WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from May 4, 2017

Listener comments!
	6:54pm Flash Strap: Tonight we go deep
	♥ 7:01pm Carmichael: Love that equipment, Flash! I've played an oscillator like the one on the top right before ...
	🥁 ♥ 7:03pm doctorjazz: OK, now to the last room, sounds like this is going to start with a BANG!
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Carm! Doc! Welcome to the FINAL ROOM
	7:05pm Flash Strap: wish I could understand this text
	🥁 ♥ 7:07pm David D: It is interesting stuff!
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hi David D! What's the gist, if I may? That must have been cool, Carm
	🥁 ♥ 7:09pm David D: Yes, you may! If there is any more to come, I will listen more closely and try to retain it...
	7:11pm Flash Strap: there's no more to come, I'm afraid. that was just a brief excerpt from the end of a half hour piece
	🥁 ♥ 7:13pm David D: Well I could listen again later - I was busy doing my post-show stuff.
	7:14pm Flash Strap: Don't sweat it David D! as is the case with most of the stuff tonight, but not all, we have Conrad Plank in the mix somewhere on these first tracks. He's all over the scene
	🥁 ♥ 7:14pm David D: I'm always happy to help with the German...
	🥁 ♥ 7:15pm David D: And this is brilliant stuff!
	7:16pm Flash Strap: This is my favorite track from Cluster pre-Forst move and Harmonia days
	7:19pm Mayuko: Oh my god! This is so exciting!!!
	7:19pm Flash Strap: Hi Mayuko! I'm glad you're excited! I'm excited
	7:20pm Mayuko: & hello Flash and everyone. Just got home from work, nice to be have this musical treats for the evening!
	7:20pm Mayuko: These pics on the playlist are just so cool.
	🥁 ♥ 7:21pm doctorjazz: I feel like I've been on another planet when I listen to this show...never know A THING about all the music. That's a good thing, I suppose, love hearing and learning about new stuff, but not so good for the self image...
	7:26pm Mayuko: When I listen to this show I always wish this room was a physical room decorated with Flash Strap's collage art all over, and we can all physically walk into it to sit together just listening to the music.
	♥ 7:27pm hyde: hi gang!
	🥁 ♥ 7:30pm David D: Mayuko, maybe some day...
	🥁 ♥ 7:30pm David D: Hi Hyde!
	♥ 7:32pm hyde: hiya David D!
	7:33pm Flash Strap: @Mayuko: if only you could see the room I broadcast from, because you basically just described it
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyde! Don't worry, Doc Jazz, it gives me so much pleasure to play something and have it be NEW to someone. I thank you, I thank you (plus, you know a ton about a ton)
	7:35pm Flash Strap: that track was recorded live in a decommissioned German train station
	7:38pm Flash Strap: Harmonia is such a Good Band, my god
	🥁 ♥ 7:38pm doctorjazz: Watussi is very cool (though I don't think I could dance the Watusi to it).
	♥ 7:39pm hyde: the best decommissioned German train station action i've ever seen is in The Train with Burt Lancaster
	7:39pm Flash Strap: you can't if you don't try, Doc!
	7:40pm Flash Strap: Never seen that one Hyde, is it a good flick or just a good decommissioned German train station?
	♥ 7:40pm hyde: @doctorjazz the drum part in The Watusi is maybe my favorite drum part ever
	7:42pm Flash Strap: now that I'm thinking of it, it would be just insanely cool to see someone do a durational watusi to Watussi
	♥ 7:42pm hyde: @Flash it's an amazing flick. Arthur Penn was directing it, but then he basically got fired. John Frankenheimer took over. Highly recommended.
	7:44pm Flash Strap: whoa cool I should watch it
	🥁 ♥ 7:44pm doctorjazz: Time to take the show on the road (to the car for the drive home), thanks as usual, Flash! (Veterano is really cool as well, got me some record shopping to do).
	7:44pm Flash Strap: ok now we're about to spend some Quality Time with Zuckerzeit
	♥ 7:45pm hyde: it's fantastic. Lancaster is over 50 at the time, but he does physical work in it that is just bonkers
	🥁 ♥ 7:46pm doctorjazz: (when you search Harmonia on Amazon, it is under "Krautrock")
	7:49pm Flash Strap: There are very few records I care for as much as this one. In its simplicity is a perfection almost unfathomable. I will proceed to play just slightly more material from it than I ought, considering how much stuff I have to get through tonight
	7:52pm Flash Strap: on an unrelated but equally obsessive note, I just got every Marx brothers movie on DVD, so I got that going for me
	7:53pm geezerette: Just got here,Evan and gang! Agree, the music is so pure and straight forward. I love good minimalism in any form.
	🥁 ♥ 7:53pm David D: You'd think you'd hear more ""Krautrock" on German radio, but guess what...
	7:54pm Flash Strap: Hi Geezerette! So glad to have you on board tonight!
	7:55pm geezerette: Thanks Evan. Glad to be here!
	7:57pm Flash Strap: @DD: I have no idea what the contemporary German music lover's relationship to this stuff is... I know some cool cats who sort of write Can off as classic rock... I get it, but I don't get it. But this stuff hasn't been subject to the same oversaturation, I don't think, so who knows
	7:59pm geezerette: Sugar Time :)
	♥ 8:01pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Evan and Cool Blue Explorers
	8:02pm geezerette: Hiya coel!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: you can hear the two sounds: Roedelius is lyrical, pastoral, tinkling like a toy box, very lovely, playful but precise; Moebius is rubbery and absurd, a little dubby, prone to dissonance and industrial sound
	8:02pm Flash Strap: Coelacanth! Hello friendo!
	🥁 ♥ 8:03pm David D: Well, there are surely plenty of people who listen to a variety of interesting stuff (and some even to WFMU streams!) just like anywhere else. But you will almost never hear this sort of thing broadcast, except if someone like me plays it on local community radio.
	8:03pm Flash Strap: I love this track, how it slides in and out of wack
	🥁 ♥ 8:04pm David D: Hello geezerette and coelacanth∅!
	🥁 ♥ 8:04pm melinda: hi!
	🥁 ♥ 8:04pm David D: And Melinda!
	8:05pm geezerette: Hi, David D! Howdy Melinda!
	♥ 8:06pm coelacanth∅: howdy g!
	♥ 8:06pm coelacanth∅: and David, and melinda!!
	8:07pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda! Wonderful, wonderful!
	8:08pm Flash Strap: woops played the wrong track... oh well this is good too!
	♥ 8:09pm coelacanth∅: so David, of course i could guess -and of course i could be wrong - what is on most radios in germany? mainstream? college? "underground"?
	8:10pm Flash Strap: ok back on track... sorry had to cut that one short only so many minutes in five hours!
	8:13pm Flash Strap: I've always been medium enthusiastic about Guru Guru but Neumeier is such a great drummer it's insane. If you make it to the end of the show, there's a crazy track with him from 1983 I hope to fit in
	♥ 8:13pm northguineahills: (Steps into the room), w00hoo! Most of the tracks are already clicky-starred for me! This is gonna be fun already!
	🥁 ♥ 8:16pm David D: Most radio in Germany is very, very commercial and mainstream. There are one or two cultural stations with classics and a variety of jazz and some interesting stuff as well, but usually with long, long reports on various issues in-between. And then there are local community stations like the one I'm at (right now in fact), where you can hear whatever the show hosts want to play or say.
	8:16pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH! If I recall correctly, I think I played an early live version of this track on the recent Motorik show
	🥁 ♥ 8:17pm David D: (I should have written "other interesting stuff as well".)
