ftp.xmission.com/2014.06.ftp.xmission.com.tar/ftp.xmission.com/pub/lists/exotica/archive/v02.n193

Internet Message Format | 1998-08-18 | 41KB

From: [e-mail] (exotica-digest)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: exotica-digest V2 #193
Reply-To: exotica-digest
Sender: [e-mail]
Errors-To: [e-mail]
Precedence: bulk
X-No-Archive: yes


exotica-digest       Wednesday, August 19 1998       Volume 02 : Number 193



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Staccato! (plus Hardy)
Re: (exotica) Charity Shops in Scotland
(exotica) Further developments on the BELLYBONGO site
(exotica) Re: Mr. Scruff
(exotica) lost touch of  Kerry
(exotica) Best of Free Design
Re: (exotica) Staccato! (plus Hardy)
Re: (exotica) empty covers
(exotica) Great Italian Soundtracks & Other Goodies
(exotica) Re: "And Now A Word From Our Sponsors 1"
Re: (exotica) Staccato! (plus Hardy)
(exotica) Wow . . . a Bond Girl and Hai Karate
Re: (exotica) Mike Vickers
(exotica) Gravelands again
(exotica) African Exotica
(exotica) Peru - record shops?  any advice?
(exotica) Re:  Dialogue for Brass & FAQ list
(exotica) Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" for August 19, 1998
Re: (exotica) Questions
Re: (exotica) empty covers
Re: (exotica) empty covers
Re: (exotica) empty covers
(exotica) Exotica in Japan?
Re: (exotica) Exotica in Japan?
RE: (exotica) Great Italian Soundtracks
Re: (exotica) empty covers
(exotica) Peter Thomas, Staccato
RE: (exotica) Charity Shops in Scotland
(exotica) Music By George! and recent euro-comps
(exotica) tape trade?
Re: (exotica) Mike Vickers

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 07:33:13 PDT
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Staccato! (plus Hardy)

I don't know if this quite counts as Crime Jazz (Biker jazz?), but a
recent discovery of mine doing major time on my turntable: Leith
Stephens's soundtrack to The Wild One (star, of course, Brando as
"Johnny"). I'll have to rent the film again just to get a sense of the
mood established by arrangements such as "Drag for Beers." Many of the
tracks begin with the sound of a big cycle engine revving up - and just
as I expect to hear Davie Allen's fuzzrite kick in, it's Shorty Rogers
on trumpet....
>
>The shocker is that it's probably the best "crime jazz" record I've
ever
>heard.  Not that I've heard that many.  In fact I have no idea what
crime
>jazz is.

______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 07:36:41 PDT
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Charity Shops in Scotland

I just found the empty cover for this one (well, it had an Reader's
Digest producedAl Caiola lp inside): did I miss out on much?


>
>Dick Schory's Percussion Pops Orchestra    Holiday for Percussion    A
>'Stereo Action' LP but with a normal sleeve(No Die Cut Card) on a green
>RCA label.


______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 07:49:27 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Further developments on the BELLYBONGO site

Now in Color.
http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-35644/bellybongo/miscmasc/

- ---
Magnus

______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 98 16:58:26 +0100
From: Bissia <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Mr. Scruff

Robert McKenna posted :
<...>
>was a piece by mr scruff called 'fish' which appears to
>be a childrens story record and some nature programs spliced together
>like a trick set with chilled flanged lounge / ez grooves. Anyone know
>any more about this? does he do more in this vein?

I have a few EP and remix works of Mr. Scruff in my collection and
these are more on the Housey or mainly Trip Hop breack beat kind of
groove,
very good ones to my taste but not quite exoticish as the 'fish' track you
mentioned , still Mr. Scruff is worth a check if you also like Trip Hop
and
sometimes yes with a loungy, easy, jazzy edge ...


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 98 16:58:22 +0100
From: Bissia <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) lost touch of  Kerry

I lost touch of  Kerry J. Byrnes,
I I have his snailmail address but can't remember and find
the list of what I had put aside for order
( it was some Denny's LPs),

Kerry, please reach me again off list,
sorry and thanks again



# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 10:24:39 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan M Perl)
Subject: (exotica) Best of Free Design

>Quick note -- just purchased this evening:
>The Free Design -- Best Of...
>Laila France -- Orgonon
>Friends of Dean Martinez -- Retrograde

Welcome to the list, Andrew.

