From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #102 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 Tuesday, May 5 1998 Volume 02 : Number 102 In This Digest: Re: (exotica) reference books Re: (exotica) reference books Re: (exotica) What's New, Pussycat? Re: (exotica) Re: GARY MOSCHELES (NEW Exotica???) (exotica) Phuture Lounge playlist Re: (exotica) reference books (exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 5/2/98 (exotica) Peter Thomas & P5 (exotica) reference books Re: (exotica) reference books (exotica) Hollywood Hi-Fi (exotica) More cool s*** you NEED to know Re: (exotica) Ray McVay Re: (exotica) Ray McVay (exotica) Test Card Classics (exotica) Shag Gallery (exotica) Re: Looking for Exotica Mp3's (exotica) Test Card Classics (exotica) GARY MOSCHELES (NEW Exotica???) Re: (exotica) Re: GARY MOSCHELES (NEW Exotica???) Re: (exotica) reference books Re: (exotica) Re: GARY MOSCHELES (NEW Exotica???) Re: (exotica) Ray McVay (exotica) Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 18:43:21 -0500 Re: (exotica) Re: GARY MOSCHELES (NEW Exotica???) Re: (exotica) Re: Looking for Exotica Mp3's (exotica) More Hollywood Hi-Fi (exotica) 2525 (exotica) Charles Randolph Grean Sounde (exotica) 2525 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 02:16:04 -0400 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) reference books At 3:42 PM -0400 5/2/98, Lou Smith wrote: >So, what other publications do y'all find essential? Lou, that's a beautiful list. I'd be honored to sit in your library some day. I keep 99% of those (don't have the Toop, must add it) plus a few more - The Album Cover Art Of Soundtracks, ed. by Frank Jastfelder and Stefan Kassel Cad, A Handbook For Heels , ed. by Charles Schneider Pin-up Mania, by Alan Betrock Album Covers From The Vinyl Junkyard, Booth-Cliburn Editions That's Blaxploitation, by Darius James A Girl and A Gun, by David N. Meyer and so many cocktail recipe books I can't even begin.........but I like this thread....... br cleve # 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, 3 May 1998 12:36:06 +0200 From: breithel@lund.mail.telia.com (Ingemar Breithel) Subject: Re: (exotica) reference books At 15.42 980502, Lou Smith wrote: >So, what other publications do y'all find essential? Here's some additional reading matter: Yasushi Ide (ed.): In the Mood (1991) - before the era of websites with album cover scans, this was something to drool over: a wonderful book with photos of records by Baxter, Gleason, Riddle, Shearing, etc. David Meeker: Jazz in the Movies (1977) Roy Carr, Brian Case, and Fred Dellar: The Hip - Hipsters, Jazz, and the Beat Generation (1986) Ferguson & Johnson: Mainstream Jazz Reference and Price Guide 1949--1965 (1984) Robert Gordon: Jazz West Coast (1986) The Billboard Book of Brazilian Music (1991) - for the bossa nova content Hal David: What the World Needs Now and Other Love Lyrics (1968) - - has interesting background info on the conception of some of this century's greatest songs (and a foreword by Dionne Warwick) Schwann catalogs - THE essential reference guides And, moving away from the music for a moment, for space age design and bachelor pad style, the following books are highly recommended: Gerd and Ursula Hatje: Design for Modern Living (1962) Cara Greenberg: Mid-Century Modern. Furniture of the 1950s (1984) Martin Eidelberg (ed.): Design 1935--1965. What Modern Was (1991) Lesley Jackson: The New Look. Design in the Fifties (1991) Lesley Jackson: Contemporary. Architecture and Interiors of the 1950s (1994) Mark Burns and Louis DiBonis: Fifties Homestyle. Popular Ornament of the USA (1988) Thomas Hine: Populuxe (1986) Alan Hess: Googie. Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture (ca 1990) Holly Wahlberg: Everyday Elegance: 1950s Plastics Design (1994). Sheila Steinberg and Kate E. Dorner: Fabulous Fifties: Designs for Modern Living Ingemar # 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, 3 May 1998 12:52:17 +0100 From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Kenny Brockelstein) Subject: Re: (exotica) What's New, Pussycat? >"What's New, Pussycat?" (1965) Has this been released on CD? I can't seem to find it....I've seen it on vinyl but I prefer CDs. On a related note to this soundtrack, has anyone heard Arthur Lee & Love's cover of My Little Red Book? Bacharach hated it apparently....I think it's pretty cool though, but not as good as the "psychedelic