The Essential Mix is a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 1 currently broadcast between 0:00 - 2:00 AM UK time on Saturday morning. Originally broadcast on 30 October 1993, the Essential Mix features contemporary DJs and music producers of electronic dance music. The show has been presented since its inception by Pete Tong and features an uninterrupted two-hour mix from a different artist each week, overlaid with occasional continuity announcements delivered by Tong. With a broadcast run in excess of 25 years, the Essential Mix is one of the longest-running programmes in the current BBC Radio 1 schedule, and is one of very few Radio 1 shows which is not broadcast live.

BBC Radio 1

Essential Mix 2009-08-22 - Felix Da Housecat

Orbital Live @ Maida Vale, London (Final Performance)  -  07 - 2004

2010-09-11-underworld-live-junior-boys-own-we-are-one-o2-world-berlin-vip

Naughty But Nice (Hereford)

Parks And Wilson NBN August 1998

let's go back to the 90's!!!!!!!           

LAGER LAGER LAGER ....MEGA MEGA WHITE THING

Underworld - Everything Everything(Full Album)

Underworld - Live in Dublin

Underworld - Live @ Glastonbury 24 June 2016

1. Underworld - I Exhale
2. Underworld - If Rah 
3. Underworld - Dark Train 
4. Underworld - Two Months Off 
5. Underworld - Scribble 
6. Underworld - Ova Nova/Nylon String
7. Underworld - Push Upstairs
8. Underworld - King Of Snake
9. Underworld - Jumbo 
10. Underworld - Low Burn 
11. Underworld - Rez/Cowgirl 
12. Underworld - Born Slippy/Nuxx

Underworld Live At Glastonbury 2016

Bye Bye Blue Mountain.. This is my mix from the last of the legendary parties at Blue Mountain Club in Bristol, UK. Great to hook up with the BLOWPOP gang again! Pretty sad to see this club being turned into apartment blocks.

BRISTOL Bye Bye Blue Mountain Mix

Home made mix by a KLF-fanatic! 
Various KLF tracks in normal or exclusive remixes


KLF - Live From The Lost Continent 2012

Leftfield live 1994 Nottinham England... Quality recording

Leftfield Live Nottingham 1994 part1

Tom Middleton & Andrew Weatherall  - Essential Mix [03-10-2002]

Essential Mix 2002-03-10 - Tom Middleton & Andrew Weatherall, Live @ Cargo

I've been listening to electronic music since I was old enough to tune into the John Peel show on Radio 1. Peel first introduced me to Chicago House, Detroit Electro and Rap. I would listen to an entire show with my finger hovering over the record button of my 'tape-recorder' close to the radio speaker just to record whatever 3 electronic imports he would play each night. I wish I'd kept those recordings.
From the moment I first heard 'Roxanne Shante' I sought out everything I could ranging from Kraftwerk, Mike Oldfield, Kurtis Mantronik, Africa Bambata, Grandmaster Flash, Gorgio Morodor, Axel-F, Jean Michel Jarre and just about anyone who used a synth to make music! With the arrival of House in the mid-late 80's the likes of Marshall Jefferson, Frankie Knuckles, Farley Jackmaster Funk, Steve Silk Hurley, Adonis and many more American underground House producers, the music had developed into a new, seriously exciting phenomena.
Music progressed at pace with House and Acid imports driving change, the UK in particular underwent an epiphany of sorts in the 80's and 90's. From Break-Dancing to New Romanticism, the music developed, finally morphing into the early genres of Acid Trance, Techno and Progressive Trance. Heavily influenced by American and underground Dutch and German artists and with the advent of clubbing and non-speaking mixing DJ's, it opened up a Pandora's box of new music, influences, sounds and styles. What that amounted to for me (and most others like me) was an ever-growing range of electronic music that was continually breaking free from pigeon-holes and mainstream pop culture. Electronic music had become the new classical music of a generation.
I can only say that electronic or computer music has evolved beautifully in the past 40 years and I love it as much now as the day I first heard John Peel play fantastic American imports.
I'm not anything more than a bedroom DJ and electronic music enthusiast. I have the greatest admiration for those who DJ publicly and seek to build a following or career from DJing, but that’s not a path I’ve tried to follow. I do love to put together great tunes, so for me using this sort of platform for sharing music is perfect for me. 
As for making music, I’m slowly finding my way around Ableton, opting to use Paul Nolan – MYT (Make Your Transition https://www.transition.studio/ ) course in order to bring life to the musical ideas rolling around my head. 
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the mixes I post, please give me some feedback and if nothing else, support the artists themselves and buy their music.

Angrish

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