Belly Bongo Exotic Compilation 7

Back in those days, we considered 128 kbps the ultimate mp3-standard. Most sharities were posted online in that format. Speaking of "sharity". I believe it was Magnus Bellybongo who introduced this word. I downloaded a lot of his exotic album-rips and exotic they were! He also made compilations and unfortunately this is the only one I can find back in my archives... It was also incomplete, because in that period I had a phone-in-connection and downloads where often interupted. From the bellybongo page I saved with it I deduced what the missing number 14 should be, found it on youtube and ripped it.
As this is "exotic compilation 7" there should be at least 6 others (or did Magnus mean "exotic 7 INCHES). If anyone happens to have (some of) the others, or know more, or if you are Mr. Magnus Bellybongo himself, please leave a comment.

01 Ferrando Jacques (narrator) - Visit Brazil
02 Orchestra Sam Samson - Plim Cha-Cha
03 Juliette - Mon Amour
04 Armando Sciascia - Tamoure Alue
05 Carmen Lesay - Sunset Mood
06 The Links - Pyramid
07 The Tikis - Big Feet
08 Grete Klitgaard - Okensand
09 The Leaders - Singapore Passage
10 Karen Dolin - I wish I were a mystic
11 Mary Line and the Stirr Up Boys - Fiesta aux bongos
12 Becca - Personality
13 Mamselles - Get ready + Let the sunshine in
14 Adam Ross and the Evesdroppers - Mine Alone
15 Wanda Stafford - Happy Sunday
16 Karin Krog - Spring Affair

JT

Exotic Trilogy Vol. 3

The last in the series that I have.....Not too sure where Vol. 3 came from. It may not be compiled by KBZ. Maybe an European ExoticaRing member? You have to dig the artwork! VW Beetle with a bone in it's nose.

01. Jonathan Knight - Quiet Village
02. Arthur Lyman - Taboo
03. Sandy Nelson - Caravan
04. Martin Denny - Quiet Village
05. Booker T & the MGs - Taboo
06. Les & Larry Elgart - Caravan
07. Mavis Rivers - Quiet Village
08. Red Garrison - Taboo
09. Bobby Christian - Caravan
10. André Previn - Quiet Village
11. Catarina Valente - Taboo
12. Johnny Cucci & Jody Carver - Caravan
13. Boyd Rice - Quiet Village
14. Don Carlos - Taboo
15. The Ventures - Caravan
16. Vincent Bell - Quiet Village
17. Los Rumberos - Taboo
18. Charlie Byrd - Caravan
19. Melon - Quiet Village
20. The Ventures - Taboo
21. Arthur Lyman - Caravan
22. Darla Hood - My Quiet Village
23. Booker T & the MGs - Taboo
24. Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks - Caravan

Exotic Trilogy Vol. 2

01. Quiet Village - Ted Auletta
02. Tabu - Douglas Gamley
03. Caravan - The Three Suns
04. Quiet Village - Tommy Garrett
05. Tabu - Billy May
06. Caravan - Living Guitar
07. Quiet Village - Bill Justis
08. Tabu - Hal Shutz
09. Caravan - Marty Gold
10. Quiet Village - The Aliis
11. Tabu - The Ensemble of Seven
12. Caravan - Enoch Light
13. Quiet Village - Ferrante & Teicher
14. Tabu - Geri Galian
15. Caravan - Lloyd Burry
16. Quiet Village - Hawaiian Brass
17. Tabu - Orizaba
18. Caravan - Hal Mooney
19. Quiet Village - Al Bollington
20. Tabu - Al Hirt
21. Caravan - George Wright

Exotic Trilogy Vol. 1

The following is from an old website with the title"Swank Headlines". Volume 2 and 3 coming up later...


This Is Irritainment!
Irritainment is a delicate balancing act. The trick is to take an intrinsically annoying concept and make it entertaining. Too much annoyance and the whole mixture falls apart. Few have ever had the skill to master this shadow realm of entertainment. WFMU, the Church of the Subgenius and the collective known as KBZ (or KB Zed).

The Exotic Trilogy project is a concept anyone who has ever made tape collections will know all too well. Search through any decent size records collection and you'll discover countless versions of various standards. KBZ has zeroed in on three of the touchstones of the exotic genre - "Quiet Village", "Caravan" and "Taboo" - and assembled two colections of various covers. To add to the entertainment value, these compilations work in a sort of tape loop style alternating the three songs over and over for seven total loops.

What proves KBZ's mastery of the fine art of irritainment is the fact neither collection truly annoys. Instead, the listener is presented with seven cycles of the exotic trilogy, each perhaps progressively stranger, perhaps not. The difference between each version can be quite remarkable, and can only truly be experienced if you program your CD player to only play the tracks of one specific tune. Taken as a whole, however, these two volumes serve more as an type of muzak - a repeating program that hits you on an almost subliminal level.

