From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #1020 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 Wednesday, July 25 2001 Volume 02 : Number 1020 In This Digest: Re: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular" Re: (exotica) The Archives (exotica) HAWAIIAN EYE (exotica) Tom Jones Records Re: (exotica) Stanley Kubrick - A Life In Pictures (exotica) Hot Bagels Re: (exotica) The Archives (exotica) Tom Jones - amazing track! Re: (exotica) Tom Jones - amazing track! (exotica) Tom Jones (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos July 25, 2001 (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte (exotica) Vinyl Philadelphia and NYC Re: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular" Re: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular" Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte Re: (exotica) The Archives Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte (exotica) some stuff picked up while away Re: (exotica) Vinyl Philadelphia and NYC (exotica) Mansfield Six (exotica) Swanky! Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte (exotica) [obit] Milt Gabler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:49:15 -0700 From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular" At 04:16 PM 7/24/01, you wrote: >Chuck, >Since Bob and Ray are a comedy duo, there's no telling what that >could sound like. I'm thinkin'wacky sound effects or something. Has >anyone heard it? While I have not heard it, I have seen stuff about it. This is NOT the Bob and Ray of comedy fame, from my understanding, rather a Bob and a Ray who throw together a bunch of sound effects and other stuff together to demonstrate stereo...although you wouldn't really call this a typical stereo demo disc. Byron # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:57:19 -0700 From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) The Archives At 05:14 PM 7/24/01, Patrick wrote: I am trying to find out more about "Mr. >Continental" on the Ultra-Lounge series, Actually, I think his title was "The Continental." I heard that that the organist playing with his words d'amore was none other than Eddie Baxter. My album on Capitol entitled "Camp!" T2474 says TC was Renzo Cesana, which means absolutely nothing to me...but maybe it does to someone else! I have yet to see an entire album featuring The Continental. I have only seen him on 78 singles and, if I am not mistaken, only on one side of each...the other given only to the organ. I, too, would like more info and even a pointer to a discography. Wouldn't it be great to have an entire collection of his solioquys? (maybe not to play start to finish, but to use selections occasionally within larger programs) 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:35:05 +1000 From: "Justin Bartlett" Subject: (exotica) HAWAIIAN EYE I have the following episodes of Hawaiian Eye on video (PAL format) for anyone who's interested in a trade for other episodes. Season 2 Ep.19 'Talk And You're Dead' Ep.26 'The Man From Manila' Ep.29 'Don't Kiss Me Goodbye' Season 3 Ep. 2 'The Kupua Of Coconut Bay' Ep.17 'Big Fever' Ep.31 'The Last Samurai' Ep.34 'Across The River Lethe' (features Lyman playing Rhapsody In Blue) Ep.36 'Among The Living' Not many I know, but get in touch if your interested. My VCR can play NTSC format, maybe some NTSC players also play PAL??? 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:25:51 +0800 From: "Jonny Perl" Subject: (exotica) Tom Jones Records >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. I'm also in the position of not owning any Tom Jones albums, but quite fancying getting a couple. I would add 'If I promise' as a track to get; it's one of a few great tracks I was alerted to via a compilation from list-member Brad Bigelow. On a vaguely related note, does anyone know what album 'Go on your way' by Jose Feliciano appears on? That's another great 60s beat track I'd like to have the original of. Brad, you did the tape (a few years back now), do you recall the album? cheers Jonny ps Just bought (at the academy LPs store here in nyc): - - arthur fiedler and boston pops - 'superstar' (for the 'mah na mah na' cover version. It's fun, but I'm glad I don't have any of his other records) - - Billion dollar brain soundtrack - richard rodney bennett (I couldn't resist this at $5, but I'm sure I remember the music sounding cooler when I watched the film) - - Pete Moore - 'More and Moore' (I was surprised to find this english release here in NYC. It's from 1966 on the Pye label; I'm checking it out now. Quite pleasant brit-easy stuff with wordless vocals. Nothing remotely beaty like his famed later work, but nice.) http://www.psychedelicado.com view/post song recommendations - -- tell us about your favorite songs! http://musicaltaste.net ____________________________________________________ Talk More, Pay Less with Net2Phone Direct(R), up to 1500 minutes free! http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/link.cgi?143 Powered by Outblaze # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:26:12 +1000 From: "Justin Bartlett" Subject: Re: (exotica) Stanley Kubrick - A Life In Pictures For anyone who can get to Brisbane, Australia (not sure if anyone can but me?) The Kubrick Documentary is playing as a part of the Brisbane International Film Festival which kicks off today (Wed 26th). Screening: 11:00 am 27/7/01 & 3:00 pm 5/8/01 at the State Library of Queensland. 