Hello there and good day to you - there is a new single and video out for the song Jerry off the forthcoming 1,2 Kung Fu! album (which you can pre-order here in lovely pink and/or blue vinyl). It's a song about a dog 🐶
The video was once again done by Toby Cameron of ON PAR Productions, shot at Cardiff Dogs Home, (please donate here) and the single is out on Heavenly Recordings. It will be available on your radio dials soon.
With love and Azooga,
Ed 🎚🎛❤️
A little while back I started jotting down a bunch of short mixing/mastering/song-writing and production tips that I’ve learned over the past few years. I thought it might be a nice idea to share these, one or two a day, until the end of time. Perhaps I'll even post them all in one post, one day.
I know that there are tons of other accounts (Twitter, blogs, etc) that do this and I’m not trying to suddenly pretend to be some sort of sage on music creation. Some people aren't following me to try to learn how to make music, and yes, social media is gross. But if one of them help anyone, then hopefully it's useful. I do hope that's OK with you?
Really, I created these as reminders for myself - I still look at them all the time when I’m struggling - but perhaps they’d be useful for anyone that makes music and cares to read them. They’re might be a specific piece of direct advice/suggestion, or it could be an Eno-esque Oblique Strategies style snippet, to encourage a bit of thought and intentionally left open to interpretation. Context is not required/lack of context is encouraged.
I do hope you find these useful - if you’d like me to expand on any of them (I'll go as in depth as you like, and post it here, with examples), just get in touch: ed@edboogie.com
Have fun and make great music ❤️
Ed
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A couple of years ago I mastered the super dope Smith & The Honey Badgers 7": The Honey Badger Strut / Let's Pretend. And I still think it's super cool - click the link above, go listen, buy (digi and/or vinyl), and support these funkateers in their crusade. I got my copy!
P.S. Unless we're actually talking about funk music can we please stop using the word 'funky'? Thx.
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Here's the second Boy Azooga 'teaser' track - Face Behind Her Cigarette. I'm just wrapping up the album, so these are the pre-final mixes and master. Basically what I'm saying is there'll probably be a couple of little changes here and there. I do hope that you enjoy it.