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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 September 29, 2016: Earth is Hell, Apocalypse is Now: Revelations, Revolution, and Disorder in a Funky Eschatology

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro          
Ohio Players  Is Anybody Gonna Be Saved?   Favoriting Skin Tight  1974    0:01:12 (Pop-up)
Eugene McDaniels  The Lord is Back   Favoriting Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse  1971    0:05:51 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Research Arkestra  It's After The End Of The World   Favoriting It's After The End Of The World - Live At The Donaueschingen And Berlin Festivals  1970    0:09:04 (Pop-up)
Rev. W. Leo Daniels  What in Hell Do You Want (Sermon)   Favoriting What in Hell Do You Want  1975    0:11:23 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic  Wars of Armageddon   Favoriting Maggot Brain  1971    0:15:39 (Pop-up)
Phillip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble  Armageddon   Favoriting Armageddon  1968    0:24:42 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Madhouse 
Last Apocalypse   Favoriting
Serve 'Em 
1972 
 
0:31:20 (Pop-up)
Fugi  Revelations   Favoriting Mary, Don't Take Me On No Bad Trip  1997 / 1970  with Black Merda  0:41:48 (Pop-up)
Curtis Mayfield  (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go   Favoriting Curtis  1970    0:46:48 (Pop-up)
Black Haze Express  Pretty Soon   Favoriting Won't Nobody Listen / Pretty Soon 7"  1971    0:54:14 (Pop-up)
Watts Prophets  The Meek Ain't Gonna   Favoriting Things Gonna Get Greater: Watts Prophets 1969-1971  1969-71    0:57:07 (Pop-up)
Boscoe  Writin' On The Wall   Favoriting Boscoe  1973    0:57:26 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic  America Eats Its Young   Favoriting America Eats Its Young  1972    1:05:05 (Pop-up)
4th Coming  Come to the Feast   Favoriting Strange Things: 1970-1974  1970-1974    1:10:30 (Pop-up)
4th Coming  The Dead Don't Die Alive   Favoriting Strange Things: 1970-1974  1970-1974    1:12:50 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Alice Coltrane 
Battle at Armageddon   Favoriting
Universal Consciousness 
1972 
 
1:16:15 (Pop-up)
Lincoln Chase  Fish Specie   Favoriting Lincoln Chase 'n You  1973    1:23:44 (Pop-up)
Kain  Look Out For The Blue Guerilla   Favoriting The Blue Guerilla  1970    1:30:36 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra  Somebody Else's World   Favoriting My Brother the Wind, Vol. II  1969    1:37:28 (Pop-up)
Jason Guy & Contemporary Jazz Society  A Jive Eschatology   Favoriting Jason Roars: The Works Of Famous Black Poets  1971  written by Larry Neal  1:41:26 (Pop-up)
The Last Poets  This Is Madness Chant   Favoriting This Is Madness  1971    1:45:23 (Pop-up)
The Last Poets  This Is Madness   Favoriting This Is Madness  1971    1:46:02 (Pop-up)
Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson  Winter in America   Favoriting Midnight Band - The First Minute Of A New Day  1975    1:51:06 (Pop-up)
Amiri Baraka  Who Will Survive America?   Favoriting It's Nation Time - African Visionary Music  1972    1:58:07 (Pop-up)
Fugi  Red Moon   Favoriting Mary, Don't Take Me On No Bad Trip  1971    2:00:04 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Archie Shepp 
Things Have Got To Change   Favoriting
Things Have Got To Change 
1971 
 
2:05:48 (Pop-up)
Father's Children  Kohoutek   Favoriting Who's Gonna Save the World?  1973    2:14:12 (Pop-up)
Black Merda  Prophet   Favoriting Black Merda  1970    2:18:32 (Pop-up)
Boscoe  We Ain't Free   Favoriting Boscoe  1973    2:21:22 (Pop-up)
Watts Prophets  Kill   Favoriting Things Gonna Get Greater: Watts Prophets 1969-1971      2:30:00 (Pop-up)
Leon Thomas  Shape Your Mind To Die   Favoriting Blues and the Soulful Truth  1972    2:31:18 (Pop-up)
Horace Andy  Earth Must Be Hell   Favoriting The Kingston Rock  1974  also released under the title, "Earth Must Be Hell"  2:36:28 (Pop-up)
Bohannon  Save Their Souls   Favoriting Stop & Go  1973    2:39:48 (Pop-up)
Black Merda  Set Me Free   Favoriting Black Merda  1970    2:44:27 (Pop-up)
Rev. W. Leo Daniels  What in Hell Do You Want (Sermon)   Favoriting What in Hell Do You Want  1975    2:44:56 (Pop-up)
Bama  Nothingness   Favoriting Ghettoes of the Mind  1972    2:47:22 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Pacific Ocean  
 
