From: dx@netcom.com (dx)
Subject: Intro
Date: 01 Jun 1994 08:54:12 -0700

I've been collecting "Space Age Bachelor Pad" music for about 10 years
now.  Initially I gather records for their covers, but over the years I
started listening to and actually enjoying the vinyl.

Favorites include Martin Denny (anyone have a spare copy of "Exotic
Moog" they want to sell?), Arthur Lyman, Augie Colon (anyone seen more
than 2 LPs by him?), David Carroll, The Three Suns, Esquivel, Sir
Julian (all 13 of his fingers), schlocky living-string arrangements of
pop hits (esp. David Rose's incredibly slushy version of the 'Stones
"Satisfaction"), early Moog (Perry & Kingsley, et al.).

I'm also interested in "experimental" work that had MOR band leaders
and instrumentalists trying to push themselves out into space (e.g.,
Ferrante & Teicher's "Blast Off", Frank Comstock's "Project: Comstock",
some of Marty Gold's work).

Anyone have a discography under construction of all this work?  I've
been thinking of helping the ALLMUSIC people beef up their e-z
listening section...

- -dx


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From: mturner@netcom.com (Mark Turner)
Subject: INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC VOL. II
Date: 11 Jun 1994 16:39:49 -0700 (PDT)

Hey Folks!

In case it isn't widely known, the second volume of RE/Search's "Incredibly
Strange Music" (the book, not the CD) is out NOW!  And IMHO, it's better
than the first one.  Includes interviews with:

	Jello Biafra
	Rusty Warren
	Ken Nordine
	Korla Pandit
	Robert Moog
	Juan Garcia Esquivel
	Yma Sumac
	Elisabeth Waldo

plus lots more knowledgeable (sp?) collectors.  Seek it out now in better
(or weirder) bookstores near you.

- -- 
 Mark Turner
 mturner@netcom.com


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From: transmat@teleport.com
Subject: elevator music
Date: 29 Jun 1994 21:08:14 -0800

greetings, i'm new to this list. i noticed it whilst checking the orb's ftp
cite, so i read yer prior posting. i'm reading this book i got from the
library, called elevator music, which has many fine chapters on space-age
bachelor pad music, included is an interview with angelo badalamenti. i
noted y'all talking about the 'research' book, i browsed it at the
bookstore and it seemed ok but i never bought it. i find the elevator music
book to be kinda 'academic' at the beginning, but the author, joseph lanza,
finally looses up a third of the way through. recommended, with a good
bibliography and discography.
cheers
richard

time...space...transmat@teleport.com      bleep on!