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Posted by the-sixth on Oct-11-2016 09:30:

Radio 1 Essential Mix - which track would you open with?

Curious to hear some set openers, there is a 'sound' I always thought to a radio one essential mix. Some tracks just seem to fit the bill perfectly.

I would personally start with this:

Posted by SPANIARD on Oct-11-2016 19:53:

All due respect, that track does not strike me even in the least as an opener. Although it's not a bad track, the outro section reminds me way too much of xpander.

BTW, for the sake of context, what kind of set would you see this being?

Posted by rubez on Oct-11-2016 21:33:

digger! church of ra was a nice slab of cheese back in the day... this is a very nice prog track, never heard it before. looks super rare. only see it on this wyze site, is that legit?! i want it.

would be very hard for me not to open with this...

Posted by the-sixth on Oct-12-2016 12:19:

quote:
Originally posted by rubez
digger! church of ra was a nice slab of cheese back in the day... this is a very nice prog track, never heard it before. looks super rare. only see it on this wyze site, is that legit?! i want it.

would be very hard for me not to open with this...

Exactly the sort of thing I was thinking, you get where I am coming from.

Can just imagine Pete Tong talking over the top of that.

Digger have done some great tracks, Recalling 86 is another one worth checking out.

Posted by the-sixth on Oct-12-2016 12:30:

quote:
Originally posted by SPANIARD
All due respect, that track does not strike me even in the least as an opener. Although it's not a bad track, the outro section reminds me way too much of xpander.

BTW, for the sake of context, what kind of set would you see this being?

Not sure if you grew up listening to the essential mix on Radio One or not but you would always have Pete Tong talking over the track to introduce who was playing. I just can picture him talking over this track in that same fashion is what I mean.

I would see this as trance but when pitched down you could get away with more deeper, progressive trance of the time (2001).

An example of what I mean with Pete Tong over a great intro track:

Posted by Scoops on Oct-12-2016 14:18:

this.....

I still John Askew had one of the best intros for an e-mix

Posted by Mr Game+Watch on Oct-12-2016 16:10:

Posted by Salegon on Oct-12-2016 17:14:

Posted by Scoops on Oct-12-2016 17:23:

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Originally posted by Salegon

Jam!!!

Posted by Terrence Parker on Oct-12-2016 21:31:

Posted by david.sound on Oct-17-2016 12:10:

Posted by the-sixth on Oct-18-2016 10:14:

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Originally posted by david.sound

Good taste

Posted by r5a on Oct-21-2016 22:57:

EASY, put me behind the decks and ill murder that shit

/end thread

OR maybe an edit of this

Posted by Sykonee on Oct-21-2016 23:12:

John Cage - 4'33

Posted by Lira on Oct-25-2016 06:47:

There's no opener better than Pendulum's "We lied" intro, I don't think there's anything anyone can do to top that now, except for:

quote:
Originally posted by Sykonee
John Cage - 4'33

This would be great

Posted by the-sixth on Oct-25-2016 11:16:

Would be funny once you knew the tracklist, but dont all radio stations have a failsafe that detects silence over a period and a system kicks in to play a pre recorded show?

Posted by Viber on Oct-25-2016 12:34:

quote:
Originally posted by r5a
EASY, put me behind the decks and ill murder that shit

/end thread

I remember PVD played this as in intro at some big event. Massive edit.

Posted by planetaryplayer on Oct-25-2016 15:24:

Posted by Sykonee on Oct-25-2016 18:17:

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Originally posted by planetaryplayer

That would be my second track.

Posted by planetaryplayer on Oct-25-2016 18:19:

I sense a colab coming

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Oct-26-2016 06:14:

It'd depend on the kind of set it would be overall, but it would be hard not to use this.

Posted by r5a on Oct-31-2016 23:05:

just heard this on the COOKOUT.

woah

Posted by Sykonee on Nov-01-2016 01:55:

So Seven Lions, who started as making brostep remixes of Anjuna trance, is now doing world beat? Well I never.

Posted by Zharen on Nov-02-2016 04:36:

This probably already has been done on some radio show years before, but I certainly wouldn't mind opening with a little psychedelia on a sitar before a bumping prog house bassline takes center stage.

Posted by rubez on Nov-02-2016 20:20:

very good one also:

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