From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #64 Reply-To: exotica-digest Sender: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes exotica-digest Thursday, March 12 1998 Volume 02 : Number 064 In This Digest: (exotica) New and modern music (exotica) New and modern music Re: (exotica) Weekend Goodies... -Reply (exotica) Satan In High Heels -Reply (exotica) Re: What IS Schlager (exotica) Man In Space (exotica) The Flying Red Horse Polka (exotica) A question Re: (exotica) Man In Space (exotica) Re: Bond compilation (exotica) The High Llamas... (exotica) Mailing List Trivia Re: (exotica) exotica movies (formerly Mancini, etc) Re: [Br. Cleve: Re: (exotica) Three Suns] Re: (exotica) The High Llamas... (exotica) soundtracks Re: (exotica) soundtracks Re: (exotica) Milton DeLugg (exotica) Milton Delugg RE: (exotica) Milton Delugg Re: (exotica) soundtracks Re: (exotica) The High Llamas... Re: (exotica) Milton DeLugg (exotica) Re: Kahimi Karie. (exotica) Re: Milton DeLugg? (exotica) New and modern music ATA TAK Re: (exotica) soundtracks (exotica) Milton Delugg and his band with a Thug Re: (exotica) Exotic Percussion (again!) (exotica) High Llamas contact (exotica) Don Fln Party ¥ NYC Re: (exotica) Barry. More? (exotica) thriftstore dilemma ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:43:47 EST From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) New and modern music Hey all, Chester wrote: > << I was wondering what 'new' and 'modern' music do you guys listen to? So far, > I understand Air and Combustible Edison are appreciated among some of you > but what else? A lot of that French stuff such as Kid Loco and other stuff > like Mouse on Mars and Stereolab and High Llamas certainly go hand in hand > with some of this list's musical Gods. Even something like Aphex Twin > sounds like a logical Nineties progression if you listen to something like > Pierre Henry....>> Funny you ahould bring this up... Here in Montreal, our favourite store uses "acid jazz" for anything that they can't otherwise classify and isn't original-retro exotica. That's precisely where you'd find two of the best 90's prjects: Tipsy and Sukia. Then there's the whole "surf & drag " scene aka. The Phantom Surfers, Man.. or Astro Man. etc. Also lots of great stuff on the Mai Tai label aka. The Tiki Tones. Incidentally, Pierre Henry's "Machine Dance" is a personal favourite! Personally, I find it a challenge trying to wade throught the "categories" of 90's electronica but there's a lot out there worth looking at, Aphex Twin certainly being among them. Definitely a name to check out is Pascal Comelade, who has for years been perfoming his own hybrid of Nino Rota inspired cabaret music using toy instruments. Also, lots of interesting stuff on the German AtaTak label over the years that has been inspired by exotica, not the least of which is the recent release by The Bad Examples that was discussed on the list. Lots of fun things also on the German A-Musik label, particularly a recent release by F X Randomiz. A-Musik was a pioneering label with personalities from it moving on to such projects as Oval, Mouse on Mars, and POL. This said, there's altogether too much of the same thing going on in electronica these days if you ask me... Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:46:15 EST From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) New and modern music Hey all, Chester wrote: > << I was wondering what 'new' and 'modern' music do you guys listen >to? So far, > I understand Air and Combustible Edison are appreciated among some of you > but what else? A lot of that French stuff such as Kid Loco and other stuff > like Mouse on Mars and Stereolab and High Llamas certainly go hand in hand > with some of this list's musical Gods. Even something like Aphex Twin > sounds like a logical Nineties progression if you listen to something like > Pierre Henry....>> Funny you ahould bring this up... Here in Montreal, our favourite store uses "acid jazz" for anything that they can't otherwise classify and isn't original-retro exotica. That's precisely where you'd find two of the best 90's prjects: Tipsy and Sukia. Then there's the whole "surf & drag " scene aka. The Phantom Surfers, Man.. or Astro Man. etc. Also lots of great stuff on the Mai Tai label aka. The Tiki Tones. Incidentally, Pierre Henry's "Machine Dance" is a personal favourite! Personally, I find it a challenge trying to wade throught the "categories" of 90's electronica but there's a lot out there worth looking at, Aphex Twin certainly being among them. Definitely a name to check out is Pascal Comelade, who has for years been perfoming his own hybrid of Nino Rota inspired cabaret music using toy instruments. Also, lots of interesting stuff on the German AtaTak label over the years that has been inspired by exotica, not the least of which is the recent release by The Bad Examples that was discussed on the list. Lots of fun things also on the German A-Musik label, particularly a recent elease by F X Randomiz. A-Musik was a pioneering label with personalities from it moving on to such projects as Oval, Mouse on Mars, and POL. This said, there's altogether too much of the same thing going on in electronica these days if you ask me... Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:59:15 -0500 From: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend Goodies... -Reply Well, yeah, but I think you're missing my point. There's soundtrack music that is a great composition in it's own right with catchy rhythm etc., then there's soundtrack music that is little more than a series of swells, and musical "asides" ala a great deal of the Bond stuff...... >>> DJJimmyBee 03/11/98 01:14pm >>> I thought soundtrack music was practically the basis of this whole musical "movement"...It is an important reference point for yours truly anyway.......Jimmy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:06:11 -0500 From: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Satan In High Heels -Reply Great title!!! So where can we get this CD????? - - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:25:23 EST From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: What IS Schlager Br cleve wrote: > The material from 'Get Easy' (3 of the 4 volumes) is all from the late 60's > and 70's, as is nearly all "easy listening" from Europe that has been > reissued since the mid-90's. I don't know if the 50's/early 60's material > is better, but I doubt it, in the context of what the EZ scene is about. I'm thinking of Hildegard Knef, etc, but you're probably right about the lower EZ listening value from this era. Things didn't really start to "looosen-up" until the (really) late 50's, if at all during the decade. I'm a bit too young to judge having been only 3 yrs old when the 60's began! > >I realized that by 70's disco reared its ugly head even into Germany! > Have you forgotten the great Georgio Moroder, whose Munich Machine teamed > with Donna Summer to reinvent the sound? Or how about Kraftwerk? Disco was > a worldwide phenonmenon, currently being reinvented again quite nicely by > the French. Having started listening to Kraftwerk via Autobahn, I remember the difficulty I had with the change, natural as it was for the evolution of electronic sound. Hey even Conrad Schnitzler did a pseudo disco record! All things aside, the MR record I picked up had more of a Bee Gees feel to it so I failed to make the connection. > Schlager has nothing in common with the go-go sound being reissued these > days. Schlager has its roots in German beer hall music; it is a peppier, > more pop oriented kind of oom-pah sound, sung by popular vocalists. In many > ways, its the Teuton equivalent of country & western music, as it's > favored by truck drivers and the more working class type of folks. Hmm... I suspect you're right to a large degree but I have to cringe at the thought of me listening to "country & western" music. But from the perspective of what makes for a good EZ record, my experience is that many of the best ones (not necessarily artistically but most fun!) seem to be precisely those that were originally intended to be serious. That being said, there's no end to where this line of thinking can take us, the least of which would be the vindication of those horrid William Shatner crooner songs for instance, or even Heino! Call it a weakness but it's one way to sort through the offerings out there, aside from a totally irresistable name (hey could anyone resist "Bobby Setter's Cash & Carry - Live a the Moog-O-Theque", even if it did turn out to be a moog version of "The Bird Dance" ) even if it may bring up all sort of would be negative associations... I think the whole bizzaro-exotica movement as best defined through the ReSearch readings would support my approach... That being said, maybe Schlager could be the next big thing (I shudder to think)!!! > For more of the go-go sound:... Thanks for the recommendations. I reallly did like Gert Wilder's I Told You Not To Cry. Looking forward to getting the Get Easy German comp... But are there two Get easy German volumes or did I get this wrong? Regards, Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:51:12 +0000 From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Man In Space Hey - I keep fogetting to say a big "thank you!" to Jack Diamond and Stefan Kery at Subliminal for the 'Man In Space' reissue a copy of which I picked up last week. Love this fine slice of orchestral electronica - - and such ENTHUSIASTIC vocal intros! Let's have more of this stuff please! Robbie - on his "gay way to space"... - ---------------------------------------------------------- ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** - ---------------------------------------------------------- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:00:01 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) The Flying Red Horse Polka On which Three Suns album does this track show up? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:34:08 -0800 From: jcimaru@kes.miracosta.cc.ca.us (James Cimarusti) Subject: (exotica) A question Bryan Cuevas suggested I throw this question out on the list (Thanks Bryan!): >>>>GARY McFARLAND Soft Samba (Verve, 1964) My copy of the above album mentioned by Bryan is manufactured by Capitol Records and not by MGM. I have two MGM records >>>manufactured by Capitol. Was there a period when MGM didn't have >>>their own pressing plant? (The label number was STAO ??? on the SS >>>record, which is what Capitol records used for their gatefold sleeved >>>records). Anyone out there who can shed some light on this? Thanks! James "After the game, the King and pawn go into the same box" Italian Proverb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:57:55 -0800 From: Jack Subject: Re: (exotica) Man In Space Hey - I keep forgetting to say a big "thank you!" to Jack Diamond and Stefan Kery at Subliminal for the 'Man In Space' reissue a copy of which I picked up last week. Love this fine slice of orchestral electronica - - and such ENTHUSIASTIC vocal intros! Let's have more of this stuff please! Robbie - on his "gay way to space"... - ---------------------------------------------------------- ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** - ---------------------------------------------------------- Robbie, Thanks a lot and I do mean A LOT! The chances of "anymore" of that and the like being reissued is slim and none. The major labels are idiots and way too greed oriented, even to their own people! Thanks again, Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:05:37 -0700 (MST) From: "Lazlo Nibble" Subject: (exotica) Re: Bond compilation > Any thoughts on the Bond compilation that came out recently? I think it's > called "shaken not stirred..." or something of that sort. Can't seem to find > it. If you're thinking of "Shaken And Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project", it's a far better disc than it deserves to be. It's a collection of vocal and instrumental Bond OST tracks covered and/or reinterpreted by folks like Chrissie Hynde, Iggy Pop, Leftfield, The Propellerheads, and Martin Fry in association with Arnold, who scored Tomorrow Never Dies. Very big production sound blending orchestra and electronica, rarely sounding like a cheap knock-off as so many of these "tribute"-style albums do. There are a couple of tracks that do nothing for me but the bulk of the disc is really solid -- "Diamonds Are Forever" and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" stand out. My only regret is that Billy MacKenzie died before he could do "Diamonds Are Forever" for this disc . . . - -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:23:08 +0100 From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: (exotica) The High Llamas... Not only have those Llama-guys released a fantastic EP called "The Sun Beats Down" (the best of exotica mixed with the best of the new electronica) this week, but songwriter Sean O'Hagan has also remixed a Pizzicato 5 song (the name escapes me at the moment, maybe you guys know the title?) to be released in early April on Matador Records as well as doing another remix of yet another Japanese guy called Cornelius. His song "Microdisneycal World Tour" from his "Fantasma" album has been remixed by O'Hagan to be released next month (I think), also on Matador Records. One musical dream for me would be The Llamas doing something with Combustible Edison, that'd sound fantastic, don't you guys think!??!! Finally, I might as well post the tourdates for the Llamas forthcoming sojourn in USA, if anyone wants to go but don't know when and where they play. High Llamas Spring 1998 Tour WHEN CLUB CITY WITH/ March 14 9:30 Club WDC Trans Am 15 Cat's Cradle Carrboro, NC Sharkquest 16 The Point Atlanta Neutral Milk Hotel 17 40 Watt Athens TBA 18 Howlin Wolf New Orleans TBA 20 Waterloo Records Austin/SXSW it's an in-store 21 Electric Lounge Austin/SXSW His Name Is Alive, others 24 Troubador LA Apples In Stereo 25 Great Am. Music Hall SF Apples In Stereo 27 Crocodile Seattle Apples In Stereo 28 Starfish Room Vancouver Apples In Stereo 29 Music Millenium Portland it's an in-store 31 Bluebird Theatre Denver Apples In Stereo April 1 Bottleneck