Mirage: Our fourth collaboration with Portland, OR based record collectors Sam Huff and Colton Tong. Perception is all about your vantage point….man. The following collection, Mirage, is a half-blind foray into a […]
Category: Mixtapes
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Transcendence — A Mixtape
Transcendence: Our third collaboration with Portland, OR based record collectors Sam Huff and Colton Tong. Consider the following a vintage Friday night basement-party jammer. 70s era groove-makers, stoned soul bass rhythms and […]
Sing California: Buddy Emmons in Los Angeles, 1968-1974
2015 marked the passing of pedal steel guitar legend Buddy Emmons , a man described by one contemporary as the “Picasso or Michelangelo” of his instrument. Over the span of his nearly […]
Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree: A Vintage Holiday Mixtape
Holiday esoterica from the far corners of vintage twang, fuzz, scuzz, r&b, blues, country, garage, lounge and beyond. Trim your tree with Red Simpson and Mae West, then top it […]
AD Presents: Ain’t Nothin’ To Me – The Music Of Leon Payne
Leon Payne came stumbling into the world blind from birth in Alba, Texas and went on to write two of the greatest country music songs of all time (although which two I’ll […]
AD Presents: Skateland – A Mixtape
For the last six months or so I’ve been religiously attending DJ Clyde’s Sunday Night Roll at Skateland in Northridge, CA. True roller skating culture was not something I grew […]
The Use Of Ashes (A Mixtape)
Our ongoing collaboration with Zach Cowie, aka Turquoise Wisdom , returns with The Use of Ashes – A Mixtape. Tune in and turn on this Friday as Cowie guests on our SIRIUS show — channel […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Gospel Fire – A Mixtape
Thirteen prime slices of hallowed gospel from the Kentucky born Stovall Sisters and The Swan Silvertones to Mississippi’s latest stars, the Como Mamas. I’ve heard some say that God is dead. […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: September — A Medley
Summer fade / Autumn entrance. Get mellow with the following breeze of acoustic folk and singer/songwriter hoodoo primed to banish the humidity and usher in the Fall. Aquarium Drunkard Presents: September — A Medley Only the good shit. […]
It’s That Beat: A Vintage Saskatchewan Mixtape (Covers Edition)
Folk standards and searching tributes to country heroes. Ramshackle family bands and haunting elementary school ensembles. Landlocked surf and off-kilter rural rock. And a devastating take on the requisite Joni […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Late August Light – A Mixtape
Waves and oscillations transcending era and global in scope. A companion to last year’s Blue August Moon , the following medley slides right in before the Fall. All Gates Open. Late August Light – A Mixtape (stream / download) […]
Bomboclat! Island Soak 6 :: Vintage Rocksteady II (A Mixtape)
The return of Bomboclat!: Volume Six. A twenty-two track compilation of crate digging Jamaican vintage with just the right amount of soul and funk to move your feet and shake […]
All Roads Lead To Red: A Pedal Steel Mixtape / Tribute
Pedal steel ace Orville “Red” Rhodes (1930-1995) was one of LA’s most in-demand session players during the late 1960s and early 1970s, lending his laid-back licks to hits by James Taylor, Linda Rondstadt, […]
Shaft’s Old Man: An Imaginary Soul Jazz Soundtrack – A Mixtape
Consider Shaft’s Old Man: a soul jazz soundtrack to an imaginary black 60s spy film that never was. Our third in a series of ongoing collaborations with Copenhagen based DJ/record collector Peer Schouten. Split […]
Prairie To Pine: A Vintage Saskatchewan Mixtape
Hypnotic valleys and loping forests. Country funk from a Ukrainian wedding band and haunted folk from a group of high school students. Loners and the lovesick. The fried and fuzzed. […]