One-half of WFMU heavy-spinners the Bran Flakes, Mr. Fodder skies in from Seattle to guest on Irwin's program. He brings a grab-bag of audio goodies from his free-form collection of vinyl and MP3 files, including kitschy spoken word, shimmering vocal choruses, incorrigible singing children, and Bran Flakes remixchief.
Otis Fodder
Wednesday, May 9th, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
on Incorrect Music with Irwin and Michelle BoulΘ
Otis continues his dominance of the WFMU airwaves by taking over Incorrect Music, leaving Michelle and Irwin largely in the passenger seats. Michelle and Otis will premiere their collaborative cover of the IM classic, "Mr. Snuggles," and perform a live rendition of the Girls With Attitude song "Don't Judge Me."
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Shoppers crowd the streets and cut across lawns, creating traffic congestion in quiet suburban neighborhoods. They knock on doors in the wee hours to get first crack at everything from lawnmowers to heirlooms.
Garage sales are creating headaches in towns across Pennsylvania, prompting one community to pass a law that limits the longtime rite of spring to four per year at any address.
``It was getting so people were having them every weekend, and that can test people's patience,'' said William Harris, a supervisor in Richland Township, where the law went into effect last week.
Township zoning officer Mark Walker said so much money was changing hands at some sales that they could be classified as businesses. Shoppers fanned through the township last weekend for sales advertising items such as carpet remnants, perfume bottles, workout machines and bathing suits.
``It got so bad that it got hard to get through with my car,'' said Shirley Leventry, a retired secretary. ``It made me late for an appointment one day.''
In the northwestern Pennsylvania town of Saegertown, the community had the same problems with traffic five years ago but dealt with the situation by scheduling one day each summer for a town-wide garage sale.
Three-fourths of the households in town participate. At one recent sale, ``Trump: The Game'' -- as in real estate magnate Donald Trump -- was on the block for $1. This year's sale is July 21, and even the library pitches in by selling old books.
Mayor Fred Smith said the sale is even starting to rival the two things that helped put Saegertown on the map.
``We've got Sharon Stone, we've got Saegertown Ginger Ale and now we've got the garage sale,'' said Smith, referring to the famous native and the soda once made in the town of 1,000.
In the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Bloomfield, the garage sale season starts on Saturdays in May. Even if a homeowner advertises that a sale starts at 8 a.m., shoppers knock on doors at 6:30 a.m. trying to get first dibs on the best old stuff.
``It gets vicious,'' said Rick Schwartz, president of the Bloomfield-Garfield Corp., an economic development group in Pittsburgh. ``They're out there looking for the best furniture, lamps, even lawnmowers.''
Dan Edwards, mayor of the Scranton suburb of Moscow, said the only garage sale trouble he remembers was when one man had a sale every weekend one summer, earning him a visit from the zoning officer. The town now has two annual garage sales.
``I don't know why they're so popular. I guess we just have a lot of trash,'' Edwards said.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) -- Legendary jazz drummer Billy Higgins died Thursday at age 64.
Higgins was one of the most recorded figures in the history of jazz, performing with John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Milt Jackson, Charles Lloyd, Pat Metheny, Lee Morgan, Art Pepper and Joshua Redman, among others.
He played with pianist Cedar Walton and was involved with the first edition of bassist Charlie Haden's innovative Quartet West.
Higgins came to prominence in the 1950s with saxophonist Ornette Coleman's free jazz group, which included Haden and trumpeter Don Cherry. Higgins' drumming laid the foundation for the group's free jazz flights of fancy.
That group sparked a decade of innovation in jazz that was carried on by the Coleman Quartet, Coltrane, George Russell, Charles Mingus and Albert Ayler, among others.
Higgins' ability to adapt his sense of swing to any genre made him one of the most in-demand drummers of the past four decades.
Higgins helped found World Stage, a storefront performance space and teaching venue in Los Angeles' Leimert Park. He was also on the jazz faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Higgins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master's Fellowship in 1997.
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>I've heard about this event for years now but I've never been able
>to go. What are the prices like? Does all the good stuff get
>bought up in the first day or is there so much that it lasts well
>into the third day?
The WFMU fair is absolutely awesome!
I will be going later and spending ALL my money!
Prices vary hugely, but there are definitely loads of bargains to be had.
I remember the first time I ever went, just being overwhelmed - coming away with records I had dreamed of owning when I lived in Europe, but figured I would never find - like Dick Hyman's 'the man from O.R.G.A.N.' and the three suns' 'fever and smoke' (for not much more than $5 each).
Last November I went on Sunday and was still able to come away with some great records. There is such a huge volume of stuff there that it would be impossible for all the gems to disappear in 1 or 2 days.
I highly recommend going; it's twice a year, normally November and May.
Jonny
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In a message dated Sun, 6 May 2001 11:08:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Colleen Pyles" <colleen7@ireland.com> writes:
Ah yes, JB, How I always wished to be in NYC in the late fifties and
early sixties...that's when it was all happenin'. Every time I hear
Sunday in New York, I have a fantasy New York to go
to....colleen/wishing she was Holly Golightly
And tell me What street compares to Mott Street in July. The pushcarts gently gliding by.The city's a wondrous joy, for every young girl and boy...We'll turn Manhattan into an Isle of Joy
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In a message dated Sun, 6 May 2001 11:23:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Colleen Pyles" <colleen7@ireland.com> writes:
<<
alan wrote:
Nate you might want to maintain your "innocence" as long as possible.
When
you actually see me in the film then your image of me will be
destroyed
OK..let me be the first to declare our beloved "Nat" the Winner of the Gary Schandling Lookalike Contest...JB/saw the film and its gets five stars at this address
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In a message dated Tue, 8 May 2001 10:08:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Clayton Black <clayton.black@washcoll.edu> writes:
> From: "Nathan Miner" <nminer@jhmi.edu>
> Tommy Dorsey Orch. "More Tea for Two Cha Chas" - They do An Occasional Man cha
> cha??
There is also an exotica/latin-flavored version of the same song on one of those Dynamic Percussion LP's (there were 3 i believe). I cannot remember the name of the orchestra that played them as they are only mentioned in the liners, BUTT, the liners were scribed by Nat Hentoff. This song may be of interest due to the fact that Don Tiki resurrected it on their maiden voyage with the Mark Ryden cover (a realllly PHATTT cover BTW). It was originally recorded by Jeri Sothern back in the 50's and was something of a lost item. Maybe Fluid Floyd can fill us in further.....JB/still weilding that tiki Floyd!
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> This song may be of interest due to the fact that Don Tiki resurrected it on their maiden voyage with the Mark Ryden cover (a realllly PHATTT cover BTW). It was originally recorded by Jeri Sothern back in the 50's and was something of a lost item. Maybe Fluid Floyd can fill us in further.....JB/still weilding that tiki Floyd!
Martin Denny also recorded "An Occassional Man" on his "The Enchanted
Billy Mitchell, 74, a saxophonist who played in bands led by Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Woody Herman died April 18 of lung cancer at his home in Rockville Center NY. Born in Kansas City, Mitchell moved to Detroit as a youth and quickly honed his interest in music. Mainly a tenor sax player, he also played alto and soprano saxophone as well as flute and clarinet. He worked with Nat Towles' band in Detroit and Lucky Millander's Orchestra in New York in the late 1940s. He replaced Gene Ammons in the Woody Herman Orchestra in 1949. The high point in Mitchell's career was his stint with the Gillespie band in 1956 and '57. He played with Basie from 1957 to 1961 and later in the mid-1960s. Mitchell was very active in jazz education in New York City schools and offered seminars at Hofstra University and Yale. He spent more than 30 years as a resident player at a jazz spot in Seaford, N.Y., called Sonny's Place.
BERLIN (AP) - Evelyn Kuenneke, a Berlin singer and cabaret artist whose tune "Sing Nightingale Sing" was a hit among German soldiers during World War II, died Saturday of lung cancer, her manager said. She was 79.
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DAYTON, Tenn. (AP) -- Robert McKinley ``Uncle Bob'' Douglas, a renowned mountain fiddler who debuted at the Grand Ole Opry at age 100, died Wednesday of pneumonia. He was 101.
He was scheduled to receive the state's highest arts award, the Governor's Folklife Heritage Award, on May 15.
Douglas, a retired steamfitter who never pursued a commercial career, won the Smithsonian Institution's national fiddling contest in 1975 and performed at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville.