 
 
2:49:20 (Pop-up)
The Sun Ra Arkestra  Angels And Demons At Play   Favoriting Angels And Demons At Play  1967    2:54:41 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 7:00pm
Mayuko:

Good evening!!!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm
listener james from westwood:

How do, Mayuko, Flash, and all!
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Evening Mayuko! Wonderful to see you

And Listener James! Are you ready for the end days?
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

I like to start the show with the big questions
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:07pm
listener james from westwood:

If tonight's the rapture, at least I haven't paid my rent just yet!
  7:07pm
Ed:

Flash!!! Great to be here.
Avatar 7:08pm
Flash Strap:

Great to see you here, Ed!
Avatar 7:08pm
geezerette:

If the end times sound like this I'm ready.
Avatar 7:08pm
Mayuko:

I'm not familiar with biblical concepts, but as far as I can tell from this show the Apocalypse is a fun thing.
  7:09pm
Churrorod:

yo i just found your thing the other day looking for a archie shepp download, and wanted to tell you this shit is dope. I'm finding a lot of cool stuff
Avatar 7:11pm
Flash Strap:

Geezerette! Churrorod!
Avatar 7:13pm
Mayuko:

@james rent, and also I can get away from deadlines (imagining the same for you too as a freelancer.)
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

Rev. Leo is about to really hook up the main idea here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:14pm
listener james from westwood:

Mayuko, to quote Bart Simpson, "Everyone knows the best bands work for Satan anyway."
And yes, I'd likely ease up on finishing the proofreading I'm working on right now and switch to alcohol!
Avatar 7:14pm
geezerette:

Mayuko I think all the fun people get left behind while less playful types are raptured "up" to heaven. So everyone should be happy!
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

"I was already in Hell"
Avatar 7:16pm
geezerette:

...and dance!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:18pm
listener james from westwood:

Rapture >>>>> rupture.
Avatar 7:20pm
geezerette:

...you say toe-may-toe...
Avatar 7:20pm
Mayuko:

@geezerette I hope my clients have been behaving themselves and are the ones of those get ruptured up there. Assuming I'll have to get left behind.
Avatar 7:21pm
Flash Strap:

God Funkadelic + Eddie Hazel is just THE BESST
Avatar 7:22pm
geezerette:

@Mayuko, I'm not going anywhere either! :)
Avatar 7:28pm
geezerette:

Evan, we should know by election night if the party's on or off,right? Brilliant theme man.
Avatar 7:30pm
Flash Strap:

I have to admit the debate really spurred me to finally complete this show idea which I've been toying with for a few months. Thanks, G
Avatar 7:34pm
geezerette:

Have to admit, I've thought of "On The Beach" more than once lately.
Avatar 7:43pm
Flash Strap:

"On The Beach" is one I don't have, which torments me
Avatar 7:44pm
Flash Strap:

Unless we're talking about Neil Young
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

I love the Black Merda sound
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:47pm
listener james from westwood:

Ooh, was hoping we'd be hearing from Curtis.
Avatar 7:49pm
Flash Strap:

I mean, it's sort of an obvious choice, but the sort of obvious where I'd be an asshole if I DIDN'T play it

it's so god damn god damn good
Avatar ♥ 7:50pm
northguineahills:

amen, yeah!
Avatar 7:51pm
geezerette:

SO good!!! :D
Avatar 7:51pm
Flash Strap:

NGH in the hell house!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:56pm
listener james from westwood:

No excuse needed for that track! Play it in the middle of any show, for all of me!
Avatar 8:01pm
Flash Strap:

Anybody heard this Boscoe LP? Whole thing is so heavy
Avatar 8:12pm
Flash Strap:

Some INSANE synth on this
Avatar 8:12pm
geezerette:

New to me but it's great.
I really love this 70s black empowerment/prophet category. Strong stufff.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:15pm
coelacanth:

Hola Flash and Funk Explorers
Avatar 8:15pm
Flash Strap:

Hola C! Saw a HUGE one of your brothers last week at the DC Nat. History museum
Avatar 8:15pm
just julia:

whoah whoah whoah... this whole show has been a doozy, but this song just HIT ME. thank you for these sounds!
Avatar 8:16pm
geezerette:

Howdy coel!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:16pm
coelacanth:

wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:16pm
coelacanth:

(excuse me. thought i was a guitar for a second)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:19pm
coelacanth:

hey there g!

