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exotica-digest        Thursday, April 23 1998        Volume 02 : Number 096



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Re: (exotica) EXOTIC TRILOGY, KBZ200
(exotica) Exotic Trilogy
(exotica) Scamp Website.....
Re: (exotica) Scamp Website.....
Re: (exotica) Scamp Website..... -Reply
(exotica) Re: Free Design
(exotica) "Countdown" info
(exotica) Re: While Shepherds Wash Their Socks
(exotica) Brass/Choir
Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas
Re: (exotica) David Carroll and space
Re: (exotica) Re: While Shepherds Wash Their Socks
Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas
(exotica) Re: "Score" Lists: keep a list of everything *you've* got.
(exotica) Annotated Playlist Fantastica # 52
Re[2]: (exotica) Re: While Shepherds Wash Their Socks
(exotica) Jazz Fest in NOLA
(exotica) More cool shit that YOU need to know
Re: (exotica) Al Casey, Surfin' Hootenanny, etc
Re: (exotica) Jazz Fest in NOLA
Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas
(exotica) Part one new records: free moog
(exotica) Imagination
(exotica) Tiki News #13
(exotica) Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra
Re: (exotica) Imagination
(exotica) Part one new records: free moog -Reply
RE: (exotica) Part one new records: free moog -Reply

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:27:47 -0600
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) EXOTIC TRILOGY, KBZ200

>I guess it is needed because now I need vol two.  If anybody on the list
>remembers the name of the station please email.  Or for that matter, is/are
>there any other outlets for getting the Trilogy CD's in the States?????

It is distributed through Soleilmoon Distribution in Portland, OR. Ask your
local record shop that stocks lots of strange and unusual CDs. They should
definitely know of it.

Jill "Mingo-go"



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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:48:43 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan M Perl)
Subject: (exotica) Exotic Trilogy

Someone bought me my copy of the Exotic Trilogy II from Borders.  I think
she had to pay $17 or something, but I was impressed that they stocked
it, anyway...

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:42:50 -0400
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Scamp Website.....

Okay, the Scamp site is cool, you get to listen to stuff,
etc......

BUT ***

They don't sell their stuff here or what?!?  I don't see any
prices or ordering information.....

Do enlighten me.......

- - Nate


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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:20:25 -0500
From: Vik Trola <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Scamp Website.....

>Okay, the Scamp site is cool, you get to listen to stuff,
>etc......
>
>BUT ***
>
>They don't sell their stuff here or what?!?  I don't see any
>prices or ordering information.....
>
>Do enlighten me.......


sorry, but no Scamp does not sell directly online. it's highly unlikely
Scamp will in the near future as retaillers are not keen about competing
with labels for sales. yes, other labels do it...but Scamp doesn't. though,
nothing in the net is ever set in stone.




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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:26:01 -0400
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Scamp Website..... -Reply

Geeez,

Ya mean I've gotta go to the store and search (in vain) for this
cool stuff?

Luckily, SoundGarden here in Baltimore carries some of the
Scamp stuff so I'll check 'em out.

Bummer though.

- - Nate


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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 00:36:50 +0000
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Free Design

I thought I'd already sent this but I haven't seen it on the list
yet.  So, take 2...

I wrote:

>Doug Frisby is doing an interview with him which will form a large
>part of the liner notes for the upcoming "Kites Are Fun" compilation
>on Varese (out in July) and this should fill in some of the gaps.

Oops!  That should of course be *Elliot Kendall* who's doing the
interview and writing the liner notes.

Apologies to Elliot and Doug for this error.


Robbie

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:14:47 -0700
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Countdown" info

Did I tell you guys this already ????????

Just got a new customer who lives/works in LA and he got Jimmie Haskel
to do some music for Ren and Stimpy

This guy is an animator.

While he had him there he totally grilled him on Countdown and Jimmie sez;

For starters, that is Jimmie on the cover in the space suit with a couple
of the electronic gizmos he created  in his garage for the LP.

