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exotica-digest        Monday, January 10 2000        Volume 02 : Number 590



In This Digest:

(exotica) List approval!
(exotica) Dennies, Again
(exotica) Breakbeat and Sway
Re: (exotica) ENO
Re: (exotica) record habits
Re: (exotica) Breakbeat and Sway
(exotica) Wimoweh (was: Eno)
(exotica) Nancy Sinatra
Re: (exotica) Breakbeat and Sway
(exotica) soft pop lyrics
Re: (exotica) Mireille Mathieu
Re: (exotica) Nancy Sinatra
Re: (exotica) record habits
(exotica) Brass Ring Remix
Re: (exotica) Martin Denny on NPR
Re: (exotica) Eno (Wimoweh)
(exotica) Radley Metzger and Happy Balloons
Re: (exotica) Radley Metzger and Happy Balloons
(exotica) Happy Balloons & Siesta
Re:  (exotica) Help! RF problems
Re:  Re: (exotica) ENO
Re: (exotica) record habits
(exotica) Anita Kerr
Re: (exotica) Martin Denny on NPR
(exotica) 2280 music links
(exotica) Anita Kerr
RE: (exotica) Sukia
(exotica) Re: Breakbeat and Sway

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:58:04 +0000
From: <Charles_Moseley/LON/Europe/[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) List approval!

I have to say that the list seems to have come into its own in the last
week or two. Monday morning at work, checking my emails and the list seems
abuzz with high activity. Nobody knew anything about the Cannabis or Mary
Jane soundtracks (or did I post that one in a dream?) but never mind. The
list suddenly sparkles like some bonza coke. Who needs to bring back those
unfortunate souls who have departed!
Viva Exotica! Thats what I say. I thoroughly approve of this trading idea
but I don't have a CD player. Can I make a minidisk and ask somebody to
burn a CD from it? I intend to make a minidisk this week with (and this
will shock anybody who has traded with me before) a track listing! I'm on
the case.
Cheers all,

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 07:04:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dennies, Again

Hey, just a reminder that we're still accepting
nominations for the Dennies.  Here's the categories:

Best act (artist or group)
Best new album (not re-release; not compilation; not
soundtrack)
Best re-release (legitimate or bootleg)
Best retrospective - single artist/act
Best compilation - various artists
Best box set - single or multiple artists
Best soundtrack (new or re-release)
Best new act (artist or group)
Big Kahuna Achievement Award
Golden Album Award

Everyone's been really good at nominating multiple
artists, so we're getting a good cross section.  On
the other hand, the SECOND most important thing is
that we get a lot of people responding, which hasn't
happened yet.  Maybe four.

Remember, if you can't remember what came out in 1999,
visit Johann's site!  Really, you oughta visit it
anyway, because it reminded me of all the cool stuff
that came out that I need to stick on my "to purchase"
list.

Also, if you already nominated, but suddenly remember
someone else you want to include, feel free.

Please nominate!
Thanks,
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:09:49 -0000
From: Reader Geoff <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Breakbeat and Sway

Br Cleve mentioned Mucho Mambos version of 'Sway', until Saturday the only
version of the song I'd heard,  does anyone know where the vocal comes from?
I don't think its credited on the sleeve,  and I'd be surprised if they got
someone in,  its not the way the genre normally works.  The version I heard
on Saturday was in the film 'Dark City',  quite good in a Matrix meets
Hammer 70's paranoia way,  where they play it in a smooth,  sequined,  Jazzy
nightclub version.

Anyone an idea on the definitive version?

And as for the big chunks of sampled stuff, theres the usually maligned when
mentioned here Bentley Rhythm Ace track (which i love,  a sense of humour on
a modern dance record,  who'd've thought),  and a lot of Norman Cooks stuff
takes that approach,  not just fatboy Slim.  Theres bits crop up all over
the place,  some Beastie Boys stuff for example, and the obvious beck things
(that big chunk from 'the Moog and me').  I don't think its hard to find
even if you limit yourself to 'pop' stuff.

its firing today.


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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:49:10 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) ENO

At 8:20 AM 1/10/0, Reader Geoff wrote:
> one of my friends played me Brian Eno's version of 'Wimoweh (the lion
>sleeps tonight)'.Brian Eno's version of 'Wimoweh (the lion sleeps tonight)'=
.

>To be honest its terrible. ...
>What was he thinking?

