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Explorers Room Tonight! A stream of exoticness, 7-10
Tonight on Explorers Room, I'll be playing an assortment of music bound together by no real theme whatsoever, except that a fair amount of it is made up of recent acquisitions. Latin exotica,...
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Tonight's Explorers Room: Transmissions from the Electrified World of Eddie...
Tonight's Explorers Room will be a laid-back, highly groovy sound safari through the electrified world of the electrifying Eddie Harris. Naturally the focus will be on Harris' experimental work:...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Visages et Chants du Monde
Tonight in the Explorers Room we'll be enjoying music from all over the world, including some pretty amazing 10" and 7" French ethnographic recordings and Brazilian/Latin LPs I found at a thrift shop...
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Tomita has passed, the snowflakes dance on
With the sad news of Isao Tomita's death, I am reposting the May 14, 2015 notice for the Explorers Room Tomita-themed show. Give it a listen, if you will, and spend some time with some of the greatest...
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Tonight on the Explorers Room: Certain Sounds from the Caribbean Diaspora
Tonight's Explorers Room will be casually curated trip through a bevy of musical styles from the Caribbean diaspora–in this case mostly drawing from Jamaica, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados,...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room–In The World, But Not Of It: An Evening with...
Tonight's episode of Explorers Room will be an all-Moondog affair, with a special emphasis on the composer's multi-part suites, later-period symphonic/saxophonic recordings, and–of course, of...
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Bibliotheque Exotique: Gérard Levecque & Claude Romat – Africadelic's The...
Posting these by request. While never my favorite of the exotic library LPs that are out there, these two monster jam-filled records by Claude Romat & Gérard Levecque (with "Black Colored Drums"...
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STARTING RIGHT NOW! ALREADY UNDERWAY IN FACT
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Bananasmania – Exotic Disco
Tonight in the Explorers Room we'll be taking a bizarre odyssey through exotica and themes of exoticism in disco and dance music, from Lalo Schifrin's disco-jazz Black Widow to more uncategorizable new...
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TONIGHT ON EXPLORERS ROOM! 5-HOUR SOUND TOWER SUN ARAW SWEAT LODGE
Tonight, Explorers Room does more than just its regular duty and fills in for The Cool Blue Flame for a total of five hours of teeming radio, dedicated to the works of prolific artist/project Sun Araw....
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Tanganyika Tiger Voodoo Konga (Shipwrecked on...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, we'll have a classic episode full of adventure stories, voodoo, exotic jazz, bonafide all-time great exotica, and psychedelic weirdness. Don't miss this one, explorers,...
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Los Dinosaurios / Cuando Los Dinosaurios Dominan La Tierra by Personal...
Bit of a late announcement as this came out back in April, but better late than never: check out this EP (on Hooded Records) by Personal Mythologies, LOS DINOSAURIOS, for which I did the cover art....
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Wind and Surf – Melodrama, Mysticism, Atrocity
Tonight in the Explorers Room we'll be swimming through an evening of surf–furious, dreamy, or exotic, as the case may be–and sounds of melodrama and temptation inspired by Douglas Sirk, Gone with the...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: A Nature Walkabout with Sven Libaek
Tonight in the Explorers Room we'll be spending an adventuresome and lovely evening with one of our (I include you in this statement, dear reader, out of respect for your well-documented, impeccable...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Exotic Forests and Enchanted Tangos
Last week, Explorers Room was to fill in for Give the Drummer Some AND the following show, Kaminsky Kamoutsky, for a 4-hour program. A power outage, sustained at exactly 5:58 and delivered by one...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Sonic Waters and Silent Worlds (Underwater...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, we'll be cooling off with an evening of underwater synth music. It's muggy out there. It's hot. But in the ocean we'll be cool, at peace, submerged in wonder. O V E R B...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Modern Sounds, Primitive Feelings – Martin...
"...a combination of the South Pacific and the Orient...what a lot of people imagined the islands to be like... it's pure fantasy though."-Martin Denny, on his particular brand of musical ExoticaIn the...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Heat Waves, Echoes Hypnotiques
Tonight in the Explorers Room, we'll be once again trying to combat the oppressive summer heat with steamy hot night music – from Jamaica, West Africa, and elsewhere – teeming with echoes, echoey...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Extended Meditations
Tonight in the Explorers Room we'll be easing our troubled souls with a variety of extended meditative compositions, including new age soundscapes, German synth music, field recordings, and...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: We Set the Mantrols for the Heart of the Sun...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, we go boldly forth into heavy heavy dubspace, in search of cosmic themes in dub and reggae, a little corner of music that is, or can be, as Afrofuturist as Sun Ra or...
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