From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #609 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 Friday, January 28 2000 Volume 02 : Number 609 In This Digest: Re: (exotica) Tikis In Film (exotica) Sat Feb 5th show (exotica) Rusty in Orchestraville Re: (exotica) Kahuna Nomination List, SO FAR Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads (exotica) shrunken head at a "real" auction (exotica) [obit] Friedrich Gulda (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982 (exotica) Re: Rusty in Orchestraville (exotica) 3 more SOA shows: Francoise Hardy, year 2000, Fay Lovsky Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982 Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982 Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982 Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982 (exotica) Air performance at Sundance (exotica) May I take all your belongings? (exotica) Rusty in Orchestraville Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads (exotica) fwd: Recording Industry Association of America Vs. MP3.com Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982 RE: (exotica) The Wurst of the Worst Singers! (exotica) Shrunken Heads RE: (exotica) The Wurst of the Worst Singers! (exotica) more OT industry stuff (exotica) Volcano sorry etc (exotica) wheels and notes (exotica) Fwded..... (exotica) Lake George HoJo Tiki Resort ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 23:57:02 -0800 From: "Otto" Subject: Re: (exotica) Tikis In Film > No! > That scene doesn't count because that was filmed at The Derby (the famous > neo-Swing club where later Swing dance sequences are shot) on a Lounge night > and my friend Chris Nichols did the decor for that room and the filmakers > shot that scene in front of Chris' set without getting permission or > crediting Chris. For the filmakers to create that set via rentals would have > cost them about $400.00 > > Aloha > Otto > > otto@tikinews.com > www.tikinews.com > > ---------- > >From: "Josh Renaud" > >To: "Exotica List" > >Subject: Re: (exotica) Tikis In Film > >Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2000, 6:30 AM > > > > > > >| Had any other sightings (famous or obscure)? > > > > > >Does the scene in Swingers (Vince Vaughn, and others) where they're at the > >Bamboo Lounge count? Thats all I can think of... > > > >JOSH # 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, 27 Jan 2000 00:34:24 -0800 From: "Otto" Subject: (exotica) Sat Feb 5th show I am not involved in this show but am attending because, well, how could I resist See you there? When: Saturday February 5th sometime after dark Where: The Cell 2050 Bryant between 18th and 19th street A real casino in San Francisco? It must be Chicken John's Lost Vegas an event that brings out the ooze in loser, the con in convulsion and the die in divest. You meager entrance fee is your first bargain, you get entrance to the first floor, $25 worth of gambling chips, a ticket for the buffet, the worlds smallest shrimp cocktail and a black mark on your permanent record. Lost Vegas features 6 for real live action Vegas games,just like the big boys. Crackjack, big dice, poke-her, foolette, the wheel of smut and crap. You place the bets, you call the numbers, you cash out at the redemption center for useless prizes. It's all about you, baby. Who is the band, you ask? Why none other than Mr. Lucky and the Cocktail Party featuring Ralph Carney on the horn. Monga-Lounge (all DEVO lounge cover band). Other entertainment? The hoochie-kootchie room upstairs for V.I.P's., Rev. Hal will perform short duration Sub-genius style marriages, The Devil-Ettes, all of 'em, will kick and scream through 3 performances, and the Earth's only one-man-band *Elvis* impersonator! Wow what a night! Admission $8. doors open at 9:00. Aloha Otto otto@tikinews.com www.tikinews.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This mailing list is brought to you by Slick.ORG at http://www.slick.org to remove yourself from the list, send e-mail to majordomo@slick.org and include the words "unsubscribe tikievents" in the message (not in the subject). For web-based help, go to: http://www.slick.org/cgi-bin/majordomo * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # 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, 27 Jan 2000 07:08:30 EST From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Rusty in Orchestraville Anyone familiar with a record called "Rusty in Orchestraville"? Who did the music? What does it sound like? Sean # 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, 27 Jan 2000 09:27:41 -0500 From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Kahuna Nomination List, SO FAR Oh, it's some kind of "whats-the-best-music" kinda listy thingy.......I = don't know what category you'd put these guys in, (new lounge??) but = MONTEFORI COCKTAIL deserves some kind of award. This happenin' CD throws out some wicked tunes in a lounge/dance style = with sly references to "manah manah" singing style...... - - Nate >>> Moritz R 01/25 9:41 AM >>> Have I missed something? WHAT is this Kahuna thing? Mo # 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. # 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, 27 Jan 2000 16:52:17 +0000 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads Otto wrote: > Mo > these types of heads are tourist items and are REALLY cheap all over South > America > back in the 80s you could get em for about $5.00 > but if you could speak Spanish you could get them for as little as $1.00 > > they are also available in New Orleans in a few of the voodoo shops there > and of course are much more expensive You mean, they are not real? I was assuming they were real, because I know there are real ones around; in a shop in Hamburg, Harry Rosenberg's Hafenbazar, there is a real shrunken head. The owner doesn't sell it, but you can look at it, if you give him 2$. Mo # 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, 27 Jan 2000 11:21:52 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) shrunken head at a "real" auction Currently up on ebay is a catalog from a "real" auction. The last line is the one of interest here. - -Lou http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=246433396 Presenting for you the illustrated catalogue for the February 14, 1999 auction of Natural History at Butterfield & Butterfield simultaneously in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Natural history has become the latest craze in the world of blue-chip auctions. This softcover catalogue lists approx. 300 lots in 99 glossy pages, including minerals, meteorites, dinosauria, trilobites, and an authentic shrunken human head that was retreived from the Jivaro tribe of eastern Ecuador. (Sold for $13,800.) see also: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=242655633 # 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, 27 Jan 2000 12:06:24 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Friedrich Gulda Filed at 11:27 a.m. EST By The Associated Press VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Friedrich Gulda, an eccentric man widely considered one of Austria's foremost classical and jazz pianists, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack at age 69, the Austria Press Agency reported. Gulda was praised by music critics for his interpretation of the piano music of Beethoven, Bach and Mozart. But in the 1950s, Gulda increasingly devoted his attention to jazz and became one of Europe's pre-eminent crossover musicians. To the public at large, however, Gulda was better known for eccentric behavior in which he mocked what he considered the pretensions and stuffiness of Austria's staid artistic establishment. Fond of wearing an embroidered cap and rejecting staid concert hall attire, Gulda often shocked people with the harsh language he used to criticize the artistic establishment. On March 28, Austrian media received a death notice that Gulda himself had circulated to see the reaction. A few days later, he celebrated a ``resurrection party'' together with a go-go group known as the Paradise Girls. The Austria Press Agency said Gulda died at his home in the village of Weissenbach in the Salzkammergut area of western Austria. Last year, Gulda ``forbade'' obituaries after his death, saying he wanted to make sure that the ``filth thrown'' at him by journalists during his lifetime would not be repeated after he was gone. Gulda was born in Vienna and began performing in public at age 14. At age 20 he played New York's Carnegie Hall. After moving into jazz, Gulda played at the Newport Jazz Festival. He had planned to celebrate his 70th birthday with a concert May 15 in Vienna. He is survived by two sons. Funeral plans were pending. http://www.darvas.de/gulda.htm http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=11:50:58|AM&p=amg&sql=B8661 http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?UID=11:50:58|AM&p=avg&sql=BP|29226 Plug this URL: http://archiv.bz-berlin.de/bz/archiv/970930_pdf/BZ056003.htm into: http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/ for a short interview. # 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, 27 Jan 2000 09:15:39 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982 I was playing a Hugo Montenegro album I had picked up a while back in near mint sealed (except for a small area where mildew had crept in all over the cover in a nice white and black and grey powdery mixture that easily brushed off to reveal a nice shiny cover) Well it was straight ahead easy listening music except for a country flavored guitar, and I thought what year is this? The album is from 1982. Its called "Beautiful Music". Now I don't get it. I have never bumped into 1980 or 1990s straight ahead easy listening music before. I just assumed the genre died in the late 70's. What ever happened to easy listening music? Is it still being made today? I am going to have to read that Elevator Music Book Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.