Robert McKinley Douglas, better known as "Uncle Bob" and "Fiddlin' Bob," was born in the Sequatchie Valley near Pikeville, Tenn. He didn't take up the fiddle until he was 23. His father, Tom Douglas, was the family fiddler, so Bob played guitar, making music along with cousin Al Ferguson on banjo for dances all over the mountains. Though Douglas liked the guitar, his daddy's fiddle kept calling.
"I just wanted to play the fiddle so bad," Douglas recalled. "Every time he'd take a rest, I'd pick it up. I could play a few tunes on it when he gave it to me."
Three months later, Douglas won his first fiddling contest. During his lifetime, he has won trophy after trophy, most of which are displayed in the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tenn., along with the prized fiddle, a 1725 Stradivarius.
But Douglas' contributions to music far outshine his rewards, say those in the business. Douglas was the first live act to appear on WDOD Radio in 1925, and he gave the Louvin Brothers their first playing job on the radio. He toured with the Allen Brothers and recorded for RCA Victor in 1928.
More recently, he has had recordings requested by the Smithsonian Institution, stole the show on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion," and won hearts at last year's Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Seattle, where he taught a group of teen-agers how to play.
I'm going to be spending a lot of time in Atlanta pretty soon. Other than Trader Vic's are there any other Tiki related places? Any retro themed martini lounges? Any bands I should look out for?
filler. The DC area SA outlets have not been putting
any new lps out - when I asked why they mentioned that
HQ (like a real army, they are)is individually pricing
lps from now on. Great. I can see Major Barabara
commanding her subalterns to price each crusty lp
according to the Goldmine or Osborne guides.
Oh joy. They probably think (like the folks running certain garage sales I've come across) that vinyl is now "collectable" no matter WHAT it is and will start charging $10 for scratchy Slim Whitman and Kansas records.
At least in the long run they'll start to wonder why the lps aren't "moving" and will either (1) price them back down to reasonable levels or (2) get rid of them all together (like a certain SF bookstore that experimented with selling overpriced-for-their-condition records for awhile). Let's hope they aim for the former....
-DavidH
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Is that "daydream I fell asleep among the flowers, for a couple of hours on a beautiful day......"
If it is, it is really nice, I have been trying to get it but to no avail.
I know that it is on the Cercle Label, but that is about it, if you want to hear the original that the track samples, it is on Beyond the valley of the Superbeats on the grand gruyere label, it is really good too, very very peaceloving hippy type stuff.
regards
Ronnie
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>Anyone out their got any info on the band "I Monster"?
>I heard their new single on BBC Radio 2 the other day, and was the coolest
>thing I've heard in a long while.
>badge
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Stunning, I have had the polydor easy listening compilation for a few years, I bought it because I liked the writing on the cover, and listened to the one or two Kai Warner style tracks (crap) and it has been languing in my "to be binned pile" for a while, until last night.. when I dicovered Daydream
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>That Gunter Kallman Chorus track is on the Polydor 'Easy Listening' 2LP
>Been meaning to sample that for about 5 years. I hope the I Monster does it justice
It does!!
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Susannah McCorkle, Pop and Jazz Singer, Is Dead at 55
Susannah McCorkle, the sultry voiced pop-jazz singer who brought a rare literary refinement to popular standards, was found dead outside her apartment at 41 West 86th Street early yesterday morning. She was 55.
She grew up in a musical family, and sang gospel music at churches during the 1940s and early 1950s; she was also a member of a choral group that performed spirituals, jubilee music, comedy numbers, and other secular songs, which influenced her subsequent choice of repertory as a soloist. Later she sang at clubs in Chicago with the pianist King Fleming and others, and recorded four albums (1957-9).
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Internationally known bluesman Willie Foster died early Sunday of an apparent heart attack, shortly after a performance at a private party, a family member said.
James Paul Koncek, a barrel-chested blues-rock singer who changed his name to Top Jimmy and became a colorful and inspirational presence on the Los Angeles rock scene in the 1980s, died Thursday in Las Vegas of liver failure. He was 46.
Though he never found commercial success himself, Top Jimmy was a magnet for his famous peers, often sitting in with bands such as X and attracting guest performers ranging from Tom Waits to Stevie Ray Vaughan at his long-running "Blue Mondays" show every week at the old Cathay de Grande club in Hollywood. Superstar rock band Van Halen, whose David Lee Roth frequented the Zero Zero club, where Koncek worked as a bartender, paid homage in a song titled "Top Jimmy" on its "1984" album.
