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exotica-digest         Friday, August 21 1998         Volume 02 : Number 194



In This Digest:

(exotica) Re: Brudershaft des 80mm
Re: (exotica) Wow . . . a Bond Girl and Hai Karate
(exotica) Lester Lanin Meets Barbarella
Re: (exotica) empty covers
Re: (exotica) Also Known As
Re: (exotica) 2 questions
(exotica) Re: Friends of Dean Martinez -- Retrograde
(exotica) home taping is enjoying music
(exotica) Gene Rains
(exotica) Fun and Lounging in Las Vegas
Re: (exotica) Exotica in Japan?
Re: (exotica) Question List
(exotica) Good Venezuelan CD
Re: (exotica) home taping is enjoying music
Re: (exotica) Re: France Gall (was: Serge Gainsbourg)
Re: (exotica) Good Venezuelan CD
(exotica) What's Cool in Chicago?
Re: (exotica) home taping is enjoying music
Re: (exotica) What's Cool in Chicago?
Re: (exotica) empty covers
Re: (exotica) empty covers
(exotica) Re: Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" for August 19, 1998
(exotica) Re: Peter Thomas
(exotica) Re: Gravelands
(exotica) buying a house for records
Re: (exotica) Wow . . . a Bond Girl and Hai Karate
(exotica) Re: United Future Organization (was Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" for August 19, 1998)
Re: (exotica) Question List
Re: (exotica) Re: United Future Organization (was Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" for August 19, 1998)
Re: (exotica) Re: Friends of Dean Martinez -- Retrograde
Re: (exotica) buying a house for records
Re: (exotica) buying a house for records
Re: (exotica) What's Cool in Chicago?
Re: (exotica) Exotica in Japan?
(exotica) Sale List
Re: (exotica) Question List
(exotica) Tiki Room on the airwaves

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:53:22 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Brudershaft des 80mm

> i've been trying to find a source for 50 or 100 of those 80mm to 120mm CD
> adapter rings that you had a couple of.  i've had absolutely no luck
> finding anything in the US.  ...disgusted when the guys at an audiophile
> shop i asked in thought that the 3" i showed them was a minidisc.

a friend asked me this and I thought maybe someone from the list might have
an idea...

MO



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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:26:49 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Wow . . . a Bond Girl and Hai Karate

Further to my previous post,

>Which Bond movie and what Bond girl?

Valerie was the Hai Karate girl through most of the seventies.
She was also a Bond Girl in The Spy who Loved Me and Never say Never Again.
Had a big part in Carry On Girls
and a Hammer Horror film whose title I can't remember
The Italian Job (hotel room scene)
Occasional model
Royal Variety Show performer (with Morecambe and WIse I think)

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 04:50:07
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lester Lanin Meets Barbarella

A recent choice find:

Narrowing the Generation Gap, by Lester Lanin and His Orchestra
Metromedia MD 1006

Lanin, the king of the New York society band contractors--he's probably got
a band playing at some charity ball or wedding reception in Manhattan or
Long Island tonight--hired Charles Fox (of "Barbarella" fame) to arrange a
set of late 60s hits:  "Ob La Di, Ob La Da," "Dizzy," "Acquarius," "Stand."
 Vinnie Bell's watery guitar can be heard throughout a session of
pumped-up, swinging numbers.  Most of Lanin's albums--he recorded about 163
for Epic in the late 50s and early 60s--are pretty pallid, but this is
worth a listen.

A recent great thrift store disappointment:

In amongst a great pile of worthless crapola records--a near-mint dust
jacket of "Adventures in Carols," one of Ferrante & Teicher's earliest
prepared piano LPs.  Slide out the near-mint inner sleeve.  Gasp in
amazement.  Slide out record . . . piece one.  Piece two.  Piece three.
Sob in mourning.

Brad
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:34:16 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) empty covers

At 11:25 AM 18/08/98 -0400, Chris Cook wrote:
>
>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! :)

At most Goodwill stores, the cover is a quarter, I thought... or half the
price of a record.  Some of them won't sell you the cover unless you can
somehow convince them that the record is nowhere to be found, which is why
I usually put any old record inside, just to avoid the argument.

I buy records just for the cover all the time.  And I keep those records in
a separate cabinet.

