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5/14: DJ Lee, Martini Kings at Tiki Caliente

This year’s Tiki Caliente in Palm Springs returns to its original home at the Caliente Tropics hotel and  kicks off on Thursday, May 14 with a special art show from Claudette Barjoud a/k/a Miss Fluff – accompanied by the “the Exotic Sounds of DJ Lee” – Thursday Night Tiki Caliente entertainment features The Martini Kings and The Jimmy Psycho Experience!

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Check the event website for tickets and more information about the even which runs May 14 – May 17!

The entertainment schedule includes
Friday
Troy Fernandez
The Hula Girls

Saturday
Smokin´ Menehunes
Ding Dong Devils
Glasgow Tiki Shakers
Tiki Joes Ocean

Sunday
Jason Arimoto
Kimo

The soft, warm breeze carries the sound of rustling palms and sensuous exotica music to your ears. Before you, your glass, filled with a fine rum libation, clinks together with new friends. Heartfelt calls of “Aloha” awaken in you a long-buried memory of primitive excitement. This has been your dream. Are you on some far-off tropical island?
Yes… and it´s called Tiki Caliente.

May 5, 2015by Dionysus Records
exotica, Tiki

Kahiki Supper Club Book In Stock!

kahikibookInspired by Florida’s famed Mai-Kai restaurant, Bill Sapp and Lee Henry opened the Kahiki Supper Club in 1961. They set out simply to build a nice Polynesian restaurant and ended up establishing the most magnificent one of them all. For nearly forty years, the Kahiki was the undisputed center of tiki culture.

“Kahiki Supper Club – A Polynesian paradise in Columbus” is a 160 page book written and compiled by David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, Jeff Chenault and Doub Motz collects stories and images, telling the history of the legendary tiki temple!

Our copies of this book are signed by exotica music expert and Beachcomber Trio LP producer Jeff Chenault. Limited stock!

If you’ve picked up our Beachcomber Trio LP you need this book! Order here

September 29, 2014by Dionysus Records
Creepxotica, San Diego, Tiki

10/30: Creepxotica headlines Bali Hai 60th!

We’ve just received word that Creepxotica will be headlining the iconic San Diego / Shelter Island’s Bali Hai 60th Anniversary Party! Stay Tuned for more info!

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September 9, 2014by Dionysus Records
DJ Lee, exotica, Palm Springs, Tiki

4/25: DJ Lee at Tonga Hut, Palm Springs

On April 25, I’ll be returning to Tonga Hut, Palm Springs between 7 PM  till Midnight spinning exotica, soul, lounge, Latin grooves, surf and more! If you are in the desert, please drop by!

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Tonga Hut, Palm Springs
254 North Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262
Tonga Hut Website
Tonga Hut, Palm Springs Website

April 20, 2014by Dionysus Records
Big Sandy, Country Music, Creepxotica, Dionysus bands, Dionysus Records, DJ Lee, Events, exotica, Lounge music events, LuxuriaMusic.com, Rockabilly, Tiki, Tiki Oasis

8/15: Tiki Oasis 13 – Big Sandy, SCOTS, El Vez, Creepxotica and…

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This year, Tiki Oasis explores the Hawaiian influence on American music. Part Americana, part Hawaiiana, Hulabilly is an American music style derived from the blending of Rockabilly and Haole Hawaiian music. The live musical entertainment at this year’s four-day Polynesian Pop festival/celebration features numerous roots and rockabilly performers, a couple of Elvis (the King of Hulabilly) salutes as well as the essential exotica / surf / instrumental sounds Tiki Oasis is known for.  DJs will be covering the gamut of these musical styles as well and this year, LuxuriaMusic.com will be featuring their DJs in the indoor marketplace.

Two current and one future Dionysus artists will be playing the event this year. Big Sandy, whose still in-print first album, “Fly Rite With” was released by the label in 1989, will be headlining the event at a special Sunday Hoedown with the legendary El Vez. Surf / Exotica creeps, Creepxotica who have released their “Haunted Bossa Nova” LP on Dionysus this year, will be playing at the Bali Hai Meet and Mingle on Thursday Aug. 15, along with The Fishermen, featuring Brian Lease, former vibe player of  ’90s Dionysus lounge sensations, Frenchy, and Tiki Oasis favorite, Kim Tsoy who will be backed up by a band including Dionysus’ Records Lee Joseph on bass. Jason Lee  and the RIP Tides, whose debut LP will be released on Dionysus, will be playing poolside on Friday. Jason Lee will be teaching a “Twang Guitar” seminar on Saturday at 1:00 PM. Dionysus Records’ Lee Joseph will be doing a DJ set of all rockabilly, poolside, on Saturday at 2:15 PM. There will be a Dionysus Records vending booth in the Outdoor Marketplace on both Saturday and Sunday.

