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.

Essential Mix - BBC Radio 1 - 2005

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Essential Mix - BBC Radio 1

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Update 11.09.2020: 
Most likely this is not a live set from Ibiza, but a studio mix. Here is a comment from https://soundcloud.com/farnesbarnes74: "This is not the mix from the night, this is a studio mix. I was there, and Oakey was the first DJ on. The atmos was shite, and he knew it. That's why he played Itty Bitty Boozy Woozy handbag shite. We were only there for Sasha anyway - thank God for B-Tribe's Nanita with the roof open, a defining clubbing moment."

Tracklist:

01. BT - Trippin' The Light Fantastic
02. BT - Loving You More (B.T.'s Garden Of Ima Dub)
03. Wild Colour - Dreams (BT's Circadian Dream Mix)
04. Tilt - I Dream (Casa De Angeles Mix)
05. Quivver - Believe In Me (Original Q Mix)
06. Grace - Orange (Original Perfecto Mix)
07. Jam & Spoon - Odyssey To Anyoona
08. Grace - I Want To Live (Rollo & Sister Bliss Mix)
09. Crescendo - Are You Out There
10. Remake - Blade Runner (Replicant Mix)
11. Shady - Pearls (Hallelujah) (Paul Gotel's Pacha Soundscape)
12. Bump - I'm Rushing '95 (Bump '95 Mix)
13. Desert - Moods (Club Mix)
14. Jimmy Somerville - By Your Side (The Shining Mix)
15. Traci Lords - Fallen Angel (Perfecto Mix)
16. Third Eye - You Know
17. Prodigy - Skylined
18. Man With No Name - Floor Essence
19. E-Type - This Is The Way (Biff n' Memphis Instrumental)
20. Evoke - Runaway (Biff n' Memphis Mix)
21. Virus - Sun (Jam El Mar Mix)

Paul Oakenfold - Live at Ku Club, Ibiza, Spain, Essential Mix 05, 17.09.1995

Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions™ (Vinyl) (320  Kbps)

Our essential mix from the 1st of December 2018. 

Simian Mobile Disco- Murmurations (TYB Edit)
Weval- Out Of The Game
Tee Mango- Leave You
Rampue- Leporidae
Durante- Orca
Tim Engelhardt- Chymera (Desert Night Edit)
Jon Hopkins- Singularity
Mbuso Khoza, King Sfiso-Ilanga feat. Mbuso Khoza (Enoo Napa Travellerz Remix)
Lawrence Hart & Casually Here- Wanderlast (All I’ve Got Edit)
Martin Solveig- Places (Icarus Remix)
Booka Shade- Perfect Time
Cassian- Lafayette 
Eelke Kleijn- The Calling (LIMM Edit)
Cubicolor- Dead End Thrills (Patrice Baumel Remix)
Kato Change & Winyo- Abiro (Da Capo’s Touch)
Joeski v Bicep- Need You More v Drift
Cioz- Lucky Shot
Bebetta, CIOZ- Elephant on Ebay (Shouse- Love Tonight Edit)
Julian Wasserman- Aurea (Underwater Chant Edit)
Simian Mobile Disco- Caught In A Wave
RÜFÜS DU SOL- Innerbloom
Guy Gerber- What To Do (&Me Remix)
Trentemoller- Moan (Trentemoller Remix)
Riva Starr- Detox Blues (feat. Rssll) (H.O.S.H. Remix)
RÜFÜS DU SOL- Eyes (Club VIP Edit)
Dena Amy- Jol
RÜFÜS DU SOL- Underwater (Adam Port Remix)
Kiasmos- Burnt (AL Edit)

BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix

Since being the first ever guest DJ to record an Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, Paul Oakenfold has gone on to record a further 35 EMs.

This archive will enable Paul Oakenfold fans new and old to listen to these legendary mixes in their entirety on demand.

01. Mr. V - Give Me Life (Full Vocal, Full Monty Mix) (re-edit)
02. Grace - Orange (Original Perfecto Mix)
03. Li Kwan - Point Zero (Original Extended Mix)
04. The Disco Evangelists - De Niro (The Spaceflight Remix)
05. Virtual Symmetry - The V.S. (Original Mix)
06. Vangelis - Tears In Rain (re-edit)
07. Salt Tank - Eugina (Unknown Mix) (re-edit)
08. Hallucinogen - LSD (Original Version)
09. Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix Of Two Halves)
10. Wojciech Kilar - Vampire Hunters (re-edit)
11. Electrotete - Alcatraz
12. Vangelis - Main Titles (from the Blade Runner soundtrack) (re-edit)
13. Man With No Name - Floor-Essence (Dayglo Mix)
14. Scorpio Rising - Dubcatcher (Oakenfold Instrum. Edit)
15. Man With No Name - Evolution
16. Goldie presents The Metalheads - Inner City Life (Full Length Mix) (re-edit)
17. Wojciech Kilar - Love Remembered
18. Voodoo People - Co-Incidence
19. The Infinity Project - Stimuli (Original Mix) (re-edit)
20. Trance Team - Wake Up (Trance Mix)
21. V-Tracks - Heretic Voices (Original Mix)
22. Marmion - Schöneberg (Marmion Remix) (re-edit)
23. Karl Biscuit - Hiérophone (re-edit)
24. Vangelis - Rachel's Song
25. Virus - Sun (Oakenfold/Osborne Mix)
26. Man With No Name - Deliverance
27. Perfecto Allstarz - Reach Up (Papa's Got A Brand New Pig Bag) (Indian Summer Remix) (re-edit)
28. Para-Dizer - Song Of Liberation (Exit EEE Remix) (re-edit)
29. Dead Can Dance - Sanvean
30. 4 Voice - Eternal Spirit (Southern Mix) (re-edit)
31. Man With No Name - Sugar Rush (Original Mix) (re-edit)

