Blurb from WhoSampled: “Today (April 7th 2017) marks the 25th anniversary of Das EFX’s debut LP ‘Dead Serious’. Executive produced by EPMD, the LP shares its sonic template with Hit Squad productions of the era from the likes of Redman, K Solo and EPMD themselves. Densely layered samples are the[…]
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Blurb from BBE: “The second single taken from their debut album ‘Colo(u)rs Of The World‘, UK producer Chris Read & Chicago rapper Pugs Atomz present one of the album’s unquestionable highlights, languid hip hop anthem ‘Drum Roll‘. Nostalgic and deeply touching, ‘Drum Roll’ is a smooth horn-laden boom-bap epic, summoning[…]
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The entire 5 hours of music from Friday’s Spiritland session has been uploaded to Mixcloud for your listening pleasure. Hosted by Rob Butler (Be With Records) with music provided by Anton Spice (The Vinyl Factory) and me. A lot of jazz and some jazz influenced Hip Hop – all vinyl,[…]
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Tomorrow night I’ll be playing down at audiophile haven Spiritland for the launch of Be With Records’ reissue of the Ahamd Jamal classic ‘The Awakening’. Jazz and Hip Hop with DJs from the label and Vinyl Factory. Facebook event page here. In related news WhoSampled have 5 x Vinyl Copies[…]
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I am very pleased to announce that my new album in collaboration with Chicago rapper / vocalist Pugs Atomz is out now! Blurb from BBE: “Respected producer, renowned digger, and prolific DJ, Chris Read has been releasing and compiling music on BBE for many years now, both as a solo[…]
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