El Maestro, he was thinking, Let's have a bit o' fun. Plus hadn't Eno been
pillaried already for his crappy singing? And what better way to thumb his
nose  at the critics than to sing a song that jumps octaves? Yeah, his
Wimoweh is pretty stinky. But to my ears it's better than the sanfordized,
starched and pressed version Disney inflicted on the world. Still like the
original (by the Tokens??) best. Mimi




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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 10:15:20 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) record habits

At 8:27 AM 1/10/0, Nat Kone wrote:
>And it's not just that on the rare occasion when I think "What do I want to
>hear?", that I usually think of a genre before I think of an artist.

I generally think of songs or sometimes a specific sound I want to
hear...so I organize my records by genre and sometimes by instrument.
Exotica by Fake Hawaiian by Real Hawaiian, etc. Soundtracks by movie theme
cover compilations, with some exceptions: all Mancini together, for
example, regardless of genre. Have never alphabetized. Every so often, will
also organize by label, too--like with 4AD or Command records. There's
something profoundly satisfying about seeing all those fat white Command
gatefold spines lined in a plump row.

Genre organization still tosses some posers...like Wanderly. Stash those
disks in Organs or in Bossa? I actually enjoy wrestling with such
questions. Also realized my system could be eccentric because I'm the sole
user of my records.

>It's also that - and here I suspect I'm alone - I look at each of the
>shelves as sort of artificial (and random) "limiters" on the number of
>records I allow myself to keep in each genre.

Makes tons of sense to me, Nat, but then I do it too. Just don't have that
much space and the method forces me to clear out the chaff. And who cares
if it's artificial as long as it works?

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:28:36 +0000
From: <Charles_Moseley/LON/Europe/[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Breakbeat and Sway

Wasn't the original Sway tune used in a Eurostar ad?
And does anybody know what the 'Check it out now, funk soul brother' sample
comes from originally?
The countless easy/soundtrack/wierd jazz samples in British dance music are
just getting too numerous to list. From Portishead to Norman to Pulp to the
Freestylers. Its everywhere and the Americans seem to be so bogged down in
restrictive laws that US artists are having trouble with drum samples these
days.
There are a few hip hop sample reference archives on the web and they are
very comprehensive. I think if you tried to do the same with British dance
music, you'd soon lose yourself. My chum is about to do an easy/soft house
track using Astrud's Girl from Ipanema - sample based, resung and housed
up. Where will it end?

Charlie
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:04:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Wimoweh (was: Eno)

At 09:49 AM 1/10/00 -0500, Mimi wrote:
> Still like the
>original (by the Tokens??) best.

The Tokens' version was far from the original. Citizen, do you have the
track list to the Wimoweh episode of Secret Museum handy? That was a
fascinating show -- it would be great if it was archived on-line so everyone
could hear it.

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:43:17
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Subject: (exotica) Nancy Sinatra

I really like a lot of Nancy Sinatra records. It's probably mostly for the
Hazelwood songs and production, but I think Nancy herself is getting a bad
rap here.

She may not have her father's voice (who does?), but the "sprechstimme"
vocal style (a word I've been waiting to use since learning it in my 20th
Century Music class in college; it means half-spoken, half sung) used on
"Boots" and subsequent song is SUPPOSED to be kitschy and tongue-in-cheek.
On earlier, and several later records, she holds a tune quite nicely, and
when I saw her on her comeback tour a few years back (a GREAT show, up
there with The Monks and few others as far as satisfying comeback tours), I
was surprised with how good her voice sounded. Meanwhile, the campy vocals
have a lot of personality and predate the girly singing styles used by so
many '90s indie rock chicks (the same can be said about most French pop
singers...the French have never preferred technique over style, it seems).

I think Nancy Sinatra was always aware of the camp factor her records --
she was no kid when she made "Boots," after several years of singing in
public. Watching her old videos, listening to her version of "Run For Your
Life," I never laugh AT her, but sometimes smile with her.

And I think Lee Hazelwood's songs with her/for her are a lot better than
any of his solo material that everyone is raving about now; in fact that's
the only reason I started to notice his name, when I first started buying
up her records 15 years ago.

Hazelwood fans should check out the songs he wrote in the movie THE COOL
ONES, especially the fabulous "This Town," a great Tony Hatch style ballad
written for the film, later covered by Nancy, AND by Frank!



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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 08:52:32 PST
From: "jonathan richardson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Breakbeat and Sway

all this talk about breakbeat music has me intrigued. It sounds pretty neat.
  Can someone supply a list of names/labels etc for future reference when im
out buying new music.

always looking for new stuff, yu know!

