Michael Giacchino - Maui Mallard In Cold Shadow Soundtrack (1996) + Game ROM

ARTIST`````Michael Giacchino

ALBUM`````Maui Mallard In Cold Shadow Soundtrack

GENRE`````Soundtrack, Tropical, Exotica, Kitsch, Video Games

YEAR````````1996

What?

...You are Maui Mallard, a hard-boiled, aloha-shirt-clad private dick...er...duck. You have been summoned to a tropical island to help the Muddrakes retrieve their stolen mojo idol, Shabuhm Shabuhm...

I am posting this for personal nostalgic reasons and because I found out today that many people are looking for it - all torrents died a long time ago. I couldn't find a single working link where the whole soundtrack is in one .rar file so I decided to post this little nerdy piece of video game soundtrack history. In short, this game is actually one of the best examples of classic, fetish 1990's detailed, high quality platform games with a few innovative twists. If you are into reading reviews of vintage games read this gamespot review. Also here is a youtube review with gameplay footage.

Besides the very detailed, moody graphics, smooth animation and catchy sounds the biggest highlight of the game was a perfect childish tropical, jazzy, kitschy, detective soundtrack composed by Michael Giacchino and orchestrated by Steve Duckworth. It was so memorable that people who played the game as kids in 1996 now clap in joy just by hearing the first drum rolls from the main menu.

It is interesting that this Donald Duck based detective-blindfolded-ninja tropical character and the entire eclectic aesthetic were created from scratch but it was all used just in this game - it is sad that Disney never turned this unique world into a TV series for kids *as they supposedly planned).

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This .rar file contains the whole mp3 soundtrack + the Snes9x emulator + the Maui Mallard ROM with a simple "How To Play" explanation if you don't know how to open ROMs. Enjoy.

El Guincho - Pop Negro (2010)

ARTIST`````El Guincho
ALBUM`````Pop Negro
GENRE`````Indie,

YEAR````````2010

EL GUINCHO | Bombay from MGdM | Marc Gómez del Moral on Vimeo

If you want their 2008 album Alegranza click here:)

Review:
If Pablo Diaz-Riexa’s second album under the name El Guincho doesn’t garner the same attention as the first (Alegranza) did when it arrived out of the blue two years previously, you can hardly blame him. Pop Negro is just as impressive as the debut was. It’s just that the indie landscape has shifted so much over that time span that someone blending all sorts of African, Latin, dance, and pop elements and influences into a whirling, glittery disco ball of sound isn’t exactly enough to stop the presses. In fact, since Diaz-Riexa doesn’t really break any new ground here, some may even dismiss the album as a retread. That would be a big mistake. While it’s true that the basic sonic template of Pop Negro is much the same as Alegranza, this time the songs are more focused and the overall feel is much punchier and direct. The songs seem less likely to spiral off in unpredictable directions.

THIS ALBUM IS REMOVED

Miles Corbin - Sounds from the Tiki Hut (2000)

ARTIST`````Miles Corbin
ALBUM`````Sounds from the Tiki Hut
GENRE`````Lounge, Easy, Nu Surf, Exotica, Kitsch

YEAR````````2000

What?
The laziest sound possible. A very interesting production mix: stripped down, retro soft synth beats entangled in classical Hawaiian/surf guitar melodies. All songs have thin basslines so the whole album is mostly in mid and high range (love those cheap, crisp snares) mostly sounding like some rare exotic vintage gem. A truly unpretentious record that takes you far, far away from the suffocating, confusing world of today's showy, charts aiming bands.

Miles Corbin is the bandleader guitarist of The Aqua Velvets whose music is featured in many Film and TV soundtracks. The whole crew seriously lacks promotion and support but after viewing their stunningly badly composed but charming website it seems they really don't give a flying fuck.

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V.A. The Cutest Party (2010)

ARTIST`````Various
ALBUM`````The Cutest Party
GENRE`````Kitsch, Exotica, Italo Disco, Electronic, Steel Funk
YEAR````````2010
Bleeding Panda Compilation

Info:
For the end of the summer – a collection of catchy, kitschy exotic tunes I enjoyed these last few months. Some are quite famous but there are a plentiful of great finds here. Enjoy @(+,+)@

Tracklist:
01 Fred Weinberg - Aum Mau Mau (1970)
02 Goto80 - Papaya Coconut / Dr. Alban Cover (2001)
03 Tipsy - El Bombo Atomico (1997)
04 Coconot - Tao (2008)
05 Little Tempo - Dance Killer (2008)
06 Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer (2009)
07 Bernie Krause & Human Remains - Ape No Mountain High Enough (1988)
08 Oleg Kostrov - Fog Spread Over Lebanon (2003)
09 Billy Larkin & the Delegates - Pygmy (1964)
10 Plantlife - Love Me Till It Hurst (2005)
11 Dutch Rhythm and Steel Band - Funky Limbo (1978)
12 Gay Flamingoes Steel Band - Caterpilla (2002)
13 Bibio - Jealous Of Roses (2009)
14 Leila - The Exotics (2008)
15 Yma Sumac - Goomba Boomba (1955)
16 Morton Gould - Tropical (1964)
17 Methusalem - Robotism (1977)
18 Alexander Robotnick - C'est La Vie (1987)
19 Luciano - Africa Sweat (2009)
20 Hot Chip - Transmission (Joy Division Cover) (2009)
21 Tullio De Piscopo - Primavera (Stop Bajon) (1982)
22 Frank Ricotti - Bikini (1981)
23 Little Tempo - Tropical Rock (2008)
24 Senor Coconut - Around The World Intro / Daft Punk Cover (2008)
25 Michael Lloyd & Le Disc - Johnny's Mambo (1999)
26 Tommy Seebach - Alperosen (1975)

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For after-party I recommend this flawless tropical affair:P

Poss Miyazaki - Hawaiian Exotics

LICKIN' STEEL GUITAR

ARTIST`````POSS MIYAZAKI
ALBUM`````HAWAIIAN EXOTICS
GENRE`````HAWAIIAN, EXOTICA, WORLD, KITSCH
YEAR````````????

HEH:
Exquisite Japanese exotica album. One of the tracks will appear on some of my future compilations definitely.

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Chaino - Jungle Echoes (1959)

MINIMALIST EXOTICA
ARTIST`````Chaino
ALBUM`````Jungle Echoes
GENRE`````Exotica, Tribal, Afrobeat, Kitsch
YEAR````````1959

SHORT BIO:

The self-styled "percussion genius of Africa," exotica-era enigma Chaino was actually born Leon Johnson in Philadelphia in 1927; raised primarily in Chicago, the details of his early life are largely a mystery, although at some point he learned to play the bongos and began touring the so-called "chitlin" circuit of black nightclubs. During the mid-1950s he surfaced in Los Angeles, and with producer Kirby Allan entered the famed Gold Star studio to record a series of otherworldly jungle exotica LPs; the first, the 1958 Verve label release Jungle Mating Rhythms, featured not only a lurid fusion of African rhythms, primal chants and lusty moaning-and-groaning but also liner notes claiming "Chaino is the only survivor of a lost race of people from the wilds of the jungle in a remote part of central Africa where few white men have ever been...(he) could play seven or more drums at the same time, with such a blur of speed that you can hardly see his hands." In the months which followed, Chaino issued three more albums -- Jungle Echoes, Night of the Spectre and Africana -- each for a different label; on occasion, he also worked as a session musician, and even appeared in pair of feature films, Nighttide and The Devil's Hand. A notoriously difficult and eccentric figure, however, in time he and Allan parted ways, and Chaino's activities over the decades to follow remain unknown; with the resurgence of interest in exotica during the mid-1990s, his brother George Johnson discovered the percussionist's whereabouts and briefly brought him back home to Chicago. Chaino nevertheless resumed his nomadic ways soon after; following surgery to remove a brain tumor, he suffered a fatal heart attack on July 8, 1999.

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EDEN AHBEZ - EDEN'S ISLAND (1960)

One of the goofiest efforts in the goofy exotica genre -- and brother, that's saying something, given the stiff competition.
ARTIST`````EDEN AHBEZ
ALBUM`````EDEN'S ISLAND
GENRE`````EXOTICA, KITSCH, OBSCURO
YEAR````````1960

I'M BACK
First, I want to thank everybody for their kind words of support for this blog of mine. I practically gave it up some months ago but then I checked my downloads which skyrocketed recently and started reading a shitload of positive comments. Obviously, people are diggin' my eclectic taste in everything that ends with .mp3. So -- I am back. Kachoing!