See it here;
http://www.jackdiamond.com/Jimmi_Haskel_Countdown.jpg
http://www.jackdiamond.com/countdown_in_Mono.jpg

Jimmie does all the electronics, piano, bass, filler guitar, drums,
Martians talking etc.

Big Jay McNeely, as I suspected, on Tenor Sax and James Burton on the
rippin' rockin' electric lead guitar!!!

FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!





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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:48:59 +0000
From: michael jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: While Shepherds Wash Their Socks

><<GOT IT! Unfortunately it's on very clean vinyl.

>If you're a mixing virtuoso, or can digitize songs into a computer, one
solution
>is so sample scratchy ambience from quiet cuts or in between the cuts on a
>crappy record.  Then you can mix these sounds on top of your clean
recording.
>It sounds okay to the mere mortal, but a super vinyl freak can tell the
>difference.
>
>Plus, on the computer, or with your equalizer, you can filter out some of the
>bass and give it that vintage nasal radio/victrola sound.

or if that's all too much trouble there's always sandpaper... ;)

>Which makes me wonder,
>how many would by my hypothetical Warmilizer 2000 that you can attach to your
>stereo that mutes some of the sharper digital artifacts and adds fake record
>hiss and pop (amount of crackle completely adjustable) to make it sound more
>like vinyl?  I think if I invented it, I could sell a few, maybe...

it ought to stop halfway through too, so one has to get up to turn the CD
over...



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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:13:40 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Brass/Choir

Does anyone know if there are any collections available for either

Bob Thompson

or

Warren Kime?


They both rule.

Thanks,
PeterR


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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:00:47 EDT
From: LTepedino <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas

In a message dated 98-04-20 00:35:07 EDT, [e-mail] writes:

<< So this Peter Thomas everyone's gushing about.. and I don't doubt them for
 a minute.  That must be the same Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra that I have
 on some Polydor album doing "Lady Madonna", "Something Stupid", "Delilah",
 "Words" etc.  Actually some of you would probably love his version of
 "Cabaret" featuring Hawaaian guitar, smoothly seguewaying into a Dixieland
 ending.
 I have to admit, even though it's not exactly the grooviest "loungecore"
 record I have, there is something interesting about the arrangements.
 I guess what I'm saying is it's not James Last.  Maybe James second-Last...
 but I have many worse records.  Andre Kostelanetz doing "Me and Mrs. Jones"
 springs to mind.  But then, I like that too. >>

Nat, it looks like you have only experienced Peter Thomas from his cover
version arrangements and not his original music which to put it mildly is
quite mind-blowing.  It is his film scores that stand out as something truly
out of this world!

Ashley


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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:50:00 +0200
From: "David Retief" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) David Carroll and space

Allan wrote:
>By the way, didn't Keating release another "space" record? I seem to
remember running across another lp in the bargain bins with a very similar
cover. Of course, I now kick myself for passing on that disc.

Don't beat yourself up too badly, it may have been  Space Experience 2
which is about 3 years older and not really great.  There are maybe 3 good
tracks.
I missed the moog/real instrument recipe that made for brilliance on the
first and choked things up a bit with VERY cheesy Arp etc...I'm a big moog
fan in a completely non-ironic way, I genuinely love the music, so I'm not
using cheesy in an unnecessarily dismissive manner.  The synths get
annoying.

DavidR.




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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:18:02 -0700
From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: While Shepherds Wash Their Socks

michael jemmeson wrote:
>

> >Which makes me wonder,
> >how many would by my hypothetical Warmilizer 2000 that you can attach to your
> >stereo that mutes some of the sharper digital artifacts and adds fake record
> >hiss and pop (amount of crackle completely adjustable) to make it sound more
> >like vinyl?  I think if I invented it, I could sell a few, maybe...
>

interestingly enough, this already exists....... twice over in fact.....

