Hey MoodyL still giving out track ID's? Would love to know this one :)

Keep playing this mix over and over.  Love it.

like it moody Luke. Keep up the good work

even searching for the lyrics did not help here. track id would be much appreciated!

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.

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Essential Mix 2011-03-05 - Soul Clap

ESSENTIAL MIX - JAN 2009
Uploaded on 17.01.10 and exclusive to SoundCloud. Available for the first time without voiceovers and jingles,12 months on from original Radio 1broadcast on 17.01.09.


EMAILSHOT A FEW DAYS AHEAD OF MIX BEING AIRED:
2009 kicks in for me this weekend with my first gig of the year for Udio (1st birthday) at The Gramaphone Club in Shoreditch, London on Friday night, which coincides with the airing of my only just completed in the nick of time Essential Mix on Radio 1, made up of 43 tracks in just under 2 hours.

Given that the 5th anniversary of my DJ comeback has only just passed, I decided to take the opportunity to make the mix totally representative of this period, with all the selections being amongst the biggest tracks I’ve played since I made my second debut at Music Is Better in Manchester.

Five years represents a significant package of time, a fixed point from where I can reflect on what’s been a continually snowballing sequence of events, set in motion when Danny Webb asked me to appear in Manchester on that December night back in 2003.

There were less than 100 people there that night, but they were the right people, and I was taken aback by the response to my return, both on the night itself and during subsequent days, when people who were there began to post on the forums. I’d never expected all the feedback be so totally positive!

I’d figured that I’d play that night, using the combination of laptop and reel-to-reel for the first time, then go away and think about what worked and what didn’t before I made my next move. I would never have believed that things could come together so immediately, it was as if I’d hit a completely unexpected hole in one, especially when two of the people who were there, Ralph Lawson, DJ from Back To Basics in Leeds, and one of my fellow DJ’s that night, Richard Hardcastle (Solid State) from Society in Sheffield, both asked me to play at their nights no sooner had I finished my spot.

One thing kept leading to another and, in Sheffield, I was approached by Tony Daly to play at the now legendary Tyneside Cinema party in Newcastle, a bespoke event where he took on the substantial risk of presenting me in a city I’d never DJ’d in previously (unless you count the 1983 TV appearance on The Tube, which was filmed in the Tyne Tees studio). Then, of course, there was London, where Steve Kotey and Bill Brewster booked me for their parties, bringing me to the capital within the first few months of my return for Ouch and Low Life.

The bookings kept coming, and I found myself driving up and down the country on an increasingly regular basis. Later in 2004 I was approached by Sav Remzi, from Tirk / Nuphonic, with the idea of putting together an edits album, which would be issued the following year as ‘Credit To The Edit’. This would help bring my name to the attention of people outside the UK. There was soon a need to step things up further, now that I was receiving enquiries from Europe, and so began a fruitful relationship with my agent, Matt Johnson (Matty J), who’s done a wonderful job of representing me during recent years.

The last few months have been, to say the least, manic for me, with 25 flights, including 6 long haul, taking me to gigs in the US, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Europe. From a personal perspective I still find it remarkable the way everything has developed, pretty much organically, since I made the decision that I was going to be a DJ once again – had I concocted some sort of comeback masterplan, it could never have worked out anything like as well as it has. It’s definitely been a case of ‘from small acorns’.

It still never ceases to amaze me that people from another continent are interested in my DJ past. Back in the early 80’s, before I went into retirement for 20 years, the furthest I travelled (with the exception of the appearances I made in the South of England as part of The Hacienda Review in late ’83) was to places like Birmingham and Nottingham, when I played at All-Dayers, so to find myself in clubs on the other side of the world is pretty nuts!