Lawrence TBA 2 Side Door St. Louis TBA 3 Metro Chicago Low 4 Concert Hall Toronto Exclaim magazine party 5 Secret Sounds Records Bridgeport, CT it's an in-store 6 Trocodaro Philadelphia Low 7 The Call Providence Low 8 Middle East Boston Low/TBA 9 Tramps NYC Low/Magnetic Fields "Cold and Bouncy" Quotes: "The electronic embellishments on Cold and Bouncy (the Llamas' fourth album) help focus their melodies - especially on the serene "Tilting Windmills" and veer the band away from the mere rock revivalism and occasional aimless wafting and that they were prone to in the past. As Brian Wilson once said, "Won, won, wonderful." - ROLLING STONE "Sean O'Hagan still wears the hearts of Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks on his sleeve, but finally his adventurous work with Stereolab shines through; while there's plenty that recalls the vital orchestral pop of 1966 (i.e. challenging, rather than vapid, easy listening), there are enough electronic and rhythmic textures to make it seem perfectly modern." - -CMJ MONTHLY - ---------------------- Not affiliated with the band, just a diehard fan :) Chester W. Nimitz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:56:00 -0500 From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Mailing List Trivia Lazlo wrote: >Usually I get all the undeliverable bounces, since I'm the list admin, but >every now and then some system somewhere is misconfigured enough to send them >to people who post to the list. FYI, this is often accompanied by a flurry of double-posts to the list--people misinterpret the bounce message as meaning their exotica post didn't go through at all. Having gotten bit by this one a few times myself, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:00:54 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) exotica movies (formerly Mancini, etc) Okay, here's a hasty and subjective listing of some films that may somehow relate to the exotica (loose definition) sensibility -- trying to steer towards the 60's swank zone, but often veering off-course. Apologies for repeating anything someone else has mentioned, painfully obvious choices, or anything exceeding your cinema pain threshold. The Apartment Autopsia de un Fantasma Barbarella Beat The Devil Bedazzled Bell, Book And Candle Black Orpheus Breathless (1959 version only!) Casino Royale Contempt The Cool Ones 007 films (pref. earlier) Dr. Strangelove 8 1/2 F For Fake A Guide For The Married Man In Like Flint The Ipcress File It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World Johnny Cool Juliet Of The Spirits The Knack, And How To Get It Lolita Lord Love A Duck The Loved One The Magic Christian The Manchurian Candidate Mars Needs Women Matt Helm films The Million Eyes Of Su Muru Modesty Blaise Mondo Cane Ocean's Eleven Orgy Of The Dead Our Man Flint Our Man In Havana The Party The Pink Panther The President's Analyst Seconds A Shot In The Dark Touch Of Evil Thunderbirds Are Go Vertigo What A Way To Go! countless assorted spy movies m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:29:11 -0500 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: [Br. Cleve: Re: (exotica) Three Suns] At 5:51 PM +0000 3/11/98, Peter Hipwell wrote: >Is this the same "African Waltz" as the one written by Galt MacDermot? yes it is. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:28:07 -0500 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) The High Llamas... At 10:23 PM +0100 3/11/98, Chester W. Nimitz wrote: > The Llamas doing something with Combustible >Edison, that'd sound fantastic, don't you guys think!??!! Finally, I might >as well post the tourdates for the Llamas forthcoming sojourn in USA, if >anyone wants to go but don't know when and where they play. >April >8 Middle East Boston Low/TBA This date will not be at the Middle East, but rather at my "Swank" night at Bill's Bar/Karma on Landsdowne St. I will be DJ'ing between sets. Maybe I should discuss ComEd remix possibilities with them while they're here. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:58:50 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) soundtracks At the last record show here, a friend of mine, desperate for a new tributary, finally bit the bullet and dropped a few hundred dollars on this soundtrack dealer. All these soundtracks for films that were important to him. Got them home, listened and took them to the used record store the next day. Where he proclaimed "It just sounds like music they play in the background of a film"... as the clerk calculated all the money he'd lost in that short period. I could have saved him the money; then again, what better way to contact your self-loathing than wasting a few hundred dollars on records you don't want. With the exception of the occasional record- and you guys can name them if you want - soundtracks are only useful as objects to trigger movie memories. There's background music and there's background music. And then there's foreground music. Which is fine if you like overly long opening credit sequences. Or musicals. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:15:41 -1000 From: sfunk@pop.adn.com (Stephen Funk) Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks >With the exception of the occasional record- and you guys can name them if >you want - soundtracks are only useful as objects to trigger movie memories. Okay. Some soundtracks that I would rate among those "occasional records" you mention that hold their own as musical masterpieces with or without the "movie memories:" 1. The Omen by Jerry Goldsmith 2. A Clockwork Orange by Walter/Wendy Carlos and various artists 3. The Good The Bad and The Ugly by Ennio Morriconne 4. Once Upon A Time in The West by Ennio M. 5. Psycho by Bernard Hermann 6. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Ligeti, Strauss and others 7. On the Waterfront by Leonard Bernstein 8. The Man With The Golden Arm by Elmer Bernstein 9. The Piano by Michael Nyman 10. Superman:The Movie by John Williams (soft spot for this one) ... I'm sure others would be happy to add to this list. - - Steve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:43:22 -0500 From: Peter Ledebur Subject: Re: (exotica) Milton DeLugg breithel@lund.mail.telia.com (I. Breithel) writes: >Any other DeLugg gems to look out for? His music >for "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" was never >released on record, was it....? There was an album released, but I seem to recall that it's more of a storybook & record combo with mostly dialogue from the film, rather than an album of the score. I know it does have that great "Hooray for Santa Claus" song on it, though. Peter - --- Music for Better Living Wednesdays 6-7pm -- WZBC 90.3 fm Newton/Boston http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:16:24 -0800 From: Darrell Brogdon Subject: (exotica) Milton Delugg In addition to "Accordion My Way", Milton Delugg also did an album of monster music in the mid-60s. Don't remember the exact title - something like "Music for Munsters, Monsters and Mummies". Anybody ever see this one? Had a picture of the Munsters on the cover. It wasn't a children's record per se - more like big band renditions of themes from "The Munsters", "The Addams Family", "Bewitched" and others, plus some tunes penned especially for the album. Used to have a copy years ago and would love to find another one! Milton didn't play accordion on this one, though. He was also the bandleader on "Broadway Open House", the early TV precursor to "The Tonight Show". Later he led the band on "The Tonight Show", too. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:45:26 From: "Indy Rutks" Subject: RE: (exotica) Milton Delugg On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:16:24 -0800, dbrogdon@ukans.edu wrote... > >He was also the bandleader on "Broadway Open House", the early TV >precursor to "The Tonight Show". Later he led the band on "The Tonight >Show", too. And don't forget his gig as "Milton Delugg and his Band with a Thug" on "The Gong Show"! - -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.edu) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: 12 Mar 1998 02:25:04 GMT From: cheryls@babylon.montreal.qc.ca (cheryl shinfield) Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks I have to disagree with Nat on this - some of my favourite recordings are soundtracks. Perhaps not exotica-inspired, but excellent nonetheless. To Stephen's list, I would add anything by Goran Bregovic (especially his soundtracks for Emir Kusturica films), Nino Rota, early works by Gabriel Yared (his soundtracks for Jean-Jacques Beineix films), and, of course, Peer Raben's work for Fassbinder. And that's just for starters. I could go on and on... Of course, a lot of 60's movie soundtracks were just intended as background music, and nothing you'd want to listen to by themselves. But it's hard to generalise about soundtracks - a good soundtrack is just as good whether or not you're watching the film. And then there's Combustible Edison's 4 Rooms soundtrack, which is infinitely superior to the film itself.... cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 00:12:03 EST From: Dlsmay Subject: Re: (exotica) The High Llamas... Curiously, the San Francisco Bay Guardian's music section has a big piece on Cornelius (japanese bricolage popster, took his name from Roddy McDowell's monkey on Planet of the Apes). Fascinating stuff. Both Cornelius and a british musician, Momus, write for a Japanese idol (Idoru) named Kahimi