Audio editing software is moving along these days much like image
editing software (ie Photoshop) has, and similarly you can get lots of
audio effect plug-ins for your computer.
Steinberg makes a plug-in called "Grungelizer" which does precisely what
you suggest- it adds straches (33, 45 or 78 rpm), surface noise, eq,
distortion, and ground hum (50 or 60 cycle) to digital recordings to
make them sound like they originated on vinyl. There's even a master
knob on the thing that controls all of the parameters at once.... it
works on an "age" analogy so that you can simply set the "year" in which
the record was made- from today back to 1900....

Another plug-in, this time from the Opcode company, is called "Opcode
Vinyl." While this features a much more comprehensive set of controls,
it doesn't sound nearly as good to my ears. The main advantage it has
over the other one is that it has a graphical "warp curve" which can be
set to gradually diminish in severity over time, much the way real vinyl
gets warped more on the outside than on the inside. Another side benefit
of this is that if you experiment enough, it's possible to "unwarp" real
warped records by comng up with the inverse warp curve...

anyway- both of these plug-ins have very pretty graphic interfaces,
especially the Grungelizer, which features old-fashioned looking knobs
and switches, etc.

just thought you'd be interested!

cheers/pea


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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:57:57 +0200
From: "David Retief" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas

Ashley wrote:
>Nat, it looks like you have only experienced Peter Thomas from his cover
version arrangements and not his original music which to put it mildly is
quite mind-blowing.  It is his film scores that stand out as something
truly
out of this world!
Almost everyone made very bland albums at some stage and for some reason it
appears to me to be a mid to late sixties thing (Les Baxter - Voices in
Rythm, Johnny Keating - Canadian Sunset).  I can just imagine the lp you
got based on some Peter Thomas tracks on late sixties Polydor samplers, but
one can never tell - I got a Peter Thomas standards lp with GREAT versions
of "Let the sunshine in", "Mas que nada" (yes, it can still be an awesome
track), "Eloise".  If anything he's struck me as one of them brilliant
arrangers one can count on to electrify the most tiresome standard.

DavidR.




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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:19:21 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: "Score" Lists: keep a list of everything *you've* got.

At 15:24 -0700 98/03/02, Kerry Keane <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Ya better also keep a list of everything *you've* got.
>You wouldn't believe how many times I've brought home
>a record I already have!

    same happened to me, and that's NOT because i have a huge collection,
    which i have not (alas ;-), just so many artists that are completely
    new to me, and worst of all, a really bad memory!

        Johan

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:56:49 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Annotated Playlist Fantastica # 52

Fantastica runs on:
* Radio Scorpio, FM 106, Leuven, Belgium, each Saturday 15-16 h.
* Radio Centraal, FM 103.9, Antwerpen, Belgium,
  at irregular times in the "Night Machine".
* KKUD "bootleg radio", San Jose, CA, USA, I think on Sundays




                       Fantastica # 52: "Zounds..."


