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exotica-digest      Wednesday, September 9 1998      Volume 02 : Number 205



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Save The Tiki Room Newsletter: Issue #3
Re: (exotica) I want to be seduced
(exotica) #10 ISSUE OF COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC IS HERE!!
(exotica) Re: Customs nightmare
Re: (exotica) Customs nightmare
(exotica) Re: Capitol Collectors: Jerry Lewis
Re: (exotica) Capitol Collectors: Esquerita
(exotica) Hey Lady!!! (and any other gender)
Re: (exotica) Cool $ Strange #10
(exotica) excerpts: epulse 4.35 [po]
(exotica) re: disney
Re: (exotica) re: disney
(exotica) Jean Jacques is here!!!
(exotica) Laughing Records
Re: (exotica) re: disney
Re: (exotica) excerpts: epulse 4.35 [po]
(exotica) Akira Kurosawa R.I.P.
RE: (exotica) re: disney
(exotica) Tiki two of these and post me in the morning.
(exotica) Drum `n bass in 1958 ? Yes, it`s Raymond Scott !!
(exotica) Blacula and Carter on vinyl
Re: (exotica) Blacula and Carter on vinyl
(exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #204
(exotica) Akira Kurosawa R.I.P. (long)

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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 14:28:27 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Save The Tiki Room Newsletter: Issue #3

Hi, Jill

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/1877/savetikiroom.html

> I'd like to subscribe to that newsletter, but didn't really see the link to
> do it.

I think when you sign the petition you're automatically in it.

> I signed the petition and am deeply distressed about losing the Sub
> ride. That was my fave attraction! And I'm going back in December - only to
> miss it. I'm very sad....
>
> I AM DJing on Oct. 3rd too so I hope I will see you then.

Def! I'll be hanging some new paintings and decos!

MO



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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 11:48:56 -0400
From: "Andrew Grant" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) I want to be seduced

I remember that Leon Redbone did a version of this years ago -- it was used
in the film "The Big Fix".  Don't know if that's the version you were
thinking of...


- -----Original Message-----
From: Charles Moseley <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 5:07 AM
Subject: (exotica) I want to be seduced


>
>Does anybody know the male vocalist that sung this song please?
>
>(My mother heard it on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs the other day and she
>thought it was wonderful)
>
>I hope its reasonably on topic - Thanks
>




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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 21:17:22 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) #10 ISSUE OF COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC IS HERE!!

Hi Kids!

THE #10 ISSUE OF COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC IS HERE!!

IT'S OUR BIGGEST ISSUE EVER! We've pumped the magazine up to 56 pages, and
it's beautifully offset-printed, with a cool color cover, lots of high-quality
photos, great articles, tons of new wacky and weird CD reviews and it's more
fun than ever!

The new issue features:

* A cover story/exclusive interview with ESQUIVEL, prepared by close associate
Brother Cleve. We promise some new revelations about the brilliant Space Age
Bachelor Pop Maestro!

* A long-awaited in-depth exclusive interview with JEAN JACQUES PERREY, French
pioneer of those wacky Moog synthesizer records with the quirky sense of
humor! We have loads of fascinating chat with this genius and we'll preview
his new release!

* A tour though some of the coolest and strangest record stores in the TORONTO
RECORD STORE REPORT.

* A toungue-in-cheek look at those BEATLE CASH-IN ALBUMS, produced by sleazy
record companies, eager to cash in on the Four Fab's success, and designed to
fool naive Beatle fans into buying them! Some of the music on these are
(surprise!) really GOOD!!

* A short look at the WORST RECORD EVER MADE BY FRANK SINATRA! Humorist Pat
Reeder, enlights us with the details in our irreverent tribute/farewell to the
Chairman of the Board and one of the STUPIDIST records he ever made!

* A spin through some of those MUSIC TO (you fill in the blank here) albums,
found in every thrift shop bin all over the world!

* An exclusive interview with the SPACE COSSACKS, one of the hottest new surf
bands around today.

All this, and a whole lot more fun stuff than we dare mention, and you'll find
a very Cool Issue #10 of COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE. So get on board!
It's gonna be a cool ride through the wild, wacky and sometimes tacky world of
records!

COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE is available at most Tower Records and Tower
Books stores, Borders and other national boodstore chains. We are also in
hundreds of newsstands and independent bookstores around the U.S., so take a
look!

If you have trouble locating  COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE locally, you
can order by mail. You can purchase a single copy directly from us for a
measly $3.95 each in the US, $5 Canada, and $6 to all other countries. (U.S.
funds, please.) Hey, there's never an extra charge for postage. THAT'S the
kind of magazine we are! Sorry, but all of our back issues (except #7, which
is still available) are now SOLD OUT, and won't be reprinted.

Subscriptions (we publish quarterly) are just $12 a year (4 issues) for cool
guys and gals in the U.S.A., $16 Canada, and $25 (U.S. funds) for our foreign
buddies! All prices includes shipping.

Sorry, we don't take credit cards.
Send your Check, Cash or Money Order to:

Cool And Strange Music! Magazine
1101 Colby Ave.
Everett, WA USA 98201

**************************************************************

Hey, take a look at our Web Site at
<http://members.aol.com/coolstrge/coolpage.html>
There, you can enter out latest contest and possibly win a new CD or cassette
single from our friends at Rykodisc!

