From: Richard Karty Subject: How do you store or ship your records? Date: 04 Jan 1995 15:03:26 -0800 (PST) Anyone know of any good reasonably-priced record crates? The only ones I know of that I like are sturdy plastic ones that are about 1/8" to 1/4" taller than a record. However I know of only one place to get them here (a shop called "Storables" or something like that) and they cost $10 each which I think is way too much to pay. They've never been on sale in the 5 years I've lived here. I *don't* like the plastic crates that are about 2 1/2 or 3" *shorter* than a record. They're much less sturdy. (although they are more practical for d.j.'s than the taller ones.) Also, I will be moving soon and I need to ship my huge record collection. I am a poor student so no $1,000 Mayflower moving company for me. Anyone know of any ways to do this, or not to do this? Thanks much Richard P.S. I hope this isn't too far off the subject of the list. I searched all the newsgroups with 'music' in the name and didn't see anything that looked better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lazlo@rt66.com (Lazlo Nibble) Subject: How do you store or ship your records? Date: 05 Jan 1995 15:09:47 -0700 (MST) > Anyone know of any good reasonably-priced record crates? Not anymore, at least not for my definition of "good". I'm looking into custom CD/LP/LD shelving at the moment. > Also, I will be moving soon and I need to ship my huge record collection. > I am a poor student so no $1,000 Mayflower moving company for me. Anyone > know of any ways to do this, or not to do this? I'm going to have to do this soon too, fortunately it's only a 16-mile move. I suggest that if it's at all possible, you handle moving the records *personally* (i.e., do the move in a rent-a-truck and do the packing/loading/etc yourself). Bags Unlimited sells storage boxes that'd make 'em easy to transport, but they only hold 50-60 LPs each and run around $3/box even in quantity. - -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@rt66.com) ::: Check http://rt66.com/lazlo/ for Discographies, Record-Collecting ::: Resources, The Internet Music Wantlists, and more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Malcolm Humes Subject: Re: How do you store or ship your records? Date: 09 Jan 1995 21:54:30 -0800 (PST) I've made the mistake of packing too many lps in big boxes and shipping UPS. Don't pack any boxes heavier than are EASY to lift, especially if you're entrusting any carrier (i.e. lowly paid employees) to hoist the stuff, drop it on and off of trucks, handtrucks, etc. Nothing against UPS, rather my packaging techniques and naive expectations. - Malcolm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bayard Catron Subject: baha marimba band! Date: 10 Jan 1995 11:27:43 -0800 (PST) anyone have a discography for this most exotic and delightful 60's instrumental combo? Better yet, anyone want to trade tapes of the long-out-of-print lp's? I have the self-titled lp, featuring the immortal "comin' in the back door", and the "for animals only" release. The bahas are the most criminally underrated group of all time! Brave Combo are another-- turning hard rock into polkas, ingenious. And they're still around, not long vanished like the marimba band... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tom Subject: New Here Date: 15 Jan 1995 09:28:58 -0600 (CST) A brief introduction is in order. Born in the late 40's and grew up listening to my older sisters music. She was six years older than me. I have a few old albums, but lost most in a divorce. It's funny the things people deem as important when relationships break up. I am interested in all old music and look forward to participating. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Aspho@aol.com Subject: Hello Date: 21 Jan 1995 07:05:58 -0500 Hello everybody. I discovered the exotica mailing list quite by chance while browsing the web. I'm glad I did. I run a label called Asphodel, and we are releasing 'Incredibly Strange Music Volume 2' in association with Re/Search Publications. It hits stores on February 21st. We are planning many more albums in collaboration with Re/Search. We take everything directly from the original vinyl - Re/Search has thousand of gems collected from thrift stores over the years. I am sure many of you will remember Volume 1 which came out in 1993, and the Incredibly Strange Music books. Volume 2 contains tracks from Les Baxter, Ken Nordine, Jean Jacques Perrey, Hot Butter, Bob McFadden & Dor, Rusty Warren, Russ Garcia and his Orchestra, Lucia Pamela, The Nirvana Sitar & String Group, Myrtle K Hilo, Harry Breuer, Billy Mure, Eden Ahbez, Del Close & John Brent, Marcy. If anyone wants to email me privately, please send to aspho@aol.com or asphodel@sonicnet.