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exotica-digest         Thursday, June 15 2000         Volume 02 : Number 740



In This Digest:

RE: (exotica) taiwan cuban boys
(exotica) "Murder, Inc." titles
(exotica) Ray Martin
(exotica) Allegro Corporation CDs
RE: (exotica) eBay "Sparky's Magic Piano" LP
(exotica) Jean-Jacques Perrey's "E.V.A." on mp3
[none]
(exotica) Hoards of records
Re: (exotica) Ray Martin
Re: (exotica) "Murder, Inc." titles
Re: (exotica) Jean-Jacques Perrey's "E.V.A." on mp3
Re: (exotica) Jean-Jacques Perrey's "E.V.A." on mp3
Re: (exotica) Where Shatner's considered too Top 40
Re: (exotica) Where Shatner's considered too Top 40
Re: (exotica) Where Shatner's considered too Top 40
(exotica) where is the Piero umiliani review?
(exotica) Tiki Shirt.......
RE: (exotica) where is the Piero umiliani review?
(exotica) Kraftwerk
(exotica) After hours
Re: (exotica) Tiki Shirt.......
Re: (exotica) Kraftwerk
Re: (exotica) Tiki Shirt.......
Re: (exotica) Kraftwerk
Re: (exotica) Ray Martin [NOT!]
Re: (exotica) Tiki Shirt.......
(exotica) re:tiki shirt
Re: (exotica) Kraftwerk

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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:55:31 -0700
From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) taiwan cuban boys

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of william
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 10:55 PM

>         in the past we have discussed how exotica was  made popular  by
> soldiers  returning home after the war having heard music from distant
> locations and it being sort of westernized versions of island music for
> western audiences. now what i am wondering this style of music ( big band,
> exotica, etc)  seems to have forms in most countries. was this a result of
> the world wars and the mixing of cultures that way or did that just hasten
> the effect especially in regards to east meeting west? any thoughts?

In some places it certainly predated the world wars -- the Philippines was
colonized by the U.S. at the turn of the century, so big bands and small
jazz groups were probably all over the place by the '20s, if not earlier.
Even up to now, every high school marching band can play "There'll Be A Hot
Time In The Old Town Tonight" (can't remember the title) without knowing the
title or lyrics.

I wish I knew the dates of when those Latin "standards" were written -- were
many written before WW2? There were many Latin bands, I'm sure, performing
in Manila after the war. I suspect that some places more than others --
Olongapo, Okinawa, etc. -- have more chances to foster "Cuban boy bands."

Filipinos are still quite fascinated by Hawaii -- but: even though Filipino
migration to Hawaii began as early as the '20s (to the sugar plantations), I
suspect that this fascination comes more from a midwestern-G.I.-in-the-'50s
outlook than anything. Even now it's fairly common for little girls to learn
the hula; almost everyone in the Philippines can hum, or sing, "Tiny
Bubbles," "Aloha Oe" and "Pearly Shells."

Very little in common culturally between the Philippines and Hawaii, except
for the shared experience of colonialism...

Later,
Ben

np: louis prima and keely smith

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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:40:29 -0700
From: "Mr. Unlucky" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Murder, Inc." titles

What confusion this "Murder, Inc." record has created. Here are the titles, and even times, for whoever needs them.

Side A: Prison Break (2:01)
State's Evidence (1:53)
Third Degree (1:35)
The Contract (2:30)
We The Jury (3:09)
Crime Wave (3:27)

Side B: Stool Pigeon (2:18)
Bad Day In Brooklyn (2:49)
Murder, Inc. (2:32)
The Big Six (2:49)
Double Cross (3:30)
April In Brownsville (2:54)

Recorded April 8, 1960, part of Series 2000 by Time Records, Inc.
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:17:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bruce Lenkei <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ray Martin

I was listening to 'Dynamica' the other day, and my question is this:

What exactly is a "Shadrack" anyway?

- - bruce

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Date: 14 Jun 2000 18:31:32 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Allegro Corporation CDs

I just received an order of CDs from Allegro, a company announced earlier
which has a series of "Cocktail Hour" double CDs out which are very
similiar in appearance to the Ultra Lounge CDs.

Once I have had a chance to hear the ones I got (Peggy Lee, Rosemary
Clooney, Perez Prado, Xavier Cugat, Mambo Jambo ( mostly Perez Prado with 2
Machito and 6 Tito Puente).