 1. Jerry Mathers: "Wind up toy"
       o compil.: "Hollywood Hi-Fi (18 of the most outrageous celebrity
         recordings ever!)"
       o CD, Brunswick 38170 81013 2, USA, 1996 | +++++
       o info: the sub-title is true!
 2. Radio theme: "theme from The mysterious traveller"
       o compil.: "Themes like old times (90 genuine original program
         openings from the most famous radio shows...)"
       o CD, Radio Yesteryear, USA, 1990 | +++++
       o info: highly recommended! There's a lot of use of a Theatre
         organ on these themes compilation, many themes from mystery and
         adventure series. Contact: <[e-mail]>
 3. Markko Polo Adventures: "Train to Ranchipur"
       o album: "Orienta"
       o CD, Oriental Pacific (bootleg) | +++++
       o info: wonderful, oriental-inspired exotica with additional
         environmental atmospheric sound effects
 4. Raymond Scott: "Serenade to a lonely railroad station"
       o 78 | not rated
       o info: "Serenade to a lonely railroad station" has funny train
         sounds. I wonder why this wasn't included on either of the 2
         Raymond Scott compilations...
 5. Ray Martin: "Hoodunnit"
       o album: "The Sound of Sight"
       o LP, Decca phase 4 stereo | +++++
       o info: Music creating vision, forming pictures, through lots and
         lots of Zound effects.
 6. Monty Python: "The Swedish Prime Minister 2"
       o album: "Monty Python's Previous Record"
       o CD, Virgin | +++++
 7. Spike Jones: "Dragnet"
       o compil.: "Dr. Demento Show 88-05"
       o LP | not rated
       o info: Dr. D's radio show transcription LP's are a wonderful
         source for rare novelty gems, like Spike Jones' remake of Stan
         Freberg's Dragnet, which wasn't as successful as the original,
         alas
 8. Ray Stevens & The Henhouse Five: "In the mood"
       o album: "His All-Time Greatest Comic Hits"
       o CD, Curb, USA, 1990 | +++
       o info: Only 10 tracks, so not really recommended, BUT the "In the
         mood" single by The Henhouse Five, with cackling "singing" hens is
         a must-have classic for any novelty nut.
 9. Monty Python: "Sounds of nature"
       o album: "Monty Python's Previous Record"
10. John Barry: "The Lolly theme"
       o album: "The best of the EMI years Volume 3"
       o CD, EMI 1555, UK, 1995
         CD, Scamp 9710, USA, 1996 | +++++
       o info: IMHO, the only one of the 3 in the series worth getting.
         "The Lolly theme" has cash register zounds, years before Pink
         Floyd used them.
11. The Chorus and Percussion of Keith Textor: "Lullaby of Broadway"
       o album: "Sounds Terrific!"
       o LP, Stereo Action RCA LSA 2365 | ++++
       o info: "The sound your eyes can follow". Only a couple of tracks
         have "Zounds"
12. George Shearing: "All of you"
       o album: "All time favorites"
       o CD, Jazz World, ? 1988 | ++
       o info: EZ jazz
13. Les Baxter and his orchestra: "Bird of paradise"
       o album: "The primitive & the passionate"
       o LP, Mode/Vogue reissue, France | ++++
       o info: 5 tracks of this lush & exotic album (including "Bird of
         paradise") have Tiki on wordless, Yma Sumac-like, vocals
14. Quincy Jones: "The pink panther"
       o album: "Explores The Music of Henry Mancini"
       o LP, Mercury Stereo | ++++
       o info: On the back cover it sez: "Quincy digests and interprets
         the wonderful sounds that are Henry Mancini". The result is as
         wonderful.
15. Ken Nordine: "Hunger is from"
       o album: "Best of word jazz, Volume 1"
       o CD, Rhino R2 70773, USA, 1990 | +++++
       o info: 18 track compilation with Nordine's unique word jazz. We
         need more of him on CD!!!
16. John Cavacas: "Agent who"
       o compil.: "Betty Page, Danger Girl. Burlesque Music"
       o CD/LP, Q.D.K. Media CD 012 Indigo 0982-2, distr. Normal Rec,
         Germany, 1996 | +++++
       o info: Really great spy and crime sounds, from the Chappel and
         Marlowlynn music libraries
17. Tony Burello: "There's a new sound (the sound of worms)"
       o compil.: "Only in America"
       o CD, Arf! Arf! AA-049, USA, 1995 | +++++
       o Review: "http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/critiq/T/Onlyinam.htm"
       o info: novelty, incredibly strange music, deranged obscure 60's
         stuff, mostly from rare singles
18. Dean Elliot: "The lonesome road"
       o album: "Zounds! What Sounds"
       o CD, Junkyard (bootleg) | +++++
       o info: classic masterpiece of jazz big band with sound effects
19. The Goodies: "Funky farm"
       o album: "Beastly record"
       o LP, Columbia SCX6596 | ++
       o info: "Funky farm" is sort of a 70's funk version of the
         Forbidden Five's "Enchanted farm"
20. Les Paul & Mary Ford: "Walkin' and whistlin' blues"
       o album: "All the best"
       o Double LP, EMI | +++
       o info: "Walkin' and whistlin' blues" is a slow, gentle and
         brilliant blues on the rhythm and sound of Les' walking feet.
         Exists on CD I think.
21. Mel Henke: "Walkin' my baby back home"
       o album: "La Dolce Henke"
       o CD, Scamp SCP 9716, USA, 1997 | +++++
       o info: One of the major rereleases of 1997! "Walkin' my baby back
         home" has the same slow and gently rhythm sounds made by someones
         walking feet as Les Paul's "Walkin' and whistlin' blues"
22. Ken Nordine: "Stereo demonstration by walking in stereo space"
       o album: "Sounds in space"
       o LP, RCA sp3313 | ++
       o info: The music on this LP is bad, the cover is great, and Mr
         Nordine narrates for about 5 minutes.
23. Louis and BeBe Barron + The Tony Mansell Singers: "Sounds of silent
    love at the swimming hole MIX"
       o Soundtrack: "The Forbidden Planet" + "Bridge over the genius of
         Simon and Garfunkel"
       o CD, Planet PLD 1, US, '95 + LP, SGA MER354 | +
       o info: IMHO, this musique concrete soundtrack is only good for
         mixes with lush lounge music
24. Malcolm Lockyer: "Teledrama (a)"
       o compil.: "Betty Page, Danger Girl. Burlesque Music"
       o CD/LP, Q.D.K. Media CD 012 Indigo 0982-2, distr. Normal Rec,
         Germany, 1996 | +++++
       o info: Really great spy and crime sounds, from the Chappel and
         Marlowlynn music libraries


