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exotica-digest          Friday, June 18 1999          Volume 02 : Number 419



In This Digest:

(exotica) new releases of interest
(exotica) yet more wacky germans
(exotica) Spinner
(exotica) Car-toons
Re: (exotica) Leroy Holmes
Re: (exotica) Car-toons
(exotica) In the good old days & Mrs. Miller
Re: (exotica) new releases of interest
(exotica) The ages on this list
Re: (exotica) yet more wacky germans
(exotica) Quiet Village
(exotica) car-toons
Re: (exotica) The ages on this list
Re: (exotica) The ages on this list
Re: (exotica) yet more wacky germans
Re: (exotica) yet more wacky germans
Re: (exotica) The ages on this list
Re: (exotica) The ages on this list
Re: (exotica) Car-toons
(exotica) Exotica Soundtrack Spottings
(exotica) RE:Mike Flowers Pops
(exotica) Oranj Symphonette?
SV: (exotica) The ages on this list
Re: (exotica) Car-toons
(exotica) VB: AMOK IN SWEDEN
(exotica) Raymond Scott - SummerStage 6/20
Re: (exotica) The ages on this list
(exotica) quiet village
SV: (exotica) VB: AMOK IN SWEDEN
Re: (exotica) The ages on this list

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 99 22:35:28 -0500
From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) new releases of interest

I just received a few things that may be of interest to listmembers:

Ramon Leal and Beatrice Binotti: Bossanova 1999 (Siesta, Spain) Real nice
bossa, with covers of classics by Valle and Jobim, all done in
traditional arrangements. Beautiful packaging.

Zimpala (Fantomas, France) This one's coming out in July. Should appeal
to fans of Japanese club-pop, Easy Tempo, the Desco stuff. There's some
nice downtempo tracks, but mostly its classic funk (trumpets, wacka-wacka
guitar, super bass lines, organ: the works) that's completely impossible
to resist. Really organic and groovy.

Eartha Kitt: Purr-fect -- Greatest Hits (N7/BMG, US) Covers the years
1953-57. Worth getting if only for the photos of the eery looking young
Eartha.

Elisabeth


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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:45:20 -0000
From: "Stephen W. Worth" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) yet more wacky germans

I was at Alpine Village in Orange County last summer... It's
a goofy Hofbrau-type shopping center near Disneyland... They
had a record shop, so I browsed around looking for old
yodelling records. Most of it was modern crap, but one CD
caught my eye. It was called "Music vom Reichsfender Berlin"
and had a great picture of a well dressed late 30's dance
band on the cover.

It was all in German, so I took it up to the middle aged
lady at the counter to translate some of the liner notes on
the back for me. When I handed her the CD, she turned white
and said, "No! No! You don't van zis! Zis is NAZI MUSIC!"
She leaned over the counter conspiratorily looking around
to see if anyone was evesdropping and whispered to me,
"Zis record is BANNED in Germany! The government made
ze company stop making it..."

I explained that I was looking for European dance bands
from the 30's and she said, "No! Zis is just soldiers
marching music... You don't want..." and she tried to
hide it under the counter. I made her give it back to me,
and pointed out that on the back cover, it clearly said
"Foxtrott". She said "No March! March! March! You don't
want!" She started getting really upset, and her husband
came out of the back room to see what was going on.

Finally I pulled out my wallet and insisted she sell
it to me. She shot her husband a pained expression, and
he looked me over with a scowl and nodded to her that it
was OK to sell it to me. (I guess I had too much hair
to be a skinhead...) They both scowled at me and stood
at the door of their shop watching me leave.

I'm glad I was so persistent, because the CD is
incredible. It has wildly perky songs that sound like
they are from the German equivalent of Busby Berkely
musicals... One really good one is called "Schoen ist
die Welt" and it never fails to make me want to jump
up and dance with glee.

Another song called "Heut fahr' ich mit dir in die
Natur" I had heard before. Apparently Ian Whitcomb
translated and adapted it into "Down on Jollity Farm".
The chorus sings lines like "der kat mee-yow! der hund
bow wow!" while they grunt and moo and baa their lungs
out. Very funny stuff. No marching like the lady said,
but there was some frantic tap dancing.

