Pugs has put together a video for our recent single ‘Drum Roll‘ w/ Wes Restless featuring excerpts from the original album version and remixes by Sup Nasa and Myke Forte. Watch the video below:
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Blurb from BBE: “Join two of BBE’s most prolific artists and compilers, Mr Thing & Chris Read on a voyage into the mysterious, strange and wonderful world of Library Music, courtesy of Cavendish Music. Founded in 1937 and originally known as Boosey & Hawkes Recorded Music Library, Cavendish Music is[…]
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WhoSampled have copies of Mike City’s ‘Feel Good Agenda Volume 1’ up for grabs in their latest competition courtesy of BBE Records. Entry details here.
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Just added to Mixcloud: a Mixtape containing tracks from (and in support of) my recent BBE Records album ‘Colo(u)rs of the World’ in collaboration with Chicago vocalist Pugs Atomz. Words about the LP from BBE: “Mixtape maestro and sample head, Chris Read’s beat-making credentials simply cannot be overstated. ‘Colours Of[…]
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Blurb from BBE: “The second single taken from their debut album ‘Colo(u)rs Of The World‘, UK producer Chris Read & Chicago rapper Pugs Atomz present one of the album’s unquestionable highlights, languid hip hop anthem ‘Drum Roll‘. Nostalgic and deeply touching, ‘Drum Roll’ is a smooth horn-laden boom-bap epic, summoning[…]
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I am very pleased to announce that my new album in collaboration with Chicago rapper / vocalist Pugs Atomz is out now! Blurb from BBE: “Respected producer, renowned digger, and prolific DJ, Chris Read has been releasing and compiling music on BBE for many years now, both as a solo[…]
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New material in collaboration with Chicago vocalist Pugs Atomz, ‘Baby Don’t Go’ b/w ‘You’ is released on 7″ inch vinyl via Dinked Records x BBE Music on 17th February 2017. The B-Side features fellow Chicago vocalists Simeon Viltz and Thaione Davis. The record is released ahead of our full length[…]
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Just a quick post to round up 2016, thank some of the folks I worked with over the last year and shine a little light on what’s in store for 2017: Despite all the political and humanitarian horrors that blighted 2016, I’d be hard pushed to complain on a personal[…]
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Blurb from BBE: “In what’s become something of a tradition in the BBE office, we’re once again closing out the year with a hand-picked selection of highlights from the last 12 months. It’s been a special 2016 for us at BBE: celebrating our 20th birthday, opening our own record store[…]
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Released just a few weeks back, the mixed version of the second of my recent BBE 20th Anniversary compilations is now available on Mixcloud. One hour of Broken Beat, Nu Jazz, House and Future Soul including tracks by Omar, Slakah, Simbad, Opolopo, Maylight and several of my own remixes /[…]
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