Space Age Sounds of Tomorrow

Another Space Age mix from Swank Daddy. A couple of tracks from Señor Coconut 's CD El Baile Alemán. Kraftwerk covers. Start digging:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Schmidt

 

01. Russ Garcia - Into Space
02. Bernie Green - Futura
03. Marty Gold - The Moon Was Yellow
04. Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo - Moon Gas
05. Lew Davies - Strange Interlude
06. Bernie Green - Out of This World
07. Bob & Phil and the Orchestra - Out of Nowhere
08. Perry Kingsely - Visa to the Stars
09. Senor Coconut y Su Conjunto - The Robots
10. Esquivel - My Blue Heaven
11. Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo - Star Eyes
12. Russ Garcia - Venus
13. Esquivel - Magic is the Moonlight
14. Jerry Fielding - City of Brass
15. Senor Coconut y Su Conjunto - The Man Machine
16. Vinnie Bell - The World We Knew

Arabica 4

Frits Jonker's fourth Arabica compilation. He mentions it on his blog april 18, 2013 where you can also find several versions of the artwork (included in the second zipfile).  A handfull of songs were included in other mixtapes by Frits. Three deliberately and four by accident. But sometimes a song belongs just where it belongs. Although Frits himself doesn´t think highly of this particular compilation, I enjoyed it very much, more than once!

01 Flat Earth Society - Twilight in Turkey
02 The Tammy's - Egyptian Shumba
03 The Saxons - Camel Walk
04 Suba Martinez - Hotel Alyssa - Soussie, Tunesia
05 The Langhorns - Camel Ride
06 Duke Ellington - Arabian Love
07 The Majestics - Oasis Part Two
08 Billy Haley + his Comets - Oriental Rock
09 Gamian + his Orientals - My Funny Valentine
10 The Wrong Notes - Oriental Dance
11 Boo & The Boo-boo's - Oriental Boo
12 Egyptian lover - Egypt Egypt
13 Nat King Cole - Caravan
14 Sabu Martinez - Afro Temple
15 Batacuda - The Fakir
16 The Spinshots - Fetish for veils
17 Ganim's Asia Minors - Daddy Lolo
18 (Unknown) - Chenai Funk
19 Rodney & The Blazers - Oriental Nightmare
20 The Black Albino's - Shish Kebab
21 Elvis Presley - Little Egypt
22 The Delco's - Arabia
23 Alan Barniciat - Trip to the Orient
24 (unknown) - Arabic drums
25 The Merits - Arabian Jerk
26 Mohamed + his Robed Rockers - Harem orgy
27 The Sheiks - Ya Ha Bi Bi
28 The Underground Horns - Arabian Flavour

JT

Bongomania Volume 1

A vintage comp from an early blogger.  Xtabey put together three Bongomania comps when he was active. May have been a mate from down-under. His avatar, was Ryden's  image of the "little tiki drummer" in the fire maiden painting used on Ultra Lounge  Les Baxter compilation.  Still use his hi-res-scan as the desktop on my PC.

Hope X is on the Facebook page and  gets a jolly that his old efforts are retreaded here.

01. Howard Shore - Ed Wood Main Title
02. Tito Puente - Ritual Drum Dance
03. Nico Gomez - Caballo Negro
04. Buddy Collette - Jazz Heat Bongo Beat
05. Bobby Montez - African Fantasy
06. Eddie Cano - Deep In A Drum
07. Incredible Bongo Band - In A Gadda Da Vida
08. Haji Baba - Crazy Bongos
09. Niagara - City Walk
10. Irv Cottler - Ritual Fire Dance
11. Preston Epps - Bongo Rock
12. Chaino And His African Percussion - Bongo Samba
13. Jack Costanzo - Mira Como Los Pollos
14. Rolley Polley - Bongo Bash
15. Kaino - Dance Of The Cockatoo
16. Studio Group - Asiwanda
17. Henry Mancini - Background For Murder

Arabica 3

Frits Jonker made a second "selection of Middle Eastern exploitation pop" in february 2008. Why it's called "Arabica 3" and more questions will be answered (in Engish!) when reading his blogpost about it.

