I’m very pleased to let you know that a further two volumes of the Classic Material ‘The Breaks’ mixtape series are now available officially on Apple Music! Check out the 1992 mix here, the 1993 mix here or browse the entire series here.
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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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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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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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Classic Material celebrate Hip Hop’s 51st anniversary with an all day session recapping the first two decades years of recorded rap, playing classics and rarities from 1979 to 1999 throughout the afternoon and evening. 2 x DMC Champion Mr Thing is joined by fellow BBE producer Chris Read, former UK DMC Champion[…]
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Two more Classic Material mixtapes are now available on Apple Music! Bonus Mix #1 (80s Electro) and Bonus Mix #2 (Hip House) are now officially licensed and available to stream on Apple Music. Listen here and here respectively.
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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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Blurb from Wax Poetics: In celebration of Hip Hop’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. This megamix serves as short form companion to our recent 1993 mixtape,[…]
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Blurb from Wax Poetics: In celebration of Hip Hop’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. Edition #7 in this year by year series pays tribute to the Hip Hop[…]
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Blurb from Wax Poetics: In celebration of Hip Hop’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. This megamix serves as short form companion to our recent 1992 mixtape,[…]
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