What I hate is when I play the record and the music is actually too "good"
to put it in the cabinet with the other covers.  Things would be much
clearer if all the spectacular covers - especially the cheesecake ones -
were in that cabinet instead of having some of them scattered among the
"legitimate" musical offerings but alas, that clarity eludes me.

I have no problem buying a record for the cover.  Someday I'll have a
website and scan in these "Philco Presents" records I have.

I kind of doubt I'd even be into most of the music discussed on this list
if I hadn't been initially attracted by the covers.  And it's still a big
part of it.

Nat



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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:11:10 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Also Known As

Mysterious Milt Raskin.  I've got 3 LPs of him, the third one just 3
days ago and they all contain the very same pieces, only in a different
course. The first I found years ago in a thrift in Denver, it's called
"Kapu". Then I got "Exotic percussion" and now it's "Exotic Tahiti", all
basically the same. Who is this guy anyway? Obviously he has made ONE
LP...

MO



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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:09:36 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) 2 questions

Ben Waugh wrote:

> 1.Does anyone know of a potentially safe way to unwarp a record?

I never did it but I've seen it in Tele some 20 years ago: Press record firmly
between two panes of glass with clemps and put it in boiling hot water for a
minute. Let it turn cold and finally open the clemps.

MO



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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:50:52 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Friends of Dean Martinez -- Retrograde

Andrew Grant" <[e-mail]>


>Quick note -- just purchased this evening:
>Friends of Dean Martinez -- Retrograde

    welcome aboard, Andrew!
    is this "Retrograde" as good as (or the same type of stuff as)
    their debut "Shadow of your smile"?

        Johan


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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:34:29 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) home taping is enjoying music

There is nothing like being introduced to a private record collection
personally! It happened to me the other night when visiting my old
friend Frank in D=FCsseldorf. And the best thing about it was, that he wa=
s
so nice to tape the records that he played for me at the same time. So I
could really enjoy the show, knowing I would take all of these great
songs home, at least on tape. He mostly played his 7" singles, these
were the highlights:

Let's go to Hawaii     *The Rivieras
Arizona Train     *Jim Carter & die Texas Rangers
The Big Bamboo     *Confidential Club Orchestra
Samba Savanna     *Pierre Barough
Cat Woman     *Abaco Dream
Walking my cat named dog     *Barry McGuire
Hot Spot     *Bob Moore & Orchestra & Chorus
Paper Tiger     *Sue Thompson
Run through the Jungle     *Eyes of Medusa
Traffic in my mind     *The Osmonds (from an LP called "The Plan")
Mirror Mirror     *The Osmonds ("The Plan")
I found my love in Portofino     *Fred Buscaglione
Topless dancers of Korfu     *Dick Hyman (from LP "First Class Stereo")
Bond Street      *Doc Severinsen & Strings
And now the news     *The Hellers

I haven't heard most of these names ever, but some of these tracks are
just my kind of music! What a great evening!

MO



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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:39:10 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Gene Rains

Hi Ross!

I've got my first Gene Rains LP, "Rains in Tropics". It's nice and
simple. I like it!

MO



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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:14:58 -1000
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Funk)
Subject: (exotica) Fun and Lounging in Las Vegas

Picked up the CD last night, "Fun & Lounging in Las Vegas" on the Hip-O
label. I remembered seeing the track listing posted here a while ago.

The cover art is a hilariously blatant attempt to appeal to the Cigar &
Martini neo-lounge crowd.

The closest comparison I can think of here is to the "Golden Throats"
series on Rhino.  In fact, both the "Fun & Lounging" and "G.T." CDs include
William Shatner's unforgivable rendition of "Lucy In The Sky With
Diamonds".

Other cheese-drenched chestnuts include Liberace's "Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey
Hey, Goodbye", Enoch Light's "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and Mel Torme's
"Secret Agent Man".  Also enjoy campy contributions by Tom Jones, Ed Ames,
Martin Denny, Roger Williams, Jack Jones, and Ann Margaret.

All in all, this is wonderfully horrible pop "culture" at it's best. Fans
of "high camp" will not be disappointed. More discriminating listeners will
be repulsed. Fortunately, I am not one of those.

Funk's Big Score: 9/10


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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:25:15 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica in Japan?

> 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."

"Outre" issue #12 (Spring issue) had a 5 or 6 page article on the Crazy Cats.

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:29:48 -0400
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Question List

> 1. Are you a musician? Explain...
Not really - I once played bass in a very short-lived punk rock band,
long long ago - I only learned three chords (that was the idea) and we
never ended up performing in public (which is probably a good thing!).=20
Now I play other people's music on the radio once a week, which is just
fine with me!

> 2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this?
Esquivel's "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" turned a minor interest into a
full-blown addiction!

> 3. This list could help you more by... =20
It's pretty helpful already - no complaints!

> 4. Other exotica/things you collect
I'm not really a big collector - books and records aside, of course!  I
do have a collection of (non-electric) coffee makers and tea pots,
including several glass ones from the 1950s.   And lately, I've been
acquiring 1990's versions of 1950's and 60's-inspired furniture=20

> 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like
Late =9170s/early =9180s new wave, punk, industrial, neue Deutsche welle,
surf & drag, Pascal Comelade, early Michael Nyman, The Residents,
classical, opera, and just general weirdness!

> 6. What are you just dying to tell us?
I know the real identity of "Nat Kone" (okay, here goes - he's really
Hagood Hardy!?!)

> 7. Initials you prefer, CD or LP?  And why do you?  Is it a sound quali=
ty
> consideration?  The aesthetics of LP art?  The supposed clarity of CDs?=
=20
CD for ease of use, LP for the covers (can you really see details like
the hairpin on the cover of "Exotica" on a CD?)  Given a choice with a
new release, I'll take the CD, but older stuff is always LP.

> 8. Own a fez?  If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe it=
 or
> other lounge-wear of which you are proud?
No fez.  I have a pair of 60's-inspired black cat's-eye sunglasses. I
also covet the capri pants worn on the cover of The Ventures "Walk,
Don't Run" LP.  Some day, I'll find a pair like that for myself...

> 9. Shaken or stirred?
Red wine, please.

> 10. I clean my LPs with ...
A Discwasher and D4 fluid.  A Nitty Gritty Record Cleaner is on my list
of things to buy if the pathetic Canadian dollar ever regains its value!

> 11. My home page URL is:
Still working on it...

> 12. I have a Licence To ...
Be right all the time (just ask Brian!)=20


cheryl


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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:28:44 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Good Venezuelan CD

> 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.

On a related note, I just bought a neat-o CD from a group called 'Los
Amigos Invisibles' entitled 'The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera'
Its put out on the Luaka Bop / Warner Brothers label (1998).

I was at a CD listening station and sampled a cut called 'Ultra-Funk'
and was immediately sold....wanted to start dancing and singing along
even though I had headphones on and couldn't understand a single word of
Spanish.  They've captured much of the sounds of the early 70's (the
good ones) and wanted to post a recommendation to the others on the
list...I'm sure most of you will like it. It even has one cut that
incorporates the sound of the needle touching down on the vinyl, then
lifting up at the songs conclusion....gotta love it

The cover features a pool-side shot of the six band members eyeing a
bikini clad woman walking away from them.

It appears that there is some very good stuff happening down in
Venezuela.


Vern
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:45:19 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) home taping is enjoying music

Brian Phillips wrote:

> >Topless dancers of Korfu     *Dick Hyman (from LP "First Class Stereo")
>
> This version does or does not have a Synthesizer?

It does.

MO



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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 04:09:01 -0600
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: France Gall (was: Serge Gainsbourg)

>> I recently bought "1968" by France Gall. Very hip indeed!
>
>    i've only got 1 lp by her, "France Gall", a comp from 1989.
>    i think it's on cd as Philips 839 627, from France. the 2
>    best songs, ("jazz a gogo" and "le coeur qui jazze") are also
>    featured on some recent italian comps (probably the "Mood Mosaic")
>    the other songs on that France Gall comp are nice, but non as hip and
>    jazzzzzzzzzy as those 2 mentioned, and i wonder if the "1968" has
>    more of those. here's the track list for that "France Gall" lp:


I actually like the other songs on the compilation a lot better. I don't
like her jazzy stuff as much - although they are great too. It is very sweet
pop music in a French stylee. "1968" is great, but in my opinion, the
recently re-released "Baby Pop" is even better. I'm just listening to her
German sung CD "Die Beste in Deutsch" which I think is also fab. Some is a
little bland, but all very poppy and cute. I'm wondering what other LPs she
did in the 60s that are in this cool mood. Does anyone know so I can track
them down? I have seen a cool Japanese CD series with 3 volumes, I think,
but on each CD I think I have a third to half of the tracks. HELP?!