According to the liner notes for Volume Two, KBZ plans five more volumes in this series. One can wish desperately for the day when the five CD changer can be loaded with five Exotic Trilogys for an entire day's worth of delightful irritainment!
Volume One
Quiet Village: The Surfmen - Len Stevens - The Ensemble of Seven - Eddie Baxter - Vinnie Bell - The Exotic Guitars - The Clebanoff Strings
Tabu: Robin Richmond - The Aliis - The South Sea Serenaders - The Flying Guitar - Tarrangano & His Orchestra - Terry Snyder - Winifred Atwell
Caravan: Irv Cottler - Sir Julian - Buddy Merrill - Jack Anderson - Billy Vaughn - Dick Hyman - Eddie Layton

Volume Two
Quiet Village: Ted Auletta - Tommy Garrett - Bill Justis - The Aliis - Ferrante & Teicher - Hawaiian Brass - Al Bollington -
Tabu: Douglas Gamley - Billy May - Hal Shutz - The Ensemble of Seven - Geri Galian - Orizaba - Al Hirt
Caravan: The Three Suns - Living Guitar - Marty Gold - Enoch Light - Lloyd Burry - Hal Mooney - George Wright

Tropical Treasures 2

Volume 2 from Swank Daddy

01. Robert Byrne - Blue Hawaii
02. Ted Auletta - Adventures in Paradise
03. Clebanoff Strings - Yvonne
04. Ray Charles Singers - Moon Over Miami
05. Henry Mancini - Baia
06. Clebanoff Strings - Poinciana
07. Kurt Edelhagen - On Green Dolphin Street
08. Mel Henke - Exotic Adventure
09. Ted Auletta - Voodoo Moon
10. Fiesta Concert Orchestra - I Love_ I Love_ I Love
11. Monty Kelly & Ray Charles Singers - Crossroads
12. Les Baxter - Jewels of the Sea
13. Ted Auletta - Flamingo
14. Living Strings - Pagan Love Song
15. Les Baxter - Coral Castle
16. Ted Auletta - Pool of Love

Sound Fiction Attack

This a compilation by Chocomix. It's not the same DJ Choco Mix that you can find on the internet nowadays. Actually Chocomix back in 2004 meant "crazy themed parties organized in Paris every month, by Dj Alfred Hitchcock Magazine & Princesse Connard."



"We are Hard-core music lovers who collect all kind of music around unusual themes." was what they wrote in their submission to my 52 weeks-project, which by the way I want to bring back online next year.
I can't remember much about our correspondence except for the fact that one of them, Yassine made all the artwork. He also started a 365 days comic-a-day project with another artist which lasted just over 100 days, if I remember correctly. Yes, I must have it all on some cd-r somewhere in a box somewhere in my house, but I do cherish the two compilations that Yassine sent me in wonderfull packing:



First one is another compilation with lots of bleeps and bloops:

01 Portsmouth Sinfonia - Also sprach Zarathustra
02 Desert Planet - Asteroid Planet
03 Monotrona - ah. enemy
04 Le Vieux Thorax - Réelle attaque
05 They might be giants - Robot Parade [adult version]
06 Merricks - Rock espacial
07 Cook Records - Not Programmed For Love
08 Louis Prima - Beep beep
09 Jonzun Crew - We are Jonzun Crew
10 Delia Derbyshire - Ziwzih ziwzih 00_00_00
11 Sebor - Marseillaise
12 Prince 99 - Les ovnis sont là
13 Ici Paris - Alb Le Monde
14 Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk
15 Captain's log in French
16 The Rubinoos - Surf Strek
17 Oleg Kostrow - Intim-service-cosmic
18 Supermarket Zomby - Invasion
19 TTC - Leguman
20 Dim Dim - Le Rayon Magique
21 Xerak + Princess Cosmoconnard - Booo! les monstress ils sont vraiment méchants
22 The Firm - Star Trekkin'
23 Jan Turkenburg + his pupils from the GGS, Zwolle 2003-2004 - In My Spaceship
24 Television Personalities - Goodnight Mr. Spaceman
25 Joe Meek - I hear a new world

JT

Robotica part 2

Frits Jonker writes in his weblog-entry from 2008 about this second robot compilation:

"In March of this year I wrote about Robotica, a compilation with robot songs.
It took me quite a while to put this compilation together, not to talk about the time it took to collect all the songs. There are many many robot songs, but as you know, a compilation is not just a bunch of songs with the same theme. Because I liked the first Robotica CD so much, I made a part 2:
The recipe is exactly the same: songs about robots and/or by robots, with as much bloops and bleeps as I could find."

