30 years of the Essential Mix! Post your favourite

 Laurent Garnier

Andy Weatherall - The greatest DJ of all time and who could argue with a bit of Smoke Belch!

Well this thread ended up sending me down a rabbit hole. Thank you.

Currently listening to Above and Beyond from 2004. Still listen to their radio show every week nearly 20 years later!

I feel weirdly old and happy at the same time

Also to add - Jose Padilla (A legend RIP) and Chris and James mix 👍

Gotta be Andy Weatherill and a close runner up Justin Robertson.Maybe early 90's? Remembering taping them of the radio at the time!

Some great suggestions to bookmark for later! Never knew Snap did one for example.

Goa for sure, but runners up for me are:

James Zabiela 2010

High Contrast 2003

S.P.Y. 2015

Avicii (yes, Avicii) 2010

https://m.mixcloud.com/DJ_Mix/nick-warren-essential-mix-1995-08-20/

It's like picking your favourite movie! My top 3 (in no order) are:

Dave Seaman 2004 https://on.soundcloud.com/BDrf P"> http://Listen to Essential Mix 2004-09-12 - Dave Seaman by Iridium DJ on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/BDrfP

Sasha Maida Vale 2005 https://on.soundcloud.com/s6Eog

Stewart Rowell 2000 https://on.soundcloud.com/eGeW z"> http://Listen to Essential Mix 2000-05-14 - Stewart Rowell by Iridium DJ on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/eGeWz

Laurent Garnier 1994 for me. Also reminded me of the Mixmag Live mix he did which for me is amongst the best hour going. He also did one of the best sets I can remember in Sheffield. <br /><br />

This thread is going to keep me supplied with listening ideas for a while 👌

On the subject of David Holmes, I was gonna post his 1998 mix but couldn't find a decent link.

Only discovered it last year, but he was playing similar eclectic stuff as I was at that time... But way way better obvs

I keep going back to the Nero Essential Mix

And the Mat Zo essential mix

YouTube suggested me this, which had escaped my notice. I'm about 30 mins in and it's a corker:

2manyDJs - Essential Mix, on BBC Radio 1 - 2022-12-24 - YouTube

If you know their masterpiece Radio Soulwx pt2 mix, you'll know what to expect. Not so many big tunes, but even on my monitor speaker it's banging.

I've been listenig to a couple of these. I got the 94 Snap one by mistake but still good, not quite what I expected from the makers of Rythmn is a Dancer.

The Faithless one made me quite sad at first then I just thought I should be dancing not maudlin.

Portishead wasn't my favourite. Oakenfold in Havanna not as good as the Goa mix but still bangs all these years later.

I still listen now. My highlights from this year were Conducta, Dom Dolla and DJ Nobu.

Favourite of all time...Ben Nicky. Not for everyone though.