Who woulda known that those Nazi's could come up with
such good peppy novelty material?!

See ya
Steve


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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:54:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Spinner

Spinner Net Radio is actually pretty cool.  It has a great Lounge
channel which has stuff I've never heard including cuts from Scamp
releases and stuff like Karminsky Experience.  Yeah, UL too, but not
like NetRadio which basically became the "Ultra Lounge" channel.

By the way, I'm listening to Don Tiki right now, woo hoo guys!
Maybe you'll see some royalties!

Peter


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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:03:29 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Car-toons

In a message dated 6/16/99 11:42:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Yo Jane!  I too only get AM in my '66 Olds 98 (with its trunk of funk).
 Say, you oughta look up this guy in Needham, to whom I practically GAVE
 my '72 Olds 98 when I moved to Boston and had nowhere to park it! >>

OK, this thread begs the question:  What vintage or interesting cars are
owned by the members?

And to keep it pertinent, what kind of music fits the car?  Or at least, what
do you listen to while riding around in it?

Tiki Bob


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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 22:17:19 -0500
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Leroy Holmes

> Does anyone know the name of the album that the Leroy Holmes song
> I, de Sade

That might be "Themes from the New Provocative Films" (United Artists
UAS-6742).  It contains the theme from "DeSade" and "I, a Lover",
among others.



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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:41:48 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Car-toons

<< What vintage or interesting cars are
 owned by the members?

 And to keep it pertinent, what kind of music fits the car?  Or at least,
what
 do you listen to while riding around in it? >>

i like your question and wish i could say i toodle around in my 1960
Studebaker Lark,  but I'm afraid i can not.  I grew up with the great cars of
the late 50's and early 60's, so you know where my preference is.  It truly
was the golden age of automotive design.  Such style!

A 1993 Ford F-150 pick up is my vehicle, with AM/FM radio, no cassette and
certainly no CD changer.  Stations vary from Alice when my wife is with me to
KABL, the station that "swings".  When in the South Bay, KFJC.  :)












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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 21:23:15 -0700
From: James G <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) In the good old days & Mrs. Miller

I like to read the old top 40 or top 100 charts posted on Usenet or
radio station sites like WABC & WMCA. It's fun to be reminded of the
history(i was there), to see the ebb and flow of musical trends and
watch the now-familiar EZ standards popping up on the charts to do
battle with rock and roll. My favorite battle so far was Nov/Dec 1963,
when the Singing Nun's "Dominique" held "Louie,Louie" at bay for weeks
until Satan finally prevailed and the Kingsmen hit # 1. After that it
was nothin but Beatles for months. Back then I even bought the sheet
music for Louie, but nary a friggin' dirty word to be found! Sheeeeit!

WTF???  Capitol's put out some Ultra Lounge Wild & Swinging vocal comps
- - first I spotted was Mrs. Miller, then a Darin & a double Prima. Hmm,
what to buy next, its between Mrs. Miller and that John Lithgow CD, or
should i just put on Jack Kevorkian's mood music and start the car with
the garage door closed ?

James B


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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:54:20 -0400
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) new releases of interest

At 10:35 PM -0500 6/17/99, Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote:

>Zimpala (Fantomas, France) This one's coming out in July. Should appeal
>to fans of Japanese club-pop, Easy Tempo, the Desco stuff. There's some
>nice downtempo tracks, but mostly its classic funk (trumpets, wacka-wacka
>guitar, super bass lines, organ: the works) that's completely impossible
>to resist. Really organic and groovy.

One of my fave 12" singles this spring has been the Zimpala "Mondo Timing
Part 1" (Fantomas, FANTOO6-P1), which features the track "Grand Habakuk"
(Is this on the new album?). The A side starts off pretty funky, then turns
in the next 7 minutes into an incredible stereo action disco record, in a
fusion that sounds like Esquivel meets August Darnell. The remix on the
flip starts as jazzy loungecore, then spins off into a d&b romp. Don't know
if there's a part 2......maybe it's on the album. Anticipated!

br cleve


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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:22:49 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) The ages on this list

I hope I don't offend anyone with this question but I was wondering, what are
the ages of people on this list? Are we mostly young, older, middle aged or
many different ages? Anyone old enough to remember when some of the exotica
music we know and love first came out?

