Flash Strap
@flashstrap.bsky.social
Artist & host of the Explorers Room on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio. Evan Crankshaw is my name. www.evancrankshaw.com
Was honored to do the cover for Marta Forsberg's beautiful new album Archaeology of Intimacy, on @adambdonoval.bsky.social Warm Winters Ltd.: martaforsberg.bandcamp.com/album/archae...
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Was honored to do the cover for Marta Forsberg's beautiful new album Archaeology of Intimacy, on @adambdonoval.bsky.social Warm Winters Ltd.: martaforsberg.bandcamp.com/album/archae...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: a set dedicated to / inspired by the late Joseph Byrd & his great United States of America. Also a groovy hot dub set and more live Miles including the longest-ever "Maiysha." 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/Kenzo/admin/...
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: a set dedicated to / inspired by the late Joseph Byrd & his great United States of America. Also a groovy hot dub set and more live Miles including the longest-ever "Maiysha." 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/Kenzo/admin/...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: a deeply haunted program of psychedelic ghosts, including a special set of J.A. Seazer stuff you have to hear to believe and a bunch of Adrian Sherwood dub productions. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
October 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: a deeply haunted program of psychedelic ghosts, including a special set of J.A. Seazer stuff you have to hear to believe and a bunch of Adrian Sherwood dub productions. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Explorers Room kicking off with absolutely gorgeous stuff from Electric Byrd. With Duke Pearson & Airto Moreira, cosmic, mysterious, exotic. With so much more in store::::::::JOIN ME
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Explorers Room kicking off with absolutely gorgeous stuff from Electric Byrd. With Duke Pearson & Airto Moreira, cosmic, mysterious, exotic. With so much more in store::::::::JOIN ME
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: Profoundly psychedelic, exotic jazz fusion, an extra-cool set of supernaturally deep dubs, and South American avant-garde mindbenders to send you down an electronic river of dreams. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: Profoundly psychedelic, exotic jazz fusion, an extra-cool set of supernaturally deep dubs, and South American avant-garde mindbenders to send you down an electronic river of dreams. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: rocksteady & dub, a kaleidoscope of exotic psychedelics, and a set of wonderful jazz-classical intersections. Tune in, hang out, help us raise a little dough - 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
October 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: rocksteady & dub, a kaleidoscope of exotic psychedelics, and a set of wonderful jazz-classical intersections. Tune in, hang out, help us raise a little dough - 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: we'll dive into Red Noise & the rest of the Futura label's wild, revolutionary rock & experimental offerings, a small but extremely potent selection of LPs with the spirit of 1968. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/Kenzo/admin/...
October 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: we'll dive into Red Noise & the rest of the Futura label's wild, revolutionary rock & experimental offerings, a small but extremely potent selection of LPs with the spirit of 1968. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/Kenzo/admin/...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: thunderous krautrock, cavernous dubs & other underground creations, and the conclusion of our Chico Hamilton series as we explore his exploratory, experimental late-60s and 1970s. 7-10pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
October 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: thunderous krautrock, cavernous dubs & other underground creations, and the conclusion of our Chico Hamilton series as we explore his exploratory, experimental late-60s and 1970s. 7-10pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: Huayno magic from Peru, the late great brujo Hermeto Pascoal, and further adventures with El Chico as we dig into his 60s records. Should be a really nice one. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
September 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: Huayno magic from Peru, the late great brujo Hermeto Pascoal, and further adventures with El Chico as we dig into his 60s records. Should be a really nice one. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: studies in textural transformations & meditative visions, a deep & wide Mal Waldron set, and a kaleidoscopic explosion of psychedelic sounds. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
September 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & Give the Drummer Radio: studies in textural transformations & meditative visions, a deep & wide Mal Waldron set, and a kaleidoscopic explosion of psychedelic sounds. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: extraordinary mutant sounds, massive Terry Riley, and a special set of ultimate west coast cool with Chico Hamilton & Quintet in the 1950s. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
September 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: extraordinary mutant sounds, massive Terry Riley, and a special set of ultimate west coast cool with Chico Hamilton & Quintet in the 1950s. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: Majestic cosmic unfoldings, a psychedelic Garden of Delights (so to speak) full of absolutely wild effects & sounds, and a guiding star of roots & dub to carry you home. 7-10:00pm EST: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