Anyhow, I’d like to wish everyone all the best for 09. Big thanks to all the promoters who booked me and everyone who danced to the tunes I played during ’08 in Adelaide, Barcelona, Belfast, Berlin, Birmingham, Blackburn, Brighton, Bristol, Dublin, Dundee, Edinburgh, Fukuoka, Glasgow, Hamburg, Leeds, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Melbourne, Milan, New York, Newcastle, Nottingham, Paris, Porto Alegre, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Sheffield, Sydney, Tokyo and Warsaw. Also the festivals and special events that I appeared at - Bestival (Isle Of Wight), Big Chill (England), Camp Bestival (England), Garden Festival (Croatia), Ibiza, Lovebox (England), Notting Hill Carnival (England), Rockness Festival (Scotland), Sonar (Spain) and the Southport Weekender (England).

Hope to see you soon.

Greg


FORUM POST DURING FOLLOWING DAYS:                                                        
Thanks for all the positive words. The feedback has been pretty phenomenal, far exceeding what I’d hoped for, especially on the BBC page, where I’d expected that some people would criticize the amount of older music included - the Radio 1 audience is used to current stuff ('in new music we trust'), so I’d anticipated a more mixed reaction. What’s particularly pleasing is that they were all made without the people seeing what each other wrote (they all came online at once, having been checked first by whoever moderates the BBC pages, I presume for swearing etc following the Ross / Brand controversy).

You always hope something you've done will be well received, but the response to this has blown me away.

Greg


ANSWER TO POST RE MIXING PROCESS:                                                      
It was quite a laborious process. Before I could start the actual mixing part I had to edit every track to a coherent length of around two and a half minutes average, inclusive of in and out points. I had a pool of about 90 tracks that fitted the criteria I'd set (a representative selection of the biggest tunes I've been playing during the past 5 years). It wasn't as straightforward as just editing the 43 tracks I ended up featuring - in order to have the necessary options once I started to piece the mix together I needed to have all the tracks at my disposal, just as I would have if I was out deejaying in a club, so the only thing to do was edit all 90 to the required length, even though I knew that only half would make the cut .

Once that was finally done they were all taken across into my laptop, enabling me to vari-speed them via PCDJ whilst I recorded across to my home computer into Cool Edit Pro, where I put the mix together track by track, before adding overdubs (fx, samples, textures) in a similar way to what I do live using the Revox (reel to reel).

I could quite easily have spent another day, tweaking bits here and there and adding more overdubs (the older I get the more finicky I become), but I had a deadline to work to, so, as it moved ever nearer, it became a race against time, with me doing as much as I could before the cut off point arrived.

Greg
                       

Greg Wilson - 2009


ESSENTIAL MIX (by greg wilson for bbc radio 1 2009)

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Aymeric T. - Stab Duo

Set from party at Tir Cyffredin housing co-op, Machynlleth, Wales October 2024

Tir Cyffredin 12/10/24

Set from monthly residency at Stir Stores bar, Stirchley, Birmingham UK 14-2-25

The B-52's - Rock Lobster 
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
ESG - You Make No Sense
Fila Brazillia Vs A Certain Ratio - Wild Party
Defunkt - Defunkt
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Quando Quango - Atom Rock  (New York Remix)
Liquid Liquid - Cavern
Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Run DMC - My Adidas
A Certain Ratio - Up In Downsville, Pt. 1 and 2
AK/DK + Thick Richard - Nobody shouts (Sir Real's passive remix)
A.R. Kane - A Love From Outer Space
Solomon Burke - None Of Us Are Free

stirstores-14-2-25

Deep House / Techno mix

Earth Tones, Earth Boys
Sixth Life. Oneeyedman
Hush, Earth Boys
Spiritual Journey, Mateo & Matos
Into A Diamond,  Fireground
I Gotta Keep On,  Sweely
Tyner,  Daimian Schwartz
Mizuasobi,  Hoshina Anniversary
Descendant,  Basic Soul Unit
The Music Got Me, Boyd Jarvis
Recognise, Dan Curtin
Of The Essence, Titonton
Dress The Part, Maxime Alexander
In The Morning. Wolf + Lamb

 

June Techno

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 masterclass, recorded in 2012 at a superclub that no longer exists. (2012, incidentally, is farther away from 2025 than 2012 was from 2000, and if we have to clock it, so do you.)