Yes, I picked up the Free Design best of just yesterday.  Fantastic
stuff, I thought, although I only own one of their LPs, and so cannot
offer opinions as to the quality of the song choices.  That song with the
line 'should it be a hit' really knocked me out.

I've not heard the Laila France yet, but FODM always knock me out;
they're great live as well.

regards
Jonny

_____________________________________________________________________
You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail.
Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com
Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:07:59 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Staccato! (plus Hardy)

>"STACCATO", the Elmer Bernstein score to the television series which
>starred my hero John Cassavettes as a jazz piano-playing private detective.

> The shocker is that it's probably the best "crime jazz" record I've ever
>heard.

I agree!  One of the very best crime jazz records if not the king of all crime
jazz records.  Well worth a few extra bucks!

I also found a record by Elmer Bernstein called 'Movie and TV Themes' which
has some great crime jazz themes from some of his other films (Rat Race,
Sudden Fear, Walk on the Wild Side, and several others).  If you see it, snap
it up.

Sean


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:25:59 -0400
From: Chris Cook <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) empty covers

>I just found the empty cover for this one (well, it had an Reader's
>Digest producedAl Caiola lp inside): did I miss out on much?

Man, I *HATE* that!  I was at a thrift store last nite, where all the LPs
are $.50, and ran through a patch of something like 50 empty covers, a ton
of them really awesome exotica & mood records.  What's the story with
that?? GRRR.  Really upset to have found an empty 101 Strings Backbeat
Symphony.  Always wanted to hear that one ...

Sometimes you'll find a big-old stack of vinyl without covers in the corner
leaning against a broken exercycle (ouch! I'd almost prefer to see my
grandmother naked than that!).  And, sometimes, you can actually find the
matching disk for the empty cover you've found.  More often than not,
though, the stack will be entirely made up of Johnny Mathis, Barbra
Christmas, and Loggins & Messina.

Anyway, I was tempted to grab the handful of empty covers and try to buy
them.  But this was one of those bone-head volunteer thrifts where they
won't sell you something if they have to actually think about it .... and I
was soaking wet from getting caught in downpour and was in no mood to deal
with it.

Sometimes I buy a record I know will suck just 'cause the cover is cool
(don't we *all* do that?)  In fact, mood records are almost pretty crummy,
but have the coolest covers ... cha cha records, too.  Those 50s colors can
be such sumptuous knockouts.

Which makes me wonder:  Does anyone routinely buy these empty covers?
What's a fair amout to expect to spend for them?  From one perspective,
they're pretty worthless. But, then again, a reasonable, similar argument
could be made about most of the music I listen to! :)

- --chris cook




# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:54:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Great Italian Soundtracks & Other Goodies

I have  really been enjoying the following great exotica soundtrack
releases I purchased some time ago from that wonderful, marvelous
record store http://www.dustygroove.com For a more detailed
description of the music check out the dusty site.

IO e Mara on Easy Tempo (no date 1997?)
This is the holy grail of sensual soft easy sounds that will have you
floating in heaven!  The music is full of whispered sexy echoing  la
las sung by someone with  beautiful vocal chords. I can't recommend
this enough.

La Morte Accarezza a mezzanotte, Easy Tempo 1998
A tremenous soundtrack that takes you on a dark mysterious easy
listening journey to a fearful place that is best left on your cd
player.  The sound starts off slow & easy and suddenly dramatic spy
jazz cuts pop out with a funky organ.  The atmosphere of suspense,
fear and longing is captured dramatically by Gianni Ferrio with
soundscapes on this all killer no filler release.

Camille 2000,  Easy Tempo 1998  One of the best sensual soundtracks
ever made.  Pierro Piccioni's amazing melodies drench your ears in one
great exotica sound experience. Then as the plot thickens so does the
sound.  An organ comes in and you're dropped off your cloud and down
to a new earthly sound. The song Camille 2000 is simply a perfect easy
soft exotic melody and it is the bookends on this great soundtrack.

Holocaust 2000 & Sesso in Confessionale,
Beat Record, no date listed probably 1997.
Two great Ennio Morricone soundtracks on one cd!
I'm always looking for more morricone any suggestions?
I recently saw the new Lolita movie and have to say his soundtrack was
a bit weak.