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. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:01:04 -0700 From: Christine Karkow Subject: (exotica) Hot Bagels hi everyone, has anyone ever heard of the Album "Hot Bagels" by Hyman Gold? It features a cool photo of Hyman kissing a lady's hand in a groovy looking restarant with a plate of bagels on the table. also not to be missed a skewer w/bagels on it and a flame coming out the end reaching in from the left side.. anyways, any idea where one could find this vinyl gem? thanks 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. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:34:06 -0400 From: James Botticelli Subject: Re: (exotica) The Archives on 7/24/01 9:57 PM, bag@hubris.net at bag@hubris.net wrote: > > At 05:14 PM 7/24/01, Patrick wrote: > I am trying to find out more about "Mr. >> Continental" on the Ultra-Lounge series, > > > Actually, I think his title was "The Continental." I heard that that the > organist playing with his words d'amore was none other than Eddie > Baxter. My album on Capitol entitled "Camp!" T2474 says TC was Renzo > Cesana, which means absolutely nothing to me...but maybe it does to someone > else! I have yet to see an entire album featuring The Continental. I have > only seen him on 78 singles and, if I am not mistaken, only on one side of > each...the other given only to the organ. this posting calls to mind an experience i had today, and an experience i come across more than i wish i did...After viewing a selection of Latin LP's, which I can rightfully claim as my latest fetish, at a more than casual acquaintance's used record shop, I brought the LP's of my choice to the counter where they are sampled for me by the friendly staff (really!). An LP I was seriously considering was allegedly by Perez Prado, one I had never seen, and usually anything with his grunt on it is OK at this address. However while the LP was spinnin' I actually quit grinnin' as I read the humble liner notes which said "Music by Perez Prado, Latin great, and other fine orchestras..." Unable to identify "other fine orchestras", I quickly determined that this was not an LP for me. The owner suggested that perhaps the LP had been derived from 78RPM sources, etc., but......this may explain in part the inability of the poster to locate the entire "The Continental" LP.....Maybe - -- DJ Jimmy Botticelli The Groove Merchants Mobile DJ's For Hire Disco/House/Latin/Funk No Talk No Rock "The cat's in the bag. The bag's in the river" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:01:55 +0100 From: "Paul Hodge" Subject: (exotica) Tom Jones - amazing track! You've mentioned some great Tom Jones tracks but have failed to mention the biggest & baddest (IMO) of them... It's the B-side to the 'I'm coming home' 45 called 'The Lonely One' If you haven't heard it I'd immediately rush out and buy it. Alternatively you can hear a sample on the Pussycat club website: http://www.pussycatclub.org.uk/ I play it every Friday night at my 'clubagogo' club night in Southampton - - there's a rush to the decks to find out who/what it is. I'll describe it:: a hard funkin' , grinding RnB number with the biggest horn blasts ever'...you have been warned. Paul # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:19:15 +0100 From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) Tom Jones - amazing track! Paul Hodge wrote: > > You've mentioned some great Tom Jones tracks but have failed to mention > the biggest & baddest (IMO) of them... > > It's the B-side to the 'I'm coming home' 45 called 'The Lonely One' > > If you haven't heard it I'd immediately rush out and buy it. damn, been looking for this one for a while... Another great, funky track is 'I'm a fool to love you', i forget which album, but possibly the one with the blue cover and tom jones' head ('Close up'?) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:04:10 +0100 From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Tom Jones Alan's hit the two best LP's I have right on the head. Tom Jones sings 13 Smash hits (a plain red sleeve with a picture of tom in the middle) from 1967 is great, it has a lot of RnB covers 'its a mans world', and the really good version of 'Keep on Running' are from this LP. Then theres I think its just 'Tom' its an LP with Tom Jones in front of an out of focus background of Lurid flowers. From 1970. This has Venus, Sugar Sugar, Proud Mary, and Polk Salad Annie (much better than the Elvis version IMHO) and has that much fuller Memphis horns sort of sound. Side 1 is absolutely top rate. check out the Tom Jones Illustrated Discography http://www.txhighlands.com Someone else not ashamed to use BJ as a name. I don't know the track presumably its a cover of the Jacksons tune? 