Also, I discovered on their sister site (specializing in low cost CDs):

Brass Menagerie  Bainbridge BCD 1032.  The 14 selections averaging 3
minutes each were all from TIME recordings.  Bainbridge was kind enough to
tell us they came from Time 2042, 2159, 2014, 2016 and 2028...featuring the
orchestras of Jerry Fielding, Hugo Montenegro, Jim Tyler and Mel Davis.  I
heard some sample cuts on line and liked what I heard...not just brass, but
percussion (bongos for instance) included.


How to Belly Dance For Your Lover  Sonny Lester Orchestra and Chorus
Groove Jams 97002.  The sample cuts on line didn't sound like the Sonny
Lester Orchestra I remember from my one LP, so this may not be the same
music at any rate.

I was hoping to get the free 16 coaster set...but they are on back order.

Byron

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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 19:32:01 -0700
From: "Larson/Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) eBay "Sparky's Magic Piano" LP

>  "Sparky's Magic Piano" LP
> Price:    Starts at $9.95

I think that Collector's Choice recently had the CD for about the same
price.

Jerry



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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:49:39 -0700
From: "Matt Hinrichs" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jean-Jacques Perrey's "E.V.A." on mp3

Mp3 files of Jean-Jacques Perrey's "E.V.A." (original and Fatboy Slim remix)
can be found here --

http://euroranch.editthispage.com/discuss/msgReader$72

I don't know if this has been brought up, but this tune sure sounds like it
had a big influence on the "Futurama" theme song. Anybody know fer sure?

- - Matt

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 01:19:52 -0700
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Subject: [none]

Kahiki closing date
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The last date that the Kahiki, Columbus, Ohio can be viewed in its original
state before construction begins is Aug 26

This is also the date of a huge - as in, you will be very sorry if you miss
this - party featuring none other than Don Tiki making their first mainland
appearance ever

details are still being worked out but I wanted to announce this as I had
previous named July 28 as the closing date and wanted to update everyone as
to the new closing date

I will release an official announcement in a few days when details have been
finalized

cheers
Otto von Stroheim
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www.kahiki.com



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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:15:24 +0200
From: Ton =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCckert?= <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hoards of records

The piece by Courtney Love in Salon is quite interesting, to say the least:

Napster's OK as long as we get paid.

The rocker blasts music industry profits and obscene dot-com greed.

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/index.html



Today's word in A Word A Day is bibliotaph.
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bibliotaph (BIB-lee-uh-taf) also bibliotaphe noun

   A person who caches or hoards books.

[Biblio- book + Greek taphos burial.]

   "Leon Henry Vincent's essay on Gautier in The Bibliotaph, and Other
   People, 1898, is worth consulting."
   Theophile Gautier, Salem Press, Jan 1, 1974.



Well, I suppose that would make a person who caches or hoards records=20
a discotaph, hands up everyone who knew that.

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:44:55 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray Martin

In a message dated 6/14/00 9:18:53 PM, [e-mail] writes:

<< What exactly is a "Shadrack" anyway? >>

See the Bible


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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 05:44:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) "Murder, Inc." titles

Thank you Mr. U: Now I can print this out and put it
in with the record. If anyone would like a list of
what Time did to these titles when they re-released
the lp in the later 60s as a "surf" record, let me
know.

- --- "Mr. Unlucky" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> What confusion this "Murder, Inc." record has
> created. Here are the titles, and even times, for
> whoever needs them.


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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 08:59:20 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jean-Jacques Perrey's "E.V.A." on mp3

>I don't know if this has been brought up, but this tune sure sounds like it
>had a big influence on the "Futurama" theme song. Anybody know fer sure?

The Futurama theme is actually much closer in style to Pierre Henry's
"Psyche Rock" than E.V.A, even down to arrangement.




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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:26:05 +0100
From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jean-Jacques Perrey's "E.V.A." on mp3

Matt Hinrichs wrote:
>
> Mp3 files of Jean-Jacques Perrey's "E.V.A." (original and Fatboy Slim remix)
> can be found here --
>
> http://euroranch.editthispage.com/discuss/msgReader$72
>
> I don't know if this has been brought up, but this tune sure sounds like it
> had a big influence on the "Futurama" theme song. Anybody know fer sure?

Talking of JJP, HMV Oxford St has a reissue (boot I presume?) of The In
Sound from Way Out.
Two things:
a) what's it like?
b) they have no sleeve, and are just in those thin plastic bags, getting
damaged. Does the original have a sleeve, and if so, has anyone seen
this reissue with a sleeve?

cheers,
m.