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For detailed information check the Tiki Oasis website. Here is the schedule of bands on the main stage:

CreepxoticaSmTHURSDAY (Bali Hai)
Emcee: King Kukulele
Lanai Stage 7pm
King Kukulele
Lanai Bar 6pm – Midnight Eric Musick
Lanai Bar 7:30 and 9:30 sets
Fisherman & Kitty Chow
Lanai Stage 8pm Kim Tsoy
Lanai Stage 9pm
Interlude Featuring Coco Tiki, Mimi Le Meux & Marina the Fire Eating Mermaid
Lanai Stage 9:30pm Creepxotica

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FRIDAY (Crowne Plaza)
King Kukulele/Co-Emcee: El Vez
5:15 – Hukilau Hot Shots
5:45 – Polynesian Paradise Dancers
6:15 –  B Stars
6:45 – Molotov & Dixie D’Lish
7pm – Miss Tiki Oasis Contest hosted by El Vez and Nikki Napalm
7:30  Lucky Stars
8:15 Vic Trevino Jr
9pm  18 Wheelers

Saturday (Crowne Plaza)
Emcee: King Kukulele/Co-Emcee: Big Sandy
5:30 -The Cheap Leis
6pm –  Hulabilly Costume Contest  – Prizes for Kids & Couples!
6:30 -Acapulco Radiokim_tsoy_lg 7pm – Round Two Hulabilly Costume Contest – Prizes for Best Male, Best Female
7:20 – Molotov & Dixie D’Lish
7:40 –  Dancers Ke Polani Ohana E Kai
8:15 The Hula Girls
9pm Southern Culture on the Skids

SUNDAY (Crowne Plaza)
Emcee: Otto von Stroheim
5:30 –  Doors open, come dance with the Hang Ten Hoppers!
5:30PM – 10:00PM Okie Oran Disc Jockeying
6:30PM –  El Vez Special Solo Performance Featuring a tribute to “The King”
7:30PM  Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys
8:30PM  Intermission interlude with Hang Ten Hoppers
8:45PM  Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys

Images: Creepxotica, Jason Lee, Kim Tsoy

August 12, 2013by Dionysus Records
Creepxotica, The Creepy Creeps, Tiki

6/22: The Creepy Creeps play California Screamin’ at Don’s!

8th Annual California Screamin’ Art and Hot Rod Show

Saturday, Jun 22 12 Noon – 10 PM
at  Don the Beachcomber in Huntington Beach, CA
Eighth Annual Art and Hot Rod Show featuring hot rods, motorcycles, Kustoms and The Creepy Creeps!

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June 21, 2013by Dionysus Records
Country Music, DJ Lee, exotica, Garage Music, Lounge Music, LuxuriaMusic.com, Mod, Musical archives, Over Under Sideways Down, Radio and Podcasts, Reissues, Rockabilly, Spindrift, Surf Music, Tiki

Playlist: Over Under Sideways Down on LuxuraMusic 1/9/13

OverUnderYellowLogoHere is my playlist and podcast link for Over Under Sideways Down, show #11, my first live show in the newly moved and improved LuxuriaMusic studios. A departure from my usual focused theme shows, I plucked an assortment of records from the unfiled stacks in my house and came up with quite the musical roller coaster ride. Podcast links below. Hope you enjoy!

