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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:43:55 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <nminer@jhmi.edu>
Subject: (exotica) Tape echo.......
Hey, when you're listening to a cassette, what causes you to actually hear =
"phantom" parts of the beginning of the next song BEFORE that next song =
actually starts (I'm talking seconds before the song begins, in between =
the breaks of each cut)??
I have an idea it's caused by the alignment of the tape head across =
whatever tape you're listening to. Say, I tape something on one player =
and then listen to it on the Walkman or something.......
- - Nate
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:03:51 -0500
From: wlt4@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tape echo.......
> Hey, when you're listening to a cassette, what causes you to actually hear =
This is called tape bleed and it results from the wound tape affecting another section of the tape that it's adjacent to.
LT
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:47:30 +0100
From: Mo <exotica@munich.netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tape echo.......
Nathan Miner wrote:
> Hey, when you're listening to a cassette, what causes you to actually hear "phantom" parts of the beginning of the next song BEFORE that next song actually starts (I'm talking seconds before the song begins, in between the breaks of each cut)??
>
> I have an idea it's caused by the alignment of the tape head across whatever tape you're listening to. Say, I tape something on one player and then listen to it on the Walkman or something.......
You can hear this phenomenon both on tapes and cassettes and on vinyl records as well, for different reasons:
With tapes it is the "imprint" of the magnetization of one layer to the next when the tape is wound on the reel. The longer you keep a tape on the reel, the more the magnetization is transferred to the neighbor layers. That's why in tape archives
they wind the tapes forward on another reel every few years to make sure that the neighbor layers change.
On records you actually get a mechanical influence of the groove to its "neighbor" grooves; the tighter the record is cut the more. This also increases in time a bit, as the vinyl is working too, but it's not as dramatic as with tapes.
Hope my English was sufficiant to explain this.
Mo
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:13:20 -0800
From: "Kevin C." <kevin@kevdo.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) 3D: Denny & Don Tiki @ Don Ho's
Thanks very much for the report! :-)
Lloyd Kandell wrote:
> Martin was in full command and played
> fantastically. He noted with some sadness that Arthur Lyman was expected
> to be there, but was alas, a no-show.
Just as well, really, because if he did show I probably would have had
to slit my wrists for missing such an event. (that's only sort of a
joke...)
- -Kevin Crossman
The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai
http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 17:38:10 -0800
From: Paul Penna <tterrace@sonic.net>
Subject: [none]
bag@hubris.net wrote:
>>Edmundo Ros - Arriba
>>Edmundo Ros - Rhythms of the South
>>Edmundo Ros - Dance Again
>These are all cool records, especially the first two. I know
>some on this list would disagree with me, but I always find
>something unique, fun, interesting in every Ros album.
I don't know if this qualifies as disagreement, but I find that
"Heartaches" on the Arriba album to be unique in the sense that it's about
the most entertainingly horrifying thing I've ever heard. When it started,
I thought, "Ah, at last we overcome the general blandness going on here,"
but then that vocal starts! How to describe it? A British, male Mrs. Miller
overstates the case, but it still sounds like they pulled some average,
middle-aged bloke off a London street and told him, "Here - try to swing
it." Is it Ros himself?
I forget which other one has a vocal by him, but also features his "trying
not to sound too British" pronunciation. Anyway, my sight-unheard purchase
of this album (on a reel-to-reel tape) has rather put me off sampling any
more Ros, not just because I found his instrumental interpretations less
than exciting, but I also fear the disappointment of not unearthing
something approaching the wonderful awfulness of "Heartaches."
I have nothing against the British.
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 23:38:00 -0500
From: Nat Kone <bruno@yhammer.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Richard Hayman-Voodoo
At 06:32 PM 11/17/99 PST, jonathan richardson wrote:
>AW Jeez, you must not have any of his Moog Records eg. Electric Latin Love
>Machine. Brilliant, wacky, over the top stuff. Voodoo is great one too. But
>you are right, there are many Hayman duds out there. Congrats on your fine
>purchase.
