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exotica-digest       Saturday, February 5 2000       Volume 02 : Number 617



In This Digest:

(exotica) Record finds
Re: (exotica) Record finds
(exotica) Re: Benito Urgu
Re: (exotica) Music Minus One
Re: (exotica) space age pop vol. 3
RE: (exotica) space age pop vol. 3
(exotica) Re: Benito Urgu
(exotica) obit: Joachim-Ernst Berendt
(exotica) The People With Holes In Their Heads
(exotica) The People With Holes In Their Heads
(exotica) Iowa
Re: (exotica) 101 Strings
(exotica) Album Storage
Re: (exotica) Leeteg Black Velvet Painting at eBay
(exotica) Who Knew? (the Gentle People)
(exotica) Louis Prima & Keely Smith on tv tonight
Re: (exotica) Louis Prima & Keely Smith on tv tonight
(exotica) MP3 for Mac??
(exotica) Public Enemy goes Exotica!
Re: (exotica) MP3 for Mac??
(exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, February 6
(exotica) Re:Breakbeat!

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:21:25 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Record finds

"Ted Heath Orchestra Plays Beatles Bach and Bacharach".  I like TH's big
band sound and this sounds very much like a big band. Only 2 Bach tracks.
Concept similar to a rare Command LP.

"Les and Larry Elgart, Elgart au Go-Go" Listened to only a few cuts. this
was mention in Cool and Strange Music mag.

"Persuasive Percussion vol 4". Didn't know this went up to vol 4.

"Arthur Murray Modern Waltzes Les Baxter" Picked it up cause of Baxter.
Have not listened to this. Anybody have a comment? Now that I have the
Baxter 2 CD UL should I stop picking up stuff like this?

"Sing It's Good For You, the Norman Luboff Choir". Have not listened to
this. Anybody here like Norman Luboff? Anybody have a list of what they
think is the "good stuff"?

Henri Rene: "Riots in Rhythm" and "White Heat". I love Henri Rene and Riots
is...well.. a riot. Thanks Jim.

Dick Schory's New Percussion Ensemble "Music for Band Baaroom and Harp.
Cover: Dick Schory buried under a pile of percussion instruments. Tried 2
track on the show. Based on the 2 tracks I heard the Skitch Henderson
tracks are the ones to listen to.

Jack Marshall "Soundsville! Swinging Sketches". Another mentioned in Cool
and Strange Music mag.  Wonderful.


Domenic
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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 16:11:00 -0800
From: Kevin Crossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Record finds

[e-mail] wrote:
> "Arthur Murray Modern Waltzes Les Baxter" Picked it up cause of Baxter.
> Have not listened to this. Anybody have a comment? Now that I have the
> Baxter 2 CD UL should I stop picking up stuff like this?

The "Exotic Moods" set is a nice overview of Baxter's 50's "jungle" or
"exotica" music, but he did a lot more than that. His other stuff may
have some appeal (or, it might not). No reason not to sample some of
it...

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:33:36 -0800
From: "mofo2148" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Benito Urgu

Thanks Batman!  I should have thought to ask you first.

If anyone wants to hear the Benito cut I have posted it up as an mp3
file and included DJ Batman's background on the track with it here,
http://www.thebranflakes.com/fp/mp3.html
I'll be posting up other mp3 files also (as time and server space
permits).

enjoy,

Otis


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Date: 4 Feb 2000 17:08:41 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Music Minus One

At 11:39 AM 04-02-00 -0500, Lou wrote:
>Anyone collect MMO LPs? I've got a nice Bacharach one, myself.

Cool.  For me, nothing as neat.  I have a few classical ones...some with
the music AND the record!  I have this fantasy that when I retire I will
learn to play a variety of instruments and have these records to work with.

Unlike a lot of other records I get, I am not yet in the real collecting
mode with these.  If I happen to find one for 10 to 25 cents, I get it, even
without the music.  I certainly am not in the list making stage of
completism on these...not until I actually start taking up an instrument.