 

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Second Hour of Over Under Sideways Down on LuxuriaMusic 1/9/13

Over Under Sideways Down with Lee Joseph
LuxuriaMusic.com
Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 3pm – 5pm Pacific
Show number 11
A mixture of tracks from the stacks of unfiled records in my house!
Title – Artist – Source – Label

(opening featuring “A Thinking Man’s Record, 1950s Capitol Records promo 7” and “Over Under Sideways Down” by The Yardbirds)

Set One
I’m Alive  – Don Fardon – I’ve Paid My Dues LP – Decca US
Message From The Country –  The Move – Message From The Country LP – Harvest UK
Action Packed – Ronnie Dawson – Rockin’ Bones collection – No Hit Records Uk
All Through The Night –  Paris Sisters – Gregmark 7”  (Flip of “I Love How You Love Me” )
Feather from Your Tree (mono mix )  –Blue Cheer –  Phillips 7” (worn copy sorry about the noise)
Cycle Annie – The Beachnuts (early Lou Reed) – V/A Soundsville LP – Design Records
Smokes – Question Mark & the  Mysterians –  Cameo/Parkway 7” (Flip of Can’t Get Enough Of You Baby)
Theme from the Vindicators – The Fleshtones –  Up Front 12” – IRS Records
Streets of Calcutta – Ananda Shankar –  Ananda Shankar and His Music  LP (reissue)   – Fallout Records

Set Two
Romesville – Googie Rene – Romesville LP (stereo) – Class Records
Hey Brother Pour The Wine – Dean Martin – Hey Brother Pour The Wine LP – Capitol Records
Mind Reader – The Johnny Howard Group –  Decca UK 7”
I Sympathize – Thee Fourgiven – It Ain’t Pretty Down Here LP – Dionysus (that’s me on the high harmonies)
Looking For Myself – David Neil – The Wilderness Years LP – self released (Riky Maymi)
Babalu – Yma Sumac – Capitol Records 7”
Chitlins Etc.  – The Counts – Panorma 7”
Is It True – Brenda Lee – Decca US 7”
Psychotic Pineapple – I Wanna Get Rid Of You – Richmond 7”
Cassinos – Leader of the Band – Alpha 7” (also on East Side Sound Vol 2 – Bacchus)

Set Three
Let My Baby Ride – RL Burnside –  Come On In LP – Fat Possum
Frustrating Sound – S/T LP  – Alive Records
Baby Don’t Go – Hacienda – Loud Is The Night LP –  Alive Records
Hellbound – Spindrift – Classic Soundtracks LP – XEMU Records
He Doesn’t Share Well – The Love Me Nots – The Demon and The Devotee LP – Project Infinity Records
Derrick 2000 – Lou Hoffner Trio – Sheep Records 7”

Set Four
Musical Tribute to the Oscar Meyer Weiner Wagon – The Baroques –  S/T LP – Chess Records
Just Like Your Mom – Voxpop  –  Bad Trip 7”
Ha Lese – The New Life – The Sidehackers soundtrack LP – Amaret Records
The Rubber Room – Porter Wagoner – What Aint To Be Just Might Happen LP – RCA
You Ain’t Goin Nowhere (mono mix) – The Byrds – Columbia 7”
Tarantula – The Black Widows – Atlantic 7”
Bombay Duck – The Shadows – Columbia UK  7”
Let Me (edited mono version)- Paul Revere and The Raiders – Columbia 7”
El Curaca-  Frank Weir – V/A Mondo Inferno LP – Devilles Pad Records
Kambiz – Lovew Knowleget – V/A Persian Underground – Persianna LP

Set Five
Nobody Knows – Baby Woodrose – Love Comes Down LP – Bad Afro Records
Jewel Eyed Judy – Fleetwood Mac – Klin House LP – Reprise Records
Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) Mott the Hoople – Wildlife LP – Atlantic Records

Closing

January 10, 2013by Dionysus Records
downtown Los Angeles, Events, Lounge Music, Lounge music events, Stuff We Like, Tiki, Tiki Oasis, Tours

Get Ready for a Hot Lava Holiday with Don Tiki!

Those who live in Southern California, Seattle and Honolulu are in for a treat – Don Tiki will be coming to help us celebrate the holidays, Hot Lava style with shows on December 15 in Honolulu (sorry that one is sold out), December 17th in Seattle at Benaroy Hall (info and tickets) and December 20th in Los Angeles at Walt Disney Concert Hall ( info and tickets ) – and, SOCA peeps –  here’s a link for discount tickets at the Disney show!

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Fans can expect the band’s signature tunes such as “The Natives Are Restless” and “An Occasional Man.” “Even though we’re tiki-worshipping Pagans, we’ll drop six new  holiday songs to get into the spirit of things,” says producer Lloyd “Fluid Floyd” Kandell, who was one of Anthony Bourdain’s drinking guides when the food impresario visited O’ahu for his series No Reservations. Bourdain came away raving, “Tiki supergroup Don Tiki knows the world, the subculture of tiki…it really doesn’t get much better than this!”

Though the band has lost their beloved lead singer Delmar deWilde, to whom the shows are dedicated, they will carry on with their multi-talented cast and a few added guests. The Don Tiki troupe consists of band leader and composer, Kit “Perry Coma” Ebersbach on keyboards, bassist and purring song stylist Hai-Jung, Charles Degala and Tei Tatafu, Jr. on virile vocals, vocalist, dancer and comedienne Sherry Shaoling, percussionist Lopaka Colón, who continues his illustrious father Augie Colon’s jungle and bird call tradition, tenor ace Tim Mayer on reeds, multi-talented Abe Lagrimas, Jr. on vibes and percussion, tribal drummer Jason Segler, space-age Ryoko Oka on keyboards and t’rung (a Vietnamese bamboo xylophone), exotic dancer Violetta Beretta plus special guest artist Frank Orrall of Thievery Corporation and Poi Dog Pondering. Don Tiki is also honored to bring to the stage special guest artists, legendary SOCAL tiki-shaman Crazy Al, rising Brazillian star Tita Lima and Brazil’s golden tambourine, Carlinhos de Oliveira.

The group has just released their Hot Lava Holiday Songs disc which is available on iTunes and will be for sale on CD at their shows.

Those of us who saw them at Tiki Oasis 10 were knocked out. We are certainly looking forward to seeing the group on their first Los Angeles appearance!

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December 13, 2012by Dionysus Records
Dionysus Records, Events, exotica, Tiki

10/13: International Tiki Marketplace at Don the Beachcombers

Dionysus Records will be vending at the International Tiki Market Place
Tiki Vendors, Hawaiian Music & Dance by Polynesian Paradise
October 13, 2012 SATURDAY from 11 am to 4 pm
Don the Beachcomber, Hidden Village and High Chief’s Room
FREE! You pay $10 admission and get $10 voucher for food and/or drinks!!!
*This is a Family Friendly Event…..Kids Free

 

 
Vendor List:

Atomic Tiki Punk & Jungle Ginger,
Bamboo Ben,
Cat Vintage Wears,
Crazy Al,
Dionysus Records,
Don the Beachcomber,
Doug Horne,
GoTiki,
Happy Chi Jewelry,
HB Tiki,
Hula Girls Shave Ice,
Johnnie Velour,
Kirby,
Krisdrama,
Mieko,
Mike Tiki Tasi-Vintage Polynesia,
Mrs. Bong, Nelson’s Tiki Hut,
Smokin’ Tikis,
The Pod King,
Tiki Broker,
Tiki Diablo,
Tiki Pops,
Tiki Roots Rocka,
Tiki Shaker,
Tiki Stan,
Tiki Tony,
Tiki Vato,
Taboo Island & Vintage Shoe Queen’s Classic Wears

October 8, 2012by Dionysus Records
Dionysus bands, Dionysus Records, exotica, Garage Music, Latin Jazz, Lounge Music, Mod, Orchestra Superstring, Redondo Beat, Rockabilly, Ruby Dee, Stereophonic Space Sound, Surf Music, The Creepy Creeps, The Martini Kings, The Satelliters, Tiki, Tiki Oasis

Dionysus Digital Sampler Album in Tiki Oasis VIP Gift Bags!

This year’s Tiki Oasis VIP Gift Bag (handed out upon check-in at The Crowne Plaza Hotel and limited to 500) will contain this postcard which has a unique download code for the free 14 song TOP SECRET DIONYSUS RECORDS SAMPLER, featuring tracks from Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited, The Martini Kings, Orchestra Superstring, Kava Kon, Robert Drasnin, Creepxotica, Skip Heller, Jerry Sun, The Creepy Creeps, The Satelliters, The Creatures of the Golden Dawn, Redondo Beat, and Ruby Dee and The Snakehandlers. About a week after the event ends, we will be sticking these in all Dionysus Mail-Order packages until we run out.

August 13, 2012by Dionysus Records
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