muzak/punk with strings" of Forever Changes. Kenny Brockelstein # 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, 3 May 1998 12:52:20 +0100 From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Kenny Brockelstein) Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: GARY MOSCHELES (NEW Exotica???) > i've had a chance to listen to that one, but to me it sounded > like 99% techno + 1 % "exotic"... but i have to add that i rather > hate techno and all that modern bonkaboonkabook stuff ;-) Yeah, kids of today....we can only make noise, not music ;) Actually, digging deeper into the world of exotica, I'm surprised to hear a lot of really big connections between exotica and "that modern bonkaboonkabook stuff". I mean, listen to Pierre Henry or JJ Perrey, then put on the latest albums with Mouse On Mars or Aphex Twin.....they're all basically the same! It's in the same tradition, only that MOM has access to a lot of modern technology.....it wouldn't surprise me at all if JJ Perrey's forthcoming album will fit perfectly in with today's electronica/ambient/whateveryouchoosetocallit! Jack Diamond, you had heard it, right? What would you say, comparing it to the latest modern electronica? Kenny Brockelstein # 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, 3 May 1998 11:01:44 -0600 From: Jill Mingo Subject: (exotica) Phuture Lounge playlist Here is the playlist for the Phuture Lounge show broadcasting on Subcity Radio, 106.2 FM, Glasgow, Scotland on Sundays through May 17th, 3.30pm - 5pm. Hosted by DJ Mingo-go. Here is the list for May 3rd. Any queries? Just email me. 5th DIMENSION "Stoned Soul Picnic" ST. ETIENNE "Spring" BEACH BOYS "Passing By" GREGORY "Je Fais La La La" FREE DESIGN "Felt So Good" ANDY WILLIAMS "Music to Watch Girls By" SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL 66 "Chelsea Morning" MONEY MARK "Use Your Head" A. TROVAIOLI & AF LAVAGNINO "Sun City" JIMI TENOR "Unmentionables" HIGH LLAMAS "Hiball Nova Scotia" LES BAXTER "I Dig" PIERO PICCIONI "Mr. Dante Fontana" FLORINDA BOLKAN "Metti Una Sera A Cena" CHRISTY "Deep Down" ENNIO MORRICONE "Ho Messo Gli Occhi Su Di Te" BRUNO NICOLAI "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" MIKE SAMMS SINGERS "He Who Would Valient Be" RICHARD HAYMAN "Hare Krishna" BLACK MASS LUCIFER "The Ride of Aida (Voodoo)" JERRY GOLDSMITH "The Trouble with Angels - Main Theme" SERGE GAINSBOURG "Les Succettes" FRANCE GALL "Teenie Weenie Boppie" BRIGITTE BARDOT "Ca Pourrait Changer" FERRANTE & TEICHER "How High the Moon" NANCY & LEE "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'" # 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, 3 May 1998 13:58:00 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) reference books Coincidentally enough, just a couple of days ago I lucked into a nice 50 cent find -- a hi-fi-exploitation pocket paperback titled: "The Authentic Guide To Hi-Fidelity And Stereo" by Herschel L. Stark, assisted by Joseph F. Reid (about 188 pgs, 1963, Authentic Publications, New York, NY) Part of the Authentic Reference Library, including "Rapid System Language Guides" (Italian, German, Spanish, French, Russian and Ingles available) I haven't had time to check it in depth, but it's sort of a mid-geek tome, written to bring the beginners up to speed, I guess. Has a scattering of illos and photos, very much of the time, which is to say, up our alley. Much of the info is actually still pretty valid. There's some classic audio-geek prose, like in the section on 'how high does your frequency response really need to be', where the harmonic content of various musical instruments is discussed: "FLUTE -- Opinions differ on the number of harmonics to be found in the tones of a flute. Some have even described the flute tone as simple (having no harmonics) when played softly in the low register, and then again in the extreme upper range. However, some thoughts hold that as many as eight to twelve harmonics exist in the low tones, and two or three at the upper-most notes. The fundamental frequency range of a flute is from middle C (261 cps) to about 2093 cycles. Presuming that the top note could contain as many as four harmonics yields a high frequency of 2093 X 4 = 8372 cycles for flute tone harmonics." We will never arrive at a rock-solid definition of Exotica (fortunately), but we do now have a definition of Hi-Fi. Actually, he's quoting from the Radiotron Designer's Handbook: "It is generally