Byron

Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
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Date: 4 Feb 2000 17:14:45 -0800
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Subject: Re: (exotica) space age pop vol. 3

At 07:39 AM 04-02-00 PST, w m wrote:
>comp. called "space age pop vol. 3 the stereo action dimension" does
>anyone have any comments on this series?

only three CDs issued.  all are must buys, in my opinion.  I don't think
RCA plans any more and has stopped making them.  The few new ones I have
seen are discounted or cutouts.  You might get them through the RCA music
club.

Yes, unlike the Ultra Lounge series, these don't have cool illustrations or
an attitude...just the facts and not all that many.  However, they do have
the tunes from some RCA albums which most of us wish were released in their
entirety.  Here cuts from the stereo action series on this one, but from
other albums on the other two...the Three Suns are represented, Leo Addeo,
others.

Byron

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:47:09 -0800
From: "Larson/Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) space age pop vol. 3

>i picked up a used copy of some rca comp. called "space age pop vol. 3 the
stereo action dimension" i'd never seen...were they discontinued? are the
rest as good?

Yes they seem to have been discontinued.  To my taste volumes 2&3 are both
*essential* while volume 1 lags behind slightly.

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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 10:22:50 +0100
From: Dj Batman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Benito Urgu

wow!
great job, Otis!!!
:)))))
bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista

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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 12:11:25 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) obit: Joachim-Ernst Berendt

Joachim-Ernst Berendt, author of the best-selling book about jazz of all
times, Jazz-expert and critic, died in Hamburg at the age of 77. He was
hit by a car when crossing the street at the red light on his way to the
vernissage of his new book "Just Walking".
Berendt was co-founder of the Suedwestfunk radio and TV-station in
Germany after the war and chief of the jazz-dept. until his retirement.
He designed several programs about jazz and founded festivals, such as
the American Folk Blues Festival and the Berlin Jazz Days. As a producer
he was responsible for about 250 long-players for MPS, Atlantic and
Electrola. His most popular was the series "Jazz Meets The World" that
featured jam-sessions of jazz musicians with outer-european music
cultures. Berendt wrote more than 20 books, his "Jazzbook" sold more
than 1,5 million copies worldwide, to many the bible of jazz;
Joachim-Ernst Berendt was called the Jazz-pope.

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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 06:17:56 PST
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The People With Holes In Their Heads

Heres a little article i found on trepanation, too bad I am so scared of
physical pain.


The People With Holes In Their Heads
Amanda Feilding lives in a charming flat looking over London's river with
her companion, Joey Mellen, and their infant son, Rock. She is a successful
painter, and she and Joey have an art gallery in a fashionable street of the
King's Road. Another of her talents is for politics. At the last two General
Elections she stood for Parliament in Chelsea, more than doubling her vote
on the second occasion from 49 to 139. It does not sound much, but the cause
for which she stands is unfamiliar and lacks obvious appeal. Feilding and
her voters demand that trepanning operations be made freely available on the
National Health. Trepanation means cutting a hole in your skull.

The founder of the trepanation movement is a Dutch savant, Dr Bart Hughes.
In 1962 he made a discovery which his followers proclaim as the most
significant in modern times. One's state and degree of consciousness, he
realized, are related to the volume of blood in the brain. According to his
theory of evolution, the adoption of an upright stance brought certain
benefits to the human race, but it caused the flow of blood through the head
to be limited by gravity, thus reducing the range of human consciousness.
Certain parts of the brain ceased or reduced their functions while others,
particularly those parts relating to speech and reasoning, became emphasized
in compensation. One can redress the balance by a number of methods, such as
standing on one's head, jumping from a hot bath into a cold one, or the use
of drugs; but the wider consciousness thus obtained is only temporary. Bart
Hughes shared the common goal of mystics and poets in all ages: he wanted to
achieve permanently the higher level of vision, which he associated with an
increased volume of blood in the capillaries of the brain.

The higher state of mind he sought was that of childhood. Babies are born
with skulls unsealed, and it is not until one is an adult that the bony
carapace is formed which completely encloses the membranes surrounding the
brain and inhibits their pulsations in repsonse to heart-beats. In
consequence, the adult loses touch with the dreams, imagination and int
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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 06:17:58 PST
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The People With Holes In Their Heads

Heres a little article i found on trepanation, too bad I am so scared of
physical pain.