Jill "Mingo-go"



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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:32:43 +0200
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Good Venezuelan CD

>It appears that there is some very good stuff happening down in
>Venezuela.


And in Ecuador too... I remember hearing the former president
Abdullah Buccaram, alias El Loco,  singing a cover in Spanish
from Elvis' Jailhouse Rock. Apparantly there's an album full
of this stuff, does anyone know more (tracklist)?

Ton


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Subject: REVIEW - Sciborg Sam

Sent from: mediageist  <[e-mail]>

    Sciborg Sam and the Robopimps
    Friday, July 24, 8 pm

Out of nowhere Sciborg Sam takes the stage at 8:30pm, part human and
part plastic armor with exposed wires and christmas lights
attached. Elastic waist cinchers wrap a breast-plate snugly around his
torso. Fitted onto Sam's helmet, covering the left eye, a static
monicle was the best looking piece of robot gear. I had expected much
more of a serious tech element to the sciborg get-up, not to mention
the promised and missing "cyberchick dancers". The drummer, donning a
similar looking plastic bronze helmet topped with a menacing spike,
laid out pretty standard blues-rock beats. As a two-piece, Sciborg
Sam's slip-sloppy guitar riffs needed the consistency of bass
underneath them. Attendees poked around the stacks sipping wine and
munching on carrots, ocassionally laughing as Sam screamed about the
horrors of pork.

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 07:43:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) What's Cool in Chicago?

I'm going to Chicago tomorrow, Friday, and I wanted to know if there
are any cool places I should visit.  I wish I would have posted this
sooner.  Any recommendations you give me today are greatly appreciated.

Easy Listening in the Big Easy,
Chuck

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:24:43 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) home taping is enjoying music

Jill Mingo wrote:

> >Topless dancers of Korfu     *Dick Hyman (from LP "First Class Stereo")
>
> MO,
>
> Certainly you know this is from his MOOG LP, ja? It is one of two good
> tracks on the LP, in my opinion...

"MOOG LP"? You mean "First class Stereo" is just a reissue, sort of "best
of" album or something?

MO





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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:41:56 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What's Cool in Chicago?

I expect thousands of replies to this question, but yes, the best Trader
Vic's seems to be in Chicago. You knew I would suggest that, right?

MO



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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:51:02 -0400
From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) empty covers

Chris Cook <[e-mail]> writes:

>Does anyone routinely buy these empty covers?

If I come across a cover that I *must* have, I always find a sleeveless
record to put in it. It doesn't have to be amazing or anything. A kid's
record in fair shape, another Jim & Tammy album... anything like that.
That way it's not as though I paid full price for an empty sleeve AND I
get a record that I probably wouldn't have bought without the cover (in
some cases even if it *had* had the cover) that just might be a gem.
Sometimes you get a dud, but sometimes it totally pays off.


>Really upset to have found an empty 101 Strings Backbeat
>Symphony.  Always wanted to hear that one ...

It's not as great as you'd hope, though it does have its moments.


Peter
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:30:06 PDT
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) empty covers

Better, if only for "Blues for the Guru" and its electric sitar lead, is
101 Strings Play the Hits of The Beatles.
>
>>Really upset to have found an empty 101 Strings Backbeat
>>Symphony.  Always wanted to hear that one ...
>
>It's not as great as you'd hope, though it does have its moments.


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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:26:05 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" for August 19, 1998

>From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>


>United Future Organization: Fool's Paradise "3rd Perspective"
>- - swinging spy tunes


    please tell me/us more about this one, i guess it's a new group?
    i haven't heard from it yet...