01 The Arabian Knights - Night in Arabia
02 Ramses + Selmet - Crazy One
03 Erkose Kardesler + Saz Guburu - Kelle Dansi
04 Eddie (The Sheik) Kochak + Fred Elias + The El-Mecca Ensemble - Sahara Sue
05 Jonathan Richmond + The Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
06 Don Cavalli - The Pharao
07 Monsoon - Sunset over the Ganges
08 Mohamemed El Bakkar + his oriental ensemble - Ali Baba
09 The Twisters - Istanbul
10 The Puddle Jumpers - Snake Charmer
11 Clyde Borly - Taboo
12 Mohammed + his Robed Rockers - Harlem orgy
13 Ambrose + his orchestra - B'Wanga
14 The Sheiks - Ja Ha Bi Bi
15 Johnny + The Hurricanes
16 NV Groep 65 - Tanger
17 The Delcos - Arabia
18 Eddie (The Sheik) Kochak + Fred Elias + The El-Mecca Ensemble - Belly Dancer
19 Al Roberts JR Rockin'In Egypt
20 Nico - The Sphinx
21 The Parisians - Ambush
22 Mad Man Jones - Snake Charmer
23 The Merits - Arabian Jerks
24 The Dukes - in Istanboel
25 The Jumping Jewels - Istanbul
26 Mohammed El Bakkar + his oriental ensemble - Cha cah of the pharao
27 Omar Key - Turkish Coffee
28 Nino Nardino + Roger Roger - White Snake

JT

Nether-Arabica

In his own blogpost, december 3th, 2013 about it Frits Jonker writes this was a very difficult compilation to make: Dutch language songs about the Arabic world. They are hard to find and when you do they turn out to be silly and full of clichés both musically and lyrically. But I think that's what makes this mix so fun to listen to.

Neder-Arabica 1

01 Intro [Fata Morgana, De Efteling]
02 Armand - Op de tandem naar Marokko
03 De Babies - De Maharadja
04 The Dukes - In Istanboel
05 Pietje Potent - Staking in de harem
06 [Philips personeel musical] - O Harem
07 Willy Sarphati - Ik zit op een kameel
08 Abdul Khadir + Familie - Da's goed, M'neer
09 Studio Rio Grande - Op een markt in de Sahel
10 De Rumba specialisten - Ali Baba
11 Connie Vink - 13 Arabieren en 1 Kameel
12 NV Groep 65 - Tanger
13 De Toeristen - Het kamelenlied
14 Het Cocktail Trio - Café Oriëntal
15 De Strangers - Buikendans
16 [Philips personeel musical] - Wees lief voor de Kalief
17 Ted Powder Kwinter - Vertel mij, Rabbi
18 (Efteling) - De Vliegende fakir Sanai Gath
19 Ali Osram FT. Evert Baptist - Een kameel dat is zo gek
20 Kaa de Slang - Bouw op mij [Jungleboek]
21 Corry Brokken - Mustapha
22 De Marlets - Ali Baba
23 Herman Finkers - Aladin
24 Brigitte Kaandorp - De woestijn (The desert

JT

Zeitgeist

Tonight this mix was aired as VG158 at my local radio hour and it might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's a VG-show so there is definitely something odd about it. it It has an overall New Age or mystic 'feel'. But that's what you get when you ask visitor's of your blog: "give me a word and I'll make a splognerizer based on it" and somebody answers "zeitgeist" (someone else gave me "flange" which was even more of a challenge, but that's for later). Originally this was splognerizer 51.

You can find the mixcloudstream 320kps at the VG Website with a playlist complete with links and other goodies, or you can download it here (192 kbps). No seperated tracks this time, because I had to find matching titles on the internet. I made the mix and lost the downloaded bulk somewhere along the way.
I do have tracklist!