- -jonathan
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:03:05 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) soft pop lyrics

Here goes a little dictation...
I mentioned this article on soft pop a while ago but I was rereading it and
came across this (longish) section that I was sure the soft-poppers - and
even some others - would be interested in.  So here goes.

Lyrics are an aspect of original soft pop that could never be brought
convincingly into the present.  A verbal equivalent of its aural contents,
soft pop lyrics exist in blissful ignorance of the turbulent times in which
they were created.  Utopian at worst in 1969, they now read as downright
archaic after 30 years or more of sexual and political upheaval.  David
Bash describes them best, as reports from "a world without genitals".
"This is not meant to be derisive in any way", he laughs from his Los
Angeles home, "but there is not one bit of sexual element in soft pop.
It's all about romance. It's all about young men and women gazing lovingly
into each other's eyes and thinking about how happily-ever-after they'll be".
Andrew Sandoval attributes these anti-rock sentiments (rock n roll itself
being a euphemism for sex) to the fact that many of soft pop's prime movers
came from backgrounds completely outside the rock world.  Bones Howe's
testimony proves this to be true.
"I came out of the jazz world", he admits.  "I made disguised jazz records,
everybody said.  The harmonies in the Fifth Dimension records are like the
Four Freshmen (a varsity-sweater wearing G-rated, 50's vocal group). I'd
talk about vocal harmonics with Brian Wilson.  He'd say 'Oh yeah I really
thought the Four Freshmen were so great.  They really blew my mind'.  Here
we were, all sort of stewing in the same pot"
But, notes Sandoval, "If it wasn't for the Beatles being popular and
therefore, influencing others, I don't think we'd even be discussing this.
Even the Beach Boys music got better because of the Beatles.  Note that
many of the same producers' and songwriters' output prior to and after the
Beatles is nowhere near as interesting".
Whatever the case, spurred by enthusiasm for the new music or the promise
of a fatter paycheque, these "squares" moved into pop, leaving their
indelible mark upon all that they touched.
Unsurprising then, most modern descendents of soft pop have also never been
involved in rock........

Some insights for me anyway.

Nat




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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:14:08 +0100
From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mireille Mathieu

Moritz R wrote:

> Some of you might be interested in the fact that Mireille Mathieu has feet
> made of wood.

What about her head?

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:40:25 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Nancy Sinatra

At 11:43 AM 1/10/0, [e-mail] wrote:
>I really like a lot of Nancy Sinatra records. It's probably mostly for the
>Hazelwood songs and production, but I think Nancy herself is getting a bad
>rap here.

Thanks, jschwart, for speaking your piece. If I still had Nancy in London
I'd send it your way. Mimi




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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:32:36 -0500
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) record habits

I love this discussion of record habits.  I'm slowly
reorganizing the records I moved last July, though we have to move
again this July coming and I wonder if it's worth the effort.

I used to organize everything by artist, with separate sections for
soundtracks and compilations, but, long ago, decided I didn't want the
rock records intermingling with the non-rock stuff, so broke them up.
And, originally, the difference between rock and non-rock sections
had to do with period, but with the explosion of interest in
Now Sound and similar things, that stopped making sense.  So I have
one whole wall which is lounge/exotica/jazz/crooners/easy, etc., and
another one which is pretty pure rock.  And the country and real jazz
go alongside the fake country and fake jazz in the non-rock section,  and
things like Sonny and Cher or Peter Sarstedt albums can end up in either
side, depending on my mood when I'm doing it.  That doesn't always help me
find things when I want them.

All these sections are alphabetical, but then I decided it was stupid to file
the Hawaiian records that way, since I could scarcely remember most of the
artists' names, and so I put those all together.  And then I did the same with
Command, Project 3 and Time, but, for some reason, not with Studio 2 albums.
And I decided to separate all the Canadian stuff, since there are evenings
with
friends when I pull out my weird Canadian albums and spread them all over the
floor for us to marvel at.

Compilations are different, though.  I have long filed those in
chronological order
(by period covered), since I think of them in that way.  And I'm about to
do that with
my few thousand 12" dance singles, since, when I want an early 1990s hip-house
track for some reason, I'm not always going to remember some DJ's name.  Does
this mean I break up the Pet Shop Boys' 12-inchers, though, or all the Soft
Cells, and
file them by date rather than by artist?  I'm stuck on this one.

