Favoriting Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from September 17, 2015 Favoriting

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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 17, 2015: MGANGA!: Tak Shindo and Other Primitive Sounds from Basic Hip Digital Oddio

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Artist Track Album Year Comments
  Intro        
Tak Shindo  Mganga   Favoriting Mganga! The Primitive Sounds of Tak Shindo  1958   
Tak Shindo  Mombasa Love Song   Favoriting Mganga! The Primitive Sounds of Tak Shindo     

Music behind DJ:
Tak Shindo 
Safari to Kenya   Favoriting
Mganga! The Primitive Sounds of Tak Shindo 
 
 
Tak Shindo  Watusi Drum Dance   Favoriting Mganga! The Primitive Sounds of Tak Shindo     
Tak Shindo  Bantu Spear Dance   Favoriting Mganga! The Primitive Sounds of Tak Shindo     
Tak Shindo  Huts of Kichwamba   Favoriting Mganga! The Primitive Sounds of Tak Shindo     
Tak Shindo  Bali Ha'I   Favoriting Brass and Bamboo  1959   
Tak Shindo  Moon Over the Ruined Castle   Favoriting The Yellow Unicorn  1960   
Martin Denny  Buddhist Bells   Favoriting Primitiva  1958  With Tak Shindo on koto 
Tak Shindo  Jingle Jangle Jingle   Favoriting Far East Goes Western  1962   
Tak Shindo  Tumbling Tumbleweeds   Favoriting Far East Goes Western     
Warren Barker  Deep Night   Favoriting Hawaiian Eye  1960   

Music behind DJ:
Tak Shindo 
 
 
 
 
Warren Barker  Hawaiian Eye   Favoriting Hawaiian Eye     
Warren Barker  Rumba Rhapsody   Favoriting Hawaiian Eye     
Warren Barker  Javanese Valley   Favoriting William Holden Presents: A Musical Touch of Far Away Places  1959   
Warren Barker  Lotus Land   Favoriting William Holden Presents: A Musical Touch of Far Away Places     
Don Ralke  Saoco   Favoriting The Savage and the Sensuous Bongos  1960   
Don Ralke  Black Panther   Favoriting The Savage and the Sensuous Bongos     
Don Ralke  Face Beside the Fire   Favoriting The Savage and the Sensuous Bongos     
Johnny Richards  Ochun (Goddess Afrodita Yoruba)   Favoriting The Rites of Diablo  1958   
Johnny Richards  Ofo (Dance of the Lost)   Favoriting The Rites of Diablo     
101 Strings Orchestra  Whiplash   Favoriting The Exotic Sounds of Love  1970   

Music behind DJ:
101 Strings Orchestra 
Exotic Love   Favoriting
The Exotic Sounds of Love 
 
 
Rex Kona and His Mandarins  Bird Train   Favoriting Wild Orchids  1964   
John Evans  Quiet Village   Favoriting Exotic Percussion and Brilliant Brass  1961  Featuring Chaino! 
Clyde Borly & His Percussions  Taboo   Favoriting Music In 5 Dimensions  1965   
Clyde Borly & His Percussions  Afromania   Favoriting Music In 5 Dimensions     
Clyde Borly & His Percussions  Caminho De Pedra   Favoriting Music In 5 Dimensions     
John Evans  Return to Paradise   Favoriting Exotic Percussion and Brilliant Brass    Featuring Chaino! 
Marty Wilson  Jungle Fantasy   Favoriting Jun'gala  1959   
The Three Suns  Jungle Drums   Favoriting Movin' 'N' Groovin'  1962   
Carl Stevens  Call of the Jungle   Favoriting African Sounds  1962   
Fred Lowery  Pagan Love Song   Favoriting Walking Along Kicking the Leaves  1957   

Music behind DJ:
Fang-Teng Lee 
 
Sound of Magic Saw 
 
 
Pete Drake  Blue Guitar   Favoriting Talking Steel Guitar  1965   
The Voices Of Walter Schumann  Sentimental Journey   Favoriting Though Not a Word was Spoken     
Hash Brown & His Ignunt Strings  Overseas Operator   Favoriting The Hash Brown Sounds  1962   
Brother Bones  How Am I To Know?   Favoriting "Bones on the Beat"  1958  aka Freeman Davis 
Brother Bones  Poor Butterfly   Favoriting "Bones on the Beat"     
Brother Bones  Sweet Georgia Brown   Favoriting "Bones on the Beat"     
Billy Goldenberg  Murder by Book   Favoriting Columbo - Season One (1968 - 1972)     
Richard Hayman  Melody No. 2   Favoriting Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine  1969   
Pete Drake  I'm Sorry   Favoriting Talking Steel Guitar     

