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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 9, 2024: Show #400: “Hollowing caves of bass with mallets of wool they played, leaving the treble shriek to gel in a slit in the moon they played.”

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
Yusef Lateef  Taboo   Favoriting Other Sounds  New Jazz  1959    0:01:13 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Les Baxter  Bird of Paradise   Favoriting The Primitive and the Passionate  Reprise Records  1961    0:10:31 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Pucho & The Latin Soul Brothers  Swamp People   Favoriting Big Stick  Prestige  1968    0:13:06 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Nino Nardini  Mango Girl   Favoriting Jazz, Dramatic  Southern Library Of Recorded Music  1968    0:15:36 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez  Afro Temple   Favoriting Afro Temple  Grammofonverket  1973    0:18:33 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Dick Hyman / Mary Mayo  Maid of the Moon   Favoriting Moon Gas  MGM Records  1963    0:25:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Owen Marshall  Ancient Astronauts   Favoriting Captain Puff in the Naked Truth  Aditi  1975    0:27:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Edmony Krater et Zepiss  Ritme A La Vi   Favoriting Tijan Pou Velo  Heavenly Sweetness  2016  bonus track, orig. 1988  0:30:45 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Tropical Forest – Number Six Chops Down the Tree  
 
 
 
 
0:34:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Faust  Lieber Herr Deutschland   Favoriting 71 Minutes of...  ReR Megacorp  1988  rec. 1971 as their first demo to Polydor  0:47:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Faust  Meadow Meal   Favoriting Faust  Polydor  1971    0:51:48 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Faust  No Harm   Favoriting So Far  Polydor  1972    0:59:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Faust  It's a Bit of a Pain   Favoriting So Far / It's a Bit of a Pain 7"  Polydor  1972    1:10:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Faust  So Far   Favoriting So Far  Polydor  1972    1:13:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Tony Conrad with Faust  From the Side of the Machine   Favoriting Outside the Dream Syndicate  Caroline Records  1973    1:19:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Faust  Faust Tapes (Side 1, excerpt)   Favoriting Faust Tapes  Virgin  1973    1:45:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Faust  Jennifer   Favoriting Faust IV  Virgin  1973    1:54:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Faust  Läuft...Heisst Das Es Läuft Oder Es Kommt Bald...Läuft   Favoriting Faust IV  Virgin  1973    2:01:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Faust  Miss Fortune (brief closing excerpt)   Favoriting Faust  Polydor  1971    2:08:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Ooze All Over The World, Doctor  
 
 
 
 
2:10:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Big Youth  Wolf in Sheeps Clothing   Favoriting Natty Cultural Dread  Trojan  1976    2:20:01 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Glen Brown and King Tubby  World Dub: Away With The Bad   Favoriting Termination Dub (1973-79)  Blood & Fire  1996    2:22:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Tapper Zukie  Judgement Dub   Favoriting Tapper Zukie in Dub  Stars  1976    2:25:49 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Aggrovators  African Sounds   Favoriting African People / African Sounds 7"  Zion Rock  1975    2:29:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Family Man & The Rebel Arms  Dub Combination   Favoriting Family Man Skank / Dub Combination 7"  Cobra  1981    2:32:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Devon Russell  Race Track Riot   Favoriting Race Track Riot / Rat and Bat 7"  Globe International  1974    2:35:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Junior Brown, Vivian Jackson  I Must Achieve What Is Mine (Version)   Favoriting I Must Achieve What Is Mine 7"  Vivian Jackson (Yabby You)  1977    2:38:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
King Tubby  No Idiot Dub   Favoriting Fatman Presents: Unleashed Dub From King Tubby's Studio Vol. 1  Fat Man  1991  possibly Prince Jammy  2:42:34 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Burning Spear  Reggaelation   Favoriting Garvey's Ghost  Island  1976    2:46:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Big Youth  Wolf in Sheep Clothing (Version 1)   Favoriting Natty Universal Dread 1973-1979  Blood & Fire  2000    2:49:37 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Bells of My Soul  
 
 
 
 
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Listener comments!