Jason


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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:36:07 -0700
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) yet more wacky germans

>, "No! No! You don't van zis! Zis is NAZI MUSIC!"
>She leaned over the counter conspiratorily looking around
>to see if anyone was evesdropping and whispered to me,
>"Zis record is BANNED in Germany! The government made
>ze company stop making it..."

My father, having survived the Nazi occupation of Holland likes to listen to
German marching songs. He even compiled a tape he calls "Singing along with
the Enemy."

Some of that yodeling is crazy assed stuff!  I need more. I am watching this
thread hungrily.

Ron





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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:56:05 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Quiet Village

I have been trying to determine the best version of the song "Quiet Village".
Some of my favorites are the version by Martin Denny (the bossa-nova version)
and the timeless Arthur Lyman cut.

I want some input on everyone's personal favorites



                    -Mark


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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 02:11:25 -0400
From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) car-toons

I have to beg nostalgic forbearance and talk of cars of mine long
gone... keeping such vehicles in the section of Brooklyn i currently
live in, with a family to drive around with, would not work... here is a
partial list:

3 different 1955 Chevrolets, the best one a DelRay, red and white, with
a rolled and pleated interior and b & w checked door panels.

3 different '56 Chevrolets

3 different '57 Chevrolets

my last cool vehicle (1.5 years ago) a 1974 Mark VI (i think) Lincoln
Continental, 460 cubic inch engine, original quadraphonic 8 track with
the original demo tape still working...

my last cool truck: 1950 International Step Van, original dark blue
paint with "Spartan Linen" painted on it. Then painted purple for a b &
w TV commercial... all original, 6V, vacuum wipers, etc.

several early '60s Chevrolets, lots of early and mid '60s Dodge and
Plymouths, several Volvo 122s, and i think an early '70s Buick Elekra
convertible with air and a huge factory sound system...

coolest car i ever saw: a '65 (i think) mustang station wagon...

i miss these cars, i miss the tube radios and 3" x 7" pm speakers.

I listen in the car mostly to WFMU, 91.1 FM.

ck

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[e-mail] wrote: What vintage or interesting cars are owned by
the members?


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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 02:13:59 -0400
From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The ages on this list

I guess i'm getting chatty or nostalgic, or maybe it's the insomnia.

I'm 51 years old, been collecting (actually accumulating; had a big
fight with a very famous and obnoxious collector about me and those
terms) since i'm thirteen, most of the music which is of primary
interest to this list was dismissed almost universally when it first
came out, either as stupid discount store muzak or bogus fake whatever
(it wasn't clear what the 'real' thing was, only that this stuff wasn't
it).

I knew and still know a few people who bought these records and played
them for ambience in their "homes of tomorrow."

I loved Quiet Village when it was a hit, but had no impulse to buy the
album or pursue the style further. There was a very different and
rigorous approach in marketing and A&R to presenting albums and
marketing the 'hit single' from that album.

A lot of the best and most interesting records were on "cheapo" labels
(even if they weren't cheaper!), and also dismissed as garbage or some
sort of trickster/specialty marketing, not exactly like covers, but more
like consciously trying to sell to people with "bad" taste.

Elaboration if requested...

citizen kafka

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:40:19 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The ages on this list

At 01:22 AM 18-06-99 EDT, Jason the JayMan wrote:
>I hope I don't offend anyone with this question but I was wondering, what
are
>the ages of people on this list?

Actually, I find it an interesting topic.  I find that most of the music I
like
tends to be recorded in 1959.  I was born that year! Perhaps pure
coincidence, or perhaps cosmic signifigance.  Yet, most of the music I play
I never heard before (besides Popcorn, Quiet Village, Ma-na-ma-na and Herb
Alpert stuff) I was
in my 30's.  Does music heard as a young child somehow carry with you?  I
asked my mom whether she listened to this kind of thing and it seems not,
so this doesn't appear likely for me.

