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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 20h

For anyone who frequents their local record store, the term “cheap heat” is likely a familiar one. Ramsey Lewis’ 1970 funky soul jazz gem Them Changes, a record we’ve never seen priced higher than $10 that burns hot.

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Ramsey Lewis :: Them Changes - Aquarium Drunkard

For anyone who frequents their local record store, the term "cheap heat" is likely a familiar one. Often its own section, the cheap heat bin usually contains copies of iconic records in dubious condit...

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 1d

First & Last: Angura (A Mixtape)

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An introduction to Japanese folk in 1970s Japan, the following mix was created as a companion to the article on Modern Bible and the story of Gekidan Buraiha...

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 22h

Jens Kuross :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Jens Kuross :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview - Aquarium Drunkard

Before recording Crooked Songs, Jens Kuross was making cabinets, teaching children how to play the piano, and having a lot of difficult conversations with himself. After a series of disappointments fo...

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 1d

Joropop: Psych Pop & Folk in Venezuela, 1968-1976

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As the temperatures begin to drop, this collection of humid psychedelia, warm pop harmonies, and grooving nocturnal folk is one to absolutely keep close.

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 1d

Joropop: Psych Pop & Folk in Venezuela, 1968-1976

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As the temperatures begin to drop, this collection of humid psychedelia, warm pop harmonies, and grooving nocturnal folk is one to absolutely keep close.

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 1d

First & Last: Angura (A Mixtape)

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An introduction to Japanese folk in 1970s Japan, the following mix was created as a companion to the article on Modern Bible and the story of Gekidan Buraiha...

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 2d

David Bowie - It's No Game (Pt. 1)

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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 2d

Put together a little Danny Thompson appreciation for @aquariumdrunkard.com. (This could've been 100 songs rather than 10, but ...) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/08/d...

Double Bass: 10 For Danny Thompson - Aquarium Drunkard

"The only thing I cared about was if I liked it or not, and if I liked it, then I was going to play it. Simple as that.” We’re all lucky Danny Thomson had that attitude. The English double bassist, wh...

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 2d

Double Bass: 10 For Danny Thompson

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Although you could spend the rest of your days plumbing the depths of the great English double bassist's best moments, here are 10 highlights from across the decades.

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 2d

The Byrds :: The Notorious Byrd Brothers

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The many vantage points in which one can dissect the legacy of the Byrds can feel simply boundless. Despite the inner turmoil the record’s spacey psychedelic folk is a time and place never to be replicated.

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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 3d

This rules

Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 4d

Shrunken Elvis ignite a mind-meld of pedal steel, synths, and guitars on their s/t debut, a slyly adventurous and immersive album that fuses languid soundscapes and kosmische vistas with elements of krautrock, spiritual jazz, and ambient & electronic music.

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 3d

Door of the Cosmos: Sun Ra’s On Jupiter and Sleeping Beauty

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Strut continues their deep dive into this phase of Ra’s career with the twin 1979 masterpieces offering a fresh glimpse at some of the most revered and beautifully spacious music the Arkestra ever cut.

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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 3d

Love this record.

Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 3d

Animal, Surrender! :: A Boot For Every Bane

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Not sure how many eight-string bass / pipe organ / drums trios there are out there, but I’m going to go ahead and declare the Brooklyn-based Animal, Surrender! as the very best of them all.

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 3d

Animal, Surrender! :: A Boot For Every Bane

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Not sure how many eight-string bass / pipe organ / drums trios there are out there, but I’m going to go ahead and declare the Brooklyn-based Animal, Surrender! as the very best of them all.

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 3d

M. Sage :: Tender / Wading

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The Colorado-based M Sage resides in the liminal zone, finding endless inspiration in the in-between. Between natural and digital, stillness and motion, silence and noise, innocence and experience, waking and dreams.

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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 4d

This record is SWEET.

Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 4d

Shrunken Elvis ignite a mind-meld of pedal steel, synths, and guitars on their s/t debut, a slyly adventurous and immersive album that fuses languid soundscapes and kosmische vistas with elements of krautrock, spiritual jazz, and ambient & electronic music.

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 4d

Shrunken Elvis ignite a mind-meld of pedal steel, synths, and guitars on their s/t debut, a slyly adventurous and immersive album that fuses languid soundscapes and kosmische vistas with elements of krautrock, spiritual jazz, and ambient & electronic music.

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 4d

Door of the Cosmos: Sun Ra’s On Jupiter and Sleeping Beauty

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Strut continues their deep dive into this phase of Ra’s career with the twin 1979 masterpieces offering a fresh glimpse at some of the most revered and beautifully spacious music the Arkestra ever cut.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 5d

ICYMI

In 2023 I interviewed Joshua Abrams (Natural Information Society) @aquariumdrunkard.com

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Joshua Abrams :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview - Aquarium Drunkard

On April 19 of this year Abrams sat for a Zoom call in the Chicago home he shares with his partner Alvarado, backed by one of her signature glowing artworks. Abrams expressed his life’s work with the ...

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 7d

Dollar Diamonds :: Volume Two

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How is it possible that these 2-sided slices of the human spirit can exist among us, in some cases, for over 50 years and still only be $1?

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 8d

Country In The Clouds: Cosmic American Music From The Jesus People Movement

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Cosmic country side of the niche subculture. Like holy hippies baptized in the Bakersfield sound, waves of pedal steel beckon listeners to tune in and take the Jesus trip…

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Jerry David DeCicca @jerrydaviddecicca.bsky.social · 7d

💎💸💎🎶I'm back for my second installment.

Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 7d

Dollar Diamonds :: Volume Two

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How is it possible that these 2-sided slices of the human spirit can exist among us, in some cases, for over 50 years and still only be $1?

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 7d

think i still have my cassette

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 7d

Dollar Diamonds :: Volume Two

aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/03/d...

How is it possible that these 2-sided slices of the human spirit can exist among us, in some cases, for over 50 years and still only be $1?

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 10d

Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin :: Ghosted III

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Minimal jazz, avant-rock, experimental groove, modal funk — whatever you want to call it, it’s mutating before our very ears, and growing stranger and more powerful with every installment.

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