agreed that a high fidelity amplifier should comply with the following specifications. Values in parentheses are rather extreme. Frequency range: 40 to 15,000 (30 to 20,000) cps. Variation in output: +- 1 db (+- 0.5 db) at 3 levels. Total harmonic distortion: Not more than 1% (0.7%). Intermodulation distortion: Not more than 3% (2%), measured at 40 cps, and some say 7,000 cps -- r.m.s. sum. Power output sufficient to ensure that over-loading does not occur." The photos are mostly in the section titled "The Showcase", which seems to be a bit of graft, with photographs and specifications "presented through the courtesy of the following manufacturers...", including AR, Ampex, Electro-Voice, Fisher, Heathkit, Jensen, Pickering, etc. (my fav is the Ampex 1250 reel to reel tape recorder). The best photo is of a modern couple dancing in their living room with University's "Companion II" and "Senior II" speaker cabinets prominently on view. The "Medallion XII" photo, showing off its "Select-A-Style" grille and base options is maybe a close second. There's also a bonus section, explaining (step-by-step) how to tune your new color TV. But that's not all! Filling out the page count is a listing of FM radio stations in the US & Canada, with asterisks indicating "stations now or soon broadcasting Stereo multiplex." Yes, WFMU and KFJC (88.5 back then) are listed, but only in mono. checking the specs to be sure my hi-fi isn't too "extreme", 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, 3 May 1998 17:08:52 EDT From: DJJimmyBee Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 5/2/98 "Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM, Cambridge Saturdays 6-8 am - -----Billy Taylor Orchestra-David Frost Theme----- Gentle People-Soundtrack of Life-their CD Enoch Lite-Walk On By-from "Spaced Out" LP Sounds Orchestral-Soul Coaxing-Sequel Les Baxter-Tropicando-Scamp Roy Budd-Hurry To Me-UK Import Xavier Cugat-Gesundheit-RCA 7" Brown Brothers of Soul-Cholo-from "Soul Cargo" (Brussells) Barry Gray Orchestra-Captain Scarlet-Thunderthemes Are Go! Ennio Morricone-Svolta Definitiva-from More Mondo Morricone Barry Gray Orchestra-Sting Ray-Thunderthemes Are Go! CD - -Bernard Gerard-Le Crocodile Porte-Stereo Ultra (Big Cheese) - -James Taylor Quartet-Theme from Dirty Harry-JTQ CD - -Curtis Mayfield-Freddies Dead (instro)-Rhino Superfly CD - -Ken Thorne-Lindt Vans-Mood Mosaic #4 CD - -Henry Mancini-Mambo Parisienne-Martinis With Mancini CD - -Serge Gainsbourg-Cha Cha Cha Du Loup-CD on Mercury - -Alan Lorber-Mais Que Nada - -Chris Montez-Because Of You-from A&M "Forget-Me-Not" 45 Brigitte Bardot/Serge Gainsbourg-Bonnie & Clyde-Bubblegum Peter Thomas-Caught At Midnight-Scamp Futurmuzik CD Resonance-OK Chicago-StereoUltra CD on Big Cheese(slammin) Peter Thomas-Traitors-Scamp Futurmuzik CD Lalo Schifrin-Enter The Dragon-Japanese Import SoundtrackCD Enoch Lite-Bond Street-Spaced Out LP Sweden Heaven & Hell-You Tried To Warn Me-vocal Ray Anthony-Samba D'Orfeu-Ultra Lound "BossaNovaVille" CD Ron Granier-A Man In A Suitcase Metropolis-I Love New York-12" disc of tourism commercial - -Piero Piccione-Abigaille-WHO IS THIS GUY PIERO ANYWAY??? - -Johnny Keating-Theme From Sam Benedict-Sequel - -Donald Austin-Pea Shooter-Soul Cargo 4 CD from Bar Records - -Stelvio Cipriani-La Fine De Cobb-Easy Tempo - -Hugo Montenegro-Theme From The Fox-Best of Double LP - -K-Taro-Sweden Heaven & Hell (request) - -Pizzicato 5-Its a Beautiful Day-Happy End Of The World CD - -Fifth Dimension-Workin' On A Groovy Thing-Arista Double CD - -Petula Clark-British Coca Cola Commercial-Coke CD - -Don Tiki-An Occasional Man (a listener claimed to have the Jeri Southern original on original vinyl!) - -----Lalo Schifrin-Jim On The Move----- # 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, 04 May 1998 06:28:14 +0900 From: Taro HOSHIJIMA Subject: (exotica) Peter Thomas & P5 Just adding my two yen to Peter Thomas thread... Last week's "Ready-Made FM" (weekly radio program on Tokyo-FM hosted by none other than Pizzicato 5) guested Yan Tomita, who was promoting his new CD (actually a set of three CDs + one CD-ROM). And there was a conversation between Konishi Yasuharu and Yan Tomita like this (originally in Japanese): Konishi: "You talk about your music like an evangelist. It reminds me of Peter Thomas I met in Germany... He is a composer...over 70-year old." Yan: "That just means I'm an old man...lol." Btw, short excerpts from