There are lots of fun LP covers to download, lots of cool links to other great
related websites, scads more info about the magazine, and even reviews of the
mag by other magazines!





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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 13:57:55 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Customs nightmare

>From: [e-mail] (Desmond K. Hill)

>Apparently Customs are charging me a supplemental $40 - the card does not
>explain why.  The LPs ordered had been paid for in advance, with their
>airmail costs.
>
>Does anyone have any idea what this supplemental tax is for, & to avoid
>being charged for it?



    a NIGHTMARE it is, over here in belgium too.

    of course, regulations will be different,
    but this is what i do to escape from them:

    * never more than 2 lp's in 1 box
    * use duifferent delivery addresses (of friends)

    this supplemental tax is import tax + VAT. there's a certain amount
    you can import without being taxed, so you need to figure out how
    much that is.

    hope this helps,

        Johan


        [e-mail]


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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:37:47 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Customs nightmare

Jill Mingo <[e-mail]> wrote:

>You'd be
>surprised how much weight that little green slip holds. They don't have a
>copy of record collector sitting by their side.

    YES they do, here in Begium, and they learned it from ... the UK!
    i'm not kidding you, i got this from an inspector working for
    customs, whom i talked with because they once over-charged me
    after mis-interpreting the writing on that green sticker.

    they don't take those green stickies very seriously either;
    if a box with 10 LPs is declared $10 worth by the sender
    (which can be the truth!), customs sez: "nah! we think these lp's
    are worth GBP 7 each, and we'll charge you for that amount!"

    that's the way things go.

        Johan


        [e-mail]


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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 19:54:52 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Capitol Collectors: Jerry Lewis

Lazlo Nibble <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Still looking for the Jerry Lewis and Esquerita
>volumes, myself...

    i'm too still lookin for that Jerry Lewis volume,
    for several years now...

        Johan


        [e-mail]


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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 13:31:07 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Capitol Collectors: Esquerita

> >Still looking for the Jerry Lewis and Esquerita
> >volumes, myself...

I haven't gotten around to ordering it yet, but the current Collectors' Choice
Music print catalog lists a new Esquerita cd (of vintage Capitol recordings).
The text states the title as "Believe Me When I Say Rock & Roll Is Here To
Stay", but on the tiny cover illo it seems to be "Rockin' The Joint". Whatever.
Leave a copy for me, please!

Online at:
http://www.ccmusic.com/

m.ace  [e-mail]
OOK   http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/
New Feature! Sound Of The Week!


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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 14:42:46 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hey Lady!!! (and any other gender)

>>Still looking for the Jerry Lewis and Esquerita
>>volumes, myself...
>
>    i'm too still lookin for that Jerry Lewis volume,
>    for several years now...

http://www.gemm.com/ has the Jerry Lewis, but not the Esquerita.



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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:32:50 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Cool $ Strange #10

<< Do you have a favorite album or artist that has never come out on CD? Is
 there a compilation of a certain recording artist or a comp of a certain
 genre that still hasn't come out? Send your ideas in! We're listening! >>

The first thing that comes to mind for me is there is no pop moog comp.

Maybe the people that make these decisons don't think anyone can sit through
70 minutes and 28 tracks of fat, bubbly, juicy electronic madness.  They're
probably right!

As a big fan of the moog sound, putting together a collection of classic moog
LP's was one of the first projects I put together with my new CD-R thingy.

Here is the playlist.  Some of it overlaps previous moog tape lists, so it is
mostly for the benefit of new list members.  I did my best to exclude anything
already on a CD.  All vinyl is near mint and I'm very pleased with the
results.

If anyone would like a copy, it can be arranged for not much more than the
price of a blank CD and priority shipping.  Email me off the list if
interested.

HARRY BREUER  March Of The Martians  "The Happy Moog"
HOT BUTTER  Song Of The Nairobi Trio  "Popcorn"
RICK POWELL  I Walk The Line  "Switched On Country"
SID BASS  Spanish Flea  "Moog Espana"
CHRISTOPER SCOTT  Wives And Lovers  "Switched On Bacharach
ELECTRONIC CONCEPT ORCHESTRA  "Grazin' In The Grass  "Moog Groove"
MARTY GOLD  Norwegian Wood  "Moog Plays The Beatles"
MORT GARSON  Hair  "Electronic Hair Pieces"
CLAUDE DENJEAN  Sugar, Sugar  "Moog!"
ENOCH LIGHT  Marrakesh Express  "Permissive Polyphonics"
HUGO MONTENEGRO  You Are The Sunshine Of My Life  "Hugo In Wonder-land"
GIL TRYTHALL  Polk Salad Annie  "Switched On Moog - Nashville Gold"
DICK HYMAN  Time Is Tight  "The Age Of Electronicus"
THE ZEET BAND  Moogie Boogie"  "Moogie Woogie"
RON FRANGIPANE  Smile A Little Smile For Me  "Rated X For Excitement"
CHRISTOPER SCOTT  Wishin' And Hopin'  "More Switched On Bacharach
ELECTRONIC CONCEPT ORCHESTRA  Je T'aimeàMoi Non Plus  "Electric Love"
GERHSON KINGSLEY  Nowhere Man  "Music To Moog By"
MORT GARSON  The Ride Of Aida (Voodoo)  "Black Mass Lucifer"
CLAUDE DENJEAN  Honky Cat  "Open Circuit"
ENOCH LIGHT  What The World Needs Now Is Love  "Spaced Out"
HUGO MONTENEGRO  Porcupine Pie  "Neil's Diamonds"
RUTH WHITE  Polka From The Age Of Gold  "Short Circuits"
RICHARD HAYMAN  Dansero  "Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine"
GIL TRYTHALL  Folsom Prison Blues  "Switched On Nashville - Country Moog"
THE MOOG MACHINE  Spinning Wheel  "Switched On Rock"
WALTER CARLOS  What's New Pussycat?  "By Request"
WALTER SEAR  Hey Jude  "The Copper-Plated Integrated Circuit: Plugged-In Pop"