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> The entire music chapter of my visit was a bit disappointing. Neither did I appreciate the traditional music like Gamelan very much, nor did I find any Indonesian or Balinesian pop that I would buy. I guess one has to spend a little more time before one can get a survey on that scene.
===============
Mo,
Sorry to hear that you didn't get off on the local music. I've got a couple hundred Indonesian/Balinese/Javanese CDs and dig them all. I must have (at least) 8 different Kecak monkey chants just for a start. I'd whip up a sampler for the Exoticaring but I wouldn't know where to start. Of course there are Western versions of gambelan that you might like - Lou Harrison, Evan Ziporan, I've got one CD on Laserlight that mixes gambelan with Carribbean pans.
One guy you should check out is Sabah Habas Mustapha
http://members.aol.com/sabahhabas/
He has a radio show in Germany which you should be able to catch, over the air or over the web. I really dig his 3 solo CDs - and he's touring out your way in a few months. Just poke around his site for info and example sound files. He's playing in a Sunda/West Java dangdut style, not Balinese, but way cool.
Three books you would enjoy are:
Bali Modern : The Art of Tropical Living
Balinese Textiles
and most highly recommended
Images of Power : Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead by Hildred Geertz
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> I'm surprised the gamelan music didn't suck you in.
It sucked me in - and spat me out.
> I've always been intrigued by
> the concept of Indonesian music which is based in part on 2 wheels
> turning and when a certain place on each wheel intersects that
> certain place on another wheel a big GONG goes off.
I guess to fully understand what you hear and see, you need more introduction, more experience and more performances of Gamelan music. In Vicky Baum's book "Tales of Bali", there are humerous descriptions of how the Dutch leaders are tortured and bored to death by incredibly long performances of the Legong dance, really funny. My #1 book recommendation BTW, if you go to Bali! #2 would be "The Beach", which is countless classes better than the film.
> Sorry to hear that you didn't get off on the local music. I've got a couple hundred Indonesian/Balinese/Javanese CDs and dig them all. I must have (at least) 8 different Kecak monkey chants just for a start. I'd whip up a sampler for the Exoticaring but I wouldn't know where to start.
Oh, you should really do that! If I had that much choice I would probaly have to change my judgement about Gamelan, which is only based on a very few experiences.
The Kecak dance is in fact an interesting phenomenon, as, although based on original Balinese dance styles, it was invented only in 1931 by a German artist, Walter Spies, for a film about Bali, called "Island of the Demons" and is performed for tourists as an original folkloristic dance ever since.
> One guy you should check out is Sabah Habas Mustapha
> http://members.aol.com/sabahhabas/
Ah, 3 Mustaphas 3, I've heard of them, when they had a coming out some 10 years ago, but I had no idea that it is Balinese music.
> Sunda/West Java dangdut style
I bought two CDs called Sunda Africa. They sound a bit like so called "world music" and I couldn't yet figure out, what they exactely are or come from. They are OK, but not more.
> Three books you would enjoy are:
> Bali Modern : The Art of Tropical Living
> Balinese Textiles
> and most highly recommended
> Images of Power : Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead by Hildred Geertz
I've seen all of them in Ubud, they are available here too, and for the same price. Since I own "Tropical Asian Style" I thought I don't need further books, but I'll give it another look!
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Hartzell Spence,Maurice J. Noble
Date: 25 May 2001 09:59:46 -0400
May 25, 2001
Hartzell Spence, 93, Inventor of Pinup, Dies
By DOUGLAS MARTIN,NYTimes
Hartzell Spence, a writer who as founder and executive editor of Yank magazine during World War II helped introduce the term "pinup," died on May 9 at his home in Essex, Conn. He was 93.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Yank was the first to use the term as a noun, in 1943, but Life magazine used "pinup" in 1941 as an adjective ù for a girl, of course.
The 2.2 million American soldiers who raptly awaited their weekly black-and-white glimpses of Rita Hayworth, Hedy Lamarr and other beauties wearing lingerie or swimsuits and come-hither expressions, are not known to have lingered over etymology.
But it seems certain that they valued Yank, which was written by, about and for the enlisted man, personified by its popular comic strip "Sad Sack," which Mr. Spence also championed.
