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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:49:50 +0100
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: (exotica) Berlin Booksigning
I doubt that there are any list members from Berlin, but who cares:
Anyway, Sven A. Kirsten asked me to announce a book signing of his "Book
Of Tiki" in this new bookshop on sunday the 10th of december at 16.00
o'clock. It's Rock-a-Tiki, Danziger Strasse 3, Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg.
Exotic sound and taste sensations by Gordon W.
Thanks for your attention and mahalo tiki aficionados
Mo
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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:49:44 +0100
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) 78 RPM Manifesto
I tried to make tape copies from old shellack 78s that my grandparents
had brought from china in the 20s and since at some points the shellack
sort of looked broken I took a closer look. And to my surprise I
discovered that these records under the surface were really made of
wood! I had no idea. Do all shellacks have a nucleus of wood?
The main problem of transferring it was that the grooves were cut at an
incredibly low volume level, so even when I turned the recorder volume
level to the max it still wasn't enough to reach 0 db, so I had to do a
copy of that copy in the end.
Mo
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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 10:09:36 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Up With People
Curtain Closing on Up With People
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 6:38 a.m. ET
BROOMFIELD, Colo. (AP) -- The curtain is closing for Up With People, but many cast members who toured the world to spread the group's musical message of peace and understanding remained hopeful it would someday rise from financial collapse.
The nonprofit organization decided on Wednesday to shut down because of its $7.3 million debt. It lost $3.2 million in the fiscal year that ended in June and $860,000 in the previous year, when it was forced to dip into its endowment.
``This is one of the steps you have to take to make it to the next generation,'' said Scott Nelson of Denver, who toured with the group in Australia and New Zealand in 1985.
The organization, which left open the possibility of a reorganization, will lay off its 262 employees in 10 offices around the world and sell its main building north of Denver.
Nelson said Up With People was born out of a dream and not a business plan. He said part of the group's recent trouble might have been trying to appeal to too many types and ages of people.
Up With People was founded in 1965 by Blanton and Betty Belk of Tucson, Ariz., who challenged a group of college students to find an upbeat message amid student unrest, the Vietnam War and racial strife.
Up With People picked 700 young people each year to perform in a half-dozen different troupes that travel to a total of 20 countries. Each cast member paid $14,300.
Troupes performed in junior high gymnasiums, carpet-covered ice rinks and European concert halls. They appeared before the pope, during Super Bowl halftime shows and at high football games.
``That's where our magic happened, in those small communities,'' said Tim Schuetz of Denver, who toured with the group in 1992.
``It's closing its doors at this point, but the legacy of the 20,000 alumni and hundreds of thousands of host families will live on,'' Nelson said.
http://www.upwithpeople.org/
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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 10:44:02 -0500
From: Ross Orr <mambofrenzy@earthlink.net>
Subject: (exotica) More on CD vs. vinyl
I wanted to make one more point to defend the CD:
A while back I transferred an obscure Martin Denny LP into my
computer, and because the disk was in pristine shape I decided to go
for broke and attempt to remove every single click and pop I could
hear (manually drawing over the glitches in my sound editor program).
This involved literally hours of time per track listening to the
sound in obsessive detail.
From previous experiences I was familiar with all the ills that vinyl
can be prone to: Low frequency "whumping" sounds on each revolution,
breakup on the high notes, off-center hole causing noticeable wow,
etc. etc.
Fortunately this LP was fine in those respects, and on casual
listening you would have said that it barely had any clicks, either.
However I would listen to 10-second chunks over and over again
through headphones, and gradually, subliminally, I would realize that
there sometimes would be a place where one side of my brain would
flinch slightly--even though there was nothing overtly audible. Then
zooming in to the highest magnification, I would discover some
absolutely tiny little spike sticking out of the waveform.
Once I drew over that glitch and listened again, it was rather
amazing to me how much the sound seemed to have more of an "ease" and
openness to it.
Up to that point I would not have considered myself particularly
ideological on the vinyl vs. CD question. But after that, I really
became convinced that the absence of surface noise on a CD is
something that people too often take for granted. It really does make
a difference.
cheers,
--Ross
|| Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr <mambofrenzy@earthlink.net>
|| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 12:36:12 -0500
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) 78 RPM Manifesto
At 03:49 PM 12/8/00 +0100, Moritz R wrote:
>
>. Do all shellacks have a nucleus of wood?
No.
>The main problem of transferring it was that the grooves were cut at an
>incredibly low volume level, so even when I turned the recorder volume
>level to the max it still wasn't enough to reach 0 db, so I had to do a
>copy of that copy in the end.
I don't believe the grooves were cut at a low volume level. A record from
the 1920's is an acoustic record and therefore not made to be played on an
electric machine or anything resembling your turntable.
I'm not the expert on this. Everything I know on the subject comes from
having interviewed the actual experts. But I know that people who
regularly try to record 78's will for instance, have anywhere from a dozen
to a hundred different needles, all with slight variations in width, in
order to get the best possible sound from the various records they come
across.
To some degree I'm parroting Stephen's more researched post the other day
but I have heard 78's absolutely come alive when played on the machines
they were meant to be played on. The acoustic ones sound better on
acoustic machines. And the electric on electric machines. And the
electric ones sound better on the kind of - pre stereo - "record player" I
had as a teenager than they do on your average stereo turntable UNLESS it's
been overhauled specifically to play 78's. And even then, the crappy old
tonearm and the flipover needle can make an old 78 sound great.
And one more thing. Most of the 78's you find will be electric, not acoustic.
Anyone want a bunch of 78's, I'm giving them away to a good home when I
figure out how to send them.
AZ
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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 13:01:49 -0500
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Dominic Frontiere
At 07:11 PM 12/7/00 EST, Pearmania@aol.com wrote:
>
><< Are there other interesting Frontieres to seek out? >>
>
>Pagan Festival is Dominic Frontiere's only exotic-sounding record that I'm
>aware of. He also did a the Spaghetti western soundtrack "Hang 'Em High"
>(1968?) which is good but very close in sound to Morricone.
Seek out this: "Love Eyes, The moods of Romance".
It's a bit like that "Emotions" record by Richard Shore, if you're familiar
with that (or even if you aren't.)
They're both very early versions of the now familiar "music for films that
weren't actually made" genre.
And I recommend them both.
Emotions is a bit more consistent and more overtly "powerful".
Love Eyes is more eclectic. But it has the cooler cuts, even stuff that
you'd have to call "crime jazz". In fact I've often used the cut "Sultry"
in crime jazz compilations. And there's also the cut called "Beatnick".
If I had absolutely clean copies of these, they'd make a great CDR two-fer.
(Like I need another reason to be making CDR's. And by the way, the first
round of "The CDR project" is almost finished. And with it, well over a
thousand records have gone or are on their way out....)
AZ
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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:08:20 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <quiet@village.uunet.be>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Monsieur records: no contact info
<stefan@subliminal.se> who sold me "wowsville" sez:
"i dont have any contact info. i get the lps from one of my
distributors. so far only wildsville and wowsville have been relased.
if any body wants the lps - send them to me or/and to my site"
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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:26:06 -0800
From: "Ron Grandia" <rgrandia@xtabay.com>
Subject: (exotica) Xmas cheer for sale
Hey folks,
The prodigal exoticat has slunk back from his pigeonhole in Squaresville to
help a friend and turn y'all on to a trading opportunity.
My pal Don Vigeant has packaged-up a beautiful 2-CD compilation of funky-azz
Christmas flotsam. It has little proper "Exotica" content, but I know there
will be some here that will find it amusing. I can't get the Billy Squier
xmas tune out of my head. (Yikes.) The Banjo version of Good King Winceslas
(sp?) is a fave of mine, too. Don't let that scare ya, there's something
there for everybody.
He'd like to trade with interested parties. Playlist and artwork preview
Very nice. I noticed you have a LP cover gallery. Someone here on the list was asking me is I knew of any web sites like yours that have pictures of LP covers.
Anybody here have a web page of links?
Domenic Ciccone
"Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM FridayÆs 6-9AM EST
http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/
http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/listen.html(On Real Audio)
HEY Check This Out!
Get Your Free Domain Name @ http://www.buzzlink.com
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:16:49 -0500
From: "Risser Family" <risser@cinci.rr.com>
Subject: (exotica) Saving a Warped Record
Can't I just stick it in the oven on a cookie sheet at a low temperature to
flatten it out?
Didn't I read that somewhere?
Anyone?
Peter
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:32:29 -0500
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: (exotica) I don't remember this being posted
Maybe my memory is faulty but I don't remember any of our members posting
this article they wrote about exotica....
http://ookworld.com/persistexotica.html
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:54:44 -0500
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: (exotica) sunday surfing day
Okay so that last post was about a three-year old article.
But this page is "current"
It's my day to surf the web and clean up my bookmarks.
Found this, for people into buying tiki stuff:
http://www.trashdaddy.com/tiki/index.html
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 15:08:17 -0500
From: Lou Smith <lousmith@pipeline.com>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Hoyt Curtin
Hoyt Curtin
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Composer Hoyt Curtin, who wrote the music for cartoon
theme songs such as the Flintstones, the Jetsons, and Scooby-Doo, died Dec.
3. He was 78.
Curtin died after a lengthy illness, according to his son, Chris Curtin.
Hoyt Curtin began his career at Hanna-Barbera in 1957 after a stint writing
advertising jingles. As the music director for Hanna-Barbera, he wrote the
score for countless cartoon shows, including Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear
and Johnny Quest.
His most enduring creation was the theme to the Flintstones, which Curtin
said he wrote in a panic in 1960 because the show was behind schedule.
