last updated December 27, 2003

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eXotica Releases Overview

a hyperdiscography of "exotic" CDs and new LPs ( version 5.37 ) tell me more!

3 ways to navigate: use the search engine use the menu frame below start here, and click on the next link at each page's bottom

fading out The "eXotica Releases Overview" for more than 6 years, I have been curating This "eXotica Releases Overview", and i'm getting tired of it, it has become a drag. From now on, there might be longer intervals inbetween updates, and I probably won't be adding as many new titles or comments as I used to do.

READ ME:

• what it is:
  a searchable and annotated hyperdiscography of 3865 "exotica" & related CD's and new LP's; no singles. The term exotica is stretched to its limits here; it means: "music talked about in the Exotica Mailing List", including: lounge, exotic music, cocktail music, Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (SABPM), space age pop, incredibly strange music (ISM), Moog, organs, interesting EZ, camp, novelty, cartoon music, celebrity vocals, stupid rock'n'roll, music with sound effects, sleazy or greasy listening, strange covers, strange crossovers, ethnic music, percussion music, bizar instruments, instro pop guitars, outer space exotica, beatnik, spy jazz, crime jazz, nervous jazz, spoken word, TV & film Soundtracks, production music, library records, mambo, samba, Bossa Nova and other Latin rhythms...

  currently not very well included are: Brazil, lounge vocals/crooners, "pop nouveau", Shibuya-kei, sunshine pop...
  not included: surf, swing.

• what it isn't:
  this is NOT a sale catalog! see below for more info on places where to buy this stuf

• who wrote these lists:
  the content of these pages is compiled and coded by me, Johan Dada Vis. The comments are written by, and used with their permission:
  • members of the Exotica Mailing List
  • Jack Diamond of Jack Diamond Music
  • Stefan Kéry of Subliminal Sounds
  • members of the Popnouveau Mailing List
  • members of the Lava Lamp Soundtrack List
  • Tom Rombouts

• send in your additions or comments:
  Do you know about records that should be (but aren't) mentioned in these lists? Would you like to add a comment? Or correct something? Go to my contact page, and send me an e-mail with your additions. I will try to include them as soon as possible.

• updates:
  use the changedetect.com monitoring service on my contact page

• For more reviews and information about discs listed here, check out these websites :
  • My own "Linquarium" page, with lots of links to useful review sites
  • The All-Music Guide
  • KFJC's Music Database

• search elsewhere:
  Several artists have more albums/soundtracks available than mentioned here. To learn about those, check out:
  • The All-Music Guide
  • The online music mailorder databases
  For soundtracks not listed here, especially check out:
  • CAM
  • Intrada
  • Footlight

• where to buy these discs:
  check out my "Shoppinquarium" page of selected online music mailorder shops.

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