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Contemporary Sound Collage of the Funky Variety: sonar lee, tomorrow's nostalgia
Here's a fellow whose work I've been enjoying over the last year or more. Coming out of Calgary and Saigon, and operating under the name sonar lee, he's delivered a wealth of adventurously...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Cosmic+Juju
TONIGHT on Explorers Room: Cosmic Juju, sailing the funky pathways of the stars. Lots of exhilaratingly huge tunes tonight, including some wonderful selections from the brand spanking new Mamman Sani...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Occult Sounds & Outsider Art from Allegory of...
Tonight on Explorers Room, I'll pay homage to the long-ago fallen blog, Allegory of Allergies, where I (and many others of us, I'm sure) had my mind expanded – and my weirdness-threshold bumped way way...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Sounds for Baby
Tonight on Explorers Room: Sounds for baby, including selections from Raymond Scott's mindblowing series of synthesizer infant music and other chronicles of birth and electronic/exotic lullabies. If...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Last Show of 2015, don't miss it now!
Tonight's Explorers Room will be the last of 2015, as I take some weeks off to move out of the blighted zone of St. Louis and to a fairer land in ol' Carolina. I'll be back as soon as humanly possible...
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Explorers Room Returns, Only to Find that Bowie has Perished
Tonight, Explorers Room returns! For good!I had some exotic stuff lined up for this return program but then – David Bowie died. Look, I'm sure you've all been eulogizing him and playing his records...
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Explorers Room Filling in for Give the Drummer Some This Afternoon, 5-7
Today, 5-7, I'll be filling in for Doug Schulkind's Give the Drummer Some, playing a selection of exotica, space-age, library, and avant garde–AS USUAL–including some selections from the new Pierre...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Skeleton Dance–Accent on Library Percussion
Tonight on Explorers Room, we'll spend a little time with library music, with a particular emphasis on percussion and the works of Eddie Warner, Patrice Sciortino, and Camille Sauvage (and thus, his...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Further Adventures in Percussion & Avant Garde!
Tonight Explorers Room will focus again on the intersection of weird/art music and percussion, this time moving out of the realm of exclusively library music and into the wilder, wider waters of...
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Eden Ahbez Emergency!
If you've yet to upgrade your Eden's Island from the cruddy rip that was floating around for so long, then I have some news for you: there's a nice rip of it over at Basic Hip Digital Oddio. But go...
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Tonight on Explorers Room – Quiet Villages Revisited: Exotic Jazz and Other...
Tonight on Explorers Room we'll spend an evening in the company of a few of my favorite examples of exotic jazz. Sophisticated (and otherwise) jazz-ups of exotica, Afro-syncretism, Eastern...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Australo-Jazz, Nature Documentary, Ornithology...
Tonight, Explorers Room officially becomes a 3-hour show. I know, I've built settlements in, and basically annexed, that third hour many times before. But now it's time to absorb it entirely and...
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Tonight Explorers Room Returns to Australia (Tourism, Advertising, National...
Tonight we return to Australia, this time to take a look at tourism and advertising jingles, national park music and vacation novelties, and odd gospel, as well as some soundtracks and schmaltz from...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: Stardust, Civilization, Cha Cha Cha, A Place...
Tonight we trip through a vaguely surreal bricolage of sounds and themes. For some reason I've had "Stardust" running through my head, so we'll hear some of that one this evening, as I exorcise and...
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Another Oddio Emergency! RITUAL OF THE SAVAGE!
Don't fool around, get this 320 vinyl rip of the greatest exotica record of all time, before it's gone.
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Girl Groups! (with special guest-explorer) 7-10
Tonight in the Explorers Room we are joined by special guest-explorer Julia Sull as together we set forth on a thrilling investigation into the themes and sounds, texts and metanarratives, of the girl...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: WFMU Marathaan Week One! Tune in for Prizes and...
It's the time of year when WFMU, the listener-supported, independent community radio station and longest-running freeform radio station in the U.S.–a station which airs no ads and accepts no corporate...
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Marathaan Week 2: Beat Back the Hell of Hegemony by Supporting WFMU, the...
Tonight! The final week of WFMU's fundraising marathon, the second and last Explorers Room marathon show of the year. If it is at all possible for you, do your part–no matter how small–to maintain the...
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Tonight on Explorers Room: The Women of Exotica
Tonight on Explorers Room: Mythology, Ethnomusicology, Wordlessness and Disembodiment–The Women of Exotica. Tune in for all the wordless vocalise and unworldly sounds of Yma Sumac, Miriam Burton,...
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Explorers Room Tonight! 7-10
Explorers Room starts in 40 minutes! See you there, I hope!EXPLORE
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