Post #751 by hanford_lemoore on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 1:46 PM

So, if you're looking for an old exotica comp, the Capitol Ultra-lounge Mondo Exotica has an incredibly listenable mix on it. A great beginning-to-end Exotica primer.

If you want Modern exotica you may want to check out the Electro Lounge series.

These are modern remixes of lounge music (again pretty-much all Captiol I think) Electro Lounge Volume 1 has Martin Denny's Hypnotique some Yma Sumac, and a version of Caravan, nach.

Electro Lounge Volume 2 has more exotica on it, including Denny's Quiet Village remixed, and 4 Les Baxter tunes.

Overall these discs are decent but not stunning, esp. compared to Tipsy. There's at least one track on each that I love, and at least one track on each that I SKIP OVER whenever it comes on. But it's interesting to see old favorites like this remixed in a variety of styles.

One of the cooler tracks on vol 1 is "Sway" where they've taken both Dean Martin's Sway and (I believe) Julie London's "Sway" and merged them together. it's pretty cool ... has a very heavy sythed drumline in it.

~Hanford

[ Edited by: hanford_lemoore on 2002-04-16 13:47 ]