Tuesday, July 21, 2009

2000 light years from home


I used to live in LA 91..92.. sometime about then. I was dirt poor...I used to go to the thrift store and buy 10 cent cassettes so that I could put masking tape over the holes and tape the radio. KXLU had some specialty shows that were really hitting. Blues Hotel, Psychotechnics, Reggae Music Forward, and the subject of this blog post: the Molotov Cocktail Hour...

A quick internet search tells me that Cyrano and Senor Amor are still on the air today-

http://www.themolotovcocktailhour.com/

50's and 60's lounge, exotica, soundtracks, frank's world.

one summer i went through the 20 or so molotov tapes I had and arranged my favorite moments onto a cdr...the tape would often run out before the announcers could run over the tunes, so a lot of the titles are lost to me...some of it is pretty obscure: if you listen to this and can chat off some IDs to me I'd be grateful-...i know there's some yma sumac in their...some perrey and kingsley...there are some good, ridiculous, and ridicuously good tunes on this:

MIX #5:

0:00 "caravan" by ?
2:03 !!!
5:00
6:58
9:01
14:06
16:22 !!!
18:25
21:19
22:30
24:50
26:57 perrey kingsley
29:35 !!!
30:05 !!!
30:24 !!! what melody is this?
32:50
35:19 yma sumac
37:07 "a certain smile" astrud gilberto
38:27
40:00
43:10


(UPDATE 09/10:  link is dead on divshare (another vote for soundcloud.com in my book) and the cdr that i made this from has got some skips in it...)



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