July 26, 2023 • No Comments

Records packed for a last minute vinyl only midweek session at Brilliant Corners tonight. Expect mostly Jazz related stuff and little to no mixing for this one – just riding out favourite listeners all night! A little Soul, lots of Jazz Fusion, some early Nu Jazz, maybe even a touch of Disco[…]

July 24, 2023 • No Comments

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 1991 mixtape,[…]

July 18, 2023 • No Comments

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

July 12, 2023 • No Comments

Save the date radio heads! This Saturday BBC 6 Music celebrates HIPHOP50 with a spotlight on the 1970s featuring Ultimate Breaks and Beats legend Breakbeat Lou plus DJ sets from DJ Khan Fu, DJ Koco and you know who. My contribution is a breaks mix featuring cuts from the classic UBB compilation series[…]

July 10, 2023 • No Comments

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. Alongside the Hip Hop series this companion Breaks series takes our re-cap[…]