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exotica-digest        Sunday, November 21 1999        Volume 02 : Number 549



In This Digest:

(exotica) Polish ye ye?
Re: (exotica)Debunking the sixth sense
Re: (exotica)groovy soundtracks and the sixth sense
(exotica) words to Hawaiian war chant
Re: (exotica) Re: R Hayman-Voodoo
Re: (exotica) Re: Tape echo
RE: (exotica) Re: Tape echo
Re: (exotica) Tape echo.......
(exotica) Re: The 6th sense
Re: (exotica) Bunking the sixth sense
Re: (exotica) Bunking the sixth sense
(exotica) Re: See it in Sound
(exotica) Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
(exotica) Let's make some Martinis!
Re: SV: (exotica) The Sixth Sense
Re: (exotica) The 6th sense (hopefully will become:) The Duke of Burlington
(exotica) Scamp, not Liberty
Re: (exotica) Let's make some Martinis!
Re: SV: (exotica) The Sixth Sense
(exotica) FWD: KKK on 78rpm?
(exotica) Re: Preston Epps Bongo Rock
(exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
Re: (exotica) Scamp, not Liberty
(exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, November 21
Re: (exotica)groovy soundtracks and the sixth sense

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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:55:14 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Polish ye ye?

Are there any ye-ye compilations out there that include Polish "rock bands".
Anyone heard of "Czerwono Czarni"?
Their English name is "The Red and Blacks".
I can't tell the year but I'm kind of hoping it's from the Communist era.
I'm only hoping because "The group used to organize Concerts and Festivals
of Young Talents" and for their sake, I hope that wasn't their choice of
banner.
I've had this record for years, didn't really like it but couldn't throw it
out because of the cover photo.
Now that I'm hearing all this ye-ye stuff, suddenly I've discovered a
potentially unsung "ye ye" gem.  Ripe for reissue.

Sorry for the multi posting today but I was awoken by haunting memories of
burying my late cat in the backyard last night.

Nat



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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:55:05 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica)Debunking the sixth sense

At 04:37 AM 11/19/99 -0700, Jill Mingo wrote:
>See, I don't buy a lot of records. I really don't. But my pile is mainly
>cream of cream. And I dont' usually pay high prices either. That is weird,
>man. And 95% of the so-called "scores" people brag about on this list make
>me giggle. I'm glad SOMEBODY thinks they're a find, but I see these records
>for $1 10 times over the once a year I go to the States and pass, and when
>some person I know DOES by them, I'm not sorry I didn't get them. Exactly
>what I expected. Nice arrangements, well produced, good cover, thoroughly
>forgettable.
>Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I think you were fishing for this sort of
>reaction, Nat. And that's cool.

No disagreement on this type of topic is ever going to sound "harsh" to me.

I like the idea of a sixth sense for records; it appeals to my romantic
sense of things.  But I just don't believe it.  There're too many rational
explanations for why a group of people who've spent a lot of time looking
for, finding and discussing records with a small group of likeminded
friends would start to get pretty good at reading the signs.

Among my musically hip but non-collecting pals, I used to have a reputation
for being able to find amazing records.  I just used to tell them that they
don't look as hard - or as often - as I do.  And that it wasn't central to
their obsession - even self-image - to find cool records "no one" else has
heard of.

The way you look for records seems to be different than me though.  Lately
I've been trying to switch over to your style - buying few, interested only
in the true gems - but without much luck.

My brain is wired to stop me everytime I'm about to flip past something
with certain signs OR anything I've never seen before.  I have managed to
stop myself from buying them as consistently as I once did.  But I still
buy a lot.  And I think one of the reasons is because, unlike you, I am
still often happy to get something well produced with nice arrangements..
as long as it's a slight variation on other things I have.

Just for the purpose of honing my gem-finding sense, could you post a bunch
of examples of the kinds of true gems you've found?  And even what clues,
beyond your sixth sense, that led you to buy them?

I have another more specific question about all this but I'll do it in a
separate post.