For me, what sets Richard Hayman apart, besides the moog records and the
Voodoo thing I haven't heard, are his record COVERS. He's right up there
with Jackie Gleason and George Shearing for a fairly high ratio of cool
and/or spectacular covers.
Does anyone know why some people had such high quality covers? Certainly
Shearing couldn't have had anything to do with his own covers and yet, his
are among the classics.
My favourite Hayman cover is for "Serenade for Love", an otherwise nothing
record. There's a man hovering over a woman on the floor; he seems to be
pinning her down. It's hard to tell but I've always thought it sort of
looked less than consentual let's say.
I actually say this same cover, in a black and white version, on a Ralph
Marterie record so maybe it wasn't made specifically for this Hayman record.
Another great Hayman cover is for "Time for Listening", a great generic
title and a classic generic cover.
Jonah Jones is another one with crap records and great covers.
Maybe there's an inverse relationship between music and covers.
Nat
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:35:42 +0100
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <m.sandberg@telia.com>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Richard Hayman-Voodoo
>Maybe there's an inverse relationship between music and covers.
>
>Nat
>
I cant say what it is but I can often smell its an interesting record by =
the cover, if I dont know anything about the artist or the producer or =
the arranger etc. a somewhat homemade primitive look and a song title =
can be enough to catch my interest. I can also see if a certain bin =
includes just crap. I dont know how, maybe its a gift of some sort. Most =
records with wonderful covers that i have brought home have disappointed =
me. Its the ones on small labels where maybe the manager or even better =
the artist himself made the sleeve design that nearly always entrances =
me when played. But off course there are many many amazing records with =
amazing covers too on the big labels.
Magnus
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:51:13 -0500
From: <nytab@pipeline.com>
Subject: (exotica) BBC eyes virgin ritual for 2000 bash
Wednesday November 17 2:01 AM ET
BBC eyes virgin ritual for 2000 bash
By Erich Boehm
LONDON (Variety) - How's this for a riveting climax to a marathon of millennium TV? Live coverage from Easter Island of seven virgins entering a cave with a single naked man and later emerging "married." The interim logistics evidently still are being worked out.
This is but one of many initiatives unveiled by representatives from 60 international broadcasters assembled in London to organize the BBC's year-end, 28-hour TV extravaganza, ``2000 Today.'' Easter Island, one of the remotest places on Earth, is administered by Chile.
The epic broadcast will kick off at 9:30 a.m. GMT Dec. 31 on the South Pacific island of Kiribati. The BBC's world affairs editor, John Simpson, will be on hand to report.
Over the course of the program, there will be addresses from the Pope, U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan, former South African president Nelson Mandela and probably the Dalai Lama, but much of what will be offered is simply fun.
The Swedes have come up with three cool ideas: a wedding in a church made of ice, a concert on musical instruments made of ice and a gigantic bottle of champagne that will emerge from the sea.
Both Israel and Egypt are offering music: a classical concert from the Dead Sea and Jean Michel Jarre performing at the pyramids. Argentina's offering is also melodious: children's choirs singing on top of a glacier and in the depths of the rain forest.
Meanwhile, Russia's celebrations, centered in Moscow's Red Square, will include the Bolshoi ballet.
From Panama, expect a ceremonial U.S. handover of the canal. And Samoa, which will be one of the last places to greet 2000, is planning a religious service on a beach, Christ's blood symbolized by coconut milk instead of wine.
U.K. activities will be dominated by events at London's Millennium Dome. There, 10,000 people -- 5,000 of them drawn from the elite of British society -- will see in the new year.
Reuters/Variety
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:57:22 -0500
From: <nytab@pipeline.com>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Mabel King
November 18, 1999
Mabel King, 66, Who Played the Wicked Witch in 'The Wiz'
By NICK RAVO, NYTimes
Mabel King, an actress and singer best known for her portrayal of Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West, in the Broadway and movie productions of "The Wiz" and her role as the mother in the mid-'70s television comedy "What's Happening!" died on Nov. 9 at a hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif., where she lived. She was 66.
