From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #372 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, April 15 1999 Volume 02 : Number 372 In This Digest: (exotica) Girls In The Garage Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels (exotica) Alan Lorber Orchestra - Lotus Palace (exotica) music to watch comets by Re: (exotica) Alan Lorber Orchestra - Lotus Palace Re: (exotica) Oscars? Chair Backs? (exotica) music to watch comets by (exotica) [obits] Jean Vander Pyl, Jim V. Blevins , BoxCar Willie (exotica) [fwd] 2 for U (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations? Re: (exotica) [fwd] 2 for U (Spinal Tap ghost site) Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations? SV: (exotica) Oscars? Chair Backs? (exotica) 2 for U (Spinal Tap ghost site) Re: (exotica) Spider-Man 1968 (exotica) Spiderman jazz album? (exotica) Motorbooty #9 Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki (exotica) RE: Girls In The Garage Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations? (exotica) Re: Satan in High Heels (exotica) lust in space (exotica) lust in space (update) (exotica) Independent article on the Theremin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 22:17:36 -0700 (PDT) From: David Brock Subject: (exotica) Girls In The Garage Hey All! This is my intro post to the list. I just jumped on board tonite, thanks to a few forwards from Laura AKA Jane Fondle. Anyway, I just wanted to comment on the "Girls In The Garage Series". All are absolutely fab if you dig garage rock, especially if you dig 60's punk, as almost all of it leans this direction. I guess I should clarify this. All of the records have a few GREAT cuts and the rest is so-so. They all have enough to justify purchasing them though, which is why I have continued to snatch them up (oops..no pun intended). Vol. 8 is the newest and IMHO, the kitchiest. Most of the tracks are not en Anglais, but have their appeal. The best track (once again, IMHO) is the fuzzed-out version of "Hanky Panky" (English language version- there is also one in Chinese). This is my least fave of the series, though it has it's attraction. Very kitschy and I don't really regret picking it up, though I don't really spin it that often either. Easy to get through Dionysus. David _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 04:09:41 -0400 From: kbonnett@coax.net (Kevin Bonnett) Subject: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels >The movie is really good, too, especially for a B-film...it ending sorta >rings of that "we ran out of money" thing, but it's entertaining and >sleazy! >YOW-Jane Fondle The movie is available from Something Weird Video. I have no site address or other contact info for them at this time but I will have it handy tomorrow in case anyone's interested in picking up the flick. My Grandfather wrote the original story on which the film is VERY LOOSELY based. I'm not even sure he received any credit for it at all. Not only that ... my Dad is IN the movie. Only about five minutes, this is the only footage of him I know of from when he was an aspiring actor in NYC long before I was born. We've had this OST lying around on vinyl for years. We bring it out now and then to play in our shop, Bonnett's Bookstore (http://members.aol.com/kbonnett/bonnetts.htm [click the logo to visit our site]). It's nice to know this bit of family nostalgia means something to a few other folks as well. : ) My Grandpa was a writer of detective novellas for the pulp magazines of yesteryear. One pulp, Black Mask, was considered the cream of the detective pulp crop and there has been a book published entitled "The Black Mask Boys" wherein he is mentioned. He was published in quite a few other titles as well, but he tends to brush it off saying "I was only trying to put bread on the table". He also wrote some "spicy" tales under pseudonyms he claims he can't recall. One however was T. Tennob (Bonnett in reverse) and we are looking for original mags or paperbacks containing his work. Any help or actual items would be greatly appreciated! My Father was married to his first wife back then. His wife worked as a secretary in a photography studio, possibly Irving Klaw's. She knew Betty Page, but not well. Dad once missed meeting Betty by a matter of minutes. Grandpa was a busy man back then, writing, starting up our bookstore, and as a photographer. He has mentioned in passing that he is in possession of negatives from a Betty shoot. He has no clue where they have ended up over the years but they are presumed to still be in the family's possession, somewhere. Dad and Grandpa are technologically challenged but I've printed your posts to share with them. I know they'll