What is The BocX?

The BocX 24/7 Streaming Web Radio Station

Old School to New Sizzle

Welcome to "The BocX" revamped website! Here we will have our streaming jazz radio station,, news, downloads pictures and other treats. If you have a new Jazz, (Chill, Downtempo,, classic jazz, lounge,, jazz fusion, or smooth) R&B/Soul/Blues (New, Classic or Northern Soul) send it our way and we'll add it to our radio station if it meets our groove parameters! So show some love to the world, send the website to others! DJ Phil D, & DJ "Special" Ed

August 15th is the Make it or Break it date for www.TheBocX.com! The hosting service www.Radionomy.com has made that the date for all of its radio stations to have an average of 130 hours of listening per day over this next 30 day period. If not we’re off the air! So besides asking you to listen more frequently to www.TheBocX.com, we also ask you to spread the word to your friends and others who would enjoy the Jazzy chill, Soulful sounds, and Eclectic tracks. We’re going to keep promoting our station, and adding new tracks and making it irresistible for you to not listen. So if you like the uniqueness and grooves please listen frequently and share the love with others! The following is a quick listing of the ¬some of the new tracks added this week! Thank you so much for listening! Magic Number – Suddenly – Don’t know what to say about this one, listen out for it Mac Tontoh's African Machine - Hwe! Womma Esu – Some Hi-life style music with horny funk Marva Whitney - It's My Thing (Pt 1) – James Brown’s female protégé with full funk effect. Maze, Frankie Beverly - Before I Let Go – Eighties soul groove, sing-a-long. Edson X - Acabou A Tristeza & Esperando – Great Bossa grooves, I’ve been waiting for the right time to share it with you! EMO - Breakadawn – Just a summer stuttering island groove Swing Out Sister - Stoned Soul Picnic (live BTW) great summer chill song from the 60’s redone with respect. Respectfully, DJ Phil D www.TheBocX.com

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In this issue of the newsletter, I would like to point out some features of the website that you may or might not know or utilize.

Let’s start with “The_BocX” music player in the right margin. It should auto-magically play when you go to the website. It may ask you to load a plug-in that is safe on your first visit. Also embedded in the player are icons for RealPlayer, Win Amp or iTunes that you can click on and play the music via your smart phone or the above-mentioned application on your PC.

If you would like to add www.TheBocx.com music player to your own blog or website (at no charge) I can send you the code so it plays auto-magically or with a click of the blue arrow. A great way to have viewer stay longer on your website.

You can click on the Detach link and the player will become a small window and play in the background and you can close www.TheBocX.com website and still have the music play. In addition, you can click on the Export link and it will take you to the Radionomy.com website where you can sign up as a fan of this radio station or other features.

The last item I wanted to mention in this newsletter is the Bocx Tech Info link in the right margin. There is YouTube video with simple instructions on how to connect your PC to your home stereo system to play www.thebocx.com. Now you can kick it up and have big fun!

Thanks for tuning in, and as usual and the following is the listing of Some of the latest music added to www.TheBocX.com in the last several days.

Guodo Guidoboni Quintet – Virtual Bossa – Strong horns, strong bossa rythms

Charles Earland – Black Talk – Remastered great organ swing Funk from 1969

Toshi Kubota - Nothing But Your Love – Can Japan feel the funk, you decide?

Jaspects – Broadcast The Definition – Wow new approach to classic jazz styles

The Blackbyrds – Happy Music (makes you feel good) A 70’s party jam!

Macy Gray – I Try - Macy back when

6ix Toys – Do your thing! – This will provide the beats to do your thing!

Gazzara – Our man in Rio – Some full-on strong Bossa Beats\

Live Tropical Fish – Time is Moving - Full on horn, bass Bossa- Nova

The Sonic Family – Never Stop – Detroit meets Rio!

Jimi Tenor – Strawberry Place –All the joy of Afro-Pop mixed with Europop!

Groovematist – Ponder – Haunting piano riffs, with funky breaks

Check out http://www.thebocx.com/videos/ video page!

Respectfully,

Phil D

Authority is never without hate."

--Euripides,
Greek playwright

Metropolitan Jazz Affair is a Lyon France based jazz band created in 2002 with : Eric "Mr. Day" Duperray : vocals, guitar Stéphane Ronget : flugehorn, trumpet, trombone and back vocals Benjamin Devigne : grand piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ Bruno "Patchworks" Hovart : bass, doublebass, programming "MJA" tends to make the connection between jazz and soul music, with various influences, from the Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Pharaoh Sanders, Leon Thomas or more actual sounds like the Roots, Roy Ayers. Listen for them frequently on www.TheBocX.com Herb Albert – Many cuts from his North on South St Album – A classic approach at the birth of chill here. Jearld Daemyon – Summer Madness, a great summer classic enhanced Nelson Rangell – Rainbow Shadows good jazz chops in a CTI production recast. Dr. John – Blue Sky a classic done Big Easy style. Raphael Saadiq – It’s a Shame – a Spinners classic that only he could revive! Kate Rogers – Fine – check this out in the evening one of my relaxation favorites Wishing on a Star - I did a search on this song to try to find different versions of this song and these are my results: • Maysa – Baltimore’s own twist every ounce of soul out of the song. • Cover Girls – A Louie Vega remix bumps it up • Rose Royce – Come on I had to have the original Also added music by Stanley Clarke (new), Kermit Ruffins, Baby Charles, Minus 8, Regina Belle, Soulive, The Roots, DJ Smash, One More Once, Easy Mo Bee, Large Professor, Grant Green, Dwele, Buddy Miles & Billy Cox (Band of Gypsy’s Return)! So please keep listening long and often to http://www.TheBocX.com

Here is our web radio station, you can play it by clicking on the blue arrow. You can also stream it to iTunes, Win Amp or Windows Media player by clicking on the those icons. Share it with anyone you know who may appreciate it. If you want to add this player to your website we can send you the player code!

Update - We need your ears and listening support. Our station will go off the air if we don't increase the number of daily listeners. So please listen often and share with others, thanks for your support!

Updated we passed the first April listeners hurdle, now we must triple our listeners by the end of August. So look for more new music updates and other website features!

Thanks for Listening to TheBocX.com

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The BocX

Towson, MD 21286

djphild@thebocx.com

www.thebocx.com
Tel: 1.973.214.3802 (US)

Tel: 44.01494.416286 (UK)

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