BBC 1Xtra 20th Anniversary: Chris Read Mix - 12th Jan 2003 [Late 90s / Early 00s Indie Hip Hop]

 

"From the station's launch in summer 2002 to summer 2004 I was one of two Hip Hop mix show DJs on the BBC's station for 'new black music', 1Xtra. This month marks the station's 20th Anniversary, so I've embraced the embarrassment of my 1Xtra press photo and picked a selection of mixes I did on the station during that period to upload here on Mixcloud for the first time. They're definitely from a different era - recorded live, vinyl only, two channel mixer, no effects and with that comes a certain amount of imperfection I wouldn't stand by today, but they represent the time well and in some cases the music I was playing in clubs at the time. Full disclosure - I have given most of these mixes a light edit, cutting out a few sections I didn't like, but for the most part they're as they come. More of these mixes every week for a limited period!" - courtesy of Chris Read

Chris Read – Theme #1
MCM – I Got Soul
Extra Prolific – First Sermon
Extra Prolific – In Front of the Kids
Blak Twang – U Know (Instrumental)
Beats Rhymes & Life – U Know (Nas Megamix)
The Herbaliser feat Rakaa / Iriscience – Verbal Anime
Beats Rhymes & Life – Alchemist 2001 Remix (feat Mobb Deep, Royce 5’9″, Apathy, J Zone & Huggy Bear)
Supernatural – Cosmic Slop (Instrumental)
Gang Starr – The Militia (Pete Rock Remix)
Ed O.G – To Much to Live Fo’
Kurious – All Great
Paul Nice – Bonus Beat #2
Brand Nubian – Hold On
Hieroglyphics – Soweto (Instrumental)
Mr Lif – Pull Out Your Cut
Gang Starr – Skillz
The Nudge – Window Pain
The Clipse – When The Last Time (Acapella) 

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Artifacts - That's Them 20th Anniversary Edition - 2018

2xLP - 2018 - Smoke On Records  

A1 - Art of Scratch (Intro) 

A2 - Art of Facts (Exclusive Video)

A3 - 31 Bumrush 

A4 - To Ya Chest 

A5 - Where Yo Skillz At

B1 - Collaboration of Mics 

B2 - The Ultimate 

B3 - It's Gettin' Hot 

B4 - This Is da Way 

B5 - The Interview

C1 - Break It Down 

C2 - Skwad Training 

C3 - Ingredients to Time Travel 

C4 - Return to da Wrongside 

C5 - Who's This

D1 - The Ultimate (Showbiz Remix) 

Bonus 

D2 - Getting Hot (prod. DJ Spinna Remix) 

D3 - Brick City Kids 

D4 - What what

Includes Double Vinyl (LP1 Yellow, LP2 Orange), Autograph Postcard by Artifacts, Poster size & Sticker.

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Shipping Date : August 20th 2018  

Blak Forest - You Are Now Entering The​.​.​. (20th anniversary edition) - 2017

CD-R (Digipack) - 2017 - Beat Freq Recordings 

"Lurking in the shadows of the bright lights, glitz and glamour of Hollywood is an organically grown crew of authentic artists that counter the hyper sensationalist portrayal of the people in our beloved City of Angels: welcome to the Blak Forest. 

Through the early ‘90s, major label representation of hip-hop from Los Angeles was predominantly “gangsta rap,” and understandably so; the impact of N.W.A.’s “Straight Outta Compton” had record companies in a gold rush type frenzy; and while the industry and media were focusing on one vertical of L.A. rappers, a movement of talented artists born and raised on hip-hop as b-boys from the early ‘80s, honed their writing and performing skills through to the early ‘90s, were beginning to create and release some of the most vibrant, unadulterated hip-hop music by the mid 1990s. An entire movement had begun, and as independently produced vinyl records started circulating through mix shows, mixtapes, and grungy clubs in cities throughout the globe, the golden era of Los Angeles underground hip-hop was gaining worldwide recognition. While the many of the groups to emerge from the L.A. underground have become highly recognizable names in music, the 1997 Blak Forest album “You Are Now Entering” captures the true essence of hungry, talented artists, that present an honest streetwise sensibility, battle rap ferocity, interlaced with consciousness and intellectualism, over masterful production that sound like instant classics on the first needle drop, making this record, “the album that every true hip-hop head needs to discover.” 

The Blak Forest resides within the streets of Los Angeles County, but the actual home of the Blak Forest was the Treehouse, located somewhere around where the 710 freeway ends in East LA. As you entered the old cable company property converted into a studio, the aromas of burning chronic blunts permeated the air, and tiny billows of smoke seemingly puffed out of the eggshell studio soundboards to the rhythm of the hard-hitting drums knocking out of the studio speakers. 