Karie. If you can imagine an arch brit with a Scott Walker tendency writing for a Japanese idol singer, or have fallen under the spell of Serge Gainsbourg writing for Jane Birkin, or BB or France Gall, then you might want to check out Kahimi Karie's music. I dig the Llamas - they've got a long, drifty cut on _Gideon Gaye_ that's everything exotica ought to be. - --David # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 00:27:38 EST From: BasicHip Subject: Re: (exotica) Milton DeLugg << Any other DeLugg gems to look out for? >> i don't know if i'd call it a gem, but i've got this soundtrack from 1966 on Mainstream, Gulliver's Travels On The Moon. Credits Anne DeLugg, too. many of the tracks are "happy, snappy songs", with Rise Robots, Rise being the standout. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:11:08 -0800 (PST) From: tosh@loop.com (Tosh) Subject: (exotica) Re: Kahimi Karie. I have heard a rumour that there will be a 'best of' release for Kahimi Karie in the U.S. Does anyone on the list have the inside word about this project? - ----------------- Tosh Berman TamTam Books - ---------------- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 05:34:52 From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) Re: Milton DeLugg? >breithel@lund.mail.telia.com (I. Breithel) wrote: >Milton DeLugg, anyone? I just played his "Accordion My Way -- Ole!" >and was pleasantly surprised: this album really swings! It's mostly >Brazilian tunes, and he's accompanied by some top musicians such >as Bucky Pizzarelli, Eumir Deodato, Bob Rosengarden, and Phil Kraus. > >Any other DeLugg gems to look out for? DeLugg's main claim to fame was as the bandleader for "The Tonight Show" after Skitch Henderson left. He recorded one album for RCA leading this band. Then Johnny Carson replaced Jack Paar and replaced Milton with Doc Severinsen (among other staff changes). From what I've been able to track down, he was a performer on the vaudeville and night club circuit, then settled in NYC as a studio conductor and arranger. His other score credits include "Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon" (1966 US version of Japanese animated movie) and "The Gong Show Movie," which I bet most of you had thankfully forgotten until I mentioned it. Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:28:40 +0000 From: "Moritz R®" Subject: (exotica) New and modern music ATA TAK Reply to Brian Karasick: Thanks for mentioning my old label Ata Tak. Yes, we were definitely influenced by exotic music. We heard of Martin Denny for the first time in 1981 by an American named Boyd Rice. He and his friends from San Diego had a band called "The Tikis" at the same time. Those people are the earliest manifestation of a Tiki-Revival that I know. If somebody knows any events earlier than that, I=91d like to know! Boyd was also an expert in German Schlagermusic and actually knew more about it, than I did at that time... Ata Tak was and still is located in D=FCsseldorf, one of four european towns that have a "Trader Vic=91s". (The others are Hamburg, Munich and London). The label is not very active anymore (I quit it legally 1990, still in contact though), but they have a relatively new homepage, which is relatively mediocre and needs an improvement. I=91m living in Munich now and we have a groovy little Tiki-scene going o= n here. If you ever visit the original Oktoberfest, don=91t forget to go to the "Egon Bar", Seitzstrasse 12, the center of good taste and music in this city. =AE # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 06:08:37 PST From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks >9. The Piano by Michael Nyman >... I'm sure others would be happy to add to this list. > >- Steve Yes. Anything by The Michael Nyman Group, particulary the Greenaway soundtracks (A Zed and Two Naughts being my favorite, today). Not exactly exotica, but may qualify as strange. BW ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:29:25 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Milton Delugg and his band with a Thug He also was on the "Gong Show" (credited per the subject line) and backed Jackie Wilson on his hit records. >He was also the bandleader on "Broadway Open House", the early TV precursor to "The >Tonight Show". # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:39:46 -0500 From: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Percussion (again!) Okay gang, I re-listened to this LP last night and will have to revise my remarks..... Side 1 is pretty cool, I like the arrangements, and my favorite is track 3 which has some sort of French name (somthin' about a carnival or something?.........) how's that for descriptive? Side 2 on the other hand, isn't nearly as good - the arrangements