01 Schiller - der Anfang
02 Diary of Dreams - Element 1: Zeitgeist
03 Harold Budd + Zeitgeist - and then i alone am alone
04 Anthony Robbins - are you living a life of reaction?
05 Raudive - Zeitgeist
06 Kevin Brady Trio - Zeitgeist
07 Eldar - Zeitgeist
08 Faun - Zeitgeist
09 Harold Budd + Zeitgeist - breathless...
10 Bilder der Zeit
11 Hot Tracks - Octomnipent Zeitgeist I & II
12 Girlschool - Zeitgeist
13 Ende sneafliet - Session Zeitgeist
14 Charles Trenet - En ce temps là
15 Brian Bennett - Time Watch
16 Zeitgeist - Minimizer
17 Klaus Schulze - Zeit
18 The Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
19 Dark Age - Zeitgeist (Ghost in a Machine)
20 The Lost Children of Babylon - Beware the Zeitgeist
21 Harold Budd + Zeitgeist - nearly awakened
22 Schiller - Zeitgeist

Artwork was made for the occasion of tonight's broadcast by Ton de Ruijter.

JT

Tropical Treasures

Another "classic exotica" compilation from SwankDaddy.

Enjoyed hearing the newer exotica groups like Waikiki., Tikiyaki Orchestra. And the wonderful Blue Hawaiians. The last track, a great reminder how cool "Honorable Hong Kong Rock"  is first heard by many of us on "Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 8: Cocktail Capers."

01. Alfred Newman - Ports of Pleasure
02. Martin Denny - Moonlight & Shadows
03. Tikiyaki Orchestra - Exotique
04. Douglas Gamely - Taboo
05. Waitiki - Primitiva
06. Blue Hawaiians - Martini Five-O
07. Les Baxter - Voodoo Dream
08. Kai Winding - China Nights
09. Frank Hunter - White Goddess
10. Les Baxter - Tahiti - A Night At Sea
11. Les Baxter - Amazon Falls
12. George Cates - Chant of the Jungle
13. Douglas Gamley - Blue Coral
14. Les Baxter - Congo Train
15. Alfred Newman - Whispering Winds
16. Out Islanders - Honorable Hong Kong Rock

Some mean dream machines

In february 2008 I started experimenting with what was supposed to be something in between a mixtape and a radioshow. I first called it "splognewrasos" (Splogman's New Radio Somethings).
"The format is intended to last rather long: It's a musicshow (or collage/mix, etc...), about 60 to 70 minutes long. There won't be any spoken word (unless of course I absolutely have to...). Each episode there's no telling which styles of music will merge/collide. The source of the music can be anything: 78rpm, am-radio-recordings, mp3s, vinyl, cassettes, real to real and even CDs or DVDs. Sound quality is never quarenteed. And most of all: I have to enjoy making the shows."
From episode 6 I renamed them into splognerizers. I also started re-mixing, mashing up and adding musical instruments and sometimes even musical pieces of my own. Sometimes I had a kind of story in my head to which the splognerizer would be the soundtrack.
SNR7 is the first one I now think is suitable to be re-issued. It's also the first one that had something vagely resembling a playlist.

1. PREMATURE
PDQ Bach, Splogman, Partick Stewart

2. OVERTURE
Roger Roger - Rockmachine no. 1, Flo Price - Flying Machine,
Youri Gagarin, David Bowie - Tin Machine [extensions and add-ons
by Splogman], Ekseption - excerpts
from Beggar Julia's Time Trip, Spacemachine - spacemachine no. 9

3. IMMATURE
Softmachine - Instant Pussy, Phil Reavis - Star Trek, Foodbrain -
Liver Juice Vending Machines [extensions by Splogman], Splogman -
Watermuziek, David Bowie - 1984 [extensions by Splogman]

4. MIXTURE
PDQ Bach - Einstein on the Fritz, Rudolf Schock - Ave Maria (Bach-
Gounod), Jean Michel Jarre - Eros Machine, Klaatu - Perpetual
Motion Machine, Dave Vorhaus - The Diy Machine, unknown - Machine
Breaks Down, Radio Tales - The Time Machine [H.G. Wells]
Krutzen and Jerk - Mechanical Moon

5. CLOSURE
Ekseption - excerpts from Beggar Julia's Time Trip, Jeff Wayne -
Ullabulla remix, Splogman, excerpts from "De 20-e eeuw in
authentiek geluid" Ghost Track

Batmania

I've already mentioned Frits Jonker, comic letterer from origin, but he does a lot more, part of which you can see on his website "Showcase". He also makes a lot of great music compilations. For today I just picked "Batmania" as a sequel to 5th avenue buses trip to Gotham city. Artwork by FJ himself of course. More will follow, or as Frits says it at the back of his comp.: "The worst is yet to come!"