get a kick and a half outta this! If anyone has anything they'd like to ask them about this let me know. I'll happily get them your questions and return the replies. : ) Ciao 4 now! Kevin : ) # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 09:52:10 +0100 From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: (exotica) Alan Lorber Orchestra - Lotus Palace Does anybody know this LP by Alan Lorber. Does it have the sitar version of Mas Que Nada on it? And is the lp generally any good? # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 14:26:59 +0000 From: "Giovanni Berti" Subject: (exotica) music to watch comets by Chuck from NOLA wrote: > I saw Medium Rare is carrying the Gentle People's great compilation > cd, "Music to Watch Comets By" Is this exotica music from the 50's and the 60's or is it music played by contemporary bands, like Gentle People? Chuck/someone could you please provide a short review of it? Thank you. The londoner listee Phil Clark once told (wrote, I mean) me that he works with ex Clash bassplayer Paul Simonon's sister, and that she is in the Gentle People. Where's the exotic link? Paul, after the Clash, had a group called Havana 3 a.m. (Perez Prado's album title, for the very little few of all you ex-ex [exotic experts] who don't know). Ciao Gionni (ex Clash fan) And "London Calling" is just the best album of the eighties (although it was released on december 1979). Second is "Neither Washington Nor Moscow" by The Redskins. IMO, of course. # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 08:26:14 EDT From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Alan Lorber Orchestra - Lotus Palace In a message dated 4/14/99 3:50:48 AM EST, Charles_Moseley%MCKINSEY-EXTERNAL@MCKINSEY.COM writes: << Does anybody know this LP by Alan Lorber. Does it have the sitar version of Mas Que Nada on it? And is the lp generally any good? >> Yes it has a rather tastefully laid back sitar version although it is somewhat hard to keep a straight face. A pretty decent record that is also available on CD. Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 08:27:54 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Oscars? Chair Backs? In a message dated 4/13/99 1:13:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, m.sandberg@telia.com writes: << HI! I'm sorry, but I dont understand what you mean... Oscars? Chair Backs? >> In summary to Lou's post, he also told one group of reporter "I want to make love to all of you!" A curious thing to say. Only a slightly kooky foreigner could get away with that statement in America. Oh, give us more details on where you are and why you have to stay inside too much. # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 07:28:58 -0700 (PDT) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) music to watch comets by Greetings Giovanni: Comets is contemporary released in '97 (I think) and starts off with the great Lorraine Bowen doing "Space is the Place" Its full of contemprary artists Linberg Hemmer comes in with a great soft gentle people like instrumental. I don't have the cd with me but it has stood the test of time for me and gets the laser put on it about as much as any cd I own. Its very soft music, much in the same vain as the Gentle People. Somebody from the list once told me that after I bought the cd I would start looking for the albums by the individual artists. He was right. This cd was definitely marketed for the shibuya-kei crowd in Japan but there's nothing club about it. Its Gentle. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck - --- Giovanni Berti wrote: > > Is this exotica music from the 50's and the 60's or is it music > played by contemporary bands, like Gentle People? > Chuck/someone could you please provide a short review of it? > Thank you. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:39:26 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obits] Jean Vander Pyl, Jim V. Blevins , BoxCar Willie DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) -- Jean Vander Pyl, the voice of Wilma in ``The Flintstones'' and the last surviving original cast member of the pioneering animated series, has died. She was 79. Ms. Vander Pyl died Saturday of lung cancer, said Michael O'Meara, one of her three sons. ``The Flintstones,'' a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that humorously chronicled family life in the Stone Age, ran from 1960 to 1966 and has been in worldwide syndication ever since. Ms. Vander Pyl played the sometimes stern but always loving wife of Fred Flintstone. ``She was an anonymous celebrity,'' O'Meara said. ``You could go out with her and nobody would recognize her. ``All she'd have to do was go `Fr-ed!' and people