She died after a long illness and complications from diabetes, said a friend, Vickie Chamberlain.
Ms. King was born on Dec. 25, 1932, in Charleston, S.C., and grew up in Harlem. She appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" early in her career and later made guest appearances on many other television shows, including "Barney Miller," "Fantasy Island," "The Jeffersons" and "Wiseguy."
She appeared in nine movies, including "Scrooged" (1988); "The Jerk" (1979), in which she played Steve Martin's mother; "The Gong Show Movie" (1980); and "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings" (1976).
In 1975 she appeared in the play "The Wiz," an all-black musical based on L. Frank Baum's "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" that was later made into a movie; Ms. King had the same role in the film version. She also worked on Broadway in productions of "A Race With the Wind" and "The Women."
Ms. King's most visible role was as Mrs. Thomas, or Mama, in the ABC series "What's Happening!" from 1976 to 1979.
She is survived by her mother, Rosalee Washington, and a sister, Rose Washington, both of Manhattan. Her son, Larry, died in 1996.
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:04:21 -0700
From: Jill Mingo <mingo@easynet.co.uk>
Subject: (exotica) The Sixth Sense for vinyl
>I cant say what it is but I can often smell its an interesting record by
the cover, if I dont know anything about the artist or the producer or the
arranger etc. a somewhat homemade primitive look and a song title can be
enough to catch my interest. I can also see if a certain bin includes just
crap. I dont know how, maybe its a gift of some sort.
I have this too. I think it IS a gift. A sixth sense. I so rarely buy crap,
but I am very picky. But sometimes I just see a record and think, "this'll
be a good one" and 99% of the time it is. Occasionally it isn't.
Sure,sometimes labels, producers, song titles etc, might influence you, but
the amount of times I go shopping with friends and they buy the stuff I pass
on and I buy like one or two things. Mine kick ass. Theirs suck. So I think
it is a gift. I've spent many hours on this, but I think human brains
perceive a lot more than what we can logically and rationally explain. When
it comes to music, my brain is fine-tuned.
By the way, I've been lurking instead of posting for a while, but I had some
head shit going on that made me uncommunicative. But things are better now so..
I'm BACK!
Jill "Mingo-go"
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Date: 18 Nov 1999 08:39:39 +0000
From: bag@hubris.net
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tape echo.......
At 03:43 PM 17-11-99 -0500, Nate wrote:
>Hey, when you're listening to a cassette, what causes you to actually hear
"phantom" parts of the beginning of the next song BEFORE that next song
It is a phenomenon known as print through. In fact, some records you buy
have been mastered from tapes which had print through problems which is why
you sometimes hear part of the song just a bit early.
Print through is where the layer of tape below will magnetize some of the
oxide particles above...thus recreating part of the sound of the tape onto
the layer above.
I understand that was one of the reasons for the 35mm sound
recordings...because they did not have noticeable print through and thus
you never heard that on records mastered from 35mm.
Byron
Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
http://www.hubris.net/zolac
The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:40:12 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <nminer@jhmi.edu>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tape echo.......
Print Through.
Okay, I'm satisfied.
Now, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
- - Nate
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:47:46 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Paul Bowles
Thursday November 18 8:15 AM ET
Paul Bowles, U.S. Novelist, Composer, Dead
TANGIERS, Morocco (Reuters) - U.S. novelist and composer Paul Bowles died of a heart attack Thursday in the Moroccan city of Tangiers, a hospital spokeswoman said. He was 88.
``Bowles died this morning after a heart attack, around mid-day,'' the spokeswoman for the city's Italian Hospital told Reuters. She gave no other details.
Bowles was born in New York in 1910. One of his most famous works was the best-selling novel ``The Sheltering Sky,'' about disaffected Americans searching for inspiration and romance in the Moroccan desert shortly after World War Two.
The book was made into a film by Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci under the same title.