	8:18pm Flash Strap: do you do your WFMU broadcasts from such a station DD? I always thought it would be cool to finagle something like that as a streamer
	♥ 8:19pm coelacanth∅: Thanks David. that's about what i thought, though maybe slightly more dismal than i'd hoped!
	8:21pm Flash Strap: at least they have community radio stations! those are not as abundant as they should be, stateside
	🥁 ♥ 8:22pm David D: Yes, I always broadcast from Radio Blau. Usually (though not tonight) I simulcast the first hour on FM radio here. Radio Blau then goes off the air to give way to another station on the same frequencies, while I continue on the stream from the same studio for another two hours.
	8:22pm Flash Strap: That's pretty cool D
	8:24pm Flash Strap: god this is a beautiful piece. this one melts ya down
	♥ 8:24pm coelacanth∅: - this makes me wonder though... i know the commercial stuff is at least pretty bad; but is it as absolutely unbearable as most and quite likely ALL the commercial stuff in the us? (obviously an objective opinion!)
	8:24pm geezerette: Five hours will NOT be too much.
	🥁 ♥ 8:25pm David D: Yes, there are community stations, but not everywhere of course. It would be interesting to compare the situation here and in the States.
	🥁 ♥ 8:25pm David D: Yes, it is unbearable. I'd tell you how unbearable but I can't bear to listen so I don't really know.
	♥ 8:27pm coelacanth∅: haha! okay. Thanks for indulging my curiosity.
	🥁 ♥ 8:28pm David D: My pleasure!
	8:29pm geezerette: David D; you're certainly in the right place now though.
	♥ 8:32pm northguineahills: @David D: So, not quite as bad as most American radio stations? Crap, in my listening area, only the two NPR stations are the only non-vomit-worthy stations on the air. Even the college stations were sold to Clear Channel in the early 90s.
	♥ 8:37pm coelacanth∅: we can thank the machiavellian reagan administration for that. there used to be a limit on how many radio stations one company may own.
	🥁 ♥ 8:38pm melinda: Cool, I like By This River.
	♥ 8:39pm coelacanth∅: (& therefore there was more variety and less brainwashing and dummying-down)
	♥ 8:40pm hyde: yay, my crap upstate NY internet decided to come back on after twenty minutes off. i guess i missed some Cluster.
	♥ 8:41pm coelacanth∅: melinda, that song, combined with herb, was partly responsible for me not bothering to go to school (high school) many times!
	🥁 ♥ 8:41pm David D: @geezerette: Yes, I either listen to the streams of WFMU and occasionally other stations from around the world. or music of my own choosing of course. It's great to have all this here!
	♥ 8:42pm coelacanth∅: hyde!
	♥ 8:43pm hyde: coel! it's alive. it's aliiiiiivvvvvve
	8:43pm Flash Strap: Glad to have ya back, Hyde! I know the pain of rural internet believe me
	🥁 ♥ 8:43pm David D: @northguineahills: Well, it of course depends on what you're looking for. The Internet makes so much else possible, of course.
	8:44pm Flash Strap: this track hasn't gotten the respect it deserves, imo. One of my favorite Harmonia sessions, in a way
	♥ 8:44pm hyde: @Flash you'd think that living a mere two hour drive from NYC that the grid would be at least OK. but you'd be wrong.
	♥ 8:44pm northguineahills: @hyde: So, losing you internet was a Clusterfuck? Wait, that sounded wrong...
	♥ 8:45pm coelacanth∅: haha! effectively, yes!
	♥ 8:45pm hyde: @ngh heh, exactly
	8:47pm Flash Strap: @Hyde: well I'm down in dum dum state North Carolina, but I'm less than 15 minutes away from competing fiber projects and I have fought to have a 3 megabit up speed, so I get it. it's a gerrymandered oligopoly we're livin' in
	8:54pm Flash Strap: drums on this selange are cool i think
	8:57pm Doctorjazz: been great car company, loving this stuff! (I'm in the NY area... there's still almost nothing on the radio airwaves worth listening to... mostly fmu, some npr, some WKCR (college) , some WBGO (jazz),that's it.
	♥ 9:00pm coelacanth∅: this one i heard when i was a teenager, was some kind of play on "king's lead hat", but i never figured out how it's connected.
	🥁 ♥ 9:00pm David D: Well this music is fantastic and fascinating, Evan - so glad to be able to hang out and listen!
	9:00pm Mayuko: It's been so so good!!! I can stay awake and work until midnight!
	♥ 9:01pm coelacanth∅: (then again, i don't know why i never played it backward)
	♥ 9:02pm coelacanth∅: hi Mayuko!
	9:02pm Flash Strap: vocals on this are reversed from the chorus on Kings Lead Hat from Before and After Science
	🥁 ♥ 9:03pm Uncle Michael: And "Kings Lead Hat" is an anagram for...
	9:04pm Flash Strap: It's great to have you hanging out, DD! It's great to have you all here in fact! Hello Uncle!
	9:04pm Mayuko: hola, coelacanth∅!
	♥ 9:05pm coelacanth∅: (talking heads)
	🥁 ♥ 9:06pm Uncle Michael: Oui. Man, I've been digging about for a Cluster track for a special I'm working on.
	9:07pm Flash Strap: maybe i can help ?
	🥁 ♥ 9:07pm melinda: Interesting instrument combo.
	🥁 ♥ 9:07pm Uncle Michael: I'll email you, Evan. Thank.
	9:08pm Flash Strap: @melinda: I agree! I love the tendency for hawaiian guitar to pop up in krautrock stuff
	🥁 ♥ 9:08pm melinda: I didn't know there was that tendency. Always learning new stuff.
	🥁 ♥ 9:20pm Doug Schulkind: Here is the thrilling thing. I have never heard any of this music before. Thrill ing.
	♥ 9:20pm coelacanth∅: not unremarkable Evan!
	9:23pm Flash Strap: Hi Doug! Happy to play a new sound to your veteran ears, captain Thanks, C.!
	9:24pm SeanG: i'm floating in a sea of cosmic forests!
	9:25pm Flash Strap: Hi Sean G! Your comment reminds me of the cover art for this, which I love to death: img.discogs.com...
	9:26pm Flash Strap: it's such a good image for a record whose title means "through the desert"
	9:28pm SeanG: just dive right in!
	♥ 9:29pm coelacanth∅: the few times (3 exactly) that i've made an effort to meet a performer after a show were remarkable...at least to me. - two because they hugged me - not just a little hug! (Carrie Brownstein & Katell Keineg); and one because shaking his hand sent extraordinary tingles up my arm. (Thomas Mapfumo)
	9:29pm Flash Strap: you can hear Moebius is on this one, pitching in with the burning rubber cartoonman voice sound
	9:30pm Flash Strap: I rarely ever do it myself, but that one was worth it
	♥ 9:31pm coelacanth∅: i'm glad you did it, so we got to hear the story!
	9:33pm Flash Strap: this record is so cool. I like Okko Bekker on the saw even more than the sitar
	♥ 9:39pm coelacanth∅: the saw is a gorgeous instrument in the right hands. (ie, Okko Bekker... also the saw player on Joanna Newsom's "cosmia" on her 3-track ep)
	9:40pm Flash Strap: Two of these guys are from Kraan, a jazz-rock group in Germany. Asmus Tietchens is I guess sort of a proto industrial electronics guy. Okko Bekker is a weirdo who's most famous for an album of extremely psychedelic sitar covers, and we get the rare Plank instrumental performance
	9:40pm Flash Strap: saw is amazing, I agree
	9:42pm Flash Strap: "I love King Kong... 'cause he's so strong"
	♥ 9:42pm hyde: i have some amazing record with a female Chinese saw player, and i can't remember her name and i can't find it, and it's driving me crazy
	9:43pm Flash Strap: Fang Teng Lee?