Yan's new release (incorporating some brain waves turned into musical scales, he said) played there sounded to me like an acid house/dub mix of Eno's airport music ;-) Taro HOSHIJIMA email: wy9t-hsjm@asahi-net.or.jp alias: htaro@cool.email.ne.jp (forwarded to the above address) http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~wy9t-hsjm/ # 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, 3 May 1998 23:24:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) reference books At 02:16 AM 5/3/98 -0400, Br. Cleve wrote: >At 3:42 PM -0400 5/2/98, Lou Smith wrote: >>So, what other publications do y'all find essential? > >Lou, that's a beautiful list. I'd be honored to sit in your library some day. Next time you're in Brooklyn! Actually, I was thinking of you and the sort of reference material you seem to have handy when I came up with the thread idea. > >I keep 99% of those (don't have the Toop, must add it) plus a few more - > >The Album Cover Art Of Soundtracks, ed. by Frank Jastfelder and Stefan Kassel >Album Covers From The Vinyl Junkyard, Booth-Cliburn Editions Do you know if these above two books are still available? If they're on your list they must be worth seeking out. - --Librarian 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: Sun, 03 May 1998 20:26:40 -0700 From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) reference books Lou Smith wrote: > > >The Album Cover Art Of Soundtracks, ed. by Frank Jastfelder and Stefan Kassel > >Album Covers From The Vinyl Junkyard, Booth-Cliburn Editions > > Do you know if these above two books are still available? If they're on your > list they must be worth seeking out. i just got a copy of the Vinyl Junkyard one for xmas...... it's a relatively new book, i think- try looking for it at Tower..... :)pea # 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, 3 May 1998 23:48:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Hollywood Hi-Fi At 09:02 AM 5/3/98 PDT, Keir Keightley wrote: > >>Hollywood Hi-Fi by those 2 guys whose names I can't remember > >Lou, don't know this one, tell me more please. > >I'd also add Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories, 1896-1954 and an older >version of his Billboard LP book that covers 1946-71, as well as his >book of Easy Listening charts. There's also a new book called Vinyl >Junkyard that I got in the UK that's useful. Hollywood Hi-Fi is, like Incredibly Strange Music and Ocean of Sound, a book/CD combo. "Those 2 guys" are George Gimarc & Pat Reeder. The book (1995) was published by St. Martin's, and the CD (1996) was released by Brunswick. Basically, the set is in the Golden Throats/Goldmine's Celebrity Vocals camp. The book contains over 100 celebrity recordings, described in a now typical Medved 'Golden Turkey' style. You can go to this official site to find out more: The CD is a fairly good selection of 18 cuts. The key cut for me is Anthony Quinn's What Is Love? Also included are Bette Davis, Robert Michum, Ted Cassidy, Racquel Welch, Joe Pesci, Jayne Mansfield, Joe E. Ross, Jack Larson, JFK, Jerry Mathers, Danny Bonaduce, Brady Bunch, Sissy Spacek, Mamie Van Doren & June Wilkerson, Steve Allen, Dennis Weaver, and Joey Bishop. - --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: Sun, 03 May 1998 22:22:42 -0700 From: Jack Subject: (exotica) More cool s*** you NEED to know Did I tell you guys this already ? Ferrante and Teicher: Sound-PROOF in STEREO has the SAME TITLES AS Sound-BLAST in Mono. Sound-PROOF in Mono have DIFFERENT TITLES than EITHER RECORD with the SAME COVER as Sound-BLAST It just makes my fuckin brain spin and I always HATE GOING THROUGH THAT BUT CAN NEVER REMEMBER IT! IT'S TOOOOOOOOOOOO WEIRD!!! So it's important to have BOTH the Mono and Stereo "Soundproof" LP's as well as Sound-BLAST if only for the cover, cause it's totally cheesy "toy like" outer space and different than the other release anyway. I don't think Soundblast came out in Stereo with THAT ALBUM TITLE Also, originally released as a 10" LP "XMAS HI FIVORIES" was their very 1st LP of Prepared Piano works, dated 1954 ( I think), I'm not going to go look. RE-RELEASED as a 12" LP called "Adventures in Carols" Damn! Jack # 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, 4 May 1998 10:32:15 +0100 From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray McVay > Charles Moseley wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me if 'We Got Soul' by Ray