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 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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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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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 ‘Classic Material’ 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 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[…]
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Vinyl of my recent album ‘Inner Tribe Records Remixed’ is finally available on my Bandcamp page. Those of you who may have pre-ordered should receive your copies very soon and those of you who have not, there are copies available to buy now. The album features artists including Phat Kat,[…]
Read More »I’m really pleased to announce that my latest album ‘Inner Tribe Records Remixed’ is now available to pre-order on vinyl. Limited to just 100 copies, this record is available exclusively from Diggers Factory or Bandcamp. The deadline to order is 5th June – please see links below for T&Cs. Your[…]
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Blurb from WhoSampled: “Philadelphia International Records is to the City of Brotherly Love what Stax is to Memphis or Motown is to Detroit: a powerhouse label representing the cream of the era’s Soul talent. Helmed by songwriting / producer duo Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, Philadelphia International was launched in[…]
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“Sony EMI’s famed KPM Music label has been producing high quality recordings for use in Film, Television and Radio for over four decades. WhoSampled arranged for a group of renowned UK diggers, producers and beatmakers to be granted access to the label’s archive of recordings. Their task: to curate a[…]
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‘Happy (Hammond)’ is the second release from London based Funk & Soul outfit the So Much Soul Players, a gritty, instrumental Hammond Funk take on Pharrell Williams’ ubiquitous feel-good Pop/Soul cut ‘Happy’. Harking back to the raw stylings of 60s/70s Funk, this dancefloor oriented rendition of the popular song features[…]
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