Over the past couple of years I’ve been irregularly highlighting some of my favorite voices online (and beyond), inviting them to guest DJ my show on SIRIUS XMU. For those of you sans satellite radio we’ve been turning these sets into mixtapes, with sounds ranging from the blown-out psych bootcut of DJ Turquoise Wisdom, to [...]
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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Jet Lag – A Mixtape
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Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 8) – Podcast / Mixtape
More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. Seven tracks, five countries, twenty-eight minutes. For Terry Callier, RIP. Direct download, below; subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, here. The first seven transmissions can be found and downloaded, here. Imagery courtesy of d norsen. MP3: Sidecar: Transmission [...]
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Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 9) – Podcast / Mixtape
More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. Direct download, below; subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, here. The first eight transmissions can be found and downloaded, here. Imagery courtesy of d norsen. MP3: Sidecar: Transmission / 9 Johnny Thunder – I’m Alive The Kinks – [...]
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Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree: A Vintage Holiday Mixtape
Each December, Brian Reese at Big Rock Candy Mountain deals out a month’s worth of holiday esoterica from the far corners of vintage twang, fuzz, scuzz, r&b, blues, country, garage, lounge and beyond. Keeping it loose, he trims his tree with Red Simpson and Mae West, then tops it off with The Sonics, Hank Snow [...]
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Turquoise Wisdom: Like A Coat From The Cold (A Mixtape)
Turquoise Wisdom here with another installment of my Sad Seasons mixtape series for AD. This time around we’re thinking about winter. ps- I have officially joined the future and started a ‘lil website to regularly post jams from my record collection, that’s here: playitasitlathes.com — and I’m also now here: @turquoisewisdom and soundcloud. Onward! zc/tw Download: [...]
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Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 10) – Podcast
Astral blues. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. Green swamp fuzz from the 1970s. Direct download, below. Subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, here. The first nine transmissions can be found and downloaded, here. MP3: Sidecar: Transmission / 10 Intro (Bob Brown “I’m Bolieve” [...]
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Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 11) – Podcast/Mixtape
Extra width / Winter weight. Country gospel soul. Est. 1975. Direct download, below. Subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, here. The first ten transmissions can be found and downloaded, here. MP3: Sidecar: Transmission / 11 Clover – Mr. Moon Daniel Moore – May, 16, 1975 Goose Creek Symphony – A Satisfied Mind [...]
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Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Ghost Capital IV (A Mixtape)
Once again, we touch down in Portland, OR with the fourth installment of our Ghost Capital series. Helmed by Nick Barbery with an ear bent toward the obscure, esoteric and out-of-print, Ghost Capital digs globally mining the secret shafts of psych, folk, blues and beyond. Twenty-four track download, notes, and playlist after the jump… _________________________________________________________________________________ [...]
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AD Presents: Chances With Wolves 2: Hotel Motel / A Mixtape
Our east coast compatriots, NYC’s Chances With Wolves return with their second serving for Aquarium Drunkard: Hotel Motel – A Mixtape. As always, it’s a heady/essential brew. The CWW squad is in L.A. this week launching the inaugural issue of their new zine at Family Books (tonight) on Fairfax — with a DJ set immediately [...]
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Old Gold: Sonoran Country, Garage Blues, Pop, Soul, and Avant-garde from Arizona 1951-1971
Old Gold: Sonoran Country, Garage Blues, Pop, Soul, and Avant-garde from Arizona, 1951-1971 Border hawks and radical sheriffs may unjustly define Arizona’s national profile, but there are powerful vibrations still at play in the dry air of the Sonoran Desert – echoes of old Hoozdo Hahoodzo — bouncing off the rocks, through the canyons and [...]
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Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 12) – Podcast/Mixtape
Astral blues. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. Haunted radio wave detritus. This is transmission twelve. Direct download, below. Subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, here. The first eleven transmissions can be found and downloaded, here. MP3: Sidecar: Transmission / 12 Intro Bedlam’s Offspring [...]
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AD Presents :: Chuck Berry On The Rocks – A Mixtape
Chuck Berry On The Rocks: A choice selection of sixties garage rock. Our long-time-coming collaboration with Gothenburg, Sweden DJ/record collector Peer Schouten. Download/tracklisting after the jump… Download: AD Presents :: Chuck Berry On The Rocks – A Mixtape (zipped folder) 1 We All Love Peanut Butter – The One Way Streets 2 Tiki Twist – [...]
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Bomboclat! Island Soak :: Jamaican Vintage, Volumes 1-3
It’s summertime. Look for Volume 4 of our annual Bomboclat! series soon. Until then, settle down with the previous three installments — all of which have been re-upped and are once again available for download. ~ Bomboclat! Island Soak 3 :: A Vintage Rocksteady Mixtape ~ Bomboclat! Island Soak 2 :: A Vintage Rocksteady Mixtape [...]
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Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Derek’s Daily 45 – A Mixtape
Soul, freakbeat, garage, r&b, rock & roll…all are the focus of Bay area crate digger, dj and musician Derek See, the man behind the long-running ode to the 45 RPM record, Derek’s Daily 45. See joined me last Friday on the SIRIUS XMU show. We turned his two hour set of vintage, rare, sixties soul [...]
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Aquarium Drunkard x Cold Splinters: Indian Summer – A Mixtape
Earlier this month Cold Splinters shared Indian Summer, a transitional/seasonal mix I put together for their ongoing Trail Mix series. As I’ve noted here in the past, if you like to get outside, Cold Splinters, helmed by Jeff Thrope, is both an essential and inspiring read. Thrope’s also one of the few people who truly […]
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Trick Or Treat, Volume 9 (A Vintage Halloween Mixtape)
Trick or treat. Another 32 vintage spookers from the grey haas spanning 1958-1977. Download/tracklisting after the jump. For more undead, last year’s Halloween mixtape is still available, here, as well as volume seven, volume six and volume five. Download: Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Trick Or Treat, Volume 9 (A Halloween Mixtape) 01. Munster Creep – The […]
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Derek’s Daily 45 II: A Mixtape / Psych, Freakbeat, Garage – 1966-68
We’re back with Bay area crate digger, dj and musician, Derek See – the man behind the long-running ode to the 45 RPM record, Derek’s Daily 45. Psychedelia, garage, freakbeat, acid rock – call it what you will; it’s the music of young people in an era of chemical experimentation and social exploration. Most of the […]
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AD Presents :: Monster Rally – Volume II (A Mixtape)
66 minutes and 4 seconds. Monster Rally – Volume II: A new collection of danceable funk, afro-soul, incredibly smooth hip hop, rainy dub, and multi-ethnic garage rock. Our second collaboration with Monster Rally, whose new LP – Return To Paradise - is out this week via Gold Robot Records. MP3: Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Monster […]
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Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 13) – Podcast/Mixtape
Back from the dead. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. This is transmission thirteen. Direct download, below. The first twelve transmissions can be found and downloaded, here. MP3: Sidecar: Transmission / 13 Intro CAN – I’m So Green The Everly Brothers – Lord Of The Manor Blossom Dearie […]
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Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree: A Vintage Holiday Mixtape
(Look for the 2nd installment of Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree soon. Until then, dig on last year’s festivities.) Each December, Brian Reese at Big Rock Candy Mountain deals out a month’s worth of holiday esoterica from the far corners of vintage twang, fuzz, scuzz, r&b, blues, country, garage, lounge and beyond. Keeping it […]
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