Step into spring with the latest edition of First & Last, a series of mixes providing a glimpse into the world of Japanese private press, or 自主盤, pronounced “jishuban”, which loosely tr...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/25/first-last-japanese-private-press-vol-14/
Sun is shining. The latest installment in Michael Crow Taylor’s dank reggae mix series, Sufferer’s Time, winds a path through deep devotionals, primo dub and loping, cosmic love jams. Mixed a...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/18/sufferers-time-michael-crow-at-the-controls/
As Aquarium Drunkard recently reported, ambient appears to be the shape of jazz to come. The newest new thing is cross-pollinating with electronics and minimalism, new age and drone. But even the...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/03/25/light-pollution-the-roots-of-ambient-jazz/
Pulp Jazz draws on long-traduced, sometimes crassly commercial, musical forms—jazz-funk, exotica, new age, sci-fi schlock, lounge music and library—and channels it all into deeply funky, low-...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/02/19/pulp-jazz-twenty-first-century-groove-music-a-mixtape/
Embrace the dawn of a new year with the thirteenth installment of First & Last, a series of mixes providing a glimpse into the world of Japanese private press, or 自主盤, pronounced “jishuba...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/01/19/first-last-japanese-private-press-vol-13/
New age was, in many ways, a confluence of developments across genres: prog and krautrock, electronic and space music, ambient and fourth world, modern classical, spacious ECM-style Euro-jazz. Al...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/01/18/astral-loitering-excursions-in-new-age-1970-1989/
Fourth world music belongs to an occult geography. This is by design. When the late trumpeter and composer Jon Hassell coined the term, he conceived of it as “an attempt to create a kind of mus...
Welcome to the twelfth installment of First & Last, a series of mixes providing a glimpse into the world of Japanese private press, or 自主盤, pronounced “jishuban”, which loosely translat...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/12/13/first-last-japanese-private-press-vol-12/
As Western rock music dominated the global airwaves of the 1960s, perhaps no region adapted this music into such a rich and swirling stew as did Turkey. Mixing the heavy riffs of Zeppelin and the...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/10/05/anatolian-psych-out-volume-one/
Welcome to the eleventh installment of First & Last, a series of mixes providing a glimpse into the world of Japanese private press, or 自主盤, pronounced “jishuban”, which loosely transla...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/10/04/first-last-japanese-private-press-vol-11/
Back in the deep, bleak, pandemic dog days, Be With Records struck a deal with the legendary Parisian library music catalog, Tele Music to reissue the very best, most sought-after LPs in the cata...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/10/02/aquarium-drunkard-presents-tele-music-mix-volume-1/
Welcome to the tenth installment of First & Last, a series of mixes providing a glimpse into the world of Japanese private press, or 自主盤, pronounced “jishuban”, which loosely translates...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/08/02/first-last-japanese-private-press-vol-10/
Welcome to the ninth installment of First & Last, a series of mixes providing a glimpse into the world of Japanese private press, or 自主盤, pronounced “jishuban”, which loosely translates...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/06/22/first-last-japanese-private-press-vol-9/
Welcome to the eighth installment of First & Last, a series of mixes providing a glimpse into the world of Japanese private press, or 自主盤, pronounced “jishuban”, which loosely translate...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/03/13/first-last-japanese-private-press-vol-8/
Sparked by a recent re-obsession with Miles Davis' On The Corner sessions, Abstract Truths returns with a grip of records that have been hovering around the LA hq these past few months. Electric ...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/03/02/abstract-truths-an-evolving-jazz-compendium-volume-9/