01 Clunky Robot - Initialize Program
02 Doctor Worm - Red Robot
03 Devo - Mechanical man
04 My Robot Friend - Robot High School
05 8 Bit - You ain't no robot
06 Sexy Finger Champs - Go robot go
07 Futurama - Robot Hell
08 Glass Shark - I love my disco robot
09 Grendizer - Ufo Robot
10 Robot - Machine Dance
11 (unknown) - Robot Holiday
12 Pete Miser - Scent of a robot
13 Paniq - Heavy working robot
14 Marvin the paranoid android
15 Obe - Alien Android
16 K. Leary + D. Marsden - Mr. Robot Spaceman
17 Five Step Path - Cloop Robot
18 Bob Nanna - Robot Dance Contest
19 My Robot Friend - We're The Pet Shop Boys
20 Zoo - Jeg Robot
21 Kraftwerk - The Robots (remix)
22 Magoo - Robot Twin
23 Victor Lams - Farmer Joe
24 Marideth Kay Clark + Ricky Marson - More Than A Robot
25 The Might Be Giants - Robot Parade

JT

Robotica 1

This is Frits Jonker's first "Robotica" compilation, from 2008. For more info read this blogpost (in english).

01 Dr Apostrophe X - Robot Love
02 Rot Front - Robot
03 Daft Punk - Robot Rock
04 Panic-Neurons firing at will - Heavy working Robot
05 Sexy Finger Champs - Go-Robot-Go
06 Tatu - I am a robot
07 Rachet + Clank - Robot Song
08 Perkowitz - Robot in love
09 Victor Lams - Robot Love
10 Flight of the Conchords - The humans are dead
11 Cheap Robot - Robot Funk
12 Milwaukee Youth Center Choir - Red Robot
13 My Robot Friend - Robot High School
14 Jasmina Kostic Mina - Sexy Robot
15 Billy Doom - 60 cycle hum
16 Arling + Cameron - Dirty Robot
17 Goldie looking chain - Robot
18 Alien Faktor - Robots theme
19 Merideth Kaye Clark - Girl robot
20 The aliens - Robot man
21 Giant Robot - Giant Robot
22 Star Salzman - Chrono Trigger, The incredible singing robot.

JT

Bongomania Volume 3

And Volume 3. Not sure if my editing of the mp3 fields caused these tracks to be alphabetized by artist. All selected by the Xtabey! The Boomtown Rats - Mood Mambo is a pretty cool "new one" for me.

01.80 Drums Around The World - Caravan
02.Ajo Y Su Organo Oriental - Black Is Black
03.Baldwin Organ & Bongos - Frenesi
04.Bobby Montez - Jungle Sunset [Bolero]
05.The Boomtown Rats - Mood Mambo
06.Buddy Collette - Bongosville
07.Charles Foxx - Mysterioso
08.Combustible Edison - Strange Brew
09.Enoch Light - Fascinating Rhythm
10.Enoch Light - Taboo
11.Eric Delancy - Lucky Mambo
12.Esquivel - Jungle Drums
13.Incredible Bongo Band - I Can't Get No Satisfaction
14.Los Admiradores - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
15.Ramon Marquez - Mambo Negro
16.Raymond Wong - Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
17.Roberto Delgado - Spanish Harlem
18.Skip Martin - Baubles, Bongos And Brass
19.The Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble - The Sacrifice
20.Xavier Cugat - Hang On Sloopy

Bongomania Volume 2

Volume 2 of 3 of Xtabey's compilation.

Now make some noise.

01. Jack Costanzo - Introduction - I Got A Bong
02. Pepe Jamarillo & His Latin Amemerican Rhythm - Exotica
03. Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Bongo Fury
04. Charles Magnante - Jungle Drums
06. Clyde Borly & His Percussions - Afromania
07. Dick Schory - El Cumbanchero
07. Preston Epps - Call Of The Jungle
08. Dickie Harrell - Exotic Bird-Bird
09. Don Swan - Miami Beach Rumba
10. Henry Mancini - Cow Bells & Coffee Beans
11. Hugo Montenegro - Heat Wave
12. Incredible Bongo Band - Wipeout
13. Jack 'Bongo' Burger & Orchestra - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
14. Jack Costanzo - Peter Gunn
15. Creed Taylor Orchestra - Jungle Fever
16. Norrie Paramor - Nivram
17. Richard Marino - Bagdad Express
18. Robert Maxwell - Nature Boy
19. Terry Snyder - Rocka Bongo Boogie
20. Xavier Cugat - Cuba Libre

The original cover from: