From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Asian Takeways Date: 01 Jul 2001 13:00:55 +0200 I noticed this compilation in the local recordshop yesterday, recommended? It's on Normal Records (http://www.normalrecords.de/QDKmedia.htm ) tracklist: QDK LP/CD 038 Various Artists Jing Ting - the joke Yoon Il-Loh - guitar boogie Chung-Ae Ahn - no mercy blues Yao Su-Yong - good bye in spring Chang Loo - at three springtime Chang Siao Ying - i miss you forever Che-Hong Beck - blowing the whistle Traditional (Japan) - shojojii Yao Su-Yong - love is blooming Chang Siao Ying - come back to me Chang Loo - when will you come back again? Thu Su Yung - you can be anything in life Yao Su-Yong - bridge of lovers Yoon Il-Loh - a moody person`s life Thu Su Yung - what a sound Yiu Peng - don`t say i`m silly Wang-Li - my husband run away Thu Su Yung - great love Chung Sister - romance family Yao Su-Yong - scared wind in spring Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, July 1 Date: 01 Jul 2001 11:24:17 -0400 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at: http://www.ckut.ca As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome. Space Bop #149 We're Space Bop - And We...Are...Canadian!! Yes, it's Canada Day, and we're celebrating our rich culture and joyous heritage in song, as the following hour of music will demonstrate. And we even have some non-Canadians celebrating the joys of Canada along with us! B.J. Snowden: In Canada "Songs In The Key Of Z" Gilles Gauthier & Marcel Lefebvre: Mustang "Mustang o.s.t." Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk: Song Of A Three Stringed Fiddle "Inuit Throat & Harp Songs" Sir Henry: Cabin Fever Party Twist "Ums Nackte Leben" William Shatner: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Crash Course In Science: Kitchen Motors "Strange Pleasures" Gitte Henning: Winter In Kanada Madame St- Onge: Chez Moi "Les 10 Plus Grands Succes De Mme. St-Onge" Joe Burghardt Orchestra & Chorus: Yodel Song "Gemutlichkeit In Winnipeg" (thanks, Allan - bet you wondered when we'd have the chance to play something like this!) Fuzzy Love: I Like Beer "Pagan Schmalz & Other Sacrifices" Les Maledictus Sound: The Whistler "Attention" Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk: Song Of A Little Girl "Inuit Throat & Harp Songs" Paul Kuhn: Ich hab' in Winni-Winni-Peg 'ne Braut The Incredible Bongo Band: Bongo Rock "Bongo Rock" Les Couche-Tard: Les Couche-Twistard "Twist Chez Les Couche-Tard" Les Couche-Tard: Viens Danser Le Twist "Twist Chez Les Couche-Tard" Les Maledictus Sound: Inside My Brain "Attention" Kids Of P.S. 63, Queens, NY: We're Good Friends With Canada "Lou's #1" (thanks, Lou!) Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening cheryls@dsuper.net brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obit] Chet Atkins Date: 01 Jul 2001 11:26:01 -0400 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Chet Atkins, whose guitar style influenced a generation of rock musicians even as he helped develop an easygoing country style to compete with it, died Saturday. He was 77. Atkins died at home, a funeral director said. Atkins had battled cancer several years. He underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor in June 1997, and had a bout with colon cancer in the 1970s. Atkins recorded more than 75 albums of guitar instrumentals and sold more than 75 million albums. He played on hundreds of hit records, including those of Elvis Presley (''Heartbreak Hotel''), Hank Williams Sr. (''Your Cheatin' Heart,'' ''Jambalaya'') and The Everly Brothers (''Wake Up Little Susie''). As an executive with RCA Records for nearly two decades beginning in 1957, Atkins played a part in the careers of Roy Orbison, Jim Reeves, Charley Pride, Dolly Parton, Jerry Reed, Waylon Jennings, Eddy Arnold and many others. Atkins helped craft the lush Nashville Sound, using string sections and lots of echo to make records that appealed to older listeners not interested in rock music. Among his notable productions are ''The End of the World'' by Skeeter Davis and ''He'll Have to Go'' by Reeves. ''I realized that what I liked, the public would like, too,'' Atkins said in a 1996 interview with The Associated Press. '''Cause I'm kind of square.'' Chester Burton Atkins was born June 20, 1924, on a farm near Luttrell, Tenn., about 20 miles northeast of Knoxville. His elder brother Jim Atkins also played guitar, and went on to perform with Les Paul. Chet Atkins' first professional job was as a fiddler on WNOX in Knoxville, where his boss was singer Bill Carlisle. ''He was horrible,'' Carlisle said at a tribute concert to Atkins in 1997. ''But I heard him during a break playing guitar and decided to feature him on that.'' Atkins' unusual fingerpicking style, a pseudoclassical variation influenced by such diverse talents as Merle Travis and Django Reinhardt, got him hired and fired from jobs at radio stations all over the country. Atkins sometimes joked that early on his playing sounded ''like two guitarists playing badly.'' During the 1940s he toured with many acts, including Red Foley, The Carter Family and Kitty Wells. RCA executive Steve Sholes took Atkins on as a protege in the 1950s, using him as the house guitarist on recording sessions. RCA began issuing instrumental albums by Atkins in 1953. George Harrison, whose guitar work on early Beatles records is heavily influenced by Atkins, wrote the liner notes for ''Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles.'' Sholes put Atkins in charge of RCA Nashville when he was promoted in 1957. There, he helped Nashville survive the challenge of rock 'n' roll with the Nashville Sound. The lavish sound has been criticized by purists who prefer their country music raw and unadorned. Atkins was unrepentant, saying that at the time his goal was simply ''to keep my job.'' ''And the way you do that is you make a hit record once in a while,'' he said in 1993. ''And the way you do that is you give the audience something different.'' Atkins quit his job as an executive in the 1970s and concentrated on playing his guitar. He's collaborated with a wide range of artists on solo albums, including Mark Knopfler, Paul McCartney, Eric Johnson, George Benson, Susie Bogguss and Earl Klugh. At the time he became ill, Atkins had just released a CD, ''The Day Finger Pickers took over the World.'' He also had begun regular Monday night performances at a Nashville club. ''If I know I've got to go do a show, I practice quite a bit, because you can't get out there and embarrass yourself.'' Atkins said in 1996. ''So I thought, if I play every week I won't be so rusty and I'll play a lot better.'' Survivors include his wife of more than 50 years, Leona Johnson Atkins, and a daughter, Merle Atkins. The funeral is Tuesday morning at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, the former home of the Grand Ole Opry. AP-NY-06-30-01 1737EDT ========== a sidenote: when Homer & Jethro auditioned for the Grand Ole Opry in 1949 they were denied membership because Jim Denny told Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns to fire the guitarist. Jethro refused because the guitarist was his brother-in-law. Denny told Jethro they were making a mistake because Chet would never amount to anything as a guitarist! http://www.google.com/search?q=%22chet+atkins%22 http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=1CHET|ATKINS # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [NYTimes obit] Chet Atkins Date: 01 Jul 2001 11:26:39 -0400 July 1, 2001=20 Chet Atkins, Country Guitarist and Producer, Is Dead at 77 By BEN RATLIFF,NYTimes Chet Atkins, the versatile guitarist and record producer who was a leader in the growth of Nashville as a music center in the 1950's and part of the elite force that transformed country music and affected popular musical taste in America, died on Saturday at his home in Nashville. He was 77. Mr. Atkins had battled cancer for several years, undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor in June 1997, and had a bout with colon cancer in 1970's, The Associated Press reported. Nicknamed "The Country Gentleman," Chet Atkins accepted his position in the music industry with a remarkable lack of arrogance, spending his last years in his office on Nashville's "Music Row" singing and playing the old songs with visiting performers whose recording careers he had a hand in shaping and whose music he influenced. Though he was directly involved in turning Nashville into a distinct country music hit-making empire, he played down his own ingenuity as a prime mover. "All I was trying to do was to keep my job," he recalled in 1988 of the days when Nashville was becoming the center of country music in the mid-1950's. "And the way you keep your job is to surprise the friends and neighbors with each new record." Chester Burton Atkins was born on June 20, 1924, on his grandfather's 50- acre farm in the Clinch Mountains near Luttrell, Tenn. He spent his childhood in poverty, and he said that left him with a sense of insecurity. "We were so poor and everybody around us was so poor that it was the 40's before any of us knew there had been a Depression," he wrote in his 1975 autobiography, "Country Gentleman." Music was central to his upbringing. His grandfather was a champion fiddler, and his father, James Arley Atkins, was a music teacher, piano tuner and sometime evangelistic singer. His half-brother, Jim, would become the rhythm guitarist in the Les Paul Trio in the 1930's, and his other brother, Lowell, also played guitar. Asthmatic as a child, Mr. Atkins learned how to play the banjo on days when he had to stay home from school. "I'd play it until the strings broke," he recalled. "When that happened, I'd just rip a wire out of the screen porch and tune 'er up again. It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care." According to stories, he traded either a pistol or a farm wagon for his first guitar, which was owned by his stepfather, Willie Strevel. He took up the instrument at age 9, having already learned to play the ukulele and the fiddle, and he played at local parties and roadhouses. Meanwhile, he was learning guitar styles by listening to groups like the Sons of the Pioneers and the Corn Cobblers on radio. At 11, he moved to Columbus, Ga., where it was hoped that the drier climate would ease his asthma. He lived with his natural father and his stepmother. Listening to a Cincinnati radio station, the young Chet Atkins became enthralled by the playing style of guitarist Merle Travis, and in 1941, while working for the National Youth Administration in Mountain Hill, Ga., he spent his salary on equipment to make his acoustic guitar electric. To get even closer to the Travis style, he devised a method of picking with a thumb and three fingers that would later influence other guitarists. He did not know that Merle Travis got his own sound with a thumb and one finger. Mr. Atkins was a professional musician by age 17. The outbreak of World War II spread Southern rural music as Southerners left home for military bases and defense plants all over the country. Mr. Atkins quit high school and took advantage of the wider demand for country music, getting a job as a fiddler with the Jumpin' Bill Carlisle-Archie Campbell program, which was broadcast once a week from WNOX in Knoxville, Tenn. Lowell Blanchard, the director of the radio station, heard him idly practicing guitar and was impressed enough to put Mr. Atkins on the station's "Midday Merry-Go-Round" program. After the Carlisle-Campbell show was canceled, Mr. Blanchard made Mr. Atkins the rhythm guitarist in the radio station's staff band, at $30 a week. Mr. Atkins was a solitary young man whose shyness was often misinterpreted as hostility. As a result, he was often fired. He found and lost short-term jobs at radio stations in Cincinnati; Raleigh, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; and Springfield, Mo. But the guitarist's luck changed when the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle, among the most popular performers on WNOX, added him to their touring band. The troupe traveled extensively and appeared every Saturday night on the radio program "Tennessee Barn Dance" in Knoxville. They moved to Springfield, Mo., where "The Carter Family and Chet Atkins Show" on KWTO proved so successful that it was nationally syndicated. Chet Atkins was becoming known throughout the country and his reputation grew even more when he and the Carter sisters began to appear as stars of the "Grand Ole Opry." Mr. Atkins capitalized on his radio success with LPs, which he began recording for RCA Victor in 1946. He had his first hit, "The Galloping Guitars," in 1949. He moved to Nashville, where he found steady work as a studio musician and as an artists- and-repertory man for Steve Sholes, the chief producer of country and western records for RCA Victor. Mr. Atkins settled into a group of young musicians who played on most RCA country sessions, a group that included the pianist Floyd Cramer, the drummer Buddy Harman, the bassist Bob Moore, and the guitarists Ray Edenton and Grady Martin. Harmonies were provided by the Jordanaires and the Anita Kerr Singers. The sound of that strong team at work enlivened hit after hit. In 1957, Mr. Sholes, who had become head of artists and repertory for RCA Victor in New York, appointed Mr. Atkins the manager of recording operations in Nashville. "There were an awful lot of sidemen around who could have done the same thing," Mr. Atkins said in 1988, when asked about his early promotion to a position of authority at RCA. "But the difference was that I was friends with Mr. Steve Sholes." RCA built a recording studio in Nashville, and there Mr. Atkins, who had left the "Grand Ole Opry" and the Carter Sisters to concentrate on his recording career, guided many of the most famous country artists to success. Among the singers whose career-enhancing records were produced by Mr. Atkins were Don Gibson, Hank Snow, Jim Reeves, Roger Miller, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton and Charley Pride. Don Gibson had failed with four record companies before Mr. Atkins signed him for RCA. Mr. Gibson's first single for the company was a recording of two songs he wrote on one day in 1957. The first, "Oh, Lonesome Me," hit both the country and pop-music charts. The song on the flip side, "I Can't Stop Loving You," became an American standard.=20 Mr. Atkins also suggested to Mr. Sholes that RCA should outbid Columbia Records and sign Elvis Presley to a contract. RCA made millions of dollars from that suggestion. Mr. Atkins was regarded as possibly the consummate pop professional in American music. He used his own wide taste, his mastery of every kind of music, from the classics and jazz to religious music and flamenco, and his familiarity with electronic instruments and sound to change the sound of country music in the 1950's and 60's. Rock and roll had made enormous inroads into country music when Mr. Atkins was operating as a record producer. Sales of country music were declining and many radio stations were switching to rock. Mr. Atkins was pivotal in adapting country music to changing American tastes, initially toward a hard-edged, urban honky-tonk style, then toward a suburban pop style with strings and vocal choruses. This softer sound =97 Mr. Atkins liked to call it "uptown" =97 was marketed= as "countrypolitan" but became more widely known as "the Nashville Sound." It was created so that country music could have an identity separate from rockabilly, but the softening also took place because Mr. Atkins and a few other influential producers believed that the sounds of steel guitars and country fiddles had become too old-fashioned. Under his guidance, "progressive" country music achieved its intended commercial crossover. Its admirers believe it saved country music from the rock 'n' roll juggernaut, brought the music to mid-America in a way that had not been experienced since Gene Autry, and turned Nashville into Music City U.S.A.=20 Once success was achieved, however, the the style was derided for its homogeneity and lack of backbone. "Aren't you going to ask me to define `The Nashville Sound?' " Mr. Atkins would tease interviewers. Then he would jingle some coins in his fist over the microphone. "It's the sound of= money." Mr. Atkins became vice president in charge of country music for RCA in 1967, but three years later he began to phase himself out of that end of the business. "Producing can be so stressful," he said later. "I couldn't handle it. It wasn't fun anymore." Mr. Atkins made concert tours of Europe, Asia and Africa and played at the Newport Jazz Festival, the White House and on numerous television programs. He always played with a thumb-pick and his fingers, rather than a flat pick, and he liked to show off his dexterity by playing two melodies simultaneously on different strings. He took up the classical guitar and was a guest artist with many symphony orchestras. Though he was offered honorary degrees by various universities, he never accepted one; he preferred instead the degree he bestowed on himself, Certified Guitar Picker or C.G.P. He recorded duet albums through the 90's, among them sessions with the singer Suzy Bogguss and the singer-guitarists Mark Knopfler and Jerry Reed. Mr. Atkins was a tall, slender man who retained his childhood reticence. Paul Hemphill described him in his book "The Nashville Sound" as "an icy-veined, wry-humored, conservatively dressed refugee from the mountains" with the "demeanor of a small-town undertaker." He had been a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame since 1973 and received many awards, including being named Cashbox magazine's outstanding instrumentalist for 13 consecutive years.=20 He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Leona; a daughter, Merle, who was named after his idol, Merle Travis; and two grandchildren. In 1995, he told The Los Angeles Times that the reason he was still performing on guitar was because he was still trying to "get it right." "I've never expressed myself musically the way I would like," he said "Because of that, I've had a long career. I've never been able to sit back and say, `Wasn't I great? Listen to the one I made in 1958!' " # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obit] Joe Henderson Date: 01 Jul 2001 11:35:52 -0400 The AP has announced the tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson died Saturday,June 30th 2001,of heart failure.He had postponed going to the hospital until the last minute despite a history of problems. Joe Henderson died Saturday, June 30, of heart failure following a long bout with emphysema. He was born April 24, 1936. An obituary can be seen at http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Obit-Henderson.html and an interesting interview published in 1991 can be seen at http://www.melmartin.com/html_pages/Interviews/henderson.html. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Bzyez97w7krst http://www.google.com/search?q=%22joe+henderson%22 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) denny vs. baxter in the bins Date: 01 Jul 2001 11:22:06 -0700 At 12:31 PM 6/30/01, basic hip wrote:. >Each have "lounge" sections, which continue to shrink with every visit. On >the other hand, certain artists that were once empty or did not exist at all >are on the rise. I have the same experiences in Portland, Oregon. The stores which I went to for new CDs of lounge have merged any remaining CDs into Easy Listening, Jazz and Latin. It is now much more difficult to find CDs. The "heyday" of exotica is over. Long live exotica! Does this mean I would abandon my own collection of LPs? No way...I never collected because it was popular, only because I liked it. However, I had hoped that the popularity of it would encourage more CDs to be produced...and now I have lost hope in that. Yet, maybe it will be easier to find the records I want...and I can make my own CDs! Byron ___...--''''***^^^^^^""""""^^^^^***''''---___ "Life is short. Stay happy." ||| ||| ---May 2001 aol.com tv advert ||| |||bag AT hubris DOT net Portland, OR, USA||| """^^^'''***----...__________...----'''^^^""" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: PjB Subject: (exotica) Score! Date: 01 Jul 2001 14:46:22 -0700 well, a bit of thrifting yesterday turned up some great finds, which i will list without ceremony: 1) ray martin and orchestra / dynamica (stereo action!) / RCA LSA-2287 condition vg, $1 2) the hi-lo's in stereo w/ frank comstock orchestra / omega OSL-11 nm, $1 (i don't know where this one falls in their discography, but it is pre-CBS, so early) 3) george feyer / echoes of broadway / vox VX 25.350 (piano w/ rhythm accompaniment) g, $1 4) ames brothers w/ sid ramin orch. / smoochin' time / rca LSP-1855 vg, $1 5) phase 4 stereo / demonstration record / london SPD 4 (this is a comp of various orchestras. london did a series of these, similar to rca's Stereo Action! series) g, $1 6) the exciting.... lena horne w/ phil moore orch. / craftsmen C8018 (great cover shot) nm, $1 7) Time Series 2000 / new sounds! / (this is a strange one... a collection of tunes by bands like 'bongos and brass', 'pin point percussion', 'flutes and percussion', etc. the motto on front of the record is 'for those who dare.... the exclusive sound extra..' i haven't been able to find out much about this one, except that it was a division of Time magazine...) g, $1 8) hang on ramsey! / ramsey lewis trio / cadet LP-761 / (this was recorded live at the light house, hermosa beach, ca. interesting because he's doing some pop hits of the day, including 'hang on sloopy', and a couple of beatles tunes--- 'a hard days night (!)', and 'and i love her'... g, $1 9) pete rugolo and orch. / an adventure in sound - REEDS / mercury SR 60039 / (this is great... TEN reed players w/ rhythm section playing some jazz standards and even a charlie parker tune, where they arranged some of birds' solo for ten reeds.... a precursor to what supersax would do 20 years later! features, among others, andre previn, bud shank, and barney kessel. another great cover shot...) nm, $1 10) dinah washington / the queen! / mercury MG20439 / vg+, $1 all in all, a good thrift score, and cheap! .02 pb/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Crossman Subject: (exotica) True Story: Desert Island Discs Date: 01 Jul 2001 17:45:32 -0700 Went over to Tower Records yesterday and picked up the latest issue of their house-organ magazine Pulse. I thought to myself - hey I ought to send in a list of "Desert Island Discs" (a regular feature of the zine) with an Exotica theme - what better for a desert island, right? (BTW - in an earlier life I had a DID list published in 1988) So, I'm thinking about the selections I would put in there. Gotta have Denny and Baxter. Check. Drasnin - yeah, he's in there too. Don Tiki would be a good modern inclusion and of course their album is great and deserves to be there... check. I'm thinking away and start to read the issue. I turn over to the DIDs and see what's there. Low and behold I see a photo of the cover of Capitol's "Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny" comp. The heading for the list reads "Exotica A-Z". Full of Denny, Baxter, Drasnin, Ahbez, et. al. I look to see who contributed this list. Lloyd Kandel, Honolulu HI !! Floyd, Goddamned Floyd beat me to the punch. He even had the balls to include Don Tiki on his list. I'm not saying they don't belong, but (for those in the know only) a little self-serving. Heh heh, I love it. My only gripe is the exclusion of Arthur Lyman from Floyd's list. While Lyman lacks a great comp, he should still be there (IMHO). Anyway, congrats to Fluid Floyd for a great list and a little Exotica props for the rest of the world! -Kevdo -- *********************************************************** * Kevin Crossman kevin@kevdo.com * * http://www.kevdo.com - The Narrow Interest Portal * * Lip Balm Anonymous, Ultimate Mai Tai, Exotica Archive * *********************************************************** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: PjB Subject: Re: (exotica) Score! Date: 01 Jul 2001 18:29:08 -0700 >5) phase 4 stereo / demonstration record / london SPD 4 (this is a comp of >various orchestras. london did a series of these, similar to rca's Stereo >Action! series) > g, $1 this one is excellent! one of the tunes...'colonel bogey'.... is incredible. true exotica at its best... has anyone heard of the band that did this? they are called Johnny Keatings Kombo. i'd really like to find a whole record of these guys. bongo city... also, an amazing 'tiger rag', by eric rogers and his orchestra... replete with gutteral vocal sounds and a damsel in distress. wild.... .02 pb/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) where's that Mimi? Got your Sammy song Date: 01 Jul 2001 20:04:25 -0700 Mimi had asked about Sammy Davis Jr's version of "The Man With The Golden Arm" It took some digging - evidently it was never on an LP - only released as a 45 single on Brunswick or Decca. This is the Decca version, which I stumbled upon today. Just for you, Mimi :) http://www.basichip/sounds/sammy.mp3 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: Bad URL (Re: (exotica) where's that Mimi? ) Date: 01 Jul 2001 20:14:33 -0700 Oops, sorry - I gave a bad URL, this should do the trick: http://www.basichip.com/sounds/sammy.mp3 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dmitri Bender Subject: (exotica) Re: by the numbers...? Date: 02 Jul 2001 18:30:47 +0400 Hi All, PjB wrote: ----- hi all..... i was just reading an interview with jazz pianist dave brubeck, one that was done in '95 or so. at one point, he starts talking about what the jazz scene was like in eastern european communist countries in the 40s and 50s. in another paragraph, he talks about doctors using x-ray screens to make bootleg copies of his music, taken off the VOA radio programs. very strange..... sounds incredible. here 'tis: DB: "My music and a lot of jazz was taken off of the Voice of America when it was broadcast, by doctors and technicians in a hospital, on X-ray screens. They could make a copy some way on an X-ray screen and make that into a recording. A lot of my music was done that way." comments? additions? anyone..? ------ I confirm this information. I'm Russian, and although I'm 34 - so I apparently didnt catch that time - I do aware that back in 50s people used this very media - X-ray screens - in order to record music "from the West" and distribute it among likeminded folks - not only jazz, virtually any kind of popular music (it makes no sense to record classics this way ;). This kind of recordings were referred to as "recordings on bones" ;) - due to images on those X-ray screens :) These recordings were suitable for turntables. As for the method itself: a taperecorder output was linked with weird macinery equipped with a crook. The crook had a needle (nail alike) which would produce curves on a floppy media by scratching out chips and thus in the end we had a self-made recording. X-ray screens could be picked up in trach cans nearby hospitals. One screen could fit only one song. That's it :) Dmitri Bender "The Voic eof Theremin" radioshow http://i.am/golos # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Oh...my! Date: 02 Jul 2001 10:14:36 -0400 http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1441141108 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Score! Date: 02 Jul 2001 15:38:25 >also, an amazing 'tiger rag', by eric rogers and his orchestra... replete >with gutteral vocal sounds and a damsel in distress. wild.... > >.02 Have you heard (on I think the same phase 4 comp) Stanley Black Orchestra with rythm and female chorous doing 'Caravan'? Marvellous exotic percussion and star trek style female wordless vocals. I usually play it on top of an old African Head Charge 12". rob _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Wages Subject: Re: (exotica) Score! Date: 02 Jul 2001 11:51:29 -0500 > this one is excellent! one of the tunes...'colonel bogey'.... is > incredible. true exotica at its best... has anyone heard of the band that > did this? they are called Johnny Keatings Kombo. > i'd really like to find a whole record of these guys. bongo city... Keating's "Colonel Bogey" is on "Percussive Moods" (SP 44005). I have several Keating LPs, but this one is my favorite if only for his version of "Delilah" which is prime Exotica somewhat in the vein of Mel Henke's "Exotic Adventure". Not a hard find either, so check it out! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Maurizio Mansueti" Subject: (exotica) Transistors News! Kid Loco - Gak Sato - Masanori Ikeda in ...Mission on Venus! Date: 02 Jul 2001 19:04:01 +0200 Greetings Earthling! Waiting for the new album "Atelier" on Temposphere/Right Tempo rec., we are pleased to introduce to you: The "Mission on Venus" adventures! What subliminal message is hidden behind the vocalize of Miss Ari? Waiting for an answer, enjoy with these three new Transistors adventures! 1) Mission on Venus - Kid Loco Belleville Carnival Mix (June 2001 - Temposphere / Right Tempo) Kid Loco is the most eclectic dj of the Parisian scene. Since the first time that he listened "Mission on Venus" vynil ep, Kid loved our track. So it's a great honour for us to present his Belleville Carnival Mix! You can listen a preview on-line at kid loco.com 2) Mission on Venus - CDep (June 2001 - Temposphere / Right Tempo) And finally on cd, "Mission on Venus"! This new Temposphere / Right Tempo edition includes the 2000 original vynil release of Mission on Venus plus Kid Loco Belleville Carnival Mix. 3) "SPINOUT 2" - Non Stop DJ Mix by Masanori Ikeda - Out now! 2001.5.23 (V2 Records - Japan - http://www.v2records.co.jp) that includes The Transistors with "Mission on Venus - Gak Sato Custom Mix" http://www.v2records.co.jp/special/o004_sc/010504/spinout2.html See also Discography page and Fan Club page on The Transistors Space Station. Stay tuned Earthlings! ErMan ____________ for contact The Transistors: The Transistors Space Station http://members.xoom.com/Lounge_Italy/the_transistors.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tikiman Subject: Re: (exotica) True Story: Desert Island Discs Date: 02 Jul 2001 10:17:41 -0700 (PDT) Hey Kev-- mahalo for including us on your mental DID list... and you're right, Lyman should've been on mine! Obviously for this group, my list is exotica 101... just wanted to hip the uninitiated to what's easily available from the past and present artists. And yeah, although it seems self-serving... gotta plug the Don every chance we get. here's the list Tower printed: Exotica A - Z My DID list for an imaginary tropical paradise... full of exotic percussion, evocative jungle sounds, congas, bongos, vibraphones and sensual vocals. 1. Eden Ahbez- Eden's Island 2. Les Baxter- The Exotic Moods of 3. Combustible Edison- Schizophonic! 4. Martin Denny- The Exotic Sounds of 5. Don Tiki- The Forbidden Sounds of 6. Robert Drasnin- Voodoo! 7. Bebel Gilberto- Tanto Tempo 8. Mondo Exotica- Ultra Lounge/Volume 1 9. Tipsy- Trip Tease 10. John Zorn- The Gift Lloyd Kandell (aka Fluid Floyd) Honolulu, HI --- Kevin Crossman wrote: > > Went over to Tower Records yesterday and picked up > the latest issue of > their house-organ magazine Pulse. > > I thought to myself - hey I ought to send in a list > of "Desert Island > Discs" (a regular feature of the zine) with an > Exotica theme - what > better for a desert island, right? (BTW - in an > earlier life I had a > DID list published in 1988) > > So, I'm thinking about the selections I would put in > there. Gotta have > Denny and Baxter. Check. Drasnin - yeah, he's in > there too. Don Tiki > would be a good modern inclusion and of course their > album is great and > deserves to be there... check. > > I'm thinking away and start to read the issue. I > turn over to the DIDs > and see what's there. Low and behold I see a photo > of the cover of > Capitol's "Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny" comp. The > heading for the > list reads "Exotica A-Z". Full of Denny, Baxter, > Drasnin, Ahbez, et. al. > I look to see who contributed this list. > > Lloyd Kandel, Honolulu HI !! > > Floyd, Goddamned Floyd beat me to the punch. He even > had the balls to > include Don Tiki on his list. I'm not saying they > don't belong, but > (for those in the know only) a little self-serving. > Heh heh, I love it. > > My only gripe is the exclusion of Arthur Lyman from > Floyd's list. While > Lyman lacks a great comp, he should still be there > (IMHO). > > Anyway, congrats to Fluid Floyd for a great list and > a little Exotica > props for the rest of the world! > > -Kevdo > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "F. Cobalt" Subject: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki Date: 02 Jul 2001 11:42:56 -0700 I ran across this on the NY Times site today, and it's so lame I had to share. They are so right, "kitschy tiki" is, like, so done to death! Mr. Unlucky -- Tiki Room NYToday Pick, After Work, Lounges Is it possible to take the kitsch out of Tiki culture? That is the concept behind Tiki Room, a new, sleekly modern lounge at 4 West 22nd Street in Manhattan. Nancy Mah, who also designed the interiors of hangouts like Lotus and Sushi Samba, did away with the nostalgic Polynesian staples -- thatched huts, flamethrowing pu pu platters and red-eyed tribal totems -- and replaced them with pared-down references. There are abstract sunsets made of backlighted plexiglass, and plasma television screens play surf videos and have Internet access. The tropical cocktails have lost their dry ice mist and have been given names like the Honolulu Hangover and Hawaii 5-Ohhhh! Instead of servers in Don Ho attire, the waitresses wear midriff-baring Hawaiian-print halter tops. The massive Tiki head that traditionally lords it over the festivities is still there, but its forbidding features have been smoothed away, leaving an 18-foot-tall modernist sculpture with a V.I.P. seating area inside. "We w anted to do something different," said Eddie Dean, co-owner of the lounge with Steve Steckel. Ms. Mah, snacking on jalape~no-glazed pork ribs in front of the sunset, said: "Kitschy Tiki has been done so well for many years at places like Trader Vic's and the Tonga Room. So there was no point in trying that again." -- Julia Chaplin From "Pulse: On Bali Hai, No Ballyhoo," The Times, 5/27/01. Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki Date: 02 Jul 2001 14:54:24 -0400 Here's the Sheckys review of the Tiki Room. lousmith@pipeline.com (I don't know if I'm happy or sad that my office just moved from around the corner from TR to across the street from the main library) http://newyork.sheckys.com/bar.asp?id=72 Tiki Room 4 W. 22nd St. (5th & 6th Aves.) Flatiron 646-230-1444 It’s not like you need a hook to get you up off the sofa for the night, but a cutesy, kitschy theme never hurt anyone. And, while you’ll be greeted by a giant tiki icon and a barrage of faux bamboo crafted from cardboard tubes care of Designer Nancy Mah, there are no lei’s to speak of and over all the Polynesian rendering is subtly toned down to cater to the persnickety downtowners who actually like kitsch but act like they don’t. So take a seat alongside the tiki torch and order a spiked slurpee (available in eight fruitilicious flavors like raspberry and Hawaiian Punch, $10) and a plate of tropical Cajun cuisine. Coming soon: Sex and The City viewings on Sunday nights. fcobalt@lycos.com wrote: > I ran across this on the NY Times site today, and it's so lame I had to share. They are so right, "kitschy tiki" is, like, so done to death! Mr. Unlucky -- Tiki Room NYToday Pick, After Work, Lounges Is it possible to take the kitsch out of Tiki culture? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mimi Mayer Subject: (exotica)The Amazing BasicHip (was where's that Mimi? Got your Date: 02 Jul 2001 15:47:34 -0500 Ford, you are such a darlin'! Thank you! Sammy's "Man with the Golden Arm" is as melodramatic, smooth, and sweetly sung as I'd remembered it. And guess what? You timed the posting perfectly--it ended up being a sort of an unexpected birthday present to me. I'm so grateful. Is that your MP3 or one you found elsewhere? I'm wondering now about the orchestra performing with Sammy--would love any info you have to share. And if you did find the Decca record,...well, you are an astonishingly quick and resourceful collector! BasicHip: The Best! Gleefully yours, Mimi >>>Mimi had asked about Sammy Davis Jr's version of "The Man With The Golden >>>Arm" >>> >>>It took some digging - evidently it was never on an LP - only released as a >>>45 single on Brunswick or Decca. >>> >>>This is the Decca version, which I stumbled upon today. Just for you, Mimi >>>:) >>> >>>http://www.basichip/sounds/sammy.mp3 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: (exotica) w.o.w. mirman! Date: 02 Jul 2001 17:10:14 -0500 Wow and weird...who is eugene mirman????? Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki Date: 02 Jul 2001 19:01:57 -0400 More importantly, can we stage a kitschy-coup? I am VERY sorry, Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dymaxia Subject: (exotica) (fwd) Dog releases a single! Date: 03 Jul 2001 07:10:55 -0500 (CDT) I haven't actually *heard* this yet - just FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- BUFFALO, NY - Sgt. Pepper Endres, a border collie from Western New York state, has released his debut single, "The Tale of My Soul", on the Butter-Dog Records label. The CD single features two tracks, the canine country hit "The Tail of My Soul (is Waggin')", and a funny musical tribute to dogs of all kinds, entitled "All You Need (is a Dog)". Details, sound samples and ordering information can be found at Pepper's website- http://www.endresnet.com/pepper.html Sgt. Pepper Endres - The Tale of My Soul http://www.endresnet.com/pepper.html -- Kerry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) (fwd) Dog releases a single! Date: 03 Jul 2001 13:54:27 +0100 Dymaxia wrote: > > I haven't actually *heard* this yet - just FYI I was disappointed. The dog sings very little on the samples you can download. Just the occasional yelp. But the idea of singing dogs is, obviously, great. (The samples are via the 'sounds' link) > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > BUFFALO, NY - Sgt. Pepper Endres, a border collie from Western New York > state, has released his debut single, "The Tale of My Soul", on the > Butter-Dog Records label. > > The CD single features two tracks, the canine country hit "The Tail of My > Soul (is Waggin')", and a funny musical tribute to dogs of all kinds, > entitled "All You Need (is a Dog)". Details, sound samples and ordering > information can be found at Pepper's website- > http://www.endresnet.com/pepper.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [NYTimes obit] Joe Henderson Date: 03 Jul 2001 10:26:00 -0400 July 3, 2001 Joe Henderson, Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 64 by BEN RATLIFF Joe Henderson, one of the great jazz saxophonists and a composer who wrote a handful of tunes known by almost every jazz student, died on Saturday in San Francisco. He was 64 and lived in San Francisco. The cause was heart failure after a long struggle with emphysema, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Henderson was unmistakably modern. "Joe had one foot in the present, the other in the future, and he was just a step away from immortality," said the saxophonist Benny Golson. His tenor saxophone sound was shaded, insinuating, full of layers, with quicksilver lines amid careful ballad phrases and short trills. He had a clean, expressive upper register and a talent for improvising in semi-abstract harmony, and when the far-out years for jazz arrived in the mid-60's, led by musicians like John Coltrane and Miles Davis, he was well positioned to take part. He made a series of records for Milestone that used studio echo, Alice Coltrane's harp, violins, wood flutes and other exotic accouterments. But Mr. Henderson's greatest strengths were more traditional: the ballad, the uptempo tune, the standard. And by the early 1990's, when he was a respected elder, he made some of his greatest statements on a series of well-produced, nearly theatrical albums for Verve Records. Born in Lima, Ohio, he was one of 15 siblings. His parents and his brother James encouraged him to study music because of the talents he displayed as a saxophonist in his high school band. He attended Kentucky State College for a year, then transferred to Wayne State University in Detroit, where he was among fellow students like Yusef Lateef, Curtis Fuller and Hugh Lawson. In Detroit he worked with the saxophonist Sonny Stitt, and eventually formed his own group before joining the Army in 1960. He played in the Army band at Fort Benning, Ga., and toured military bases in the Far East and Europe with a revue called the Rolling Along Show. In 1962 Mr. Henderson, who soon became a distinctive presence with his rail-thin body, thick black glasses and bushy mustache, was discharged and headed for New York. He quickly joined the young musicians recording for Blue Note records, especially the trumpeter Kenny Dorham, who was acting as a talent scout for the label. He made his recording debut in 1963 on Dorham's "Una Mas," one of the classic Blue Note records of the early 60's. Mr. Henderson was entering jazz at a fertile moment, when a few ambitious, challenging albums, like John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" and Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue," had broken through to a wide audience. A new self-possessed intellectualism was widespread in black music, and the experimental and traditional factions hadn't yet hardened their positions. Within the same four- month stretch as a Blue Note session regular, Mr. Henderson found himself playing solos on Lee Morgan's "Sidewinder," an album full of bluesy, hard-bop tunes, and Andrew Hill's album "Point of Departure," with its opaque, knotted harmonies and rhythmic convolutions. He played more roadhouse riffs on Morgan's record, more abstract thematic improvisations on Mr. Hill's, and sounded perfectly natural in both contexts. After making five albums with Dorham, Mr. Henderson replaced Junior Cook in Horace Silver's band from 1964 to 1966. Again he was on hand for a milestone album, "Song for My Father." He was also a member of Herbie Hancock's band from 1969 to 1970. During the 60's he made several first-rate albums under his own name, including "Page One" and "Inner Urge," and wrote tunes — among them the blues pieces "Isotope" and "A Shade of Jade," the waltz "Black Narcissus," the bossa nova "Recordame" and the harmonically complex "Inner Urge" — that earned lasting underground reputations as premium modern-jazz improvisational vehicles. Mr. Henderson briefly joined the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat and Tears in 1971, and his albums for Milestone, where he recorded until 1976, started to change from mystical Coltrane-inspired sessions to grooves and near jazz-rock. By the end of the 70's, he was working with the pianist Chick Corea. Then, after a five-year silence, he came back with the two volumes of "The State of the Tenor." The first of his moves to redefine his career, these excellent mainstream jazz sets were recorded live at the Village Vanguard. In the early 1990's he signed a new contract with Verve, which led to three Grammys. "Lush Life," from 1991, used Billy Strayhorn tunes. With its first-rate playing and narrative arc — it began with a duet, expanded to a quintet and ended with a saxophone solo — it has sold nearly 90,000 copies, reports Soundscan, a company that tracks album sales. Other songbook albums, only slightly less successful, included "So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)," a treatment of pieces associated with Miles Davis; "Double Rainbow," an album of Antonio Carlos Jobim's music; and Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess," recorded with an all-star jazz lineup as well as the pop singers Sting and Chaka Khan. His 90's discography also included "Joe Henderson Big Band," a lavish rendering of his compositions. Mr. Henderson's survivors include a sister, Phyllis, and a brother, Troy. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: (exotica) at last! FLABBY mp3s and more APERITIVO Date: 03 Jul 2001 20:41:32 +0100 the first Flabby tracks are finally appearing on Mp3.com :-) http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/172/flabby.html the express Url http://www.mp3.com/flabby is currently inactive for technical reasons but should be back in a few hours together with a couple more downloads. If you take a look at http://www.mp3.com/aperitivo you'll notice almost all volumes 1 & 2 are online now. One track is missing since the site keeps saying it has bad encoding (?). I will give you more infos as soon as possibile. DAM CDs and more tectual infos i.e. full credits should appear soon. :) The Flabby page can also be used to send messages to the group; none of the members seem online at the moment but messages will be printed and passed to Soul Trade which will give them to the band. regards, Nicola www.ecl3ctic.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) at last! FLABBY mp3s Date: 03 Jul 2001 11:55:50 -0700 (PDT) Thanks Nicola for the heads up! Flabby gets played, Babluba Shake and Mambo Italiano, by me on Mardis Gras Day(Carnival Day) in a parade I'm in called Mondo Kayo. Love these songs and know this band is capable of more great romps into party dance music! Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Nicola Battista wrote: > > the first Flabby tracks are finally appearing on Mp3.com :-) http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/172/flabby.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Cafe Apres Date: 03 Jul 2001 13:16:33 -0700 (PDT) There is a whole series of these Cafe Apres cds from Japan. Maybe 10 or so. I think I have them all. I can't recommend them enough. The Japanese know how to pull out those obscure songs. The comps generally mix Brazil music with obscure soft pop tunes generally from the 1960s. I have learned about many obscure soft pop and bossa bands from these cds. The song selection is well thought out. To be sure there are famous songs on these comps, but with their length there's always plenty of gems on each. Put in the words Cafe Apres at dustygrooves search engine and they will appear. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) without a doubt Date: 03 Jul 2001 16:25:40 -0400 I was poking around the archives of Internet Update and found a few sites of possible interest. (To find Internet Update, go to http://www.newsbytes.com/ and Search for "internet update") Lousmith@pipeline.com ------------- The Music Of Chromosomes Imagine being able to convert DNA sequences into musical notes. That is what some Welsh programmers have done with ProteinMusic, a Java-based program that takes data from DNA sequences and plays music from it. The authors say they developed the first version of this downloadable, free program, written in C, on an Apple Mac together with a MIDI connection to a synthesizer in 1996. This program is a complete re-write of the original program in Java. World Wide Web: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~phiwww/pm/index.html ------------ Gig Posters Memorialized In Web Collection Gigposters.com collects images of those posters bands use to promote their upcoming gigs. While college students can only manage to collect and display a few posters in their dorm rooms, this site can store and archive thousands in digital form. From the groovy through to the scary and bizarre, these gig posters may bring back some memories to some. They've certainly become an interesting modern art form. Watch out ... the collectors are already hunting for, or arguing over the best poster ever! World Wide Web: http://www.gigposters.com/ . --------- 8-Ball Answers By Live Webcam Why buy an 8-ball when you can consult one live and in person on the Web? The "Public 8 Ball" by Jim Studt is "not some cheesy imitation 8-ball written in a Web script. This is a real 8 ball being shaken and read just for you," he tells us, offering up a list of competing sites, which he says are cheesy imitations . His 8-ball is a recently Mattel-manufactured model number 3048AA, we're told, housed in a custom built Lego Mindstorms shaking cradle, triggered and watched by a Linux computer. Just type in that burning question and presto - there's your answer: Reply Hazy. World Wide Web: http://8ball.federated.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) For Boston types Date: 03 Jul 2001 20:06:13 -0400 For Boston List members, Chucks comment about Café Apres reminded me about a store on Newbury Street in Boston called "Boston Beat Records". I would never have found this if it was not for a helpful clerk at one of the other places on Newbury. Felix, the proprietor, was nice (A rarity for specialty records stores in Boston) and he stocked mostly foreign dance, techno, nouveau lounge sound. He even offered to let me listen to CD's in the store before buying them. Unfortunately I was in town for a meeting and was almost late and had to leave pretty quick. But next time. Any comments about the Serge remix CD "I Love Serge"? Any good? Saw it there. Domenic # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy Date: 04 Jul 2001 00:19:27 -0400 Alan wrote: > My question is this. When I first made the CD, I listened to it a bunch of > times. I think I genuinely enjoyed it. I don't think I was just tolerating it. I > don't think it was all about ironic enjoyment. I think it was genuine. > But it doesn't really make sense. She's not "good". In fact she's bad. > But she's bad in a way that I seemed to enjoy. And I wouldn't say "she's > so bad, she's good". She's never really good.. > I want to know why I like her records in spite of her "bad-ness" (and I > don't mean James Brown badness.) I had much the same experience and can't get that kids song "Dad Aren't You Glad that I'm a Mormon" out of my head! Not go figure, as religious indoctrination of young kids is one of the most loathsome things I can imagine, but I just can't forget that song, and worse yet, I know there are several records of these that are probably going to have much the same effect once I hear them! It has to be the novelty value and especially the subverted use of what is essentially popular music that does it for me. It's that or a genuiely sick sense of humour! call it a weakness... > stening to that CDR kind of reminded me of listening to Gavin Byrar's > Jesus Blood". But maybe it also reminded me a bit of the Shaggs. Now you're making me think of the South Park episode where the kids performed the Philip Glass piece! But The Shaggs... why not.. look no further than Mrs.Miller or Lucia Pamela for a comparable "adult" comparison... Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki Date: 04 Jul 2001 00:29:18 -0400 > Ms. Mah, snacking on jalape~no-glazed pork ribs in front of the sunset, > said: "Kitschy Tiki has been done so well for many years at places like > Trader Vic's and the Tonga Room. So there was no point in trying that again." It all fits into the argument I've made many times that you can't recreate history as you cannot recereate the context, ie. the time and place. As to whether this "artier" rip-off is more valid than a K-mart equivalent, who can say? Its all a bit muddled what with Michael Graves doing product design for Target stores and all, but somehow the concept of this place smells of snob appeal and I would have no part of it. Its like trying to make Route 66 into higher art by fine tuning it a bit... Or better yet like what has happened to Las Vegas (or Disneyland for that matter!) in order to "broaden" its appeal... No, for me it's either all art or all kitch, but nothing in between... Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy Date: 03 Jul 2001 22:21:35 -0700 (PDT) The thing I enjoy about Christian records is that they are in earnest, authentic. These things are relics, monstrosities, bizarre artifacts - but that is only because my world is not that world. They are foreign, odd, opposed. I hesitate to compare little Marcy to Islam, or the Eleusinian mystery cults for that matter, but no matter how absurd the comparison sounds, there is a link. "Religious indoctrination" is a foreign phrase among those who go on missions, circulate vipers and wail at walls. Marcy's God (and Charlie the Hamster's) is life, like bread and aeresol dispensed cheddar. Before the Little Marcy website, we are infidels, profane, outside the temple. Then again, I identified Popeye with JHVH very early on. BW __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Maurizio Mansueti" Subject: (exotica) The Transistors - "Mission on Venus" (Gak Sato & Kid Loco remixes) - Press release Date: 04 Jul 2001 09:31:25 +0200 The Transistors 'Mission on Venus' (Gak Sato & Kid Loco remixes) TSPH 0701/2 CDS & TSPH 0702 10" (Temposphere) While we wait for their debut album 'ATELIER' (TSPH 0700) and as a follow up to the success earned by their first single release, The Transistors delivers a further rivisitation of their classic 'Mission on Venus'. In the 10" version (TSPH 0702 10"), we find three versions by great artist and producer Kid Loco (vocal, Instrumental and bonus beat). The so called 'Belleville Carnival mix' versions, as the name itself implies, have a dancefloor arrangement performed by the Parisian master. While keeping the inspired vocals by Miss Ari and the swinging Hammond work of Davide Pistoni, Kid Loco has added to it an irresistible rhythm structure which doubles up in the final for an eruption of colors and beats. Needless to say, the solid Royal Belleville style brass section comes out here and there. 'Mission on Venus' Belleville Carnival mix is destined to be one of the club anthems for the summer 2001. In the CD Single version (TSPH 0701/2 CDS), we can finally find the original version of 'Mission on Venus' (never previously released on CD format) along with Gak Sato's 'Custom mix' (recently licensed to V2 Japan and on CD for the first time), Kid Loco's vocal version and the track 'Cocktail di neve in oro' (also never available before on CD format). 'Mission on Venus' remix is a fancy presentation of this trio from Rome (Maurizio 'ErMan' Mansueti, Luca 'Luke' Cirillo e Arianna 'Miss Ari' Lacqua) The Transistors who very soon will please the world with their debut album 'ATELIER'. Available in CDS and Vinyl: Bar code CDS 8019991210895 Bar code Mix 10" 8019991210888 ________________ Contacts: Right Tempo S.n.c. - Via Mecenate 76/4 - 20138 Milano - Italy tel.39-02-58019309 - fax 39-02-58029146 e-mail:righttempo@gpa.it ________________ The Transistors: The Transistors Space Station http://members.xoom.com/Lounge_Italy/the_transistors.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy Date: 04 Jul 2001 09:11:54 -0500 Ben Waugh wrote: > I hesitate to compare little Marcy to Islam, or the Eleusinian mystery cults > for that I always wondered how many children might have been convinced to seek out an alternate religious belief after being creeped out by Marcy. Maybe Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan were driven to Islam after a traumatic exposure to Little Marcy in their childhood? > Before the Little Marcy website, we are infidels, profane, outside the > temple. One of my oldest friends and her first husband were deeply involved in a Christian puppet ministry. It was as serious as a heart attack to them. As far as they were concerned, these bits of cloth and plastic were far more than just puppets, they were masks that covered the face of a benevolent God. > Then again, I identified Popeye with JHVH very early > on. You and Todd Schorr would probably get along very well then. Did you make this association based on Popeye's miraculous resurrection via spinach? And did you later come to identify Brutus with Satan and Olive Oyl with Sophia the Mother Goddess? And if Popeye was YHWH, then why couldn't he create a more attractive girlfriend for himself and get rid of those mutated forearms? Theological mysteries of the ages, to be sure... -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mimi Mayer Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy Date: 04 Jul 2001 11:44:13 -0500 >Matt wrote: >>I always wondered how many children might have been convinced to seek out an >>alternate religious belief after being creeped out by Marcy. Maybe Malcolm X >>and Louis Farrakhan were driven to Islam after a traumatic exposure to >>Little >>Marcy in their childhood? Tell you what: I attribute my pagan leanings to a childhood spent in the alpine paradises and Mormon strongholds of American Fork and Provo, Utah. Blessedly, I escaped exposure to Little Marcy until adulthood. Can't speak for Malcolm and Farrakhan, however. BTW, fans of bizarre architecture should tour Utah's small towns just to view the outre designs of the Mormon temples and wards (sect-ese for "churches".) Plus you'll see many Space Age buildings that resemble birthday cakes. Strangely enough, these structures are almost aways banks. Yours in trivia, Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SH Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki Date: 04 Jul 2001 21:39:40 +0100 Brian wrote: > you can't recreate history as you cannot recereate the context, ie. the time > and place. If one thinks of it as history, one would have to try and recreate it (kitschy Tiki Places f.e.). That might be an enterprise of little hope. The Trader Vic’s people didn’t have their minds set that way, and opened a great restaurant here in Hamburg, Germany last year. Just don’t regard your interests as history. I never did. Recent record purchases (all fantastic!): Mosaic of The Orient ? Nai, Buzuk & Guitar composed, arranged and conducted by Elias Rahbani. (EMI PARLOPHONE Beirut, Lebanon) Light my Fire ? Bob Thiele & Gabor Szabo (Impuls; stereo, gatefold sleeve) Big Sixteen Guitar Favorites ? Vinnie Bell (Musicor) Guitar Twangy with a Beat ? Dean Hightower (ABC Paramount; stereo; 1959) Solid Gold Guitar Goes Hawaiian ? Al Caiola (United Artists) Hawaiian Swing ? Werner Müller and his Orchestra (Decca; 1963) Shake Sauvage ? V.A. french soundtracks (themes) 1968 - 1973 (Crippled Dick) Voodoo Drums ? Chaino (Metro) The Best Of Hugo Montenegro (RCA) Pop Shopping juicy music from german commercials 1960 - 1975 /Crippled Dick) KK # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Chusid news Date: 04 Jul 2001 17:42:50 -0400 Here's a few items (lifted from the latest WFMU newsletter) concerning our Ol' Pal IC. Wednesday, July 18, 2pm BRUTE FORCE The inexplicable phenomenon Stephen Friedland, a.k.a. Brute Force discusses his curious career, including his 1968 John Simon-produced album, Confections of Love (a strange mixture of cabaret-rock, outsider humor, and mystifying pop songcraft) and the songs he wrote for The Chiffons, The Cyrkle, Del Shannon, and The Creation. He'll also talk about the controversial 45 rpm single he recorded for Apple Records, which is listed in the censored song database of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt. Tune in to hear the guy who wrote the songs "Tapeworm of Love" and "To Sit on a Sandwich," and find out why. On Irwin Chusid's show. http://www.wfmu.org (IIRC, when Friedland was considering his new identity, it was a toss-up between Brute Force and Terry Cloth. -Lou) IRWIN CHUSID and MICHELLE BOULE are soliciting material for their next Incorrect Music Video extravaganza at Fez, which takes place October 27. They're looking for horrendous music videos/films/soundies from any decade; old vaudeville clips; bad/sexist commercials; vignettes from classic or justifiably forgotten films; public access TV egregiousness; bad talent show auditions; non-singing celebs "singing"; industrial/corporate/educational presentations; outsider avatars; racially/ethnically insensitive vignettes, or brain-damaged cartoons. If you have something to recommend, please email them at: incorrectmusic@wfmu.org IRWIN CHUSID has produced THE LANGLEY SCHOOLS MUSIC PROJECT album, "Innocence and Despair," for release this fall on Basta. It includes the charmingly twisted version of "Space Oddity," a recent fave on WFMU. The Langley Schools Music Project is a 60-voice chorus of rural school children from western Canada, untrained but captivated by melodic magic. They sing tunes by the Beach Boys, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, The Bay City Rollers, and others in an enchanting and bittersweet collective voice. Recorded in the mid-1970s, the students accompany themselves with gamelan-like Orff percussion, and elemental rock trimmings arranged by their itinerant music teacher. Info and sound samples: http://BastaMusic.com/langley/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki Date: 04 Jul 2001 21:46:45 -0400 At 09:39 PM 7/4/01 +0100, SH wrote: .> >Recent record purchases (all fantastic!): >Light my Fire ? Bob Thiele & Gabor Szabo (Impuls; stereo, gatefold sleeve) This was one of my "holy grails". If you like this and you don't have Bill Plummer's record, then you must get that too. >Hawaiian Swing ? Werner M=FCller and his Orchestra (Decca; 1963) This is also a great record. I have the version with the other cover. (Other than the one Brian, Cheryl and Will have.) Hawaiian Eye is a classic cut. >The Best Of Hugo Montenegro (RCA) Another great record. It's two records, right? You get a really good taste of his moogadelic material. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) betalounge Date: 05 Jul 2001 11:05:43 +0200 For whoever likes to listen to some new stuff I've got some links here for you out of my mailbox: link of the week: rainer trüby & peter kruder live rootdown set from http://www.betalounge.com into somethin' radioshow >>> livestream @ radio M94,5 munich: http://m945.afk.de/m/live.ram on air every wednesday 22.00 to 00.00 cet >>> click here to find out your actual local time to listen to the last show go here: http://www.intosomethin.com/sounds/010704.ram playlist: bugge wesseltoff: yelow is the colour (jazzland lp-tr: moving) spacek: how do i move (island lp-tr: curvatia) idnia arie: strength, courage & wisdom (motown lp-tr: acoustic soul) domeniko ferrari: commute (straight ahead 12") ugly duckilng: oasis (oasis lp-tr: journey to anywhere) daennac: dynamic masses (ur 12") hi tek feat mos def: get ta steppin (rawkus lp-tr) fauna flash: free - salvador group rmx (compost cd-r) as one: undefeated (ubiquity 12") daniel paul: para los pinchas (mermaid 12") fernanda porto: sambaism - dj patiphe rmx (v records 12") calibre: james' twitch (thermal 12") llorca: the novel sound (f-communications 12") soulpatrol: love variatons - charlie dark rmx (infra com 12") new sector movements: free as (virgin cd-r) basement jaxx: sfm (xl 12") n.e.r.d.: tape you (island lp-tr: in search of) bilal: sometimes (interscope lp-tr) leon thomas: song for my father (flying dutchman lp-tr: ) Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki Date: 05 Jul 2001 13:17:13 +0200 toobad no homepage is displaying any pix from that place. I'm all for going new ways, and if kitsch by definition is a senseless repetition of old forms, then, yes, it would mean "taking kitsch out of tiki". All-too-often however the fear of kitsch is articulated by people who simply don't have good humour and despise the creative play with popular art forms as a way to question the ever freezing forms of so called serious high art, which as a category can never be defined either. I mean, since Marilyn Monroe made it onto an Andy Warhol silk screen, you cannot be sure what kitsch is anymore. When you hear the word "kitsch", you seem to know what it is, but when you think closer, you often cannot grab it. (Just like the ever mysterious term "camp") mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) at last! FLABBY mp3s and more APERITIVO Date: 03 Jul 2001 22:00:27 +0200 Great stuff, Nicola, really. And the way you promote it, is equally great. I love it, when real new music is directly coming into the exotica list. To each discussion there should always be links directly to MP3s, so you get to know what you are talking about. It's fresh! Thanks And... who is... Flabby? Looks like I missed a thread. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eat78rpm@bigfoot.com Subject: (exotica) ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Mystery Song Date: 05 Jul 2001 21:38:50 +0900 Please folks put me out of my misery and tell me what this brilliant song I MD'ed from Luxuria is ... i've put a realaudio file up here: http://www.eat78rpm.co.uk/snd/mystery.ra Incidentally i noticed Luxuria's site has changed ... anyone got any up-to-date news on that? Sem Sinatra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy Date: 05 Jul 2001 05:47:56 -0700 (PDT) --- Matt Marchese wrote: emple. > > One of my oldest friends and her first husband were > deeply involved in a > Christian puppet ministry. It was as serious as a > heart attack to them. As far > as they were concerned, these bits of cloth and > plastic were far more than just > puppets, they were masks that covered the face of a > benevolent God. Exactly, just like the Catholic mystery of transubtantiation. And, in a sense, Christ on the cross and those saint stautues are puppets - just not very cool ones. marcy would be an advanced model - like GI Joes with life-like hair and kung fu grip. > > Then again, I identified Popeye with JHVH very > early > > on. > > You and Todd Schorr would probably get along very > well then. Did you make this > association based on Popeye's miraculous > resurrection via spinach? And did you > later come to identify Brutus with Satan and Olive > Oyl with Sophia the Mother > Goddess? "I yam that I yam." And yes, I did see Popeye and Brutus, at first, as a Manichean parable - the struggle of the light aginst the dark - but then I realized that they were essentially one, friends at heart and equal lovers/beloved of the constantly fickle Olyv Oyl (chrism of life): Pistis Sophia, madonna and whore. > And if Popeye was YHWH, then why couldn't he create > a more attractive > girlfriend for himself and get rid of those mutated > forearms? Heretic. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) CD internet site..... Date: 05 Jul 2001 09:15:33 -0400 Okay, not exotica related, but what's that GEMM site where you can locate = out of print CD's..........?? I'm looking for Art.Indust "Amatoria" a *great* trance/house CD from = India. Evidently, Art.Indust was one of the early "innovators" in this = type of music. The label folded years ago, leaving behind some hard-to-fin= d yummie music!! Thanks - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Atkins funeral, Johnny Russell Date: 05 Jul 2001 10:47:27 -0400 July 4, 2001 Guitars Gently Weep as Nashville Pays Tribute to Chet Atkins By DAVID FIRESTONE NASHVILLE, July 3 — Chet Atkins was as lean and spare and intense as Nashville is boisterous, a reticent musical craftsman who shaped and defined a city of showmen. At his funeral today, a worshipful country music industry tried to define its debt to him, finally giving up on superlatives and expressing itself as he did in the gentle picking of a Gretsch electric guitar. Full story at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/04/national/04ATKI.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Entertainment/Chet_Atkins ------------------ http://www.country.com/news/feat/jrussell.070301.jhtml Grand Ole Opry Star Johnny Russell Dies at 61 The songwriter, singer and comedian died at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday (July 3) at a Nashville hospital from complications of diabetes. He was 61. Russell was the guy who wrote Act Naturally, amongst a slew of other hits. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of Tiki Room Date: 05 Jul 2001 11:52:34 -0400 http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/11510929/?p=1 There's a not very large or helpful photo of the joint at this URL. The review does not encourage me to make a special visit to the place. And, of course, if this place fails it will be seen as the end of tiki-themeing in NYC. lousmith@pipeline.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of Tiki Room Date: 05 Jul 2001 09:10:51 -0700 (PDT) things have tapered off here: dc's "politiki" is now just a theme bar in the basement of a brewpub. their website is dead. sigh. --- nytab@pipeline.com wrote: > And, of course, if this place fails it will be seen > as the end of tiki-themeing in NYC. > > lousmith@pipeline.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SH Subject: Re: (exotica) ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Mystery Song Date: 05 Jul 2001 19:03:02 +0100 eat78rpm@bigfoot.com wrote: > Incidentally i noticed Luxuria's site has changed ... anyone got any > up-to-date news on that? > > Sem Sinatra Sem, you might check ou•t the Luxuriamusic.com Club at Yahoo! clubs: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/luxuriamusic # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SH Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki Date: 05 Jul 2001 19:12:02 +0100 Hi, I would be really grateful for the definetive track by track and/or album lowdown on Szabo/Thiele/Plummer material on Impulse! Since I would like to make compilation suggestions to my employers/or at least encourage rerelease of this great stuff. The impulse Exotica Jazz comp CALIFORNIA DREAMING can never be the end to that chapter at Universal Music Germany. And Alan: The Hugo Montenegro is only one LP (pinkframed mugshot sleeve). Thanks, KK # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki Date: 05 Jul 2001 14:13:43 -0400 At 07:12 PM 7/5/01 +0100, SH wrote: > >Hi, >I would be really grateful for the definetive track by track and/or album >lowdown on Szabo/Thiele/Plummer material on Impulse! Since I would like to >make compilation suggestions to my employers/or at least encourage rerelease >of this great stuff. Hmm, I can't be definitive. But I can tell you what I have. Bob Thiele recorded a few other records with that same general group of folks and under his own name. Bob Thiele and his new happy times orchestra. But I can't really recommend them. They're not quite the same as Light My Fire. There's one called "Thoroughly Modern Millie" which I can never bring myself to buy. But I have another one called "Do the Love" featuring the Sunflower Singers and Steve Allen which has a couple of great cheesy fake sixties anthems. (In fact when I debut as a DJ one of these months, I think I'll start my set with "Do the love" maybe like someone here always starts with "Come on in" by the Association) Gabor Szabo has a whole slew of records on the Skye label. But the two on Impulse "Wind Sky and Diamonds" and "Jazz Raga" definitely fit in with the sound of that Bob Thiele record. And he produced them. And then there's the Bill Plummer record. BP and the Cosmic Brotherhood. Since this subject still refers to tiki, it's worth noting that Bill is pictured on the front cover next to these three papier mache figures which aren't tikis but remind me of them. This is a great record if only for the cut "Journey to the East". Truth is that Bill Plummer's sitar playing is almost too "real" - not cheesy enough - but still, he's one of a kind. (He's way cheesier on Mancini's "The Party" soundtrack. I prefer the cheese.) Undefinitively yours, AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: (exotica) putting the kitsch back into Tiki Tom's Date: 05 Jul 2001 16:44:27 EDT this "Tiki Room" thing sounds very Manhattan. Meanwhile, back in the SF Yay area suburbs... IT'S NOT A LITTLE grass shack, but Tiki Tom's will take you back to beau-ti-ful Hawaii, with its pond, air-misters and tropical foliage. The Walnut Creek restaurant -- featuring hula dancers on Friday nights and a pirate band on Tuesdays -- opened three weeks ago and is serving up Polynesian pupus, full meals for lunch and dinner, and a 24-drink (and growing) specialty drink menu. You can have your three-rum mai tai at the bamboo bar or hang out on the patio. Or, better yet, order the Mt. Diablo Fire Bowl (and three straws, please) and slurp down the 36-ounce citrusy-vodka concoction (with friends) at one of the dining room's red mahogany tables. Owner Tom Davies, who also owns Piggy's Pizza and Ribs on Locust Street in Walnut Creek, is offering up a dozen pupus, including Island Prawns, Maui Onion Strings and (going fast) teriyaki flank-steak skewers. These appetizers run $5-$10 while lunch items -- such as fish tacos and tuna-stuffed papaya -- run $7-$10. The $10-$17 dinner menu features Tropical Chicken and mahi-mahi cooked on the hibachi. Tiki Tom's. 1535 Olympic Blvd., Walnut Creek. 925-932-9202. I haven't made it there yet, but I bet it'll be right up there with Hawaii West or Trad'r Sams! ("pirate band"?) -dave # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Erik Subject: Re: (exotica) Asian Takeways Date: 05 Jul 2001 22:46:38 +0200 Arjan Plug wrote: > > I noticed this compilation in the local recordshop yesterday, recommended? This is from the Pizzicato 5 mailing list: > i recently bought a cd called asian takeaways with pop songs > form the 50ies or 60ies from hongkong, malysia, seoul, singapore etc. > these songs just beg for a konishi remix. I think that's a recommendation! Erik # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) Playlist Martinis With Mancini 6/29/01 Date: 05 Jul 2001 20:15:11 -0400 Hi folks, Been ages since I've posted a playlist. So here's last weeks. Seems I hit a lot of the exotica list artists last week. Domenic Ciccone "Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM Friday's 6-9AM EST http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/ http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/misc/wjul/wjul.html (On Real Audio) Playlist Martinis With Mancini 6/29/01 Brief And Breezy. Henry Mancini Lilac Wine, Eartha Kitt Witchcraft, Gabor Szabo Joanna, Scott Walker Misty, George Shearing The Face I Love, Astrud Gilberto Peppermint Patty, Vince Guaraldi Temple Bells, Frank Hunter, White Goddess Why Don't You Do Right, Peggy Lee I'll Dance At Your Wedding, Peggy Lee Fugue In C Minor, Swingle Singers Summer Samba, Walter Wanderly They Cant Take That Away From Me, Super Sax And L.A. Voices Mighty Quinn, Trombones Unlimited Opus In Pastel, Stan Kenton Makin Whoopee, Rosemary Clooney Round Midnight, Cal Tjader Suddenly You, Steve And Eydie Green Peppers, Herb Albert Secret Love, Jonah Jones Le Me Donne A Qui Me Pait, Briget Bardot Negre Setin, Jack Bongo Hippie Version Of The 23rd Psalm, Silhouette Segments Hot Toddy, Gloria Wood Boo Qui Woo Qui, Hugo Montenegro Liza, Larry Elgart Lets Dance, David Carroll That's Amore, Dean Martin I've Got You Under My Skin, Sammy Davis Jr Love And Marriage, Frank Sinatra Make Me Rainbows, O.S.T. Fitzwilly Holiday For Strings, Series 2000 Lillions Lust, O.S.T. Bedazzled Taboo, The Whodads Peter Gunn Theme, The Revelairs Miserlou, Exotia 1970 Fried Bananas, Benny Golson Dem Jive New Yorkers, Babs Gonzales Bombasteroid, Four Piece Suit Dog, Bob Dorough At The River, Groove Armada Marriage Is For Old Folks, Nina Simone Marry Me, Nina Simone Milano Cool, Arling And Cameron Happy Hour, Seks Bomba So Danco Samba, Sambossa Goldfinger, Shirley Bassey Propellorheads Remix The Man With The Harmonaca, Apollo 4-40 Sweet Cinnamon Punch, Tipsy Cha Cha On The Moon, Seksu Roba Je Vous Emmerde, Katerine Hi Fi Trumpet, Stereo Action Unlimited Moon River, Henry Mancini # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jonathan richardson" Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki Date: 05 Jul 2001 22:09:26 -0700 >Gabor Szabo has a whole slew of records on the Skye label. But the two on >Impulse "Wind Sky and Diamonds" and "Jazz Raga" definitely fit in with the >sound of that Bob Thiele record. And he produced them. >And then there's the Bill Plummer record. BP and the Cosmic Brotherhood. and there is also the Tom Scott "Honeysuckle Breeze" on Impulse that was a part of the "jazz raga" and "wind Skye and Diamonds" sessions which includes pretty much the same players minus Gabor and Bernard Purdie and maybe a few others, but includes Emil Richards, and of course The California Dreamers, which I cant figure out if I like or not, they are pretty bad, but not really in a good way, but definetely cheesy. I dont know, cant quite put my finger on them, they pretty much run right up the middle for me, not bad, not good.............. good record, mostly covers, a beatles one, a Donovan, a Jefferson Airplane, a Joan Baez etc etc... Great for the hippy dippy album cover of Tom lying in what looks like a patch of fried out Southern California beach weeds with some dried up old flowers placed strategically around, wearing some fine Tijuana tire sandals I might add. Pretty bad ass! though Bill Plummers sitar is way too low in the mix, same with the Wind Sky Diamonds. I recently put together a comp of the best tracks of the 3 records on one cd, I also included some of the Bob Thiele's "Light My Fire" songs however the Szabo "Jazz Raga" is the best of them all. (why hasnt that one been re-issued???) The song "Walking on Nails" is the TITS!! it's a song that I have always wanted to cover, but felt I could never match Gabor's outtatune vocal style. WAY TOO CRAAAZY!!! Pretty fat version of Caravan as well. anyway good luck with the re-issues, im sure the European public would appreciate them more than we Americans. -jonathan ps Bob Thiele put out some great stuff after he left Impluse on his Flying Dutchman label, check it out!! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki Date: 06 Jul 2001 03:11:36 -0400 At 10:09 PM 7/5/01 -0700, jonathan richardson wrote: > "wind Skye and Diamonds" which includes The California Dreamers, >which I cant figure out if I like or not, they are pretty bad, but not >really in a good way, but definetely cheesy. I dont know I understand your confusion. It's not quite cheesy enough. It's not quite good enough. It's hard to understand why he made it. It's hard to understand why it's not better. Two of the singers are the Bahler brothers who did a lot of stuff like this. There's another record like this - it slips my mind at the moment (anybody???) - where these guys formed the choir but there was much more going on in terms of harmonies and arrangements. They also had the band the Love Generation who were great (if a touch cheesy). But anyway, yeah I keep this record too but it ain't Jazz Raga. > >ps Bob Thiele put out some great stuff after he left Impluse on his Flying >Dutchman label, check it out!! But don't check out "I saw pinetop spit blood". I had such hope. First there's that title. Then there's the musicians. All the usual suspects. Tom Scott, Dennis Budimir, Bud Shank... Then there's the presence of Oliver Nelson. And Willie Bobo on percussion!!! But it just lays there. So disappointing. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Ernie K-Doe: The Official Mother-in-Law Site - The Official Site Date: 06 Jul 2001 07:17:06 -0700 (PDT) Sorry to say that Ernie K-Doe has passed away. I have hung out at his Lounge with my friends quite often. Ernie K-Doe was always there and ready to sing his biggest hit "Mother in Law" His lounge, which was also his house, was one of the more surreal places in New Orleans. Here's the official site: http://www.k-doe.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) TV "Party" Date: 06 Jul 2001 22:22:02 -0400 List perennial, "The Party" (1968) airs on TCM Saturday afternoon at 4:00pm (eastern). Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, sitar music and the whole shebang. Long, long ago, there was a tiny thread about the 80s series (set in the early 60s), "Crime Story". A&E starts a rerun of the series this coming Monday night at 9:00pm (eastern). A cops vs. mobsters story, it took the plot through more changes than the average series, starting off in Chicago and moving to Las Vegas partway through season one (two seasons total). I recall it as being entertainingly over the top, perhaps a predecessor of the Pulp Fiction groove. Of course, if I watch it now, I might not think so. It was wonderfully out of hand though, capable of going from gritty character conflicts to Three Stooges knuckleheaded comedy in a single bound. Lots of nifty period (or fake period) architecture and furniture too. Can't recall the music, other than Del Shannon doing a remake of "Runaway" for the opening titles. So, there you go... take a chance if you want. The really whacked out stuff developed in season two (a prosecutor gives up, flips out and goes out into the desert to be a peyote head -- little things like that). m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: PjB Subject: (exotica) question Date: 06 Jul 2001 19:28:54 -0700 where can i access the list archives? i mean the real old ones, from the beginning. thanks, pb/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jonathan richardson" Subject: Re: (exotica) question Date: 07 Jul 2001 06:51:57 -0700 >where can i access the list archives? i mean the real old ones, from the >beginning. > >thanks, > the archives are here: http://www.xmission.com/pub/lists/exotica/archive/ Not sure if its complete and i cant quite figure out the order, but you gotta do some clicking around to find stuff. some are dating back to 1972!! WOO HOO!! Thats some archive!!! -jonny _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: (exotica) TV "Party" Date: 07 Jul 2001 09:20:53 -0500 I loved that show! I was so disappointed when it was canceled. It WAS over the top. But then, I'm a "wise guy" junkie. Can't get enough of those "good fellas". Dennis Farina was excellent in this. ---- Begin Original Message ---- Sent: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 22:22:02 -0400 List perennial, "The Party" (1968) airs on TCM Saturday afternoon at 4:00pm (eastern). Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, sitar music and the whole shebang. Long, long ago, there was a tiny thread about the 80s series (set in the early 60s), "Crime Story". A&E starts a rerun of the series this coming Monday night at 9:00pm (eastern). A cops vs. mobsters story, it took the plot through more changes than the average series, starting off in Chicago and moving to Las Vegas partway through season one (two seasons total). I recall it as being entertainingly over the top, perhaps a predecessor of the Pulp Fiction groove. Of course, if I watch it now, I might not think so. It was wonderfully out of hand though, capable of going from gritty character conflicts to Three Stooges knuckleheaded comedy in a single bound. Lots of nifty period (or fake period) architecture and furniture too. Can't recall the music, other than Del Shannon doing a remake of "Runaway" for the opening titles. So, there you go... take a chance if you want. The really whacked out stuff developed in season two (a prosecutor gives up, flips out and goes out into the desert to be a peyote head - - little things like that). m.ace =A0mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ---- End Original Message ---- Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obit] Delia Derbyshire Date: 07 Jul 2001 15:24:58 -0400 Delia Derbyshire Pioneer of electronic music who produced the distinctive sound of Dr Who Brian Hodgson Saturday July 7, 2001 The Guardian In 1963, soon after joining the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Delia Derbyshire, who has died of renal failure aged 64, was asked to to realise one of the first electronic signature tunes ever used on television. It was Ron Grainer's score for a new science fiction series, Dr Who. Grainer had worked his tune to fit in with the graphics. He used expressions for the noises he wanted - such as wind, bubbles, and clouds. It was a world without synthesisers, samplers and multi-track tape recorders; Delia, assisted by her engineer Dick Mills, had to create each sound from scratch. She used concrete sources and sine- and square-wave oscillators, tuning the results, filtering and treating, cutting so that the joins were seamless, combining sound on individual tape recorders, re-recording the results, and repeating the process, over and over again. When Grainer heard the result, his response was "Did I really write that?" Most of it, Delia replied. She deserved at least half the royalties, insisted the composer. She did not get them. At that time the BBC preferred to keep members of the workshop anonymous and uncredited. Shortly after Delia had arrived at the workshop in 1962, I was also invited to join. I was stunned by her beauty, awed by her talent, and we began a friendship and a working partnership, within the BBC and outside, which was to delight and infuriate us for 40 years. Delia was born in Coventry and educated at Coventry Grammar School and Girton College, Cambridge, where she took a degree in music and mathematics. After briefly working for the United Nations in Geneva, she joined the BBC in 1960 as a studio manager. In those days BBC career progression was a slow affair, but before long she was sitting in, off-duty, at the new Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale. The senior studio manager, Desmond Briscoe, realising that the tall, quiet, auburn-haired young lady was not only enthusiastic but enormously creative and talented, invited her to join the department on attachment; she was to remain until 1973. Delia used, he realised, an analytical approach to synthesise complex sounds from electronic sources. "The mathematics of sound," he said, "came naturally to her." Delia thought that perhaps she just had a very strange mind. She analysed everything: the pace, the cutting, the editing of a film, every inflection, every comma, the subtleties in the human voice. "I suppose in a way," she observed, "I was experimenting in psycho-acoustics." Although Dr Who made Delia and the Radiophonic Workshop nationally famous, it was her other drama and features work that showed her true talent. Her collaborations with the poet and dramatist Barry Bermange for the Third Programme showed her at her elegant best. He put together The Dreams (1964), a collage of people describing their dreams. It was set by Delia into a background of pure electronic sound. In a second 1964 Bermange piece about people's experience of God and the devil, Amor Dei, he asked her to create a gothic altarpiece of sound. She composed this with snippets of archive and voices, again with only the simplest of equipment and facilities, often working through the night, for weeks on end. Among her outstanding television work, one of her favourites was composed for a documentary for The World About Us on the Tuareg people of the Sahara desert. It still haunts me. She used her own voice for the sound of the hooves, cut up into an obbligato rhythm, and she added a thin, high electronic sound using virtually all the filters and oscillators in the workshop. "My most beautiful sound at the time was a tatty green BBC lampshade," she recalled. "It was the wrong colour, but it had a beautiful ringing sound to it. I hit the lampshade, recorded that, faded it up into the ringing part without the percussive start. "I analysed the sound into all of its partials and frequencies, and took the 12 strongest, and reconstructed the sound on the workshop's famous 12 oscillators to give a whooshing sound. So the camels rode off into the sunset with my voice in their hooves and a green lampshade on their backs." In those days, the Radiophonic Workshop received a stream of visiting musicians, composers and writers - from Berio to Brian Jones - and she entranced them with her intellect and the joy of her company. But Delia was never starstruck; she cheerfully devoted as much time to encouraging young students as to talking with celebrities. In the mid-1960s she and I worked with Peter Zinovieff, the composer and visionary pioneer of synthesisers, in a company called Unit Delta Plus. Delia became involved in an early electronic music concert at the New Mill Theatre in Newbury that also featured a pioneering light projection show by Hornsey College of Art and magnetic sculptures by Paul Takis. She worked on Guy Woolfenden's electronic score for Peter Hall's 1967 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth with Paul Scofield, and on Hall's film Work is a Four Letter Word (1967). It was at Zinovieff's Putney studio that she first met Paul McCartney. Later, Delia, her protege David Vorhaus and I set up Kaleidophon, a Camden Town-based independent studio. There she worked on the album Electric Storm (1968), now considered a classic, which was credited to White Noise and released on Island Records. At Kaleidophon we put together electronic music for the London theatre of the late 1960s. There was Medea and Alan Dobie's Macbeth for the Greenwich Theatre; On the Level, a musical by Ron Grainer; and Tony Richardson's Hamlet at the Roundhouse. She also took part in a Roundhouse concert of electronic music including early electronic works by McCartney. She even recorded a score for an ICI-sponsored student fashion show, which was the first in the world to use electronic music. H er 11 years and nearly 200 programmes at the workshop represented probably the most productive times of her life. They also took their toll. To work with Delia during the late 1960s and early 70s was to witness the joy and energy-sapping pain of creation. "I think I must have reverse adrenalin," she said. "As the deadline gets closer most people speed up - I just get slower." By 1973 Delia had become progressively more unhappy with her life at the workshop and she left to join me at Electrophon, an electronic music studio I had set up in Covent Garden. There, unfortunately, she found little relief from her unhappiness and decided to leave London. She became involved, bizarrely, in the laying of the national gas main as a radio operator, she worked in a Cumbrian art gallery, and she worked in a bookshop. In 1980 she met Clive Blackburn, who was to be her partner for the rest of her life. Probably for the first time, she found happiness and settled into what, for her, was a normal existence. For others it still appeared to be organised chaos - yet she did have a tidy and organised mind. She was still fascinated by the act of creation; still encouraging, scolding and praising her many friends. In the last few years she was beginning once more to take an interest in electronic music, encouraged by a younger generation to whom she had become a cult figure. The technology she had left behind was finally catching up with her vision. One night many years ago, as we left Zinovieff's studio, she paused on Putney bridge. "What we are doing now is not important for itself," she said, "but one day someone might be interested enough to carry things forwards and create something wonderful on these foundations." Her partner survives her. =95 Delia Derbyshire, composer and arranger, born May 5 1937; died July 3= 2001 http://www.google.com/search?q=3D%22Delia+Derbyshire%22 http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=3Damg&sql=3DB6gq6g44ttv2z # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [NYTimes obit] Ernie K-Doe Date: 07 Jul 2001 15:26:01 -0400 July 7, 2001 Ernie K-Doe, 65, Who Sang 'Mother-in-Law' Is Dead By NEIL STRAUSS Ernie K-Doe, the eccentric rhythm-and-blues singer best known for his 1961 No. 1 hit "Mother-in- Law," died on Thursday at a New Orleans hospital. He was 65. The cause was cirrhosis, said his wife and manager, Antoinette. Mr. K-Doe's career peaked in the early 1960's with a series of catchy, sing-along rhythm-and-blues hits, but afterward his career floundered and he became an alcoholic. In the 1990's, however, he sobered up and reinvented himself as one of the most memorable cultural figures in New Orleans, where he lived. He became a fixture there in 1995 when he opened the Mother-in-Law Lounge, where on almost any night Mr. K- Doe could be found entertaining customers with renditions of his songs and his self-worshiping maxims. "There aren't but three songs that will last for eternity," he used to tell patrons. "One is `Amazing Grace.' Another is `The Star-Spangled Banner.' And the third is `Mother-in- Law,' because as long as there are people on this earth, there will always be mother-in-laws." The son of a Baptist minister, Mr. K-Doe was born Ernest Kador Jr. at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He began singing in church choirs and gospel groups, including the Golden Choir Jubilee of New Orleans and the Divine Traveler. As a teenager he performed regularly at local talent shows, where he met singers like Little Richard. Mr. K-Doe always said that he cobbled together his style from a combination of the energy, singing and marching of Baptist church services and performers he shared the stage with, like Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Huey (Piano) Smith and, later, James Brown. He is believed to have toured briefly with the Flamingos and the Moonglows before returning to New Orleans to join the Blue Diamonds. In 1959 he recorded his first local solo hit, "Hello, My Lover." Recording for the Minit label at the time, he stumbled across a song in a studio trash can that would forever be associated with his name. The song was "Mother-in-Law." Its producer and writer was Allen Toussaint, who was only 23 at the time. Mr. Toussaint played piano on the song and a bass vocalist, Benny Spellman, who happened to be rehearsing in the studio, performed the memorable bass backing. The song reached No. 1 on the rhythm-and- blues and the pop charts in 1961. Mr. K-Doe also recorded many minor hits, including "Te-Ta-Te-Ta- Ta," "A Certain Girl," " 'Taint It the Truth" and "Later for Tomorrow." In the late 60's Mr. K-Doe fell into a depression, fueled by whiskey and the realization that while he was earning fame the business people handling his career were earning most of the money. His career came to a halt in the 70's and 80's as he wandered the streets in an alcoholic fog, often singing for spare change and occasionally appearing on radio. Then in the mid-1990's he met his future wife, Antoinette Fox, who helped turn his life around. She weaned him from alcohol, and they found a vacant building on Claiborne Avenue in a seedy New Orleans neighborhood. Friends helped the couple convert the place into a lounge, and Mr. K-Doe became an active member of the New Orleans community again. The lounge soon became a favorite haunt for locals and visiting music fans. Outside, Mr. K-Doe's touring van was usually parked, with his name emblazoned on it surrounded by stars. Inside, he typically stood behind the bar, with nails jutting several inches past his fingertips; long, curly hair (which some said was a wig); and a bright jacket covering the ruffled lapels of his shirt. The jukebox was full of Mr. K- Doe's songs. If a customer played one, Mr. K-Doe would usually pick up a cheap microphone behind the bar and sing along, often having dialogues with his recorded voice. "Really, K-Doe?" he'd ask, and then exclaim, "I'm cocky, but I'm good." At least once a week he would step out from behind the bar and perform with a keyboardist in front of a giant mural of himself. After he married Antoinette, his flesh-and-blood mother-in-law could often be found watching television in a back room of the lounge. As word leaked out of Mr. K-Doe's rehabilitation, music fans embraced him. He was inducted into the Louisiana and New Orleans music halls of fame, and then accepted a Rhythm and Blues Foundation Pioneer Award in Manhattan in 1997. In May he received a lifetime achievement award from Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster. Mr. K-Doe flourished in the limelight, nicknaming himself the Emperor of the World. His appearances at events were always memorable: he would show up in a limousine with a "Mr. Mother-in-Law" sign on the side, and he would wear outrageous clothes tailored by his wife, including a bright pink tuxedo, a gold-colored crown or a cape reading "Emperor K-Doe." Besides his wife, Mr. K-Doe is survived by four children from previous marriages. His last release was a two-song compact disc with a stay-in-school anthem, "Children of the World," and the racial-harmony plea "White Boy, Black Boy," which he recorded and sold in his lounge. He also appears in a forthcoming movie, "Happy Here and Now." "Tell all his fans that they can send flowers to the lounge," Mrs. K- Doe said. "And if they can send money, it should be cash money." She added that the money would be used to promote his legacy. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) new Lee Hazlewood interview Date: 07 Jul 2001 15:37:36 -0400 Here's a good, long, new Lee Hazlewood interview: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2001-07-05/music.html Looks like he's playing a show in Phoenix on Monday night! Spotted this via the Scrubbles weblog ( http://scrubbles.net/ ). I suspect that the proprietor is on this list. m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "tiki kiliki" Subject: Re: (exotica) TV "Party" Date: 07 Jul 2001 16:13:42 -0400 Miles Davis sighting!!! I can't believe that Crime Story will air again!! I bought the box set on Ebay a couple of years ago for way too much money. Michael Mann did this series in conjunction with Miami Vice. It was much better in my opinion but I still have a soft spot for Miami Vice due to the special guest artists. Great music!! Spot some of the tunes playing, Chet Baker was a favorite. Just the other night flipping channels and a Miami Vice marathon was on and featured James Brown as an Evangelist with psychic powers. He really didn't have to act at all, just his always cool self with that slight pompadour. I would definitely recommend watching Crime Story if you want to catch a glimpse of Miles Davis. I believe it is the 5th or 6th episode in which Luca ( the main wiseguy ) takes Abrams ( the do-gooder attorney ) for a drink at a jazz club that was in the groove to convince him to join his posse. Pam Grier also has a great role in this series. It's worth to watch for other surprise guest artists. Dennis Farina was excellent in this series. David Caruso actually had a wonderful role and did an equally great job. He was really young and a punk wiseguy, perfect. Lots of great acting!! The Phil Bartoli character should be getting some work these days in the Sopranos!! The wallpaper and furniture is to die for in this series. The clothes, the cars!! Just one flaw - if you are watching - the department store robbery scene! This is not the scene of a 60's department store! Can you tell I've watched the show a couple of times!! Aloha, Tiki Kiliki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: PjB Subject: (exotica) question 2 Date: 07 Jul 2001 15:38:21 -0700 is there any interest in near mint copies of many of the early original TV spy jazzand the like, and also many records by tv stars singing, like ben casey etc etc? i was at a shop today that had a TON of these kinds of records, all in great shape, and cheap. are these worth procuring? pb/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) question 2 Date: 07 Jul 2001 19:36:15 -0700 > is there any interest in near mint copies of many of the early original TV > spy jazz and the like, and also many records by tv stars singing... You mean you are seeing near mint copies of stuff like Staccato, Richard Diamond, M Squad, Mike Hammer, 77 Sunset Strip, I Spy, Mannix, etc etc. And could you be so lucky as to find a Burke's Law or Honey West or in there, too? Most of those I mentioned are "private eye" jazz, which in my mind is more of a cop, late 50s, black and white thing. I always think of "spy jazz" as when 007 hit the scene with the international espionage / secret agent thrillers. Two different kinds of sounds, but if you like one, you'll like the other. It's all great and well worth picking up. Mancini's Peter Gunn and More Music From Peter Gunn, Mr Lucky, are great. Common, but great. Mission Impossible is great - get it. I bought all of these during the surge of interest a few years ago and never found any really cheap, except the Mancinis. It seems to have quieted down now. Pete Rugolo's Music From Richard Diamond regularly dies on ebay without a bid and it's superb. But certain others still create quite a stir. PS - sorry about the MP3 troubles, I downloaded with no problem from two locations. :( # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, July 8 Date: 08 Jul 2001 00:28:41 -0400 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at: http://www.ckut.ca As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome. Space Bop #150 Brazilectrotiki This week, lots of great new tunes - with musical influences from around the globe. Sunny Face: Merci Du Cool "Temptation" (thanks, Jimmy B!) Nicola Conte: Missione A Bombay (Ursula 1000 Remix) "La Coda Del Diavolo / Missione A Bombay" Mr. Alfa & Senor 45: Moulinex "Popshopping Mixed Up" Nicola Conte: La Coda Del Diavolo (Karminsky Remix) "La Coda Del Diavolo / Missione A Bombay" Buscemi: Ramiro's Theme "Glucklich 4" Balanco: Theme From Cocktail Nova (Nicola Conte Jet Sounds Rework) "Theme From Cocktail Nova / Mrs. Beat" Balanco: Mrs. Beat (Mr. Minute-Mix Le Hammond Inferno Remix) "Theme From Cocktail Nova / Mrs. Beat" Mo'Horizons: Prince Charles' Latest Affair "Virtual Brazilia" Le Hammond Inferno: Move Your MP3 (Edit) "Move Your MP3" The Bad Examples: Let's Pretend We're Sequencer "Merino EP" (thanks, Frank!) Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening cheryls@dsuper.net brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) question 2 Date: 08 Jul 2001 15:17:58 +0200 > > is there any interest in near mint copies of many of the early original TV > > spy jazz and the like, and also many records by tv stars singing... I would like to have "Rockford" and "The Odd Couple"!!! Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: (exotica) please ignore just a test Date: 08 Jul 2001 16:50:04 +0200 (MEST) please ignore just a test -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net GMX Tipp: Machen Sie Ihr Hobby zu Geld bei unserem Partner 1&1! http://profiseller.de/info/index.php3?ac=OM.PS.PS003K00596T0409a # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "william" Subject: (exotica) la casa azul and other things Date: 09 Jul 2001 00:53:54 +0800 hi all, well, yesterday i picked up this disc by a spanish band called la casa azul. they were on a listening station at this one cd shop so i gave it a listen. they reminded me of the free design some. i was impressed enough to buy it immediately. now, after listening to it more closely. i don't feel it sounds so much like the free design but more like hideki kaji. but very good. i think some on this list would really enjoy this(alan and chuck spring to mind among others). i'm not sure if this qualifies as soft pop or not. but some of the best new stuff i've heard in awhile. now i'm curious about this label "elephant records" anyone have any other bands on this label to reccomend to me? they have a website here: http://www.elefant.com but i haven't investigated the sound samples yet. i also picked up one of those apres-midi comps chuck had recently posted about. the one i have is called ecru and quite nice. one of the tracks on here is called "montage from how sweet it is" by the love generation. the writing credit is "j. webb". would this be jack webb? and what's the story on the love generation? it seems like this may of been discussed recently and i have forgotten what was said. oh, and i saw a disc by preston epps called "bongo rock". it seems like this may of been mentioned recently too. but i can't remember. is this something i should go back for? william in taipei. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: (exotica) Dean Elliott CD out now Date: 08 Jul 2001 19:59:39 +0200 Dean Elliott's Zounds! What Sounds! has officialy been reissued by Basta Audio/Visuals. This is from Bastamusic.com: ZOUNDS! WHAT SOUNDS!, the legendary 1963 album by Dean Elliot & His Swinging Big, Big Band, is now on CD as part of Basta's Essential Reissues series. The album is a wild collaboration between orchestra director Elliot and cartoon sound effects wizard Phil Kaye. The inspiration for Zounds! came when the L.A.-based bandleader was tooling around Woodland Hills, and stopped for a traffic light. His ears caught the rhythm of a cement mixer nearby, and he started snapping his fingers in synch with the mixer's gyrations. "This has a terrific beat," thought Elliot. "How would it go with a melody?" Thus was born the woofer-wasting, tweeter-trashing Zounds! What Sounds! Elliot's arrangements combine the orchestral explosiveness of Nelson Riddle with the percussive deviltry of Spike Jones: brass and reeds compete for soundspace against short-wave signals, mechanical teeth, squeaking doors, bowling balls, hoot owls, pogo stick springs and underwater detonations. The sound effects were courtesy of Phil Kaye, a sonic alchemist whose mayhem underscored Tom & Jerry cartoons. The master tape of Zounds! that Basta received from Capitol was in excellent condition. Inferior-quality bootlegs have been circulating for years, reflecting the collector's status of this legendary LP. Sadly, Elliot passed away in 1999 and did not live to see the commercial re-release of this remarkable album. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Dean Elliott CD out now Date: 08 Jul 2001 14:52:39 EDT > His ears caught the rhythm of a cement mixer nearby, and he started snapping his fingers in synch with the mixer's gyrations. "This has a terrific beat," thought Elliot. "How would it go with a melody?" That's two songs inspired by L.A. cement mixers - the other being "Cement Mixer (Puttee Puttee)" by Slim Gaillard. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) TV "Party" Date: 08 Jul 2001 15:00:35 EDT In a message dated 7/7/1 3:15:02 PM, tikiliki@bellsouth.net wrote: >James Brown as an Evangelist with psychic powers. He really didn't >have to act at all, just his always cool self with that slight pompadour. Fried, Dyed, and Laid to the Side # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Penna Subject: (exotica) Pervasive Percussion - what is it? Date: 08 Jul 2001 14:02:55 -0700 Any info about this album would be appreciated. It's a reel-to reel tape on the Encore label (catalog number E 28), an outfit renowned for scarfing recordings from other budget labels and repackaging them in an attempt to cash in on whatever fad was popular at the time. The title and the cover graphics are an obvious knockoff of the PP percussion albums of the time, but the tracks themselves seem to be aimed at the Martin Denny market. It's a small ensemble, piano, prominent percussion, vibes or xylophone, bass plus sax and trombone. Three tracks feature prominent "bird calls" in the Denny vein, and one ("Eso es el amor") have guys roaring and snarling like lions or panthers. Here's a track listing: Temptation An Occasional Man Mambo Inn Eso es el amor Mambo Italiano The Bad and the Beautiful Return to Paradise Cool Mambo Caravan Cuban Caper I suspect these tracks were issued at other times, perhaps in different combinations, on other albums with different titles. Any idea who was behind it, or the performers involved? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Wages Subject: Re: (exotica) Pervasive Percussion - what is it? Date: 08 Jul 2001 17:24:16 -0500 Sounds like "Exotic Percussion and Brilliant Brass" by John Evans (Directional Sound DS 5006). Apparently it is actually the Francis Bay orchestra re-produced by Kirby Allan with Chaino. This album has some nice moments. > From: Paul Penna > > Any info about this album would be appreciated. > > It's a reel-to reel tape on the Encore label (catalog number E 28), an > outfit renowned for scarfing recordings from other budget labels and > repackaging them in an attempt to cash in on whatever fad was popular at > the time. The title and the cover graphics are an obvious knockoff of the # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) la casa azul and other things Date: 08 Jul 2001 17:40:15 -0400 At 12:53 AM 7/9/01 +0800, william wrote: > > i also picked up one of those apres-midi comps chuck had recently posted >about. the one i have is called ecru and quite nice. one of the tracks on >here is called "montage from how sweet it is" by the love generation. the >writing credit is "j. webb". would this be jack webb? and what's the story >on the love generation? it seems like this may of been discussed recently >and i have forgotten what was said. The Love Generation would probably be included in the "soft pop" category. (I believe that one song by them - at least - is on the exoticaring CD called "Dieingly Sad". I guess it hasn't gotten to you yet william.) The Love Generation were mentioned here recently by me actually. The context was the Wind Sky and Diamond record by Gabor Szabo. The "choir" on that record and a number of other records of the same period was led by the Bahler brothers who were also the main force behind The Love Generation. As far as "Montage from How Sweet it is" and J. Webb, please pardon me if I find some humor in the idea that you saw J.Webb and guessed Jack instead of Jimmy. "How Sweet it is" was a movie with James Garner and Debbie Reynolds with a mildly groovy soundtrack by Pat Williams. But there are two tunes written by Jim Webb and sung by - according to the liner notes anyway - "the Picardy Singers". That's obviously yet another name for those pesky little Bahler brothers, who are also known as The California Dreamers on other records. As to whether you should buy it, depends on your taste. I kind of doubt you'd like it but then again, there's that soft pop/pizzicato five connection. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: (exotica) question 2 Date: 08 Jul 2001 17:10:52 -0500 Anything from Hawaiian Eye? Or 77 Sunset Strip? ---- Begin Original Message ---- Sent: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 15:38:21 -0700 is there any interest in near mint copies of many of the early original TV spy jazzand the like, and also many records by tv stars singing, =A0like ben casey etc etc? =A0i was at a shop today that had a TON of these kinds o= f records, all in great shape, and cheap. are these worth procuring? pb/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ---- End Original Message ---- Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] H.S. Grossbardt Date: 09 Jul 2001 10:14:28 -0400 July 9, 2001 H. S. Grossbardt, 85, Record Store Founder, Dies By MATT SEDENSKY,NYTimes Harold S. Grossbardt, a founder of Colony Records, the famed collector's store now on Broadway at 49th Street in Manhattan, died on June 10 at his home in Aventura, Fla. He was 85. Mr. Grossbardt, who was known as Nappy, helped make Colony a fixture of Tin Pan Alley, the center of New York's music publishing industry. He founded the store in 1948 with his partner, Sidney Turk, and the first shop fast became popular with music lovers and musicians. In the 1950's, with nightclubs like the Copacabana and Birdland nearby, Colony, then at 52nd Street and Broadway, became a frequent late-night stop for concertgoers and nightclub patrons. Hundreds of musical artists, from Frank Sinatra to John Lennon to Michael Jackson, have passed through its doors. The store underwent a number of expansions, moving in 1970 to its current location. Mr. Grossbardt also operated Nappy's and Tin Pan Alley, two offspring of Colony, in the 1950's and 1960's. Mr. Grossbardt was born in Brooklyn, and went to work after the seventh grade. He was a salesman at the Melody Music Shop in Brooklyn and at Colony Sporting Goods. When that store closed, Mr. Grossbardt took it over and renamed it Colony Records. He worked there until his retirement in 1988. He is survived by his wife, Estelle; two sons, Michael J., of Roslyn, N.Y., and Alan R., of Great Neck, N.Y., who is an owner of Colony Records; a brother, Jerome, of Manhattan; a sister, Dorothy Capobianco, of Delray Beach, Fla.; and a grandson. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Lenkei Subject: (exotica) recent finds Date: 09 Jul 2001 11:57:42 -0400 (EDT) Stopped by a thrift store recently that I've been to half a dozen times. They never had anything besides classical, opera and show tunes, but all of a sudden this time they had a bunch of decent albums. Edmundo Ros - Hair Goes Latin Heard about this for a long time. Nice to finally find a copy. Its crazy ideas like this that make me keep buying this stuff. Fun. Quincy Jones - Big Band Bossa Nova Been looking for this for years. Even though it's out on cd now, it's still nice to get the original Lp. Some great funky tunes on this one. Kokee Band: Exotica 1970 A Sonny Lester project. From 1966, actually. A bunch of exotica classics are covered. Some very nice music. Ray Charles - Something Special Bright, shiny silver cover. Completely insane version of "Music to Watch Girls By", along with some slightly less insane songs. Lenny Dee - Relaxin' Some fairly mellowed-out goings on here, vocals on some tunes, punctuated by a few slightly more up-tempo tunes. Marty Gold - Skin Tight Wow. Great music, great half-naked-woman cover. The Brass Ring - Lara's Theme Extremely E-Z listening. Joe Bushkin - Night Sounds Light, relaxing jazzy sounds, mostly. George Shearing - Latin Escapade Great stuff here. I think this may be my favorite Shearing album so far. Nelson Riddle with 101 strings - Brass, Reeds & Strings Damned if this isnt one of the best 101 strings albums Ive heard. Packed with power and swing, no doubt thanks to Mr. Riddle. A big, bold sound. Some great titles too, like "Playboys Theme" and "Indiscreet". The Organ Masters The title of this escapes me, but it doesn't really matter as this was the cheesiest of the bunch. An all-organ combo plods through the hits of the day. Slightly amusing, but not a great album. - bruce # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "naile trismegistus" Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds Date: 09 Jul 2001 12:04:32 -0400 > Edmundo Ros - Hair Goes Latin > Heard about this for a long time. Nice to finally find a copy. Its crazy > ideas like this that make me keep buying this stuff. Fun. I don't have the original of this, but have heard a number of tracks from it on the Va-Ba-Boom! compilation of his stuff. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Hare Krishna with a latin beat. Who'd a thought? I had a good weekend for thrift store finds too, but will have to post later tonight, as I'm at work, and they're at home. -K # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds Date: 09 Jul 2001 15:55:15 -0400 At 11:57 AM 7/9/01 -0400, Bruce Lenkei wrote: > >Kokee Band: Exotica 1970 >A Sonny Lester project. From 1966, actually. A bunch of exotica classics >are covered. Some very nice music. You got some nice records there. Thankfully I don't feel jealous since I've had most of them. (I agree about the George Shearing. That's definitely my favorite one of his.) Suddenly I question my own motivations but I was going to point out that in my opinion, the OTHER Kokee Band record - Hawaii and other exotica movie themes - is the better record. But maybe you have that one too. It's just so slow here lately. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds Date: 09 Jul 2001 13:08:46 -0700 (PDT) This is good. I had no idea there was a 2nd Kokee Band lp. That one must be particularly scarce - I've never seen a ref. to it. Only come across one copy of Exotica 1970 in all my thrift scouring days. --- alan zweig wrote: I question my own motivations but I was > going to point out that in > my opinion, the OTHER Kokee Band record - Hawaii and > other exotica movie > themes - is the better record. > But maybe you have that one too. > It's just so slow here lately. ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds Date: 09 Jul 2001 17:44:35 EDT In a message dated 7/9/1 10:58:31 AM, lenkei@echonyc.com wrote: >George Shearing - Latin Escapade >Great stuff here. I think this may be my favorite Shearing album so far. anything with the name Shearing and Latin in the same title seems worthwhile. I have about 4 with him doing latin >Nelson Riddle with 101 strings - Brass, Reeds & Strings >Damned if this isnt one of the best 101 strings albums Ive heard. Packed >with power and swing, no doubt thanks to Mr. Riddle. A big, bold sound. >Some great titles too, like "Playboys Theme" and "Indiscreet". this one's a monster i agree..It was released on CD back in '87 and a pal gave me a copy about 4 years ago which is relegated to "permanent ownership" status..JB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 09 Jul 2001 20:06:05 -0400 Alan said: >It's just so slow here lately. So okay, maybe we're due for me to roll out this query I throw out every couple of years. There should be enough new people to make it interesting. If everyone hasn't fallen asleep or gone off on vacation. The topic being: What are your earliest memories of records, record players, record playing, record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite record you can recall? I've answered this twice before, but I guess I'm obligated. My early records were mostly 45s on the Golden Records label. My folks probably picked them up on the weekly trips to the Food Fair supermarket or Woolworth's. Our record player was a 4-speed tabletop model, with the single speaker in the front and a light-colored, textured vinyl covering. I can't remember the brand. Of course, playing records at the wrong speed was a standard fun activity. The earliest favorite I can determine is a Rocky & Bullwinkle single, "I'm Rocky's Pal" / "I Was Born To Be Airborne". It's cut by the genuine cartoon voice artists, and maintains the TV show's sense of humor. "Airborne" is okay, but nothing too exciting. A song by Rocky about how he loves to fly, with occasional jet swoops added in. "Rocky's Pal" is the hot side, basically Rocky and Bullwinkle doing a vaudeville act. Rocky introduces Bullwinkle. Bullwinkle sings his little song ("I'm Rocky's pal, I'm Rocky's pal / So greetings, culture buffs..."). They do some standup patter, with Bullwinkle doing a medium referential stuck needle bit. And on out with Bullwinkle's juggling act. It's an action-packed couple of minutes. I still have it, it's very worn, it's still a great side. So let's get rolling now... what are your early record memories? thanks, m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Martin Denny "Quiet Village" Date: 09 Jul 2001 20:58:41 -0400 The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny "Quiet Village" (Liberty Records/Stereo) The trouble with scoring big-name records like this, is that I'm not sure what sort of comments I can add to what's already been said. Well, it's a real nice set. Still a small, tight combo, but they seem settled into a very relaxed (but not lazy!) and confident groove by this point. I think personally, I prefer these albums with Julius Wechter. For whatever reasons, I just prefer his work to Lyman's, he seems a little more colorful to me. When did Wechter take over, anyway? I know Lyman is on the first two. A nice balance between easy tunes and busy tunes, and even the slow ones are inventive enough to maintain interest. Strangely, a few of the fast tunes strike me as having a sort of prog rock knottiness to the lines (sorry, I'm sure that comparison is distasteful to some). Well recorded. The hand drums crack wonderfully on some of the tunes. As usual, Sandy Warner on the cover, the silent member of the band. Nice liner notes by film director, John Sturges. I have to compare the version of "Quiet Village" to the version on "Exotica" sometime, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. It doesn't sound like it matches the rest of this album, but I seem to recall the earlier version sounding different as well. What's the official word on that? thanks, --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 09 Jul 2001 19:38:16 -0700 > So let's get rolling now... what are your early record memories? The very very earliest - I must have been around 3 or 4 - is Bozo Under the Sea. Just bought a Capitol Record Reader set of 78s of this not long ago for that very reason. :) Then I blank out for a few years and start getting memories again in 1965 starting with Roger Miller's Golden Hits. "You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd" rocked my nine year old world. About a year later, I would spend many hours (alone) in our garage with our 1950s German console hi-fi listening to (over and over) The Lonely Bull The Smothers Brothers - I think it was "The Two Sides of". On the funny side was "Chocolate" and on the singing side was "Stella's Got A Brand New Dress", among others. A Sammy Davis Jr. 45 - Hey There Halloween Spooky Sounds 45 A Buddy Hackett comedy record - one of the tracks was about a diet and being buried in an envelope My Fair Lady The Good the Bad and the Ugly Then I got with it in 68 and 69 and started getting my cool records like: Creedence Blood Sweat and Tears Sly and the Family Stone The Doors Buffalo Springfield And an Animals 45 of Sky Pilot that I played to death. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 09 Jul 2001 22:15:57 -0500 You'll find music for belly dancing on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast. A while back, yours truly was approached by the artistic director of Troupe Raghsidad, a local dance troupe, about collaborating on one of their performances. Instead of the traditional Middle Eastern tunes, her idea was to feature traditional dances set to classic exotica by Don Ralke, Enoch Light, Les Baxter and others. You can read all about it at: http://www.ljworld.com/section/living/story/58576 This week's show also features an interview with the troupe's artistic director, spiced with tunes from Troupe Raghsidad's upcoming concert. Elsewhere, you'll find tiki tunes by the Out Islanders and John Zorn; crime jazz by Stan Purdy, Pete Rugolo and Earle Hagen; bongo jazz by the great Mike Pacheco; music from Basta's Dean Elliott reissue; plus tunes by Arling and Cameron, Combustible Edison and the amazing "Laid Bare", with noir jazz by Skip Heller and the spoken words of John Gilmore. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the web, just visit: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Comments and requests always welcome. Thanks! Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retrolisten.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "william" Subject: (exotica) ktel anyone? Date: 10 Jul 2001 12:09:43 +0800 k-tel anyone? they even have promotional cds you can make. hmm. http://www.ktel.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 12:34:27 +0200 It's pretty touching how you try to start a game, Mike. Although I'm not against games, I guess, if theres nothing to say, then there's nothing to say, so why not just say nothing? I mean, I don't want to spoil anything here, but I think the list is not endangered if for a while it's running slower. If you want to hear it however, my first record was "Marina" by Rocco Granata and I used to play it a thousand times on a "Neckermann" radio with built-in record player. And of course everything was mono, but that didn't matter. I must have been 4 years old by then. The first records I remember I wanted to have and got for christmas were "Puppet On A String" by Sandie Shaw and an album by the Tremeloes called "Silence Is Golden"... Yes, silence is golden. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bigshot Subject: (exotica) New Music Xfer Email Discussion List Date: 10 Jul 2001 03:47:02 -0700 Hello, Computers and CD burners have made it possible for music collectors to create their own professional quality audio CDs. I have created an email discussion list for people who are creating CDs to archive their obsolete record and tape collections. This is a forum to share restoration and sound digitization techniques, to discuss ways to preserve music that is not currently available on commercial CDs, and to share your collections with others. All formats (Reel to Reel, Cassette, 78 rpm, 45 rpm, and 33 1/3 rpm) and all types of music are open for discussion. The group has just been formed, so get in on the ground floor and help to make it a useful resource. For more information, or to join the MusicXfer list, visit... http://www.topica.com/lists/musicxfer Thanks Steve Stephen Worth bigshot@spumco.com The Web: http://www.spumco.com Usenet: alt.animation.spumco Palace: cartoonsforum.com:9994 Spumco International 10859 Burbank Bl. Suite A North Hollywood, CA 91601 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ton =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCckert?= Subject: (exotica) Physics Yum Yum Date: 10 Jul 2001 12:44:01 +0200 There's presently a series on Dutch radio called 'Science in music', today's episode, 'You quark me up', was about physics=20 and music and custum made for exoticats, so I've looked up the=20 URL's of the featured artist's websites and I give them to you along with some info I found there. Cheers, Ton Les Horribles Cernettes are the one and only High Energy Rock=20 Band. They sing about colliders, quarks, microwaves, antiprotons and Internet. They are known and loved by some 20000 High Energy=20 Physicists worldwide. Check these few songs to have an idea, and=20 if you are music producer, you have found your gold mine!=20 http://musiclub.cern.ch/cernettes/ This group of techies (engineers, scientists, computer geeks,=20 and NASA employees) performs pop and rock covers and original=20 songs inspired by our modern world. The World Wide Web,=20 television, and fast food - they're all subjects of Chromatics=20 originals. The Chromies have also written astronomically-correct a cappella songs to be used in classrooms for a project called=20 AstroCappella. The Chromatics have presented AstroCappella from=20 Palm Springs, California to Orlando, Florida, from Las Vegas to=20 Space Day on the Washington DC Mall, had their lyrics quoted in=20 the New York Times and their CD has flown in space! No kidding!=20 http://www.thechromatics.com/ Yo! This site is your ultimate resource for information about=20 Stephen Hawking the gangsta rapper. While there are dozens of=20 other sites on the web devoted to Stephen Hawking's scientific=20 achievements, I am unaware of a single site (aside from this=20 one) devoted to his career as a lyrical terrorist. Despite=20 three critically acclaimed albums and nearly ten years on the=20 mic, Stephen Hawking remains virtually unknown as a musician.=20 Well to hell with that noize, this is a new millenium and my=20 boy MC Hawking is gonna be crazy large! So check out the crib.=20 http://www.mchawking.com/ The Physics Chanteuse is a cabaret-style musical act produced=20 and performed by physicist and chanteuse Lynda Williams for=20 scientists at conferences and meetings. For each performance=20 Ms. Williams researches the scientific topic and writes custom songs and repartee which are usually performed at the event's=20 banquet. She has performed for scientists all over the world=20 and has been featured in the NY Times, People Magazine and Good=20 Morning America. Ms. Williams also performs her musical science=20 shows for the general public in Cosmic Cabaret, and for teens=20 in schools in Science Rave. The 'greatest hits' of the Physics=20 Chanteuse are now available on her CD, Cosmic Cabaret (plus there's her Maxwell's Equations CD including Maxwell's Equations=20 in Vacuum. T.). http://www.scientainment.com/pchant.html *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***=20 *** Ton R=FCckert Mozartstraat 12 5914RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto 31/0 773545386 *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.hammacher.com/s_and_l/index.asp ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Edward Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 13:06:59 +0200 Aaah yes, you see? Probably all of us enjoyed music in such a way that we played those 3 scratchy EP's over and over again on the lousiest mono record player you could ever imagine. And remember how happy we were? And today? We are nitpicking about the sound quality of CD vs. Vinyl on our high end Hi-Fi, and as soon as we buy an album, we are already looking for the next one... [ 'sigh' emoticon here] I don't remember the brand of the record player (I still coudn't read then) but I do remember the specific smell it had. We got our EP's from our aunt, who used to dance on Top of the Pops every week. (She almost married the manager of Simon & Garfunkel) My first memories of vinyl was a 'Peter and the Wolf' 10" (scaaarrry) but most of all I played the 7" 'What do you wanna make those eyes at me for? ' by Emil Ford and the Checkmates. Turns out it was a Joe Meek record. Do I get the prize for coolest rugrat or what? Ed Moritz R wrote: > If you want to hear it however, my first record was "Marina" by Rocco Granata and I used to play it a thousand times on a "Neckermann" radio with built-in record player. And of course everything was mono, but that didn't matter. I must have been 4 years old by then. The first records I remember I wanted to have and got for christmas were "Puppet On A String" by Sandie Shaw and an album by the Tremeloes called "Silence Is Golden"... > > Yes, silence is golden. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 06:30:16 -0700 (PDT) My father had a large cardboard box filled with 45s from the 1950s. having lost interest with them, he left them to my brother, my sister and I to play with. This was unfortunate, in an adult retrospective way, because , over time, we ruined them. At any length, there was everything in that box from Bing Crosby pop to Hank Williams and His Drifting Cowboys to Elvis & Little Richard. We would play these on one of those boxy flip-top children's phonographs with a roofing nail for a stylus (maybe a few of you had the same). My favorites at the time were Little Richard's Heebee Jeebies, Sheb Wooley's Flying Purple People Eater, David Seville's The Witch Doctor, Bill Justis's Midnight Man (the flipside of Raunchy), and someone's (female)version of Boll Weevil. After this came the dark year or so of Donny Osmond, which led right to total immersion in the Alice Cooper band (the good and celibate Sisters of St Joseph nurtured a fascination with bubblegum perversity and the occult in the the clip-on tie waifs, earboxed, knuckle struck and lectured repeatedly of the link between Satan, Hitler, Rock music, sex, hippies, protestantism, communism and Mad Magazine. Heady times, indeed). --- "m.ace" wrote: > The topic being: > > What are your earliest memories of records, record > players, record playing, > record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite > record you can recall? ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 16:37:16 +0100 >What are your earliest memories of records, record players, record >playing, record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite record you can >recall? my first record players were kids record players which usually were square plastic things in a strange orange (sometimes white) color. they were called mangiadischi (record "eater"!) and tended to ruin our 7" by consuming them heavily in the part closer to the central hole. Maybe this was the reason for the name? the vinyl eater? ;) >My early records were mostly 45s on the Golden Records label. My folks >probably picked them up on the weekly trips to the Food Fair supermarket >or Woolworth's. Our record player was a 4-speed tabletop model, with the >single speaker in the front and a light-colored, textured vinyl covering. >I can't remember the brand. Of course, playing records at the wrong speed >was a standard fun activity. my early records were mostly themes from tv shows and cartoons... all from 1970s-early 1980s Italian TV. Some of this stuff is now on cheap cds or illegal mp3s. ;) And of course there were spoken word records with fairytales and shit like that. Favourite ones? Difficult to tell. Maybe I can tell you some; one was "mani mani" (probably a b-side?) on a Loretta Goggi (tv showgirl from the 1970s, still active) 7". Another was the theme from Atlas Ufo Robot (i.e. Goldrake or - for the japanese - Grendizer)... there were two 45 rpm singles sung by "Actarus". He was a front (of course) and one of the producer was Vince Tempera (film music composer and orchestra director, also often seen conducting the orchestra at the Sanremo festival), while another (playing this absurd spacey-bassline on the b-side "Shooting star") was Ares Tavolazzi of "progressive" cult band Area. Looks like our kids music at the time was made by some interesting folks (but this was not an isolated thing: several other interesting names like Augusto Martelli have composed stuff for cartoons). "Shooting star" was cool because it was also one of the first songs in english I can remember (it was used on the cartoon during the end titles, and it was not so frequent to have english songs in this type of tv programs). "fly, my ufo robot in the sky..." Nicola DjB http://www.mp3.com/djbatman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 10:30:56 -0400 A CD submitted to the Exoticaring jogged my memory - I think I still have = that damn record too - The Electric Company. I loved the song about Jelly = Belly. The cover had a neat-o wheel set into the front cover. You turn = the wheel and various illustrations show up in the die-cut sections of the = cover. Also loved my GI JOE book and records. Secret Mission to Spy Island and = the like. Sound bites from these show up with amazing regularity on the = earlier Man or AstroMan albums. These are great *kitsch* items, the = acting is so over-the-top!! Also Joe's buddy Mike has a killer record = collection - one instro was used to scare a bunch of head hunters away = from Joe, blasted from a hovering copter!! I used my Mom's old portable electric turntable. It was light blue and = cased in plastic. The speakers would flip out from the sides to face the = listener, and the turntable would plop down from the front. Folded up, it = resembled a large suit-case. - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 16:42:52 +0100 >If you want to hear it however, my first record was "Marina" by Rocco Granata oh God. circa 1989 or 1990 I was in a crap department store called Stand (owned at the time by our now Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi...) and saw a Rocco & The Carnations "Marina (New Beat Version)" 45. It said it had a remix (in the "new beat" Belgian style of 1980s) on the A side and the original (apparently rerecorded since it seems too clean and stereophonic) on the other. I bought it because in that period 7" were still relatively easy to find and cheap (they would have almost disappeared from the mass marker within a year or so). I listened to it and thought it was crap. It was #1 hit for months. There must be a hidden meaning in all this. DjB ---- now listening to: http://www.mp3.com/sottopalco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) ktel anyone? Date: 10 Jul 2001 16:48:44 +0100 oh God. Bought some of their house music compilations circa 1989. but their idea of custom cds is crap because is directed mostly to business (100 copies minimum quantity). Unless someone here wants to do the exotica list compilation and have it pressed by them ;) but I don't like much the fact that most of the titles are re-recordings (as usually happens with budget cds...) DjB now listening to: http://www.mp3.com/japanpop # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 10:56:08 -0400 Mo wrote: >It's pretty touching how you try to start a game, Mike. A game? Do I amuse you? Well, I don't know about touching... nosy maybe. But, it's been two years. Time to find out how the newer people got started with the obsession. And it usually turns up some pretty interesting memories. I need to clarify my own post: my folks went to the market every week, but didn't buy records every week. There weren't anywhere near that amount of records in the house. Weekly records came in my teens when I had an allowance and it all went to my budding vinyl addiction. Had to have a record a week to stay sane. m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Fwd: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 10:57:09 -0400 [Forwarding this. I'm sure it was meant for the whole list. Apologies if wrong. --m.ace] >Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 21:37:54 -0400 >Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl >From: David KoJen > >on 7/9/01 8:06 PM, m.ace at mace@ookworld.com wrote: > > > So let's get rolling now... what are your early record memories? > >My parents bought a bunch of 45's for us kids: Gilbert&Sullivan's HMS >Pinafore (2 songs from it); and Puff the Magic Dragon were the two I >remember. And, on 33, Harry Belafonte's Calypso. But my mother had to play >that one for us; we could only play the 45's ourselves. > >Another memory: got some nasty electric shocks from that record player. >Equipment was poorly designed back then >(yes, even more poorly than nowadays), and, in my household at least, my >father was pretty casual about electrical things. When I told him about the >shock (Standing barefoot on basement concrete floor and touching the metal >chassis), we got out his voltmeter and said "110 volts; that's potentially >lethal!" Told me to be careful (Wear shoes, and don't touch the metal >parts!) > > >-- >David KoJen >http://www.bicnet.net/~scarabe/solisMaris # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 16:52:50 +0200 Edward schrieb: > Aaah yes, you see? Probably all of us enjoyed music in such a way that we played those 3 scratchy EP's over and over again on the lousiest mono record player you could ever imagine. And remember how happy we were? I remember one summer when I took the record player, some red and white plastic thingy, out into the garden for the first time, and managed to make scratches into the end groove of singles, in a way that the arm of the player would automatically swing back into the start groove, so I had a sort of repeat function when clinbing on the trees. Of course the records would not become any better by that procedure, but I still have 'em and play them occasionally. > And today? > We are nitpicking about the sound quality of CD vs. Vinyl on our high end Hi-Fi, and as soon as we buy an album, we are already looking for the next one… Two of my friends turned into hifi-maniacs recently... it's bananas. They buy this super-expensive equipment, f.i. this box for 500$, that just smoothens the incoming electricity somehow. Speakers absolutely over-dimensioned for a 16 sqm room. An amplifier with an electronic eye in the the middle that shows the temperature of it and so on. One of these guys only touches his record player with special gloves, to avoid static electricity or finger prints or what. Jeesh... once you've got the money, you've got to spend it. > [ 'sigh' emoticon here] >;-] > > My first memories of vinyl was a 'Peter and the Wolf' 10" (scaaarrry) did you have this version with a 10" booklet and colored drawings with sort of bright lines on dark background? --Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 17:34:11 +0200 Nicola Battista schrieb: > >If you want to hear it however, my first record was "Marina" by Rocco Granata > Rocco & > The Carnations "Marina (New Beat Version)" 45. > It said it had a remix (in the "new beat" Belgian style of 1980s) on the A > side and the original (apparently rerecorded since it seems too clean and > stereophonic) on the other. I have that too and was disappointed as well. "Marina" was a big big #1 hit in Europe, yet it's almost unknown in America. Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "william" Subject: (exotica) record memories etc. Date: 10 Jul 2001 23:45:31 +0800 >What are your earliest memories of records, record players, record playing, >record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite record you can recall? my earliest memories are of playing story book 7"s on something like a playschool record player. i remember listening to the mother hubbard record a lot. but i don't recall really listening to much pop music. i know it must of been there, but i don't recall it. i also remember listening to some sort of storybook record a full length album i think that was about four little beetles with long hair. they arrive into some kingdom on the tail of a kite, but other than that i remember very little about it. i think they left the kingdom on the tail of a kite too but i'm not sure. anyone have any idea what this record might of been? >The Love Generation would probably be included in the "soft pop" category. >(I believe that one song by them - at least - is on the exoticaring CD >called "Dieingly Sad". I guess it hasn't gotten to you yet william.) thanks for the info alan. as it turned out after i wrote that post and sent it i put on your comp diengly sad and noticed they had a few tracks on there. i'm not sure if i would like a full album of theirs' or just like them in small doses as part of a comp. william in taipei. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kendoll Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 10:35:02 -0600 Moritz R wrote: > If you want to hear it however, my first record was "Marina" by Rocco Granata and I used to play it a thousand times on a "Neckermann" radio with built-in record player. i bought the album recently (Marina & Other Italian Favorites by Rocco Granata) because i'll buy just about any record with 'Volare' on it. as i have no emotional attachment to it, i'd be willing to trade. perhaps you have my childhood favorite? it was a connie francis album about animals. the only song i can remember now is 'Oscar the Octopus' which must have been my favorite. i'm sure this wasn't my first record but it's one that i played over and over ad nauseum. i think i was taken by the plaintive quality in connie's voice. even though it was a children's record, there was a minor key, depressive quality to it. in ten years of thrift store scrounging i've yet to find this record. mike # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 13:35:17 -0400 I don't remember much. I thought of making up a story where I was a small child in love with one particular cut on one of my father's LP's and I knew that it was the third cut on the side that had five cuts (instead of six) and one day when my parents were out, I crawled up on the Philips console stereo in the livingroom where I wasn't allowed and put on the record, swinging that silly armature thing (what did you call that?) on top of it so that it would drop nice. But it wouldn't drop! It wouldn't get over that bump in the spindle that was supposed to move out of the way when you hit play. And I got frustrated and leaned inside to make the record play and fell into the record player myself. And the top fell down on top of me. And I was trapped inside the record player but I didn't care because somehow my falling in managed to make the record fall and the needle bumped over to the third cut and I got to hear my favorite cut from inside the record player. And that cut was... I'm actually going to go to the shelves and see if I can find a record my father might have had and then find something that's the third cut... Okay our choices are: 1) Admiral Dual Channel Stereophonic Demonstration record. Side two, the fourth cut looks like the third cut for some reason and it is... "Delicado, Baia" by Russ Garcia So that's the exotica choice. (And actually a nice cut that I never heard before just now.) 2) A New Beat by the Metropolitan Toronto Police Association Male Chorus on side two, cut three they do "Hatikva" which is the Israeli national anthem. I'm not sure I would have appreciated the irony as a child but certainly my father would have gotten a kick out of a bunch of goyim - and cops no less! - singing in Hebrew. 3) Songs about Zorro and Other TV heroes This seems like a good choice since I loved Zorro and there's a great picture of him here. Not only that but cut three on side two is "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" sung by Fess Parker and... Myself and my best friend Stephen Moses used to sing and act out this song for school assemblies up until about grade four. I distinctly remember how I would pretend to kill him - as if he was the bear that Davy killed when he was only three or four. While I'm at it, I might as well admit that the other act I performed for school assemblies was my imitation of Mahalia Jackson singing "He's got the whole world in his hands". Apparently it was so realistic - at six or seven - that I didn't need to do in blackface. I think I'll leave it there. The only true memory I have is when our cleaning woman Maria stacked all my records and books on top of my "record player" so she could clean my room. As an experiment and so as to prove to my mother how silly an idea that was - supposedly so she could explain it to Maria - my brother and I actually attempted to lift the lid of the record player while keeping all the records and books on top of it. It didn't work. No cleaning woman comments please. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: J o h n Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 10:41:05 -0700 (PDT) My earliest memory of music was (thanks to older brother and sisters) 1. The Mummy (a parody of Kookie, Kookie, Lend me Your Comb) 2. a 45 record for a film called Only When I Larf, which was whistled (I'm 99% sure of this). 3. Age of Aquarius--5th Dimension 4. That Disney Haunted House record with all the sound effects one one side and the creepy woman narrator on the other. 5. reader's digest xmas album (some odd stuff on it) JC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 14:01:16 -0400 At 10:41 AM 7/10/01 -0700, J o h n wrote: > >My earliest memory of music was (thanks to older >brother and sisters) > >1. The Mummy (a parody of Kookie, Kookie, Lend me Your >Comb) Do you know what record it was on? And was it actually called the Mummy? It sounds like "Two heads are better than one" by Spike Jones. I have that cut on the compilation "How to get the most out of your stereo" and I always assume that for many people their first record was such a "demonstration" record. I can totally see how I would have loved this cut as a kid if I'd heard it. And it has great stereo effects and even that "third dimension" sound. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: J o h n Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 11:04:01 -0700 (PDT) > > > Do you know what record it was on? > > And was it actually called the Mummy? Yep. It was called The Mummy and it was by "Dor" who I later found out was Rod McKuen. (I'm pretty sure.) The premise is a mummy walking around scaring people, who scream-- until he comes across a beatnik who could care less. The last line of the record is the hipster saying "like, help." I recently refound the 45 at a shop (with a picture sleeve, even!). > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 11:31:10 -0700 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of J o h n > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:04 AM > Yep. It was called The Mummy and it was by "Dor" who I > later found out was Rod McKuen. (I'm pretty sure.) Yup, it's him and Bob McFadden. There's a fantastic cover of "I'm A Mummy" done by The Fall on their "Levitate" album as well. Later, Ben http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/ ICQ: 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Lenkei Subject: (exotica) second hand: a novel (fwd) Date: 10 Jul 2001 16:38:31 -0400 (EDT) Got this sent to my website and it sounds like the sort of thing list members would be interested in. - bruce ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hello- I know these anonymous e-mailings really make a person feel special, but I wanted to let you know about the trade paperback edition of my novel, SECOND HAND, which takes place in the incredibly strange world of thrift stores and junk culture. If youre interested in such ephemera -- be it objects, clothing, music, books, or whatever -- you might want to check out this short press release. Or my website: www.secondhandnovel.com. If youre not interested, so sorry to have bothered you with this one-time-only e-mailing. Regards, Michael Zadoorian SECOND HAND: A NOVEL At last, the novel for everyone who has ever loved something secondhand - the High Fidelity of garage sales, the On the Road of thrift shopping, The Moviegoer of the flea market. SECOND HAND by Michael Zadoorian is now available in a Dell Trade Paperback edition. SECOND HAND is peppered with insight as unpretentious and satisfying as the unexpected garage sale find. Junk, narrator Richard tells us, "has taught me that to find new use for an object discarded is an act of glistening purity. I have learned that a camera case makes a damn fine purse or that 40 copies of 'Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass's Whipped Cream and Other Delights' may be used to cover a wall of a bedroom. . . . Junk has taught me that all will come to junk eventually, and much sooner than you think." Praise for SECOND HAND: "If you're a yard sale lover or, especially, an animal fan, SECOND HAND may feel like a gift from the (Tiki) gods." -New York Times Book Review "A fine and wonderful novel about one of the most unusual of subjects: junk, and those who care for the valuable objects, living and dead, that others have thrown away." -Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love "A wonderful book." -Chris Jussel, Antiques Roadshow "Hip and funny." -Elmore Leonard, author of Pagan Babies "Zadoorian conveys the oft-overlooked beauty of cast-offs, be they vinyl records, photographs, mismatched dinette chairs, or even people. -Al Hoff, author of Thrift Score "Michael Zadoorian speaks to the heart and soul of the junker." -Mary Randolph Carter, author of American Junk "[A]stonishingly mandatory and compelling frequent fascinating and insightful meditations on the nature of stuff." -John Marr, San Francisco Bay Guardian -ABA BOOK SENSE 76 Selection -Barnes & Noble DISCOVER Selection -Borders Best of 2000 Fiction & Literature Selection For more information about SECOND HAND, including an excerpt, reviews, blurbs, author bio and ordering information visit www.secondhandnovel.com Dell Trade Paperback ISBN:0-385-33570-9 Publicity: Amy Farley 212.783.9047 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 22:57:16 +0200 Moritz R schrieb: > > "Marina" was a big big #1 hit in Europe, yet it's almost unknown in America. addition: it has an excellent B-side called "Manuela" Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mark koldys Subject: (exotica) Re: Pervasive Percussion Date: 10 Jul 2001 17:26:15 -0400 The reel tape on Encore by this name was another example of this company's switching around titles and contents. There was an LP on Omega called "Pervasive Percussion"...depending on what pressing you ended up with it could have held percussion music or theater organ tunes! The Encore tape was something completely different--a reissue of most of the Omega release "Temptation", which did in fact feature Chaino overdubs on tracks credited to the Francis Bay Orchestra. Not only was Chaino overdubbed but so were the bird calls, etc. This recording was more widely distributed on "Directional Sound" as "Exotic Brass and Percussion" and attributed to "John Evans". The tracks in their original state, minus the overdubs, first appeared on an Omega LP called "Latin Rock" performed by "Los Gatos Ritmos". Now this group MAY have been culled from the Francis Bay Orchestra, or not; until I find a copy of "Latin Rock" I won't know if the notes explain who Los Gatos Ritmos really were. mk "Luck, happy chain of foolish accidents." -- Charlie Chan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Repost-sistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 17:35:51 -0400 With some variation, this is what I posted about two years ago: The first memories that I have pertaining to the question are the Electrophonic record player in my brother's room. It was beige and had a picture of a conductor holding a baton on a podium. My parents had a collection of 45's which my brother and I used to plow through, such as: Why Do Fools Fall in Love? - Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers The Minotaur - Dick Hyman and his Electric Eclectics Le Chien (El Perro) - Eduardo Davidson (some name, eh?) Don't Pat Me On My Back and Call Me Your Brother - Kasandra (that's a man, folks!) My mother and father had very eclectic tastes. My mother bought Lady Madonna (trivia break! This was written for Fats Domino by the Beatles which explains the odd timbre of McCartney's voice on the record. Domino recorded it later) for the flipside, "The Inner Light" my first sitar instrumental. One day, my Father, a notorious, um...thrifty fellow, to hear my Mother tell it, bought a new stereo for the living room. It had a Fisher (pre-Sears) receiver, Garrard turntable, and Acoustic Research speakers that weighed a ton, to me. So what was the record I recall listening to on it? A mono 78 of Cinderella. This version was so short, that it actually ended at her going to the ball. Last year, I found out about the glass slipper thing, thank you Internet (just kidding). I also heard a record of Hans Christian Anderson's "Little Match Girl". "Here now, you little brat! Take these matches and don't come back until you've sold every one of them or you won't get any supper!". With echo, that is pretty scary to a seven year-old. So there I was, selling my matches to pay for the stere...I mean, one day, we dredged up the 78's from the basement. We made a tape of them and some I can remember were: Thermopylae - Stan Kenton (my brother's favorite) Love for Sale - Stan Kenton (my favorite) Otto, Make That Riff Staccato - Duke Ellington Tell Me a Story - Frankie Laine/Jimmy Boyd That was a good one: "Tell me a story, tell me a story, Remember what you said. Tell me about the birds and bees, How to make the kitten sneeze, Tell me a story and then I'll go to bed" It "ends" with a spanking. Incidentally, we used to make tapes off the air all of the time. We used Kor/Sonic (E.J. Korvettes' house brand), Lebotone and Memorex compact cassettes (Invented by Philips in 1963 and do they give me ONE bit of a royalty check, no!) and had a Concord tape recorder that had a dial and a red button (that was for recording). We taped programs off the TV (Mom was a soundtrack fiend) and used the same recorder for the 78's, which meant in front of the speaker, everyone be quiet, because the mike was open.To end this exotica-lly, one of the oddest themes we had was from "Black Heritage", an old PBS public affairs program that may or may not have been shown only in New York. It started out with bongos and then a sax and a bass would play two interlocking melody lines. What made it odd was that the drums were recorded at regular speed and the sax and the bass were at double or triple-speed! Humming that theme could have meant a day away from school nursing one's throat. Your funny .sig line here. Ask me how!, Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dj45rpm@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 23:26:31 EDT In a message dated 7/10/01 11:04:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time, schlockmagazine@yahoo.com writes: << > Do you know what record it was on? > > And was it actually called the Mummy? Yep. It was called The Mummy and it was by "Dor" who I later found out was Rod McKuen. (I'm pretty sure.) The premise is a mummy walking around scaring people, who scream-- until he comes across a beatnik who could care less. The last line of the record is the hipster saying "like, help." I recently refound the 45 at a shop (with a picture sleeve, even!). > >> It was also on one of the Incredibly Strange Music compiliation CDs released by Re/Search around the same time they put out them Incredibly Strange Music books (which is how I stumbled into the wonderful world of 'Exotica') -DavidH # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obits] Fred Neil, John R. "Buddy" Heffernan Date: 10 Jul 2001 23:28:49 -0400 Monday July 9 11:14 AM ET Folk Rocker Fred Neil Dies at 64 SUMMERLAND KEY, Fla. (Reuters) - Folk song writer Fred Neil, who penned the theme song ``Everybody's Talkin''' from the 1969 movie ``Midnight Cowboy,'' has died, police said. Neil was found dead on Saturday at his home in Summerland Key, Florida, apparently of natural causes, said Monroe County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Becky Herrin. ``A friend who usually checked on him found the body,'' she said. Neil emerged from Greenwich Village, New York, in the mid-1960s. ``Everybody's Talkin''' performed by Harry Nilsson, was featured in ``Midnight Cowboy'' starring Dustin Hoffman and became a Top 10 hit. In 1970, Neil, a native Floridian, founded The Dolphin Research Project to stop trafficking and exploitation of dolphins. In 2000, he wrote the music for ``The Dolphin Project'' video. The book, ``American Troubadours: Groundbreaking Singer Songwriters of the Sixties'' released in the United Kingdom in March, devoted a chapter to Neil. ---------- http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20010708/OB_006.htm LEESBURG, Fla. -- John R. "Buddy" Heffernan, 80, formerly of East Derry, N.H., died June 15. Born in Amesbury, Mass., and educated in Haverhill, Mass., Mr. Heffernan worked in restaurant management throughout New England, and was especially well known at the Colonial Club in Lynnfield, Mass. Mr. Heffernan served in the Army Air Corps as a staff sergeant during World War II in Germany, where he ran the base Officers Club. He lived in East Derry from 1957 to 1999, and was a member of the Derry American Legion. Mr. Heffernan, some say, may have been the basis for and inspiration of the well-known comic character "Archie." Archie's creator, Bob Montana was Buddy's classmate in Haverhill High and after the war, Mr. Montana created the comic basing all the characters and situations he wrote of on his classmates and incidents they experienced in high school. He leaves his wife of 53 years Herta "Kitty" Weller; children Tina Bruno of Northport, N.Y., Heidi and Shawn Heffernan of Kingston, N.H., and Tammy Marini of Nashua, N.H.; and two grandchildren. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dowco" Subject: RE: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 10 Jul 2001 20:38:15 -0700 My first message to exotica after several months of lurking... I can remember the first records I listened to and really enjoyed as a kid around four or five years old, and it's interesting how what I listened to back then must have shaped in some way what I like now. It was my dad's music... 1. An Evening With Grandpa Jones - bluegrass from the guy from Hee Haw... this is good stuff, and I found a great copy of this album while thrifting about a year ago, to replace the scratchy thing which I ruined (but still own). Imagine my delight at being able to listen to "Old Rattler's Pup" without the pops and clicks... 2. The First of the Irish Rovers, Live in Pasadena - similar story as the first one - I found a mint copy of this while thrifting about two months ago, and I found out that I still remember all the words! 3. Train Songs, by Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Snow. Yodel-ay-eee-who! I still love 'em. Anyway, I'd like to tell you all that I really enjoy this list. I'm a compulsive collector of records (for only the past couple of years, so I go in to thrift stores thinking, what if I had been here ten years ago!), and didn't know much about "exotica" before I joined this list. But, I search for some of the names I've seen here, and I'll be doggoned if I don't dig it! My wife likes it too (Enoch Light in particular), which makes her a little easier on my obsession... Oh, and some thrift store finds - just to prove that thrift stores have yet to be completely mined to extinction, I found three beautiful Yma Sumac lps (and a Pete Johnson 12" 78 on Blue Note, among other things) at a St. Vincent DePaul store in Crescent City, California last month, while on vacation... that and about 200 lps gathered from dusty corners throughout Northern California. 25 cents each, too... sigh. And just yesterday I picked up "1,000,000 worth of twang" by Duane Eddy at a Sally Ann store... they've received the complete stock from a defunct radio station or something, and they're putting them on the shelves slowly, just to torture me, I think! Ah, well, a lot of topics, but thanks for the great list, folks, Jim # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] fred neil Date: 11 Jul 2001 10:07:15 -0400 Fred Neil, Folk Singer and Composer, Dies at 64 SUMMERLAND KEY, Fla. July 10 (AP) — Fred Neil, a folk singer whose hits included "Everybody's Talkin' " and "Candyman," was found dead on Saturday in his home here. He was 64. His death was attributed to natural causes. Mr. Neil started his music career in 1955 when he moved from St. Petersburg, Fla., to Memphis. He released his first single, "You Ain't Treatin' Me Right/Don't Put the Blame on Me," two years later. He became a cult favorite after Roy Orbison released a blues recording of "Candyman" in 1960. Mr. Neil released his first solo album, "Bleecker and MacDougal," in 1965. After returning to Florida, he became interested in dolphins. He wrote a song called "The Dolphins," released on his 1967 album, "Fred Neil," and in 1970 co-founded the Dolphin Project to help curb the exploitation of dolphins worldwide. His last big hit was in 1969 when the film "Midnight Cowboy" featured Harry Nilsson singing "Everybody's Talkin' ." Fred Neil Reclusive songwriter of Everybody's Talkin' who turned his back on fame Colin Irwin Wednesday July 11, 2001 The Guardian He wrote one of the most famous songs of the late 20th century, but Fred Neil, who has died aged 64 of cancer, remains one of the most mysterious cult heroes of folk music. Famously reclusive, he was an influential figure on the 1960s New York folk scene, and was occasionally backed by the young Bob Dylan on harmonica at the all-night Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village. He took flight almost from the day Harry Nilsson turned his song, Everybody's Talkin' into a global hit in 1970, following its use as the theme of the Dustin Hoffman-Jon Voight movie Midnight Cowboy (1969). Neil rarely gave interviews, could not stomach fame, and appeared repulsed at the success of his song, a disdainful commentary on human alienation in public life. In fact, it had already appeared on Neil's 1966 solo album, alongside another song, The Dolphins, which reflected his fascination with mammals. Unimpressed by the trappings of fame, and with no interest in exploiting the opportunities offered by his hit, Neil had withdrawn by 1971 to set up a dolphin rescue project in Florida with marine biologist Richard O'Barry, who trained the dolphins for the television series Flipper. He refused all attempts to persuade him into a comeback, and devoted the rest of his life to protecting dolphins. Even in the 1960s, he was a fiercely private character. Born in St Petersburg, Florida, he first came to attention in 1956 playing guitar with Buddy Holly, for whom he wrote the single, Modern Don Juan, before Holly cracked the charts. He also wrote Candy Man, the B-side of Roy Orbison's 1961 hit, Crying. On the back of this success, Neil moved to New York. Dylan later nominated him as one of his primary inspirations: "He had a powerful bass voice and a powerful sense of rhythm. I'd play harmonica for him, and once in a while get to sing a song." Tim Hardin, Tim Buckley and David Crosby were strongly influenced by Neil, and his songs were also covered by Richie Havens, HP Lovecraft and Casey Anderson. In the early days, Neil performed in a duo with Vince Taylor, with whom he recorded the album, Tear Down The Walls. His first solo album, Bleecker & Mac Dougal (1965), named after streets in Greenwich Village, became a benchmark for many emergent young singer-songwriters, with one of the songs on the album, The Other Side Of This Life subsequently covered by Lovin' Spoonful, Jefferson Airplane and the Youngbloods. It was also the title of a live album recorded in Los Angeles, with the country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons among the backing musicians. • Fred Neil, singer and songwriter, born January 1 1937; died July 7 2001 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22fred+neil%22 http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=1FRED|NEIL # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 11 Jul 2001 10:30:20 -0400

I think I jump in on this thread every couple of years, when it comes around.  When I was younger, we lived in Northern Manitoba, on a Native reservation -- my father was an Anglican missionary.  We had no tv, poor radio, and spent a lot of time listening to records.  My main memories are of Burl Ives' albums for children, which we wore out over a couple of years. 

