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exotica-digest       Wednesday, February 2 2000       Volume 02 : Number 613



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Las Vegas Grind
(exotica) <no subject>
(exotica) Tiki Gardens, Florida
Re: (exotica) House of the Rising Sun
(exotica) Space Age Don Juan: Managers of the flesh compete for pimp of the year at Chicago's annual Players Ball.
(exotica) Re: Tiki Restuarant - The Omni Hut Smyrna TENNESEE
(exotica) Tiki Candles
(exotica) Leeteg Black Velvet Painting at eBay
(exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #612
Re: (exotica) Leeteg Black Velvet Painting at eBay
Re: (exotica) Leeteg Black Velvet Painting at eBay
(exotica) Re: Whore songs: House of the Rising Sun
(exotica)The Conet Project
(exotica) Re: Scott
(exotica) Bola Sete
Re: (exotica) Space Age Don Juan: Managers of the flesh compete for pimp of      the year at Chicago's annual Players Ball.
(exotica) Re: Memphis
Re: (exotica) Re: Tiki Restuarant - The Omni Hut Smyrna TENNESEE
Re: (exotica) Re: Memphis
RE: (exotica)The Conet Project
(exotica) Quest. about a CD burner and Turntable.....
Re: (exotica) Quest. about a CD burner and Turntable.....
(exotica) Kahuna Ballot
(exotica) Public Domain stuff?
(exotica) Public Domain stuff?
(exotica) Soothing Sounds
Re: (exotica) Quest. about a CD burner and Turntable.....
Re: (exotica) A point of interest
Re: (exotica) A point of interest

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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 21:15:58 -0800
From: "Otto" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Las Vegas Grind

>> Hey! That wasn't me on ukulele
>> That was my pal King Kukulele!
>> But thanks for even thinkin that I would be that talented
>>
>> thanks for the kind words though
>>
>> I think the best you can hope for in covering a three-day
>> (and I mean 24 hours a day) event and adding a theme host (the great El Vez)
>> is to get a TV show that is entertaining (but maybe not totally
>> representative)
>>
>> Aloha
>> Otto
>>
>> [e-mail]
>> www.tikinews.com
>>
>> ----------
>> >From: Reader Geoff <[e-mail]>
>> >To: "'EXOTICA Mailing List'" <[e-mail]>
>> >Subject: (exotica) Las Vegas Grind
>> >Date: Mon, Jan 31, 2000, 8:49 AM
>> >
>>
>> >
>> >Taped the 'Other Side' documentary on the Las Vegas Grind, Channel 4,
>> >Saturday night.  Featuring The multi-talented Otto Von Stroheim (Ukelele
>> >Yet!),  and loosely held together by El Vez.  Generally disappointing,  Not
>> >enough El Vez,  Not enough Otto (a bit out of place I thought),  and all in
>> >all reminded me of too many rockabilly/trash nights spent at the Clarenden
>> >Ballroom in Hammersmith during the Early 80's.
>> >
>> >Now, wheres that pint of Snakebite gone?
>> >
>> >El Maestro Con Queso


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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 22:15:12 -0800
From: "Otto" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) <no subject>

>> OK
>> who on the list lives near there or will be traveling through there within
>> the next 6 months
>> I smell a story here!
>>
>> Aloha
>> Otto
>>
>> [e-mail]
>> www.tikinews.com
>>
>> ----------
>> >From: Walt Sullivan <[e-mail]>
>> >To: [e-mail]
>> >Subject: (exotica) Re: Tiki Restuarant - The Omni Hut - Smyrna TENNESEE
>> >Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2000, 12:21 AM
>> >
>>
>> >
>> >A co-worker used to frequent this establishment regularly since she lives
>> >in Smyrna. Here is what she remembers:


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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 22:13:24 -0800
From: "Otto" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Gardens, Florida

Does anyone have the soundtrack to this Tiki amusement park that was
bulldozed in the late 80s?