Byron

Byron Caloz
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:45:32 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) yet more wacky germans

Ron said:
>My father, having survived the Nazi occupation of Holland likes to listen to
>German marching songs. He even compiled a tape he calls "Singing along with
>the Enemy."

Back in the late 60's when I visited my friend, I noticed his father would
always enjoy watching Hogan's Heroes.  My friend's father was a survivor of
a Nazi concentration camp.  He LOVED to see the Nazi's get tricked and
fooled by Hogan and his band.  I couldn't believe he would actually like to
get reminded of what they did, but I guess it was something he had with him
all the time anyway so humor was the only way to successfully deal with it.
 Later he worked to educate people about what happened.

Byron


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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:37:58 +0200
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) yet more wacky germans


>>, "No! No! You don't van zis! Zis is NAZI MUSIC!"


German TV ("Kulturweltspiegel") had a reportage a month ago
on a recently published book called Hitler's Airwaves. It's
about the Third Reich's equivalent of the BBC World Service,
in particular the radioprograms directed to the English
speaking audience. In an attempt to make the programs more
attractive for them the ministery of propaganda occupied a
Swing orchestra (forgot the exact name, but it was Charlie &
....something). This was on special orders of Herr Doktor
Joseph Goebbels, assuming that humpa and jodel wouldn't go
down well with the average English speaking person (hmm, how
wrong can you get...?). So these guys were swinging away in
the heart of Berlin on what was then strictly forbidden, not
so lovingly named, Hottentottenmusic, while most of their
contemporaries were stuck in the icy mud of Russia.
I have recorded a few short clips, in real audio or mpeg 3
format, of this reportage. For those interested, they're
available on request. Song 1 is Let's go bombing, an English
pilot on a special mission to the innocent women and children
of the Reich, song 2 is You're on top, an English pilot
singing the praise of his German counterpart.

Also have a fragment (in German) from a Nazi film about the
cultural value of jazz, a sweeping statement about the American
appreciation of swing straight from its birthplace (well, it's
only a movie), New Orleans:

"Hier ist die Geburtsstaette des Swing. Dieser primitive
Negerrummel wird von den Yankees haemmungslos uebernommen.
Und das in einem Lande das sich anmasst die Kultur der
ganzen Menschheit retten zu wollen."

Heil Swing, Ton


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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:07:23 +0100 (BST)
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The ages on this list

At 23:40 17/06/99 +0000, you wrote:
>
>At 01:22 AM 18-06-99 EDT, Jason the JayMan wrote:
>>I hope I don't offend anyone with this question but I was wondering, what
>are
>>the ages of people on this list?

Well, I am 30 on Monday (no, I'm happy about it!) and have been buying
record LPS since I was 6! My first LP I got that I remember was Sonny Bono's
"Inner Visions" for my 3rd (!) birthday. It was taken away from me because
it spoke about "your sister's cooking sturgeon and your mother is a virgin"
or something like that. I kept singing along, and my dad went spare!
However, it was refound by my sis, taken, and later stolen from her apartment.

I always liked pop and such like. I was tracking down Ventures LPs from the
age of 9 as well as looking for Enoch Light at the same age (Permissive
Polyphonics was the first LP I heard by him, but I didn't get it until
Robbie Baldock ordered me a copy about 3 years ago!). I would say I have
been a music obsessive since 6 as I got my first stereo then and saved my
$25 allowances for records. I still have a few of my childhood records. I
only really discovered Baxter when I was 19/20 through Chris & Cosey who
dedicated "Exotika" to him.

Jill "Mingo-go"




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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:17:48 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The ages on this list

"I find that most of the music I like tends to be recorded in 1959.  I was
born that year!"

I don't have any theories on the subject but I completely agree - I was
born in 1971 and my record collection almost exlcusively originates from
the years 1966-1974 with 1969-1971 being the best years IMO.

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:01:06 +0200
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Car-toons


>OK, this thread begs the question:  What vintage or interesting cars are
>owned by the members?
>
>And to keep it pertinent, what kind of music fits the car?  Or at least,
what
>do you listen to while riding around in it?


There are also members with no cars.
These members travel by train.
They like to listen to Joe Meek.
They always carry a Joe Meek tape in their knapsack.