I insist on listening to LPs all the way through, especially when I've just
bought them,
and I won't let myself file them until I've done so.   I write down the
titles of interesting
tracks, under headings I've devised for this purpose -- categories like
"urban nocturnes,"
"crime jazz," "spooky" and so on, thinking that one day I'll make fabulous
compilations
which would make even Nat Kone flush with respect and envy.

Will
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:34:16 -0600
From: "Mark D. Head" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Brass Ring Remix

[e-mail] wrote:

<If anyone cares I uploaded an early version of my remix
of "The Disadvantages of You" titled "The Disadvantages
of Me".>

I'm going to go out on a limb here and risk being unneces-
sarily critical.  When I saw this post, I immediately
went to listen because I love the song.  But I'm finding
myself quite disappointed. (Roy, your remix is simply
what's triggered me to write) - I will say it is cleverly
done, as far as remixes go, and not as weirded out as some
I've heard, but here's my key question/criticism:  Why would
you/anyone want to add a disco-ish/dance-ish/bass 'n' drum-ish
overlay to a cleverly cute pop song?

Or the other songs that so many seem to be re-mixing these
days?  I love Brazilian music and saw a remix CD done by
Roberto Menescal's son, I think, bought it, and was totally
put off and disappointed. Here's my point - The Disadvantages
of You was not intended to be a dance song - why make it one?
The Brazilian remixes ruined that beautiful bossa nova, in my
opinion.  I got another remix CD from Europe through Totall
Recall, I think, and it was the same way, trying to turn all
kinds of non-dance music into a "house" sound or something
sufficiently different from the original as to render it almost
unlistenable - and it's not that I don't like to dance or go
to clubs or Eighteenth Street Lounge-type music, or Dimitri
from Paris' Stylish Girl, etc.

But I can't think of a single remix I've heard that I like better
than the original.  Now, there are reMAKES that I've heard that
are great.  Hell, there are so many covers of so many songs I
wouldn't know where to start.  But remixes in general aren't
doing much for me.

I'll caveat this by saying there are new songs that have various
remixes done, many of which are fine.  I'm limiting these comments
to, mainly, 60's or 70's established tunes being remixed to become
"danceable."

So Roy, this isn't directed at you personally, but at the concept.

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:04:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Brett Leveridge <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny on NPR

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Darrell Brogdon wrote:
> Check out today's Morning Edition on NPR for an interview with
> Martin Denny!  It runs at 10 minutes before the hour in the second
> hour of the show.  Check your local NPR station.


To hear that Denny profile in RealAudio, go here:

http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=01/10/2000&PrgID=3


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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:16:08 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Eno (Wimoweh)

>When I saw it at the front of the pile ,  I did an immediate double take
>(still doing it,  its just too absurd).  Eno has always struck me as being
>far too serious and up his own arse to bother with Easy stuff like this,

I'd suggest a spin of "Here Come The Warm Jets" and "Taking Tiger Mountain
By Strategy" -- he was wonderfully silly back in those days. And of course
the yodeling single, "Seven Deadly Finns".

And for a while there (circa "Another Green World" maybe), he did seem to
have a thing for chintzy rhythm machines.

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:50:06 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Radley Metzger and Happy Balloons

A whole bunch of Radley Metzger films have come out - on DVD too! - and
I've been working my way through them.
There were no credits for music so does anyone have any idea who did the
music for  "The Alley Cats"??  Some of it sounds very familiar, like
something by Billy Mure or Santo and Johnny but with this "gloop gloop"
guitar sound reminiscent of Vinnie Bell.
Not that I'm ever going to find some soundtrack LP but if there were a
soundtrack CD compilation...

On a completely different note, I heard this compilation on Siesta called
"Sombrero" and first of all, I can't tell if it's old stuff, new stuff,
both.  It seems newish but then again there's a Free Design cut.
Anyway there's this cut by The Happy Balloon called "Frightened Girl" which
I thought was boss.  Sort of sounded like Luna but a bit more soft pop and
bossa nova thrown in.  Anyone know if they have a whole record?
And does Siesta have a website?  I tried the likely combinations of www.
and siesta and had no luck.

Brian and Cheryl?  What about it?

Nat



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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:55:27 -0600
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Radley Metzger and Happy Balloons

>And does Siesta have a website?  I tried the likely combinations of www.
>and siesta and had no luck.


