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I know we love a music thread on STW (in between knocking ebikes and VW camper vans). What are STWers Essential Mixes of choice? I'm currently listening to Photek's 1997 mix where he apparently gets bored after an hour or so and plays Goldie's Mother in its entirety.
The 'Portishead' one that was basically a DJ Andy Smith masterclass of eclectic excellence.
Nero 2010. It's bombastic to a ridiculous degree:
https://soundcloud.com/nero/nero-essential-mix-first
The Paul Oakenfold "Goa" mix is the one that always stands out for me;
CJ Bolland for a proper Orbit style techno workout (hold on to your hat towards the end - face melting stuff!)
Tony De Vit because his style of music influenced the stuff I listened to when I was old enough to go clubbing;
All the Coxy ones but this one is probably my fave;
I give you the almighty Goa mix..... Definitely the best essential mix ever.
hmm, good question
Evil 9 circa 2004/5 stands out for me
There's an absolutely banging Weatherall one from about 1993
Junior Boys Own 1994
there's a great FSOL one from around 1994 too, which I remember listening to some years later, and marvelling at just how weird and avant garde it was, thinking 'how did THIS ever get on radio 1'?
They're all rubbish and you all have appalling taste. Just getting that out of the way first. 😀
Haven't listened to one for a while, I assume it's still going? (Checked, it is)
Nicolas Jaar's was a beauty
https://soundcloud.com/otherpeoplerecords/csp06-nicolas-jaar-essential
Now you've sparked my interest, I shall be listening to
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and
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Cool!
This is the one I've probably listened to the most. Great when you need a bit of fun instead of two hours of navel gazing inside a DJ's record box:
https://soundcloud.com/nero/bbc-radio-1-essential-mix-2015
Particular fan of the Visage > Human League > Depeche Mode > Frankie Goes to Hollywood mash halfway through.
Recent one from Andy C
Freddy Fresh was banging as well "Get out there and start raking them leaves boy"
The Orbital ones have always been belters. They're always a safe bet for dropping some mad shit in the mix
And Krafty Kuts is always reliable for some awesome breaks - this is funky as **** from 2005!
https://www.mixcloud.com/essentialmixcollection/20050227-essential-mix-krafty-kuts/
Pearson Sound best eva
https://soundcloud.com/pearsonsound/pearson-sound-bbc-essential
edit: Cheers for the ANdy C one, if been caning Andy C Drum and Bass arena 2001 mix on youtube in the car on the way to the bike park. Tracklist contains a good sprinkling of classic bangers.
Love this one...
And from more recently, this guy is amazeballs...
Is this the Weatherall one you meant Doris? Just reading the tracklist is enough to give me goosebumps...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feljazOCJx8
Cheers for the links, you lot. Working from home this week and I'm bored with 6 Music. That's my listening sorted 😀
I always thought it was nice of Radio1 to insert a break on the hour to give you time to turn over your c120 tape ready for part2.
It's got a Wiki page 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Essential_Mix_episodes
Listening to the Nicolas Jaar one on Soundcloud - it doesn't go "Essentialessentialessential you're listening to... blah blah" at any point during the playback. Superb!
I'm confused now! The Andy Weatherall mix I had in mind isn't that 1993 one above (which is great), nor is it the more housey 1996 one (also great).
Maybe it wasn't an essential mix at all? IIRC it was just straight techno.... hmm
oh well. He's a don, whatever!
If you lot can remember all these and when, you so weren’t doing it right! 🤪😁
I also thought I'd listened to a banging Weatherall Essential Mix from 1992-ish, but it might have been a club set actually.
Only went to Sabresonic once myself, I had an unfairly tainted view of AW after he turned up at The Drum Club and played a set of borderline undanceable pan pipe-laced techno.
That mix of Smokebelch into Spastik is spectacular.
Some of the recent ones I've enjoyed
Helena Hauff - Essential mix of the year 2017
DJ Stingray
Recently I've got a thing for Charlotte de witte. She's a massive acid techno fan but as far as I'm aware she's not done a pure acid set. Her essential mix is banging. I can't give a top 1 fave. Calyx and Teebee, Goldie. Carl Cox. Dave Clarke....