I'm just back from Mexico City, the last bit of travelling in a year which has included too much of that.  I didn't get to the Sunday flea market (we were only there for four days), but someone finally had the good sense to tell me about the street full of second hand book and magazine stores.  This was my 7th visit, and my friends there had somehow neglected, until now, to mention that such a street existed.  Anyway, I scored lots of 1950s US crime-and-scandal magazines at 60-75 cents each.  Some of the streets fanning out from the main square had many, many old records for sale, but I didn't find much of interest this time.  I stumbled on a couple of antique stores with nice old Mexican lobby cards, and bought a few of those, but no music.  The series of VHS reissues of 1960s Mexican groovy films seems to have come to an end -- I didn't find any new titles, and the old ones were gone from any store I visited.

From Brazil, on the other hand, where I spent much of May and June, I brought back dozens of vinyl albums, 50 or so CDs, and various old magazines and paperbacks.  The classic bossa nova labels, to which Brother Cleve had kindly pointed me, seemed to have disappeared from most flea markets and 2nd hand stores, but I got nice Brazilian soap opera soundtracks, tons of 1930s-1940s big band/vocal reissues, and the tropicalia I still didn't have.  Brazilia was, unsurprisingly, a strange, strange city, but I got taken to the best second-hand vinyl store I saw in the whole country. 

Will
 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) LP tote bags Date: 11 Jul 2001 09:29:46 -0500 Anybody know a good source for LP tote bags? I've worn out three of them in a year. I'd like to find something a little stronger than the fabric tote bags most places sell. Can anybody help? Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Saturday 7:00pm - 9:00pm Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Telstar" Subject: Re: (exotica) LP tote bags Date: 11 Jul 2001 10:54:44 -0400 Darrell asked: > Anybody know a good source for LP tote bags? I've worn out three > of them in a year. I'd like to find something a little stronger than > the fabric tote bags most places sell. Can anybody help? I bought a "Schwa" (with a Grey Alien logo) record tote bag from the pages of Fortean Times. I've had it several years and it has held up beautifully. Allan The Mondo Bongos Homepage http://communities.msn.ca/MondoBongos # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) LP tote bags Date: 11 Jul 2001 11:46:41 EDT Dusty Groove should have them, otherwise an anvil container good for about 100 LP's can be found at any good DJ sound shop or 12" store in the accessories dept...Sturdy and good-lookin' too # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) Triple 5 Soul DJ lp bag Date: 11 Jul 2001 11:53:39 -0400 http://www.rocketshop.com/cgi-bin/triple5/slb1913?s4y6xZns;;17 I've got one of these - sturdy & comfortable. Lou lousmith@pipeline.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Lenkei Subject: (exotica) Bill (or Bob) Mitchell Orchestra Date: 11 Jul 2001 12:20:57 -0400 (EDT) Got this question to my site, but I've never heard of this guy. If any of you have any info, I'll pass it along. - bruce Do you have or do you know of a record from the early 60's entitled "Where or When" by the Bill (or Bob) Mitchell Orchestra? It was played regularly on the old NBC Radio "Monitor" weekend series. It's an upbeat instrumental. I know it exists and have been looking for it for 35+ years! I believe it may be on a 45 rpm, possibly under the "Monarch(?)" label. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 11 Jul 2001 15:39:07 -0400 This isn't my story but since it relates to my film, it sort of becomes partly mine. And I don't think this will ruin anything for the few people here who are about to see the film in Washington on July 21. There's this guy I know named Malcolm. I actually interviewed him for my film but he basically isn't in it. Malcolm's collection seems to be driven by the memories of the rock bands that came to his high school or local teen dances when he was a kid. In fact, a lot of Malcolm's conversations are about memories, the past etc. He's the kind of guy who has lots of stories about the records that got away, the records he was looking for his whole life and the one week he DIDN'T go into some store, they got that record and sold it. But it's more than that. He has lots of stories about the past. Period. Including some good ones about hanging around with Lonnie Johnson and Booker White when they were in Toronto. So one night recently Malcolm is driving home from work and for some reason, some old record from the distant past leaps into his head. He was a Catholic school boy in Quebec in the sixties and sometimes Father Steele would take a few of them back into his study and... (Don't go there!) play records for them. And on this particular occasion Father Steele played them a record his brother had made. Malcolm tried to picture the record, the label, the name of the artist but all he could remember was that it was instrumental and had a bit of a country sound. So he goes up to his apartment and there's a message from a friend of his about some film on TV that night that deals with record collecting. So Malcolm figures (correctly) that it's my film so he turns it on but it's already in progress and anyway, he's got calls to make. So the film goes on in the background and while he's on the phone, Malcolm half-listens to the film. He sees this guy talking about buying records at garage sales. Then the guy is talking to someone at a garage sale. The garage sale guy says he used to be a musician. The guy asks him what his name is. The garage sale guy - remember this is a movie, not a dream in Malcolm's head - says his name is Don Steele. (Malcolm, still on the phone, half-hears that) The guy says "I have your record!" The garage sale guy says "I don't think so". The guy names it. "Steel Guitar blues" (That enters Malcolm's brain and he shakes his head, directing his attention towards the TV) The garage sale guy confirms that's the name of the one 45 he made some thirty years ago. The film cuts to a shot of the actual record held up by the guy who claimed to have it. Malcolm stares at the record he was struggling to remember only an hour earlier! the end AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) pop music recommendations Date: 11 Jul 2001 15:52:10 -0400 Once upon a time I recommended Lambchop's record "Nixon" here, particularly for its Bacharach-esque qualities. Someone thanked me for the tip. So I'm going to do it again. The band is called Cousteau. I hate the name. And the cover too is a bit cheesy. They look a bit like a hipster Holiday Inn band. The blurb on the record from some review, says they sound like The Walker Brothers doing Bacharach. And that's exactly what they do sound like! But I found it mesmerizing. If you like the Tindersticks - as I do - they sound a bit like the Tindersticks except the vocals are way up front and the Bacharachisms are way way up front. There's one song that sounds exactly like Walk on By. But I didn't care. It was kind of refreshing even. I argued with someone about whether they came by these influences honestly or whether they're jumping on a very small bandwagon. I think this is just their taste. They seem too uncool to have chosen this cynically. Speaking of cynically though, here's a record some of you will like but it's totally cynical and clever and gimmick and kind of smarmy. It's David Candy "Play Power". There's one cut that's a kind of ripoff of Rod McKuen's "Bathtub Surfing" though it's hard to believe it's on purpose. There's lots of smarmy spoken word on top of soft pop ba ba ba wordless vocal backgrounds (right out of Bathtub Surfing) There's a cover of "Listen to the Music", not the Doobie Brothers tune but the psychedelic soft pop classic by... I can't remember. I think I first heard it on a soundtrack maybe. It's all over the place but it's cheesy fun and shows influences some of us would appreciate. Somebody here will like it I'm sure. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Bill (or Bob) Mitchell Orchestra Date: 11 Jul 2001 15:47:39 -0400 There is a whole site dedicated to this show! http://www.monitorbeacon.com/ There are sounds on it, too. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hep Cat Subject: (exotica) San Fran retro Date: 11 Jul 2001 16:15:06 -0700 (PDT) I'm going to be in SF the 8-13th and am very interested in enjoying any retro-themed martini bars, tiki bars, lounges, etc. Recommendations? -Ford _____________________________________________________________ Enjoy the hip cats and magical martinis at the world's most famous martini bar, Chatini! http://www.chatini.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Matthew Marchese" Subject: Re: (exotica) San Fran retro Date: 11 Jul 2001 18:39:45 -0500 >I'm going to be in SF the 8-13th and am very interested in enjoying any >retro-themed martini bars, tiki bars, lounges, etc. Recommendations? Sure. I'm in the Bay Area a lot. Here are my favorites. I've been to all of them multiple times and can vouch for their tikiness. Trader Vics - Emeryville (near Oakland) Tonga Room - located in the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill in downtown SF. I went there last Sunday and had a really enjoyable time. Expensive, but it's worth it just for the simulated tropical thunderstorms. Trad'r Sams - small neighborhood tiki bar on Geary St. near the big Russian Orthodox church. Beware, this bar can be filled with surly locals and barkeeps who don't mix the drinks correctly. Lilo Lounge - another nice neighborhood lounge in the Potrero Hill district of SF. Eat at Eliza's the chinese restaurant next door. Be sure to try the stir-fry ostrich! Other places I've heard of but never been to: ZamZam - this is a very odd little bar on Haight St. that's run by a guy who only opens it when he feels like it. He tells you what you will have to drink (usually a martini) and will throw you out if you ask for anything else. Cafe DuNord - a lounge that offers up food, live swing music, and DJs along with their drinks. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: (exotica) Ken Nordine interview Date: 11 Jul 2001 21:33:49 -0400 Salon magazine has a very delightful and magical interview with Ken Nordine of WordJazz fame. I love the way his mind works. http://www.salon.com/people/conv/2001/07/11/nordine/index.html Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 12 Jul 2001 00:12:37 -0400 >What are your earliest memories of records, record players, record >playing, record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite record you can >recall? Although I can't remember it, my parents told me the toy 78 player they got me was my favourite toy and I played all those same kids records well. I don't know waht happened to the player but I still have a few of the record! The first kids LP I ever got (which I still have) was Deputy Dawg, another of those cartoons with speech so stereotyped you could never show them today for fear of serious political incorrectness. Not quite Little Marcy mind you... But the first record I ever bought, a single, was The Fifth Dimension's "Aquarius" at age 10 or 11. OK my now 12 year old nephew was buying gangster rap at that age but c'mom it was the early 60's! Ironic that I should have gone the full circle back to this stuff after a run through just about every other musical style known in the 30 years in between.But I can't say I've ever to this day picked up on the broadway musicals my parents played when I was young though. And just to prove there will always be a generation gap, my parents now listen to the likes of Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand, and you can probably guess where I stand on that particular subject... Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dowco" Subject: (exotica) Bongos! Date: 11 Jul 2001 21:59:20 -0700 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dowco" Subject: (exotica) RV: Bongos! Date: 11 Jul 2001 22:13:43 -0700 Well, I'll try this again. Sorry for the double post! To continue with my post from last night, they put out a bunch more records at the Sally Ann in town today... I managed to sneak over there on my lunch break, and walked out with about thirty records under my arm, including "Music" by Mason Williams, Esquivel's "Infinity in sound Vol. 2" (which I already had, but this one's in much, _much_ better condition), and a few other gems... but I've been listening to an album called "Bongos", by the (ahem) Muchachos Locos... this record swings, the bongos bongo all over the place, and when I read the back of the album a minute ago I found the ubiquitous words, "Produced and originated by Enoch Light". So... is this just the Enoch Light Orchestra with bongos on top? If so, gimme more! Now I'm off to give a listen to "Rendezvous in Rio" by Fernandez Pray, who's unknown to me, at least. Jim ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:59 PM > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jonathan richardson" Subject: Re: (exotica) RV: Bongos! Date: 11 Jul 2001 22:41:51 -0700 >but I've been listening to an album called "Bongos", by the >(ahem) Muchachos Locos... this record swings, the bongos bongo all over the >place, and when I read the back of the album a minute ago I found the >ubiquitous words, "Produced and originated by Enoch Light". So... is this >just the Enoch Light Orchestra with bongos on top? This wouldnt happen to be the same album called "Bongos" by Los Admiradores, produced be Enoch Light would it?? I like the name Muchachos Locos much better than Los Admiradores!!! a nifty little bongo record, however when it comes to Bongos, nobody beats ol' Don Ralke!! Got his "gershwin with bongos" record and it really kicks!! SHEEESSH!! -jonny _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Clifford Subject: (exotica) Persistence of vinyl/ GI Joe Date: 12 Jul 2001 00:29:45 -0700 (PDT) I'm not sure if this is the same record or not - but there's a great record from the 80s incarnation of GI JOE featuring former Turtles/ Mothers of Invention Flo & Eddie that I picked up in a thrift years back (some soundtrack fan had got rid of a ton of mint stuff - got my copy of Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song in that pile, too). In any case, the stoned delivery of the GI Joe dialogue is priceless. Mike > > Also loved my GI JOE book and records. Secret > Mission to Spy Island and = > the like. Sound bites from these show up with > amazing regularity on the = > earlier Man or AstroMan albums. These are great > *kitsch* items, the = > acting is so over-the-top!! Also Joe's buddy Mike > has a killer record = > collection - one instro was used to scare a bunch of > head hunters away = > from Joe, blasted from a hovering copter!! > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Erik Subject: Re: (exotica) Physics Yum Yum Date: 12 Jul 2001 09:46:32 +0200 Ton R=FCckert wrote: =20 > Les Horribles Cernettes are the one and only High Energy Rock > Band.=20 Hey, I've got this cd, it's great! 60's girlpop, basically lovesongs but different... Some with silly 'science'-lyricks: "You quark me up", "Give me your heat/shoot me with your microwaves tonight". "I'll hyperlink to you" "Then we jumped into hyperspace/and inversed my polarity"... Other songs are about impossible love because the boyfriend is only interested in science "Now I spend my days/on your computer games", "You don't go out with other girls either/you only love your collider" I don't play this cd more than once a year, but I always have a good laugh when I do! Erik # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) LP tote bags Date: 12 Jul 2001 10:21:55 +0200 Darrell Brogdon schrieb: > Anybody know a good source for LP tote bags? try http://www.protected.de ......................................................................... Der Dismaster http://dismaster.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: (exotica) Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist Date: 12 Jul 2001 09:48:33 Sorry to annoy anyone, but does anyone out there know where the guitar melody at the end of Frontier Psychiatrist is taken? Something that would have been shown on English children's TV in the early 70s I think. It's at the back of my mind and nagging away. rob _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) great source of record covers Date: 12 Jul 2001 16:16:00 +0200 http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/galleries_main.html -- ......................................................................... Der Dismaster http://dismaster.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mimi Mayer Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 12 Jul 2001 09:23:08 -0500 It would have to be a Red Raven record of Froggie Went a Courtin' (I think that was the song.) I can still-picture the glittering, twirling Red Raven display of duckies swimming, lily pads bouncing, and bull frogs jumping. Audio only: a 12-inch of Nutcracker Suite and (like you, Ed) Peter and the Wolf. Had a gigantic pink elephant on the cover. To expand m.ace's game: how would y'all answer these? * First 45 I bought: I Want Candy by the Strangeloves or I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night by the Electric Prunes. * First LP I bought: Either The Beatles, Revolver or a hits compilation by a New York DJ called Murray the K. Note to Alan: It included Mr. Dyingly Sad. I still have that Murray the K LP. * Life-changing records: The Stooges, Fun House. The Sex Pistols, God Save the Queen EP. Esquivel, Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (BarNone). Nino Rota, Rota/Fellini. Enoch Light, I Wanna Be Happy Cha-Chas. Prado, Havana 3AM. Could list others by Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Coltrane, Mingus, Scriaben, Bach, Ravel, Holst, Eno, Fripp, Puccini operas featuring De Los Angeles, ragas for the vina. And Exotica. It's fun to contemplate this stuff. Thanks for starting this game, m.ace. Hope some of you fill in these blanks. Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing) Date: 12 Jul 2001 10:24:03 -0400 * First 45 I bought: "Freak Out" by someone who I can't recall.......a hit = disco tune. I think it was a guy and two girls - Le Sheik or something = like that? I used to buy 45's all the time over at Ben Franklin here in = Baltimore - had the damnest time getting 45's that didn't skip......lots = of exchanges for a "good" copy - also got KISS' Detroit Rock City. =20 * First LP I bought: A Flock of Seagulls and DEVO (The cover with 'em = lined up in matching grey fake leather outfits and red plastic dome hats). * Life-changing records: The Dead Kennedys - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "naile trismegistus" Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing) Date: 12 Jul 2001 10:26:02 -0400 * First 45 I bought: Either "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell, or "Convoy" by C.W. McCall (hey, I was 5, give me a break *grin*) * First LP I bought: Kiss: Rock And Roll Over * Life-changing records: Oingo Boingo- Only A Lad, Dead Can Dance- Passage In Time, Tom Waits- Swordfish Trombones # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mimi Mayer Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 12 Jul 2001 09:42:02 -0500 At 11:04 AM 7/10/01 -0700, J o h n wrote: >Yep. It was called The Mummy and it was by "Dor" who I >later found out was Rod McKuen. (I'm pretty sure.) The >premise is a mummy walking around scaring people, who >scream-- until he comes across a beatnik who could >care less. The last line of the record is the hipster >saying "like, help." I recently refound the 45 at a >shop (with a picture sleeve, even!). A very funny record, and I seldom go for novelty songs. Didn't know this was Rod McKuen who walks like an Egyptian. Thanks for the tidbit, John. Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Herman Brood, James Cuminale Date: 12 Jul 2001 11:03:26 -0400 July 12, 2001 AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Herman Brood, an artist and musician in the Dutch rock scene for 30 years, died Wednesday after jumping to his death from the roof of an Amsterdam hotel, police said. He was 55. Brood, who spoke about the difficulty of ending his daily drug habit, had complained of poor health and depression and told a close friend he didn't want to fade away. "Brood entered art school at 17 and joined musical groups beginning in the 1960s. He became a sensation with his 1978 hit single ``Saturday Night,'' which he wrote as leader of the band Wild Romance. Over 25 years he recorded nearly 20 albums, on his own or with a variety of groups, and also acted in Dutch movies. "He briefly withdrew from recording in the early 1990s to focus on painting and poetry. But in one year, 1994, he released a book, a new CD and a film. "As his success grew, Brood became known as much for his drug-based wild life style as for his art. "He quit drugs last summer after his doctor warned him his life was at risk, but the television reported his mental and physical health quickly deteriorated. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=B0z63tr79klox http://www.google.com/search?q=%22herman+brood%22 James Cuminale ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- James ``Chuck'' Cuminale, a musician whose quirky rock band Colorblind James Experience won acclaim in England in the late 1980s, was found dead in his swimming pool Tuesday. Authorities suspect he suffered a heart attack. He was 49. Although Cuminale's band never achieved commercial success, it picked up a cult following in parts of Europe after John Peel, an influential radio personality in London, began playing its music in 1987. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=1COLORBLIND|JAMES|EXPE http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22colorblind+james+experience%22 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) A new fan....... Date: 12 Jul 2001 11:38:44 -0400 Well, I stopped over Mom's house last Saturday and lo and behold when I = entered the house, the strains of Arthur Lyman were tinkling forth from = the stereo speakers!! It was the album "Yellow Bird" but under the re-release title of "Spectacul= ar Percussion" or something like that. She picks up exotica albums for me = at the thrifts when she goes snooping. Anyway, she loves the album and wants to hear more. She's heard Pele' and = didn't like that one as well (that one leans more towards a Hawaii/Polynesi= an feel). She also mentioned that he sounds more "jazzy" than "those = other guys" (Denny, etc.). =20 Lyman had a weird habit of placing a horrible track on the very end (at = least we can be glad for that) of his albums. Mostly stuff like marches = with trombones or something equally hard on the ears. Mom said, "I have = to jump up and take the needle off when those come on!!" - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 12 Jul 2001 08:53:16 -0700 My earliest memory of vinyl was an LP called "Sesame Street and Other Children's Favorites" or something like that, with a big yellow rubber duckie on the cover. (Has anyone come up with a tribute album to Joe Raposo and/or Jeff Moss yet?) > To expand m.ace's game: how would y'all answer these? * First 45 I bought: I didn't buy it myself, but I think it might be "The Little White Duck" (with maybe "The Tortoise and the Hare" on the flipside?). It was definitely on Pickwick, because I remember saying the word "Pickwick" over and over to myself. (The first cassette I bought had "My Sharona" on it.) * First LP I bought: probably Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon," I can't remember. * Life-changing records: see http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/albums.htm and the page after that. Later, Ben np: hieroglyphics, "3rd eye vision" http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/ ICQ: 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing) Date: 12 Jul 2001 12:04:10 -0400 My parents had a console stereo (in one of those massive wood cabinets) with a Garrard turntable, which sat in the living room. Their collection included Doris Day and the Tijuana Brass, and a childhood favourite of mine - Allan Sherman's "My Son The Nut". My own collection included the usual Disney standards of the time (Cinderella, Babes In Toyland, Winnie The Pooh, etc.) and one of Danny Kaye narrating Hans Christian Andersen stories, which I loved to listen to. Thankfully, my parents never moved their record collection to the basement, so all the records were kept in fairly good condition in the living room, then the family room when they moved, and I have most of them here now. When I was very young, my grandparents bought me two Beatles singles. I'm not sure why they chose them - I couldn't have been more than 6 or so at the time - but I listened to them constantly (I Want To Hold Your Hand b/w I Saw Her Standing There and Please Please Me b/w Ask Me Why) And when my older cousins came over to babysit, they brought their Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bee Gees and Hermans Hermits records with them to play. (I can remember singing "Henry the 8th" over and over again as a kid...) I really can't remember the first LP I bought. I used to take records out of the library to tape on my cassette player - Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, when I was around 12 or 13. Life-changing records were T. Rex's "Electric Warrior", Mott The Hoople's "Mott" and The New York Dolls debut album. I finally got my own stereo when I was 16, which I kept in my room (my parents were more than relieved to not have to listen to my music anymore...) and my record collection began to expand rapidly at that point. And it shows no signs of letting up anytime soon... cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Lenkei Subject: Re: (exotica) A new fan....... Date: 12 Jul 2001 12:09:59 -0400 (EDT) Ha! Great story. My new girlfriend also seems to like Lyman records a lot. They're just so relaxing and background-ish. Except for the marching tracks. It's just a real smooth sound, with only a hint of exotic feeling, but not so much that you get distracted by any of it. - bruce # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 12 Jul 2001 12:22:53 EDT First 45: "Chantilly Lace" by The Big Bopper First LP: "Out of Our Heads" by Rolling Stones First Headpone Revelation: "It Must Be A Camel" by Frank Zappa off the "Hot Rats" LP Childhood Mammary: "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window" by Patti Page Lifechangers: Our of Our Heads by Rolling Stones, Disraeli Gears by Cream, first Vanilla Fudge LP, Brian Auger & The Trinity "Whenever You're Ready", JB's "Pass The Peas"LP, First Choice "Armed & Extremely Dangerous, Skip Mahoaney& The Casuals "Wherever You Go" on A-Bet (1976), :"We're A Happy Family" by The Ramones, "I'm Bored" by Iggy Pop, forget the 80's, and Exotica, first as a statement against the marketing of music, then as its own entity...JB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) LA Date: 12 Jul 2001 17:31:07 +0100 I'm off to LA Saturday for a week. Any more recommendations? Drinking dens, 2nd hand stuff, flea markets, record shops, cruise/hot rod/drag (cars not cross dressers) events, strange things to see? Thanks all. Charlie Charles Moseley Editor - C3 magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: James Botticelli Subject: Re: (exotica) great source of record covers Date: 12 Jul 2001 12:27:00 -0400 on 7/12/01 10:16 AM, Moritz R at tiki@netsurf.de wrote: > > http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/galleries_main.html der dismaster's mistress is fine! jest a test here # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing) Date: 12 Jul 2001 13:48:41 -0400 I want to reply to Mimi's appendix when I get the time to do it right, but for the moment I have to say... Cheryl wrote: >Life-changing records were T. Rex's >"Electric Warrior", Mott The Hoople's "Mott" Damn! You seem to be my long-lost sister with different parents, or something like that. I was just thinking about the "Mott" album a couple of days ago ("Honaloochie Boogie" had popped into my head)! I hope you got a copy of Ian Hunter's tour diary book at some point (the printing I have was titled "Reflections Of A Rock Star", but it's had other titles which I don't remember). The odd thing about "Electric Warrior" is that it took me a couple of weeks to realize it was a gatefold cover. Did anyone else have the Tyrannosaurus Rex "Unicorn" album? That's the early, acoustic, very strange album with tunes like "Cat Black The Wizard's Hat". I had a near hypnotic fascination with that album. And it's another one I've been thinking about lately. Ain't synchronicity fun? And, er, yeah, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath were in there too at some point. m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SH Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 12 Jul 2001 20:33:14 +0000 To answer m.ace’s questions about my first vinyl memories here I go: I must have been five or six, maybe seven and always thought my mom had a great number of records, today I estimate them to have been around 80 pieces. Most of them were classical. But also Mirelle Mathieu. Neither of these I liked to play. My favorites were BONANZA by The Nashville Ramblers (on Europa). Then she had a nonstop (a gogo) Tijuana trumpet pseudo Herb Alpert album with a mexican corrida scene on the front cover, and party meal receipts on the back. I further know she had the famous Popcorn album by Hot Butter (featuring Moog versions of Apache, Telstar and Pipeline). She had the Midnight flyer album by Ray Anthony, when I later decided to ask her for that (she hadn’t played it much ever, and stopped listening to records some years ago) I knew the easy barrier was broken, entering from the rock’n’roll side of things. I picked the records that I wanted to play on the strength of their covers, because I thought they might be story records like my 2 Winnetou LPs. The cowboy cover, the corrida cover, the funny Pippi Longstocking type girl on the Popcorn cover. The guy with trumpet in front of the jet plan. These looked much more exciting to me, than say the Wiener Sängerknaben in some big cathedral. Or Mirelle Mathieu crooning. So I found out that adults listen to records with no storytelling on them. Hardly any words. As I was listening through them I started playing with the pan, bass, treble and volume knobs on the Dual stereo receiver amp. I remember I liked to turn the volume up according to the music (rhythm?). The Bonanza record was the first to enter my personal collection. I also gave the Mirelle Mathieu records a new home. Are the Wiener Sängerknaben next??? KK # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "B.R. Rolya" Subject: (exotica) Kahiki tribute in NY Date: 12 Jul 2001 14:48:24 -0700 Been meaning to post this for a while now. Sorry I didn't get it out in time for opening night. from Time Out NY: "Is it just us, or do the hottest culinary ideas always seem to come out of Columbus, Ohio? This week, Marion's-in an annual summer ritual-transforms into a tiki bar to pay homage to the defunct Kahiki Lounge, an Ohio landmark. The restaurant will be decked out in kitschy tropical decor, and chef Carlos Ruela will serve a special Polynesian menu including favorites like the pupu platter and coconut shrimp. Tropical drinks will also be flowing. On opening night, the staff assures us we'll find "scantily clad cabana boys"-a touch we're guessing owes more to New York than to Columbus. Kahiki Lounge at Marion's. 354 Bowery between 3rd and 4th Sts (212-475-7621). Wed 11 through Aug 13" -BR br@triagemusic.com . # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 12 Jul 2001 12:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Missed out on this part. Don't know about life altering - helped fine-skew my world outlook: > Lifechangers: Mid teens: Jimi Hendrix; Doors; The Seeds; VU late teens-twenties The Stooges: Funhouse, Open Up and Bleed, Raw Power The Gun Club: Miami The Real Kids; Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers; Mission of Burma; Bunny Drums; Link Wray (pre-hippie); Flamin' Groovies (with Roy Loney); Forgotten Rebels: Surfin' On Heroin; The Balenescu Quartet (& M. Nyman); DI: Johnny's Got a Problem; Agent Orange: Bloodstains; Bad Manners: Inner London Violence; Radio Birdman; Johnny Burnette and The Rock 'N' Roll Trio, yawn. So on. ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mr Fodder" Subject: (exotica) SCHWA / David Candy Date: 12 Jul 2001 14:53:53 -0700 > I bought a "Schwa" (with a Grey Alien logo) record tote bag from the pages > of Fortean Times. I've had it several years and it has held up > beautifully. I still have one also from years ago. Very sturdy, but discontinued as far as I know. SCHWA is now SCANWAVE, http://www.scanwave.com > It's David Candy "Play Power". If anyone wants to hear a cut, It's the first track on the Friendly Persuasion show this week. I dig the David Candy CD. It's a lot like "Death By Chocolate" but instead of Angie Tillett it's David Candy. :-) Radio show here, http://www.antennaradio.com/punk/friendlypersuasion/index.htm David Candy's label, Jetset Records here, http://jetset.sinner.com/ Cheers, Otis # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RLott@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) David Candy Date: 12 Jul 2001 17:56:21 EDT In a message dated 7/12/01 4:52:27 PM, mofo@thebranflakes.com writes: << If anyone wants to hear a cut, It's the first track on the Friendly Persuasion show this week. I dig the David Candy CD. It's a lot like "Death By Chocolate" but instead of Angie Tillett it's David Candy. :-) >> My personal favortie track off this is at the end -- the cover of the theme from "Rosemary's Baby." Never has spooky sounded so suave. --Rod www.hitchmagazine.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing) Date: 13 Jul 2001 00:12:01 +0200 Nathan Miner schrieb: > * First 45 I bought: "Freak Out" by someone who I can't recall.......a hit disco tune. I think it was a guy and two girls - Le Sheik or something like that? I suppose you mean "Le Freak" by Chic. Incredible tune, love it!!! Mo ......................................................................... Der Dismaster http://dismaster.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Herman Brood Date: 13 Jul 2001 00:17:47 +0200 nytab@pipeline.com schrieb: > July 12, 2001 > AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Herman Brood, an artist and musician in the Dutch rock scene for 30 years, died Wednesday after jumping to his death from the roof of an Amsterdam hotel, police said. He was 55. oops. although i wasn't precisely a fan of his music it's always sad when someone goes before his time. wrong drugs I guess... will Nina Hagen be at his funeral? Mo ......................................................................... Der Dismaster http://dismaster.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl - the mimi variations Date: 12 Jul 2001 21:35:11 -0400 This is way, way too long. I'm sorry. It's all Mimi's fault. First, a point Ed made: >Aaah yes, you see? Probably all of us enjoyed music in >such a way that we played those 3 scratchy EP's over >and over again on the lousiest mono record player you >could ever imagine. And remember how happy we were? Yes. This is exactly why I still want one of those Califone portables. Trying to return to that early bliss. Now, Mimi's variations. Unfortunately, I think I have to place them in context. >* First 45 I bought: I really got away from records in my later single-digit years, so I didn't follow through the usual progress of 45s as 'starter buys' or moving smoothly from kiddie records to pop records. Not that I didn't hear the pop of the time. There was the radio, and there were Saturday afternoon TV shows like American Bandstand or The Steel Pier Show (a regional variant that originated from Atlantic City). But I didn't pursue the music -- it was just there in the air. I was more interested in stuff like comics or model cars or etc. Also, somewhere along there, I inherited an old, portable Concord reel-to-reel recorder (single-track, 7-inch reels) and got more kicks from recording funny noises than I would from playing records. But as I approached my teens, that teenage music thing began to kick in. One Christmas I got a portable cassette deck (mono, built-in speaker, can't recall the brand (it eventually became the world's greatest fuzzbox)). Cassettes seemed really modern and cutting edge at the time ('71 or so?) and my cutting edge choices included The Carpenters "brown album" (the hits collection), "The Sounds Of Baja" (or something like that -- it was a generic TJB-style band intercut with the sounds of Baja 1000 off-road racers) and one of those "Cruisin'" oldies comps (the one with "Beep Beep" (by I forget who) and Del Shannon's "Runaway" -- "Runaway" lodged so deeply into my head that I lost a night or two of sleep over it). A couple of years later, cheap department store stereo systems got to be a big thing among my relatives, and I wound up with an Electrophonic rig, complete with record player and an 8-track slot in the receiver. And when you say 8-track, you know you're talking tapes like: Deep Purple - "Machine Head", Pink Floyd - "Dark Side Of The Moon" and Neil Diamond's "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (huh?!?). Though with a record player there, I started getting back to vinyl, especially as I didn't like the weird way albums got chopped up to fit into 8-track programming. And so I finally bought some 45s, but I can't really remember which were first. Wings - "Live & Let Die" and Alice Cooper - "School's Out" were pretty early ones. >* First LP I bought: Is another tough call and would come from that same 8-track/vinyl/cassette melange era. It might have been "Dick Clark: 20 Years Of Rock N' Roll" -- a two record set on Buddah. "Contains 30 Original Hits ... Includes Original 24 Page Souvenir Yearbook With Photos ... Plus Bonus Record: Inside Stories With Dick Clark" which is a cardboard laminate deal with Dick telling low-content anecdotes about Bandstand. Really, though, it was a pretty solid oldies comp for a little sprout to take in. Everything from the expected standards ("Rock Around The Clock") to some tougher stuff like "Louie Louie". And even new tracks like "Superfly"! These were by the original artists, yes. Or maybe it was Brownsville Station - "Yeah!" And I have nothing to say about that. >* Life-changing records: I'd rather think of them as *key* records. Records that really influenced me, or got deep into my head, or led to a lot of other records. And I'd like to add that a lot of my big revelations came through the radio rather than records, once I discovered WXPN, a then-excellent freeform station out of Philadelphia. T.Rex - "Electric Warrior" Mott The Hoople - "Mott" Roxy Music "Roxy Music" I'm not sure of the chronology (probably not linear at all), but these all helped to tilt me away from the metal / prog rock axis (which exercises such gravity on the adolescent male). Deep Purple - "Machine Head" Black Sabbath - "Paranoid" Though to give the devils their due, heavy riff music does have a certain elegance. At least when it was a relatively new idea. King Crimson - "Larks Tongues In Aspic" Yes - "Close To The Edge" And if you can manage some sort of, uhm, objective distance, prog rock can at least achieve some original oddness. Side 1 of "Close To The Edge" remains an shockingly unique piece of work (really, check it out, it's so alien). "Larks Tongues" has an emphasis on atmosphere that's almost parallel to exotica or soundtrack music. On the instrumental tunes, anyway. Pink Floyd - "Masters Of Rock" This was a Dutch compilation of Syd Barrett era material. I played it much more than "Dark Side". And if you play it while watching "Detour", everything syncs together. Eno - "Here Come The Warm Jets" John Cale - "Fear" Nico - "The End" But I did break away from the metal/prog stuff, and these people probably put the stake in the heart. I started off with Eno albums, which led me to his Island labelmates of the time: ex-VU's John Cale and Nico. And that led to maybe the biggest key record of all: "The Velvet Underground & Nico" 'Nuff said on that one. Zappa/Mothers - "Uncle Meat" Then again, around the same time, I sort of majored in Zappa (sung: "when I was seventeen, it was a very Bizarre Records year"). But this was the album I really lived in (it was a double set -- lots of room). Such a variety of styles, from abstract instrumentals to goofy novelty rock. I still think it contains some of his most beautiful melodies. "Lumpy Gravy" runs a close second in the 'conk Mike on the head' competition. Captain Beefheart - "Trout Mask Replica" And if you're going to dig into Zappa, you're going to wind up here. Another record that opens your mind to the unexpected things that can be done with music. "The Varese Record" The legendary Edgard Varese album released by EMS Records. My copy was a reissue on Finnadar. It was good enough for little Francis Vincent Zappa, and it was good enough for me. Sun Ra - "Nothing Is" Ornette Coleman - "Of Human Feelings" Carla Bley - "Escalator Over The Hill" Henry Cow - "In Praise Of Learning" Harry Partch - "Bewitched" The Residents - "Duck Stab" More artists of little similarity, who all showed me what wide fields were out there beyond the norm. These are all records which led to more records via artist or label associations. A lot of this came to me through the radio first; also a lot of Kraut Rock, free jazz and so on. I've never had a Faust or Can record, but I've heard a lot of Faust and Can. Funkadelic - "One Nation Under A Groove" Grace Jones - "Nightclubbing" "Seize The Beat (Dance ZE Dance)" Material - "Memory Serves" PiL - "Second Edition" Education into the possibilities of BASS and BEAT in various ways. "Seize The Beat" was a ZE Records compilation with early tracks by folks like Coati Mundi, Was (Not Was), Christina, Material. The Sex Pistols - "Anarchy In The UK" Punk time. Now here's another point to note the radio factor. I first heard "Anarchy In The UK" in early '77 on WXPN -- and what an impact (for me, it was like the power of rock combined with the intensity of free jazz and the attitude of dada (which I had been reading much about at the time)). But I didn't find the single (a wonderfully loud 12" French import) until late summer. And although I played the whee out of it, it was still somewhat scooped by: The Damned - "Damned Damned Damned" The Saints - "I'm Stranded" Richard Hell & The Voidoids - "Blank Generation" Funny thing though... what can you do when you're listening to The Damned album -- brand-new punk rock, when punk rock was new and dangerous -- and your mom pops her head in and says (I quote exactly): "I LIKE that. It has PEP!" Well, actually, I thought that was pretty cool after the shock passed. Well said, mum. Narrowing that era down to a few records seems a little hopeless. It was so much about singles, and listening to college radio stations for the latest releases. And you have weird exceptions like The Ramones, who were like cool cousins that you're really proud of, but whose records never really had a big impact on me. But a few that were very big for me... "The B-52's" Mysteriously twangy transmissions from Planet Thrift. Definitely a setup for the exotica thing. The Cramps - "Songs The Lord Taught Us" This record just flattened me. Big. Big! And again, more setup for exotica. The Lux & Ivy interview in "ISM, Vol. 1" was a big draw. Gang Of Four - "Entertainment" I know this one was a biggie at the time, but now its importance seems to have been temporary. Like it was just hard rock with political correctness tacked on. Ouch. I can't believe I said that. And I *like* this record! The Stickmen - "This Is The Master Brew" Probably just as much for the live shows I saw long before they did the record. Sorry, New Yorkers, but these guys smoked the Contortions. Flipper - their early singles "Ha Ha Ha Ha", "Sex Bomb", who can forget "Brainwash"? The closest anyone in later years ever got to the elemental primacy of "Surfin' Bird". Key records seem to drop off in the 80s and 90s. Not that there wasn't good work being done, not that I didn't have favorites. But it got a whole lot harder for something to really surprise me and put a ding in my skull. James Brown - "The CD Of JB" Okay, I was way behind the eightball here, no possible excuses, but at least I made JB's scene eventually. A 1985 cd comp covering his career from the 50s to the mid-70s. One of my first CDs. Re-issues became so much better (and plentiful) in the CD era. De La Soul - "3 Feet High And Rising" When I listen to breakbeat tracks, I always think of this brilliant album. Rap had such potential... long, long ago. With some of its thriftstore grooves, another pointer to exotica. Bongwater - "Breaking No New Ground" and "The Power Of Pussy" The "No New Ground" ep definitely put a ding in my skull. It seems like Bongwater was my last "favorite rock band". And "The Power Of Pussy" remains the last new release rock album to genuinely blow my mind. Esquivel - "Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music" "Cocktail Mix, Vol.1: Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy" "The Exotic Moods Of Les Baxter" And along with the "ISM" books, these are the CDs that pulled me into this exotica thing. Surprise! Music could still surprise me! --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl - the mimi variations Date: 12 Jul 2001 19:48:01 -0700 > Yes. This is exactly why I still want one of those Califone portables. > Trying to return to that early bliss. Oh, you should get one. Or a Newcomb Audio or Audiotronics. They are great. I had all three at one time. My Califone is one of those "dance" machine with detachable speakers - it's a monster. Its a blast playing records on them and since the stylus is not so sensitive, they sound great, the surface noise is significantly filtered out. Big sound. You can play 78s too, which opens up a whole new world. Take them out on your patio, drag it into work and impress your friends. Califone still makes new ones, I beleive, but why bother? All of these iron clad classroom portables can be found regularly on ebay for less than 100 bucks - a small price to pay for a little slice of bliss. I'll bet there is one on there with your name on it right now, Mike :) Yep, there sure is. Check this little beauty out: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1252355056 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 12 Jul 2001 20:14:13 -0700 how do most of fellow listees with record collections shelve your albums? I'm looking for ideas or references to online sources, please. no plastic milk crates or cardboard boxes on the floor, this won't do anymore. More along the line of floor to ceiling shelving units. I've seen in pictures what look like custom systems just a smidge over the size of a record and they look great. Where do people get these or any other suggestons? I guess I could just check Ikea's catalog... thanks for any help # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Craig Carlson Subject: (exotica) Persistent Vinyl and question Date: 12 Jul 2001 23:31:31 -0400 I may have posted this before, these memories are from long ago, and remember Time Wounds All Heels: First record I remember playing: "How Much Is That Doggie In the Window" by Patti Page First record of my own: "Billy" by Cathy Linden or "Pajama Party" hosted by Julius LaRosa First record(s) I bought: "Hot Pastrami" by The Dartells and "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen (bought both at the same time) First LP: "Beach Boys Today" Our main record player was a huge Zenith console AM/FM/Turntable unit. It smelled great when it warmed up. I still listen to Hot Pastrami and Louie Louie (mp3s) on a fairly regular basis. I still have that original Cathy Linden 45, and side two of "Beach Boys Today" is one of pop music's finest moments. There was a yard sale at my old home-stead about 15 years after we moved out. I went to it and picked up a batch of our old family records (the vinyl kind) and my sister's old portable record player. It still works 40 years later! Lost record I'm still searching for: "Robin Hood" Capitol Record Reader on 45 rpm. I see the 78 rpm version on ebay every so often, but the 45 rarely shows up. What's your lost treasure? Craig de-lurking List member since 1995 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: (exotica) portables Date: 12 Jul 2001 20:44:12 -0700 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of basic hip > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 7:48 PM > Its a blast playing records on them and since the stylus is not so > sensitive, they sound great, the surface noise is significantly filtered > out. Big sound. > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1252355056 Those pictures look absolutely stunning. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. How do they sound, really? Tinny computer speaker sound, or James Ellroy-"bigggg" sound? (Sorry, I'm reading his latest novel right now and his grammar and syntax is lodged completely in my head.) Later, Ben np: bird, "mindtravel" http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/ ICQ: 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) portables Date: 12 Jul 2001 21:30:03 -0700 > Those pictures look absolutely stunning. I don't think I've ever seen > anything like it. How do they sound, really? Tinny computer speaker sound, > or James Ellroy-"bigggg" sound? go to original sender. Sound great! At least I think so. These are definitely not toys! They are industrial strength heavyweights designed to plunk down in a school classroom and be clearly heard by all. Some have "bi-directional" sound, meaning sound that comes from the front and back. They usually have one 1/4 output jack, so if you run your stereo into your soundcard to digitize LP's for a CD-R burn, you can easily connect one of these players. That's how I put 78s on a CD-R. They fold up like a suitcase and weigh a ton. So if you pick one up, be prepared for a hefty shipping cost. I suppose you can find these in thrift stores, depending on your luck, location and how fussy you are about condition - I've never seen one though. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kendoll Subject: re: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 13 Jul 2001 00:02:07 -0600 basic hip wrote: > I guess I could just check Ikea's catalog... just bought $1400.00 worth of ikea bonde shelves. very record friendly, shelves measure 13" x 13" x 15" deep, stacked 4 or 6 cubes high by 2 cubes across. it took me about 4 days to shelve all my records -- they were in cardboard boxes for 7 months since i moved. what a relief to be able to find the records i want. i figure these shelves will do me for another 2 years at which time i'll stop collecting records (or buy more shelves, more likely). on another thread, i bought my califone at a thriftstore for $5. i love the way 78's sound on it -- very rich & warm. i've heard that you can sometimes find them at schoolboard surplus sales. mike # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 13 Jul 2001 11:03:07 +0200 http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt/ebay/recordshelve.gif What do you think of this? Easy to build and you have the opportunity to search through your favorite records like in a record shop. You can have 2 or 3 and always add new ones, when your collection gets bigger. Mo ......................................................................... Der Dismaster http://dismaster.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Moseley Subject: RE: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 13 Jul 2001 10:48:39 +0100 I built record shelves when I moved into the flat and as I'm moving out soon, I'll have to build new ones in the new house. 3/4inch thick MDF shelves, 12 inches deep and five foot long sit between chimney brace and wall butted against the back wall. Chrome tunes separate the shelves and work as feet. The whole lot took about a week of very slow work but look great. Do it yourself - use solid wood and don't go near IKEA! Charles Moseley Editor - C3 magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Linds" Subject: (exotica) re: Home Record Storage. Date: 13 Jul 2001 05:24:01 -0700 Yes!!!! Check out IKEA. I just bought four shelving units at $250.00 (CDN) Each unit can hold up to 1,800 records. They come in white and a tanned version which is $50.00 more. It's called EXPEDIT. Brian Linds # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing) Date: 13 Jul 2001 08:37:54 -0400 Yes! That's them. It's still in the basement somewhere.......... Ah, memories............thanks Mo! - Nate > * First 45 I bought: "Freak Out" by someone who I can't recall.......a = hit disco tune. I think it was a guy and two girls - Le Sheik or = something like that? I suppose you mean "Le Freak" by Chic. Incredible tune, love it!!! Mo ......................................................................... Der Dismaster http://dismaster.de=20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original = sender. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) A favor? Date: 13 Jul 2001 08:51:43 -0400 Does anyone order often from altrecordings.com?? I'm paranoid about using credit card #'s over the net, and never will do = that. I can't find a copy of "Feelings" by Stefano Torossi any cheaper - other = sites that take checks are *incredibly* pricey on this title. So, if someone could order this along with their next batch o' stuff I = would gladly send you a check for it. - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Paging Kevin Crossman....... Date: 13 Jul 2001 08:54:41 -0400 .....e-mail me, you owe me some Denny CD's......... - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: RE: (exotica) A favor? Date: 13 Jul 2001 09:15:51 -0400 Oops - it's Atrecordings and here's the link: http://www.atrecordings.com/home.asp=20 Sorry 'bout that. - Nate >>> weirdomusic@wxs.nl 07/13/01 09:14AM >>> > Does anyone order often from altrecordings.com?? Nate, I typed in www.altrecordings.com but there was no site?! (Had never heard of them before, so I wanted to check it out). Marco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: RE: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 13 Jul 2001 09:47:21 -0400 > > Oooh!! > > Ich mochte der Plan! > > Do you have blueprints in US inches? A materials list? > About how many would this thing hold, do you think? Verrrry > kool, Mo, verrrry kool. > > You could even stick Coop stickers or hand carve some tikis > into that top faceplate. > > $o?`?o$o,,,,o$o?`?o$o,,,,o$o?`?o$o,,,,o$ > Charlieman > "Everything that can be invented, has been invented." > - Charles H. Duell, 1899 > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Lenkei Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 13 Jul 2001 10:05:06 -0400 (EDT) I get my shelving the same place I get all my records: Flea markets. I've gotten some nice, old and super strong, all wood shelf units from all different places. The only catch is that they cost around $80-&100 bucks, and you need a big car or a truck to get them home. I've got an entire shrine to old cheezy culture set up on the top shelf of one. - bruce On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, basic hip wrote: > > how do most of fellow listees with record collections shelve your albums? > I'm looking for ideas or references to online sources, please. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 13 Jul 2001 10:14:05 -0400 <> DAMN, where are the flea markets - Beverly Hills?!?!?! - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Marco Zanuso Date: 13 Jul 2001 10:15:34 -0400 Marco Zanuso http://www.io.tudelft.nl/public/vdm/fda/zanuso/index.htm ROME (AP) -- Marco Zanuso, one of Italy's foremost postwar designers and an accomplished architect, died Wednesday. He was 85. Zanuso was known for the sleek, understated style he brought to everyday objects like bathroom scales and televisions. A radio he designed for the Brionvega company in 1964, was typical: plastic, in simple colors and with a clamshell cover. Zanuso was born in Milan in 1916. After the destruction caused by World War II, he said he felt ``called to restructure a disoriented and dissolved society, a space still available for planning.'' In 1954, he was asked to design a factory for the Olivetti company in Argentina that was noteworthy for its lighting and attention to working conditions. Another factory in Brazil soon followed. Other major commissions included IBM office buildings in Milan and Rome and a theater in Milan. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Marco+Zanuso%22 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) the blue ones... Date: 13 Jul 2001 10:47:50 +0200 I know Ross doesn't like to hear this, but since I burn CDs myself, the only two I've had playing problems with so far, are the only two in blue. Mo ......................................................................... Der Dismaster http://dismaster.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Lenkei Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 13 Jul 2001 10:57:08 -0400 (EDT) Heh. No! The suburbs of NYC. But also, they are BIG! About 7 feet high and 4 feet wide. It's still way cheaper than even IKEA, plus these things are made of actual wood as opposed whtever it is they use to make wood-like shelving these days. - bruce On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Nathan Miner wrote: > <> > > DAMN, where are the flea markets - Beverly Hills?!?!?! > > - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 13 Jul 2001 11:04:33 -0400 This is what I want: http://newdeal.feri.org/images/o56.gif but here are some alternatives: http://store.yahoo.com/media-cd-dvd-shelves-racks/vinyl-r-2-24.html or http://www.superiorshelving.com/Jaken/JakenPages/RecordArchive.html (hey, records are records - and utility shelving is ugly yet functional) http://www.silverflight.com/sc/vinylstorage/ http://www.morrisoncabinetry.com/gallery/bookcases/windowseat.htm And for a similar question thread in the Acid Jazz Archive, see: http://www.cmd.uu.se/AcidJazz/Backup/1999-Aug/thread.html#29 Lou lousmith@pipeline.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 13 Jul 2001 11:10:01 EDT Shelving albums..I think I found the solution..A portion of my basement had this room half walled off, with a big opening looking out onto the floor. Thinks I: "Great DJ booth, but this ain't no disco." So I took the bull by the horns, called a carpenter in from my Favor Bank and we build a counter that runs around the perimeter of the room with enough room for me to stand in the middle. On that counter I have my two turntables, mixer, CD burner, cassette deck, amp and cabling for speakers which are hooked up outside. My LPs are stored in LP-sized pseudo milk crates two deep around the remainder of the perimeter so I can access by category...They are lined up like a used record shop with the white-tabbed things denoting genre, and all my soul LP's are filed by letter of group/artist's last name. That way I can just flip through and my poly protectors can be kept on sideways for quick and easy access to each rekkid. Next year's project: finish my plans to build a Tiki Room in t! he basement...JB/hope that helps # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 13 Jul 2001 13:20:41 -0400 At 11:10 AM 7/13/01 EDT, DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: Next year's project: finish my plans to build a Tiki Room in! > t! >he basement... Well I'm not the big tiki guy but if you build it, I will cum. And I'll also visit Boston and take advantage of your hospitality. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mimi Mayer Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 13 Jul 2001 13:54:19 -0500 At 11:03 AM +0200 7/13/01, Moritz R wrote: >http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt/ebay/recordshelve.gif > >What do you think of this? Easy to build and you have the opportunity to >search through your favorite records like in a record shop. You can have 2 >or 3 and always add new ones, when your collection gets bigger. Smart design, Mo (pub intentional). Do you know the dimensions? Or has anyone who's built (or had built) custom record shelves serve up some measurements (i.e., width of top bin for flip-through storage, height of lower or encased shelves for vertical, spine out storage)? Charles added, I built record shelves when I moved into the flat and as I'm moving out soon, I'll have to build new ones in the new house. 3/4inch thick MDF shelves, 12 inches deep and five foot long sit between chimney brace and wall butted against the back wall. Chrome tunes separate the shelves and work as feet. The whole lot took about a week of very slow work but look great. I bet. Am trying to imagine how you used that chrome tubing, Charles. Did you need to bend or manipulate the tubing in any way? How did you brace it? Is there a weight you'd recommend? I still can't picture the chrome feet. Any photos of your creation available? Sorry to pepper you two with questions. Your description/diagram inspire me. I imagine the shelves with a matte black painted finish. And I have two perfect wall spaces where each version of the shelves could live. Finally, Jimmy B brought up those white tabbed thingies used to separate artists by name in record stores. Anyone know where to order these on the Net? Or even, what the hell they're called? Am currently using cardboard, which frankly, is too tasty to gigantic Texas roaches to be a permanent solution. Thanks for info y'all, Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: (exotica) nice 'bad taste' site Date: 13 Jul 2001 21:48:22 +0200 Just came across this nice site: http://www.badtaste.nl/ Includes a 'music room' with some of Holland's finest... Marco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 13 Jul 2001 15:00:46 -0700 (PDT) The Walt Disney Movie Song of the South with its wonderful sound track wowed me to tears at the ripe age of 4. Tammy by Debbie Renolds was too beautiful for my young ears. How Much is that Doggie in the Window I felt was written for me. Hound Dog and the Everly's Bird Dog turned me on to tougher sounds. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Poka Dot Bikini stirred my imagination as did Telestar and the Night Has a 1000 Eyes. I got my first record player in 1962. With it was my first record, He's a Rebel by the Crystals (Phil Spector) It was a grey General Electric suitcase stereo player that actually folded up into a suitcase. Donna the Prima Donna by Dion was the first record I purchased with my own money. Shut Down was purchased not long after. Shut Down by the Beach Boys had me calling the radio station to vote it as number one. I can still remember the first time I heard Surfer Girl and I was doubly pleased when the announcer said it was the flip of Little Duece Coup. Then came the Beatles, I changed my hair style. And the Beatles changed my record buying habits, now lps seemed desirable, though 45s were still my main purchases. But some how the garage music of 1965 & 1966 captured my soul as no other music ever did. Gloria by the Shadows of Night and Pushin Too Hard the Seeds, I Had Too Much to Dream and the 1000s of other garage hits nailed me. The Yardbirds seemed like gods. 65/66 saw the release of my 3 favorite albums Pet Sounds, Rubber Soul, Revolver were released. Spent the summer with all my friends swimming and listening to Pet Sounds over and over at Laura's house. Went to my first concert outside of my High School and saw Frank Zappa who asked the audience if they wanted to hear "Louie Louie or Caravan with a drum solo" Cream's 1st lp, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix but especially the Velvet Underground caught my attention next. By 1968 the Velvet Underground, Bonzo Dog Band and the Beach Boys were my 3 favorite bands. I still enjoyed pop music in 67 68 and 69 though each year it seemed to ger worse. Enjoyed funk and disco and especially the band Weather Report in the 70s. Held Iggy Pop up on my shoulders at a concert with the Stooges (all in sun glasses) MC5 and Alice Cooper. Bob Marley seemed like paradise in Concert in the 1970s My friends and I didn't go see the Sex Pistols up the road in Baton Rouge because the drive seemed too far and Baton Rouge seemed too boring. Got into New Wave and Punk. Followed Euro Disco, especially Italy's Hi Energy music in the 1980s plus a little goth and 80s pop 12 inch versions. Bought my last 12 inch (for a few years) Pump Up the Volume and got bored with Techno and Rave. Went searching for music with my new cd player. Tried New Age and Classical and jazz. Finally came home again to when I heard about Combustible Edison. It was like a band that understood what I thought cool was! I had Quiet Village since 1972 or so. Loved it and saw Denny's Exotic for sale (re-release) new in a record store around 1983 and bought it. It was still for sale in 1983! Quiet Villiage was played by my friends and I in 1976, we put the speakers on top of the car playing it full blast as we drove through the Jungle of Tikal, Guatemala. When I bought the first Velvet Underground album I remember how small the rock section was and how large the easy listening section was. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bigshot Subject: (exotica) Record Shelves Date: 13 Jul 2001 15:48:26 -0700 >Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:14:13 -0700 >From: "basic hip" >Subject: (exotica) Home record storage > >how do most of fellow listees with record collections shelve your albums? >I'm looking for ideas or references to online sources, please. I visited the home of a major record collector here in LA last year. He had one whole wall of LPs and another wall of 78s. He took stock bookshelves from ikea and reinforced the shelves with brackets underneath, added a tiny lip at the front of the shelf, and pieces of wood carefully cut to fit as reinforcing dividers every eight inches or so. It looked super clean, and with all of the bookcases bolted to the wall, it would withstand an earthquake too! My envy for his record collection was matched by my envy for his shelves. See ya Steve Stephen Worth bigshot@spumco.com The Web: http://www.spumco.com Usenet: alt.animation.spumco Palace: cartoonsforum.com:9994 Spumco International 10859 Burbank Bl. Suite A North Hollywood, CA 91601 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 13 Jul 2001 17:01:35 -0700 At 08:14 PM 7/12/01, basichip wrote: >how do most of fellow listees with record collections shelve your albums? I struggled with this for years until I found what I consider the ideal solution. At Target they sell these mobile shelves with cubicles just the size for records. Wood product covered by melarmine (whatever its called) they have 9 cubicles each. I bought two and liked them so much bought two more. Would buy more if my ceiling were a bit higher (I would stack them) or if my room were larger or if I moved my tv elsewhere. They went for about 150 dollars each. I didn't put on the large wheel casters, figuring once I filled them with records I couldn't roll it around anyway (mobile was not what I wanted). I saw a store in Portland called Hip Furniture (no kidding) with the same thing but 4 x 4...and I believe with cubes large enough for LPs to comfortably fit. Probably cost a bit more than Target. The Target ones are sturdy, carry the weight, look good and are easy to clean. Of course, Target changes its stock every so often. These were purchased last Fall, so maybe they don't carry them...but you might check. If you'd like I could take a couple of pictures of mine so you can get an idea what you would do with them. They remind me of a similar cabinetry (for which we paid through the nose) at a public radio station to house its LP collection. Against my wall I have two on the floor and I found 2-cube high 4-cube across shelving unit at my favorite local thrift store which fits up to the ceiling nicely on top of the Target units. I also have several accent tables around my house which happen to also be LP cabinets. You can usually find these at thrift stores, antique stores and other places for 35 dollars. Not efficient storage unless you planned to put a table there anyway. I put my "mini-collections" there...one has my Stan Kenton LPs, another one for my Toscanini records. The Kenton cabinet used to be my entire Mr. Smooth/exotica collection but the collection outgrew its home! Byron Byron ___...--''''***^^^^^^""""""^^^^^***''''---___ "Life is short. Stay happy." ||| ||| ---May 2001 aol.com tv advert ||| |||bag AT hubris DOT net...Saint Johns, ||| |||Portlandistan, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol ||| """^^^'''***----...__________...----'''^^^""" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) "New Gods Of Tiki" Date: 13 Jul 2001 20:28:02 -0400 An article from the New Times Los Angeles, about Leroy Schmaltz, Oceanic Arts and more: http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-07-12/feature.html/page1.html Or single-page "printable" version: http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-07-12/feature.html/printable_page --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dymaxia Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 13 Jul 2001 20:07:34 -0500 (CDT) On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, chuck wrote: > Cream's 1st lp, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix but especially the > Velvet Underground caught my attention next. By 1968 the Velvet > Underground, Bonzo Dog Band and the Beach Boys were my 3 favorite > bands. I still enjoyed pop music in 67 68 and 69 though each year > it seemed to ger worse. Wow, Chuck - you are so cooool! You listened to the Velvet Underground about fifteen years before I did. I think the first record I had of my own was, uh, _Journey to the Moon_ - a bad "psychedelic" tribute to the moon landing. I used to make up interpretive tai chi-type dances to it and performed them on my bed in front of the mirror. Or maybe I was impersonating the Buddha on the label. I still have that record, but I'm afraid to listen to it. Exotica moment: stealing my grandparents' "Sabre Dance" and playing it at 78, whirling like a dervish. I'm sure a lot of kids my age did *that*. My brother got into the action as well, doing this fake dance with "swords" - using wiffle bats or something. I liked bubblegum rock a lot. I had that "Snoopy and the Red Baron" record. Kerry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) a good place to start your whistling collection Date: 13 Jul 2001 18:23:38 -0700 http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1446734121 I constantly watch for whistling records on ebay and Muzzy Marcellino rarely comes up and if one does, it's not this one. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Chikaskia@aol.com Subject: (exotica) re: home record storage Date: 13 Jul 2001 21:14:05 EDT in maintaining over 300 linear feet of lp stock alone, i have had to opt for the cheapest and strongest system of storage i could devise. let's call it rustic industrial style. (ikea would probably tag it 'rusindu' ;-)) very simple, i use 2 x 4 for the uprights and shelf supports, and 2 x 12 planks for the shelving. my storage area is 16' wide so standard scaffolding planks work perfect. i use 3 1/2" dry wall screws as fasteners; four to each shelf support. at each end i construct 'ladders' consisting of two upright 2 x 4's with an 11" space between, and 15" long 2 x 4 shelf supports fastened every 14". at 8', in the middle of the shelving there is a similar 'ladder' but with the 2 x 4 uprights spaced wide enough to allow the shelf planks to lie in between them. the middle 'ladder' is assembled to the proper dimensions, and then disassembled with all pieces marked for correct reassembly. when constructing the unit the two end ladders are secured in place, and the rear center upright is attached to the wall as well. then the shelf planks are all laid into place with a sag in the middle. then jacking up each plank in the middle with a piece of scrap wood, each center shelf support is fastened back into place in correct order, starting from the floor and working up. the front center upright needs to be supported until you have two shelves complete and then it will stand on it's own. finally i place vertical braces at 4' from each end, made from pieces of 2 x 4 (or 2 x 12) cut the standard width between each shelf. a free standing shelving system can be constructed using the same method but using a three upright brace ladder with a total depth of 30", accessible on two sides. in actually development and assembly of this shelving system i didn't always have the luxury of 16' planks, for the first two 'walls' i had a hodgepodge of plank lengths, prompting me to be creative in matching lengths. the one piece of advice i offer about it is that you always have to brace odd or shorter lengths from the floor up. in addition to the record walls i also have 50+ 'peaches' wooden crates, which will hold 125 lp's apiece. they are double stacked three high and eight wide. do you like having a healthy back, free from strain and chronic sprain? never move records in units above 80 lp's unless you possess enormous strength. the ideal unit for me is a 4-3 liter wine jug box, which fits 80 or so lp's snugly, which is key. the 'cube' is capable of being held upright or on it's side and is strong enough to be stacked (temporarily) as many as four high. i find 'milk crates' awful, ugly and painful. they cut into my hands and ribs, they look for opportunities to fall over and spill out, and they do not like to squeeze in the back of the subaru station wagon like the wine boxes will. for 78's, i like to find similar snug boxes with a maximum capacity of 100 or so, so about 10" x 10" or 12" loading more than that in a box will make it burst or collapse, and are too heavy to safely carry. 45's are much lighter, i find a box 7" x 24" about the limit, but i do have other boxes that contain up to 400 45'. in my experience there is an average of 65 lp's per linear foot, 100 78's per 10", and 100 45's per 7", give or take 5 or so. finally, always store records vertically, and always try to keep them off the floor, specially in places like basements, barns, and garages. woo hoo! curtis andrew beckwith, in a finally cooled down a little bit tulsa. just played: 'voodoo suite' perez prado/shorty rogers, victor lpm-1101 recorded april 1954 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 14 Jul 2001 11:51:45 +0200 Mimi Mayer schrieb: > Finally, Jimmy B brought up those white tabbed thingies used to separate > artists by name in record stores. Anyone know where to order these on the > Net? Again it's http://protected.de they have everything Mo -- ......................................................................... Der Dismaster http://dismaster.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates Date: 14 Jul 2001 19:46:55 +0200 due to health problems, I haven't been able to read an Exotica Digest since April. Also, The "eXotica Releases Overview" is currently not really up to date. I did upload several updates, though, but didn't post them here. Below is a quick overview of what was added, check the web site for more details. the "eXotica Releases Overview" is still the internet's first and only searchable and annotated hyperdiscography of more than 2500 "exotica" & related CD's and new LP's. With hundreds of ratings, comments, and reviews by dozens of people. http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/disq/disq.htm If you would like to receive the updates on a regular base by e-mail, just let me know you want to get on my " eXotica Releases Overview updater") * Burt Bacharach: "The Very Best Of Burt Bacharach" * Big Boss Man: "Humanize" * Bossacucanova: "Brasilidade" * Serge Gainsbourg: "Confidentiel" * Serge Gainsbourg: "Du Chant a La Une!?" * Serge Gainsbourg: "Initials B.B." * Serge Gainsbourg: "Jane & Serge" * Serge Gainsbourg: "No. 2" * Serge Gainsbourg: "No. 3 / L'etonnant" * Serge Gainsbourg: "No. 4" * Serge Gainsbourg: "Percussions" * Bruce Haack: "Electric Lucifer Book 2" * Quincy Jones: "Talkin' Verve" * Bert Kaempfert: "Polydor Singles Collection 1958 - 1972" * Lalo Schifrin: "Insensatez" * Shirley Scott: "Talkin' Verve" * Cal Tjader: "Soul Burst" * John Zorn: "The Gift" * Various Artists: "Bollywood Breaks" * Various Artists: "The Bossa Nova Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms Vol.4" * Various Artists: "Brazilian Beats 2" * Various Artists: "Input 64" * Various Artists: "Le Jazzbeat, Vol. Two" * Various Artists: "Mas Mambo Mania! More Kings And Queens Of Mambo" * SOUNDTRACK: "Batman" by Nelson Riddle * Vic Mizzy: "Scores & Themes" * Various Artists: "The Bossa Nova Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms Vol.2" * Various Artists: "The Bossa Nova Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms Vol.3" * The Bran Flakes: "Hey Won't Somebody Come Out And Play" * The Bran Flakes: "I Remember When I Break Down" * Geoff Love And His Orchestra: "Star Wars And Other Space Themes" * Vigil: "Musica Para Hacer La Digestion" (B-Movie Soundtracks) * Air: "10.000 Hz Legend" * Arling & Cameron: "We are Arling & Cameron" * The Beau Hunks And The Metropole Orchestra: "Our Relations Suite" * Death By Chocolate: "Death By Chocolate" * Lightning Beat-Man and the never heard of' EMS: * Marcos Valle: "Escape" * Various Artists: "Funk De Luxe" * Various Artists: "Music For Dancefloors: The Cream Of The Chappell Library Sessions" * Various Artists: "Red Medium" * Various Artists: "Stereo Ultra Volume 3" * Various Artists: "Stroboscopica 3" * Hugh Le Caine: "Sackbut Synthesizer" * Henri Salvador: "Chambre Avec Vue" * Various Artists: "Listen Easy: Hits From The 60's" * Various Artists: "Listen Easy: Hits From The 70's" * Wolfgang Dauner: "Get Up And Dauner Masterpieces" (sampler 1964-1975) * Omar Khorshid and His Magic Guitar: "Belly Dance From Lebanon" * Various Artists: "Mondo Bossa. Swinga Sambaby!" * Aavikko: "Multi Muysic" * Ray Barretto: "Senor 007" * David Candy: "Playpower" * Astrud Gilberto: "Astrud Gilberto Album" * Astrud Gilberto: "Shadow Of Your Smile" * Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band: * Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Love, Strings, & Jobim" * Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Tide" * Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Wave" * Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Wonderful World Of Antonio Carlos Jobim" * Omar Khorshid And His Guitar: "Rhythms From The Orient" * The Nutty Squirrels: "The Nutty Squirrels" * Jean Jacques Perrey: "Moog Sensations" * Perez Prado: "Estas Si Viven" (The Living End) * Tito Rodriguez: "Motion Picture Themes Cha Cha Cha" * Sabu & his Percussion Ensemble: "Sorcery" * Walter Wanderley: "Batucada" * Wendy and Bonnie: "Genesis" * Various Artists: "Between Or Beyond The Iron Curtain. Rare Grooves =46rom Eastern Europe" * Various Artists: "Freak Off!" (Latin Breakbeats, Basslines & Boogaloo) * Various Artists: "Funky Flute Grooves From The 60's And 70's" * Various Artists: "Informacion Y Turismo" * Various Artists: "Italian Bossa-Beat Party. Loungissima Vol 3" * Various Artists: "Kinky Beats 2: Carry On Kinky Beats" * Various Artists: "Metti Una Bossa A Cena vol 2" * Various Artists: "Sunflowers. Mood Masterpieces From The MPS Archives" * Various Artists: "Up!!!!!! The Third" * SOUNDTRACK: "5 Bambole Per La Luna D'agosto" * SOUNDTRACK: "Bug In!" * SOUNDTRACK: "Music From M Squad/ Music From Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" * The Fabulous Jokers: "Guitars Extraordinary" * Paul Mark And His Orchestra: "East To West" * Andre Brasseur: "Best Of 60-70" * Andre Brasseur: "N=B0 1 De L'orgue Hammond" * Richard Hayman: "Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine" * Enoch Light: "Spaced Out" * Ursula 1000: "All Systems Are Go-Go" * Die Waikikis: "Hawaii Tattoo" * Various Artists: "Batucada - Capoeira" * Various Artists: "Educacion Y Descanso" * SOUNDTRACK: "Belmondo Morricone: Le Casse/ Peur Sur La Ville" * Serge Gainsbourg: "Gainsbourg... Forever" * Enoch Light: "Beatles Classics" * The Love Machine: "Electronic Music To Blow Your Mind By!!" * Ennio Morricone: "40th Commemoration: Ultimate Soundtrack Collection" * Ennio Morricone: "Il Gatto" * Pastor John Rydgren and Peter Tork: "Silhouette Segments" * Takeshi Terauchi & Bunnys: "Takeshi Terauchi & Bunnys" * Various Artists: "Asian Takeaways" * Various Artists: "Ouh La La!! Vol 1" * Various Artists: "Ouh La La!! Vol 2" * Various Artists: "The Very Best Bollywood Songs" * SOUNDTRACK: "40th Commemoration: Ultimate Mood Music Collection" by Ennio Morricone * SOUNDTRACK: "L'uccello Dalle Piume Di Cristallo" by Ennio Morricone * Nicola Conte: "Bossa Per Due" * Steve Fisk: "999 Levels Of Undo" Johan ----- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Tom Knott" Subject: Re: (exotica) LA Date: 14 Jul 2001 12:36:45 -0700 If you get this e-mail in time here are a couple of LA things: the international pop overthrough starts on July 21st details at: http://www.internationalpopoverthrow.com/ There is a Shag/tiki art show in Culver City at the Copro/Nason Gallery, 11265 Washington Blvd (323-398-3643) On the 21st in Glendale at Brand/Broadway is cruise night - 50's/60's cars and surf bands. Damion's a tiki-bar-type is also on Brand. As the main record-related flea markets are the first (Pasadena City College) and last sundays (Beuna Park) of the month you miss these. The Dressden Room on Vermont in Silverlake. Down the street a block are a couple of record stores and a couple of blocks further and around the corner on Hollywood is Wacko/Soap Plant/La Luz de Jesus Gallery Atomic Records, 3818 W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank (818)848-7090. Can be pricey but a good selection tom # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) Playlist "Martinis With Mancini" 7/13/01 Date: 14 Jul 2001 19:30:06 -0400 Playlist "Martinis With Mancini" 7/13/01 WJUL Lowell 91.5FM Friday's 6-9AM EST http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/ http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/listen.html (On Real Audio) Thanks for reading, Domenic P.S. There is a discussion at the Yahoo/Luxuriamusic list (http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/luxuriamusic) About "What is Lounge" I dont want to get into it. ;') Brief And Breezy. Henry Mancini A Sleeping Bee, Mel Torme Pattern For Evil, Mundell Lowe The Gals From Joe, Nina Simone Pardon Me Mss Carmen, Peter Thomas Quiet Village Bossa Nova, Martin Denny And I Love Him, Nancy Wilson French Kick, Blowup Comp But I Haven't Got Him, Sandy Warner Babalu, Stanley Black The Lip, Louie Prima Chiquita Banana, The T Bones Cuban Pete, Desi Arnez Hip Vibrations, Cal Tjader 007, Ray Baretto Dark Eyes, 4 Piece Suit Theme From Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea Sway Dean Martin I've Got You Under My Skin, Frank Sinatra I've Got A Lot Of Living To Do, Sammy Davis Jr. Out Of This World, Creed Taylor Dis-Advantages, Willie Bobo Disadvantages Of Life, John Rydgren, Silouette Segments Conga Rock, Henry Mancini It Had Better Be Tonight, Seks Bomba Make Me Rainbows, Howard Roberts Le Temps Du L'amour, Franscoise Hardy The Coffee Song, Eydie Gorme Black Coffee, Julie London Circumstantial Evidence, Laika And The Cosmonauts The Face I Love, Astrud Gilberto La Bikina, Esquivel Music To Watch Girls By, Ray Coniff Music To Watch Girls By, Willie Bobo Music To Watch Girls By, John Rydgren, Silhouette Segments Turn Turn Turn, David McCallum Mambo Mania, The Whodods Baja, The Revelairs Christiansen, France Gall Slaughter On Tenth Avenue, Lalo Schrifin Kelly Heroes, Lalo Schrifin Dreamsville, Br Cleve Donde Estes Yolanda, Pink Martini I Want To Be Happy Cha-Cha, Enoch Light I Get No Satisfaction, David McCallum Return To Sorrento, Esquivel The Bullfighter, Ken Nordine A Dollar Is Your Only Friend, Babs Gonzales Natacha, Czerkinsky Theme From Star Trek, Montefiori Cocktail Samba De Una Notte, Joao Gilgetro At The River, Groove Armada Moon River, Henry Mancini # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) =?iso-8859-1?Q?Playlist_=22Martinis_With_Mancini=22__7/13/01?= Date: 14 Jul 2001 19:34:45 -0400 Playlist "Martinis With Mancini" 7/13/01 WJUL Lowell 91.5FM Friday's 6-9AM EST http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/ http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/listen.html (On Real Audio) Thanks for reading, Domenic P.S. There is a discussion at the Yahoo/Luxuriamusic list (http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/luxuriamusic) About "What is Lounge" I dont want to get into it. ;') Brief And Breezy. Henry Mancini A Sleeping Bee, Mel Torme Pattern For Evil, Mundell Lowe The Gals From Joe, Nina Simone Pardon Me Mss Carmen, Peter Thomas Quiet Village Bossa Nova, Martin Denny And I Love Him, Nancy Wilson French Kick, Blowup Comp But I Haven't Got Him, Sandy Warner Babalu, Stanley Black The Lip, Louie Prima Chiquita Banana, The T Bones Cuban Pete, Desi Arnez Hip Vibrations, Cal Tjader 007, Ray Baretto Dark Eyes, 4 Piece Suit Theme From Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea Sway Dean Martin I've Got You Under My Skin, Frank Sinatra I've Got A Lot Of Living To Do, Sammy Davis Jr. Out Of This World, Creed Taylor Dis-Advantages, Willie Bobo Disadvantages Of Life, John Rydgren, Silouette Segments Conga Rock, Henry Mancini It Had Better Be Tonight, Seks Bomba Make Me Rainbows, Howard Roberts Le Temps Du L'amour, Franscoise Hardy The Coffee Song, Eydie Gorme Black Coffee, Julie London Circumstantial Evidence, Laika And The Cosmonauts The Face I Love, Astrud Gilberto La Bikina, Esquivel Music To Watch Girls By, Ray Coniff Music To Watch Girls By, Willie Bobo Music To Watch Girls By, John Rydgren, Silhouette Segments Turn Turn Turn, David McCallum Mambo Mania, The Whodods Baja, The Revelairs Christiansen, France Gall Slaughter On Tenth Avenue, Lalo Schrifin Kelly Heroes, Lalo Schrifin Dreamsville, Br Cleve Donde Estes Yolanda, Pink Martini I Want To Be Happy Cha-Cha, Enoch Light I Get No Satisfaction, David McCallum Return To Sorrento, Esquivel The Bullfighter, Ken Nordine A Dollar Is Your Only Friend, Babs Gonzales Natacha, Czerkinsky Theme From Star Trek, Montefiori Cocktail Samba De Una Notte, Joao Gilgetro At The River, Groove Armada Moon River, Henry Mancini # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Radio Khartoum Subject: Re: (exotica) "bachelor pad" vs "dads in rec rooms" Date: 14 Jul 2001 16:12:26 -0700 >1) Combustible Edison, the first modern group to play this style of music, What about Marden Hill circa 1986 to '88? Alexander -- Radio Khartoum http://www.radiokhartoum.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eat78rpm@bigfoot.com Subject: (exotica) http://www.atrecordings.com/home.asp=20 Date: 14 Jul 2001 13:47:56 +0900 http://www.atrecordings.com/home.asp=20 I love this site ... it's one of a very few sites that allow you to listen to whole LPs, and interesting ones at that ... Easy Tempo stuff, soundtracks, Electronica etc ... definitely worth checking out Sugarmen 3 are also on there Sem Sinatra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eat78rpm@bigfoot.com Subject: (exotica) mystery ba ba ba song report Date: 14 Jul 2001 14:11:53 +0900 Folks >put me out of my misery and tell me what this brilliant song I MD'ed >from Luxuria is ... i've put a realaudio file up here: > >http://www.eat78rpm.co.uk/snd/mystery.ra Well after some help from the folks at the Luxuria Yahoo Group I eventually tracked this down as "Road to Nowhere" by Quarteto em Cy/The Girls from Bahia from the album Revolucion con Brasilia (Warner Bros. WS-1715) Unfortunately it seems to be out of print at the moment, which is very very sad. A perfect song for this hot weather. If anyone knows otherwise, please shout. friendly Sem Sinatra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Coney Island Mermaid Parade Date: 15 Jul 2001 10:40:54 -0400 A report on yesterday's Coney Island Mermaid Parade: http://www.worldnewyork.org/07-01-01.php Scooping Lou, imagine that! m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Mo's CDs 7/2001 Date: 15 Jul 2001 16:59:39 +0200 Hi, I thought I post a list of my CDs occasionally, in case somebody wants to swap copies... Aavikko - multi muysic (for sale) Adventures In Stereo - alternative stereo sounds Air - moon safari Götz Alsmann - filmreif (for sale) Aluminum Group - introducing... Apollo 440 - electro glide in blue Arling & Cameron - music for imaginary films - sound shopping Burt Bacharach - bacharach Les Baxter - que mango! Belle & Sebastian - fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant Bernd Begemann - jetzt bist du in talkshows Jorge Ben - africa brasil Maria Bethania - canto do paje - olho d'agua Chico Buarke - chico total - opera do malandro Chico Buarke, Ennio Morricone - per un pugno di samba - sonho de um carnaval Kate Bush - the whole story (for sale) Carlo Fashion - this is carlo fashion Pericles Cavalcanti - cancoes Hugo del Carril - alma de tango - 10 mejor de... Cassius - 1999 Chic - c'est chic Claudine - the look of love Petula Clark - downtown (best of) Combustible Edison - the impossible world Nicola Conte - jet sounds Gal Costa - minha historia Cramps - flame job Daft Punk - homework Dick Dale - unknown territory De-Fenders - drag beat Paul Desmond - from the hot afternoon Devo - easy listening disc De Phazz - death by chocolate Der Plan - perlen... - geri reig/normalette surprise - live at the tiki ballroom... - die letzte rache - die peitsche des lebens Dimitri From Paris - a night at the playboy mansion Divine Styler - spiral walls containing autumns of light Don Tiki - the forbidden sounds of... Andreas Dorau - immer ärger mit der unsterblichkeit - ernte - neu! - 70 minuten musik unbekannter herkunft - demokratie Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - kites Esquivel - infinity in sound - exploring new sound in hifi - 4 corners of the world Merrell Fankhauser - maui Family of God - we are the world Luis Frank - tropical christmas Free Design - cosmic peekaboo FSK - international (for sale) - X (for sale) Fuzzy Love - pagan schmalz & other sacrifces Georgie Fame - 20 beat classics - the in-crowd (triple CD) Free Design - cosmic peekaboo Galliano - a joyful noise unto the creator - in pursuit of the 13th note (for sale) Joao Gilberto - joao Gilles Zeitschiff - mr.energy / silver channels Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto - getz/gilberto Stan Getz - focus - highlights Nina Hagen - street (for sale) Richard Hayman - voodoo! Roy Hargrove's Crisol - habana Lee Hazelwood - love and other crimes - farmisht, flatulence, origami, arf!!! and me... - poet, fool or bum - the cowboy and the ladies Pierre Henry - variation - 10. symphonie High Llamas - cold and bouncy - hawaii - snowbug - buzzle bee Holger Hiller - holger hiller David Holmes - let's get killed - this film's crap lets slash the seats Impala - el rancho reverbo Ivar - ivar Antonio Carlos Jobim - jobim - stone flower Ethan James - shaking hands w/ kafka Grace Jones - island life June & The Exit Wounds - a little more haven hamilton please Mory Kante - touma Kahuna Kawentzmann - the tiki & the guitar The KLF - chill out - the white room Kosmische Kuriere/Sci Fi Party - unser flug durch die kosmische musik Kronos Quartet - hunting: gathering Lambchop - nixon Left Banke - walk away renee / pretty ballerina Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - music to keep your husband happy John Lennon - wonsaponatime John Lennon, Yoko Ono - two virgins Little Egypt - how to belly-dance for your husband Edu Lobo - sergio mendez präsentiert... Arthur Lyman - taboo Karen Mantler - get the flu Marais & Miranda - go native Mardi Gras feat. Deodato - single smasher Money Mark - push the button Biz Markie - all samples cleared Soukous Mbalax - african highlife Gary McFarland - latin lounge Joe Meek - i hear a new world Felix Mendelssohn & His Hawaiian Serenaders - best of Merricks - in schwierigkeiten - the sound of munich - escape from planet munich - silver disc Moondog - moondog Ennio Morricone - Mondo Morricone - more mondo morricone Van Morrison - a sense of wonder (for sale) - days like this (for sale) Gary Moscheles - shaped to make your life easier Mark Mothersbaugh - music for insomniacs 1, 2 Massive Attack - blue lines - protection Moulinettes - 20 blumen Mouse On Mars - niun niggung - iaora tahiti - autoditacker Milton Nascimento - nascimento Neoangin - the year they've been nowhere New Vaudeville Band - winchester cathedral (for sale) Ken Nordine - colors Chico O'Farrill - cuban blues The Orb - pomme fritz - adventures beyond the ultraworld (2 CDs) Pale Fountains - longshot for your love (for sale) Paula - himmelfahrt Pearlfishers - across the milky way - the young picnickers Petit Mit - petit mittle Pet Shop Boys - actually - introspective Astor Piazzolla - verano porteno Pizzicato Five - made in usa Baden Powell - os afro sambas Prefab Sprout - andromeda heights - a life of surprises (best of) Maurice Pop - power pop André Popp - delirium in hifi - la musique qui fait popp Portishead - dummy - portishead Perez Prado - latino Osvaldo Pugliese - coleccion aniversario Finley Quaye - maverick a strike Django Reinhardt - peche a la mouche (double CD) Residents - wormwood - duck stab/buster & glen Boyd Rice / Spell - seasonS IN the sun Malcolm Ross - happy boy Marianne Rosenberg - luna Sandpipers - guantanamera Senor Coconut - el baile aleman Schlammpeitziger - spacerokkmountainrutschquartier - augenwischwaldmoppgeflöte Shaggs - philosophy of the world (+best of) Lalo Shiffren - mission: impossible... and more Sigue Sigue Sputnic - albinoni / star wars Raymond Scott - soothing sounds for babies, vol.1 Smashing Pumpkins - mellon collie and the infinite sadness (2 CDs) (for sale) T.V. Smith - useless, the very best of... (for sale) Souled American - frozen Stockhausen & Walkman - organ transplants Yma Sumac - amor indio Sunda Africa - 1, 2 Superpop, Stardax - new science Talbot Brothers - bermuda Peter Thomas - moonflowers & mini-skirts Tiki Tones - idol pleasures Tipsy - uh-oh! Anibal Troilo, Roberto Grela - taconeando Simon Turner - creation - sex appeal Randy Weston - the splendid master gnawa musicians of morocco Brian Wilson - i just wasn't made for these times - live at the roxy - soul searching Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks - orange crate art Walter Wanderly - boss of the bossa nova Wham - make it big Roy Wood - the definite album Yosuke Yamashita - dazzling days Yazz - wanted -------------------------- COMPILATIONS: A-Music - sonig comp. American Graffity - 1, 2 Amiga-A-Gogo - 1 deutsch-demokratische rare grooves - 2 deutsch-demokratischer beat Astralwerks - excursions in ambience/the third dimension Ata Tak - charles wilp / the bunny remixes Bear Family - streets of laredo Beat Psychedelico A La Celluloide Brain In A Box - 1, 2 Brian Wilson's Rare Works - still i dream of you Bungalow - pop tics Classic Hits - hard to find original recordings Cocktail Mix - swingin' singles - bachelor's guide to the galaxy Compost - glücklich vol. 1, 3 - 050 Dance Max - 3 (2 CDs) Easy Tempo 2 - the psycho beat Él - dream topping Espresso Espresso - a lightly latin brazilian blend Formation 60 - amiga 1957-69, modern jazz from eastern germany Gainsbourg... Forever - universal comp 1,2 Golden Throats 4 - clebrities butcher songs of the beatles Go Right - jazz from poland '63-'75 Hank Williams Revisited - i'll never get ou of this world alive Hotel Easy - la scandale discotheque Jingle Cats - here comes santa claws Karminsky Experience - inflight entertainment vol. 1 KBZ 200 - the exotic trilogy vol.1, 2 Ladomat - welcome insel L'Amigamore - tanzmusik aus der ddr La Paloma - 2 La Yellow Collection - 1,2 Love, Peace and Poetry - latin american psychedelic music Mango - ram "dancehall" Marina - songs for marshmallow lovers - in bed with marina - the mad mad world of soundtracks - caroline now! (brian wilson tribute) Mojo Club - dancefloor jazz vol. 1,2,3,5,6,7,9 - electric mojo vol. 2 Mo'Plen - brazilia Mosaico Psychedelico Motor - get easy vol. 1-4 - we love the bee gees - barjazz vol. 3 - swing, jazz and sweet from berlin - was ist n.e.u. - snowflakes 2 CD - a trip to brazil vol. 1 (2CDs), vol. 2 (2CDs) Mo Wax - attica blues (for sale) MPS - supercool/a musikproduktion schwarzwald compilation Nuggets - 4 CDs, vintage american garage music of the 60s Orchestraux No.1 Picky Picnic - drive to heaven - welcome to chaos Pop Shopping - juicy music from german commercials 1960-75 Ray Baretto - senor 007 / Exotica 1979 Kokee Band - solid state Ready Steady Boogaloo - amphonic grooves for carnaby chicks and cool steppers Rebirth Of The Cool 5 Shake Sauvage - french soundtracks 1968-73 Spex - 1, 3,4, - the freestyle files (for sale) Supreme - the cream of supreme Talking Verve - groovy The Bossa Nova Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms - 1, 2 The Easy Project - 20 loungecore favorites The Exotic Beatles - part 1, 2 Tighten Up - vol.2 Transmitter - dreamed about reefer - crazy & obscure - mama don't allow no novelty songs Ultra Chicks - 5 Ultra Lounge - 10/a bachelor in paris Verve - groovy! talking verve Vrrooommm funk cinematique - high performance 70s turbo sound 2021 - klangwelt moderne (for sale) EXOTICARING & PRIVATE COMPILATIONS Brian Karasick - Annette!, best of Jerry Larson - the big hurt Brad Yost - smoothness above all else Magnus Sandberg - jungle romance - the mysterious mountain Citizen Kafka - red eye x-mas 2d - the secret museum of the air - yick loong fireworks co. Trevor Rigler - willkommen to mein crazy luau Philip Jackson - livin' it up Cheryl Shinfield - them's the breaks!!! Brother Cleve - ritmos de tropicalia ?? - hippie goddesses Peter Risser - spooky Alan Zweig - clark kent's secret identity - dieingly sad - love and maple syrup Stefan Kassel - sunshine pop The Captain (Mark D. Head) - an easy groove - bossa nova 2001 - the captain's vocalesque field trip William Mellott - beyond shanghai - souvenir 2001 Martin Hemmel - happy birthday 2000 - asian pop adventures - do the cherokee dance Moritz R - friends vol. 1, 2 - western drama - incredibly strange music 1&2 on one CD - bacharach - jacques dutronc/le mieux Larry Sparrow - now...sound - you can even take your clothes off Bump - happy new wave Frank Jastfelder - jaztel juice/squeeze 1 ?? - C'est la fete - vol.1 ?? - brain in a box 1, 2 ---------------------------- SOUND TRACKS: The Avengers - & other top sicties tv themes (2 CDs) Ennio Morricone - la califfa - ochio alla penna - neun im fadenkreuz - great italian western hits - mondo morricone - more mondo morricone - golden film themes Luis Bakalov - django Elmer Bernstein - the magnificent seven Classic Soundtracks - the man with the golden arm Antoine Duhamel - le cinema d'... Benny Golson - tune in, turn on (to the hippest commercials of the 60s) Jackie Brown The Jetsons - first family on the moon Christopher Komeda - rosemary's baby Michel Legrand - the thomas crown affair Raymond Levèvre - les plus belles musiques des filmes de Louis de Funès Alex North - the misfits Piero Piccioni . 