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Sex Mob: Sexotica

Read "Sexotica" reviewed by Brad Glanden


The easy listening boom of the middle 20th Century gave rise to some highly esoteric music. The “space age" fashions embraced by many a swinger hinted at a future that was never to materialize; an eagerness to test out new hi-fi systems resulted in a proliferation of quirkily arranged, bizarrely mixed records by bandleaders like Esquivel ...

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Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2006
Duration: 5:44

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Sex Mob: Sexotica

Read "Sexotica" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The only way to out-mob Steven Bernstein's Sex Mob is to go into the studio (as laboratory) and manipulate its sound. Sexotica is the group's fifth full-length release and its debut on Thirsty Ear Records, a label which has no hesitation to throw in handfuls of Teo Macero. The sampling and studio production by Good and ...

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Sex Mob: Sexotica

Read "Sexotica" reviewed by Troy Collins


Sex Mob, a riotous avant party band, dedicates its fourth album to the father of exotica, Martin Denny. The group dabbled in subtle electronic production techniques with renowned hip-hop producer Scotty Hard on 2003's Dime Store Grind (Ropeadope). Assisted by the production team of GoodandEvil (Danny Blume and Chris Castagno), Sex Mob travels further afield here ...

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Dime Grind Palace

Label: Knitting Factory Works
Released: 2003
Track listing: Entrance Music; Kitchen; Dime Grind Palace; Translation 1; Blue And Sentimental; Mothra; Slide Serenade; Translation 4; Norbert

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Sex Mob: Dime Grind Palace

Read "Dime Grind Palace" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Sex Mob has always been more vaudeville than Lincoln Center Jazz. But they are also, I would argue, more Ellingtonian than Wynton and his Duke-wannabes. The far-flung outfit was started in 1998 by slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein as a vehicle for his popular culture standup jazz act. Before The Bad Plus and Brad ...

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Sex Mob Does Bond

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2001
Track listing: Dr. Yes; Teasing The Korean; This Never Happened To The Other Feller; 007; Battle At Piz Gloria; You Only Live Twice; Bond With Bongos; Oddjob's Pressing Engagement; Bond Back In Action Again; Over And Out; Dawn Raid On Fort Knox; Nobody Does It Better; Dr. Yes (Reprise).

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Sex Mob: Sex Mob Does Bond

Read "Sex Mob Does Bond" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Exactly, what does this terror-filled world require? Simply stated two words (actually three), Bond, James Bond. Saving the world, or in this case the popular entertainment world, is the band Sex Mob. Their take on the music of James Bond is more Chris Farley then Sean Connery. Where Bond composer John Barry oozed 1960 and 70s ...

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Solid Sender

Label: Knitting Factory
Released: 2000
Track listing: Solid Sender; About A Girl; Fernando; Human Bidet Part 1; The Mooch; Rear View; Human Bidet Part 2; Crazy Beat/Don’t Be Cruel; Ripple; The Grind; Human Bidet Part 3; For What It’s Worth; Human Bidet Part 4; Ruby Tuesday; Please, Please, Please; Human Bidet Part 5; Not Boweevil; Human Bidet Part 6; Billy Preston.

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Theater & Dance

Label: Knitting Factory Works
Released: 2000


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