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lazlo@rt66.com (Lazlo Nibble) Subject: Hello Date: 23 Jan 1995 21:45:39 -0700 (MST) > I discovered the exotica mailing list quite by chance while browsing the web. > I'm glad I did. I run a label called Asphodel, and we are releasing > 'Incredibly Strange Music Volume 2' in association with Re/Search > Publications. It hits stores on February 21st. Glad to hear it! Can you bless us with a track list? I've always been curious how you guys managed the rights to this stuff, too, given that some of the artists (Nordine, Baxter, Warren) have current releases on major labels . . . On other exotica matters -- I hit an estate sale this weekend and came back with a few gems, but outside of a theatre organ album and some random Hawaiian material not much exotic stuff (just four *very* cherry Capitol-era Nat "King" Coles for $1 each :-). And it's all at the new house I'm in the process of moving to, so no details to share. Ask again in a week or two. This sale was at the most *ultimate* open-plan 1950s house I've been in in years, and I missed out on some classic furniture. Sigh. - -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@rt66.com) ::: Visit http://rt66.com/lazlo/ for Discographies, Record ::: Collecting Resources, The Internet Music Wantlists, and more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Aspho@aol.com Subject: Moog albums Date: 23 Jan 1995 19:49:24 -0500 I would be interested in finding out about any moog albums people may have. There does not seem to be that much out there, but I'm sure 'tons' of moog vinyl was released. Any recommendations ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mturner@netcom.com (Mark Turner) Subject: Re: Moog albums Date: 24 Jan 1995 08:06:43 -0800 (PST) > I would be interested in finding out about any moog albums people may have. > There does not seem to be that much out there, but I'm sure 'tons' of moog > vinyl was released. Any recommendations ? > The only one I have is EXOTIC MOOG by Martin Denny. Unfortunately, it's not that exotic, apart from a new recording of the classic "Quiet Village." - -- Mark Turner mturner@netcom.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ci.tcpbridge.center2.center1.mah2%smtpgate@ci.berkeley.ca.us (Malcolm Humes ) Subject: Moog lps Date: 24 Jan 1995 08:06:43 -0800 (PST) Dick Hyman has done a Moog lp or two - seem to recall covers of "Bolero" and a few other things on one that is sitting at home. Hugo Montgomery has done a cool Moog lp that has a sorta psychedlic cover or name. I forget the titles of most of these... I was just listening to another Hugo M. lp this week, a western cover (Hang Em High?) which is sorta between Ennio Morricone and the Beach Boys, really weird and fun. Perrey and Kingsley have done a few, with a best of and some other material on cd, porobably some of the more original stuff that uses the moog as a unique instrument instead of interpreting classical music with synth sounds. Wendy/Walter Carlos did Switched on Bach and a few other classic moog albums. The french group Heldon has moog synths on almost every release, though mixed with guitars (very Fripp/King Crimson influenced) and drums and otehr stuff. Some early Heldon is pretty atonal proto-industrial stuff. Larry Fast/Synergy - probably has some or lots of moog on various lps. I mention him becasue he'd described Heldon as atonal and was amazed that anyone could sell that stuff - Fast's music is more tightly organized, melodic, etc. That's all I can think of offhand. I've got about 4-6 Moog lps by Hyman, Perrey & Kingsley and a few others that I'll take a look at soon and see if I missed anything. - Malcolm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Craig Norton Subject: Re: Moog lps Date: 25 Jan 1995 22:45:54 -0800 (PST) On Tue, 24 Jan 1995, Malcolm Humes wrote: > Dick Hyman has done a Moog lp or two - seem to recall covers of > "Bolero" and a few other things on one that is sitting at home. Dick Hyman's 1969 LP, which featured "The Minotaur", was perhaps his most successful moog lp. "The Minotaur" single actually charted for a short time. I think that Keith Emerson borrowed from "The Minotaur" when keyboarding off the end of the "Lucky Man" single. This cut is also on ELP's first LP released in late 1970 or early 1971. I found the similarity of the tunes to be quite striking at the time.... something like Sheryl Crow's "All I Wanna Do" vs. Stealer's Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle With You". Recycle when you can get away with it. - - craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Aspho@aol.com Subject: Incredibly Strange Music Vol 2 Date: 24 Jan 1995 16:53:47 -0500 on 1/24/95, lazlo@rt66.com wrote: >Glad to hear it! Can you bless us with a track list? Well, here it is: 1. Hot Butter - Skokian 2. Bob McFadden & Dor - The Mummy 3. The Nirvana Sitar & String Group - The Letter 4. Lucia Pamela - Walking On The Moon 5. Ken Nordine - Flesh 6. Billy Mure - Chopsticks Guitar 7. Myrtle K. Hilo - Lover's Prayer 8. Russ Garcia & His Orchestra - Delicado 9. Del Close & John Brent - Introduction 10. Jean Jacques Perrey - Gossipo Perpetuo 11. Ken Nordine - Green 12. Eden Ahbez - Full Moon 13. Harry Breuer - Bumble Bee Bolero 14. Marcy - Join The Gospel Express 15. Les Baxter - Terror 16. Ken Nordine - Yellow 17. Rusty Warren - 1st Song / Opening Monologue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Craig Norton Subject: Re: How do you store or ship your records? Date: 26 Jan 1995 12:56:37 -0800 (PST) On Wed, 4 Jan 1995, Richard Karty wrote: > Also, I will be moving soon and I need to ship my huge record collection. > I am a poor student so no $1,000 Mayflower moving company for me. Anyone > know of any ways to do this, or not to do this? Richard, Sorry to be so late contributing to this, you may already have moved. I have shipped my record collection from Canada to England and back twice now and hope I never have to do it again. I have always used U-Haul cartons that were designed for books/LP's. They are just over 12" square on the ends and about 18" long. I suppose they hold about 60 records each. Put extra cardboard or similar at each end for protection. Tape *extremely* well. The boxes are very sturdy. I continue to use them for LP storage and can stack them 4 or 5 boxes high without damaging the contents. If you hire professional movers, then keep an inventory and insure your LP's at a level that is comfortable for you. Good Luck! Craig Norton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Craig Norton Subject: Re: Hello Date: 27 Jan 1995 12:44:50 -0800 (PST) On Sat, 21 Jan 1995 Aspho@aol.com wrote: > I run a label called Asphodel, and we are releasing > 'Incredibly Strange Music Volume 2' in association with Re/Search > Publications. It hits stores on February 21st. We are planning many more > albums in collaboration with Re/Search. We take everything directly from > the original vinyl - Re/Search has thousand of gems collected from thrift > stores over the years. I am sure many of you will remember Volume 1 which > came out in 1993, and the Incredibly Strange Music books....etc. It is *very* nice to hear that Volume 2 is on the way! I finally found Volume 1 last week while visiting Toronto and have since been enjoying it. Questions: Is Re/Search an individual or a group of people? Is there a third ISM book on the way or will your releases be independant of the book releases? Good luck with this venture!! Another interesting book that I came across recently is called "Elevator Music" by Joseph Lanza. It seems to be the history of Muzak or Musak-like recordings. Although I haven't laid out the $30 Canadian to purchase it, the material seems to tie in well with the ISM themes and musical genres. - - craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dx@netcom.com (dx) Subject: Re: Hello Date: 27 Jan 1995 20:46:55 -0800 I posted a review of the Elevator Music book to Usenet recently. In short, I found it pretty boring. - -dx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Craig Norton Subject: Re: Hello Date: 27 Jan 1995 23:29:15 -0800 (PST) On Fri, 27 Jan 1995, dx wrote: > I posted a review of the Elevator Music book to Usenet recently. In short, > I found it pretty boring. Thanks, I haven't read it, perhaps the library is a better solution. I heard the author being interviewed recently on the radio. It was a very interesting discussion on Muzak's background (as opposed to background Muzak). I think he said that Muzak began in the 1930's and then went on to discuss many of the artists, famous and otherwise, who supplied the recordings. He also mentioned some of his favorite Muzak tunes and their eras. While I was grocery shopping recently, they were playing a vaguely familiar tune. On closer listening, it was the Door's "Crystal Ship". When I was a teenager, my parents despised the Doors so I couldn't help but chuckle. Now they are getting a watered down version to relax them as they stand in the queue at Safeway's. - - craig