Behind the board is the ultra calm, glassy-eyed Wiz1, one of the gifted producers of the Blak Forest, who earned the name Wiz while working at an Atlanta studio as a teenage prodigy that introduced techniques to producers such as Organized Noize (Outkast). In the room, and scattered throughout, are various members of the Blak Forest having loud, animated conversations, laughing and talking shit, thoroughly enjoying a drink and a smoke while hanging with friends and making music. From thick, vibey, jazz-laden tracks; hard-hitting, rhyme inducing beats; to shiny, soulful, ear-pleasing production; the soundtrack that Circle of Power (Mone, Wiz1,and Jess Luv), and DJ ICD (Urbanites) provide for their crew captures a feel-good affinity for music approach that exemplifies the honest passion of the B.F. lyricists throughout the record; a genuine quality that is a rarity amongst the plethora of music that simply sounds manufactured. 

The original release of “You Are Now Entering” was on L.A. hip-hop pioneer Steve Yano’s Skanless Records, (Rest in Power). Over a decade before, Steve owned a record store at the Roadium Swap Meet in Torrance, CA. He was “the man” that DJ’s from all over Southern California would call to get the newest hip hop releases, and was instrumental in “breaking records” on the West Coast. Yano sold the famous Dr. Dre Roadium mixtapes, and subsequently ended up introducing Dre to Eazy E, which resulted in the forming of N.W.A. The group’s independent releases turned into platinum success, dramatically influencing the course of commercial rap. The Blak Forest was one of the few groups that Steve signed to his own independent label. Steve always knew a good record right when he heard it, and he knew that the Blak Forest was something special. 

Steve Yano, N.W.A., and the L.A. underground, were driven by passion and the need to express, and are connected as contributors to the same movement: Los Angeles Hip-Hop. Twenty years ago, the Blak Forest planted their seed in the movement, and for those who did not know, “You Are Now Entering…”"

100 copies only...
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Yo! MTV Raps 20 Year Anniversary - 2008

Props to Brandan E for the Video !

Chris Read Presents A Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes and Life 20th Anniversary Mixtape

1. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Stressed Out’ (Raphael Saadiq Remix) (Instrumental)

2. Chris Read – Theme #3 (Scratchapella)

3. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Keeping It Moving’

4. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Crew’

5. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Stressed Out’ (Baby Phife Version) (Instrumental)

6. Anita Baker – ‘Good Love’ (sampled in ‘Stressed Out’)

7. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Stressed Out’ (Baby Phife Version)

8. James Brown – ‘Funky Drummer’ [Loop] (Sampled in ‘Motivators’)

9. Michal Urbaniak Group – ‘Irena’ (Sampled in ‘Motivators’)

10. A Tribe Called Quest feat Consequence – ‘Motivators’

11. A Tribe Called Quest feat Consequence – ‘Jam’ (Instrumental)

12. The Howard Roberts Quartet – ‘Dirty Old Bossa Nova’ (Sampled in ‘Jam’)

13. A Tribe Called Quest feat Consequence – ‘Jam’

14. Rodney Franklin – ‘The Watcher’ (Sampled in ‘Word Play’)

15. A Tribe Called Quest feat Consequence – ‘Word Play’

16. The Emotions – ‘Blind Alley’ (Sampled in ‘Phony Rappers’)

17. A Tribe Called Quest feat Consequence – ‘Phony Rappers’

18. The Cyrkle – ‘The Visit (She Was There)’ (Sampled in ‘Get A Hold’)

19. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Get A Hold’

20. Funkadelic – ‘Get Off Your Ass and Jam’ [Extract] (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

21. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Steve Biko (Stir It Up)’ [Extract] (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

22. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘God Lives Through’ [Extract] (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

23. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Electric Relaxation’ [Extract] (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

24. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Buggin’ Out’ [Extract] (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

25. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Hot Sex’ [Extract] (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

26. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Award Tour [Extract] (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

27. A Tribe Called Quest feat Afrika Baby Bam – ‘If The Papes Come’ [Extract] (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

28. A Tribe Called Quest feat Leaders of the New School – Scenario [Extract] (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

29. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Jazz (We’ve Got)’ [Extract] (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

30. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Midnight’ [Extract] (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

31. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘The Chase Part II’ (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

32. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘We Can Get Down’ [Extract] (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

33. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Verses From The Abstract’ [Extract] (Sampled in ‘Pressure’)

34. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Pressure’

35. Henry Franklin – ‘Soft Spirit’ (Sampled in ‘The Hop’)

36. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘The Hop’

37. Thunder & Lightning – ‘Bumpin Bus Stop’ [Extract] (Sampled in ‘The Hop’)

38. Kool & The Gang – ‘N.T’ (Sampled in ‘Mind Power’)

39. A Tribe Called Quest feat Consequence – ‘Mind Power’ 

40. Jack Bruce – ‘Sam Enchanted Dick’ (Sampled in ‘Baby Phife’s Return’)

41. A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Baby Phife’s Return’

42. Manzell – ‘Midnight Theme’ [Loop] (Sampled in ‘Baby Phife’s Return’)

43. Ohio Players – ‘Pain’ (Sampled in ‘What Really Goes On’)

44. James Brown – ‘Make It Funky’ [Extract] (Sampled in ‘What Really Goes On’)

45. A Tribe Called Quest feat Consequence – ‘What Really Goes On’

46. Cannonball Adderley – Untitled [Extract] (Sampled in ‘1nce Again’)
47. A Tribe Called Quest feat Tammy Lucas – ‘1nce Again’

Props to Chris Read 

Chris Read Presents De La Soul 'Stakes Is High' 20th Anniversary Mixtape

1. De La Soul – ‘Intro’

2. Milt Jackson & The Ray Brown Big Band – ‘Enchanted Lady’ (sampled in ‘Dinninit’)

3. De La Soul – ‘Dinninit’

4. Jan Hammer Group – ‘Peaceful Sundown’ (sampled in ‘Dog Eat Dog’)

5. De La Soul – ‘Dog Eat Dog’

6. Aretha Franklin – It Only Happens (When I Look At You) (sampled in ‘Long Island Degrees’)

7. De La Soul – ‘Long Island Degrees’

8. Craig Mack – ‘Get Down’ [Loop] (sampled in ‘The Bizness’)

9. De La Soul feat Common – ‘The Bizness’

10. Commodores – ‘High on Sunshine’ (sampled in ‘Sunshine’)

11. De La Soul – ‘Sunshine’

12. Bayete – ‘Free Angela’ (sampled in ‘Sunshine’)

13. Ahmad Jamal – ‘Swahililand’ (sampled in ‘Stakes is High’)

14. De La Soul – ‘Stakes is High’ 

15. De La Soul – ‘Stakes Is High (Jay Dee Remix)’

16. James Brown – ‘Mind Power’ (sampled in ‘Stakes is High’)

17. De La Soul feat Mos Def & Truth Enola – ‘Stakes is High (Remix)’

18. Walter Wanderley – ‘Summer Samba’ (sampled in ‘Supa Emcees’)

19. Jimmy Spicer – ‘Adventures of Super Rhyme’ [Extract] (sampled in ‘Supa Emcees’)

20. Doug E Fresh & Slick Rick – La Di Da Di [Extract] (sampled in ‘Supa Emcees’)

21. De La Soul – ‘Supa Emcees’

22. Wilson Pickett – Get Me Back On Time, Engine #9 [Extract] (sampled in ‘Supa Emcees’)

23. De La Soul feat Mos Def – ‘Big Brother Beat’

24. Kurtis Blow – ‘These Are the Breaks’ [Extract] (sampled in ‘The Brakes’)

25. De La Soul – ‘The Brakes’

26. James Brown – Funky Drummer [Loop] (sampled in ‘Betta Listen’)
27. De La Soul – ‘Betta Listen’

28. Jeff Beck – ‘Come Dancing’ [Loop] (sampled in ‘Down Syndrome’)

29. James Brown – ‘Talkin Loud & Sayin Nothing’ [Loop] (sampled in ‘Down Syndrome’)

30. De La Soul – ‘Down Syndrome’

31. De La Soul feat Truth Enola – ‘Pony Ride’

32. Lou Donaldson – ‘Who’s Making Love’ (sampled in ‘Wonce Again Long Island’)

33. De La Soul – ‘Wonce Again Long Island’

34. Malcolm McLaren – ‘Hobo Scratch’ (sampled in ‘Baby Baby Baby Baby Ooh Baby’)

35. De La Soul feat Jazzyfatnastees – ‘Baby Baby Baby Baby Ooh Baby’

36. Chico Hamilton – ‘A Rose for Booker’ (sampled in ‘4 More’)

37. Jungle Brothers – ‘Jimmy Bonus Beat’ [Extract] (sampled in ‘4 More’)
38. De La Soul feat Zhane – ‘4 More’

Props to Chris Read  

Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous 20th Anniversary CD & LP Bundle

The 20th Anniversary Bundle Features : 

- In-depth liner notes booklet written and compiled by journalist Chris Faraone 
for both 2-LP and CD editions.

- The CD configuration is housed in a deluxe outer box with original album artwork 
wrapped around the cover.

- The CD-plus-2-LP bundle includes a 18" x 24" album cover poster.

250 Bundles Only !

Available in December

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