Paul Oakenfold - Radio 1 Essential Mix, The Goa Mix 18-12-1994

take your mind back to july 2001; dark tribal prog rules britain's superclubs & britain's sound rules the world. berlin is not yet officially cool, cigarettes are smoked on dancefloors, dance music slower than 125 bpm is punishable by death & deadmau5 has not yet been born; it is a time of great joy.

the scene is a room full of samplers, synthesizers & class c narcotics - it is chong's palace studio (mark II), lair of king unique & sweating over a remix are two young men called matthew.

ring ring!... ring ring!...ring r-

KU: "hello?"

BBC: "hello it's the bbc here, can i speak to someone from king unique please"

KU: "oh, right - um hello"

BBC: "right - you know how we asked if you'd do a king unique essential mix in the autumn for us?"

KU: "err, yes"

BBC: "well, would you like to do it a bit sooner than we discussed? quite a lot sooner in fact?"

KU: "um... maybe?"

BBC: "great! the thing is (NAME REMOVED AT BBC LAWYER'S INSISTENCE) promised us a mix months ago & they've just told us it won't be ready after all. so you'd be doing us a huge favour if you stepped in"

KU: "right. just out of interest did ali & sharam say why they couldn't do it?"

BBC: "i couldn't possibly comment"

KU: "i see. well, we are insanely busy but we'd obviously like to help.... how soon were you thinking? this month or next?"

BBC: "oh definitely this month. in fact, um, more like, you know, er, this week actually"

KU: "this week!!!!????"

BBC: "...................... yes. by friday night in fact."

KU: "& you're aware that today is wednesday????!!"

BBC: "............................................ yes."

KU: "!"

so there you have it, the behind the scenes story of how we came to turn round our first essential mix in under 72 hours from a standing start, armed only with a mountain of vinyl, several samplers & a huge computer struggling to run 4 channels of pro-tools with less than half the power of a current iphone. this is King Unique Broadcast 0 if you like, the first time we hit the airwaves & not a bad way to start :)

to add to the nostalgia i've included the handy cassette case with tracklisting that Mixmag used to print each month for all the home-tapers out there - if you'd told us about Soundcloud back then we'd have burnt you as a witch.

enjoy the flashback ;)

Essential Mix 15/07/2001 - King Unique

2013-03- stress.manuel montana mix

Glostombury 2002

Layo & Bushwacka live at  Glastonbury 2002 Pt 2

Essential Mix 1995-09-03 - John Digweed

1995-03-11 - EM - Lisa Loud-[SMD-Cass]

Essential Mix 1995-03-12 - Lisa Loud

1997

Essential Mix 1997-05-25 - Sneaker Pimps, J. Robertson, Kraftwerk, Oakenfold & Way Out West

Essential Mix 1997-03-30 - Matthew Roberts

Essential Mix 2001-02-04 - Jan Driver

2001

Essential Mix 2001-01-21 - Paul Jackson

Essential Mix 2002-12-08 - Francesco Farfa

Ripped By Baz

Essential Mix 2002-11-24 - Death In Vegas

2002-11-17  Essential Mix - Daniel & John Kelly

Essential Mix 2002-11-17 - Daniel & John Kelly

Essential Mix 2002-11-10 - Richie Hawtin & Sven Väth

                              

Essential Mix 2002-11-03 - Bob Sinclair

Essential Mix 2002-06-30 - Layo & Bushwacka @ Glastonbury

Essential Mix 2002-01-20 - James Holden

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Essential Mix 2004-10-03 - Desyn Masiello

Essential Mix 2005-03-06 - Silicone Soul

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Essential Mix 2005-02-06 - Nic Fanciulli & Pete Tong

Essential Mix 2005-01-30 - Pete Heller

Live Set

Essential Mix 2005-01-23 - David Guetta

HSALIVE

Essential Mix 2005-01-16 - Jon O'Bir

Essential Mix 2005-01-09 - High Contrast

BBC Radio 1 - UK

Essential Mix 2007-10-07 - High Contrast

BBC Radio One

Essential Mix 2007-07-15 - Digitalism

Early Hardstyle maniac!

Classic Event Archive

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Essential Mix 2005-03-06 - Silicone Soul

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