I need a copy of it

Aloha
Otto

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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 12:08:36 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) House of the Rising Sun

In yet another homepage for Folk music I read a serious looking text,
stating that the original is an English folk song from the 18th century
called "Rising Sun", which actually was a "whore's lament" already. The
original text of "The house Of..."  is clearly from a woman's point of
view, so it would fit into this theory. The theory that "The House Of
the Rising Sun" has something to do with the folk traditional "The
Unfortunate Rake" I cannot confirm; this would rather be the original to
"St. James Infirmary" and "The Streets Of Laredo". They all are filed
however under "Funeral Songs". Nice category, eh?

Is anyone out there a bit more familiar with traditional folk music than
I am?

Mo



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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 13:35:31 +0100
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Space Age Don Juan: Managers of the flesh compete for pimp of the year at Chicago's annual Players Ball.

With so much talk about whore songs and New Orleans brothels
lately, I consider this to be right on topic...

Cheers, Ton




A whore's job is to break a pimp down, Ken says, and a nagging
prostitute makes a pimp beat her. "But you can only beat a person
for so long," he adds. "I tried, but it wasn't easy to jump on
someone and then sleep next to her. When I look at most women, I
have to consider my mother and the love that I have for her; if
it weren't for that, I'd probably be just as cold and callous as
other pimps."

Now Ken is into space-age pimping, where the philosophy is that
a woman stays because of choice, not force. He has to control a
woman's mind without physical abuse by selling her a dream.
"Besides," he adds, "if you beat a woman and destroy her face,
how can she get your money?"

http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/2000/01/29/pimps/index.html


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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 08:23:32 -0600 (CST)
From: Jenna K <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Tiki Restuarant - The Omni Hut Smyrna TENNESEE

Hmmm...how far is that from Memphis? I'll be there in March. Which brings
me to a question - anyone know of good stuff (hotels, resturants, thrift
shops, general postwar weirdness) in Memphis?


>> OK
>> who on the list lives near there or will be traveling through there
within
>> the next 6 months
>> I smell a story here!

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 08:31:26 -0600 (CST)
From: Kirsten Noel Whitley <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Candles

For those who must have all things tiki:

http://www.fabric8.com/bazaar/710109.f8ml

- --Kirsten



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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 10:59:55 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Leeteg Black Velvet Painting at eBay

Heads Up, y'all!

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=248382339
Currently $430.36
Time left   2 days, 9 hours +


- -Lou



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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 10:24:49 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #612

I had a strange experience last night - someone told me there is a Tiki bar in
Toronto,
in a bar I actually used to work at! I was at my local watering hole, babbling
about all things tiki as usual, when
the guy beside me said 'sorry, but do you mean like the Volcano Room?" and I'm
thinking whaaaaaat?
So he says "You know, that place on Queen, they have the volcanoes and the
flaming torches and the giant
wooden carved head statues?" So of course I just go ballistic, asking him a
million questions about it,
but all he can tell me is it doesnt seem to be that popular, it's too hot, and
they play house music.

The fact that a tiki bar (albeit new and probably not very good) escaped my
attention in my own city - well,
this makes me very ashamed. I will go there this saturday and report.

I do recall my boyfriend pointing out the palce to me  a couple months ago -
theres nothing on the outside but a metal door
and a sign that says 'the volcano room'-  and he said 'Oh, maybe thats a tiki
bar' and of course I said, 'nah,
if there was a tiki bar in Toronto, I would know about it!!!!'

aloha,
your humbled tiki hunter,
Jane (fishstick)
http://www.tikifish.com





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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 09:50:13 PST
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Leeteg Black Velvet Painting at eBay

Do you have her phonenumber?

Mag

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=248382339
Currently $430.36
Time left   2 days, 9 hours +


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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 09:50:11 PST
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Leeteg Black Velvet Painting at eBay

Do you have her phonenumber?

Mag

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=248382339
Currently $430.36
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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 19:10:24 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Whore songs: House of the Rising Sun

Mo wrote:

>"It's been the ruin of many a poor boy..." etc. It still doesn't make sense to
>me. Why should a women's prison be the ruin of any poor boy?


    if a single mother goes to prison, what happens to her kid?
    anyway, iit's just what I heard, i'm not an authority on
    this subject;-)

        Johan

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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 13:08:01 -0500
From: Peter Gingerich <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica)The Conet Project

Have you heard any of, or do you know anyone who owns "The Conet Project"?

my friend was wondering about this. Its a collection of shortwave
transmissions used by spies and such...

