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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
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Tonga Hut, Palm Springs Website

April 20, 2014by Dionysus Records
LuxuriaMusic.com, Over Under Sideways Down, Surf Music

4/16: Jason Lee from the R.I.P. Tides on OUSD – LuxuriaMusic

On 4/16/2014, Jason Lee of Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides will be appearing on Over Under Sideways Down, LuxuriaMusic, 3-5 PM PST to talk about surf music, and his band The R.I.P. Tides who have recently released their debut LP on Dionysus Records. Jason will be bringing in his guitar live in-studio to demonstrate what he has in store for his guitar symposium at the upcoming Tiki Oasis 14: “Beat Tiki“. In between banter and guitar lessons, Jason and Lee will spin some of their favorite ’60s guitar instrumentals.

Join Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides official fan page on Facebook page here

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April 11, 2014by Dionysus Records
Creepxotica, Dionysus bands, San Diego, The Creepy Creeps

The Creepy Creeps Best Live Band at San Diego Music Awards!

Congratulations to our fabulous Creepy Creeps on winning the Best Live Band category at the 2013 San Diego Music Awards! Link to NBC News article here

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Robert Plant’s favorite band – The Creepy Creeps – photo taken in 2011

October 17, 2013by Dionysus Records
Dionysus bands, Dionysus Records, DJ Lee, exotica

4/3: An afternoon of Noir and Exotica on OUSD, LuxuriaMusic.com

Tune in to LuxuriaMusic.com for the first Over Under Sideways Down of  April! This special Noir and Exotica episode features a 1/2 hour guest segment from Dionysus Records recording artist Jimmy Vargas of  Jimmy Vargas and the Black Dahlias from Australia – along with a stack of exotica vinyl from show host Lee Joseph. Find the show at LuxuriaMusic.com at 3-5 PM, Pacific Time!

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April 2, 2013by Dionysus Records
DJ Lee, exotica, Fundraiser, Garage Music, greasy R&B, Latin Jazz, Lounge Music, LuxuriaMusic.com, Mod, Musical archives, Over Under Sideways Down, Reissues, Rockabilly, Surf Music

LuxuriaMusic 2013 Listener Sponsorship Drive Starts 2/18

World renowned internet radio music purveyor, LuxuriaMusic.com announces its 2013 Listener Sponsorship Drive from Monday, February 18th through Sunday March 3rd.Luxura Radio

Once a year, LuxuriaMusic gives listeners an opportunity to keep its programming alive by sponsoring items in the live studio, buying swag, and just plain supporting everything they love about Lux!

The LuxuriaMusic 2013 Listener Sponsorship Drive kicks off Monday, February 18th with famed reissue producer, sonic archaeologist, and Monkees biographer Andrew Sandoval on his program, Come To the Sunshine. The drive runs for two weeks, with the final night celebration coming to a close Sunday, March 3rd on Strike’s Kitsch Niche at 10 pm. DJs will offer gifts, prizes, special guests, and two special drawings for Internet radios to entice listener sponsors to support their programs.

As a bonus, LuxuriaMusic is creating an exclusive content page only available to Listener Sponsors. Hear a special sneak peek program the day before the end of the drive on Saturday, March 2nd from 6 to 9 pm, PST.

It’s the 2013 LuxuriaMusic Listener Sponsorship Drive! A great way to show the world what you love about Lux!

February 15, 2013by Dionysus Records
Dionysus bands, Dionysus mail-order cart, exotica, Lounge Music, News

Exotic Melancholic Noir: Jimmy Vargas & The Black Dahlias

Dionysus Records welcomes  Jimmy Vargas & The Black Dahlias!

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Jimmy Vargas is a racketeer and crooner, reincarnated from the twilight side of Los Angeles’ sin alley circa 1947. Lilana is a sorceress and exotique from the Mission Dolores San Francisco by way of Buenos Aires Argentina.

Brought together in the Broadway dancehall on North Beach by the Black Pope of the Bay City on the eve of the Dias De Los Muertos 1992, Vargas and Lilana’s relationship forged over several lifetimes. Vargas venerates her as his Shadow Bride. She vaunts him as her swinging Galahad, Gnostic crooner, and carney wise-cracker. Liliana alone tempers and guides the melodies, visions and words that come from Vargas’ hands. Her sexotique DNA alone seeds Jimmy Vargas & the Black Dahlia’s canon.

Jimmy Vargas & The Black Dahlias have created seven albums; the first, El Torchtura, was released in 1994 and set the template with its’ melancholic jazz swing, torch and Lynchian soundtrack. Six more sassy, satanic, swing noir episodes have followed, tempered all by Liliana’s essence and mystic influence. Liliana’s iconic holy image is embossed on each of their records and DVDs, as a haunting talisman.

Dionysus Records now stocks several Jimmy Vargas releases in our mail-order cart and will soon be releasing Digital versions of each album. Keep your eyes open for a new Vargas & Dahlias CD/Digital release and a vinyl LP in 2013! Click this link to order all four releases in-stock:

Death Swings’ (Album I & II)
Lust Angeles (Album VII)
My Shadow Bride Ghosting
Requiem For My Shadow

Their new disc, Lust Angeles, is now unleashed just in time for the zeitgeist. It’s a vintage and futuristic soundtrack for the new metaphysical soul shift. Fleshed in satanic hosiery and divined in a Gnostic spirit, these are urban hymns for the unsaved sons and daughters of Eve and features nine more tracks of lupercalian blues, scorching mambo and torch that one would imagine blasting out of a Hollywood pleasure house jukebox of 1948.

December 27, 2012by 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
'77 Punk Legends, Dionysus bands, Dionysus Records, exotica, Latin Jazz

Orchestra Superstring perform Cal Tjader’s “Mamblues” in Venice CA

Orchestra Superstring featuring X’s D.J. Bonebrake on vibes performs Cal Tjader’s “Mamblues” at The Speakeasy in Venice, CA on Feb 13, 2012. This song is not on either of Orchestra Superstring’s Dionysus albums – enjoy!

February 15, 2012by Dionysus Records
Shag, Stereophonic Space Sound, Vinyl Records, Vinyl reissues

Video: SSSU Vinyl Cutting Session at HRS

For all our friends that didn’t catch the live streaming of the Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited LP cutting session at History of Recorded Sound (HRS) last Thursday – here’s a couple of short videos of the first and last track on side two of “The Fluid Soundbox” being cut along with detail of scribing the catalog number and a couple of thank you’s in the “dead wax” area of the record.  Enjoy!

February 12, 2012by Dionysus Records
Big Sandy, Booze and mixology, Dionysus bands, Dionysus Records, DJ Lee, Events, exotica, Lounge Music, LuxuriaMusic.com, Mod, Orchestra Superstring, San Diego, Shag, Stuff We Like, Surf Music, The Creepy Creeps, Tiki, Tiki Oasis

Tiki Oasis 11 – the best one yet! Some words and lots of video

Another Tiki Oasis has come and gone.

Having been to all 11 Tiki Oasis weekenders, I can without a doubt say that this year’s event was in many ways better than the previous 10, and that my friends is not an easy accomplishment. For instance, Tiki Oasis’ musical line-ups have always been magical but this one was that much more over-the-top. Some of the musical highlights from Tiki Oasis 11 include the legendary “Mr. Bongo,” Jack Costanzo‘s superb Latin Jazz ensemble who just freakin’ NAILED it, tight and tough instrumental insanity from Los Straightjackets who were joined by our pal Big Sandy for a round of rock ‘n’ roll songs en Espanol, an excellent set of Herb Albert tunes from the tribute group Herb, exotic and percussive Latin Jazz sounds from Orchestra Superstring featuring some truly amaazing play between the percussionists as well as DJ Bonebrake’s brilliant performance on the vibes, and the spooky exotic meets surf sounds of our own Creepxotica who played poolside, at the art show and wandered around the event dressed as Dia De Los Muertos mariachis with portable pig-nose amplifiers strapped to their outfits. To cap it all off, for the first time, Tiki Oasis extended through Sunday Night with a most entertaining show including two perfectly paced sets from exotica legends Don Tiki who filled the stage with exceptional musicians on their very first performance in California.  As stated, these were highlights for me – the rest of the music? Two thumbs up!

I’d have to write over a thousand words to truly cover the event from start to finish, so instead of going into detail about how great the symposiums, art,  debaucherous room crawls,  LuxuriaMusic.com and poolside DJs, the fabulous King Kukulele and Marina the Fire Eating Mermaid, marketplace, Otto’s muschache and Baby Doe’s circle skirt were, I’ll just load up this post with Tiki Oasis videos from our friends at Lost in Paradise and other various sources on YouTube so you can see for yourself the color and fun that this event represents and gives to its attendees. Don’t miss Tiki Oasis 12… Stay tuned for the scoop!

I shot a video of Creepxotica playing outside the elevators as the room crawl action was going full steam with my iPod Touch – will post as soon as I upload and edit as I’m still catching up on work here. As more Tiki Oasis 11 videos pop up on YouTube I’ll put those up as well.

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(Photo: Marina the Fire Eating Mermaid –  by Scott Evanskey)

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Tiki Oasis Facebook Group

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Tiki Oasis 11 Car Show with Crazy Al Evans, Perk, SHAG, and the Hula Girls

Burlesque

 

August 26, 2011by Dionysus Records
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