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 - 2007

Classic Essential Mixes

House

Live recorded at Robert Johnson, NYE 2013/14

Ata - Robert Johnson, NYE 2013/14

Sasha Essential Mix 21 - 05 - 1995 Or 1995 - 05 - 21

Live recorded at Robert Johnson on Saturday, October 10, 2014

Ata – Robert Johnson, October 2014

RA Live 2016.5.14 - Ata VS Gerd Janson - Part 2, RA In Residence, Robert Johnson, Offenbach

Ata's Robert Johnson X-Mas Mix 2016 live recorded at Folklor Club in Lausanne on Saturday, 10th December.

Ata – Robert Johnson X-Mas Mix 2016

Live recorded at Robert Johnson, Offenbach in August 2011

Ata - Robert Johnson, August 2011

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

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 DJ's 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 1993-11-12 - Andrew Weatherall

Essential Mix 1994-03-05 - John Digweed

Essential Mix 1995-04-16 - MK

Essential Mix 2007 - 05 - 06 - Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas

Essential Mix 2007-02-04 - Radio Slave

Essential Mix 2007-01-28 - Seamus Haji

Essential Mix 2007-01-21 - Gabriel Ananda

Essential Mix 2007-01-14 - DJ Pierre

DJ Mixes

Essential Mix 2007-01-07 - Mark Ronson

Early Hardstyle maniac!

Classic Event Archive

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! THIS IS JUST A NON-PROFIT PROJECT TO ENTERTAIN PEOPLE'S EARS !

Essential Mix 2007 - 05 - 06 - Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas

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