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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 21:41:39 EST
From: RLott@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) looking for mp3s - for Macs?
What's the best post-Napster alternative for us Mac users? I've been
disappointed to find the likes of Audiogalaxy and others not compatible with
my machine. I've downloaded Mactella, but can't get it to do anything beyond
connecting.
- --Rod
hitchmagazine.com
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 09:16:46 +0100
From: Ton =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCckert?= <mojoto@plex.nl>
Subject: (exotica) Winners
From Weirdsite E-zine:
Theme bars modelled on prisons, where customers are locked
up in dingy cells, are the latest craze in Japan. Customers knock
back drinks such as Jintai Jiken, which means the experiment,
from test tubes in the "Lockup" bars. Laboratory flasks and
beakers are provided to allow patrons to mix their own cocktails
while relaxing with cellmates. The bars are having to be more
and more imaginative to attract customers as the country sinks
into yet another recession. University student Kaio Ezawa said
she and her friends liked to visit a Lockup bar in Tokyo. "We
find the prison atmosphere really exciting and the tension of
being locked up seems to help us become drunk more quickly
than usual," she said. "That makes us more popular with the
guys. It's a win-win situation."
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 09:48:50 +0100
From: moritzR@t-online.de (moritzR)
Subject: Re: (exotica) looking for mp3s - for Macs?
RLott@aol.com schrieb:
> What's the best post-Napster alternative for us Mac users? I've been
> disappointed to find the likes of Audiogalaxy and others not compatible with
> my machine. I've downloaded Mactella, but can't get it to do anything beyond
> connecting.
I can only second your complaint. It looks as if we Macsters rather *pay* for the music we want to listen to. The best free download sites I've found so far, is Vitaminic. It comes with a whole lot of different national sites, I found a lot of stuff on the Dutch site under lounge/exotica...
http://www.vitaminic.nl/main
(oh, and it's best viewed with IE, Netscape seems to have difficulties with it)
- --Mo
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studio «
http://moritzR.de
exotica@web.de
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 09:52:17 +0100
From: moritzR@t-online.de (moritzR)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Winners
Ton Rⁿckert schrieb:
> "We find the prison atmosphere really exciting and the tension of
> being locked up seems to help us become drunk more quickly
> than usual," she said.
I thought Japanese have no difficulties to become drunk immediately. Not only tells me experience so, but they lack this enzym that builds off blood alkohol quickly.
Mo
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exotica@web.de
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 09:48:00 -0500
From: Clayton Black <clayton.black@washcoll.edu>
Subject: (exotica) Vinnie Bell question
One of my favorite items on Darrell's show this past year has been a Vinnie
Bell tune--a real watery guitar overdose. I didn't follow up on the
playlist to see what the title was, but when someone sent around the URL for
the television theme song site I, by chance, downloaded the file of the ABC
Movie of the Week, the version by Burt Bachrach, and there it was. Can
somebody tell me the title of the song and how widely it's been covered?
I've got to get a copy--Vinnie Bell's would be best, but I'd love others as
well.
And speaking of Vinnie Bell, I was listening to "The Now Sound of the
Brass Ring" this past weekend, and faintly in the background I thought I
detected what sounded like VB's guitar style. No musicians are listed on
the album, but is there any chance he's on there?
By the way, thanks to Darrell for getting me hooked on Horst Jankowski
as well. I had one of his albums lying around that I rarely listened
to--Piano Affair--and I finally pulled it out after hearing a few of his
numbers on the Retro Cocktail Hour. The album is great all around, but my
favorite tune is Horst's own "Our Beach Affair." Nothing really exotic
about it, but the melody's pretty catchy. Are his "Genius" albums worth
picking up? I've seen quite a few copies over the years.
Clayton
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 09:49:18 -0500
From: Will Straw <william.straw@mcgill.ca>
Subject: (exotica) Il Giaguaro vol. 1
I need some help, fellow exoticats. I just received, from Dusty Groove,
the Autumn, 2001 issue of Il Giaguaro, and the free CD, "The Sound of Il
Giaguardo vol. 1". But I can't access the 13 songs -- the only directory I
can bring up shows two quicktime files, and two others: Desktop.db and
Desktop.db. I may be an idiot [your joke here], but I can't find the
songs. Do I need to somehow open these database files? Can anyone help?
Will
Please note my new email address: william.straw@mcgill.ca
Will Straw
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Department of Art History and Communications Studies
McGill University
853 Sherbrooke Street W.
Montreal, QC H3A 2T6
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>Can somebody tell me the title of the song and how widely it's been
>covered? I've got to get a copy--Vinnie Bell's would be best, but I'd love
>others as well.
Thanks, Clayton, for the kind words about The Retro Cocktail Hour.
The tune in question is "Nikki", composed by Burt Bacharach and named
(so I understand) for his daughter. You're right, it was used as the
theme for ABC's Movie of the Week in the late '60s/early '70s.
The Vinnie Bell cover of "Nikki" is on the album "Airport Love Theme"
(Decca DL-75212). Apparently it's also on the new Bacharach "Lounge
Legends" CD.
Darrell Brogdon
The Retro Cocktail Hour
KANU FM 91.5
Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at:
http://kanu.ku.edu/retro.html
Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at:
http://kanu.ku.edu/retrolisten.html
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 11:16:32 -0500
From: "Br. Cleve" <brcleve@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Vinnie Bell question
on 12/4/01 9:48 AM, Clayton Black at clayton.black@washcoll.edu wrote:
>
> One of my favorite items on Darrell's show this past year has been a Vinnie
> Bell tune--a real watery guitar overdose. I didn't follow up on the
> playlist to see what the title was, but when someone sent around the URL for
> the television theme song site I, by chance, downloaded the file of the ABC
> Movie of the Week, the version by Burt Bachrach, and there it was. Can
> somebody tell me the title of the song and how widely it's been covered?
> I've got to get a copy--Vinnie Bell's would be best, but I'd love others as
> well.
It's called "Nikki", and it's on Bell's 1970 Decca album "Airport Love
Theme". According to the liner notes, it was the theme to ABC's Tuesday
Night Movie (I've seen that Movie of the Week clip, too). Never run across
another version of it. Anybody else?
br cleve
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 19:49:02 +0000
From: KK <Kahuna.K@hamburg.de>
Subject: Re: (exotica) looking for mp3s - for Macs?
moritzR wrote:
> I can only second your complaint. It looks as if we Macsters rather *pay* for the music we want to listen to. The best free download sites I've found so far, is Vitaminic. It comes with a whole lot of different national sites, I found a lot of stuff on the Dutch site under lounge/exotica...
I just made a page at IUMA, they have a finely enough structured category scheme.
http://kahunakawentzmann.iuma.com
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 14:15:26 -0500
From: azed@pathcom.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Vinnie Bell and Nikki
At 09:48 AM 12/4/01 -0500, Clayton Black wrote:
>
>One of my favorite items on Darrell's show this past year has been a Vinnie
>Bell tune--a real watery guitar overdose. I didn't follow up on the
>playlist to see what the title was, but when someone sent around the URL for
>the television theme song site I, by chance, downloaded the file of the ABC
>Movie of the Week, the version by Burt Bachrach,
I went through a similar "quest" when I first heard that song "Nikki" on
Vinnie Bell's Airport etc record.
It became my favorite obscure Bacharach tune.
I have three other versions now.
The only vocal version is by Ed Ames on his all-Bacharach record. (Some
people probably have trouble with Ed. He does enunciate a bit too crisply.
But all you have to do is turn on some Robert Goulet before you listen to
Ed.)
The second version is by Terry Baxter who also did an all-Bacharach record.
And the final version is probably the most obscure given that it was on a
record that probably came out only in Canada.
But I highly recommend this record to anyone who can find it.
The guy's name is Jury Krytiuk. He was the owner of a couple of basically
small country labels in Canada. Boot and Cynda. Boot put out Stompin Tom
Connors if you know him (and if you don't, shame on you.)
As far as I know, this is the only record he put out in his own name.
I might not go quite so far as to compare this record to the Bacharach
Baroque record that we all love (and yeah I know there are two, but we love
the one that isn't German.)
But it's similar. Not as good as Baroque but in the territory. Wordless
vocals. Really sunshiney and sweet.
I guess I win today's Bacharach geek contest. :)
AZ
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 14:28:00 -0500
From: azed@pathcom.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) MORE Vinnie Bell speculation
At 09:48 AM 12/4/01 -0500, Clayton Black wrote:
>
> And speaking of Vinnie Bell, I was listening to "The Now Sound of the
>Brass Ring" this past weekend, and faintly in the background I thought I
>detected what sounded like VB's guitar style. No musicians are listed on
>the album, but is there any chance he's on there?
Well I'm not the Vinnie guy (or Vincent either) the way I'm a Bacharach guy
but yes, I'd say if you think you hear any of Vinnie's signature guitar
effects, then you're probably right.
He was definitely one of the usual suspects. Brass Ring is basically Phil
Bodner's baby and he and Vinnie were on a lot of the same records. Not
that I can name one right now. But I know they both played on Command
things all the time.
Vinnie is also one of the electric sitar mainstays. Right now for instance
i'm listening to the Living Guitars doing "Lady Jane" on their all Rolling
Stone's record. Yes, like I always said, if you can imagine it, someone
probably did it. They even cover "Wild Horses". But anyway, I don't know
if it's Vinnie playing the electric sitar here. I suppose Al Caiola could
have picked one up but I don't think they all did.
Vinnie seemed to be the guy with the effects and boxes.
He's all over a couple of Tony Mottola's "sixties rock" records.
Especially "Guitar Underground". And he's playing that gloopy water
dripping style. And fuzz. And other effects.
Unfortunately this doesn't mean that everything that has Vinnie's name on
it is going to be all fuzzed up with effects and sitar and water dripping.
Like all of them, he made boring records too.
But if you hear that sound of water dripping, it's almost certainly Vinnie.
I think.
AZ
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