Post #290543 by DJ Terence Gunn on Thu, Mar 8, 2007 12:51 PM

Ah, thank goodness for the Japanese Imports! Actually, 20 songs from this compilation can be found found on CD elsewhere:

'Quiet Village', 'Jungle Flower', and 'Japanese Farewell Song' can be found on the Scamp dual release
'Exotica/Exotica II' CD;

'Forbidden Island', 'Mau Mau', and 'Bangcock Cockfight' can be found on the Scamp dual CD 'Forbidden Island/Primitiva';

'American In Bali', 'Hypnotique', 'Bamboo Lullaby', 'Manila', and 'Jungle Madness' on 'Hypnotique/Exotica III';

'Ma'chumba' on the Scamp single disc 'Afro-Desia'

'Sake Rock', 'Happy Talk, 'Firecracker', 'Cross Current', 'Paradise Found', and 'Stardust' can all be found on the Scamp dual release 'Quiet Village/The Enchanted Sea'.

All the above are from the original albums the songs originally appeared on.

And 'Exotic Moog' -- bringing the number of songs off this compilation that can be found currently on CD to 20) can be found on several compilations, including the Ultra Lounge compilation 'Bottom's Up!' -- possibly the first time to appear on CD (though there may have been some moog comp prior this release).

The remaining 9 tracks cannot -- to my knowledge -- be found on CD (unless Japanese or a bootleg from vinyl).

'Moon Light And Shadows' is off of 'Exotic Percussion';
'Indrani' is off of the 'Taste Of India' album; and so and and so forth. (If anyone wants to pick up my listings slack, please help yourself!)

A good compilation, if for only the previously-unreleased-domestically-on-CD tracks. Frankly, I would only be tempted to buy this compilation if the previous 20 songs were replaced by 20 songs off of Denny's currently unreleased albums, as the domestically unreleased to CD tracks I already have on CD from vinyl. Still, it's more of a pleasure to hear these songs taken from the master tapes and not vinyl (if, indeed, they are! Sometimes master tapes get destroyed or lost).

Why don't these record company chumps get on the ball and release Denny's other albums from the 1960s? Remaster, market, sell, immortalise. Niche market, my ass!