So, here's a great, great (one of the best) goofy odd 60's exotica albums of all times from one of the weirdest and unexplained composers ever. It's kitschy and almost child-like atmosphere, brilliance of arrangement with tasteful yet naive choruses of paradises lost and psychedelic roads of calmness, definitely lock-up the age of relaxed psy music makers into the 60's. It is very strange how far and "romantic" this record sounds. It's like we will never hear something this childish done with such an effort for detail.

WHO'S THE ODDBALL?
Ahbez boasted a resumé as colorful and mysterious as his music. Born Alexander Aberle in Brooklyn in the early 20th century, he changed his name in the 1940s shortly after moving to (where else?) California. A hippie a good 20 years before his time, he cultivated a Christ-like appearance with his shoulder-length hair and beard. He claimed to live on three dollars a week, sleeping outdoors with his family, eating vegetables, fruits, and nuts.

One of the genuinely strange characters of pre-rock American popular music, Eden Ahbez's main claim to fame was as the composer of "Nature Boy." The melodically and lyrically beguiling song was a huge pop hit for Nat King Cole; it would be covered by many other reputable performers, including Frank Sinatra, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, and the Great Society (Grace Slick's pre-Jefferson Airplane band). But Ahbez's modern stature rests on a 1960 album that mixed exotica album and beatnik poetry. It rates as one of the goofiest efforts in the goofy exotica genre -- and brother, that's saying something, given the stiff competition.



ALBUM REVIEW:
Musically, Ahbez' 1960 outing was squarely in line with the exotica fad, utilizing then-unusual combinations of instruments (flutes, bongos, vibes) and sound effects like creaking boats to conjure up the aural equivalent of a tropical breeze. Unlike Martin Denny or Arthur Lyman, Ahbez often added his own spoken poetry, speaking of coves, paradise, and other idyllic subjects. Occasionally he even sang in a thin voice (he's no Nat King Cole). Even those who share Ahbez' yearning for heaven on earth must concede that his recorded effort to invoke these states is, to put it bluntly, sophomoric. Yes, it's good for some snickers from the exotica revival crowd, but that's almost definitely not what he had in mind when he was making this.

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El Guincho - Alegranza (2008)

ARTIST`````El Guincho
ALBUM`````Alegranza
GENRE`````Indie pop, Tropicalia, Exotic, Spanish

YEAR````````2008

El Guincho's debut album Alegranza is as bright as the feathers of the parrot, as sparkly as the fireworks, and as warm as the palm trees that adorn the cover. The music flows like melted butter, twists and turns like a mountain highway, and shimmers like the sun on a scorching summer day. The Spanish producer/singer throws a whole mess of ingredients into the mix, including various strains of world music (like Afro-pop, tango, Spanish folk music), indie pop, techno, and post-rock and sends it spinning into a blurred, whirling rush of sound that never falters. El Guincho uses samples, found sounds, chopped and looped instruments, and his own plaintively sweet vocals to make Alegranza; much like Panda Bear did with Person Pitch, he's created a world and sound of his own here. There are reference points both new (the trance-y, repetitive drive of Stereolab, the off-kilter, child-like soundscapes of High Places, and the hi-tech folk of Animal Collective) and old (tracks like "Kalise" sound like a modern, warped update of a classic Latin dance band record (Beny Moré or Perez Prado) and elsewhere there are samples of schoolyard chants, folk songs, and lounge ballads) but really you'd be hard pressed to find an album that mixes and matches sounds and cultures so effortlessly. Entertainingly, too, as every song on the album sounds like an excerpt from the wildest, most joyful party of the year. Finding a song more suited to cavorting about merrily than "Costa Paraiso" or "Prez Lagarto" would be a task, staying in a bad mood with "Palmitos Park" or "Fata Morgana" sailing past near impossible. The only tiny fault of the album is that there are few dynamic shifts to be found; it starts off sounding like a Technicolor blast of happiness and very rarely (until "Polca Mazurca" ends the record on a soothing-in-comparison note) changes either tempo or mood. It's also not a record for world music purists, ideologue indie rockers or by-the-book dance music enthusiasts; you have to be a fan of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup approach to music ("Hey, you got Afro Pop in my Indie Rock!" "You got Spanish Folk in my Lo Fi soundscape") to appreciate El Guincho's sound. If you are one of these lucky listeners, Alegranza is pure candy.