The People With Holes In Their Heads
Amanda Feilding lives in a charming flat looking over London's river with
her companion, Joey Mellen, and their infant son, Rock. She is a successful
painter, and she and Joey have an art gallery in a fashionable street of the
King's Road. Another of her talents is for politics. At the last two General
Elections she stood for Parliament in Chelsea, more than doubling her vote
on the second occasion from 49 to 139. It does not sound much, but the cause
for which she stands is unfamiliar and lacks obvious appeal. Feilding and
her voters demand that trepanning operations be made freely available on the
National Health. Trepanation means cutting a hole in your skull.

The founder of the trepanation movement is a Dutch savant, Dr Bart Hughes.
In 1962 he made a discovery which his followers proclaim as the most
significant in modern times. One's state and degree of consciousness, he
realized, are related to the volume of blood in the brain. According to his
theory of evolution, the adoption of an upright stance brought certain
benefits to the human race, but it caused the flow of blood through the head
to be limited by gravity, thus reducing the range of human consciousness.
Certain parts of the brain ceased or reduced their functions while others,
particularly those parts relating to speech and reasoning, became emphasized
in compensation. One can redress the balance by a number of methods, such as
standing on one's head, jumping from a hot bath into a cold one, or the use
of drugs; but the wider consciousness thus obtained is only temporary. Bart
Hughes shared the common goal of mystics and poets in all ages: he wanted to
achieve permanently the higher level of vision, which he associated with an
increased volume of blood in the capillaries of the brain.

The higher state of mind he sought was that of childhood. Babies are born
with skulls unsealed, and it is not until one is an adult that the bony
carapace is formed which completely encloses the membranes surrounding the
brain and inhibits their pulsations in repsonse to heart-beats. In
consequence, the adult loses touch with the dreams, imagination and intense
perceptions of the child. His mental balance becomes upset by egoism and
neuroses. To cure these problems, first in himself and then for the whole
world, Dr Huges returned his cranium to something like the condition of
infancy by cutting out a small disc of bone with an electric drill.
Experiencing immediate beneficial effects from this operation, he began
preaching to anyone who would listen to the doctrine of trepanation. By
liberating his brain from its total imprisonment in his skull, he claimed to
have restored its pulsations, increased the volume of blood in it and
acquired a more complete, satisfying state of consciousness than grown-up
people normally enjoy. The medical and legal authorities reacted to Huges's
discovery with horror and rewarded him with a spell in a Dutch lunatic
asylum.

Joseph Mellen met Bart Huges in 1965 in Ibiza and quickly became his
leading, or rather one and only, disciple. Years later he wrote a book
called Bore Hole, the contents of which are summarized in its opening
sentence: 'This is the story of how I came to drill a hole in my skull to
get permanently high.'

[A few paragraphs that detail Joseph Mellen's early experiments with LSD,
and how he finds out about Bart Huges have been removed for brevity.]

The time came when Joey felt he had preached enough and that he now had to
act. He did not agree with Holingshead that the third eye was merely a
figure of speech, believing in its physical attainment through
self-trepanation. Support for this can be found in archaeology. Skulls of
ancient people all over the world give evidence that their owners were
skillfully trepanned during their lifetimes, and many of these appear to
have been of noble or priestly castes. The medical practice of trepanation
was continued up to the present century in treatment of madness, the hole in
the skull being seen as a way of relieving pressure on the brain or letting
out the devils that possessed it. By his scientific explanation of the
reasons for the operation, Bart Huges had removed it from the area of
superstition, and Joey Mellen proposed to be the second person to perform it
on himself in the interest of enlightenment.

Bart had become a close friend of Amanda Feilding, and they went off to
Amsterdam together while Joey took care of Amanda's flat. This was the
opportunity he had been waiting for to bore a hole in his head.

The most gripping passages in Bore Hole describe his various attempts to
complete the operation. They are also extremely gruesome, and those who lack
medical curiosity would do well to read no further. Yet to those who might
contemplate trepanation for and by themselves, Joey's experiences are a
salutary warning. It should be empahasized that neither he, Bart nor Amanda
has ever recommended people to follow their example by performing their own
operations. For years they have been looking for doctors who would
understand their theories and would agree to trepan volunteer patients as a
form of therapy Strangely enough, not one member of the medical profession
has been converted.

