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 1988 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 #2 of this mixtape series pays tribute to the Hip Hop of 1988,[…]
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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. Alongside the Hip Hop series this companion Breaks series takes our re-cap[…]
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Blurb from Wax Poetics: In celebration of Hip Hop’s 50th year, Classic Material has teamed up with iconic crate digger’s journal Wax Poetics to present a chronologically themed series of mixtapes celebrating the history of recorded Rap music, mixed by Chris Read. This companion Breaks series takes the re-cap of[…]
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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. Bridging the gap between the disco rap of the early 80s and[…]
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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 the first two mixtapes[…]
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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. Part 2 of this first edition in the series documents Hip Hopâs[…]
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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 #1 documents Hip Hopâs birth on wax and its formative years, 1979-1983, from[…]
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Classic Material is back! In celebration of Hip Hopâs 50th year, weâve teamed up with the crate diggers’ journal Wax Poetics to present our series of chronogically themed Hip Hop history mixtapes with updated artwork, new additions to the series and much more! Edition #1 can be found on the Wax Poetics Soundcloud now.[…]
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The Classic Material âbonusâ mixes fill the gaps in the original Classic Material Hip Hop History mixtape series, exploring specific sub genres or spin off genres not covered in the main series. #7 delves into a sub genre which is not entirely easy to describe. In their day these tracks[…]
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