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exotica-digest       Wednesday, January 19 2000       Volume 02 : Number 602



In This Digest:

(exotica) re: Mauriat
(exotica) re: Mauriat
(exotica) Liquid Room-1/15
Re: (exotica) re: Mauriat/Hippie Goddesses
Re: (exotica) re: Mauriat
(exotica) [obits] Herb Graff,Meche Barba,Alphonse Boudard,``Ben'' Masselink,John Newland,John Morris Rankin
(exotica) Re:paris records shop
Re: (exotica) Sampling vs. Playing
(exotica) Jerry Lewis live in Vegas
(exotica) StratoLite Brand Radio
(exotica) CD Reviews
(exotica) the vanishing waltz
Re: (exotica) audio learning laboratory/last call
Re: (exotica) Sampling vs. Playing
Re: (exotica) the vanishing waltz
Re: (exotica) Breathe in...breathe out
(exotica) Not music related, info. about CD-R stability......
(exotica) FWD> allmusicservices clearance CDs
(exotica) Musicianship and Musicality
(exotica) Sammy D
(exotica) Sampling in hiphop - was something else I forgot to paste out of  the digest
(exotica) re: Pee-Wee's Quiet Village
(exotica) Re: "Born Bad"

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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:55:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: Mauriat

In all this discussion on Mauriat, I'm surprised
no-ones mentioned his excellent covers!  Those birds
are worth the price of the record alone!

Peter
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:55:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: Mauriat

In all this discussion on Mauriat, I'm surprised
no-ones mentioned his excellent covers!  Those birds
are worth the price of the record alone!

Peter
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:28:07 -0800
From: "Ponak, David" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Liquid Room-1/15

The Liquid Room airs every Saturday Morning (Friday night) from 3-6 on 90.7
FM KPFK. (98.7 in Santa Barbara County).

Also check out my show  The Nice Age at  http://www.spikeradio.com. The time
has changed. I'm now on Sunday afternoons from 3-6 PM, PST.


The Liquid Room-1/15/99:

1.The Comittee-California My Way
Happy Together: The Best Of White Whale Records (Varese Sarabande)

2.Mellow-Instant Love
(single) (East/West UK)

3.Le Maledictus Sounds-Jim Clark Was Driving Recklessly
s/t (Mucho Gusto-Canada)

4.Lee Hazlewood-She Comes Running
13 (SLR)

5.The Third Wave-Don't Ever Go
Here And Now (Crippled Dick)

6.Aimee Mann-Build That Wall
Magnolia Soundtrack (Reprise)

7.Jerry Lewis-Rock A Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
Just Sings (Decca)

8.Jim O'Rourke-Not Sport Martial Art
Halfway To A Threeway (Drag City)

9.Brian Eno-The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Eno Box II (EG)

10.Stevie Wonder-Another Star
At The Close Of A Century (Box Set) (Motown)

11.Cornelius-Brand New Season (Giant Ear Mix)
Free Fall (Single b-side) (Matador-UK)

12.Bjork-Isobel (Deodato Remix)
single (One Little Indian-UK)

13.Leslie Gore-What Am I Gonna Do With You
It's My Party (Box Set) (Bear Family-Germany)

14.Baxendale-Music For Girls
Was It Him Or His Music? (Various artists sampler-Le Grand Magistery)

15.Michel Polnareff-Miss Blue Jeans
Les Premiere Annes (box set) (Universal-France)

16.Melon-Quiet Village ('92 Mix)
Deep Cut Remix (Sony Japan)

17.M. Frog-We Are Crazy
Labat (Bearsville)

18.Ethel Azama-Ringo Oiwake
Exotic Dreams (Liberty)

19.Swing Slow (Harry Hosono & Miharu Koshi)-Yuki Ya Konko
Swing Slow (Mercury-Japan)

20.Yuji Oniki-Tokyo Clover (Refrain)
Orange (1 Plus 1)

21.The Free Design-You Be You And I'll Be Me
Heaven/Earth (Teijuku-Japan)

22.Bertrand Burgalat-Sexy Boy
Au Royaume De Tricatel (L'Appareill Photo-Japan)