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/ Charles and Alan say: 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? > 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. Charles Moseley Editor - C3 magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:25:25 -0400 From: "Telstar" Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos July 25, 2001 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 The Galaxy Generation - Aquarius "Hair" Hot Butter - Popcorn "Popcorn" Silver Apples - Daisy "Beacon" Suicide - Rocket U.S.A. "Suicide" Television - Venus "Marquee Moon" Slime - Controversial 7" Les Maledictus Sound - Jim Clark Was Driving Recklessly "Les Maledictus Sound" Klark Kent - Too Kool to Kalypso 7" Orchid Spangiafora - Hold Everything "Flee Past's Ape Elf" Red Noise - 20 Mirror Mozarts Composing on Tea Bag & 1/2 Cup Bra "Sarcelles-Locheres" Fille Qui Mousse - Se Taire Pour Une Femme Trop Belle pt 1 "Trixie Stapelton 291" Bar-Kays - House Shoes "Soul Finger" Soul Caravan - African Song (Kerd-A-Wai) "Get in High" Mandingo - Uomo "Sacrifice" The Propositions - Africana "Deja Vu" Comments & Questions? Spin-N-Grin, 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:50:42 +0100 From: leslie gilotti Subject: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte Hi all, I've just checked out the Schema site someone posted earlier in the Nicola Conte thread. Does anyone have any opinions on the label's other releases? Also, any opinions on the Thievery Corporation v. Nicola Conte 12" (I can't remember the title)? Leslie - -- - --> leslie gilotti > words, music, stuff > http://playlouder.com this week we have mostly been digging: perry farrell, badmarsh & shri, the beta band, super furry animals, rocket from the crypt, and rephlex bleepy-bloopy stuff. glastonbury 2001 highlights online now... on the radio: kaito, the rock of travolta, the avalanches, slam, and magoo. - --> playlouder > 8-10 rhoda st > london e2 7ef > tel 020 7729 4797 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:53:24 +0100 From: leslie gilotti Subject: (exotica) Vinyl Philadelphia and NYC Hi all, I'm planning a trip back to the US in a few weeks and will be in the Philly/KoP area for a bit, and NYC. I know I've missed the WFMU record fair, but does anyone have any recommendations of shops to check out for some serious vinyl therapy? Thanks, Leslie - -- - --> leslie gilotti > words, music, stuff > http://playlouder.com this week we have mostly been digging: perry farrell, badmarsh & shri, the beta band, super furry animals, rocket from the crypt, and rephlex bleepy-bloopy stuff. glastonbury 2001 highlights online now... on the radio: kaito, the rock of travolta, the avalanches, slam, and magoo. - --> playlouder > 8-10 rhoda st > london e2 7ef > tel 020 7729 4797 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 05:34:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular" They're the only Bob and Ray I've ever heard these guys: http://www.bobandray.com/). Comedians who employed sound effects on this particular lp to accentuate their skits (creaking doors, buzzing giant flies, etc). And, no, this is not, in the main, a stereo demo disk, but a series of goofy skits introducing songs and music by RCA label mates. But the future of this, I leave to the learned scholars. I did wish to mention, as someone here posted a link awhile back, that the cover art is the work of Jack Davis, of Mad Magazine, etc., fame. - --- bag@hubris.net wrote: > > > While I have not heard it, I have seen stuff about > it. This is NOT the Bob > and Ray of comedy fame, from my understanding, > rather a Bob and a Ray who > throw together a bunch of sound effects and other > stuff together to > demonstrate stereo...although you wouldn't really > call this a typical > stereo demo disc. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:50:54 -0500 From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: Re: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular" > While I have not heard it, I have seen stuff about it. This is NOT the > Bob and Ray of comedy fame, from my understanding It's most definitely the Two and Only of comedy fame, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. As I recall, they sort of "host" this album, interspersing comedy bits between the music tracks. Classic Records did a vinyl and CD reissue of this album a couple of years ago. Another great Bob and Ray RCA album is "Bob and Ray On a Platter". 