From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #625 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 Monday, February 14 2000 Volume 02 : Number 625 In This Digest: Re: (exotica) Completist collecting/Steroe Action (exotica) Re: Charles Blackwell (exotica) Re: Speaking of Summer Samba... (exotica) Re: Kosinus Label Sale Re: (exotica) Re: Speaking of Summer Samba... Re: (exotica) Jazz in the 3rd Reich (exotica) Re: Stereo 45's (exotica) Free CDs from mp3.com!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Re: (exotica) Good-Lookin' Food That Stanks (exotica) New Releases (Hazlewood) Re: (exotica) Good-Lookin' Food That Stanks (exotica) Rota tear O/T Re: (exotica) Good-Lookin' Food That Stanks (exotica) For fans of Anandar Shankar and the like... Re: (exotica) For fans of Anandar Shankar and the like... (exotica) waste time with tv (exotica) Completist Manifesto (exotica) Collectivism and the Moog Monkey (exotica) Grandmaster Flash (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators Re: (exotica) Grandmaster Flash (exotica) Friendly Persuasion - Week of 02/14/00 (exotica) Collecting Re: (exotica) Collecting Re: (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators (exotica) FLY ME TO THE MOON Re: (exotica) waste time with tv Re: Re: (exotica) waste time with tv Re: (exotica) Completist Manifesto (exotica) Kahunas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 12:10:38 -0500 From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Completist collecting/Steroe Action At 7:38 PM 2/12/0, Br. Cleve wrote: >Stereos, like color TV's, were an expensive luxury item in the 50's/60's, >and a great many people only had monophonic players (to go with their b&w >TV's); I know my family did. The mono versions (yes, they do exist on all >those titles) were sold for a dollar less.... Yes, I recall the joyous day when our family's old hifi radio/turntable console was replaced by a spiffy new stereo set. My little bro still plays the stereo console and, you know what? It still sounds good. And my big bro started buying stereo albums, grumbling about higher prices and the mono play on 45s. Which brings up another question: 45 collectors/accumulators, when did labels start producing 45s in stereo? Was it around the time that FM band stereo began to replace AM broadcasts as the sound of choice for car audio? Thanks for the info about RCA's Stereo Action series, Br. Cleve. Do you or does anyone else know if the hifi versions of Stereo Action disks considered as collectible or even, weirdly, more desirable, than the stereo ones? Thanks again, 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: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:14:52 +0100 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Charles Blackwell Peter Hipwell wrote: >IIRC, there were >only ever a couple of singles; an album, set to be called "Those >Plucking Strings" was shamefully cancelled. i have a tape copy of an album by Charles Blackwell (not "orchestra"): Classics with a beat LP, Electrola, , SHZE 171 (Germany) with ez instro pop versions of classical pieces Johan ----- # 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: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:35:00 +0100 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Speaking of Summer Samba... Jack from Cincinnati wrote: >I have recently purchased the 1999 CD reissue of >a long time favorite thrift L.P. discovery : > >Marcos Valle "Samba '68 " Verve 559-516 that's the one that contains "ckrickets sing for Anamaria", my all-time fave bossa song! i think i need that CD re- too. Johan ----- # 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: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:40:36 +0100 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Kosinus Label Sale hi-iiiiiiiiiiiiii-ghly recommended, folks, "Good Moog" is unbelievably good Moog! Johan ----- # 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: Sun, 13 Feb 00 10:09:46 -0800 From: "B.J. Major" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Speaking of Summer Samba... >>I have recently purchased the 1999 CD reissue of >>a long time favorite thrift L.P. discovery : >> >>Marcos Valle "Samba '68 " Verve 559-516 > > > that's the one that contains "ckrickets sing for Anamaria", > my all-time fave bossa song! i think i need that CD re- too. > > Johan > To Johan and the others looking for this on CD: go to Dusty Groove. They have the CD of Valle's "Samba 68" in stock. I just ordered my copy.... 