JT

01 Adam West & Burt Ward - Promo 1966
02 Neal Hefti - Batman Theme
03 Sun Ra & The Blues Project - Robin
04 Labert Elis - Batman
05 Lavern Baker - Batman to the rescue
06 Snoop Dogg - Batman & Robin
07 Alien Sex Fiend - Batman
08 Tom Hazelton & Gene Ciszek - Mr Bach meets Batman
09 The Combo Kings - Batman to the rescue
10 The Jam - Batman
11 Robin - Robin Boy Wonder
12 (unknown) - Batman
13 Les & Larry Elgart - Batman
14 Burgess Meredith (The Pinguin) - The escape
15 Chris Abott - Batman The Caped Cruisader
16 Adam West - Miranda
17 Sun Ra & The Blues Project - Batman
18 Automatous Monk - Paul Reiners - Batman
19 George Love - Batman
20 The Bat Boys - Behind the 8 Ball
21 Sun Ra & The Blues Project - Flight of Batman
22 Adam West - The Story of Batman
23 Jan en Dean - The Joker is Wild
24 Lenlow - To the Taxmobile
25 Microchips - Juguessoma Batman
26 Frank Gorshin - The Riddler
27 Dave Allen & The Arrows - Batman
28 Peggy Lee - That Man

slightly different stars today

Just like my last post, this compilation is a slightly altered version of an earlier mix. I think it's also slightly better than Vreemde Geluiden 133, but of course I'll leave that up to you to decide.

I got the picture from my friend Frits Jonker's post about space travel stamps

The mix begins and ends in my home town Zwolle, The Netherlands

00 Show and Marching Band Jubal, Zwolle NL, 1991 - Wipe out - the surfaris [arr. j higgins]
01 Trea Dobbs, Ria Valk, Marijke Merkens & Rob De Nijs & De Lords - Calling The Stars
02 Tyrannosaurus Rex - Child star, 1968
03 Dick Hyman and Mary Mayo - Stella by starlight 1963
04 De Amsterdamse lieverdjes - Good morning starshine, 1978
05 Russ Conway - Swinging on a star
06 Thomas Alva Edison - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 1887
07 Deane Hawley - Look For A Star 20-6-1960
08 Portishead - Wandering Star 1994
09 Raymond Scott -Symphony Under The Stars 1942
10 Maia Vidal - Comets and Stars
11 Amon Düül 2 - surrounded by the stars, 1973
12 Jules de Corte - De Ster 1970s
13 Deliah Derbyshire - Star fairies 1970s
14 Dorsey Brothers - Evening Star 4-6-1928
15 Heinz Funk Electric Combo - Wedding of the stars 1970s
16 Nirvana - In the courtyard of the stars 1967
17 Al Fisher & Lou Marks - Ringo, Ringo, Little Star 1970s
18 Serge Gainsbourg - yellow star 1973
19 Jo Leemans - Als sterren flonk'rend aan de hemel staan 1959
20 Geraldo - Swinging On A Star (vocal - Johnny Green & Three Boys & A Girl) 13-9-1944
21 Ria Valk - Der Stern den der Sheriff so gerne hat
22 Marcello Giombini (Perry Rhodan) - Stardust bitte kommen, 1976
23 Van der Capellen School Orchestra, Zwolle NL - Title song Star Wars 1999

Cheers!
Jan Turkenburg

Turks Fruit (Turkish delight)

Tonight an slightly edited version of one of my most popular splognerizers from 2009 will be aired at the local radio in Zwolle, The Netherlands on my weekly show Vreemde Geluiden [= Stange Sounds].