...In some cases, the person reading the numbers is a "sexy" female adding
inappropriate dramatics. Other strings of numbers are read by
detached-sounding small children. Occasionally incomprehensible phrases are
repeated instead of the usual strings of numbers. (An example, translated
from German: "Helmut, Kruse, Franz. Good day! The great 26 is 32. Water good
to me. The sunshine is over. Our hen is about to lay one egg.") Other
transmissions are in Morse Code. Another station plays both sides of a 1961
Bert Kaempfert 45 before delivering its encoded message. While a CD of this
nature may seem to some listeners an unlistenable joke, nearly all the
recordings collected here have a otherworldly feel to them that makes for
strangely compelling listening, especially when one considers the unsavory
possibilities (political assassination) that some of the transmissions may
represent.
The Foundry seems to be an informative site: more at
http://www.foundrysite.com/i.conet.html

Has anyone actually heard this stuff?

pg



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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 09:40:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Scott

Hi!  No, I steered clear of TILT...I hope it is great,
but I suspect it is SCARY!  Would LOVE to know what
others think!
Hope all is well in the land of the EXOTIC!
Love, Jane Fondle


>
> Does anyone have anything to say on 'Tilt',  his
> early 90's LP,  I only
> found out about t recently from that 'Easy, the
> Encyclopedia of Lounge' (or
> whatever its called) book,  not too good (the book
> that is),  but it
> obviously had something in i didn't know.  Jane,
> come out from wherever you
> are,  you're my best bet I reckon.
>
>
> El Maestro Con Queso
>
> [e-mail]
> [e-mail]
> http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm
> http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/
>

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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 13:11:58 -0500
From: Peter Gingerich <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bola Sete

Does anyone have or know of this?

SETE, BOLA  "Ocean Memories"  (Samba Moon)  2cd  21.00
   The following is a quote from an article John Fahey wrote about Bola
Sete in 1976 (we're reprinting from Forced Exposure's description): "Few
living people have had such an enormous influence on my life, my music, my
soul, my religion -- you name it -- as has Bola Sete. I first saw him
playing -- solo -- in early 1972 at David Allen's Boarding House in San
Francisco. That night, I was high on drugs as I had been for several years,
and -- as also had been the case for years -- I felt that I was one
isolated example of an experimental species that God had forgotten about (I
was wrong here). I felt I had been -- and was still -- walking and talking
among shadows: 'People' who had no depth, who were not related to
themselves, did not know anything about themselves -- endless, phony,
shadow-people. And I was one of them. Bola played for about 45 minutes and
grimaced and grunted through the whole set. Something was wrong. He
couldn't 'get it out.' I knew how he felt, and I understood. Something was
wrong. I was intrigued by his obvious frustration having felt that way
myself almost all my life. The performance had been mediocre so far.
However, the audience gave him a long ovation, and he reluctantly got up
and started to play an encore, still looking frustrated, impotent, mad,
seething. I knew that feeling well. But then suddenly he got hot. He got so
cooking, he played song after song for another 45 minutes, forgetting (or
not caring) that he was doing an encore, playing many of the same songs he
had just played. My first impression that night, as I told a friend at the
time, was this: Here is a man who has lived through hell and somehow
miraculously got out of it. I went back to the Boarding House several times
that week. I found that Bola's sets have an interesting 'plot.' They all
begin and end with songs whose emotional contour is pretty, happy, light,
peaceful, or ecstatic. But after the first two or three songs, the terrain
gets rougher and darker, heavier and weirder. By the middle of his set,
Bola is giving you pictures of hell, memories of perdition, demonic music.
But then Bola gradually lightens up the spectrum of feeling and leads you
out of the cave and into the sunlight, and life is paradise. Only now, one
is so changed that one is temporarily aware that life really is paradise
after all, the world is an ocean, etc. It is like a breath from the 19th
Century or before; a breeze from times when people had passion and
significance and were not mere shadows. It is as though something has
finally changed. I talked to Bola's wife (I was too shaken to speak to him
at the time). 'How does he keep from going crazy,' I asked her, 'when he
has so much energy and tension? You can hear it in his music -- a lot of
passion and tension. How did he get out of hell?' ('How can I get out of
hell?' That's what I really wanted to know.) His music is so good it's
eerie -- eerie because it comes from a different time, a different place,
when men felt different things that we can no longer love or experience
except as an echo or phantom in the best of art works. Most of Bola's music
is eclectic and nongeneric. Take a song like 'Black Mommy.' Now, if you
didn't know anything about Bola . . . what musical tradition, period, or
era would you guess this song came from? Tasmania? Easter Island? Next
door? It comes from everywhere and nowhere. The subconscious really is
universal. Bola Sete's music is the best reminder of this that I have ever
heard. He is a man of great spirit and great depth. Bola plays
percussively, vertically, with a very heavy and insistent thumb. His
playing is very masculine (the word is an anachronisism). He plays
erratically and restlessly like Boll Weavil Jackson, Blind Lemon Jefferson,
or Bill Monroe. But he also has inner peace and breadth . . . rhythm and
dynamics are constantly changing. Bola's playing gives the impression (and
like my playing it is a false impression) of being very improvisatory. His
songs, on the other hand, tend to be very short and terse (unlike mine),
without undue repetition. But like me, he tries to recreate each song each
time he plays it, which is in effect to destroy it. . . . The only elements
of a song, which change from one performance to the next, are the number of
repetitions of each idea. The order of the ideas stays pretty much the
same. But the speed and intensity at which they are played may vary; if
Bola doesn't like the room he is playing in, or the people he is playing
for, he tends to play lousy. I do the same. We both play the way we feel,
but within a rigid structure. We play that way because we have to -- we
can't do anything else. God help us." -- John Fahey, from the article "Bola
Sete, The Nature of Infinity, And John Fahey," Guitar Player, Febuary 1976.
   "Long overdue CD reissue of one of the seminal solo guitar albums -- in
any genre -- ever recorded. Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete (Djalma de
Andrade) settled on the West Coast in 1959. Throughout the '60s he toured
widely with various jazz artists and recorded for such labels as Verve,
ABC-Paramount, Fantasy and Columbia. In 1972 he recorded Ocean, a departure
so far afield from anything else he'd ever done that Fantasy declined to
issue it. In 1975 Fahey purchased the tapes and issued the album on his
Takoma label. A second volume drawn from the same sessions was planned but
it never materialized. Ocean Memories (issued by Bola's widow, Anne Sete)
restores to print the complete Takoma album (CD 1) and the eight previously
unissued songs that would have comprised Ocean II (CD 2). I could listen to
this music forever -- it's deathless, perfect, ecstatic. It's interesting
to compare how different Bola is from Baden Powell and some of his more
technically accomplished Brazilian brothers: he's more of a sensualist, a
fantasist, and he's looser -- more rock 'n' roll." -- Glenn Jones.

thanx,

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:29:05 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Space Age Don Juan: Managers of the flesh compete for pimp of      the year at Chicago's annual Players Ball.

I think Ken should have a nice session with Joey Buttafuco's ex.
In sweetness and light,
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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 10:11:58 -0800
From: Jeff Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Memphis

Jenna K wrote:

> Hmmm...how far is that from Memphis? I'll be there in March. Which brin=
gs
> me to a question - anyone know of good stuff (hotels, resturants, thrif=
t
> shops, general postwar weirdness) in Memphis?

Well, seeing as I grew up there, you'd think I'd be able to help.  But
so much has changed since then, so I'm not hep to what's happening now.=20
You MUST go to Graceland.  Take the house tour.  Take both plane tours.=20
You won't be disappointed.  TCB.

For eats, nothing beats the ribs at the Rendezvous.  They invented the
dry rub.  And a pulled-pork sandwich at Gridley's might be in order for
lunch.

Also check out the Sun Records tour/museum.  I believe there's a record
shop on Beale Street, where Elvis shopped for 45s, but they most likely
specialize in blues.  Speaking of, B.B. King's place can be pretty
happening (but full of tourists on weekends).

If you can afford it, the Peabody is a pretty swank hotel.  They have
(or had) this tradition of ducks crossing the street twice a day:  once
in the morning from the top of the hotel (where there's a pond), down
the elevator, and across the street to the park, then back again at the
end of the day.  You can imagine how exciting this was for a ten-year
old (me).

If you're interested, the MLK museum at the Lorraine Motel (where he was
shot) is first-rate.

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips
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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 13:44:00 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Tiki Restuarant - The Omni Hut Smyrna TENNESEE

At 08:23 AM 2/2/00 -0600, Jenna K wrote:
>
>Hmmm...how far is that from Memphis? I'll be there in March. Which brings
>me to a question - anyone know of good stuff (hotels, resturants, thrift
>shops, general postwar weirdness) in Memphis?
>
Get the White Trash Guide to Memphis when you're there.  You can get it at
this store in the middle of  Beale Street and probably other places too.
It's a short street so you can't miss it.  This is an alternative guide to
Memphis.  Among other things, it led me to look for Furry Lewis's grave.
And like most travelling things, looking for it was better than finding it.
 But I heartily recommend it, even if Furry Lewis isn't a hero of yours.
While on Beale Street, don't miss the Police Museum!  And that big old
Woolworth-style (drug?) store there.  (I can't believe I don't remember the
name.)
I didn't have much luck at thrift stores but I had a good time at a record
store called River Records.  And the last time I recommended the Shangri La
Record Store to someone on this list, he had a good time, so I might as
well recommend it again.
All other names have escaped me.  I kind of liked that "famous" restaurant
with the commemorative Elvis booth but mostly because it was near where
they filmed that Jarmusch movie.
But I loved the whole atmosphere of the city.
And have a drink if you can in the lobby of the (damn!) ??? hotel.  The big
old one near Beale Street?  Anyone?  Brian?
Faulkner said that the Mississippi began in the lobby of the ??? hotel so
ask him.
I had a drink there with that large strange actor who taught Patrick Swayze
how to jump through subway cars in Ghost.

Nat



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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 10:49:06 -0800
From: Kevin Crossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Memphis

Jeff Phillips wrote:
> Jenna K wrote:
> > Hmmm...how far is that from Memphis? I'll be there in March. Which brings
> > me to a question - anyone know of good stuff (hotels, resturants, thrift
> > shops, general postwar weirdness) in Memphis?

There is a favorable review of the bar at the Peabody Hotel on the
Ultimate Mai Tai site:
http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/reviews/lobbybar.html

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:13:16 -0800
From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica)The Conet Project

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Peter Gingerich
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 10:08 AM

> Have you heard any of, or do you know anyone who owns "The Conet Project"?

There are some sound files available here:
http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~irdial/coneline.htm. I've heard some of it, but
it's a little overwhelming. Much better, however, than the somewhat similar,
and literally otherworldly, "Ghost Orchid" project (the one that deals with
the disembodied EVP voices).

From what I understand, the CD set is already way sold out. No more copies
at the usual suspects, i.e. Forced Exposure or Anomalous. Aquarius Records
sold their 100th copy a while back; I don't think they have anymore, but I
may be wrong.

However, the last time I looked, the Museum of Jurassic Technology down in
Culver City, CA had one copy (sitting on the shelf next to Stephen
McGreevy's electromagnetic recordings).

Later,
Ben

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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 15:10:19 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Quest. about a CD burner and Turntable.....

Anyone familiar with the Tascam CDRW-700 CD recorder??

It's on sale for $549.00

Is this a good 'un?

Also on sale is a gemini turntable for $170 - "direct drive" - does this =
mean it doesn't rely on a belt to turn the platter??

Thanks!

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 00 12:32:02 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Quest. about a CD burner and Turntable.....

>Anyone familiar with the Tascam CDRW-700 CD recorder??
>
>It's on sale for $549.00

>
>Is this a good 'un?

I'm not familiar with that brand, but that price is definitely steep.  I
got my LaCie CDRW drive for $369.00.  I would shop around a bit more,
especially try the mail order houses.  Ones for the computer shouldn't be
any more than what I paid, generally.  The home stand alone units that
connect to your stereo tend to run much higher, but even those I've seen
advertised on the web for $300-500.00 in various outlets.


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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:47:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Kahuna Ballot

Like I said before, Grammy time is on us, and while
all the excellent music we listen to is bound to be
snubbed at the Grammys, we still have the opportunity
to pass an award on to hard-working artists and
companies who insist on supplying us with cool issues
and reissues for our listening pleasure.

That being said, the nominations are now in and the
top nominees have been arranged and are presented in a
Kahuna ballot below.

Please vote for one (and no more than one) selection
per category.  Make sure to send the poll to ME, and
not back to the list.  I'll tally the numbers and let
you all know the results.

BTW, if someone wants to design an award of some sort,
we could email it to appropriate people and they could
display it as a badge of pride.  Any takers??

Peter

PS: If you want the whole list of nominees, email me
privately and I'll mail a copy.  Let me know if you
want text, Excel 95 or Excel 97.


==== Kahuna Ballot for 1999 ====

- -- Best Act of 1999 --
[  ]  Astroslut
[  ]  Combustible Edison
[  ]  Esquivel
[  ]  Jean Jacques Perrey
[  ]  The Metropole Orchestra, featuring the Beau
Hunks Saxtette

- -- Best New Album of 1999 --
[  ]  Raymond Scott - Soothing Sounds for Babies
[  ]  Seks Bomba - Operation BOMBA
[  ]  Esquivel - See It In Sound
[  ]  The Metropole Orchestra, featuring the Beau
Hunks Saxtette
       - The Raymond Scott Chesterfield Arrangements
[  ]  Astroslut - Love at Zero G

- -- Best Re-Release of 1999 --
[  ]  Les Maledictus Sound - Les Maledictus Sound
[  ]  Mandingo - The Primeval Rhythm Of Life/Sacrifice
[  ]  Shaggs - Philosophy of the World
[  ]  Anada Shankar - Anada Shankar
[  ]  Hugo Montengro - Moog Power
[  ]  Mandingo - Mandingo III: Story of
Survival/Savage Rite

- -- Best Retrospective of 1999 --
[  ]  Dusty Springfield - Dusty in London
[  ]  Preston Epps - Bongo Rock: The Very Best of
Preston Epps
[  ]  Os Mutantes - World Psychedelic Classics One:
The Best Of
[  ]  Ennio Morricone - Canto Morricone Volume 3: The
Seventies
[  ]  Mongo Santamaria - Skin On Skin: The Mongo
Santamaria Anthology
[  ]  Esther Nelson, Bruce Haack & Dimension 5 -
Listen Compute Rock Home

- -- Best Various Artist Compilation of 1999 --
[  ]  Sunshine Pop 99
[  ]  Beat at Cinecitta Vol 3
[  ]  La Guepe Volume 3 (Bananaticoco. European
Airlines to Rio)
[  ]  Doob-Doob O Rama 1970
[  ]  Best of Moog: Electronic Pop Hits from the 60's
& 70's

- -- Best Box Set of 1999 --
[  ]  Dr. Samuel J Hoffman and Harry Revel - Basta
Theremin Box
[  ]  W Carlos - Switched-On Bach
[  ]  Burt Bacharach - The Look of Love

- -- Best Soundtrack of 1999 --
[  ]  Roy Budd - Get Carter
[  ]  Bob Crewe - Barbarella
[  ]  Johnny Mandel - I Want to Live!
[  ]  Hugo Montenegro - Original Music from the Man
From U.N.C.L.E.
[  ]  Les Baxter - Hell's Belles