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 19:59:04 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Jazz in the 3rd Reich Mike Horne wrote: > Howdy, > Have these ever come out yet? > Mike > >Universal Music is planning a huge compilation on Jazz in the 3rd Reic= h, > >called "Swinging Ballroom Berlin". I propose we adjourn the discussion > >about this subject until the CDs are out. > > > >Mo Oh... yeah, good you remind me! What came out so far is a CD called "Swing, Jazz & Sweet From Berlin" - original historic recordings 1928-1943. Produced by Christian Kellersmann= , Cover art: Stefan Kassel. The liner-notes are very interesting telling the entire story of the musi= c culture and Americanism in Germany of that age and setting straight some misunderstandings as imposed by the recent Hollywood production "Swing Ki= ds". And they are in English! However, if you expect musical surprises and sensations, then you might b= e disappointed; it's a documentary that can help the interested musical archeologist complete his view of the music of the 20th century with a fo= cus on a very special age, i.e. Germany before and during the 3rd Reich. Still -= some nice tracks can be heard on this comp. "Wo ist der Mann?" by Marlene Diet= rich f.i., and I'm glad the publishers of the CD didn't succumb to the temptat= ion to choose all-too-well-known material, but took this rather unknown jewel in= stead. Then there's "Geisterspuk" (Ghost spook) by Robert Garden mit seinem Orch= ester, which I personally find quite interesting, as it has picturesque elements= like the ones Disney later used in the rides of his theme parks.There are also exotic pieces: "Corcovado" as performed by Bernard Ett=E9 mit seinem Tanzorchester and "Tabu" by a Billy Bartolomew mit seinem Tanzorchester, = which is not the "Taboo" we all know. James Kok Jazzvirtuosen is the orchestra = that sounds the most interesting to me, whereas Teddy Staufer und seine Origin= al Teddies is the most famous. All in all, if you are into early swing at all you will enjoy this CD. I'= m not such an expert myself, so I can hardly compare this music to the stuff th= at was played in America at the same time. I expect it to be a bit wilder though. 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:41:53 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Stereo 45's In a message dated 2/13/0 12:57:22 PM, mimim@texas.net wrote: >Which brings up another question: 45 collectors/accumulators, when did >labels start producing 45s in stereo? Was it around the time that FM band >stereo began to replace AM broadcasts as the sound of choice for car audio? Just about the same time--I believe the first stereo 45's arrived about '67 or '68 # 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 15:30:02 +0100 From: Dj Batman Subject: (exotica) Free CDs from mp3.com!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for those lucky folks who are in the US and can sign for talk.com services, you can get a FREE CD of your choice from mp3.com!!! how does it work? they are getting sponsors to pay for a cd (you can get a free cd from each sponsor... right now they only have one sponsor, i.e. talk.com's long distance service). you got on an artist's page (say, like www.mp3.com/alessandroni or www.mp3.com/patrizioihle ;)))) and then you click on "get it free"... and if you qualify and subscribe to talk.com they will pay for the dam cd you have just chosen! :) (ahem sorry for the shameless plug!! btw this works -I think- with every DAM CD and for all US residents... so take a look!) bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista "Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief" (Bono) # 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, 11 Feb 2000 19:11:33 +0000 From: M H Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) Good-Lookin' Food That Stanks DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 2/10/0 9:58:13 AM, you wrote: > > >If "Rapper's Delight" is a "cobbled together" hit, so be it > it always gets people on the floor enjoying it. Just for good measure I mix > it right out of Chic's "Good Times." You'd be surprised at how many people > learn then and there that they are the same song! Surely not! but then I am always amazed at how little the general public knows about sampling... Of course Indeep 'Last Night a Deejay saved my life' fits in rather well too on the turntables, alongside Rappers' Delight and double copies of Chic... # 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 21:50:11 +0100 From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) New Releases (Hazlewood) From Forced Exposure, http://www.forcedexposure.com. New Releases list - ---------------------------------------- SMELLS LIKE RECORDS: HAZLEWOOD, LEE: 13 CD (SLR 040 CD). "Newly minted from a wave of success with Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazlewood began traveling abroad, landing in Sweden in 1970, where he met director Tobj=F6rn Axelman. The two embarked upon a Cowboy In Sweden, and continuing through Smoke and A