Los Brasilios - Brazilian Beats (1967)

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Bill Plummer - Cosmic Brotherhood (1968)

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Bill Plumber used to be a jazz bassist until he succumbed to the spirit of the times, bought himself a sitar and hooked up with some like-minded musicians. "Journey to the east' is the lead track from their self-titled album and, although slightly kitsch, give a real impression of the times.

Source : elbo.ws

Robert Drasnin - Voodoo (1960)

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In 1960 the Tops Record Company (always quick to cash in on the latest trend) released an Exotica record by Robert Drasnin entitled "Voodoo." Little did anyone suspect that Robert Drasnin’s first and only album would soon become one of the most sought after and coveted of all Exotica records. In 1996 the album saw a CD release on Dionysus "Lost Episode" label then later that year on Pickwick. Then in 1999 nearly 40 years later with the help of Skip Heller, Duane Schulthess and the Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble, Robert Drasnin conducted and played the first ever live debut of "Voodoo" in its entirety!

Source : Ele-mental.org (interview of Robert Drasnin)

Tak Shindo - Mganga (Tiki tim rip)

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A bona fide musicologist by education, Tak Shindo was responsible for some of the more authentic uses of exotica instruments in exotica recordings.

Shindo served in the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Service as a Japanese language instructor at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. After his discharge, he studied under the G.I. Bill at Los Angeles State College (now Cal State University, Los Angeles). After graduating with a bachelor's degree in music, he did graduate work at the University of Southern California over the course of the next decade, including study with the great film composer Miklos Rozsa, and eventually earned a masters degree.

Shindo's graduate work took that long because he was also working full time as a studio composer. He worked with most of the big television and movie studios of the time, including Columbia, 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Desilu, Disney, NBC, and CBS. Among the shows he worked on were "Hawaiian Eye," "The Dinah Shore Show," "Gunsmoke," and "The Untouchables." While with CBS television, he penned the themes to "The Ed Sullivan Show," "Wagon Train," and "Adventure."

Shindo's albums for Capitol, Edison International, and Mercury all feature a mix of eastern and western musical styles and instrumentation. Most of them use a standard studio band with Oriental instrumentation, covering standard Western material such as "Caravan" and "Wagon Wheels." The novelty effect was perhaps shorter-lived than the caliber of craftmanship Shindo put into them deserved. Although most of his work on others' recordings went uncredited, his name does show up on two interesting albums: The Yellow Unicorn, which features Rod McKuen reciting his poems to a mix of Japanese and western instruments played by Shindo and Julie Meredith; and East Meets West, on which organist Paul Marks plays Japanese pop and folk songs on the Wurlitzer while Shindo provides suitable accompaniment on the koto and other Japanese instruments.

Shindo studied Japanese music extensively and was often tapped to score or provide incidental music for films dealing with Oriental subjects and settings, like Sayonara, Stop Over Tokyo, and Dawn of Asia. He collected Japanese instruments, wrote a history of Japanese music, and lectured extensively on Oriental music. In the mid-1960s, he joined the faculty of Cal State Los Angeles and left the studio system. He remained active in the Nisei veteran's organization, Go For Broke, and composed two pieces for the first anniversary celebration of the Go for Broke Monument in downtown Los Angeles in 2000.

Source : Spaceagepop.com

Korla Pandit - Exotica 2000 (1996)

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Les Baxter - Ritual of the Savage (1951)

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Ultra-Lounge Vol. 1 - Mondo Exotica (V.A)

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Hal Blaine - Psychedelic Percussion (1967)

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Michel Magne - Tropical Fantasy (1962)

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Without a doubt one of the most unique and daring records in the exotica canon, Michel Magne's Tropical Fantasy manages to encompass the complete breadth of the genre in one broad stroke -- a dizzying, 12-car pileup of bird calls, jungle rhythms, oddball instruments, and tape manipulations, its sheer mastery of sound and spatial dynamics is unparalleled. Magne dispenses with all pretense of subtlety here: no idea is too radical, no sound effect too shrill, and no studio trickery too outlandish. Though it clearly draws influence from Martin Denny's island fantasias, Tropical Fantasy exists in diametric opposition to Denny's lush, soothing arrangements, eschewing calm in favor of cacophony -- it's exotica with all the complexity and absurdity of a Rube Goldberg contraption, and there's nothing else quite like it.

Source : Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide