From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #893 Reply-To: exotica-digest Sender: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes exotica-digest Wednesday, February 14 2001 Volume 02 : Number 893 In This Digest: Re: (exotica) Brussels Re: (exotica) basic hip Re: (exotica) basic hip (exotica) introductions (exotica) Mad Mad World of Soundtracks Re: (exotica) HI MY NAME IS... Brad (exotica) Love Words for your Valentine (exotica) Fred Lowery Whistling Hour (exotica) Cosmic Peekaboo, Free Design's New Cd (exotica) supressed and depressed Re: (exotica) Response to Magnus Re: (exotica) basic hip Re: (exotica) Cosmic Peekaboo, Free Design's New Cd (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: "Strange Interlude" (exotica) A record I like (exotica) Magnus (exotica) suppressed favorites linked Re: (exotica) A record I like RE: (exotica) A record I like Re: (exotica) supressed and depressed (exotica)Howdy y'all! Re: (exotica)Howdy y'all! (exotica) Lazlo help us out supressed and depressed (exotica) Piccioni's The Tenth Victim Re: (exotica) introductions Re: (exotica) basic hip Re: (exotica) A record I like Re: (exotica)Howdy y'all! (exotica) What's the Frequency, Lazlo? (exotica) Re: (Exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:48:46 -0800 From: Christine Karkow Subject: Re: (exotica) Brussels Hi everyone, no problems have I had with the Kriek and you definently need to drink some Gueuze-as for cool places (though not exotica nor space age) = I liked La Mort Subite. Also, maybe you already know this, but you must absolutely positively go to Atomium. its on the Metro-ohh I forget the stop, but its slightly north of town on the site of the 1958 worlds fair-a 100 M high replica of an Iron molecule. You get to go inside, up to the top and then ride the escalators down. there are little exhibits in each atom, including extensive cartoons featuring my favorite, Gaston LaGaffe. speaking of Bandes Desin=E9es, you have to visit the museum of La Bande Desin=E9e. Not only is it fabulous and probably the only place for miles designated to comics, but it is housed in a building designed by Victor Horta. This leads me to the next thought, there is much Art Nouveau to be appreciated in Bruxelles-faut en profiter!! Mais, La Gueuze-c'est super. Also recommended, Faro. oh I am so damn thursty writing this bon voyage et, s'il te plait, =E9cris-nous toutes de tes nouvelles de cette jolie ville!! christine # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:25:29 +1100 From: Philip Jackson Subject: Re: (exotica) basic hip on 14/2/01 4:45 PM, basic hip at basichip@home.com wrote: > The thing is, they never come up, nobody ever asks. > the fact is, there are quite a few darn good ones out there, many with > exotic and space age pop tunes and Fred Lowery really was quite a > significant star in his day Ford/Basic, A couple of those Lowery and Marcellino mp3's you had available a while back have become firm favourites down here. I have a young neice who loves birds and I made a Cd for her from those tracks and some bird call stuff from you and other sources. Great stuff. I recall you saying a while back you were going to do a full whistling CDR. Did that ever happen? I'd be veeery interested. Philip - -- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:00:46 +0100 (CET) From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) basic hip citerar Philip Jackson : > > I recall you saying a while back you were going to do a full whistling CDR. > Did that ever happen? I'd be veeery interested. > > Philip > -- > I have got it, its called "Whistling for you". BEAUTIFUL STUFF! It is one of my favorite CDs! Basic Hip, you have also mentioned an all 78s whistling CDr, I would love to get a copy of that too. magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:58:03 EST From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) introductions It's rare for me to post more than a couple sentences, but it's been interesting reading the testaments of people that I've been corresponding with but really knew very little about. My name is Sean Pearman. I have lived most of my life in my home town of South Bend, Indiana, which is about 90 miles east of Chicago. It's a frozen nowhere of a place, but maybe that helps stimulate my interest in things exotic. I am 38, married, and have three children. I manage software development projects for a large finance company. It's a stressful occupation, but my musical pursuits have helped keep me from going insane. I have been collecting music since I was about 14 and it's more of an addiction now than ever. When I was in high school, I played a lot of piano (especially 20th century classical music) and composed music, too. I had made up my mind that I would study music but found the academic music scene to be full of cold, arrogant, pedantic people. I have been rebelling against all things academic ever since. Exotica was something I didn't know existed until about 1992 or 93 when a friend of mine 10 years younger than I introduced me to Martin Denny. I'm not positive, but I think he had heard about Denny from his interest in Throbbing Gristle who were big Denny fans. He had made a tape for me with Death In June on one side and Martin Denny on the other. Around the same time, my wife's grandmother was clearing out her attic and asked if I wanted any of her records which included one called Persuasive Percussion. These two acquisitions led me to seek out records wherever I could. 80 percent of my collection falls into the territories discussed on this list. I listen to everything from electronica to blaxploitation to truck driving songs. My new addiction is making CDRs which I have been trading with several list members. James Brouwer introduced me to Jonny Yuma (Richardson) with whom I've traded several great, rare titles. I have found the people on this list to be the nicest people I have never met . I also have a Hawaiian shirt collection and a largely cannibalized web site which shows just how erratic my musical tastes get Much of what I have learned about this music I have gleaned from the internet in the past 3 or 4 years. Brad Bigelow's site, while not as flashy as Will's Show and Tell Music or King Kini's site, is probably the most informative I have come across. I struggle with the idea of an exotica top ten but some of my favorites include Kenyon Hopkins, Lalo Schifrin, A.C. Jobim, Attilio Mineo's Man In Space With Sounds, the I Love You Alice B. Toklas soundtrack (thank you Two Little Kooks), Johnny Richards' The Rites of Diablo, Mort Garson's Black Mass, the Barbarella soundtrack, and Les Baxter's entire career (except for the syrupy pop albums). My favorite comp has got to be Rhino's Beat Generation box. 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: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:45:20 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Mad Mad World of Soundtracks the thing with these albums was that they were published together with a book of record covers, which according to general agreement in this list is really fabulous. I know the guys who compiled and designed both the book and the CDs. One of them runs a label called Marina, well-known for its soft pop albums. You gotta check that out too! http://www.marina.com Mo - -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:51:58 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) HI MY NAME IS... Brad Will Straw schrieb: > Brad Bigelow's message -- with the news that he was moving to Brussels this > summer -- prompts me to ask: is there anything worth seeing in Brussels, > exotica-wise? You lucky guy! The main attraction of Brussels these days is the free-living colony of parrots at Place Guy d'Abrezzo. You just gotta make it there; take your video camera with you! Then they have this nice old colonial ethnological museum, which aside from the fine artefacts it buries, displays "decorative" sculptures on the walls, that are *really" colonialistic: they show scenes of white masters and their slaves kneeing in front of them and stuff like that. Most people just don't note these things, but in "correct" terms they should long have disappeared. So unvoluntarily this is a secret museum within the museum - for the one who can see it: the museum of colonialistic art. The old botanical gardens should also be quite nice for the architecture alone. That's about it. I've never heard about an exotic bar or something. maybe you find one. Before you leave - don't forget to learn the new European language at http://www.neuropeans.com/topic/europanto oh, and somewhere near Brussels there lives a strange record collector, named Johan Dada Vis, or so... - -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:17:40 -0500 From: "christie j. white" Subject: (exotica) Love Words for your Valentine I had such a blast last night. A good friend, a gin & tonic, and the album Love Words by Ken Nordine. Tracks include: You Do Something To Me, My Funny Valentine, Don't Take Your Love From Me, etc.... This record is phenomenal!! Of course I adore Nordine and all that he has done. I was lucky enough to find Word Jazz on vinyl lately, although I have it on CD, I feel I can rest now in a sense. Ken is the best - wish he could do my answering machine greetings for me! Kiliki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 07:40:54 -0800 From: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) Fred Lowery Whistling Hour If you'd like a little taste of Fred Lowery today at work and you have a decent internet connection (DSL or Cable works great) please check out my Fred Lowery Whistling Hour. You may not go for the religious stuff, but there are some real gems in there, especially his duests with Dorothy Rae (on 78) and his comical Whistler and his Dog - that's him narrating! listen here: http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=basichip and please share your thoughts # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:28:28 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Cosmic Peekaboo, Free Design's New Cd Listened to this for the first time two nights ago. It just let me down so much. It reminded me of Kenny G, The Roches and the Narada New Age Label. The vocals and harmonizing are still there but somehow the styles of the songs have that early 80's feel to them. I really need to give this a few more listens. Has anyone else heard this yet? If so, am I off in my assessment? I really love everything else by this band. Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:33:27 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) supressed and depressed >I was just trying to generate a little old fashioned discussion. >I hoped that I wouldn't be the only one responding to the >responses I generated. But alas it looks as though I am. I *tried* but it's no use. My post won't go through. I've fiddled around with the prose and tried 3 times over the last week, but I can't get it through and no one's managed to forward it through (thanks anyway). It can't be for length, because longer messages than mine have come through, and Johan's are well over twice as long. Either it contains some fluky combination of keywords that I can't catch, or something more sinister is going on. At any rate, learning that my posts may be blocked with no explanation dampens my enthusiasm for putting time and effort into composing non-trivial posts. I spent an hour or two on that favorites list (okay, I'm a slow writer) for nothing. I guess I'm supposed to limit myself to posts like this: "Me like records. Round things pretty." Now to see if this post will go through. m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:41:01 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Response to Magnus Magnus tribe shaman m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:43:06 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) basic hip Basic Hip whistle discs good. Shiny, pretty, whistly. Fire bad. m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:56:44 -0500 From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Cosmic Peekaboo, Free Design's New Cd At 08:28 AM 2/14/01 -0800, chuck wrote: > >Listened to this for the first time two nights ago. It just let me >down so much. It reminded me of Kenny G, The Roches and the >Narada New Age Label. I haven't heard it yet but I'm not surprised to hear this. I'd have been shocked if they'd been able to maintain the same sound they had thirty years ago. And if Chris Dedrick told me that he had no choice but to "progress", I wouldn't argue with him. I understand how artists want to move on. But it's a paradox, isn't it? In general, we don't really care about the needs of the artists. We just want to hear what we want to hear. Chris Dedrick has been scoring television shows here in Toronto for a while now but I only figured it out a couple of years ago. And he does an okay job. He actually uses a lot of wordless vocal "choirs" in his scores and it's a nice touch. I suspect that he simply had no idea ALL that we love about his old band. He probably tried to get some of that old sound but I suspect he doesn't really know what that old sound is. It's not just the vocal harmony even though that's obviously a large part of it. But if you set that vocal harmony in the wrong setting, it can make a huge difference. Too bad. I expect to run into him someday. I've even thought about hiring him the next time I make something, assuming there is a next time. I only have one piece of Free Design vinyl. Every single time they come up on ebay, it goes for over 20 dollars and I just can't go there. My fantasy is to hire him and then get him to autograph my collection. Anyway, thanks for the report chuck. I'm sort of glad I don't have to rush out and look for it. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:34:56 +0100 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records: "Strange Interlude" no, i don't own everything; anyone ever does? anyway, i haven't listened to "Strange Interlude" in years, i bought it about 5 years ago, when i had very little exotica , and my comment and high rating is also that old. so i might think different about it now... and you're absolutely right, Alan: using fave lists of others is not the most ideal way of finding out which records you think you'll like, and you want to try to find. but there aren't that many other sources... i have been compiling such fave lists, from this very exotica list, from "Incredibly Strange Music" books... to create my own want lists, and i have been disapointed several times. but mostly not. you could say that only records recommended by several people are worth hunting, but then again, if you never take a risk, you'll never experience that kick of a "discovery". if i ever get cured from this pesky and debilitating CFS/ME, i'd love to create an "eXotica RECORDS Overview", an annotated LP hyperdiscography based upon this very lists opinions... Johan ----- alan zweig wrote: >> >>* Lew Davies: "Strange Interlude" >> All sorts of exotic percussion, plus Ondioline & Theremin. > >Johan owns everything and if anyone can come up with a list, it's him and it's silly to argue with these lists since it's all personal taste. Having said that, I think Strange Interlude is a very very disappointing record. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:24:35 +0100 (CET) From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) A record I like As a further answer to Alan, and his wish for us to write about records we love I will write a little review of an LP that probably is on CD too, it should be pretty easy to find. "Music from the BBC-TV serial the Singing Detective" REN 608 BBC records I wtched this serial by Dennis Potter when it screened on swedish television in 1987, and was very impressed. I dont remember so much, I hope for a DVD presentation of this in the future but here are a little reveiw from an anonymous croatian from IMDB: "The Singing Detective" is the best TV-series I've seen in years. Some viewers might find it challenging to watch, because of its jumps in time and imagination/reality contexts, as well as mixing it, but I think it is one of the best things about it. It all comes to the same point at the end: Phillip Marlow's murder mystery that he writes in his head, while in hospital (often heavily medicated), besides being a search for a killer, is also his inner quest; self-examining, cynical, sincere and brilliant. And I like Marlow's comment on "high-brow" novels (inevitably connected with "high-brow" people): "It's all answers, but NO CLUES!" (as opposed to a mystery novel, with all clues, but only