Cheers, Ton


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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 06:52:54
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exotica Soundtrack Spottings

Just wanted to mention a couple of exotica/space age pop spottings from our
recent samplings from the local video store:

On "There's Something About Mary":
Not one, but two Ray Conniff's "Say It with Music" LP--"Brazil" and, when
the guy with the skin condition walks out of his hotel, "I've Got You Under
My Skin."  Two great cuts from Ray's "That Happy Beat" period.

On "Clay Pigeons":
As Joaquin Phoenix dumps a girl's body in a lake--"Digue-Ding-Ding," a
loopy discotheque tune from Michel Legrand's strange and wonderful "Plays
for Dancers" album.

By the way, Shay Torrent was, and as far as I know, still is, the organist
for the Chicago Cubs.  So ballgames ARE his day job.

Brad


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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:57:23 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) RE:Mike Flowers Pops

Over here Mike Flowers only really had the one hit, a cover of the Oasis
song Wonderwall,  now that wasn't very good as he tried to cram in as
many Easy stylistic cliches as possible.  The only other thing I've
heard was a rendition of Light my Fire,  in the style of Nelson Riddle's
version with a  nice acoustic guitar intro.  I quite liked that,  I
actually heard it out in Barcelona where he seems to be taken quite
seriously as an easy artist.  The Catalan station CentSix (I think, 106
anyway) played the song a lot,  alongside Dino,  Sergio Mendes whoever.

That was a great radio station.  It was about 3 years ago so I don't
know if its still the same format.  There was also a great cheesy old
club called La Paloma which was wonderful.  It had the most bizarre
playlist I've ever heard out.  Latin,  Surf,  Old soul, Dire Straits,
and tracks off the first Clash LP.  You'd be wondering what they would
put on next.  and 2 live bands in rotation all night.  I could go on and
on....I loved the place.  Its very well known having been there since
1908 or something.  I'd recommend it to anyone going there.  I'd
recommend going to Barcelona, too.

In a holiday mood (the sun is out let me to the seaside)

El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:23:37 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Oranj Symphonette?

Did anyone see the Oranj Symphonette play last night?  According to their web
site they were at Bimbo's 365 Club in SF last evening.  If anyone did attend
I'd love to hear a little about the performance.

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:34:12 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) The ages on this list

Byron wrote:

I find that most of the music I like
>tends to be recorded in 1959.  I was born that year! Perhaps pure
>coincidence, or perhaps cosmic signifigance

Totally agree in 1959 being the best year! I have noticed it mostly in =
sci fi horror strange movies but in alotta music too! Thanks for being =
born back then, maybe its the soundtrack of YOUR life? Thanks for =
sharing YOUR soundtrack with a '69 er :)

Magnus



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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 06:38:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Car-toons

77Yugo. Big Target logo on roof. Glass Harmonica
music. Evangelist spirituals sung by hamsters. Lesbian
folk songs from the 70s. Seems to combine with the
boquet of my rear-view pinetree (gardenia) to create a
soft lather of well-being.

Today though, Hasil Adkins ("Ahm gonna cut yr head off
and then you can't eat no more - hotdogs").

> >OK, this thread begs the question:  What vintage or
> interesting cars are
> >owned by the members?

> >And to keep it pertinent, what kind of music fits
> the car?  Or at least, what do you listen to while
riding around in it?



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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:01:43 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) VB: AMOK IN SWEDEN