Nat





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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:55:09 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica)groovy soundtracks and the sixth sense

It started with "Angels from Hell", the soundtrack by Stu Phillips which is
still probably the most interesting groovy soundtrack I have.
(I can't remember the name of the classic biker film that Mr.Philips did
before this one but I'm sure some of you do.  For me, his stuff is head and
shoulders above the Davie Allan type of stuff.)
So I started looking for more stuff like this.  It's been hard to find
sixties soundtracks with that wacky, groovy sound all the way through.  But
you can find them with one or two "perfect" cuts.  Usually it's a movie
about "straight people" who at some point, wander into a go-go bar by
accident - or some other hippy thing - and suddenly the music changes from
orchestral to fuzz guitar, organ, electric sitar.
A very good recent example is "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" which has two
good cuts, one of which "Groovy Delivery Boy" is near perfect.  (Wonder if
Jill would agree.)
The soundtrack is by the recently departed Frank DeVol.  Frank did some
great stuff but I was still surprised by this one.  Then again "Groovy
Delivery Boy" makes some bells ring.
"Run for your Wife" has a cut like this.  "Twisting at the Trailer Camp".
But it's pretty weak.  I'm not sure how I could have predicted that Frank
DeVol would succeed where Nino Oliveiro would fail.
"Fools" with instrumental cuts by Shorty Rogers has one or two quasi-groovy
ones but they don't even come close to the Groovy Delivery Boy.
"How to Murder your Wife" by Neil Hefti doesn't really have a single groovy
cut though it has some okay Manciniesque moments.
"Live for Life" by Francis Lai is pretty but it didn't really seem to be
the kind of thing that would have a groovy cut.  But then there's this
wacked-out cut they call "Zoom".
And "Goodbye Columbus" does have okay vocal cuts by my heroes The
Association (though not up to their true potential) but the one groovy cut
"Dartmouth Dartmouth" just barely makes the grade.

I read the signs but only hit true real gold on occasion.

Then again, if I had the sixth sense, I wouldn't have to look for clues and
signs.
I would just know.

Nat





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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 16:13:27 -0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) words to Hawaiian war chant

Does anyone know where I can find the words to Hawaiian war chant
(preferably with some sort of phonetic guide)?  I got my first vocal version
of this a couple of days ago,  and I want to sing along.  Without being too
embarrassing.  (By the way,  this is the part of the mail I'd like a
response to,  the rest is pretty much burbling).

The version,  by the way,  is by Wout Steenhuis.  I know I've been going on
about him recently,  but I don't know why,  most of his stuff is OK,  but
this on the 'Blue Hawaii' LP (Starline label, EMI's budget brand?) is
outstanding,  I think it must be the Rock'n'Roll reverb on the Ukulele.  But
the whole thing motors along with these great guttural / Jordinaire  voices
well down in the mix.

I can dig it.

I seem to operate a strange version of the sixth sense,  as i trawl through
the waste I collect 'interesting' looking things,  but its only the record
that has that magic that causes the feeding frenzy,  that first drop of
blood in the water.  If its not there then they stay in the shop.
Unfortunately, unlike Jill,  I do still end up buying loads of crap that
way.

Jill,  been quiet without you the last month.

Enjoy the weekend,  all.


El Maestro Con Queso

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http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm


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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:19:22 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: R Hayman-Voodoo

At 02:23 PM 11/19/99 +0100, Kristjan Saag wrote:

>Jeezes! I always thought the reason why Shearings Capitol albums came with
these tasteless pictures of half naked, fat women (_Mood Latino_ , _Satin
Latin_, _Latin Lace_ etc) was because he is blind - he couldn't say no.

Well maybe I'm missing the tongue in your cheek.  And maybe "tasteless" is
subjective.  But even in these days of anorexic ideals, I wouldn't call the
women on the covers of "Blue Chiffon", "Velvet Carpet" or "Black Satin".. FAT!
They're also not half naked... unfortunately, though the blue chiffon dress
is kinda see through.
And if you love the classic "lesbian chic" cover of Jonah Jones' "Swingin
on Broaday", then you have to have George's companion cover for "On the
Sunny Side of the Strip".

It's sort of ironic that a blind guy had such distinctive covers but if you
call this tasteless, I kinda doubt that restoring George's vision would
have improved the situation from your point of view.

Nat



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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:22:15 +0100
From: Mo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Tape echo

Kristjan Saag wrote:

> Mo wrote (Nov 18):
>
> >On records you actually get a mechanical influence of the groove to its >"neighbor" grooves; the tighter the record is cut the more.
> --
> Now, what mechanical influence do you talk about?

It happens when the record is pressed: Before the hot soft vinyl cools down,
the parts pressed aside by the male groove of the matrix move back a bit and
transfer a bit of information to the neighbor grooves.

Mo


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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:25:50 -0500
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NPG" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Re: Tape echo

> It happens when the record is pressed: Before the hot soft=20
> vinyl cools down,
> the parts pressed aside by the male groove of the matrix move=20
> back a bit and
> transfer a bit of information to the neighbor grooves.
>=20
> Mo
>=20

This is exactly how it was explained to me.  Like vinyl under
pressing-pressure oozing where it shouldn't. =20

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Charlieman
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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:27:47 +0100
From: Mo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tape echo.......

[e-mail] wrote:

> Hummmmm, this discussion sounds particularly Non-Exotica related.  I mean, no
> one said their cassette version of Quiet Village was bleeding over.  Just
> that they had noted bleed over on a cassette recording.
>
> Interesting.  Now, the folks over at the "Explaining Bleed Over on Records,
> Cassettes and  Other Magnetic Tapes" Mailing List had an excellent discussion
> on this a few weeks ago.  You may be able to find it in their archives
> (www.nonexoticarelateddiscussionofmagneticandrecordbleedover.com).

O well, I knew this would come... sorry, I was hoping my one first answer to the
original question would have answered it already. But as my name is not
"Cleve"....

Mo




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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:52:56 -0500
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: The 6th sense

Moritz wrote:

> I don't need a 6th sense, I have a brain... life is wonderful
> enough as it is...
Say is it just my imagination (6th sense) or are Nat and Moritz
exchanging personalities....  Just remember Moritz, who turned
you on to the Duke of Burlington, and these just inexplicably grabbed
me the second I saw them in the store.  I know Jill understands!

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:14:04 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bunking the sixth sense

At 10:21 PM 11/18/99, Nat Kone challenged with scenarios that make lots of
psychological sense:

>Have any of you with that sixth sense ever considered the possibility,
>given how subjective "good vs crap" is, that your success ratio is mostly a
>self-fulfilling prophecy?

Possible. But it really doesn't explain why I know I should go out and find
records and that I'll find records at one specific shop and not another. Or
why a record will zoom forward in my consciousness and I'll find it soon
afterward. Very recent example: never bought the vinyl of ComEd's
Impossible World. Suddenly began to think about it.  The day after Bro.
Cleve posted it's out of print, I was driving past Waterloo Records, where
ComEd did an in-store during their 98 tour. I was hurried but sixth sense
said, Go in. Looked through the used vinyl. Nothing. Then looked in new
vinyl and bam, there was The Impossible World. For $5. Waterloo's last
copy.

Another example: After Ton posted that fabulous summary about Indonesian
hybrid music, I ached to hear some. A day later, at a record store I seldom
visit, I found a used CD from Smithsonian Folkways called Indonesian
Guitar--beautiful compilation, all I could have hoped for, highly
recommended. Something told me to go by that store. Sixth sense did not
say, You'll find Indonesian music there; it doesn't work like that. I just
intuited, Go to Jupiter Records. Looked through the used vinyl, nada, then
turned to the CDs. There was Indonesian Guitar. Was it coincidence or
self-fulfilling prophesy? You could say that. But eerily timed.

Sixth sense also tells me when a record hunt will be a waste of time--I'll
find nothing. So I don't shop unless I get a vibe. How's that for
hippie-dippie shit?

>Or how about this?  You come home with a pile of crap.  You're disappointed
>by the first one.  Immediately your threshold of what's good dips a bit and
>if the next one is halfway decent, you elevate it.

More probable if I listened to new buys immediately. But I often don't.
Usually take my time. And I'm fairly ruthless about weeding out the bad or
mediocre buys. And only recently have I begun to buy in bulk--five or more
records at a shot--and even now, it's an aberration. Like Jill, I usually
buy one or two.

>I know that I changed my taste in order to make it easier to find lots of
>records that interested me.  I like buying piles of cheap records so I
>retrofitted my taste so that I could find lots of stuff I wanted where they
>have piles of cheap records.

