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April 18, 2011When lounge goes Latin – and it does so often – you can’t beat the beats of Xavier Cugat!
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April 05, 2011This is lounge squared! Check out the speed on Buzzin Boogie, an adaptation of Flight of the Bumblebee.
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April 01, 2011Crazy times call for crazy tunes and Crazy Otto won’t disappoint in this 1951 Decca classic.
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April 24, 2010One of the best exotica albums ever recorded, by one of the best conga players on the planet!
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April 18, 2010A lost classic from 1959 on the long defunct Canadian American Records label – out of Winnipeg and NYC.
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April 19, 2009I have noticed a lot of downloads of my mp3 of Raks Al Hayet (Dance of Life) by George Abdo,...
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October 14, 2008This is a great wake-up album. The jammed-out version of Ipanema is one of the best I have ever heard....
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October 11, 2008One of the finer ‘percussion’ records out there from the space age pop era.
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October 08, 2008Check out the bagels in the photo backdrop of the album cover!
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September 26, 200822,000+ downloads can’t be wrong – That’s Life!
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February 10, 2008Yma Sumac has been called the Queen Diva of Exotica. With her five-octave voice and the incredible talents of Les...
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January 13, 2008I was trolling around the blogosphere looking for something completely unrelated when I bumped into this collection of 40, count...
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January 09, 2008In a previous post I stated that Max Greger’s Safari Trumpet was “one of the best party songs of all...
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September 18, 2007101 Strings you say? He must be nuts. Have I taken my exotic/lounge fetish too far? Have I reached the...
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September 15, 2007You can’t go wrong with an album cover like this. If you have the time, download a ZIP of the...
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September 10, 2007I should have several upcoming posts for those masters of exotica, including Lalo Schiffrin, Henry Mancini, Enoch Light, Les Baxter,...
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September 04, 2007I’ve been scooping up a lot of wax in the Space Age Pop genre lately. I just love the BIG...
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August 18, 2007Like Tony Mottola, Vinnie Bell is long-forgotten session guitar wizard.
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