Darrell Brogdon writes:

On Saturday, June 27 at 7:00pm, The Retro Cocktail Hour blasts off on KPR stations with a night of ‘outer space exotica’, featuring music from such memorable albums as Les Baxter’s Space Escapade, Fantastica by Russ Garcia, Music Out of the Moon (featuring the theremin!), Music for Heavenly Bodies (with the electro-theremin) and many more.

As a preview, check out the NEW album cover gallery, featuring images from some classic outer space records of the 1950s and ’60s.

And please join us in orbit for The Retro Cocktail Hour – Saturday, June 27 at 7:00pm on KPR stations (and available on-demand soon after at the RCH website).Les Baxter’s ‘Space Escapade’

Many more images available at our new cover gallery!

I am listening just this moment to a really good surf album by The Reluctant Aquanauts. The band decided to make it available as a free mp3 download. Here’s what Bill of The Reluctant Aquanauts wrote on Surf Guitar 101 with the link to the download.

Here are the masters to what would have been the Reluctant Aquanauts second album “Aquanauts Can’t Swim”. All the songs are original except for Fistful of Dullards and Altered State Trooper which were given to us by Denis from the Treblemakers.

Link to The Reluctant Aquanauts album Aquanauts Can’t Swim

quote form the campaign site:

Fair Play for Creators is an online forum set up by PRS for Music so that creators everywhere can publicly demonstrate their concern over the way their work is treated by online businesses.

Fair Play for Creators was established after Internet-giant, Google, made the decision to remove some music content from YouTube.

Google’s decision was made because it didn’t want to pay the going rate for music, to the creators of that music, when it’s used on YouTube.

Music creators rely on receiving royalties whenever and wherever their work is used. Royalties are vital in nurturing creative music talent. They make sure music creators are rewarded for their creativity in the same way any other person would be in their work.

Fair Play for Creators believes that fans should have access to the music they love, and that the work of music creators should be paid for by the online businesses who benefit from its use.

If you’re not happy for us to use your comments on this site, please uncheck the first box underneath the comments box.

Let’s help the creators keep on creating.

Here’s a great spherical (360° x 360°) photograph of a beautiful coral reef in the pacific ocean.

via Boing Boing

It’s still brandnew, so not much to see so far. And it’s in german. I intend to write about graphic design with a focus on vintage style and also music marketing and design.

visit 20 Greatest

Out of 38 bookmarks 20 still linked referred to valid pages.
A trend? No, a success!

1. Space Age Pop a go-go
2. Joseph Lanza: Elevator Music, University of Michigan Press
3. Spaced Out – the Enoch Light Website
4. Jeff Central  |  Exotica Research
5. “Audioquarium”: Zounds in cyber space
6. HYP RECORDS: Introduction
7. “Disquarium”: eXotica Releases Overview
8. galleryQuarium: LP cover scans & audio clips
9. Cocktail Music for Robots
10. Fisherman’s Burlesque
11. Collectors’ Choice Music
12. Exotica
13. Untitled Document
14. Tiki Central Forums – Tiki Music
15. The High Priest of Exotica
16. The Exotica Mailing List
17. The Exotic World of Les Baxter
18. WAITIKI: Classic Exotica & Tiki for Modern Listeners
19. www.spacebop.com
20. Exotica Info Page

Now that I have a nice reliable internet/computer again I will wish my readers a healthy and happy new year 2009.
I know it’s going to be super. Trust me.

The Hukilau
Tiki Madness Accessories
Remy C’s TIKI Moon Lounge
Tiki Magazine | Welcome
Pasifika Styles
Tiki Items
Seamus
Südsee-info
Velkommen til Kon-Tiki Museet!
Ryan-Polynesian Archaeology
vintagehawaiianshirt.net
Sam Gambino: Tiki Signs
TIKI NEWS WEBSITE
Oceania Ethnographica
South London Pacific
Hawaii Theme Christmas Cards, Ornaments, and Decorations
Googie, Space Age, Modernist, Inspired Art
Tiki Drinks & Indigo Firmaments

Tiki art by Moritz R (Berlin)

1. Velvet Glass Ernie Menehune Recordings
2. www.maitaionline.com
3. Tikiland
4. Tikiblog
5. TIKI SHARK
6. Tiki Talk
7. Sala Thai Restaurant
8. ooga-mooga.com
9. critiki.com
10. humuhumu.com
11. Tiki Bar TV
12. Arkiva Tropika
13. Eye of the Goof
14. Forbidden-Paradise
15. Gecko’s South Sea Arts
16. Hawaiian Host
17. Hawaiian Tikis
18. tikieurope.com
19. Chongolio’s Lost-Island
20. Polynesien – Wikipedia
21. RealKava.com
22. TIKI LINKS
23. tikiroom.com

Minustemperaturen und einsetzender Schneefall konnten uns nicht abhalten. Es gibt Dinge die müssen gesagt werden.

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