Radio 1 Essential Mixes

As an aside – Andy Weatherall Essential mix from ‘93 is now available in the BBC Sounds app. It’s probably noted above but to get a production quality mix made available is great

I had forgotten that Mala did an essential mix but it popped up on my van stereo this morning.

Mala is an absolute genius, I have been listening to his stuff since the very early DMZ/Digital Mystikz stuff and was fortunate enough to buy most of his early releases (which are now worth hundreds). He has made some staggeringly good music over the years. You need some decent bass speakers to appreciate the fullness of it!

Not an essential mix, but an old school friend of mine has been doing lockdown mixes and his week 1 funky house mix is top class. Lovely, summery house vibes.

The Sasha one from 2005 that has recently been available for download on the BBC Sounds app is outrageously good.

Weatherall and David Holmes are so far ahead of almost everything else posted here, in my opinion of course. A lot of the mixes are really quite samey and boring, I can’t stand the unchanging incessant ‘doof doof doof’ beat that some ‘DJs’ seem to think makes for a good two hour mix.

Carl Cox – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l956

Coxy’s 46th essential mix today was pretty frickin good