exotica

One of our best shows, music that is too precious to be forgotten. A seamless blend of exotic jungle rhythms, easy listening, jazz, space pop, burlesque, japanese music from hawaii.

Have you heard the news that Les Baxter is solely responsible for the soundtrack to heaven?. This will be played by little fairies during your teleportation. But first you have to eat your greens and be a good boy!

The in-house gag about this show was that we were ready to work at the BRT (a fictional state owned radio station from Brasil that resembles our TRT) simply because it never wanders off brasileira & exotica, albeit a few breathers of downtempo jazz from Cecil Taylor and Marc Copland. Play this on sunny afternoons.

#78 sees error101 back from real life duties to select the material. If you remember her idiosyncratic blend of exotica, brasileira, jazz, soul and funk, you’re guaranteed to enjoy this one.

The world of lounge, exotica and easy listening is a bottomless pit, with an unfathomable amount of golden material buried under crap music every day. Who would have thought the talented Mexican pianist Pepe Jaramillo will one day be forgotten?

No lounge, exotica or easy-listening compilation is complete without a song from the late Peruvian soprano Yma Sumac. We’ve been acquainted with her through compilations but lately I’ve discovered her 1954 album Mambo! and run into a blockade of “not listen to anything else even if you’ve never been a mambo fan at all”

Cardiff based cratedigger and visual artist Pete Fowler’s bag of goodies is a 27 song deep bag (if you count the interludes) of folk, exotica, guitar based psychedelia and synth music featuring artists such as Ghost Box faves Belbury Poly & The Advisory Circle, Luke Vibert, Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals, Cherrystones, Circulus et al.

After two weeks of absence, we’re back with #73 of our shows, once again done in partnership with Can Ayverdi. There’s an abundance of soulful and jazzy beats, a bit of psych folk at the beginning and some easy tempo and brasiliera at the end. Playlist inside! Have a nice week!