Maybe. But I'm not sure. I started buying records at thrifts is I have a
tremendous appetite for new music, music I've never heard before. Sometimes
I can afford to feed that appetite by buying brand-new or used CDs. Usually
my $$ goes elsewhere. During a low bucks period, I started thrifting for
records. Bought in bulk--four for a buck sort of thing--bought a lot of bad
or mediocre records and got rid of them. Gradually I learned more about the
tunes or the musicians or labels or the instru combinations I like. And
I've learned tons from Exotica and thank y'all for it. But also during
this, um, learning curve,  sixth sense kicked in. And it's real and I've
come to trust it. I wish I could explain it logically or in ways that make
better psychological sense (like your three scenarios, Nat) but it defies
rational explanation. I've score too consistently when sixth sense tells me
to look. Maybe it's like Ton suggests--some kind of knowledge stored in
thebody, stuff I know without realizing I knew them.

>I don't think there are enough great records in the world to have a high
>ratio of finding them.

Agreed. But one person's great record is crap to someone else. Great
records like anything else great are great, in part, because they're rare.
They're hard to do so there are fewer of them.

Mo points out the power of experience and knowledge. Sure, experience plays
into it...but sixth sense isn't rational. It's intuition, weird and a
little scary sometimes. And I'm thankful I have it. And Mo, couldn't agree
more. So glad we have brains too, and life is wonderful enough as it is...

Call me Muldar,
Mimi




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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:03:32 -0800
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bunking the sixth sense

>I was hurried but sixth sense
said, Go in. Looked through the used vinyl. Nothing. Then looked in new
vinyl and bam, there was The Impossible World. For $5. Waterloo's last
copy.<

Ha!  If you was so Psychic, you would have checked the new vinyl FIRST!  : )

>Was it coincidence or
self-fulfilling prophesy? You could say that. But eerily timed.<

As for eerie timing, I have been trying to solve a mysterious soundcard
problem for a friend.  I JUST emailed him a few minutes ago suggesting he
find a Folkways recording from Indonesia, strip nekkid and do a wild monkey
dance, as all else seems to be failing. Then i read this post.Coinkydinky or
what? (I'll let ya know if it works)

>Sixth sense also tells me when a record hunt will be a waste of time--I'll
find nothing. So I don't shop unless I get a vibe. How's that for
hippie-dippie shit?<

Along similar lines, I seem  to know when my Mojo ain't workin, so I lay off
shopping for months at a time untill I feel that I got my groove back. The
magic only works when I don't have much spare cash, so I think it's a
checks-and-balances kind of thing. But the "record voodoo" ebbs and flows,
and I can tell when the window of opportunity is open or shut within seconds
of walking into a record shop.

I buy plenty of CRAP though.  Untill recently, I had nearly 2000 records in
my garage - all of it JUNK, mostly chaff from records I bought in box-lots.
But more than I'd  like to admit was stuff I bought thinking it would be
interesting, and it turned out to be a disappointment.

Ron




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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:20:37 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: See it in Sound

>I am still totally baffled why anyone would NOT get Brother Cleve to write
>the liner notes
Sam Wick (?) editor of Lounge Magazine still did a nice job. BTW: is Lounge
magazine still out there? Anybody have a weg page? Phone number? Only found
1 issue over a year ago.

Domenic




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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:58:21 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls

Here's a site y'all may enjoy (thank you, Scout Report).
- -Lou
[e-mail]
(and does that 6th sense thing work with CDs, or only with vinyl?)


Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
 http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html

 This extraordinary Website is devoted to the Dime Novel and Story
 Paper Collection at Stanford University Library. The site offers
 thousands of cataloged graphic images of illustrated covers to issues
 of the dime novels and story papers that were immensely popular in
 America from the mid-nineteenth century to its close. The images may
 be searched or browsed; search options include an exhaustive listing
 of "salient features," including -- but not limited to -- cover
 images relating to Napoleon Bonaparte (2), African-Americans (107),
 Cowboys (118), and College Students (8). Cultural studies scholars
 can make good use of these search options in examining graphic
 representations of gender, class, race, work, and manners of the
 time. The site also includes nine complete texts and catalog
 information for all of the issues imaged. Images may be viewed in
 thumbnail or full screen versions.