House Safe For Tigers. The Swedish Viking label also issued two very rare but strong Hazlewood solo albums. Whereas Requiem For An Almost Lady, released in 1971, is an aching meditation on love lost (with some harrowing narration), 13, from the following year, is a horn-laden R'n'B-tinged departure from the Hazlewood formula that succeeds on the strength of its exuberantly dazed mania. Of all the Hazlewood albums coveted by collectors who seem to own every object ever made by anyone, this one really fills their drool buckets. During this period, Hazlewood emerged as a singer and performer inseparable from his writing and production. After hearing these albums, but especially 13, one gets the feeling that Lee is perhaps the best interpreter of his own ideas, and without a doubt the albums benefit from everything he had developed up to that point: a singular signature sound synthesizing swinging cowboy shanties, the rhythmic heat of rockabilly, and soaring symphonic pop, punctuated by dark, poetic lyrics at once esoteric, witty and honest." $15.00 # 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 13:53:47 -0800 From: Paul Subject: Re: (exotica) Good-Lookin' Food That Stanks > Of course Indeep 'Last Night a Deejay saved my life' fits in rather well... given that i've long ago completed my Indeep collection, i feel safe in volunteering that 'their' records were genius the 12" of Deejay Saved My Life with the 'Toilet Flushing' breakdown continues to amuse and entertain friends and foes alike, of mine ! their first album too is rock solid sporting hella amusing lyrics and guilty post deesco deesco fun. that album probably cost the licorice pizza records store i worked at then, thousands of dollars given the profuse in-store play i accored it !! paul 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:58:49 -0500 From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: (exotica) Rota tear Oh, DJbatman, you are a tease... >ever heard of a cd called "Felliniana" released here in Italy in early 90's >consisting of techno/dance arrangments, with a latin feel, of soundtracks >from Fellini movies (mostly by Rota)? >Some bits are really crappy but I still believe it's fun. ;) Gratzi, gratzi...No, I've not heard it, but I must have it. And yes, Rota scored most of Fellini's films. From the IMDb: >He wrote all of the movie scores for Fellini's films from Lo Sceicco >bianco,[The White Sheik] (1951) in 1952 to Prova d'orchestra (1979) in >1979. Other directors include Renato Castellani, Luchino Visconti, Franco >Zeffirelli, Mario Monicelli, Francis Coppola (Oscar for best original >score for Godfather: Part II, The (1974) ), King Vidor, Ren=E9 Cl=E9ment, >Edward Dmytryk and Eduardo de Filippo, He also composed the music for >many theatre productions by Visconti, Zefirelli and de Filippo. Can you or any of the other Italian exoticats supply some tips on how I could track "Felliniana" down? And while I'm on a Rota tear, does anyone know if these is/was an OST for Nights of Cabiria/Le Notti di Cabiria, (1957)? I get the impression the title track was a hit in Europe. The OST is not available on CAM, which seems to have cornered the Rota-for-Fellini-OST market. I suspect a Cabiria record WAS cut by a label other than CAM. Yup, I've asked before, but since we have several new members here, maybe they'll know something. Thanks, 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 22:47:09 +0000 From: M H Jemmeson Subject: O/T Re: (exotica) Good-Lookin' Food That Stanks Paul wrote: > > given that i've long ago completed my Indeep collection, i feel safe in > volunteering that 'their' records were genius I always presumed they were just a one hit wonder... > their first album too is rock solid sporting hella amusing lyrics and > guilty post deesco deesco fun. Another amusing track from the same vintage is The Evasions (?) Wikka Rap, which has someone intoning instructions to the crowd (a la James Brown) in a stuck up English accent. # 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 22:52:32 +0000 From: M H Jemmeson Subject: (exotica) For fans of Anandar Shankar and the like... I picked up The Joe Harriott and John Mayer Double Quintet - Indo Jazz Fusions 1 and 2 (on one CD) (Polygram/Redial), and am enjoying it, although the first minute or two was a little shaky it develops very nicely. Shake Keane (a Phase 4 regular IIRC) is part of the group. Anyone got any recommendations for more East/West crossover albums? # 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 23:06:55 -0000 From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) For fans of Anandar Shankar and the like... M H Jemmeson wrote: > Anyone got any recommendations for more East/West crossover albums? Any of the albums featured on the "California Dreamin - Jazz Exotica" CD (on Impulse) would fit the bill (Tom Scott, Bill Plummer, Emil Richards et al). 