23.Etienne Charry-Raye Du Bottin
36 Erreurs (Tricatel-France)

24.Jerry Lewis-I've Got The World On A String
Just Sings (Decca)

25.Cibo Matto-We Love Our Lawyers
At Home With The Groovebox (Grand Royal)

26.Davie Allan & The Arrows-Shape Of Things To Come
The Wild Angels & Other Themes (Curb)

27.Arling & Cameron-Hashi
Music For Imaginary Films (Emperor Norton)

28.Isaac Hayes-In Pursuit Of The Pimpmobile
Truck Turner Soundtrack (Stax)

29.Pizzicato Five-Goodbye Baby & Amen
Pizzicato Five (*********-Japan)

30.The Divine Comedy-Frog Princess (Live)
Rarities (Setanta-UK)

31.Scott Walker-Stormy
Till The Band Comes In (BGO-UK)

32.Roy Budd-Goodbye Carter
Get Carter Soundtrack (Castle-UK)

33.Professor Takeo Yamashita-Playgirl (The Readymade Darlin' Of Discoteque
Track)
Mission 4 (Escalator-Japan)

34.Yashuharu Konishi-Main Theme
I Messaggeri Degi Imbecilli Van All Ovest (Wave)

35.Nino & April-You'll Be Needing Me Baby
All Strung Out (Varese Sarabande)

36.The Critters-Mr. Dieingly Sad
Younger Girl (Kapp)

37.Mama Cass-The Good Times Are Coming
Dream A Little Dream-The Best Of Cass Elliot (MCA)

38.Tommy Roe-Now Its Winter Day
Greatest Hits (MCA)

39.The Fur Ones-Organic In The Park
Odd Numbers (Monorail)

40.Ketty Lester-Love Letters
Blue Velvet Soundtrack (Varese Sarabande)

41.Astrud Gilberto-Where There's A Heartache (There Must Be A Heart)
Astrud Gilberto (Columbia/CTI)

42.Paul Williams-Morning I'll Be Movin' On
Someday Man (Reprise)



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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:46:35 -0500
From: Bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) re: Mauriat/Hippie Goddesses

>In all this discussion on Mauriat, I'm surprised
>no-ones mentioned his excellent covers!  Those birds
>are worth the price of the record alone!


Perfect segue to a new CD bootleg i just bought and am enjoying immensely!

Beware: this CD is contains pure Woman-Power!, Love Goddess
folk/psychedelic tunes guaranteed to make you sweat. the Xaviera Hollander
bit is hilarious.


here is the write up in Forced Exposure
Hippie Goddesses
A bootleg compilation of 60s/70s femme-sploited psych album tracks,
subtitled "The most sexciting moments ever put on record!"
                   Features select tracks by cult artists such as Sally
Eaton, Linda Perhacs, Carolyn Hester, etc. -- as if the compiler went
through his
                   collection of catalogs by Paul Major of Parallel World
to find the most obscure and exotic psych tracks with the female pulse. The
final
tracks is a bizarre spoken word hippie encounter by Xaviera Hollander, the
original Happy Hooker. Annoying presentation: no artists are identified by
their
full name & and the full color booklet of notes and "era-minded" notes
neglects a basic track listing, giving it a somewhat dodgy feel. "Calling
all swingers!
Here's a super sexy psychedelic trippy acid audio fantasy just for you! If
you got off on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls you'll bust blood vessels
over this!
Wanna hear spaced out hippie chicks groove to the acid beat of LSD! Then
meet Cheryl, Collen, Michele, Sally, Carolyn, Tobie, Marge, Ruth, Linda,
Lilly,
Maria, Xaviera and their friends!!! This CD contains the best and rarest in
1960s-70s femme psych compiled for the first time for your aural enjoyment.
Truly
a dedication to the passionate female musicians of the 1960s. It's
Sex-a-delic! It's a Love-In! It's a Freak-Out! It's What's Happening! Are
you man enough to
groove with these voluptuous siren's?" In the name of informational
freedom, we have secured the rights to publish the secret tracklisting for
this comp: 1.
SALLY EATON: "Flowers In the Air" 2. COLLEEN LOVETT: "Birds with Broken
Wings Pt 1" 3. CHERYL DILCHER: "All Woman" 4. COLLEEN
LOVETT: "Women Liberation Blues" 5. CHERYL DILCHER: "High" 6. CAROLYN
HESTER: "I'm Magic, Man" 7. LILLY & MARIA: "EveryBody
Knows" 8. MICHELE: "Smilin'" 9. MARGO GURYAN: "Love" 10. TOBIE COLUMBUS:
"Come In My Mouth" 11. RUTH COPELAND: "Your Love
Been So Good To Me" 12. COLLEEN LOVETT: "Asleep In His Arms (part)" 13.
COLLEEN LOVETT: "Love Man" 14. MICHELE: "Believe You" 15.
LINDA PERHACS: "Parallelograms" 16. COLLEEN LOVETT: "Birds with Broken
Wings Pt 2" 17. XAVIERA HOLLANDER: "The Hippie"



