Blurb from Wax Poetics: 2023 may be behind us, but #HIPHOP50 has some months still to run! In celebration of the genre’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. Alongside[…]
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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,[…]
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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Blurb from WhoSampled: “Philadelphia International Records is to the City of Brotherly Love what Stax is to Memphis or Motown is to Detroit: a powerhouse label representing the cream of the era’s Soul talent. Helmed by songwriting / producer duo Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, Philadelphia International was launched in[…]
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“Sony EMI’s famed KPM Music label has been producing high quality recordings for use in Film, Television and Radio for over four decades. WhoSampled arranged for a group of renowned UK diggers, producers and beatmakers to be granted access to the label’s archive of recordings. Their task: to curate a[…]
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‘Happy (Hammond)’ is the second release from London based Funk & Soul outfit the So Much Soul Players, a gritty, instrumental Hammond Funk take on Pharrell Williams’ ubiquitous feel-good Pop/Soul cut ‘Happy’. Harking back to the raw stylings of 60s/70s Funk, this dancefloor oriented rendition of the popular song features[…]
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Unofficial / Unreleased remix of Common’s ‘What Do You Say’ featuring PJ, taken from the album ‘A Beautiful Revolution’. Tracklist: Common feat PJ – What Do You Say (Chris Read Remix) Common feat PJ – What Do You Say (Chris Read Instrumental)
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About 10 years ago I set up a Youtube Channel and pretty much never uploaded anything there because why would that be the place you go to listen to music? Anyway, times done changed – I spent a good chunk of Lockdown 1.0 uploading pretty much everything the algorithm would[…]
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I was invited by FootPatrol to put together a mix for Record Store Day. The brief: one day in Soho record shops to buy records within their given budget and put together a mix using only those records. The resulting mix is pretty eclectic: some Spoken Word, Sampled Soul, 80s,[…]
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This Friday I’ll be back at Horse & Groom Shoreditch for another all night session of Funk, Soul, Boogie, Disco, House, Broken Beat & more. Facebook event page here.
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