album ratings:
+++++outstanding, ++++very good, +++good, ++not bad, +so-so, -yuk


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        <http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/>

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:48:24 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re[2]: (exotica) Re: While Shepherds Wash Their Socks

Sounds great!
But, a plug-in for what program?


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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:22:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jazz Fest in NOLA

Theres bound to something exotic here!

The New Orleans Jazz Fest begins this Friday with 12 stages of
continuous music.  For more info including the reviews of the acts who
play the first weekend go to:

http://www.gambit-no.com/frames/featMain.html
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:07:08 -0700
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More cool shit that YOU need to know

Boris Karloff-Tales of The Frightened, Vol 2 (Mercury)

This unfreakinbelievable LP has Tom Dissvelt and Kid Baltan's Outer Space
Electronique masterpiece LP "Song of The Second Moon" running underneath
Boris's voice.
It is tooooooooooooo wicked

1st Pressing of "2nd Moon" was issued on Philips, which is a subsidiary of
Mercury and then on Limelight, also from Mercury

Dig it, dig the chick, dig the man, dig yaself baby

Jaaaaaaaaaaack



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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:12:24 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Al Casey, Surfin' Hootenanny, etc

From the accounts I have read, Al Casey was something of a mentor to young
Duane Eddy, helping him develop his sound (along with ubiquitous Lee Hazlewood,
who worked with both of them).

The "Surfin' Hootenanny" LP (1963, produced by Hazlewood, along with plenty of
composer credits) actually only has two vocal tracks -- the rest are
instrumentals. The female vocals are credited to The K-C-Ettes, who were
actually The Blossoms. It's a good example of crank-it-out surf-ploitation
studio work. Some of the Wrecking Crew (Hal Blaine, Leon Russell) were on the
job. Also Casey's wife, Corky, on bass & guitar. The title track has an amusing
bit where the singers "name-check" some instro guitarists and Casey does
imitations. Heavy, heavy reverb. A somewhat under-rehearsed take on "Caravan"
(just to note one more version) also appears. I have it on CD, so I'm actually
curious what the LP is like -- on CD, this is one of the most fearsomely
treble-crazed recordings I've ever heard. Real shear-your-head-off sound!

