I find all the most recent mixes posted above are just too slow compared to the early to mid 90's stuff. That Billy Nasty mix and the Dave Holmes ones are awesome! I really miss that driving progressive / techno / trance / acid crossover style from around those times. Just the right tempo, pace and peaks and troughs in energy levels to keep you dancing all night with the help of a couple of Ebeneezers and a bag of billy whizz . 😀
https://www.youtube.com/embed/p22ot4eVbvE
Pete Tong and DJ Yoda was always my favourite back in the day.
Just listened the Oakenfold in Goa mix, that is just pure filth. Threw some right shapes on the train home from work!
@cha****ng - ‘Faith’ at Turnmills used to be a mix of nu school funk (Urban Theory and Freestylers) and original Chicago and Detroit house. Epic nights!
Best club in London by a mile!
Something else you lot might be interested in:
BBC4 are going to be putting on Jeremy Dellars documentary about acid house ‘Everybody in the Place’ Next month
Looks interesting
I played this one to death...
Still love it
https://www.mixcloud.com/cyberspace-music/snap-essential-mix-07051995/
The two I remember the most where:
Daft Punk 30 December 1997
And
Tasha Killer Pussies 8 June 1997
Both sounded amazing blasting out of the 6x9's on the parcel shelf of my Nova GSI 🤘
Any other techno related one's from that era will also of been played to death, Carl Cox, Dave Clarke etc....
Is there a place where they are available from now or do you have to randomly search for them?
Found a bunch in a drawer, in this lovely format...
That Goa mix just got me through a dull afternoon of writing risk assessments. Quality!
Oh bloody hell! I remember that Snap
Mix from 95!
Absolutely bloody brilliant. Had that on cassette that got played to death as well! That’s going on now
Me and Mrs Binners have been playing old Wigan Pier playlists (lots of original Chicago) all evening. That Snap mix is going on now!
Cheers for that ac505! 🙂
Just been digging around on soundcloud and found this. There’s a right old kitchen disco going on
Wigan Pier was the best club ever. It absolutely went off on a Friday night
Check this out if you love cheesy piano house
https://www.mixcloud.com/richard-martin7/wigan-pier-piano-dayz/
Helena Hauff – Essential mix of the year 2017
Just been listening, great stuff but a bit intense for writing a product development powerpoint to.
Maybe I'll try the Wigan Pier instead.
Here's that Four Tet mix (2010 I'm guessing) from DezB's pic, definitely danceable.
I really miss that driving progressive / techno / trance / acid crossover style from around those times
I know exactly what you mean, just what I was into BITD.
Hardfloor, Slam, Awex Back on Plastic, Misjah & Tim's Access, Narcotic Influence - the harder club sound of the mid-90s, the sweet spot before it split into more sub-genres.
Still look back and wish I'd been into some of the more housey stuff and the northern scene as well.
The intro to the Wigan Pier mix is bloody brilliant!
All the hysterical BBC news footage about warehouse parties overplayed over Hardcore Uproar
!994, what a year. Sasha:
Bookmarked
Totally favouriting this!
That Wigan Pier mix is absolutely awesome.
Got my hands in the air like I just don't care here.
– ‘Faith’ at Turnmills used to be a mix of nu school funk (Urban Theory and Freestylers) and original Chicago and Detroit house. Epic nights!
Best club in London by a mile!
No way! Best
LondonUK club was Camden PalaceNothing came close to the dirty maze of random stairs and tunnels and being up on the top balcony or behind the DJ on the metal platforms.
Peach on a Friday, a place were many friends and memories were made.
If you are interested in EM then I recommend this site. I'm going to put my balls on the block and say they have ALL the EMs ever. There's lots of other EDM content too and an active forum. It's a torrent site and you need to sign up.
Love the EM’s but find it hard to enjoy anything beyond 2010, so showing my age. Whilst being a techno junky, I always enjoy this mix from “one half of deep dish” for a bit of turntable tweaking and general zone out and day dream type of experience. It just has the right level of intro/build up/main set/wind down and outro to end of set. And press repeat.
Sasha did a set on Ableton.... Pretty sure it was an emix. Epic either way.
Big up to Peach on Fridays at Camden! Awesome nights at a wicked venue 😎
another favourite is the one with jam n spoon oddysey to annonnya, possibly an oakenfold mix..
It's probably on a few EMs of the day, but the one I thought of was this Oakenfold one from 17-09-1995, it's at around 37:30. Warning - terrible sound quality!
The Oakenfold Goa mix is still my favourite.
Some favourites of mine:
Blame 2009 (Tong-free link) - https://soundcloud.com/blamethemusic/blame-essential-mix
Breakage 2010 - https://www.mixcloud.com/essentialmixcollection/20100501-essential-mix-breakage/
DJ Zinc 2016 - https://soundcloud.com/zinc/dj-zinc-essential-mix-dec-16
London Elektricity 2008 - https://soundcloud.com/jman88/london-elektricity-essential-mix
High Contrast 2003 - https://www.mixcloud.com/dnbclassics/high-contrast-essential-mix-on-bbc-radio-1-05-04-2003/
James Zabiela 2010 - https://soundcloud.com/jameszabiela/2010-04-03-james-zabiela-essential-mix-on-bbc-radio1
!994, what a year. Sasha:>
I'm going in. See you in a couple of hours.
Retro/Grade mix. First of 2011 IIRC.
https://www.mixcloud.com/essentialmixcollection/20110108-essential-mix-retro-grade/
The 93 David Holmes one is an acid-laced spectacular that still sounds good today
Hard to believe it’s over 25 years old
Came here to post that exact one. Absolutely amazing.
Also, it's anthem bashing but on purpose so it's awesome, Jim Master's 90s techno retrospective one is just perfect
Here we go
https://m.mixcloud.com/Technolink/jim-masters-radio-one-essential-mix-19121999/
What a track list!!!
https://www.essentialmix.nu/?modname=tracklistings&op=view&id=371
Sitting in my mate's garden many years ag0, correctly lubricated and out of the blue the first play of the Goa Mix comes on. Changed my musical tastes there and then. I'm slightly jealous of those on here who have just listened to it for the first time (the 2014 re-issue is s###e though).
So many great mixes - I hadn't realised they are still going. USed to download loads off the mixing bowl - I think its time to log back in.
A great one for listening to at work: Trentemoller
*doffs cap at Cubist*
I had my mobile phone stolen at a Trentemoller gig at The Forum in Kentish Town. The gig was so good I didn't care.
The Adam Freeland mixes and the one by the Scratch Perverts are personal faves that I regularly go back to.
https://www.mixcloud.com/tegers/adam-freeland-essential-mix-bbc-radio-1-1997-10-05/
https://www.mixcloud.com/TechFunk/adam-freeland-essential-mix-11-may-2003/
https://www.mixcloud.com/peter-holme/scratch-perverts-essential-mix-2282004/
https://www.mixcloud.com/essentialmixcollection/20080301-essential-mix-adam-freeland/
This is flippin great
https://www.mixcloud.com/essentialmixcollection/20180505-essential-mix-ivy-lab/
That Trentemoller mix in 2006 was bonkers... Totally not my thing at the time, but I listened and listened and it grew and grew! Absolute genius mix... When he drops his own remix of Moby's "Go" about 90 minutes in... Wow! Just Wow! Talk about tension...
Other favourites (though I'll admit, I have a LOT of catching up to do over the years)...
-Andy C 01/05/2005... Remember being down in the FoD on a weekender with several riders from this forum back in the day. Got home from the pub, I put the radio on just as Andy C was starting... I think I was the only one who stayed up to listen til it finished! Downloaded it when I got home, and have listened to it many times since.
-Krafty Kuts 27/02/2005 as binners suggests... Funky as ****! It's the single most feelgood mix I think I've ever heard... I listened live that night, downloaded it after, then funnily enough the following Friday night he played a small club local to me at the time, and I got to meet him... Such a humble guy, he was thrilled when I said I'd heard his essential mix and impressed I actually knew a lot of the tracks and who he was!
-Adam Freeland 11/05/2003... I was/am a HUGE breaks fan, and this guy was at the height of his illustrious career right then. His track "we want your soul" had just launched. Playing his own remix of Ian Brown's "FEAR" as the penultimate track though... Heaven!
-AvH 04/04/2004... Sheer brilliance! Britney Spears to Nirvana, Enrique Iglesias to Josh Wink... Brilliant!
These I all had digitally... I have a load of C90's somewhere (obviously with only 90 minues of, not the full 120) from around 97-99 with several Oakenfold and Carl Cox mixes that I used to play until they were almost worn out in my car at the time. Oh the memories!
Nice one, that's my listening sorted for a bit. Nicolas Jaar my fave currently. Haii and agoria were good from last year also. Think the haii one got mix of the year.
Loving these. Thanks for all the recommendations folks.
That Oakenfold Goa mix is great.
If not already posted. Pretty much all of them here...
https://www.mixcloud.com/essentialmixcollection/
Thought I'd give this thread a wee bump, partly as I'm fishing for more ideas, partly as I just discovered the Oakenfold 1999 Havana mix.
https://soundcloud.com/pauloakenfold/paul-oakenfold-radio-1-24
The Trentemoller and Moderat mixes have been played in the office this week.
I have just discovered this thread now, and pretty sure I read through every single reply.
But I can't believe how nobody has mentioned Avicii and his 2010 Essential mix
It was his only Radio 1 mix I believe on his short and fast rise to world wide fame before his relatively recent suicide.
I can't listen to the Essential mix as much as I used to as I don't live in the UK anymore, but I listen to a lot of house / electronic/ techno / drum n bass / whatever on the radio (mostly various forms of house). Can we just call it all house unless it's clearly not?
But for me, the 2010 Avicii mix was just way ahead of it's time and I have listened to it over and over again, and it's a total banger from start to finish. If no one agrees with me then either clearly you are all wrong or I am wrong, not sure which. Every track on it has been cut or hash or mixed or created by him himself.
Download it though, lot's of torrents for it, I think the one on YouTube is marginally different.
Get back to me!
Just to add, I know there might be some snobbery or whatever towards Avicii or Tim Bergling from the pureists and some people might of looked down on him as he had some mainstream songs in the charts which might make him instantly not cool.
But his mix is really out of this world and different and worlds apart from his radio music. It really shows his talent.
On a different note, I also really like the Coldcut Essential mix (don't remember what year but not recent), I play that regularly too. And also Felix da Housecat mix is very good too, right up my street anyway.
Krafty Kuts essential mix is an all time favourite!
I cannot remember the year, but there is a great Joey Negro essential mix. Another is a Desyn Masiello essential mix.
Not strictly Essential mix but radio 1. Gerra and Stone soundcloud mix cos I'm going to their Christmas party on sat. Kids sorted. Hotel booked. Guest list. Shenanigans.
Listen to Gerra & Stone BBC Radio 1 Guest Mix by Gerra & Stone on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/gerraandstone/gerra-stone-bbc-radio-1-guest-mix
Enjoyed this recently...