Le Pollen by Pierre Barouh, SARAVAH (no date) Pierre Barouh has a
matter of fact way of talking and singing in French with a wonderful
voice & some beautiful soft background instrumentation made with
synthesizers. Super cool feel to the music

Arrriva la Bomba, Various Artists on Irma (1998) Another great Irma
release.  Super cool late 60's now sounds that Irma does so well.
This cd will have you dancing to those mod mod Italian now sounds. The
music's all over the sound spectrum with a lot of wild remakes of
songs but again its all killer with no filler.

From [e-mail] I have been listening to St Tropez and
France on the Hotel Easy Various artists compilation on Virgin records
no date.  There are four Hotel Easy compilations, St Tropez, London,
Rome & Paris. All are excellent  examples of true easy listening and
the cuts are well chosen obscure instrumental gems.  I really
recommend Hotel Easy.

_________________________________________________________
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com



# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:28:23 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: "And Now A Word From Our Sponsors 1"

>From:

><< * Various Artists: "And Now A Word From Our Sponsors 1"
>   (Radio And TV Commercials)
>       CD, East Anglian Productions, UK, 1996
>
>Johan, can you give me a source for locating these please?

    [e-mail]
    http://eastangprod.com

    hope they still work. otherwise: fax: [phone] in the UK.

        Johan


        [e-mail]


        | )    / \    | )    / \    | )    / \    | )    / \







# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:38:49 -0700
From: Dave & LeAnn Davidson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Staccato! (plus Hardy)

>All the original tunes were written by one Mike Vickers, a name which rings
>a bell but I don't know why... though I assume I'm about to find out.

Mike Vickers wrote and performed:

"On the Brink", 1965 - available on Sound Gallery Volume 2
"Pegasus", 1970 - available on The Sound Spectrum

He also wrote:

"The Snake Pit", performed by Mandingo, 1973 - available on Sound Gallery
Volume 1.

I'm sure others know more, they always do.

Dave



# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:02:32 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Wow . . . a Bond Girl and Hai Karate

In a message dated 98-08-18 13:59:55 EDT, you write:

<< She was also
 a Bond Girl and a Carry On actress.

 Charlie
  >>

Which Bond movie and what Bond girl?

We need details!!!!

Robert


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:13:36 +0100
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mike Vickers

Dave mused:
>
>All the original tunes were written by one Mike Vickers, a name which rings
>a bell

He played flute/guitar/sax for the group Manfred Mann in the early 60's,
roughly during the period that Paul Jones was lead singer.

I didn't know that he'd gone on to write for TV and films.  This sort of
'synergy' is what makes this such a useful forum.

Hugh.


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 22:22:26 +0200
From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Gravelands again

If anyone cares, http://www.roughtrade.com  still has a few copies of
GRAVELANDS by THE KING & THE QUESTIONAIRES (DTKING 50, Dressed to Kill
records, 1997). The King covers your favorite hits from yesterday. Very
happy with my fourth version of Love Will Tear Us Apart though!

tracklist:

    1.Come As You Are
    2.Love Will Tear Use Apart
    3.Working Class Hero
    4.Whiskey In The Jar
    5.Blockbuster
    6.I Heard It Through The Grapevine
    7.No Woman No Cry
    8.All Or Nothing
    9.20th Century Boy
   10.Piece Of My Heart
   11.Dock Of The Bay
   12.Voodoo Chile
   13.Riders On The Storm / The End



Arjan




# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:30:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) African Exotica

For a super cool now sound exotica African Groove nothing beats the
song Night Jet by the great Manu Dibango.  I have the song on vinyl on
the Ambassador album but I believe its also available on the Gone
Clear cd.

Easy Listening in the Big Easy,
Chuck




> >Anyone else notice how similar this is to Soul Makosa by...
Scorpio, I think.Well, similar... They're the same song,
basically.Anyone know who came first?
> >Peter

> My bet is Manu Dibango's 1972 release of Soul Makossa came first.
>
> -Lou

_________________________________________________________
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com



# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:09:03 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan M Perl)
Subject: (exotica) Peru - record shops?  any advice?

I'm going to Peru in September for 4 weeks.
Aside from walking up mountains and solving the Yma Sumac riddle, I would
like to get some records.
I recently heard a great morricone cover version (that track which Roy
Budd calls 'hurry to me') on a Venezualan record belonging to a friend,
so I have renewed hope of finding some interesting stuff.

Can anyone recommend any 2nd hand LP sources (Lima, Cuzco, anywhere;
record stores, flea markets, whatever)?

Any advice appreciated (general or vinyl-related), thanks.

