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Tonight on Explorers Room: Bibliothèque Exotique Vol. 4: Funk, Grooves,...
Tonight on Explorers Room: a continuation of the Biblio Exotique series, with this installment drawing from (and as usual, expanding upon) volume 4, which focuses on exotic and Afro grooves,...
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Paradise Showers on Artficial Flowers: Johnny Spencer and the Kona Koasters -...
Hawaiiana (as opposed to true Hawaiian music) is often at its best when it mixes freely with the grander abstractions and vague sensory-evocations of broader Exotica, rather than hewing exclusively to...
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Explorers Room Tonight 7-9 EST (Electronic Dreams and Gardens)
Long form and live electronic music; dreams, gardens, and other sonic worlds. In just 30 minutes!L I S T E N L I S T E N L I S T E N
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Tonight on Explorers Room! Bibliothèque Exotique Vol. 5: Tropicosmic -...
Tune in for part 5 in the series, and embark on a synthsafari of untold weirdness and digital wilderness. 7-9 EST, you wouldn't want to miss it.T R O P I C O S M I C
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Black Power tonight on Explorers Room
Tonight on the Explorers Room: Sounds of American Dissent. Black power & identity music, the expression of revolutionary values. Don't miss it. 7-9 EST, just like always.HERE
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Excavating Discover America tonight on Explorers Room
Tonight on Explorers Room: a headlong dive into the glorious world of Van Dyke Parks' 1972 masterpiece Discover America, including virtually every song covered on that album in its original version,...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Sugar Life – a Beach Trip and a Tribute to Moebius...
Tonight's Explorers Room began as a Beach Trip themed show, and then, through tragic circumstance, found its end as a tribute to our fallen comrade, Moebius. Come on the sweet wobbly journey, tonight,...
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Esperanto of Pangaea: Flamingods Tour 2014
I've just made a tour poster for UK/Bahrain exotic experimental group Flamingods. Check out their new video for the track "Hyperborea," from the album Hyperborea (which you can listen to/purchase...
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Flash Strap Presents: Jungle Shadows Vol. 5
Let's take this summer seriously with a new Jungle Shadows mix. Please enjoy, and don't forget to grab both parts. Put this on and head straight for the adventure like a cannonball; alternately, have...
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Some Opals for your Coffers: Sonny Silver- Midnight in Kenya; Gianni Safred-...
I've got some hopefully exciting new things for you all in the next week or two, but in the meantime I wanted to link to a couple things that have really been pleasing my speakers recently. The first...
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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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