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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Classic Material / So Much Soul! at Glastonbury 2011
From tomorrow, Nick and I will be taking our Classic Material and So Much Soul! club nights to the UK’s biggest music festival, Glastonbury playing sets on each of the next four days. Details of times and places on the … Continue reading
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New vinyl coming soon!
This is a photo of the test press for my forthcoming 7inch single for Breakin’ Bread being cut yesterday afternoon. Mastered by Walter Coelho at Masterpiece studios, who I’ve since been told mastered one of the Dilla albums. I feel … Continue reading
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Tagged Beats, Breakin Bread, Chris Read, Latin, Products, Releases, Vinyl
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Classic Material Edition #7 boxsets in store
The seventh in our series of monthly boxsets is now available in the Classic Material webstore. Edition#7 celebrates the Hip Hop from 1993 with a design inspired by one of the era’s most iconic record labels. Available in very limited … Continue reading
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Breakin Bread Radio: Latin Special with Chris Read
This month I was invited down to Breakin Bread HQ to be guest DJ on their monthly radio show. Faced with the choice of theme for the show, I selected Latin as an excuse to tie in a few things … Continue reading
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Classic Material Webstore: Diary CDs back in stock
There’s a very limited re-stock of the original Diary CD and Diary Volume 1.5 CD at the Classic Material webstore: The Diary is an 801 track megamix of hip hop’s landmark recordings in order of release from 1979 to 2007. … Continue reading
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Classic Material 1994 Party!
On Saturday 18th June, the City Arts and Music Project plays host to the eighth installment of “CLASSIC MATERIAL”, a series events and exhibitions celebrating 30+ years of recorded rap music promoted by London based collective of DJs, designers, photographers … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Read, Classic Material, DJ Lok, DJ Nickname, Gigs, Mr Thing, The CAMP
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From the Vaults: Rob Life – Bangers and Mash CD
Again, as part of my efforts to get my downloads / discography page complete with all my old releases or releases with which I was involved, I pulled out this Mix CD put together by Breakin Bread’s Rob Life. Released in … Continue reading
From the Vaults: Mr Thing – Ear This Mix CD
As part of my efforts to update my downloads / discography page with all my past projects and releases with which I have been involved, I recently dug out this Mix CD put together by then Scratch Perverts member and … Continue reading
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Tagged Breakin Point Magazine, Chris Read, Hip Hop, Mad Flow, Mixtape, Mr Thing, Releases
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Lyric Superbrand – 10 Year Anniversary [Download]
Arriving at the 10th Anniversary of the first record I ever made or was involved in seems like a good enough reason to post something about it. ‘Lyric Superbrand’ was / is a compilation of tracks by artists who performed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bandcamp, Beats, Chris Read, Download, Hip Hop, Jazz, Products, Releases
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