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Anyone hear it this week - superb 
Looks awful 😕
‘In The Beginning (Acapella)’ With A:Xus ‘Suite Disappointment (Pete Heller Classic Vocal Remix)’
ATFC ‘The Conversation’ (Defected)’
Axwell, Ingrosso, Angello ‘Leave The World Behind (Steve Angello Edit)’ (Axtone)
Erick Morillo Feat Deborah Copper ‘I Get Lifted (Michael Grey & Danism Vocal Mix)’ (Subliminal)
Erick Morillo & Richard Gray ‘Say The Word (Patrick M Remix)’ (Subliminal)
Juan Kidd And Mark Brown ‘Burning’ (Subliminal)
Sir James ‘Special (Bingo Players Remix)’ (Strictly Rhythm)
The Frenchmakers Feat. Andrea Britton ‘Miracle (Mischa Daniels Remix)’ (White Label)
Julien Jabre ‘Vicious Circle (John Dahlback Remix)’ (Defected)
Lee Kalt & Mark Alston Featuring Missus M ‘Kiss & Fly (Main Mix)’ (Subliminal)
Taped ‘The Question (Albin Myers Remix)’ (White Label)
Unknown Artist ‘As Good As (Riva Dunstramental)’ (White Label)
Unknown Artist ‘Free My Soul (Muzzaik Remix)’ (White Label)
Dean Newton & Huggy ‘747 (Dub)’ (Subliminal)
Shovell & The Latin Hooligans ‘Soul Makossa (Chocolate Puma Beats)’ (Defected)
DJ Dove ‘Vaya (HCCR Bambossa Dub)’ (White Label)
Unknown Artist ‘The Shakalaka’ (White Label)
Unknown Artist ‘Happy Piano’ (White Label)
Energy 52 ‘Cafe Del Mar (Raul Rincon Remix)’ (White Label)
In fact, the essential mix has been poor for years but this year looks exceptionally bad
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/essentialmix/tracklistings.shtml
With the exception of Wilson, Wink and a couple of others, it's been a terrible year.
Blame did an essential mix? want, want, want, want, want
Wilson's mix was excellant. Not really heard much I liked from others i've got from the mixing bowl. Mr Scruff, Herve, Fake blood etcc have all failed to get me excited.
I downloaded a mass of the LGDP mixes. Thats kept me going.
the problem is that the recent essential mixes arent that bad, well some are a bid ordinary, its just that music trends change and they just cant compare to the music that has really effected you in the past.
like back in 1995! these are great!
Essential Mix - 1995-09-03 - John Digweed.mp3
Essential Mix - 1995-05-21 - Sasha (part 2).mp3
so many others but i'd be here all night.
i liked sean tyas and gui borrato recently and err wilsons and err another one but forgot which one! i have all this years so far..
who'd of thought i now like some dubstep!
damn that digweed mix is disgustingly good even today!!
For pure unadulterated anthem bashing, the Jim Masters EM is hard to beat
http://www.mixesdb.com/db/index.php/1999-12-19_-_Jim_Masters_-_Essential_Mix
But the 1993 David Holmes mix is by far my all time favourite
http://mixesdb.com/db/index.php/1993-12-18_-_David_Holmes_-_Essential_Mix
http://www.newmixes.com/daft_punk-essential_mix-sat-03-02-1997.html
[url= http://www.newmixes.com/daft_punk-essential_mix-sat-03-02-1997.html ]Daft Punk E Mix[/url]
I must have listened to this about a million times. First year at University of Liverpool. 90mins on a tape, it lived in my walkman.
They played Creams Birthday in 99 and I danced on a table/furniture. I'm clearly old now as I don't dance on tables and I'm in on a friday night.
i have some David Holmes, very good but not that one, but i will have shortly 😉 cant believe i dont have jim masters, TL looks quality
Some of my favourite EMs... this is gonna date me, but I have fond memories of staying up as a kid in order to [i]tape[/i] this stuff - and some of it is very, very evocative of being wide-eyed and excited about music. Over the years, I subsequently lost many of 'em - so praise be for the Tinternet!! 😀
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/future-sound-london-em-1993-12-04-alternate-version ]Future Sound of London 1993[/url] (the soundtrack to my A-Levels...).
