Absolutely Nonsensical

In this episode, the mic is passed to David, a teacher, artist, and filmmaker in Austin, Texas. David shares his experience living as a black person in America, and how Black Lives Matter, anti-racist protests, and political action happening around the world are affecting his spectrum of feelings - from rage and pain to awe and optimism. Ways you can help Black Lives Matter right now: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co

Alan Palomo aka Neon Indian joins AbNon host Ben Aqua to discuss the evolution of his unique music and aesthetic — from his humble beginnings singing Frank Sinatra duets with his dad to being transformed by Radiohead as a teenager to covering “Vamos a La Playa” in front of massive festival crowds. We also coin the term “emotional italo disco” and host a sensual, romantic listening party featuring some of our favorite emotional italo tunes just 4 u. It’s soggy with existential music nerd commentary and plenty of dad jokes. Listen to music featured in Absolutely Nonsensical on Spotify: http://bit.ly/abnonmusic Music in this episode (in order of appearance): Neon Indian - Annie Magnetic Fields - Swinging London Neon Indian - Street Level Eagles - One of These Nights Bee Gees - How Deep is Your Love Frank Sinatra & Luis Miguel - Come Fly with Me Mario Lanza & Luisa Di Meo - Arrivederci, Roma Radiohead - Pyramid Song Aphex Twin - Bucephalus Bouncing Ball Frank Ocean - Pink + White Billie Eilish - Bad Guy Peter Richard - Marlene Hot Cold - Love is Like a Game The Splash Band - Halloween 2 Unknown Artist - Old Cortina Telex - My Time Mike Francis - Check it Out with the Groove Vivien Vee - Higher F.R. David - Words Blue Gas - Shadows from Nowhere Righeira - Vamos a la Playa Follow & Support Ben Aqua: Youtube: http://youtube.com/b3naqua Instagram: http://instagram.com/b3naqua Twitter: http://twitter.com/b3naqua Music: http://fanlink.to/b3naqua Shop: http://benaqua.shop Gear: http://benaqua.org/amazon Tag @b3naqua #absolutelynonsensical on your posts! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

"Life is Meaningless," said The Oblong Boys, Austin's weirdest and most zolo band ever. In this episode, I talked to Oblong A, Mr. E, Pat A. Physics, and Lockemup about how The Oblong Boys were spawned, the concepts behind their unique brand of music and performance, and their late night guerrilla escapades. Think DEVO meets the Residents meets Frank Zappa in a hypercolor Yellow Magic Orchestra mega blender full of Sparks. Here's to The Oblong Boys! Listen to my zolo playlist on Spotify: http://bit.ly/zzzolo Music in this episode (in order of appearance): The Oblong Boys - Godzilla! The Oblong Boys - Properties of Sound The Oblong Boys - Newman’s Own The Oblong Boys - Life is Meaningless The Oblong Boys - Division of Us Four Danny Elfman - Pee Wee’s Playhouse Suite Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo - Cell 63 Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo - Frenchy Back Home The Oblong Boys - Animal The Oblong Boys - Allegorical Ankle The Oblong Boys - A.D.S. The Prima Donnas - Nance Music Manifesto The Oblong Boys - Don’t Go Bald The Oblong Boys - Godzilla! Renaldo & the Loaf - Here’s to the Oblong Boys The Oblong Boys - Sassquatch Attic Ted - Oh No The Oblong Boys - Rip Your Head Off The Oblong Boys - F.B.I. The Oblong Boys - Felliniesque The Oblong Boys - X-Ray Specs Cabo Boing - Swirl Up The Oblong Boys - Dopre Pa Do Follow & Support: Youtube: http://youtube.com/b3naqua Instagram: http://instagram.com/b3naqua Twitter: http://twitter.com/b3naqua Music: http://fanlink.to/b3naqua Shop: http://benaqua.shop Gear: http://benaqua.org/amazon Tag @b3naqua #absolutelynonsensical on your posts! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

YouTube has dramatically changed my life and creative process in the last 2 years. Here are 3 powerful and important methods you can use to can grow your YouTube channel and social media presence — and, most importantly, your HEART. Get ready to make your soul super swole. (That should be a shirt...) Music in this episode is from my album “Obscuriosities” — stream it: http://fanlink.to/obscuriosities (I didn’t write the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song, obvi) Follow Ben Aqua: Youtube: http://youtube.com/b3naqua Instagram: http://instagram.com/b3naqua Twitter: http://twitter.com/b3naqua Music: http://fanlink.to/b3naqua My merch: http://benaqua.shop My gear: http://benaqua.org/amazon Tag @b3naqua #absolutelynonsensical on your posts! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

What is freewriting and how can you benefit from it? Does it help with grief? In this episode, host Ben Aqua discusses how freewriting influenced his grieving process after experiencing a profound loss and becoming a young widow. Ben also recites a few whimsically intimate, bizarre pieces from his freewriting journal. Let's add some Absolutely Nonsensical sunshine to that gritty brainstorm cloud. Follow Ben Aqua: Youtube: http://youtube.com/b3naqua Instagram: http://instagram.com/b3naqua Twitter: http://twitter.com/b3naqua Buy some stuff in the Ben Aqua shop: http://benaqua.shop Tag @b3naqua #absolutelynonsensical on your posts! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

In this 1st ever (proper) episode of Absolutely Nonsensical, host Ben Aqua and special guests discuss art and why it's important. Follow Ben Aqua: Youtube: http://youtube.com/b3naqua Instagram: http://instagram.com/b3naqua Twitter: http://twitter.com/b3naqua Buy some stuff in the Ben Aqua shop: http://benaqua.shop Tag @b3naqua #absolutelynonsensical on your posts! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

A mix for Nobel's Radar Radio show, using all trax from the catalog of my experimental club music label, #FEELINGS. Hear more of my music: http://fanlink.to/b3naqua Follow Ben Aqua @b3naqua: YouTube | Instagram | Twitter Tracklist: Mama Testa - Using Machines poolboy92 - Laz-E Joe Howe - Dorling Kindersley Lotic - Rendez-vous (Drippin Remix) Rabit - Terminator (Five Remix) Ynfynyt Scroll - C3l Ynfynyt Scroll - Butch Queen (Lotic Remix) Norrit - Arrival Ben Aqua - Put It In Pana - Cop poolboy92 - Lick (SPF666’s temps écoulé Remix) HYPEHEADZ - Purple Tint Ben Aqua - Ultimate Reality (Foodman Remix) Mama Testa - Estoesparauds (andykisaragi Remix) poolboy92 - Lick Rabit - Terminator Ben Aqua - Reset Yourself Mama Testa - Gimme My Drvgz (feat. Jack’ie Lo) poolboy92 - Laz-E (2uitter Remix) Creepside - T0GETHER Mama Testa - Magna Data Supraman - Street Taps Pana - Cloud Music (feat. Fardigo) Norrit - B.D.L.W. Rabit - So Clean (Drippin Remix) Ben Aqua - He She Ynfynyt Scroll - Let Me See It (Divoli S’vere & MikeQ Remix) Ynfynyt Scroll - Let Me See It (Satanicpornocultshop Remix) Ynfynyt Scroll - Lethal Autonomy (Helix Remix) Nobel - Vocal Sniper poolboy92 - Lips Creepside - No Shade (feat. Tama Gucci) Ben Aqua - By This River Lotic - Rendez-vous --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

My highly controversial 2014 podcast for Resident Advisor, full of hyper pop and forward-thinking, weird club music. RA described the mix as "an online underground primer, Aqua's RA podcast is right on the money. It's fast, slippery and wilfully garish, blending tracks by key players like A. G. Cook [PC Music] and SOPHIE with music from his own #FEELINGS stable." It went moderately viral after their techno-heavy fanbase went ballistic in the comments, which led to FACT Mag naming it their Mix of the Week. Hear more of my music: http://fanlink.to/b3naqua Follow Ben Aqua @b3naqua: YouTube | Instagram | Twitter Tracklist: Pana - Cloud Music feat. Fardigo GFOTY - Don't Wanna / Let's Do It SOPHIE - Lemonade (Ben Aqua's 888% Hydration remix) DJ Rashad, MoonDoctoR & FreshtillDef - 1 AM feat. DJ Earl Da Hool - Meet Her at the Love Parade (Slick Shoota remix) Gillepsy - Fiery Dust Young Smoke - Dark Vs Light RIVA - Fast Life / ?? ?? M¥SS KETA - MILANO SUSHI & COCA DV-i - Optical Mode DJ DJ Booth - Heaven (A.G. Cook remix) Skip Club Orchestra - Ippon Ben Aqua - Eternal Hard Drive Umbertron - U Wurkout (poolboy92's Mystic Protein Shake) DJ New Jersey Drone - Snake Eyes (Chain I) A. G. Cook - Keri Baby feat. Hannah Diamond Swick - SUPER GOLD TENNIS DZA - CATBUG Arm Watches Fingers - Super Fluid Margaret Antwood - Cry Cry Luisterwaar - Circuits Supraman - Wobble Balmorhea - Heir II (Ben Aqua remix) Hannah Diamond - Pink and Blue Hypo77 - Fleeting Moment Rabit - Red Candles Buffalo Black - No Blood Frets Man NOK from the Future - Awake Ben Aqua - Organic Blueprint --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

