On 2010-12-20 18:36, VampiressRN wrote:
WOW is right...what an awesome website. Beautiful and so unique. ACES!!!!!

On 2010-12-23 07:24, saball34 wrote:
ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL SITE!!! Seriously, from one vinyl lover to another what you've set out to endeavor is nothing short of amazing. I have well over 700 Exotica, Hawaiian, Polynesian, Afro-Cuban, Latin etc... records and although I love lining up the needle and working the turn table manually, what you've got going is light years ahead and so incredibly convenient. I'll most definitely enjoy listening to the dozen or so albums you've got up there that I don't have and look forward to the posting of many more. What a treat!!! Much Thanks and Mele KalikiMaka!

P.S. Don't know if you've heard of the Gene Rains group but their Lotus Land lp as well as Ralp Font's Tabu album are definitely worth checking out. Next to Baxter's Caribbean Moonlight they're my absolute favorites. Thanks again for sharing such an amazing collection.

On 2010-12-21 07:56, kirby wrote:
The site does actually does work on my phone{Its a G2)wow! It loads slow and skips when playing, so its probably just to much awesomeness to handle,a slimmed down version would probly work great.

On 2010-12-20 08:49, Hauantedhouse5 wrote:
Just finished posting my Tiki, Hawaiian, Exotics etc.. LP colleciton online. You can actually play these LP's online on my virtual record player. Let me know what you think.
http://www.briancooper.us/tiki_record_player/tiki1/tiki_page_1.html

On 2010-12-28 08:37, bigbrotiki wrote:
Jeez, that was fast! I got the link from Otto, barely had time to get into it, and now BAM!
I wish there would be some inofficial way to may the record player work, after all the work you put into it!

On 2010-12-28 10:08, Mr. Ho wrote:
Not to be a lame-o, but as one of the "The Men" here, speaking for the other musicians on TC and elsewhere, I think you did the right thing taking the site down. If everybody enjoys the music this way, especially exotica which is not cheap to make (unless you go the synthesizer route which takes away the magic IMHO), there won't be any new music to enjoy because musicians won't be able to afford to make new records as everyone gets used to them being posted online for free. Piracy really does hurt, especially for indie acts (even with a few sales from TC, I am $1000s in the hole from producing the latest Esquivel big band CD ( http://orchestrotica.com/album ) and our May 2011 quartet album for Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica). Record sales will never come close to even allow us to break even on these costs, let alone profit from the making of these albums (and we expected that, but seeing this type of thing always hurts a bit).

You could probably get away with some short preview clips ala iTunes etc; and personally, regardless of law, it is one thing when an album is no longer available anywhere and all attempts to purchase it fail - in that case, I think there is an argument to be made for posting the record for download, but that's another discussion for drinks some time.

This is an old discussion of course!

My two cents,

Brian / Mr. Ho

On 2010-12-28 10:50, TikiTacky wrote:
Have you checked to see how many of these albums are available on iTunes or elsewhere?