McVay's Big Band Sound is worth > > getting hold of. Featuring 'soul' classics: Soul Man, 25 Miles, Knock on > > Wood and Soul Finger, its got a funky cover with some groovy 60s chicks out > > on the razz in swinging 60s London. > > > > Hot or Not? > > From: Wayne & Tony > > Given that cover how could you resist! > > Everything I've heard by Ray McVay and His Funky Trumpet has been fab. > > Buy it I say! > Ahem. I think you're getting a bit muddled between the funky dress sense of Ray Davies (and his Button Down Brass/Funky Trumpet) and the funky moustache sense of Ray McVay. McVay's albums are, for the most part, dreadful ballroom dancing schplurnge, with perhaps a certain vomitarious value (e.g. "Two Little Boys" as a, um, ?, foxtrot). However, he occasionally pops out a monster, such as "The Ray McVay Roadshow" -- you can hear "2001" from this on the In Flight 2 compilation. That's good cheesy funkoid, and if the album mentioned is up to that level, *I'd* definitely be well chuffed to own it. Davies albums are often fairly uninteresting, I think, but with occasional moments of surprising, complete and somewhat worrying musical psychosis (e.g. motorized version of "Green Grow The Rushes O" complete with bird chorus ending). My tuppence worth. # 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, 4 May 1998 06:03:33 -0600 From: Jill Mingo Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray McVay >McVay's albums are, for the most part, dreadful ballroom dancing >schplurnge, with perhaps a certain vomitarious value (e.g. "Two Little >Boys" as a, um, ?, foxtrot). However, he occasionally pops out a >monster, such as "The Ray McVay Roadshow" -- you can hear "2001" from >this on the In Flight 2 compilation. That's good cheesy funkoid, and >if the album mentioned is up to that level, *I'd* definitely be well >chuffed to own it. True, McVay is often a let down, but... > >Davies albums are often fairly uninteresting, I think, but with >occasional moments of surprising, complete and somewhat worrying >musical psychosis (e.g. motorized version of "Green Grow The Rushes O" >complete with bird chorus ending). Davies usually is a bit more swinging. He definitely has one or two albums worth getting - although I don't have them so don't have the titles in front of me, but friends have played me some stuff of Davies that has made me think "ooh...ahhh", and those who know Mingo-go knows that there isn't much that I would actually buy! > >My tuppence worth. Ditto for me. Jill "Mingo-go" # 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, 04 May 1998 11:44:49 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Test Card Classics I've just noticed two English imports: 1) Test Card Classics - The Girl The Doll The Music (Flyback/Chandos 1996) 2) Test Card Classics - Big Band Width (Flyback/Chandos 1997) These appear to be previously unreleased Light/Production music pieces originally broadcast by the BBC during TV downtime. I can't determine the performers from the CD packaging, except for that the first disc seems to contain the only two Roger Roger original performances now available on CD (please correct me if I'm wrong). Anyone familiar with these discs and care to recommend for/against them? - --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: Mon, 4 May 1998 13:15:19 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Shag Gallery Here's an online gallery of paintings you may like -- by Shag (Josh Agle): http://www.laluzdejesus.com/SHAG/ShagShow1.html It's left over from a show earlier this year at La Luz de Jesus Gallery out in LA. I should try to remember to check this site more often. 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: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:39:24 +0200 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Looking for Exotica Mp3's what are "MP3's"? Johan quiet@village.uunet.be + dada@bewoner.dma.be --- # 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, 4 May 1998 18:16:35 +0100 From: Peter Hipwell Subject: (exotica) Test Card Classics Lou Smith wrote: > > I've just noticed two English imports: > > 1) Test Card Classics - The Girl The Doll The Music (Flyback/Chandos 1996) > 2) Test Card Classics - Big Band Width (Flyback/Chandos 1997) > > These appear to be previously unreleased Light/Production music pieces > originally broadcast by the BBC during TV downtime. I can't determine the > performers from the CD packaging, except