Blurb from Wax Poetics: In celebration of Hip Hop’s 50th year, we’ve teamed up with London based âClassic Materialâ to present a chronologically themed series of mixtapes celebrating the history of recorded Rap music, mixed by Chris Read. This seventh bonus mix delves into Mid 90s R&B, specifically the pairing[…]
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Blurb from Wax Poetics: “In celebration of Hip Hop’s 50th year, we’ve teamed up with London based âClassic Materialâ 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 1994 mixtape,[…]
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I recently had the pleasure of appearing on the Love Thing LDN podcast with hosts DJ Swerve (Kiss FM) and 7oel for ‘Sample Special’, digging into some all time favourite samples and related chit chat. Listen on Spotify here.
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Blurb from Wax Poetics: “In celebration of Hip Hop’s 50th year, we’ve teamed up with London based âClassic Materialâ to present a chronologically themed series of mixtapes celebrating the history of recorded rap music, mixed by Chris Read. Edition #8 in this year by year series pays tribute to the Hip Hop[…]
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Blurb from Wax Poetics: 2023 may be behind us, but #HIPHOP50 has some months still to run! In celebration of the genre’s 50th year, we’ve teamed up with London based âClassic Materialâ to present a chronologically themed series of mixtapes celebrating the history of recorded Rap music, mixed by Chris Read. Alongside[…]
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Wax Poetics have teamed up with RTM Tapes to take it back to the golden era of mixtapes with a new collection of classic C60 blank cassettes! Buy one of these retro gems before the end of the month and you’ll automatically be entered into a draw to win a[…]
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A big thanks to everyone I worked with this year!: Classic Material, a project Nick Armitage, John Brotherhood and I started 12 years ago made a comeback for #HIPHOP50, re-running our mixtape series first with Wax Poetics magazine and then with Apple Music. I picked up ‘The Breaks’ mix series where I left off (absolutely insane[…]
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Iâm pleased to share with you the third volume of this new (nearly) quarterly mix series, âManifesto in Stereoâ. The mission, or Manifesto if you like, is a simple one â to play music that is moving me right now outside the restrictions of heavily themed mixes . A proportion[…]
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I’m pleased to be back at Seed Library Shoreditch (below One Hundred Hotel) this Saturday, for another all night, all vinyl session. Mostly selection, minimal mixing for this one. Come through for good drinks, food and of course soundtrack! Further info and table bookings here.
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Earlier this year Classic Material teamed up with Apple Music to offer all of the 90s editions of the Classic Material year by year mixtape series, officially licensed on the streaming service. As we enter the last month of Hip Hop’s 50th year, we’re pleased to announce that the 80s[…]
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