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 18:56:29 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) waste time with tv Numerous list-esque items on US TV this week (eastern times)... Well, not very relevant, but for starters, Gamera movies on AMC, every morning at 6:00am. Saturday morning, same time, a 90s Godzilla movie. Biography: Ella Fitzgerald A&E - Monday night, 8:00pm, Midnight A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Scorsese on movie history. 3 parts, 8:00pm & Midnight, Monday through Wednesday nights, TCM. Rapa Nui (1994) One more airing. TNT - Late Monday, 2:00am Bravo's Blue Note Records documentary, this time in separate parts, airing at 11:00am, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. Biography: Nat King Cole A&E - Tuesday night, 8:00pm, Midnight She (1935) 30s movie exotica. AMC - Wednesday morning, 9:00am How To Commit Marriage (1969) Hope vs. Gleason comedy. Movie equivalent of Now Sound records. AMC - Wednesday morning, 10:35am Biography: Sidney Poitier A&E - Wednesday night, 8:00pm, Midnight Yellow Submarine (1968) Fire away, Blue Meanies. VH1 - Wednesday night, 8:00pm Thursday morning, 11:00am Scared Stiff (1953) Carmen Miranda. Well mostly Martin & Lewis, to be honest. AMC - Thursday night, 6:00pm Biography: Dorothy Dandridge A&E - Thursday night, 8:00pm, Midnight The Great Train Robbery (1903) It's very old. Sorry, that's my only justification. TCM - Thursday night, 8:00pm Profiles: Petula Clarke Bravo - Thursday night, 10:30pm, 3:00am Black Sunday (1961) Directed by Mario Bava. Should be the AIP cut, with (I believe) score by Les B. AMC - Friday morning, 7:35am Biography: Quincy Jones A&E - Friday night, 8:00pm, Midnight Mad Monster Party (1967) Stop-motion animation 60s monster mania. AMC - Friday night, 10:30pm, 2:00am I Walked With A Zombie (1943) Zombies, voodoo, calypso, atmosphere galore. TCM - Late Friday, 3:30am Profiles: William Shatner All about his recording career? Probably not, unfortunately. Bravo - Saturday afternoon, 4:00pm The Swinger (1966) Ann-Margret. More cinematic Now Sound. AMC - Saturday night, 10:00pm, 4:00am Cat Ballou (1965) Not sure why I'm throwing this in. Write your own reason. TCM - Saturday night, 10:30pm The Italian Job (1969) A rare airing. Speedvision - Saturday night, 11:00pm, 3:00am Sunday afternoon, Noon 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:50:34 -0800 From: "Stephen W. Worth" Subject: (exotica) Completist Manifesto I have a theory on music (which probably applies to most creative works)... 90% of everything is crap. But there are certain artists whose work stands out from the pack. Even their bad stuff is better than other artists' good stuff. The only artist in the "exotica" realm that I would put in that category would be Prez Prado. Others I feel that way about are Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, Tchaikovsky, Louis Jordan, Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys, Nat King Cole, The Beatles, Richard Wagner, Django Reinhardt, Shorty Rogers, Bobby Darin, Frank Zappa, Charles Ives, Hank Williams, The Residents and Maurice Ravel. Other artists that are very important to me, but only in certain parts of their career... Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley. I buy records for the music though. Even if I am a completist on a particular artist, I don't care for alternate covers of the same record, a gazillion virtually identical alternate takes, or unfinished or muffed takes. Some of the box sets irritate me by mechanically presenting the music chronologically, instead of programming it into listenable chunks. That's my theory and I'm stickin' with it! 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: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:18:37 +1100 From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" Subject: (exotica) Collectivism and the Moog Monkey Funny that the whole collecting/accumulating debate should be raging whilst I'm laboring over putting my precious moog comps up on the website! Really makes me think over what got me into it in the first place... In 1984 I was looking thru an old record store (CD's had just come out 2 years earlier, and the vinyl cast-off's were starting to appear), and I casually picked up a record called "The In Sound from Way Out." The killer name was enough to plunk my 50 cents(!) down and take it home, along with other various nondescript lp's. My surprise in hearing how funny and how inventive this stuff was is still a vivid memory. I remember telling my buddy ,"we'll KNOW CD's are finally here to stay when this record makes it out on CD!!" and we laughed and laughed. A year later I happened across it on CD, my eyes a-poppin'! But for some reason I never sought anything else in this genre out until over ten years later. My interests and habits really glump the virtues/vices of collecting AND accumulation. I do 'carry a list' of moog lp's, like Nat mentioned a collector would. I do buy the Electric Moog Orchestra's 'Star Wars soundtrack, not because I think it would be a good listen, but to add it to the collection... HOWEVER, I do things that a collector would banish me for: I pass on some moog items if they don't have something that makes me 'want' them; I thin the collection often and get rid of ones I don't particularly enjoy (even rare ones, thereby dashing my 'world's largest moog collection' aspirations). But I have never / will never walk into a record store and buy a huge stack of records just to have 'em. I've got to see something in them that truly moves me to grab it, then interesting enough to make it to the check-out. Accumulators, I would think, come home often with 10+ records every day or week. That would drive me nuts. And all this is just under my habits for one interest...add twenty others to the hobby pile, and I find I've GOT to be discerning, if for no other reason than storage! My wife is a minimalist, and would prefer to live in Zen purity, nothing on the walls, nothing on the stereo, nothing in the head. We balance each other beautifully! I've learned the value of having less, and that smaller amount be of high priority rather than volume=better. But I'm still a junk-accumulator (any of you who haven't seen my website, now might be the appropriate time!). We all got our cross to bear! Seeya friends, Keith PS: Talking about great cheap vinyl stores, everyone on this list needs to road-trip out Jerry's Records in Pittsburgh: 2 MILLION lp's, almost every one at $3. each! 45's are $1 to $2, 78's $1. Beat that with a stick, I dare ya! Tell him Keith sentya. **************************** 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 23:18:37 -0500 From: brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca Subject: (exotica) Grandmaster Flash I realize this isn't completely related but with all this talk of Grandmaster Flash on the list lately, I've been sitting on a particular piece of music for almost 20 years and never figured out what it was, except that it is (or at least the lyrics within say it is) made by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five. There were so many iterations of this group and I rememeber much of this music coming out in generic 12" Sugarhill sleeves that I was never able to identify the song or find the original disc. My recording is not all that great and is a third generation from the radio, circa 1979. I'm hoping one of you experts on him can help. I noticed a few CD reissues lately so I would consider picking up a proper recording if I could figure out its identity. The first 3 lines go sonmething like this: It's a ?moving and grooving? crew You gotta see to believe We're 1 2 3 4 5 MC! It goes on to later mention riding in a Mercedes and a Cadillac and then "take the Train". I can always send a tape along. If you can solve this one I have whole tapes of mystery music of the new wave era I could never identify! And this is one era I know very well... Thanks, 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 23:19:06 -0500 From: brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca Subject: (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators Nat wrote: > Accumulators and collectors look for records differently. Collectors, in > general, don't go to thrift stores. They already have the basic stuff you > can get there and even though it may be true that you never know what > you'll find there, they're sure enough they won't find anything that it's > deemed not worth their time. Now you have me confused. I don't go to thrift stores partly because I find them depressing places and partly as you say, I don't expect to find much, given the limited time I have to spend looking. But then I'm in no way a completist either so I'm not sure I fit into your generic collector standard. > I like finding stuff I didn't know existed, taking it home and discovering > what it is. > Collectors generally know what's out there before they leave their house. > They're not driven by surprise and discovery like we are. If this holds I definitely have two personalities and in some ways this may be the case. The old experimental/wave records I want are documented, few new things added, and I scan specific sources for what I want with less and less finds each year. These tend to be label or artist specific. On the other hand, we keep a one page list of new things, not necessarily a want list, but only as a reminder so we won't forget completely something we heard. But then I always enjoy exploring and when I walk into most stores, I go straight for the bizarro/exotica section with no pre-conceptions. Of course I consider it a privilege having stores where the owners have an amazing knack for buying just the right things. I know I won't find these things in the thrift stores because if they were there, these guys will have got to them first! I will say that having the radio show has had a huge impact on how and what we acquire. What is most enjoyable to us about hosting the show is being able to play new things, and most important, things that don't otherwise get exposure. Interestingly enough, we had a record number of inquiries today about the breakbeat show! > At this very moment, I'd like to go to a thrift store. Not because I hope > I'll find that elusive Enoch Light record I need to help complete my set > but because the process of fingering my way through endless bins of crap is > the drug that I need. I must admit I often have the exact urge to visit a record store and worse yet, it isn't the same if I don't come back with something, so in many ways we're not all that far apart! 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:56:34 -0800 From: Paul Subject: Re: (exotica) Grandmaster Flash > It's a ?moving and grooving? crew > You gotta see to believe > We're 1 2 3 4 5 MC! > > It goes on to later mention riding in a Mercedes and a Cadillac and > then "take the Train". I can always send a tape along. If you can - --- that is "Super Rapping Theme" on ENJOY Records don't know if they had more than one 12" on that label or who was behind it - it was kind of a pre-cusor to Rappers' Delight some of the verse are the same but its a lot rawer overall the full version must run close to 10 mins and there is an instrumental on the back of same paul 'spoonie gee' moshay # 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: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 21:10:52 -0800 From: "mofo2148" Subject: (exotica) Friendly Persuasion - Week of 02/14/00 Week of 02/14/00 The Friendly Persuasion Show Cool and Strange Music Magazine's weekly radio show on Antenna Internet Radio. http://www.antennaradio.com/punk/friendlypersuasion/index.htm Get your RealAudio player ready and tune in anytime during this week to hear: Art Linkletter - We Love You, Call Collect William Shatner - Mr Tambourine Man Mel Henke - The Twisters Jean-Jacques Perrey - Crazy Crow and Daffyduck Dean Elliott & His Big Band - Lonesome Road Pat Reader - Cha-Cha On The Moon Yma Sumac - Taki Rari George Liberace Orchestra - George Liberace Mambo National Lampoon - My Bod Is For God Apollo 100 - Popcorn The Kids of Widney High - Stand Up and Dance Raymond & Scum - (Nobody Loves The) Comedy Band Ed "Moose" Savage and his Litany of Complaints - Iceburg Lettuce Wooshie Spakamoto - Lady The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World Lord Sitar - I Can See For Miles Jean-Jacques Perrey - Indicatif Spatial Les Baxter - Ruby Leonard Nimoy - Highly Illogical Frank Pourcel - Casino Royale Lord Sitar - Black is Black Art Linkletter - We Love You, Call Collect Thanks for listening, Otis - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Otis F-Odder mofo2148@speakeasy.org www.thebranflakes.com Box 21104, Seattle, WA 98111 USA - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Cool & Strange Music Magazine - www.coolandstrange.com Antenna Internet Radio - www.antennaradio.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: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 00:43:40 EST From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Collecting One of my favorite quotes: "A Collector must be mad, because a collection is something no one needs." - - Gerard Levy A sentiment that sometimes comes to mind when I am on my knees in a thrift store, rummaging through the bins. Bob # 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: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:51:06 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Collecting HOUSEOBOB@aol.com wrote: > One of my favorite quotes: > > "A Collector must be mad, because a collection is something no one needs." Sounds chique, but of course it's not true. I see collections as archives. The better sorted they are, the more value they have. A good archive can be a source of incredible cashflow, and I would call the owner smart, not mad. 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: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 07:04:34 -0500 From: Citizen Kafka Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators Will someone on the list remind me if i've told the R. Crumb story about accumulators on this list yet (don'/t want to repeat myself)... ck - --------------------------------------- # 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: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:27:51 +0100 From: Ton Rueckert Subject: (exotica) FLY ME TO THE MOON "I would like to get into the Guinness Book as the first Latin American artist to play on the moon. It's easy to get a rocket now." - -- Latin jazzman Tito Puente, sharing his lunar ambitions in the Toronto Sun. Is he going to fight this out with Lucia Pamela? Anyway, anyone acquainted enough with Moon-physics to understand what Tito would sound like? Not very up tempo, this Moon salsa, I would guess. Ton *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Humanity is now facing a sort of slow motion environmental ~~~ ~~~ Dunkirk. It remains to be seen whether civilization can avoid ~~~ ~~~ the perilous trap it has set for itself. Paul Ehrlich ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # 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: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 08:32:29 -0500 From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) waste time with tv m.ace posteth: >A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese >Scorsese on movie history. >3 parts, 8:00pm & Midnight, Monday through Wednesday nights, TCM. Superior film clips. Will keep you going to the video shop for months. 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: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:34:17 -0500 From: wlt4@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) waste time with tv >A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese >Scorsese on movie history. >3 parts, 8:00pm & Midnight, Monday through Wednesday nights, TCM. >Superior film clips. Will keep you going to the video shop for >months. Mimi But TCM is showing related movies after the Scorsese doc so you won't need as many trips. (Caveat: I'm a TCM freelancer.) & the Scorsese doc on Italian cinema is due later this year. LT # 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: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 06:37:53 PST From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Completist Manifesto > >I have a theory on music (which probably applies to most creative >works)... 90% of everything is crap. But there are certain artists >whose work stands out from the pack. Even their bad stuff is better >than other artists' good stuff. the f.r. leavis of the exotica list... all the best rob ______________________________________________________ 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: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 06:41:53 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Kahunas! Well, folks, the big day is finally here as we announce the winners of the First Annual Kahuna Awards! First, let me say that Kevin C has done a fantastic job at putting together a nifty website with all the Kahuna Data, including a list of nominees and winners for each category, a complete listing of original nominees, category descriptions and cute little tiki award pictures for nominees or winners to stick on their own pages. The site for the 2000 Kahuna Awards is here: http://www.kevdo.com/exotica/kahuna/ Now, the list: Drum roll please...... Best act (artist or group): The Metropole Orchestra, featuring the Beau Hunks Saxtette Best new album: Esquivel - See It In Sound Best re-release (legitimate or bootleg): Shaggs - Philosophy of the World Best retrospective - single artist/act: Esther Nelson, Bruce Haack & Dimension 5 - Listen Compute Rock Home Best compilation - various artists: Best of Moog: Electronic Pop Hits from the 60's & 70's Best box set - single or multiple artists: Dr. Samuel J Hoffman and Harry Revel - Basta Theremin Box Best soundtrack (new or re-release): Bob Crewe - Barbarella Best new act (artist or group): Astroslut Big Kahuna Achievement Award: Martin Denny Golden Bamboo Platter: Martin Denny - Exotica - --- A few notes: I think it's nice that Basta's fine work was recognized, so Kudos to them. Congrats to our own Astroslut for taking the New Act category. Martin and Les slugged it out for a while in the Big Kahuna and Bamboo Platter awards, going neck and neck until the final six or seven ballots when suddenly Denny jumped ahead. Similarly Hell's Belles was getting ready to take the soundtrack reissue when suddenly Barbarella ran him over and took the lead. I also find it a bizarre thing, possibly due to the nature of nominations and voting, that the Shaggs of all groups took the reissue category. Anyway, thanks all for playing, and we'll see how the Kahunas play out next year! Peter __________________________________________________ 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. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #625 *****************************