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:59:58 From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte > >I've just checked out the Schema site someone posted earlier in the >Nicola Conte thread. Does anyone have any opinions on the label's >other releases? Also, any opinions on the Thievery Corporation v. >Nicola Conte 12" (I can't remember the title)? Funnily enough i just got a chance to listen to the Ursula 1000 remix of Bombay, Karminsky remix of Devil's Coda and the 12" of bossa per due by Thievery. And sad to say, i really did not like either 12". I was spectacularly let down by the Missione a Bombay as I love the original and felt Ursula 1000 was the man to kick the breakbeats. On the other hand I was listening to the Nicola Conte remix of Cocktail Nova by Balanco (nouveau bossa band which i think Conte used to play in, have to check the records later) and it rocked. As did the b-side by Le Hammond Inferno (whose recent output was worrying me a bit). I'm pretty sure others on the list have contrary opinions to the above. Also listened to another decent Schema artist in the shop. I like Schema records in general, I have a tendancy to fetishise labels and buy all i can from them. I don't go as far as that with Schema but I always give their stuff a listen. Wasn't the (widely available in normalish record shops) compilation Fez files Numero Uno released by Schema? If so it's a reasonable look into their sound. Though not as Italian or Bossa inspired as most of their stuff. Go listen! rob _________________________________________________________________ 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:00:14 -0500 From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: Re: (exotica) The Archives > I am trying to find out more about "Mr. > >Continental" on the Ultra-Lounge series, As Byron noted, The Continental was Renzo Cesana. He hosted an early '50s TV show, first on KTLA in Los Angeles, and later on one of the networks. The show was aimed at bored housewives, with The Continental serving champagne and gooey love poems. Christopher Walken does a great send-up of The Continental on Saturday Night Live. Apparently, Signor Cesana appeared in movies and numerous TV shows over the years. He was written up in one of Richard Lamparski's "Whatever Happened To..." books some years back. 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:55:02 -0400 From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte Here comes contrary opinion #1 - if you like the Karminskys or Ursula 1000, then by all means pick up the 12"s. On first listen, they're okay, but on second and subsequent listenings, they have a way of really growing on you. Subtle, but good. The Nicola Conte "Jet Sounds" CD is very good. I'm not the biggest Balanco fan, but it seems anything of theirs that's remixed is quite good. They tend to be more on the soft bossa side of things, and I prefer my music with a bit more of a beat. Robert's right on about the "Fez File" comp, though - that should be a must for your collection. It has a number of non-Schema artists, too. And the Thievery remix "Bossa Per Due" is good, although the flip side, by Kyoto Jazz Massive, is even better. Supposedly, Nicola Conte is putting out a remix album this fall (according to Dusty Groove's upcoming releases), but I don't know if it's his remixes of other things, or other people's remixes of his things, or both. But it sounds promising. I find the Schema label in general is pretty consistent, but it varies from soft bossa to more beat-influenced stuff. It just depends what you like. cheryl From: "Robert McKenna" > I'm pretty sure others on the list have contrary opinions to the above. Also > listened to another decent Schema artist in the shop. I like Schema records > in general, I have a tendancy to fetishise labels and buy all i can from > them. I don't go as far as that with Schema but I always give their stuff a > listen. > > Wasn't the (widely available in normalish record shops) compilation Fez > files Numero Uno released by Schema? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:19:11 -0400 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte on 7/25/01 7:50 AM, leslie gilotti at leslie.gilotti@playlouder.com wrote: > I've just checked out the Schema site someone posted earlier in the > Nicola Conte thread. Does anyone have any opinions on the label's > other releases? I own pretty much everything they've released in the last 3 or 4 years, and recommend releases by Les Hommes, Balanco, and Soulstance especially. There's also a compilation called "Fez File, Vol Uno", which is made up of tracks that were faves of the DJ duo Fez File, which is Nicola Conte and Filipo Bratta. The label's output in the early 90's was much more jazz/acid jazz based, as that was a very popular sound in southern Italy at the time. >Also, any opinions on the Thievery Corporation v. > Nicola Conte 12" (I can't remember the title)? One side is the orginal version of 'Bossa Per Due', the other is Thievery's remix of it. I didn't think it was one of their best remixes. 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:16:29 -0400 From: James Botticelli Subject: Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte on 7/25/01 9:55 AM, cheryl at cheryls@dsuper.net wrote: > > Here comes contrary opinion #1 - if you like the Karminskys or Ursula 1000, > then by all means pick up the 12"s. On first listen, they're okay, but on > second and subsequent listenings, they have a way of really growing on you. > Subtle, but good. > > The Nicola Conte "Jet Sounds" CD is very good. I'm not the biggest Balanco > fan, but it seems anything of theirs that's remixed is quite good. They > tend to be more on the soft bossa side of things, and I prefer my music with > a bit more of a beat. > > Robert's right on about the "Fez File" comp, though - that should be a must > for your collection. It has a number of non-Schema artists, too. And the > Thievery remix "Bossa Per Due" is good, although the flip side, by Kyoto > Jazz Massive, is even better. > > Supposedly, Nicola Conte is putting out a remix album this fall (according > to Dusty Groove's upcoming releases), but I don't know if it's his remixes > of other things, or other people's remixes of his things, or both. But it > sounds promising. > > I find the Schema label in general is pretty consistent, but it varies from > soft bossa to more beat-influenced stuff. It just depends what you like. > > cheryl > I've been into Schema for awhile and find it to be consistently good, almost everything they touch in fact. I'd also like to hype two Japanese artists that I think listers will enjoy...Mansfield's "Six Mainifestations of Mansfield" and "Its A Man's Man's Mansfield" are both full of that irresistible combination of easy listening and beat/bass driven underpinnings topped off of course with cooing wordless vocals and short smart slogans spoken here and there. Also ComoEstas. for those who enjoy the Latin side of Los Chicharrons, this breakbeat artist's CD "Last Mambo In Tokyo" will put you over the edge...Guaranteed - -- DJ Jimmy Botticelli The Groove Merchants Mobile DJ's For Hire Disco/House/Latin/Funk No Talk No Rock "The cat's in the bag. The bag's in the river" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:28:48 +0100 From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) some stuff picked up while away Having spent the last 3 weeks out of work, I could only spend a small amount of time in record shops, as I'd nearly always have a very impatient 3 year old (she refuses to go into charity shops with me anymore). But I did get some new stuff. A couple of budget re-issues, they seem legit, on vinyl: Les Baxter's African Jazz Quite tame really, a couple of tracks were more South American than African, but mostly polite Jazz with Bongo's. Quite nice in a cocktail party kind of way. Nothing that really took my fancy. Mandingo Primeval Rhythm of Life Much more my cup of tea. Much more raucous percussion, some outrageously out of place Moog, brash horns. A couple of the tamer tracks are on the first Sound Gallery LP, I played this out last week and it sounds great loud. The cover is quite spartan (no scantily clad women), just 'Mandingo' in flames on black. A Norman Newell production (also the man on your Manuel and the Music of the Mountains LP's but this is much better). Absolutely recommended. Dick and Dale Batman A 180gm collectors full price re-issue (oh the irony). Not only is the record super heavy the sleeve is ridiculously heavy duty too, if someone were to accost you while carrying it, you could beat them to death with either part. What a strange record. Sort of. The sound quality is 1966 punk, like a 'Back from the Grave' LP. Murky. Distorted guitars. Organ. Horns! (including not credited trumpet and trombone[?]). But instead of just 2 minute tracks there are some more lengthy workouts. The sleeve unsurprisingly makes a big deal about the Sun Ra connection. I haven't heard any of his other stuff, but presumably it doesn't sound much like this. I played this too, it appealed to the 12 year old boys (well, the Batman theme anyway, good to see it still works 40 years on). Its a good version of the Batman Theme too. New stuff Los Chicharrons 'East Meets West' and 'Papas got a brand new Pigbag'. These are new(ish) East Meets West someone mentioned a few months back, and has sitars as well as the more traditional Chicharrons percussion overload. The Pigbag cover has a bit of the horn riff sampled over a samba-ish bassline. I like 'em. Arling And Cameron 'What about the Boys' remix 12. Terrible remix of what about the boys very dull, the other remix 'Lets Get Higher' is much better. Very 'I Feel Love' Moroderish. Kid Koala Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Not bad Ninja Tunes LP, far too much irritating scratching and nothing lives up to 'The Emperors New Clothes' on the Xen Cuts compilation. Which is admittedly very good indeed. I also got the Basement Jaxx LP 'Rooty'. not bad, I accidentally played one of the tracks at minus eight at a friends house and it sounded soo good. Unfortunately I can't remember which one it was, and I don't have varispeed at home, so I've been LISTENING VERY CAREFULLY IMAGINING IT MUCH SLOWER to see if I can locate it for future use. I see that there is a new A&C LP due out from Emperor Norton on August 7th. http://www.emperornorton.com Did anyone get the 'Early 2001' CD form them? 