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, 27 Jan 2000 10:36:24 -0800 (PST) From: wams Subject: (exotica) Re: Rusty in Orchestraville > Anyone familiar with a record called "Rusty in Orchestraville"? > Who did the music? What does it sound like? Yessir. I own this set: Rusty in Orchestraville Capitol Album BC-35, (3-10" 78s, six sides) Written and produced by: Alan Livingston, (of WB "toon" Fame) Talking and singing sound by: "Sonovox" Along the same lines as "Tuby the Tuba." Haven't listened to it though, (so MANY records, so LITTLE time!) Cheers! R.D. "Gus" Frederick Wolverine Antique Music Society http://www.shellac.org/ # 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, 27 Jan 2000 13:40:53 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) 3 more SOA shows: Francoise Hardy, year 2000, Fay Lovsky January 21, 2000 Francoise Hardy on Spinning On Air Listen: http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soa012100.ram French songwriter and singer Francoise Hardy was born on January 17, 1944, and this program, originally broadcast on her 50th birthday, features an hour of Hardy's recordings. Her songs blend some of the mainstream pop trends of the sixties-through-eighties with a quality that's more intimate, personal, and inventive. January 14, 2000 Spinning On Air Listen: http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soa011400.ram Spinning On Air in the year 2000! The year 2000 has long been a significant chronological landmark, inspiring prophesies, predictions, fantasies, and...music. David Garland explores some of the ways the past has envisioned this future of today. From Edward Bellamy's utopian novel of 1888, "Looking Backward 2000-1887," to Y2K novelty songs and the forecasts of crackpots and science fiction writers, we'll find out what has and hasn't come true. January 7, 2000 Spinning On Air Listen: http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soa010700.ram Composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Fay Lovsky came all the way from Amsterdam to New Amsterdam to join David Garland on WNYC and present and talk about her work. Fay's whimsical and/or insightful songs straddle categories and touch down in pop, experimental, and old-style cabaret. She claims to play the Musical Saw best of all her instruments, but for this show she brought along her guitar and her theremin. # 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, 27 Jan 00 10:47:04 -0800 From: "B.J. Major" Subject: Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982 >I was playing a Hugo Montenegro album I had picked up a while back in near >mint sealed (except for a small area where mildew had crept in all over the >cover in a nice white and black and grey powdery mixture that easily brushed >off to reveal a nice shiny cover) > >Well it was straight ahead easy listening music except for a country flavored >guitar, and I thought what year is this? The album is from 1982. Its called >"Beautiful Music". > >Now I don't get it. I have never bumped into 1980 or 1990s straight ahead >easy listening music before. I just assumed the genre died in the late >70's. What ever happened to easy listening music? Nothing "happened" to it at all, AFAIA. But like any other form of music, its popularity comes and goes with the general public, though there are those of us for whom it is never out of style! >Is it still being made >today? Of course; it's just a bit harder to find. In yesteryear, easy listening was a mainstain of record stores; now it occupies a much smaller section of the store, but it's still there. Unfortunately, a lot of folks who made easy listening are no longer with us (Henry Mancini, Lawrence Welk, Liberace, Sinatra, etc.) or are retired (Perry Como) or are just not recording any longer but still do personal appearances (Andy Williams). Even my hero Walter Wanderley continued to make LPs through at least part of the 1980s; the most recent I can find is "Perpetual Motion Love" which came out in 1981. With the addition of ARP synthesizer to the piano and organ as well as the type of material chosen for the LP, this album has a much more general pop and easy listening sound to it than his early Trio and even further back Brazilian albums that sound decidedly more "cultural" (though I have to confess that there is nothing he recorded that I can honestly say I don't like or enjoy). >I am going to have to read that Elevator Music Book Someone once asked Henry Mancini if he minded that his music was becoming "elevator music". His reply was "not at all; with the likes of Cole Porter, Ellington, Basie, Gershwin, etc. in the same elevator, it's getting quite crowded in there, though!" Regards, - --bj The Walter Wanderley Pictorial Discography http://bjbear3.freeservers.com/Wanderley/main.