“Some for Bohannon,” a celebration and glance at the funky creations of Hamilton Bohannon: a drummer, song writer, and record producer who, as Ron Wynn noted, perfected a “formula of heavy, thudding bass accents and aggressive rhythms”. He passed away April 24, 2020. Rest in peace.
Category: Mixtapes
The Human Race :: An AOR Mixtape
Whatever happened to the human race? This mix explores the darker sides of the much maligned “AOR” genre, typically associated with 1970’s overly-produced pop excess, while embracing it’s playful and uplifting side. From Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott’s lamenting a “Fatalistic Attitude” to the Monkees’ Michael Nesmith’s time capsule to “People A Hundred Years From Now”, from Emitt Rhodes lamentable solo swan song “Farewell To Paradise” to true FM radio classic jam Starbuck’s “Moonlight Feels Right”, here The Human Race is represented in all it’s conflicted glory.
Abstract Truths: An Evolving Jazz Compendium – Vol 7 / Japanese Jazz
…the golden period from the 1970s into the early 80s when jazz in Japan came into its own identity and sound.
100 minutes of library groovers – dance floor bangers – funky fusion – modal swingers – big band stompers – jazz rock psychedelia and the impeccable sound of TBM are all represented.
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Music Is The Key (A Mixtape)
“Sing a simple song, you can’t go wrong” // Some slow and mellow songs for these not so mellow times …
A Deep Breath (A Mixtape)
A lot of friends have been reaching out for healing music. Here are some things that have felt like taking a deep breath over the past few weeks. Much love to everyone.
Some For The Makossa Man
“Some for The Makossa Man,” a celebration and glance at the world of afrobeat giant, Manu Dibango: a trailblazer whose music laid the groundwork for what would become disco and hip-hop. He passed away today from COVID-19. Rest in peace, Makossa Man.
Beautiful Music In The Night
For years if you lived in Nashville you were lucky to have the soothing sounds of WAMB 1160 AM, playing glorious easy listening music from the past. But what was truly special about WAMB was their late night programming, from roughly 12 am to 5 am, dubbed ‘beautiful music in the night.’ During this time frame the station would play blocks of old reel to reel mix tapes assembled by the late Nashville radio personality Ken Bramming…
Maximum Social Distance :: A Mixtape
Not exactly easy listening, but something like counter programming against the ambient dread of the moment. “We try not to lose our hearts, not lose our minds.”
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: KPM – Be With Records Is The Selector, Vol. II
The UK based Be With records ongoing reissue campaign of essential library classics continues with two more KPM titles: Visual Impact and The Hunter (Drama Suite) / Adventure Story, two more from the Themes series, and its first foray into the iconic German library institution, Coloursound with The Now Generation (Percussive Underscores).
As a sequel to our 2018 mixtape, the following was once again created live in one take, using all vinyl at Be With’s Manchester HQ.
All Things Are Quite Silent :: A Mixtape
As the nights turn colder and quieter, like clockwork an internal alarm shifts our headspace towards the sounds of 1970’s UK folk rock. Pastoral aural blankets of snow … a […]
Frozen Fingers :: An American Primitive Holiday Meditation
Fingerpickers can’t seem to resist uncovering (or just plain inventing) the folk-blues roots of these timeworn melodies. Whatever the motivation, it’s always nice to have an alternative to the treacly seasonal music that is inescapable this time of year. Frozen Fingers is playlist of (mostly) acoustic wintry music that’ll put a little wonder into the most wonderful time of the year…
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Ararat Valley Jazz Orchestra – A Mixtape
Jazz-funk and big band rarities from the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia from the 1970s and 1980s; tracks recorded in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia and Moscow, USSR. Armenia has been without the symbolic mountains of Ararat and Sis since the latter stages of the Armenian Genocide and during the inception of the Armenian SSR … think of these records as “the sound of Armenia on the other side of Ararat.”
Avant-Garde Got Soul Too :: An Observations of Deviance Mixtape
~spiritual jazz, free improvisation, experimental electronics, ethnographic oddities, and world-wide psychedelic funk~
And now something far out. Avant-Garde Got Soul Too is a mixtape by David Mittleman, host of Tucson’s KXCI independent radio’s Observations of Deviance, a weekly “all vinyl, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio.”
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Gospel Jubilee Vol. 3 — A Mixtape
Another soul-cleansing vinyl set from the folks that bring you the Gospel Jubilee every Sunday on Nashville’s Acme Radio. This volume features youth choirs, radio ensembles, organ maestros, local, regional and national stars…plus in-the-red vocals, a flute solo (!), heavenly harmonies, faint-inducing falsetto, sanctifying grooves and some of the best drum sounds you will ever hear. Selected from records rare and everywhere. Because the price tag shouldn’t be the thing that moves you.
Unearthed, Vol. 7 :: Rocky Mountain Time
Welcome to the seventh installment of Unearthed, a series of thematic mixes that travel deep into dusty vintage zones to dig up bootleg gold.
For the latest Unearthed, we’ve gathered together a totally eclectic sampling of Mile High sounds, ranging from lowdown blues crawls to futuristic synth-pop, from blazing funk-rock to jangly Britfolk.