Yank's reporters were soldiers who carried both guns and notebooks into battle, and its cartoonists were of the caliber of Bil Keane, who went on to draw "The Family Circus," now appearing in 1,500 newspapers.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called Yank's staff "highly professional," suggesting that "few more important records of World War II can be found anywhere."
He did not mention the pinups, which found their way inside the lids of footlockers and were nailed to palm trees beside shaving mirrors; they lasted long after the rest of an issue was discarded. One 1944 pinup that proved worth keeping showed Norma Jean Baker, who became better known as Marilyn Monroe.
For these treats, soldiers could thank Mr. Spence, according to an account in "The Pinup from 1852 to Now," a 1974 book by Ralph Stein, Yank's cartoon editor during the war.
Mr. Stein recalled an early staff meeting at the magazine, in which he quoted Mr. Spence as saying, "We've got to have a pinup."
"None of us had ever heard the term," Mr. Stein wrote. "I think Hartzell might have invented it."
The pinup was not Mr. Spence's only addition to the national conversation. He heard about Sgt. George Baker, who had just won an Army cartoon contest, and asked him to send samples of his work. The result was "Sad Sack," which vividly portrayed the soldier's existence and was widely syndicated after the war.
Mr. Spence was born on Feb. 15, 1908, in Clarion, Iowa. A Methodist minister's son, he graduated from the University of Iowa in 1930 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and then served as Iowa bureau manager of the United Press Association. He was promoted to New York to supervise the agency's special service bureau.
After having a dozen books rejected by publishers, he heeded a friend who had asked, "Why don't you write something you know best about?"
The result was "One Foot in Heaven," a 1941 best seller about a Methodist minister's family as it moves from town to town. The plot has the congregation split into warring factions and depicts the choir as "a cross between the devil's grandmother and a swarm of mountain wildcats."
After his service as editor of Yank, Mr. Spence was transferred to the Army Air Forces as special assistant to Gen. Lauris Norstad. He was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1945.
He then resumed his career as a writer of, among other things, historical novels and "The Big Top," written with Fred Bradna, a celebrated circus ringmaster. He wrote about 200 articles for magazines like Saturday Evening Post, Look and Reader's Digest.
In 1964, he wrote "Marcos of the Philippines," a biography of Ferdinand E. Marcos. The book, which described Marcos as having "selfless, passionate patriotism," was distributed widely during Marcos's successful campaign for the presidency in 1965.
There were accusations that Mr. Spence either stretched the truth or was gullible. In 1986, Newsweek magazine published an article saying that wounds Mr. Spence reported Marcos as receiving in a single- handed battle against 50 Japanese were actually suffered at least a year earlier.
Mr. Spence is survived by a son, Matt L., of Boca Raton, Fla.; a daughter, Laurie Reeves of Lyme, Conn.; and two grandchildren.
His pinup idea almost ended up on the composing room floor, according to Mr. Stein's book. An early layout of the feature was sent to Henry L. Stimson, the secretary of war, who then sent it on to his superior officer, Mrs. Henry Stimson. She saw the pencil drawing and ordered it quashed.
But for reasons lost in time, the pinups ù as pictures and as nouns ù survived.
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May 25, 2001
Maurice J. Noble, Animator for 'Bambi' and Other Films, Dies at 91
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A CA╤ADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. -- Maurice J. Noble, a film animator whose award-winning design work can be seen in the Disney classics "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Bambi," "Dumbo" and "Fantasia," died on May 18 at his home in La Crescenta, Calif. He was 91.
In addition to the Walt Disney Company, Mr. Noble also worked for Warner Brothers on cartoons including "What's Opera, Doc?" and "Duck Amuck," both of which were inducted into the National Film Registry.
For Chuck Jones Film Productions he directed "The Dot and the Line," an Academy Award winner for best short animated subject in 1961. Mr. Noble also collaborated with Mr. Jones at MGM, where they produced the Dr. Seuss cartoons "The Cat in the Hat," "Horton Hears a Who" and the original animated adaptation of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Mr. Noble "changed the way backgrounds were designed,"` said Don Hall, a Disney storyboard artist. "His style was all about bold color choices. His backgrounds were warm and interesting, and he was careful to make them subordinate to the characters."
Born on May 1, 1910, in Minnesota, Mr. Noble moved with his family to California, where he attended Chouinard Art Institute before he began an advertising career. One of his ad campaigns was the creation of the Red Door brand for Elizabeth Arden.
