tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932931477893854979.post3541084938652283340..comments2023-11-05T01:11:40.001-07:00Comments on Fat City Cigar Lounge: VA - Britxotica!: London's Rarest Primitive Pop And Savage Jazz DaBosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166657738717040773noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932931477893854979.post-17326931289346340182017-08-24T01:52:23.997-07:002017-08-24T01:52:23.997-07:00Welcome you to Cigar Bar San Diego's Coolest a...Welcome you to Cigar Bar San Diego's Coolest and Classiest <a href="https://cigarcavesd.com/" rel="nofollow">Cigar lounge san diego</a>. It's not only a stogie relax, it's an Etiquette. Come in and appreciate a glass of extraordinary wine with your most loved stogie. A different space for Hookah mates with stunning flavors that will fulfill each palette. In any case, more than that appreciates a fun climate, comfortable solaces, and extraordinary time.Herry Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06336899634205525690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932931477893854979.post-81138233612667431942017-08-20T08:54:55.212-07:002017-08-20T08:54:55.212-07:00These Britxotica comps are excellent, and so is yo...These Britxotica comps are excellent, and so is your blog. Thank you for sharing these!Dirk Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10696534949161003319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932931477893854979.post-25319364375216734512017-07-23T23:14:27.561-07:002017-07-23T23:14:27.561-07:00Ditto here: I'm a fiend for exotica, and alth...Ditto here: I'm a fiend for exotica, and although I recognize a couple of the names in these posts, Britxotica is gonna be all new for me. Thank you!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09393350526714649561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932931477893854979.post-2167494682018172042017-07-22T23:04:46.103-07:002017-07-22T23:04:46.103-07:00I'm impressed, intrigued, and expecting wonder...I'm impressed, intrigued, and expecting wonderful things. Thank you!Jonathan F. Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12876169521766892619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932931477893854979.post-7620220384207946702017-07-22T09:48:28.669-07:002017-07-22T09:48:28.669-07:00More info on Britxotica
At the end of 2014 legen...More info on Britxotica<br /><br /><br />At the end of 2014 legendary DJ and tastemaker Martin Green approached me (John Trunk) with a new idea about old music. He’d been amassing odd, rare and exotic British records for years and had come up with a plan. I’ve known Martin Green since the Smashing days of the early 1990s and have always trusted his taste and nose for the future past. If fact we did the Resurrection LP together way back in the 1990s. Anyway, I decided to leave him to it – he knows what he’s doing after all. I even let him write all the sleevenotes. So, below is his explanation of it all.<br /><br />Following a vinyl hunt around the sleepy coastal towns of Kent, I sifted through my hoard of dusty singles to see whether I had found forgotten treasure or misjudged junk. Examining the A and B-sides, I soon noticed a common theme among my spoils. A bizarre mid-century creative clash between Great Britain and The Exotic World.<br /><br />Titles such as Ritual Blues, Jungle Drums and Dusky Slant-Eyed Maiden by artists named Reg, Ted and Brian propelled my thoughts back to a time when Trechikoff's Asian Girl portrait hung on flocked-papered walls, plastic flamenco dancers posed upon polished walnut TV cabinets and Bernard Cribbins playing a spy, dragged up and belly-danced around a Pinewood, plywood Casbah, disguised as a hefty harem girl. Soon I realized this cultural cross pollination was BRITXOTICA!<br /><br />During the 50's Americans became obsessed with all things Latin, African, Polynesian and Hawaiian. They made stars of composers Arthur Lyman, Esquivel, Les Baxter and Martin Denny who provided an exiting rhythmic soundtrack to their affluent modernist lifestyle of highly stylized Tiki themed restaurants, casinos and hotels adorned with tribal decoration. Recovering from war, steeped in tradition and closer to European, Middle Eastern and Asian influences, the British equivalent was rather different. Quietly reserved, gently comic and slightly confused.<br /><br />Britxotica was a unique blend of straight-laced sensibilities and an English perception of wild ethnicity. It was Our Man in Havana, The Admiral Crichton and Carry On Spying. Architecturally it was The Eve Club, The Beachcomber and Lorelei Pizzeria, all sadly gone, their hand built wooden bars and bamboo lined walls chopped up for tinder. Miraculously, hiding beneath London's Hilton Hotel, Trader Vics, an original 1963 Tiki bar, somehow survived the axe swinging safari which claimed its contemporaries. Today, on this compilation and buried alive by Hyde Park Corner, Britxotica Lives! <br /><br />DaBosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12166657738717040773noreply@blogger.com