Evan, bigness is in the genes, though not in my family.
Avatar 8:25pm
Flash Strap:

Just Julia! Happy to have hit you!
Avatar ♥ 8:25pm
hyde:

whooooo, just a cameo for me tonite. just got home after working all day and then driving three hours. Fried!

this sounds good, tho. will mine archive later for the whole thing. enjoy your night my friends!
Avatar 8:26pm
Flash Strap:

This is just such a great, weird example of a world-gone-wrong, earth-is-hell-itself theme
Avatar 8:27pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Hyde! Rest well my brother
Avatar ♥ 8:29pm
northguineahills:

Go Fish!
Avatar 8:30pm
Flash Strap:

"recognize yourself there, big fella? FELLOW HUMAAAAN"
Avatar 8:30pm
geezerette:

Evening Hyde!
Avatar 8:32pm
Flash Strap:

This guy was one of the original Last Poets, fyi
Avatar 8:35pm
Flash Strap:

great cover art: img.discogs.com...
Avatar ♥ 8:36pm
northguineahills:

ah, love the Last Poets.
Avatar 8:37pm
Flash Strap:

then this set may please you, NGH
  8:41pm
Churrorod:

Thank God for Sun Ra
Avatar 8:42pm
Flash Strap:

With all due respect to Little Danny, who played this on his show just a couple weeks ago and without whom I'd never have heard it. I just had to play it tonight!
Avatar 8:43pm
Flash Strap:

Thank Ra for Sun God
Avatar 8:44pm
Flash Strap:

Kain was hitting Kipling pretty hard, now Jason Guy is coming for the rest of the imperialists
Avatar 8:45pm
geezerette:

It's so sad that the crazy things we're living through;the deterioration of environment and problems caused by over population,were being written about, spoken about, nearly half a century ago and "we"let them happen anyway. Just context for this music...
Carter had solar panels on White House Roof,Reagan took them down.

Evan you're playing extraordinary things tonight!
Avatar 8:48pm
geezerette:

The Last Poets were shamans for real.
Clear vision.
Avatar 8:49pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks, G. I feel the same way, the music of this period is a portal to a future we decided not to pursue, to the detriment of all, particularly the precarious among us
Avatar 8:50pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Lonnie Holley would work in here.
Outstandings.
Avatar 8:51pm
Flash Strap:

Hey Rev Rab! Love Lonnie Holley
Avatar 8:51pm
geezerette:

The anger we're hearing is "righteous" anger.
Avatar 8:58pm
Flash Strap:

It's pretty well-founded; if it's at times problematic from a certain perspective, that's usually irrelevant to the broader message and its context. I mean, the relatively mild Black Lives Matter is somehow a controversial movement in this country NOW. All the anger of the 70's seems pretty righteous in the face of this nation's persistent dragging of its feet on the way to an emancipatory future.
Avatar ♥ 9:02pm
northguineahills:

@geezerette, all of the topics you mentioned were talked about 150 years ago (minus Carter's solar panels), nothing changes, or if it does, it does at a glacial pace, and then we slip back before 'progress' of sort is made.
Avatar 9:04pm
Flash Strap:

That's why I like connecting this music to themes in 16-17th c. Flemish painting!
Avatar 9:04pm
geezerette:

@NGH: Absolutely true.
Avatar ♥ 9:08pm
northguineahills:

I'm not getting the Flemish slide show, daggnabbit!
Avatar 9:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The Founding Fathers were Slavers. It's foundational in the U.S. I'm afraid.
To address the national Crisis in Racial Injustice - it will have to be made a National Priority just as Civil Rights had to become in the 1960s. Seems to me.
Avatar 9:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Me either ngh.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:10pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Flash! Wonderful - and insightful - to hear the Jason Guy in the context of yer show
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:11pm
coelacanth:

flemish slide show? i thought it was just a still illustration i was missing.
Avatar 9:11pm
geezerette:

Vanitas. I'm a fan!

