Blurb from Wax Poetics: In celebration of Hip Hop’s 50th year, we’ve teamed up with London based âClassic Materialâ to present a chronologically themed series of mixtapes celebrating the history of recorded Rap music, mixed by Chris Read. Alongside the Hip Hop series, this companion Breaks series takes our re-cap[…]
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Happy #HIPHOP50! I’m very excited to share with you that as part of Apple Musicâs Hip Hop 50 celebration, all of the 90s volumes of my Classic Material mixtape series are now available to stream officially on Apple Music! Listen on Apple Music here.
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I’m pleased to share with you the second volume of this new quarterly mix series, ‘Manifesto in Stereo’. The mission, or Manifesto if you like, is a simple one – to play music that is moving me right now outside the restrictions of heavily themed mixes . A proportion of[…]
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Check out the teaser video for Drum & Bass legend Blame’s excellent remix of Suburban Architecture’s ‘Visions ’96’: Pre-order the Vinyl EP here.
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I’m excited to let you know tha Suburban Architecture âArchitecture Dub #002â is now available for pre-order on Bandcamp. This one features two brand new remixes from a pair of heavy hitters: A. Visions â96 (Blame Remix) @blame720B. Future Jazz â95 (DJ Trace Remix) @dsci4 Check out a preview of Blameâs remix now[…]
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Blurb from Wax Poetics: In celebration of Hip Hop’s 50th year, we’ve teamed up with London based âClassic Materialâ to present a chronologically themed series of mixtapes celebrating the history of recorded Rap music, mixed by Chris Read. This fourth bonus mix follows last month’s Hip House round up with[…]
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Records packed for a last minute vinyl only midweek session at Brilliant Corners tonight. Expect mostly Jazz related stuff and little to no mixing for this one – just riding out favourite listeners all night! A little Soul, lots of Jazz Fusion, some early Nu Jazz, maybe even a touch of Disco[…]
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Blurb from Wax Poetics: In celebration of Hip Hop’s 50th year, we’ve teamed up with London based âClassic Materialâ to present a chronologically themed series of mixtapes celebrating the history of recorded rap music, mixed by Chris Read. This megamix serves as short form companion to our recent 1991 mixtape,[…]
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Blurb from Wax Poetics: In celebration of Hip Hop’s 50th year, we’ve teamed up with London based âClassic Materialâ to present a chronologically themed series of mixtapes celebrating the history of recorded rap music, mixed by Chris Read. Edition #5 in this year by year series pays tribute to the Hip Hop[…]
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Save the date radio heads! This Saturday BBC 6 Music celebrates HIPHOP50 with a spotlight on the 1970s featuring Ultimate Breaks and Beats legend Breakbeat Lou plus DJ sets from DJ Khan Fu, DJ Koco and you know who. My contribution is a breaks mix featuring cuts from the classic UBB compilation series[…]
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