haven't heard this album in years since it got stolen... thank you!

Always loved hearing My Funny Valentine as a first track on Hotel costes I from S. Pompougnac !!

1	–Superstars Of Rock	Orange Sunshine	0:17 2	–Krystal	Would You Like To Seduce Me?	4:43 3	–Ibizarre	Lazy Living	3:56 4	–Vanessa Daou	Sunday Afternoon	3:36 5	–Alanïa	Flower Garden	4:14 6	–Wamdue Project	Instrumentation	5:20 7	–A Man Called Adam	All My Favourite People (Stay With Me) (The Real Ibiza Mix)	7:25 8	–Coco Steel & Lovebomb	Great Ocean Road (The Orchestral Reprise)	4:19 9	–Jhelisa	Freedom From Pity (The Amalgamation Of Soundz Dub) Remix – The Amalgamation Of Soundz 6:47 10	–Ibizarre	Float	3:19 11	–Philadelphia Bluntz	Juggs	3:34 12	–Jephté Guillaume	The Prayer (Priyè-a)	5:48 13	–Big Muff	My Funny Valentine (Original Version)	9:50 14	–DJ Food	Peace Pt-3	3:57 15	–José Padilla	One Day In Paradise (Extended Version)	3:27 16	–Fluff	Silent Life	6:45 Credits

Summer

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025 - No other mix CD out has made me want to wake up to it as much as this one. Think slowly rising from a dream/hangover with the best sound possible and that's about it. Both discs on Sasha & Digweed's Northern Exposure open with absolutely gorgeous tracks, Gus Gus's 'Believe' being an example of this. Furry Phreak's 'Soothe (Chicane Jazz)' dives deeper into the sound before the cd moves on to intelligent breaks, early trance and climaxes in what must be one of the most beautiful electronic tracks ever made... Hybrid's Symphony. This isn't just music you would wake up too, it's so good, you'd probably happily die to it as well. Another CD which raises the bar and takes it's own thrown on the Classic Mix CD series, and a fine choice for our quarter century episode. Turn it up... and enjoy the mix.

025 - Northern Exposure II - Sasha and John Dignweed - Disc 1(1998)

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About the CD:
During the late 90's this one CD was the soundtrack to many a hazy Sunday afternoons, playing in the background as you recovered from the night (or morning) before and dreamed of lying on a sun kissed beach in Ibiza rather than a (hopefully) sun kissed bedroom in Sunderland.

The opening Orange Sunshine sets an almost haunting scene with it's long dramatic strings, Alania's 'Flower Garden' also brings a sound which you could only imagine coming from this white isle. A Man Called Adam's 'All my favourite people' is another stand out track amongst so many others. Truly magical stuff. Please enjoy the mix and buy the cd. x

038 - Real Ibiza - React - (1998)

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068 - Cream Live 2 - James Lavelle - Courtyard Disc (1996)

ESSENTIAL MIX - JAN 2009
Uploaded on 17.01.10 and exclusive to SoundCloud. Available for the first time without voiceovers and jingles,12 months on from original Radio 1broadcast on 17.01.09.


EMAILSHOT A FEW DAYS AHEAD OF MIX BEING AIRED:
2009 kicks in for me this weekend with my first gig of the year for Udio (1st birthday) at The Gramaphone Club in Shoreditch, London on Friday night, which coincides with the airing of my only just completed in the nick of time Essential Mix on Radio 1, made up of 43 tracks in just under 2 hours.

Given that the 5th anniversary of my DJ comeback has only just passed, I decided to take the opportunity to make the mix totally representative of this period, with all the selections being amongst the biggest tracks I’ve played since I made my second debut at Music Is Better in Manchester.

Five years represents a significant package of time, a fixed point from where I can reflect on what’s been a continually snowballing sequence of events, set in motion when Danny Webb asked me to appear in Manchester on that December night back in 2003.

There were less than 100 people there that night, but they were the right people, and I was taken aback by the response to my return, both on the night itself and during subsequent days, when people who were there began to post on the forums. I’d never expected all the feedback be so totally positive!

