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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The entire 5 hours of music from Friday’s Spiritland session has been uploaded to Mixcloud for your listening pleasure. Hosted by Rob Butler (Be With Records) with music provided by Anton Spice (The Vinyl Factory) and me. A lot of jazz and some jazz influenced Hip Hop – all vinyl,[…]
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Tomorrow night I’ll be playing down at audiophile haven Spiritland for the launch of Be With Records’ reissue of the Ahamd Jamal classic ‘The Awakening’. Jazz and Hip Hop with DJs from the label and Vinyl Factory. Facebook event page here. In related news WhoSampled have 5 x Vinyl Copies[…]
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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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This Sunday I’ll be presenting a History of Sampling workshop and Point Blank studios in East London. Full details here.
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I recently had the pleasure of chatting to my friends Ollie Teeba and Jonny Cuba from Soundsci about the release of their new album ‘My Boosey Weighs a Ton’ and their lives in music. Blurb from WhoSampled: “Ollie Teeba is one half of the production duo behind The Herbaliser, who[…]
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This Saturday (4th March) I’ll be spinning alongside The Nextmen and Doctor’s Orders crew. Full details here.
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Blurb from Mr Bongo: “Mr Bongo’s ‘Brazil 45’s’ is a series of sought after ‘golden era’ 1960s and 1970s Brazilian releases, pressed on 7″ vinyl. The imprint features rare and sought after tracks previously unreleased as singles or only available on quieter LP pressings. Finding these tracks in good condition[…]
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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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The third mix in the ‘Classic Material ‘The Breaks’ series is here. It’s been quite some time since the last edition, but these are something of a labor of love and something I really only find time to work on in between other work. Anyway, the latest edition picks up[…]
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