would say: `Wilma Flintstone! I grew up with you!' She'd light up the room,'' her son said. Ms. Vander Pyl also voiced Rosie the Robot and Mrs. Spacely on ``The Jetsons'' -- until she became too ill about six months ago. She also made an appearance in Steven Spielberg's 1994 live-action movie based on the series. In alt.obituaries, lawrence@bga.com (Lawrence Person) wrote: Jean Vander Pyl Memorial Haiku >The Flintstones (cough), meet >The Flinstones (hack), a modern >Death age family. > >Hey, for a badly >Animated cartoon femme, >Wilma was a babe. > NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Jim V. Blevins, the self-proclaimed ``Popcorn King'' who marketed a corn that produced a fluffier, tastier popcorn to movie theaters and grocery stores, died Monday. He was 87. Blevins was operating a Nashville food brokerage business in the 1940s when he noticed the movie industry boom was boosting sales of popcorn, but suppliers hadn't caught up. Blevins signed a contract to supply all the popcorn for a Middle Tennessee movie chain, marketing a hybrid corn that produced better-tasting, fluffier popcorn that allowed operators to get more volume per ounce of corn. Blevins Popcorn Co. then helped introduce the Pops-Rite brand to the rest of the world, marketing the snack in jars of oil ready to pop, in sacks and with a low-fat buttery seasoning developed in his own kitchen. Blevins sold the company in 1961. In 1952, he took popcorn to Japanese baseball stands, creating an entity he later sold to Frito Lay. April 14, 1999 Boxcar Willie, Country Music's 'Hobo,' Dies at 67 By JON PARELES, NYTimes Boxcar Willie, a country singer and songwriter who fashioned himself as a hobo, died on Monday at his home in Branson, Mo. He was 67. The cause was leukemia, his family said. With an image built through performances and television commercials, Boxcar Willie turned a lifelong fascination with trains, train songs and hobos into a career. He was a country traditionalist whose trademark was an imitation of a train whistle and whose most popular song was "Train Medley." In 1986 he settled in Branson, the emerging country music center, and became a mainstay there, performing year-round at the Boxcar Willie Theater and often playing six shows a day. One of his hobo outfits now hangs in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Boxcar Willie was the name adopted by Lecil Travis Martin, who was born in Sterrett, Texas, in 1931. His father was a railroad man who played the fiddle, and the family home was said to be six feet from the tracks. He began performing in jamborees across Texas, and at 16 he was appearing regularly in the Big D Jamboree in Dallas. Then he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, where he spent two decades. When he retired from the Air Force, he went into radio with the "Cowtown Hoedown," which was broadcast from Fort Worth. He began performing in the 1950s as Marty Martin. In the mid-60s in Lincoln, Neb., he saw a hobo on a freight train who looked like Willie Nelson. He wrote a song about it, "Boxcar Willie," and went on to adopt the name and image for himself. Onstage he wore overalls, an old jacket, a crumpled hat and two days' worth of stubble. He kept working as a disk jockey until the mid-70s, when he went into performing full time. Nelson made a guest appearance on an album he made in 1976. After a 1977 deal with a Scottish booking agent, Boxcar Willie began touring Britain regularly. He became the most successful country music performer there. He also began appearing on the country circuit in the United States and in 1981 joined the Grand Ole Opry. He was named World Ambassador for the Hobos at a hobo convention in Britt, Iowa, in 1981. Bypassing mainstream record labels, Boxcar Willie marketed his 1982 album "King of the Road" (Suffolk Marketing) through television commercials. He was a regular on the television show "Hee Haw" in the early '80s, and appeared in "Sweet Dreams," the 1985 movie based on Patsy Cline's life. In Branson he became one of the town's most dependable tourist attractions, operating a motel and a train museum along with the theater. The Associated Press reported that flags are to be flown at half staff in Branson until his funeral this weekend. He is survived by his wife, Lloene, and three children, Tammy, Lorri and Larry. # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 10:48:39 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [fwd] 2 for U Neat-o Suburbia Greg Knight's Patio Culture site takes us back to those simpler times of backyard barbecues and the Cold War complete with a recipes for Jello Vegetable Salad and Meat Loaf. Sample a clip of the Tiki Lounge's tropical musical offerings, reminisce about Banana Bikes or find out more about those fighter planes that helped to keep the Cold War hot. http://home.texoma.net/~kgreg |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Spinal Tap Whatever happened to Spinal Tap? You know, the band that conquered Hollywood with the cult film "This Is Spinal Tap." Well, they may not be touring, but they do have an Internet presence, which provides Tap Heads with "reports from the road," behind the scenes scuttlebutt and some absolutely essential merchandise; and, they are threatening a comeback. http://www.spinaltap.