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Flash Strap:

Hello Explorers!
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Scott_Oz:

G'day Evan & Exotica!
🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺
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Flash Strap:

Hey Scott!
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WR:

Hi Flash & Explorers
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Flash Strap:

Hey WR!
  7:02pm
listener James from Westwood:

Evening, Flash and all!
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Flash Strap:

Hey hey James!
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chresti:

Hi Flash and explorers!
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Flash Strap:

Chresti!
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northguineahills:

the bridget riley painting (top left) is a moire eel!
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Aitch:

Greetings to the gathered
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Flash Strap:

Hey NGH! no kidding, it's pretty intense
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Flash Strap:

Aitch! greetings
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Manta:

hello all! congrats on the 400th show, Flash!
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

Hey Manta! thanks
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Flash Strap:

400 is a lotta shows, looking back at it all
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Doug Schulkind:

And here's to 4000 more!
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northguineahills:

400 flashes now seem like a flicker....
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Flash Strap:

Hey Doug! 400 shows is just baby stuff to you I bet ~ you're the inspiration
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Aitch:

Just went actual exploring, looked at a potential new chez Aitch.
Advertised as a nice little cottage, appeared it used to be a meth-lab.
Avatar 7:08pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Aitch @7:06
Bless this meth
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Taboo" by "Yusef Lateef"
what a lordly rendition of Taboo, I cherish this one. only listen to it when i'm an extra good boy
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

wilbur harden on flugelhorn here
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tom tom the pipers son:

good morning flash and people...
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Flash Strap:

Tom Tom!
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Doug Schulkind:

Ernie Farrow, Alice Coltrane's half-brother on bass there with Yusef.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10
sorry good evening, just woke up, have covid
  7:11pm
Kat in the chat:

Suddenly this dreary spreadsheet seems so much more… exotic
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Flash Strap:

↳ Doug Schulkind @7:11
did not know that, very interesting
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:11
oh no Tom Tom please take care of yourself! hope you feel better soon
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Flash Strap:

Hey Kat!
  7:12pm
Kat in the chat:

Happy 400th Flash!
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chresti:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:11
Spreadsheet exotica!
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Flash Strap:

Thanks Kat!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Swamp People" by "Pucho & The Latin Soul Brothers"
William Fischer arranged the strings on this album but i'm not sure you hear him on this track, not much in the way of strings. killer LP tho
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:14pm
chresti:

Oh yeah happy 400!
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Flash Strap:

thanks Chresti!
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Alex from Media:

Hi all, spreading my sheet on playa exotica for some musical sunshine.
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Flash Strap:

400 a ripe number
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chresti:

400 Thursdays..
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Flash Strap:

Hey there Alex!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @7:12
thx... beautiful portrait of bridget riley on national portrait gallery instagram, although called op art, i find her paintings to be very physical if any thing they remind me of bruce nauman's work ion. terms of impact, not just her early paintings but later as well i feel she's a great artist
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:17pm
Little Danny:

hell yeah on 400, evan, wow!!
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Flash Strap:

Hey LD!
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tom tom the pipers son:

bridget riley

www.instagram.com...
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:17
the Bridget Riley piece is the front (or back, depending on the release) of the masterpiece The Faust Tapes, which we'll get into next set
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:17
i agree, she stands out from the Op art she's grouped in with for those reasons, always liked her best
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @7:21
ah...shows her avant sensibility letting faust use image... theirs as well
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Afro Temple" by "Sabu Martinez"
astounding record from the great Sabu during his time in Sweden. I once did a whole show about Sabu's many works while in Sweden, the follow up to show about Sabu & Art Blakey, etc.:wfmu.org...
Avatar 7:27pm
Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:24
i think it was really just something thrown together by Virgin records during the bizarre proceedings around that album's release, but it ends up being a wonderful connection
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Maid of the Moon" by "Dick Hyman / Mary Mayo"
sounding a lot like early Ferrante & Teicher here
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @7:27
oh...
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northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Ritme A La Vi" by "Edmony Krater et Zepiss"
new to me and digdug!
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tom tom the pipers son:

congrats on #400 evan...!
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northguineahills:

↳ chresti @7:12
spreadsheet erotica for CPAs!
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pot8o:

hi everyone! happy 400th!
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coelacanth∅:

Greetings Evan, Explorers
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Aitch:

was in the first lot of Fausts last week as part of my Explorers Room inspired kraut-holing, so some homework done for once
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flannery:

hello! happy 400th!
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flannery:

i wish hashish made me useful
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Aitch:

↳ flannery @7:44
it's what god smokes
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Will thee SG OCNY:

Hi Evan and all!!!
Congratulations on 400!!!
Diggin the tunes and the Faust talk
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Flash Strap:

Hey Coelacanth! Pot8o! Flannery! Will!
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chresti:

Hi Will thee!
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Flash Strap:

↳ flannery @7:44
never had much luck with hash but its noble cousins make me very useful, i have to brag
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Lieber Herr Deutschland" by "Faust"
incredible to think Polydor heard this and immediately plowed tons of resources into these guys, Uwe Nettlebeck must have been an incredible salesman
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

i mean it's an astonishing demo, essentially a perfect manifesto
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:51pm
StringOFperils:

Its hypnotic powers made Polydor sign the papers.
  7:52pm
Dutch___☆___:

Proletariat, vollautomat. Nicht mehr denken nur noch absenken.
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Flash Strap:

Hey SoP! Dutch!
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spodiodi:

aloha, Flash and Explorers
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Lieber Herr Deutschland" by "Faust"
was revolution #9 an inspiration or even a precedent for a pitch to polydor.... as for as inspiration, were they coming from someplace else other than rev 9
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Meadow Meal" by "Faust"
here we have one of the most beautiful, perfect things Faust ever recorded
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Flash Strap:

hey Spodi!
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:53
i think it had to be part of it. they were also obsessed with Zappa and a lot of this stuff has precedent in the Mothers tape stuff too. Nettlebeck name checks Beach Boys in the liner notes for the 1st record, and they were deep in their studio-as-instrument stuff as well
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Flash Strap:

though its worth pointing out, during this time they forbade themselves from listening to any other records
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Meadow Meal" by "Faust"
famous cover art: clear sleeve with just an x-ray of a hand making a fist, clear vinyl. mind blowingly weird in '71 - John Peel bought it just for the art and subsequently became a big supporter
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @7:55
beach boys... wouldn't have guessed... i was ridiculed by 'friends' often for having a beach boys obsession
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Flash Strap:

there's that classic Irmler organ sound - a big big part of the Faust sound generally would be incorporating snippets of him on organ or doodling on piano
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:58
those friends were foolish on that issue
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Flash Strap:

i'm also obsessed with the Boys
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flannery:

damn sounding like pink floyd
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @8:00
some people don't understand music internally, conceptually in terms of space, form, interval...etc
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flannery:

er last one
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Flash Strap:

↳ flannery @8:03
there is a very Pink section in this, yeah. Atom Heart Mother-esque. then it turns into THIS
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Flash Strap:

"In the performative theory of truth, saying that something
is true amounts to nothing more than banging the table for emphasis while talking. In No Harm, Faust reverse the idea and allow a kind of meaning to emerge from just such a banging, insistent action. Just as you can turn any phrase into nonsense by repeating it to yourself often enough, it turns out that you can turn nonsense into sense if you insist on it having a meaning and repeat it insistently enough - though it emerges only half-way,
as a kind of intuited, pre-conceptual ‘sense’. The louder the lyric is barked, the more its absurd command is transformed into a categorical imperative, as if there were nothing more natural than the idea of taking a banana ‘because’ tomorrow is Sunday.
At a push this is related to the techniques Buddhists use to ‘point out the true nature of mind’. The Zen master clouts his student’s head to wrench him out of regular habits of thought, allowing him for an instant to see into the nature of things beyond verbal categories. Alternatively, the student might be set an insoluble puzzle, a koan, where the aim is to confront the student’s ideas directly and consistently with recalcitrant reality until those ideas evaporate in a flash of insight. In some schools of Sufism alchemy was used like this - as an impossible praxis whose aim is not the wealth of the profane world but a new- found richness of vision.
In No Harm, the more Jean-Hervé shouts, the more you feel clouted. The intention is not to bludgeon you senseless into a pre-conceptual, hippy community with the cosmos, but to open a chink in the armour of habitual perception through which you might get a glimpse of something new."
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:06pm
flannery:

neat. from a review?
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Flash Strap:

from "Stretch Out Time," a book about Faust that I had to read in order to develop any sense of the timeline of the group. Pretty good at times - by Andy Wilson
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "It's a Bit of a Pain" by "Faust"
This track famously closes Faust IV, but it was recorded in Wümme & first released as the b-side to a short version of the track So Far
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Flash Strap:

one of my favorite tracks ever i have to say
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passiflora:

welcome
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chresti:

↳ Song: "It's a Bit of a Pain" by "Faust"
this is reminding me of VU a little
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Flash Strap:

hey passiflora! great to see ya!
  8:13pm
Carmichael:

Heya Flash and Faust!
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passiflora:

you too — thank you!
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tom tom the pipers son:

jean herve shouts i think to break through his own armor of habitual perception, the audience, an after thought relatively speaking
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Flash Strap:

↳ chresti @8:12
VERY reminiscent of "I heard her call my name" in particular
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Flash Strap:

Hey Carm!
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:14
quite possibly the more accurate reading
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Flash Strap:

why was this the a-side of Faust's only single? who knows, but it's killer krautrock. the rhythm is gorgeous, those horn stabs... perfect architecture to smear all over with sounds from the "black boxes"
  8:18pm
asheville jon:

Happy 400 Flash!
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Alex from Media:

↳ Flash Strap @8:08
I'm extremely wary of such long winded explanations of art. If the work does not in and of itself communicate this then it fails. I get none of this from the listening thus far. So the author seems to be merely putting his own thoughts on paper while he listened to the music and the commentary is reduced to a subjective manifesto and not an objective truth.
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Flash Strap:

next up we have Tony Conrad with Faust, the 2nd side of the LP, and it really is worth listening specifically for the ways Faust starts to reclaim territory throughout it, as opposed to the very strict, more orthodox Dream Syndicate-esque first side
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Flash Strap:

hey Jon!
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Wendy del Formaggio:

Hello and happy anniversary, Flash! I just tuned in, and it's nice to hear this Faust + Tony Conrad track coming into my ears.
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chresti:

↳ Flash Strap @8:17
Kind of a bayou krautrock vibe
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StringOFperils:

That last track also reminded me of John Fogerty's endless vamp on Suzie-Q...which is funny cuz they're so far from that San Fran pseudo swamp music
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Flash Strap:

↳ Alex from Media @8:18
haha well ok man. i don't cosign the entirety of it or a lot of what Andy writes but i thought it was an interesting, passionate read of the work
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Flash Strap:

hey Wendy!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ chresti @8:21
hah...!
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chresti:

↳ StringOFperils @8:21
Coke!
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Flash Strap:

↳ StringOFperils @8:21
i hear that completely
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:24pm
StringOFperils:

↳ chresti @8:23
In green bottles. Maybe I can make good on it someday
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northguineahills:

↳ StringOFperils @8:21
can i bayou a vowel?
  8:24pm
Carmichael:

@chresti, the German immigrants in Marin are digging it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:25pm
thepalaceat4am:

I've never heard a La Monte Young piece that comes close to the utter transcendence of Outside the Dream Syndicate.
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Flash Strap:

the drums are just wildly outside of what Tony would have had them do, but it was their studio and he was overwhelmed by the scene and all the smoke anyway: "somebody must have been burning a pot field around where they were working, because there was so, so much pot smoke in the air. It was incredible."
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Flash Strap:

hey palace!
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thepalaceat4am:

Hi Flash and everyone!
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Alex from Media:

Congratulations by the way. 400 shows is a lot of music and a distillation from an even more impressive catalogue of music. What have not heard is as important a part of the 400 as what we have heard.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:27pm
thepalaceat4am:

30 years ago I was just getting back to Detroit from seeing Faust's US debut in Atlanta. Tony was there too.
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Flash Strap:

