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1. What is your relationship to the Tiki music genres of Exotica, Hawaiin, Ultra-lounge and so on?

I first encountered Exotica at the quite young age of 5.  My mother had Arthur Lyman's "Bahia" LP.  The cover was so exotic and inviting. When I put the LP on for the first time, it was the title track on side 1 "Bahia" that starts with bass and jungle birds. I was immediately hooked. I played that album every day.  Today, 40+ years later, I still have that same LP. I am also a musician and have studied Latin jazz and fronted my own salsa band for years.  In my late 30s I rediscovered Exotica and picked up the vibraphone.  I was in the original incarnation of Tikiyaki Orchestra and Tiki Joe's Ocean.  I performed at Tiki festivals in both bands and fronted my own bands as well.  I began heavily collecting Exotica LP's in 2000.  It is the LP collecting that opened me to more "traditional" Hawaiian music and ultra-lounge which I just love.  

2. You also run a podcast series called "The Quiet Village Podcast" and have recently put out your 100th recording, can you tell us a bit about how that started? 

Actually, the whole podcast show started as a technical exercise.  I'm a git of a computer geek as well.  I wanted to see if I could technically create a podcast with the RSS feed.  The recording wasn't an issue, as I am also an audio engineer.  The RSS feed programming was the challenge.  It turned out not to be as hard as I thought.  But when planning it, the obvious choice of topic was Exotica and Tiki culture in general.  I never thought I'd see 100 episodes, but here I am and still going.  To be honest, at the time I started the podcast in 2008 there wasn't any Tiki music out there on the internet, except for one guy--Vegas Vic.  I loved his podcast and internet radio station.  He disappeared right before I started mine, so I kinda think that I took up where Vegas Vic left off.

3. There was a Felonious Monk remix of the famous track "Exotica" in your mix, do you have many remixes or covers in your library? And how do you feel about classics being sampled, covered or remixed?

I absolutely love the Felonious Monk remix of "Exotica".  I found it quite by accident on YouTube.  I have a few remixed Exotica tunes, but they are sadly very few and far between.  There is a band called Monster Rally that uses sample mashups of old Exotica and Hawaiian records in many of their tunes.  But to be honest, remixes of Exotica are rare.  I'm a big fan of remixes and mashups. I also love ambient and chill beats as well. To me, Exotica is the ambient-chill of its day.  I really enjoy the creativity of artists who can take something old and make it new.  I hope that more remix artists will look to Exotica.  For me, it's an untapped genre.

One thing I think is important to understand is that Exotica and Tiki bars in the 60's were pure escapists.  Escape from the very modernizing and rapidly changing world that was constantly under the theady of the Cold War.  Tiki bars and the Tiki lifestyle offered a chance to escape all that to a tropical paradise with no cares.  Today, I see the resurgence of Tiki having the same pull for similar reasons.   Especially with the last year+ of events, escaping to a tropical island where it is perpetually sunset, and a bare breasted beauty brings you your mai tai in a hammock on the beach isn't such a bad fantasy to pursue.

While I'm not a DJ in the sense that I try to meld beats together (Exotica rarely lends itself to that type of mixing), I hope you enjoy this little slice of paradise.  I hope it conjures up the same images for you as it does me--dimly lit thatch hut bars with the smell of rum and fresh but bamboo and every drink has a little umbrella in it. Cheers!

Paradisco 006 // Digitiki

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This episode of OST is a 2 hour double bill of John Carpenter's legendary gritty action sci-fi's: Escape From New York (1981) AND Escape From L.A. (1996)!

As is customary in the OST show, your host Nadia 'Call Me Snake' Wise will be narrating these movies, using(mostly obscure 80s) records from her collection! Also featured will be dialogue audio clips from the movies themselves, as well as the usual live MCing over the records to explain the plot, the significance of the tracks, and the music itself! You can expect songs about snakes, New York, time, fighting, earthquakes, plastic surgery, basketball and more...!

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Explorations in 100 BPM, Bassy cuts and more inside. 

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"Balearic rhythms" tape will be out in a couple of weeks, grab a copy at www.monorailmusic.com

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