There used to be a site that had virtually all the e mixes.... I just can't single out one favourite.
Rebekah
Fatima Yamaha
Vini Vici
LTJ Bukem
Hgh Contrast
If you lot can remember all these and when, you so weren’t doing it right! 🤪😁
it's probably not one of the best, but I sometimes listen back to the 2001 Hawtin EM recorded at Sankeys, because I was there... and I barely remember a second of it 😆
it was proper banging tho
We went to a Skepta gig the other week and there was an awesome DJ set before by Sita Abellan. I'd never heard of her before. It was absolutely banging!
Well worth checking out if you like your techno pretty hard!
https://soundcloud.com/princessitabellan
A few favourites mentioned already (Oakenfold, Cj Bolland).
We listened to the Billy Nasty mix
and Justin Robertson
a lot, both from 1994.
Used to catch Billy Nasty playing out a lot, bit of a fixture on the London scene.
One I do remember was a great night at a basement place up the Tottenham Ct Rd end of Oxford Street that I never found again, was the first time I'd heard Green Velvet's Flash in his set. Took the roof off.
I'm still really sad that B.Traits doesn't do her show on BBC anymore.
@Chakaping, yes he was a regular at Final Frontier, Club UK where we'd go. As was Coxy, though his Essential Mixes never quite matched the sheer bangingness of his live sets there.
Yeah miss b.traits too.
Hey Binners, a techno set before Skepta that's a bit random eh? I'll check her out currently listening to Rebekah at crssd on YouTube if you like ya techno hard.
Oh, Fatima Haaji does some hardctechno sets too. Nosebleed pace from the word go.
So many to choose from but this was one of my favourites.
https://m.soundcloud.com/ariewe/essential-mix-2009-06-27-friendly-fires
well no ones mentioned the dust brothers mix from 1994, better known as the chemical brothers.
found it on soundcloud a few weeks ago after looking for it for a while
other mixes, i liked the lives ones, and was at a few gatecrasher ones and i do like the que club 1995 birmingham all nighter with billie ray martin live pa etc.
another favourite is the one with jam n spoon oddysey to annonnya, possibly an oakenfold mix..
Dust bros changed to chems in 95 due to legal issues with the existing dust bros. The 95 emix was under the chems monika I believe.
yeah pete tong introduces them as the newly renamed chemical brothers i think, its one of those tapes that i recorded as a 5th year high school kid overnight on C90 cassettes
I used to go round my Dad's especially to use his twin-deck-auto-reverse tape deck - set a timer on one of those wall things and get the whole show to listen to in the car 🙂
I think there was one from around new year 96/97 which included the deep and dirty version of Faithless Insomnia. Had it on tape, wouldn't know where to start looking for it now.
The Dust Brothers used to play Thursday nights at Paradise Factory every other week (as they were both students in Manchester), along with Justin Robertson and Darren Emerson
Thats how we used to kick our weekends off. I'm thinking 1993? Its all a bit hazy to be honest 😀
aphex - the Skepta gig was part of his Dystopia987 thing. It was all a bit mental. It was in an old warehouse with a massive sound system on rails and all these mad lasers and projections. Like an old warehouse party...
on C90 cassettes
amateur !
As was Coxy, though his Essential Mixes never quite matched the sheer bangingness of his live sets there.
Coxy's style isn't really to my taste, but the atmosphere when I caught him at Turnmills was incredible. It was always good there anyway, but he took it up a few notches at played til about 10am instead of the normal 6am closing.
Used to love Turnmills. Great place to wander around from room to room all night. My brother in law used to put on an all nighters called 'Faith' on Easter bank holiday weekends every year.
The 93 David Holmes one is an acid-laced spectacular that still sounds good today
Hard to believe it’s over 25 years old
silicon soul and nero are both epic, the EM did go through a bit of a drought a couple of years ago but it back in the game, there are some cracking new mixes.
the recent Harry Romero is good
Something for the morning after rather than the dance floor.
My brother in law used to put on an all nighters called ‘Faith’ on Easter bank holiday weekends every year.
It was Easter BH I saw Coxy above, but well into the noughties on my personal second summer of love.
Shame it had to go, was easily the best of the big clubs in London IMO.
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 . 😀
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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/