NGH & RevRab, not seeing it either! Thought it was just my laptop!
Avatar 9:15pm
Flash Strap:

what it is
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

Don't worry all, it is a still image of a print made after Bosch
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

Thank YOU Danny
  9:16pm
Churrorod:

I thought it was saying wu-tang for a long time
Avatar 9:17pm
Flash Strap:

as a sidenote, one of the big publishers of Boschian and Bruegelian prints was named Hieronymus Cock
Avatar 9:18pm
Flash Strap:

i love that, as a name
Avatar 9:18pm
geezerette:

hahaha, :)
Avatar 9:27pm
Flash Strap:

Boscoe's bassist has ideas, man
Avatar 9:29pm
geezerette:

New to me, dig him!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:33pm
Uncle Michael:

Look at all the great fucking music I missed.
Avatar 9:34pm
Flash Strap:

Uncle! Hello my friend!
Avatar 9:38pm
Flash Strap:

Horace Andy has a VOICE

he has the sort of voice that is usually explained by antique microphone technology
Avatar 9:40pm
just julia:

an angel voice! it truly moves me.
Avatar 9:41pm
Flash Strap:

man, this has to be the best Bohannon LP
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:41pm
coelacanth:

this is gorgeous
Avatar 9:41pm
Flash Strap:

just like an angel, exactly
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 9:42pm
quinn:

durn i missed some good stuff
Avatar 9:43pm
Flash Strap:

howdy quinn! don't durn too hard, there's always archives
Avatar 9:43pm
geezerette:

agree, gorgeous!
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 9:44pm
quinn:

durning so hard
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:45pm
Alex In Illinois:

So the small circle with a horizontal bar, like a green "Do not enter-wrong way" sign is some sort of Flemmish art?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:46pm
JtotheK:

good evening everyone. playlist looks terrific, looking forward to checking out what i missed via the archives...
Avatar 9:46pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Alex! You got it

Hi J2K!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:47pm
Uncle Michael:

Evan, do you know that your playlist image is only visible to people logged into Google?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:49pm
Alex In Illinois:

So I have to use that Google Chrome which runs absurdly slow on Windows 10?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:49pm
Uncle Michael:

No, you can use any browser but it's a broken image if you're not logged into a google account.
Avatar 9:49pm
Mayuko:

Finally finished some work and time for dinner. Thank you for helping me stay productive with the music, Evan! Good night all!
Avatar 9:51pm
geezerette:

G'night Mayuko!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:52pm
Alex In Illinois:

But I am logged in to my Google account. I just now checked my Google+ messages in another tab.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:53pm
JtotheK:

Agreed Flash Strap - that Bohannon 'Stop and Go' LP is terrific.
Avatar 9:53pm
geezerette:

Incredible show Evan!
  9:53pm
Dean:

I'm on a frigging Chromebook and the image is that icon that looks like an aspirin. Say what?! I just tuned in and it's over?! Dammit.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:54pm
Uncle Michael:

Yes, no asperin for me till I logged into Google.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:55pm
Uncle Michael:

Thanks Evan. I'm going to have to go to the archives for this one.
Avatar 9:55pm
Flash Strap:

@UM: that sucks and is also weird
Avatar 9:55pm
Flash Strap:

about the image i mean
Avatar ♥ 9:55pm
northguineahills:

Thanks Flash!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:56pm
Alex In Illinois:

Yes, an aspirin, or a Do Not Enter Icon, or the top of a screw head. Maybe others can come with other ideas about what it looks like.
  9:57pm
Dean:

Oh, so image = aspirin. Google-authorized aspirin. The world is odd.
Avatar ♥ 9:57pm
northguineahills:

Faved episode!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:57pm
coelacanth:

- a goat eyeball.
Avatar 9:57pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks all for listening!! I loved doing this one, happy if you liked hearing it
Avatar ♥ 9:58pm
northguineahills:

UM, I'm logged into google w/ this browser, and I still can't see it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:58pm
Little Danny:

Astoundingly great ep, Evan
  9:58pm
Dean:

One man's aspirin is another's screw head.

To a man with an aspirin everything looks like a hangover.

To a man with a screw head everything looks like...er, I dunno.
Avatar 9:58pm
geezerette:

click-starred!!! :D
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:59pm
Little Danny:

Party next door: wfmu.org... The world is invited!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:01pm
coelacanth:

Thanks Evan!
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