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Defective Records
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:41:58 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) re: Mauriat

Just thrifted Love Is Blue today in near mint and yesterday in okay
condition.
Looking forward to more Mauriat magic covers

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

- --- Peter Risser <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> In all this discussion on Mauriat, I'm surprised
> no-ones mentioned his excellent covers!  Those birds
> are worth the price of the record alone!

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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:54:07 -0500
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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Herb Graff,Meche Barba,Alphonse Boudard,``Ben'' Masselink,John Newland,John Morris Rankin

                            *Herb Graff
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Herb Graff, who devoted most of his life to
collecting, preserving and showing movies, died of heart failure
Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 74.
    Graff began collecting movies as a teen-ager, buying one-reelers
and even scraps of film discarded by film companies. His collection
eventually grew to several hundred features and more than 1,000
shorts, and his calling card read simply, ``Film Resource.''
    His principal interest was in early talkies, especially
musicals, but his collection included silent films and works from
the 1940s. Born in Boston and raised in Brooklyn, Graff was active
for many years as a consultant and lecturer, showing his movies on
a 16-millimeter projector, often with a scratchy soundtrack.
    He offered a series of public screenings, and also showed films
on PBS and at Town Hall in Manhattan.
    Though he was never a critic or author, he was considered a
significant contributor to the art of movies, knowing more about
them than most historians or archivists.
    Despite his passion for film, it was a second job for Graff, who
worked as a salesman in the garment industry until 1983. He then
went to work for the Castle Hill film company and remained a movie
professional for the rest of his life.
    In a 1989 profile in The New Yorker, Graff recalled saying to
himself, ``Were I to die my tombstone would read, ``Here lies Herb
Graff, Sold Shirts in White, Pink, Beige and Blue, and Every Five
Years Lilac.''
- ----------

 *Meche Barba
    MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Meche Barba, a circus performer's daughter
whose smoldering beauty brought her fame as a dancer in Mexican
films, died Friday of pulmonary emphysema. She was 77.
    Mercedes Barba Feito was born in New York, where her
Spanish-born father, Antonio, had been performing with a circus.
    Barba and her sister Carmen began performing as children to help
support the family when their father fell ill. Appearances on
Mexico's premier theater stages led to film roles starting in 1937.
    Though Barba once insisted she wasn't pretty enough to be a film
star, she won acclaim for her beauty and her acting presence.
During Mexico's ``Golden Age'' of cinema, she was cast beside stars
such as singer Jorge Negrete and German Valdes, the comic actor
better known as Tin Tan.
    She came to be known as ``the queen of the rumba,'' for her
sensuous dancing in more than 50 films.
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?UID=2:41:11|PM&p=avg&sql=B3805
- ----------
 *Alphonse Boudard
    NICE, France (AP) -- French writer Alphonse Boudard, who brought
the world of his rough youth to his novels, died Friday. He was 74.
    Boudard was hospitalized a week ago, suffering from heart
problems and respiratory difficulties.
    An illegitimate child, Boudard spent much of his youth on the
streets with petty criminals. He used to say he was bilingual,
speaking both French and slang.
    Boudard made his debut on the literary scene with the novel
``The Metamorphosis of the Woodlice,'' which he wrote in 1962 after
spending four years in jail for burglary.
    In 1963, Boudard's novel, ``The Cherry,'' won the Sainte-Beuve
prize and ``The Fighters for Small Happiness'' won the Renaudot
prize in 1977.
    The prestigious Academie Francaise awarded his ``To Die from
Childhood'' a great novel prize in 1995.
    Boudard was also a scriptwriter, specializing in dialogue for
movies like ``Trouble in Panama'' from 1965 and ``The Sun of the
Vandals'' from 1967.
    He married in 1958, and had two sons.
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?UID=2:41:11|PM&p=avg&sql=B226762
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    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Benjamin ``Ben'' Masselink, a novelist,
columnist and script writer for ``Hawaii Five-O'' and ``Starsky and
Hutch,'' died Thursday of prostate cancer. He was 80.
    Masselink wrote a column called ``Tales of an Ancient
Beachcomber.'' It most recently ran in the Daily Breeze, published
in Torrance.
    His work also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, TV Guide,
Playboy, the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal and
Cosmopolitan.
    Masselink wrote a series of books, and in the 1960s focused on
television writing and produced scripts for ``Dr. Kildare,''
``Marcus Welby, M.D.,'' ``Barnaby Jones,'' ``Hawaii Five-O'' and
``Starsky and Hutch.''

