This is so good. A couple of weeks back the guys at Crescere shot me an email hipping me to their latest creation; a two part compilation of super-obscure, often private press, outsider psychedelic guitar and folk music from the […]
Category: Mixtapes
Son of Mondo Boys :: A Halloween Mixtape
Back from the dead. We are Mondo Boys – a NY/LA mixtape/sound collage collaborative. This is our 2010 Halloween mix. Grab last year’s here . Mucho take it easy. — MB (mondo boys are: n. punwar, m. schanzlin, […]
Bomboclat! Island Soak :: A Reggae/Dub Mixtape
Welcome to the latest mixtape installment in which I highlight some of my favorite voices online and beyond. Today we catch up with my old friend John as he drops some choice highlights from his […]
L.A. Burnout 2: Still Burnt (A Compilation)
Sean Howe and Aquarium Drunkard are back with L.A. Burnout 2: Still Burnt. Continuing in the vein of last year’s L.A. Burnout , the 25 tracks compiled within exemplify the not-quite-there nature of the city, particularly what was […]
AD Presents :: Mondo Boys, Tidal Wave – A Mixtape
MONDO BOYS are back with TIDAL WAVE…to help you sweat out these final days of Summer. Best served before 9.21.2010. Mucho take it easy – MB Takeshi Terauchi – Hana-Gasa Ondo / Beck – Random […]
AD Presents :: Soul Sides, A Gospel/Funk Mixtape
Welcome to the latest mixtape installment in which I highlight some of my favorite voices online and beyond. Today we catch up with DJ O-Dub, aka Oliver Wang of Soul Sides . Since the series began in […]
AD Presents :: Scottie Diablo’s The Crap Out, A Mixtape
Over the past six months I’ve been inviting some of my favorite voices online (and beyond) to guest DJ during my weekly show on SIRIUS XMU. For those of you sans satellite radio we’ve been […]
AD Presents :: Shangri-La Projects, Memphis, TN – A Mixtape
It happened in Tennessee. I met Shangri-La Projects’ Sherman Wilmott in the spring of 2008 while renting an apartment in midtown Memphis. I was in the middle of working on a book documenting Memphis and the Delta […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Lotus Plaza – A Mixtape
Helping me bend space and time this week on the AD show is Lockett Pundt of Lotus Plaza and Deerhunter . The Lotus Plaza debut, The Floodlight Collective , remains one of my favorite sleeper LPs from 2009; an album that—if […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: The Rising Storm – A Mixtape
Welcome to the fourth installment in a series in which I highlight some of my favorite voices online and beyond. Thus far we’ve featured sets by Raven Sings The Blues , Ponytone , Turquoise Wisdom and Cold Splinters . Next up: The Rising Storm . Long before […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Cold Splinters, A Mixtape
Welcome to the fourth installment of an irregular series in which I highlight some of my favorite voices online and beyond. Thus far we’ve featured sets by Raven Sings The Blues , Ponytone and, most recently, L.A.’s Turquoise Wisdom . Today we […]
Turquoise Wisdom :: A Mixtape
Welcome to the third installment of an irregular series in which I highlight some of my favorite voices online and beyond. Today we catch up with DJ Turquoise Wisdom . Wisdom (Zach Cowie) has worked in the […]
…On The Midnight Radio
Jody at When You Awake asked me to contribute to her ongoing, themed, mixtape series. I came up ‘midnight radio‘ and put together a 34 minute medley of old, scratchy, vinyl rip weirdness inspired by a surreal, late-night, […]
Ponytone: A Cross-Cultural Mixtape
Like a ghost ship hovering somewhere off the coast, broadcasting crackly pirate-radio blasts into the ether, Ponytone is as mysterious as it is unrivaled. And by that I mean it is an aural treasure. Reportedly based […]
Mondo Boys :: Continuous Monument – A Winter Mixtape
We are Mondo Boys – a NY/LA sound collage collaborative. This is our lunar transmission winter mix. We do cassettes/digital. “CONTINUOUS MONUMENT” was created exclusively to get you through the next month. Press play and shake them […]