DJ EddieBoy

15/08/2024

The best book about music I’ve read this year.

Christoph Dallach’s book explores how Na**sm, a postwar German identity crisis and anti-authoritarian youth movements spurred some of the most daring experiments of 1970s music.

14/08/2024

Now playing.

Miles Davis - Aura. (CBS. 1989)

A deep crate Davis favourite. This recording marks the first session to include John McLaughlin since “On The Corner”, it’s also the final Miles joint to be released in his lifetime.

A fine studio capture of the band he toured and recorded with post “breakdown” and subsequently right up to the day before he died. Featuring his nephew on drums and composed by Swedish arranger P***e Mikkelborg to celebrate Davis’ winning the Léonie Sonning Music Prize, often called the Nobel Prize for composition.

Ambient, robotic-mutant-funk of the highest standard. I first got this album when I was living in America some 25 years ago and its unique atmosphere has always stuck with me. I’m a fan of his final run on CBS of which “Aura” was a gateway.

13/08/2024

Happy 33rd to the first Cypress Hill album.
A huge game changer for me personally and hip hop at large.
A masterpiece.

Watch the official HD music video for "Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk" by Cypress HillListen to Cypress Hill: https://CypressHill.lnk.to/_listenYDWatch more C...

11/08/2024

• The Sunday Rotations :

• Toshinoro Kondo / Eraldo Bernocchi / Bill Laswell - Charged. (Apollo/R&S 1999) •

• Bluescreen : John Hassell / Brain / Flea / Trevor Dunn / Buckethead / Islam Shabazz - Dressing For Pleasure. (Warner Brothers. 1994) •

I have been thinking a lot about the evolution of electro-acoustic music since “In A Silent Way” by Miles Davis up to say “Only Love From Now On” by Carmen Villian. Not Miles as an existential influence but as a direct lineage. Producers that continued the tradition of mixing acoustic instrumentation with jazz, dub, hip-hop, breaks, ambient and experimental forms.

We’re in a halcyon period of this sort of action now, festivals like Sonar, Supernormal and Primavera showcase plenty of folks with laptops and clarinets, but the forms very rich late 80’s / 90’s period remains strangely obscure. Barely available on streaming (other than YouTube) even though much of it was released on major labels at the time and had some seriously heavyweight contributors.

These two albums sum this up for me perfectly and I recommend them wholeheartedly to anyone interested in this area. Unsurprisingly this is all a something of a practice run for a longer piece I’ve been brewing on for the blog that will hopefully emerge soon.

Hit the links for listening.

>> https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY9hAhGMGeTJcsqFXHMozJIvRKExYdJlN&si=nvrkSQo_83-KcRSy

>> https://youtu.be/s1HxkL1sqqY?si=IvHNJqj_ilaCtWJS

10/08/2024

A fresh playlist for your weekend taking in some of the musics I’ve been listening to over the last 7 days.

HIT IT for joints from Void, ✝️✝️✝️, DJ Plead, Willow Smith, Fatima, J-Kwon and MORE. >>>> https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ZsiiyclqZcvNzpg0VNiGK?si=Pd3dKl-XQE6Rje4iJcUr8g

09/08/2024

During the honeymoon period of Kindles the book business was told it was by various tech bros/Richard Branson MBA types that printed media was “over.” This was all until folks realised Kindles, though useful, were literally just tools, devoid of soul or any real emotional value, no matter how “convenient” they are.

Will the world finally adopt a similar attitude to music and the obvious horrors, exploitation of creatives and blatant capitalist grift it faces from hideous people like Daniel Eck?

Time will tell but maybe the tide of bu****it is finally turning, be it at a glacial pace.

After years of roaring growth, expectations are being re-priced and hopes pinned on superfans

08/08/2024

Happy 29th “Timeless.”

⚡️⚡️⚡️

08/08/2024

📸 - Volker Hinz.

07/08/2024

Hump Day Rotations :

Deftones : Ohms. (Reprise. 2019)

>>> https://youtu.be/KUDbj0oeAj0?si=93xnLgtWTRu3Bwkn

07/08/2024

Hump Day Rotations :

Function : Existenz. (Tresor. 2019)

>>> https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh7VQrI2F_FzJ8zWH4eWZJYw4wyIwOqfL&si=bFzhIWmu3PCQmJVh

07/08/2024

Hump Day Rotations :

Swans : Children of God. (Young God. 1987)

>>> https://youtu.be/ImhS-3SMGDA?si=E-qVUzq4N8T3loXT

07/08/2024

Hump Day Rotations :

Idris Muhammad : Turn This Mother Out. (CTI. 1977)

>>> https://youtu.be/0skigTyA4NE?si=_05sKEZ9hpcTJEX8

07/08/2024

Hump day rotations :

Wayne Shorter : Odyssey Of Iska. (Blue Note. 1971)

>> https://youtu.be/ULYiR8zBQBw?si=9ea8JlvtHlTZkWyp

05/08/2024

I’m not that sort of record collector but still I think Rough Trade got this one SO wrong.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/social-media-reacts-to-rough-trades-ill-advised-vinyl-selling-scheme-genuinely-insulting-3780626 Social media reacts to Rough Trade's "ill-advised" vinyl selling scheme: "Genuinely insulting"

Rough Trade's new vinyl selling scheme has come under fire, with some taking to social media to express their disappointment.

