The Other Quiet Village
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I may rock a bit of Martin in the sun today.
MMS, have you heard Wave, the Tom Jobim record? Like Martin Denny sans fromage... absolute heaven in the sun.
MMS, have you heard Wave, the Tom Jobim record? Like Martin Denny sans fromage... absolute heaven in the sun.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Not too big on those guys although I've got a really cool Yma Sumac album produced by Les Baxter. There is a good exotica site here (named after a Sumac album I guess)
http://www.blognow.com.au/XtabaysWorld/34118/Jimmie_Haskell_-_Countdown.html
I really want that Countdown album in the picture if anyone can help?
http://www.blognow.com.au/XtabaysWorld/34118/Jimmie_Haskell_-_Countdown.html
I really want that Countdown album in the picture if anyone can help?
Any Martin Denny, Les Baxter fans out there?
Big time! Esquivel also.And if you would like to hear a dark industrialist take on the Denny sound have a listen to ''Quiet Pillage'' by 23 Skidoo.You can find it on the ''7 Songs'' LP.
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Thanks for the link.That site is a great recourse for Exotica/Space Age Bachelor Pad Music.A lot of the original LPs fetch huge amounts for the cover art alone.If you want to dip into some good compilations I can recommend both The ''Ultra Lounge'' series on Capital and RCA's ''Space Age Pop''
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IdleRich
IdleRich
Yeah but originals are best right? Just dip my toe in to exotica really but some of it is really good, got this very weird album called Electronic Music To Blow Your Mind By by a band called Love Machine, it's kind of exotica/surf with loads of studio effects added, the only thing I would compare it to is I Hear A New World (or some other Jeo Meek things like Night of The Vampire) but I like it more than that.
Used to have Esquivel stuff that was pretty freaky. I heard that he won the (Mexican) national lottery - twice. I wonder if that can be true.
Absolutely and in the US I'm sure you can still find stuff in thrift shops/yard sales and so on.We didnt have an equivalent thing in the UK untill the late sixties.The rise in this sort of music went in tanden with the acquisition of home stereo systems and this didnt take hold in the UK untill then.
In the nineties I spent a lot of time trawling through UK charity shops for lPs on EMI Studio 2,Polydor Circle Of Sound,Decca Phase 4 and so on.A good site dealing with this stuff as well as Library Records and other oddities is Vinyl Vulture:
http://www.vinylvulture.co.uk
Getting back to the 50s US exotica thing,there is a production duo called Tipsy who have produced a couple of fantastic LPs using this music as an influence/sample source:
http://www.myspace.com/tipsytheband
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i can't recommend the first of these compilations enough:
http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/news/exotictrilogy.html
comprising countless versions of quiet village, caravan, taboo - thee canonical exotic standards!
a few years back i was obsessively collecting this stuff - 'hypnotique' by martin denny is still proabably my favourite - denny at his most shimmering, mesmerising and humid, with beautiful cod-surrealist artwork:
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http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/news/exotictrilogy.html
comprising countless versions of quiet village, caravan, taboo - thee canonical exotic standards!
a few years back i was obsessively collecting this stuff - 'hypnotique' by martin denny is still proabably my favourite - denny at his most shimmering, mesmerising and humid, with beautiful cod-surrealist artwork:
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yes that's my fave, for the version of summertime i think more than any other track.
Yes esquivel is great too, that tom jobin record sounds good.
I kinda like the cheese though.
Word. I wrote a little blog piece on the Denny-Industrial interface a few years back.
http://loki23.blogspot.com/2004/11/industrial-exotica.html
(sorry the MPfrees are long gone...)
have you seen that film - 'secret of the incas' with charlton heston that voice of the xtabay album is half from it, yma is in it, strange campy stuff, quite amazing sets.
baxters big one is 'jewels of the sea' i reckon, had it lost it want it again can't find it, he had brilliant names for lps like 'ports of pleasure' and 'savage ritual' that sound so seedy.
the ports sleeve looks like a blatent eroticisation of 'foreign' culture, an ad for sex tourism.
arthur lyman is the other big man too, those brilliant taboo sleeves are quite terrifying, a massive close up of a shrunken head against a red background, you can see parallels with dodgy video nasty covers etc.
idle rich - yeah those electric love machine records are great. ive never properly explored that cadet offshoot label but there seem to be a good bunch of moog things on there.
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IdleRich
IdleRich
No but now I want to.
I think you might be talking about something different here, I'm talking about this album which as far as I know was the only one they did, I think it's just a bunch of studio musicians.
http://www.wiels.nl/blog/index.php?entry=entry070303-184435
It's on a cheapie label which seems to be called Design (I've got the Young Lovers version of the Barbarella soundtrack on the same label I think) and which as far as I know is nothing to do with Cadet.
I think you can listen to a few bits on that page.
Could you be talking about this record?
http://www.317x.com/albums/h/richardhayman2/card.html
(Genuine Latin) Electric Love Machine by Richard Hayman, that's on Command which as far as I know is also nothing to do with Cadet but it is a label with a load of psych/moog stuff such as Dick Hyman and that band The Hellers. Richard Hayman sounds like it ought to be Dick Hyman in disguise but I don't think it is.
ps on that Love Machine link I put up he mentions Free Pop Electronic Experience which is an AWESOME album on Palette a Belgian(?) cheapie label which is also home to Flying Guitar another studio band mixture of surf and electronics that is well worth getting. I put a track by Free Pop on my dissensus mixtape thing 'cause I love it, if anyone can recommend anything similar then please let me know and I will be forever greatful.
sorry yes that was from memory, my records were ungettable, it is richard hayman, that label was run by enoch light you know...
http://www.enochlight.com/~enochlig/index.php?title=Command_LPs