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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 06:56:10 -0700
From: Kevin Crossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Where Shatner's considered too Top 40

Lou Smith wrote:
>
> Here's a nifty interview with our erstwhile pal, Irwin Chusid.
> Where Shatner's Considered Too Top 40
> Irwin Chusid's hit parade heads straight to the asylum
> By J.R. Taylor
> http://www.rouze.com/buzz/0/39453149-0002-7D1E-1.cfm

> As for Shatner, he broke ground with his paranoid-schizo dramatizations of
> the Beatles and Dylan. But he peaked in '78 with "Rocket Man" at the Science
> Fiction Film Awards, and he's been parodying himself ever since. His
> membership in the Outsider Musician's Union has been canceled.

Never! Shatner is still in excellent form, as evidenced by his recent
Priceline commercials (Convoy!).  If folks are going to gripe about
self-parody, then Rocket Man surely qualifies too.

The genius that is Shatner's singing style is often misunderstood, so I
guess this is a lost battle....

Kevin Crossman

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:40:02 +0100
From: Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Where Shatner's considered too Top 40

Kevin Crossman wrote:

> Never! Shatner is still in excellent form, as evidenced by his recent
> Priceline commercials (Convoy!).  If folks are going to gripe about
> self-parody, then Rocket Man surely qualifies too.

Are the Priceline ads available anywhere online for those of us not able
to receive American electromagnetic transmissions?


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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:14:02 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Where Shatner's considered too Top 40

>Are the Priceline ads available anywhere online for those of us not able
>to receive American electromagnetic transmissions?

One of them is here:
http://www.adcritic.com/

Search on "priceline", no quotes.




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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:42:31 +0100
From: Reader Geoff <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) where is the Piero umiliani review?

Bit disappointed not to get a review of the Maestro's appearance at the
Italian festival.  Anyone who attended care to do the honours?  I know Br
Cleve mentioned it in passing,  but I'd like to hear more.


El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:57:15 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Shirt.......

Okay, this seems to be the tiki year - even Kmart has a decent Hawaiian =
shirt with tikis on it.  It's blue/orange with the Hawaiian islands and =
leis swirling around.=20

It says "Aloha" too many times interspersed with tiki faces and a larger =
tiki figure in dark blue.

They also have a cool one with guys playing ukeleles while a gal does the =
hula on a palm treed island.

- - Nate




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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:04:13 +0100
From: Reader Geoff <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) where is the Piero umiliani review?

Thanks Jimmy quick off the mark as usual,  unfortunately i can find no sight
of it.
El Maestro Con Queso

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> From:     [e-mail][SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Sent:     15 June 2000 16:44
> To:     [e-mail]
> Subject:     Re: (exotica) where is the Piero umiliani review?
>
>
> In a message dated 6/15/00 11:43:18 AM, [e-mail] writes:
>
> << Bit disappointed not to get a review of the Maestro's appearance at the
> Italian festival.  Anyone who attended care to do the honours?  I know Br
> Cleve mentioned it in passing,  but I'd like to hear more. >>
>
> he said he would post a report at www.luxuriamusic.com
>


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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:49:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Kraftwerk

Did Kraftwerk really emerge drom a vacuum as this writer suggests?  I don't think
so myself.  I imagine they listened to some of the same electronic exotica moog
albums we have listened to such as "Song of the Second Moon". However,  they may
have been new and fresh to the rock and roll world.

I think this is the same old rolling stone/ rock critic hippy bias that was fed
down my throat since the 60s.  "The genious and creativity of rock music" yeah I
see a lot of great rock music but don't ignore the exotica now sounds , moog or
easy listening music.

I don't know where this article came from, a friend sent it to me.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck



> Kraftwerk: Call Them the Beatles of Electronic Dance Music
> UTON, England -- IT WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST parties of the year, the
> Tribal Gathering. More than 40,000 people spent some 20 hours in the
> fields of Luton Hoo Estate outside London in late May, dancing
> practically nonstop. Eight tents were filled with the cream of
> electronic dance music's current crop: from bands like Daft Punk and
> Orbital to disk jockeys like Jeff Mills and Carl Cox.
> But the biggest attraction at the event -- celebrating a genre in which
> new music often becomes passe after a month -- was a band that is 30
> years old: Kraftwerk. Emerging out of Dusseldorf, Germany, Kraftwerk
> gained notoriety in 1974 with the first song in German to break into the
> American Top 40, "Autobahn," which used electronic instruments to evoke
> the sensation of driving on an expressway. Since then, the band's
> reputation has changed from that of a novelty act into one of the most
> important bands of the last 30 years. It also remains one of the most
> enigmatic bands of the time, rarely granting interviews and letting more
> than a decade elapse between albums.
> At the Tribal Gathering, one of the few shows that Kraftwerk has
> performed in the last few years, anticipation was high. An hour before
> the show was even scheduled to begin, a crowd of thousands had grown so
> large that the sides of the tent in which the show was held had to be
> raised to let those unable to get in see the stage. . In America,
> electronic dance music may just be beginning to break into the
> mainstream, but in Europe it has long since gone pop. And in many ways,
> Kraftwerk is responsible.
> "The most striking thing about Kraftwerk is that we created this change
> from electric and acoustic music to electronic music, and this cannot be
> done again," said Emil Schult, an artist and lyricist who was one of the
> main conceptualists behind Kraftwerk's image. "We had a very serious way
> of working and a very strong urge for new sounds, and this is what this
> whole new generation is feeding on."
> It has been argued in the press that Kraftwerk is the most important
> music group since the Beatles. Less debatable is the fact that what the
> Beatles are to rock music, Kraftwerk is to electronic dance music. The
> band laid down a blueprint for the music's future, developing an
> automated, impersonal sound that although it seems ultra-intellectual
> and European, slipped across barriers of race, class and nationality
> like mercury. This heritage was more than clear at the Tribal Gathering
> after Kraftwerk's concert, when techniques, melodies and ideas that
> Kraftwerk had used in its performance were directly ripped off by the
> bands and disk jockeys that followed.
> Neil Young is often cited as the grandfather of grunge. To credit
> Kraftwerk as the grandfather of techno would be to humanize a band that
> likes to be thought of as part machine. Besides, Kraftwerk's legacy
> encompasses a lot more than techno. Think of the band as a lab
> technician synthesizing the DNA that provided the code for rap, disco,
> electro-funk, new wave, industrial and techno -- basically everything
> that has shifted the spotlight from guitars to studio technology in the
> last 20 years. Giorgio Moroder was listening to Kraftwerk when he made
> Donna Summer the queen of disco; David Bowie fell under the influence of
> the band when recording his studio-savvy late-70's albums in Berlin;
> Afrika Bambaataa constructed one of rap's first hits, "Planet Rock," out
> of two Kraftwerk songs. At the same time, British groups like Depeche
> Mode and New Order were adding a romantic glide to Kraftwerk songs to
> come up with synth pop. Even today, groups like Kraftwelt and the
> Elecktroids exist solely as homage to Kraftwerk.
> Techno musicians are often accused of being reclusive and faceless, but
> as Kraftwerk's performance at the Tribal Gathering demonstrated, it is
> the original faceless band. It performed its song "We Are the Robots"
> without even being on stage. Instead, four legless robot bodies were
> lowered from a lighting rig and programmed to make mechanical movements
> to the music.
> As with any artwork that appears years ahead of its time, the most
> nagging question about Kraftwerk is, Where did the music come from? The
> group's albums in the mid-70's seem to have emerged from a vacuum: no
> one else was doing anything similar. Unlike, say, Elvis Presley or the
> Beatles, who initially gained popularity playing their versions of black
> American rhythm-and-blues, Kraftwerk wasn't playing its version of any
> musical style. Though the group seems to have been influenced by the
> city-as-symphony philosophy of the Italian Futurists, the studio craft
> of the Beach Boys and the electro-acoustic compositions of German
> composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel, Kraftwerk was
> essentially playing its version of a conceptual idea.
> When the group formed as the Organisation in the late 60's, Ralf Hutter
> and Florian Schneider (the dominant duo behind Kraftwerk) were escapees
> from a classical conservatory playing the progressive rock that was
> sweeping Germany at the time, resulting in long, spacey, psychedelic
> improvisations by bands like Can, Tangerine Dream and Neu!, whose