↳ thepalaceat4am @8:27
incredible! which version of Faust, do you know?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:28pm
StringOFperils:

↳ northguineahills @8:24
I suspect vowel play.
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Flash Strap:

↳ Alex from Media @8:26
thanks amigo
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thepalaceat4am:

↳ Flash Strap @8:28
Jean-Herve, Zappi, and Steven Wray Lobdell. It was a MESS! A literal construction site.
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Flash Strap:

the impact of this recording, which took place during the So Far sessions, can be heard (imo) in lots of subsequent Faust tracks. Many years later they reconvened with Tony to play it live which was released as an album as well
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Flash Strap:

↳ thepalaceat4am @8:29
very very very cool
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Wild stuff
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Flash Strap:

↳ thepalaceat4am @8:29
a friend of mine went to see them in Prague but they refused to play after the club refused to let them bring in a bunch of bags of leaves and blow them around with a leaf blower
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:32pm
StringOFperils:

This one has enhanced artifact value
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Flash Strap:

↳ Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever) @8:31
hey hey Kenzo!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:33pm
thepalaceat4am:

↳ Flash Strap @8:32
LOL. The last time I saw 'em they basically played the best neighborhood bar in Detroit. So great!
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Flash Strap:

LaMonte Young didn't really let any Dream Syndicate stuff get released at the time, or for years after, so this was an important document in that way as well, one of the only ways to hear the method on reord
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:34pm
thepalaceat4am:

When Table of the Elements issues Outside the Dream Syndicate with 30 extra minutes of material ... and that 30 extra minutes was just more of the side one plod ... I felt ripped off! I have since come around, however.
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Flash Strap:

↳ thepalaceat4am @8:34
i do like the added short tracks a lot but yeah
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thepalaceat4am:

↳ Flash Strap @8:35
I love it now. And those short tracks are so visionary too.
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thepalaceat4am:

↳ thepalaceat4am @8:36
Thanks for playing this long one!
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Flash Strap:

i think the extended long track also dispenses with Tony's violin overdubs, which diminishes the impact in a lot of ways (the overdubbed violins get really wide and enveloping, without it can feel thinner for sure), but it's also cool to hear it more or less as played live
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Flash Strap:

↳ thepalaceat4am @8:37
my pleasure, hell you can't just excerpt it
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Flash Strap:

↳ Flash Strap @8:39
*if i recall correctly, haven't listened to that one in a while
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tom tom the pipers son:

in a bit of an absurd way this reminds me of the intro to california girls
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:41
hahaha wow i love that, love it
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:41
i have played that intro on repeat
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:42
best part of the song
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @8:42
yes by far, incomparable really
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Flash Strap:

↳ Flash Strap @8:42
i remember being a kid and hearing that intro in a still-basically-empty football stadium at like 5am and just being swept up into Olympus
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passiflora:

:D
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @8:44
i believe it was what van dyke parks heard that convinced him to work with brian wilson
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @8:44
what an experience!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Faust Tapes (Side 1, excerpt)" by "Faust"
VERY important to remember this sold in the UK for 48p and was in every shop, an absolutely bizarre phenomenon. for my money an almost inconceivable masterpiece
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:46
i was just gobsmacked: what IS this? hanging there for an eternity in that short intro... and then it was California Girls, of course I knew that song! an early lesson in hearing / listening
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @8:48
right...wow....
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Flash Strap:

a lot of similarities with parts of SMiLE here, in my opinion. the workshop section, the hellish Cow piece
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Franco Twinkie:

Howdy Flash. I was asleep with this on in the next room....