04/08/2024

Sunday service.

04/08/2024

Some Sunday playlist action for your ear holes.

Hit it for some righteous jawns from : Byron the Aquarius, Still House Plants, Opeth, Donald Byrd, Dorothy Carter and A WHOLE BUNCH MORE >>> https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0u1zaerl3vwJy0RBgknsYX?si=haI1BIx6R3yjRLVddU4gAQ&pi=e-uCkR_S9tS8aG

03/08/2024

TEN BIG ONES FROM THIS WEEK.

Playlist pressure right here >>>> https://open.spotify.com/user/217ixct9zx4144hoawh38sjyw?si=TDXi8ACfQiWpUoHrcmRZLw

02/08/2024

TONIGHT from 10-3!

ROLL UP all funky Bristol people!

>> https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the-lanes/fri-2-aug-motorcity-103868

01/08/2024

One of souls most distinctive voices and genuinely extraordinary characters gets a very well curated deep crate examination.

Minne is a rare gift.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/aug/01/minnie-riperton-20-best-songs-ranked Soul, psychedelia and sensuality: Minnie Riperton’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Fifty years on from Riperton’s biggest album, Perfect Angel, we look back at the joyous, octave-jumping oeuvre that turned her from backing singer to pop star

31/07/2024

Rest well Randall.
Easily one of the greatest in the genre, he possessed such a individual style.
Salute 👑

The influential British DJ and founder of Mac2 Recordings was 54 years old.

31/07/2024

THIS FRIDAY NIGHT we return to The Lanes for another all singing, all dancing episode of MOTORCITY…THE GREATEST SOUL PARTY IN THR GALAXY!

Grab your tix HERE >>> https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the-lanes/fri-2-aug-motorcity-103868

30/07/2024

****FRESH EXPERIMENTAL / PSYCE / FREE JAZZ MIX BY YOURS TRULY NOW STREAMING****

****MAXIMUM VOLUME YEILDS MAXIMUM RESULTS****

HERE'S THE TRACK LIST OF THIS UNEASY LISTENING MIX & MASH-UP : INTRO : HAWKWIND - THE BLACK CORRIDOR SUN RA & HIS SOLAR-MYTH ORCHESTRA - SPECTRUM CAN - BEL AIR GOAT(JP) - MODAL FLOWER WOODEN SHJIPS

28/07/2024

****NEW MIX ALERT****
For 90 minutes of Can, Laurel Halo, Don Cherry, Spacemen 3, Hawkwind, Alice Coltrane and more besides…HIT THE LINK >>>

HERE'S THE TRACK LIST OF THIS UNEASY LISTENING MIX & MASH-UP : INTRO : HAWKWIND - THE BLACK CORRIDOR SUN RA & HIS SOLAR-MYTH ORCHESTRA - SPECTRUM CAN - BEL AIR GOAT(JP) - MODAL FLOWER WOODEN SHJIPS

27/07/2024

As ever, much awesomesauce on the music front up here at EddieBoy Towers.

Hit the link to sup upon some of what’s been on deck.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3rIZBGoMosOT3dZXtp9F9t?si=4G3uSxjuRM2k4Gg8tghZQg

26/07/2024

It’s been a BIG Kosmisch week up here…as it’s Friday time to wheel out the final bosses.

25/07/2024

Who’s excited about the new David Lynch album?

Me.

From the album “Cellophane Memories” by Chrystabell and David Lynch coming out on Sacred Bones Records on August 2, 2024.Pre-order and Pre-Save here: https:...

23/07/2024

It’s Monday.

20/07/2024

FRESH PLAYLIST AND BLOG HEAT RIGHT HERE…POKE THE LINKS TO INVESTIGATE!

>>> https://open.substack.com/pub/edwarddanielcalvert/p/on-heavy-rotation-mid-year-music?r=1fbpef&utm_medium=ios

>>> https://open.spotify.com/playlist/25JK55Gw20R06yL4HhKIQa?si=MrMoR_fwSvWEbXQdrsWCiw&pi=e-b_34xq-mQTSJ

18/07/2024

Are you ok hun?

📸 - Humans of Techno.

17/07/2024

Happy birthday Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal, one of the greatest to ever pick up a microphone. 👑