The CD is actually called "Jivin' Around" (Ace CDCHD 612) and appends another
14 tracks to the 12 from "S.H." All but one are earlier ('61-'62) singles --
very different in style (and not treble-crazed). These are instrumentals in
more of a jazz lounge / 50's rock instro / Booker T mode, with prominent
Hammond & sax (Casey doubled on organ). Fun stuff, if you're in the right mood.

The CD also has a very thorough booklet (even a 2 page history of Stacy
Records). From whence this info barrage has spilled.

One more possible point of confusion -- there's another guitarist named Al
Casey. Different guy -- no relation. I *think* he worked more in the jazz / R&B
area.

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:11:19 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jazz Fest in NOLA

>Theres bound to something exotic here!

And there is! Al Casey is playing there.  Thanks for posting this, even if
I cannot go myself.


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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 19:09:44 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas

At 04:57 PM 4/22/98 +0200, David Retief wrote:
>
>>Almost everyone made very bland albums at some stage and for some reason it
>appears to me to be a mid to late sixties thing (Les Baxter - Voices in
>Rythm, Johnny Keating - Canadian Sunset).  I can just imagine the lp you
>got based on some Peter Thomas tracks on late sixties Polydor samplers, but
>one can never tell

It's not standard.  Like I said, there's a version of "Cabaret" with ersatz
Hawaiian guitar sounds that definitely "elevates" a tune that I'm pretty
tired of.  And other examples.  The moment I dropped the needle, I knew
that this guy was doing something else.
It's all about degrees.
Sometimes I wish there was some kind of definitive point scale relating to
degree of "arrangement" - one to ten, with one being some of those Jackie
Gleason or Mantovani records and ten being like Esquivel or some Enoch
Light or some Bob Thiele - and then I could just say "I expected this
record to be a 2 but it surprised me by being a 6", which is about what I'd
give this Peter Thomas record.
And also, then people on this list could declare that they genuinely like
stuff that is "2" and that would allow me to put their comments into context.
Most of the John Keating stuff I have found is about a two and a half but
he climbs to seven once in a while.
Nat




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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:16:53 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Part one new records: free moog

So this is what happened.
My friend Marc collects records and has been doing so seriously for much
longer than me.  And still does it more seriously, though he would dispute
that.
Anyway he's been amused by my general obsession with exotica and
specifically with "loungecore" and moog records.  But occasionally I'll
play him one and he'll sort of get it.  Like the Sandy Nelson "Superdrums"
records
And more than occasionally, he'll show me a record that he has - just for
the hell of it even though he says he doesn't like it - and make me jealous.
Sometimes he'll pick up a record for me that he knows I would want.
Sometimes he'll phone me and tell me he saw a record I would want.  Like he
did recently with that "Moog Machine Switched on Rock" which I then scooped
up for $5.
(Kind of a weird record...)
He has occasionally given me a record and even though it's harder to find
records he really wants, I did give him a double Bob Wills record once and
some other rockabilly things I didn't really want.
And once I traded him an old electric fan that we both wanted when we saw
it at a garage sale - but I bought it - for an album of Yma Sumac 78's that
he knew I wanted.
So anyway, he was thinking of giving me some of his moog records but he
couldn't quite decide.  So one night he started to play them.
His wife told him that the records were bothering her.
THEN HIS WIFE GOT SICK.
So he gave me "IN SOUNDS FROM WAY OUT" by Perrey and Kingsley.
Then shortly after that,HIS WIFE'S MOTHER DIED.
And he gave me the rest of them:
1) Space Art (the name of the band) - Trip in the Center Head" (the record)
2) Space - Magic Fly
3) Perrey and Kingsley - Kaleidoscopic Variations
4) The Zeet Band - Moogie Woogie
and then not a moog record...
5) Ferrante and Teicher - Soundproof, the sound of tomorrow today.

