Tag: Essexboy
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RIP Elektric cowboy
(Me and Colin (wearing his shades, IHNI why,,, I think his pic was the reverse) outside King’s Arms, 2016) Sad to hear on Friday the death of Colin aka Elektric Cowboy, one of the early Bastard / bootleg crowd (well before it got called mashup). His work has been featured frequently on the podcast back…
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Lloydbrary #100 with Radio Clash
A new spoken word podcast which marks several things: Ian Fondue’s Lloydbrary reaching #100 (delayed by several major life events), the end of 2017 and start of 2018, and the first time I’ve been part of a spoken podcast in over 3 years, a (brief?) break in my retirement! Older listeners will remember Ian co-hosted…
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Bride of Monster Mash repost
A bit over ten years ago I was working on DJNoNo’s County Sound part of the compilation ‘Bride of Monster Mash’ and Mutant night to help promote it. Looking online it seems the site and links are dead – but Bootleg Archive to the rescue! You can download it here for your Halloween mashup goodness,…
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RIP Grant Essexboy
Sadly learned today that Grant Martin aka Essexboy / Apricot Cyanide / Ebro had died this morning. One of the old skool bootleggers, part of Bastard and GYBO’s formation, I met him at Bastard nearly 10 years ago, a lovely bloke usually accompanied by his other half Lisa who was equally as lovely and always…
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Essexboy’s Eclectique podcast is back
Hopefully for good…if you want to hear some great dance tunes, remixes, mashups or dubplates* listen to Eclectique from Essexboy – always a good selection and he always has an ear to the ground for the latest tunes and freshest things: * are they still called dubplates when they’re MP3s? I’m assuming not many people…