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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

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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 02:16:04 -0400
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
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




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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 12:36:06 +0200
From: [e-mail] (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





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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 12:52:17 +0100
From: [e-mail] (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.

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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 12:52:20 +0100
From: [e-mail] (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




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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 11:01:44 -0600
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
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'"



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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 13:58:00 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
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  [e-mail]
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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 17:08:52 EDT
From: DJJimmyBee <[e-mail]>
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-----


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Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 06:28:14 +0900
From: Taro HOSHIJIMA <[e-mail]>
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: [e-mail]
alias: [e-mail] (forwarded to the above address)
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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 23:24:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
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




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Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 20:26:40 -0700
From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
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


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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 23:48:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
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:
<http://www.onramp.net/RGP/Hollywood.html>

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




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Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 22:22:42 -0700
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
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



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Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 10:32:15 +0100
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
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 <[e-mail]>
>
> 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.



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Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 06:03:33 -0600
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
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"



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Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 11:44:49 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
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





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Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 13:15:19 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
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.

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Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:39:24 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Looking for Exotica Mp3's

what are "MP3's"?

        Johan

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Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 18:16:35 +0100
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
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
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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 23:34:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
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.

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Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 00:52:08 PDT
From: "Jordana Robinson" <[e-mail]>
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.

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Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 00:59:59 PDT
From: "Jordana Robinson" <[e-mail]>
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.

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Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 01:23:05 PDT
From: "Jordana Robinson" <[e-mail]>
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?


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Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 10:13:08 -0700
From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray McVay

- -----Original Message-----
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
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!

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Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 16:49:36 -0600
From: "Steven Peterson" <[e-mail]>
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:  [e-mail]


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Date: Mon, 4 May 98 21:46:01 -0400
From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <[e-mail]>
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

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Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 22:14:02 EDT
From: Jbtwist <[e-mail]>
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!!!!"


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Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 22:14:18 -0700
From: LeAnn & Dave Davidson <[e-mail]>
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...


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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 12:57:19 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
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



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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 06:53:06 PDT
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
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

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 11:27:56 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
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.

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