	♥ 9:43pm hyde: THANK YOU
	♥ 9:44pm hyde: i'm glad at least one of us ha some brain cells left
	9:44pm Flash Strap: huh, I never knew Fang Teng Lee was a woman. Amazing, wonderful music! I've played her on the show a few times as I recall
	♥ 9:45pm coelacanth∅: thank both of you! i'm going to look into this person.
	🥁 ♥ 9:45pm David D: This is lovely - I won't say which one since it applies to so much of the show.
	9:45pm Flash Strap: I hate when the only thing stopping you from finding a record is an inability to remember what it's called
	♥ 9:46pm hyde: since i couldn't even remember the name, i would say my gender assumption about Fang Teng Lee may also be worth doubting
	9:48pm Flash Strap: sad to report, it seems we have a fella: img.discogs.com...
	♥ 9:48pm hyde: @Flash that is a problem that is even worse, i think, with digital libraries. with an analog collection you might be able to use visual memory to get yourself to where you need to be. with digital, if you can't remember a name, you are toast
	9:49pm Flash Strap: totally
	♥ 9:49pm coelacanth∅: i have all (maybe) my albums and much of my other music roughly alphabetised in a notebook ; but because of that exact scenario decided to make a cross-reference using categories. - i never finished it though.
	♥ 9:49pm hyde: welp, so i lost the name and got the gender of the player wrong. i still like the music!
	9:50pm Flash Strap: that is the key component, the rest is minutiae
	🥁 ♥ 10:01pm melinda: Enjoyed the show!
	♥ 10:03pm hyde: two more hours to go, melinda! though i am fading fast...
	🥁 ♥ 10:03pm melinda: Wait, there's 2 more hours...cool!
	10:05pm geezerette: Weirder & weirder!!! YAY!
	10:06pm Flash Strap: No worries if you can't make it to the final stretch Hyde! there's always the 'chives
	10:07pm Flash Strap: I LOVE THIS STUFF Rastakraut Pasta is one of my favorite records simply ever
	♥ 10:09pm hyde: hehe, i always falter and break down about a half hour into the Cool Blue Flame anyhow. i am old, and i need my rest.
	10:10pm Flash Strap: I can't blame ya, I rarely hear past his first half hour myself (at least live)
	10:12pm Flash Strap: Man, Moebius loves those frog farts and bog blurps, so great
	🥁 ♥ 10:13pm Uncle Michael: This Keyser Söze guy plays a mean bass.
	10:14pm geezerette: It's goofy! I won't share the animation in my head, but it's,(the music) very funny. Great stuff to draw to.
	10:14pm Flash Strap: next, to follow up these two delightfully grotesque reggae concoctions, we'll hear Moebius & Plank lay down one of the most lovely, delicate compositions of the evening
	🥁 ♥ 10:14pm melinda: I hear Ring of Fire.
	♥ 10:15pm hyde: haha, it's totally Ring of Fire
	10:15pm geezerette: melinda, yes!!!
	🥁 ♥ 10:15pm Uncle Michael: I hear ring modulator.
	10:15pm Flash Strap: much agreed, G. have drawn to it many a time. it's built itself into my linework - no exaggeration
	10:16pm Flash Strap: this ring of fire revelation is blowing my fucking mind how have i never noticed that how
	🥁 ♥ 10:16pm Uncle Michael: I'm going to bed before I make one more stupid joke.
	10:16pm geezerette: Evan, I believe it!
	10:17pm Flash Strap: stay and make even stupider ones, please i'm here all night
	10:18pm geezerette: UM,oh c'mon,one more. :)
	🥁 ♥ 10:18pm Uncle Michael: My ears can stay but my eyes and fingers are going to lay down. Don't schtopp.
	10:19pm Flash Strap: i love this track
	10:19pm Flash Strap: well that's a deal uncle
	♥ 10:20pm hyde: bed for me too. sayonara, friends.
	🥁 ♥ 10:20pm Uncle Michael: nighty nitecaps
	10:20pm Flash Strap: sweet dreams Hyde
	10:23pm geezerette: 'Night,Hyde. :)
	10:27pm Flash Strap: Material is more severe than its predecessor. Still really good though, I think
	🥁 ♥ 10:28pm melinda: Bath time for me.
	10:30pm Flash Strap: Buen bubbles, Melinda
	🥁 ♥ 10:30pm JtotheK: Hi Flash Strap, good evening everyone.
	10:31pm Flash Strap: Hi J_K! Nice to see you!
	10:34pm Doctorjazz: took a break for the final stretch of the drive home, now back for some more, Great stuff, Flash!
	10:35pm Flash Strap: Doc! Great to have you back in the fold!
	10:35pm geezerette: This is more formal and melancholy but beautiful lines. Hey, J2K! docjazz!
	10:36pm geezerette: ...above comment on previous piece, ha!
	🥁 ♥ 10:36pm JtotheK: Hiya geezerette!
	10:37pm Flash Strap: indeed!
	10:38pm Doctorjazz: Hi Geezerette, J, and the rest of you out there. No Flash in the pan, this show...
	10:39pm geezerette: :)
	10:39pm Flash Strap: that last track was from the last Cluster album to be recorded for over ten years
	10:40pm Flash Strap: yeah, keep me outta the pan!
	10:42pm geezerette: wow! looking at photos they seem to have been 30 years ahead.
	10:44pm Flash Strap: This is one of my favorite Roedelius tracks!
	♥ 10:47pm Ike: Here!
	10:47pm Flash Strap: Ike!
	10:50pm Flash Strap: I should just stop at this one long track, but i love this LP so much I'm going to play a smatterin' o tracks from it
	10:51pm Doctorjazz: the drummer sounds like he's having fun when he gets to take his shots
	10:52pm Flash Strap: so true Doc, I love that about it
	♥ 10:54pm coelacanth∅: i know i've missed some amazingness; but i'm clean! (well, my hair only marginally) that that i missed will be the special treats on my return visit.
	10:56pm Flash Strap: Ya gotta take care of yourself, that comes first (sometimes)
	🥁 ♥ 10:58pm melinda: I've favorited this whole show for future reference.
	10:58pm Flash Strap: when i saw him, he closed with a lullaby just like this
	11:00pm Flash Strap: Melinda!Back from the bath!
	11:01pm Flash Strap: jesus, this was intense after that lullaby
	11:04pm Doctorjazz: So, what albums to start with, tough decisions.
	11:07pm Flash Strap: i'd say, Harmonia's 2 (& Live 74), Zuckerzeit, Durch Die Wuste, Rastakraut Pasta take the lead, but that's me
	11:09pm Flash Strap: Liliental, Lustwandel, and this one (Wasser im Wind) are really good too though
	11:11pm davefromtoronto: thanks maestro, extra great show tonite!
	11:12pm Flash Strap: my pleasure Dave, thanks for dropping in!
	🥁 ♥ 11:14pm doctorjazz: I'll check them out, Flash, thanks
	11:17pm Flash Strap: this track is crazy, crazy stuff
	🥁 ♥ 11:20pm doctorjazz: Agreed, very cool.
	11:20pm geezerette: punk elegance,heh heh
	11:21pm Flash Strap: mani neumeier does some intense drum work on this LP
	11:23pm geezerette: plus duck calls
	11:25pm Flash Strap: right! plus duck calls, always a bonus
	11:26pm Mayuko: I still remember first time hearing this track, the moment I first played Zero Set and thought this was totally like techno!