                           *John Newland
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- John Newland, the dignified host of the old
``Alcoa Presents'' television series, died Jan. 10. He was 82.
    Newland directed and was the host of all 99 segments of ``Alcoa
Presents,'' which ran from 1959-61. The show dramatized case
histories of supposed occult phenomena. It later went into
syndication as ``One Step Beyond.''
    He also had roles on ``Robert Montgomery Presents,'' ``Philco
Playhouse,'' ``Studio One'' and ``Kraft Theater.''
    He directed TV movies and episodes of many shows, including
``The Loretta Young Show,'' ``Alfred Hitchcock Presents,'' ``Wonder
Woman'' and ``Fantasy Island.''
    He was 51 when he directed his first film, ``My Lover, My Son,''
a 1969 British feature about incest starring Romy Schneider.
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?UID=2:41:11|PM&p=avg&sql=B104365
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                         *John Morris Rankin
    MARGAREE HARBOUR, Nova Scotia (AP) -- John Morris Rankin, a
member of the musical family that helped popularize Cape
Breton-style Celtic music, was killed Sunday when his truck ran off
a road into the ocean. He was 40.
    Rankin died while driving his son and two other teen-agers to a
morning hockey game. The three youths were all rescued unharmed
from the frigid ocean water off Nova Scotia in eastern Canada.
    Rankin played fiddle and piano with his four siblings in groups
known first as The Rankin Family and then the Rankins. Their music
drew from the strong traditional Celtic roots of Cape Breton
island, a part of Nova Scotia.
    The group sold more than 2 million records and won five Juno
Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy. The Rankins broke up
last summer so members could pursue independent careers.
http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=2:43:53|PM&p=amg&sql=B160121
http://elvispelvis.com/johnmorrisrankin.htm
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More info on Gene Harris:
http://elvispelvis.com/geneharris.htm
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 21:28:13 +0100
From: Bissia <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:paris records shop

So were is "born bad", i need the address for my next visit to Paris,
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 15:13:34 -0500
From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sampling vs. Playing

This question is a really interesting one--but I'd be wary of making
too many generalizations about it.

Digital music gear, like any other technology, makes certain things
easier and certain things harder to do--and so inevitably it affects
the styles of music people play. But I would claim that people remain
just as creative as they were (or were not) in the past. It's just
that they're developing their skills in new areas. So we don't quite
know yet what it would mean for somebody to be the "Mozart of
sampling."

Right now people can make music with incredibly complex layered
rhythms, and with an enormous palette of sound timbres--it may be the
richest moment so far in history for those areas.

Looping and sampling can open up music-making to people who never had
much success with acoustic instruments (as in my case, with those
disastrous, scarring, childhood viola lessons). So in that sense it's
a "democratizing" technology--which I think is healthy.

But it's true that the "default" mode for loop-based music is a lot
of monotonous repetition, with the kind of rigid quality Mo was
talking about. (I was just thinking that  the polar opposite might be
something like Japanese Shakuhachi flute music--where the meter is
very indeterminate, and the nuances of each breath become important.)

(Needless to say, we can safely predict that in a few years there
will be some massive backlash against all this. . . )

Now, I find that the metronomic beat of some rhythm loops has a
positive quality, too--you know, the hypnotic thing. . . But it does
help when that is *contrasted* against some more live, human elements.

I feel mostly lost when it comes to current music. . . but just as
one example I think Underworld's _Beaucoup Fish_ is a case where the
loops & samples are nicely balanced against interesting dynamics, and
other more "humane" qualities. . .

cheers,
  --Ross

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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:17:18 -0800
From: "Ponak, David" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jerry Lewis live in Vegas

This past Saturday (1/15) I made the trek from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to
pay my respects to my hero, Jerry Lewis, who was doing a 4 night stand at
the Orleans Casino. The show was a blast. At 73, the man has an unbelievable
amount of energy. Backed up by a 30 (ish) piece orchestra, the (2 hour!)
show was a combination of stand-up, songs, video clips, monologues, and
physical routines. The stand-up jokes were definitely groaners, but
everything else was a blast. He mimed to an old Mario Lanza record, did the
typewriter routine, the little boy monologue, and countless others. A
special thrill was his singing "That Ol' Black Magic." Buddy Love lives!


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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:53:26 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) StratoLite Brand Radio

Someone told me about this web page: http://www.stratolite.com/dyn/MRN/

Some kind of shopping web page with RealPlayer radio. Some exotica and
lounge selections.

Les Baxter and UL featured in the "top drawer" page.

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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:26:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) CD Reviews

A few CDs IÆve picked up since Xmas or so, thought IÆd
drop a line:

MoPlen 2000: ItÆs not bad for the Italian promo
reissue stuff.  Nothing that really screams, but itÆs
all decent to pretty good.  Not a resounding
endorsement, but I ainÆt sellinÆ it.

Scoctopus: The first half of this disc is just
funky-ish piano jazz a la johnny pearson or soul
orchestral.  It sounds like Vince Guaraldi to me, but
itÆs listenable.  The second half makes this a must
have with funky vocalise over flutes, guitars and
horns.  Who is Roberto Conrado?  He rocks.

Cornelius: Okay, I dissed it before, put it down for
eight months and tried again.  I like it.  DonÆt LOVE
it, but itÆs pretty good Jap pop all the way through.

Dusty in Memphis: DidnÆt dig it.  Very syrupy, I
thought, and not what I wanted, which is more Son of a
Preacher Man stuff.  Her version of Windmills of Your
Mind is good too.  A few of the bonus tracks were more
in my line as well, but overall, IÆm sellinÆ this one.

Dean Martin Capitol Collection: Well, as I heard more
and more from olÆ Deano, I thought, boy I really dig
this cat.  So, why not.  Well, apparently because I
had heard all the good songs.  All the songs I had
heard were good ones, all the ones I hadnÆt were sorta
stinkers, in my opinion.  IÆm sure heÆs got other good
stuff out there, it just didnÆt make its way here.
Sell it.

Music from the Man from UNCLE and More Music...:
Arranged by Hugo Montenegro, but composed by all sorts
of people, these two discs are great.  Much better
than I ever expected.  TheyÆre Spanish RCA imports
though, which sucks.  Still, decent quality and
fanTAStic tunes.

Mission: Impossible, Then and Now: Nah.  Not even the
Lalo stuff sticks with you and the other dude (Mr.
Now), well, itÆs not very good.  This is on GNP
Crescendo, but I wanted to hear some of the ôthenö
stuff.  I was disappointed.

Love Organ (from Laserlight): A very mediocre comp,
even at a low price.  Nothing that stood out and lots
to ignore.  IÆm not getting any of the other
Laserlights either at this point, unless someone
convinces me different.