        Johan


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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:47:28 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Peter Thomas

[e-mail] (kevin lee) wrote:

>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?

    these are the "PT" releases currently available:

100% Cotton (The complete Jerry Cotton Edition)
Erinnerungen an die Zukunft (Chariots of the Gods)
Orion 2000
Raumpatrouille (includes 3 bonus tracks)
Raumpatrouille (Space patrol)
Easy loungin'. Twenty easy listening classics
FutureMuzik
Kriminalfilmmusik
The Jerry Cotton Special collector's box (limited edition, deluxe,
numbered, J.C shirt, FBI-tie, Cotton lighter, poster, postcard)

    for label details, check out
        The "eXotica Releases Overview": <http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/>




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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:18:51 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Gravelands

"Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>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!

    are these instrumental or vocal versions? is it serious lounge,
    or camp or novelty?

        Johan


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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:32:19 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) buying a house for records

Seems like one of the things I will have to look for when buying a house
is its load potential. I, no doubt, could fill a 10 x 10 room.  In one
configuration, I estimate I can get a total of 18,500 records in such a room
allowing for full access (not stacked in boxes but organized in shelves).
I don't want to buy a house which can't support that weight (someone on
this list has said this can be a problem) concentrated in one area. So,
what is the average weight of an LP (with cover, etc.)?  I don't have
scales for such a measurement.

The next step, of course, is getting someone to test a floor's load weight
for a house I may be interested in.  I'm sure this is not an item of
concern to most homebuyers, so it may be difficult to find someone who can
help.

Byron

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:12:36 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Wow . . . a Bond Girl and Hai Karate

It took me a while, but here is a picture of her:


http://www.carryonline.com/carry/newsfrm.html



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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:11:16 -0400
From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: United Future Organization (was Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" for August 19, 1998)

Regarding:

> >United Future Organization: Fool's Paradise "3rd Perspective"
> >- - swinging spy tunes

Johan asked:

>     please tell me/us more about this one, i guess it's a new group?
>     i haven't heard from it yet...

Well newish, The United Future Organization's "3rd Perspective" (Antilles
314 534 487-2) was released in 1996, but is still available. A listener to
my former radio show recommended the group to me, and when I checked their
cd at a local record shop I was sold (the sticker on the case said
"Swinging spy tunes from the Japanese cosmic DJ collective", or words to
that effect).

What do they sound like? Upbeat, spy-music influenced tunes: far better &
more consistent than the Propellerheads, more symphonic than the James
Taylor Quartet due to the samples & they lack the "kitsch" aspect of
Dimitri from Paris. Variety is added to the disk by the addition of a
couple of vocal numbers (a few in French) & latin-influenced cuts.

Nice one overall.

Allan

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:08:25 -0400
From: "Andrew Grant" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Question List

Wow, Cheryl...you're the first Pascal Comelade fan I've come across on th=
e
net.  I love his stuff -- I have about 4-5 CDs by him.  Have you heard hi=
s
new one (with PJ Harvey on it?)

>> 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like
>Late =9170s/early =9180s new wave, punk, industrial, neue Deutsche welle=
,
>surf & drag, Pascal Comelade, early Michael Nyman, The Residents,
>classical, opera, and just general weirdness!
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:26:08 -0400
From: "Andrew Grant" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: United Future Organization (was Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" for August 19, 1998)

An earlier release, 'No Sound is Too Taboo' was one of my favorite new
releases of 1995.  It's more acid-jazzy, but very, very original.  Certainly
qualifies for this list.  Whereas not all tracks are perfect, the last track
on the album is a bossa-nova beat/melody backed up by a famous choir from
Estonia -- it is beauty with a capital B.

We should trade MP3 files, for evaluation only of course. ;-)

ag.



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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:04:40 -0400
From: "Andrew Grant" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Friends of Dean Martinez -- Retrograde

Thanks for the welcome.

I've only given 'Retrograde' one listen, but yes, it is as good as (maybe
better) and in the same vain as their first record.  There's a GREAT cover
of 'I Will Wait For You' from Les Parapluis des Cherbourg.  Very cool....


- -----Original Message-----
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 1:20 PM
Subject: (exotica) Re: Friends of Dean Martinez -- Retrograde


>
>Andrew Grant" <[e-mail]>
>
>
>>Quick note -- just purchased this evening:
>>Friends of Dean Martinez -- Retrograde
>
> welcome aboard, Andrew!
> is this "Retrograde" as good as (or the same type of stuff as)
> their debut "Shadow of your smile"?
>
>        Johan
>
>
>        [e-mail]




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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:58:12 +0200
From: Marco 'Kallie' Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) buying a house for records

[e-mail] wrote:

> I don't want to buy a house which can't support that weight (someone on
> this list has said this can be a problem) concentrated in one area. So,
> what is the average weight of an LP (with cover, etc.)?  I don't have
> scales for such a measurement.

That can indeed be a problem. There is a story about a Dutch
book-collector who had to move his collection because the walls of his
house were coming down. There is also a Belgian collector of comic-books
who bought the house nex-door, just to store his enormous collection.
Wow, I hope I will end up like that...

Marco


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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:33:41 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) buying a house for records

I had a friend who had his records in the basement. The problem was, he had
so many and they were so heavy that the house slooooowly sunk into the
ground, dragged down by the weight of his records. One morning, he woke up
and couldn't get out of the house because his front and back door were
wedged closed by the surrounding earth. When he went for the windows, he
saw that he and his house were slowly descending into the ground. By
mid-afternoon, he was trapped and even the upstairs windows were
inaccessible. Passers by reported later that they had heard eerie music
emanating from a large hole near the Rochester bypass.

On a more serious note, there is a DJ and dance music website which I
visited long ago (so no WWW I'm afraid) which asked various DJs where they
store their records. David Morales and others of his ilk talked about
20-50,000 records stored in storage depots, warehouses, bedrooms, offices
and how they were catalogued. Fascinating. What must it be like to have
more records than you could ever cope with or play? Cool!



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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 12:18:14 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What's Cool in Chicago?

chuck wrote:

> Thanks,  I'm definitely going to make it there, I should have known
> you'd recommend this.  Want to meet me there?  Give me your phone
> number and I'll give you a call.

If you pay me the flight I'd love to go to Chikago and meet you there. I
guess you're under the false impression I'm living there, but I live
about 4800 km away. Toobad, but we have a pretty nice Trader Vic's here
as well...

MO



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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 04:58:28 PDT
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica in Japan?

Has anyone else heard or heard of "A Rainy Night In Tokyo: Modern Pop
Music From Japan"? (I forget the composer's name) It is an interesting
blend and of classical Japanese and western pop music. All of the songs
are Japanese - no covers of American standards. I believe it's on the
Capitol label, late 1950's, early "60's. Definitely one to look out for.


>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!)

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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 05:01:36
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sale List

I have a new list of LPs I'm weeding out of my collection for sale.  Please
email me at [e-mail] if you want a copy.

Brad


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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:17:31 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Question List

At 02:29 PM 19/08/98 -0400, cheryl wrote:
>
>> 6. What are you just dying to tell us?
>I know the real identity of "Nat Kone" (okay, here goes - he's really
>Hagood Hardy!?!)

You tell someone your name.  It turns out you have a few mutual friends.
You offer to meet them and you even make them a tape so that your first
meeting can be an exchange of music and not just handshakes.

Of course they never show up for the meeting.

But from then on, they think they know you.

In fact, they think they OWN you.

Oh well, live and learn.

In any case, I guess it's okay now to tell you all about the Hagood Hardy
webpage, which I'm certain must exist.  In it, one of my many fans,
discusses how my time with Martin Denny - or was it Arthur Lyman (I
sometimes mix the two of them up)? - prepared me for my return to Canada
where I battled Frank Mills for the crown of the Canadian King of Pop.

I guess I don't have to tell you who won that battle.

Actually if you've never heard any of my records, they're not as bad as
you'd think.

Nat (Hagood) Kone



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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:33:55 PDT
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Room on the airwaves

One of my agents in the street phoned in to report news that she knew I
would take as glad tidings: a local WDC station was playing Disney's "In
the Tiki... Room." Apparently this was done in support of the stations
current gimmick: several people are forced to live in a jeep in order to
collect on some kind of hep whim-wham. Part of the Mickey Mouse de Sade
torture routine is subjecting the victims to an uninterrupted marathon
of what the djs consider to be godawful music. I assume they have never
heard a Paul Williams album.... (or an lp of populart melodies played on
antique music boxes).

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