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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 16:13:24 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Let's make some Martinis!

Next Friday is a day off for most of us. Next Friday?s show will be 6 hours
long from 6AM to noon.  I would like to extend an invitation to Exoticats
who will be in the Boston area to come on up and bring your favorite
records and CD?s. Show up for an hour, the 2nd half, whatever.  Afterwards
you could do what everybody else is doing. Traveling to tax-free NH and
going Christmas and booze shopping. Let me know!

Domenic
"Martinis with Mancini" on WJUL 91.5, Lowell Massachusetts, Fridays 6-9am
 http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Booth/8007/


Playlist: 11/19/99

Brief And Breezy, Henry Mancini, Ost Peter Gunn
Lyin? To Myself, Louie Armstrong, Heart Full Of Rhythm
Struttin? With Some Barbecue, Dave Whitney
If You Dig Me, Barney Kessel, Carmen
My Gentleman Friend, Etta Jones, Lonely And Blue
The Brothers Go To Mothers, Joey Altruida, Cocktails With Joey
Azure-Te, Nat King Cole, The Boxed Set
I Still Get A Thrill, Enoch Light, Vol 2 Stereo 35mm (LP)
Prelude And Fugue In C Major, Swingle Singers, Back To Bach (LP)
Prelude For Organ In C Major, Swingle Singers, Back To Bach (LP)
I Ain?t Got Nothing But The Blues, The Crown Project (New)
Nancy With The Laughing Face, John Coltrane, Cigar Classics Vol 3
Fly Me To The Moon, Nancy Wilson, Blues Big Bands And Ballads
Caravan, Duke Ellington
Blue Mood, The Schoolgirl Report
There Will Never Be Another You, Art Pepper, Jazz Giants Play Harry Warren
Coffee, Randy Klein, Jazzheads
Dreamsville, Sherri Roberts, Dreamsville
Twisted Desire, 8 ? Souvenirs,
I Like The Likes Of You, Jeri Southern, Southern Breeze (LP)
I?ll See You In My Dreams, The Mills Brothers (LP)
Mambo #5, Perez Prado, Mondo Mambo
The Laziest Girl In Town, Nina Simone, Broadway Blues Ballads
Little Brown Jug, Ray Anthony, I Remember Glenn Miller
Cocktails For Two, Les Elgart, The Greatest Dance Band In The Land (LP)
Capuccina, Ted Heath, Big Band Bash
Sergie Schepkin, Variation #16, J.S. Bach Goldberg Variations
Lean Baby, Frank Sinatra, The Capitol Years
All Of A Sudden, (My Heart Sings) Polly Bergen, My Heart Sings
My Number On Love, Esquivel, Exploring New Sounds In Stereo
Harlem Nocturne, Sam Butera, Wild Cool And Swingin?
Make Love To Me, Louie Prima And Keely Smith, Louie And Keely
Sugar/Sugar, The Electric Logs
Make Love To Me, Louie Prima And Keely Smith, Louie And Keely
With A Little Help From My Friends, Sergio Mendes And Brazil ?66, Look
Around
Roda, , Sergio Mendes And Brazil ?66, Look Around
The Girl From Uganda, Les Baxter, The Colors Of Brazil
Bachelor In Paradise, Henry Mancini, Days Of Wine And Roses
Hey Hey My My, Four Piece Suit, Ready To Where?
Oh My Oh Gosh, John Pizzarelli, My Blue Heaven
Harry Bellafonte, Calypso in Brass (LP)
I?m So Repentant, Dave?s True Story, Sex Without Bodies
Rue De Lappe, Dave?s True Story, Sex Without Bodies
Cool, David Carroll, Talkin? Verve With A Twist
Shriners, Seks Bomba, Operation Bomba
Nica?s Dream, Esquivel, See It In Sound
The Exploding Fez Affair, Astroslut, Love In Zero G
Bedazzled, Astroslut, Love In Zero G
Lunar Walk, Johnny Hanksworth Orchestra , The Easy Project: 20 Loungecore
Favorites Comp
A Foggy Day, Patti Page In The Land Of Hi-Fi
Very Leggy, Ursula 1000, The Now Sound Of Ursula 1000
Moon River, Jerome Roberts, Tiki Sampler




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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 23:20:37 +0100
From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) The Sixth Sense

