Catch me playing some music from a mixed bag for my good friends at Fillybrook this Friday 13th December ahead of a top weekend of music at the venue. Venue details here.
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Following on from the recent addition of the Classic Material Hip Hop mixtape series to Apple Music in celebration of #HIPHOP50, the Classic Material ‘The Breaks’ series is now to be added. The first two volumes, covering the years 1979-1989 and 1990 respectively are now live. Search the ‘Chris Read[…]
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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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