I'm Making A Tiki Compilation For Summer...Please Help! - Tiki Music

D DejaVoodoo Member Woodbridge, NJ Joined: Feb 07, 2008 Posts: 144	D DejaVoodoo Posted posted on Wed, Apr 7, 2010 9:24 PM I'm making a Tiki compilation for Summer filled with Hawaiian and Exotica music however, I'm having a tough time paring down the list of albums I want to include. If anyone can help narrow down my choices, it's you guys! First off, let me say this compilation will be an MP3 data CD containing FULL ALBUMS, mostly for mobile listening on the go in my car. Nevermind that the often relaxing sounds of Tiki are less than conducive to driving, it's just something I've wanted to put together for a long time. I'm thinking of the compilation as a sort of traveling Tiki bar on wheels. Of course, that concept will be all about the mood these songs evoke and not the cocktail culture associated with Tiki. Drinking and driving is, of course, forbidden, and rightly so! There's nothing even remotely funny about it! That being said, here's what I've got so far: ANDY WILLIAMS "To You Sweetheart, Aloha" BENNY KALAMA "Around The Island In 80 Shakes" BING CROSBY "Return To Paradise Islands" EDEN AHBEZ "Eden's Island" HAL ALOMA "Lure Of The Islands" JOHNNY COCO "The Exotic Sounds Of The Hawaii Kai" JOHNNY UKULELE "Favorite Selections By Johnny Ukulele" KEN DARBY & ALFRED NEWMAN "Ports Of Paradise" THE KING SISTERS "Aloha" LES BAXTER "The Exotic Moods Of Les Baxter" MARTIN DENNY "The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny ROBERT DRASNIN "Voodoo" Here's the rub. At it stands now, all twelve albums add up to 726MB, way too much for a 700MB CD-R. I can expand the collection to include two discs worth of albums, but frankly, that would be a bit of data CD bloat. I seriously think that a more focused/edited collection of albums would yield a more enjoyable listening experience, so I'm going to do my darndest to keep this compilation concept as a single CD-R. But what should stay and what should go? What really sent this compilation over the edge was wanting to include my recent Les Baxter and Martin Denny aquisitions. I felt the compilation was leaning too heavily to the Hawaiian side and so I wanted to get more Exotica music on it. Rather than pick and choose which single albums of Mr. Baxter and Mr. Denny to feature (how could I choose?!), I thought it best to use "The Exotic Moods Of Les Baxter" and "The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny." However, at forty tracks each, they just take up too much space! ARGH! I do have the single CD compilation, "The Best of Martin Denny's Exotica," which might help free up some valuable space, but then which Les Baxter album should I include alongside it to round out the Exotica void? "Ritual Of The Savage"? The "Tamboo!/Skins!" twofer? Please chime in and help out a fellow Tiki Centralite!

I'm making a Tiki compilation for Summer filled with Hawaiian and Exotica music however, I'm having a tough time paring down the list of albums I want to include. If anyone can help narrow down my choices, it's you guys!

First off, let me say this compilation will be an MP3 data CD containing FULL ALBUMS, mostly for mobile listening on the go in my car. Nevermind that the often relaxing sounds of Tiki are less than conducive to driving, it's just something I've wanted to put together for a long time. I'm thinking of the compilation as a sort of traveling Tiki bar on wheels. Of course, that concept will be all about the mood these songs evoke and not the cocktail culture associated with Tiki. Drinking and driving is, of course, forbidden, and rightly so! There's nothing even remotely funny about it! That being said, here's what I've got so far:

ANDY WILLIAMS "To You Sweetheart, Aloha"
BENNY KALAMA "Around The Island In 80 Shakes"
BING CROSBY "Return To Paradise Islands"
EDEN AHBEZ "Eden's Island"
HAL ALOMA "Lure Of The Islands"
JOHNNY COCO "The Exotic Sounds Of The Hawaii Kai"
JOHNNY UKULELE "Favorite Selections By Johnny Ukulele"
KEN DARBY & ALFRED NEWMAN "Ports Of Paradise"
THE KING SISTERS "Aloha"
LES BAXTER "The Exotic Moods Of Les Baxter"
MARTIN DENNY "The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny
ROBERT DRASNIN "Voodoo"

Here's the rub. At it stands now, all twelve albums add up to 726MB, way too much for a 700MB CD-R. I can expand the collection to include two discs worth of albums, but frankly, that would be a bit of data CD bloat. I seriously think that a more focused/edited collection of albums would yield a more enjoyable listening experience, so I'm going to do my darndest to keep this compilation concept as a single CD-R. But what should stay and what should go?

What really sent this compilation over the edge was wanting to include my recent Les Baxter and Martin Denny aquisitions. I felt the compilation was leaning too heavily to the Hawaiian side and so I wanted to get more Exotica music on it. Rather than pick and choose which single albums of Mr. Baxter and Mr. Denny to feature (how could I choose?!), I thought it best to use "The Exotic Moods Of Les Baxter" and "The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny." However, at forty tracks each, they just take up too much space! ARGH!

I do have the single CD compilation, "The Best of Martin Denny's Exotica," which might help free up some valuable space, but then which Les Baxter album should I include alongside it to round out the Exotica void? "Ritual Of The Savage"? The "Tamboo!/Skins!" twofer?

Please chime in and help out a fellow Tiki Centralite!

Post #522724 by DejaVoodoo on Wed, Apr 7, 2010 9:24 PM