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:37:12 -0400 From: James Botticelli Subject: Re: (exotica) Vinyl Philadelphia and NYC on 7/25/01 7:53 AM, leslie gilotti at leslie.gilotti@playlouder.com wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm planning a trip back to the US in a few weeks and will be in the > Philly/KoP area for a bit, and NYC. I know I've missed the WFMU > record fair, but does anyone have any recommendations of shops to > check out for some serious vinyl therapy? > > Thanks, > > Leslie > Wnen in NYC be sure to check out Footlight Records (and I MEAN records) on E13th between First and Second I believe (o - -- DJ Jimmy Botticelli The Groove Merchants Mobile DJ's For Hire Disco/House/Latin/Funk No Talk No Rock "The cat's in the bag. The bag's in the river" r Second & Third) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:50:09 -0700 (PDT) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Mansfield Six Rock on to the break of dawn Jimmy! Mansfield Six takes you on a world tour with music styled and sampled from all eras! The beats are infectious! The wordless vocals are mesmerizing. This is high octane music with a big smile on its face. I put them into the mix on Mardis Gras day and they wow the crowds. Mansfield Six have carried on the Shibuya-Kei tradition of FPM's Luxury, Yukari Fresh and P-5 to a new level. Mansfield Six is for sale at http://www.othermusic.com Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck - --- James Botticelli wrote: I'd also like to hype two Japanese artists > that I think listers will enjoy...Mansfield's "Six > Mainifestation of Mansfield" and "Its A Man's Man's Mansfield" are both full of that irresistible combination of easy listening and beat/bass driven underpinnings topped off of course with cooing wordless vocals and short smart slogans spoken here and there. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:54:03 From: "Albert Fish" Subject: (exotica) Swanky! Hello, ANyone know of any groovy lounges in Vegas? I'm familiar with The peppermill, Algiers and Voodoo. Anything els? Thanks A. Fish _________________________________________________________________ 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:09:24 -0400 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte on 7/25/01 11:16 AM, James Botticelli at jimmybotticelli@home.com wrote: > smart slogans spoken here and there. Also ComoEstas. for those who enjoy the > Latin side of Los Chicharrons, this breakbeat artist's CD "Last Mambo In > Tokyo" will put you over the edge...Guaranteed speaking of Los Chicharrons, their new 12", on Tummy Touch, is a cover of 'Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag', which for those who don't remember or know it, was a fab jazz/funk dancefloor shaker from the early 8T's by the British outfit Pigbag. The orginal has been a staple in Fantastic Plastic Machine's DJ sets for awhile now. 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:30:47 -0400 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Milt Gabler July 25, 2001 Milton Gabler, Storekeeper of the Jazz World, Dies at 90 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Milton Gabler, who founded America's first independent jazz record label, became the first to reissue out-of-print jazz recordings and for years operated what many considered New York City's most comprehensive and knowledgeable jazz record store, the Commodore Music Shop, died on July 20 at the Jewish Home and Hospital in Manhattan. He was 90 and lived in New Rochelle, N.Y. Mr. Gabler was also one of the first to make recordings of Broadway shows and was a midwife at the birth of rock 'n' roll, producing "Rock Around the Clock," by Bill Haley and the Comets, in 1954. When major record companies declined to record Billie Holiday's searing anti-lynching song, "Strange Fruit," for fear of losing sales in the South, his Commodore Records did. "Southern trees bear a strange fruit," the lyric went, "Blood on the leaves and blood at the root." "We were the iron lung of jazz," Mr. Gabler said in a profile of him in The New Yorker in 1946. "Just like New Orleans was the cradle, we were the iron lung." The New Yorker continued, using the adjective "hot" to mean jazz: "He has sold more hot records than any other music-shop proprietor anywhere. He has manufactured, under the Commodore label, some of the world's best hot recordings, and he has made them fashionable at the not inconsiderable price of a dollar and a half a copy." In addition to Holiday and Haley, he produced records for Peggy Lee, the Weavers and the Ink Spots, among many others. He was the first to pair Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald on record. As a lyricist, he wrote the lyrics of "In a Mellow Tone" for