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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Essential Mix 2015-07-25 - Kerri Chandler, Joy Orbison & Ben UFO Live at Lovebox

https://www.nts.live/shows/floating-points/episodes/floating-points-5th-july-2021

Floating Points & Four Tet 050721

Sam Shepherd a.k.a Floating Points barely needs introduction. Cataloguing depths uncharted to expose some of the best jazz, soul, rare groove and disco around.

https://www.nts.live/shows/floating-points/episodes/floating-points-13th-february-2023

Floating Points 130223

Tracklist here: http://www.mixesdb.com/w/2015-01-02_-_Floating_Points_%26_Four_Tet_@_Plastic_People_Closing_Party,_London

Over the past 8 years or so we have had, along with Theo Parrish, the honour of playing the monthly residencies at a small basement club in Shoreditch, London with an impeccable sound system. After 20 years of operation, it was time to move on and close the doors on a place that has a lot to answer for in shaping modern club culture. To say this space along with the owner Ade’s singular vision was fundamental in our personal musical formation would be a complete understatement. 
 
On the day of their closing, manager Charlotte asked us if we’d put the system through its paces for the last time that the club would be open to the public. We set about packing the anthems from our respective residencies and on the night once the people were through the doors played 2 records in turn for the rest of the dance. We included tracks of our own and of friends that were made with that place in mind. Records like Daphni - Ye Ye and Four Tet - Pinnacles were made to first be played at Kieran’s nights there, and the Floating Points - Vacuum EP was born out of the CD-R night at the club, and its launch party was the trigger for Sam’s monthly residency.
 
We set this recording up just before the start of the night and unfortunately it distorts in places, but we make no apology for how joyfully noisy people get! The vibe in the room this night was typical of the club on any given night and we hope this recording captures just a fraction of the spirit of a Plastic People night.
 
A massive thank you from us to everyone that has come down to the nights over the years and supported our music there. We are truly humbled to have shared the music we love with people at this place, and your energy in turn has influenced the way we make music on an unfathomable scale. We also thank the bosses Charlotte Kepel and Ade Fakile for inviting us to the club and having faith in us over  these years! All the best for the future!
 
 
See you in the dance
 
Much Love 
 
Sam &amp; Kieran

Floating Points & Four Tet - Final Plastic People 2 1 2015

Recording of Four Tet's set at Rainbow Disco Club 2024.

RDC 073 - Four Tet at Rainbow Disco Club 2024

Sam Shepherd a.k.a Floating Points barely needs introduction. Cataloguing depths uncharted to expose some of the best jazz, soul, rare groove and disco around.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/floating-points/episodes/floating-points-28th-july-2025

Floating Points - Opening Set @ Sunflower Sound System, Glastonbury 2025 280725

cm4x - LCR

Tracklist :
[00] Carl Stone - Banteay Srey
[09] Guiherme Coutinho - Rio Corrente
[15] Yuriy Morozov - Inexplicable 4
[18] Klaus Weiss - Survivor
[22] Professor And The Efficiency Experts - I Gotta Stand For Something
[24] Koushik - Letitiout
[26] Air - Grieve Not The Spirit
[29] Charnissa - Love At First Sight
[32] Idoli - Rusija
[38] Placebo - Aria
[42] Batteaux - High Tide
[45] Fernanda - Ora Bolas
[48] Napoleon Strickland - Back Water Rising
[53] Norman Connors - Dance Of Magic (Daphni Edit)
[55] Hudson People - Trip To Your Mind
[58] L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa De Kayes - Sidi Yassa
[63] Valerie Etienne - Misunderstanding (MJ Cole Dubb Remix)
[66] Darina Rolincová - Slowly (Matlok Remix)
[68] DJ Dubz - Volume 2
[74] Mike Dehnert - Starground
[77] DJ Q - Fogbound
[84] D.O. Misiani & Shirati Jazz - Kiseru (Daphni Edit)
[87] David Grantham - Drummer Boy
[94] Omar Gosh - Millennium Jump
[98] Graziano Mandozzi, Israel Eliraz, Hans Kresnik, VA Wölfl - Silva II
[101] Flourish - Heaven Tar
[107] Keith Mansfield, John Cameron - Half Forgotten Daydreams
[110] Depths Of LoveI - Just Can't Find A Love

Floating Points, Jamie XX, Four Tet & Daphni -Live @ NTS Radio (28/10/18)

There are a great deal of things you can say about Dan Snaith. His list of achievements would burnish any CV: a doctorate in mathematics under one arm, and some of the 21st century’s most celebrated electronica albums under the other. He manages to juggle festival headline slots across the world with the live iteration of Caribou, while slipping out timeless dancefloor burners and one of the last ever FabricLive CDs as Daphni. Oh, and he’s a super friendly guy too.

That experience – and crowd-charming magnetism – can be heard all over today’s Dekmantel Podcast, a three-hour tour de force of Daphni in peak-time mode at the peak of summer. Recorded on Sunday of Dekmantel Festival 2018, in the middle of a humble-superstar-sandwich of Jamie XX / Floating Points, Snaith glides between rave stabs, strutting funk, stirring soul, global grooves and everything else under the (very warm) sun. Here’s to the next decade of Dan’s dominance!

Floating Points, Jamie XX, Four Tet & Daphni -Live @ NTS Radio (28/10/18)

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