for that the first disc seems to > contain the only two Roger Roger original performances now available on CD > (please correct me if I'm wrong). > > Anyone familiar with these discs and care to recommend for/against them? > You might want to have a look at "The Test Card Circle": http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/index.html Which has some ramblings by the compiler of these two discs, giving artist details, etc., might be a tad Brit-o-centric. Also discussion of other test card music releases. There's also some RealAudio of test card music in there (can't play that myself). BTW, I've got Vol. 1, and I like it a lot, but this might well just be simply nostalgia value for that style of music; hypnotism by the girl and the doll... generally very smooth and laid back. Vol. 1 does have Roger Roger, also Syd Dale and Alan Moorhouse if I remember right. I don't play it too often. # 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, 3 May 1998 23:34:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) GARY MOSCHELES (NEW Exotica???) At 12:52 PM 5/3/98 +0100, Kenny B. wrote: >....it wouldn't surprise me at all if JJ >Perrey's forthcoming album will fit perfectly in with today's >electronica/ambient/whateveryouchoosetocallit! Jack Diamond, you had heard >it, right? What would you say, comparing it to the latest modern >electronica? Um, didn't Jack say he only had time to post here but didn't have time to subscribe to or read the list? In other words, the communication is one-way at this point, until he decides to re-join fully. So, I wouldn't expect a response unless you e-mailed him directly. - -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: Mon, 04 May 1998 00:52:08 PDT From: "Jordana Robinson" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: GARY MOSCHELES (NEW Exotica???) >>GARY MOSCHELES >>"Shaped to make your Life easier" Johan wrote: >i've had a chance to listen to that one, but to me it sounded >like 99% techno + 1 % "exotic"... but i have to add that i rather >hate techno and all that modern bonkaboonkabook stuff ;-) While I would still classify it as "modern bonkaboonkabook," :) his u-Ziq album "Urmur Bile Trax Volume One Volume Two" has a fair amount of Perrey/Kingsley-sounding samples and thus _might_ appeal to moog etc. fans. Then there's also Luke Vibert, who samples "Psyche Rock" (Henry & Colombier) and a bunch of people talking about space exploration, among other things. Mr. Vibert also records drum-and-bassy stuff under the name Plug. Both of these records are sample-heavy but neither borrows as much from the exotica-genres as something like Tipsy. For those who like the new-school bonkaboonkabook etc. as well as the old-school it borrows from (like me), I would recommend both. Jordana Robinson eero67@geocities.com www.geocities.com/SoHo/2157 ______________________________________________________ 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, 04 May 1998 00:59:59 PDT From: "Jordana Robinson" Subject: Re: (exotica) reference books Lou Smith wrote: >And magazines including: >Cannot Become Obsolete, Cool & Strange Music!, Exotica/Etc., Thrift Score >and Tiki News. > >So, what other publications do y'all find essential? Besides the ones above, a couple of related zines I like are Easy Listener and Mystery Date. I also like having some back issues of Grand Royal (like the one with a feature on the history of electronic music), but that's a very spotty magazine. Jordana Robinson eero67@geocities.com www.geocities.com/SoHo/2157 ______________________________________________________ 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, 04 May 1998 01:23:05 PDT From: "Jordana Robinson" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: GARY MOSCHELES (NEW Exotica???) Kenny Brockelstein wrote: >It's in the same tradition, only that MOM has access to >a lot of modern technology.....it wouldn't surprise me >at all if JJ Perrey's forthcoming album will fit perfectly >in with today's electronica/ambient/whateveryouchoosetocallit! >Jack Diamond, you had heard it, right? What would you say, >comparing it to the latest modern electronica? Well... a)I'm not Jack Diamond b)I haven't heard the new Perrey album but... I have heard a track he did with Air on last year's Sourcelab 3 compilation. It pretty much sounds like Air, but more bouncy and techno than they usually are, so one would think that the bouncy techno-ness might be due to Mr. Perrey's contribution to the collaboration. When is that Perrey album coming out? Jack? Someone? Jordana Robinson eero67@geocities.com www.geocities.com/SoHo/2157 ______________________________________________________ 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, 4 May 1998 10:13:08 -0700 From: "Carl Russo" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray McVay - -----Original Message----- From: Jill Mingo To: exotica@xmission.com Date: Monday, May 04, 1998 5:04 AM Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray McVay Jill wrote: >[Ray] Davies usually is a bit more swinging. He definitely has one or two albums >worth getting - although I don't have them so don't have the titles in front >of me, but friends have played me some stuff of Davies that has made me >think "ooh...ahhh" I always ooh and ahhh when I listen to his album "Firedog!" Incredibly hip, rockin' versions of POLICE STORY, HAWAII FIVE-0, POLICE WOMAN, ROCKFORD FILES, McCLOUD, KOJAK, COLUMBO and more. The best cut is Davies' own composition, title track "Firedog!" In best 70s urban style, it seems to be his frustrated bid to score TV cop shows. To my knowledge the album hasn't been re-issued. The original is on DJM/Pye. Grab it if you see it! C "Ratso" Russo # 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, 4 May 1998 16:49:36 -0600 From: "Steven Peterson" Subject: (exotica) Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 18:43:21 -0500 Has anyone heard the Arthur Lyman cds, " Sonic Sixties " or " Taboo II " ? Any reviews welcome. Steve: speterso@isoa.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 98 21:46:01 -0400 From: Elisabeth Vincentelli Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: GARY MOSCHELES (NEW Exotica???) RE: JJ Perrey's new material. I have an album he recorded in collaboration with a young French guy named David Chazam. It's called _Eclectronics_ and it's rather good--very much in the current French lite electronics school but with Perrey's trademark sonic jokes, if you see what I mean. Chazam also has a solo album called _Eclectryhms_. Both are on the Basenotic label out of Paris. I don't know much about these releases and if they're readily available or not. A French friend told me that Perrey and Air have been working on a full-length album. I guess that should get a lot of publicity when it comes out, as Air have a higher profile than Chazam. There's actually another Perrey collaboration on _SourceLab 3_: Le Tone's "Jean-Jacques & les dauphins." ("Jean-Jacques & the Dolphins"--Perrey studied dolphins before turning to music.) Elisabeth _____________________________________ "So the Greenwich Villager sets out to amuse herself. It's sordid and hard, but it must be done." # 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, 4 May 1998 22:14:02 EDT From: Jbtwist Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Looking for Exotica Mp3's I just discovered these this weekend so bear with me. MP3's are wav files compressed into MPEG format, kinda like Real Audio but apparently better fidelity(I noticed some distortion at times). You need shareware called WinAmp to play them,and apparently it also converts wav files to the smaller compressed MP3 files. There are a million web sites to FTP the latest "hits" , like the exotic Celine Dion, but apparently record companies dont like em at all and shut em down pronto. There are a few newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.1950s.MP3 and others for 60's, 70's 80's and 90's, where people post files. The 50's have doo wop and obscure stuff. Found Linda Laurie's weird tune "Ambrose" there, a Zacherle song, Wynonie Harris, "Kung Fu Fighting", plus "The Long Ships" by 3 Suns arranger Charles Albertine ?(borrr-ing) The 60's or 70's group had all 4 sides of Lou Reed's 'Metal Machine Music, which I'd never heard before. Interesting, but OUCH! Make sure you have a cable modem and a 10 gig hard drive or a zip or jazz drive. Even compressed the files are big, like a Jenna Jameson video clip. Looks like a little less than a meg per minute. The legality of all this stuff is outside my area of expertise. JB Twist - btw yesterday was Godfather James Brown's 65 birthday, the HARDEST workin man in show business !!!!!!!!!!!!!! KFJC did 12 hours of him. "And you can bet, you havent seen nothin yet, until you've seen me do...the James Brown. OWWWW!!!!" # 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, 