It's the coming together of one British icon who passed away in 2020, and another whose time on the road has scaled back considerably as of late. DJ Harvey agreed to exactly one b2b set in his life: this one, with Andrew Weatherall.

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 rare combinations playing start-to-finish. 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. 

What follows is a 385-minute marathon of arpeggiated chug and slow-cresting climaxes: a moment when the resting heart rate of dance floors plunged lower than any comparable point in the 21st century. 

If you've got time to spare, a fun side game is sussing out who plays what. Disco-dub covers of Echo & the Bunnymen? Smart money's on Weatherall. Exuberant EQ'ing of The Isley Brothers? Gotta be Harvey. As for the low 'n slow, lightly spangled house that was all the rage in the early 2010s (think Maxxi Soundsystem, Disco Bloodbath, Rub & Tug, C.O.M.B.I. and Full Pupp), it's anyone's guess. 127 BPM practically feels like an F1 car.

When we kicked off our RA.1000 campaign, we outlined a few full-send goals: tick off long-awaited dream guests, honour architects who shaped the world around us and deliver recordings you truly can't hear anywhere else.

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)

@andrew-weatherall

Read the interview with DJ Harvey and Andrew Weatherall's family at https://ra.co/podcast/1016. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

Acid ,Techno + more.

Infinite Dimensions,  The Exaltics
Cox Orange Pippin,  Thomas Brinkmann
Stop This Insanity,  David Vunk
For Play (Day One),  Derek Plaslaiko
Troglo Dance,  I:Cube
Y.O.U.R.O.C.K,   I:Cube
Harmona,  Ichisan  (Dan Tyler Acid Mix)
It's Later Than You Know,  Mark Pistel
Machines,  Cari Lekebusch
Extra,  Ken Ishi
Noir,  Charlotte Bendiks
Moonshots,   Tee Mango
Acid Jacker,  Lauren Flax
Moved  (Pt 2)  Jerome Hill
I'm Not Loosin'  (Warehouse Mix)  Split Secs
Boss,   Brain
Mountain Pads,  Mayurashka
Swell /Repeat, (Kenny Larkin Mix)  youANDme

September Techno

Belgium New-Beat, Leftfield Disco, 80s Techno?

It's all here, cobbled together from tracks plundered from random places and people. 


So, I have decided to go back in time. I have a good collection of Leftfield Disco, Disco Not Disco, 80s NYC stuff & European oddities  but filling a mix with the not so obvious tracks is going to be tough, so it took me around two years of visiting lots of music shops in places sch as Reykjavik, Istanbul, Riga and other strange places. 

Once returned, edited and whittled down, this is the result.

Excuse some of the sound quality, most of the tracks are touching 30 years old. there are a couple of newish numbers in there too but I think you'll find it tough to tell them apart.

Tracks from the likes of Yello, Front 242, The Erotic Dissidents, Fatal Error and more. 

Enjoy.

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Stevie's Groove,   Sound Signals
Je Ka Jo (feat - Vera Mara),  Joe Claussell
Black Space Jazz,   Kareem Ali
Teena's Cry,    David Harness & Tedd Patterson
Better Days,   Glenn Davis
Star Cycles,  Gilbert
Development,   London Sonics
Ander Umour,  Samuele De  Santis
Mafungo,   Joe Claussell
Bossa Rhythm,   Nico  Lahs
The Same Thing,   Art Of Tones
Unstuck,  LWS
Flight Cover,  Hugo Mane
Answer The Dam Phone,   Rahaan
Vortex,  Souldynamic

October Techno, - jazztechnojazztechnojaaaazzz

I was back at State College PA. it was a real grass root underground Jam! Thanks Family!
FYI I messed up and hit the wrong button...lol so I did edit this file so there is no break in the mix...I only did this for listening purpose...hahaha shit was fun though!

JUS ED AT MANNYS 11.8.25.mp3

Music Lover /Crazy Dancer based in Sheffield, UK.

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MoodyL

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