New Bar need tunes!!

Hello we are opening a new tiki bar in PA and we are looking for the best music to play at the bar. I did some searching and found a few I already got.

1 - Martin Denny
2 - The Shadows - Kon tiki
3 - Polynesian Percussion
4 - Hui Ohana - The Best of Hui Ohana (Sweet Hawaiian Music)
5 - Hapa - Namahana
6 - Buffet & Marley

Can you all give us suggestions on music that will melt all yoru cares away while you waste away at our riverside tiki lounge.

Thanks :wink:

Ryan C.

Where is your Bar?

Some Music Suggestions

Don Tiki Adulterated - The Remix Project, Skinny Dip with Don Tiki, The Forbidden Sounds of Don Tiki.

WAI TIKI is great too.

Dave

Thanks for the suggestions. .. Looking on Amazon now... :wink:

After looking at all the suggestions we may get rid of teh buffet and marley. I never heard any of this other music and I LOVE It1

[ Edited by: ryanc 2007-04-10 19:33 ]

get SWAMP FIRE of the UltraLounge collections and just put it ON LOOP

In my opinion, get rid of the Buffet and the Marley.

Go vintage. You will have no competition. Get Arthur Lyman, Martin Denny, Les Baxter and Esquivel. If you want to mellow out, get Antonio Carlos Jobim and Sergio mendes.

Go vintage tropical. Very few "tiki" bars in restaraunts are playing this type of stuff in the background. Most go the Jimmy Buffet route, confusing a vaguely generic tropical feel for real Tiki.

http://www.kingkukulele.com

http://www.mkgents.com

http://www.whollycatsband.com/about.html
(scroll down to the Haole Kats CDs)

Decent start right there.

Definately get the 2 Arthur Lyman greatest hits (Best of and More Best of, even the "Hawaiian Sunset" CD and stock up on as many of the ultra lounge Cd's as you can find. You also HAVE TO HAVE Robert Drasnin's "Voodoo" and "VoodooII" (when it comes out next month).

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (or IZ)
Ape
Ibelli Di Waikiki
The Cocktail Preachers
And last but not least The Lords of Acid.

http://www.cherrycapri.com/about_entertainer.php

All songs about cocktails! Perfect for a bar :)

The T.C. Thread is here:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=22152

AWEOSME!! I got all the ultralounges, Arthur Lyman and the voodoo album, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Facing Future and Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Alone in iz World. Thanks for all your help. Keep the suggestions coming we are going to have a awesome collection!! :)

[ Edited by: ryanc 2007-04-13 11:54 ]

Along with some of the other suggestions:
Tiki Tones
Martini Kings
Papaya Kings
The Fishermen

Where in PA is the bar?

ryanc's basement?

PS -- NYC Tiki-phile's love the Atomic Mosquitos!

Yea, I guess you're right Tiki Kollektor.
I was just hopeful that there was maybe a Tiki bar remotely close to the DC area.
We need something as cool as Ottos down here!!

What does the bar look like?

Get both Tipsy Lps/Cds -- awesome records that sound modern and timeless simultaneously. Very cool, very tropical and tiki-esque.

http://tipsy.org/tipsymusic.html

Crazed Mugs CD a must !!!

(contact Pablus via this forum)
Or...... see him perform his new tunes Friday night at the Mar during Hukilau !!!!!

Thanks and best of luck with your new venue .....

Aloha
Joe/Haole Kats

ryanc -- where is your tiki bar in PA? I'm hoping it's in Pittsburgh!

I agree with Joe -- get the Crazed Mugs CD, too (www.crazedmugs.com).

Aloha, and please post some pics of your bar!

T

May I suggest a song from the Exotica album I'm writing? There is an excelent quality MP3 file of a song called "Island Mist". You may download it for free and use it in your tiki bar! It's about time someone started playing the corect genre of music in a new place. Not bad mouthing Mr. Buffet or Mr. Marley, but it's just not the right music for a TIKI bar. Like to get your opinion on it as a new listener to Exotica on how it compares to the classic stuff. Here is the link, it's a hidden page from the main site (I can't give this stuff away to EVERYONE, a brother has to make a buck ya know.) so you must use the link:

http://www.mindshaftmusic.com/exotica_project.htm

As I'm the composer, and you are actually trying to make your new establishment authentic, YOU sir, may have a free copy!

Mahalo and enjoy,

Tiki Bill

Well, maybe you've abandoned Marley by now, but you might want to look into vintage reggae. (After a certain amount of exotica and mellow Hawaiian music, you may want to lively up yourself and your customers just a touch. This stuff will do the trick) As a starter, try, The Harder They Come deluxe edition 2 disc set. Includes the movie soundtrack (a classic) and a second compilation CD, mostly from the mid 1960s. On the strength of that compilation, I bought The Best of the Melodians (Trojan Records), which remains a favorite - like Hui Ohana, these guys sing straight from the heart. Other vintage - Sterling Mossman's "Happy in Hawaii " is a winner, and for a modern touch, Lushy is a fine group with some fun tracks. Modern Hawaiian vocal faves - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (aka Iz) and Kea'ili Reichel. To sample Hawaiian music, go to mele.com Oh, and no tiki bar should be without "Tiki Torches at Twilight" as sung by either John Hiatt or David Lindley. Have fun!