Mr. Noble is survived by his wife, Marjorie; two children; and a grandson.
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> Smoke dope in the coffeshops all day, get drunk as hell in the evening
> and annoy the locals while visiting the prostitutes in the red light
> district. There's not much else to do here otherwise.
I know it's NONE OF MY BUSINESS whatsoever, but don't believe this Dutchman! The natives from the "Low Countries" seem to hate themselves and don't find anything good about their country. Amsterdam is as good as any other European capital and if you're lucky enough to catch some sun during your stay, you can have a nice time in a beautiful city. Yes, you should smoke some dope in one of the coffeeshops, and I recommend the "Rokerij"... Skip the alkohol and the hookers, but take a round trip with a boat. Stay at the Hotel New York. Visit the Rijksmuseum. Or any of the many other museums. Check record shops - now someone from Holland should know which and where to find them. Eat Fricandel Special from an automatic vending-machine. Sit in a park. Talk to Dutch girls. Etc. Etc.
>don't believe this Dutchman! The natives from the "Low Countries" seem to hate themselves and don't find anything >good about their country.
Welcome back, Mo. For your information, I am not a Dutchman, but an Englishman in exile. It's just that 99,9% of
the Dutch are totally unhip to cool Retro and Exotica. There's virtually nothing like that here in Amsterdam (why do you think I'm so depending on this list, goddammit) Ok, I will turn off my frustration mode for a while and try to be more
helpful.
Bratwurstfresser Mo wrote:
>Eat Fricandel Special from an automatic vending-machine.
I strongly advise you not to. These contain the slaughterhouse leftovers (I'll leave it up to your imagination what may be) Better to check out some of the many Indonesian restaurants for a more tastier and healthier meal. Some of them have very nice Exotica interiors.
Museums:
The 3 main museums are conveniently next to each other on the Museumplein:
Rijksmuseum - pre 19th century Classicism - Rembrandt and his contemporaries
Van Gogh museum - 19th century Impressionism & Symbolism (one of my favourite museums)
Stedelijk Museum - 20th century Modernism
Exotica fanatics might want to check out the Tropenmuseum (=Tropical museum)
And if you're in a really cheezy mood the Sex museums (there's 2 different ones) or the Torture museum, where everything is totally fake.
Record shops:
Record Palace - Weteringschans 33
A good selection (although pricy) of 2nd hand jazz/soundtracks/50's-70's in the basement.
Listen all you want (self service)
Concerto - Utrechtsestraat 52-60
Although the 2nd hand section is not what it used to be, it's still worth checking out. Reasonably priced
and you can listen to the 2nd hand vinyl for as long as you want (self service). The New section has a
bit of everything, including a ok selection of lounge, soundtracks, triphop, dance, "world", etc.
Get Records - Utrechtsestraat 105
New CDs & Vinyl only, one of the best shops for alternative/independent guitar/dance/"world" etc.
Distrortion Records - Westerstraat 72
New & 2nd hand, small but good selection of alternative/independent guitar/dance music
Forever Changes - Bilderdijkstraat 148
New & 2nd hand Vinyl & CD, small but good selection of lounge/soundtracks/50's-now, some 2nd hand
and occasionly even some Exotica.
Datzzit - Prinsengracht 306
2nd hand CD's/LP's/45's/78's interesting stuff, but can be bit pricy
Sound of the Fifties - Prinsengracht 669
New and 2nd hand, mostly vinyl (someCD's) 50's& 60's /jazz
Boudisque - Haringpakkerssteeg 10-18
New CD's and some vinyl, not what it used to be, but they still have a bit of everything
Clubs (best to check out the flyers while you're here):
Winston Kingdom - Small bar/club, one of the few places where you can go to a decent
50's -70's retro party
Korsakoff - Liijnbaansgracht 161 - bar/club - "alternative" dance music
Paradiso - Weteringschans 6-8 - bands playing every night and dance parties afterwards
Melkweg - Lijnbaansgracht 234 - bands playing every night and dance parties afterwards
Mazzo - Rozengracht 114 (2Step, speedgarage etc. maybe an occasional retro party)
compared to your initial statement you finally came up with an amazing load of interesting spots in Amsterdam. It made me want to visit it again eventually...
Record Shops - as Marco mentioned, Get Records and Concerto are good, comprehensive stores, but mainly for new CDs.