Please reply to me off-list (obviously)

regards

Jonny

_____________________________________________________________________
You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail.
Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com
Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 98 18:08:13 PDT
From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Dialogue for Brass & FAQ list

Byron wrote:

<<Just who was behind Dialogue for Brass (Columbia CL 1499)?  Thisalbum of
12 "dialogue" songs was performed by The Brass Choir, but noindividuals or
arrangers listed.  This would have been a great album in stereo(was it
released in stereo?  would have been CS #### in that case) with the
answering back and forth from one channel to the other.  Whilethere is
brass, there is also a good variety of percussion or, as the linernotes
say, "imaginative use of percussion.">>

Apologies if this has already been answered (I'm 36-48 hours behind in
reading digests).  It's likely that the musicians were just hired studio
musicians of the day, but my stereo copy (CS 8290) does mention that Lew
Davies (of Enoch/Command renown) was the arranger for the album.  It's a
nice and fun album album, not unlike the early Command percussion stuff.
Having been recorded in New York, it wouldn't be at all surprising to learn
that some of the musicians were part of the Command cadre.  The stereo
version has a pyramidal illustration of the stereo separation for all the
instruments on the back.

This is really late, but also wanted to chime in and laud Ross's fine
efforts with the FAQs.  The only comment I would add (and this is more a
selfish grumble than criticism) is that part of me didn't like seeing the
thorough and extensive list of "recommended artists / labels / series"
provided to the newbies who are the most likely users of the FAQs.  On a
somewhat lofty or theoretical level, I feel that by recommending those
items we may be depriving people, to some extent, of the experience of
learning on their own and finding out by trial and error what it is that
they like and respond to.  On a more base and selfish level, most of those
things are hard enough to find (on vinyl anyway) already, that I cringe at
the thought of just handing that accumulated wisdom on a platter as it were
to people just discovering this arena of music, and thus making them that
much harder to find!  A somewhat childish reaction to be sure, but I can't
deny that it crossed my mind.  Having said that, I'm not suggesting a
change in the FAQ text, just offering a thought that crossed my mind in
reading that section.

- -- Brad


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 18:20:39 -0400
From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" for August 19, 1998

Hi all,

Allan here, former host of The Single Eye (CKUT 90.3 fm in Montreal). I
have a new show called "Mondo Bongos" on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario.
It can be heard every Wednesday between 9 & 11 am.
Here's the playlist for the debut show...

Preston Epps: Mr Bongos "Lost Treasures"
- - great compilation of oddities from the Del-fi label
Dimitri from Paris: Introduction/Sacre Francais "Sacreblue"
- - has anyone heard the compilation he made for Mixmag? Any good?
Tipsy: Oops/Ugly Stadium "Trip Tease"
- - Hello Tipsydave
Mirageman: Thunder "Mo'Plen 3000"
- - excellant cd of proto-acid jazz on the Irma label
United Future Organization: Fool's Paradise "3rd Perspective"
- - swinging spy tunes
The James Taylor Quartet: Austin's Theme "Creation"
Vampires Sound Incorporation: Drogue DX 9 "Vampyros Lesbos Sexadelic Dance
Party"
- - I've had this cd for a few years & have never grown tired of playing it.
Outstanding psychsploitation
Isaac Hayes: Walk on By "The Best of Isaac Hayes Vol 1"
- - the Bacharach/David tune gets the s-t-r-e-c-h-e-d over the top Hayes
treatment
Silver Apples: Oscillations "Silver Apples"
- - by the home-built synthesizer & drums duo. recorded in 1968.
The Tornados: Telstar "It's Hard to believe it: The Amazing World of Joe
Meek"
Neu!: Neuschnee "Neu! 2"
- - probably the main inspiration for all those early Stereolab releases,
speaking of which...
Stereolab: Jenny Ondioline "Transient Random-Noise bursts with
Announcements
Mr Scruff: Fish "Funkungfusion"
- - as discussed on the list.
Monk & Canatella: This Time it's Different "Care in the Community"
Spaceways: Charlie X "Cup of Tea Records - Another Cup"
- - trip hop
Air: Modular Mix "Premiers Symptomes"
Thievery Corporation: The Glass Bead Game "Sounds from Thievery Hi Fi"
- - smooth grooves from this DJ duo
Amon Tobin: People like Frank "Permutations"
Angelo Badalamenti/Julie Cruise: Falling "Soundtrack from Twin Peaks"
Portishead: Mysterons "Dummy"

Comments & questions welcome



# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 20:32:04 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Questions

> > which Hawaiian Guy?
> >
> I assumed he was Hawaiian,  I've been away for a week and sped read a
> lot of stuff.  In fact I still think he's Hawaiian.

