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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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 genreâs 50th year, weâve 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 the Hip Hop series, this companion Breaks series takes our re-cap[…]
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Blurb from Wax Poetics: In celebration of the genreâs 50th year, weâve 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 the Hip Hop series, this companion Breaks series takes our re-cap[…]
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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 genreâs 50th year, weâve 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[…]
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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 genreâs 50th year, weâve 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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My Ultimate Breaks & Beats tribute mix for @bbc6musicâs @hueymorgan show (first aired as part of the stationâs #HIPHOP50 celebration last month) has now been added to my Mixcloud. 15 minute mix containing around 30 original Funk, Soul, Disco cuts featured on the legendary UBB compilation series. Track list: 1. Rufus Thomas â The Breakdown Part[…]
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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. Alongside the Hip Hop series, this companion Breaks series takes our re-cap[…]
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Save the date radio heads! This Saturday BBC 6 Music celebrates HIPHOP50 with a spotlight on the 1970s featuring Ultimate Breaks and Beats legend Breakbeat Lou plus DJ sets from DJ Khan Fu, DJ Koco and you know who. My contribution is a breaks mix featuring cuts from the classic UBB compilation series[…]
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