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, 14 Apr 1999 08:13:37 -0700 From: "Kevin C." Subject: (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations? I finally got my record player working again (jeez! it's no wonder the lp is dying when it takes months to get these things repaired!). Picked up and am liking George Cates' "Polynesian Percussion"... a classic exotica beat, with vocals and some Hawaiian slide guitar. Definitely liking the more "hawaiian" sound on this. Any other albums in this genre? Also, I like some of the Arthur Lyman stuff, especially the Taboo album (and to a lesser extent "Taboo 2"). A bit more vibey than the Denny stuff (obviously...) The question is, any recommendations for further exploration? I know there are some Lyman comps, but I'd rather go the full album route if they are consistently good like Taboo. I see "Leis of Jazz" which I assume is more jazzy and thus not to my liking? Thanks for any recommendations! - -Kevin Crossman The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/ # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 12:24:13 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) [fwd] 2 for U (Spinal Tap ghost site) >Whatever happened to Spinal Tap? You know, the band that conquered >http://www.spinaltap.com Heh. The Spinal Tap site made it onto the current (March 17) edition of Ghost Sites: http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ Check it out -- very amusing description. I'll just quote his ranking here: "5 Ghosts -- Site is Stuffed, Embalmed, and Ready for Internet Museum" m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 12:32:13 -0500 From: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations? "Kevin C." wrote: > Picked up and am liking George Cates' "Polynesian Percussion"... a classic > exotica beat, with vocals and some Hawaiian slide guitar. Definitely liking the > more "hawaiian" sound on this. Any other albums in this genre? Are you kidding? I would have no hesitation in saying that as far as finding exotica related material in thrift venues, Hawaiian albums dominate. Unfortunately what 50's & 60's Hawaiian record have in quantity the lack in quality. There are some good pickin's, for instance I enjoy the Webley Edwards series of instrumentals. I have to admit though I find the sung Hawaiian language somewhat irritating, so perhaps there are other enthusiasts who can field this one better than I. > Also, I like some of the Arthur Lyman stuff, especially the Taboo album (and to > a lesser extent "Taboo 2"). A bit more vibey than the Denny stuff (obviously...) > > The question is, any recommendations for further exploration? I know there are > some Lyman comps, but I'd rather go the full album route if they are > consistently good like Taboo. I see "Leis of Jazz" which I assume is more jazzy > and thus not to my liking? Yes, Leis of Jazz is more jazzy and therefore, in my book, not as exciting as other Lyman albums. Some of my favorites are "Bwana A", "Isle of Enchantment", and "Polynesia". There are some adamant Lyman supporters on this list and I'm sure they will be more than happy to speak up on Lyman recommendations Frank # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 18:59:34 +0200 From: "Sandberg Magnus" Subject: SV: (exotica) Oscars? Chair Backs? > >Oh, give us more details on where you are and why you have to stay = inside too=20 >much. Let me put it like this: Sweden never got spring and summer last year, = and we have tough winterseasons. But now! Spring is nearly here! The sun shines!=20 I just washed up my aloha shirts. I am getting ready for mysterious = felines, robot sea monsters and everything else that may be on my trail. = :) Its TIKI TIME AGAIN! M # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 13:04:02 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) 2 for U (Spinal Tap ghost site) At 12:23 PM 4/14/99 -0400, m.ace wrote: >Heh. The Spinal Tap site made it onto the current (March 17) edition of >Ghost Sites: >http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ >Check it out -- very amusing description. I'll just quote his ranking here: > >"5 Ghosts -- Site is Stuffed, Embalmed, and Ready for Internet Museum" Well, that's one obit that I missed!! Thanks for the pointer to Ghostsites - -- I haven't been there before. - -ls # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 22:33:36 -0700 From: "hagar@mindspring.com" Subject: Re: (exotica) Spider-Man 1968 >Does anyone have any information on this? It may be needle drop music that is >unavailable. I don't remember much about the credits, but the music was credited to a service, not an individual. # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 12:06:48 -0800 From: studio@wayno.com Subject: (exotica) Spiderman jazz album? Chuck wrote: A friend has me interested in finding music that was in the original Spider-Man cartoon from '68., not just the theme but the funky jazzy BACKGROUND music. My friend seems to remember reading in an old marvel comic about a spider man jazz album? Does anyone have any information on this? It may be needle drop music that is unavailable. ************************************ I don't know if this is the music used in the cartoon series, but check this info on a Freddie McCoy album (available from www.dustygroove.com): Freddie McCoy -- Spider Man! . . . CD . . . $19.99 Prestige (Japan), 1966 One of the rarest of the Prestige sides by the great funky vibist Freddy McCoy! This one never turns up on vinyl -- perhaps because the cover has a big image of Spider Man on the front, which might have led Marvel Comics to stop pressing on this one. The record is one of McCoy's best, and it's filled with nice groovy soul jazz tracks, all with his heavy vibes sound in the front of the mix. The album includes a nice groovy take on "Girl From Ipanema", plus the soul jazz classics "Speak Out, Deagan!" and "Hav' Mercy". Very nice stuff, and another reason to buy Japanese reissues! **************************************** And, from www.allmusic.com, here's the track listing: 1. Love for Sale (Porter) 2. Hav' Mercy 3. Yesterdays (Harbach/Kern) 4. Girl from Ipanema (DeMoraes/Gimbel/Jobim) 5. Spider Man 6. That's All 7. Speak out Deagan! ******************************* I can't verify the accuracy of any of the above -- just passing it along. I'm not an employee of either Dusty Groove or All-Music either, although I've ordered from DG many times and can recommend their services. Informatively, Wayno # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 15:15:31 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Motorbooty #9 Hey, it's on the stands!!! http://www.motorbooty.com/ - -ls # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 15:23:01 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki In a message dated 04/13/99 3:03:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, loidlink@pixi.com writes regarding Ron writing about "watching" some pagen mating ritual: << but feel the jungle sounds! >> I don't know about "feel[ing] the jungle sounds" -- Ron would want to feelthemonkey!!!!! as long as it HIS OWN monkey I have no problem with this. # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 12:38:55 -0700 (PDT) From: David Brock Subject: (exotica) RE: Girls In The Garage OOPS! I made a booboo. The "Girls In The Garage" series is on Romulan Records, and is available through Get Hip! and maybe Bomp! But I know for a fact that Get Hip! does distro for Romulan. Sorry to anyone I sent on a wild goose chase to Dionysus! Dave _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:37:54 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations? In a message dated 04/14/99 11:12:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, kevin@kevdo.com writes: << Picked up and am liking George Cates' "Polynesian Percussion"... a classic exotica beat, with vocals and some Hawaiian slide guitar. Definitely liking the more "hawaiian" sound on this. Any other albums in this genre? >> i discovered this about 9 months ago and took a very strong liking to it. i especially like his "moon over manakoora" (sp???) arrangement. his other lp's are not as exotic. there were a few comments on the list that were negative on this lp. i will be curious to see if they come up again. # Need help using (or leaving) this 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, 14 Apr 1999 21:17:08 -0600 From: King Kini Subject: (exotica) Re: Satan in High Heels i just stubled on a pretty good review of this LP: http://www.visionx.com/jazz/REVIEWS/R0298_29.HTM enjoy! - kk visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.