I’m very pleased to announce that the debut E.P from new project ‘Suburban Architecture’ is now available to pre-order on vinyl. The record goes on general release in just over a week’s time (6th September), and we will only be selling a very limited number directly, so this is your[…]
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Blurb from WhoSampled: “This weekend marked the 25th Anniversary of Digable Planets debut LP ‘Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space)’, an album as memorable for its rich jazz-heavy sample material as it is for its evocation of the post-civil rights era poetry. The lead single ‘Rebirth of Slick[…]
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This year I released my 4th album, a collaboration with Chicago vocalist Pugs Atomz entitled ‘Colo(u)rs of the World’, for the BBE label. The album featured the talents of a host of guests including Junior P Williams, Thaione Davis, Awdazcate, Wes Restless, Juice Aleem, Inari Gold, Neak, Mojo Green and[…]
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Blurb from BBE: “Join two of BBE’s most prolific artists and compilers, Mr Thing & Chris Read on a voyage into the mysterious, strange and wonderful world of Library Music, courtesy of Cavendish Music. Founded in 1937 and originally known as Boosey & Hawkes Recorded Music Library, Cavendish Music is[…]
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I’ll be pulling out 12 records for the excellent Digger’s Dozen at Ace Hotel this Thursday alongside Mo Fingaz, Paul Day, Tom Hyena and Maxwell. Facebook event page here.
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Created for the launch of our pop-up store back in 2013, we’ve unearthed a small stash of these super-limited cassettes. A continuation of sorts from Chris Read’s ‘The Diary’ mixtape and subsequent ‘Classic Material’ mix series, ‘The Breaks of …’ revisits the chronological theme of those mixes, this time reconstructing[…]
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Following on from the ‘Funky Drummers’ Part 2 mix which I posted two weeks back, this is the alternate version that I mentioned I would be posting. Essentially the same mix, but stripped right back to the essence – 20 minutes of nothing but the raw drum breaks! Tracklist: 1.[…]
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A labour of love which started life some years ago, the second part of this two part mix is long overdue. Part 1 of this mix was posted around a year ago and this was supposed to follow shortly after. Other projects overtook completing this, but I finally found a[…]
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This is an article I’ve been wanting to write for a while – A fun one to research which forced me to revisit a bunch of classics and introduced me to a few bits and pieces that passed me by first time round. Read here.
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The second mix in the ‘Breaks of …’ series, a continuation of sorts from the Diary mixtape and Classic Material mix series, ‘The Breaks of …’ revisits the chronological theme of those mixes, this time reconstructing classic hip hop from the year in question utilising only the original sample material.[…]
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