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So another Mixmag Live! cd here, but there was a massive gap of anything rave related in the series so it's time to fix that. With non other than the first ever Mixmag cd... 01 (funnily enough). It rolls through Cox's mix of hardcore, or what I'd simply call early rave music via the epic "Atomic Matter" and "I want you forever". Dave Seaman's mix continues the 90's warehouse flavour with a pitched down selection. "Brass Disc" is a stand out along side "I'm Coming Hardcore" and "You Keep The Love". All in all... a ravetastic CD!

016 - Mixmag Live! Vol 1 feat. Carl Cox and Dave Seaman (1996)

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093 - Carl Cox -  F.A.C.T - Disc 1 (1995)

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808 - Essential Millennium - Paul Oakenfold - Disc 3 (1999)

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Originally appearing on the cover of Mixmag in April 2000, the 15-track mix features a host of the my own tracks including 'Der Schieber 1' and 'Riding On A Storm'.

Other artists appearing on the CD include James Holden, Ambassador and Saints & Sinners while Timo remixes Azzido Da Bass' 'Dooms Night'.

'Dirty Trancing' is available to buy globally except UK & Ireland.

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Mixmag Presents Timo Maas: Dirty Trancing /// Mixmag Records 2014

An excellent free CD thanks to Ministry Magazine. This one was on steady rotation, a tastefully selected set of trance and 90s finest tracks. Thank you Judge Jules

815 - Ministry presents - Hooj Choons mixed by Judge Jules (1998)

No Closer

https://vectorfield75.bandcamp.com/album/arcadia-2089-lp

In 2089, people slowly turn into data. Our bodies fade, but our memories stay online. We don’t really die anymore—we just upload and keep going. Cities think like computers, and even love feels digital now. The world runs on loops of who we were, repeating quietly forever.

Mixed and Mastered by Ocyra
1/11/2025

Echoplanar

Leftfield - Essential Mix (16-04-2000)

‘Lost In Lockdown’ Week 8 - Sasha 25th Anniversary Essential Mix @ Que Club.

In 1995, BBC Radio 1 and Cream put together their 'Live' tour with amazing line ups and aired them 'live' for the first time on the radio for listeners. On the Saturday 27th May, The ‘Grande Finale’ of the tour was at the legendary ‘Que Club’ in Birmingham and boasted a line up that featured the biggest Dj’s in the UK at that time. An all-night affair at a club that could hold thousands from 10pm-6am was a first of it’s kind and for the first time you could sit at home listening to the music and madness erupting.

After Sasha & John Digweed’s 1994 Renaissance album had converted and gained so many more fans to the duos epic brand of House Music, 1995 was to take it to the next level. The advancements in the sound they started playing was to be an insight into the future of electronic music. Progressive House suddenly had a harder edge and pushed the boundaries of sound using technology far away from the traditional House music sound with piano and soulful vocals. 

The reason I have chosen to commemorate this mix is that it changed my outlook on House music. I have always enjoyed all genres of music but back then we didn’t have the amounts of genres and sub-genres enjoyed now. I knew I was hearing something very different.

I recorded the whole broadcast from start to finish, swapping 90 min tapes in and out, barely containing my excitement for what I was hearing and capturing. The crowd noises, Tong’s voice bellowing out over the roar of the crowd announcing the DJ's – it was just amazing, literally AMAZING.

Out of all the mixes, it was, of course, Sasha’s that caught my attention and engaged me more than all the other mixes. Having already seen him play this was the nucleus for a brand new Sasha obsession.

To celebrate 25 years since Sasha played the mix live on air that Saturday evening (I still have the original tape, see pic) I’m going to play all the tracks he played* and hope to give us all the sense of nostalgia and wonderment I felt that night.

Most of the tracks are recordings from my vinyl collection before I sold it all to a collector back in 2014.

The mix itself is only around 80 mins so I’ll play some extra tracks from his other sets around the same time.

For myself, 1995 was my favourite year of clubbing ever. The music, the DJ’s the energy at that time was explosive. Join me and let’s take the journey back together.

TRACKLIST 27.05.1995: RADIO 1 ESSENTIAL MIX. LIVE FROM QUE CLUB, BIRMINGHAM.

Intro - Danny Jarvis - Sasha & Pete Tong
1)  BT – Tripping The Light Fantastic (Perfecto)
2)  Microman - Microhouse (Pumphouse)
3)  Hal 9000 - Stoopid (Fresh)
4)  Count Indigo - Unknown Love (Cowboy)
5)  Speedy J - G Spot (BMU)
6)  Blue Amazon - The Blessing (Jackpot)
7)  BT - Loving You More (Dub Mix) (Perfecto)
8.    BT - Loving You More (Vocal Mix) (Perfecto)
9)  Parks & Wilson vs Quivver - I Dream (Perfecto)
10)  Bump – I’m Rushing (Bump's 95 Mix (Deconstruction)
11)New Order - Blue Monday (Hardfloor Remix)
12) Bassheads - Is there Anybody Out There (Hardfloor Remix)
13) Moziac 'Rays of the Sun' (Dekkard & Dane Mix)instead.
Outro - Danny Jarvis - Pete Tong

Sasha 25 Year Anniversary Essential Mix Que Club Birmingham 27th may 1995

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 1994-06-08 - Leftfield

BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix

Essential Mix 1994-02-05 - Justin Robertson

Hey, Gareth here, I'm a graphic designer who start designing for clubs, parties, and labels in the late 90s. Back then, mix CDs were the holy grail of both design and music. I loved them.

But I wasn't the only one, mix cds were the soundtracks of our nights, our days, our afterparties and lives, for everyone. Yet in today's internet age, the art form has been lost (or just changed) to 2-3 hour online mixes and streaming videos, which just don't create the same magic your CD collection did. Just 60 minutes of music and incredible artwork.

The Classic Mix CD Series celebrates these discs, their soundtrack, their box art and your memories. We hope you enjoy it.

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* We fully support labels and artists. If any disc creates a copyrighting issue let me know and it will be immediately removed. 

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About Gareth:
Digital creative type, gamer, music lover and occasional DJ. Currently living between Dubai & Seoul after setting sail from Sunderland in 2010. As a young designer, club and music culture was the driving force for his work, producing artwork for local club nights and record labels in the North East of England. In particular, DJ mix cds and their packaging were always his 'holy grail of design', especially those from Renaissance, Global Underground and Good Looking Records. It's a pleasure to share these discs back with people and they still influence our tastes to this day. 

For any CD recommendations, bookings, mixes or feedback you can catch me as @asapgareth on Instagram. Or you can check our my design work at www.acid.works