	11:27pm Flash Strap: it is pretty techno! the drums are out of control in that regard. such a weird LP
	🥁 ♥ 11:33pm Doug Schulkind: Pretty amazing to reflect that the live broadcasting on the Drummer Stream today began at 9am and hasn't stopped. Fifteen straight hours of live radio. It's a record. Well, a lot of records.
	11:35pm geezerette: You can't hear us clapping, but we are.
	🥁 ♥ 11:36pm JtotheK: and might I add: huzzah!
	♥ 11:38pm coelacanth∅: and Bravo!
	🥁 ♥ 11:38pm Doug Schulkind: With the addition of FMA Listening Party! with Cheyenne every Tuesday from 3-4pm, that will have the Drummer Stream presenting 12 hours of live broadcasting every Tuesday, 12pm to 12am!
	11:38pm Flash Strap: Moebius didn't do much work outside of collaborations, which makes this masterpiece is a rare delight
	🥁 ♥ 11:38pm JtotheK: and thanks Flash - I will be heading to the archives later to catch up on what I missed - great (extended) show!
	11:39pm Flash Strap: That's so incredible Doug, all of it. The bravos go to you for making it happen, for making this place a place
	🥁 ♥ 11:40pm JtotheK: Doug, I saw the announcement about F16C joining the stream -- that's fantastic news!
	🥁 ♥ 11:41pm Doug Schulkind: @JtotheK Yes, the man the legend, Larry Grogan of Funky16Corners will be premiering on the Drummer Stream on May 17. His show, Testify!, will air every Wednesday 10pm-midnight.
	11:41pm Flash Strap: And thanks, J–K, Geezerette, Coelacanth! And everyone who listened tonight at any point! Very pleased and proud to share this music with you all, and thank you for forgiving my pronunciation, if indeed you did
	11:42pm Flash Strap: WHoa and WOw that's amazing Doug!
	🥁 ♥ 11:45pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Flash.
	11:46pm Flash Strap: Thank You, Doc Jazz!
	11:51pm Flash Strap: god I love this kooky fuckin record
	♥ 11:55pm northguineahills: crap, it's almost midnight. Thanks. Set clicky-starred to save my fingers in the archives in the future...
	11:56pm Flash Strap: Thanks NGH. Here it is, final cut of the long night: ROEDI GOES CRAZY
	12:02am Mayuko: Thanks, Flash!!!!
	♥ 12:03am coelacanth∅: Thank you Evan! Stellar programme! good night comrades.
	🥁 ♥ 8:28am TCJimmy: www.redbubble.com...
	🥁 ♥ 8:29am TCJimmy: ^^^BRIAN ENO MOEBIUS ROEDELIUS - AFTER THE HEAT Leggings
	♥ 11:38am AndrewC.: Really fascinating episode! Thanks for putting it together.
	🥁 ♥ 8:12pm quinn: Ah, nice treat on the ol' archives

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from May 4, 2017

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May 4, 2017: 5 Hours in the Cluster Galaxy: Moebius & Roedelius, 1971-1983

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Kluster	Electric Music und Text "Electric Music und Text" by "Kluster"	Zwei-Osterei	1971	Kluster= Moebius, Roedelius, Conrad Schnitzler
Cluster	15:43 "15:43" by "Cluster"	Cluster	1971	aka Custer '71. Cluster= Moebius & Roedelius	0:06:11 (Pop-up)
Cluster	Im Süden "Im Süden" by "Cluster"	Cluster II	1972		0:09:41 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Conrad Schnitzler	Krautrock "Krautrock" by "Conrad Schnitzler"	Rot	1973	aka the Red Album	0:22:02 (Pop-up)
Harmonia	Arabesque "Arabesque" by "Harmonia"	Live 1974	1974	Harmonia= Moebius, Roedelius, Michael Rother (of Neu!)	0:31:49 (Pop-up)
Harmonia	Watussi "Watussi" by "Harmonia"	Musik von Harmonia	1974		0:35:42 (Pop-up)
Harmonia	Veterano "Veterano" by "Harmonia"	Musik von Harmonia	1974		0:42:02 (Pop-up)
Cluster	Hollywood "Hollywood" by "Cluster"	Zuckerzeit	1974	Roedelius	0:45:18 (Pop-up)
Cluster	Caramel "Caramel" by "Cluster"	Zuckerzeit	1974	Moebius	0:49:39 (Pop-up)
Cluster	Caramba "Caramba" by "Cluster"	Zuckerzeit	1974	Moebius	0:52:58 (Pop-up)
Cluster	Fotschi Tong "Fotschi Tong" by "Cluster"	Zuckerzeit	1974	Roedelius	0:56:48 (Pop-up)
Cluster	James "James" by "Cluster"	Zuckerzeit	1974	Moebius	1:01:12 (Pop-up)
Cluster	Heiße Lippen "Heiße Lippen" by "Cluster"	Zuckerzeit	1974	Roedelius	1:04:08 (Pop-up)
Harmonia	Deluxe (Immer Wieder) "Deluxe (Immer Wieder)" by "Harmonia"	Deluxe	1975		1:07:03 (Pop-up)
Harmonia	Walky-Talky "Walky-Talky" by "Harmonia"	Deluxe	1975	with Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru) on drums	1:09:43 (Pop-up)
Cluster	In Ewigkeit "In Ewigkeit" by "Cluster"	Sowiesoso	1976		1:20:11 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: David Naegele	"David Naegele"	Temple in the Forest			1:27:20 (Pop-up)
Harmonia 76	By The Riverside "By The Riverside" by "Harmonia 76"	Tracks and Traces	1976	Harmonia 76= Moebius, Roedelius, Michael Rother, Eno	1:40:06 (Pop-up)
Hans-Joachim Roedelius	Skizze 1 „By This River“	Tape Archive 1973 - 1978	1976?	sketch for Brian Eno's "By This River“ from Before and After Science	1:45:08 (Pop-up)
Cluster & Eno	Mit Simaen "Mit Simaen" by "Cluster & Eno"	Cluster & Eno	1977		1:49:33 (Pop-up)
Cluster & Eno	Selange "Selange" by "Cluster & Eno"	Cluster & Eno	1977		1:50:49 (Pop-up)
Eno, Moebius, Roedelius	Base & Apex	After the Heat	1978		1:54:23 (Pop-up)
Eno, Moebius, Roedelius	Tzima N'Arki	After the Heat	1978		1:58:37 (Pop-up)
Brian Eno	By This River "By This River" by "Brian Eno"	Before and After Science	1976	Bass Fender Piano - Moebius; Grand And Electric Pianos - Roedelius; Synthesizer [Cs80] – Brian Eno; Written by – Eno, Moebius, Roedelius	2:03:44 (Pop-up)
Harmonia 76	Les Demoiselles "Les Demoiselles" by "Harmonia 76"	Tracks and Traces	1976		2:06:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Hans-Joachim Roedelius	Skizze 3 „By This River“	Tape Archive 1973 - 1978			2:09:43 (Pop-up)
Hans-Joachim Roedelius	Mr. Livingstone I Suppose	Durch die Wüste	1978	rec. 1976, finished 1978 at Conny Plank's	2:21:52 (Pop-up)
Hans-Joachim Roedelius	Regenmacher	Durch die Wüste	1978	feat. Moebius	2:26:19 (Pop-up)
Liliental	Adel "Adel" by "Liliental"	Liliental	1978	Liliental= Asmus Tietchens, Conny Plank, Dieter Moebius, Hellmut Hattler & Johannes Pappert (of Kraan), and Okko Bekker	2:32:00 (Pop-up)
Liliental	Wattwurm "Wattwurm" by "Liliental"	Liliental	1978		2:35:46 (Pop-up)
Liliental	Nachsaison "Nachsaison" by "Liliental"	Liliental	1978		2:40:03 (Pop-up)
