The early 2000s saw additional exotica revival efforts, such as Hawaii-based Don Tiki ; the comeback of 1960s composer Robert Drasnin ; Waitiki ; The Stolen Idols, Kava Kon, The Tikiyaki Orchestra and a group consisting of international Exotica musicians called Tiki Joe's Ocean.

Exotica, space-age pop, and some forms of easy listening music popular during the 1950s and 1960s are now broadly termed lounge.

There are numerous cultivars available ( e. g. ' Danielle ', ' Naomi ', ' Exotica ', and ' Golden King ').

The Fallen are Brande, Tobruk and Exotica ; a trio of super-powered beings who have a fraction of Max's power which bonds them to him.

The three main members are suGar Yoshinaga ( ex-Havana Exotica ) on guitar, Yumiko Ohno ( ex-Havana Exotica ) on bass, and Moog ( later changed to MoOog ) Yamamoto on turntables and graphic design.

Soon came integration of the idea into music by artists like Les Baxter, Arthur Lyman, and Martin Denny, who blended the Tiki idea through jazz augmented with Polynesian, Asian, and Latin instruments and " tropical " themes creating the Exotica genre.

In 2001, they released the album Exotica.

Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title, popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s, typically with suburban Americans who came of age during World War II.

" Ritual is the seminal Exotica record, influencing all that came after it.

The song reached # 2 on Billboard's charts in 1959 with Denny's Exotica album reaching # 1.

These recordings include " Exotica " by Ted Auletta, " Exotic Percussion " by Stanley Black and his Orchestra, " Orienta " by Gerald Fried, " Taboo " and " Taboo 2 " by Arthur Lyman and " The Sounds of Exotic Island " by The Surfmen.

* Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica started a record series entitled " Exotica for Modern Living " which started in 2010 with " The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel " ( big band ) and was followed in 2011 with Third River Rangoon ( by the exotica quartet ).

He had prominent roles in the award winning Atom Egoyan films Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, and Ararat.

Exotica is a 1994 Canadian film set primarily in and around the Exotica strip club in Toronto, Canada.

: Note: The story of Exotica is not told in chronological order and important information is often revealed only late in the film.

* At the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, Exotica was nominated for the Palme d ' or, and won the FIPRESCI Prize.

* Exotica won Best Foreign Film from the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics in 1995.

* At the 1994 Genie Awards for Canadian cinema, Exotica won Best Motion Picture, as well as awards for the best screenplay, direction, music, costume design, cinematography and production design.

* Exotica was named Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The following year, she starred in Atom Egoyan's Exotica.

Exotica from such artists Les Baxter, Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman sold millions of records during its heyday.

She has also starred in such films as Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Guinevere, Go, The Weight of Water, My Life Without Me, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Dawn of the Dead, Splice, and Mr. Nobody.

Besides the sound device drivers, ALSA bundles a user space library for application developers who want to use driver features through an interface that is higher level than the interface provided for direct interaction with the kernel drivers ; unlike the kernel API, which tries to reflect the capabilities of the hardware directly, ALSA's user space library presents an abstraction which remains as standardized as possible across disparate underlying hardware.

For example, in the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs video lectures, one of the lecturers presents the audience with the button, saying they are now members of this special group.

The small British enclave of the city of Gibraltar presents a third cultural group found in the straits.

Eskimos cover presents the first instance of the group wearing their signature eyeball masks and tuxedos, which would be featured in many subsequent releases, films, live appearances, and promotional materials.

A characteristic in the orography of the Bernese Alps is, that whereas the western of that chain consists of a single series of summits with comparatively short projecting buttresses, the higher group presents a series of longitudinal ridges parallel to the axis of the main chain, and separated from each other by deep valleys that form the channels of great glaciers.

Finally, the group action on one side ( being the firing squad ), with the condemned standing opposite, presents a visual contrast that reinforces to all witnesses that solidarity is an overriding necessity in a military unit.

The Portland Civic Players is an active theater group that presents several productions each year.

The film presents a dramatic account of a series of coincidental events leading up to an accidental thermonuclear first-strike attack by a group of United States “ Vindicator ” bombers ( Convair B-58 Hustler aircraft ) against Moscow, the capital of what was then the Soviet Union.

This group of volunteer singers traditionally presents a Christmas concert on the first Sunday in December at 3: 00 p. m.

* Self-defense when larger group presents lethal threat to minority or the government cannot adequately defend an area

Examples of this latter group include British comedian Michael Palin who now presents programmes about travel ( such as Around the World in 80 Days ), and Alan Alda, who has presented Scientific American Frontiers for over a decade.

The Royal Hunt of the Sun ( 1964 ) presents the tragic conquest of Peru by the Spanish, while Black Comedy ( 1965 ) takes a humorous look at the antics of a group of characters feeling their way around a pitch black room — although the stage is actually flooded with light.

On April 2, 2012, the group released De La Soul's Plug 1 & Plug 2 presents ... First Serve with very little promotion, the album was released to positive reviews.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles, presents a group persona, including the character Billy Shears " played by " drummer Ringo Starr.

A working group can sometimes delegate specific work to a task force, which then presents its results back to the working group for approval.

Even when not at war, demonization presents a strong justification for the suppression of the demonized religion or group.

Gurdjieff then gives this group their " first exercise ", which he presents as the fourth in a series of exercises taught in his schools.

For this reason, all proposed classifications rely on a set of characteristics where the combination presents the most frequently observed traits for the group.

The genus Xenops ( Streaked Xenops pictured ) presents a problem, with conflicting results over what group it is associated with.

French historian Delval presents evidence that supports a scenario wherein the group tasked with carrying Radama's body to Ilafy became frightened as the king began to revive, prompting them to abandon the body and then falsely maintain that they had completed their task to place him in the tomb.

The gist of the RG is this group property: as the scale μ varies, the theory presents a self-similar replica of itself, and any scale can be accessed similarly from any other scale, by group action, a formal conjugacy of couplings in the mathematical sense ( Schröder's equation ).

The group presents one dramatic / comedic play, one musical and one rock revue each year.

* The BBC 1 London News ran a News item entitled ' Hampers at the Ready ' following ' The Kindness Offensive ' event on the 22 December 2008, which saw TKO ( James Hunter, Benny Crane, Calum Teach and David Goodfellow ), with help from a seventy strong group of volunteers, hand out over thirty-five tonnes of presents to the public at random, as well as many other charities and community groups.

Some of the lamps are canted over like a tipsy man's hat, and the whole group presents a most convivial aspect.