>AMOK IN SWEDEN
>
>Konst, Teknologi och Extrem Kultur - En Helafton p=E5 Fylkingen. Fredag =
18/6
>
>STUART SWEZEY (USA) f=F6rel=E4ser om "Mondo Film" och visar extrakt ur=20
>omskakande dokument=E4rfilmer som t.ex "Mondo Cane".
>
>JACK SARGEANT (UK) f=F6rel=E4ser om bl.a MONTE CAZAZZA's =
undergroundfilmer och=20
>svarar p=E5 fr=E5gor.
>
>UNIK VISNING AV EXTREMA OCH CHOCKERANDE VIDEO FILMER:
>
>SXXX80 & PIERECE av Monte Cazazza.
>Banned, shut-down, audience baiting movies from the master of mayhem.
>Cazazza was one of the key figures in the industrial movement circa =
1976 -
>1981, and coined the term "industrial music" when it meant something. =
Rarely
>screened - always shocking.
>
>SPIRIT DRIVE av Charles Pinion.
>A gigantic blood encrusted Jesus... need we say anymore...
>
>G.G. ALLIN: PARTY IN YER MOUTH av Mark Hejnar.
>Hejnar, that sick puppy behind Affliction presents a taste of mayhem...
>
>ELECTRIC FLESH av Erik Brummer.
>Punk rock, speed freaked, animation insanity.
>
>Fredag 18/6
>
>FYLKINGEN
>Torkelknutssonsgata 2, T-Mariatorget, Sthlm
>Insl=E4pp 19.00. Evenemanget startar 20.00.  Entr=E9: 50:- =20
>F=F6rel=E4sningar, filmvisningar, bokbord och bar. Alla talar Engelska. =

>Info mail: stefan@subliminal   infotel: 08-84 56 66
>
>Ett medlemsinitiativ av Ingrid Engar=E5s med st=F6d av The Nursery,=20
>Subliminal Sounds och Sunmaid Graphics.
>
>JACK SARGEANT
>Jack Sargeant is an acknowledged expert on underground film and outlaw=20
>culture, and has curated numerous film and art shows. He has lectured =
across=20
>America and Europe and is author of numerous highly acclaimed cult =
books:
>Deathtripping The Cinema Of Transgression (Creation Books, 1995), the=20
>definitive guide to the New York underground cinema of the eighties,=20
>including Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Lydia Lunch and David Wojnarowicz.
>
>"Sargeant not only understands the mechanisms of the art world, he also =

>knows the workings of the `power of transgression'. He laces his essays =
with=20
>the ideas of theorists such as Foucault, Bataille, and Deleuze. In the=20
>process of conducting his interviews, Sargeant reveals that he is more
>eloquent and well versed than his subjects. Could this be further proof =
that=20
>intellectuals have a place in the underground after all?" - Your Flesh.
>
>STUART SWEZEY
>Swezey co-founded the hip apocalyptic Amok Books, publishers of =
numerous=20
>cool and disturbing books, including the reprinting of the scandalous =
My=20
>Sister And I `by' Nietzsche, John Gilmore's Black Dahlia memoirs, =
Severed,=20
>and graphically illustrated Manson murders book; The Garbage People, =
and=20
>Georges Bataille's The Trial Of Gilles de Rais. Swezey also edited the=20
>acclaimed Amok Journal: Sensurround Edition, a savage blast into the =
neglect=20
>terrain of areas such as autoerotic fatalities, trepanation, Cargo =
Cults,=20
>and Mondo Movies. Swezey is also known for compiling THE source book of =

>bizarre, fringe and alternative culture: The Amok Dispatch, now in its =
fifth=20
>edition. This encyclopedic series acts as a mapping of underground=20
>information sources, from sources as diverse as Anarchism, Satanism and =

>survivalism, via magic cults, pulp literature, autopsy techniques, UFO=20
>conspiracies, queer=20
>politics, and art theory. The Amok Fifth Dispatch collates together =
hundreds=20
>of samples from numerous texts alongside many rarely seen images.
>
>"Amok is helping to formalize the underground - a loose collection of =
zine
>fiends, outsider intellectuals, collectors, political extremists, =
fetishists
>and nuts - into a social space with its own heroes and icons and =
contexts
>for discussion" - LA Weekly.
>
>"Forget about David Lynch. If you really want to wander through the =
alleys
>of the seamy and bizarre check out Amok..." - Esquire





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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:32:18 -0400
From: "Raymond Scott Archives" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Raymond Scott - SummerStage 6/20

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RAYMOND SCOTT  UPDATE 6/99
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THE RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE
performing at NYC's Central Park SUMMERSTAGE

Sunday, June 20
3:00 PM
as part of the 'Family Jam' program
a FREE all-ages show for Father's Day

the afternoon will feature:
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
THE RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE
and the Gestures Dance Ensemble

FREE admission -- no tickets required

The Raymond Scott Orchestrette reconfigures the powerhouse music of
the mastermind whose musical inventions made cartoons swing. (Full
program listed below.)

