Blurb from Wax Poetics: In celebration of Hip Hop’s 50th year, we’ve teamed up with London based ‘Classic Material’ 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 ‘Classic Material’ to present a chronologically themed series of mixtapes celebrating the history of recorded rap music, mixed by Chris Read. Edition #1 documents Hip Hop’s birth on wax and its formative years, 1979-1983, from[…]
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Classic Material is back! In celebration of Hip Hop’s 50th year, we’ve 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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Vinyl of my recent album ‘Inner Tribe Records Remixed’ is finally available on my Bandcamp page. Those of you who may have pre-ordered should receive your copies very soon and those of you who have not, there are copies available to buy now. The album features artists including Phat Kat,[…]
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There’s a new remix album for the Cavendish label comprising instrumental Hip Hop tracks sampling archive library records from the Cavendish / Boosey & Hawkes catalog. I have two tracks featured out of twelve alongside tracks from artists including The Herbaliser / Soundsci’s Ollie Teeba. This album is produced for[…]
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From the station’s launch in summer 2002 to summer 2004 I was one of two Hip Hop mix show DJs on the BBC’s station for ‘new black music’, 1Xtra. This month marks the station’s 20th Anniversary, so I’ve embraced the embarrassment of my 1Xtra press photo and picked a selection[…]
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From the station’s launch in summer 2002 to summer 2004 I was one of two Hip Hop mix show DJs on the BBC’s station for ‘new black music’, 1Xtra. This month marks the station’s 20th Anniversary, so I’ve embraced the embarrassment of my 1Xtra press photo and picked a selection[…]
Read More »I’m really pleased to announce that my latest album ‘Inner Tribe Records Remixed’ is now available to pre-order on vinyl. Limited to just 100 copies, this record is available exclusively from Diggers Factory or Bandcamp. The deadline to order is 5th June – please see links below for T&Cs. Your[…]
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I’m very excited to finally share with you my new album ‘Inner Tribe Records Remixed’- out now on all the usual streaming platforms, available to purchase from Bandcamp and vinyl pre-order available exclusively from Diggers Factory. Blurb from Inner Tribe Records: ” ‘Inner Tribe Records Remixed’ delivers 12 brand new[…]
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Over the past few weeks I’ve been digging out, retouching and in some cases reconstructing from scratch various old remixes which for one reason or another I’d sat on or that never got a proper release. This collection pulls them all together – 10 tracks in total from across the[…]
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