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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2020-04-25 - Essential Mix - Jamie xx

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Sofia Kourtesis - Essential Mix 2022-04-09

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Listen to Bonobo's DJ set at Movement Detroit 2014 (@bonobo)

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Bio:
Simon Green, AKA Bonobo, is an artist very much at the peak of his significant powers. His 2010 album ‘Black Sands’ was the high watermark of his career to date; a masterful record, marrying Green’s inimitable melodic genius to cutting edge electronics, bass and drums. Black Sands went on to sell over 160,000 copies worldwide, and since its release, Bonobo has toured the world with his live band, wowing audiences of thousands at a time with the hypnotic, extended live versions of the album’s tracks. He amassed more than 50 million recorded plays on LastFM and over 300,000 likes on Facebook.

All this comes as the result of over ten years hard work, and five albums that have honed Green’s skills. A born musician, Green – like many artists – expresses himself most articulately via his music. The result is that his work is always keenly felt, and always feels imperative. There are no wasted moments, and always myriad great ones.

It’s tempting to relate Green’s yearning, emotive aesthetic to his upbringing in rural Hampshire. His move to Brighton is also an influence; his skill at drum programming perhaps harking back to his days DJing and producing in the small, musically fertile town. Under the initial guidance of Tru Thoughts’ Rob Luis and at nights such as Phonic:hoop, Bonobo found an early education in music.

His first album – 2000’s ‘Animal Magic’ – was released via Tru Thoughts before being picked up by Ninja Tune. It announced him as a serious talent; able to bring a true musician’s edge to electronic music, with all the freedom that skill allowed. His subsequent albums for Ninja, Dial M for Monkey and Days to Come, developed his sensibility, won him fans across the globe, and saw him develop his live show into a mesmeric re-working of his records.

He also worked hard as a DJ, a part of Green’s arsenal that perhaps truly came into its own at the same time as Black Sands was generally welcomed as his best album to date. 2012 saw Green take the uptempo, club re-edits of Black Sands from a seminal Boiler Room performance in London to dance floors across the world, and unveil a new light show that further enhanced the impact of these stunning songs. A remix album was released featuring reworkings by fans and peers such as Machinedrum, Floating Points, Mark Pitchard, Lapalux and Falty DL.

Later the same year, he finally settled down in his New York studio to write his fifth studio album. Now, in 2013, he stands ready to take things up yet another notch. The North Borders is another long stride forward – both a natural evolution and a continuation of the electronic palette of Black Sands. Thematic, resonant, addictive and perfectly formed, it’s a thrillingly coherent statement piece. With vocal features from no less than Erykah Badu, as well as Grey Reverend (Cinematic Orchestra) and Cornelia (Portico Quartet) it’s another finely balanced body of work, leaving room for the beautiful, rich productions themselves to breathe and shine.

Bonobo DJ Set- Movement Detroit 2014

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Laurence Guy Boiler Room London DJ Set

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Simian Mobile Disco - Essential Mix 2017-01-14

From the October issue of Mixmag

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The Cover Mix: Bicep

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George FitzGerald - Essential Mix 2018-06-01

HAAi - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix 
29.09.18

Winner of BBC Essential Mix of the Year

BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix

This time I bring you a classic set from 2005 with Radio Soulwax / 2 Many DJ's, where they were live behind the decks at BBC 1, 2nd of January, 2005 doing a proper uptempo mix with a lot of variation in styles, sound and mood - musical soulfood in a classic Soulwax way of doing things. I enjoyed the set very much and so I decided to share it with you. I hope you get something out of this, because I surely did.

I ripped a DASH audio stream, which was encoded with Opus 251 @ 160 kbps, from YouTube and rendered it with the Vorbis codec into an ogg file at 320 kbps. I then refurbished the wave data with two FabFilter VST3 plugs where Audacity worked as an interface for the workflow. It doesn't sound very advanced, I know, but less is sometimes more; the more minimal a system is the lower the risk of fail.

Q3 (EQ) - The standout feature is the dynamic EQ mode - a simple ‘dynamic range’ dial accompanies the regular gain parameters on Pro-Q3’s interface, allowing you to quickly add compression or expansion to specific frequency bands. The plugin’s carefully-designed algorithm sets the attack, release and threshold automatically, streamlining and simplifying the compression process. Dynamic EQ changes the gain of an EQ band dynamically, depending on the level of the input signal. This makes it possible to perform subtle and surgical edits similar to a multi-band compressor.

L2 (Limiter) - Loudness cannot be easily measured, because perceived loudness depends on frequencies and can be highly subjective. Peak Normalization and Hard Limiting led to make the audio louder, without having a firm reference. The sophisticated ITU-R BS.1770 algorithm, through psychoacoustic models, introduced a new standard for measurements: the aforementioned Loudness Units, which refers to the perceived loudness. The EBU R128 suggests a -23LU loudness target, although this target may vary on different countries and applications. I set L2 to work around a target loudness between -12LU and -9LU because CDDA target format uses these values and I want the final wave to be perceived as loud without clipping or having other kinds of artefacts in the sound.

With love from Sweden,

DNSK

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Simian Mobile Disco - Essential Mix 2017-01-14

Simian Mobile Disco – Essential Mix 2017-01-14