one answer - quite a metaphore, don't you think!?). Anyway, this is one of the best things I've ever watched on TV. You dont need to have seen the TV serial to like this record, much of the tracks on the LP are wellknown classics, I had a fantastic evening a year ago, when I heard this record as for the first time, when it spoke to me in person. Quite incredible, and a welcome treat since much of my life back then was a nightmare. Anyway here is the tracklist: Peg O' my heart -Max Harris and his novelty trio Limehouse blues -Ambrose and his orchestra Blues in the night -Anne Shelton Dry bones -Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians Rockin' in rhythm -The jungle band (Duke Ellington and orch.) Cruising down the river -Lou Preager and his orch. voc.Paul Rich Dont fence me in -Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters! It might as well be spring -Dick Haymes Paper Doll -The Mills Brothers Lili Marlene -Lale Anderson I get along without you very well -Sam Browne with the Lew Stone band Do I worry? -The Ink Spots Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive -Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters You always hurt the one you love -The Mills Brothers After you've gone -Al Jolson Its a lovely day tomorrow -Jack Payne and his orch Into each life some rain must fall -Ella Fitzgerald the very thought of you -Ella Fitzgerald and The Ink Spots The Teddy bears' picnic -Henry Hall and his orch We'll meet again -Vera Lynn with Arthur Young at the novachord Some are sad, some are happy and all is very great, I must have listened to this record some 200 times, and i never get bored on it, its a perfect collection with some stuff not so easy to find on record. i recomment it highly, you will feel enriched afterwards when you've listened to it. Some special treats are: "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive", "Dont fence me in" , "Do I worry?", "The Teddy bears' picnic " and "Dry Bones" Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:39:56 -0600 From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: (exotica) Magnus <> Brief and to the point, this message got through. Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:13:57 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) suppressed favorites linked If interested: http://ookworld.com/favorites_post.txt Open in text editor if word wrap desired. Not like it's even such a wonderful post that it deserves all this fussin'. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:38:55 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) A record I like Great film! Came out in the mid-late 80s, I think. Potter did quite a few pieces for television (and wrote several novels, all quite good) - most known of these is "Pennies from Heaven", starring everyone's fav. hedgehog, Bob Hoskins (bastardized in "Breathless" fashion in a US version which starred Steve Martin). I have an interview with Potter somewhere where he speaks of his fascination with popular songs, which figure into the narrative in a good many of his films. If you have never thought of "The Teddy Bears Picnic" as deeply disturbing song, you will after viewing The Singing Detective. - --- Magnus Sandberg wrote: > "Music from the BBC-TV serial the Singing Detective" > REN 608 BBC records __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:22:50 -0800 From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) A record I like > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Ben Waugh > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 11:39 AM > wrote several novels, all quite good) - most known of > these is "Pennies from Heaven", starring everyone's > fav. hedgehog, Bob Hoskins (bastardized in > "Breathless" fashion in a US version which starred > Steve Martin). The American remake wasn't too bad -- the scene where Christopher Walken is dancing on the bar counter has to be seen to be believed -- but it wasn't the original... The music for "The Singing Detective" was indeed great (I believe V/VM sampled a lot of the Al Bowlly stuff for his/their "Selections from the Haunted Ballroom" album). The acting, of course, was superb (Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Alison Steadman, Joanne Whalley, and that feller who guested on "Cracker" as the evil reverend). Stephen Holden's (from the NY Times) pronouncement that it's one of the two or three greatest things to ever come from television in the entire history of the medium isn't too far off the mark. Still kicking myself for failing to tape "Cold Lazarus" and "Karaoke" off Bravo last year, Ben np: schloss tegal, "black static transmission" http://www.bigfoot.com/~bvergara ICQ: 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:24:05 -0500 From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) supressed and depressed The same thing happened to us last month - Brian tried at least three times to post something, and it didn't work. So I copied it to my e-mail, and tried to post it. Nothing again. In the meanwhile, it posted to another mailing list we're on just fine. So I edited it and tried again. Still nothing. Finally, I replied to another message, and added most of it in, and voila! Not sure what the problem was - it has happened to others on the list, too - and I haven't heard from Laszlo as to what it might be. So try posting as a reply to an exotica message, and see what happens... cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:31:18 EST From: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: (exotica)Howdy