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If somebody told me when i first heard the essential mix as a teenager 20 years ago that one day i would be doing one myself i wouldn't have believed them, so it is a massive honour to be invited by Pete Tong have finally done one.

This is my live recording from my essential mix recorded on sunday july 28th as part of my weekly residency for Sankeys Ibiza

full tracklisting below

1  Darius Syrossian - Days without you - Definition:Music
2  Soul Capsule - Overcome - White label Vinyl
3  Darius Syrossian - Have some of this - unreleased promo
4  Hector Couto - Something back
5  Lee Marrow & the Love tools - Biggest Dick (Darius Syrossian edit)
6  Asad Rizvi & Ashley Casselle - Ceefox - Promo
7  Dusky - Mr Man
8  Darius Syrossian - I'm not weird you're just normal - Lost Records (vinyl out now, digital on 18th August)
9  Massimo Girardi - Little helper 75/6 - Little helpers
10 Darius Syrossian - Who's the douche? - Hot Creations
11 Chris Garcia - Upside Down
12  Cozzy D - Aphrodite - Lower East
13 Pedro Mercado & Karada ft Zoe Xenia - You take me there (Rodriguez JR remix)
14 Fabio Gianelli - Lost in 27 (Darius Syrossian remix) - Get Physical (i think if cuts off before this track fully plays)

ps, just a quick note, i wrote this on my facebook so i will write it here too, this is a prime example why if your thinking of quitting dont, becuase i worked for years in a record shop and trying to make it, and then after years and years it finally came together, and i think once you have done an essential mix you can kind of say, ok i think i have kind of made it,

And i'm not ashamed to say it, but at 29 mins in this essential mix, when this track plays by Dusky, i looked up in the breakdown, and the whole club was cheering and clapping, and then it sunk in what i was doing, all the years of hard graft, and working in a record shop for years for hardly any money, and now i'm actually doing an essential mix, it hadn't sunk in before because i was so busy, but at that point it just sank in what i was actually doing and where i had got to, anyway it felt quite emotional so i had to crouch down behind decks and hit myself in ribs to man up, hahahaha but then quickly had a shot of tequila & dropped in a slammer and was all good an back to normal, hahahaha great track though this by dusky, check it if you hav'nt already > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PDRaRyyZNg

BBC RADIO 1 ESSENTIAL MIX - (2013) recorded LIVE from Sankeys Ibiza

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There are DJ sets and then there are Theo sets. No matter how many times you've caught him in action, every time still feels like the first. Running hot, levels smoking, isolator working over time. You think you know dance music? Think again.

Parrish's debut on the RA Podcast is a milestone for the series, one we've sought for over 15 years. So it was only right that Theo led off our 1000th celebrations. Recorded live at fabric last December as part of RA's party with the London club for their 25th anniversary, this three-hour segment documents the crescendo of his eight-hour marathon. 

The Detroit legend doesn't release mixes often, and when he does, they're usually studio recordings: think NTS shows, his 100% Detroit edition of DJ-Kicks or classic tapes Body (1997) and Methods of Movement (2000). A capture of the Sound Signature boss on the dancefloor is hard to come by.

Sure, there's galvanising build-ups and crowd-pleasers, but laced throughout a Parrish beatdown are rarities designed to shock the system. In a business dominated by marketing, the vinyl master towers above thanks to a relentless hunger for lustrous melodies, moods and textures of all stripes, which he and he alone can fold into an inspiring and exhilarating joyride.

On RA.1000, blissful reggae precedes new wave disco; '80s R&B morphs into synthy techno; bleepy Chicago jack makes way for a poignant vocal ballad. It's Theo through and through. Once again, he proves that anything and everything is possible with the right records.

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Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. This one's special.

When mulling which direction to go in for RA's 1000th mix celebrations, many options came to mind. Some shadowy character 2-stepping around the fringe of our collective consciousness? An impossible-level IDM icon?

All tempting. But, ultimately, we are a DJ-forward publication and this is a DJ mix series. It felt truer to the history of the RA Podcast to release deep vault material from a time when the world of niche records felt different, tighter, more discrete.

The fourth-longest mix in the series' history is an unrepeatable marathon set recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. 2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000... if we have to clock it, so do you.

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The night took place at Trouw, an Amsterdam club already considered legendary before it shuttered its doors in the opening hours of 2015, as part of an RA series anchored around start-to-close combinations. Harvey was at the peak of an irresistible career second act, which dovetailed with a disco revival that dominated clubs for years. Weatherall, with infinite brownie points stockpiled from the '90s, remained everyone's favourite debonair psychonaut. 

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DJing and the mythmaking around it has undergone a quantum leap since 2012, let alone 2006, 1996 or 1989. For those of us who were kicking around in the former, there's a creeping melancholy that our prime is fast becoming a matter of historical record. The killing moon really did come too soon. 

Where will electronic music, DJ sets or any of this be in 2044? Hard to say. Best not to overthink that one. Instead, we want to say thanks to all contributors on the series so far. Now enjoy luxuriating in the company of two of the greatest to ever do it, together, for the first and last time.⁠ – Gabriel Szatan (Editor, RA)

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Sweet Dreams are Made of This by Eurythmics in the style of The Soul Rebels Brass Band

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