Cluster	Avanti "Avanti" by "Cluster"	Grosses Wasser	1979		2:43:06 (Pop-up)
Cluster	Isodea "Isodea" by "Cluster"	Grosses Wasser	1979		2:47:11 (Pop-up)
Roedelius	Arcona "Arcona" by "Roedelius"	Selbstportrait	1979	rec. 1973-1977, first of several such volumes	2:51:08 (Pop-up)
Roedelius	Fou Fou "Fou Fou" by "Roedelius"	Jardin au Fou	1979	prod. Peter Baumann (Tangerine Dream)	2:54:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kluster	"Kluster"	Eruption	1971		2:58:26 (Pop-up)
Moebius & Plank	Rastakraut Pasta "Rastakraut Pasta" by "Moebius & Plank"	Rastakraut Pasta	1980		3:04:35 (Pop-up)
Moebius & Plank	Missi Cacadou "Missi Cacadou" by "Moebius & Plank"	Rastakraut Pasta	1980	with Holger Czukay (Can) on bass	3:10:43 (Pop-up)
Moebius & Plank	Two Oldtimers "Two Oldtimers" by "Moebius & Plank"	Rastakraut Pasta	1980	with Holger Czukay (Can) on bass	3:15:45 (Pop-up)
Moebius & Plank	Landebahn "Landebahn" by "Moebius & Plank"	Rastakraut Pasta	1980		3:22:41 (Pop-up)
Moebius & Plank	Osmo-Fantor "Osmo-Fantor" by "Moebius & Plank"	Material	1981		3:24:19 (Pop-up)
Moebius & Plank	Nordos "Nordos" by "Moebius & Plank"	Nordöstliches Gefühl	1981		3:28:18 (Pop-up)
Cluster	Oh Odessa "Oh Odessa" by "Cluster"	Curiosum	1981		3:35:13 (Pop-up)
Roedelius	Wenn der Südwind Weht "Wenn der Südwind Weht" by "Roedelius"	Wenn der Südwind Weht	1981		3:38:28 (Pop-up)
Roedelius	Freudentanz "Freudentanz" by "Roedelius"	Wenn der Südwind Weht	1981		3:42:09 (Pop-up)
Roedelius	Langer Atem "Langer Atem" by "Roedelius"	Lustwandel	1981	prod. Peter Baumann	3:44:29 (Pop-up)
Roedelius	Ansinnen "Ansinnen" by "Roedelius"	Lustwandel	1981		3:50:59 (Pop-up)
Roedelius	Drauben Vorbei "Drauben Vorbei" by "Roedelius"	Lustwandel	1981		3:51:50 (Pop-up)
Roedelius	Von Ferne Her "Von Ferne Her" by "Roedelius"	Lustwandel	1981		3:54:29 (Pop-up)
Roedelius	Die Andere Blume "Die Andere Blume" by "Roedelius"	Lustwandel	1981		3:57:36 (Pop-up)
Moebius & Beerbohm	Subito "Subito" by "Moebius & Beerbohm"	Strange Music	1982	with Conny Plank	3:59:35 (Pop-up)
Moebius & Beerbohm	Glucose "Glucose" by "Moebius & Beerbohm"	Strange Music	1982	with Conny Plank	4:01:44 (Pop-up)
Hans-Joachim Roedelius	Am Stadtrand	Wasser Im Wind	1982	Sax- Alexander Czjzek	4:05:36 (Pop-up)
Hans-Joachim Roedelius	Immergrün	Wasser Im Wind	1982	Sax- Alexander Czjzek	4:10:38 (Pop-up)
Hans-Joachim Roedelius	Fenster Im Schnee	Wasser Im Wind	1982	Sax- Alexander Czjzek	4:13:09 (Pop-up)
Moebius - Plank - Neumeier	Recall	Zero Set	1983	"Vocal – Deuka, Sudan"	4:15:30 (Pop-up)
Moebius - Plank - Neumeier	Speed Display	Zero Set	1983		4:23:55 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Moebius - Plank - Neumeier	Pitch Control	Zero Set			4:27:56 (Pop-up)
Moebius	Contramio "Contramio" by "Moebius"	Tonspuren	1983		4:36:21 (Pop-up)
Moebius	Rattenwiesel "Rattenwiesel" by "Moebius"	Tonspuren	1983		4:39:45 (Pop-up)
Moebius	Transport "Transport" by "Moebius"	Tonspuren	1983		4:41:44 (Pop-up)
Moebius	Etwas "Etwas" by "Moebius"	Tonspuren	1983		4:44:20 (Pop-up)
Moebius	Furbo "Furbo" by "Moebius"	Tonspuren	1983		4:48:14 (Pop-up)
Moebius	Immerhin "Immerhin" by "Moebius"	Tonspuren	1983		4:53:02 (Pop-up)
Hans-Joachim Roedelius	Roedi Goes Crazy	Tape Archive 1973 - 1978		Roedelius just goin' nuts on top of a tape of Harmonia's "Watussi," apparently	4:55:22 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:54pm Flash Strap: Tonight we go deep
	♥ 7:01pm Carmichael: Love that equipment, Flash! I've played an oscillator like the one on the top right before ...
	🥁 ♥ 7:03pm doctorjazz: OK, now to the last room, sounds like this is going to start with a BANG!
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Carm! Doc! Welcome to the FINAL ROOM
	7:05pm Flash Strap: wish I could understand this text
	🥁 ♥ 7:07pm David D: It is interesting stuff!
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hi David D! What's the gist, if I may? That must have been cool, Carm
	🥁 ♥ 7:09pm David D: Yes, you may! If there is any more to come, I will listen more closely and try to retain it...
	7:11pm Flash Strap: there's no more to come, I'm afraid. that was just a brief excerpt from the end of a half hour piece
	🥁 ♥ 7:13pm David D: Well I could listen again later - I was busy doing my post-show stuff.
	7:14pm Flash Strap: Don't sweat it David D! as is the case with most of the stuff tonight, but not all, we have Conrad Plank in the mix somewhere on these first tracks. He's all over the scene
	🥁 ♥ 7:14pm David D: I'm always happy to help with the German...
	🥁 ♥ 7:15pm David D: And this is brilliant stuff!
	7:16pm Flash Strap: This is my favorite track from Cluster pre-Forst move and Harmonia days
	7:19pm Mayuko: Oh my god! This is so exciting!!!
	7:19pm Flash Strap: Hi Mayuko! I'm glad you're excited! I'm excited
	7:20pm Mayuko: & hello Flash and everyone. Just got home from work, nice to be have this musical treats for the evening!
	7:20pm Mayuko: These pics on the playlist are just so cool.
	🥁 ♥ 7:21pm doctorjazz: I feel like I've been on another planet when I listen to this show...never know A THING about all the music. That's a good thing, I suppose, love hearing and learning about new stuff, but not so good for the self image...
	7:26pm Mayuko: When I listen to this show I always wish this room was a physical room decorated with Flash Strap's collage art all over, and we can all physically walk into it to sit together just listening to the music.
	♥ 7:27pm hyde: hi gang!
	🥁 ♥ 7:30pm David D: Mayuko, maybe some day...
	🥁 ♥ 7:30pm David D: Hi Hyde!
	♥ 7:32pm hyde: hiya David D!
	7:33pm Flash Strap: @Mayuko: if only you could see the room I broadcast from, because you basically just described it
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyde! Don't worry, Doc Jazz, it gives me so much pleasure to play something and have it be NEW to someone. I thank you, I thank you (plus, you know a ton about a ton)
	7:35pm Flash Strap: that track was recorded live in a decommissioned German train station
	7:38pm Flash Strap: Harmonia is such a Good Band, my god
	🥁 ♥ 7:38pm doctorjazz: Watussi is very cool (though I don't think I could dance the Watusi to it).