> members belonged to an early incarnation of Kraftwerk. The band now
> disavows the first three albums it recorded as Kraftwerk, which are
> available today only as bootlegs, and prefers to begin its history with
> the 1974 "Autobahn" album, when its roots in hippie improvisation gave
> way to meticulous technology.
> IN THE EARLY 70's, SOPHISTICATED electronic instruments were
> prohibitively expensive and often the size of a bedroom closet. So
> Kraftwerk was forced to build its own electronic drum pads, design
> synthesizers and commission the construction of a sequencer, which
> enabled the group to meticulously program, coordinate and repeat
> progressions of notes and rhythms. The band consisted of Hutter,
> Schneider and, later, the drummers Karl Bartos and Wolfgang Flur, who
> were all living communally with Schult, the unofficial fifth member of
> the band.
> "We built one of the first sequencers, a small one that we could use on
> stage," remembers Flur. "And that was the first step for techno music.
> Without sequencers, it isn't possible. From the sequencer on, the music
> became more cold and more cold and more technical."
> And so did Kraftwerk. The ultimate aim of the new Kraftwerk was to
> become one with its technology, to stop playing its instruments and let
> the instruments play it. Often the band would compose its music by just
> letting its equipment run for hours and seeing what came out. Hutter
> even dreamed of a day when he could stay home and send robots on tour
> and to interviews instead. Suddenly, as "Autobahn" became a surprise hit
> in America, the original image of Kraftwerk as bearded, mustachioed
> hippies gave way to one of clean-cut, impeccably dressed scientists.
> "When we went to America in 1974, we bought fitted suits and things to
> be different from the sweating guitar bands," Flur remembers. "We
> thought the image fit better with our music: it's very constructed and
> cold. It doesn't come from a practice cellar. It comes from a
> laboratory."
> With its 1977 album, "Trans-Europe Express," Kraftwerk created one of
> laboratory pop's masterpieces, a prescient album full of romantic
> synthesizer melodies over metronome beats conceived around a train ride
> through a borderless Europe. The album was released the same year as the
> Sex Pistols' watershed punk album, "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the
> Sex Pistols." But as punk rock was telling young people that they could
> form their own rock band without technical skill, Kraftwerk was sending
> out the same do-it-yourself message. But not only were skilled musicians
> no longer needed, neither were bands: just machines.
> On the band's next brainstorm, the album "Man Machine," with visuals
> borrowed from Soviet art that glorified the automaton worker, it
> completed its conceptual evolution. The catch phrase of the
> "Trans-Europe Express" album, "We are showroom dummies," became, on this
> album, "We are the robots." The band started refusing to be
> photographed. From then until now, Kraftwerk has only allowed its
> homemade robotlike replicas of themselves to be used for press photos.
> But Kraftwerk's conceptual high-water mark as human machines was also
> the catalyst for the band's undoing. Unlike Hutter and Schneider, the
> rest of the band wasn't ready to become machines. They were frustrated:
> the pair constantly turned down attractive offers for collaborations
> with, among others, Michael Jackson, Elton John and Bowie, and the band
> began working at a tediously slow pace.
> "We developed in the end that we were the robots, and I didn't want to
> be a robot any longer because I had changed my personality over those
> years," said Flur, who now leads his own minimal electronic band, Yamo.
> "And I could not wait always six or eight years for the next album or
> tour. If robots stand still, then they get rusty. They always have to
> work."
> The more Kraftwerk realized how influential it was, the more it became
> afraid of damaging that reputation. Meanwhile, with the themes of
> miniaturization and cheap, ubiquitous electronics on its 1981 album,
> "Computer World," coming true, anyone could have access to the
> technology that was once Kraftwerk's exclusive domain. Since "Computer
> World," the band has only released one album of new songs, "Electric
> Cafe," which, despite the title, was more an attempt to keep up with
> club music than a prediction of the rise of the Internet.
> Last month, Hutter and Schneider turned in the first songs for a
> forthcoming Kraftwerk album to their label, EMI. Many fans are wondering
> if the pair can keep up their conceptual steam. Although now is the time
> for Kraftwerk to be appreciated, it is no longer, however, the time for
> the band to be inventive. By turning itself into technology incarnate,
> Kraftwerk destined itself to becoming outmoded, replaceable by new,
> updated models in the form of younger studio musicians.
> "Now is a rebirth of the whole movement that Kraftwerk started," said
> Schult. "It's like a cycle in time. And it comes back because it's
> necessary to come back -- because something was left unfinished the
> first time."
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:17:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bruce Lenkei <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) After hours

