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Floating Action :: Reddingsbaadjie

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Floating Action, the ongoing musical masterwork of North Carolina’s Seth Kauffman, defies easy categorization. Kauffman’s heady lo-fi synthesis of folk, surf, blues, funk, and other world (or otherworldly) influences, has yielded a rich back catalog, one worthy of far more attention than it typically garners. Dig in almost anywhere in his 16 years or so of releases and you'll find sturdy gems that are diverse in genre and yet somehow unified by that Floating Action sound . . .

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Pastor Champion :: I Just Want To Be A Good Man

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Pastor Wylie Champion walked a path tough traveled—he grew up in the Deep South, spending some time on the wrong side of the tracks, before heading west to California. Later on, a saved man, he worked as a carpenter and raised four children. He also took the good word, now equipped with his electric guitar, on the road, visiting congregations and homes from the West Coast to the Gulf . . .

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Liz Lamere and Jared Artaud on Alan Vega :: Transmissions

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Liz Lamere and Jared Artuad join us this week on Aquarium Drunkard's weekly talk show podcast Transmissions to discuss the life, work, and creative philosophies of the late Alan Vega . . .

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Schizo :: Paraphrenia Praecox (1972)

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Sporting dead on Lemmy Kilmister doppelgänger-vox, the Paris based Schizo dropped “Paraphrenia Praecox” in 1972. Clocking in just under four minutes, it’s a slab of chugging, ruffian, maximum rocknroll that more than doubles down on the wah pedal . . .

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Pink Mountaintops :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Next month sees the release of the fifth Pink Mountaintops full-length, Peacock Pools -- an eclectic, ruminative album, that reflects Stephen McBean’s long fascination with punk rock, his newer interest in free jazz and the creative ferment that can happen when talented people have time and space to experiment. “I really like this group of songs as far as an album, even though the songs are all over the place. For some reason, in my heart, it feels very cohesive . . .

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Cactus Lee :: Perfect Middle Hall

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Cactus Lee’s Kevin Dehan continues to release music at a relentless pace, with his new lp, Perfect Middle Hall, on the way. He’s released the title track, a piece that finds Dehan at perhaps his most stark and solemn. A picturesque snapshot born into nostalgia and a yearning for something not yet passed. Dehan strives to keep the light aglow, whisking us away to help keep watch for the gale . . .

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Mondrongo :: Acidente Feliz

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As Mondrongo, Julio Santa Cecilia creates soothing tape music for the 21st century. Even when the textures sound digital, the structure of the tracks are tangible, organic and telluric, as if they somehow had been hand cut and glued together again within the DAW. Loops with ghostly bits of piano find loose, broken snares that are quiet and nebulous enough not to disturb the harmonic core of the songs, until they suddenly become the very center of those songs . . .

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Akira Ishikawa & His Count Buffalos :: African Rock

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Cop the groove. Unleashed back into the wild, Japanese drummer Akira Ishikawa's 1971 lp, African Rock. Working under the guise of a funky jazz excursion, its eclectic forty minute runtime is full of surprises. Expect a torrid medley of percussion, fat blasts of brass, inspired vocal weirdness, and searing electric guitar courtesy of MVP, Kimio Mizutani . . .

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Bruno Pernadas :: Those Who Throw Objects At The Crocodiles Will Be Asked To Retrieve Them

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Provenance: Lisbon, Portugal. The deal: Stereolab adjacent, atmospheric, space age vocal jazz & art pop laced with cosmic psychedelia. Composed, arranged and produced by Bruno Pernadas, at ten tracks, it’s a spacious shapeshifter of an LP . . .

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Videodrome :: Dennis Hopper in White Star

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Between 1972 and 1985, Dennis Hopper was persona non grata in mainstream Hollywood circles. As Hopper was unable to score a decent mainstream acting gig in American cinema, he headed to West Germany to appear as a disheveled and burned-out music manager in German director Roland Klick’s White Star (1984).

As a coherent film, White Star might not hang together, but it offers a lucid experience of Hopper’s dangerous, real-life psychological decay, and his own persona bleeding into his character’s wild nature . . .

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Ken Boothe :: Down By The River

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Are you sure Neil done it this way? Not exactly, but it’s hard to care when the results are this good. Revered reggae crooner Ken Boothe teamed up with producer Lloyd Charmer’s in the early 70s, after a decade cutting sides for a who’s-who of Jamaica’s top producers. Nestled amid covers of Syl Johnson, Marvin Gaye, and Bread on his 1975 LP Everything I Own, Boothe’s take on ol’ Shakey’s downer ‘Hey Joe’ narrative is a scorcher for the books . . .

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Unearthed, Vol. 18 :: 1992 Blend

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A kind of prequel to a previous 90s-centric Unearthed mix, 1992 Blend takes us on a kaleidoscopic trip through what they used to call “Alternative Rock” (Or College Rock? Or Indie Rock?) via a selection of dusty-but-dynamic live tapes. This stuff may be 30 years old now, but in many ways, these sounds represent a gold standard for guitar-forward rock music, finding inspiration in the past, but with eyes still fixed on the horizon. Nevermind the Buzz Bin — dig into this . . .

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Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin :: Ghosted

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While the activities of the always prolific Oren Ambarchi can be tough to keep up with, definitely don’t sleep on Ghosted, his hypnotic new collab with bassist Johan Berthling and drummer Andreas Werliin. It’s a groove record at heart, but one displaying an uncommon sense of adventure and imagination . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)

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Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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AD Presents: Sonor Music Editions | Italian Library Music (A Mixtape)

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Founded in 2013 by Lorenzo Fabrizi and Andrea Galtieri, the Rome based Sonor Music Editions focuses strictly on the world of vintage Italian Library music and original soundtracks, largely from the 1970s and early '80s. Prolific, we asked Fabrizi and Galtieri to curate a medley of sounds via their catalog, and the following mix is most definitely a vibe . . .

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