In 2006-2007 this was a two hours show with a weekly exotica-item by Ton Rückert called "The Exoticaring CD of the week" and also a 'Weirdo Music Radio" corner by Marco kalnenek. The show lasted for one season and then continued with one or two podcasts a year on the website. In september 2013 a local DJ asked me to reboot the show as a weekly 15 minutes item in a local news program on tuesday night, which I did for a year after which programming changed and I got the one hour as it is now. Every week I pick a non-musical theme and try to find strange, unusual or just plain rare music around that with a touch of local recordings when possible. I've gradually minimized my presentation and refer to the extras on the website. The broadcasts are stored at mixcloud afterwards and embedded. Sometimes I ask an artist to do some designing. This time it's Frits Jonker, who asked me to send the seperate tracks, which I attached here for you, including some bonustracks.

01 Blaas of Glory – Prelude- The Final Countdown
02 The Don Ellis Orchestra – Turkish Bath
03 Björk Gu-mundsdóttir – Arabadrengurinn
04 Johnny Hamp – Constantinople 27-6-1928
05 The Silent Screen (Hot Butter) - Turkish march (Mozart)
06 Kaizers Orchesstra – Femtakt Filosofi
07 Onsine Groisbos – Istamboul
08 Bonzo Dog Band – Turkeys
09 Bots – Ali Ouwe Turk
10 Raymond Scott – Twilight in turkey [electronisch]
10 Raymond Scott – Twilight In Turkey [Quinttett]
10 Raymond Scott – Twilight in Turkey [oops]
10 Raymond Scott – Twilight In Turkey[this time with strings]
11 Louise Huebner – The Turkish Bean Spell for Tender Love
12 Jason crest – Patricia’s dream
13 Narc Artan – Istanboul
14 Heinz Wehner Orchester – Twilight In Turkey 5-1-1938
15 Splogman – Delirium without sound (epica- white noise-electric storm)
16 Francy Boland – Turkish girl
17 Joseph Moskowitz cymbalom – Medley Of Turkish Melodies 27-3-1916
18 Alice Cooper – Blue Turk
19 Albert Benzler xylophone – Turkish Patrol 1903
20 Edmundo Ros – Istanbul 1953
20 Enoch Light – istanbul
20 Four Aces – Istanbul 1960
20 Jumping Jewels – Istanbul
20 Ramblers – Istanbul (vocal – Janie Bron & Blauwbaardjes) -7-1954
21 Conrad Schnitzler – Kruezberg
22 Jack Hylton – Constantinople 21-6-1928

The original splognerizer 48 can be streamed here.

Jan Turkenburg

 

Sky High Luxury Lounge

Swank Daddy's on fire! Not because he brought a Samsung Galaxy 7 on his plane. This is his 4th submittal  to the Exotica -Cool Strange and Unusual Music group. Hitting the "Jet Set" theme.

The Jet Set theme  is apropos for these. Seem to be selections from  American Airlines Astro Stereo Program Reel to Reel or 8 track tapes that were passed out or could be purchased on the plane?

01. Raymond Scott - How High the Moon
02. Singers Unlimited - April in Paris
03. Stereo Brass Choir - You're Just in Love
04. Les Brown - Ridin' High
05. Frank Sinatra - I'm A Fool to Want You
06. John Pigneguy - Here's That Rainy Day
07. McGuire Sisters - I'm Gonna Get A Boy
08. Lenny Dee - Yellow Days
09. Perez Prado - Caravan
10. Tony Bennet - The Shadow of Your Smile
11. John Pizzarelli - Francesca
12. Syd Lawrence - There, I've Said It Again
13. Howard Roberts - The Face I Love
14. Joanie Sommers - Make Me Rainbows
15. Henry Mancini - Latin Snowfall
16. Manhattan Transfer - Embraceable You
17. Marty Gold - My Reverie
18. Singers Unlimited - On Green Dolphin Street
19. Teresa Brewer - When Your Lover Has Gone
20. Cortez & His New Latin Sound - You're the Top

This one is a ZippyShare Download.  For some reason the WordPress plugin will not accept this 135MB file "Too large" even through the max limit is 256MB

Larry's Lounge Lizard Mix

Mix tape from saxophonist “Larry Sambosa”. Always nice to get a themed mix from an accomplished musician. Even just to peruse the tracklist, see what direction they go and surprises, like Donald Fagen.

“Strictly Ballroom" soundtrack (an excellent movie if you like bailroom dancing) and as far as I've ever heard, "Yakety Sax", clearly a novelty tune, was the only worthwhile thing Boots Randolph ever recorded If you ever find that swing album, let me know - the guy definitely has some chops, but seems to have decided to use [his] power for evil instead of good."

Doris Day’s “Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps” is the outstanding track on her “Latin For Lovers” LP. Pleasantly arranged and conducted by Mort Garson.  This was right before his Moog LP's.



Boots Randolph. For some reason he comes up a lot when crate digging in central Massachusetts. Maybe because he’s left last in the bin?  Guess there is a good swing record out there by Boots, thru hunting for gems. My bin is full.

Every time I even think about Boots Larry's “used his power for evil instead of good” quote pops in my head. And now it will happen to you.


A few demo tracks from "Sambossa" is the group Larry was in at the time.

Tracklist

1. Fly Me to the Moon - Julie London


2. Days of Wine and Roses - Tony Bennett & Bill Evans


3. Chega De Saudade - Sambossa


4. Why Don't You Do Right - Delia Reese


5. Our Love is Here to Stay - Errol Garner


6. FlordeLis - Sambossa


7. Chameleon - Maynard Ferguson


8. Four - Miles Davis


9. There Will Never Be Another You - Nancy Wilson


10. Yakety Sax - Boots Randolph


11. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps - Doris Day


12. Tin Tin Deo - Elvin Jones


13. On the Street Where You Live - Harry Connick Jr.


14. Making Whoopie - Julie London


15. Walk Between the Raindrops - Donald Fagen


16. TicoTico - Unknown


17. Perfidia - Mel Torme


18. Stella By Starlight - Stan Getz


19. Hey Daddy - Julie London

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True Crime Jazz

Swank Daddy's 3rd share to the Exotica groups. Hitting us hard, then treating us easy. With favorites from Bernstein, Mancini and others.

 

Strange Exotic Melody

Steam Stock's  Psychedelic Portrait has been a big hit with the Exotica group. Now Steam's been invited to participate in the Partydelic Online Free Music Festival in July and offered a regular gig at Radiocore.org. Visit his Steam's Jukebox Shuffle to keep up! He's a young man, on the way up.

To celebrate Steam has offered his Strange Exotic Melody as a download. Link at the bottom of the page.

Your on a relaxing musical ride to mystical Shangri-La and beyond! A potpourri of seductive exotica, voodoo rhythms, magical drums, haunting orchestration, strange ululating chanteuses, crooning cool cats, tropical jazz, and lounge music for your soul. Recorded almost entirely from 7" vinyl.

 

Ruth Christie - Strange Exotic Melody

Martin Denny - Miserlou

Art Neville - Arabian Love Call

Elena Madera - Pu-Chun-Ga

Frank Minion - Watermelon

Lorez Alexandria - Baltimore Oriole

Nora dean - Angie La La

Los Boppers - Ali Baba

Cammille Howard - Shrinking up Fast

Jeanette 'Baby' Washington - Medicine Man

Ray Johnson - Calypso Blues

Jeanne Demetz - Calypso Daddy

Ganiman & His Orientals - Come With Me to the Casbah

Glenda & Glen - Voodoo Doll

Sylvie Mora - Summertime

Comments directed to the Exotica Mailing List or Facebook group.

5th Avenue Buses - Trip To Gotham City

Hello [Exotica members]

I'm wondering if you would be interested in an LP rip I'd like to donate to the website? It's a reasonably rare record and I've recently made a very good sounding rip. I was a member of the original exotica mailing list, and more recently followed Basic Hip's awesome year of free albums. And I'd like to give something to the community. 

The rip I'd like to toss into the ring is "A Trip To Gotham City" by the fake band "The 5th Avenue Buses" which was really songs written by Billy Page, arranged by Gene Page and produced by Jackie Mills. And it's also a great little heard exploitation record. If you're interested I can set up a Dropbox.

Best wishes,

Larry

Download link at the bottom of this post. Click on the post header is you don't see it.