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, 27 Jan 2000 14:23:10 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982 In a message dated 1/27/0 1:15:48 PM, chuckmk@yahoo.com wrote: >What ever happened to easy listening music? Is it still being made >today? One theory has it that fellas like Yawn-ni and record labels like Windham Swill are the state of current easy listening...In other words in the year 2525 people like us will be collecting it...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, 27 Jan 2000 23:02:51 +0000 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982 chuck wrote: > What ever happened to easy listening music? Is it still being made today? > In my entirely humble opinion, I believe that what once was Easy Listening has been taken over by what one could call Meditation music. Since the 70s you find all kinds of esoteric records, later CDs, with elegic electronic world music tunes, designed to "relax" "mind and body", just what Easy Listening once was made for. Today there's a new section called Chill Out music and you could even call that the Easy Listening of today. Mo # 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, 27 Jan 2000 23:07:57 +0000 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads >You mean, they are not real? I was assuming they were real, because I know there are >real ones around; in a shop in Hamburg, Harry Rosenberg's Hafenbazar, there is a real >shrunken head. The owner doesn't sell it, but you can look at it, if you give him 2$. Josh Renaud wrote: > Real shrunken heads? Is that scientifically possible?? perhaps they could > just use monkey heads Naaah, what I have seen wasn't a monkey. Of course it's possible. You take out the skull carefully, you sew up the neck, the eye lids and the mouth - I think you take care that the nose holes are left open, to let the air escape, and then you start the shrinking process; don't ask me which chemicals, herbs, smokes and whatever you need to get this working. The result however is a black little head the size of a small fist. If you contact me off-list I can send you a jpg of the head I've seen. Mo # 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, 27 Jan 2000 17:37:52 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982 At 09:15 AM 1/27/00 -0800, chuck wrote: > >Now I don't get it. I have never bumped into 1980 or 1990s straight ahead >easy listening music before. I just assumed the genre died in the late >70's. What ever happened to easy listening music? Is it still being made >today? I don't think easy listening ever stopped being made but certainly it was still being made in 1982. It's all a bit of a blur now but there were easy listening radio stations and I think all the usual suspects who were still alive, like Hagood Hardy and Frank Mills continued to make records till the end. And there were still soundtracks that had that sound. I'd have to go to a big record store to prove this but I suspect it's still being made. And I don't think relaxation and new age records have replaced it, just added to it. The difference between eighties easy listening and the earlier stuff that I like, I think, has to do with the markets they were trying to please. I think by the eighties, they were no longer trying to sell to kids or to grownup kids looking for a little rock experience. Or to light jazz lovers. Or to fantasy-driven bachelors. I think they were just trying to provide a little light classical muzak to those who truly liked their music "easy". Nat # 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, 27 Jan 2000 18:18:38 EST From: "William Walton" Subject: (exotica) Air performance at Sundance Not sure how strict the Exotica posting rules are, but I'm wondering if anyone was present, or heard/read reports of Air's performance at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Thank you. ______________________________________________________ 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: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:14:27 +1100 From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" Subject: (exotica) May I take all your belongings? Hey all! If anyone has any of those self-recorded 78's (paperboard 'Recordio Discs', or 'Duodiscs', etc.) and would be willing to part with them for some cool swappables, I'm putting a CD comp together of these homemade ancient ditties...any help is greatly appreciated!! Ciao, Keith **************************** http://www.lobue-art.com A virtual gallery and info site for the artwork and workshops of KEITH E. LO BUE **************************** # 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, 27 Jan 2000 19:20:41 -0500 From: Mark Renwick Subject: (exotica) Rusty in Orchestraville I am the original owner of a 12" LP copy of "Rusty in Orchestraville." Rusty is Side 1, "Sparky's Musical Mix-Up" is Side 2. Music is by Billy May! The sonovox uses some kind of mouthpiece and transducer to impart actual human laryngeal tone qualities on any sound sent through it. Thus, the record really sounds like the orchestral instruments (trumpet, clarinet, etc.) are talking. I loved it as a kid, and it's still neat! Didn't Peter Frampton use