04 May 1998 22:14:18 -0700 From: LeAnn & Dave Davidson Subject: (exotica) More Hollywood Hi-Fi Regarding Hollywood Hi fi, there is a cut on that disc: Mamie Van Doren & June Wilkinson - Bikini with no top on top that has no information on the original YEAR of release in the booklet. It mentions the year for every other song but that one. I've researched on the net and at the library, but I've come up empty handed. Does anyone know? Thanks - 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: Tue, 05 May 1998 12:57:19 +0000 From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) 2525 "In the Year 2525" by Zager & Evans is still one of the most bizarre, strange and, if you like, exotic ("strikingly or excitingly different or unusual") pop songs of all times to me. I don't know much about it, though. It kind of plays in the same league as "The House of the Rising Sun", if you know what I mean... I have 3 basic questions to ask to the list: 1. Can somebody supply me with the lyrics, that I never seemed to understand right. Or did I and just couldn't believe what I heard? 2. Cover-versions: I heard just one so far and don't even know who did it. 3. What became of Zager & Evans; who are they, resp. what else did they do? Any albums? I'd appreciate every bit of info someone could give me! 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: Tue, 05 May 1998 06:53:06 PDT From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: (exotica) Charles Randolph Grean Sounde Has anyone got any information on this guy - when he was recording, with whom, etc.? I have a single of the "Theme to Star Trek", which is great fun - fuzzed out psych-sploitative guitars and what sounds like prepared piano. There is a brief reference in one of the ISM volumes, but not enough to determine whether it would be worth looking around for more Grean Sounde output. regards, waugh ______________________________________________________ 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: Tue, 05 May 1998 11:27:56 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) 2525 At 12:57 PM 5/5/98 +0000, Moritz wrote: >I have 3 basic questions to ask to the list: =20 >1. Can somebody supply me with the lyrics, that I never seemed to >understand right. Or did I and just couldn't believe what I heard? In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus) written by Richard S. "Rick" Evans In the year 2525, If man is still alive, If woman can survive, They may find- In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, Tell no lies. Everything you think, do, and say Is in the pill you took today. In the year 4545 Ain't gonna need your teeth, Won't need your eyes. You won't find a thing to chew, Nobody's gonna look at you. In the year 5555 Your arms are hanging limp at your side, You legs got nothing to do, Some machine's doing that for you. In the year 6565 Ain't gonna need no husband, Won't need no wife. You'll pick your sons, pick your daughters too From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh-oh. In the year 7510 If God's a-coming He ought to make it by then. Maybe he'll look around himself and say, "Guess it's time for the Judgement Day." In the year 8510 God is gonna shake his mighty head. He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been" Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh-oh In the year 9595 I'm kinda wondering If man is gonna be alive; He's taken everything this old Earth can give And he ain't put back nothing. Now it's been ten thousand years, Man has cried a billion tears For what he never knew. Now man's reign is through. But through eternal night, The twinkling of starlight, So very far away, Maybe it's only yesterday... In the year 2525 (etc...) >2. Cover-versions: I heard just one so far and don't even know who did >it. There's an orchestral pop cover on Raymond LeFevre's "Oh Happy Day" and I think Lawrence Welk covers it also (on "Jean"??). There must be others as= well. > >3. What became of Zager & Evans; who are they, resp. what else did they >do? Any albums? Formed=A01968 in Lincoln, NE 1969 Early Writing of Zager & Evans White Whale 1969 In the Year 2525 RCA 1969 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) RCA 1970 Zager & Evans RCA 1971 Food for the Mind Vanguard Well, you asked. 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. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #102 *****************************