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V.A MONSTRUOSO INSTRUMENTALE! VOL. 01 (2009)

BULLSHITTO! FARTE! WHATEVERE! INSTRUMENTALLES!
ARTIST`````VARIOUS
ALBUM`````MONSTRUOSO INSTRUMENTALE!
GENRE`````INSTRUMENTAL
YEAR````````2008
BLEEDING PANDA COMPILATION! COVER DESIGN BY PANDA STUFFER.

WHAT?
This is a 16 track long collection of some of my favorite blasting instrumental songs. Generally, as the cover says, this collection has no meaning, has no intellectual value whatsoever and is pretty much a bunch of cult songs mixed with stupid cover versions (like Britney Spears Toxic cover) and interesting experiments along with kitsch trash Moog shitties that are fused together only by the fact that they all have balls and a clear tough attitude.
It spans decades - from 70's detective funk to new unexplainable experimental productions, and spans all continents and cultural influences.

All critiques and comments are very welcome. Also, I am preparing Vol. 02 so all your anarchical recommendations are very welcome.

And a Happy New Thingy to all of you:)

TRACKLIST:
01 Barry de Vorzon - Theme from The Warriors
02 Dennis Coffey - Scorpio (Alpha Omega)
03 Donald Byrd - One Gun Salute
04 Roger Davy - Crazy Flute Happy Guitar
05 Gert Wilden & Orchestra - Follow Me
06 Astro Can Caravan - Baia
07 Fuka Vicente -Tempura Soul
08 Mustafa Ozkent - Dolana Dolana
09 Ananda Shankar - Jungle King
10 Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Toxic
11 Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited - Korla Rides Again
12 Aavikko - Cipetown
13 The Treblemakers - Freakshow
14 Secret Chiefs 3 - Jabalqa
15 Alamaailman Vasarat - Käärme toi ruton kaupunkiin
16 A Hawk And A Hacksaw - Zozobra

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GERT WILDEN & ORCHESTRA - THE SCHULMADCHEN REPORT (1996)

REDISCOVERED GERMAN SEX REVOLUTION OF THE 1970's
ARTIST`````GERT WILDEN & ORCHESTRA
ALBUM`````THE SCHULMADCHEN REPORT
GENRE`````EXOTICA, KITSCH
YEAR```````1996

WHY:
Soon.

EXCELLENT ALBUM REVIEW by :
The tag end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s brought a river of permissiveness into film, with sexploitation getting a pretty good foothold in American drive-ins and cheap theaters -- not porn, but softcore weirdness involving lots of young people running around naked in whatever circumstances could be concocted.
As good as America's breed of low-rent filmmakers got with this, though, they couldn't hold a candle to the Europeans -- particularly the Germans, who all but turned softcore into a science. It may well be that America retreated to cheap horror movies in self-defense (and a case could be made that the English also beat a retreat, assuming a hardcore literary stance). And so, Germany produced Schulmäedchen Report (Schoolgirl Report), its many sequels, and its ilk. There were a lot of them, many of which wound up exported, badly dubbed, and run to death. If they didn't have a soundtrack by Gert Wilden & His Orchestra, then they weren't worth bothering with -- well, at least according to the liner notes here. Going by the evidence at hand, the liner notes might well be right. Wilden's music is a wonderfully demented pastiche that takes its inspiration from all kinds of sources -- "Dirty Beat" swipes from Led Zeppelin, but chucks in bits of acid rock, crazed Farfisa organ, and drum work that sounds like tap-dancing piledrivers.

Other cuts teeter on the edge of pure lounge, there's bits of smoky jazz, R&B, crazily mangled surf music, whatever else can be jammed in and will stick -- listening to this is like dealing with weather in Vermont: wait a couple of minutes and it'll change completely. One moment it's lolling saxophone, and the next it's James Last on amphetamines. It all fits, it's often hilarious, and it is absolutely worth keeping on hand.

Lobby cards and stills are scattered liberally throughout so that booklet begins to resemble a photo essay on nudism (the booklet front and the tray card feature nude stills as well; no disguises evident here.) The music, however, remains interesting long after the images have become boring.


GERT WILDEN SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
German conductor and composer Gert Wilden labored in semi-obscurity for most of his professional career. He provided themes and incidental music for literally dozens of European films and TV shows from the mid-'50s through the '80s, while never gaining the renown of contemporaries like Peter Thomas or Martin Boettcher. The tongue-in-cheek exotica revival of the mid-'90s, however, bought a new interest in previously unnoticed genres, and two CDs of Wilden's music, Schulmadchen Report and I Told You Not to Cry, were released to some acclaim in 1996 and 1997.

