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New Classic Material Mixes Added to Apple Music

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Three more ‘Bonus Mixes’ from the Classic Material mixtape series have now been made officially available on Apple Music! Bonus mixes 4, 5 & 6 covering New Jack Swing, 90s Hip Hop Soul and 90s Dancehall Hip Hop respectively can now be streamed on the service. Explore all mixes from[…]

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Connections D&B All Dayer at Filly Brook this Sunday

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This Sunday Filly Brook in Leyton, East London host an all day D&B event as part of the month long Connections programme featuring live music from drummer Richard Spavens alongside celebrated vocalist Cleveland Watkiss MBE. The day will also feature interviews and DJ sets and I will be hosting a[…]

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#HIPHOP50 Classic Material Edition #9 (1995)

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Burb 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 #9 in this year by year series pays tribute to the Hip Hop[…]

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#HIPHOP50: Wax Poetics x Classic Material – The Breaks of ’94

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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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Suburban Architecture ‘Dancefloor Heritage Volume 2’

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This second volume of this album / compilation series from London based Suburban Architecture, ‘Dancefloor Heritage Volume 2’, rounds up all of the tracks from the duo’s last 3, now Sold Out, vinyl EPs, 2022’s ‘Exploration’, 2023’s ‘Turning Point’ and 2024’s ‘Inside / Outside’. Also featured are three brand new[…]

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