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	<title>The Basement Rug &#187; Exotica/Lounge</title>
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		<title>Viva la Spring! Viva Cugat!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When lounge goes Latin - and it does so often - you can't beat the beats of Xavier Cugat!]]></description>
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		<title>Otto Weiss and his Crazy Organ &#8211; The New Sabre Dance</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/4616</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is lounge squared! Check out the speed on Buzzin Boogie, an adaptation of Flight of the Bumblebee.]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy Otto Rides Again</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/4606</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crazy times call for crazy tunes and Crazy Otto won't disappoint in this 1951 Decca classic.]]></description>
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		<title>Louis Martinez &#8211; Safari with Sabu</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/3548</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best exotica albums ever recorded, by one of the best conga players on the planet!]]></description>
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		<title>Santo and Johnny</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/561</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lost classic from 1959 on the long defunct Canadian American Records label - out of Winnipeg and NYC.]]></description>
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		<title>Belly Dancing with George Abdo</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/1588</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dance]]></category>
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I have noticed a lot of downloads of my mp3 of Raks Al Hayet (Dance of Life) by George Abdo, so I thought it would be good to put up a post letting people know that his 1976 Monitor label release &#8220;Belly Dancing With George Abdo&#8221; is now available for download (and on CD) from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Smith Piano and Orchestra &#8211; Brazilian Detour</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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This is a great wake-up album. The jammed-out version of Ipanema is one of the best I have ever heard. Many thanks to my pal Stefen for this fun gem from 1966! I was about to rip Stef&#8217;s original LP when I found this rip over at the Loronix blog. Paul Smith was Ella Fritzgerald&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Breuer Quintet &#8211; Mallet Magic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the finer 'percussion' records out there from the space age pop era.]]></description>
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		<title>Irving Fields Trio &#8211; More Bagels and Bongos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the bagels in the photo backdrop of the album cover!]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Sinatra &#8211; That&#8217;s Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[22,000+ downloads can't be wrong - That's Life!]]></description>
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		<title>Yma Sumac &#8211; Queen Diva of Exotica</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/370</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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Yma Sumac has been called the Queen Diva of Exotica. With her five-octave voice and the incredible talents of Les Baxter (who arranged and produced her work for Capitol records) you have one incredible combination. The Sumac/Baxter combo produced an operatic form of exotica that is truly out of this world!
I have a copy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Mancini &#8211; 40 Albums</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/351</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was trolling around the blogosphere looking for something completely unrelated when I bumped into this collection of 40, count &#8216;em, FORTY Henry Mancini albums at the merkezburasi blog:





Darlinglili &#124; Lovestory &#124; Country &#124; Theme &#124; Bigscreen &#124; Salutes &#124; Henryanddoc &#124; Vision &#124; Symphonicsoul &#124; Returnpinkpanther &#124; Mancini 67 &#124; Hawai &#124; Wardady &#124; Encode part1 &#124; Encode Part2 &#124; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Hirt &#8211; The Happy Trumpet</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/343</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I stated that Max Greger&#8217;s Safari Trumpet was &#8220;one of the best party songs of all time&#8221;. That was until I discovered Al Hirt&#8217;s Pitty Pat, which is even more silly, and just as danceable. Go-go boots or a leisure suit, either works well for this lounge number. Pitty Pat is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>101 Strings &#8211; Astro Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/92</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[101 Strings you say? He must be nuts. Have I taken my exotic/lounge fetish too far? Have I reached the bottom of the crate? Not yet. Per below there are hundreds of albums by the &#8217;strings&#8217;, most of which I have been wise to ignore, with one execption: &#8220;Astro Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000&#8243;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Les Baxter&#8217;s African Jazz</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/78</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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You can&#8217;t go wrong with an album cover like this. If you have the time, download a ZIP of the entire LP, if not, be sure to download the super-swinging Balinese Bongos!
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		<title>Dick Schory &#8211; Repercussion</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/73</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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I should have several upcoming posts for those masters of exotica, including Lalo Schiffrin, Henry Mancini, Enoch Light, Les Baxter, and of course &#8211; Richard Schory.
Dick Schory&#8217;s Repercussion is a great example of where more exotica records could have gone, exemplified by the track Amazon Tributary. Baxter and Schory were masters for composing, arranging, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Montenegro &#8211; Bongos and Brass</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/28</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been scooping up a lot of wax in the Space Age Pop genre lately. I just love the BIG production sounds of the early 1960s &#8211; and of course you just can&#8217;t go wrong with bongos! This release by Hugo Montenegro (1960) is one of many percussion LP&#8217;s from the TIME 2000 series. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vinnie Bell &#8211; Whistle Stop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like Tony Mottola, Vinnie Bell is long-forgotten session guitar wizard.]]></description>
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