In a surgical store Joey found a trepan instrument, a kind of auger or cork-
screw designed to be worked by hand. It was much cheaper and, Joey felt,
more sensitive than an electric drill. Its main feature was a metal spike,
surrounded by a ring of saw-teeth. The spike was meant to be driven into the
skull, holding the trepan steady until the revolving saw made a groove,
after which it could be retracted. If all went well, the saw-band should
remove a disc of bone and expose the brain.

Joey's first attempt at self-trepanation was a fiasco. He had no previous
medical experience, and the needles he had bought for administering a local
anaesthetic to the crown of his head proved to be too thin and crumpled up
or broke. Next day he obtained some stouted needles, took a tab of LSD to
steady his nerves and set to in earnest. First he made an incision to the
bone, and then applied the trepan to his bared skull. But the first part of
the operation, driving the spike into the bone, was impossible to
accomplish. Joey described it as like trying to uncork a bottle from the
inside. He realized he needed help and telephoned Bart in Amsterdam, who
promised he would come over and assist at the next operation. This plan was
frustrated by the Home Office, which listed Dr Huges as an undesirable
visitor to Britain and barred his entry.

Amanda agreed to take his place. Soon after her return to London she helped
Joey re-open the wound in his head and, by pressing the trepan with all her
might against his skull, managed to get the spike to take hold and the saw-
teeth to bite. Joey then took over at cranking the saw. Once again he had
swallowed some LSD. After a long period of sawing, just as he was about to
break through, he suddenly fainted. Amanda called an ambulance and he was
taken to hospital, where horrified doctors told him that he was lucky to be
alive and that if he had drilled a fraction of an inch further he would have
killed himself.

The psychiatrists took a particular interest in his case, and a group of
them arranged to examine him. Before this could be done, he had to appear in
court on a charge of possessing a small amount of cannabis. The magistrate
demanded another psychiatrist's report and demanded him for a week in
prison.

There followed a period of embarrassment as the rumour went round London
that Joey Mellen had trepanned himself, whereas in fact he had failed to do
so. As soon as possible, therefore, he prepared for a third attempt.
Proceeding as before, but now with the benefit of experience, he soon found
the groove from the previous operation and began to saw through the sliver
of bone separating him from enlightenment or, as the doctors had predicted,
instant death. What followed is best quoted from Bore Hole.

'After some time there was an ominous sounding schlurp and the sound of
bubbling. I drew the trepan out and the gurgling continued. It sounded like
air bubbles running under the skull as they were pressed out. I looked at
the trepan and there was a bit of bone in it. At last! On closer inspection
I saw that the disc of bone was much deeper on one side than on the other.
Obviously the trepan had not been straight and had gone through at one point
only, then the piece of bone had snapped off and come out. I was reluctant
to start drilling again for fear of damaging the brain membranes with the
deeper part while I was cutting through the rest or of breaking off a
splinter. If only I had an electric drill it would have been so much
simpler. Amanda was sure I was through. There seemed no other explanation
for the schlurping noises I decided to call it a day. At the time I thought
that any hole would do, no matter what size. I bandaged up my head and
cleared away the mess.'

There was still doubt in his mind as to whether he had really broken through
and, if so, whether the hole was big enough to restore pulsation to his
brain. The operation had left him with a feeling of wellbeing, but he
realized that it could simply be from relief at having ended it. To put the
matter beyond doubt, he decided to bore another hole at a new spot just
above the hairline, this time using an electric drill. In the spring of
1970, Amanda was in America and Joey did the operation alone. He applied the
drill to his forehead, but after half and hour's work the electric cable
burnt out. Once again he was frustrated. An engineer in the flat below him
was able to repair the instrument and next day he set out to finish the job.
'This time I was not in any doubt. The drill head went at least an inch deep
through the hole. A great gush of blood followed my withdrawal of the drill.
In the mirror I could see the blood in the hole rising and falling with the
pulsation of the brain.'

