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, […]
Category: Mixtapes
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. […]
Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 16) — Podcast/Mixtape
California rain. A totem. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. This is transmission sixteen. Direct download, below. The first fifteen transmissions can be […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Paradigm – A Mixtape
Paradigm: Our second collaboration with Portland, OR based record collectors Sam Huff and Colton Tong. In contrast to last year’s Solstice , the following two hours mines all manner of percussion, […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Vetiver – A Mixtape
This is a mix I made on my living room turntables with some morning coffee, just grabbing at recent finds and old favorites piled around. Most are 45s. No theme […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: American Dreamer – A Medley
Native American tones and folk meditations. A thirty seven minute guiding light through April. American Dreamer – A Medley Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Strange Light – A Mixtape
Enter Strange Light, a sister mix to last year’s Blue August Moon . If the latter played like a transient spirit hovering over a hazy, humid dusk, then think of this as a […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: March — A Medley
From Del Shannon to Arthur Russell: March, A Medley. Aquarium Drunkard Presents: March — A Medley Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it […]
Turquoise Wisdom: Floating / A Mixtape
Our ongoing collaboration with Zach Cowie, aka Turquoise Wisdom , returns in 2015 with a myriad of sounds ranging from Soft Machine’s Robert Wyatt to the divinity that is Alice Coltrane’s Rama […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: February — A Medley
Tune in to this all-vinyl medley of soul, funk, blues and folk intended to guide you through February on a freedom train of rhythm. Aquarium Drunkard Presents: February — A Medley Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard […]
Multis E Gentibus Vires: A Vintage Saskatchewan Mixtape
Dig into an all-vinyl helping from one of Canada’s overlooked and underappreciated provinces. Rural rock with guitars informed by six months of winter. Prairie Lily ladies and god-fearing men. 800 […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: January — A Medley
Sidle up and dig in to this all-vinyl medley of unicorn dreams, flittering romances, rusty country cuts. Start your year with this mix and maybe you’ll follow Mike Wilhelm’ s lead when […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Solstice – A Mixtape
Weaving its way between vintage garage, folk, soul and pop, Solstice is the first of a series of upcoming collaborations with Portland, OR based record collectors Sam Huff and Colton […]
Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree II: The Eggnog Is Spiked
Holiday esoterica from the far corners of vintage twang, fuzz, scuzz, r&b, blues, country, garage, lounge and beyond. After the jump, Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree II: The Eggnog […]