The Exotica Conspiracy
By Steve Aydt
Invisible College of Esoteric Disc Jockeys Audio-Didact, Cut 1
Genre Flow:
Impressionism, Exotica, Lounge, Dub, Cartoon Score, Easy Listening,
Bachelor Pad Jazz, Plunderphonics, Experimental, Ambient, Nootropicalia,
bullshit artistry, dialect, parody, Romanticism, Erotica, Orientalism
Analogical Tools:
Funhouse mirror, lens, poison pen, the broad brush, the comic book, the
pillow book, the aphrodisiac, lampoon, piss-take, prank, love-feast,
mixology, ritual magic, stagecraft
Artists:
Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Esquivel, Enoch Light, The Three Suns,
Edmundo Ros, Sun Ra, Werner Muller, Claude Debussy, Carl Stalling,
Raymond Scott, Ennio Morricone, Ray Martin, Dick Hyman, Riz Ortolani,
Henri Rene, Tony Mottola, J.G. Thirlwell, Boyd Rice, Throbbing Gristle,
SPK, John Oswald, People Like Us, Stock Hausen Walkman, The KLF, Rod
McKuen
Moon Madness
Anyone
who has listened to a mockingbird knows the secret of Exotica. 1934: the
original Don the Beachcomber lounge opens in Hollywood, portentous of
skewered pigs, cocktail umbrellas, and Hula dances. Soon afterward,
Exotica seems to rise from the Pacific like the hot wet specter of Mu, a
faux Polynesian Tsunami of sweet rum drinks, lava, and Pacific
saltwater gushing across America. Dada tone poets and Balinesian kecaks
knew it was coming. Its Gamelon music was played on pots, pans and a
bicycle horn. It’s sound was everywhere but its culture was from
nowhere. When it turned its ear to Africa, it heard Tikky Tikky Boom Boom. Ki-Aza-Ku-Sasa. Papa Oom Mow Mow!
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