01. Ma Parker, The Greatest Mother Of Them All
02. The Riddler
03. Robin, Boy Wonder
04. Fingers
05. The Penguin
06. The Joker
07. Catwoman
08. Sandman
09. Marsha, Queen Of Diamonds
10. Fantastic Voyage

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Herb Bernstein's New Crusade

From the back of the bins right to your Download folder.

Virgil on the Facebook group " Never heard of this guy before... picked this one up on a whim, and the karma that a really nice older couple that I love to visit and converse with had it in a stack of records at their booth (got to keep the junker economy circles greased). I think I'm gonna love it."

Go back about 16 years ago this LP was talked about more than a few times by Johnny Yuma on the original Exotica list. Found his original post at the Exotica Archives:

Author: jonathan richardson
Date:  [?]
To: exotica
Subject: [Exotica] Herb Bernstein??

Ok, who out there knows who Herb Bernstein is? I just picked up this record  at a thrift store today called Herb Bernstein's New Crusade and its a dream  come true. Imagine Brass Ring, only more go go and with wordless "na na na"  "pa pa pa" womans vocals with drum breaks galore. Im not joking, the perfect  now sound record does exist. Step aside Phil Bodner and Incredible Bongo  Band."

We traded mp3 rips and got a copy, no artwork scans.  Never saw it until Virgil posted it.

From the linear notes: "We settled on the tuba and bass trombone combination as our lead, then added 3 flamenco guitars, 4 drummers took us out of 'Latin' toward a funky R & B. We used a single bass, at times fender, other times string. On top of it all we placed 3 piccolos and weave a soprano voice through it all for color."

So enclosed a collaboration between 2 crate diggers 16 years apart: Johnny  Yuma's rip and Virgil's photo.

 

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Cocktail Music For Robots

An early 1994 Space Age mixtape compiled for cassette by Jack Fetterman. Recomplied in 2000 on 2 CD's with extra tracks

 

Gina of the Jungle and Jack  currently DJ Exotica the third Wednesday of the month every month from 6:00 at Otto's Shrunken Head in NYC. The Facebook page is called Primitiva in Hi-Fi.

For this comp.  An LP Cover Gallery of the Music of the Future (circa 1959)  Page 1, page 2 and page 3 can be found if you do a specific search looking for some dead in Hi-Fi links on the net. Jack's been DJ'ing NYC gigs for 20 years now?  All this old stuff was new to us. 1994 was also the year this  Exotica Mailing List  got started. There was even a FAQ written! Thanks for the introduction Jack.


Disk 1

01. The Electrosoniks - Sonik Re-Entry
02. Frank Comstock - Out of This World
03. Marty Manning - Spellbound Concerto
04. Frank Hunter & His Orchestra - Strange Echoes
05. Frank Comstock - Stella By Starlight
06. Juan Garcia Esquivel - Baia
07. Frank Comstock - Galaxy
08. Les Baxter - Sunken City
09. The Electrosoniks - Orbit Aurora
10. Robert Maxwell & His Orchestra - Strange Music
11. Frank Comstock - Out of Space
12. Martin Denny - Quiet Village (Moog Version)
13. Ferrante & Teicher - Mine
14. Leo Diamond & His Orchestra - Laura

Disk 2

01. Les Baxter - The Commuter
02. Les Baxter - Radar Blues
03. Marty Manning - The Moon Is Low
04. Ferrante & Teicher - Mermaid Waltz
05. Bobby Christian - Midnight Sun
06. Leo Diamond & His Orchestra - High On A Windy Hill
07. Frank Comstock - On the Dark Side of the Moon
08. Ferrante & Teicher - In the Rain
09. Frank Hunter & His Orchestra - Poinciana
10. Juan Garcia Esquivel - Jalousie
11. Robert Maxwell & His Orchestra - The Breeze And I
12. Frank Comstock - The Moon Is Blue
13. Marty Manning - The Twilight Zone
14. Les Baxter - This Room Is My Castle of Quiet
15. Marty Manning - You Stepped Out Of A Dream
16. Les Baxter - Mr. Robot
14. Leo Diamond & His Orchestra - Laura



The tray linecard is included. 2 extra tracks are inserted at 7 and 8. So the mp3s tracklist is correct, not the artwork.

cocktail-music-for-robots