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Classic Material is on Bandcamp!

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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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Classic Material The Breaks Now Available on Apple Music

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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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Classic Material x Wax Poetics #HIPHOP50 Playlists

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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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#HIPHOP50: Classic Material Megamix #13 (1999)

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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 1999 mixtape,[…]

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#HIPHOP50: Classic Material Edition #13 (1999)

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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 #13 in this year by year series pays tribute to the Hip Hop[…]

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#HIPHOP50: Classic Material Megamix #12 (1998)

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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 1998 mixtape,[…]

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#HIPHOP50: Classic Material Edition #12 (1998)

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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 #12 in this year by year series pays tribute to the Hip Hop[…]

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#HIPHOP50: Classic Material Megamix #11 (1997)

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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 1997 mixtape,[…]

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