Raymond Scott's merry melodies underscored the mayhem of Bugs Bunny
and Daffy Duck. His music has also been heard in Ren & Stimpy, The
Simpsons, and Animaniacs. Ironically, Scott never wrote a note for
cartoon in his life! Explore the magic of this overlooked composer's
legacy. Scott's music has lately been revived by Don Byron and the
Kronos Quartet, and has been sampled twice by Soul Coughing.

At SummerStage, a septet of ace New York musicians brings Scott's
quirky novelties into the next century, performing modernistic
interpretations of 11 RS compositions, many of which are familiar to
every earthling from countless classic Warner Bros. cartoons.

the Orchestrette features:
      Wayne Barker  (piano
      Brian Dewan  (keyboards, electronics, electric zither
      Michael Hashim  (alto & soprano sax
      Will Holshouser  (accordion
      George Rush  (bass
      Rob Thomas  (violin
      Clem Waldmann (drums

Gates open 1:30 PM, showtime 3:00 PM.

SummerStage is located at Rumsey Playfield, at 72nd St., off 5th Ave.
in Central Park.
http://www.summerstage.org

RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE program:
   Powerhouse
   The Penguin
   Twilight in Turkey
   Naked City
   Coming Down to Earth
   Peter Tambourine
   Oil Gusher
   Street Corner in Paris
   Siberian Sleighride
   Sleepwalker
   Never Gonna Swing No More
   (arrangements by Wayne Barker and Will Holshouser)

Visit the Raymond Scott website:
http://www.RaymondScott.com



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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:32:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: Kerry Keane <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The ages on this list

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Charles Moseley wrote:

>
> "I find that most of the music I like tends to be recorded in 1959.  I was
> born that year!"
>
> I don't have any theories on the subject but I completely agree - I was
> born in 1971 and my record collection almost exlcusively originates from
> the years 1966-1974 with 1969-1971 being the best years IMO.


Yeah, I have a theory about this --
we like what we heard while we were
in the womb.

I'm reading this book called _Smell:
The Secret Seducer_, which talks about
how fetuses develop a sense of smell
quite early on in the womb.  I would
imagine that sound and music leave
strong impressions in the womb as well --
I'm sure we've all seen the studies
done about this.

I was born in '67, and there are some
songs from that era that make me
feel vaguely nostalgic, even though I
have no recollection of those eras --
especially any mellow sort of baroque
pop.

- --

Kerry


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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:48:25 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) quiet village

My buddy Peter, who is on the list but is quite silent... His baby was =
baptized in church. Nothing strange with that, I was too when I was =
little... But... Peter had them play quiet village on the church organ. =
Now that is the best quiet village i have heard. What a ceremony. No =
electric parrot was on so the music is now lost forever, except in our =
memory.=20

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:49:56 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) VB: AMOK IN SWEDEN

sorry for this, it was not meant for the list. My mistake.

M



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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:16:02 PDT
From: Robert McKenna <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The ages on this list

>
>I was born in '67, and there are some
>songs from that era that make me
>feel vaguely nostalgic, even though I
>have no recollection of those eras --
>especially any mellow sort of baroque
>pop.
>
>--
>
>Kerry

i was born in 69, turned 30 last month (go mingo-go, i had a retro future
themed party and wore a spacesuit with chopsticks in my hair, before shaving
it all off) but have absolutely no attachment to that year (barring a
fondness for soixante neuf, anee erotique). i do however get intensely
nostalgic about times and places i was never in, paris in the '30s for
example, american '50s or 70s, any old radical art movement futurists,
dadaists, letteralists, situationists etc. first album i went into town on
my own and bought with my money was ziggy stardust (1980) and even then i
felt incredibly nostalgic for london in the glam years. i dressed funny and
took many a beating. but i'm a better man for it.
oh and i despise the 80s, but am willing to admit that's probably just
personal trauma. god i like being grown up.
rob


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