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Flash Strap Presents: Bibliothèque Exotique Volume 1, Panorama of the Exotic...
For some time now, I've been working on an ambitious project, collecting from the near-infinite pool of Library music every example of exoticism I can find. The goal is not only to put together a...
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Art That I Made & Music to Hear: Weller- Weller, I (2014)
Over the past year, I have had the great pleasure of conferring and conspiring with my old friend Nathan Toben on his new musical endeavor, Weller-- mainly I have supplied the album art and packaging...
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Flash Strap Presents: Bibliothèque Exotique Volume 2- Jungle-Safari-Wildlife
I'm super pleased on this day to present volume two in my bibliothèque quest. This one is probably my favorite, all avant-film-jazz and classic library synths, a weird plunge into the heart of jungle...
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Flash Strap Presents: Bibliothèque Exotique Volume 3- Orientalism...
Ok, here we go: Volume 3: Orientalism. Opening with an extended sojourn through Southeast Asian timelessness & mysticism, then on to some Chinoiserie and Japonisme, a brief interlude of classic...
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Flash Strap Presents: Bibliothèque Exotique Volume 4- Musique du "Voo-Doo"...
And now I am really, just really excited to present to you, Volume 4: Musique du "Voo-doo." Folks, these tracks are doozies. Monstrous grooves, relentless percussion, savage rock workouts, barbaric...
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Flash Strap Presents: Bibliothèque Exotique Volume 5 – Tropicosmic...
Here we go. Volume 5. The last in this series, for the time being. The infinite nature of the library world means that I could conceivably do this whole thing again ten times over, if I had access...
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EXPEDITION: An Evening of Armchair Exoticisms
I'm particularly excited this morning to share this with you all: Next Thursday, September 4th, at Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn, I will be presenting EXPEDITION, an exotic evening of art and...
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Lyman on Film: Taboo, Taboo Tu, Quiet Village
I'm back. The show went wonderfully, thanks for asking. We packed the house and drank all the rum. Thanks to those among you who attended, you wonderful people. I look forward now to getting more...
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A Long-Buried Racial Memory: Alfred Newman and Ken Darby- Ports of Paradise...
The prospect of a big band-style vocal Exotica record is always a dubious one. The likes of Norman Luboff and dozens of lackluster Hawaiiana LPs have made me wary, at any rate. The appeal and...
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Dreams in the Wind: J.P. Decerf- Magical Ring, Out of the Way, Publipot (1977)
The the deeper you venture into the disorienting world Library music, the more you start to recognize particular names beginning to emerge from the vague mists of anonymity, pseudonymity, and mystery....
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Sound Box of Dreams: Janko Nilovic - Percussions Dans L'Espace (197?)
Hello. Sorry I've been away so long. Oh, how I've been busy. Indeed, I've just returned not long ago from expedition to Bali. I've also been preparing to start up a radio show on WFMU's own...
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Toward the Sunlight, For the Sake of Us All: Kim Jung Mi- Now (1973)
This record has been around for long enough that most of you have probably heard it, but I recently received a request for it and figured it wouldn't be a bad idea to post it. As the demon of time...
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Explorers Room with Flash Strap This Thursday on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
HELLO, ALL: I am very pleased to make the announcement that I have joined WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio stream, and that my first show will be this Thursday, 7-9 (Eastern time). So please tune in to...
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Cerebral Escapades: Chick Vekters- Travelogue (2014)
Hey, I'd like to thank all of you for tuning into Explorers Room last Thursday! Oh how I'd love it if you dropped in again this Thursday. For those of you that missed it, I'd like you to feel warmly...
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Explorers Room Tonight! on Give the Drummer Radio
7:00-9:00 EST. Stream it right here! Have a drink with us! Hang out in the comments and shoot the breeze!
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Explorer's Room: Sorcerer-Sounds and Synthetic Jungles! TONIGHT on WFMU Give...
In honor of Edgar Froese's life, Explorers Room will be a deep-Froese marathon session of sorcerer-sounds and electronic exoticisms.Stream it right here! Spiral into the vortex with us! Bear witness...
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Umiliani Esotico- Re-ups and Radio
Having received many comments that the links for Esotico Ossessione had gone bad, or were hard to access, etc., I thought it might be good to make a new post about it for those of you who've never had...
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Smell of Gasoline and Jungle Rot: Rhythm Devils- Apocalypse Now Sessions (1980)
Despite an obsessive love for ApocalypseNow and its music which goes back to my early teen years and has never abated in dozens of viewings, I had somehow never heard any of the "Rhythm Devils"...
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Synth Voyage tonight on Explorers Room with Flash Strap
Tune in tonight! Explorers Room with Flash Strap begins in less than an hour. Tonight we chart a course up synthetic rivers of electropical phantasmagoria with Willard, Marlow, and Aguirre as our...
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Flash Strap Dublab Mix! Voyage: Up Synthetic River
A while back, Dublab asked if I would do a mix for their mega-music site. I put one together using an assortment of synth-exoticisms that had been intriguing me of late; many of them went into this...
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