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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:13:24 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Happy Balloons & Siesta

The exotica list is alive and well.  I have never seen so many interesting
posts that I want to respond to.   Siesta always catches a must reply from
me.  I posted about Sesta's website last Friday its at
http://www.siesta.es

Sombrero is a magnificant collection of the Modern day Siesta artists.   I
like it more than any other Siesta collection except maybe "Aperitivo"   Its
actually better than Expresso Expresso which was my collection of the year a
few years back.   Sombrero is a collection, a smpler, of modern Siesta
artists from their newest or soon to be released albums.   Sometimes they
throw in an odd tidbit.

Unfortantely I do not know about Happy Ballon's album,  but Siesta has its
fingers in many bowls. They are not listed on the Siesta site.  I find it
amazing that Siesta can put Free Design on its modern soft pop collections
and they seem to fit right in.  Your observation Nat that you are not sure if
these are new or old songs is interesting.  Siesta and the El/Cheery Red
label have a sound that is only a little different from the soft pop we have
been talking about from the 60's.

I highly recommend Sombreo to any fan of soft pop music.  Almost every song
on it is really great soft pop or bossa with that gentle suave cool verve
label feel that Siesta has captured so well.  I will definietly put this on
my list to Peter Risser, which is such a great idea.

Siesta is living proof that modern soft pop is alive and helathy.

Viva Exotca
Chuck

 On a completely different note, I heard this compilation on Siesta called
> "Sombrero" and first of all, I can't tell if it's old stuff, new stuff,
> both.  It seems newish but then again there's a Free Design cut.
> Anyway there's this cut by The Happy Balloon called "Frightened Girl" which
> I thought was boss.  Sort of sounded like Luna but a bit more soft pop and
> bossa nova thrown in.  Anyone know if they have a whole record?
> And does Siesta have a website?  I tried the likely combinations of www.
> and siesta and had no luck.




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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:18:38 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Help! RF problems

In a message dated 1/10/0 1:21:32 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Short of having my entire electrical system redone (which I eventually will
>do someday), what can I do to minimize the RFI or eliminate it?  If I can't
>can't get this fixed, I can't produce a program with records anymore...in
>other words, I can't produce a program!
>
>Your ideas, no matter what, are appreciated.

It is most important that you get the system redone pronto. I'm on my third
house (yes Nat I am older than you AND rich beyond belief too!) and I've done
it each time. It never cost me more than $2500, and that was when I needed
three redone rooms rewired up through the walls as well. Not chump change to
be sure, but you most likely just need a new circuit breaker box (100 amps
should be fine) which is grounded and new outlets for the thicker plugs in
operation since the early 8T's. I suspect your wiring is probably ok. If you
have serious production needs, have your electrician run you two GFC outlets
to your area of production (hopefully near your circuit breaker box) which
should handle everything. Have someone recommend you the electricians and
take 3 bids. Go with the one you have the best rapport with and don't pay him
the final installment (1/3 usually) until you're satisfied the job is done
properly....Jimmy Botticelli


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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:25:08 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) ENO

In a message dated 1/10/0 10:35:31 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Still like the
>original (by the Tokens??)

Actually the song ("The Lion Sleeps Tonight") is an old African folk
song..Thanks to Thomas "Alien" Uebel for digging up the original in 1985.
Jimmy


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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:48:09 -0500
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) record habits

Glad to see the list active again (although it means it takes way more
time to read it, let alone get around to responding to stuff....)

So here's how we treat our collection:

>  I've always been curious as to 'how' the people here listen
> to and handle their records.  Do you listen to an entire side all the
> way through, or just test a couple of spots searching for some cool
> sound?   Do you alphabetize or otherwise sort your records? Do you pare
> your collection down to a few essential LPs, or do you keep most of
> them?

I usually listen to a record or CD all the way through - if I have the
chance, I will listen to bits of it first before buying it (this only
works with CDs, not LPs), so I have an idea of what to expect.  But I
like to listen to a new acquisition all the way through at least the
first time.  Usually, I make mental notes on it if a particular piece
gives me an idea for a Space Bop show (which I of course never write
down, and proceed to forget the majority of...)  Of course, I also read
magazines cover to cover, from beginning to end, so maybe I'm just a
little anal-retentive...