I have that sith sense too... in the last few months various times I've
picked totally obscure shitty 7" at markets and crappy stores, finding gems
like Marcello Giombini's "Zelda" and another weird italian soundtrack
"Albert e l'uomo nero" by Franco Micalizzi. Ahem. I practically picked them
because of the covers but I knew they would have been great records... :)

btw - my sister has something really scary. She has several superpowers, I
think, including weather control ;) and of course these random flashes
about the future.
Not only she has sixth sense for records, she can even manipulate the
charts. She buys an obscure post-rock-electro-noisy-dance-ambient-whatever
thing and she says this will be the next big thing.
One or two weeks later that disc begins appearing in the UK music papers as
record of the week and stuff like that. In a month or so it is the new
number one or at least top 5. ;D


bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista

"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief"
(Bono)



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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 00:48:46 +0100
From: Mo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The 6th sense (hopefully will become:) The Duke of Burlington

Brian Karasick wrote:

> Say is it just my imagination (6th sense) or are Nat and Moritz
> exchanging personalities....  Just remember Moritz, who turned
> you on to the Duke of Burlington, and these just inexplicably grabbed
> me the second I saw them in the store.  I know Jill understands!

I guess I need a 6th sense to understand the meaning of this. I mean the part
with Nat and me exchanging personalities.

As for the inexplainable attraction of the "Duke of Burlington" records:
(For those who do not know them:) Imagine a cover that shows a sweet little
cute black and white kittycat with glazy eyes velvet-paw-walking on the keys
of an open honkytonk piano, that's the picture on the front cover, the album
is from 1970 and is called "The Pressed Piano", the artist calls himself "The
Duke of Burlington" and titles on that album are "Flash", "30 60 90", "Devil's
Trillo", "L.S.D.(Librae, Solidi, Denarii)" et al. ... In my opinion you need
not more than one or two senses to be extremely attracted by such a record.

And I'm really glad you were attracted to it, Brian. Yes, you turned me on to
it. Actually I wanted to keep my knowledge of the Duke for myself a little
more, because these Duke records are too great. I L.O.V.E. them. When I played
"Flash" the other night at my local pub, a bunch of people literally came
running to my DJ-desk to ask, what it is.
The title of the second album is "Indian Fig" and both are rereleased on the
original, Italian, lable Saar both on vinyl and CD.

So instead of falling out with psi powers, let's talk about "The Duke"!

Mo





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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:22:18 -0800
From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Scamp, not Liberty

I've always wondered why there was so much effort to completely
obliterate Liberty Records' name and logo from the Martin Denny
re-releases and replacing it with Scamp (right down to rewriting the
original liner notes).

I'm not really upset or anything, just curious.

Kevin Crossman


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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 20:38:45 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Let's make some Martinis!

In a message dated 11/19/99 2:11:48 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< show will be 6 hours
 long from 6AM to noon.  >>

6 AM to Noon!!!!!

i will still be drunk from the wine ----- uh, i mean the turkey!

tb


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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 21:30:36 -0500
From: "Elisabeth Vincentelli" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) The Sixth Sense

So what's your sister listening to these days? I want to be ahead of the
curve too!

Elisabeth

> btw - my sister has something really scary. She has several superpowers, I
> think, including weather control ;) and of course these random flashes
> about the future.
> Not only she has sixth sense for records, she can even manipulate the
> charts. She buys an obscure post-rock-electro-noisy-dance-ambient-whatever
> thing and she says this will be the next big thing.
> One or two weeks later that disc begins appearing in the UK music papers as
> record of the week and stuff like that. In a month or so it is the new
> number one or at least top 5. ;D


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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 13:26:10 +0100
From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) FWD: KKK on 78rpm?

Someone sent me this message:


> I have a record (78 RPM) with a label that reads KKK and a cross on fire
> beside it.
> The name of the song is "The Bright Firery Cross." Sung by 100% Americans
> acc. by Och.
> I am trying to find the worth of this record and wondering if you have any
> suggestions.
>

Can anyone help?