I’d figured that I’d play that night, using the combination of laptop and reel-to-reel for the first time, then go away and think about what worked and what didn’t before I made my next move. I would never have believed that things could come together so immediately, it was as if I’d hit a completely unexpected hole in one, especially when two of the people who were there, Ralph Lawson, DJ from Back To Basics in Leeds, and one of my fellow DJ’s that night, Richard Hardcastle (Solid State) from Society in Sheffield, both asked me to play at their nights no sooner had I finished my spot.

One thing kept leading to another and, in Sheffield, I was approached by Tony Daly to play at the now legendary Tyneside Cinema party in Newcastle, a bespoke event where he took on the substantial risk of presenting me in a city I’d never DJ’d in previously (unless you count the 1983 TV appearance on The Tube, which was filmed in the Tyne Tees studio). Then, of course, there was London, where Steve Kotey and Bill Brewster booked me for their parties, bringing me to the capital within the first few months of my return for Ouch and Low Life.

The bookings kept coming, and I found myself driving up and down the country on an increasingly regular basis. Later in 2004 I was approached by Sav Remzi, from Tirk / Nuphonic, with the idea of putting together an edits album, which would be issued the following year as ‘Credit To The Edit’. This would help bring my name to the attention of people outside the UK. There was soon a need to step things up further, now that I was receiving enquiries from Europe, and so began a fruitful relationship with my agent, Matt Johnson (Matty J), who’s done a wonderful job of representing me during recent years.

The last few months have been, to say the least, manic for me, with 25 flights, including 6 long haul, taking me to gigs in the US, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Europe. From a personal perspective I still find it remarkable the way everything has developed, pretty much organically, since I made the decision that I was going to be a DJ once again – had I concocted some sort of comeback masterplan, it could never have worked out anything like as well as it has. It’s definitely been a case of ‘from small acorns’.

It still never ceases to amaze me that people from another continent are interested in my DJ past. Back in the early 80’s, before I went into retirement for 20 years, the furthest I travelled (with the exception of the appearances I made in the South of England as part of The Hacienda Review in late ’83) was to places like Birmingham and Nottingham, when I played at All-Dayers, so to find myself in clubs on the other side of the world is pretty nuts!

Anyhow, I’d like to wish everyone all the best for 09. Big thanks to all the promoters who booked me and everyone who danced to the tunes I played during ’08 in Adelaide, Barcelona, Belfast, Berlin, Birmingham, Blackburn, Brighton, Bristol, Dublin, Dundee, Edinburgh, Fukuoka, Glasgow, Hamburg, Leeds, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Melbourne, Milan, New York, Newcastle, Nottingham, Paris, Porto Alegre, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Sheffield, Sydney, Tokyo and Warsaw. Also the festivals and special events that I appeared at - Bestival (Isle Of Wight), Big Chill (England), Camp Bestival (England), Garden Festival (Croatia), Ibiza, Lovebox (England), Notting Hill Carnival (England), Rockness Festival (Scotland), Sonar (Spain) and the Southport Weekender (England).

Hope to see you soon.

Greg


FORUM POST DURING FOLLOWING DAYS:                                                        
Thanks for all the positive words. The feedback has been pretty phenomenal, far exceeding what I’d hoped for, especially on the BBC page, where I’d expected that some people would criticize the amount of older music included - the Radio 1 audience is used to current stuff ('in new music we trust'), so I’d anticipated a more mixed reaction. What’s particularly pleasing is that they were all made without the people seeing what each other wrote (they all came online at once, having been checked first by whoever moderates the BBC pages, I presume for swearing etc following the Ross / Brand controversy).

You always hope something you've done will be well received, but the response to this has blown me away.

Greg


ANSWER TO POST RE MIXING PROCESS:                                                      
It was quite a laborious process. Before I could start the actual mixing part I had to edit every track to a coherent length of around two and a half minutes average, inclusive of in and out points. I had a pool of about 90 tracks that fitted the criteria I'd set (a representative selection of the biggest tunes I've been playing during the past 5 years). It wasn't as straightforward as just editing the 43 tracks I ended up featuring - in order to have the necessary options once I started to piece the mix together I needed to have all the tracks at my disposal, just as I would have if I was out deejaying in a club, so the only thing to do was edit all 90 to the required length, even though I knew that only half would make the cut .

