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, and The Carpenters. But Red […]
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 into seven sections, use your […]
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. Welcome to another all-vinyl dispatch […]
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 found and downloaded, here. Sidecar: Transmission / 16 Intro / […]
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, all bent on the soulful […]
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 per se, only that these […]
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 help us continue doing it […]
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 snowy, white dawn giving way […]
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 by pledging your support. To […]
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 Rama. Tune in and turn […]
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 is powered by its patrons. […]
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 pounds of country rock from […]
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 he bellows “Startin’ next week […]
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 Tong. At two hours, digging […]
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 Is Spiked. Find part one, […]