david @7:23
Yes! One of the first albums I bought! I love "Listen to the Teacher"
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Alex from Media:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:25
It was about King Tubby not by him. Like a thesis on his recording techniques. Detailed, but authenticity not verified.
  7:27pm
little david:

↳ Flash Strap @7:24
have to check him out, "joyful" is how I would describe U-Roy so now very excited for capone!
  🥁 7:27pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Alex from Media @7:26
ah... i missed some of the show last week...
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Alex from Media:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:27
Not being in the biz I was trying to get to the bottom of how a spacey effect was being generated. Found something on the interwebs that I was hopeful would explain but it was jargon city and I got lost. Happens to explorers now and again.
  🥁 7:32pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Alex from Media @7:30
yeah i'd be interested in investigating same thing, apparently tubby was quite the scientist
  7:36pm
asheville jon:

woohoo, bring on the Miles!
  7:36pm
flannery:

hell yeah bring it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Alex from Media:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:32
here it is, have a field day. Rev Rabbit had some suggestions at the end of the dialog that seemed to make sense but the show ended too soon. www.research.ed.ac.uk...
  🥁 7:39pm
tom tom the pipers son:

oh i'll take a look, but i can barely put together a stereo (if i had one) thx
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Alex from Media:

↳ Song: "Go Ahead John" by "Miles Davis"
Headphones engaged, lets hear it!
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Flash Strap:

↳ little david @7:27
yeah check out Guns Don't Argue and try not to smile
  7:41pm
flannery:

this is wild
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Flash Strap:

↳ asheville jon @7:36
hey hey Jon!
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Flash Strap:

LISTEN TO THE DRUMS LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Alex from Media @7:37
Thx ! ...if too dense for me - @ least I'll learn a little about what I *don't* know...
  7:42pm
little david:

↳ Flash Strap @7:41
but you already called attention to the bass and it's so glorious too!
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Flash Strap:

↳ little david @7:42
it is, it is glorious!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Go Ahead John" by "Miles Davis"
The creative receptivity to Sonorities - the Rhythm - & the Ensemble playing - & the funky but spacious Mix ...pairs pretty well with Dub don't it...
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Flash Strap:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:44
i have to agree very enthusiastically here
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Flash Strap:

King Teo at the Controls
  🥁 7:45pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Alex from Media @7:37
in just beginning, it has me thinking, with the mention of signal routing, of ectoplasm and a sort of dematerialization of music, but i'm afraid i'll have to save it for later, pretty beat right now...
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Flash Strap:

this is the part, i could die during this part
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Alex from Media:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:45
Cant talk either, listening big time.
  🥁 7:50pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Go Ahead John" by "Miles Davis"
drumming is very unrushed like he's holding things down in anticipation of an explosion
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Flash Strap:

Miles Davis – trumpet
Steve Grossman – soprano saxophone
John McLaughlin – electric guitar
Dave Holland – bass guitar
Jack DeJohnette – drums
  7:51pm
asheville jon:

Howdy Flash!
And everyone else
  🥁 7:52pm
tom tom the pipers son:

is this a different set starting here?
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:52
same piece, it just morphs into this weird blues with 2 then 4 then 8 overdubbed trumpet parts
  🥁 7:53pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @7:53
ah ok
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Flash Strap @7:51
I got time for them.
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Flash Strap:

"Davis's trumpet and McLaughlin's guitar parts were heavily overdubbed for the recording. The overdubbing effect was created by superimposing part of Davis's trumpet solo onto other parts of it, through something Teo Macero calls a "recording loop". Macero later said of this production technique, "You hear the two parts and it's only two parts, but the two parts become four and they become eight parts. This was done over in the editing room and it just adds something to the music [...] I called [Davis] in and I said, 'Come in, I think we've got something you'll like. We'll try it on and if you like it you've got it.' He came in and flipped out. He said it was one of the greatest things he ever heard". DeJohnette's drums were also manipulated by Macero, who used an automatic switcher to have them rattle back and forth between the left and right speakers on the recording"
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Jeff Golick:

Go ahead, Flash!
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Flash Strap:

(scratchiest whisper imaginable): sock it to me Jeff!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Flash Strap @7:54
Something of the LeePerry of the situation, might we say ?
  7:57pm
little david:

↳ Flash Strap @7:51
wow flash i only know that name Dave Holland from seeing his picture in the google search. he's on a great norman blake LP with his name in the title and picture on the jacket. norman blake is a favorite! thanks for the cool connection
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...was just reading Eddie Kramer on Engineering for Hendrix (& others)...
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Flash Strap:

↳ little david @7:57
Dave Holland is a legend! he's on Bitches Brew and Silent Way too. i saw him once at the Boston Conservatory before i knew anything about anything and he was amazing
  7:58pm
arlo:

this on is adding a lot to an already special day
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Flash Strap:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:56
let's say it!
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Jeff Golick:

Holland still going, too. Just played Big Ears.
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Flash Strap:

↳ arlo @7:58
Arlo! i love to contribute to a good man's good day!

By the way all, Arlo's filling in for me here next week, stay tuned
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Jeff Golick:

"Davis: "Stop resolving it, Dave, stop resolving it. Just let it hang now -- like that. Play it -- with Jack. Jack, connect it. Here we go, here we go... Hey Dave... Dave -- start bop-BOW! Bop-mm-bop..."
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Jeff Golick:

↳ Jeff Golick @7:59
from the invaluable www.plosin.com...
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Flash Strap:

↳ Jeff Golick @8:00
hell yes, oh my god i did not know this resource existed
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Flash Strap:

"stop resolving it"
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Jeff Golick:

↳ Flash Strap @8:01
sorry/yr welcome
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Jeff Golick:

↳ Jeff Golick @8:02
That site breaks down all of the takes that went into constructing "Go Ahead John" and looking at it makes my head hurt.
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Flash Strap:

↳ Jeff Golick @8:03
it's blowing my mind
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neveract:

↳ Jeff Golick @8:00
Thanks for sharing!!
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Flash Strap:

yeah thanks Jeff!
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neveract:

Forgot to say.. today is Thad Jones birthday..
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coelacanth∅:

Ahoy
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Flash Strap:

ahoy hoy Coelacanth!
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neveract:

↳ coelacanth∅ @8:05
Shiver me timbres! 😜
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Jeff Golick:

↳ Flash Strap @8:04
Yeah tho all thanks to Peter Losin, who created and maintains that Miles site.
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Flash Strap:

↳ Jeff Golick @8:06
indeed!
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Alex from Media:

↳ Song: "Go Ahead John" by "Miles Davis"
This is a very big moment here. I am understanding and enjoying Miles Davis. Never happened before. This is the KEY that unlocks the mystery as to why all you DJs dig it so much. I just GOT IT! Thank you Flash!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ neveract @8:06
aye, matie
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Flash Strap:

↳ Alex from Media @8:07
god i love to hear that - I too feel that i've been having that moment of finally really understanding Miles, a total epiphany after years of listening. to share it and share in it is divine & i'm honored to play my part
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Alex from Media @8:07
somehow, being witness to this makes me very happy!
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Jeff Golick:

↳ coelacanth∅ @8:09
Same! It's about the most beautiful thing I've read in a while!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Alex from Media:

↳ coelacanth∅ @8:05
Yo coelacanth∅! Witness my salvation . Hallelujah!
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Flash Strap:

one of you wonderful listeners recommended this to me a few shows back - i'd not actually heard the expanded "sessions" before - whoever you are i thank you and pay tribute to you now
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pot8o:

↳ Song: "Guinnevere" by "Miles Davis"
EXCELLENT track! the Herbie Mann version is really good too
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Flash Strap:

i thought there's no way a cover of Crosby is a highlight but i was dead wrong
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Flash Strap:

↳ pot8o @8:11
after really digging this a few times i went back and listened to the Mann version and it was like i'd never heard it before. it's amazing!
  8:15pm
Carmichael:

Heya Flash and music appreciationists. Just in from record hunting.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Doug Schulkind:

Hello, Bitches.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Miles was Meta. He stepped into Dizzy Gillespie's shoes with Bird - but he couldn't be (Bop) that. He was out ahed then of being Cool - a Stylist playing just what's right - & in just the right way. & - he pioneered with Arrangers getting whole Bands to approach those textures with 'Birth of the Cool'. When he went Electric - he outraged so many by what they saw as leaving all that Taste & Sophistication behind. But really it was the same thing in whole new areas - caring more about Sonics & Expression - & bringing out New Players not yet exposed. & he is known for his cryptic but Meta Insights & instructions to Players to get the Most out of them. 'Play like you don't now how to play' - maybe. Who knows ! Taking the subtle understandings of the Tasteful Stylists into other Dimensions, maybe could be said...
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Flash Strap:

Hey Carm! any good finds?
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Flash Strap:

Doug! My man
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Flash Strap:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:16
well put
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Jeff Golick:

↳ Flash Strap @8:11
There is a story concerning Crosby's reaction upon hearing the Miles version -- you have heard this, Flash?
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Flash Strap:

↳ Jeff Golick @8:18
no PLEASE enlighten me
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Jeff Golick:

Lemme see if I can find a good link to it...
  8:20pm
arlo:

i hadn't put that together (that it's tha croz)... sooo nice. also: "king teo at the controls" made my day. & doug!
  8:21pm
Carmichael:

I got some oddball stuff. Music for belly dancing, Bootsy Collins, 10cc, a Redd Foxx “party” album … But the big find was Stan Kenton live at Redlands University. Spent $10 on the whole purchase.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Jeff Golick:

↳ Jeff Golick @8:20
www.reddit.com...
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Flash Strap:

↳ Jeff Golick @8:21
haha what a boob
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Flash Strap:

↳ Carmichael @8:21
nice, i think i have that Kenton album i'll have to check
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
pot8o:

↳ Flash Strap @8:12
i found Memphis Two-Steo at a flea market in this really small town called Brownsville in Nebraska, this lady in a tent had a huge stack and she was only asking for a dollar a record

got that, a blue note 2xlp comp of 50s jazz, some Quincy Jones, couple other goodies

we talked about the old blues musicians for a while, at least until someone else tried coming into the tiny tent and there was only room for the two of us
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Flash Strap:

↳ pot8o @8:24
those are the moments, when you hit a rich vein in a generous tent
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Flash Strap:

hope everyone's saving some energy for the last selection of the set, a 40-minute tape of a shit-hot concert in Rio
  8:26pm
little david:

↳ Flash Strap @8:26
perfect timing!
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Flash Strap:

Airto with that chattering cuica / berimbau, so weird and good
  8:27pm
arlo:

ha! @jeff/flash... at least i didn't write it... (or even really know the song)
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Jeff Golick @8:21
Ha. That's great. What a meeting of two temperaments. That Miles should be the conciliatory one says much of Crosby's capacity to be opinionated...
There's also the story of the younger Crosby being high & seeing the Coltrane Quartet Live & being just pinned to the wall by it. So he goes to the restroom ...& Trane comes in - still playing @ max intensity - giving Dave no relief...
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Alex from Media:

↳ Song: "Guinnevere" by "Miles Davis"
Always nice to test a hypothesis. By playing this after Go Ahead John I could examine whether I actually get it or just liked the tune. I get it.
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Flash Strap:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:28
amazing, what a trip
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Flash Strap:

↳ Alex from Media @8:29
hell yes
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Flash Strap:

grab this whole tape and a lot more like it here: theheatwarps.com...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ pot8o @8:24
Way kewl.
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Funk / Turnaroundphrase / For Dave" by "Miles Davis"
"The curtain lifts with the clattering of a wah’d drum machine and some organ clusters from Miles before Michael Henderson drops in with the force of an atom bomb. Having inexplicably leveled up since our last tape, Henderson goes in hard to start the show and is overdriven to the edge of feedback throughout – dig how he lays out a few minutes in and lets his bass howl on one note for a good 60 seconds. Already, the way in which every member of the octet is in lockstep here compared to the previous month’s chaotic Keystone Korner tape is remarkable. Much of that is due to the guitarists having taken on distinct roles: Gaumont layering waves of feedback between flights of Hendrix-inspired indulgence, Pete Cosey supplying gobs of heavily modulated riffs and occasional theatrics, and Reggie Lucas stepping out from behind the steady throb of the wah to solo at will. Even Liebman seems to have enmeshed himself into the tapestry, weaving in horn lines as he pleases rather than simply taking his turn in the spotlight and laying back.

The transition into “Turnaroundphrase” is remarkable; Miles drops a whiff of the melody, Henderson begins layering the bass riff overtop and the band falls in line as if by crossfade. This set feels like a single organism – just an unbroken explosion of sound loosely based around the skeletal structure of familiar riffs. A subdued organ + percussion intro to “For Dave” is our first cooldown of the set and it’s executed beautifully, setting a moody backdrop for a superb soprano solo from Liebman as Cosey heightens the intensity with a few well-timed jabs on electric 12-string. Some great interplay between Cosey and Miles (on organ) ratchets up the intensity until a monster turn from Gaumont brings it to a peak and Miles surveys the plateau with a remarkable wah’d horn solo – listen for that squeaky pedal as things turn quiet.

Miles brings the tune to a close with a series of ultra-precise stop/starts, each emerging more gargantuan than the next until a heavy percussion duel between Cosey and Mtume puts it to rest.

As essential as it gets."
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Compare ~ contrast to SunRa - who reportedly didn't like Gittarz...
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northguineahills:

haven't heard this recording
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Flash Strap:

hey NGH! then you're in the right place
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Jeff Golick @8:21
i had to go to a different computer to click that link...but i *had* to!
yeah, what Flash said -"what a boob"!
the story told below, involving Graham Nash is probably the accurate one...and yes probably Cros was just not in the right headspace, and must've had different expectations. (although, if he had other expectations, clearly wasn't very familiar with Miles!)
...so...What a boob!
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Bri The Beatnik:

I need more jazz records in my collection, especially ones like this!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:36
hey Bri! i support this kind of resolution
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pot8o:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:33
only caveat was that the Mann and blue note lps skip a bit, but i have a cheap turntable and they don't look like they're scratched, i just think they need some cleaning and tlc
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ Flash Strap @8:37
Thanks! :)
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Flash Strap:

↳ coelacanth∅ @8:36
from CSNY tour tales, it really seems like Crosby was basically totally deranged & disassociative at that time
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

It's actually disappointing - cause the other side of Crosby is supposedly he was the one who brought Coltrane & Ravi Shankar to the BYrdS (& George Harrison for that matter) - & supposedly had the broader views...
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Flash Strap:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:37
there are 3 official records of this period, all live: Agartha, Pangaea, and my fave Dark Magus. also worth recc'ing is Get Up With It which hass different vibes but similar lineups (and is amazing)
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ pot8o @8:37
- one dollar, right ? :D
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ Flash Strap @8:40
Nice!
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:39
yeah it's kind of incongruous ...but then, it's Cros
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Jeff Golick:

↳ Song: "Funk / Turnaroundphrase / For Dave" by "Miles Davis"
Thanks for this one, Flash! Did not have!
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pot8o:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:41
yep, spent about maybe 5-10 dollars on the entire haul
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Flash Strap:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:39
he also used to run with Les Baxter in his balladeer days, interesting guy. pretty funny story involving him and Dylan's "Locusts Sang" too: en.wikipedia.org...
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Bri The Beatnik:

Have to go eat dinner now, may be back later
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coelacanth∅:

(Miles was just as incongruous, after all! -a double-edged sword.)
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Flash Strap:

↳ Jeff Golick @8:42
def check out the Sao Paulo concerts set over there too if you haven't already, it's mindblowingly good
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coelacanth∅:

ciao, Bri, chow!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ coelacanth∅ @8:42
...to flog the horse a little further another direction - Miles helped the ByrdS get signed to Columbia :
www.nashvillescene.com...
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Flash Strap:

↳ coelacanth∅ @8:43
yeah the list of things Miles acted like he didn't get or thought weren't good is long and confounding
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:44
ah, can't click that now, but shall later
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Flash Strap:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:43
safe feasting
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northguineahills:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:36
Bri!
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Aitch:

↳ Song: "Funk / Turnaroundphrase / For Dave" by "Miles Davis"
a lot going on here
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Flash Strap:

↳ Aitch @8:46
the maximum amount it seems
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...by '74 there was Metal & Prawg in the world...
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Flash Strap:

face entirely melted, all the skin peeled around to the back of my head. just a grinning skull with big ears now
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...wonder if even the Political vibes in Brazil had some relevance here ...like they hit Os Mutantes & all with great prejudice. No idea where that was @ in '74...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...just being in Brazil probly enuff...
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Flash Strap:

Liebman's work with this group is so consistently amazing, you can just feel that he's doing the best work of his life, you can hear him surprising himself, it's so gratifying
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Flash Strap:

↳ Flash Strap @8:55
that goes for the whole group but sax is so expressive like that
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...or if '74 was about when the Grateful Dead were tasked with following this somehow. Or if late for that...
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Alex from Media:

↳ Flash Strap @8:55
There's a flow thing that I've heard musicians talk about. Like the music isnt coming from them but they're just a vessel through which it flows.
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ northguineahills @8:45
Hey! I’m back!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Alex from Media @8:58
as much as anything, that seems to be the method & purpose of this group
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Flash Strap:

welcome back Bri
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ Flash Strap @8:59
Thanks!
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Flash Strap:

wow you can really hear Miles' wah pedal here
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Alex from Media @8:58
Absolutely the best thing. You're creating - & listening - & all of it just Happening to you as a Collective - all @ the same time. Like you aren't willing any of it. Simply nothing better.
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:58
that was very fast. what was dinner, a plum and 2 walnuts?!
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ coelacanth∅ @9:02
Manicotti, Green beans and Garlic bread
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Alex from Media:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @9:03
Paisana!
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Bri The Beatnik @9:03
mmm, i haven't eaten manicotti in a few years!
i will change that statistic, soon.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Just had a fry up ! Eggs, tasty veggie sausage & cheese. Really hit the spot. Breakfast @ night.
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Aitch:

↳ Song: "Funk / Turnaroundphrase / For Dave" by "Miles Davis"
Yowza
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ coelacanth∅ @9:05
It’s soo good!
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headcleaner:

↳ Song: "Funk / Turnaroundphrase / For Dave" by "Miles Davis"
Very nice to step into the room to, this
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Bri The Beatnik:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:05
Yummy!
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Flash Strap:

hey hey headcleaner!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Aitch @9:05
i must agree
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Funk / Turnaroundphrase / For Dave" by "Miles Davis"
...this is ALL ONE PIECE...
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Flash Strap:

some of the coolest stop/start stuff i've heard - a big part of how Miles conducted this group was orchestrating stops and starts and isolating players by hand gestures - and this section is a really nice example of that if i recall
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Is said - Electric Miles was its own Genre. Then hear some more recent stuff by people & think - maybe not after all ! ...Then you listen to Miles & Co. again & think ...yeah it was...
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Flash Strap:

no i'm wrong, i spaced out, it already happened. this is just a Mtume solo
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coelacanth∅:

(Cosey on tambourine i assume)
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Flash Strap @9:08
It comes off as ...we've played so intensely so long - now we're just gonna toy with y'all & the whole thing...
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asheville jon:

Glad i have headphones on right now :)
  9:18pm
Dean:

The Aerial series is so fun. All hand-splicing of tape with a razor, yes?
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Alex from Media:

↳ Song: "Underway"
I have to disagree about the drum panning on Go ahead John. I thought it stepped on the music.
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pot8o:

↳ Song: "Sythesism" by "Barry Vercoe"
8 bucks on discogs? definitely gonna snatch this
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Flash Strap:

↳ Dean @9:18
hey Dean! is that right? only just acquainting myself with Dockstader generally
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pot8o:

there's a piece on this lp called "Monologues By A Mass Murderer" which may or not be an interesting listen
  9:22pm
Dean:

If not all, at least much of it. Yeah, old fashioned technology.
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Flash Strap:

↳ Alex from Media @9:18
check out the complete Jack Johnson sessions to hear the sections unedited, very cool stuff. but the disruption&editing is the point of & reason for the piece - any less would be letting the music step on the work!
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Flash Strap:

↳ pot8o @9:22
yeah it's really good, about the Chicago worlds fair killer
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Dean:

Just goes to show you how my memory wanders. Evidently, Aerial was an early effort of Dockstader's with a computer and digital editing! But he had formerly done a lot of work with tape, some of which might be the musical substance he further treats digitally.
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Flash Strap:

↳ Dean @9:25
yeah his early stuff is super analog i know that, drawing on his earlier work scoring & doing sound for cartoons. but the Aerial stuff i know very little about
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headcleaner:

↳ Song: "Schisme" by "Pierre Henry"
Splendid
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Flash Strap:

these last 3 tracks i've been getting into recently thanks to Ubu Web's Wolf Fifth archive: ubu.com...
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Flash Strap:

an incredible treasure trove of avant garde LPs
  9:33pm
Dean:

That tenor sounded like Tom Buckner.
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headcleaner:

↳ Song: "Ballade En Sax Mineur" by "Ariel Kalma"
Yes
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Little Danny:

absolutely gorgeous
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Flash Strap:

by the way don't forget to sign up, if you haven't already, for our daily email of the Drummer Stream schedule, special events, etc. (and know that we don't share your email with anyone else, ever): buttondown.email...
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Sri Moonshine Transcontinental Blues" by "Terry R...
totally new to me, this one. really into it
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Jeff Golick:

What a great set.
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Flash Strap:

thanks Jeff!
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spodiodi:

i agree. thank you, Flash
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Flash Strap:

hey Spodi! pleasure's all mine, thanks for tuning in
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Alex from Media:

Thanks for the inspirational show tonight, Flash. I've either been liberated or groomed.
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little david:

↳ Alex from Media @9:52
or dubbed!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Alex from Media @9:52
my pleasure Alex! Liberated & Roomed
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little david:

thanks for another amzing Thursday Flash!
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tom tom the pipers son:

thanks evan...
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pot8o:

thanks flash strap! have a great week everyone!
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Flash Strap:

I'll be off next week, with Arlo filling in, so tune in for that treat!

Cool Blue Flame is up next: wfmu.org...
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Little Danny:

thank you evan!!!
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asheville jon:

Thanks Evan!
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Manta:

thanks, Flash!
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Jeff Golick:

Thanks for the great explorations!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ FS ~
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coelacanth∅:

hoping your week away is pleasurable
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arlo:

xo
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Flash Strap:

thanks all! see ya week after next & miss ya while i'm gone
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Scott_Oz:

Thanks always Evan!
🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺
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chresti:

Thanks Flash!
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Passaic River Blues:

↳ Song: "All We Need is Love" by "Alton Ellis"
Jesus. Alton Ellis, everything single time, man. A rich emotiveness like nobody else.
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Passaic River Blues:

↳ Song: "Tropical Forest – Number Six Chops Down the Tree"
OH GOD, BIG FUN DEEP DIVE?! FUCK YES!
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