and now we have clones Of Avici everywhere. pretty weird. it's really weird the wrong attempts at EDM became most of the  mainstream electronic Music culture.

i love this ❤️‍🔥 it brings back good memories.  Afrika Shox a great opener!

Continuous DJ Mix

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053 - Journeys By DJ volume 5 - Paul Oakenfold (1994)

One of the most well-known DJ's in the world, famous for his tireless remix and production work, as well as his long-running association with fellow top-flight Sasha. Beginning DJ'ing in the early 1990's in the company of friends like Fabio and Grooverider, he began to champion the burgeoning progressive house sound, most notably with his residency at Renaissance with Sasha. His partnership with Nick Muir as Bedrock in the early 90's yielded the club hits "For What You Dream Of" and "Set In Stone", and the runaway popularity of his Bedrock Records record label was established with its first release, "Heaven Scent", in late 1999. John continues to remix and produce music while running the Bedrock Records label and a successful weekly radio show on KISS-100 FM in the UK. 

Comments, hints and suggestions are always welcome!

John Digweed @ Renaissance, Mansfield, U.K.  28.11.1992

SHE A FREAK

Porcelain EP by @chloebattelle sails between electronica, minimal techno, and breakbeat. The palette is cinematic - deliberate and enticing with carefully textured synths, organic percussion, and drums anchoring each track. Cycling through tumbling breaks, lush pads, and carefully crafted samples that reference the soundscape of 90’s breakbeat and trance, the tracks build subtly, layering rhythm and emotion with intent instead of resolving into anything obvious.

Across the EP, there’s a clear sense of restraint in the production and a willingness to leave space and to let ideas breathe. Chloe plays with dynamics intentionally: low-frequency energy is employed strategically and the stereo field is used as a storytelling tool; widening, folding in, and then expanding again. Hyper vocal snippets, booming kicks, and sparkling perc hits, are largely self-recorded or built from scratch, propelling the emotional weight of ‘Porcelain’.


PREMIÈRE: Chloe Battelle - Anesthesia

Face Machine inhabits the blurred threshold between the human and the synthetic, where identity becomes fluid and is constantly rewritten. Drifting between melodic techno, underground trance and electro-pop, the album unfolds like a network of unstable selves - mirrors folding into mirrors, names dissolving into signals. Vocals shift between male and female, merging with abstract textures until the human voice becomes something unbound, a mutable instrument suspended between body and machine. Each track carves its own passage through luminous, volatile atmospheres, yet all are tethered by a shared sonic architecture of detuned oscillators, layered melodic counterpoint, and synthesis timbres that breathe with organic motion.

These twelve tracks move through states of emergence and disappearance - memory scattering, identity refracting, presence dissolving into signal. Wordless chants, whispered fragments, and spectral harmonies drift like residues of selves that never fully arrive. Within this landscape, rhythm and texture intertwine: polyrhythmic layers build and collapse, melodic threads blur into complex harmonic tides, and shifting tonalities open portals into new emotional terrain. Face Machine doesn't offer resolution; instead, it lingers in the spaces where perception falters and technology reshapes what it means to exist. It is an album of thresholds and transformations - a meditation on how we become, lose, and reinvent ourselves in an age where even our voices can belong to someone, or something, else.

Fiction Layer

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Shout out again the Kev in South London for this one. Legend!!!

217 - Renaissance 'The Silk Mix' by Dave Seaman (1996)

The other side of the Classic Mixmag Tape, CJ Macintosh is up as one of the first mixes posted

Sasha Mixmag Tape March 1992

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Gatecrasher

634 - Gatecrasher Disco-Tech - Disc 1 (1999)

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Renaissance .The Mix Collection Part 2

632 - Renaissance - The Mix Collection Part 2 mixed by John Digweed - CD 2 (1995)

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JDJ 10 - Dance Wars

687 - The Return Of Judge Jules Vs John Kelly - CD1 (1996)

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Love Is The Message - The Parade Tunes

694 - Love Is The Message - The Parade Tunes mixed by DJ Kid Paul (1995)

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Mixmag Live! Vol. 8 - John Digweed & Gordon Kaye

699 - MixMag Live! vol.8 - John Digweed + Gordon Kaye (1996)

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Visions Of Ibiza Volume 1

703 -  Visions Of Ibiza - Chicane - Disk 1 (2001)

704 -  Visions Of Ibiza - Chicane - Disk 2 (2001)

BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix 21 07 1996 - Sasha, John Digweed & Blue Amazon @ Phoenix Festival

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 1997-02-23 - Nick Warren

Pero en ti debes creer
Cuando el mundo no lo haga ya
Deja siempre una marca
Y el amor la recuerda

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

634 - Gatecrasher Disco-Tech - Disc 1 (1999)

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