My favorite store there was 'Forever Changes' on the Bilderdijkstrasse, which has a good selection of CDs and vinyl reissues, with some bargains in the 10 guilder bin.
Also, there's big vinyl store on the Prinsengracht near the looisgracht(?) on the west side.
Quite a few small interesting record stores are in the Jordaan area in the north west central canals. Oh, and the Noordermarkt on a Monday sometimes has great record deals.
In terms of clubs - there are 2 legendary venues - the Melkweg and the Paradiso, both of which often have interesting stuff on and could be worth a visit.
It's 2 years since I lived there, but it used to be that two sets of 'ez' DJ's were playing out reguarly - 'Easy Alohas' were playing at the Westergasfabriek on Sundays, and the 'B&M DJs' (slightly more house oriented, but of some interest) were playing at a bar called 'Seymour' near the Dam Square.
Again, this is possibly 2 years out of date, but if you're into the more caberet/club montepulciano side of the lounge scene, there is/was something on Sunday nights called 'Club Vegas'. In fact, I just found a website - so it looks like it's still going:
http://www.clubvegas.nl/vegas.html
Museums - I'd say the Stedilijk modern art museum is probably the most interesting.
Have frites met mayonnaise; have a good time!
Jonny
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>compilation which is a fairly common charity shop
>record in the UK.
>Been meaning to sample that for about 5 years. I
>hope the I Monster track does it justice...
I know what you mean! I think a lot of people into this stuff in England about five years ago leapt on this track. For me, it was about the first really cool E/Z track I owned on vinyl (sad, eh!), and I remember even doing a cover version (in private) with some friends.
FYI, The middle section of the song ('I've dreamed of the places I've been with you....') is lifted directly from a piece by Tchaikovsky.
Although this song is probably the least common of the three famous 'Daydreams' I know of (the others being the Lovin' Spoonful and Johnny Hodges/Duke Ellington), I've come across a couple other versions. One superb on is by Franck Pourcel, with a nice beat on it.
cheers,
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Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera"
Date: 29 May 2001 12:16:32 EDT
In a message dated Tue, 29 May 2001 11:16:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, chuck <chuckmk@yahoo.com> writes:
You are so right M.Ace when you say the Sandpipers are among the
softest pop. Only the Fleetwoods or the Phil Spector/Teddy Bears'
song "To Know Him Is to Love Him" is perhaps as soft. I kinda
think these two bands set the stage for late 1960's soft pop bands
like the Sandpipers. Its enlightening to compare the soft pop
sound of the Sandpipers to the sunshine pop sound of the
Association with their ba da ba das.
Guantanamera and Louie Louie are fabulous remakes! This makes
Guantanemera my favorite lp by them. They kept this formula up in
later releases. I don't understand where all the A & M releases
are but they do seem to trickle in at thrifts.
Another cool label with this sound, White Wale has been collected
by Verese Saraband on cd. Check out the song 1900 Yesterday for a
similar sound to the Sandpipers.
Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck
--- "m.ace" <mace@ookworld.com> wrote:
The Sandpipers also do good e-z versions of "Misty Roses" and "Never Can Say Goodbye....Packaging is another thing to notice. For example on the LP with "Guantanemera" (I think), each Sandpiper--Latinos all--is pictured from a distance, strolling along an idyllic beach, waves washing ashore, gulls squaking overhead. Superimposed is a close-up image of the presumed object of their collective thoughts--a blonde-haired blue-eyed lass, seemingly of Northern European extraction!...JB
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Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera"
Date: 29 May 2001 21:58:58 +0200
alan zweig schrieb:
>
> How can you hate the Sandpipers?
> I don't understand this.
> Where does this prejudice against soft things come from?
> I wonder if it's macho indoctrination. Hard is good; soft is for sissies
> and housewives.
I think disliking soft may have other reasons too. As for me sometimes I like soft, sometimes not. Sometimes soft just means somewhat unexciting, it doesn't grab me enough, for instance when I listen to music in the car. It's a mood thing. Soft often referres to sentimental and when I am not at all sentimental I may even hate soft a bit. A generalization doesn't work here very well. I wish there was more soft humorous music, or at least campy soft, like Claudine Longet, that's a kind of soft I can almost always hear, whereas the Sandpipers don't have that certain sense of humor "between the lines". Or maybe I just don't hear it.