- -- Best New Act of 1999 --
[  ]  Astroslut
[  ]  Fishermen
[  ]  Butterfly Joe
[  ]  Yukari Fresh
[  ]  Seks Bomba

- -- Big Kahuna of 1999 --
[  ]  John Barry
[  ]  Martin Denny
[  ]  Henry Mancini
[  ]  Les Baxter
[  ]  Juan Garcia Esquivel

- -- Golden Bamboo Platter of 1999 --
[  ]  Esquivel - Latinesque
[  ]  Les Baxter - Le Sacre du Sauvage
[  ]  Yma Sumac - Voice of the Xtabay
[  ]  Martin Denny - Exotica
[  ]  Arthur Lyman - Taboo

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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 22:23:33 +0100
From: Dj Batman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Public Domain stuff?

a while ago there was a discussion on ancient recordings that are or might
be in the public domain... take a look at this.
www.mp3.com/publicdomain


bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista

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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 22:55:46 +0100
From: Dj Batman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Public Domain stuff?

a while ago there was a discussion on ancient recordings that are or might
be in the public domain... take a look at this.
www.mp3.com/publicdomain


bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 16:08:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Soothing Sounds

Someone mentioned that Soothing Sounds for Baby is a
re-release.  Had this thing actually seen the light of
day when Scott first made it?  Is it a re-release?

I know there are some serious Scott-heads on this
list.  What say you?

Peter
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 18:49:20 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Quest. about a CD burner and Turntable.....

>>Anyone familiar with the Tascam CDRW-700 CD recorder??
>>It's on sale for $549.00
>>Is this a good 'un?

Hiya Nathan--I don't know this model or if the price is any good but Tascam
equipment is usually designed for musicians, sound studios,  and others in
the trade. Try a price comparison at Tascam's site, http://www.tascam.com/.
A direct mailer often sells Tascam equipment at a discount...Musicians
=46riend, I think it's called. Can't find the URL in my bookmarks. Reliable
Music carries lots o' Tascam equipment, but I don't think they discount.
http://reliablemusic.com/

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 00 19:23:03 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A point of interest

>I love the folks at the record store Dusty Grooves America, they have great
>stuff, they're courteous (which is rare for record dealers), they have
>detailed descriptions of all the titles they sell, and their prices on CDs
>are great.
>
>Now a tiny little observational caveat.
>
>I was just glancing at their Now Sound vinyl and I saw a used VG+ graded
>copy
>of Ferrante & Teicher's "Getting Together" for $14.99.
>
>Has this record gone into great shortage since last week when I nearly saw
>copies at every thrift store I went into?  Granted the record has it's
>groovy
>points, but who is this person that's paying $15.00 for the VG+ copy of it.
>I want to met this person, because I've got a shit load of records to sell
>them.
>
>Maybe the $14.99 price they have posted is a typo, if that's the case forget
>you ever read this.

An observation to yours:  Prices at Dusty tend to be high for some
things, yes.  I *have* to shop there because for many Brazilian artist
recordings, no one can usually match Dusty's selection and/or
availability.  And I found one item for which they are actually charging
less than Amazon.com:  Walter Wanderley's Rain Forest, for $9.99.
Everyplace else it's $11.99.

Also--one has to be REALLY careful what you buy in person either at
thrift stores or at used record shops.  Sometimes even when you give an
LP the once over, things can escape your inspection.  Someone I know paid
$7.00 for an LP that he discovered (only after he got it home) that
someone had left side 1 on a radiator and the first track was totally
melted.  I kid you not.  Although he reports that the rest of the LP
played just fine...

Regards,
- --bj
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 00 19:23:05 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A point of interest

>In a message dated 01/31/2000 11:06:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[e-mail] writes:

>And Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" was selling for
>twenty-five bucks a copy.
>
>And soon after, as it was written in prophecy, the End Time grew nigh and
>the
>4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse rode into town, peddling Mantovani for a
>hundred
>bucks a pop.
>
>May God have mercy on their souls, for they know not what they do,
>-R.G.B.

HA!  I really roared laughing when I read this last statement of yours.
Great message!!!

Regards,
- --bj
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