something along these lines on a hit record he had in the 1970s? - --Mark Renwick Jacksonville, Florida, USA tibia@att.net http://home.att.net/~tibia # 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, 27 Jan 2000 20:25:02 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads This has been posted before (probably by Linkmaster Lou), but... How to make a shrunken head: http://freeweb.pdq.net/headstrong/shrunken.htm 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: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:24:56 -0500 (EST) From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) fwd: Recording Industry Association of America Vs. MP3.com Recording Industry Association of America Vs. MP3.com 1) MP3 Website http://www.mp3.com 2) MP3 Essentials -- CNET http://home.cnet.com/category/topic/0,10000,0-4004-7-274644,00.html 3) "RIAA Sues MP3.com" -- _Wired_ http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33634,00.html 4) "MP3.com Response to RIAA Lawsuit Letter" -- MP3.com http://www.mp3.com/response.html 5) "MP3 Under Fire from Music Biz" -- ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2425788,00.html?chkpt=zdnntop 6) "RIAA vs. MP3.com Lawsuit Repeats Case Involving VCRs" -- On24 [RealPlayer] http://www.on24.com/vuwindow/scripts/vuwin.asp?ref=comt&id=12660&type=av 7) "Record Industry Sues MP3.com for Copyright Violations" -- NPR [RealPlayer] http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20000124.atc.02.ram 8) "Record companies sue MP3.com" -- BBC http://news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid%5F617000/617664.stm On January 12, 2000, MP3.com launched Instant Listening Service and Beam-it, free services that allow users to listen to their music CDs through their computers using MP3's applications and technology. A user loads CDs into his or her CD ROM drive, and the CD is then matched to one of the 40,000 CDs in MP3.com's database. Then MP3.com transfers a MP3-formatted copy of the CD from their database into the user's MP3.com account. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that these technologies infringe on the Copyright Act of 1971, which allows only the copyright owner to make a copy of a recording. An exception to this law, the Home Recording Act of 1992, was created by Congress in order to protect consumers from being sued by record companies for copying recordings for their own use. The RIAA believes that MP3.com is not covered by the Home Recording Act, because the company has made the copies, not the consumers, themselves. In a letter to MP3.com CEO Michael Robertson, RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen sums up her organization's stance: "Simply put, it is not legal to compile a vast database of our members' sound recordings with no permission and no license." The official Website (1) for MP3.com offers a broad listing of MP3's cataloged free music, downloadable software, and computer music industry news; it also connects to My.MP3.com. This inclusive guide to MP3 (2) was first reviewed in the March 26, 1999 _Scout Report_. A three-page article from _Wired Magazine_ (3) offers in-depth coverage of the MP3 lawsuit with analysis from leading Internet experts. MP3 CEO Michael Robertson responds to a letter from RIAA about the allegation of the violation of copyright laws (4). A short article from ZDNet (5) explains the reasons for the lawsuit and offers a space for readers to voice their concerns. This five-minute piece from On24 (6) features multimedia Internet analyst Philip Leigh. National Public Radio (7) details the problematic nature of MP3 and offers sound bites of MP3 CEO Michael Robertson defending MyMP3.com. This short article from the BBC (8) divides the issues surrounding this lawsuit into five parts. # 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, 27 Jan 2000 20:29:38 -0500 From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982 About a year ago, one of our national newspapers, The National Post, ran an article entitled "Musical stardom is all a matter of taste These Canadian recording artists are all best-sellers. So why are they not more famous?". Once you get below Celine and Shania, it seems the most successful Canadian recording artists include "Michael Jones, a psychologist and former motivational speaker living in Orillia," whose piano albums, with titles like Pianoscapes, have sold almost two million, and "Hennie Bekker's the 65-year-old Toronto composer [who] has sold two million albums worldwide, with 14 Solitudes albums and several other wildlife recordings that 'explore nature through music.'" The surprising thing about Bekker is that he's also the "B" in "BKS", a highly successful dance-music group. I sort of agree that this is the new easy listening music, and sort of don't, because of the meditation quality to which others have referred. Schlock versions of current movie themes by orchestras from the former Eastern Block seem better examples. Will ------------------------------------------------- Will