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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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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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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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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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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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Tonight on Explorers Room! – American Puberty: Beach Boys on the Treacherous...
Explorers Room returns tonight with an exploration of the Beach Boys' early work. A safari of the Pre-Pet Sounds dynasty: exhortations of boyhood, yearning for manhood, and the gradual takeover of...
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Explorers Room TONIGHT – Le Sacre du Sauvage: Ritual and Exoticism in Fin de...
Tonight, the Explorers Room will take a pause in its Beach Boys exploration in order to spend some time in the epic and sublime sounds of fin-de-siècle and early 20th century classical and art music,...
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Adios, Ad Lib: Musax–Animaux 2 - Arnaud Rozenblat and Dominique Verdan (1980?...
A bit of sad news: Maio's Library (font of library treasures) has shuttered its facade and shut down (it was a little while ago, actually, but I just noticed). In a refreshing twist on the old tale,...
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Tonight's Explorers Room: Columnated Ruins Domino – Beach Boys in the...
Tonight on Explorers Room: a return to the bewildering ouvre of the one and only Beach Boys. The last Boys-themed show brought us right up to the cusp of Pet Sounds, and tonight we'll pick up right...
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Exotica Emergency: Tak Shindo's Mganga at Basic Hip Digital Oddio
For years, as far as I know, there has only been a pretty weak rip of Tak Shindo's outrageous and awesome Mganga! floating about, at 160kbps with tons of junky digital artifacts. Just the other day, a...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Tak Shindo and Other Primitive Sounds from Basic...
Tonight on Explorers Room: touching base with the show's eternal roots with a classic evening of strange and lurid, really truly exquisite exotica music. An initial emphasis on Tak Shindo will gave way...
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Summer Never has to End on the Explorers Room – Tonight!
Tune in tonight, for the first Explorers Room of the newly-turned Autumn, and join in a collective denial of seasonal reality. Summer never has to end when you're on the inside of an Explorers Room....
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Can, the Best Band. All Night Long.
Tonight on Explorers Room: A juicy explosion of Can monsterpieces, wall-to-wall genius music from what I consider to be the best period, from 1970-'75, Soundtracks through to Landed (sorry Mooney fans,...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Let's Get Cool and Normal in the Pool with Holger...
Following up last week's all-Can black hole, we enter into a new dimension of Can members, post-Can. Tonight will be dedicated almost entirely to Holger Czukay's "solo" work, much of which is of...
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Tonight on Explorers Room Radio: Can members, Post-Can pt. II
Continuing on to part two of the Can members post-Can series, tonight we listen to a motley patchwork of various projects by Irmin Schmidt, Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit, and Damo Suzuki. All sorts of...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Exotica Project 45s, Paradise Fantasies &...
Tonight on Explorers Room, in observance of Singles Going Steady week (wherein many DJs opt to spin singles exclusively), I'll be playing an absolutely orgiastic selection of 45 rpm singles from the...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Walk with the Grand Zombie on this All-Night...
Tonight, in deference to the season but without much regard for the Halloween-industrial complex, we go deep down into that voodoo swamp with Dr. John, only it's not really Dr. John... tonight, we hear...
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Expedition, in Your Hands: My Book is Available Now, Check it Out
I come to you today with some exciting news: Expedition is now available. It really is. I've had some really wonderful reproductions made, most satisfying in quality, and am using kickstarter to sell...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Ships Upon Ocean and Jungle Dreams (7-9ish EST)...
Tune in tonight for exotica, synthi times, percussive travelogue, and more. No big theme tonight, just lots of great music, from Brian Eno to Pete Rugolo, all-exotic. Also, check out my book-for-sale,...
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