Marco

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 Record Collector's Heaven
 http://weirdomusic.freeservers.com/
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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 15:12:06 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Preston Epps Bongo Rock

Highly recommended reissue of his super wild & cool "Bongo bongo bongo" LP.
The 2 tracks by Preston Epps on the Del-Fi "Lost treasures" comp CD -
though not featured here - are pretty representative for his style on this
LP. Side A features odd but wild combinations of R&R guitars, frantic
bongo's, strings and brass (Bongo in the Congo; Bongo Rock; Jungle Drums;
Bongo, Bongo, Bongo). On "Doin' the cha cha cha" Epps goes latin, while the
last track, "Bongos in Pastel" is softer and has wordless vocals. The whole
B-side, "Call of the Jungle", is pure classic exotica beauty, with a 13
minute suite of bongo percussion, flutes, tribal chanting, and jungle
sounds (and no strings here).. CD bonus tracks: Bongo Party; Hully Gully
Bongo; Bongo Shuffle.

        Johan


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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 12:29:47 -0600
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour

Big news this week for listeners of our Retro Cocktail Hour
webcasts!  Now there are two ways for you to hear the show.  The
program archive continues, where Retro Cocktail Hour shows are
available on demand.  Just go to:

http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html

Plus, as of this week, KANU is streaming its signal onto the web
24 hours a day, so you can hear The Retro Cocktail Hour in real
time and in STEREO.  Just go to:

http://kanu.ukans.edu/realaudio/index.htm

The local broadcast time is Saturday 7:00pm Central time (8:00pm
Eastern, 5:00pm Pacific, etc.).  RealAudio streams are available for
Internet connections both slow and fast, minimum 28.8.

If you listen, in real time or on demand at the Retro page, please
drop us a line and say hello.  Your comments, suggestions and
requests are always welcome.

Thanks for the space!

Darrell Brogdon
[e-mail]
The Retro Cocktail Hour
KANU FM 91.5
Broadcasting Hall
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at:
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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:25:45 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Scamp, not Liberty

In a message dated 11/19/99 8:20:11 PM EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< I've always wondered why there was so much effort to completely
 obliterate Liberty Records' name and logo from the Martin Denny
 re-releases and replacing it with Scamp (right down to rewriting the
 original liner notes).

 I'm not really upset or anything, just curious.

 Kevin Crossman >>


Three reasons...
1.) It was fun to do and it was no great effort to do.

2.) It help to ingrain better the Scamp "brand" name

2.) If the Liberty logo was there people (especially the people who buy CDs
for record shops) might mistakenly attempt to order these titles from their
EMD/Capitol rep.

Ashley


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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:54:09 -0500
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, November 21

Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal,
Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at:

http://www.ckut.ca

As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome.

Space Bop #72  The Naked Moog

(If Jill can DJ in the nude, so can we!  Only difference is we'll be
hiding in the studio, so no one can see us!!!)

Les Baxter:  2nd Piano Concerto  "Moog Rock"
Walter Carlos:  Prelude And Fugue #2 In C Minor  "Switched-On Bach"
Gershon Kingsley:  To Handel With Love  "Popcorn"
Richard Hayman:  Samba De Victoria  "Genuine Electric Latin Love
Machine"
Harry Breuer:  Moog Foo Yong  "The Happy Moog!"

Perrey & Kingsley:  Strangers In The Night  "The Essential Perrey &
Kingsley"
Christopher Scott:  Do You Know The Way To San Jose  "Switched-On
Bacharach"
Martin Denny:  Yellow Bird  "Exotic Moog"
Mort Garson:  Hair  "Electronic Hair Pieces"
Hugo Montenegro:  MacArthur Park  "Moog Power"
Claude Denjean:  Venus  "Dig It!"

Rex Brown Co & Berry Lipman:  Round Up  "Electronic Toys"
Emil Richards:  Moonstone  "Stones"
Richard Hayman:  Dansero  "Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine"
Gershon Kingsley:  Popcorn  "Popcorn"
Jean-Jacques Perrey:  La Panthere Cosmique  "Good Moog"

Bruce Haack:  American Eagle  "Listen Compute Rock Home"
Laurent Lombard:  Rock On The Moog  "Hi Fi Stereo Remixes"
Richard Hayman:  The Windmills Of Your Mind  "Genuine Electric Latin
Love Machine"

Thanks for reading.  We'll be back (and dressed) next week...

