Smoke on the Water Live Sonarsound Tokyo October 2006 Señor Coconut and his Orchestra (feat. Argenis Brito) Yellow Fever! Essay Recordings AY CD 11 Release date: June 9 2006 Atom™ on his latest album As early as the eighties, the Yellow Magic Orchestra was merging the eclectic Exotica attitude of Martin Denny with an ultimate update of Japanese music. "Martin Denny and his line-up created an imaginary musical landscape of luscious tropical delights: damp, foreboding jungles, vibrantly plumed birds in full flight, grimly silent Tiki gods in clearings overgrown by creepers, sleepy fishing villages on bamboo stilts, volcanoes erupting with molten orange lava, alluringly smiling little brown nymphs in grass skirts -- the land of lotus blossoms -- in a word: Exotica. If rock'n'roll is the musical equivalent of a good hard fuck, Exotica brings us the multi-orgasmic joys of tantric sex in endlessly flowing combinations of mystic union. Or, in the words of Lex Baxter: 'Ports of Pleasure'" (Stuart Sweezy). Today I am trying to go one step further by transferring the Yellow Magic Orchestra 'back to the future': a digital, fully artificial simulation and cut and paste style recreation of Latin Exotica sound. We may call it 'hypereclectic'. I have left both the historical timeline and ethnical space and move back and forth between musical periods and styles of Latin music. YMO covered Martin Denny's originally Exotica style "Firecracker" in a futuristic yet folkloric manner. Now I am <b>...</b>
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