You probably meant the obituary of Jeffery "Catch" Ketchamori, Don Ho's
guitar player who died when "a stucco wall made to look like lava rock
fell on Ketchamori at Don Ho=92s studio
on Wikiki Beach"

What a great way to go.....sure is a lot more glamerous than dying in an
old folk's home.

I would gladly wade through 1000 lame obituaries to have the pleasure of
reading that one.

Vern


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 20:42:35 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) empty covers

>
> Which makes me wonder:  Does anyone routinely buy these empty covers?
> What's a fair amout to expect to spend for them?

I've bought many empty covers.  I used to ask for a discount, but then
one clerk refused to sell one to me, insisting that I search through
many piles to find the 'missing' record.  So now, I'll pay full price
for an empty sleeve....and I won't mind paying 50-99 cents for a great
graphic.

Vern


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:04:07 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) empty covers

At 08:42 PM 8/18/98 -0400, Vern wrote:
>I've bought many empty covers.  I used to ask for a discount, but then
>one clerk refused to sell one to me, insisting that I search through
>many piles to find the 'missing' record.

My approach is go to the cashier with the records, topped with the
empty covers.  He or she will start looking in the sleeves and notice
no record.  I will say "I looked for the records (and I DID!) and couldn't
find them."  Half the time I won't get charged anything for them, the
other half I get charged the normal price for a record, 25 cents.

In either case, it works for me.

Byron

      /-
     / '\
    / ___> ; ;  ;    _   ;__
   /    \  [ | /"-  / () |  )
  <}-___/_/(_|/  \_(__/\/|  (_______
          ___<
          -_/
Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
http://www.hubris.net/zolac
The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:50:09 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) empty covers

In a message dated 8/18/98 11:28:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

> Which makes me wonder:  Does anyone routinely buy these empty covers?
>  What's a fair amout to expect to spend for them?  From one perspective,
>  they're pretty worthless.

At most of the thrifts around here, if I am buying some albums, I can usually
get away with saying,"Hey, these two don't have any record in them.  Do you
mind if I have them."  No one has ever said no to me yet.

Larry


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:39:44 -0400
From: "Andrew Grant" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exotica in Japan?

As I'm sure you all know, Japan has a wonderful exotica/lounge/retro scene.
(If for some reason you don't, run, don't walk, and buy the Sushi 3003
compilation!)  I will be going to Tokyo and Kyoto in October, and was
wondering if anyone had any recommendations for good CD shops for this type
of music.  It's been a few years since I've been, and I'm sure there are
specialty shops for this type of music.

On that note, does anyone have anything by Les 5-4-3-2-1?  Their track on
Sushi 3003, which is a BRILLIANT cover of Bacharach's 'Bond Street' (fr.
Casino Royale) mixed with Stereolab's 'PingPong', is all I've been able to
locate.  I was wondering what the rest of their material sounded like...

ag.



# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:18:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica in Japan?

Right now in Tokyo there is a Gainsbourg film festival going on.  I am sure
there are speciality stores handling 'exotica' in Shinjuku.  The Wave used
to be really good, but ever since the economy went so-so, it is not as good
as it used to be.  I would still check out the store in Roppongi.

Also HMV in Shibuya is really good.  I suggest checking out the Japanese
recordings from the 60's and 50's.  The Wave used to have a retro section
that covers great Japanese pop music.  I strongly suggest the Crazycats!
They were amazing.  Sort of Jerry Lewis meets the Ventures meet Dean Martin
meet cheezy rock n' roll meet traditional Japanese pop music (enka).  There
are a couple of great cd collections.  The one I have is a double cd.  I
think it is called Singles.  Great package of course.  The Crazycats also
did films which are also "wow."

And there are many others.  I bought tons of Japanese vintage pop.  Do
check that scene out.

- -----------------
Tosh Berman
TamTam Books
- ----------------




# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:44:11
From: "Indy Rutks" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Great Italian Soundtracks

I just purchased a CD of the soundtrack (TVT 8040-2) from "Big Night", the
1996 film that starred Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Minnie Driver
(mmmmmmm!), Isabella Rossellini (MMMMMMMMMMM!!), and Ian Holm.

Now, I realize that "Big Night" isn't an *Italian* film, but the soundtrack
is full of great traditional and Americanized Italian music. Besides the
handful of cuts by Louis Prima (with Keely Smith, Sam Butera and the
Witnesses), there are also a number of songs by a couple of Italian
vocalists (Claudio Villa, Matteo Salvatore) and several tunes from the
films original score. My personal fave from the soundtrack, though, has to
be Rosemary Clooney's "Mambo Italiano".

- -Indy Rutks ([e-mail])






# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 20:03:32 PDT
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) empty covers

Yep, to avoid a hassle, I never even bring a cover up if I don't intend
to pay whatever it is they are asking. And there are some very kind
souls among us who provide the covers for others who have found only the
vinyl. I have benefited from this (so, if anyone needs the Schory cover,
The Surfmen's Hawaii, or Lyman's Yellow Bird....).


>> Which makes me wonder:  Does anyone routinely buy these empty covers?
>> What's a fair amout to expect to spend for them?
>I've bought many empty covers.  I used to ask for a discount, but
thenone clerk refused to sell one to me, insisting that I search
throughmany piles to find the 'missing' record.  So now, I'll pay full
pricefor an empty sleeve....and I won't mind paying 50-99 cents for a
great graphic.


______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:41:39 -0700
From: [e-mail] (kevin lee)
Subject: (exotica) Peter Thomas, Staccato

>Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 10:57:08 +0100
>From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
>Subject: (exotica) Peter Thomas and The Big Boss?
>
>I want help from resident Peter Thomas/Kung Fu Soundtrack experts!
>
>I was watching the Bruce Lee film "The Big Boss" last night for the
>first time. As soon as the title music came on, I recognized it as a
>Peter Thomas composition (sure enough, I checked, and it's on the
>Polydor "Easy Lounging" Thomas compilation: "Big Boss" from "Der

Forgive me if this has been covered recently... but when was this "easy
lounging"
comp released and is it easy to get?  the only PT comp i'm aware of is the
futurmuzik comp.  are there other PT re-releases i should know about other than
Raumpotrille?

in case anyone didn't knot PT did the soundtrack to the film "chariots of the
gods" which i recommend even though it's not quite as great as the above
mentioned
releases.  has someone got a good Peter Thomas discography?  or can someone
point me to
an approximate date for the exotica archives?

....Nat said:
>"STACCATO", the Elmer Bernstein score to the television series which
>starred my hero John Cassavettes as a jazz piano-playing private detective.

i finally got a chance to see (on film no less) 2 episodes of staccato here
in LA thanks
to the american cinematheque.  also on the program was an episode of alfred
hitchcock
presents starring gena rowlands.  the staccato episodes were.... well,
frankly nothing
to write home about.  it's not bad, but not exactly pulse-pounding
excitement.  i got the
sense that cassavettes (who directed them too) was just cranking these out,
which i
think was the case, in order to make money to use for his own films.

however, this was all nothing compared to my brush with fame, meeting
cassavettes/rowlands'
daughter.... (i think there's two, but only one showed up)  and catching a
glimpse of
seymour cassell.

sorry for getting "off topic" a bit.

kevin "i'm back, i'm gone, i'm back" leeeeee



No YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!




# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:37:56 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: (exotica) Charity Shops in Scotland

I've not had much chance to really sit down and listen to any of these
yet apart from a quick play through,  but I thought it was pretty good.
I preferred side 2 with 'Holiday for percussion' and 'Chinatown my
Chinatown'.  Generally the melodies are played on a xylophone over a
busy percussion rhythm without actually sounding anything more than
languid.  Most of the Stereo Action bits seem to come from these big
brassy stabs that career around the speakers at various climactic
moments.  Bear in mind these are first impressions while unpacking and
sorting stuff out,  but I will be playing it out.  Hmmmm I like it.