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DVD review: Schoolgirl Report #1: What Parents Don't Think Is Possible

SENOR COCONUT - YELLOW FEVER (2006)

COCKTAILS FOR EVERYBODY! POSITIVE MUSIC FOR THAT COLD, AWFUL SUNDAY MORNING
ARTIST``````````````SENOR COCONUT
ALBUM``````````````YELLOW FEVER
GENRE``````````````INDIE-LATIN-ELECTRONIC-POP
YEAR````````````````2006

MY VIEW:
Now this is one talented crew. Basically, they transform other people's famous songs into latin-electro-jazzy-spacey-cute super-turbo-positive cover songs. Everybody thought that this band wouldn't last long but their good choices of songs, exotic vocals, great production and super catchy harmonies are still making my butt shake.
Positive music for that awful cold sunday morning.

ALBUM REVIEW:
Continuing on its cockeyed way through genre exercise and radical reinterpretation, Señor Coconut, having redone one set of electronic legends in Kraftwerk years back, takes another turn with the archly titled Yellow Fever. For indeed, it's the Yellow Magic Orchestra that gets the treatment this time out, but unlike the earlier effort, this is done not only with the individual participation of all three YMOTowa Tei to Mouse on Mars. The sheer number of mix-and-match efforts throughout, highlighted by a number of shorter pieces that serve as bridges between the full-on covers, could almost be a hip-hop album in an alternate universe, but the basic consistency at the heart of the album is clear -- Uwe Schmidt in his Señor Coconut guise, with vocalist Argenis Brito appearing throughout, transmogrifying YMO songs into classic Latin pop numbers. Brilliant.

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V.A. - SHIT! WE GOT PARADISE - COMPILATION BY VALENTIN (2007)

FEEL THE UKULELE!

Selection of my favourite old kitch hawaiian tunes. Some of these songs were recorded on vinyl around 1910 so expect that lovely glitchy waikiki-ukulele-love-makin' sound:)

Pay special attention to the (independently recorded) two last radio show tracks (16 & 17). This great radio show explains how hawaiian music vanished when it was discovered by raging american music industry. A must have.

Tracks:
01 Hawaii Calls Compilation - Introduction
02 Alfred Aholo Apaka - Song Of The Islands ( Na Lei O Ha
03 Kanui And Lula - Oua Oua
04 Nina Keali'iwahamana & Benny Kalama - E Lili'u E
05 Danny Kuaana - Mauna Kea
06 Hawaiian Cumquats - Untitled Song
07 Hawaiian Cumquats - The Pick of the Crop
08 Andy Iona & His Islanders - Hola E Pae
09 Andy Iona & his Islanders - Vana Vana
10 Lani McIntire - Hula Blues
11 Andy Iona - Hooheno Keia No Beauty
12 Jules Ah See - Sand
13 Lani McIntire's Hawaiians - Maika'i Wale No Kauai
14 Basil Henriques And The Waikiki Islanders - The Shadow Of Your Smile
15 Benny Kalama - Nani Waimea
16 Hawaii Why - Oh! 1
17 Hawaii Why - Oh! 2

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* This is not an official compilation.
* This compilation is made and uploaded by me.
* This is pure and utter piracy.
* Cover design is done by me.

YMA SUMAC - VOICE OF XTABAY (1950)

THE MOST EXOTIC AND ORIGINAL VOICE EVER. THE FIRST AND THE BEST ALBUM BY A WOMAN-WONDER-DEMON-FREAK. MASTERPIECE COMPOSITIONS BY LES BAXTER.
ARTIST`````````````YMA SUMAC
ALBUM`````````````VOICE OF XTABAY
GENRE`````````````EXOTICA/VOCAL
YEAR```````````````1950

MY VIEW:
Shit. She can sing in offbeat, scream like an animal and be beautiful. What more do you want? I bet she cooks good...

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
A singer with an amazing four-octave range, Yma Sumac was said to have been a descendant of Inca kings, an Incan princess that was one of the Golden Virgins. Her offbeat stylings became a phenomenon of early-'50s pop music. While her album covers took advantage of her strange costumes and voluptuous figure, rumors abounded that she was, in actuality, a housewife named Amy Camus. It mattered little because there has been no one like her before or since in the annals of popular music.

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