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, 14 Apr 1999 23:55:17 -0700 (PDT) From: kevin@astsoft.com (kevin leeeeee) Subject: (exotica) lust in space hey, for those in the LA area... i'm dj'ing this shindig saturday as well as providing video projection. think sexy psychedelic sci-fi funky retro-future spaced out audio/visual experience. plus there's a bunch of bands including Astro Panties which is sort of like missing persons/blondie new wave punk. they are quite cool. i can't vouch for the other dj but i can guarantee from me a very space-sex-themed set that will be both sensual and danceable. by the way, in my quest for the ultimate sex in space movie clips i came (?) across some really interesting films you may want to check out sometime: Future Woman (Jess Franco,1968?) The Love Factor (?-British, 1969) Love Drones (???, 1970's hardcore space porn) Galaxina (1980 spoof of star wars/trek) i really dug Future Woman. extremely hot eurobabes in future-tights with huge guns rule an all-female island called "Femina". look for this. i think it's available from sinister cinema. hope to see you there l.a. people, kevin leeeeee >LUST IN SPACE! > > > >April 17, 1999 >Doors Open 9:00 p.m. >Gallery B-12, 1645 N. Ivar, Hollywood >$5.00 suggested donation > >************************************************************************ > >DRESS CODE: Barbarella goes Y2K meets the Jetsons using a space-age >polymer >************************************************************************* > >DJ's Perry Bathous and Kevin Leeeeee >Theremin performance by Charlie Lester >Match Game 2076 >Artworks from the cryogenically frozen head of master cartoonist and >pedophile Bil Keane >Accolades for sartorial brilliance/Future Shock fashion show >The space-age musical stylings of BRAIN GARDEN >-and- >Matty SparTAYcus Mutator and his dancing Space-Kittens! >Vide-O-Ho HO >Other Surprises...? > > >Mayor "Jupiter" Jim King, Wayne "Mercury" Manous and "Rocket" Robson >will be waiting to greet you upon impact > >Drink Tatooine Tang with Eric "Mork" Howard and "Martian Princess" >Milena > >Your prime directives: (1) decide what to wear (futurefuck attire IS >mandatory) (2) RSVP to la@burningman.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, 14 Apr 1999 23:58:21 -0700 (PDT) From: kevin@astsoft.com (kevin leeeeee) Subject: (exotica) lust in space (update) sorry, here's the updated, better written info: Saturday, April 17, 9 p.m. The Los Angeles Cacophony Society Presents L U S T I N S P A C E It's spring and time for all jetboys and astrogirls to awake from their frozen hypersleep to obey the gene-spreading imperative. Across the galaxy, bug-eyed daredevils just like you risk burnout on reentry to fill dangerous cantinas crawling with potential spawn-mates. Join them Saturday, April 17 at Gallery B-12, 1645 North Ivar, Hollywood. Don't forget your spacey duds for admission discount ($4.00, $6.00 without.) SCHEDULED FOR REENTRY: * Hyperwave Glamour Pop of ASTROPANTIES, vibrating with the magnetic astrophysicality of Space Siren Vylette. * Electrified monkey marching band APE HAS KILLED APE performing "Conquest of Ape has Killed Ape" on trombone, sax, Moog, surge, and Theremin along with guest appearances by Bill Blake * of the '70s Planet of the Apes television show) and Natalie Trundy, * veteran of Conquest of... Beneath the.. Escape from...and Battle for.... The Planet of the Apes). * Electronic hypno-stim by BRAIN GARDEN. * Outerworldly oscillations by Thereminist CHARLIE LESTER. * Percussionist MATTY THE MUTATOR hammering out cosmic cadences on assorted space junk along with squirming astral bodies Electra and Fiery Felines. * Punk electronique ROBOT MONSTER unleashes terrifying anal-ogue assault. * Bad girl KARI KAOS, aka. the "Pussy Print-cess," performing a Spacetease. * DJs PERRY BATHOUS and KEVIN LEEEEE spinning out-of-orbit tunes. * Light & multimedia effects by MUTECH. More info: e-mail la@cacophony.org, (213) 694-2478 More info on Show: http://www.cacophony.org/la/thismonth.html#event2 Map to Show http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=1645+North+Ivar&csz=Los+Angel es%2C+CA&Get+Map=Get+Map # Need help using (or leaving) this 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: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 05:46:35 From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) Independent article on the Theremin I thought the list might find the following interesting. Brad - -------- Arts: Woooo-eeeee The theremin was the first electronic instrument. Invented by a Russian spy, it defined the sinister score of Hitchcock's Spellbound and gave a groundbreaking sound to the Beach Boys' `Good Vibrations'. By Robert Webb (Independent - London; 04/13/99) In 1945, Alfred Hitchcock was searching for a new sound. His Freudian chiller, Spellbound, required a score that would really raise goosebumps. Hitchcock's composer, Miklos Rozsa, suggested using the theremin. Hitch agreed to give it a go although, Rozsa recalled later, he wasn't exactly sure if you "ate it or took it for headaches". In fact, the theremin had been around for 25 years and could lay claim as the earliest viable electronic musical instrument. Its ethereal wail was perfect for the psychotic terror that seeped through the film. The theremin was named after its inventor, Leon Theremin, born in Russia in 1896. The leading authority on both man and machine is Albert Glinsky. "He was an extraordinary inventor," says Glinsky. "He supported the Bolsheviks in 1917 and after the Revolution was in Leningrad working on surveillance equipment and pioneering an early form of television. The instrument that bears his name was developed in 1920 while he was experimenting with radio apparatus to measure the dielectric constant of gasses." This seems as improbable as Adolphe Sax stumbling across the saxophone whilst plumbing in a U-bend, but no less sensational is the invention itself. It resembles no more than a plain box of coils and wires with a couple of aerials protruding. Operation is quite simple, but fiendishly difficult to master. Glinsky explains: "Two high- frequency oscillators generate an identical note beyond the reach of human hearing. The theremin allows the natural body capacitance of the hands to control electrical fields in the air between the antennae." Astonishingly, the theremin is unique as the only musical instrument played with no actual physical contact. With one hand controlling the pitch, and the other the volume, the chaotic whines and groans can be modulated to produce discrete musical pitches. Played proficiently, the sound is not unlike the human voice, a kind of ghost in the machine. Imagine listening to the Star Trek theme on shortwave radio. Leon Theremin unsurprisingly attracted the attention of the KGB and his invention was classified as top secret. To escape the restrictions on his work, he fled Russia for the United States in 1927. "In America it was announced as a magical device which heralded a new era in electronic music," says Glinsky. RCA were quick to see the novelty value and manufactured 500, backed by a fierce publicity campaign. Many people were unsure what to make of the new gadget. Even more baffling was how to play it. "I almost don't like to say this, but it's really the most difficult musical instrument in the world to play," admits Glinsky. At home, the untutored player simply had to imagine the notes and grope around in the air, hoping for the best. "Most people found it impossible, managing little more than a police-siren squeal. So they gave up and left it to gather dust in the garage." Only a few budding players became skilled. One virtuoso was Samuel Hoffman, a New York chiropodist. The theremin became a trademark in the NBC band, for whom Hoffman, when he wasn't shaving corns, played the violin. It attracted his attention and before long Hoffman was transforming himself into Hal Hope, celebrated bandleader and theremin player. For a while, Hoffman was famous in Manhattan dancehalls, where his orchestra was billed as the "casino in the air". Eventually though, the theremin was just another gimmick: it failed to bring about the expected revolution in electronic music. "The anticipated technical developments just never happened," says Glinsky, "so people lost interest." Hoffman went back to his day job and, despondent, Leon Theremin returned to the Soviet Union in 1938, where he was imprisoned for "un-Soviet activities". When Hitchcock's composer phoned the Hollywood musicians' union in 1945 for someone to play his score, there was only one thereminist listed who could read music: Dr Samuel J Hoffman. Hoffman's performance on Spellbound revived his thrilled cinema-goers. In 1947, he teamed up with British songwriter Harry Revel and full orchestra to record Music Out Of The Moon, the first in a series of 78s for Capital records, now the subject of a repackaged CD set. With selections entitled "Lunar Rhapsody", "Celestial Nocturne" and "Radar Blues", it presented music which, according to the sleeve notes, "can affect the sensitive mind in a way that is sometimes frightening... always fascinating". It was followed by two more recordings in 1948 and 1950: Music For Peace Of Mind and Perfume Set To Music, with arrangements by Billy May and the carpet- slipper king of lounge music, Les Baxter. The theremin was back. Dr Hoffman's career took off: he remained in Hollywood and through the Fifties tingled spines on many classic sci- fi soundtracks, notably Bernard Herrmann's The Day The Earth Stood Still. Twenty-one years after Hitchcock first took the