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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:53:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) excerpts: epulse 4.35 [po]

- --- CONTENTS / September 4, 1998
>>> Welcome back to epulse, the musically omnivorous
weekly ezine of Pulse! magazine

1. field recordings of the week:
     'SOUNDS OF NORTH AMERICAN FROGS: THE BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF VOICE
IN FROGS' (Smithsonian Folkways, out now) is a charming, quirky, puzzling
and, yes, educational disc. One of the original Folkways series, 'FROGS'
is a collection of literal field (and pond) recordings by herpetologist
Charles Bogert dating from 1953-57. The chirps, croaks, trills, grunts and
screams of all types of frogs and toads are the basis of the disc. Bogert
delivers a commentary on each of the 92 cuts (most of which are no longer
than 40 seconds) in a dry, flat-accented voice that is strangely familiar.
If you're in your early 30s you might remember the nature "filmstrips" in
school--those now-antiquated reels of slides with a cassette accompaniment
complete with a hollow tone to indicate when the strip needed to be
flipped forward. That's what this disc is like, without the "bonk" and
visuals. That is not to say that this is a sleep-inducer. Some of the
sounds are downright creepy. I never knew frogs screamed or clucked like
chickens. Kudos to Smithsonian Folkways for honoring Moe Asch's belief
that all Folkways recording should always be in print. My only complaint
is that it would be nice to have a segment of tracks without any
commentary. Then I could crank it up, sit in front of a fan with a glass
of lemonade and pretend I was not in scorchingly hot and smoggy Nor. Cal.
(Wildfeuer)

4. most creative music of the week:
     If you can remember playing pots with a wooden spoon or, my personal
favorite, rattling the shower door while tapping the bathtub faucet, then
you will appreciate the spirit of 'ORBITONES, SPOON HARPS & BELLOWPHONES'
(Ellipsis Arts, 9/15). This is a collection of 16 artists playing their
self-made instruments, such as the Pongophone and the Kotar. The styles
range from Uakti, four conservatory-trained Brazilian musicians who create
symphonies from such instruments as the Aqualung and the Trilobyte, to
Leonard Solomon and his Majestic Bellowphone, a one-man show that would be
at home in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.' There are some famous names on this
compilation (Tom Waits, Aphex Twin) and for you HBO fans, Stomp even makes
an appearance (Some of us here at the office got to witness a performance
by Peter Whitehead, who also contributes to the CD, and his spoon harp,
which consists of a 10-gallon can with a stick driven through its side
acting as the neck. The best part is that it uses wooden spoons for tuning
keys.) With its 96-page book that provides an introduction to experimental
instruments and a bio of each of the artists, this CD is as intriguing to
look at as it is to hear. (Willis)