A mix for O FLUXO’s #FluxoPodcast 21, featuring bouncy synth pop songs from the 70s/80s that partially inspired my 2014 album Virtual Anticipation. Hear more of my music: http://fanlink.to/b3naqua Follow Ben Aqua @b3naqua: YouTube | Instagram | Twitter Track listing: Wendy Carlos - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major - Adagio Nancy Nova - Copy Data 3 - Who’s That? Duncan Mackay - Gin Sing Supersempfft - We Found It Out Yellow Magic Orchestra - Day Tripper Jean-Jacques Perrey - Alerte Aux Robots Plastics - Robots (7" Mix) Tone Set - Appeal To Them Mick Milk - Ear Candy Jacques Erdos - Toccata Space - Inner Voices Space Art - Paris Vision Telex - Pakmovast Claude Larson - Sand-Dunes Giorgio Moroder - Burning The Midnight Oil Future World Orchestra - Hypnos Garnegy & Maties Aquarama --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

A mix for Cluster Mag (RIP), full of hyper club music, footwork, juke, rave - a blob of music I called "hyPLUR." 32 trax in less than 32 minutes. Hear more of my music: http://fanlink.to/b3naqua Follow Ben Aqua @b3naqua: YouTube | Instagram | Twitter Tracklist: 1. Sinjin Hawke – Crystal Dust 2. Mohegan Son – Lick 3. LOLGurlz – Lite Green 4. EQ Why – Ghetto Booty 773 5. Traxman – I Need Some Money 6. Boylan & J’Roc – Letz Rock 7. MikeQ – The Master Blaster (Nadus Remix) 8. Fracture – The Limit VIP 9. Fuzzy Logic feat. Jada Pearl – All My Love (Slick Shoota Remix) 10. Supraman – Assidity 11. 2 Chainz – Getn Wrk (Nikes Bootleg) 12. Skimatix – Terrorist Juke (Wooferface Remix) 13. DJ Rashad – Twitter 14. DJ Earl – Audio Fixx 15. Chrissy Murderbot – Bionic Penguins 16. Phone Tag – Ghosts Behind (Chants Remix) 17. DJ Azamat & NXTLYF – The Taste Of Bandwidth (Ben Aqua Remix) 18. Jlin – Expand 19. Sarantis – Medieval 20. Raumskaya – Buy My Bomb 21. Boeboe – Act Stupid 22. Dookz – Rock Right 23. Mama Testa – Estoesparauds (andykisaragi Remix) 24. DJ New Jersey Drone – No Fear 25. Eprom – Twerkul8 26. Druthers & Drips – Hit Em (Sinistarr Remix) 27. Pana – Night Drive 28. Ben Aqua – Reset Yourself 29. Thømas White x Vilify – Brigade 30. Uncle Texx – Destroy Tengu 31. Kilbourne – Born Living Under Evil (Illuminati’s Very Youngest) 32. Ciara – Body Party (Supraman’s Happy Hardcore Candy Rave Remix) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

A mix for UK-based brand Long Clothing, featuring future/hyper club music and footwork/bass vibes. Hear more of my music: http://fanlink.to/b3naqua Follow Ben Aqua @b3naqua: YouTube | Instagram | Twitter Tracklist: 1. Wendy Carlos - Two Part Invention In F Major 2. Pana - Parade 3. Crookers - Bust Em Up (Slick Shoota Starts Di Helicopta Edit) 4. Ra Cailum - Everything 5. Nadus - Love Don’t Live Here 6. Cardopusher - Dónde Están Las Mujeres 7. Young Smoke - Floating Star 8. Mike G - Club Watch 9. DJ FootMerc - Belly 2 Belly 10. Nah Like - Jewelz (River Gbeh Remix) 11. 2tall - Fuck U All The Time 2k12 12. Poirier - Bring It On (feat. EJ Von Lyrik) 13. Paisley Parks - GO 14. Damscray - Walk To My Truck 15. Inflect - Wait A Minute 16. DJ Prako - Bol Soni Chutney-G-Spott 17. Ben Aqua - Shy Bitch 18. Satanicpornocultshop - battle creek brawl, reprise (footworkin’ for jamaica) 19. Planet Soap - Beastie 20. Marcus Price & Carli - Cronic In The Back 21. HASEGAWA-4200 - Groove What I Know 22. Sinistarr - Ross 23. Ben Aqua - Some Will Die 24. Ynfynyt Scroll - Fantasma Triste 25. Philthkids - Ordinateur 26. Jeremih - Birthday Sex (Lecter Ghetto Ediot Remix) 27. Heinz Funk - Haendel Goes Electronic (Finale I) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