10th victim Prince - batman (for sale) Pulp Fiction Shaft - music from and inspired by... studio 54 - vol.1, 2 Supercar and Fireball XL5 Super Moonies - sailor moon's welt John Williams - how to steal a million COMEDY Helge Schneider - seine grössten erfolge - es rappelt im karton - da humm Dietmar Wischmeyer - logbuch - is mir schlecht - aggi aggi - ekelerregend - sooo sieddas aus! - frieda und anneliese - der kleine tierfreund/feuchtgebiete schauen dich an - der kleine tierfreund/im taumel der wollust - der kleine tierfreund/unsere äusserst flachen freunde - hömma spozzfreund - verchromte eier - günther der treckerfahrer/heute ist weltuntergang Max Goldt - komische appläuse Friedrich Küppersbusch - küppersbusch (for sale) Wiglaf Droste - wieso heissen plötzlich alle oliver? - supi! supi! supi! Sabine Bulthaup - super erwin rettet die welt (for sale) Andreas Liebold - herr radioven Frühstyxradio - der schönste weihnachtskalender der welt - die grossen erfolge aus 750 jahren kulturarbeit Roland Baisch, Otto Kuhnle - der zweite frühling (for sale) Studio Braun - 1 -- Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) "bachelor pad" vs "dads in rec rooms" Date: 15 Jul 2001 17:05:10 +0200 Radio Khartoum schrieb: > >1) Combustible Edison, the first modern group to play this style of music, > > What about Marden Hill circa 1986 to '88? and: The Fibonaccis in 1982! Mo -- ......................................................................... Der Dismaster http://dismaster.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, July 15 Date: 15 Jul 2001 12:10:38 -0400 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at: http://www.ckut.ca As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome. Space Bop #151 The Big Hurt This week, a compilation of mostly 50s and 60s music, put together by Jerry Larson. A little slow and dreamy - just the sort of thing to listen to on a quiet warm Sunday afternoon. Thanks, Jerry! Miss Toni Fisher: The Big Hurt Les Compagnons De La Chanson: Venus David Carroll & His Orchestra: Dizzy Fingers (from ost. Bedknobs & Broomsticks): Portobello Road Peter Appleyard: There Will Never Be Another You Charlie Rich: River, Stay Away From My Door The Talbot Brothers: See What You Do Creed Taylor Orchestra: The Nervous Beat Milton Delugg And His Orchestra: Creature From Under The Sea Hugo Montenegro: The Vice Of Killing Dave Pell Singers: Thank God The War Is Over The Mindexpanders: Cul De Sac Moondog & The Apollo Saxophone Quartet: Paris Casimir: Das Madchen Lolita Les Compagnons De La Chanson: Carioca, Mon Ami The Impressions: Moon River John Lurie: Tuesday Night In Memphis Gabor Szabo: Walking On Nails Marty Wilson & His Orchestra: Yumba Marumba (from The Enchanted Tiki Room): Hawaiian War Chant Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening cheryls@dsuper.net brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) Early Bird Gets The Rekkids Date: 15 Jul 2001 21:03:40 -0400 So driving around town this morning I see a few big cardboard signs.. "Massive Yard Sale". Turns up the place is a whole floor of an old factory. All the stuff is from abandoned storage or cleaned out apartments from evictions. I find only about 30 records in the whole place. So I ask the guy in the place where that are. And he boxes and boxes of them all gone by 12:30 in the afternoon. He was nice enough to give me the 2 I felt worthy to even pick up "Good Morning Starshine" by Oliver. (Produced by Bob Crewe, Does not look promising) and "Pramlatta's Hips" by the Herb Pomeroy Orchestra. Local Trumpet player from Worcester. At least found out a few others at my local used place: "Herb Albert Presents Pete Jolly" I've been borrowing a copy from a friend. This is a very pleasant mellow LP I like to play in the background on my radio show when talking. Also found: Mancinis' Blues and the Beat. Just to have it on LP...hey 50 cents Ray Anthony "Anthony Italiano" (is there anything this guy *didn't* do?) Latin based Italian songs. Right up my alley. Domenic Ciccone "Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM Friday's 6-9AM EST http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/ http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/listen.html (On Real Audio) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing) Date: 15 Jul 2001 21:37:22 -0500 Ahhhh, record memories. As one of the "older" members on the list, my memories go way back: Earliest record/radio memories are: 1954 Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, LaVern Baker. As a little kid, this appealed to me. Mr. Sandman, The Chordettes. Oh Mein Papa, Eddie Calvert. In 1956-57 we got a record player!!! Those little boxy kinds, mentioned by others. We had tons of kiddie records, mostly by Disney. Annette Funicello, etc. You know, wholesome stuff. But we usually dipped into my parents records, which was a lot of Fats Domino, Blueberry Hill, Walkin' to New Orleans, Ain't that a Shame. Bill Doggett's Honkey Tonk, Stardust Memories, Nat King Cole, So Rare, Tommy Dorsey(?), Sophisticated Swing...I can still see the song titles on the records, in my mind. I loved Tequila by the Champs, but my folks wouldn't buy the record. (On a budget, you know) Then came Elvis...my earlist memory of rock n roll. Hound Dog and Jailhouse Rock. My mom used to watch American Bandstand every day which bugged me cuz I wanted to watch cartoons or Howdy Doody. I remember hearing Swingin' Shepherd Blues on the radio and thinking I wanted to be a beatnik. After that, my folks stopped buying recods for a while...they had more kids instead. I bought my first record album in 1960 or so, a compilation of Broadway tunes, including songs from West Side Story. Then I didn't buy for a while...didn't know what I liked, folks got divorced and remarried and puberty came along. I remember buying a Connie Francis album and some 45's. Sam Cooke comes to mind. Then... the sixties. I remember the summer of 64-65, I combed out my boufant hairdo, parted my hair down the middle and ironed it. I also dyed it blond...suddenly I had dates and to my parents distress, I prefered musicians! Groovy. I loved the Beach Boys and watched Shindig and Hullaballoo on TV. Then I bought BOB Dylan, Jimmie Reed and the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Hermans Hermits. But, I also loved Frank Sinatra's It Was A Very Good Year. Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Mas Que Nada, but I didn't buy their records then, because my peers didn't. I loved, and still love Simon and Garfunkel...they moved me. I could go on and on, but I'll stop. lets just say I bought the obligitory Janis Joplin, Cream, Crosby Stills and Nash, Neil Diamond up until I had kids and then it was Sesame Street, The Electric Company etc. But as I got older, I started seeking out the exotica, the ones I missed from my childhood...still seeking. Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) weekend thrift scores Date: 16 Jul 2001 01:16:26 -0400 I generally don't go to thrift stores anymore but my friend wanted me to show him my favorite thrift store, the one in Hamilton that Will told me about and which I took Moritz to. Unfortunately it was a shadow of its former self. There were still a lot of records but they weren't taken care of anymore and the quality was way down. Still, this is what I got: Two Sides of Fred Waring with the Pennsylvanians - one side is Fred, the other side is Fred Jr.. Fred Jr. isn't as hip as his Dad thought he was. But Fred and his choir do "Kites are Fun" and other hits. And they make the Living Voices seem like the Staple Singers. Al Hirt - Trumpet with Strings (arranged by Marty Paich) - what a nice record. The strings are beautiful and Al sits far enough back in the mix so as not to ruin it. Bobby Darin - Inside out - always wanted this, Bobby's hippie record. Don Ellis - Connection Si Zentner - The Big Mod Sound of... - this was already one of my favorite records but I never had a copy in good shape. Now I do. Manuel and the Music of the Mountains - Carnival and Shangria - they're on Studio 2 and in great shape but they're both a tad tame. Someday a couple of cuts will go on CDR and go back where they came from Morty Craft and the Singing Strings - The World of Percussion - this is on "Sight and Sound" and I've had these before but I don't think I've ever had this one. It has great sound and in parts sounds like a good Dick Schory record. Lester Lanin and his orchestra play the Madison Avenue Beat - I had one of these before. He plays all your favorite old commercials. It's not as good as you'd hope but I'll probably keep it These last three were the ones that made it worth the trip Dr. Murray Banks tells Jewish stories mit psychology - I love that they say "mit" instead of "with". We've all seen the Murray Banks record but this one surprised me. The pychiatric patient pictured on the couch is a stereotypic Jew. I guess I knew Dr. Murray was Jewish but I had no idea he speaks such good Yiddish. Bob Keeshan and the Honeydreamers - A child's introduction to jazz - I wish everyone on the list could hear this. The benign way they talk about the African slaves bringing the sound of the drum to America. And the way they keep repeating "America is a melting pot" like they're trying to brainwash the kiddies. The story here is basically the same as Ken Burns' except that there's that the Honeydreamers sound like the Ray Conniff singers, not Wynton Marsalis. (Isn't Bob Keeshan the original Captain Kangaroo?) And this last one was so out of place, it seemed like a plant: Moe Koffman goes electric - right on the cover it says "electric flute, sitar, tamboura". Apparently as part of Canada's Centennial celebration, Moe performed in India. There he sought out the guy who made sitars for George Harrison and Ravi Shankar (Just like my dad, he wanted to make sure he got the best!) and brought it back to Canada even though he couldn't play it. The bass player plays the sitar and Moe plays the tamboura. This is almost as good as you might imagine in your wildest fantasies. Not quite. But still pretty damn groovy. So yeah I made out okay but still it was disappointing to see how much had changed. All the stores in Toronto have also gone downhill. I may have to go to Ohio next time. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dowco" Subject: (exotica) Thrift stores going downhill Date: 15 Jul 2001 23:01:30 -0700 I did the rounds yesterday... when the lady from the Salvation Army said that they were putting their records online, I almost cried... and then the Value Village had a worn out, scratchy copy of some Todd Rundgren album on the shelf for 10.00 and I knew another thrift store employee was running around armed and dangerous with a price guide... Jim # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage Date: 16 Jul 2001 11:37:25 +0100 Moritz R wrote: > > Mimi Mayer schrieb: > > > Finally, Jimmy B brought up those white tabbed thingies used to separate > > artists by name in record stores. Anyone know where to order these on the > > Net? > > Again it's http://protected.de > they have everything I believe Covers33 (http://www.covers33.co.uk/ ) stock them in the UK. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ton =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCckert?= Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Herman Brood Date: 16 Jul 2001 13:40:20 +0200 =20 =20 >> AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Herman Brood, an artist and musician in the Dutch rock scene for 30 years, died Wednesday after jumping to his death from the roof of an Amsterdam hotel, police said. He was 55. > >oops. although i wasn't precisely a fan of his music it's always sad when someone goes before his time. wrong drugs I guess...=20 The problem wasn't so much wrong drugs as no drugs. Booze was on the menu=20 till the very last, though ("One beef soup with Grand Marnier, please!") >will Nina Hagen be at his funeral? =20 Look for yourself, it's live on the internet this afternoon (the service=20 in Paradiso, not sure about the cremation) http://www.hermanbrood.nl/ Cheers, Ton *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***=20 *** Ton R=FCckert Mozartstraat 12 5914RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto 31/0 773545386 *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.hammacher.com/s_and_l/index.asp ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: (exotica) Please help me find a gameboy! Date: 16 Jul 2001 10:42:15 -0400 On a related note, I am looking for an original grey gameboy classic player which for some reason seems elusive here. Its so old that no second hand store wants to stock it, yet it seems they aren't yet commonly thrown out so as to be found at the Salvation Army. If anyone out there with kids has one they want to get rid of (good working condition though) I'd be happy to buy it from you or send something in return. The reason I want it is that I have this programmed gameboy cartridge that is in fact a musical instrument. Though it works in any gameboy model, the sound quality was supposedly better in the old model as it was larger. If you can help, please contact me off-list. If the instrument intrigues you, there is a website, but beware... the cartridge costs as much as a new GB unit! Its at: Http://www.nanoloop.com Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: (exotica) New Finds Date: 16 Jul 2001 10:40:44 -0400 One benefit of living in a predominantly French speaking place is that my new finds tend to be quite a bit different from those of many others on the list. Yesterday's were no exception: Roger Simard et son orchestre - "Drum a go-go - Disco Swing": You see lots of similarly titled records here, usually from Germany, with some form of "a go-go" title, but this one is Canadian. Its full of covers of well known beat hits but they don't sound at all like the originals. However, they do have all the right sounds and instrumentation to grab my interest in the "now" sound. The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - "Viva la feria": This one has a less promising cover than a few of the other Peter Thomas records, and is a mix of latin and pop tracks. Not the most inspired but it is Peter Thomas, and I've never seen it before! Various - "La super surprise-partie pingouin - Bons skieurs, bons twisteurs": Actually only half of this is French, the other by arrangement with the Pye and Peacock labels. I'm certain that Vogue is to France what RCA is to the U.S., or Polydor is to Germany., ie. owners of huge catalogues with a lot of great (and a lot of less great) material, which has yet to resurface. I'm told Vogue is (finally) making some effort to reissue old material and a number of CD compilations are out, though I have no idea at all where to find them. Its just too bad that there isn't wider distribution as even here in Quebec it isn't all that readily available... Shiny Men - Again: This is the second release from the "Commercial:" divsion of the famed United Dairies label from the UK, better known as the "Nurse with Wound" label. I never see these records, and at the relatively low cost of CDN$12 I had to pick it up. Slightly offbeat pop, with (of course) great cover art... a UD trademark.. Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "William Walton" Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage (yet again) Date: 16 Jul 2001 11:06:59 -0400

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# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrift stores going downhill Date: 16 Jul 2001 08:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Yes. The Salvation Army in my area is now auctioning off lps by the box at their HQ. They're not stocking it anymore. Gays and vinyl apparently contrary to their mission these days. I did however land a copy of Don & Dewey's "Jungle Hop" on Specialty from the grungiest junkshop on earth ("Manassas Treasures", in large cut-out plywood letters nailed to a sagging roof. A tinker's den). --- Dowco wrote: > > I did the rounds yesterday... when the lady from the > Salvation Army said > that they were putting their records online, I > almost cried... and then the > Value Village had a worn out, scratchy copy of some > Todd Rundgren album on > the shelf for 10.00 and I knew another thrift store > employee was running > around armed and dangerous with a price guide... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update Date: 16 Jul 2001 14:07:45 +0200 A new update to the "eXotica Releases Overview" is available. Below is a quick overview of what was added, check the web site for more details. http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/disq/disq.htm If you would like to receive the updates on a regular base by e-mail, just let me know you want to get on my " eXotica Releases Overview updater") * Dean Elliot: "Zounds! What Sounds" * Jimmie Haskell: "Countdown" * Janko Nilovic: "Chorus" * Janko Nilovic: "Un Couple Dans La Ville" * Janko Nilovic: "Vocal Impressions" * SOUNDTRACK: "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" by Ennio Morricone * SOUNDTRACK: "Cleopatra Jones" by J.J. Johnson * SOUNDTRACK: "Dollar$" (aka "Money", aka "The Heist") by Quincy Jones * SOUNDTRACK: "The Exorcist 2: The Heretic" by Ennio Morricone * SOUNDTRACK: "Bullit" by Lalo Schifrin * SOUNDTRACK: "Dirty Harry/ Magnum Force/ Sudden Impact" by Lalo Schifrin * SOUNDTRACK: "Enter The Dragon" by Lalo Schifrin * SOUNDTRACK: "Mannix" by Lalo Schifrin * SOUNDTRACK: "Rush Hour" by Lalo Schifrin * Various Artists: "Glucklich IV" * Joyce: "Hard Bossa" * Bobby McFerrin, narration by Jack Nicholson: "The Elephant's Child" * Eilert Pilarm: "Live in Stockholm " * The Recliners: "Cosa Caliente" * Various Artists: "Glucklich" (A collection of rare German fusion grooves with a Brazilian flavour) o CD, Compost Classics 004, Germany, 1994 o comment: + Johan: My rating: Very Good! "10 blunted Brazil tracks made in Germany". A series of (currently) 4 CD's with Brazilian influenced jazzy/funky/fusion. The first 2 volumes focus primarely on smooth German fusion from the 1970's & 80's, while volumes 3 & 4 offer more recent stuff. * Various Artists: "Glucklich II" (A collection of European fusion tunes with a Brazilian flavour) o CD, Compost Classics 021, Germany, 1996 o comment: + Johan: My rating: Very Good! I had the feeling this one sounded a bit more Brazilian than volume 1... >>> most comments by members of the "Exotica", >>> "Popnouveau" and "Lava Lamp" Mailing Lists, >>> from Jack Diamond Music sale lists >>> and Subliminal Sounds sale lists >>> Additions & corrections are more than welcome! >>> The "XRO" is a discography, NOT a sale catalog! The eXotica Releases Overview is part of "Dada's Exotiquarium": http://www.Dada1.bewoner.antwerpen.be/ Johan Dada Vis quiet@village.uunet.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Jack Davis Article (not too exotic...) Date: 16 Jul 2001 12:49:38 -0400 My hometown newspaper ran this article about Mad Magazine/Album Cover artist Jack Davis. I thought some here would be interested. http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/xsite/0715jackdavis.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tikiman Subject: (exotica) La Mariana Date: 16 Jul 2001 11:07:36 -0700 (PDT) http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Jul/16/il/il01a.html damn, our little secret is out! we hate that, but now you know where to go when you visit Honolulu. we shot our music video for "an occasional man" here...the darling Annette is in it. alohaderci, fluid floyd __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "ronnie edgar" Subject: Re: (exotica) For Boston types Date: 07 Jul 2001 17:27:58 +0100 > > Any comments about the Serge remix CD "I Love Serge"? Any good? Saw it > there. > > Domenic I like it very much, some really chilled out remixes, and some upbeat daceable stuff too # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Back from the Netherlands Date: 16 Jul 2001 23:35:01 +0100 Hi all - Just back from my Netherlands/Belgium experience and wanted to thank those of you who made suggestions of places to check out. I picked up quite a few CDs and LPs while out there: CDs (from Get Records and Concerto - both Utrechtestraat, Amsterdam) Bertrand Burgalat - The Genius Of... (Bungalow) Erobique - der Sound von Erobique (Deck8) v/a - Pop Shopping (Crippled) Nino Nardini/Roger Roger - Jungle Obsession (Pulp Flavor) Ladytron - 604 (Invicta Hi-Fi) v/a - Decktronics (Rock8) Jimi Tenor - Out of Nowhere (Warp) Andre Popp - Holiday for DJs (Basta) Pizzicato 5 - Made in USA (Matador) Arling & Cameron - All-In (Basta) Tom Waits - Night on Earth OST (Island) Stereo Total - Monokini (Bungalow) Harry Revel/Les Baxter/Billy May/Dr Samuel Hoffman - Music Out of the Moon / Music for Peace of Mind / Perfume (Basta) v/a - Sushi 4004 (Bungalow) Jean-Jacques Perrey - Moog Sensations (Pulp Flavor) I was hoping to get the "Zounds!" CD on Basta but it hadn't been released - I think it's released this week... LPs (all from Record Collector, Koepoort, Antwerp) Several France Gall LPs from 70s and 80s (I was curious to hear what she sounded like after the 60s) Several Astrud Gilberto LPs 3 LPs by Belgian harmonica/guitarist Toots Thielemans (all on Command). I guess these were always going to be the only Command LPs I was likely to see in Belgium! Funnily enough Toots was playing at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Brugge while I was over but I didn't make it. They had a few Yma Sumac LPs but I frankly didn't have time to look through the several thousand LPs and CDs they have in this amazing shop... Also recommended: Kloosterstraat in Antwerp - loads of antique/retro shops including http://www.fiftie-fiftie.be/ which isn't actually as good as the website but plenty of others are... The Kulminator also in Antwerp - bar with over 600 varieties of Belgian Beer! DOM and Edha Interieur in Amsterdam - two great interior design shops. Lux (Marnixstraat, Amsterdam) - beautifully retro-designed bar with comfortable lounging areas and DJs most nights. In the unlikely event anyone is passing through Veldhoven I can heartily recommend a meal at "Java Jive" an exotica restaurant I guess which gleefully mixes cuisine from around the world in a Javanese/Mexican setting full of kitsch wooden birds, fruit, cacti etc with a soundtrack to match. And now I must start saving up for my next visit...! Robbie Spaced Out - the Enoch Light website http://www.enochlight.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Empty hall? Date: 16 Jul 2001 19:20:06 -0400 > Dick Schory's "Music for bang baaroom & harp" was also recorded on a > concert stage without an audience, and has a nice, big feel to it. Dick Schory has at least one live LP "Dick Schory on Tour" (1964) that was recorded before a live audience at Chicago's Orchestra Hall. I think its the first time I've heard 'Baby Elephant Walk' performed with the audience clapping at the end. Dick gives a brief spoken intro before every song. I've only listened to a few songs so far, but I like what I've heard. It has a good clean sound with typical Schory arrangements ..... The William Tell Overture with over 55 percussion instruments, 'Sing, Sing, Sing' with a big drum solo, and a cool exotica track, 'Orinoco' The cover is rather interesting. It shows Disck Schory looking into the camera, with a road atlas in his hands. In the background is a moving truck with a whole slew of percussion instruments (bass drum, marimba, tympanis, glockespiel, xylophone, gong, cahcar horn, etc) waiting to be loaded inside Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: Re: (exotica) by the numbers...? Date: 16 Jul 2001 19:51:13 -0400 > in another paragraph, he talks about doctors using x-ray screens to make > bootleg copies of his music, taken off the VOA radio programs. > comments? additions? anyone..? The following is excerpted from Timothy Ryback's excellent 1990 book "Rock Around the Bloc" --------- "The emulsion on the surface of X-ray plates provided an adequate surface for sound reproduction. In underground studios, enterprising Soviets and East Europeans recorded Western hits into the emulsion of the discarded X-ray plates. The records produced by this process, known as 'Roentgenizdat', circulated on seven-inch discs recorded at 78 rpm. Produced by the millions and facetiously refered to as "recordings on bones," these records became the common currency of the Soviet-bloc rock scene in the late 1950s. The ebullient rhythms of Bill haley originally pressed into the vinyl of Decca records, eventually turned up on a X-ray of a fractured skull in Moscow; the immortal voice of Elvis Presley lived for a few months atop a broken ankle or elbow in Yerevan; the rollicking rhythms of Little Richard were captured on a shattered rib cage in Riga or Tallinn. By the 1950s, Roentgenizdat was so pervasive that Soviet officials felt compelled to take action. This underground industry and the music it disseminated were blamed for a rising number of assaults, robberies, and even murders. In 1958, in a move to curtail Roentgenizdat, it was declared illegal "to produce home-made records of a criminally hooligan trend." In September 1958, the Soviet legal journal Sovetskaia yustitia justified the banning of underground record production by linking viloent criminal acts with underground recordings of Western rock and roll. Sovestskaia yustitia cited one case in which a man allegedly resorted to murder in order to obtain illegally produced X-ray recordings of "the latest rock and roll, gypsy songs, scurrilous ditties from the criminal world and drums solos by American jazz kings." ------------------------ I found one website that also describes the practice of Roentgenizdat, located at http://www.powerhat.com/tusovka/tus.ch1.html A one line excerpt .... "According to rock historian Troitsky, the one-sided x-ray disks costed about one to one and a half rubles each on the black market, and lasted only a few months, as opposed to around five rubles for a two-sided vinyl disk." Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: Fw: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates Date: 16 Jul 2001 21:11:31 -0400 Noticed these were on your list. * Quincy Jones: "Talkin' Verve" * Shirley Scott: "Talkin' Verve" Always been satisfied with the Talkin' Verve series. They keep on trying to add to this series. Just got these and a Talkin Verve disk on Buddy Greco. I thought that was a little unusual considering he's not funky and they selected late 50's material. About 10 years earlier than material the series usually features. he seems to be a cross between Mel Torme and Mark Murphy. The linear notes always mentions the early Nat King Cole as a influence. Maybe an influence but don't see the connection. Except that Greco sings and plays the piano like Cole did. "Talking Verve with a Twist"is the best comp in the series Notice they have a MamboMania disk so that would get me going. Domenic # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) by the numbers...? Date: 16 Jul 2001 19:11:13 -0700 At 04:51 PM 7/16/01, Vern wrote: >The following is excerpted from Timothy Ryback's excellent 1990 book "Rock >Around the Bloc" >--------- >"The emulsion on the surface of X-ray plates provided an adequate surface for >sound reproduction. >I found one website that also describes the practice of Roentgenizdat... Vern, thanks so much for such excellent sharing...a reason I so much enjoy this list! Byron ___...--''''***^^^^^^""""""^^^^^***''''---___ "Life is short. Stay happy." ||| ||| ---May 2001 aol.com tv advert ||| |||bag AT hubris DOT net...Saint Johns, ||| |||Portlandistan, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol ||| """^^^'''***----...__________...----'''^^^""" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Sebastien Tellier Date: 16 Jul 2001 22:14:07 -0400 If you go to the usenet newsgroup alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.bootlegs you can find a 7 song set recorded at the Mayan Theatre on 7/12/01. Sebastien is accompanied by Pamelia Kurstin on Theremin. They were opening for Air at the time. So, who is Sebastien Tellier anyway? I don't recall his name coming up in conversation, ever. Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RLott@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Sebastien Tellier Date: 16 Jul 2001 22:27:34 EDT In a message dated 7/16/01 9:16:31 PM, lousmith@pipeline.com writes: << So, who is Sebastien Tellier anyway? I don't recall his name coming up in conversation, ever. >> He's on the French Source label (home also to Air). Some copies of Air's new album come with a Source 2001 sampler on which Teller appears, in prep for the forthcoming full-length. There's a Teller track on Astralwerks' excellent "Source Material" compilation from a couple years ago. Other than that, I don't know who he is/they are. --Rod hitchmagazine.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates Date: 17 Jul 2001 01:44:15 -0400 At 09:11 PM 7/16/01 -0400, Domenic Ciccone wrote: > > Always been satisfied with the Talkin' Verve series. > > They keep on trying to add to this series. Just got these and a Talkin > Verve disk on Buddy Greco. I thought that was a little unusual considering > he's not funky and they selected late 50's material. Say what? Buddy not funky? Have you ever heard his Hank Williams record? Have you ever heard him play the organ? Buddy was funky. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Crossman Subject: Lyman (was Re: (exotica) A new fan.......) Date: 16 Jul 2001 23:44:40 -0700 Nathan Miner wrote: > Lyman had a weird habit of placing a horrible track on the very end (at least we can be glad for that) of his albums. Mostly stuff like marches with trombones or something equally hard on the ears. Mom said, "I have to jump up and take the needle off when those come on!!" Yeah, this happened on a bunch of his albums... sad really the way these tracks ruin an otherwise fabulous vibe... Kevin -- *********************************************************** * Kevin Crossman kevin@kevdo.com * * http://www.kevdo.com - The Narrow Interest Portal * * Lip Balm Anonymous, Ultimate Mai Tai, Exotica Archive * *********************************************************** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Crossman Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny "Quiet Village" Date: 16 Jul 2001 23:57:58 -0700 Was on vacation in frigid Alaska but didn't see any response to this one... "m.ace" wrote: > > The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny > "Quiet Village" > (Liberty Records/Stereo) > > Well, it's a real nice set. Still a small, tight combo, but they seem > settled into a very relaxed (but not lazy!) and confident groove by this > point. I think personally, I prefer these albums with Julius Wechter. For > whatever reasons, I just prefer his work to Lyman's, he seems a little more > colorful to me. When did Wechter take over, anyway? I know Lyman is on the > first two. Lyman was on Exotica and Exotica II. > A nice balance between easy tunes and busy tunes, and even the slow ones > are inventive enough to maintain interest. Strangely, a few of the fast > tunes strike me as having a sort of prog rock knottiness to the lines > (sorry, I'm sure that comparison is distasteful to some). Yes, a mix of "rock" and oriental music.. > I have to compare the version of "Quiet Village" to the version on > "Exotica" sometime, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. It doesn't sound > like it matches the rest of this album, but I seem to recall the earlier > version sounding different as well. What's the official word on that? This is an edited version of the stereo version of the song (2:58 vs 3:41). There is a pretty perceptible difference between Denny's stereo version and the mono version -- the stereo version is faster. It's kind of funny how Denny always claimed that the stereo version of the Exotica album was "recreated note for note, bird call for bird call" - but it is really easy to pick out some of the tracks based on the music or calls instantly. Not that the stereo version is bad mind you, just different. -Kevin -- *********************************************************** * Kevin Crossman kevin@kevdo.com * * http://www.kevdo.com - The Narrow Interest Portal * * Lip Balm Anonymous, Ultimate Mai Tai, Exotica Archive * *********************************************************** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) UK soundtracks MOVEMENTS Date: 17 Jul 2001 07:09:56 -0700 Thanks to all that came up with all those record storage suggestions! I really liked those BOLTZ steel ones, but they are a little too $$$. I also stumbled upon RACKIT (http://www.rackittm.com/ ) also expensive and, according to my wife, "very seventies" with that heavy grained light oak look. Anybody heard either of these UK soundtracks: Johnny Harris - Movements (fragments of fear / stepping stones) Keith Mansfield - Loot (rare) Worth the time and money to pursue? thanks # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) UK soundtracks MOVEMENTS Date: 17 Jul 2001 15:56:49 +0100 basic hip wrote: > > Anybody heard either of these UK soundtracks: > > Johnny Harris - Movements (fragments of fear / stepping stones) This has come up before on the list - those two tracks are from the 'Fragments of Fear' soundtrack - the rest of the album is good too. Stepping Stones is probably the killer - very fast and frenetic, flute-driven stuff. The lp was reissued (or booted) about a year ago. His other LP 'All to bring you morning' is growing on me too. It's in the same vein as David Axelrod etc - moody orchestral stuff with guitar, bass and drums. Shouldn't be too hard to find cheaply - it has a cover of a beach (at sunrise?) with the silhouette of a man, and looks like it should be an easy listening compilation. Plus he produced or arranged (I forget which) Shirley Bassey's 'Something' (a.k.a '... is really something' in US) and 'Something else' albums which are great. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Sabu, Anyone? Date: 17 Jul 2001 11:31:03 EDT Anyone know what Sabu Martinez sounds like ? Do you have a cd to reccomend ? Thanks, Bob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: (exotica) FW: Bird music on Mappings, week beginning July 17, 2001 Date: 17 Jul 2001 08:50:13 -0700 I'm sure some of you might be interested in this: > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-zorn-list@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-zorn-list@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Herb Levy > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:30 PM > To: Othermindslist@otherminds.org; zorn-list@lists.xmission.com; > avant-classical@yahoogroups.com; Avant-Garde@yahoogroups.com; > experimusic@yahoogroups.com; thewire@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Bird music on Mappings, week beginning July 17, 2001 > > > Hi, > > This week Mappings, a weekly new music program on Antenna Internet > Radio presents > music by, for and/or of birds created and/or documented by Paul > Panhuysen & the Galvanos, Ellen Band, If, Bwana, Leo Kupper, Alvin > Lucier, George E Lewis, Maciunas Ensemble & Kanary Grand Band, and > Olivier Messiaen. > > The RealAudio recording went online about 10-11 pm (Greenwich -0800) > on Monday night and will remain online for a week. I hope you have a > chance to check out the show. > > Last week's program (featuring music for gamelan by John Cage, > Phillip Corner, Lou Harrison, Jeff Morris, Jarrad Powell, Tony > Prabowo, James Tenney, Ki Wasitodiningrat, Sint Wullur, and Evan > Ziporyn) is available in the archives: > > > See you online. > > Bests, > > Herb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) Sabu, Anyone? Date: 17 Jul 2001 17:07:14 +0100 HOUSEOBOB@aol.com wrote: > > Anyone know what Sabu Martinez sounds like ? Do you have a cd to reccomend ? > Thanks, Bob Sabu is fantastic. Have yet to hear a bad record by him, although I do have a suspicion that I now have almost all his 'greats', and the rest may be just be more standard latin jazz. 'Sorcery' is the most exotic, 'Jazz Espagnole' is great latin jazz, 'Afro Temple' adds banging funk drums, like Pucho or someone, and 'Palo Congo' is that very percussion orientated, early afro-cuban jazz sound - just guitar, congas, bongos, african percussion etc. All those four have been reissued relatively recently. Info about him here: http://www.wildsscene.com/sabu/index.html and discography: http://www.wildsscene.com/music/latin_sm.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) UK soundtracks MOVEMENTS Date: 17 Jul 2001 11:38:10 EDT In a message dated 7/17/2001 11:24:53 AM, michael@moreover.com writes: << David Axelrod etc - moody orchestral stuff with guitar, >> Is that a description of all his stuff or are there vocals involved ? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) UK soundtracks MOVEMENTS Date: 17 Jul 2001 18:19:08 +0100 HOUSEOBOB@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 7/17/2001 11:24:53 AM, michael@moreover.com writes: > > << David Axelrod etc - moody orchestral stuff with guitar, >> > > Is that a description of all his stuff or are there vocals involved ? The two solo albums are all instrumental, save for a section on one of the tracks on 'All to bring you morning' which has Jon Anderson (from Yes etc) singing. (Actually two others from Yes are playing on the album I think, but don't let that put you off). 'Movements' is much harder and faster than the 2nd LP. Sounds more like Don Sebesky 'Distant galaxy' or something. Would have to listen to it again to think of a better comparison. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Sabu, Anyone? Date: 17 Jul 2001 13:38:49 -0400 > > Anyone know what Sabu Martinez sounds like ? Do you have a cd to > reccomend ? > >Sabu is fantastic. Have yet to hear a bad record by him, although I do >have a suspicion that I now have almost all his 'greats', and the rest >may be just be more standard latin jazz. Sabu isn't the leader, but he stands tall on Art Blakey's "Orgy In Rhythm, Vols. 1 & 2" (reissued on Blue Note a few years back). I raved about it on here not too long ago. Great romping percussion. Another hot tip from Tony Wilds. --m.ace Back online: Linkalog main: http://books.dreambook.com/ookster/linkalog.html meta: http://ookworld.com/linkalog/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "F. Cobalt" Subject: (exotica) Thrift stores going downhill Date: 17 Jul 2001 10:40:01 -0700 >I did the rounds yesterday... when the lady from the Salvation Army said >that they were putting their records online, I almost cried... and then the >Value Village had a worn out, scratchy copy of some Todd Rundgren album on >the shelf for 10.00 and I knew another thrift store employee was running >around armed and dangerous with a price guide... > >Jim I was in a Salvation Army the other day in the "antiques" nook. Since the basement is full of vinyl that I've combed through, I thought I'd bother in the special area. I was completely confused. Every time I see John Denver records or Peter Frampton albums in one of those collectable areas, I just shake my head, and I want to say something to someone who works there but what's the point? And in addition to there being more useless crap in the records in the collectable area than in the regular area, the one potentially worthwhile record I found was merely an empty sleeve! It was absurd. Later, a guy came up with a shopping cart full of stuff to be put in this area, and he immediately showed me a Redd Foxx comedy record as though I was supposed to be impressed or want it. I wanted to ask who makes these decisions about what constitutes a "collectable" for the little room, and what those decisions are based on. But I am grateful for the fact that I've only bought two things in th at room compared to hundreds of other things in the rest of the store. And luckily the tiki mugs never go in that room, nor the albums that should, like the Frank Comstock outer space record I found there (cover in piss poor shape but vinyl nearly immaculate) a year ago. Online record sales? Great. Will there be Salvation Army auctions? $10 starting bid for this beat up copy of Frampton Comes Alive! Ha ha. Mr. Unlucky Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) copy prevention news items Date: 17 Jul 2001 13:45:49 -0400 "Anti-piracy compact discs that cannot be copied by a computer have gone on sale in California.": http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns9999998 "Napster to ditch MP3 for proprietary format": http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20428.html --m.ace Back online: Linkalog main: http://books.dreambook.com/ookster/linkalog.html meta: http://ookworld.com/linkalog/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck! Date: 17 Jul 2001 21:49:53 +0200 From www.beck.com: ------ 07.13.01: Bruce Haack Tribute Beck has recorded the Bruce Haack song "Funky Little Song" with Ross Harris at Burning Trailer Studios for Ross' forthcoming BRUCE HAACK TRIBUTE RECORD. Other artists on the tribute include Stereolab, Money Mark, Mouse on Mars, Cornelius, Sukia, and DJ Me DJ You. Check out THE BRUCE HAACK WEB to learn more about the late and great BRUCE HAACK. ------- That's great news, isn't it? Marco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Lenkei Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrift stores going downhill Date: 17 Jul 2001 16:45:54 -0400 (EDT) It always amazes me what some people think is a "rare" record. I was in a junk store months ago. This woman had maybe 5000 albums in the place, so I asked how much they were. She said they were all a dollar except if it's someting rare, like the Beatles. Uh-huh. > I was completely confused. Every time I > see John Denver records or Peter Frampton albums in one of those > collectable areas, I just shake my head, and I want to say something > to someone who works there but what's the point? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrift stores, a way of life Date: 17 Jul 2001 14:07:10 -0700 (PDT) A favorite of mine is the "Carnac" approach to pricing. There is one thrift shop in my area where the price for lps is posted as $1. However, when the guy who runs the place is in (and not one of his work-release teens who could care less what they collect), he scrutinizes each lp for a moment and says, for instance, "this is an old one - $3, that other is 2.50." Often, after I've kept my tongue and paid, he'll slip them in a bag and crack them down on the counter for me, splitting the spines nicely. --- Bruce Lenkei wrote: > It always amazes me what some people think is a > "rare" record. I was in a > junk store months ago. This woman had maybe 5000 > albums in the place, so I > asked how much they were. She said they were all a > dollar except if it's > someting rare, like the Beatles. Uh-huh. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) True Story: Desert Island Discs Date: 17 Jul 2001 22:45:47 +0100 Kevin Crossman wrote: > > Went over to Tower Records yesterday and picked up the latest issue of > their house-organ magazine Pulse. > > I thought to myself - hey I ought to send in a list of "Desert Island > Discs" (a regular feature of the zine) with an Exotica theme - what > better for a desert island, right? (BTW - in an earlier life I had a > DID list published in 1988) Anyone know if there are archives anywhere online for the Desert Island Discs radio programme? I had a search but couldn't find any. I think it would be interesting to see who chose what. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 17 Jul 2001 22:51:49 +0100 Nicola Battista wrote: > > >What are your earliest memories of records, record players, record > >playing, record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite record you can > >recall? > > my first record players were kids record players which usually were square > plastic things in a strange orange (sometimes white) color. they were > called mangiadischi (record "eater"!) and tended to ruin our 7" by > consuming them heavily in the part closer to the central hole. Maybe this > was the reason for the name? the vinyl eater? ;) http://www.dansettes.co.uk/Portable%20record%20players.htm Is photo on the top left what you mean? They look crazy. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Telstar" Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos July 18, 2001 Date: 17 Jul 2001 19:09:11 -0400 Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wednesday morning at 9 (EST) on CFRU 93.3fm in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The show is also available on the web at http://www.uoguelph.ca/~cfru-fm Mandingo - Manhunter "Savage Rite" Dick Kent - Bongo, King of the Jungle "The Makers of Smooth Music Vol 2" Elephant's Memory - Jungle Gym at the Zoo "Midnight Cowboy" ost The Inner Thumb - Citroens 'n' Sitars "Soul Ecstacy" Xhol Caravan - Grille "Motherf*ckers GMBH & Co kg" 23 Skidoo - The Gospel Comes to New Guinea 12" Bar-Kays - Theme from Hells Angels "Soul Finger" [uncredited] - Scorpio "Schoolhouse Funk" Lora Logic - Stereo 12" Bongo Joe - Transistor Radio "Bongo Joe" Noh Mercy - Revolutionary Spy "Earcom 3" Elephants Memory - Old Man Willow "Midnight Cowboy" The Galaxy Generation - Aquarius "Hair" Comments & questions welcome. Allan The Mondo Bongos Homepage http://communities.msn.ca/MondoBongos # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates Date: 17 Jul 2001 23:08:52 +0100 alan zweig wrote: > > At 09:11 PM 7/16/01 -0400, Domenic Ciccone wrote: > > > > Always been satisfied with the Talkin' Verve series. > > > > They keep on trying to add to this series. Just got these and a Talkin > > Verve disk on Buddy Greco. I thought that was a little unusual considering > > he's not funky and they selected late 50's material. > > Say what? Buddy not funky? Have you ever heard his Hank Williams record? > Have you ever heard him play the organ? Buddy was funky. He does a nice cover of 'What's Going On?' on the Tony Hatch produced 'Movin' On' LP. Not keen on the rest of it though. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: James Botticelli Subject: Re: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates Date: 17 Jul 2001 20:12:42 -0400 on 7/17/01 6:08 PM, Michael Jemmeson at michael@moreover.com wrote: > He does a nice cover of 'What's Going On?' on the Tony Hatch produced > 'Movin' On' LP. Not keen on the rest of it though. Buddy Greco, singer? instrumentalist?..I know, I should know, but I don't .. JB/note new address y'all # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dowco" Subject: RE: (exotica) Thrift stores, a way of life Date: 17 Jul 2001 17:27:26 -0700 Reminds me of a similar moment in a church thrift store in a little town in Oregon - I had picked out a bunch of 78's and a few lps, and the lady started bagging them. "Be care...." was all I had the chance to say before I heard an audible crack as she slammed one of the 78's (a nice one by the Three Suns) on the counter. "Uhhh, that one's broken, I won't be taking it," I said. "Oh, it was probably broken when you took it off the shelf," she cackled back at me. I guess working in thrift stores does that to some people. Jim >Often, after I've kept my tongue and > paid, he'll slip them in a bag and crack them down on > the counter for me, splitting the spines nicely. > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates Date: 18 Jul 2001 01:31:54 +0100 James Botticelli wrote: > > on 7/17/01 6:08 PM, Michael Jemmeson at michael@moreover.com wrote: > > > He does a nice cover of 'What's Going On?' on the Tony Hatch produced > > 'Movin' On' LP. Not keen on the rest of it though. > > Buddy Greco, singer? instrumentalist?..I know, I should know, but I don't .. > JB/note new address y'all Singer. Someone on this list once called him the Duke of Cheese... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) Cleve in the Improper Boston Best of Boston Date: 17 Jul 2001 22:00:20 -0400 A friend sent this blurb: July 18-21 2001 The Imprpoper Bostonian10th annual Boston's Best Special Issue. Page 58, Entertainment. Club DJ - Brother Cleve. "This self-professed child of the 70's lays down a funk-soul rhythm that seems to borrow from every genre under the sun. Bravely combining classic disco witth the latest Brazilian chart topper, tribal beats with timeless lounge stylings, Brother Cleve is the Bostonian most likely to conjure visions of Ibiza in local scenesters' heads. He didn't miss a beat after his residency at Lava Bar ended when the club closed-now he's spicing things up at Mantra. Soon he'll also be at the newclub, Limbo, When it opens next month." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: Re: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates Date: 17 Jul 2001 22:21:16 -0400 > Buddy Greco, singer? instrumentalist?..I know, I should know, but I don't .. > JB/note new address y'all The Talkin' Verve disk is late 50's material. Buddy plays the piano and sings with a trio or quartet. As a comp it's culled from various recordings. Mundell Lowe is on there on a few tracks. Pleasant but not Talkin' Verve funky. The linear notes constantly compare him to Nat King Cole's earlier piano days and in mood its about the same. But not the same style or delivery. But I like to have something by everyone to play on the show and if I had to take a chance on a comp it would be the Talkin' Verve series. Hey, he's a paisan so of course I like it. Domenico # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) Exotica/Luxuria member summit. Boston August 18th. Date: 17 Jul 2001 22:22:43 -0400 On August 18th hoping to get some folks from the Exotica Mailing List and the Luxuria/Yahoo mailing list for a day of record shopping and club hopping in Boston MA. Lets hope we do not get a heat wave. Planning an ambitious day. Join me for part of or the whole day! How about meeting somewhere appropriately Exotic for lunch? Spend the afternoon going to a few of our many record stores? Hang out at Harvard Square? And then later that night go see Br. Cleve spin at Mantra's or Limbo's which ever club he's playing. And/or see Seks Bomba playing at the Linwood with The Strangemen and The Irreversible Slacks. I know a few of you are on board for some of this. And look forward to good times. Domenic # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) Bird music Date: 17 Jul 2001 21:11:44 -0700 > This week Mappings, a weekly new music program on Antenna Internet > Radio presents > music by, for and/or of birds created and/or documented by Paul > Panhuysen & the Galvanos, Ellen Band, If, Bwana, Leo Kupper, Alvin > Lucier, George E Lewis, Maciunas Ensemble & Kanary Grand Band, and > Olivier Messiaen. Glad to see some folks have not lost their appreciation for our feathered friends, the greatest songsters of them all. Afterall, is there a sweeter sound than birds singing in the treetops? Inspirations to the great composers and whistlers as well. Did somebody say whistlers?? :) Bird songs with musical accompaniment goes way, way back. Lots of canary training records with organ, violin and marimba. The American Radio Warblers, which were broadcast on the radio in the 1940's, Provols Golden Birds, later the Artal Orchestra, Johan Dalgas Frisch and one of my favorites, Rockefeller Center pet shop owner Virgina Belmont's Famous Talking and Singing Birds. Jim Fassett did those crazy experiments with changing the pitch and speed of bird field recordings on Symphony of the Birds and the results were stunning, unrecognizable and bizarre. Except when slowed way down and the little guys sound like expert whistlers. Did somebody say whistlers?? :) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Ledebur Subject: Re: (exotica) Please help me find a gameboy! Date: 18 Jul 2001 00:13:33 -0400 "Brian" writes: >On a related note, I am looking for an original grey gameboy classic >The reason I want it is that I have this programmed gameboy cartridge that >is in fact a musical instrument. Though it works in any gameboy model, the >sound quality was supposedly better in the old model as it was larger. Gameboys also have a stereo headphone jack... you could run a line to any amp or mixer and then size won't matter! peter ----- Music for Better Living Wed 6-7pm -- WZBC 90.3 fm Newton/Boston hifibliss.com/mfbl/ live streaming audio -- zbconline.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck! Date: 18 Jul 2001 10:47:59 +0200 Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek schrieb: > Bruce Haack Tribute > > Beck, Stereolab, Money Mark, Mouse on Mars, > Cornelius, Sukia, and DJ Me DJ You. unlikely line-up. Money Mark? Doing Bruce Haack? sure makes one curious. Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) anti music Date: 18 Jul 2001 11:36:54 +0200 how 'bout this: http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Anti-Music/ ---Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) smoking redheads Date: 18 Jul 2001 11:35:38 +0200 the combination of eroticism and tiki is irresistable: http://members.aol.com/djadamson8/tiki.html and here's what Google offers to "our subject" (for newbies): http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Styles/Lounge/ Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) A new and *easy* and *verstile* drink!!! Date: 18 Jul 2001 09:48:31 -0400 For those imbibers on the list....... Let's face it, sometimes you want to cut out the big production of hauling = out the bottles, the jiggers and the shakers AND the ice crushers and get = down to the drinkin' part............well here's a great mixer that you = can add just about any fruit juice or frozen concentrate to and it tastes = really good! ZIMA - yes, that's right, the marketing tool of evil to capture the souls = of underage drinkers or those who don't like the taste of "true" alcohol. = Just mix a bottle of Zima ( I like the new citrus one) with either lime, = orange, grape, (you name it) juice to your taste and enjoy. Zima is a "malt beverage" but the box also notes "...except in Texas where = it's beer." (?) Happy drinking - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) A new and *easy* and *verstile* drink!!! Date: 18 Jul 2001 07:50:56 -0700 (PDT) I was hoodwinked into going into a large shopping mall last weekend. Part of the stations of my cross involved looking at the utensils and the full color section of flavored cooking oils. I happened to notice that there was a reduced price section which contained a stack of bottled Mango Key Lime drink (Aqua Fresca I believe they've christened it). I bought a few bottles to bring home to experiment with. And actually it's pretty damned good. Particularly with added lime juice, gold rum and a shot of club soda (jungle punch for lack of a more creative effort and an excuse to put it in a tiki mug). With the addition of 151 and vodka, all non-essential organs take a holiday. Thought of calling it Apocalypse Now. --- Nathan Miner wrote: > > For those imbibers on the list....... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: (exotica) Re: Bobby Darin Date: 18 Jul 2001 10:58:38 -0500 alan: Bobby Darin - Inside out - always wanted this, Bobby's hippie record. Alan, I love Bobby Darin. I am amazed at how he evolved to fit the times from Pop, to rock, to folk. Would he be doing rap now, if he were still alive? Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) Walter Brennan, the Great Beast? Date: 18 Jul 2001 10:50:29 -0700 (PDT) What do kidnapping, murder, incest, imperialism hedgeborn libertism and Liberty Records have in common? The Wonderful World of Walter Brennan, that's what. You remember his hickory smoked and trail dusted brogue from Disney specials and various westerns, of course. Well here he is drawling on about all these things (usually in the same song) in Don't Go Near the Indians - pronounced "injuns", of course; Tenessee Stud, etc., to the accompaniment of a pop orchestra and female background vocals. Makes Lorne Greene seem neutered and tame by comparison. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jon Huck Subject: (exotica) Re: Frenchpop download Date: 18 Jul 2001 11:01:32 -0700 Hi there, The Fur Ones have a new free download available. It's a cover of "Le Temps De L'amour", the 60's Frenchpop classic originally performed by Francoise Hardy. It comes from the CD "Monokini" on Monochrome Records which is a new 60's Frenchpop cover album featuring Stereo Total, Rivera, Belleatec and other fine ensembles. It don't think it will be up for long, so if you are interested please check it out. You can find it here: http://www.mp3.com/thefurones. So long! Jon # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "tiki kiliki" Subject: (exotica) Tiki Visit Date: 18 Jul 2001 14:23:15 -0400 I just returned home from a trip to Atlanta and of course had to visit Trader Vic's. The most commercialized of this wonderful slice of culture we call TIKI!! It is an amazing place. It was crowded! There was an accessory convention in town and the people watching was priceless!! Ladies in gold and all carrying shopping bags, admiring their purchases from the days events. Trader Vic's in Atlanta is still one of my favorite Tiki havens! They have a Bosko sculpture, which says a lot, and plus the manager knows me now and doesn't say anything when I leave with a new mug and a drink menu!! Aloha, Tiki Kiliki Pictures to follow.................. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Kapp Records Date: 18 Jul 2001 20:29:20 +0200 Does anyone know what happened to Kapp Records, or to be more precise: who owns the publishing rights of Kapp today? Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: James Botticelli Subject: Re: (exotica) Kapp Records Date: 18 Jul 2001 15:20:27 -0400 on 7/18/01 2:29 PM, Moritz R at tiki@netsurf.de wrote: > > Does anyone know what happened to Kapp Records, or to be more precise: who > owns the publishing rights of Kapp today? > > Mo It seems to be currently owned by MCA www.mcarecords.com I also found this http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/Pennvalley/biology/lewis/crosby/jackapp.htm Hope that helps # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) Hawaiian-English translation engine Date: 18 Jul 2001 12:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Great for christening your very nectar of the island gods: http://www.hisurf.com/hawaiian/dictionary.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Tipsy Question Date: 18 Jul 2001 21:49:14 +0100 Does anyone know where the sample of the girls going "ooo!" throughout "Hey!" on Uh-Oh comes from? I'd like to hear more of them ladies... ;-) Robbie Spaced Out - the Enoch Light website http://www.enochlight.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: (exotica) Nicola Conte Date: 18 Jul 2001 18:08:04 -0500 Pardon me if this group has been discussed here previously, but I just picked up a copy of "Bossa Per Due" after hearing a couple of cuts off of it in an art/design store in Palo Alto last week. Definitely one of the best CDs I've picked up this year. Very reminiscent of 101 Strings' "Astro-Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000" and swinging Italian film-soundtrack bossa-nova arrangements with just a hint of Brubeckian jazz flourishes. Anyone know where I can get more info on this group? Their web presence is a bit thin, unfortunately. -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Visit Date: 18 Jul 2001 18:13:02 -0500 tiki kiliki wrote: > It is an amazing place. It was crowded! There was an accessory convention > in town and the people watching was priceless!! Ladies in gold and all > carrying shopping bags, admiring their purchases from the days events. I was there last year and was quite surprised by how busy it was compared to all of the other Vic's I've been in. Yes, the people watching was fabulous. I hadn't seen that much leopardskin since my last Tom Jones concert! Speaking of Vic's, when I was in Palo Alto last week I searched in vain for the site where they're building the new restaurant. Anybody know where it is? -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: (exotica) Alan's film 'Vinyl' in DC Date: 18 Jul 2001 19:46:30 -0400 A reminder to those in the Washington DC area .... Alan's film, 'Vinyl', will be showing at the National Gallery of Art (East Wing) this Saturday as part of a Canadian documentary double feature. First film starts at 2:00 pm, 'Vinyl' will be shown second at approximately 3:00 p.m. There is no admission charge. A few of us may head out for drinks afterwards, perhaps at the Easter Island basement bar at the Poli-Tiki nightclub on Capital Hill. As an initial post-film introduction and staging area, plan on meeting at the back center of the National Gallery auditorium after 'Vinyl' ends. I'm looking forward to Saturday - it should be a lot of fun. If you think you might come, and haven't notified me yet, e-mail me privately so I can look for you. Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: paul dean Subject: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 18 Jul 2001 19:32:36 -0500 I can distinctly remember two records, both 45s, that I played over and over at a friends house on a family summer vacation in the late 60s. They were: 2525, by Zager and Evans, and a novelty Buddah 45 called Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man). This was a "news report" about a moon shot featuring excerpts from all sorts of Buddha records, with drug references galore. Crazy! (Does anyone else remember this one?) I would have been about 10 years old. With the song 2525 time seemed to telescope out before me. The future seemed infinite. Anything was possible! The Moonflight 45 probably made me what I am today: a collage artist, and (of course) an obsessive record collector. p.s. -- I don't post often, but I love this list. You guys are the greatest! paul dean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bump@defectiverecords.com (Bump Stadelman) Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 18 Jul 2001 20:47:00 -0400 >I can distinctly remember two records, both 45s, that I played over and over >at a friends house on a family summer vacation in the late 60s. > >They were: 2525, by Zager and Evans, and a novelty Buddah 45 called >Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man). This was a "news >report" about a moon shot featuring excerpts from all sorts of Buddha >records, with drug references galore. Crazy! (Does anyone else remember yeah those were two of my favorite 45's too. i still have both! the Vik Venus record is cool. the b-side is really good too. just listened to it a couple months ago. i used to make my own versions of the vik venus thing talking about people in our neighborhood. very retarded but fun. other big 45's for me in the early collecting days: Peek-A-Boo/Lolita - The Cadillacs Judy in Disguise- John Fred and the Playboys Yellow Submarine-Beatles Girl Watcher- O'Kaysions Shake-Shadows of Knight Hot Smoke and Sassafras-The Bubble Puppy Mechanical World-Spirit Crimson and Clover-Tommy James Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - can't remember right now Magic Carpet Ride-Steppenwolf The Stripper-David Rose bump ****************************************************** ***************************** ************* DJ buMp "Primitive Rhythms for Evolved Minds" Defective Records-Executive Producer "Electronic Mutations from Beyond" http://www.defectiverecords.com "Music, Non-Stop" -- Ralf + Florian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Alan's film 'Vinyl' in DC Date: 18 Jul 2001 21:05:39 -0400 And the guy introducing/curating the Canadian documentary series, Tom McSorley, is a good pal of mine. He has horrible, non-exotic tastes in music, alas, but is a very good guy. Will Will Straw, Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Art History and Communications Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street W. Montreal, QC H3A 2T6 Canada Phone: (514) 398 7667 Fax: (514) 398 7247 Co-Investigator, Culture of Cities Project, http://www.yorku.ca/culture_of_cities/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dymaxia Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 18 Jul 2001 20:18:37 -0500 (CDT) On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, paul dean wrote: > > I can distinctly remember two records, both 45s, that I played over and over > at a friends house on a family summer vacation in the late 60s. > > They were: 2525, by Zager and Evans, and a novelty Buddah 45 called > Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man). This was a "news > report" about a moon shot featuring excerpts from all sorts of Buddha > records, with drug references galore. Crazy! (Does anyone else remember > this one?) > Remember it? I think I've *got* it. Picked it up in a thrift, along with zillions of other Buddha singles. I'll have to dig that one out and make sure. Kerry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "F. Cobalt" Subject: (exotica) Nicola Conte Date: 18 Jul 2001 18:39:40 -0700 >Pardon me if this group has been discussed here previously, but I just >picked up a copy of "Bossa Per Due" after hearing a couple of cuts off >of it in an art/design store in Palo Alto last week. Definitely one of >the best CDs I've picked up this year. Very reminiscent of 101 Strings' >"Astro-Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000" and swinging Italian >film-soundtrack bossa-nova arrangements with just a hint of Brubeckian >jazz flourishes. >Anyone know where I can get more info on this group? Their web presence >is a bit thin, unfortunately. >- -- >Matt Marchese Nicola Conte runs the Schema label itself. A number of the artists on the Jet Sounds album are professional jazz artists that work on other projects outside of Schema, and some on Schema and/or Fez label (Stefania Di Pierro is in Intensive Jazz Sextet, as well as more, say, upscale type jazz acts in Italy for example). That's the paltry page for Schema: http://www.ishtar.it/ You could email Nicola. He's a nice guy, and his English is okay. Mr. Unlucky Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "F. Cobalt" Subject: (exotica) Tipsy Question Date: 18 Jul 2001 18:47:20 -0700 >Does anyone know where the sample of the girls going "ooo!" >throughout "Hey!" on Uh-Oh comes from? > >I'd like to hear more of them ladies... ;-) > >Robbie I thought those "Ooohs" were coming from kids. I'd also been trying to figure out of the "Hey!" came from the Art of Noise song "Close to the Edit" but I don't have a copy at the moment to compare it to. I'm pretty sure that the horns come from the The Spy With a Cold Nose soundtrack by Riz Ortolani. Mr. Unlucky Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos July 18, 2001 Date: 18 Jul 2001 22:19:24 -0400 >Lora Logic - Stereo 12" Wow, you almost never hear mention of Lora Logic. Her "Beat Rhythm News" almost made my marathon 'key albums' list. Also have some cool 7-inchers recorded after the album. Is this item on the playlist something new? Old? Did she ever get back to music or is she still with the Hare Krishnas? thanks, --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates Date: 18 Jul 2001 22:44:40 -0400 AZ, You *have* heard everything. (smile) > Say what? Buddy not funky? Have you ever heard his Hank Williams record? > Have you ever heard him play the organ? Buddy was funky. > > AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Telstar" Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos July 18, 2001 Date: 18 Jul 2001 23:15:09 -0400 M.Ace wrote: > >Lora Logic - Stereo 12" > > Wow, you almost never hear mention of Lora Logic. Her "Beat Rhythm News" > almost made my marathon 'key albums' list. Also have some cool 7-inchers > recorded after the album. Is this item on the playlist something new? Old? > Did she ever get back to music or is she still with the Hare Krishnas? It is a shame that Lora Logic's wonderfully eccentric music has all but been forgotten. The tune "Stereo" was on the B-side of the "Wonderful Offer" 12" which was released in 1981. I believe there was a brief X-Ray Spex reunion where she toured and recorded some new material, but I'm afraid I don't have any further info. When I recently bought a CD-R burner, one of my first projects was to create an Essential Logic cd from the singles in my collection. Unfortunately I don't have her LPs. Allan The Mondo Bongos Homepage http://communities.msn.ca/MondoBongos # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jim gerwitz" Subject: (exotica) Sabu Anyone? and a surprising DID list Date: 18 Jul 2001 20:33:19 -0700 <> m.ace is on the money as usual. I think almost everyone who hears Orgy in Rhythm raves about it (and not just for the great title - imagine this with a Mark Ryden cover). Glad to see some of Sabu's early stuff out now - there is a 15 minute track (forget which one) taken from one of his early LP's included on that Baxter/Bas Sheva "Passions" Cd of dubious legitimacy (1,000 copies) that came out about 5 years ago and is still around. Sabu et al make the (not so) Incredible Bongo Band sound like a bunch of wind-up monkey drummers. And check this DID list from the July 2001 Tower "Pulse" Exotica A-Z - by Lloyd Kandell 1. Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island 2. Les Baxter - Exotic Moods 3. Combustible Edison - schizophonic 4. Martin Denny - Exotic Sounds 5. Don Tiki - Forbidden Sounds 6. Robert Drasnin - Voodoo! 7. Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo 8. VA -Ultra Lounge - Mondo Exotica 9. Tipsy - Trip Tease 10. John Zorn - The Gift How many other list members have every one of these too? Name looked familiar, looked up Lloyd at allmusic and he's Don Tiki's "producer." jim g (first record memory - another vote along with BasicHip for "Bozo Under the Sea" - lots of gurgly Bozo talk and a Giant Clam) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) Sabu Anyone? and a surprising DID list Date: 18 Jul 2001 23:49:29 -0400 The name should look familiar - he's on this list! (and I believe he just posted a few days ago). He's also part of Don Tiki, not just the producer! cheryl > And check this DID list from the July 2001 Tower "Pulse" > Exotica A-Z - by Lloyd Kandell > 1. Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island > 2. Les Baxter - Exotic Moods > 3. Combustible Edison - schizophonic > 4. Martin Denny - Exotic Sounds > 5. Don Tiki - Forbidden Sounds > 6. Robert Drasnin - Voodoo! > 7. Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo > 8. VA -Ultra Lounge - Mondo Exotica > 9. Tipsy - Trip Tease > 10. John Zorn - The Gift > > How many other list members have every one of these too? > Name looked familiar, looked up Lloyd at allmusic and he's Don Tiki's > "producer." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Christine Karkow Subject: Re: (exotica) Nicola Conte Date: 18 Jul 2001 21:08:32 -0700 > > Anyone know where I can get more info on this group? Their web presence > is a bit thin, unfortunately. Hi, I just got a copy of "Eighteenth Street Lounge, Jet Society" which has the Bossa per due by Conte on it, and I agree, this is some of the best stuff I've heard in a long time. Check out Dusty Grooves-do a search under Nicola Conte and see how your wallet becomes thin...mine did. christine > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obits] James Bernard,Ted Berman,Margarita Mimi Baez Date: 19 Jul 2001 01:27:12 -0400 TUESDAY JULY 17 2001 --- The Times (London) James Bernard Composer who wrote scores for Hammer horror films and a song cycle for Peter Pears FOR NEARLY 40 years James Bernard was the composer of the spine-chilling scores for the Hammer series of horror films that captivated international audiences and usually starred Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. In films such as Dracula (1958) and The Devil Rides Out (1968) he made full use of strings and percussion in his lavish scores, many of which were performed by the orchestra of the Royal Opera House. After co-writing the screenplay for Seven Days to Noon, he became one of the very few composers to win an Academy Award for something other than music. Born in India into a military family (his father was in the Indian Army), James Bernard and his brother Bill were sent to England and brought up with his mother=92s parents in Gloucestershire because the Indian climate was considered too harsh. At the age of six he was playing the piano, and at seven he developed a love of opera through listening to gramophone records. Educated at Wellington College, where a fellow pupil was Christopher Lee, Bernard was greatly encouraged in music and the arts. At 17 he met his hero, the composer Benjamin Britten, who visited the school with the tenor Peter Pears, and Bernard showed him a score that he had written for an inter-house music competition. Impressed, Britten made a few adjustments and signed it =93Composed by James Bernard. Edited by Benjamin Britten.=94 Bernard kept in touch with Britten while serving in the RAF for three years and Britten encouraged him to learn the rules of composing. After being demobilised Bernard studied with Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music, graduating in 1949. In 1950 Britten approached him to copy out the vocal score of his opera Billy Budd for his publishers, Boosey & Hawkes, which he did while staying with the composer at Aldeburgh. He attended the opening night in the company of Britten=92s housekeeper and the librettist= E. M. Forster. Britten encouraged him to become a full-time composer. The same year a close friend, Paul Dehn, a successful screenwriter, asked Bernard to collaborate on the screenplay of Seven Days to Noon, a persuasively understated suspense piece about a professor engaged in atomic research who threatens to blow up London. The script won an Academy Award for best motion picture story. Dehn also wrote radio plays and persuaded Val Gielgud, then head of BBC radio drama, to commission Bernard to write music for the department. His first score was for Patric Dickinson=92s play The Death of Hector (1954) which was followed by several others. The same year he wrote the score for The Duchess of Malfi, which he described as =93a kind of= horror story=94. The music was conducted by John Hollingsworth, who had just become music director for Hammer Films. In 1955 Hollingsworth invited Bernard to step into the breach caused by a composer=92s illness. For a fee of =A3100 he wrote the first of his many= Hammer scores, the groundbreaking Quatermass Experiment. For his first three films he was entrusted only with percussion and strings. By the time The Curse of Frankenstein came along in 1957, he was granted a full orchestra. There followed numerous films including Dracula (1958), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), The Kiss of the Vampire (1964), She (1965), The Devil Rides Out (1968) and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974). He orchestrated all his Hammer compositions but commented: =93I was lucky if I got four weeks to compose a score. It was real torture. I=92m not generally= a quick composer. I had to discipline myself.=94 Occasionally Bernard attempted to break out of his typecast role. He tried his hand at concert music, his output including a song cycle for Peter Pears that was performed at the Wigmore Hall. The Times gave an enthusiastic review, The Daily Telegraph was withering. At the same time as he was composing the music for The Devil Rides Out, he was working on a new Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for Chichester Cathedral. =93It=92s rather schizophrenic,=94 he noted. =93In one half of my mind I=92m thinking of the Magnificat, in the other half of orgies and black masses.=94 Feeling that by 1974 his career had reached something of a plateau, he fulfilled a long-held ambition to move to Jamaica, and stayed there for a decade, returning to this country only after the death of his partner. Bernard always felt that his music for Hammer was considered rather lowbrow by music critics, but was quick to point out that the series earned him a considerable amount in royalties. In later years his work, along with the music of other screen composers, was re-evaluated as film music increasingly became recognised as an art form in its own right. He became something of a cult figure among younger musicians and in 1997 he wrote the acclaimed score for the Channel 4 restoration of F. W. Murnau=92s 1921 classic Nosferatu.= His last work was the score for Universal Horror (1998), Kevin Brownlow=92s documentary of Universal Studios=92 horror films of the 1930s and 1940s. Summing up his career recently he said: =93I=92ve always considered myself typecast but I=92m not complaining. I became known as the horror composer,= but whenever there was a bit of romance in one of the Hammer films I seized on it.=94 James Bernard, composer and screenwriter, was born on September 20, 1925. He died in London on July 12, 2001, aged 75. ----------- July 17, 2001 -- L.A. Times Ted Berman; Animator and Director of Disney=20 Classics MYRNA OLIVER, TIMES STAFF WRITER Ted Berman, animator and director of Disney=20 cartoons ranging from the classics "Bambi" and=20 "Fantasia" to the highly regarded "The Black=20 Cauldron," has died at the age of 81. Berman, also a fine arts painter, died Sunday in Los=20 Angeles, said his daughter, Cathy Nourafshan. Born in the Boyle Heights section of East Los=20 Angeles, Berman wanted to draw from the time he=20 was a child, entering--and winning--various=20 newspaper competitions. He graduated from Roosevelt High and went on to the Chouinard Art=20 Institute, forerunner of the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. Berman landed a job in Disney's=20 animation department in 1940, and remained with the=20 studio for 45 years. Initially a character animator, Berman worked on the=20 beloved deer "Bambi," characters in "Alice in=20 Wonderland" and the visual-musical masterpiece=20 "Fantasia," as well as "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter=20 Pan," "Mary Poppins" and "101 Dalmatians." Berman took special pride in working on four films up=20 for Academy Awards--"Paul Bunyan," which was=20 nominated in 1958; "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger=20 Too," nominated in 1974; "It's Tough to Be a Bird," named the Best Short Film in 1969; and "Bedknobs and Broomsticks," which=20 won=20 for Best Visual Effects=20 in 1972. The animator was also a key team member in=20 creating the Disney television series, "The Wonderful=20 World of Color" and "The Mickey Mouse Club." Later in his career, Berman moved into writing and=20 directing the animation films. Berman was also involved in crafting the screenplays=20 of Disney feature films, including "The Rescuers" in=20 1977, "The Fox and the Hound" in 1981 and "The=20 Black Cauldron" in 1985. "It had the longest gestation period of any animal=20 alive," Berman said with a laugh in 1985, when "The=20 Black Cauldron," which he co-directed with Richard Rich, was finally=20 released. Disney had set the film in motion a dozen years=20 earlier by buying the rights to Lloyd Alexander's=20 Newbery Award-winning books "Chronicles of=20 Prydain." Financing--a whopping $25 million for what=20 was at the time the most expensive animated film in=20 history--took another six years. The project was=20 shelved a couple of times and then in production for=20 an arduous five years. "Disney animation has always been special, and it=20 had to be special again," Berman said, explaining that=20 very few computer graphics were used in the film that=20 would crown his Disney career. "Our animators knew that they might never be able to=20 work on this kind of film again," said the veteran=20 Berman, who trained youngsters fresh out of art=20 school to handle Disney animation the old-fashioned=20 way. The finished feature encompassed about 2,519,200=20 drawings, 400 gallons of paint, 15,000 pencils, 300=20 erasers, 34 miles of film stock and more than a million=20 hours of labor. "Our marching orders were to expand beyond our=20 young audience without losing it," Berman said at the=20 film's release. "It's got a PG rating, and no pink=20 bunnies or butterflies." After his retirement from Disney, Berman returned to=20 painting. His still-life canvases and plein-air=20 landscapes hang in several private collections. ----------- From www.joanbaez.com: Margarita Mimi Baez Fari=F1a 1945-2001 It is with much sadness that we share the news that Joan's sister Mimi Fari=F1a has lost her long, courageous battle with cancer. Mimi died in the early morning on July 18, 2001, at her home in Mill Valley, California, surrounded and supported by the love of those closest to her. Mimi Fari=F1a was an amazing woman who was truly a joy and an inspiration to so many people. An accomplished musician, loyal fans have enjoyed her music for decades, and her 25 years of work with Bread & Roses has deservedly earned her accolades and admiration. Mimi was also a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a cousin, a niece, a colleague, a dear friend, and a loving partner. Please keep all of those who loved her in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. (Memorial donations in Mimi's honor can be made to Bread & Roses) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Crossman Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Visit Date: 19 Jul 2001 00:02:39 -0700 Matt Marchese wrote: > Speaking of Vic's, when I was in Palo Alto last week I searched in vain for the > site where they're building the new restaurant. Anybody know where it is? On El Camino between San Antonio and Arastradero. Next to the Elks Lodge and Dinah's Hotel (across the street from Denny's and the new Cabana hotel). -Kevin -- *********************************************************** * Kevin Crossman kevin@kevdo.com * * http://www.kevdo.com - The Narrow Interest Portal * * Lip Balm Anonymous, Ultimate Mai Tai, Exotica Archive * *********************************************************** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin Leeeeee" Subject: (exotica) Seksu Roba / LA show Date: 19 Jul 2001 01:21:19 -0700 please come see my band, Seksu Roba. we're like a cross between perrey and kingsley, ennio morricone, and giorgio moroder. Friday July 20th The Troubadour 9081 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles, CA (310) 276-6168 $10 (measly) All Ages valet parking is $4 (parking yourself in the lot is actually more expensive oddly enough) 9 PM FCS North 10 PM Seksu Roba (LA, Crippled Dick Hot Wax) www.seksuroba.com 11 PM IQU (seattle, K Records) www.iquiqu.com Seksu Roba is clearly the next big thing in american pop culture. discover what TV Guide, Soap Digest, and Astrology Today are calling "...the best sexy robot show on earth!". the robot (unofficially named "Erector") is unfortunately not gonna make this particular show as his engineer has a broken rib. but you can still watch me play theremin (actually play notes)and my lovely partner, Lun*na Menoh perform in her sexy nurse outfit. IQU is a japanese american indie rock band from Seattle who invited us to play - we met them on our tour and they're very cool people. one of em plays theremin too... thank you kevin *********************************** http://www.seksuroba.com info@seksuroba.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rockwilson909 Subject: (exotica)Korla Pandit Date: 19 Jul 2001 10:43:25 +0100 Hello, Can anybody here recommend any CDs by Korla Pandit? I just bought ‘Exotica 2000’, which I’m not desperately impressed with – it’s okay but, from what I’ve read about the man, I was expecting something more. Is ‘Exotica 2000’ as good as he gets? It’s rather a short album, too – 9 tracks, including a ‘bonus’ live cut, totalling 24.52. Another recent purchase with a short running time is 101 Strings – Astro Sounds. Even with 3 bonus tracks it only lasts 36.26. That’s a pretty groovy album, though. Anyway, any advice on Pandit will be greatly appreciated. Rock Wilson # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck! Date: 19 Jul 2001 06:44:02 EDT In a message dated Wed, 18 Jul 2001 5:29:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Moritz R writes: > > > Bruce Haack Tribute > > > > Beck, Stereolab, Money Mark, Mouse on Mars, > > Cornelius, Sukia, and DJ Me DJ You. > > unlikely line-up. Money Mark? Doing Bruce Haack? sure makes one curious. > Not really that unlikely. Tipsy has a track on it too. -dave # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "tiki kiliki" Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Visit Date: 19 Jul 2001 06:46:08 -0400 Carl wrote: Tiki, I see that you've joined our ultra faboo Luxuriamusic club at Yahoo... how ya like us dysfunctional martyrs? I never really entered the chat room too much but my boyfriend was and is a "Regular" on the scene for lack of a better word. Swanky!! I just need to find time to explore more huh? Aloha, Tiki Kiliki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 19 Jul 2001 12:18:36 +0200 paul dean schrieb: > > 2525, by Zager and Evans, and a novelty Buddah 45 called > Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man). this sounds like a premium way to start into the wonderful world of incredibly strange music. perfect! have you ever seen that Moonflight 45 again? Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos July 18, 2001 Date: 19 Jul 2001 12:21:06 +0200 "m.ace" schrieb: > >Lora Logic - Stereo 12" isn't it Laura Logic? Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joe Subject: (exotica) Mmmm good mp3 Date: 19 Jul 2001 14:21:56 +0200 Hi there- Bumped into these mp3 and I thought folks might enjoy a taste... http://www.findomestic.it/download/musica/ And I think they're legal! Any other good exotic mp3 links out there? -Joe B. (formerly Enok Lite) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Visit Date: 19 Jul 2001 07:51:25 -0500 Kevin Crossman wrote: > Matt Marchese wrote: > > Speaking of Vic's, when I was in Palo Alto last week I searched in vain for the > > site where they're building the new restaurant. Anybody know where it is? > > On El Camino between San Antonio and Arastradero. Next to the Elks Lodge > and Dinah's Hotel (across the street from Denny's and the new Cabana hotel). Wow, that's bizarre. I drove past it at least six times last week and never even saw it. I must've been too busy playing Dodge 'em Cars with the usual crowd of non-drivers clogging up El Camino... Btw, anyone on the list traveling to the Bay Area should definitely check out the Stanford Theatre on University Ave. in Palo Alto. It's a beautifully restored movie palace complete with a hydraulic riser that lifts a live organ player up in front of the stage during intermission to perform a cheesy musical interlude on the theater's classic Wurlitzer organ. Last week, the Stanford was running a Jack Lemmon tribute that included one of my favorite films, "The Apartment". Last year I saw a newly restored print of "Jason and the Argonauts" which brought tears to my eyes, it was that beautiful. -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica)Korla Pandit Date: 19 Jul 2001 06:41:00 -0700 > Can anybody here recommend any CDs by Korla Pandit? I just bought > 'Exotica 2000', which I'm not desperately impressed with - it's okay > but, from what I've read about the man, I was expecting something more. There were three that I know of. The one you mentioned, another called "Odyssey" and a third, "Remembering Korla Pandit". Isn't that Exotica 2000 newer material? Odyssey, I recall are his first couple of albums on Fantasy, "Plays Music Of The Exotic East" and "Latin Holiday". Remembering Korla Pandit can be ordered here: http://www.korlapandit.com/ and click on the "collectibles" link. Regarding the music of Korla Pandit, you may be in for a letdown. It's pretty low-key, sometimes funeral like. To fully appreciate Korla Pandit, you must - I repeat MUST view video footage of his 1950's television shows. If you have not seen his shows, your draw will drop, you will be blown away!!! Thankfully, videos are available here: http://www.moviesunlimited.com/goto/502238.asp # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) Mmmm good mp3 Date: 19 Jul 2001 15:48:36 +0200 well, yes, apparently they are legal (except that -from what I've heard- the saite is not paying performance royalties to SIAE... err). They also had a link to buy the actual Irma cds from Zivago.com but Zivago was shut down recently. At 14.21 19/07/01 +0200, you wrote: >http://www.findomestic.it/download/musica/ > >And I think they're legal! > >Any other good exotic mp3 links out there? ever tried www.mp3.com/aperitivo ??? DjB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Telstar" Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos July 18, 2001 Date: 19 Jul 2001 10:24:47 -0400 Moritz wrote: > isn't it Laura Logic? It's "Lora" on the record sleeves. Allan The Mondo Bongos Homepage http://communities.msn.ca/MondoBongos # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl - the mimi variations Date: 19 Jul 2001 10:40:54 -0500 Sorry to come to this discussion late, but I saw this post and couldn't let it slip past. > Zappa/Mothers - "Uncle Meat" > Then again, around the same time, I sort of majored in Zappa (sung: "when I > was seventeen, it was a very Bizarre Records year"). But this was the album > I really lived in (it was a double set -- lots of room). Such a variety of > styles, from abstract instrumentals to goofy novelty rock. I still think it > contains some of his most beautiful melodies. > I couldn't agree more. I think the "King Kong Variations" (that's the title isn't it? It's been a while) stayed on my turntable for weeks on end. > > The Sex Pistols - "Anarchy In The UK" > Punk time. > Richard Hell & The Voidoids - "Blank Generation" I'll never forget the news hysteria that accompanied the Sex Pistols' first US tour. I remember sitting at the breakfast table watching the Today Show spread fear of the latest British invasion. To them it was just a bunch of noise, but to me it was just what I wanted. Richard Hell didn't quite have the same effect, but Blank Generation was a great album. > Gang Of Four - "Entertainment" > I know this one was a biggie at the time, but now its importance seems to > have been temporary. Like it was just hard rock with political correctness > tacked on. Ouch. I can't believe I said that. And I *like* this record! > A fantastic album. And at the time the album came out, "political correctness" was not a phrase that people were using--nor had it yet become "correct," as far as I recall. I just thought of it as out-and-out Marxist/Maoist. I've got several of their EP's and other albums as well ("Solid Gold" is a great one), which have the inimitable "Armalite Rifle" and "History's Bunk" on them. It's too bad they made the transition to the drum machine (although "I Love a Man in a Uniform" is a catchy tune). > Esquivel - "Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music" Esquivel is so central the genre that I have the feeling he lurks in the background of all of our discussions, even when he's not mentioned. There's no question but that my first exposure to Esquivel (which was "Music for a Sparkling Planet") was pivotal for me. But if I can go back to the questions that prompted the whole discussion: First album bought-- Ohio Players, Fire. It had to be the naked woman wrapped in a fire hose. Earliest vinyl memories--Mason Williams Phonograph Record. I still love this album. I've never seen other albums by him, although I know they exist. Also the Columbia Records version of Saint-Seans, Carnival of the Animals, narrated by Leonard Bernstein, with a Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra on the other side. I played both of these on a record player that was only slightly better than a "Close 'N Play," but I've managed to find clean copies in recent years to help keep those childhood memories alive. We also had several Jonathan Winters albums that I would love to be able to find in good condition. One other "key" record-- Samba Mapangala, Virunga Volcano My introduction to Afropop, and still one of my favorites in that genre. I find myself drifting back that way now and then. The continued availability of a lot of Afropop on Napster has helped. Thomas Mapfumo, Chamunorwa, has to be a close second there. Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 19 Jul 2001 08:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Wow Paul This Moonflight 45 sounds incredible! I would like to say I have seen Paul dj at a party and I have heard a lot of his mixes and Paul you are one of the best djs making music today! Paul's mixes have a feel that is way way out there with all kinds of styles of music flowing together in one big mysterious sound! I have got to hear this cool 45! Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- paul dean wrote: > The Moonflight 45 probably made me what I am today: a collage > artist, and > (of course) an obsessive record collector. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jamie_james" Subject: (exotica) TIKI TOYS - get one for the kidz or for yourself!!! Date: 19 Jul 2001 17:05:45 +0100 Hi all found this today, sorry if i am posting stuff you have seen, but i thought some of you may appreciate this. Isn't someone on this list an animator?... Dunno if this is anything to do with them ( or anyone else on the list for that matter) but it could be. http://www.goblertoys.com/pages2/kikianimation.html http://www.goblertoys.com/pages2/kikimonth.html BTW - in case you hadn't guessed these toys are fake... enjoy Jim # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Anti-Piracy CD tech Date: 19 Jul 2001 12:13:34 -0400 >"Anti-piracy compact discs that cannot be copied by a computer have gone on >sale in California.": >http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns9999998 Thanks m.ace, for the first article I've seen that actually *explains* how this malarkey is supposed to work. This sounds utterly crackable to me--though perhaps a bit of a pain. . . someone might need to hack the computer's CD driver, so it ignores failed error-corrections instead of aborting. But some teen should do that in about an afternoon. . . then, people like me with too much time on their hands can import the dirty music data into their audio waveform editors, and manually interpolate over the "grossly erroneous values" just as we already do with clicks from vinyl. . . cheers, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Note New Address through August 2001: || 814 Barton Drive || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA 48105 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) Fwd: Roots Of Exotica Special Date: 19 Jul 2001 09:20:44 -0700 (PDT) fyi. don't know if we're all on this mailing list or not: This Monday Night 11pm - KBOO Radio, Portland - 90.7 fm Stereo The Roots of Exotica: Where did it come from, and where does it take us? From the symphonies of Albert Ketelby, to the frog croaks and bird calls of Martin Denny, Exotica takes us to those sunshine locales where palm trees sway and time stands still. Les Baxter founded the modern school, and a variety of ensembles parlayed the mysterious sound into the hearts and souls of millions of listeners. Hear it tonight at The Tiki Cha Cha Club in it's original pristine stereo vinyl long-play format. Sample At www.tikichacha.com to "unsubscribe" - tiki@pacifier.com Keep It EZ ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tikiman Subject: Re: (exotica) Sabu Anyone? and a surprising DID list Date: 19 Jul 2001 10:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Aloha! yep, first i reveal our favorite haunt, la mariana, a few days ago by posting a honolulu advertiser article about the joint...now i myself am exposed! fluid floyd is the shrunken head alter ego of lloyd kandell. feelin' like zorro without his mask, floyd/lloyd --- cheryl wrote: > > The name should look familiar - he's on this list! > (and I believe he just > posted a few days ago). > He's also part of Don Tiki, not just the producer! > > cheryl > > From: "jim gerwitz" > > And check this DID list from the July 2001 Tower > "Pulse" > > Exotica A-Z - by Lloyd Kandell > > 1. Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island > > 2. Les Baxter - Exotic Moods > > 3. Combustible Edison - schizophonic > > 4. Martin Denny - Exotic Sounds > > 5. Don Tiki - Forbidden Sounds > > 6. Robert Drasnin - Voodoo! > > 7. Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo > > 8. VA -Ultra Lounge - Mondo Exotica > > 9. Tipsy - Trip Tease > > 10. John Zorn - The Gift > > > > How many other list members have every one of > these too? > > Name looked familiar, looked up Lloyd at allmusic > and he's Don Tiki's > > "producer." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck! Date: 19 Jul 2001 19:55:30 +0200 Tipsydave@aol.com schrieb: > In a message dated Wed, 18 Jul 2001 5:29:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Moritz R writes: > > > > > Bruce Haack Tribute > > > > > > Beck, Stereolab, Money Mark, Mouse on Mars, > > > Cornelius, Sukia, and DJ Me DJ You. > > > > unlikely line-up. Money Mark? Doing Bruce Haack? sure makes one curious. > > > Not really that unlikely. Tipsy has a track on it too. > -dave yeah, that fits much better. is the CD out yet? Mo-- ......................................................................... Der Dismaster http://dismaster.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl - the mimi variations Date: 19 Jul 2001 20:02:32 +0200 Clayton Black schrieb: > > Zappa/Mothers - "Uncle Meat" > > I couldn't agree more. I think the "King Kong Variations" (that's the title > isn't it? It's been a while) stayed on my turntable for weeks on end. the 4th side of this double album has some tracks with King Kong in the title. But maybe you refer to the Uncle Meat Variations, at least that's my favorite track on Uncle Meat, and I know it heavily influenced some musicians that I know. Then there are the Dog Breath Variations... #Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kendoll Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl - the mimi variations Date: 19 Jul 2001 15:14:50 -0600 Clayton Black wrote: > Earliest vinyl memories--Mason Williams Phonograph Record. I still love > this album. I've never seen other albums by him, although I know they > exist. The Mason Williams Ear Show is worth finding if only for his groovy Moog track called "Generatah-Oscillatah." mike # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: paul dean Subject: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man) Date: 19 Jul 2001 16:19:07 -0500 on 7/19/01 5:18 AM, Moritz R at tiki@netsurf.de wrote: > > have you ever seen that Moonflight 45 again? > > Mo > > I have a thrift store copy that I just dug out. It's cracked, but if I allign the edges just right I can play it. And . . . it's still a fantastic little joy ride. I was grinning the whole time! The flip side is an actual song, not a sample-fest, which makes me wonder who Vik Venus really was . . . . Chuck, I will bring it by your house. paul dean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Justin Bartlett" Subject: (exotica) Hello / Exotica Down Under Date: 20 Jul 2001 08:46:31 +1000 Hi everyone, My name is Justin and I've just joined the mailing list. I live in Queensland, Australia where the ghost of Exotica & Tiki culture is ever present. For example, we have a tourist attraction called 'The Big Pineapple' which has operated for around 30 years. We have our own 'Gold Coast', where mostly retired couples (and the odd aging bachelor) settle down to soak up the sun and the beach. We have no end of tropical themed holiday resorts and motels / motor-inns. Our climate is mostly sub-tropical, and we have an amazing island reef system, 'The Great Barrier Reef'. Also, not forgetting, great thrift store shopping. But what people don't know is that we also have, quite possibly, the only Australian purveyor of the musical style made famous in the 1950's by Martin Denny & Arthur Lyman. Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce to you, Nelson Ferguson, champion of Exotica Down Under. I met Nelson, who is now in his 60's, through collecting LP's a little over a year ago. I was soon to find out that this fellow had been playing the style of music I was becoming obsessed with, since the mid 1960's. He studied Musical Arrangement as a young man, was Drummer in various Big Bands, did radio and TV work, took up Vibes and formed a band 'The Manhattan Quartet', playing in the style of George Shearing and from there the Exotica style, in the clubs of Sydney and the Gold Coast as well as on cruise ships. I have recently compiled 3 CD's of his material, 2 of Hawaiian songs, and 1 of Classical compositions done in the Exotica style. He records in his home, which is like a Polynesian paradise in the middle of the harsh Australian bushland. At the moment I'm really gauging peoples interest, I've never sold CD's before, I'm currently just burning copies for friends, but I, and Nelson, would like to get his music out there for people to enjoy. So if you are interested in hearing some beautiful music in the True Exotic Style, or would like more information about Nelson, please respond to this posting. Or if anyone has information about labels or distributors that may be interested. Thank -You all. Aloha for now. Justin. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "tiki kiliki" Subject: Re: (exotica) Hello / Exotica Down Under Date: 19 Jul 2001 19:00:35 -0400 Hi Justin, I am very interested in this fellow that you so compare to Denny & Lyman!! He sounds like an interesting CAT! Please give us more information how we can obtain the CD! Tiki Kiliki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) tiki party in Evolution Date: 20 Jul 2001 00:51:02 +0200 i just saw this stupid movie "Evolution". Besides that it was really stupid, there was a tiki party scene in it, with a couple of big tikis and costumes and decor, but with completely stupid music. This info just for the collectors of you, who have to know about each and every appearance of tiki anywhere. Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: paul dean Subject: (exotica) tiki party in Soy Cuba Date: 19 Jul 2001 18:51:02 -0500 Speaking of filmic tiki, Mo, I recently watched Soy Cuba ("I am Cuba" to us anglos), the 1964 Soviet/Cuban propoganda masterpiece, and this has surely been mentioned before but the Havana club scenes are out of this world! A must see, and Tiki to say the least. Chuck have you seen this? paul dean on 7/19/01 5:51 PM, Moritz R at tiki@netsurf.de wrote: > exotica@lists.xmission.com i just saw this stupid movie "Evolution". # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Justin Bartlett" Subject: (exotica) Hawaiian Eye On Video Date: 20 Jul 2001 10:06:23 +1000 Hey, does anyone know how to get hold of 'Hawaiian Eye' episodes on video? Arthur Lyman features in a few of them playing tunes he never put onto his LP's. I've got episode 105 (3-34) 'Across The River Lethe' that features Lyman in the Shell Bar. Does anyone have any others taped off TV? Justin OZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Hello / Exotica Down Under Date: 19 Jul 2001 20:41:12 -0500 Tikikiliki wrote: I am very interested in this fellow that you so compare to Denny & Lyman!! He sounds like an interesting CAT! Please give us more information how we can obtain the CD! ************ I agree with her. Let us know how to obtain this. I'm sure there's someone on this list who could tell you how to get him promoted in the U.S. BTW, I love Hawaiian Eye and I'm also lookikg for tapes of this show. Is there anywhere in the world that this is still on TV? Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: Re: (exotica)Korla Pandit Date: 19 Jul 2001 22:51:18 -0400 > To fully appreciate Korla Pandit, you must - I repeat MUST view video > footage of his 1950's television shows. If you have not seen his shows, > your jaw will drop, you will be blown away!!! I completely 100% agree. I was completely swept away when I saw some of Korla's 1950 era footage. Korla was playing a minimum of two (perhaps in reality up to four) keyboards, placed at a 90 degree angle to each other. His fingerwork between all the keyboards was incredible, the music he was creating was incredible, and all the while he spent a good portion of the time gazing calmly into the TV camera's eyes with his dark eyes (have I mentioned his turban yet - well, he was wearing a cool turban too) I was cast into his musical spell, and I'm a modern era male who had been exposed to a whole slew of Peter Gabriel music videos and other modern video techniques before I saw this 1950's era footage. It was so damn easy to picture and imagine a large number of L.A. based housewives falling under Korla's spell. Mr. Pandit definitely had a true early television presence. It may seem a bit cheesy today, but one cannot deny that there is some real form of power happening within his eyes. I saw a few exotica videos that night (I think it was a Secret Cinema event in Baltimore) Of all the segments shown that night, I can recall two: Korla's television piece, and the one featuring the clean-cut members of the Three Suns playing one of their songs as a giant revolving tiered cake (big enough to hold several 1940's era beauty queens AND the Three Sun members) slowly rotated) Come to think of it, almost nothing of what I have seen on MTV in the 80's and 90's has compared to the impact of those two video clips. Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Wages Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Eye On Video Date: 20 Jul 2001 00:35:40 -0500 I think that Eddie Brandt's Saturday Matinee (a huge rental-by-mail outfit out of Hollywood) has several tapes of Hawaiian Eye for rent as well as episodes of the Adventures In Paradise series. I've only done business with Brandt's once and that was about five years ago. It takes some effort but it is a good way to see more obscure stuff without spending too much. They don't seem to have a website, but a web search should turn up something. Hope this helps. > From: "Justin Bartlett" > Hey, does anyone know how to get hold of > 'Hawaiian Eye' episodes on video? > Arthur Lyman features in a few of them playing > tunes he never put onto his LP's. > > I've got episode 105 (3-34) 'Across The River Lethe' > that features Lyman in the Shell Bar. > Does anyone have any others taped off TV? > > Justin OZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Date: 20 Jul 2001 08:32:16 +0200 >http://www.dansettes.co.uk/Portable%20record%20players.htm >Is photo on the top left what you mean? They look crazy. well, not exactly that one but, yes, that is the concept (hehehe... they call it "Italian style" on that page ;DDD DjB --- www.ecl3ctic.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: (exotica) percy faith - the music of brazil Date: 20 Jul 2001 12:42:22 +0100 quick question: any good? cheers, michael. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck! Date: 20 Jul 2001 12:40:56 +0100 Moritz R wrote: > > Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek schrieb: > > > Bruce Haack Tribute > > > > Beck, Stereolab, Money Mark, Mouse on Mars, > > Cornelius, Sukia, and DJ Me DJ You. > > unlikely line-up. Money Mark? Doing Bruce Haack? sure makes one curious. His first album (...'s Keyboard Repair) was pretty good, especially the track about crickets. And I can see the similarity in the drums and synth sounds with that album and, say, Haack's The Electric Lucifer. Are they covers or remixes? (I deleted the original mail if that said which) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: RE: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck! Date: 20 Jul 2001 15:42:14 +0200 > > > Bruce Haack Tribute > > Are they covers or remixes? (I deleted the original mail if that said > which) Cover versions. Marco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: RE: (exotica) percy faith - the music of brazil Date: 20 Jul 2001 09:51:50 -0400 > > quick question: any good? > I would have to say a resounding yes. This is one of the few Percy Faith albums that are worth having, along with Bim Bam Boom. The version of Delicado on here is the most powerful arrangement I have heard yet. The title track is arranged nicely too. It is not all strings, but strings are in there, with the horns and the mad percussion section. I bought my copy for $1, but considered a duplicate on open reel for $15 and lost the bid. This one is high on my list, especially if you like bombastic orchestration. $o?`?o$o,,,,o$o?`?o$o,,,,o$o?`?o$o,,,,o$ Charlieman "Everything that can be invented, has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, 1899 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Lenkei Subject: RE: (exotica) percy faith - the music of brazil Date: 20 Jul 2001 10:50:03 -0400 (EDT) I really must agree. I picked it up a week ago and have played it quite a bit since then. It's quite a little high energy disk, compared to some of Mr. Faiths other records. - bruce ++++++++++++++++++++ Lenkei Design www.lenkeidesign.com ++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Visit The Exotica Review As many exotica/lounge record reviews as possible on the web at: www.bway.net/~er ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Rajnai, Charles, NNAD wrote: > I would have to say a resounding yes. This is one of the few Percy Faith > albums that are worth having, along with Bim Bam Boom. The version of # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck! Date: 20 Jul 2001 11:41:31 -0400 on 7/20/01 7:40 AM, Michael Jemmeson at michael@moreover.com wrote: >>> Bruce Haack Tribute > Are they covers or remixes? (I deleted the original mail if that said > which) I think it's mostly remixes. I did a remix of "School For Robots" for the album. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) percy faith - the music of brazil Date: 20 Jul 2001 17:24:43 +0100 Bruce Lenkei wrote: > > I really must agree. I picked it up a week ago and have played it quite a > bit since then. It's quite a little high energy disk, compared to some of > Mr. Faiths other records. another question: what's Shangri-la like? I had it without a sleeve (for some reason sleeve-less records sound worse to me) and got rid of it, but am now thinking I didn't listen to it properly, and should have kept it. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Hotel Easy Date: 20 Jul 2001 12:01:59 -0500 Anybody know a good source for the Hotel Easy CD comps? I've got a couple of them, but I'm having trouble locating the rest. Footlight Records has 'em on backorder, supposedly. I'm beginning to think they've gone out of print. Any help much appreciated. Thanks! Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Saturday 7:00pm - 9:00pm http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Justin Bartlett" Subject: (exotica) More On Nelson Ferguson Date: 21 Jul 2001 02:11:41 +1000 In the last 24hrs since I joined the list with news of my friend Nelson, I have been amazed at the amount of interest shown. So here's a bit more info about his music. His style is very much Exotica in as much as (like Denny & Lyman) it is constructed using tuned percussion with Vibes / Marimba / Piano playing the melody, with various atmospheres in the background, (i.e. bird calls, ocean swells, ships bells, jungle sounds, etc) He fell in love with the original music and is pretty much paying tribute. His 2 Hawaiian CD's feature many Exotica standards, but with his own flavour, and quite a few non-standards. Both CD's have over 70 minutes of music. I am yet to master his Classical Exotica tape ( should be ready in 2-3 weeks ), he's currently working on a Latin American one, and has planned another Hawaiian one and one of Tahitian songs. All recordings are done by Nelson alone, no band, with many traditional instruments he has collected from islands (while playing cruise ships in the 60s & 70s), and many he has made himself, and constructs the songs using samplers, which could make it unnatural sounding, but he's been doing this for years and has perfected a beautifully natural blend of sounds and instruments. Anyone who is a fan of the old TV show 'Hawaiian Eye' might like to know that Nelson played in a band that backed Poncie Ponce when he toured Australia some time in the 1960's. I have been urged, by Nelson, to put up a Web Site, so this may be happening soon. As for sound samples, I could send some mp3's with individual replies on request. (I haven't any ready, but I'll put some together in the next few days). I'll send prices and mailing address to those who are interested. Thanx. Justin from OZ. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) Hotel Easy Date: 20 Jul 2001 12:45:20 -0700 (PDT) I got mine from http://www.othermusic.com They had trouble getting in the French one. This was a two years ago. I would contact them and see if they can order them from their distributor. Who knows maybe they still have copies. Chuck in New Orleans --- Darrell Brogdon wrote: > > Anybody know a good source for the Hotel Easy CD comps? I've > got a couple of them, but I'm having trouble locating the rest. > Footlight Records has 'em on backorder, supposedly. I'm > beginning to think they've gone out of print. Any help much > appreciated. Thanks! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) 'MUSIC FROM A SPARKLING PLANET' Date: 20 Jul 2001 16:38:17 -0400 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/20/arts/theater/20PLAN.html?0720inside Looks like there's an off-broadway play called "Music From A Sparkling Planet." I wonder where they got that name... Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) Hotel Easy Date: 20 Jul 2001 18:18:43 -0400 I just bought the only one I was missing (St. Tropez) at Other Music in Boston last month, and I believe they had the rest of them in stock. I think it may be out of print, though, so send an e-mail to Tom at Other Music and ask if they have them at either location. cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) percy faith - the music of brazil Date: 20 Jul 2001 18:34:22 -0700 At 09:24 AM 7/20/01, Michael Jammeson wrote: another question: what's Shangri-la like? I had it without a sleeve imho, without the sleeve the album doesn't rate high...unless you go for extremely lush music. You never hear a single instrument on this record...always large numbers of them...strings, brass, you name it...all pumping out serenity. This is the kind of music you would hear as Jack Nicholson and his buddies line up to get their pills in "One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest." I thought they would have at least one song with accents or novelty or something to make me like it...for instance, Song of India...but unfortunately no. The cover is great, but that's not what you were asking about. Byron ___...--''''***^^^^^^""""""^^^^^***''''---___ "Life is short. Stay happy." ||| ||| ---May 2001 aol.com tv advert ||| |||bag AT hubris DOT net...Saint Johns, ||| |||Portlandistan, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol ||| """^^^'''***----...__________...----'''^^^""" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: (exotica) soundtrack/funk/downtempo bargains Date: 20 Jul 2001 19:16:38 -0700 Thought some of you might be interested: I was pleasantly surprised today when I went to one of those factory outlet malls (this one in Petaluma, CA) and walked into one of those Sam Goody-like stores that never has anything (at least that's what I thought previously).This one was called Music For A Song. In any case, I was passing by the Various Artists section and found the following dustygroovy goodies: - "Hed Kandi: Serve Chilled" $7.99 (the others in the Hed Kandi series were $14.99 for some reason) - "(Italian Girls Like) Ear-Catching Melodies" [Dagored] $4.99 - "Beat Vol. 1: Lounge at Cinevox" $7.99 - "Blow Up Presents Exclusive Blend Volume 3" $7.99 - Kenny Dope, "Strange Games and Funky Things III" [BBE] three CDs! for $7.97 So there you have it: imports for half the price, if not more... Later, Ben np: parson sound, "underground vibrations" http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/ ICQ: 12832406 http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/ ICQ: 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) The Avalanches Date: 21 Jul 2001 18:29:23 -0400 While hanging out at HMV the other day, they were playing a CD by an Australian group called Avalanches. I just heard part of two tracks, but one really caught my attention due to rather generous use of exotica samples. Has anyone else heard of this group? And is the whole CD full of similar samples, or just the track I heard? cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Lenkei Subject: Re: (exotica) The Avalanches Date: 21 Jul 2001 18:36:07 -0400 (EDT) I've had this disc since May and I love it. Not all the samples are exotica, there's disco and all sorts of stuff, but the fun part is that they seem to cram in as many as they can, from Madonna to Bert Kaempfert. - bruce On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, cheryl wrote: > While hanging out at HMV the other day, they were playing a CD by an > Australian group called Avalanches. I just heard part of two tracks, but > one really caught my attention due to rather generous use of exotica > samples. Has anyone else heard of this group? And is the whole CD full of > similar samples, or just the track I heard? > > cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Denny involved records Date: 21 Jul 2001 19:49:14 -0700 Came across another Martin Denny production sans Martin Denny as performer... Chick Floyd Hu La La Liberty LRP 3106 Like his other productions, the performers often included members of his own group as well as others. This one has Augie Colon, Harvey Ragsdale and Julius Wechter. Other Martin Denny productions similar in nature... the two Augie Colon LPs on Liberty. Are there others? These albums are sort of like getting Martin Denny albums under other people's name...the reverse of what happened in later years when you would get other people performing under Martin Denny's name! Byron ___...--''''***^^^^^^""""""^^^^^***''''---___ "Life is short. Stay happy." ||| ||| ---May 2001 aol.com tv advert ||| |||bag AT hubris DOT net...Saint Johns, ||| |||Portlandistan, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol ||| """^^^'''***----...__________...----'''^^^""" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Just 3 short of Maximum Light Date: 21 Jul 2001 21:18:16 -0700 Now that I don't have to produce the Mr. Smooth Show for broadcast, I am taking this time to finally get my records in order. I noticed my Enoch Light section was rather full and wondered if I had all his Command LPs. When I compared to the very excellent Enoch Light website discography, I found only three LPs I don't have. Any one have any of these and would care to give a quick review? RS833 Vibrations (1962) RS835 Great Themes from Hit Films (1962) RS871 Great Themes from Hit Films (1964) ...which begs the question...is 871 different than 835? Also noticed there was no RS803, RS933 or RS949 in the sequence. Does anyone have a Command LP with any of these missing numbers or did the folks at Command just not issue any with those numbers? Also, I see an RS892 Discotheque (1966) This was issued AFTER Enoch Light sold Command. There was also an RS873 Discotheque Dance Dance Dance (1964). Could these be the same album? If not, who did 892? Let me know if you need any info about almost any Command LP! Turns out I have quite a few of them...with exception of LPs by the Ray Charles Singers and The Robert de Cormier Folk Singers. Byron ___...--''''***^^^^^^""""""^^^^^***''''---___ "Life is short. Stay happy." ||| ||| ---May 2001 aol.com tv advert ||| |||bag AT hubris DOT net...Saint Johns, ||| |||Portlandistan, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol ||| """^^^'''***----...__________...----'''^^^""" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Just 3 short of Maximum Light Date: 22 Jul 2001 03:08:12 -0400 At 09:18 PM 7/21/01 -0700, bag@hubris.net wrote: > >I noticed my Enoch Light section was rather full and wondered if I had all >his Command LPs. When I compared to the very excellent Enoch Light website >discography, I found only three LPs I don't have. When I realized how many I had, I started getting RID of them. >Any one have any of these and would care to give a quick review? > >RS833 Vibrations (1962) I got rid of this one but I'm listening to the four cuts I put on Vol.3 of my "Best of Command CDR's" and the version of "That Old Black Magic" is mighty groovy I would say. I would say it sounds like any other classic "Persuasive" or "Provocative" Command record with maybe a touch more upfront organ and guitar. And the organ, though I suspect it was played by Mr.Hyman has a slightly different sound. But there's lots of bongos and if you like the others, you'll like this one. And the cover design as I recall was a little out of the ordinary for Command. It kind of looked like a stereo test record. > >Also, I see an RS892 Discotheque (1966) This was issued AFTER Enoch Light >sold Command. There was also an RS873 Discotheque Dance Dance Dance >(1964). Could these be the same album? If not, who did 892? Boy we're getting all geeky with the numbers now aren't we? Okay I have "Discotheque- The Discotheque Dance Album" and it's RS 33-892. Then I have "Dicsotheque Vol.2" and it's RS 33-882 and I have "Discotheque Dance Dance Dance" and it's RS873SD. None of them are the same. And if you really want to get into the differences... The first one is said to be by Bobby Byrne The second one is by Enoch Light and the Light Brigade And the third one is by Enoch Light and his orchestra. > >Let me know if you need any info about almost any Command LP! Turns out I >have quite a few of them...with exception of LPs by the Ray Charles Singers >and The Robert de Cormier Folk Singers. What have you got against Ray Charles? (I mean the white one). Do you have the Dimension 3 record? (That's RS 867SD) Now I wish I had them all back. Not really. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: RE: (exotica) The Avalanches Date: 22 Jul 2001 10:09:12 +0200 > I've had this disc since May and I love it. Not all the samples are > exotica, there's disco and all sorts of stuff, but the fun part is that > they seem to cram in as many as they can, from Madonna to Bert Kaempfert. They have a hit single in the UK now, called Frontline Psychiatrist. Their video clip is just as weird as the track itself. I've heard it only twice, but if the rest of the CD is just as great I will surely check it out. Marco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SH Subject: Re: (exotica) The Avalanches Date: 22 Jul 2001 11:51:15 +0000 I saw the video once. At the very end the roll in a oversize LP record saying “Ski Surfin’ - The Avalanches” on the label. I happen to have that great production on my collection. Otherwise I wouldn’t have realized. KK > > They have a hit single in the UK now, called Frontline Psychiatrist. Their > video clip is just as weird as the track itself. I've heard it only twice, > but if the rest of the CD is just as great I will surely check it out. > > Marco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, July 22 Date: 22 Jul 2001 12:45:57 -0400 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at: http://www.ckut.ca As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome. Space Bop #152 Le French Beat This week, the now sound, French style... featuring the newest addition t= o our ever-expanding collection of groovy compilations - "Wizz!" Charlotte Leslie: Les Filles C'est Fait=85 "Wizzz!" Roger Simard Et Son Orchestre: Noir C'est Noir (Black Is Black) "Drum A Gogo" Les Papyvores: Le Papyvore "Wizzz!" Pussy Cat: Mais Pourquoi "Nymphomania Vol.3" Patrick Abrial: Slag Machine "La Guepe Vol. 2" Roger Simard Et Son Orchestre: (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone "Drum A Go= go" Jocy: Dans Les 10 Premiers "Ultra Chicks Vol. 5" Richard de Bordeaux & Daniel Beretta: La Drogue "Wizzz!" Andre Brasseur: Pow Pow "Get Easy Vol. 3" Francis Lai: Marseillaise Generique "Get Easy Vol. 3" France Gall: Made In France "1968" Philippe Nicaud: Cuisses Nues, Bottes De Cuir "Wizzz!" Roger Simard Et Son Orchestre: Mustang Sally "Drum A Gogo" Manon: Si Vous Connaissez Quelque Chose De Pire=85 "Ultra Chicks Vol. 5= " Brigitte Bardot: St. Tropez "Inflight Entertainment" Richard de Bordeaux: Je M'ennuie "Wizzz!" Roger Simard Et Son Orchestre: Got My Mojo Working "Drum A Gogo" Monique Thubert: Avec Les Oreilles "Wizzz!" Richard de Bordeaux & Daniel Beretta: Psychose "Wizzz!" Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening cheryls@dsuper.net brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) need Millionaire's e-mail address Date: 21 Jul 2001 14:41:04 +0200 Mill, if you're reading this: your address bounces. or if anyone else knows his address? thanx! Johan - - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Tipsy Question Date: 22 Jul 2001 14:41:12 EDT << >Does anyone know where the sample of the girls going "ooo!" >throughout "Hey!" on Uh-Oh comes from? >I'd like to hear more of them ladies... ;-) >Robbie I thought those "Ooohs" were coming from kids. I'd also been trying to figure out of the "Hey!" came from the Art of Noise song "Close to the Edit" but I don't have a copy at the moment to compare it to. I'm pretty sure that the horns come from the The Spy With a Cold Nose soundtrack by Riz Ortolani. Mr. Unlucky>> The voice saying "hey" is from the Big City Orchesxtra sound effects library included on their "Greatest Hits and Test Tones" cd, which also includes a vocal performance by me. The voice saying "do it do it do it" is an obsessive-compulsive girl on tv. The voice(s) saying "ooh" is from a mid-60s chicago r&b record that has been discussed on this list before. And Mr. Unlucky wins a genuine no-prize for his correct horn pick. Congratulations! -dave # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man) Date: 22 Jul 2001 15:39:45 EDT In a message dated 7/19/01 2:21:00 PM, epauldean@home.com writes: << . . . it's still a fantastic little joy ride. I was grinning the whole time! The flip side is an actual song, not a sample-fest, which makes me wonder who Vik Venus really was . . . .>> I've got it too, since I love break-in records AND 60s bubblegum singles. "Superfly Meets Shaft" and "Buchanan and Goodman On Trial" are other favorites. I really like the Buddha label, and the other Kasenetz/Katz stuff, too, especially the b-sides; some really odd stuff there ("Sticky Sticky") -d # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: James Botticelli Subject: Re: (exotica) Tipsy Question Date: 22 Jul 2001 16:18:31 -0400 on 7/22/01 2:41 PM, Tipsydave@aol.com at Tipsydave@aol.com wrote: >The voice(s) saying "ooh" is from a mid-60s > chicago r&b record that has been discussed on this list before. My curiousity has me by the short hairs...Could you identify the song? JB/Okeh, Brunswick compleatist # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man) Date: 22 Jul 2001 16:33:02 EDT Probably a good place to note that the book I co-edited with Kim Cooper, Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth, is now out and available. History of bubblegum with lots of interviews and features on odd international folks (like Mexi-Gum hero Robert Jordan). Writers include: Peter Bagge, Alec Palao, Domenic Priore, Chuck Eddy, Metal Mike Saunders, exotica lister StillGloria and many more. I wrote pieces on The Archies, A Brief History of Boy Bands, Gum & Glam, Gum & New Wave and some other stuff. Sorry for the blatant hype, but it should be of interest to many listers. --David S. << << . . . it's still a fantastic little joy ride. I was grinning the whole time! The flip side is an actual song, not a sample-fest, which makes me wonder who Vik Venus really was . . . .>> I've got it too, since I love break-in records AND 60s bubblegum singles. "Superfly Meets Shaft" and "Buchanan and Goodman On Trial" are other favorites. I really like the Buddha label, and the other Kasenetz/Katz stuff, too, especially the b-sides; some really odd stuff there ("Sticky Sticky") -d >> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Saturday morning yard sale trawl Date: 22 Jul 2001 18:26:10 -0400 I usually try to post about records after I've actually listened to them and can do a little book report kind of thing. But I haven't been doing too well at that lately... and there probably won't be much to say about these comedy records, so here's a plain ol' score list. I only need one ear for most of them. Baja Marimba Band - Baja Marimba Band (mono) Harry Belafonte - Belafonte Sings Of The Caribbean (mono) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Countdown - Time In Outer Space (mono) Bill Cosby - I Started Out As A Child (liner notes by Allan Sherman) " - Why Is There Air? (liners uncredited, read like Stan Cornyn) " - 200 M.P.H. (liners definitely by Stan Cornyn) " - Inside The Mind Of Bill Cosby (liners by Gil Rodin) Henry Mancini - The Versatile Henry Mancini (mono) Bob Newhart - The Best Of Bob Newhart ('Button-down Mind' stuff) Lily Tomlin - This Is A Recording (Ernestine the operator on the cover) Various - Jazz Poll Winners (mono, Columbia, artists: Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Kenny Burrel, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Les Brown, Don Elliott, Charles Mingus, J.J.Johnson, Art Van Damme, Gerry Mulligan, The Hi-Lo's, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross) m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) The Avalanches Date: 23 Jul 2001 00:08:53 +0100 Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek wrote: > > > I've had this disc since May and I love it. Not all the samples are > > exotica, there's disco and all sorts of stuff, but the fun part is that > > they seem to cram in as many as they can, from Madonna to Bert Kaempfert. > > They have a hit single in the UK now, called Frontline Psychiatrist. Their > video clip is just as weird as the track itself. I've heard it only twice, > but if the rest of the CD is just as great I will surely check it out. That track is by far the worst on the album IMO. It's like all the annoying bits of Coldcut, DJ Food, the Double D and Steinski "Lessons", etc all rolled into one. Everyone keeps mentioning all the sampling, but it probably doesn't sample any more records than the average hip hop album, but the samples are in big chunks and more obvious, and there's a long list of cleared samples on the cover. The rest of the album is nice, but a bit emotionless. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man) Date: 22 Jul 2001 19:27:01 EDT In a message dated 7/22/01 1:33:41 PM, Dlsmay@aol.com writes: << Sorry for the blatant hype, but it should be of interest to many listers. --David S. >> What? Blatant hype? I received my copy on Saturday and it's a DAMN good book. Chock-full of great background and info. Good job, David and Kim!! That conversation between Carl Cafarelli and Gary Pig Gold (no offense; there were no quotes), was priceless. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: Re: (exotica) Please help me find a gameboy! Date: 22 Jul 2001 21:43:04 -0400 I finally managed to finally find myself a Gameboy... The larger cost was having to listen to the store owner go on for a full 20 minutes relating his own conspiracy theories, somehow focusing on how the Jews signed a deal with Hitler, Something about saving 50,000 to go t Palestine along with $100 million which they then supposely used to buy machine guns from New York gangs. I didn't catch th especifics as I became preoccupied with thinking of ways to garciouly leave the place.. Yes Mortitz, I went back THAT store... I'm a bit scared as the owner remembered me from the last visit! Actually he moved into a windowless basement down the block but strangely it's a 500% improvement over the horrible windowed space it was in before, particularly as light levels go. You could almost spend some time looking through the 7' high piles of records, while not freezing in the process or losing your eyesight. I may give it a try if I have a day to spare... but no promises... Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Please help me find records! Date: 23 Jul 2001 11:15:52 +0200 Brian schrieb: > Yes Moritz, I went back THAT store... > I may give it a try if I have a day to spare... but no promises... You have my blessings, as long as you won't make me responsible for anything happening there to you, like being introduced to a conspiracy theory so persuasive that you rum amok and kill your entire family or something... Mo ......................................................................... studio ® http://moritzR.de tiki@netsurf.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man) Date: 23 Jul 2001 11:10:53 +0200 Dlsmay@aol.com schrieb: > > Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth, is now out and available. > > Sorry for the blatant hype, but it should be of interest to many listers. It is! It is! Is it at amazon yet? Mo ......................................................................... studio ® http://moritzR.de tiki@netsurf.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) Thrift Scores CA Date: 23 Jul 2001 12:59:25 +0100 Not much in California thrifts although I was reliably informed that there is a Palm Springs store (Perez Street) with around 5,000 records sitting there without much attention - I would have gone but for girlfriend issues - there's only so long you can leave your partner sitting in the car for before she loses it! I got Ferrante & Teicher's Heavenly Sounds in Hi-Fi which isn't bad - I know it's a classic and its been discussed here plenty but can anybody give me more info please? Thanks all. An earthquake record (San Fernando valley, 9th Feb 1971 - I was two days old) Another moon landing record - I now have about five - "We Came in Peace for all Mankind" Woody Allen comedy LP with the moose sketch Ramsey Lewis - Maiden Voyage (I think - he's on piano keys) - very high quality jazz/easy LP with Richard Evans input on Cadet Horst Jankowski - LP with Soulful Strut, the rest is just dross Ernie K Doe - self titled LP on Janus with production by Allen Toussaint - Meters style but not quite as funky as it could be Sunshine People - soppy poppy LP A Bob McFadden and friends LP about shouting - comedy? Hmmmm. Switched on Bacharach Christopher Scott - average Moog LP and some other assorted bits and pieces. Charles Moseley Editor - C3 magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) thinking of BJ Date: 23 Jul 2001 14:52:28 +0100 Someone posted a link to BJ's website a while ago. Its been moved to http://www.bjbear71.com/ Along with her scary photographs it also has her excellent sites on: Walter Wanderley Henry Mancini (not available in the thrifts) Claudio Slon Kai Winding Sergio Mendes and some others. She even mentions her high school band. Sorry if this has been posted in the interim, I've been off work due to family expansion and I'm still reading the digests. laters El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com djcheesemaster@netscape.net grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] Joan Bove, Bob Ferguson, Sivaji Ganesan,Beate Uhse Date: 23 Jul 2001 10:02:27 -0400 Joan Bove NEW YORK (AP) -- Joan Bove, who discovered Clairol hair coloring in Paris and introduced it to American stylists in the 1930s, died Saturday. She was 99. She and her husband, Lawrence Gelb, traveled to France in 1931 in search of new business opportunities. They discovered a new kind of hair coloring called Clairol. The pair bought $200 worth of Clairol and tested it at Abraham & Straus, a New York department store. Soon, the Clairol company set up offices in Manhattan. While promoting their discovery throughout the country, the couple chose to call the product a tint, instead of ``dye.'' At that time, it was still taboo for American women to ``dye'' their hair. see also: http://nytimes.com/2001/07/23/obituaries/23BOVE.html ==================== Bob Ferguson NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Bob Ferguson, who wrote the standard ``Wings of a Dove'' and produced records for Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner and other country music stars, died Sunday of cancer. He was 73. Ferguson, a native of Willow Springs, Mo., was hired in 1955 to produce films for the Tennessee Game & Fish Commission. He worked there until 1960, when he wrote and produced the No. 1 hit ``Wings of a Dove'' for Ferlin Husky. As a staff producer at RCA Records in the 1960s and early '70s, Ferguson worked with artists like Parton, Connie Smith, Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass, Jim Ed Brown, George Hamilton IV and Archie Campbell. He wrote ``The Carroll County Accident,'' a No. 2 hit for Wagoner. It was named the best country song of 1969 by the Country Music Association. =========== Sivaji Ganesan MADRAS, India (AP) -- Sivaji Ganesan, an Indian actor who appeared in more than 170 films in three languages, died Saturday. He was 77. V.C. Ganesan, as he was originally known, began acting in his teens. By the late 1940s he was playing lead roles in the theater. Ganesan made his screen debut in the 1952 Tamil language film ``Parasakthi.'' He acted in films in the Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam languages. Over the years, he developed an intense style of delivering dialogue. Indian trade journals called him the Marlon Brando of South Indian cinema. In 1996, the Indian government gave him the Dada Phalke award, the country's highest honor in the entertainment industry, for his lifetime contribution to Indian film. =========== Full story at: http://nytimes.com/2001/07/22/obituaries/22UHSE.html Beate Uhse, Entrepreneur in the Business of Erotic Goods, Dies at 81 By WOLFGANG SAXON Beate Uhse, who as a destitute war widow sold birth control pamphlets from a bicycle before going on to develop Europe's biggest emporium of erotic goods, died on Monday in a hospital in Switzerland. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrift Scores CA Date: 23 Jul 2001 11:46:13 -0400 I think I was in the Palm Springs store last year -- is it a big 2nd-hand, junk store, with rows and rows of records in the back alcove kind of place. I saw and bought some kind-of interesting stuff, then gave up when confronted with the sheer numbers. Things certainly didn't seem to be picked over. Will Will Straw, Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Art History and Communications Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street W. Montreal, QC H3A 2T6 Canada Phone: (514) 398 7667 Fax: (514) 398 7247 Co-Investigator, Culture of Cities Project, http://www.yorku.ca/culture_of_cities/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) Tom Jones Date: 23 Jul 2001 17:21:56 +0100 Boring I know, and I see so many of records in charity shops and the like. Can anybody help me remember the name of the track and LP where Tom sings with the trumpet and laughs a great deal as the trumpet puts him off? And other than that LP are there any TJ LPs worth looking for? I have Looking Out My Window on a 45 which is fantastic but was produced by Keith Mansfield so its not surprising. Is there a whole LP produced by Keith Mansfield with that track on it? What I'm driving at is that I see so many TJ LPs that I might actually buy one one day, but which one? Charles Moseley Editor - C3 magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pm.carey@utoronto.ca (Patrick Carey) Subject: (exotica) A few items FS (Joe Meek, Stereolab) Date: 23 Jul 2001 12:26:10 +0100 I have the following items for sale that some on this list may be interested in. Prices are in _US $_ and are *POSTAGE PAID* within North America. Shipping on orders outside NA can be arranged. $15 -- Joe Meek - "I Hear A New World (Special Edition)" UK CD (RPM/Cherry Red: rpm502) 2001 [Spaced-out psychotica from the legendary Joe Meek. The original 1960 LP, 1962 monologue & CD-ROM film clip. Comes in full-color digipak w/ fold-out 12 panel booklet. Mint.] $12 -- Stereolab - "Wow and Flutter" UK CD (Duophonic: d-uhf-d07) 1994 [Feat. "Heavy Denim", "Nihilist Assault Group (Parts 3, 4 & 5)" and "Narco Martenot".] Thanks for looking. -Patrick pm.carey@utoronto.ca # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man) Date: 23 Jul 2001 21:18:32 EDT Yup, the Bubblegum book has been listed on Amazon for a while and it just shipped last week. I just spotted copies at a bookstore today, so it seems to have worked its way through the distribution system. --David # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Tom Jones Date: 24 Jul 2001 02:23:11 -0400 At 05:21 PM 7/23/01 +0100, Charles Moseley wrote: . . What I'm driving at is that I see so many TJ LPs that I >might actually buy one one day, but which one? I can't remember the actual records but Tom does a great version of "You keep me hangin on" Also "Venus", "This is a man's world", "Sugar Sugar" (he copies the Wilson Pickett version, not the Archies version), "Lodi", "Keep on Running", "Mohair Sam". I'd buy the records with those songs. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Stanley Kubrick - A Life In Pictures Date: 24 Jul 2001 15:33:35 +0200 sorry, if this isn't very exactly exotica-related, but I had been talking to some people from this list about it. This great documentary about Kubrick is now available on DVD and VHS from Warner Home Video. A strong recommendation for everyone who's as much a big Kubrick fan as I am. sorry again to everybody else... Mo ........................................................................ studio ® http://moritzR.de tiki@netsurf.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Stanley Kubrick - A Life In Pictures Date: 24 Jul 2001 08:39:34 -0500 Moritz R wrote: > sorry, if this isn't very exactly exotica-related, but I had been talking to some people from this list about it. This great documentary about Kubrick is now available on DVD and VHS from Warner Home Video. A strong recommendation for everyone who's as much a big Kubrick fan as I am. This is also playing in the US on one of the premium cable channels, Cinemax, I think. And just to keep it on-topic, we could always talk about t