6. subgenius return of the week:
     A nebulous corporate entity called "US Plus," whose tag line is "We
own the idea of 'America.'" A digital simulacrum of the late "Princess
Goddess" reading fairy tales via satellite to young plague victims, then
reappearing as a doll with string-pull-activated vocals a la Chatty Cathy
at the big millennial throw-down, the "doll drop," at Homeless Stadium. A
blast-from-the-past character, car dealer Ralph Spoilsport, hosting a
"going out of body" sale. A disgraced Joe Camel, run out of media-land by
a jeering mob of angry addicts and ex-children, bum-rushing the stage at
the "doll drop" and delivering a Nixonian farewell address. The whore of
Babylon careening around in a sport-utility vehicle, leading authorities
on a wild freeway chase, while said authorities are busy monitoring "The
Zillion Bug March." A beer for senior citizens containing "natural Alaskan
bear urine" and Prozac. An obnoxious bookie/sports announcer who passes
over pro ("all cons") and college teams, advising listeners to bet on his
kid's junior-high soccer team. A rum-swilling traffic announcer in a
helicopter who's being pursued by the four cowboys of the apocalypse in
corporate jets. A new-age radio shrink advocating frequent masturbation. A
late-night DJ who functions as a lightning rod for weirdness a la Art Bell
who, like Bell, is hawking useless merchandise to gullible listeners -- in
this case, dead ant farms. And, everywhere, men-in-black-styled cybercops
in eyeball hats -- agents of U.S. Plus, perhaps? -- popping up to enforce
the tightening of an Orwellian noose around the collective neck of
society.
     It's been quite a while since the FIRESIGN THEATRE checked in with an
aural movie as fully realized as 'GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH'
(Rhino, out now). The L.A.-based comedy foursome, a long-time staple of
KPFK-FM, released a skein of classic albums in the late '60s through the
mid '70s on Columbia, among them 'Waiting for the Electrician or Someone
Like Him,' 'How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere
at All,' 'Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers' (considered by a few
subgenii to be the 'Sgt. Pepper' of comedy albums), 'I Think We're All
Bozos on This Bus' and 'Everything You Know Is Wrong.' Those records are
all out of print (although audiophile label Mobile Fidelity has licensed a
few titles for limited-edition reissue), and Columbia's reissue arm, Sony
Legacy, has no plans to unearth them.
     With any good fortune, 'Give Me Immortality' should change all that.
Firesign -- aka Phil Austin, Phil Proctor, David Ossman and Peter Bergman
- -- doesn't make conventional comedy records; they're more like
pre-television era radio dramas: imagine a collaboration between Franz
Kafka and Groucho Marx. Densely constructed and multi-layered like
esoteric literature, riddled with paranoid subtext and at least as funny
as buying a beer from your short-term personal savior, a good Firesign
record will bend your head like trying to read Whitley Streiber's
'Communion,' Abdul Alhazred's 'Necronomicon' and 'The Book of Mormon' at
the same time with a head full of acid. And, like the works of two fellow
'60s refugees -- Robert Crumb in his comics or Hunter S. Thompson in 'Fear
and Loathing in Las Vegas' -- Firesign records function as wild-ass social
commentary.
     'Immortality' is structured as a December 31, 1999, broadcast on
Radio Now, a station that changes format whenever the U.S. Plus focus
groups determine it might make sound business sense -- which is every five
minutes or so. The station's audience sounds eerily familiar:
Unconsciously perceiving that their lives are under the thumb of a
dictatorial corporate-run regime despite the thin veneer of "democracy,"
they opt for denial instead, embracing dead princesses and promotional
cartoon characters as religious icons. Camels in the wind, anyone?
(Griffith)

7. talking doll of the week:
     Now that the world economy has gone haywire, your epulse economic
advisors have determined that it's time to dump all those blue chip stocks
and buy into a proverbial sure bet. True, it may not be the first thing
that comes to mind when you think consumer durables, but rest assured that
your H&R Block agent will be heading to Toys R Us with Pavlovian glee at
the first toll of the closing bell. It truly is a disturbing sight: Grown
men and women in designer suits shouting into cellular phones while
climbing all over each other to get at that last TALKING PO TELETUBBY
doll, the one that, when you press its little tummy, giggles "faggot,
faggot." Not since Talking Barbie declared "math is hard" has a
speech-enabled plaything made such a faux pas. Of course, the story got
bumped off the front pages because of those stupid bombings, and Teletubby
folks were quick to issue a denial, claiming the doll says "fighty,
fighty" or some such nonsense. But our own independent investigation of
two neighborhood Targets fully supports the indiscretion as initially
reported. And while we don't know whether the devilish little creature is
advocating homophobia or chain-smoking (Brits did invent the damn things,
after all), we do know a sound investment when we hear one. Get 'em before
your stockbroker does. (Forman)

This week's epulse7 contributors: Mara Wildfeuer, Peter Melton, Ned
Hammad, Heather Willis, Marc Weidenbaum, Jackson Griffith and Bill Forman.
[!]
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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:45:10 -0700
From: Eb <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: disney

>From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
>Subject: (exotica) Save The Tiki Room Newsletter: Issue #3
>
>Permit me to stray a bit from the Tiki Room for a moment to tell you of a
>few things in Disney news you should know.
>
>- - Mr. Toad will make his Last Wild Ride this Labor Day weekend in Walt
>Disney World, Florida.
>
>- - DisneyWorld is not the only park to loose a great attraction over this
>Labor Day Weekend.  The Submarine Voyage in Disneyland will be taking its
>last dive this weekend.

I'm somewhat sorry to hear about Mr. Toad going, but come on, the Tiki Room
and the Submarine Voyage are thoroughly *archaic* at this point. Off with
their heads, I say!

Eb (who worked at Disneyland for almost two years in the late '80s...)




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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 20:42:32 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) re: disney

In a message dated 98-09-08 19:44:49 EDT, you write:

<< I'm somewhat sorry to hear about Mr. Toad going, but come on, the Tiki Room
 and the Submarine Voyage are thoroughly *archaic* at this point. Off with
 their heads, I say!

 Eb (who worked at Disneyland for almost two years in the late '80s...)
  >>

Jesus Christ ! ! ! !  You trying to start a riot ? ? ? ?

Sheez


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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 18:19:30 -0700
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jean Jacques is here!!!

I'mma happy boy

>Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:33:31 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Jean Jacques Perrey <>
>To: [e-mail]
>
>Hello mon ami Jack ........
>Guess who is here , in california , close to you ?????
>Big Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuug
>
>    ????????????????????????????
>
>==
>****************************************************************
>"Les choses serieuses doivent etre prises avec humour,
> et les choses humoristiques doivent etre prises au
> serieux" - JJP .
>****************************************************************
>BOITE POSTALE 2744 , O32O7 VICHY CEDEX - FRANCE .
>_________________________________________________________




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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 21:33:54 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Laughing Records

And here is one for you:

http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/w34779.ram

Description:

"El Cornetista Bufo - Disco de la Risa" (= The Buffo Trumpetist - Laughing
Record). This is the first laughing record I ever found. I think it cames from
Beka original or Odeon from Germany. (?)  The recording shows a man playing
trumpet and a woman that begins to laugh and makes the trumpetist come into
laughing too (inside and outside the trunmpet). The woman's laughter is very
funny, specially at the end of the record.

Explaination:

In the infancy of recorded sound technology, record labels had different ideas
about what would be popular. Various attempts at humour (some quite subtle and
elegant, some.... were not) were recorded, some of them being 'laughing
records'. These were more than likely played at parties or other social
occasions as a novelty, and (hopefully) a source of amusement.

Whether they were amusing or not is DEFINATELY in the eyes (and ears) of the
beholder.

And if that is not enough -- try this "Crying Record"

http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram

Exotica -- not really.  Strange -- you bet!!!!

Robert


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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 11:28:11 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) re: disney

> Eb wrote:
>
> I'm somewhat sorry to hear about Mr. Toad going, but come on, the Tiki Room
> and the Submarine Voyage are thoroughly *archaic* at this point. Off with
> their heads, I say!
>
> Eb (who worked at Disneyland for almost two years in the late '80s...)

Off with YOUR head! Oh, 'xcuse me, you lost it already. Two years working in
Disneyland has left its traces...

Kekipi Mo "Tiki" R
"Wat ham wir jelacht!"



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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 11:28:24 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) excerpts: epulse 4.35 [po]

Hi, Lou,

you're really becoming my No.1 news source. Thanks for these ones and
all the others!

MO



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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 07:52:42 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Akira Kurosawa R.I.P.

Sorry, but I am broke up about this:

http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9809/07/kurosawa/index.html

One of the geniuses of modern cinema dies not long after one of his
favorite actors (Toshiro Mifune) passes away.

Brian Phillips



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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 08:26:21 -0400
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NPG  NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) re: disney

> << I'm somewhat sorry to hear about Mr. Toad going, but come on, the Tiki
> Room
>  and the Submarine Voyage are thoroughly *archaic* at this point. Off with
>  their heads, I say!
>
>  Eb (who worked at Disneyland for almost two years in the late '80s...)
>   >>
>
>
Eb...get a clue, man...Some things NEVER grow old, just in need of some good
cleaning and a new stylus.

surfing the chaos,
Charlieman


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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 09:08:39 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki two of these and post me in the morning.

>Eb...get a clue, man...Some things NEVER grow old, just in need of some good
>cleaning and a new stylus.

Yeah! *POP* Yeah! *POP*Yeah! *POP*Yeah! *POP*Yeah! *POP*...

I have not had the pleasure of the Tiki Room, for when I was there in 1971,
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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:30:23 +0200
From: "Basta Audio Visuals" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Drum `n bass in 1958 ? Yes, it`s Raymond Scott !!

To all interested in Raymond Scott:

To be released this year:

Manhattan Research, Inc. - A Division of Raymond Scott Enterprises. This
album will SHOCK the world. Raymond Scott, already known for Reckless
Nights & Turkish Twilights (read on !) and his Soothing Sounds for baby
series,
has made music no-one can imagine. Raymond was way ahead of his time. I am
in the absolutely luxorious position to hear all of this material Raymond
made at home
and it`s so special and beautiful. When listening close, you can hear all
kinds of
music styles in it, even drum `n bass, rave and so on.

We are currently working at Vintage 71(studio)
preparing this issue. As there is so much material, this will be a double cd
filled with Electronium, jingles and ...........  Soothing Sounds is great,
MRI will ABSOLUTELY astonish everyone. Issue is being prepared by Gert Jan
Blom (re-issue producer of Soothing Sounds, Delirium in Hifi, musician and
leader of the Beau Hunks), Irwin Chusid (board director of RS-archives,
research), Jeff Winner (www.RaymondScott.com and a great guy), Piet
Schreuders (graphical co-ordination, research), Chuck Haddix (carefully
preparing all materials at Marr Sound Archive) and Jeroen van der Schaaf
(Basta Audio Visuals, central co-ordination point ). Anyone who wants to be
informed on MRI, visit the Basta site and send an email. The sound quality
is
very high because we are working with material directly recorded from
Raymonds
instruments.
The booklet that will come with this album will be app. 80 pages, since we
have so much
material to publish.

Out now:

Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights: All tracks familiar to anyone. Besides
being used underscoring famous cartoons, this album should be enjoyed at
home. Swinging all the way. Scott needs to be discovered by all true music
lovers. Great album: completely remastered. The sound of this recording is
superior to the 1992 Sony-edition. Worldwide release, ex. US, the 10th of
September 1998. As of that date availalbe in the Benelux, Germany, France,
Suisse and Japan. Available directly from www.basta.nl.

Thanks for reading. Spread the news ! Let`s get Raymond the fame he deserves
!!!

For more special music visit www.basta.nl . It`s really worth it !