theremin to the movies, Brian Wilson was also in Hollywood, recording one of pop's greatest three- and- a-half minutes. "Good Vibrations" was the Beach Boy's second song to feature the theremin: the first being "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times". A vital contribution to an astonishing record, it quickly became a pet sound. The following year Captain Beefheart reputedly drafted in none other than Sam Hoffman to electrify his first album, Safe as Milk. The theremin, in various customised forms, has since provided a background hum for artists as diverse as Kraftwerk, Paul Weller and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Jimmy Page has a special fondness for it, using it on Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" and on the recent Page and Plant tour. Hawkwind's thereminist, it is rumoured, even fashioned an axe-shaped version to fit in with his local music scene. The ultimate air guitar, you might say. A few models have even found their way into museums. This month, the Science Museum in London is staging The Aetherphon, a dramatised history of the instrument. The organiser, Geraint Thomas, is excited. "We were one of the first to show a practical interest in the theremin. Our player, Andrew Mackay, studied under Lydia Kavina, a niece of Leon Theremin and a skilled player in her own right." And Leon Theremin himself? In the early Nineties, Albert Glinsky met him in New York, filming a documentary about his long and improbable life. "Most people assumed he was dead," recalls Glinsky. "In fact, he'd been working at Moscow University but was shunned because of his work for the KGB. Although he had played in Europe in the mid-Eighties, this was the first time he had been in the US since he left in 1938. It was a very moving occasion." In 1991, two years before his death at 97, Leon Theremin was publicly honoured as the godfather of electronic music. Without him, we would have had no good vibrations. Other Early Electronic Instruments: Ondes Martenot Invented in 1928, it was the first successful electronic instrument that is still regularly used by orchestras today. Its primitive tones were first harnessed by Edgar Varese, the pioneer of artificial sound, on his Ecuatorial (1933-4), paving the way for experimental works by John Cage, Stockhausen and Messiaen (notably his exuberant Turangalila Symphony). Rhythmicon American avant-garde composer Henry Crowell built the first electronic rhythm machine in 1930. In the Fifties it pulsed on producer Joe Meek's early recordings. Later, it was sampled by Tangerine Dream and reputedly used by Pink Floyd on Atom Heart Mother (1969). Clavoline The clavoline arrived in 1947 and was used by composer John Barry before becoming the sound of the future thanks to the Tornados' hit "Telstar" (1962), produced by Joe Meek. It was used, incidentally, by Stanley Kubrick in Dr Strangelove (1963). Electronium and Clavivox A couple of the many gizmos developed in the Fifties and Sixties by the composer, engineer, and electro genius Raymond Scott. The Clavivox was one of the first polyphonic sequencers and the Electronium was used on his album of ambient lullabies, Soothing Sounds For Baby (1963), which was recently reissued on Basta records. Scott also wrote merry melodies for Warner Bros cartoons and in the Seventies he was hired as an electronics whiz-kid at Motown Records. Moog Synthesiser Robert Moog developed his ideas for an electronic instrument from building and selling theremin kits in 1961. After the success of Walter Carlos's Switched On Bach (1968) everyone seemed to be using a moog. Except Queen, who declared in their credits "no synthesisers!". Mellotron Built by West Midlands firm Streetly Electronics, the first mellotron arrived in 1963. Its most famous appearance was on the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967) and it was beloved of Seventies prog rockers. A set of keys triggered taped recordings of musical instruments. Most models had to be junked when the tapes stretched and the distortion became too much. Stylophone This monophonic xylophone had all the musical sophistication of a klaxon. Manufactured by Dubreq in the late- Sixties, it was heavily promoted by Rolf Harris. David Bowie radioed Ground Control with it on "Space Oddity" (1969). `Dr Hoffman and the Theremin' is available from Basta Records/Direct Distribution. Albert Glinsky's biography of Theremin, `Out of the Air' will be published next year. The Aetherphon is on at the Science Museum, London, 17 and 18 April (Copyright 1999 Newspaper Publishing PLC) # Need help using (or leaving) this 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 #372 *****************************