I’m really pleased to announce the launch of ‘The Sound of Philadelphia: The Story of Gamble Huff & Bell’, a new mini site experience by WhoSampled in collaboration with Warner Chappell celebrating the legacy of the much sampled producer / songwriting trio of Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Them Bell,[…]
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For those who have been following updates here, you’ll have seen that the various mixes from the Classic Material series have been slowly been made available officially on Apple Music. The latest to be added to the collection is The Breaks of ’91, now finally available on the service. Listen[…]
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Catch me playing alongside Rinse FM’s Russ Ryan and Fingaz (Main Squeeze) at the BBE Store this Saturday for Jeep Beat Soul: 90s Hip Hop flavoured R&B and Soul, 6pm til 11pm. Entry is Free. Venue information here.
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You can find me playing records at the Seed Library (below One Hundred Hotel – formerly Ace Hotel) on Shoreditch High Street this Friday. This one’s vinyl only – more of a selector session than a mixed affair. Soul, Funk, Boogie, Disco and Beats. Venue info here.
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Over the last couple of months I’ve done a major rearrange of the way my music is available on Bandcamp. My main page is now exclusively for my new original music. All of the older remixes for other labels, mixtapes and other less official stuff has now been removed and[…]
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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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