The result was all he had hoped for. During the next four hours he felt his
spirits rising higher until he reached a state of freedom and serenity which
he claims, has been with him ever since.

For some time now he had been sharing a flat with Amanda, and when she came
back from America she immediately noticed the change in him. This encouraged
her to join him on the mental plane by doing her own trepanation. The
operation was carefully recorded. She had obtained a cine-camera, and Joey
stood by, filming, as she attacked her head with an electric drill. The film
shows her carefully at work, dressed in a blood-spattered white robe. She
shaves her head, makes an incision in her head with a scalpel and calmly
starts drilling. Blood spurts as she penetrates the skull. She lays aside
the drill and with a triumphant smile advances towards Joey and the camera.

Ever since, Joey and Amanda have lived and worked together in harmony. From
the business of buying old prints to colour and resell, they have progressed
to ownership of the Pigeonhole Gallery and seem reasonably prosperous. They
have also started a family. There is nothing apparently abnormal about them,
and many of their old friends agree in finding them even more pleasant and
contented since their operations. There is plenty of leisure in their lives,
mingled with the kind of activities they most enjoy. These of course include
talking and writing about trepanation. They have lectured widely in Europe
and America to groups of doctors and other interested people, showing the
film of Amanda's self-operation, entitled Heartbeat in the Brain. It is
generally received with awe, the sight of blood often causing people to
faint. At one showing in London a film critic described the audience
'dropping off their seats one by one like ripe plums'. Yet it was not
designed to be gruesome. The soundtrack is of soothing music, and the
surgical scenes alternate with some delightful motion studies of Amanda's
pet pigeon, Birdie, as a symbol of peace and wisdom."

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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 09:33:58 -0500
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Iowa

I'm going to Des Moines, Iowa tomorrow (no, really) for
a couple of days and am wondering if there are stores, clubs,
other attractions worth checking out.  Anyone out there from
that great state?

Will




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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 13:44:52 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) 101 Strings

In a message dated 2/3/00 9:03:04 PM EST, [e-mail] writes:

<<
 << I'm not sure what you're asking.  I thought the liner notes for the Astro
  Sounds reissue CD said that the bonus tracks were just tracks they recorded
  at the time and couldn't fit on the original LP.>>

 Yes, referred to as "erotic sessions".  One of those three tracks, Karma
 Sitar, is on "The Sounds Of Today" album.

 <>

 I'm with you, I like the bonus tracks better too.

 <<What makes you think the bonus tracks come from an original LP somewhere?
>>

 So far, it's all hearsay.

 Calling Ashley now...



  >>
Sorry for the delay in answering. The 101 Strings recorded an album called
"The 'Exotic' Sounds Of Love which feature the moanings of Bebe Bardon that's
where the track "Whiplash" comes from. There is a paragraph about this in
Joseph Lanza'a "Elevator Music" book.

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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 13:30:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Album Storage

Hey folks,

Does anyone know of a place on the web that might have
album storage solutions?  Shelves and junk?

I've had to move all my albums to the basement and am
looking for some way to store 'em.

Thanks,
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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 22:40:33 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Leeteg Black Velvet Painting at eBay

The Leeteg painting on ebay sold for $1,376.26.

Mo



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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 16:50:57 -0800
From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Who Knew? (the Gentle People)

While searching for a copy of the newer Gentle People CD on eBay,
I learned the following:

> THE GENTLE PEOPLE - A PORTRAIT OF THE AMISH BY DONALD M.
>      DENLINGER (TEXT AUTHOR) and JAMES A. WARNER
>      (PHOTOGRAPHER). James A. Warner found the secret of "The Gentle People".
>      From the apparent drudgery and hard life of the Amish, he has captured the human
>      qualities of contentment, companionship, and happiness in his photographs.
>      Measures 9 x 11-1/1", 185 pages, Published in 1992. HARD COVER WITH INTACT DUST JACKET.

I wonder if the band knew of this association when they chose the name?

- -- Brad


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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 18:58:19 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Louis Prima & Keely Smith on tv tonight

Just a reminder to any who may have missed it the new Louis Prima tv
biography and the hard to catch (not on video) Louis Prima/Keely Smith/Sam
Butera film "Hey Boy Hey Girl" will both be on television tonight, Saturday
Feb 5th.  Check your local A&E listings.

