> edison cylinder,etc etc, isnt the point. Its that I have access to the music
> which I love and the music itself is what I want. the sound quality runs a
> far second to that.
>
> its all in the ear of the beholder.
My hand-counted vote for Jonathan in this election.
- -Mo
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 22:01:35 -0500
From: "m.ace" <mace@ookworld.com>
Subject: (exotica) "An exploration of the impact recording technology had upon music"
An interesting book review about an interesting sounding book, which examines some issues that have been discussed here (though from a classical perspective):
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ritual of the Dead (was CD Logistics)
Jonny wrote:
>I figure by the time im dead, I will have lots of music to listen to in my coffin.
You know I think you are onto something here.
Where is this music going to be 4-6 thousand years from now? Most likely gone and forgotten. So maybe we *should* be buried with our mp3Æs and hermetically sealed devices and instructions to build/repair or power them.
Exotica could be a big hit with archaeologists of the future!
IÆm sure they will imply that there was a lot of religious significance attached to the music. After listening to Les Baxter and Domenic Fontiere they might even think that this ôExoticaö cult even engaged in ritual human sacrifice!
I think itÆs our duty to screw these people up.
Domenic
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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:56:00 -0600
From: "Colleen Pyles" <colleen7@ireland.com>
Subject: (exotica) cd vs vinyl...I agree
No matter in what genre it is played...it is the music we listen
to...it's the emotional reaction to that sound that counts.
Colleen
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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:09:23 -0600
From: "Colleen Pyles" <colleen7@ireland.com>
Subject: (exotica) Hi HO Steverino
Speaking of Steve Allen, that guy had a few songs that qualified as
exotica. Does anyone remember the song where he played the trumpet
and laughed all the way through?
Colleen
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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 00 15:55:15 -0400
From: "Michael D. Toth" <mtoth@neo.lrun.com>
Subject: (exotica) Optiganally Yours radio show - Dec.17
FYI:
Earlier this week I pre-recorded an hour radio special with Pea Hix and
Rob Crow, more infamously known as Optiganally Yours. It will air Sunday
night @ 11:00 PM Eastern on 91.3 FM WAPS in Akron, OH (simulcast in
streaming audio on the Net at www.wapsfm.com).
I guarantee you can't name a better Optigan/guitar pop duo than these
guys, and I seriously doubt you can name many (any?) current artists who
are making music this fun and interesting.
Perhaps my favorite current musical act, they combine ingenious pop hooks
and intriguing lyrics with irresistable harmonic vocals and
instrumentation ranging from the ginchily zonky to the beautifully
sublime. Hey, I further dare you to name a more overall *ginchily zonky*
act making music today!!!
Hear wonders from the two OY albums, plus rarities from compilations and
the www.optigan.com Web site. Not only will Pea explain the bizarre 1970
Mattel analogue sampling technology of the Optigan keyboard, but you'll
hear about OY's relationship with the Powerpuff Girls, Pea's Ron Mael
aspirations, the scoop on vintage Optigan maestro Johnny Largo and
Johnny's Christmas recordings, and *more*!
Every Sunday night, the Beyondo Mondo Record Party airs from 11:00 to
midnight Eastern, featuring yours truly, Tothar, and/or members of
Tothar's motley DJ crew.
Be there!
Michael David Toth
mtoth@neo.lrun.com
mtoth@neo.rr.com
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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 15:53:22 EST
From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Casa Nostra" 12.15.00
"Casa Nostra" airs midnight Friday on WMBR-FM, 88.1, Cambridge, MA at MIT
http://wmbr.org
"Casa Nostra", hosted by James Botticelli plays Loungecore, Breakbeat & House
from the Bass Age, and specially selected bytes from the Space Age
Green Velvet-Never Satisfied
Bebel Gilberto-Sem Contencao (remix)
Perez Prado-Pachito E Che
Ursala 1000-Hip Length
Jean Jacques Perry-E.V.A.
Zeb-Spy From Cairo
St Germain-Pont Des Arts
Martin Solveig-Ebony (Clap Your Hands)
Xavier Cugat-Brazil
Ian Pooley-What's Your Number?
Los Chicharrons-Summer Fling
Tutto Matto-Can't Stop
Balanco-Metta Una....remix
Mongo Santamaria-Stoned Soul Picnic
Stereo DeLuxe-Riddle Me This
Chris Joss & His Orchestra-She's Loud
Mario Scalambrin-Believe In Me
Eccum-Melting
Big Sexy-Another World
Jon Cutler-Flute Pebbles
Royal Jam-Kiss The Night
Night Of Lego-When I'm With You
Negrocan-Cada Vez
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 20:54:33 +1100
From: Philip Jackson <pdj@mpx.com.au>
Subject: (exotica) Today's finds
Scored these on vinyl today for A$2-$5 each (US$1-$3 approx)
Living Guitars "San Franciscan Nights" - loads of electric sitar
101 Strings "The Exotic Sounds Of Love" - Whiplash, Karma Sitar etc. !!
The Button Down Brass "Everybody's Talking"
Loa Admiradoes "Bongos/Flutes/Guitars"
Nelson Riddle "Route 66 Theme and Other Great TV Themes"
Robert Maxwell "Anytime!"
I chanced upon a S/H record shop that had bought the local ABC radio
stations easy listening record library. Many boxes to go through and no time
but a quick look yielded these. Should I go back for more?
Philip
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Date: 17 Dec 2000 02:19:44 -0800
From: bag@hubris.net
Subject: Re: (exotica) Today's finds
At 08:54 PM 17-12-00 +1100, Philip wrote:
>Scored these on vinyl
[Los Admiradores, Riddle, Maxwell...]
>I chanced upon a S/H record shop that had bought the local ABC radio
>stations easy listening record library.
>Should I go back for more?
I would...and maybe you can get a deal on quantity, too! If these are
in good shape, that is. Also, this may be a good opportunity to find some
real interesting records which may not have been too popular. Promo copies
often find their way into libraries but commercial release may never happen
widely...thus the stations have them but few people do!
Byron
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 05:52:39 -0500
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Today's finds
At 08:54 PM 12/17/00 +1100, Philip Jackson wrote:
>
>Scored these on vinyl today for A$2-$5 each (US$1-$3 approx)
>
>Living Guitars "San Franciscan Nights" - loads of electric sitar
>101 Strings "The Exotic Sounds Of Love" - Whiplash, Karma Sitar etc. !!
Good score. That Living Guitars record is a classic and I don't think it's
exactly "rare" but I've never actually seen it again since I got my copy.
In fact, I'd say it's more than a classic. I'd say that of its type, there
is no better record. Yes admittedly it's a narrow genre but it's my narrow
genre and I wish I had a bunch more records as good as that one. But I don't.
In fact, I'd even say that it's better than "Up the Down Staircase" which
finally arrived.
And it's good too.
But this one is at least as good.
And way cheaper.
IF you can find it.
AZ
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 06:41:17 -0500
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: (exotica) chad and jeremy
Hey Chuck, what do you think of Chad and Jeremy? What about you Ben?
If you've never bothered to pick up their records - and you like the soft
pop stuff like chuck and Ben do - you owe yourself the favor to do so.
And I haven't even heard their psychedelic classics like "Of cabbages and
kings".
Anyone have anything to say about that record?
But check out anything by Chad and Jeremy.
They sorta sound like the Lettermen (though I know that's not much of a
recommendation for most of you). Some of their stuff was produced by Frank
Hunter, which is kinda interesting.
Happy festivus.
AZ
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Not so long ago, New Yorkers sat around the hearth of their television sets to bask in the glow of the WPIX Yule Log on Christmas Eve. It's a tradition as tied to Christmas in New York as the tree in Rockefeller Center and Santa Claus at Macy's.
In 1966 WPIX decided to offer a Christmas card to its viewers. Fireplaces, a symbol of warmth and home, are hard to come by in the metropolis. The station's general manager, at that time, Fred Thrower, thought of all the apartments that didn't have fireplaces, and decided a televised Yule Log might be an appropriate way for viewers on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to hear Christmas carols and have a burning fireplace of their own.
A camera crew was dispatched to then Mayor John V. Lindsay's residence at Gracie Mansion, where a 17-second film loop of a blazing fireplace was recorded. Since that time, the Yule Log, which we like to think of as the world's first music video, has been re-shot three or four times. First on film, then on tape and now adapted for the World Wide Web.
Now, we are happy to present, back by popular demand, the WB11 Yule Log for the 21st century only on the World Wide Web.
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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:45:36 +0100
From: Phil Ford <ford0032@tc.umn.edu>
Subject: (exotica) introduction
Hello --
I am a new subscriber to his list, and I wanted to introduce myself. I'm
a pianist and a Ph.D. student in musicology at the University of
Minnesota. Although most of my research has been in the 1940s and 50s
New York bohemian scene (jazz and the Beats), I've gotten interested in
west coast TV and movie jazz (aka crime jazz) lately, which I guess is
my intersection with exotica. Anyhow, hello.
I hope it's not "bad form" for a first posting to contain a plug for
something, but perhaps some of you might find this interesting. The
Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble (formerly the Minnesota Contemporary
Ensemble), a chamber orchestra devoted (usually) to stuff like
Nancarrow, Varese, and Messiaen, has just released a live CD called "I
Dig," which contains mostly exotica and crime jazz (Mancini's music from
"Touch of Evil", a new piece by Robert Drasnin, one piece by Les Baxter,
etc.). You can read about it at
http://www.icemusic.org
Also, I just heard Skip Heller's new crime jazz-ish album, "Laid Bare,"
which I don't think has been released quite yet. (January, maybe?) This
one consists of John Gilmore's readings from his
seedy-underside-of-Hollywood confessional writings underlaid with
Heller's own take on crime jazz. It is extremely cool and worth checking
out.
Phil Ford, U of MN
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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:56:45 -0500
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <crajnai@att.com>
Subject: RE: (exotica) introduction
Phil,
Let me be one of the first of the multitudes to welcome you to the =
list! =20
Crime Jazz is a regular topic here, so you will feel quite comfortable
indeed. And we are always open to hearing new insights on the various =
types
of music we on the list have grown to enjoy. =20
Bad form doesn't seem to exist here, so thanx for the info on 'I Dig'. =
See you around!
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THE BRIMSTONES Eternal Surf and Garage Damnation=20
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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:09:00 EST
From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Best Christmas Albums
In a message dated Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:31:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, Brian Phillips <hagar@mindspring.net> writes:
<<
A fave cut of mine is Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's "Snowflake", a nice blend of
choral vocals and guitar.
My favorite Christmas tunes are 45's found while looking for other stuff...A real goodie: Toni Wine's "My Boyfriends Coming Home For Christmas" on Colpix. Others when I get home
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