From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #527 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, October 21 1999 Volume 02 : Number 527 In This Digest: Re: (exotica) British schoolgirl pushed past boiling point by Welsh pelvis (exotica) Enoch Light Spaced Out CD Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices + my ebay stuff Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices (exotica) 3 Gals in Orchestraville (exotica) More on CD-R Media Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices Re: (exotica) Long Live the Salvation Army! (exotica) Plain Jayne Re: (exotica) Enoch Light Spaced Out CD (exotica) Tiki Tonga Homepage (exotica) Dick Schory Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices (exotica) Re: Sony Minidisc Mains adaptor (exotica) [obits] Dallas Bower,Stanley L. Dritz,Thomas Durden Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices Re: (exotica) Enoch Light Spaced Out CD (exotica) Smooth Sounds onLine (exotica) speaking of bootleg CDs... Re: (exotica) Plain Jayne (exotica) Beat Girl Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices (exotica) Cover Art of Sound Tracks (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices (exotica) Re: Pam Am/ad campaigns Re: (exotica) Albums Found At Estate Sale Re: (exotica) speaking of bootleg CDs... Re: (exotica) speaking of bootleg CDs... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:35:01 -0700 From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: Re: (exotica) British schoolgirl pushed past boiling point by Welsh pelvis Thanks for the article. Though it was a bit... Hard to Handle. (But I guess that's... Not Unusual.) Eeeeeheeeheehehehehe! Somebody STOP me! # 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, 20 Oct 1999 19:37:01 -0400 (EDT) From: delicado@cheerful.com Subject: (exotica) Enoch Light Spaced Out CD If anyone's interested, I noticed that this place: http://musicgraveyard.com/graveyard/pop.html has Enoch Light's 'Spaced out' on CD available for $3.99 regards, Jonny - ----------------------------------------------------- Get free personalized email at http://email.lycos.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, 20 Oct 1999 17:30:30 -0700 From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices Ther reason I love my stand-alone machine is because I also have a minidisk player and a DAT, so I am able to create master recordings on other more forgiving media - the minidisk offers some basic editing features- then I transfer digitally to the standalone CD recorder. The downside of the CD recorder is that there is no second chance if you blow-it by up-cutting a track or if the levels are wrong, or whatever. Once it's there, it's there. As for some of these machines that require "special" (read expensive) disks, These can be fooled into using the cheap ones very easily. The "special"disks are only special in that they have a little code on them to tell the recorder "Yes, I am a special disk that was purchased for WAY to much money" To which your recorder responds, "What a rube that guy/gal is...Okay, I'll record on you." But all one needs to do is remove the "special" disk from the machine and substitue an "ordinary" (read: about 3 bucks cheaper) disk and record away! And I bet the machine will start respecting you for your resourcefulness. But for most applications, the PC-based burners are in my estimation the best buy if you already have reasonably fast PC (233 mhz or faster) There are some cheap, effective editing packages out there like CoolEdit that are easy enough to learn. Once you have one good CD, you need not save the info on the hard disk to make another, just put the disk in the CD player tray and blank in the recorder, and WHAM-O you'll have a copy in a quarter of the time it takes to listen to it. The problem with these? If you don't keep your system running tipity-top, you may end up pulling your hair out in clumps with the frustration of making lotsa little gold frisbee/coaster/big earring/no-worky cd's. Just ask Basic-Hip. Ron # 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, 20 Oct 1999 20:49:14 EDT From: Thinkmatic@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices + my ebay stuff In a message dated 10/20/99 4:29:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, djbatman@tin.it writes: > stand-alone cd recorders are better than pc cd burners. > Not even a direct SCSI copy (ie a physical copy from SCSI cdrom to SCSI cd > burner) is like that... and believe me, I know people who have been doing > serious tests with external recorders and pc burners. It's just not a fair comparison. A PC/Mac with a decent sound card can do amazing things with digital audio manipulation. A stand-alone recorder may make great copies of other CDs, but it can't do a fraction of what a properly tuned and equipped (software/hardware) computer can do, especially with vinyl. - -RGB # 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, 20 Oct 1999 20:59:04 EDT From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices << a gold cd, a gold cd -- my kingdom for a gold cd. any news on which ones are gold yet? >> I found gold ones at the Guitar Center. Apgoee is the brand. I think Quantegy makes gold ones too. Marketing seems to be for the "audio professional", so they are not on the shelves at Office Depot or Comp USA. I don't know if they work any