Music behind DJ:
Les Baxter 
Deep Night   Favoriting
Caribbean Moonlight 
 
 


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:56pm
Gary:

Looking forward to this -- tho I will have to bow out at around 8:00
Avatar 6:58pm
Flash Strap:

Well I'll just play junk starting at 8:01, to play my best material would be meaningless without your ears receiving. Great show last night!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm
listener james from westwood:

A hearty Mganga! to Evan and all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm
Gary:

Thanks, man! I hope you'll explain who Tak Shindo is (was), as I hadn't heard of him / her until last night
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Hello James the Listener
  7:02pm
Dean:

Today's theme isn't a "death by mganga" joke, is it?
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

If it were, I don't think I would get it. Is this a hoary old trope that I've missed out on?
Avatar 7:05pm
ndbob:

evening Evan and everyone!
  7:06pm
Dean:

Yes: http://www.jokes4us.com/dirtyjokes/bungajoke.html
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:07pm
listener james from westwood:

My mom was a great fan of Martin Denny and Les Baxter back in the day, so when she first heard Shindo, she went on a tear through the record stores of Manhattan trying to find his records. For whatever reason it was damn near impossible to find his stuff, at least where she was looking.
Avatar ♥ 7:08pm
Carmichael:

Hey there, Flash. Howdy, Explorers.
Avatar ♥ 7:08pm
hyde:

yay, tak shindo! i still haven't listened to mganga since you hipped me to that download, so it's good to hear. all i really have besides this new one is brass and bamboo.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:12pm
Doug Schulkind:

Happy Tak!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:14pm
Doug Schulkind:

Call me crazy, but I see a certain similarity with this album cover: i1039.photobucket.com...
Avatar ♥ 7:14pm
hyde:

dionysus records has been around for a long time. i remember buying records of theirs in the 80's. mostly garage rock stuff then, i still have a cynics 45, i think.
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

Hehe Dean I have heard that one
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:16pm
Doug Schulkind:

Ohmigodilovethisrecordsomuch!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:16pm
listener james from westwood:

@Doug: LOL @ the cover comparison.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:17pm
Doug Schulkind:

Hello Listener J@mes!
Avatar 7:17pm
Flash Strap:

Howdy carmichael! Hyde! Doug with the eagle eye!
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

That's right, Hyde... I think I have some garage stiff from them as well. Forgot about those
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:19pm
melinda:

Hi all!
Avatar 7:21pm
Flash Strap:

Hi there Melinda!
Avatar 7:22pm
Flash Strap:

this is sort of the best Bali Hai, I think
Avatar 7:24pm
Flash Strap:

I like this version a lot, but my favorite will always be Arthur Lyman's from Bwana'A
Avatar 7:26pm
Flash Strap:

Here I said I wouldn't play Martin Denny. Then I just go ahead and do it right away. Dammit. Shindo on koto here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:35pm
listener james from westwood:

An entirely understandable urge.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:36pm
melinda:

Sounding good tonight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:44pm
coelacanth:

buenas noches Flash & Explorers.
Avatar 7:46pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks Melinda

Hola, coela
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:48pm
coelacanth:

that background while you spoke was a cover,essentially, of "haru no umi" - a song Mayumi and probably many other japanese people are very sick of! (though i'd bet Tak Shindo called it something else)
Avatar 7:49pm
Flash Strap:

What William Holden was ever doing presenting a record like this, I don't know
Avatar 7:51pm
Flash Strap:

That's interesting C. He did call it something else but I'd have to check which one it was
Avatar 7:51pm
ndbob:

I always wondered bout that Evan
Avatar 7:54pm
Flash Strap:

He's making such a scampish face too. He looks like a total heel on that cover: assets.rootsvinylguide.com...
Avatar ♥ 7:56pm
hyde:

William Holden starred in The World of Suzie Wong in 1960 about an American who moves to Hong Kong. I wonder if that had something to do with it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:56pm
Doug Schulkind:

@hyde
How could something so Wong, be so white?
Avatar 7:56pm
Flash Strap:

Huh, I bet so. That's the sort of thing that happened. Mitchum's calypso album has a similar story
Avatar 7:57pm
Flash Strap:

oh haa ha ha! Douglas you slay me
Avatar 7:57pm
ndbob:

excellent show Evan - catch the rest on hte archive as usual
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:58pm
coelacanth:

Flash...maybe it'd be more accurate to say that Shindo track is quite different than the Miyagi song, but still enough the same that it's a bit beyond "derivative"!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:00pm
coelacanth:

Doug's here to bring the punishment!
Avatar 8:01pm
Flash Strap:

I wonder if he's incorporating a western theme into it, changing it 'round, gettin' all syncretic
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

talk about album art, by the way. This one's a doozy: lpcoverlover.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:03pm
Gary:

Thanks for the awesome Shindoduction! Off to see friends in the neighborhood
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:04pm
coelacanth:

the Art of making voodoo look sexy.
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

Have great friends, Gary! smell ya later
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:08pm
Uncle Michael:

Greetings, radio pals.
Avatar 8:09pm
Flash Strap:

This is the guy who arranged Kenton's Cuban Fire, by the way
Avatar 8:09pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Uncle!
Avatar 8:12pm
Flash Strap:

orgasm alert, in case you're playing this for 1st grade night classes
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:13pm
melinda:

haha
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:13pm
Uncle Michael:

I didn't know about this when I did my semi-recent orgasm set!
Avatar 8:14pm
Flash Strap:

man, there are lots more orgasms on this record in case you ever do another one. I'll send it to you if you remind me
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:15pm
Uncle Michael:

I pretty much exhausted the oeuvre, or so I thought.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:18pm
Uncle Michael:

The title song from Suzy Wong by Tommy Edwards is sublime.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:19pm
coelacanth:

Flash,that was hyde who brought that info!
Avatar ♥ 8:21pm
hyde:

haha, it could so easily have been coelacanth too, though
Avatar ♥ 8:23pm
hyde:

whoa, this is some uptempo exotica
Avatar 8:23pm
Flash Strap:

Sorry guys!
Avatar 8:24pm
Flash Strap:

This one really reminds me of the jarring artificiality of Magne's tropical Fantasy
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:25pm
melinda:

There was something in that last one that sounded like an oncoming train.
Avatar 8:26pm
Flash Strap:

definitely! the old jungle train trope!
Avatar 8:27pm
Flash Strap:

Damn, these birds! So eery!
Avatar 8:28pm
Flash Strap:

such a great Quiet Village, my god
Avatar 8:30pm
Flash Strap:

I am really excited by this record, I'd never heard it until very recently and it's just such exquisite exotica. instant new favorite
Avatar 8:34pm
Flash Strap:

is that thumb piano AND tabla?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:34pm
coelacanth:

this whole set is pretty sweet
Avatar 8:36pm
Flash Strap:

hope I can keep it that way. I'm really enjoying it myself, obviously
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:42pm
listener james from westwood:

This Wilson cut is a fun one. Enjoying this set as well!!
Avatar 8:42pm
Flash Strap:

talk about a jungle train
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:47pm
coelacanth:

i missed most of the Tak Shindo. i'll come back for that; but right now,this set rules!
Avatar ♥ 8:48pm
hyde:

oooh, this is a *killer* three suns tune.
Avatar 8:48pm
Flash Strap:

thanks, C. !
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:51pm
melinda:

What is this instrument?
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

Fred's just whistlin', Melinda!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:54pm
coelacanth:

this whole time i've been trying to do some funky treatment,using gimp, to that party picture over there (<). it's not working so well because the texture is such that the bucket-fill only fills a few pixels at a time.
there really are other things i should be doing!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:54pm
melinda:

Far out!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:59pm
melinda:

Oh yeah, I know Indian Love Call. It is theremin-like, indeed.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:00pm
Doug Schulkind:

This program is like mmmm ganja, for the ears!
Avatar ♥ 9:00pm
hyde:

some day this show will really only be two hours, and i'll be so disappointed
Avatar 9:03pm
Flash Strap:

God forbid I ever have a show following me, I'd be so crippled by the hard deadline.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:04pm
coelacanth:

that happened once,hyde- on a day that i squirmed in at 8:50. sad indeed.
Avatar 9:05pm
Flash Strap:

You guys are the reason I always tell myself it's ok to go long. you make me feel like it's preferred
Avatar ♥ 9:06pm
hyde:

it is!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
melinda:

I like it when shows go overtime.
Avatar 9:07pm
Flash Strap:

thanks friends
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07pm
coelacanth:

as the days get shorter i can check in earlier and earlier; it's still a treat when you go long!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07pm
melinda:

Especially when it involves someone named Hash Brown.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:08pm
Doug Schulkind:

Guess who has himself a nice stereo copy of Mganga, Flashy! (Thanks, Dude!)
  9:08pm
ape status:

Oh glorious day! This first time I've managed to listen to the Explorers Room live!!! Love you Flash Strap!
Avatar 9:09pm
Flash Strap:

Oh, my pleasure Doug. So happy to share. That Baxter probably aint to shabby either, but I haven't heard it yet. Lord knows I need to upgrade that one
Avatar 9:09pm
Flash Strap:

love you too ape stat! so glad you caught me!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:10pm
Doug Schulkind:

Yep, thrilled to have the Baxter, too. Wee!
Avatar 9:10pm
Flash Strap:

This Brother Bones is probably not new to a lot of you, but it is to me, and I'm wholly enamoured
Avatar 9:12pm
Flash Strap:

and TALK about an album cover: cdn.discogs.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:14pm
coelacanth:

Ha! that cover's Great!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:14pm
Doug Schulkind:

My radio is spinning a basketball on its pinkie!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:15pm
melinda:

I saw the Harlem Globetrotters in the early 80s. They were a big deal then.
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

haha I'll never forget seeing them. blew my 2nd grade mind
Avatar ♥ 9:17pm
hyde:

@melinda ha, i saw them about then too. sadly, i had my money on the washington generals.
Avatar 9:17pm
Flash Strap:

Happy birthday Peter Falk
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:18pm
listener james from westwood:

Didn't see them live, but I remember being jazzed when they appeared on the TV show "The White Shadow."
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:18pm
coelacanth:

when the globetrotters were on was one of the fairly rare events that the whole family got together for tv.
Avatar ♥ 9:18pm
hyde:

Peter Falk is the greatest
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:19pm
listener james from westwood:

I always have time for typewriters used as musical instruments.
Avatar ♥ 9:20pm
hyde:

Murder by the Book is a great Columbo ep too. Directed by Steven Spielberg! (also, cinematography by the great Russell Metty)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:20pm
coelacanth:

Peter Falk will Live forever.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:21pm
Minnesota Jeff:

Good evening!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:21pm
melinda:

I remember The White Shadow, it had good theme music.
Avatar 9:21pm
ape_status:

Is it even possible to have a character drive a car that messed up on TV these days? Columbo was the best!
Avatar 9:22pm
Flash Strap:

Columbo is really the greatest show ever of all time. I am sure of that
Avatar 9:23pm
Flash Strap:

that peugeot is a wonder
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:23pm
melinda:

My memories of Columbo are pretty limited, I need to Netflix that. Everyone seems to love it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:24pm
melinda:

Jesus Christ, that steel guitar apologizing is bizarrely wonderful!
Avatar 9:24pm
Flash Strap:

Oh you should. It holds up and then some. Watch the one where Jack Cassidy plays a magician, that's my all-time. That or the one where Robert Culp is a subliminal messages ad expert
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:25pm
Minnesota Jeff:

Hard to imagine many of his busts landed in convictions though.
Avatar 9:25pm
Flash Strap:

It's such a weird sound! TOO weird for whatever its audience would have been, I figure
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:26pm
melinda:

That sounds like a great role for Robert Culp. I liked him in I Spy, glad I watched that before the Cosby stuff came out.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:26pm
Uncle Michael:

Thanks Evan!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:26pm
listener james from westwood:

Thanks a ton for show and especially the Shindo!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:27pm
Uncle Michael:

No Jive Bombers in that set!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:27pm
Santos L Halper:

Great sounds, exotic and otherwise. Thanks Mr Strap!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:28pm
coelacanth:

Mr.Drake was Exquisite on the All Things Must Pass album though.
Avatar ♥ 9:28pm
hyde:

the Robert Culp Columbo ep is fantastic. I'm also a big fan of Étude In Black, with John Cassavetes as a jerkhole conductor and cameos by Myrna Loy and Blythe Danner.

Thanks Flash!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:29pm
Uncle Michael:

There's more than one Culp episode!
Avatar 9:30pm
ape_status:

Wow! You guys are bringing back some serious Columbo memories. Gonna have to revisit it soon!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:30pm
coelacanth:

i probably saw most columbo episodes but i think i'd like to refresh my memories, a lot!

Thanks Evan Brilliant as always!
later on folks!
Avatar 9:31pm
Flash Strap:

Etude in black is one of the very very best indeed. Falk and cassavettes are really electric together.

All the Culp episodes are really good, but the subliminal messages one is the best
Avatar 9:31pm
Flash Strap:

Wish I had dropped some Jive bombers in there!
Avatar 9:32pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Santos!
Avatar 9:32pm
Flash Strap:

Thank you everyone, and to all a grand night. Smooches
Avatar 9:33pm
Flash Strap:

Oh and I almost forgot: this is where I grabbed most of tonight's stuff: www.basichipdigitaloddio.com...

Check it out, every day
Avatar 9:33pm
ape_status:

Thanks Flash. T'was the first, won't be the last.
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