are boring and I think by the time you flip the LP over, the "amusement factor" of the arrangements has worn off....... That's my last word on this album - it gets a "50%-50%" rating (re:good/bad)...... - - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 15:03:32 UT From: peter_risser@cinfin.com Subject: (exotica) High Llamas contact Does anyone know how to get in touch with the High Llamas, or who distributes their stuff? Thanks, Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:10:23 -0500 From: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: (exotica) Don Fln Party ¥ NYC Don Fl‡n promotions presents ... Back at long last, yet another once in a lifetime event! a Pre-Spring Special Sabor Caribeno 7 It's Free SuperSalsa, Afro-Cuban & Bachata Madness! Dancehall Reggae Extravaganza with sfx! Soca, Calypsos & Chutney, and . . . Brazilian Samba & Batucada! Your favorite Disco Hits in Spanish!! Plus... Funky disco breaks!!! A steamy Pre-Spring fiesta with your Hostess... La Cynthia and... Deejays Ricardo Nixon and Juanny SendŽr "ambiente Familiar" Home made decor and special drinks! 10 PM till 4 AM on Thursday, March 19th at Baraza! 133 Ave C (8th & 9th Street) 212.539.0811 It's Free Don Fl‡n will now be monthly at Baraza The next event will be Thursday, April 16th for Info call Juanny 212.228.9518 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:03:12 +0100 From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: Re: (exotica) Barry. More? >The last one seems to have been "The Living Daylights" in 1987. Why he >stopped is not an answer easily found on the internet, but this link >http://www.auracle.com/pia/ has a link to a book about him, with excerpts. >I am a long time Barry fan, so I wouldn't mind seeing him doing the next >Bond, but it is conceivable that he doesn't want to anymore, having done 11 >or so of the scores for them (although Desmond Llewelyn and until recently, >Maurice Binder sure keep coming back for more!). >If I find out that it has to do with some behind-the-scenes >(Money?)penny-pinching, I'lll...I'll... You might've actually given us the answer to why he stopped doing Bond-scores! There was a long interview with Barry in the New Musical Express 2 or 3 months ago and what he said was similar with behind the scenes arguments involving, yes, money and the usual movie director versus filmcomposer fights. It was actually a bit of a shock to read the interview cos Barry came across as a sad old bitter ego-minded man....Sean Connery was allegedly a horrible and self-obsessed actor, so was all the other Bonds as well, according to Barry. Actually, Barry seemed to think everyone he was involved with were complete idiots...It's been awhile since I read it but I got the impression he tried to be rude towards as many people as possible before the interview was over....It's really sad to find out that a man who's been responsible for some of the greatest music ever made (had Barry lived 200 years ago, people would've definitely compared him to Bach/Mozart/whoever of that calibre) turned out to be so seemingly bitter about everything and everyone....I also got the impression John Barry will *not* score another Bond-movie....:( Chester W. Nimitz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:03:20 +0100 From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: (exotica) thriftstore dilemma In my city (I dunno if it's qualified to be called a 'city', there's only 25000 people living here...), there's actually only one place where they sell vinyl/2nd hand records and I checked it out for the first time today. To my surprise, they had literally tons of Ferrante/Teicher, Francis Lai, Michel Legrande, Bacharach, John Barry albums, and seemingly every single moviesoundtrack made in the sixties. The thing is that they were all priced about $15/record which I think is quite a lot compared to what most of you guys pay. The thing is, this store is also a really disgusting pornshop (believe me, the cliche about hairypalmed men in grey overcoates is actually true, hahahaha! :)) and the owner doesn't seem to have the faintest idea about how much some of these records are worth. I'm not joking when behind John Barry's "The Knack" there was a Samantha Fox record followed by Wham and then Legrande's "Umbrellas...", and they were all given the same price! Totally ridiculous!! ANyway, my question is, should I really pay $15 for records like these...?? Would you guys have done it???? I'm not sure if I want to go back but there is on the other hand no other place where I live where I can get hold of the fantastic music being discussed on this list....I'm a poor student with very little money so what to do? Chester W. 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