Duke Ellington and "Love" for Nat King Cole. Though he was often fighting the forces of prejudice, he liked to say that fun was his objective. "I did it for kicks," he said of recording "Strange Fruit." "It was exciting." He was a nice guy in a tough business. At his beloved store, a hangout for musicians and music lovers, he would regularly talk customers out of spending more money than he thought they could afford. Down the street at the White Rose bar, where he liked to nurse a glass of Irish whiskey and a beer chaser, he was known to be an easy mark for a musician in need of an immediate $10. He called it an "advance." "Guys were broke and knew they could come in and Milt would dip into the cash register and come up with something so they could go out and buy a hamburger," said Dan Morgenstern, director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Bud Freeman, the tenor saxophonist with Tommy Dorsey, once used this generosity as a song title: "Tapping the Commodore Till." Mr. Gabler was born in Harlem on May 20, 1911, the oldest of six children. His family has a summer cottage at Silver Beach, in Throgs Neck, the Bronx. He thought he fell in love with jazz at a dance pavilion there. While still a student at Stuyvesant High School, he worked at his father's hardware store on East 42nd Street, and finagled a transfer to another shop his father owned nearby, the Commodore Radio Corporation, a popular radio and speaker supply store. He hooked up a loudspeaker over the door and tuned in a local radio station. People kept asking if the store sold records. Mr. Morgenstern said his father told him to flip through the Yellow Pages and call the "phonograph record companies." He did, and ordered 150 records. Soon, records supplanted radios. By 1934, the now-renamed store, the Commodore Music Shop, had become "the country's most important source of 78's and a meeting ground for fans and musicians," wrote Michael Ullman in High Fidelity magazine. Nat Hentoff, in "Listen to the Stories" (HarperCollins, 1995), called it "a nondescript shrine for jazz buffs from everywhere." The store successively occupied three addresses on East 42nd Street, 147, 144 and 136. For a while, it had a branch on 52nd Street, where the jazz clubs were clustered. Also in 1934, Mr. Gabler began buying boxes of out-of-print jazz recordings from major record companies that had no plans to re-release them. According to the 1999 edition of "Contemporary Musicians," this made him the first person to sell re- issued records. The reference book said he was also the first to print the names of all participating musicians on jazz records. Mr. Gabler collected these lists of musicians into a reference book he called "Hot Discography." He was also a co-founder of the first mail- order record label. In 1937, he decided to make his own recordings, not least because record companies had refused to sell him the masters for the re-issued records he sold. In 1939, he recorded Holiday's chilling ballad about lynching after John Hammond, her producer at Vocalion Records, a predecessor of Columbia Records, refused. "They came to him because Billie Holiday was so fond of Milt and trusted him," said Mr. Morgenstern of Rutgers. Throughout the 1930's and 1940's, Commodore recorded almost 90 records, using more than 150 musicians and singers. The New Yorker quoted an unnamed musician: "A ray comes out of Gabler. You can't help doing something the way he wants. Here is this guy, can't read a note of music and he practically tells you what register you're going to play in just by the position of your head." In 1941, Mr. Gabler was hired as a record producer by Decca Records, although he continued to produce records for Commodore until 1950. In 1954, he signed Bill Haley and the Comets to Decca. They were scheduled to record two songs on April 12, 1954, at the Pythian Temple Studio on West 18th Street in Manhattan. The first, "13 Women," was considered more promising. There were 10 minutes left for "Rock Around the Clock." They rehearsed one quick verse to set sound levels and recorded the song live in one full take. Sound engineers were said to be alarmed at the high sound levels, but the song soon energized the market for the new sound of rock 'n' roll. Mr. Gabler is survived by his wife, Estelle; a son, Lee Gabler; two daughters, Eileen Gabler and Melina Gabler; two sisters, Regina Greenberg of Atlanta and Helen Greenfield of Long Beach, N.Y.; a brother, Danny Gabler of Long Beach; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. At the time of his death, there was just one photo by his bedside. It was of Billie Holiday. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=1MILT|GABLER http://www.google.com/search?q=%22milt+gabler%22 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22milton+gabler%22&btnG=Google+Search # Need help using (or leaving) this 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 of exotica-digest V2 #1020 ******************************