...scary dreams!
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flannery:

this is great. i consider myself a "big fan" and this is all really blowing my mind
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Flash Strap:

↳ flannery @8:52
i think you can listen to Faust Tapes hundreds of times and still not know it... it changes itself while you're out of the room
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @8:52
u huh
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Flash Strap:

Hey Franco!
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Alex from Media:

↳ Song: "Jennifer" by "Faust"
Interesting to step out of the instrumentals and into this.
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Jennifer" by "Faust"
Faust IV was dismissed at the time as making too many concessions to a pop sensibility, something that's a little harder to really see now, though there is some reason for it of course... it's still a pretty uncompromising collection of brutally stitched-together fragments & heavy durational stuff. Jennifer isn't necessarily my #1 track from IV but it exemplifies a synthesis of all the aspects of IV, in a way
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Kat in the chat:

Belated Faust appreciation post. I am done with the spreadsheets and well into dinner.
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Flash Strap:

also worth noting, this album opens with the very long incredible JAM that gave "krautrock" its very name
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Flash Strap:

↳ Kat in the chat @8:59
very happy to know you're free from the 'sheet, Kat
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Läuft...Heisst Das Es Läuft Oder Es Kommt Bald......
aka "Psalter" into "Run"
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chresti:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:41
my ex listened/collected the Beach Boys
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Flash Strap:

the clapping here is simply sublime, a rare feat
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Läuft...Heisst Das Es Läuft Oder Es Kommt Bald......
a little like pentangle
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:03
well there is a psalter on it
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ chresti @9:02
my obsession with them has been absorbed i don't listen to them on a regular basis any more....hope it wasn't a breaking up point for you
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @9:05
ha!
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ flannery @8:52
Are you really stoned right now?
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Flash Strap:

god i still listen to Smile about a hundred times a year to be honest
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Flash Strap:

Irmler once again sitting down at the keys and opening up a dialogue with god
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Flash Strap @9:06
oh wow...did you listen to the mt. vernon track from last week
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:08
ah shit i forgot thanks for the reminder
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flannery:

all killer no filler
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chresti:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:05
nah he listened to a lot of stuff. what annoyed me was some of the records he'd been gifted by his boss (who had worked on the grammys)
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tom tom the pipers son:

oh, you weren't jealous, were you? doesn't sound like you....
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chresti:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:18
nah
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chresti:

enjoying immensely
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ chresti @9:18
ah... here come your jams
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chresti:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:20
you know it!
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Alex from Media:

I was wondering what direction the show would go after Faust.
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zzz:

↳ Song: "Wolf in Sheeps Clothing" by "Big Youth"
beastie boys sample alert 🚨
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zzz:

hey @flash and folks! ✌️
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chresti:

↳ Alex from Media @9:21
the clue is at the top of the playlist
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Flash Strap:

anything that has ruthless tape experiments & crazy effects makes a happy bedfellow with dub music
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StringOFperils:

All roads lead to DUB
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Flash Strap:

hey zzz!
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zzz:

↳ Song: "World Dub: Away With The Bad" by "Glen Brown and ...
damn this is THICK and DEEP
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Alex from Media:

↳ chresti @9:22
D'oh!
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Flash Strap:

↳ zzz @9:24
seriously
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Flash Strap:

really good use of vocal snippets: ".... nothing IMPOSSIBLE"
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Flash Strap:

i love Mr. Zukie
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "African Sounds" by "The Aggrovators"
Tubbys dub on the b-side of Johnny Clarke's African People
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JtotheK:

Greetings Flash, hi Explorers! Enjoying the programme, as always!
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Flash Strap:

hey JtotheK!
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JtotheK:

Item! We've discussed the Tangerine Dream soundtrack to 'Sorcerer' on this chat before, and finally - it's on a steaming service! I checked it out and - recommended!
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Flash Strap:

↳ JtotheK @9:33
not a huge Mann head myself but that's gotta be one of his best by any metric, love the proud working class mentality Caan brings to it
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zzz:

↳ Song: "Dub Combination" by "Family Man & The Rebel Arms"
what gives those family
man tracks such a unique sound??! is there a drum machine?
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Flash Strap:

↳ zzz @9:36
def a drum machine on a bunch of his, including that one. Lee Perry uses a drum machine pretty often too (ie the Congos) but they each get pretty different sounds from it i think
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Aitch:

Spoiling us today Evan
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Race Track Riot" by "Devon Russell"
Devon on a classic Yabby You riddim
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zzz:

↳ Song: "Race Track Riot" by "Devon Russell"
been teasing us with yabby, that aggrovators/african sound can a taste of it too
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Flash Strap:

↳ Aitch @9:37
you deserve it
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Flash Strap:

↳ zzz @9:37
here's a little more direct taste of Yabby at the controls
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Ignore Function:

Big Up Flash Strap!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "No Idiot Dub" by "King Tubby"
on the Can't Conquer Natty Dreadlocks riddim (aka Conquer Me) - at least i think
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Flash Strap:

Hey hey IF!
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Flash Strap:

pretty sure this is Jammy not Tubby but I can't substantiate that
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zzz:

↳ Flash Strap @9:44
has that feel also scientist-ish
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Flash Strap:

↳ Song: "Reggaelation" by "Burning Spear"
dub of Resting Place / Shady Tree - dubbed by L. Lindo aka Jack Ruby
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Flash Strap:

↳ zzz @9:46
yeah
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "Reggaelation" by "Burning Spear"
my first exposure to dub, and one of my first reggae albums. still possibly my favorite "dub" album. (certainly the best *true* dub album, in my opinion)
...i had never heard of dub when someone played this for me. i was very stoned and just laughed through most of it!
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flannery:

im cleaning in the other room so here to say thanks, reaaaallly enjoyed the faust set & dub sets as always. goodnight flash!
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Flash Strap:

thanks for hanging out Flannery!
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Little David:

Glorious show Flash, thanks!
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Flash Strap:

Hey David! my pleasure
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JtotheK:

↳ Flash Strap @9:35
this sounds like 'Thief' - but Sorcerer is the one with Roy Scheider driving a truck of explosives, Friedkin dir.
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Little Danny:

the best selectory here as always evan
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zzz:

↳ coelacanth∅ @9:48
hah love that
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Flash Strap:

↳ JtotheK @9:51
hahaha whoopsie you're absolutely right and it's funny i'd make that mistake because i'm a Sorcerer obsessive! just distracted i guess
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spodiodi:

thanks, Flash!
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Alex from Media:

Much appreciated show tonight. Productive exploration.
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Flash Strap:

↳ JtotheK @9:51
love friedkin to death & Sorcerer is a masterpiece. really glad you saw it!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ JtotheK @9:51
i think a remake of a french film by clouzot
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StringOFperils:

Nicely done, Evan! Thanks!
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Little Danny:

inviting everyone to join me on the cool blue flame in a few! wfmu.org... be there!!!
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tom tom the pipers son:

thanks evan...always rewarding three hrs
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coelacanth∅:

↳ spodiodi @9:52
spodi your avatar reminds me of the night we all became aliens!
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Scott_Oz:

Thanks Evan! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
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chresti:

↳ coelacanth∅ @9:55
it is! I knew it!
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JtotheK:

↳ Flash Strap @9:53
me too! i then watched 'Deal of the Century' (the Friedkin movie with Chevy Chase) and it was ... something. I have 'Jade' to watch as well.
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Amygdala:

Lovin' this set!

Burning Spear on tour this summer. Hoping to catch him in Canandaugua, NY @ Lincoln Hill...
www.reggaeville.com...

Not sure, but's he apt to retire one of these days soon.
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chresti:

from Stork's playlist page?
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Aitch:

Great stuff, thanks for show!
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Franco Twinkie:

Thanks Flash. Truly mind altering.
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chresti:

Thanks Flash!
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coelacanth∅:

↳ chresti @9:57
that's right! i was trying to remember when that happened
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Flash Strap:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:53
yeah Wages of Fear is even better, both masterworks
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Flash Strap:

↳ JtotheK @9:57
Jade is so bad but it is fun
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Psychic Tuesday Paul:

Who is Bells of my Soul by?
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chresti:

↳ coelacanth∅ @9:58
WR and me too!
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Flash Strap:

Thanks all! best of nights to ya!
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coelacanth∅:

↳ chresti @9:57
wfmu.org...
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coelacanth∅:

↳ chresti @10:00
and Sem
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan!
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Flash Strap:

↳ Psychic Tuesday Paul @10:00
hey paul - i made it for bed music, you can find it on my 2023 premium tho
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