y'all! Well, since we're all introducing ourselves... Hi, I'm David, and I'm a vinyl addict! I've been on the stuff for decades...was raised on classical, West coast jazz & weird folk music...got into thrift-store/cutout bin soundtracks really young (Barry, Morricone & Mancini) & played trombone in (up to) highschool band...went through the usual pop-rock-aor-prog-punk trajectory, ended up in industrial/noise music, at which point I discovered the Three Suns "Movin & Groovin", and from there my record collection got impossibly eclectic...I also started playing pseudo-avant-garde music about then (mid-to-late 80s), until I realized that I wasn't even listening to the kind of music I made! Eventually, this led to my current situation... These days, I'm mostly busy with the band I have (Tipsy); I live in the San Francisco bay area (east bay), I'm 37, single, slightly manic-depressive & have more records than I have room for. I'm currently most obsessed with vintage Asian pop music for some reason (especially a 60s-70s Singapore-based instrumental combo/back-up band called the Stylers), as well as homemade/"outsider" records and r&b 45s. Also a big cult/badmovie fan. By the way, I'm also playing/DJing in SF at the Deluxe on Haight Street this month, on the 15th and the 22nd, and I'd love it if any of you drop by & introduce yourselves. - -dave # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:59:09 From: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: Re: (exotica)Howdy y'all! I'm currently most obsessed with >vintage Asian pop music for some reason (especially a 60s-70s >Singapore-based >instrumental combo/back-up band called the Stylers), Hey I look for that too! Most recently I brought home about 2 dozen Korean pop LP's from the 60's and early 70's - some truly amazing sounds amidst all of those lush strings! Booming, surfy guitar runs abound, which suggests to me that the Korean studio engineers had just imported the one and only reverb unit into the country, and were so taken with its sound that they applied it to everything! Also, do you or anyone know the teen combo The McCoys, from Singapore? I have an EP (with a gorgeous mod-psych sleeve) of theirs from the mid-60's where they do inept, yet somehow effective, covers of numbers like "Watermelon Man" and "Wade in the Water". This is truly obscure, exotic stuff. I imagine the pickings are a little more plentiful in SF than they are here in Austin TX. - -Dan - ------------------------------------------------------------ Hear! "Dial-ated Pupils" -- every Saturday 4-6 pm CST exclusively at www.radio1austin.com. I will lead you safely through the perilous dark jungles of Austin's scratchiest record collection. Exotic jazz. Obscure Latin, Afro, and Eastern grooves. Easy listening arcana. Bring your bug spray. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:48:21 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Lazlo help us out supressed and depressed I find this whole thing amazing. I took m.aces message he sent me off list, changed the title, and the format and still it didn't post and it was coming from me not him. I sent it to myself and replied back to the list and still nothing. I sent it straight to exotica@xmission.com and also to exotica@lists.xmission.com I gave up after 3 tries. I too had this happen. Lazlo was nice enough to explain to me that some word tripped off some filter block in the system. It would be nice to understand what went wrong with this. This happened to me more than once over the years. None of this compares to the problems Mo seemed to have had. Lazlo can you help explain to us what happened??? Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck - --- cheryl wrote: > > The same thing happened to us last month - Brian tried at least > three times to post somhing, and it didn't work. So I copied it to my e-mail, and tried to post it. Nothing again. In the meanwhile, it posted to > another > mailing list we're on just fine. So I edited it and tried again. > Still > nothing. Finally, I replied to another message, and added most > of it in, > and voila! Not sure what the problem was - it has happened to > others on the > list, too - and I haven't heard from Laszlo as to what it might > be. > > So try posting as a reply to an exotica message, and see what > happens... > > cheryl __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:12:37 -0500 From: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) Piccioni's The Tenth Victim I found a copy of Piero Piccioni's "The Tenth victim" on CD today - but it wasn't the Right Tempo (legit) reissue - it was a "limited edition" twofer with Bruno Nicolai's soundtrack for Jess Franco's "Marquis de Sade". The sound quality was a little iffy in places - anyone heard of this version of the soundtrack, and should I just hold out for the legitimate one, hoping the quality's better - or is it really worth getting the Nicolai soundtrack? cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:15:41 -0500 From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) introductions At 06:58 AM 2/14/01 EST, Pearmania@aol.com wrote: > He had made a tape for me with Death In June on one side and >Martin Denny on the other. Around the same time, my wife's grandmother was >clearing out her attic and asked if I wanted any of her records which >included one called Persuasive Percussion. These two acquisitions led me to >seek out records wherever I could. I think I could also say that it was Martin Denny and Persuasive - and Provocative - Percussion that got me into this. Command Records in general. Take those names like Terry Snyder, Phil Kraus, Bob Rosengarden, Phil Bodner, Tony Mottola, Dick Hyman. If you just follow those tributaries, before long you're waist deep in "lounge" records. What I find interesting is how Command records in particular are so often the "gateway drug" and how five years later, I no longer get the thrill of anticipation I once did when I see something with that familiar style of cover design. I've gotten rid of most of my Command records. On the other hand, I usually keep the Project 3 records. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:15:40 -0500 From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) basic hip At 09:45 PM 2/13/01 -0800, basic hip wrote: >I still don't get The Free Design. What am I missing? > >Somewhere along the way, I decided I was going to collect whistling records. Whenever I play the Free Design for my friends, I warn them that they'll probably hate it at first. And that they'll be really surprised that I actually like it. I'm always surprised at how often they end up loving it. Almost as much as I do. It's sickly sweet. It'll make your teeth ache. If that's all you hear, you're going to hate it. On the other hand, the vocal arrangements are brilliant. Some bands sing in unison; some sing in harmony. Then there are those who take it a step or two further. The Four Freshmen, The Beach Boys. But if you don't get it, you don't have to get it. I've enjoyed a couple of whistling records but I'm glad I'm not the one who is compelled to collect them. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:15:43 -0500 From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) A record I like At 07:24 PM 2/14/01 +0100, Magnus Sandberg wrote: > > >"Music from the BBC-TV serial the Singing Detective" REN 608 BBC records One of my enduring memories is an interview with Dennis Potter which was recorded about six months before his death. What I loved about the Singing Detective was that I didn't understand it but I never wanted it to end. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:15:44 -0500 From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica)Howdy y'all! At 04:31 PM 2/14/01 EST, Tipsydave@aol.com wrote: >By the way, I'm also playing/DJing in SF at the Deluxe on Haight Street this >month, on the 15th and the 22nd, and I'd love it if any of you drop by & >introduce yourselves. Okay I'm going to get the self promotion machine started now. My film "Vinyl" will be playing in San Francisco some time in the next while. I think. I'm not sure. If you know Craig Baldwin at "Other Cinema" in the Mission District, ask him whether and when he's planning to show it. Then tell me what he says. You might like it Dave if for no other reason than the fact that some of the soundtrack was sorta influenced by Tipsy. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:31:33 -0600 From: Matt Marchese Subject: (exotica) What's the Frequency, Lazlo? Heyas Lazlo, As one of the many folks here on the Exotica list who's been seeing their messages mysteriously disappear into the ether recently, I'd really appreciate knowing if this is due to some sort of keyword filtering being done at your end or if it's simply a glitch. It's really a pain to compose my prose just to have it disposed! Cheers, Matt # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:36:43 -0500 From: "Brian" Subject: (exotica) Re: (Exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records Alan wrote: > Or Brian and Cheryl, I know you guys buy a lot of CD's in the > breakbeat/electronica world but when you look through the LP bins, what are > you looking for? I guess I have to answer this as I'm the only one that would and continues to look through bins of LPs (they smell you know...) Actually I have a pretty specific pattern depending on the time I have and the store I'm in. I usually only look at vinyl in the stores that sell it since the opportunity is so limited and I usually migrate to the Exotica Bizzaro or Instrumental section followed by the Experimental and New Age (that unfortunate term often used for electronic music) and if I have time the Alternative compilations and then maybe soundtracks. A few of the stores here have huge sections of French music, and although I'm no expert on the subject its fun to look. Since they've appeared in the past few years I look out for library records. Oh yes I always scan the wall for any expensive (and usually good) things. I figure someday I may even find a Little Marcy record... > But I also feel a kinship with the members of this list who are from > Massachusetts. To me they're honorary Canadians. I suppose by American standards Massachusetts is as far to the left as is allowable but still no match for us Canadians. I mean here in Quebec we don't even have the right to use English (or to bear arms...)! Of course we haven't ever elected a communist to our legislature as they did in Vermont so who can say. I do enjoy Massachusetts and have to say as a Canadian it is one of the few places in the US I'd feel at home living in. > I definitely have a prejudice against policemen...some of which > comes from my experience driving a taxi for fifteen years at the mercy of > cops who assumed every cab driver was a bootlegger or a pimp. (I wish!) I didn't know this but I can somehow envision Alan having driven a taxi. I'm just woried the next thing he's going to tell us is he's the real Bernie X! Brian # 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 #893 *****************************