A mix for all the creators of net art everywhere in the IRL vs URL universe. Bizarro sound collage vibes. Hear more of my music: http://fanlink.to/b3naqua Follow Ben Aqua @b3naqua: YouTube | Instagram | Twitter Tracklist: zakloyd - late night windowz 98 youpy - Scissor Time Stretch Demo Shock Diamond - I_Dont_Care (NirvanaRe#Breed) Phrederick Fox - The Great Bhindi Glass Popcorn - Glass Like Me (prod. Clams Casino) THA UNGLOWN FEAT. BEN AQUA - TRIP HAWP aids3d nightcore - Sexo, Sudor & Calor (eTip edit) Munks & Sutherland - Track6 HD BOYZ - HDMI IN LOVE Sextape - TXT MSGS Ynfynyt Scroll - Butch Queen †een wi†ch - check it out Mike Ruiz - Versions Freestylez Thisket - Reddish (edit) Time Cop - NIGHTWORF - Alexander in the Holodeck Ben Aqua - Dear Dad Mario Zoots - Lay Your Head smokey emery - 12.30.10. Edit I Ferdinand Rising - Death misc. diskette - Upon the Long Beam Modesty - Smokey --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

A mix for Honey Soundsystem's Potcast series, featuring 70s/80s cute synth pop, bizarro zolo, and mysterious library/synth trax. Hear more of my music: http://fanlink.to/b3naqua Follow Ben Aqua @b3naqua: YouTube | Instagram | Twitter Tracklist: 1. Heinz Funk - Presto Swing 2. A Trois Dans Les WC - Contagion 3. Plastics - Robot (7" Mix) 4. Sizike - Cudni Ples 5. Akiko Yano - Harusaki Kobeni 6. Kym Amps - You Don't Know My Name 7. Hymn - Give Me 8. Yip-Yip - Too Much 9. The Oblong Boys - Life is Meaningless 10. Brenda Hutchinson and Clive Smith - Noon 11. Claude Larson - Transformation 12. Garnegy & Maties - Soupapes 13. S U R V I V E - Cube 14. Yello - Take It All 15. Andi Arroganti - Hom-o-hetero 16. Silent Diane - Juliet The Painting 17. Tik and Tok - The Garden (4-Track Demo) 18. Das Ding - Oradour Sur Glane 19. Dark Day - The Metal Benders 20. Bernard Fevre - Impressionism 21. Ben Aqua - march n2 h3ll 22. Maki Nomiya - Atomic Bomb Rock --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

A mix of all-Bollywood disco and bizarro synth pop vibes, all from the late 70s and early 80s. Dry drum machine hits, hyper synth stabs, and vocal drama. Hear more of my music: http://fanlink.to/b3naqua Follow Ben Aqua @b3naqua: YouTube | Instagram | Twitter --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

A mix for Modular Recordings’ Modcast series. Dripping with cosmic disco, italo, and synth pop weirdness, this podcast reflects my early roots and sonic interests as a bb DJ and producer. Hear more of my music: http://fanlink.to/b3naqua Follow Ben Aqua @b3naqua: YouTube | Instagram | Twitter Tracklist: (Intro) Raymond Scott - Space Fantasy w/ Michel Genest - Magical Iridescence 1. Roboterwerke - Let's Beam Him Up 2. Pink Project - Amama 3. White Noise - Time Traveler 4. 4 M International - Space Operator 5. Unknown - Disco Cammata 6. Nancy Nova - Heaven 7. Autumn - The Game 8. Utopia - Cosmic Convoy 9. Krisma - Kathode Mamma 10. Chip Chip - So Close to Heaven 11. Munich Machine - Space Warrior 12. Sparks - A Fun Bunch of Guys From Outer Space 13. Mark Shreeve - Icon 14. Space - Inner Voices 15. The Alan Parsons Project - Day After Day (The Show Must Go On) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support

Cosmic disco/weird synth pop vibes with a hilarious pitched-down vocal intro by yours truly. Hear more of my music: http://fanlink.to/b3naqua Follow Ben Aqua @b3naqua: YouTube | Instagram | Twitter Tracklist: 01. (intro) Vangelis – Conquest of Paradise 02. Future World Orchestra – I’m Not Afraid of the Future 03. Goblin – Tenebre 04. Claudio Simonetti – College 05. Bob East Showband – Squash 06. Martin Agterberg – Ephemeron 07. Gene Ramone – Romantic Face 08. Passengers – Go Michelle 09. Vivien Vee – Gotta Go 10. Imagination – Music and Lights 11. Peter Jacques Band – Counting on Love One, Two, Three 12. Arabesque – Don’t Kiss a Crocodile 13. Change – Angel in My Pocket 14. Richard Romero – Non Chalance 15. Alexander Robotnick – Love Robot 16. Vam Cyborg – Gods Valley (New Dance Mix) 17. Patrick Cowley – Teen Planet --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/b3naqua/support