Straw, PhD Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Communications McGill University http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ # 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, 27 Jan 2000 18:52:39 -0800 From: "Larson/Thomas" Subject: RE: (exotica) The Wurst of the Worst Singers! Speaking of unbearably bad music, am I the only list member to own a copy "Jack Carson Sings College Fight Songs?" Apparently he was an actor who thought he could sing. The results frighten my wife, so I don't play it too much. Jerry # 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, 27 Jan 2000 18:20:15 -0500 From: "Lou Smith" Subject: (exotica) Shrunken Heads From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads Date: 27 Jan 2000 23:07:57 +0000 >Naaah, what I have seen wasn't a monkey. Of course it's possible. You take out the skull carefully, you sew up the neck, the eye lids and the mouth - I think you take care that the nose holes are left open, to let the air escape, and then you start the shrinking process; don't ask me which chemicals, herbs, smokes and whatever you need to get this working. - -------------------- It probably won't surprise you to learn that every niche interest has a domain to serve it. Full instructions for the traditional art of head shrinking are available at: http://www.head-hunter.com/prep.html An explanation for the practice is at: http://www.head-hunter.com/tsantsa.html An 1921 National Geographic article on the Jivaro is at: http://www.head-hunter.com/ng.html And there's more, including an image gallery at http://www.head-hunter.com/gallery.html and stories of counterfeit shrunken heads dating back to the late 1800's are at http://www.head-hunter.com/fakes.html Another site with Jivaro/shrunken head info is: http://www.ci.riverside.ca.us/museum/exhibit/jivaro1.html Head shrinking was practiced by others besides the Jivaro. There's a photo of a Buchenwald prisoner's head, shrunken by the SS at: http://www.jentaoris.simplenet.com/holo/holo31.htm - -Lou # 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: 27 Jan 2000 20:17:08 -0800 From: bag@hubris.net Subject: RE: (exotica) The Wurst of the Worst Singers! At 06:52 PM 27-01-00 -0800, Jerry wrote: >Speaking of unbearably bad music, am I the only list member to own a copy >"Jack Carson Sings College Fight Songs?" Apparently he was an actor who >thought he could sing. Jerry, No, but I do have another Jack Carson LP I played just once. Not great singing, but it was amusing. He always seemed to play these shady characters on mostly TV. Byron Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way http://www.hubris.net/zolac The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth # 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: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:08:29 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) more OT industry stuff I'm sorry, this is off-topic (though relating to threads that have drifted through previously), but here's a really succinct analysis of the DVD Copy Control Authority and their lawsuit frenzy: http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker000127.htm 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: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 06:21:36 PST From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) Volcano sorry etc I was down in a volcano and got my skeleton completely crushed, when I woke up a little dragon was sitting by my bed. Before this I flew all over the universe, visiting people and talking to them. there are human life everywhere! So many strange things happening, that I wasnt aware of earlier. I would like to say I am sorry for any kind of feelings I might have hurt while on the huge ego ride last year, I was really scared and thought the whole world was after me. Now it seems the holy ghost wins the round. I am no longer afraid of death. I got slapped in the back by the sun as a punishment. I got a new cat named Tiki (Hes got an M on the forehead and is the kindest cat I have ever seen, i believe he is an reincarnation of Oscar, the cat I had before cause he uses the same grunts) Magnus ______________________________________________________ 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: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:45:34 -0000 From: Reader Geoff Subject: (exotica) wheels and notes Its been a slow old week after the new year frenzy. if it carries on like this I may be come off the digests and go back on the regular list. Been asked to dig out a copy of 'Wheels', to lend someone for a performance they're doing. All I can find so far is the Joe Loss cha cha version off the Studio 2 sampler (Impact I think). Good not great. In my typical state of mental confusion I had it mixed up with Eso Beso for some reason. (Charles, stay off that weed see what it did for me). Anyway any ideas on a good version of this? And similarly i must cough to confusing Klaus Wunderlicht and Bert Kaempfert. I always do and I don't know why. It was Klaus who did the Moog 2000 LP. But I was playing his LP 'Sudamerikana vol3' (in the new pops style) last night, and what a great version of '1 Note Samba'. Moogy and daft, and certainly the equal of most of Moog 2000. Enjoy the weekend. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com 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: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:49:03 -0500 From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Fwded..... A strange turn from the Cowabunga surf music group.....one of the bands' = songs was turned into Muzak! << Funny, I heard Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't=20 Fear the Reaper" in Muzak and thought it sounded pretty cool. I think = they=20 caught a lot of flak way back when for recording a song about suicide. >> Actually Muzak caught flack over songs a lot more innocuous than that. = When=20 Judy Collins had her hit version of "Amazing Grace" Muzak added an=20 arrangement by Frank Chacksfield only to find some of their clients from = down=20 South threatening to cancel. Denis wrote<> Yeah? Well, F Time Magazine. There's nothing wrong with piped in music,=20 nowadays it can done pretty well. Today the programmers behind the piped = in=20 music are more adventurous and interesting than their counterparts in = radio=20 (I realize that's not saying much, but it's true). Just the other day I = was=20 shopping for groceries at Raley's and their music service was playing a = great=20 mix of oldies, stuff that I would never hear on one of the oldies = stations=20 here (and I know, 'cause I used to work for one of 'em). I was buying = carrots=20 and baby food to the strains of "Foot Stompin'" and I was a happy = shopper.=20 The only place where I heard Brian Wilson's "Imagination" single getting = any=20 play was on the music service used by my local Goodwill. (You might = think=20 that's a good thing, but I kinda liked the song, especially the acapella=20= version that was an extra track on the single.) The music programmers that I've had to deal with in radio are the most = lame=20 chickensh*t drones that I've ever come across. It's no wonder that the = pool=20 of people who listen to radio keep shrinking. And I bet it's gonna get = even=20 smaller if satellite radio takes off. Satellite radio sounds really=20 promising: a small antenna on your car, a small monthly fee and you get=20 access to a sprawling variety of music programming, chosen by people = who=20 might actually have some taste and balls. I hope it happens. So Time magazine thinks that Muzak is one of the worst moments of the century? I tell you, it's gotta be better the last 20 CDs recommended = by=20 Christopher John Farley. I kinda dig the idea of a group of mad scientists= =20 trying to use boring music to make work less boring. In it's earliest incarnations Muzak was not music for music's sake, it = was=20 music to serve a purpose. It was functional music. I dig my Muzak=20 demonstration LPs. They are filled with all sorts of nifty charts and = graphs=20 explaining how it's supposed to work. I've even played them on the radio, = if=20 only to explain the point that although Muzak has become a generic term it = is=20 actually a specific product, like Band-Aids. And before you dismiss the notion of functional music as vapid or = worthless,=20 consider this: something as cool as The James Bond Theme, which has = been=20 covered by countless surf bands, started off as a just another cut that = John=20 Barry did for a stock music library. The cut is also used in a the = pre-Bond=20 film "Beat Girl" whenever Christopher Lee's character shows up and it = makes=20 watching the movie a very strange experience. I came across another example of the power of stock music when I was = watching=20 a 1950s documentary about the Holocaust that used one of the same cuts = that=20 is in Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space." It was extremely disturbing = to=20 hear sounds that I associate with Tor Johnson and flying saucers accompanyi= ng=20 these horrific images. I won't go as far as saying "Muzak rules" but I might suggest that folks = send=20 'em some CDs. Who knows how they tracked down "Tiki Cabana," but they = are=20 probably looking for more songs like it.=20 Scott W =20 =20 # 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: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:10:07 -0500 From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: (exotica) Lake George HoJo Tiki Resort > >I am also considering swapping the Montreal Tiki Tour for a > sojourn to the > Lake > >George Howard Johnsosn Tiki Resort and Waikiki Supper Club - > IF they are > still > >indeed Tiki-themed. Can somebody tell me where this resort on Lake George actually is? At least what state? I would be interested in checking the place out too. Charlieman # 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 #609 *****************************