Music for the Jet Set and LymansÆ Sonic Sixties: From
HiFi records, both snoozers in my opinion.  I usually
love covers, but LymanÆs covers are so uninspired IÆve
completely forgotten which ones he addressed.  And the
jet set comp was just all over the map, with some
world music and forgettable exotica tracks thrown in.
Both of these were disappointing and will pretty much
keep me from HiFi releases in the future.

Pop Romantique - Various artists covering Serge,
Francois Hardy and Bob Dylan tunes all in french.  A
very nice package for an English speaker, but for you
Francophiles, I donÆt know if itÆd go over as well.
Still, I like it and listen to it when I want
something soft, vaguely alternative and interesting.
A nice package.

Maracas, Marimbas and Mambos, music from MGM films:
From Rhino, a very documentarial set.  Quite humdrum,
unless you are really totally into old film and then
you might want to have it around as a reference.  But
I could barely make it through one run alive.  Sell
it.

The Reel Quincy Jones: A great comp from Hip-O.  I
wish there were more bits from cool movie soundtracks
and less from The Color Purple and Roots.  Still, they
had to be fair.  ItÆs got the long Sanford and Son
theme, Hikky Burr from the Bill Cosby show in the 70s,
plus killer tracks from Mr. Tibbs, Pawnbroker, $,
Anderson Tapes, the Wiz and so on.  Lots of nice funky
stuff here.

ThatÆs it for me.  Let me know what you think.

Thanks for listening.
Peter
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:03:35 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) the vanishing waltz

Have you ever had the experience where someone points out to you that
something is missing, and you go 'Oh My God, You're right! ... I never
noticed that before'  I just had that experience.

The Washington Post just had an article about the vanishing waltz.  I
know that the waltz is far from being 'exotica', but I figured most of
you have skimmed past hundreds of waltz LPs from the 1950's in the
thrift bins without noticing that it has really been in hiding mode
lately.

So here's the article link, if you're interested.  Good perspectives on
how dance fads rise and fall, a mention of a Henry Mancini tune, and
even a few quotes from the Athur Murray dance schools.  If you're the
type of person who at least ONCE tried to learn some dance from the
foot-step patterns on the back of an LP, then I think you'll like this
article.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/16/025l-011600-idx.html

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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:51:11 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) audio learning laboratory/last call

At 12:08 PM 1/18/00 -0500, Bump wrote:
>
>P.S. Nat, you sure you don't wanna do this?  ;)

One of your posts describing this ring said something like "You might get
assigned a correspondent in Europe and you might have to send him tapes
every couple of weeks but that's the luck of the draw" or words to that
effect.
And as much as I love Europe and especially our members in Europe, I just
don't trust myself to make it to the post office every two weeks with
another tape, let alone make the tape.
And to be honest, I still don't know what I'll be receiving.  Every other
day, I'll get someone else's tape and then I listen to it a couple of times
and then mail it to Europe?
I'm pretty I just don't get it.

Nat



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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:46:24 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sampling vs. Playing

Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr wrote: >(...)

D'accord to all you said, Ross. I don't really know why this thing turned into
a controversy anyway. The main factor of confusion, as I see it, was mixing up
sampling and programming, which are two very different things.

> (I was just thinking that  the polar opposite might be
> something like Japanese Shakuhachi flute music--where the meter is
> very indeterminate, and the nuances of each breath become important.)

Funny coincidence: Just 3 days ago, on Saturday, I was listening to an old
tape of Japanese theater music, and decided that this is the most interesting
music of all and that I want to get into it deeper. Any idea where to start?

> (Needless to say, we can safely predict that in a few years there
> will be some massive backlash against all this. . . )

And we are working on it right now!

Mo


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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:05:46 -0500
From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) the vanishing waltz

One of the great waltzes (albeit 30-odd years ago):

Manic Depression - Jimi Hendrix

ck

there was a great LP called the waltz project, and there are numerous,
but not thought of as such, waltzes around...


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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:19:25 -0500
From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Breathe in...breathe out

"David J. Strauss" <[e-mail]> writes:

>> From: <Charles_Moseley/LON/Europe/MCKINSEY->>[e-mail]>
>> Anybody know Journey To Bliss by Emil Richards and the
>>Microtonal Blues Band?
>
>Pretty excellent. Side two is a sidelong narrated travelogue of
>inner space, as Richards takes us on a "journey".
>
>As Verve is running the Impulse! label, don't expect to see this
>on disc anytime soon.

I thought that Impulse was under GRP; granted Verve and GRP are
both now run by Universal.


Peter
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:46:47 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Not music related, info. about CD-R stability......

Just an FYI from another newsgroup:

I'm learning about ageing characteristics of CDRs right now.  A number of =
my year-old blank-labeled (no painted label) CDRs are turning from silver =
to brown around substantial areas of the outside edges.  Now that's =
unstable.  They still work, but if the sputtered aluminum mirror is =
browning, it's probably only a matter of time before the data contrast =
disappears.  (Actually, I suspect it'll be a long while before real =
problems surface.)  I have no idea what's happening to the CDRs with =
painted labels, as the mirror coat is unviewable.  I've been thinking of =
inert atmospheres and CDR stability for the past few weeks now.  Doubt =
I'll take any action, just trying to learn about the limits.

My latest learnings: Do NOT allow the blank-labeled (unpainted) CDRs to =
contact fingerprints or other CDR surfaces (as when restacked).  These =
coatings are way fragile and reactive, though felt markers seem to work OK =
on them.  Once exposed to the air, CDRs can attract dirt which will cause =
scratching of the data-layer if restacked.  I now only buy CDRs with =
FULL-COVERAGE painted labels protecting the superthin mirror surface.

Just my genuinely unqualified opinion (though I did do semi-related =
research work at the Univ of MN's Center for Micromagnetics and Information=
 Technology for a number of years, so something may have rubbed off),
Shoe.




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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:46:20 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) FWD> allmusicservices clearance CDs

From: [e-mail]
Subject: More clearance CDs

Mandingo, PRIMAL RHYTHM OF LIFE (import)--$9.99
Soundtrack, FROM EROTIC FILMS THE PLEASURE OF MUSIC (import)--$11.99
Original soundtrack (Henry Mancini), THE PARTY (Japanese import)--$17.99




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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:50:57 -0800
From: "Stephen W. Worth" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Musicianship and Musicality

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:05:25 +1100
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) URIPEEWEE and Cut-em-Up Rage

>It saddens me a bit to read that one of the major 'reasons' why people
>sample is by a professed lack of musical ability.

In the first half of this century, quality of music was a matter of
musicality (pure music) and musicianship (skill at playing). Today
musicality has swamped musicianship. This isn't a recent thing. It
goes back to the advent of modern Rock n Roll and the Beatles. Not
that the Beatles were bad, mind you... they had more musicality as
composers and performers than a hundred of their peers. They just
set the wrong example for others to follow who weren't as gifted
as they were. Everyone is looking for a shortcut I guess.

See ya
Steve

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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:01:12 -0600
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sammy D

This just landed in my mailbox from Rhino Records.  "Sammy and
Friends", featuring Sammy doing tunes with the Rat Pack guys, plus
Basie, Buddy Rich, Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Jimmie Haskell and Sam
Butera & The Witnesses.  It's a nice mix, including rare tracks from
"Ocean's Eleven", plus "Johnny Cool", "Salt and Pepper" and "Robin
and the 7 Hoods".  Some of these tracks are probably available
already, but the "Ocean's Eleven" tunes, according to the liners,
have never been on CD before.  Love that "EE-O-Eleven"!

Darrell Brogdon
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KANU Radio
Broadcasting Hall
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at:
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:17:11 -0000
From: Reader Geoff <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sampling in hiphop - was something else I forgot to paste out of  the digest

I thought the roots of sampling in HipHop were (was) down to 'turntablism',
cutting and scratching and mixing records together, for example listen to
'Grandmaster flash and his adventures on the wheels of steel' from around
'81.  The Grandmaster and his Technics live in the studio mixing up Chics
'Good Times',  Blondies 'Rapture',  Queen and the Furious Five.

Once samplers became inexpensive (I heard the residents payed 15,000 UK
Pounds for the rental of Emulators for the Mole show tour in '83?) they
would be a natural choice,  they are a lot more consistant,  and easier to
use.  I hate to think how many takes it took for Wheels of Steel to go down
onto tape in the version it did.

As a HipHop art form it was quite widespread,  once they'd had record
contracts the DJ's used to play Instrumental versions for the MC's to rap
over (though I saw LL Cool J rapping over vocal versions of his stuff),  but
the DJ would usually have some slot in the show where they could show off
their skills.  It is pretty impressive watching someone play a 1 bar break
on 2 decks switching between them and keeping the beat.

'Rock tha beat with your hand'

El Maestro Con Queso

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> In early days using a
>sample by one of your musical heroes was more like a hommage to that artist
>and not a rip off, especially when black musicians sampled black musicians.
>White musicians often used "black samples", because there was no white
>musician who could play or sing like that. Was that incorrect?

Politically incorrect?  Probably.  Factually incorrect?  Probably that too.

I don't even know what the argument is but I've always assumed that samples
were used in hip hop for one reason above all.  They were cheap.  They were
do-it-yourself.  Even if you could play an instrument, which many couldn't,
it was still much cheaper to use the samples.


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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:17:16 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) re: Pee-Wee's Quiet Village

>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: (exotica) Pee Wee's Quiet Village

>I got the Denny album "Exotic Moog" some months ago
>and listened to the  "Quiet Village"(moog version)
>which is also on Ultra Lounge 18 - Bottoms Up!.
>I recognized it as part of the opening theme song
>to the 1980's Pee Wee's Playhouse show.

Sometime late in the run of "Pee-Wee's Playhouse", the theme song was changed
to sound less like Quiet Village. I guess that the publishers of QV made 'em
do it.
Larry


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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:43:22 -0500
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Subject: (exotica) Re: "Born Bad"

OK I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in Paris in record
stores... Anyway, "Born Bad" is a newer one in the Opera Bastille
district where most of the most interesting stores in Paris continue
to be (U Bahn & Rough Trade were also in the same area).  I don't
know thew exact address but it's on Rue Keller.  It specializes in
garage, surf, punk and is one of few store with old French pop 45's
that are affordable! I remember some very odd classification titles
but this is where you'd most likekly find compilations like "Ils sont
fous ces Gauloises" or "Swingin Mademoiselles".

"Wave" is the place to go for anyone into experimental music, and
is an offshoot of the very good store of same name in Nancy.
"Bimbo Tower" is perhaps the best stocked store I've ever come
across for oddities, mainly Japanese.  You could spend hours here
(just ask Cheryl!)  just looking at the collection even though the
store itself is tiny The store is a testament to the dedication of of
those that operate it.  An absoulute must visit and while there say
hi to Franq who is one half of the group Dragibus.  Both these
stores are within blocks of each other in the same Opera Bastille
district.

Dan mentioned a store in Paris with Crocodile or Alligator in the
name.  This is "Crocodisc" and its offshhot "CrocoJazz".  Both are
side by side on Rue des Ecoles, near the Sorbonne.  This store
has been around since our first visit in 1980 and it was in that time
a really good store. I have to admit to being seriously disappointed
last visit this past fall.  It is full of vinyl but prices are ridiculously
high - even for Europe, bins are over stocked, and there is nothing
of interest in the place unless you like mainstream rock/jazz. I'm
not sure why this store is still in operation but I think all cities have
these kind of places.

The store I most miss is Odd Size, located in a fascinating yet
most unlikely district for an experimental record store. I've heard
the owner has closed to take a break after many years and I only
hope he will someday return. This store was the highlight of our
1995 visit.

Sorry I'm not able to add this all to Dan's site for the next while.

I will try to update the Montreal listings once I get some time to do
so. I don't get to stores so often anymore but as North American
cities go, it is still a goldmine for French and other European
oldies.  Prices are comparatively low (especially if you happen to
be from the US or UK!) and there's something for every
pocketbook.  No you don't get Esquivels for a buck, and well you
could at one time get copies of Bimbo Jet for a buck but that's
another story... but what am I saying, Moritz or Nat can both vouch
for the pickings here if you need a second opinion!


Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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