Did someone mention that this album is out on CD for quite a while?
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera"
Date: 30 May 2001 09:54:30 +0100 (BST)
Alan Zweig Wrote
>How can you hate the Sandpipers?
>I don't understand this.
>Where does this prejudice against soft things come from?
>I wonder if it's macho indoctrination. Hard is good; soft is for sissies
>and housewives.
>I like soft. And more and more, I dislike hard.
>And it's not just because I've climbed into the Viagra demographic.
After this post I decided to give the sandpipers One More Chance, as AZ's posts tend to be well informed, and his taste usually good.
I pulled out the LP from my stack, noted the rather lovely cover, of the chaps sitting on a porch, cleaned the LP, it is rather scratchy, but that can sometimes be nice.
Placed the LP eagerly on my turntable, waited for the wonderful softness, but all i got was slushy, corporate crap, spineless with no hidden passion, now I like Astrud Gilberto, Sergio Mendez, The Free Design, all soft acts which regularly have a place on my turntable.
but this was no better than Kai Warner et al, so I for one can at least understand why someone would hate The Sandpipers, wishy washy, spineless pap.
It fulfils the worst criteria of indolent, passionless, "ear candy", and not particularly good "ear candy", that i can imagine.
Hope this hasn't trodden on too many toes.
regards
Ronnie
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go here to the official website (english/japanese w. soundfiles)
"The late 80's, the period at the dawn of the Japanese domestic dance/club music scene, Tokyo native Yukihiro Fukutomi started his career as a DJ at clubs like Gold, Zoo and Cave in Tokyo.
At the same time he started working as a composer, arranger, programmer and producer. Fukutomi was also involved with the programming for Pizzacato 5.
After presenting his first solo project, a compilation track titled "Tokyo DJs Only", he received
recognition as a pioneer and creator innovator of house and dance music. As one of only a few artists who is able to handle producing, arranging, composing, programming and remixing in the whole process of music production, he has constantly participated in a number of sessions up until now.
From 1991 to 1995, he released three solo albums and got high acclaim for each one in various music circles. In 1999, his mini album titled "Brasilia 2000" and 12" remix single titled PEG from Galactic Disco (Hospital) were released and further enhanced his reputation as a top artist. After releasing Brasilia 2000 EP (bpm king street sounds / nite grooves)] in November 1999, there were many people around the world who were loud in their praises for Fukutomi.
His new, full-length album on cutting edge/avex inc in Japan. And believe or not, the album was in the Gilles Peterson charts while it was only a demo track. These facts have led to Fukutomiæs widespread recognition and respect throughout the international music circuit. Moreover, he was flooded with offers, from JCR / Compost (Germany), Schema (Italy), Irma (Italy), Slip'n'Slide (UK), R & S (Belgium), Roadrunner (UK) etcà and a wide range of labels from various countries.
He continues to DJ regularly, he has appeared at clubs such as Vendredi (Mishuku web), and Darling of Discotheque (Aoyama fai - the last Sunday every month)."
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Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera"
Date: 31 May 2001 09:21:34 EDT
In a message dated Wed, 30 May 2001 9:30:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com> writes:
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At 02:20 PM 5/30/01 +0100, G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk wrote:
>
>But there is something there. A&M started out as a
>label with a vision,
>sophisticated pop, whatever, and then by what 1974 it
>was just another
>corporate label
A fantastic 1974 A&M soft pop LP is by Nick DeCaro and its called "Italian Graffiti". So it may have "changed with the times", but complete corporate sellout? And what did A&M start out as? Certainly not a Mom & Popper..
>I'm not going to make my stand with the Sandpipers.
I'm with you. Not every battlefield is worth dying on
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Ok the solution of the enigmatic translation is this:
Pata is what the cucaracha is lacking, which can be translated as a foot (I don't know if that's the word for insect's legs). But then again pata is what people call the last tiny bit a joint, as when they have to hold it with some kind of specialized instrument in order to not burn their fingers (those who haven't got used to burning them, at least). Why? I have no idea. Maybe because they are small and smelly.
But if you are looking for second meanings a more obvious one, and working fine in Spanish, is sexual. Cucaracha is a very common slang word for female genitalia.
And that part where the cucaracha (it's a feminine word in Spanish) kneels down and shows her 'cucaracha' makes it quite obvious.
Cheers,
Manuel
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