We used to keep our records in categories, and then by alphabetical
order, but it got too complicated - we would forget which category
something was in, and then the categories started increasing, so now
everything is alphabetical, with compilations under "various" in
alphabetical order.  We also have a database with everything listed, so
if I forget the name of an artist, or title of an album, I can always
reference it by checking the database.  Brian has just added some
categories to the database, for additional cross-referencing, which will
be helpful - it's the biggest pain going when we try to compile a
special show (ie - christmas or halloween) and can't remember everything
in the collection that would be relevant (inevitably I find something
that we forgot about and therefore didn't include, the day after the
show has been aired, and kick myself)

And we keep most of our LPs - once a year or so we try to pare down the
collection, just getting rid of the duds we bought - we're running out
of room for stuff, but that in itself wouldn't prompt me to get rid of
anything.  I try to be a little more selective about LP purchases,
although Brian has been known to get carried away, especially if the
word schlager is involved...


ciao,

cheryl


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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:05:04 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Anita Kerr

From the liner notes to "And Now from.. The Anita Kerr Orchestra".

"Anita Kerr is a tiny little lass.  Nice, like tiny littles are supposed to
be nice.  Young and maybe a little shy.  She has a soft little voice.  And
if a drummer asks her what he's supposed to play from bar ten to fourteen,
this tiny little cuddly thing will bend over her score for a moment,
smelling of lilac you can bet.  And then, in her soft little voice, like
pretty Miss Amy Jensen who taught you fingerpainting, she'll say "Why
not..." and then she'll pause, as if she's afraid to hurt anyone's feelings
and then say very, very slow... "Why don't we try triplets there?"
And the odd thing is, nobody giggles when she says it.
Because she's Anita Kerr, the Indira Ghandi of the music world."

Get it straight, is she Indira Ghandi or is she Claudine Longet?
And who's Miss Amy Jensen?



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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:09:39 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny on NPR

is this a repeat?  didn't they record this a couple of years ago?

i have yet to listen to it completely, the realaudio link keeps messing up,
but i seem to remember hearing this before.

tb


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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 21:28:33 +0100
From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 2280 music links

Lost of interesting links on this site:
http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~schneide/music/music.php3

Enough to keep us busy for a couple of days!

Marco

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:28:21 -0600
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Anita Kerr

Speaking of Anita Kerr, an old pal of mine, who used to be an
announcer in the so-called Golden Days of Radio, remembers
working at a Memphis radio station in the 1940s.  The Grilli family,
mainly Mama Grilli, had a regular radio show on which the various
sons and daughters used to perform.  One of the Grilli daughters
was a good enough keyboard player to be hired as the station's
staff pianist while still in her teens.  She eventually left the station
to hit the club circuit as a pianist and my friend lost track of her.
Years later, he was astounded to learn she'd grown up to become
Anita Kerr!


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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:48:45 -0800
From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Sukia

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Robbie Baldock
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 3:15 PM
> But apparently Sukia are no more.  However, I
> know of at least three side projects which may or not be still on the
> go:

> DJ Me DJ You

DJ Me DJ You also recently collaborated on a bunch of tracks on Takako
Minekawa's "Fun9" album (lots of fun, by the way, though not as bleepy as
"Cloudy Cloud...")

Later,
Ben

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:47:37 -0500
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Breakbeat and Sway

At 10:09 AM -0500 1/10/00, Reader Geoff wrote:

>...Mucho Mambos version of 'Sway', ....
>does anyone know where the vocal comes from?

It's credited on the sleeve as Donna Canale. The artist is actually Shaft,
not Mucho Mambo as I wrote before. Skeewiff's remix on the 12" is my fave
of the 4. And yes, it was used in a television spot.

>Anyone an idea on the definitive version?

I'd vote for the original by Dean Martin, although Julie London has a nice
version as well.

I mentioned this one before, but if anyone's looking for a good intro to
the world of breakbeat, you must find the album "Kinky Beats" on the
Lacerba (UK) label, available in both LP and CD formats. It features new
break tracks interspersed with 70's Now Sound and funky breaks (like the
Incredible Bongo Band's version of 'Apache'). Other highly recommended LP's
include "El Grand Ritmo de Mike Young"- Mike Young (Donna Lee, UK), "Muy
Rico!" - Jacknife Lee (Pussyfoot, UK), "Fusa Riot" - Bobby Hughes
Experience (Ultimate Dilemma, UK), "Conga Heaven, Bongo Hell" - Los
Chicharrons (Tummy Touch, UK), "Confessions of a Selector" - Tim "Love" Lee
(Tummy Touch, UK), "It's A Finger Lickin' Thang" - V.A. (Finger Lickin',
UK). Other labels to keep an eye out for include Marble Bar, FSUK, Wall Of
Sound, Jalapeno, and Faith & Hope.

br cleve


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