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Balinese Forms Intertwine! Tonight on Explorers Room
Tune in tonight to Explorers Room and get washed away into an evening of Gamelan music, Balinese-inspired exoticisms, and Gamelan-influenced classical and synth music. On WFMU's Give the Drummer...
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Delicate Blend of Power and Joy: Dominic Frontiere - Pagan Festival (1959)
Pagan Festival(An Exotic Love Ritual for Orchestra) is Exotica in the cinematic and seductive style of Les Baxter: orchestral and epic but not overblown, with snakily layered arrangements, wordless...
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Sauvage and Sorcery tonight on Explorers Room
Tune in tonight to Explorers Room to partake in the fete sauvage, to hear sounds that owe nothing to civilization and everything to rank and teeming biology, the wail and chime and gong of eternal...
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Explorers Room will be On and Right-On Tonight!
Tune in tonight for a special episode of Explorers Room. Same great time (7-9 EST) same whiz-bang spot!YES, TOGETHERTONIGHT, OUR EARS WILL HEAR THAT GOOD STUFFWhile you're over there, please consider...
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SAFARI and ADVENTURE tonight on Explorers Room
Come sit in with the Adventurer's Club and go on otherworldly safari tonight, on Explorers Room. Where the savage bright in the jungle night, and a life for a life is law.LISTEN ALONG WITH ME, LIVE...
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Death is Just Around the Corner: Flash Car- Lady Lindy (new single)
Flash Car's new single is out now over at bandcamp. It's called "Lady Lindy," and it's so good. It's just great. Check it out. I had the honor of being enlisted to do the cover art, so that which...
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The Legend of Vocal Exotica: Miriam Burton- African Lament (1961)
I did a post on this one four (!) years ago when Sleepy Lagoon was blessedly still active and had just posted a link on his site. Sad to say, it's gone now. Anyway, I played a few selections from...
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Music For Plants Tonight on Explorers Room
Tune in to Explorers Room tonight for an episode all about plant music. Plantasia, its musical brethren, and more leafy library bits, a green sonic climatron for the benefit of your potted friends and...
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Other Planets, Other Rooms: New Age Tootscapes tonight on Explorers Room (7-9...
Tune in tonight and dissolve your body into a incorporeal cloud of naked consciousness borne on wings of static signals. Float the rivers of geologic time, sail the cosmos of the celestial soul....
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Roger Roger and Nino Nardini: An Exotic Life TONIGHT on Explorers Room (7-9 EST)
Tune in tonight for an evening of exoticism from the peerless Roger Roger and Nino Nardini. The program will feature selections from their masterwork, Jungle Obsession (of course), many of the...
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Science Fiction Fantasy Dioramas from Library Masters: Piero Umiliani- Tra...
Here's a couple transcendent glimpses into science fiction worlds from two (or three, really) of the shining stars of library music. I know these are rather old news for those who troll these bloggy...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: A Special Evening with Donovan
Tonight, my beamish ones, will be a night spent with one of the most splendid musical entities in the history of recorded sound. An artist so inventive and clever and magical – and underrated, my god...
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Exotic Motifs and Various Taboos, Tonight on Explorers Room
Tune in tonight – 7-9 EST, on Give the Drummer Radio – for an evening of classic, top shelf Exotica (and some other, weirder stuff). Hear Provocatif and other Exotic Motifs as we embark on a...
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Bibliothéque Exotique Tonight, On Explorers Room!
Following the pretty incredible Field Service Radio, broadcast live by Jesse Kaminsky from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (check that out here, now), tonight's Explorers Room will shine a...
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Chick Vekters: Travelogue update
Just a head up to discerning listeners: Chick Vekters'Travelogue, which I like very very much, is now available in full on Bandcamp. Go check it out. Now is the time to find your lost mid-century...
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Outside Time and Beyond Space: Tomita Night tonight on Explorers Room
Tonight's program will consist of Isao Tomita's synthesizer renditions of classical compositions, some of the most unusual and sublime music ever recorded. "Isao Tomita was nine years old when Japan...
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Bibliothéque Exotique 2 Tonight, On Explorers Room! Jungle, Safari, Wildlife
Hello all! I'm very happy to report that tonight's episode of Explorers Room will draw from and beyond my compilation of library selections, Bibliothéque Exotique 2: Jungle-Safari-Wildlife. Volume 2...
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Babalucolage and Never Enough Taboos: Tino Contreras - Jazz Tropical (1962)
I posted this one a couple years ago, just as a link to Sleepy Lagoon. Lagoon being gone, I figured it best to do a new post with a fresh link. This is a great record; unfortunately it's ripped at a...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Bibliothèque Exotique Vol. 3 (Orientalism) and...
Explorers Room is back this week! Once again I'll be turning to another volume of Bibliothèque Exotique (This time: Orientalism–Japonisme/Chinoiserie/Primitivism/Arabesque); playing the best selections...
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Mike Cooper and Other South Sea Shadows Tonight on Explorers Room
Same time, same place: Tonight's Explorers Room will play around with Hawaiiana and South Pacific themes, refracted through a distorting crystal. Along for the ride and setting the mood will be some...
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