I will be DJing (as Suburban Architecture) this Friday at the Launch takeover at South London’s Planet Wax, record store bar and venue alongside some brilliant London Drum & Bass talent. Entry is FREE. More info here.
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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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Wax Poetics have teamed up with RTM Tapes to take it back to the golden era of mixtapes with a new collection of classic C60 blank cassettes! Buy one of these retro gems before the end of the month and you’ll automatically be entered into a draw to win a[…]
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Suburban Architecture are pleased to announce the third in their ‘Architecture Dubs’ series of limited edition 10″ vinyl releases, which sees some of the most revered names active during the mid 90s golden era of Drum & Bass deliver remixes of Suburban Architecture material in homage to that most innovative[…]
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In support of the release of Suburban Architecture’s sixth E.P ‘Inside / Outside’, we’ve put together this 10 track mix containing all 4 tracks from the E.P, our alongside a selection of current favourites from contemporary producers also drawing influence from the sounds of 90s Suburbia: Fracture, Tim Reaper, Accello[…]
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Suburban Architecture’s latest EP ‘Inside / Outside’ is finally released today! This new 4 track EP is available digitally (via all the usual streaming platforms) and on 140gram vinyl via Bandcamp. Purchase here.
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A big thanks to everyone I worked with this year!: Classic Material, a project Nick Armitage, John Brotherhood and I started 12 years ago made a comeback for #HIPHOP50, re-running our mixtape series first with Wax Poetics magazine and then with Apple Music. I picked up ‘The Breaks’ mix series where I left off (absolutely insane[…]
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I’m pleased to share with you the third volume of this new (nearly) quarterly mix series, ‘Manifesto in Stereo’. The mission, or Manifesto if you like, is a simple one – to play music that is moving me right now outside the restrictions of heavily themed mixes . A proportion[…]
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I’m pleased to be back at Seed Library Shoreditch (below One Hundred Hotel) this Saturday, for another all night, all vinyl session. Mostly selection, minimal mixing for this one. Come through for good drinks, food and of course soundtrack! Further info and table bookings here.
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Earlier this year Classic Material teamed up with Apple Music to offer all of the 90s editions of the Classic Material year by year mixtape series, officially licensed on the streaming service. As we enter the last month of Hip Hop’s 50th year, we’re pleased to announce that the 80s[…]
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