Hybrid Minds full Thunder Stage set live from Lightning in a Bottle 2025

Hybrid Minds @ Lightning in a Bottle 2025

It's time. The legendary Mike Skinner joined us in Ibiza this summer for a long overdue BR debut of The Streets.

The Streets | Boiler Room: Ibiza

Sigma takeover for a two-hour Essential Mix. Featuring tracks from Culture Shock, Watch The Ride and Chase & Status alongside music from their new album, Day One.

Radio 1 Essential Mix 2025-10-18 Sigma

Few figures in Drum & Bass have left an imprint on the scene like Andy C. Having been a vital cornerstone since the 90s, he’s continued to break boundaries globally (including a performance at The Great Wall of China, no less).

Now, he makes his long overdue Boiler Room debut, alongside SABRINA, YAN & Viridity.

YAN | Boiler Room: London

Viridity | Boiler Room: London

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Melbourne! It’s time. Last month, we tapped dubstep forefathers Skream & Benga for a takeover down under.

Skream & Benga | Boiler Room: Melbourne

MARCO - Khöömei (Lizplay Records)

Essential Mix Live at Space (Ibiza)

Scream and Benga Essential Mix Live at Space (Ibiza)

what!!! yes the ledge Pete Tong asked me to do another Essential Mix for the Radio 1 chaps - these are some of my favourite tracks at the minute, the kind of stuff i'm playing out and about in the clubs. 
if you're a promoter and wanna book me to come play some of these jams give Ishsha at echo a shout :D
and could you do me a favour please - if you think anyone you know might like this mix - would you share it with them? big up your status.
there's a TL somewhere on the bbc site, not really my strongpoint tho...

Tracklist: 

Chris Lorenzo - Off
Riddim Commission x Leon Lour - Beggin
Redlight - News flows - Lobster Boy
Dj Zinc - Groover - Bingo bass
PG + Sinden - We aint got a clue
Nu era and hybrid theory - Four riddim
Gotsome - The life
Dj Zinc - Turn the bass up - Bingo bass
Chris lorenzo - Promised land
Jack beats - The Lean
idris elba - Indirect - Dj Zinc remix - 7wallace
Ac Slater ft Tchami and Rome fortune - Dealer - Night bass
Born Dirty - Mums money (Jakwob remix)
Shift K3y x Chris Lorenzo - Let you go instrumental
Follow me (bot rework)
Kry Wolf - Temper - Night bass
Dj Zinc - Feel the love - Armada
Mark Starr - Your love
Hybrid Theory - Atomic Bomb
Pelikann x Nina Wilde - Recognise
Dj Zinc ft Amber Jolene - Friday Night
Ac Slater - head knockin - Night bass
Raito - Moon dance x Ms Dynamite Boo
Chris Lorenzo x Dj Zinc - Purple Toe
Spoon me - Ac Slater remix (i dunno who original is by)
Chris Lorenzo - Come down
My Nu leng x Kry Wolf - What you feel
Brandy - Down - Flava D remix
Dj Zinc x Mj Cole - Hear me now 
Champion - Gunshot
Archive + Distro - Ghana police
Dj Zinc x Chris Lorenzo - Vibes - bingo bass
My Nu leng - Set it vip
Dj Zinc - jicarilla jam - Bingo bass
Wallwork & Tsvi - Facts (feat Nico Lindsay) - Black Acre
TMSV - Expensive Suit (Murder He Wrote remix) - Tumble Audio
Skream - You know, right? - Crosstown Rebels
Cadenza ft Jorgia Smith - People (Dj Zinc remix)

Dj Zinc Essential Mix Dec 16

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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