[e-mail]
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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 06:36:26 -0700
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica)groovy soundtracks and the sixth sense

More Sixth Sense comments follow below:

>A very good recent example is "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" which has two
>good cuts, one of which "Groovy Delivery Boy" is near perfect.  (Wonder if
>Jill would agree.)

I don't have this soundtrack, but I aww the flick again a few years ago and
knew I should buy it for this track. It's a totally stunner. The scene where
the delivery guy is groovin' is very cool too.=20


>"Live for Life" by Francis Lai is pretty but it didn't really seem to be
>the kind of thing that would have a groovy cut.  But then there's this
>wacked-out cut they call "Zoom".

Another favourite. Sukia actually cover it on the Pop Romantique compilation
that came out last year.=20

>And "Goodbye Columbus" does have okay vocal cuts by my heroes The
>Association (though not up to their true potential) but the one groovy cut
>"Dartmouth Dartmouth" just barely makes the grade.

The title cut is one of my faves. A lot of good soundtracks are very hit and
miss. They were recorded with an agenda so it is pretty hard to second guess
them unless you know the film. "To Sir With Love" has a great uptempo number
from the Mindbenders, and the whole "Penelope" soundtrack is pretty
wonderful although the title cut with vocals from the Penny Pipers is quite
a groovers.=20

I suppose my experience with Penelope is vaguely Sixth Sense or just spot-on
child. I hadn't seen that flick since I was about 12 on cable. It's a great
flick, but never seems to be broadcast on regular TV. Anyway, I got it in my
head that I should buy that soundtrack and for 10 years I looked for it,
finally finding it for =A320 in London (I've since seen it several more=
 times,
but never for like $3 or anything really cheap). I didn't pay that price. I
traded in some vinyl at the Record and Tape Exchange where it being held
hostage so essentially I got it for free (they were promos), but it is one
of my fave soundtracks and one of those records that people time and time
again ask me about, they've never heard of, or seen the flick. There are
some great tunes on that Johnny Williams soundtrack.=20

As for the Sixth Sense, several people have made some really great comments
on this subject. I quite agree with Ton that it isn't so much "supernatural"
as part of our brains being used in a way that maybe isn't so conventional.
I believe in rationality, not the supernatural, but sometimes I don't think
there is any point trying to rationalise things that we haven't quite
figured out yet. There are lots of things I have "rational" explanations for
that haven't yet been proved by science. I Know them to be true, but would
rather not waste my time scientifically proving them. I'm not on any big=
 quest.=20

However, a "rational" explanation doesn't necessarily mean a "scientific"
explanation. I think mankind is very arrogant to assume we know the answers
to everything. We're still just infants in science. I personally don't think
record covers, track titles, producers etc, have been the reasons I have
chosen all my purchases. And my hit-miss ratio is fairly damn impressive.
Sometimes the sense is as much about knowing which hip, collector friends'
recommendations to follow and which to ignore. This is fairly common for me.
I once had a friend who I DJ with (so we know each other's tastes PRETTY
damn well) play a track that caused me to flip. He told me what it was. I'd
never heard of the band. Not even HEARD of them. He said they had two LPS,
both available on reissue, but while the LP he was playing was great, the
other one was a miss. I went out the next day, bought both, and liked the
"miss" better. Why did I ignore my friend's recommendation to forget it? To
me, I "heard" something in that track that went beyond someone's opinion. I
love both LPs. But hearing ONE track, causing you to fork out on BOTH LPs,
when one is a "dud" by a highly reputable friend who KNOWS your
tastes...that goes beyond rational common sense.=20

Strangely enough, I have recently heard my friend playing tracks from the
"dud" LP...so I reckon he heard me playing it and had a rethink. I debased
him for telling me it wasn't worth having. The band is The Cyrkle. File
under sunny-psych pop.=20

This is what I mean by Sixth Sense. Sure sometimes there might be a clue or
two,but these are not "logical", "rational" things - sometimes going against
what you have experienced as being correct.=20

So even though everyone wants me to give examples, I would really have to
think and explain and dig to find examples that I'm sure would be argued
against so I'm not going to go into all that. But as far as I'm concerned,
the above example certainly defies logic. And I'm musically enriched for it!

x Jill "Mingo-go"

who hopes this cold clear before the naked DJing!



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