Enjoy, I know I will be taping this one.  Also, thanks to list member e.ace
for the original heads up!

Best wishes,
Larry


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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 20:03:50 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Louis Prima & Keely Smith on tv tonight

>Just a reminder to any who may have missed it the new Louis Prima tv
>biography and the hard to catch (not on video) Louis Prima/Keely Smith/Sam
>Butera film "Hey Boy Hey Girl" will both be on television tonight, Saturday
>Feb 5th.  Check your local A&E listings.

AMC actually. 9:45pm eastern zone. The pairing repeats later at 4:00am or
3:45am (slight disagreement in published schedules).


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Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 12:52:04 +1100
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) MP3 for Mac??

Hey kidz!

I'm ready to toss myself into the MP3 maelstrom to check it out...can
someone in the know regarding Mac useage of software/search stuff please
email me and retrieve me from the endless glut of crap I gotta sift thru to
find ANYTHING???  Not much info on MP3 sites concerning Mac.

Thanks!

Keith

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Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 12:59:08 +1100
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Public Enemy goes Exotica!

Wow!  I just heard Public Enemy using 101 Strings 'Flameout' from Astro
Sounds as the bedrock for their new single...it's very very good.  Go to:

http://www.mvpsite.com/

and go to their 'music, video & links collection.'

They've still got the touch.  It's no 'Fear of a Black Planet', but no-one's
perfect.

Keith

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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 00 18:14:01 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) MP3 for Mac??

>Hey kidz!
>
>I'm ready to toss myself into the MP3 maelstrom to check it out...can
>someone in the know regarding Mac useage of software/search stuff please
>email me and retrieve me from the endless glut of crap I gotta sift thru to
>find ANYTHING???  Not much info on MP3 sites concerning Mac.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Keith

To Keith and other Mac users on this list:  to play existing MP3 files on
a Mac you will need either the new Quicktime 4.1 app from Apple or
MacCAST, which plays all other audio files in addition to MP3s (Quicktime
is free but has a lousy new interface; MacCAST costs $20.00 to register
for full usage, but is free to play clips of 2 minutes or less in
length).

To create MP3s on a Mac, you will need Toast Audio Extractor software
which makes AIFF files from ripping the redbook audio tracks on your CDs.
 This app comes with the Toast CD Burner software one receives when
purchasing a CD Burner for the Mac.  You then need to drag and drop the
individual AIFF files onto an application called "MP3 Encoder" which is
freeware (you will have to do a search for it on the internet--which is
how I found mine, I no longer have the URL from where I downloaded it).

Regards,
- --bj
The Walter Wanderley Pictorial Discography
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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 21:38:25 -0500
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, February 6

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

http://www.ckut.ca

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


Space Bop #81   Pop Nouveau (thanks to Kevin for the name!)

Stereo Total:  Holiday Innn  "Juke-Box Alarm"
Etienne Charry:  Jour "J"  "36 Erreurs"
Czerkinsky:  Les Sacs En Plastique  "Czerkinsky"
Stereo Deluxe:  Aerocyclette  "Pool Position"

Gentle People:  La Mouche  "Hommage A Polnareff"
Yukari Fresh & Pat Detective:  Yippee To Kate 99  "Poptics"
Andreas Dorau & Moritz R:  Der letzte Popsong  "Poptics"
D. Ryba:  Ciao Darling  "Kidnap International"
Laurent Lombard:  Pop Flower  "Hi-Fi Stereo Remixes"

Yoshinori Sunahara & Mars Art Lab:  Preview  "Poptics"
Fantastic Plastic Machine:  There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My
Heart)  "Luxury"

Pat & The Maxwell Implosion:  Bello Tour  "Pool Position"
Die Moulinettes:  Alfio Brambilla (Martini Mix)  "Songs For Marshmallow
Lovers"
Pizzicato 5:  Tout Tout Pour Ma Cherie  "Hommage A Polnareff"


Thanks for reading.


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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 00:49:32 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re:Breakbeat!

Nat wrote:

> >...if I start liking dance music, it must really be good!  I think
> >Nat and Allan can relate to this feeling.
> I'm not sure I know which feeling you're referring to here.  But if you're
> talking about being surprised you like something you thought you'd never
> like, yeah I can relate.  But the truth is, I think I've stopped being
> surprised.  I worked out a philosophy/rationalization/justification and now
> everything kinda makes sense.
Yeah that's the feeling all right... but mainly the fact that it would
be dance music of all things we're talking about!  I forgot you and
Allan have never met so the reference probably hasn't got the same
meaning to either of you.  Sorry for the confusion!

> I'm sure I'd like the breakbeat stuff you're talking about.  I liked almost
> everything in your end/beginning of the millennium radio shows, although you
> guys seem to like that Electro Lounge thing way way more than I did.
I'm not such a big fan of that particular compilation and I remember
making the same comment when we were putting these shows
together but this show is a shared effort... Of course it's not a bad
thing as this way listeners are spared Schlager than they could
otherwise get if left to me alone...

> I like everything that takes samples or inspiration from sixties pop,
> seventies jazz funk, Mancini soundtracks, lounge etc.  I like all the
> Italian soundtracks, easy pop, all the Crippled Vampiros Dickbos kinda
> stuff I hear.
Oh sure I'm the same. And I think this may be why I like this newer
stuff so much, as it borrows so heavily from these same things.
Whether it's jazz-funk, easy, or now sound being featured you hear
the same instruments and sounds (moog, hammmond, vibes...) but
with a whole different feel that has a somehow refreshing and new
appeal. I can't explain it any other way.

> But the problem is that it all kinda melts together for me.
> And sometimes it just seems a bit too DE-contextualized.
> I like it when I hear it.  I liked knowing that it exists.  I like hearing
> about it.  But I'm almost never driven to buy it.
It's hard in this day and age to maintain any sense of context with
so much being, so much criss-crossing of styles, sampling,
remixing, de-mixing and whatever so I've given up myself. Still, if
you feel a desperate need to hear more, I'm only a email away!

> I don't know if I love the (first?) Tipsy thing because it was the first
> such thing I heard or because it's better than other things or because I
> actually found one of the samples on an Enoch Light LP or what... but I
> don't know how much more of that stuff I could take.
Tipsy (like Sukia or Stock, Hausen & Walkman) is probably more
experimental, borrowing clips and bits to make something almost
completely new.  The breakbeat stuff I refer to is a lot less
experimental in that it borrows a lot more of the original but as I
said, with a fresh and somehow very appealing sound, at least in
the number of examples I've heard. I didn't expect to make a
convert of you from a few tapes and actually aside from Mo'
Horizons, Bobby Hughes, Ursula 1000 and DJ ME DY You, the
tapes cover a much wider range... but after starting to feel like I
was actually catching up on what was out there, this was a nice
surprise. I think we share the same compulsion to keep on
discovering.

> And what do you mean by pop nouveau?
I always though of this category being made up of groups like
those you'd find on Marina or Tricatel...maybe even Stereo Total or
even Portishead.  All really good, but sounding more like a natural
extension of the later new wave sound before it kind of fizzled out. I
sense this may not be an accurate perception and base it only on
those discussions on the subject from this list. Since I'm not on
that particular list I probably should say no more for fear of reprisal.

> And I love the Strawberry Alarm Clock record.  All that weird organ and vibes.
> I don't know what that has to do with anything.  But sometimes the old
> stuff sounds exactly like the new stuff but somehow it "makes more sense".
I kind of rediscovered that one myself too.  Yeah I know the context
presents a problem but my view has always been that
complacency is a bad thing when it comes to music. Whenever I
reach a point where I'm able to (or even think I could for that matter)
compile a list of all I'm missing, I can be sure it's a bad time
musically. I haven't had a want list for several years now so things
are still looking up! I also have this habit of taking it upon myself to
try to challenge people with music they may like but may not
otherwise get to hear. It doesn't always connect but when it does
it's really satisfying.  That experience with Ursula 1000 a few
weeks back was one of those moments that make it all worthwhile.
Must be a calling! Yeesh... now I know what these evangelists
must feel like!

Enough philosophizing for now.. I think


Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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