better or not. The noontime, underground SF MUNI trip I take down to 9th and Mission from the financial district to stock up fills me with the sense that I am using something special when I strip the wrap from one. You can order them online if you can't find them locally... # 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, 20 Oct 1999 17:22:33 -0700 From: "Carl Russo" Subject: (exotica) 3 Gals in Orchestraville I do hope this hasn't been mentioned: A clever and totally creepy use of the Sonovox in a film is A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. It occurs 3 times (once for each wife). Check the flick out regardless--Mankie won two Oscars for Best Director and Best Screenplay. BTW, I still own my childhood Rusty LP the folks bought for us chillun back in the 60s. Beat to shit, it is. C. "Ratso" Russo www.ratso.net # 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, 20 Oct 1999 22:21:15 -0400 From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr Subject: (exotica) More on CD-R Media For those who want to read more about different CD-R media, here are a couple of links: http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/faq07.html (From the massive and indispensable "CD-Recordable FAQ") http://www.mitsuigold.com/tech_papers/manufa.htm (From CD-R media manufacturer Mitsui) Interestingly, it is Mitsui gold blanks to which people most often ascribe magical powers. Yet their web site says: "Visual differences between various media types are irrelevant from the standpoint of their actual operation. At 75O nm, where CD-R recorders and CD-ROM readers function, the media are, for all intents and purposes, indistinguishable from an optical standpoint") cheers, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # 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, 20 Oct 1999 23:28:08 EDT From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices << I found gold ones at the Guitar Center. Apgoee...>> sorry, that is APOGEE. # 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, 21 Oct 1999 11:17:50 +0200 From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Long Live the Salvation Army! Ron Grandia wrote: > WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! > > YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH > YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH > > Now THAT's a shopping spree! > > Can you send the list again indicating Mono/Stereo and Condition of each? LOL. Well... as soon as my fingertips stop bleeding from typing this damn list.... Seriously: Most records were in a good condition. From about 250 I bought I had to dump 3 right away, because they were actually broken. Then there were about 5 records that were really scratchy, but no skips. The rest ranged from OK to almost mint. The Martin Denny Golden Greats was in fact Stereo and I replaced my own Mono version with it. Mo .................................................................................................... http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt/exofaq.html # 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, 21 Oct 1999 11:36:54 +0200 From: Ton Rueckert Subject: (exotica) Plain Jayne I knew that Jayne Mansfield was no dumb blond and that she had a degree in literature, and I knew that she could sing, but I had no idea she played the violin (and apparantly the piano too), until I saw a fragment last week of her playing a violin concerto (Mozart?), I mean, I'll treat you all to a round of Gulpen Framboise if that was playback. No, it was not great, but by no means something to be ashamed of, it still beats Vanessa Mae all the time, and Jayne certainly was infinitely more sexy. Cheers, Ton *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # 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, 21 Oct 1999 11:45:55 +0100 From: Robbie Baldock Subject: Re: (exotica) Enoch Light Spaced Out CD Jonny wrote: > If anyone's interested, I noticed that this place: > http://musicgraveyard.com/graveyard/pop.html > has Enoch Light's 'Spaced out' on CD available for $3.99 That's incredible news! I've ordered 3 copies... ;-) Robbie - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # 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, 21 Oct 1999 13:04:00 +0200 From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: (exotica) Tiki Tonga Homepage I just discovered this: http://www.tiki.to It's actually run by someone I know from Frankfurt, Germany, but registered in Tonga. Mo .................................................................................................... http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt/exotica.html # 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, 21 Oct 1999 04:27:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Dick Schory Hey all, I happen to have a copy of Dick Schory's Runnin' Wild, but it's missing the inner liner; you know, the part with the neato design that shows through the cut out and all the liner notes and stuff? Anyway, I was wondering if someone somewhere had a beat dead unplayable copy that they wouldn't mind selling (or giving) me the liner from. I'd sure appreciate it, as it's been buggin' me a while. Thanks! Peter ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:32:25 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices In a message dated 10/20/99 2:27:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time, the_curator@eat78rpm.freeserve.co.uk writes: << the only time I've had a problem is when I wrote too close to the edge of the topside of the CD ... after a while, that CD clicked all the time (but out of time, dammit) it was playing >> do you think this is because some blank CD-R brands have a "feathery" edge at the periphery? tb # 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, 21 Oct 1999 07:51:54 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices In a message dated 10/20/99 12:03:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << I don't see myself doing the computer thing but is that still the better way? I'm on the verge of making my first four CDR's using my friend's machine. Two Now Sounds and two quasi-Crime Jazzes. One of the reasons I resist getting a CD recorder is that I fear the obsession growing a new tributary. But what's the common wisdom, is there any and if the stand-alone machines are good, what's a good one? >> if you are wanting to clean up vinyl, make mixes, etc., the computer burning is the way to go. robert # 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, 21 Oct 1999 09:49:49 -0500 From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: Sony Minidisc Mains adaptor A bit more tech talk on power adaptors: > i found one in the house, which although it had the right plug bit wouldn't > work ... checked the polarity and voltage was correct but only got a > strange clicking noise ... Phil, what make of adaptor do you use? You must match not just the voltage & polarity but the current as well. Many items like powered speakers, etc. draw more current than say a radio. Current requirements/ratings are given in milliamperes (ma) for small devices. The usual problem is not enough current rather than too much, at these low voltages. You may never match exactly but on a device with a motor you may be most likely to notice problems if the match is incorrect (vs. say speakers). Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # 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, 21 Oct 1999 09:55:55 -0400 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] Dallas Bower,Stanley L. Dritz,Thomas Durden The Associated Press Thursday, Oct. 21, 1999; 5:15 a.m. EDT LONDON –– Dallas Bower, a pioneer television producer who also worked in early radio and cinema, died Monday. He was 92. Bower began sound recording in radio when broadcasting was a novelty. He moved to cinema and then to television, where he became the first producer of drama and opera for the British Broadcasting Corp. He also directed feature films and documentaries, and was associate producer of Laurence Olivier's 1944 film "Henry V." One of Bower's first jobs was to record the soundtrack for Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film "Blackmail" for British International Pictures. That year he also recorded the first all-talking British film, "Under the Greenwood Tree." Bower was appointed to the BBC Television Service in 1936. During World War II, he made propaganda films as an executive producer in the government's Ministry of Information. Stanley L. Dritz NEW YORK (AP) – Stanley L. Dritz, who popularized the zipper and other sewing products as part of his family's business, died Saturday in White Plains, N.Y. He was 88. As president of John Dritz & Sons, Dritz raised the consumer appeal of a hookless fastener he had first seen in England. He made the fastener, commonly known as the zipper, out of plastic and rustproof metals. It was one of the hundreds of sewing aids found in his company's catalog, which also included the seam ripper and the electric scissors. Dritz was born in New York City and joined his father's business after graduating from college. He was president in the 1950s and 1960s, and the company was sold upon his retirement. Thomas Durden BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Thomas Durden, who wrote the lyrics to one of Elvis Presley's early big hits, ``Heartbreak Hotel,'' has died at age 79. ``He wrote a lot of good music that is out there. It's just that `Heartbreak Hotel' is the famous one,'' said his stepson, John White. Durden, who died Sunday at his home in Houghton Lake, met Presley as a result of the song. Presley called him ``sir'' and sent Durden Christmas cards to show his appreciation, White said. Durden co-wrote ``Heartbreak Hotel'' with Mae Boren Axton of Nashville, Tenn., who died in 1997. For reasons never explained, Presley also was given writing credit even though it was the work of Durden and Axton. Durden was born in Georgia and grew up in Florida, where his older brother had a musical influence on him. Durden had a good voice and a special talent for playing the steel guitar, which he refined throughout his life, White said. In 1956, Durden was single and performing with a band in Jacksonville, Fla., when he came across a newspaper account of a man who had committed suicide, White said. The man left a note that said, ``I walk a lonely street,''and Durden used it as the basis for ``Heartbreak Hotel,'' which begins: ``Since my baby left me ``I found a new place to dwell ``down at the end of lonely street at ``Heartbreak Hotel.'' Durden continued to write and perform music, playing with Nashville legends like Johnny Cash and touring with Tex Ritter, White said. He moved north to the Houghton Lake area