Il Maestro Con Queso

[e-mail]
[e-mail]
http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm


> ----------
> From:     Ben Waugh[SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Sent:     18 August 1998 15:36
> To:     [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> Subject:     Re: (exotica) Charity Shops in Scotland
>
> I just found the empty cover for this one (well, it had an Reader's
> Digest producedAl Caiola lp inside): did I miss out on much?
>
>
> >
> >Dick Schory's Percussion Pops Orchestra    Holiday for Percussion
> A
> >'Stereo Action' LP but with a normal sleeve(No Die Cut Card) on a
> green
> >RCA label.
>
>
> ______________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
>


# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:41:44 -0700
From: [e-mail] (kevin lee)
Subject: (exotica) Music By George! and recent euro-comps

hi all!
i dunno if anyone remembers me or not or cares, but anyway i'm back on tha
list (for now)...

recent finds:

"Music By George!"  composed and conducted by George Romanis
mono  (Futura Music)  featuring "original music from  Medical Center,
Hawaii Five-O, Mod Squad, Storefront Lawyers, The New People".
this is pretty much all the info that came with this album.  can anyone
explain this thing to me?  did george romanis write the music for all those
tv shows?  who is george?  the odd thing about this is that the tracks are
all pretty much incidental music, with only a few sounding like actual
themes.  was this any good?  some of it's great with funky weird
instrumentation.  some of it is hum drum but overall i've found this to be
one of the more intriguing and strange things i've come across.  the cover
totally sucks ass though.  looks like crayon scratches on cardboard.

"mini pops"  a compilation on Ronco that features children singing 80's new
wave pop hits.  truly mind-numbing.  the cover is a pedophile's dream come
true.

"the happy puppy"  bent fabric.  sounds like either prepared or tape echoed
piano playing nifty ditties for you to play with your pets to.

recent comps bought and dug:

"Dimenzions in Sound: Volume 3" (Trip 6203)
i dig this lots.  good euro sixties soundtrack stuff.  can anyone recommend
the first two volumes?  are there more??

"Stereo Ultra: a Colletion of 70's Furious French Soundtracks" (Big Cheese
Records)
i dug this even more!  are there other great releases by Big Cheese?

"Orchestral Party Act 2" (Saint Germain desPres)
i dug this as much, maybe more!  is there an act 1?  act 3?

"Bite Hard: The Music De Wolfe Studio Sampler 1972-80" (Barely Breaking Even)
compiled by joel martin and mark b. special.  this is some solid solid
groovy shit.
most of it sounds like 70's tv cop show stuff, reminding me of the sound
gallery comps.  a lot of it is very minimal instrumentation, a little bit o
electronics, bass, drums, guitar.  no vox.  very raw.

forgive me if these releases have been discussed already...  i also am
curious about these other amazingly EXPENSIVE import comps from europe, if
anyone would like to recommend/dis-recommend these:

Mood Mosaic comps
Stroboscopia (Plastic)
Sonorizzazioni Psycho Beat
Nino Nardini and Pop Riviera Group (Desco Records)
Scoctopus (schema?) (Octopus Records)

any other must-get comps of the 60's euro/psych/soundtrack kind recently
released?
is it possible/likely that scamp or some domestics will distribute more of
this sort of thing?   otherwise i'll go broke!

thanks,
kevin leeeeeee


No YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!




# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:41:54 -0700
From: [e-mail] (kevin lee)
Subject: (exotica) tape trade?

ok,
me again, one last time!

i'd love to trade mix tapes with youz!  i'm into everything, as long as it
sounds good.  but i especially like moog, psych, incr.strange, euro
soundtracks, sexploitation, blaxploitation.....

email me private-like and let's us talk, okay?

for those with whom i've traded in the past, i've got a new mix tape and am
working on a new one that should be a "hoot".

cheers,
kevin leeeee

ps  other things i have to offer for trade are video dubs of odds and ends:

burt bachrach profile on PBS (darn good)
dusty springfield profile on Bravo (great archival footage)
Lots o carpenters things including the made for tv movie
beach boys profile
i just wasn't made for these times (brian wilson doc.)
wattstax documentary (aweSOME)
random ephemera
videos on amp (mtv) - the earlier more experimental days of amp
tons more stuff (name something you're looking for)


No YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!




# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:18:15 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mike Vickers

I just got offered a Mike Vickers KPM library record last week from 1973
called 'A Moog For All Reasons' - I suppose this is a play on the John
Gregory LP 'A Man for all Seasons' (I didn't buy it). Anyway, Mike was a
stalwart of that EMI/Abbey Road set - arranger, composer etc. He's also
mentioned in the book 'Good Vibrations which deals with the history of
record production.





# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list?
# Send the command "info exotica" to [e-mail].
# To post, email [e-mail]; replies go to original sender.

------------------------------

End of exotica-digest V2 #193
*****************************