	♥ 7:39pm hyde: the best decommissioned German train station action i've ever seen is in The Train with Burt Lancaster
	7:39pm Flash Strap: you can't if you don't try, Doc!
	7:40pm Flash Strap: Never seen that one Hyde, is it a good flick or just a good decommissioned German train station?
	♥ 7:40pm hyde: @doctorjazz the drum part in The Watusi is maybe my favorite drum part ever
	7:42pm Flash Strap: now that I'm thinking of it, it would be just insanely cool to see someone do a durational watusi to Watussi
	♥ 7:42pm hyde: @Flash it's an amazing flick. Arthur Penn was directing it, but then he basically got fired. John Frankenheimer took over. Highly recommended.
	7:44pm Flash Strap: whoa cool I should watch it
	🥁 ♥ 7:44pm doctorjazz: Time to take the show on the road (to the car for the drive home), thanks as usual, Flash! (Veterano is really cool as well, got me some record shopping to do).
	7:44pm Flash Strap: ok now we're about to spend some Quality Time with Zuckerzeit
	♥ 7:45pm hyde: it's fantastic. Lancaster is over 50 at the time, but he does physical work in it that is just bonkers
	🥁 ♥ 7:46pm doctorjazz: (when you search Harmonia on Amazon, it is under "Krautrock")
	7:49pm Flash Strap: There are very few records I care for as much as this one. In its simplicity is a perfection almost unfathomable. I will proceed to play just slightly more material from it than I ought, considering how much stuff I have to get through tonight
	7:52pm Flash Strap: on an unrelated but equally obsessive note, I just got every Marx brothers movie on DVD, so I got that going for me
	7:53pm geezerette: Just got here,Evan and gang! Agree, the music is so pure and straight forward. I love good minimalism in any form.
	🥁 ♥ 7:53pm David D: You'd think you'd hear more ""Krautrock" on German radio, but guess what...
	7:54pm Flash Strap: Hi Geezerette! So glad to have you on board tonight!
	7:55pm geezerette: Thanks Evan. Glad to be here!
	7:57pm Flash Strap: @DD: I have no idea what the contemporary German music lover's relationship to this stuff is... I know some cool cats who sort of write Can off as classic rock... I get it, but I don't get it. But this stuff hasn't been subject to the same oversaturation, I don't think, so who knows
	7:59pm geezerette: Sugar Time :)
	♥ 8:01pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Evan and Cool Blue Explorers
	8:02pm geezerette: Hiya coel!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: you can hear the two sounds: Roedelius is lyrical, pastoral, tinkling like a toy box, very lovely, playful but precise; Moebius is rubbery and absurd, a little dubby, prone to dissonance and industrial sound
	8:02pm Flash Strap: Coelacanth! Hello friendo!
	🥁 ♥ 8:03pm David D: Well, there are surely plenty of people who listen to a variety of interesting stuff (and some even to WFMU streams!) just like anywhere else. But you will almost never hear this sort of thing broadcast, except if someone like me plays it on local community radio.
	8:03pm Flash Strap: I love this track, how it slides in and out of wack
	🥁 ♥ 8:04pm David D: Hello geezerette and coelacanth∅!
	🥁 ♥ 8:04pm melinda: hi!
	🥁 ♥ 8:04pm David D: And Melinda!
	8:05pm geezerette: Hi, David D! Howdy Melinda!
	♥ 8:06pm coelacanth∅: howdy g!
	♥ 8:06pm coelacanth∅: and David, and melinda!!
	8:07pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda! Wonderful, wonderful!
	8:08pm Flash Strap: woops played the wrong track... oh well this is good too!
	♥ 8:09pm coelacanth∅: so David, of course i could guess -and of course i could be wrong - what is on most radios in germany? mainstream? college? "underground"?
	8:10pm Flash Strap: ok back on track... sorry had to cut that one short only so many minutes in five hours!
	8:13pm Flash Strap: I've always been medium enthusiastic about Guru Guru but Neumeier is such a great drummer it's insane. If you make it to the end of the show, there's a crazy track with him from 1983 I hope to fit in
	♥ 8:13pm northguineahills: (Steps into the room), w00hoo! Most of the tracks are already clicky-starred for me! This is gonna be fun already!
	🥁 ♥ 8:16pm David D: Most radio in Germany is very, very commercial and mainstream. There are one or two cultural stations with classics and a variety of jazz and some interesting stuff as well, but usually with long, long reports on various issues in-between. And then there are local community stations like the one I'm at (right now in fact), where you can hear whatever the show hosts want to play or say.
	8:16pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH! If I recall correctly, I think I played an early live version of this track on the recent Motorik show
	🥁 ♥ 8:17pm David D: (I should have written "other interesting stuff as well".)
	8:18pm Flash Strap: do you do your WFMU broadcasts from such a station DD? I always thought it would be cool to finagle something like that as a streamer
	♥ 8:19pm coelacanth∅: Thanks David. that's about what i thought, though maybe slightly more dismal than i'd hoped!
	8:21pm Flash Strap: at least they have community radio stations! those are not as abundant as they should be, stateside
	🥁 ♥ 8:22pm David D: Yes, I always broadcast from Radio Blau. Usually (though not tonight) I simulcast the first hour on FM radio here. Radio Blau then goes off the air to give way to another station on the same frequencies, while I continue on the stream from the same studio for another two hours.
	8:22pm Flash Strap: That's pretty cool D
	8:24pm Flash Strap: god this is a beautiful piece. this one melts ya down
	♥ 8:24pm coelacanth∅: - this makes me wonder though... i know the commercial stuff is at least pretty bad; but is it as absolutely unbearable as most and quite likely ALL the commercial stuff in the us? (obviously an objective opinion!)
	8:24pm geezerette: Five hours will NOT be too much.
	🥁 ♥ 8:25pm David D: Yes, there are community stations, but not everywhere of course. It would be interesting to compare the situation here and in the States.
	🥁 ♥ 8:25pm David D: Yes, it is unbearable. I'd tell you how unbearable but I can't bear to listen so I don't really know.
	♥ 8:27pm coelacanth∅: haha! okay. Thanks for indulging my curiosity.
	🥁 ♥ 8:28pm David D: My pleasure!
	8:29pm geezerette: David D; you're certainly in the right place now though.
	♥ 8:32pm northguineahills: @David D: So, not quite as bad as most American radio stations? Crap, in my listening area, only the two NPR stations are the only non-vomit-worthy stations on the air. Even the college stations were sold to Clear Channel in the early 90s.
	♥ 8:37pm coelacanth∅: we can thank the machiavellian reagan administration for that. there used to be a limit on how many radio stations one company may own.
	🥁 ♥ 8:38pm melinda: Cool, I like By This River.
	♥ 8:39pm coelacanth∅: (& therefore there was more variety and less brainwashing and dummying-down)
	♥ 8:40pm hyde: yay, my crap upstate NY internet decided to come back on after twenty minutes off. i guess i missed some Cluster.
	♥ 8:41pm coelacanth∅: melinda, that song, combined with herb, was partly responsible for me not bothering to go to school (high school) many times!
	🥁 ♥ 8:41pm David D: @geezerette: Yes, I either listen to the streams of WFMU and occasionally other stations from around the world. or music of my own choosing of course. It's great to have all this here!
	♥ 8:42pm coelacanth∅: hyde!
	♥ 8:43pm hyde: coel! it's alive. it's aliiiiiivvvvvve
	8:43pm Flash Strap: Glad to have ya back, Hyde! I know the pain of rural internet believe me
	🥁 ♥ 8:43pm David D: @northguineahills: Well, it of course depends on what you're looking for. The Internet makes so much else possible, of course.
	8:44pm Flash Strap: this track hasn't gotten the respect it deserves, imo. One of my favorite Harmonia sessions, in a way
	♥ 8:44pm hyde: @Flash you'd think that living a mere two hour drive from NYC that the grid would be at least OK. but you'd be wrong.
	♥ 8:44pm northguineahills: @hyde: So, losing you internet was a Clusterfuck? Wait, that sounded wrong...
	♥ 8:45pm coelacanth∅: haha! effectively, yes!
	♥ 8:45pm hyde: @ngh heh, exactly
	8:47pm Flash Strap: @Hyde: well I'm down in dum dum state North Carolina, but I'm less than 15 minutes away from competing fiber projects and I have fought to have a 3 megabit up speed, so I get it. it's a gerrymandered oligopoly we're livin' in
	8:54pm Flash Strap: drums on this selange are cool i think
	8:57pm Doctorjazz: been great car company, loving this stuff! (I'm in the NY area... there's still almost nothing on the radio airwaves worth listening to... mostly fmu, some npr, some WKCR (college) , some WBGO (jazz),that's it.
	♥ 9:00pm coelacanth∅: this one i heard when i was a teenager, was some kind of play on "king's lead hat", but i never figured out how it's connected.
	🥁 ♥ 9:00pm David D: Well this music is fantastic and fascinating, Evan - so glad to be able to hang out and listen!
	9:00pm Mayuko: It's been so so good!!! I can stay awake and work until midnight!
	♥ 9:01pm coelacanth∅: (then again, i don't know why i never played it backward)
	♥ 9:02pm coelacanth∅: hi Mayuko!
	9:02pm Flash Strap: vocals on this are reversed from the chorus on Kings Lead Hat from Before and After Science
	🥁 ♥ 9:03pm Uncle Michael: And "Kings Lead Hat" is an anagram for...
	9:04pm Flash Strap: It's great to have you hanging out, DD! It's great to have you all here in fact! Hello Uncle!
	9:04pm Mayuko: hola, coelacanth∅!
	♥ 9:05pm coelacanth∅: (talking heads)
	🥁 ♥ 9:06pm Uncle Michael: Oui. Man, I've been digging about for a Cluster track for a special I'm working on.
	9:07pm Flash Strap: maybe i can help ?
	🥁 ♥ 9:07pm melinda: Interesting instrument combo.
	🥁 ♥ 9:07pm Uncle Michael: I'll email you, Evan. Thank.
	9:08pm Flash Strap: @melinda: I agree! I love the tendency for hawaiian guitar to pop up in krautrock stuff
	🥁 ♥ 9:08pm melinda: I didn't know there was that tendency. Always learning new stuff.
	🥁 ♥ 9:20pm Doug Schulkind: Here is the thrilling thing. I have never heard any of this music before. Thrill ing.
	♥ 9:20pm coelacanth∅: not unremarkable Evan!
	9:23pm Flash Strap: Hi Doug! Happy to play a new sound to your veteran ears, captain Thanks, C.!
	9:24pm SeanG: i'm floating in a sea of cosmic forests!
	9:25pm Flash Strap: Hi Sean G! Your comment reminds me of the cover art for this, which I love to death: img.discogs.com...
	9:26pm Flash Strap: it's such a good image for a record whose title means "through the desert"
	9:28pm SeanG: just dive right in!
	♥ 9:29pm coelacanth∅: the few times (3 exactly) that i've made an effort to meet a performer after a show were remarkable...at least to me. - two because they hugged me - not just a little hug! (Carrie Brownstein & Katell Keineg); and one because shaking his hand sent extraordinary tingles up my arm. (Thomas Mapfumo)
	9:29pm Flash Strap: you can hear Moebius is on this one, pitching in with the burning rubber cartoonman voice sound
	9:30pm Flash Strap: I rarely ever do it myself, but that one was worth it
	♥ 9:31pm coelacanth∅: i'm glad you did it, so we got to hear the story!
	9:33pm Flash Strap: this record is so cool. I like Okko Bekker on the saw even more than the sitar
	♥ 9:39pm coelacanth∅: the saw is a gorgeous instrument in the right hands. (ie, Okko Bekker... also the saw player on Joanna Newsom's "cosmia" on her 3-track ep)
	9:40pm Flash Strap: Two of these guys are from Kraan, a jazz-rock group in Germany. Asmus Tietchens is I guess sort of a proto industrial electronics guy. Okko Bekker is a weirdo who's most famous for an album of extremely psychedelic sitar covers, and we get the rare Plank instrumental performance
	9:40pm Flash Strap: saw is amazing, I agree
	9:42pm Flash Strap: "I love King Kong... 'cause he's so strong"
	♥ 9:42pm hyde: i have some amazing record with a female Chinese saw player, and i can't remember her name and i can't find it, and it's driving me crazy
	9:43pm Flash Strap: Fang Teng Lee?
	♥ 9:43pm hyde: THANK YOU
	♥ 9:44pm hyde: i'm glad at least one of us ha some brain cells left
	9:44pm Flash Strap: huh, I never knew Fang Teng Lee was a woman. Amazing, wonderful music! I've played her on the show a few times as I recall
	♥ 9:45pm coelacanth∅: thank both of you! i'm going to look into this person.
	🥁 ♥ 9:45pm David D: This is lovely - I won't say which one since it applies to so much of the show.
	9:45pm Flash Strap: I hate when the only thing stopping you from finding a record is an inability to remember what it's called
	♥ 9:46pm hyde: since i couldn't even remember the name, i would say my gender assumption about Fang Teng Lee may also be worth doubting
	9:48pm Flash Strap: sad to report, it seems we have a fella: img.discogs.com...
	♥ 9:48pm hyde: @Flash that is a problem that is even worse, i think, with digital libraries. with an analog collection you might be able to use visual memory to get yourself to where you need to be. with digital, if you can't remember a name, you are toast
	9:49pm Flash Strap: totally
	♥ 9:49pm coelacanth∅: i have all (maybe) my albums and much of my other music roughly alphabetised in a notebook ; but because of that exact scenario decided to make a cross-reference using categories. - i never finished it though.
	♥ 9:49pm hyde: welp, so i lost the name and got the gender of the player wrong. i still like the music!
	9:50pm Flash Strap: that is the key component, the rest is minutiae
	🥁 ♥ 10:01pm melinda: Enjoyed the show!
	♥ 10:03pm hyde: two more hours to go, melinda! though i am fading fast...
	🥁 ♥ 10:03pm melinda: Wait, there's 2 more hours...cool!
	10:05pm geezerette: Weirder & weirder!!! YAY!
	10:06pm Flash Strap: No worries if you can't make it to the final stretch Hyde! there's always the 'chives
	10:07pm Flash Strap: I LOVE THIS STUFF Rastakraut Pasta is one of my favorite records simply ever
	♥ 10:09pm hyde: hehe, i always falter and break down about a half hour into the Cool Blue Flame anyhow. i am old, and i need my rest.
	10:10pm Flash Strap: I can't blame ya, I rarely hear past his first half hour myself (at least live)
	10:12pm Flash Strap: Man, Moebius loves those frog farts and bog blurps, so great
	🥁 ♥ 10:13pm Uncle Michael: This Keyser Söze guy plays a mean bass.
	10:14pm geezerette: It's goofy! I won't share the animation in my head, but it's,(the music) very funny. Great stuff to draw to.
	10:14pm Flash Strap: next, to follow up these two delightfully grotesque reggae concoctions, we'll hear Moebius & Plank lay down one of the most lovely, delicate compositions of the evening
	🥁 ♥ 10:14pm melinda: I hear Ring of Fire.
	♥ 10:15pm hyde: haha, it's totally Ring of Fire
	10:15pm geezerette: melinda, yes!!!
	🥁 ♥ 10:15pm Uncle Michael: I hear ring modulator.
	10:15pm Flash Strap: much agreed, G. have drawn to it many a time. it's built itself into my linework - no exaggeration
	10:16pm Flash Strap: this ring of fire revelation is blowing my fucking mind how have i never noticed that how
	🥁 ♥ 10:16pm Uncle Michael: I'm going to bed before I make one more stupid joke.
	10:16pm geezerette: Evan, I believe it!
	10:17pm Flash Strap: stay and make even stupider ones, please i'm here all night
	10:18pm geezerette: UM,oh c'mon,one more. :)
	🥁 ♥ 10:18pm Uncle Michael: My ears can stay but my eyes and fingers are going to lay down. Don't schtopp.
	10:19pm Flash Strap: i love this track
	10:19pm Flash Strap: well that's a deal uncle
	♥ 10:20pm hyde: bed for me too. sayonara, friends.
	🥁 ♥ 10:20pm Uncle Michael: nighty nitecaps
	10:20pm Flash Strap: sweet dreams Hyde
	10:23pm geezerette: 'Night,Hyde. :)
	10:27pm Flash Strap: Material is more severe than its predecessor. Still really good though, I think
	🥁 ♥ 10:28pm melinda: Bath time for me.
	10:30pm Flash Strap: Buen bubbles, Melinda
	🥁 ♥ 10:30pm JtotheK: Hi Flash Strap, good evening everyone.
	10:31pm Flash Strap: Hi J_K! Nice to see you!
	10:34pm Doctorjazz: took a break for the final stretch of the drive home, now back for some more, Great stuff, Flash!
	10:35pm Flash Strap: Doc! Great to have you back in the fold!
	10:35pm geezerette: This is more formal and melancholy but beautiful lines. Hey, J2K! docjazz!
	10:36pm geezerette: ...above comment on previous piece, ha!
	🥁 ♥ 10:36pm JtotheK: Hiya geezerette!
	10:37pm Flash Strap: indeed!
	10:38pm Doctorjazz: Hi Geezerette, J, and the rest of you out there. No Flash in the pan, this show...
	10:39pm geezerette: :)
	10:39pm Flash Strap: that last track was from the last Cluster album to be recorded for over ten years
	10:40pm Flash Strap: yeah, keep me outta the pan!
	10:42pm geezerette: wow! looking at photos they seem to have been 30 years ahead.
	10:44pm Flash Strap: This is one of my favorite Roedelius tracks!
	♥ 10:47pm Ike: Here!
	10:47pm Flash Strap: Ike!
	10:50pm Flash Strap: I should just stop at this one long track, but i love this LP so much I'm going to play a smatterin' o tracks from it
	10:51pm Doctorjazz: the drummer sounds like he's having fun when he gets to take his shots
	10:52pm Flash Strap: so true Doc, I love that about it
	♥ 10:54pm coelacanth∅: i know i've missed some amazingness; but i'm clean! (well, my hair only marginally) that that i missed will be the special treats on my return visit.
	10:56pm Flash Strap: Ya gotta take care of yourself, that comes first (sometimes)
	🥁 ♥ 10:58pm melinda: I've favorited this whole show for future reference.
	10:58pm Flash Strap: when i saw him, he closed with a lullaby just like this
	11:00pm Flash Strap: Melinda!Back from the bath!
	11:01pm Flash Strap: jesus, this was intense after that lullaby
	11:04pm Doctorjazz: So, what albums to start with, tough decisions.
	11:07pm Flash Strap: i'd say, Harmonia's 2 (& Live 74), Zuckerzeit, Durch Die Wuste, Rastakraut Pasta take the lead, but that's me
	11:09pm Flash Strap: Liliental, Lustwandel, and this one (Wasser im Wind) are really good too though
	11:11pm davefromtoronto: thanks maestro, extra great show tonite!
	11:12pm Flash Strap: my pleasure Dave, thanks for dropping in!
	🥁 ♥ 11:14pm doctorjazz: I'll check them out, Flash, thanks
	11:17pm Flash Strap: this track is crazy, crazy stuff
	🥁 ♥ 11:20pm doctorjazz: Agreed, very cool.
	11:20pm geezerette: punk elegance,heh heh
	11:21pm Flash Strap: mani neumeier does some intense drum work on this LP
	11:23pm geezerette: plus duck calls
	11:25pm Flash Strap: right! plus duck calls, always a bonus
	11:26pm Mayuko: I still remember first time hearing this track, the moment I first played Zero Set and thought this was totally like techno!
	11:27pm Flash Strap: it is pretty techno! the drums are out of control in that regard. such a weird LP
	🥁 ♥ 11:33pm Doug Schulkind: Pretty amazing to reflect that the live broadcasting on the Drummer Stream today began at 9am and hasn't stopped. Fifteen straight hours of live radio. It's a record. Well, a lot of records.
	11:35pm geezerette: You can't hear us clapping, but we are.
	🥁 ♥ 11:36pm JtotheK: and might I add: huzzah!
	♥ 11:38pm coelacanth∅: and Bravo!
	🥁 ♥ 11:38pm Doug Schulkind: With the addition of FMA Listening Party! with Cheyenne every Tuesday from 3-4pm, that will have the Drummer Stream presenting 12 hours of live broadcasting every Tuesday, 12pm to 12am!
	11:38pm Flash Strap: Moebius didn't do much work outside of collaborations, which makes this masterpiece is a rare delight
	🥁 ♥ 11:38pm JtotheK: and thanks Flash - I will be heading to the archives later to catch up on what I missed - great (extended) show!
	11:39pm Flash Strap: That's so incredible Doug, all of it. The bravos go to you for making it happen, for making this place a place
	🥁 ♥ 11:40pm JtotheK: Doug, I saw the announcement about F16C joining the stream -- that's fantastic news!
	🥁 ♥ 11:41pm Doug Schulkind: @JtotheK Yes, the man the legend, Larry Grogan of Funky16Corners will be premiering on the Drummer Stream on May 17. His show, Testify!, will air every Wednesday 10pm-midnight.
	11:41pm Flash Strap: And thanks, J–K, Geezerette, Coelacanth! And everyone who listened tonight at any point! Very pleased and proud to share this music with you all, and thank you for forgiving my pronunciation, if indeed you did
	11:42pm Flash Strap: WHoa and WOw that's amazing Doug!
	🥁 ♥ 11:45pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Flash.
	11:46pm Flash Strap: Thank You, Doc Jazz!
	11:51pm Flash Strap: god I love this kooky fuckin record
	♥ 11:55pm northguineahills: crap, it's almost midnight. Thanks. Set clicky-starred to save my fingers in the archives in the future...
	11:56pm Flash Strap: Thanks NGH. Here it is, final cut of the long night: ROEDI GOES CRAZY
	12:02am Mayuko: Thanks, Flash!!!!
	♥ 12:03am coelacanth∅: Thank you Evan! Stellar programme! good night comrades.
	🥁 ♥ 8:28am TCJimmy: www.redbubble.com...
	🥁 ♥ 8:29am TCJimmy: ^^^BRIAN ENO MOEBIUS ROEDELIUS - AFTER THE HEAT Leggings
	♥ 11:38am AndrewC.: Really fascinating episode! Thanks for putting it together.
	🥁 ♥ 8:12pm quinn: Ah, nice treat on the ol' archives

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from May 4, 2017

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