Tag Archives: exotica

Direct from the Caribbean by Moon Cities

http://tmwk.com/lampshade/direct-from-the-caribbean.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Just in time for summer, Moon Cities’ Direct from the Caribbean is a warm breeze of tropical mood music. It starts in a sort of woozy 60s California nostalgia, but quickly becomes blissfully unmoored from both time and space, effortlessly leaping across decades and international borders alike. Just …

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“Direct from the Islands” by Scholastics

http://www.tmwk.com/lampshade/direct-from-the-islands.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download This is an hour long exotica mix, mixing classics and rarities, Golden Age and modern era. If you’re not familiar with the “genre” of exotica, there are a couple of great primers here (www.ambientexotica.com/aboutexotica/) and here (exoticaproject.com/about.php), but the basic idea is that it’s white people making an ersatz, …

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