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
Daft Punk E Mix

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 tape 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!! 😀

Future Sound of London 1993 (the soundtrack to my A-Levels…).

David Holmes 1993

John Digweed 1994

Snap 1994 (yes, that Snap… actually a very good mix of what used to be known as "Trance" – Harthouse, EyeQ etc).

Massive Attack 1994.

Laurent Garnier 1994

Leftfield 1994

DJ Ron 1995 (1st jungle EM, iirc – absolutely smashes it…).

Portishead 1995

Jose Padilla 1995

Gilles Peterson, DJ Krush and UFO 1995

Steve Bridger 1996

DJ Shadow 2003

Alex Smoke 2006

All good mixes, I'll add

Terry Francis 1998

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?

Em mixes 🙂 http://futuremusic.com/blog/?p=3464

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