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/david-holmes-em-1993-12-18 ]David Holmes 1993[/url]
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/john-digweed-em-1994-03-05 ]John Digweed 1994[/url]
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/snap-em-1994-01-01 ]Snap 1994[/url] (yes, [i]that[/i] Snap... actually a very good mix of what used to be known as "Trance" - Harthouse, EyeQ etc).
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/massive-attack-em-1994-12-11 ]Massive Attack 1994[/url].
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/laurent-garnier-em-1994-09-04 ]Laurent Garnier 1994[/url]
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/leftfield-em-1994-08-06 ]Leftfield 1994[/url]
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/dj-ron-em-1995-01-15 ]DJ Ron 1995[/url] (1st jungle EM, iirc - absolutely smashes it...).
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/portishead-em-1995-04-23 ]Portishead 1995[/url]
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/jose-padilla-em-1995-09-10 ]Jose Padilla 1995[/url]
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/gilles-peterson-dj-krush-ufo-em-1995-02-12 ]Gilles Peterson, DJ Krush and UFO 1995[/url]
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/steve-bridger-em-1996-11-10 ]Steve Bridger 1996[/url]
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/dj-shadow-em-2003-03-30 ]DJ Shadow 2003[/url]
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/alex-smoke-em-2006-03-05 ]Alex Smoke 2006[/url]
All good mixes, I'll add
[url= http://www.mixriot.com/content/terry-francis-em-1998-04-05 ]Terry Francis 1998[/url]
Simply because I have very fond memories of the Wiggle Parties in the late 90s.
The jan 1994 Sasha mix was the best em of all time.
Damn missed it, not on the iplayer, anywhere i can download it?
theMixingbowl.org
Other notable mentions
every Slam one
Adam Beyer
Subculture
Optimo
DJ Heather
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas
Damian Lazarus
Carl Craig's '95 one
Still have sasha one on tape!!
Caspa last night could be good. I've recorded but not listened to it yet.
@Noteeth - Alex Smoke 🙂 He's brill.
No mention of the Flying Lotus mix which was amazingly EM of the Year. That was great.
this thread has spurred me into d/ling a load of the above and some other classics to bolster the collection.
i've got the immense psychonauts E.M. from 1996-12-15 on at the moment. fantastic stuff.
Did you use themixingbowl.org?
indeed i did for most of them, had to do a rapidshare search for the psychnoauts. most of the ones i didn't have and wanted that have been suggested above were on mixingbowl.
Signed up 🙂
But a little lame on the downloading! Do i download into i-tunes and if so what folder?
Its my age 😳
Got Jesse Rose ready to rock.
i'm off to bed so short answer is that the downloads from mixingbowl are torrents, which means you need a torrent client that you open the .torrent file in. it then pulls bits of the track from all the people it can find offering it for download. i don't really have time to explain it in detail now, someone else might otherwise i'll do it tomorrow!
No worries..........will do it tomorrow anyhow.
Have Simian Mobile Disco done one?
Up to 2007 - but does answer my question 😉
Remember listerning to the FSOL one the first time around. Made a big deal over doing it over an ISDN line.
Just enjoying the last ever Orbital set now, well until this year any way.
Oh Global Gathering Podcasts are now free on Itunes as well
Sandra Collins 2004 - my tape's getting knackered, is that around ?
going back to torrents for alek, i only use them as a last resort these days as they're so fiddly. i would first look for the ones you want on that list si the trance hater put up - that's the most straighforward route. 🙂
also, i would like to nominate smokin' jo from around august 2003. that's a belter.
Never been a huge torrent fan to be honest. If its complicated I'll never get round to using it.
Anywhere I can just listen to them without downloading?
yeah agreed. i think that freshly mixed, which is now mix riot, lets you just stream them from their site. not sure if you need to subscribe to do that or not, but worth a look.
Excellent.........cheers theflatboy.
Thats the best link this year 🙂
Spot on. Laurent Garnier @ End club on right now.
Alex Smoke was ok 2006.03.05
Hernan Cattaneo was good 2008.02.16
Jesse Rose was ok 2009.03.01
Seb fontaine 1997.12.03 spot on............ 🙂
Any more suggestions (i like it house/garage/vocals)
greg wilson one was top class,
portishead one was good, dj pierre from last year was good, david holmes was good
Excellent.......I'll listen to some of them tomorrow, cheers warton 😀
you've got to listen to smokin jo 2003. it's class, i reckon you'll like it. 🙂
Got Sasha/Pete Tong 1995/11/25 on just now and Sasha has just blown me away 😆
Tremendous
Any more suggestions (i like it house/garage/vocals)
DJ Heather
just off the top of my head, other favourite EMs of mine over the years are King Unique - absolute dirty driving belter, Nils Noa - filth and dirt again, Silicon Soul - twisted house with a unique style. more will come to me.
Caspa's mix last week was bloody excellent
also, the gabriel and dresden from 2003. what a mix. plus planet funk from the same year. splendid.
First 10mins of Caspa was special then the bleeps drove me mad!!!
Do like a bit of D+B so long as its not too heavy (prefer vocally)
Got a DJ Heather Fabric which is still good today. Will check out the EM.
Not heard of King Unique or Nils Noa 😳
king unique are immense, i only saw them a couple of times but they're proper filthy house at its best. obscene, dirty, filthy, immoral, as they once put it. 🙂
I've got a Annie Nightingale mix on minidisc by King Unique. Yeah, 'tis good. Only thing I've actually heard by them though.
the one I played over & over & over til I practically wore out the tape, was the one from the Hong Kong handover weekend. Something about it perfectly encapsulated my feelings about it all & was a great mix of musical influences from both sides of the world. Top stuff. May have to do some more digging around now!
27.07.1997 - Boy George, Pete Tong, Paul Oakenfold.
Will give that a blast later 8)
2 Many DJs from 2005 is a cracker
i listened to smokin jo last night. still cracking. got silicone soul from 2005 on now. fantastic. another good one i've remembered is tim deluxe 07/09/2002. i listened to that one so much, it's housetastic.
Started listening to Gilles Peterson 1997 which I reckon I'm going enjoy. First 17mins were interesting and pushing boundaries for 97 🙂
Awell 2006 on just now...............
now you listen to me, alek, i've recommended several mixes that are not only fantastic but fit your previously mentioned musical preference. i must insist you get on them. 😡
edit - starting with silicone soul 2005-06-03...
Silicone soul here we come.............physconauts next
BTW - King Unique was superb 😀
31mins in and this tune is pure class
Edit: and 45mins in
king unique are immense, i only saw them a couple of times but they're proper filthy house at its best. obscene, dirty, filthy, immoral, as they once put it.
Just listening to this and err, proper filthy house FAIL, sorry. It's cheesy, momentarily went in the right direction at about 20 mins in (after an appalling start and a clashy mix at 16 mins), 28 mins or so is horrible commercial dance. 30 mins in and we have more nasty cheesy stuttering vocals over Abba synths. Not sure I can listen to any more. 🙁
****ing trance at 45 minutes 👿
Try Silicone Soul instead Nick...........
Got it downloading now, I have a couple of their 12"s
Give Terry Francis's 1998 mix a go. Nice bass driven house. Good example of the sort of thing we used to play at the all nighters we put on in Brixton and Hackney in the mid to late 90s.
Doesn't sound like the King Unique I got off Annie N. Probably sounds dated now anyway.
Checked the Trentemoller one? (god was that really 2006?!)
Optimo was good (just seen that was 2006 as well! I need to catch up!)
Top 3 EMs are
1) Oakenfolds Goa mix 1994
2) Snap 1993
3) Sasha 1993
Truth.
some of the older carl cox and dave clarke mixes are ace. as are some of the yoda ones. ltj bukem. oh, and the emix from this years drum n bass awards.
it's still rubbish having them on a friday though. boo @ radio1
Has anyone got any direct links to download any of these mixes (or any other good ens/old school or whatever) please, not the sharpest i.t person.
Believe it or not im sick to death of the 5000 + tunes on my thipod !!!
Need some new music. Cheers 😛
Doesn't sound like the King Unique I got off Annie N. Probably sounds dated now anyway.
probably, it sounded dirty when i was caning it 8 years agao(!). still, i still love it!
The Goa Mix is bloody aweful, horrible. Oakenfold made one good record back in 1989 (Electra - Autumn Love (Future 4 mix)) and should have stopped then instead of going off on his ego trance stadium superstar trip.
Nils Noa EM was spot on. Definitely listening to that again 😉
it's class, isn't it? haven't listened to that for a while, but used to love it.
"darkness... controls the music" etc. 🙂
Or skip wading through the dross in the EMs and give some of these a go, especially those with Terry & Nathan B2B.
[url= http://www.absurdrecordings.com/#audio/ ]Absurd Recordings[/url]
Oh noes the Sasha/Digweed eveything else is white noise brigade has arrived 😆
Or try here for some good ones
[url= http://www.kult.co.uk/djmixes.html ]Kult[/url]
Sasha and Digweed? More superstar ego driven commercial corportate whores 🙂
Dance music snobs are so hilarious!
Bet you started at some comercial venue like Gatecrasher sweating all your glitter off too!
"Too good for it know though", "learnt the error of my ways", "it's not like it used to be", "reach for the lazers.....safe as f***"
I'm having way too much fun on the mixriot and will be for some time too.
When scrolling to every suggestion above I keep noticing another must listen EM. Best link this year by far. Will never tire listening to this site.
and thats only the EM's on the site...............
Oakenfolds urban soundtracks are worth a listen too.
Like Jackanory to dance music. Sounds gash I know but great for a journey.
They really are worth checking out, especially The fall of the house of Usher.
Bet you started at some comercial venue like Gatecrasher sweating all your glitter off too!
Nope.
I've been strictly Detroit from day one 8)
Bet you started at some comercial venue like Gatecrasher sweating all your glitter off too!
My first experience of partying (as we called it then) was 1989, Outer Limits in Bletchley, with Eddie Richards as resident, never been to Gatecrasher but I suspect they were quite different nights!
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10 years later we were putting on nights in Brixton (Kult) and Hackney (Triology) and even in Normandy (v.messy)
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I've pretty much retired now 🙂 Dub and Tom are still at it, as is Eddie (who must be 60!).
Sorry If I come across as a snob, I guess were were trying to keep the same simple, underground vibe that we discovered in the 80s, it's pretty much gone though now, it's not new and exciting anymore I suppose.
Gabriel + Dresden......Sweet 8)
yep - bit trancey for some, but i love that one.
allow me to offer up a further couple of gems - switch 11/01/2004; air 2 part crazy french genius 08/03/1998.
I've had a listen to the Silicone Soul and Nils Noa, both are ok, Nils is better though I reckon.
The Tom Middleton one from 2001 is great btw, really good to chill to, if you can't get hold of his 'Jedi's night out' CD then this is a good alternative (any mix that includes 'The Way' is bound to be a winner).
KingKongsFinge:
Has anyone got any direct links to download any of these mixes (or any other good ens/old school or whatever) please, not the sharpest i.t person.
I posted this a while ago on another dance orientated thread. Check out the [url= http://www.hardcorelives.co.uk/forums/downloads.php?do=cat&id=9 ]hardcore lives radio tuner[/url]. It has loads of radio station presets with an easy to use rip button should your ears decide they like what they hear. The stations I most often listen to for old skool are break pirates, pirate revival and remaniss (off line until the 2nd of August).
Anybody know how to chop these mixes into smaller pieces once downloaded to burn to CD?
I can burn as a data disc to use in my car player but would like some to use in my 'proper' CD.
thanks