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11-30-2015, 07:54 PM
This is what 'wikipedia' had to say about Les Baxter:
'Leslie Thompson "Les" Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American musician and composer. After becoming well known as an arranger and composer for swing bands in the 1940s, he developed his own style of world music-influenced easy listening music, known as exotica, during the 1950s and 1960s.
Like his counterparts Henry Mancini and Lalo Schifrin, Baxter worked in films in the 1960s and 1970s. He worked on movie scores for B-movie studio American International Pictures where he composed scores for Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films and other horror and beach party films including House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, Muscle Beach Party and Beach Blanket Bingo. He also composed a new score for the theatrical release of the 1970 horror film Cry of the Banshee after AIP rejected Wilfred Josephs original one. Howard W. Koch recalled that Baxter composed, orchestrated and recorded the entire score of The Yellow Tomahawk (1954) in a total of three hours for $5,000.
Baxter, alongside Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, is celebrated as one of the progenitors of exotica music. In his 1996 appreciation for Wired magazine, writer David Toop wrote that Baxter "offered package tours in sound, selling tickets to sedentary tourists who wanted to stroll around some taboo emotions before lunch, view a pagan ceremony, go wild in the sun or conjure a demon, all without leaving home hi-fi comforts in the white suburbs."'
It is this other side of Les Baxter that I would like to present here.
I cannot deny that these are 'not my rips' - as I, like many others, have taken in the past, from others, what has been made freely available from easy listening lounge web sites elsewhere. It's no excuse, I know, but in my book, it's the sharing and spreading of good music that really counts.
(As I get them into Mega) What I will post is the following:
1951 - Les Baxter - Ritual Of The Savage
1954 - Les Baxter - Thinking Of You
1958 - Les Baxter - Continental
1960 - Les Baxter - The Sacred Idol
1962 - Les Baxter - Voices In Rhythm
1970 - Les Baxter - Que Mango
1969 - Les Baxter - Wild in the Streets (OST)
Obviously anything 'Les Baxter' is welcome from others - please add if you like, (as long as your link DOES NOt take anyone to Uploaded.net - on any thread of mine 'uploaded.net', as a host 'sucks', and is a definate no-no)
If anyone does want to add to this, please bear in mind that there is already a wealth of stuff already on this forum: below is just a few of what's out there (still with live links, I think). Probably best not to tread on each other's toes, probably best to check it out first.
Les BAXTER - GOLIATH AND THE BARBARIANS - Intrada 2014 Lossless wav
Thread 193832
Les BAXTER - MASTER OF THE WORLD - Intrada 2014 Lossless wav
Thread 193815
Les Baxter - GOLIATH : the right link, sorry ;o)
Thread 193835
LES BAXTER: Panic In Year Zero (lossless) 1962
Thread 192290
ALAKAZAM THE GREAT “Saiy�ki” - Les Baxter 1961 Soundtrack
Thread 188072
Les Baxter – House Of Usher - 24bit Mono To Stereo Conversion & Re-master (flac)
Thread 186580
Cervantes (Les Baxter)(Intrada Signature Editions)(1967)(2010)(MP3~320Kbps)
Thread 90010 (Uploaded.net sucks, so PM and get a descent link from WildwoodPark)
Les Baxter - The Dunwich horror (1970, 320 + (La-La Land Records 2009) [FLAC] (from Petros #7))
Thread 167176
The Pit And The Pendulum - Les Baxter - Complete M&E iso track from blu-ray
Thread 190341
1951 - Les Baxter - Ritual Of The Savage
MP3 320kps
http://www.mediafire.com/file/y7dt5ba44a4qt88/LB-ROTS.rar
'Leslie Thompson "Les" Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American musician and composer. After becoming well known as an arranger and composer for swing bands in the 1940s, he developed his own style of world music-influenced easy listening music, known as exotica, during the 1950s and 1960s.
Like his counterparts Henry Mancini and Lalo Schifrin, Baxter worked in films in the 1960s and 1970s. He worked on movie scores for B-movie studio American International Pictures where he composed scores for Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films and other horror and beach party films including House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, Muscle Beach Party and Beach Blanket Bingo. He also composed a new score for the theatrical release of the 1970 horror film Cry of the Banshee after AIP rejected Wilfred Josephs original one. Howard W. Koch recalled that Baxter composed, orchestrated and recorded the entire score of The Yellow Tomahawk (1954) in a total of three hours for $5,000.
Baxter, alongside Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, is celebrated as one of the progenitors of exotica music. In his 1996 appreciation for Wired magazine, writer David Toop wrote that Baxter "offered package tours in sound, selling tickets to sedentary tourists who wanted to stroll around some taboo emotions before lunch, view a pagan ceremony, go wild in the sun or conjure a demon, all without leaving home hi-fi comforts in the white suburbs."'
It is this other side of Les Baxter that I would like to present here.
I cannot deny that these are 'not my rips' - as I, like many others, have taken in the past, from others, what has been made freely available from easy listening lounge web sites elsewhere. It's no excuse, I know, but in my book, it's the sharing and spreading of good music that really counts.
(As I get them into Mega) What I will post is the following:
1951 - Les Baxter - Ritual Of The Savage
1954 - Les Baxter - Thinking Of You
1958 - Les Baxter - Continental
1960 - Les Baxter - The Sacred Idol
1962 - Les Baxter - Voices In Rhythm
1970 - Les Baxter - Que Mango
1969 - Les Baxter - Wild in the Streets (OST)
Obviously anything 'Les Baxter' is welcome from others - please add if you like, (as long as your link DOES NOt take anyone to Uploaded.net - on any thread of mine 'uploaded.net', as a host 'sucks', and is a definate no-no)
If anyone does want to add to this, please bear in mind that there is already a wealth of stuff already on this forum: below is just a few of what's out there (still with live links, I think). Probably best not to tread on each other's toes, probably best to check it out first.
Les BAXTER - GOLIATH AND THE BARBARIANS - Intrada 2014 Lossless wav
Thread 193832
Les BAXTER - MASTER OF THE WORLD - Intrada 2014 Lossless wav
Thread 193815
Les Baxter - GOLIATH : the right link, sorry ;o)
Thread 193835
LES BAXTER: Panic In Year Zero (lossless) 1962
Thread 192290
ALAKAZAM THE GREAT “Saiy�ki” - Les Baxter 1961 Soundtrack
Thread 188072
Les Baxter – House Of Usher - 24bit Mono To Stereo Conversion & Re-master (flac)
Thread 186580
Cervantes (Les Baxter)(Intrada Signature Editions)(1967)(2010)(MP3~320Kbps)
Thread 90010 (Uploaded.net sucks, so PM and get a descent link from WildwoodPark)
Les Baxter - The Dunwich horror (1970, 320 + (La-La Land Records 2009) [FLAC] (from Petros #7))
Thread 167176
The Pit And The Pendulum - Les Baxter - Complete M&E iso track from blu-ray
Thread 190341
1951 - Les Baxter - Ritual Of The Savage
MP3 320kps
http://www.mediafire.com/file/y7dt5ba44a4qt88/LB-ROTS.rar
