Domenic Ciccone

The Basics

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  Founder and Administrator to the Facebook Group 
  Exotica...and other Cool,Unusual Music
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  • Started January 15, 2011
  • 15,000  members in May 2023.
  • 26,000 members February 2024 
  • 35,500 members December 2025
  • Per month the Facebook group has about 1500 posts, 7000 comments and 50,000 reactions. 
    


• Admin to the earlier mailing list
  
  • Started in 1994 with ~500 members
  • The Exotica Music Mailing List 05 May 1994 – 10 March 2012

DJ/Radio Production

• July 2022 to present "Flamingo Lounge" on Lounge King Radio.  
• Currently on the Community Advisory Board for WICN in Worcester Massachusetts. 
  
• 6/2018 to 10/2019 WLPZ 91.5FM Leominster MA. Tuesday's 6-8PM. named the program "Exotica-Cool, Strange Music".

• 2/18/1999 to 2/28/2002 Host “Martini’s With Mancini” on WJUL (Now WUML 90.5 Lowell MA)
  
  • Friday’s 6- 9AM. The program was billed as “the morning drive time program where the coffee is shaken, not stirred”
  • Program ran from 2/18/1999 to 2/28/2003
  • Archived Archived Front Page Web Site
  • Archived Nashua Telegraph Article
  • ArchivedThe Exotica Music Mailing List 05 May 1994 – 10 March 2017 .
  • The radio promo:
  
  


• And here's a sample program from March 01, 2003:

• Over 600 hours of on-air experience. Playing LP’s, CDs, following radio station protocols (PCA’s and technical monitoring station)
• Targeted and cultivated relationships with groups currently playing on the musical scene.
• Promoted events in the area
• Hosted live radio performances. Artists: Dave's True Story and Seks Bomba among others.
• Preformed on-air and phone interviews
• Substitute host for:
  
  • Blues Deluxe, Almost Acoustic in additional to specialty and ethnic programs.