Jeroen van der Schaaf
Basta Audio Visuals
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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 15:27:04 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Blacula and Carter on vinyl

I keep hearing about these reissues but does anybody know if they are
available on vinyl? And if so, where from?


Thanks

Charlie




PS Thanks from my mother to all those who pointed her in the direction of
Leon Redbone





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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 16:03:15 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Blacula and Carter on vinyl

Alright, please ignore my last post about these two releases on vinyl.

Get Carter is out on vinyl on September 21st in the UK. Blacula is coming
out on CD only - no vinyl.

Can anyone recommend Blacula? Does anybody have it?



Charlie





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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 19:57:50 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #204

At 09:28 -0600 98/09/08, exotica-digest wrote:
>Some bloke playing the Hammond
>All the songs in segues of three,  this must be the pick of the bunch.
>I wish I could remember his name.

    Harry Stoneham: "Hammond Hits The Highway/High, Wide And Hammond"

        The "eXotica Releases Overview": <http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/>




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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 14:04:02 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Akira Kurosawa R.I.P. (long)

At 07:52 AM 9/9/98 -0400, BP wrote:
>Sorry, but I am broke up about this:
>http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9809/07/kurosawa/index.html
>One of the geniuses of modern cinema dies not long after one of his
>favorite actors (Toshiro Mifune) passes away.
>Brian Phillips


    TOKYO (AP) -- Akira Kurosawa, whose hauntingly poetic vision, innovative
style and stunning technical virtuosity made him Japan's most celebrated
film director, died at his home Sunday. He was 88.
    Kurosawa died of a stroke before he could be taken to a hospital, said
Minoru Tabata, an official of Kurosawa Film Production.
    Filmmakers throughout the world have been influenced by Kurosawa, who fused
the pinpoint precision of traditional Japanese theatrical forms with
stunning, larger-than-life spectacles in his half-century, 30-film career.
    The Cannes Film Festival honored Kurosawa with a special trophy for
achievement upon the debut of his 28th film, ``Ran,'' in 1985. Among his
other movies to gain worldwide acclaim were: ``The Seven Samurai,''
``Kagemusha'' and ``Rashomon;'' the latter won him the first of three Oscars.
    Standing nearly 6 feet tall, rarely seen without his trademark sunglasses
and beret, Kurosawa cut an imposing figure, with an imperious perfectionism
that earned him the nickname ``Emperor Kurosawa.''
    He ordered the tearing down of an entire feudal castle built for 1957's
``Throne of Blood'' because builders had used steel nails -- something they
could not have done in the 16th century, the time in which the film was set.
    In France, Steven Spielberg, whose ``Saving Private Ryan'' opened the
Deauville film festival Saturday, called the Japanese director ``the
pictorial Shakespeare of our time.''
    Among others mourning his passing were French President Jacques Chirac, who
called him a ``great master of the seventh art,'' and Prime Minister Lionel
Jospin, who said: ``Cinema today has lost one of its giants.''
    Though spectacular, Kurosawa's career also was marked by disappointments:
He once tried to kill himself after a film flopped, and Japanese studios
shunned him for decades.
    But at the height of his powers, he was the uncontested master.
    ``His philosophy on directing is part of modern film making,'' said Naoko
Kimura, an independent film critic in Tokyo.
    ``Take myself, subtract films, and the remainder is zero,''Kurosawa once
wrote.
    Kurosawa had a love-hate relationship with his homeland. He drew deeply on
classic Japanese themes like the warrior spirit and the beauty of futile
self-sacrifice. But he looked elsewhere for financial and artistic support.
    Several of Kurosawa's films were remade in America into hit Westerns --
``The Seven Samurai'' was the basis for ``The Magnificent Seven'' and
``Yojimbo'' inspired ``A Fistful of Dollars.''
    In the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese studios, focusing on soft porn and cheap
romances, gave Kurosawa short shrift even as his reputation grew overseas.
In 1980, George Lucas and Spielberg persuaded 20th Century Fox to back
``Kagemusha'' (``Shadow
Warrior'') after financiers in Japan balked.
    Even as late as 1985, Kurosawa's reputation as a hothead and a spendthrift
made it hard to find Japanese backing for the film he described as his
life's work: ``Ran,'' a loose adaptation of ``King Lear,'' set in
16th-century Japan.
    French producer Serge Silberman agreed to work with him on the film, a
beautifully drawn but brutally pessimistic depiction of three samurai sons
battling their father.
    With a price tag topping $10 million, ``Ran'' was then the most expensive
movie in Japanese film history.
    Born in Tokyo in 1910 to a family that had held samurai rank, Kurosawa was
the youngest of eight children of a military school administrator.
    He turned to the cinema after failing to get into art school and tiring of
poverty as a painter. In 1936, he spotted a film studio's advertisement for
a director's assistant. He got the job.
    At 33, he directed his first film, ``Sugata Sanshiro'' (``The Judo Saga'').
It was a hit in wartime Japan, but Kurosawa's vision conflicted with some
nationalist sentiments, and drew heated attacks from the military.
    His breakthrough came in 1950, with ``Rashomon,'' the first Japanese film
to gain recognition abroad. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
in 1951 and launched him into a decade of landmark films.
    After some disappointments, Kurosawa made a comeback in 1975 with the
bleakly lovely, Siberian-set ``Dersu Uzala,'' which brought him his second
Oscar.
    In 1990, he became the first Japanese to receive the special Oscar for
lifetime achievement.
    Kurosawa stirred controversy with his 1991 film, ``Rhapsody in August,''
whose presentation of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki was called one-sided
and simplistic by American critics.
    The film, which starred Richard Gere, focused on the plight of a family
that lost an uncle in the bombing but made no mention of Japan's role in
starting the war.
    ``I don't regret anything. I found the perfect job,'' Kurosawa said in an
interview when he was 75. ``All this time I've thought of nothing but movies.''
    Kurosawa's wife, actress Yoko Yaguchi, died in 1985 after 35 years of
marriage. He is survived by a son, Hisao, and a daughter, Kazuko.
    Two private family ceremonies have been scheduled at his home: a wake on
Monday and a funeral on Tuesday.

   TOKYO, Sept 6 (AFP) - Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who
inspired the cinema world with epic samurai dramas such as
"Rashomon" and "The Shadow Warrior", died from a stroke at his home
Sunday, his family said. He was 88.
   Known as the "emperor of Japanese cinema," Kurosawa often
baffled domestic producers with his costly perfectionist movies, but
attracted generations of directors worldwide, including Francis Ford
Coppola and George Lucas.
   He left behind 30 films spanning half a century -- and Japan's
golden days of cinema, which all but ended in December last year
with the death of Toshiro Mifune at 77.
   Kurosawa and Mifune worked together in 16 films, including
"Rashomon" and "The Seven Samurai", dazzling with clear-cut themes,
bold plots and innovative techniques using long lenses and multiple
cameras.
   "Rashomon", a crime story set in medieval Japan, was awarded the
Golden Lion grand prize at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, becoming
the first Japanese film to win an international accolade. The movie
also won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1952.
   "With that Golden Lion award, Asian cinema excelled cinema in
the West for the first time," said Yoshio Shirai, dean of Japanese
film critics.
   "That signalled the beginning of an Asian move boom we see
today. His death gives greater impact on the world than the Japanese
could imagine."
   Mifune was also cast in "The Seven Samurai" in 1954, portraying
a peasant-turned samurai, leading farmer resistance against bandits.
The movie inspired a Hollywood Western remake, "The Magnificent
Seven" (1960) starring among others Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and
Charles Bronson.
   "Yojimbo" (1961), which featured Mifune as a samurai up for hire
in town with two warring factions, spawned the entire Clint Eastwood
"spagetti western" genre in Italy, including Sergio Leone's "A
Fistful of Dollars" (1964).
   Kurosawa, whose masterpieces also included "Kagemusha (The
Shadow Warrior)" (1980), "Ran" (1985) and "Dreams" in 1990, received
an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement at the annual Academy
Awards in 1990.
   That capped the career of Kurosawa, a confessed fan of US
Western movies directed by the late John Ford.
   "Ran", a story based on Shakespear's King Lear, was financed by
the French producer Serge Silberman, and the capital for "Dreams"
was guaranteed by the US group Warner Brothers.
   "Dreams", recreating eight of Kurosawa's dreams permeated by his
nostalgia for childhood and his fear of the destruction of nature
owed much to the  friendship and respect of two Hollywood greats,
Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
   Spielberg's company, Amblin Entertainment, marketed the
production and Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic cooperated with its
special effects.
   The special Oscar was handed to him by Lucas and Spielberg,
representing numerous "Kurosawa's children." The Italian great
Federico Fellini was apparently inspired by "Rashomon" to shoot his
1954 classic "La Strada".
   Asked why Japanese producers were cool to his films at the time
of the shooting of "Dreams", Kurosawa replied: "I have the same
question. Actually, they just don't seem to understand the content
of the screenplay."
   Kurosawa's last movie, "Madadayo" (1993), which depicted the
heart-to-heart relationship between a retired university teacher and
his former students, marked his 50th anniversary as a film
director.
   Born into the family of a junior high school director in Tokyo
in 1910, Kurosawa abandoned his dreams of becoming a painter and
joined PCL Studios, one of the prewar predecessors of Toho Co., in
1936.
   Kurosawa made his director's debut with "Sugata Sanshiro" in
1943, and "The Throne of Blood" (1957), an adaptation of
Shakespeare's Macbeth, and the crime thriller "High and Low" (1963)
added to his international fame.
   However, he suffered setbacks in the mid-1960s, when two movie
projects funded with US capital failed to materialize, and his first
effort as an independent director and his first full-colour movie --
"Dotesukaden" (1970) -- was a commercial flop. He attempted suicide
in 1971.
   The Soviet-sponsored "Dersu Uzala" marked his international
comeback in 1975 and won the gold prize at the Moscow Film Festival
and an Oscar as best foreign-language movie.
   "The Shadow Warrior" won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1980. Its
foreign version was produced by Coppola and Lucas.
   "Rhapsody in August" (1991) with Richard Gere as a
second-generation American-Japanese who visits his relatives in
Hiroshima and apologizes for the US atomic bombing on the city in
August 1945 stirred controversy abroad for failing to address
Japan's war guilt.
   He had plans to portray flamboyant 19th-century impressionist
Vincent Van Gogh in his future work.

    TOKYO, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Japan's top government spokesman says film
director Akira Kurosawa will posthumously receive one of the nation's
top accolades, the People's Honor Award, in recognition of his work.
    Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said today that Prime Minister
Keizo Obuchi has expressed his intention to give the award to Kurosawa,
who died Sunday at the age of 88.
    While Kurosawa is being mourned globally it seems certain that the
cinematic maestro's legacy will live on.
    At the Venice Film Festival in Italy, participants honored Kurosawa
with a standing ovation as Felice Laudadio, director of the festival,
announced his death.
    Nonaka said at a news conference, ``His works are highly valued not
only in Japan but also internationally. They heightened ratings in the
world of Japanese films and gave confidence to Japan after its defeat in
World War II.''
    Kurosawa will be the 14th person to receive the award since it was
established in 1977. In the field of cinema, two actors --- Kazuo
Hasegawa and Kiyoshi Atsumi -- have been recipients of the award.
    Kurosawa won an Honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement and
Japan's Imperial Prize for cultural merits for his works.
    Highly acclaimed among his 30 films are ``Rashomon'' (1950), the
first Japanese movie to win an international award; ``Ikiru (Living)''
(1952); ``The Seven Samurai'' (1954), often acclaimed as the best-known
Japanese movie ever made; and the epic medieval war dramas ``Kagemusha''
(1980); and ``Ran'' (1985).
    In Venice, Laudadio noted Kurosawa came into the international
limelight after receiving the festival's Golden Lion award in 1951, the
first time a Japanese film was honored abroad.
    The festival decided to have a commemorative event Monday, showing
``Rashomon.''
    Walter Veltroni, Italy's deputy prime minister and minister of
cultural heritage and sport who attended the Venice festival, said many
people became fans of Japanese movies through Kurosawa.
    In Paris, French President Jacques Chirac said Kurosawa was a ``great
master in the world of movies'' who was exceptional in scale,
sensitivity and observation of social reality.
    Kurosawa left a great legacy to world cinema, Chirac said in a
statement, citing such works as ``Rashomon'' and the 1975 Soviet-
sponsored ``Dersu Uzala'' which won the first prize at the Moscow Film
Festival and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film.

   TOKYO, Sept 7 (AFP) - Japan on Monday mourned "Seven Samurai"
director Akira Kurosawa as fans rushed for videos of his work and
Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi planned to bestow on him one of the
country's highest civil awards.
   The master director died of a stroke at home in Tokyo on Sunday,
aged 88.
   The prime minister paid tribute to the director and ordered that
immediate consideration should be given to a posthumous bestowing of
the People's Honour Award.
   "Although I did not have the chance to get to know him
personally, he was the person who taught me how interesting movies
were when I was young," Obuchi told reporters.
   The premier said he had particularly enjoyed "To Live" (1952)
depicting the soul-searching of a man dying of cancer and "The Seven
Samurai" (1954) portraying a peasant-turned-samurai leading farmer
resistance against bandits.
   Only 13 people have so far been given the award, set up in
1977.
   "(Kurosawa) lived through the golden age of the Japanese film
industry and continued making films that represented Japan," the
chief cabinet secretary said.
   Nonaka said the director contributed to raising "the status of
Japanese films in the world," helping to boost Japan's confidence
after its defeat in World War II.
   Television programs devoted hours of air time to Korosawa, one
of the world's greatest directors, rewriting schedules to give
special tributes and broadcast his work.
   Newspapers turned over most of their front pages to Kurosawa's
life and work, praising the artist and his films.
   Video and book shops reported a rush for his films and books of
his life and work.
   Rental video chain Tsutaya said there were very few copies of
Kurosawa's 30 films left at its three major stores in central
Tokyo.
   Tokyo's Sanseido bookstore set up a special corner devoted to
books on Kurosawa and videos of his films.
   "We have to order more copies from the publishers because we
don't have enough. Our stock has been selling well from this
morning," a Sansaido employee said.
   A plan to build a museum commemorating Kurosawa was unveiled in
Imari city on the southern island of Kyushu, where the former
director was struck by the sunset while filming "Ran" (1985).
   The 1.5 billion yen (11 million dollar) museum, planned before
the director's death, will display some 4,000 items including
Kurosawa's own drawings and copies of scenarios of his works, Jiji
Press said.
   US film maker Steven Spielberg Saturday described Korosawa as
the "Shakespeare" of contemporary cinema.
   "He was a celluloid painter ... as close to an impressionist as
you can be on film," said Spielberg during a film festival at
Deauville, France. "More than that, I think he was the pictorial
Shakespeare of our time."
   French President Jacques Chirac hailed Kurosawa as a "big master
of the movies by the scope of work, his sense of detail, his
observation of social reality."
   Known as the "emperor of Japanese cinema," Kurosawa often
baffled domestic producers with his costly perfectionist movies, but
attracted the following of generations of directors, including
Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas.
   He left behind 30 films spanning half a century -- and Japan's
golden days of cinema which all but ended in December last year with
the death of Toshiro Mifune at 77.
   Japanese people often accused Kurosawa of seeing his country
through Western eyes. The director said he could live in harmony
with both Western and Japanese cultures.




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