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

Essential Mix 2008-07-05 - James Zabiela & Booka Shade

On Tuesday 17 August I was round at one of my friend's places for a catch up. It just so happened that on that particular evening it was announced NZ was going into another level 4 lockdown. I was feeling stressed and anxious as all get out, so I put myself in his studio to play some tunes to calm myself down. All I knew is that I wanted to play what I would play to a 2am floor. And this mix is the result, it's what a basement club would wear. 

On that very same day a beloved member of Wellington's dance scene and someone I had been dancing with and have loved since 1996 left us. I didn't know it at the time I was playing, but I feel like I channelled our beautiful Nick  as I danced during that jam session, ciggie in hand and all. 

Yesterday I wrote a piece about what it was like for me as a woman starting to DJ in the NZ scene 15 years ago. It wasn't easy but I had amazing support from very special humans and I am glad I spoke up so that maybe what I went through doesn't have to happen again.

So with all this in mind, with my thoughts harking back to 90s and early 2000s dancefloors, memories surfacing of humans who have come and gone (and some are still by my side to this day) and the knowledge of my musical dreams being an actual reality that I am so blessed to live, I decided to call this mix Foundations.

Thank you to Cooper for letting me unleash in his studio, James Jackson for yet another epic master, Vicki Watson for the photo, all my humans for being amazing, endlessly inspiring me and caring for me, and Nick Ryan, you wonderful and beautiful soul. Rest in peace and I know we will be on a dancefloor together again.

Be kind to one another and never stop dancing. 

Love,
Heylady. xx

Back on Track Sessions Vol 9

Back on Track Sessions Vol 9: Foundations

The Glorious Return of TCHP inside Orient Express! This is Jeremy's 2 30 minute sets combined into one hour of house jams.

Mr. Linden Live at TCHP | March 26, 2022

Latest mix. Big banging vocal tech house

Get amongst.

Club Protocol II

Album: "Narrative of Thee Blast Illusion":

iTunes: hyperurl.co/3f7rt9
Beatport: btprt.dj/1JE72km
Spotify: spoti.fi/1OcXA8T

Felix da Housecat feat. Romina Cohn "Queer" (Dave The Hustler Remix)

More info: http://ravetapes.com/post/150409711951/thee-o-live-at-magic-wednesdays-december-1995

Thee-O Live at Magic Wednesdays - December 1995

DJ THREE - Live @ The Soulhouse - October 1998

Gravado ao vivo na 278ª edição do 5uinto, dia 17 de janeiro de 2013, em Brasília.

Layo & Bushwacka! @ 5uinto 278

My set from XOYO in January 2020, for Dusky's Residency "Rise For Love"

XOYO Set // Jan 2020 w/ Dusky

On the 27th of November, we held a virtual release party in CryptoVoxels.

Delta Trials - Release Party @ Cryptovoxels

Here is most of my mixes spanning the last 20 years. There are more but they were made for specific people for special occasions, you'll find a couple of those in here too, but mostly I've left it up to those I made mixes for to be in charge of spreading them if they so chose.

Pretty much my input into the culture and my only legacy. Hope it helps you get to know me a bit deeper.

Much love, Hape.

Through The Rift | May 2014

In the mid to late 90’s, the dance scene in Wellington was a fully fledged adolescent with an ever-growing foothold on the local nightlife. Dance itself was about to go through a global cultural shift which would see it’s popularity explode and it become completely integrated into the musical landscape, but for the most part it was still an underground movement. It was an exciting time to go out and discover a new evolving sound, something the bars that plied the likes of R’n’B, Top 40 and Rock music were unable to provide or keep up with.  It was in this new melting pot of sound that HAPE first heard the pulsating rhythms and melodies that would go on to change his life. Being a punter first and foremost for a few years allowed him to refine the sound he liked to listen to and discover the venues that best catered to it. Golden era bars and clubs such as Tatou, Phoenix, The Nine Complex, Vurtigo, Paradiso, and a multitude more all touted the way forward for Wellington dance.   Looking back it’s now obvious that HAPE was going to naturally progress from being a punter on the dance floor to being behind the decks, such was his appetite and voracity for the music. With an ever growing collection of records it wasn’t long before he got some 1210’s, delved into learning the craft, honing his skills and playing alongside friends. Some of whom were, and still are, heavyweights in the scene today. He cut his teeth at the likes of Paradiso and Mercury Lounge alongside Dannyboy and Mr. Oz before holding his first residency at Terrace Bar for 4 years. It was here that he would come into his own and develop the sound he’s known for today. This is also where several club nights were born, his own High Calibre, and with the rise of Heylady, Back On Track. Both going from strength to strength. HAPE was soon a regular on club nights and outdoor party line ups all around the capital and further afield.   In recent times, HAPE continued to make a name for himself during a 4 year stint in Auckland where he ran monthly club night Pitch n’ Faders at Red Bar with old Terrace Bar cohort Matt Empyre. Together they also found a new space to continue the High Calibre club night, at Auckland’s ancestral home of house music, the infamous Ink Bar. HAPE continued to play across the city for some of the Auckland scene’s most loved and well respected club brands and venues before returning to the capital in 2018 where he has been a regular face behind the decks, most notably at Dirty Laundry alongside long time friend Mr. Oz.   From those early hedonistic nights in the plush surrounds of Wellington clubland to the gritty freedom that only a large outdoor rig can provide, HAPE is a through and through beat merchant with an absolute passion for storming any dance floor you give him. Constantly striving to both push himself and take the audience on a journey through dark vocal prog with lush servings of deep tribal tech and everything in between, it’ll always be infused with his own twist of high energy funk.

Through The Rift | May 2014

HAPE

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