The first two aren't really moog records as I understand them.  They're
more like Kraftwerk-style.  I don't really have a section for them and if I
hadn't been given them, I'd probably sell them.  I guess I'll put them near
the Tangerine Dream "Sorcerer" and "Thief" records, not near the Claude
Denjean and Dick Hyman moog stuff. (I guess someone would call them "Space
records" though..)
I have to say that I'm surprised how good the Perrey and Kingsley are.  In
my experience moog records are usually better in anticipation than in
actuality but not with those two.  I can see why they're classics.
And before Jack jumps in and points it out, yeah some of those moogy sounds
are actually made by the Ondioline.
The record that kills me is that ZEET BAND one.  The first thing that kills
me - and I bet would kill some of you - is the COVER.  I could have passed
on this record a thousand times without even picking it up.  It's yellow
and it's got these cartoon figures and difficult-to-read lettering and it
looks like "K-Tel presents the California Grapes"
But it's probably the coolest moog record I've ever heard.  For those of
you who don't know it - and I'm not sure I've ever seen it referred to -
it's on Chess.  It's subtitled "Electronic boogie and blues composed and
played on the moog".
The band consists of Erwin Helfer (who?), Paul Beaver (uh, the moog
player), Mark Naftalin (Electric Flag?), "Fastfingers" Finkelstein - who I
think was in the band that played my bar mitzvah - and Norman Dayron, whose
name I recognize but that's all.  He produced the record too.
Among the assisting "Moogsicians" are Donn E. Hathaway, Phil Upchurch,
Morris Jennings, Joe Osborne, John Guerin.
And it's pretty f'ing great.  A few of the cuts are over-the-top in a
"Popcorn" kind of way but a few of them are total funky grooves.. with moog.
And the Ferrante and teicher is pretty good too.  Not like the version of
"Lay Lady Lay" they did ten or so years later but overall more "musically
legitimate"
I guess I should have sent flowers to the funeral but it was in Alberta and
I don't have a credit card and anyway, I'd probably do the same for him.
No, probably not.  For one, I don't have a wife.
Coming up soon Part two in which I list the relevant records I BOUGHT -
damn it - at the recent record show here.  Other people do this.  I guess
I'll do it too.

Nat



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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:54:09 -0700
From: Darrell Brogdon <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Imagination

Here's one I've never seen discussed on this list before.  "Imagination" (Time 70007),
with Malcolm Peters and his Orchestra and tunes by Ron Goodwin.  It's an amazing album!
Think Les Baxter meets Kenyon Hopkins, with a dash of Dean Elliott thrown in for good
measure!  Incredible mix of crime jazz, exotica, goofy sound effects and more.  The
track listing will give you some idea:

African Patrol
Tension Zone
Midnight in Madame Tussaud's
Cartoooooney
Skin Diver's Ballet
Big Top Circus
Jubilee U.S.A.
Waitin' for the Dawn
Prairie Schooner
Movie Time
Hawaiian Eyebeat
Frightened Flute

Not every tune's a winner, but enough to make this one a definite keeper.  Anyone ever
see this before?  I know Ron Goodwin, but who the hell's Malcolm Peters?  Anybody?


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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 03:23:07 EDT
From: Otto temp <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki News #13

The cursed issue #13 is finally out
Lots of art and lots of info about. . . Tikis.
Available by mail order or in stores in about a week


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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:00:27 +0100
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra

> From: Vik Trola <[e-mail]>
>
> 4.21.98
> Scamp will release "Futuremuzik" from Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra. Liner
> notes by the ever lovin' Millionaire. 16 fab tracks of German hipster
> sounds. Includes the theme to "Space Patrol" and "Bolero on the  Moon
> Rocks" (currently being sampled in Pulp's "This Is Hardcore"). Cat#: Scamp
> 9724...
>

I find it a bit disappointing that at least 6 of these tracks have
already been re-released on CD... It was going to be released by
Bungalow in Europe, right? Although it seems to have vanished from
their list of forthcoming releases, there is this:

PETER THOMAS - Warp Back To Earth

           With the help of the man himself we found yet another
           undiscovered side of Peter Thomas in his treasure
           chamber, that is his cellar in Kitzb╕hl/south of Germany.

           Never released, electronic, timeless sound-experiments
           from the beginning seventies. After innumerable
           re-releases of Peter Thomas' well-known work of the
           sixties we now dare to enter new ground and try to have a
           closer look at Peter Thomas as a difficult pioneer in music
           who likes doing fiddly things. The 28 sound-bits (then
           recorded in mega-expensive studios and therefore today
           for young Thomases impossible to reproduce) will come
           out in the shape of a double-CD.

           The tracks are sent to carefully chosen musicians with an
           appreciation of Mr. Thomas' qualities and will be
           rearranged by these fine people. That means no
           remix-orgies whatsoever, but new tracks on the basis of
           Thomas' crazy compositions. Furthermore, this man had
           the revolutionary idea that the new built songs should not
           be ascribed only to him (like it is usually done with all kinds
           of remixes), but half of it is going to be ascribed to the
           new arrangers.The following people not only accepted but
           also got enthusiastic about this idea: Tortoise, Stock,
           Hausen & Walkman, High Llamas, Sons Of Silence, Stereo
           Total, Dauerfisch, Momus.

           Others we hope to convince: Air, Coldcut, Mouse On Mars,
           Jimi Tenor, Stereolab, Kid Loco, Pulp...

           As I said we got a lot in mind...



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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 14:39:38 +0200 (MET DST)
From: [e-mail] (Subliminal Sounds)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Imagination

Darrell wrote:
>Here's one I've never seen discussed on this list before.  "Imagination"
(Time 70007), with Malcolm Peters and his Orchestra and tunes by Ron
Goodwin. >It's an amazing album! Think Les Baxter meets Kenyon Hopkins, with
a dash of >Dean Elliott thrown in for good measure!  Incredible mix of crime
jazz, >exotica, goofy sound effects and more.

Yeah! I've got it. Picked it up a couple of years ago. "African Patrol" is
the reason I'm keeping it. It's one of my all time faves for wild jungle
jazz complete with screams. " Skin Diver's Ballet" is good for sombre
moments. The rest, however, is pretty standard fare. Time is a cool label. I
really dig their "surf" lp, can't remember the title now, with features not
reverby guitars but edgy "crime jazz".

Stefan/Subliminal Sounds
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 09:17:27 -0400
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Part one new records: free moog -Reply

Nat mentioned the song "Popcorn" in his moog report........

Hey, I remember hearing this song in a great cheesy horror
film called "Shriek of the Mutilated" and they played it during
a party scene that featured a popcorn machine!

Could this be the same song?

BTW - WHAT is "moog" - "electronic organ" or somethin'?

- - Nate


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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:31:21 -0400
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NPG  NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Part one new records: free moog -Reply

Nate,
>
>
>BTW - WHAT is "moog" - "electronic organ" or somethin'?
>
>- Nate

Moog is the trade name for a brand of early synthesizer (keyboard)
company started in the late sixties by Robert Moog.  "Moog" is
pronounced to rhyme with "pogue" and "vogue", BTW.  The Moog sound
was/is particularly distinguishable as being extremely synthetic,
sounding totally electric.  Not electronic in an eighties pop kind of
way, more like the sound of screaming transistors.  A rock reference
would be to think of the screeching sounds in Edgar Winter's
"Frankenstein" or every introduction to every Steve Miller song from the
seventies.  The ultimate rock users of the early moog synthesizer is
probably Emerson, Lake and Palmer, particularly the "Trilogy" album.

I noticed too that Combustible Edison uses some moog stuff on
"Schizophonic".

What else can I say, Nate.  Find a Dick Hyman Moog record and discover
it for yourself.

surfing the chaos,
Charlieman
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