and lived there for about 40 years. He performed with bands in northern Michigan, and their sets always included his hit song, White said. In a 1982 interview, Durden spoke of the impact ``Heartbreak Hotel'' had on his life. ``I wish I had 12 more songs just like it,'' Durden said. ``It has paid the rent for more than 20 years, but you can't get rich writing songs unless you have a lot of big ones.'' (SALT LAKE CITY) -- The world's oldest living zoo gorilla has died in the Salt Lake City zoo at the age of 50,leaving behind a cat named N'Jina. The entire city is mourning the death of Gorgeous, who was captured as an infant and spent most of her half-century at the Hogle Zoo. Gorgeous seemed to be doing fine after losing her teeth to a gum infection this month. She found dead in her cage over the weekend, apparently from old age. Although she was blind in one eye, Gorgeous lived a good 15-years longer than most zoo gorillas. To keep her company as she got older, her keepers gave her the kitten as a companion. For the past six years, Gorgeous and N'Jina have been inseparable. BANGKOK, Oct 15 (AFP) - Thailand's top snake charmer was killed by one of his cobras after it turned on him during a show, reports here said Friday. The three meter (10 foot) cobra sunk its teeth into 59-year-old Lod Pramuang's right leg, as he performed a boxing routine with the snake, the Bangkok Post reported. Lod swallowed a dose of herbal medicine after finishing his snake charming show in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen, but his condition deteriorated and he died later in hospital. NEW YORK (AP) -- A man building shelves in his apartment to store cages for his 12 pet pythons died when he fell off a ladder and onto a drill, police said Monday. The drill bit penetrated the right side of 36-year-old Thomas Giacometti's head Sunday night, police spokeswoman Theresa Farello said. Giacometti's brother, who shared the basement apartment, discovered the body and called police. - ------------------ Anatomy of a Genius The Man With the Golden Arm, Psycho, Vertigo, Anatomy of a Murder, and on and on and on. Great movies with great graphics by Saul Bass. This is a media-rich homage page and labor of love. And I really want those fonts used on the site! World Wide Web: http://www.Saulbass.co.uk/ - -------------------- StonerSound StonerSound is an interesting automatic music app that is free. 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Don's Boss Page -- http://donsbosspage.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: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:11:16 -0500 From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices Moritz wrote: > I've recorded some blue BASF CDRs for Brian and most of them didn't play > on his really old CD player. On newer equipment apparently no problems. Our computer CD drive plays everything. I should mention that we have a California Audio Labs "Icon" CD player complete with a new laser assembly and 20 bit /HDCD enhancement board and that this is no cheap machine! The problem, as was explained to me by the company, is that the output of the lasers of this generation (circa 1992) are not as high as the newer ones and the reflectivity index on blue (vs gold or silver) CD's is lower. I have few to no problems with silver or gold CDR's. Still, I brought back two blue Japanese recorded CDR's from France that work perfectly and have had some gold ones that sometimes miss. so who knows for certain! Still I'd have a tough time justifying the $1,000+ (probably closer to $2,000 in our $%!#* Canadian dollars) for a comparable replacement as the sound on this thing rivals that of a high end turntable! And the frightening thing is that by high end audio standards this machine is right near the bottom... Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # 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, 21 Oct 1999 11:43:55 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices In a message dated 10/20/99 11:28:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, BasicHip@aol.com writes: << sorry, that is APOGEE. >> apo*gee (noun) [French apogee, from New Latin apogaeum, from Greek apogaion, from neuter of apogeios, apogaios far from the earth, from apo- + ge, gaia earth] First appeared 1594 1 : the point in the orbit of an object (as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth; also : the point farthest from a planet or a satellite (as the moon) reached by an object orbiting it -- compare PERIGEE 2 : the farthest or highest point : CULMINATION -- apo*ge*an (adjective) # 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, 21 Oct 1999 12:24:18 -0500 From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Enoch Light Spaced Out CD >Jonny wrote: >> If anyone's interested, I noticed that this place: >> http://musicgraveyard.com/graveyard/pop.html >> has Enoch Light's 'Spaced out' on CD available for $3.99 Beware beware, dear exoticats. I picked this CD up last weekend and in between sloth and work deadlines, didn't send out an alert. The CD has all the hallmarks of a boot--read that, mediocre recording. Yup, there's some decent channel separation, but it's hamfisted, crude, like trimming your hair with a tomahawk. A dull tomahawk. It's not unlistenable, like the Bollywood CDs we've talked about here. It's just amateurish and maddening. And it almost seems to be an undeserved blot on the legacy of a man who labored compulsively to make exquisite recordings. On the other hand, it IS Spaced Out, an album many would place in their top 20 or higher, a rarity, a grail among collectors. Since I don't have the vinyl, I was gleeful when I found the CD in a sale rack. I think $4 or the $6 I paid at the Wherehouse Music chain is a fair price for it, if only for the fine song selection and the album's place in the EZ canon. Robbie, you should know it's not the score you hoped for. I'm so sorry. So music biz insiders or Enoch fans, what's the deal with the label: SPJ Music Inc., 95 Oser Ave., Hauppauge, NY 11788. 1999 copyright, registered. Is SPJ a business front for Enoch's heirs? Or is it a boot masquerading as a legit recording under the guise of a phony street address? Mimi # 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, 21 Oct 1999 11:40:38 -0700 From: The Millionaire Subject: (exotica) Smooth Sounds onLine Thought you all might like to know that there will soon be a new source for smooth and groovy sounds on the web;go to www.luxuriamusic.com to check it out.This is only a temporary, "Test Pattern" page, but there is currently streaming audio compiled by list members Bro.Cleve and Jack Fetterman, as well as Byron"Mr.Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" Werner and myself.Sadly, it is only listenable by windows users(with Windows Media Player).This change, though;I swear it! If any of you have suggestions as to features or programming you'd like to see when we finally go online (ETA:January 4),feel free to email me offline.I welcome your feedback. Ciao! The Millionaire # 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, 21 Oct 1999 15:32:54 EDT From: "William Walton" Subject: (exotica) speaking of bootleg CDs... Has anyone heard the Hal Blaine "Psychedelic Percussion" CD that's been floating around? I've been curious about it, but have had resrvations. There's nothing worse than a bootleg/semi-legit CD with poor mastering. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:47:34 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Plain Jayne In a message dated 10/21/99 5:37:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mojoto@plex.nl writes: << I knew that Jayne Mansfield was no dumb blond and that she had a degree in literature, and I knew that she could sing, but I had no idea she played the violin (and apparantly the piano too), until I saw a fragment last week of her playing a violin concerto (Mozart?), >> her daughter is on the Law and Order series (special victims unit). what a jaw line! robert # 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, 21 Oct 1999 16:42:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Beat Girl I posted a nice MP3 of John Barry's Beat Girl to www.click2send.com. The box is: Knuck's Box and the password for pickup is: pickup Happy listening! And if you like it, buy the CD! Peter ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:17:56 -0400 From: Citizen Kafka Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices Hi, all, among the mastering engineers and producers i work with in the more rarified high end world, the consensus is the Plextor 820 burner (i think it is available only as SCSI but i'm not sure) with any plextor approved media (often Mitsui Toatsu and some TDK). My setup includes 5 of these drives, which burn at 8x. My dubbing setup is a Mediaform 5400 (there are others just as good i think) with 4 plextors. This burns 4 74 minute CDs in 8 minutes. I've burned hundreds of CD-Rs with no failures, no returns, no rejects. The BLER error rates on this burner are incredibly low, and they are upgradable via CD firmware, a big advantage. This may be more than many folks are willing to do for burning audio, but it is well worth it in the medium and long run. To create a home system which will 'do the job' for the next few years, even if it becomes outdated, it will never be outmoded, and will be more reliable than 'prosumer' or consumer goods. I don't think plextor is OEM for other branded burners; it's either a Plextor or something else. the Plextor 412 is also excellent. There is a website which rates burners and media error rates which i can provide if anyone wants it. Note that this is all on the production end. Some CD players, even really expensive ones, cannot 'read' all types of CD-R. Yes, emulsion type/color is a good indicator of which ones will work and which won't... as they say, 'results may vary.' AND, to make things interesting, most every brand of burner is biased/optimized for a certain brand/emulsion of CD-R (the service people don't know this info, but the technicians will... you can try to reach someone knowledgeable at the tech end of the company which manufactures your burner and ask). hope this helps. ck - -- Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air" NEW!: every Tuesday 6 to 7 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM http://www.megasaver.com/page2/smradio.html http://wfmu.org/ then go to 'listen to wfmu' # 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, 21 Oct 1999 20:57:39 -0400 From: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: (exotica) Cover Art of Sound Tracks One of my favorite 'record cover reproductions' type books is now available at a very good price.... and I wanted to share the good news with the rest of you. 'The Album Cover Art of Sound Tracks' by Frank Jastfelder & Stefan Kassel sold for $29.95 when it first came out. That was the price I paid for it. It's now available for $5.98 (plus $5 shipping on your total order -- $15 outside the U.S.) If I was to own multiple copies of one of the books in my library, this might be the one I'd pick. To order, visit http://www.daedalusbooks.com Enter 91000 in the search box at top and the book will then come up on a page for you. The scan of the book cover used on this site is scaled wrong. In real life, the book is the same width/height as a full size record cover From the print catalog....see if this whets your appetite..... "This cinematic book presents a visual history of the great movie and television soundtracks from the 1950s to the early 1970s, from 'Breakfast at Tiffanys' and 'Thunderball' to 'Mission:Impossible' and 'Barbarella.' The soundtrack of these and other classic movies are among the most prized collectibles today - recordings that summon up the secret agents, starlets, glamor, and exotica of the past and set the mood for the 'cool modern' lounge scene. The book showcases art - rendered in technicolor - from nearly 300 of the greatest soundtrack covers, including many sought after items by such film music legends as John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, and Lalo Schifrin" The homepage also had a set of 12 cocktail themed note cards, originally priced at $7.95 now on sale for $2.98. There's probably lots of other good stuff for sale there, if you have the patience to flip through their pages. Vern # 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, 21 Oct 1999 18:33:43 -0700 From: "Stephen W. Worth" Subject: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices >Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:53:46 EDT >From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com >Subject: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices > >I have been having limited success sending some newly burned CDs to a friend >of mine. I have experimented with all different brands, colors, etc. of >blank CDs and they all seem to perform the same on my equipment. >Can some of the list members post their opinions/experiences using different >brands and "colors" of blank CDs? -Tiki Bob I've had problems with CD-RW disks in older CD-ROM drives, and I got several IMATION CD-R's that failed to record properly. Other than that, I have had no problems. See ya Steve Stephen Worth bigshot@spumco.com The Web: http://www.spumco.com Usenet: alt.animation.spumco Palace: cartoonsforum.com:9994 Spumco International 415 E. Harvard St. Ste. 204 Glendale, CA 91205 # 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, 21 Oct 1999 19:04:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Fish Wich Subject: (exotica) Re: Pam Am/ad campaigns A little while ago I picked up promo album released by the the Young & Rubicam ad agency called Buy Buy Baby. The cover has miniature images of a little girl in sunglasses dancing into a shopping bag. It's dated 1966 and has some really good now sound type themes from various ad campaigns. My favorite tracks are Arrow and Eastern - for the shirt company and airline, respectively. Others include Plymouth, Hunts, Remington, Chrysler, Gulf [Oil], Goodyear and Taystee. A couple tracks even feature Dick Hyman on organ, piano and as arranger! Kind regards, Mark > > I was wondering if anybody else has interesting "ad > campaign" albums. Do > tell! I've been thrifting for years, and this is the > only one of this type > I've ever come across. > > - Matt ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:13:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Fish Wich Subject: Re: (exotica) Albums Found At Estate Sale I don't know about the Arthur Lyman album but Russ Garcia's Carioca is one of my favorite albums. I don't know if your copy is stereo or not, but the sound quality (at least on the stereo version) is great. Regards, Mark - --- Stilgloria@aol.com wrote: > > I found some albums at an Estate Sale today and two > of them I've not heard of > and would like some feedback on them before I play > them. Thanks. > > Carioca by Russ Garcia and Call of the Midnight Sun > by Arthur Lyman. > ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 22:19:15 EDT From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) speaking of bootleg CDs... In a message dated 10/21/99 3:33:37 PM, stroboscopica@hotmail.com wrote: >Has anyone heard the Hal Blaine "Psychedelic Percussion" CD that's been >floating around? I've been curious about it, but have had resrvations. >There's nothing worse than a bootleg/semi-legit CD with poor mastering. At one point it was done combined with Emil Richards' "Stones" I believe, and I was not really moved by the music..I dotted about 4 cuts as playworthy..JB # 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, 21 Oct 1999 22:21:57 EDT From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) speaking of bootleg CDs... In a message dated 10/21/99 11:33:37 AM, stroboscopica@hotmail.com writes: << There's nothing worse than a bootleg/semi-legit CD with poor mastering. >> Boy, you can say that again. Some of my Bob Dylan and Beatles CD's and vinyl records are horrible. Very disappointing. Gloria # 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 #527 *****************************