Now that we’ve finally wrapped up Classic Material’s year long collaboration with Wax Poetics, we’ve complied four handy playlists archiving the various mixes into themed collections: Mixtapes, Breaks Mixes, Megamixes and Bonus Mixes. Visit my Soundcloud page to listen or check them out below:
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Blurb from Wax Poetics: 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 the Hip Hop series, this companion Breaks series takes our re-cap[…]
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The long awaited follow up to Eilon Paz’s ‘Dust & Grooves’ photo book is finally here… and I’m in it! Explore more ‘adventures in record collecting’ with the excellent second edition, featuring collectors from around the world. Purchase or find more info on the Dust & Grooves website.
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Earlier this week I did a guest spot for London radio institution, Rinse FM for the Eclecticist show. You can listen back on the Rinse player or Soundcloud for a couple of hours of chat with host The Eclecticist about samples in Hip Hop, Jungle and Dance music more generally[…]
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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. This megamix serves as short form companion to our recent 1999 mixtape,[…]
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