The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.079: GREYBOY [DJ/producer/multi-instrumentalist, co-founder Greyboy Allstars] + FTF Fest

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Twas an honor and privilege to welcome legendary DJ/producer/multi-instrumentalist GREYBOY to Episode 079!! A career highlight for this program to facilitate a wide-reaching, ever-rare interview with the man born Andreas Stevens, who’s pioneering 90’s work on Ubiquity Records set, raised, and re-raised the bar for West Coast acid jazz and trip-hop. Greyboy’s solo canon is long revered for blurring the lines between hip-hop, funk, soul, jazz, and beyond; he’s also the visionary behind rare-groove ragers The Greyboy Allstars. Released June 2024, Greyboy’s latest LP Word On the Street represents an artistic rebirth and musical revolution tied to the broadening of his palette and a personal evolution.

0:00 – episode preview
3:30 – sponsor For The Funk Of It Fest
5:45 – sponsor – Fete du Void
8:20 – The Upful Update
12:30 – introducing GREYBOY
16:30 – interview w/ [90 min]
1:46:30 – introducing Spencer FTF Fest
1:49:00 – chatting w/ Spencer [17min]
2:05:00 – afterglow x Vibe Junkie JAMZ

1988 DMC Regional Champion. Recovering midcentury modernist. Responsible for wrangling together esteemed boogaloo bandits The Greyboy Allstars, hence their moniker and sonic blueprint. Over the course of three decades, DJ Greyboy has worked with musical and cultural luminaries that span genre and generation, his music oscillates between styles yet remains consistently Era Correct.

Grey shares a few of his leftfield non-musical passions that are sure to surprise even the most attentive fans of his timeless tunes. During this sprawling 90-minute conversation, Greyboy was stoked to explore the inspirations, losses, and motivations that gave us his most recent LP, Word On the Street. Plus unpacking seminal releases Greybreaks, Freestylin’, Land of the Lost, and reflections on crucial collaborators. Grateful that Grey was such a open book, and seemed quite happy to hop in the sidehack and bomb the hill down memory lane. Give Thanks for Greyboy.

After wrapping with Grey, we check in with Spencer from For The Funk Of It Festival, slated for Aug. 6-9 in NorCal, to get the 411 on this year’s throwdown on the Feather River.