Once that was finally done they were all taken across into my laptop, enabling me to vari-speed them via PCDJ whilst I recorded across to my home computer into Cool Edit Pro, where I put the mix together track by track, before adding overdubs (fx, samples, textures) in a similar way to what I do live using the Revox (reel to reel).

I could quite easily have spent another day, tweaking bits here and there and adding more overdubs (the older I get the more finicky I become), but I had a deadline to work to, so, as it moved ever nearer, it became a race against time, with me doing as much as I could before the cut off point arrived.

Greg
                       

Greg Wilson - 2009


ESSENTIAL MIX (by greg wilson for bbc radio 1 2009)

In 1993 I went to the amnesia opening party and discovered 'Jaydee Plastic dreams', it changed my life. I went back to London and bought some decks, drove my neigbours insane and spent all my money on records. 2 years later I became the resident Dj at the club and remained so for 4 years. Here is just a selection of tracks that rocked amnesia during my residency. Please excuse the vinyl scratching, espuma crackling and Buster barking. Artist's & remixers include: JayDee, Gat-De-Cor, Armand Van Heldon, Soft House Company, Grant nelson, Alcatraz and Hardfloor you know the score...

amnesia Classics

Sense of Summer 2014

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098 - X-Press 2 - Late Night Sessions Part  2 - Disc One (1997)

the most beautiful mix by JOSE PADILLA.........enjoy........

Essential Mix - Jose Padilla - Live @ Cafe Del Mar in Ibiza (09-10-1995)

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Simply... the first down tempo CD I bought, one which fundamentally changed the music I went onto buy and love. Seminal stuff indeed :D

117 - Back To Mine - Danny Tenaglia (1999)

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Shout out to Martin in Bolton for the share on this one. He used t be a Hacienda regular so knows his stuff! Thanks again

165 - GU23 - James Lavelle - Barcelona - Disc 1 (2002)

Leftfield - Essential Mix (16-04-2000)

I was very honoured to have been asked to do a mix for Erol Alkan for his BBC 6 music show... this is the mix, hope you dig it!
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1. DAVID SHAW - TRANCE IN MEXICO [THE DEADSTOCK 33S REMIX]

2. ALEJANDRO  PAZ- DURO

3. GRAND CORPORATION - WONDER AND AMAZEMENT [ YOSA ROUGH AND TOUGH INST]

4. SCOTT FRASER - ASK YOUR CONTROL [RICHARD SEN REMIX]

5. CHAD VALLEY - SHELL SUITE [DANIEL AVERY REMIX]

6. HAND PLANT - ARPY

7. ANDRE VII  - DISCOTECCA CLANDESTINA [THE DEADSTOCK 33S REMIX]

8. DANIEL AVERY - RECEPTION

9. HANNAH HOLLAND - CANDY DARLING [CLOUDED VISION REMIX]

10. REMAIN AND ELECTRIC RESCUE - ERMA [MARC HOULE REMIX]

11. PEOPLE GET REAL - SAN DIMAS [ RABENMUTTER REMIX]

12 . THE DEADSTOCK 33S - UNDERNEATH THE PINES [ CLUB MIX]

13. SECRET CIRCUIT - NEBULA SPHYNX

14. THE DEADSTOCK 33S - RITUAL

15. LEO ZERO -  ELIZABETHAN

16. CRIMEA X - YEV

17. JUSTICE - ON AND ON  [ THE DEADSTOCK 33S REMIX ]



JUSTIN ROBERTSON - BBC 6 MIX FOR EROL ALKAN.

The Chemical Brothers (or Dust Brothers as they were at the time) live at The Albany, London.

Sunday 14th August 1994.

Recorded on DAT by Robin Turner.

The jump into Boops at 27.52 is because the DAT was removed in order for Tom and Ed to play music they'd made in the studio that week (instrumental of Life is Sweet often got played around this time). Any record jumps were caused by people banging into the decks, or pogoing! (I'm guilty as charged in Voodoo People). Last record cuts off due to the DAT running out. 

Big up all the Heavenly Sunday Social crew.

Enjoy x

The Chemical Brothers (Dust Brothers) Live At The Heavenly Sunday Social - 14th Aug 1994

Back to Mine: Nightmares on Wax

Back to Mine Nightmares on Wax (Continuous Mix)

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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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

038 - Real Ibiza - React - (1998)

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