August 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: Majestic cosmic unfoldings, a psychedelic Garden of Delights (so to speak) full of absolutely wild effects & sounds, and a guiding star of roots & dub to carry you home. 7-10:00pm EST: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: Further intersections b/t jazz & concrete music, dubby/4th-worldy hazy-crazy stuff from the boys from Can, and dub heavier than lead. Surf the sounds with me 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
August 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: Further intersections b/t jazz & concrete music, dubby/4th-worldy hazy-crazy stuff from the boys from Can, and dub heavier than lead. Surf the sounds with me 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: funk, jazz, krautrock, dub, & musique concrète, dripping with delay, echo, sound effects, and other mind-warping, time-shifting, face-melting weirdness. Get in on the good sounds from 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
August 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: funk, jazz, krautrock, dub, & musique concrète, dripping with delay, echo, sound effects, and other mind-warping, time-shifting, face-melting weirdness. Get in on the good sounds from 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: dialectical calypso like the roaring of lions, radical dubs to make the earth tremble, and a sturdy regimen of avant-psych to melt the fabric of reality & return you to the source. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
July 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: dialectical calypso like the roaring of lions, radical dubs to make the earth tremble, and a sturdy regimen of avant-psych to melt the fabric of reality & return you to the source. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: warm winds & fragrant blossoms in a jazz mode, thunderously sagacious & psychedelic dub, and a hallucinatory library music night-world odyssey. Join me, hear me, see pictures in your mind – 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
July 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: warm winds & fragrant blossoms in a jazz mode, thunderously sagacious & psychedelic dub, and a hallucinatory library music night-world odyssey. Join me, hear me, see pictures in your mind – 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: an assortment of sundry European jazz beauties, another rip-roaring ride on Eddie Harris' electrified machines from deepest funk to deeply weird, and a heavy dub set for keeping cool. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
July 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: an assortment of sundry European jazz beauties, another rip-roaring ride on Eddie Harris' electrified machines from deepest funk to deeply weird, and a heavy dub set for keeping cool. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Explorers Room kicking off NOW with the dub stuff::::::JOIN ME
July 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Explorers Room kicking off NOW with the dub stuff::::::JOIN ME
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: we bring the kutchie dub style, have a mindmelter psychic-swamp set of psych/avant/jazz, and dream into the Australian wilderness via the eco-jazz panoramas of the great vibesman John Sangster. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
July 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: we bring the kutchie dub style, have a mindmelter psychic-swamp set of psych/avant/jazz, and dream into the Australian wilderness via the eco-jazz panoramas of the great vibesman John Sangster. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: we're back in action – tune in for a program of dub action, breezy, shadowy, exotic jazz, and other fusion & experimental sounds. Join me, 7-10:00pm est, right here: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
July 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: we're back in action – tune in for a program of dub action, breezy, shadowy, exotic jazz, and other fusion & experimental sounds. Join me, 7-10:00pm est, right here: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: we'll start with Beach Boys, of course – freaky & beautiful, with some extended Smile Sessions explorations – then a big set of dub in rebellion, and some very Sly funk. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
June 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: we'll start with Beach Boys, of course – freaky & beautiful, with some extended Smile Sessions explorations – then a big set of dub in rebellion, and some very Sly funk. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: a dubby opening set, followed by a trippy, raucous Eddie Harris super-set for the onset of summer vibrations, and finally a set of deranged & demented hybrid psych mutants. Join me here from 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
June 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: a dubby opening set, followed by a trippy, raucous Eddie Harris super-set for the onset of summer vibrations, and finally a set of deranged & demented hybrid psych mutants. Join me here from 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: some very spiritual jazz sounds, a set of monster Miles '74-75 live stuff (via the Heat Warps, naturally)(RIP Al Foster!), and a dub set that oughtta be ruffer than ruff = tuffer than tuff. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
May 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: some very spiritual jazz sounds, a set of monster Miles '74-75 live stuff (via the Heat Warps, naturally)(RIP Al Foster!), and a dub set that oughtta be ruffer than ruff = tuffer than tuff. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: dazzling jazz jewels, a big psychedelic stretch-out across sundry radical progressive sounds, and a deep set of dub from the roots. Grab your head, bring your ears and come along, 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
May 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: dazzling jazz jewels, a big psychedelic stretch-out across sundry radical progressive sounds, and a deep set of dub from the roots. Grab your head, bring your ears and come along, 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...