I found an interesting disc yesterday called "After Hours New York" on the
Time label. It looks like it might be a Time re-issue. It's a pretty nice
mix of about half straight jazz and half more percussive, wacky tunes,
which are all sort of musical impressions of New York.

The only thing is, there's no artist credited. Anyone know
who made this record?

- - bruce

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:01:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Shirt.......

Speaking of overkill. I was in Turd Vegas last week
and everyone had on an Hawaiian shirt. It looked like
a massive early 1960s American tourist reenactment.
Part of the LOUD theme, I guess. But a standout - the
bartenders and waitstaff at the Flamingo Hilton wore
an acqua color shirt with blue palms and pink
flamingos. But unlike endless free cocktails, cocky
toilet butlers and delicately scented sheep trained to
low your name, these could not be had. The hotel did
not sell them and the loyal staff would not descend to
bribery. I suppose it's part of the great paranoia
that keeps the drunks and cons in check... uniforms
could be used to infiltrate... gain and edge, subvert,
suborn, destroy. Too bad, they were cool shirts.

Oh, and the Peking Market in the Flamingo Hilton
serves an extremely dangerous mai-tai.

- --- Nathan Miner <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Okay, this seems to be the tiki year - even Kmart
> has a decent Hawaiian shirt with tikis on it.  It's
> blue/orange with the Hawaiian islands and leis
> swirling around.

> It says "Aloha" too many times interspersed with
> tiki faces and a larger tiki figure in dark blue.


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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:27:52 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kraftwerk

Interesting enough, Emperor Norton is about to release an album of Kraftwerk
songs done Latin-style by a guy who calls himself Senor Coconut. (Can't find
a tilde for the "n" on "Senor.")

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:36:14 -0500
From: Matt Marchese <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Shirt.......

Nathan Miner wrote:

> Okay, this seems to be the tiki year - even Kmart has a decent Hawaiian shirt with tikis on it.  It's blue/orange with the Hawaiian islands and leis swirling around.

And Target (or "Tarzhay" to you urban sophisticates) carries a nice line of loungey rayon shirts and even silk tiki boxer shorts...not in my size, unfortunately. I've
bought two black shirts with emblazoned with classic umbrella drinks. They've been big hits at work and on the patio. They make my teal-blue vintage Hawaiian shirt with
the embroidered bamboo seem positively tasteful by comparison.

I've also been told that Old Navy carries some tiki apparel, but all I can find online is a tshirt.


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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:02:49 +0200
From: Dj Batman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kraftwerk

hey everyone!
did anyone else get the promo pstcard from Emperor Norton??
I got one for Senor Coconut and also one for Logan's Sanctuary!!!

bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:13:47 +0200
From: Dj Batman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray Martin [NOT!]

><< What exactly is a "Shadrack" anyway? >>
>
>See the Bible

ahem... Shadrach, Meshach and Abdenego are biblical charachters... they are
thrown in the furnace (uhmmm I can't remember who was the king who ordered
to burn them...) but they are saved by God.

Incidentally my best friend's dj identity is... http://www.mp3.com/shadrach
;))))

Also, there's an interesting SF novel by Robert Silverberg called "Shadrach
in the furnace".


bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:40:46 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Shirt.......

In a message dated 06/15/00 3:37:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I've also been told that Old Navy carries some tiki apparel, but all I can
find online is a tshirt. >>

well, that just about made me loose it in my pants (notice my nice language,
roy).

i hate that whole GAP / Old Navy idea of mass introducing  the "newest
trends".  sleeveless vests?  excuse me?  how did they sell that shit on the
public?

and you want to get me on a tangent (that is "tanzhay" to you urban
sophisticates) - Abercrombie & Fitch used to be this neat store that had all
this hunting, sporting (like english sporting), etc. stuff and now they are
"soft goods".  that means cargo pants, tshirts and sleeveless vest to those
not apparelly informed.

tiki bob


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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:27:20 -0400
From: "Kenneth Setzer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re:tiki shirt

Old Navy has tiki boxers too. And a cotton, short sleeve, button-down
shirt,
with lapels. It has two tikis on one side with a zig-zag line running
over and
under them.
> Comes in off-white and blue, pretty nice too. And I think a Hawaiian shirt
with tikis as well.
>
> The Florida Toll employees down here wear a great shirt: white with names
and drawings (?) of all the major Florida roads. It's really cool,
although
the employees wearing
> it do not look thrilled. It not only is NOT for sale, but one employee told
me that it's considered a State uniform, and if caught wearing it I, as
a
non-toll taker person,
> could get fined! Imagine that!


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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:55:34 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kraftwerk

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> Interesting enough, Emperor Norton is about to release an album of Kraftwerk
> songs done Latin-style by a guy who calls himself Senor Coconut. (Can't find
> a tilde for the "n" on "Senor.")

Yes!  I got my postcard in the mail today.  It says:

"Imagine Perez Prado, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria and
Benny More all together playing songs of Germany's most
important pop pioneers - a Latin masterpiece of sampling!"

If anyone's heard this, I'd like to know how it is.  Sounds
tempting to me.

- --

Kerry


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