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Favorite essential mixes
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| AlphaStarred |
| Andrew Weatherall, CJ Bolland, Blu Peter, Billy Nasty (1994). |
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| Kilixpree |
| thats so hard to evaluate; such a pleasure to listen to old EMs, the amount of brilliant stuff is gigantique. I'll go with 'clarke 2000', 'dave angel 1994' (thank you System-J), 'sven vath 1997', 'portishead 1995' and 'circulation 2002'. also I remember great memories from a lexicon avenue and diggers mix, but can't remember which one tbh |
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| SYSTEM-J |
The thread's been done to death, so I'm doubtless repeating (and contradicting) some of my earlier posts elsewhere by writing this:
The Future Sound Of London - December 1993
Leftfield - August 1994
LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad - July 1995
Sasha - November 1995
Paul Van Dyk - April 1997
Nick Warren - October 1999
Sasha - Feb 2000
Parks & Wilson - April 2000
Steve Lawler - February 2001
Lucien Foort - March 2001
James Zabiela - April 2010
Lee Burridge - September 2015
I remember really loving the Circulation one, but I've only listened to it properly once so it wouldn't quite be fair to call it a "favourite". |
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| Guest |
Just a few off the top of my head, a couple the same as Jack's above:
LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad - July 1995
John Digweed - May 1995
The Man With No Name - July 1998
Paul Van Dyk - April 2000
Pete Tong - April 2011
Dixon - September 2013
Lee Burridge - September 2015
Calibre - July 2017
SpectraSoul - November 2017 |
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| Kilixpree |
| btw, did you guys know about 'essentialmix.nu'? since there's a ton of mixes, I used their ratings as a guide to which mixes to listen to. After this thread I gave a chance to the '1994 Massive Attack Mix' and holy , it is great. 'black moon - reality' works really well there |
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| Scoops |
my top 5:
1. Sander Kleinenberg - June 2001
2. John Askew - Feb 2007
3. John Digweed - May 1999
4. Tiesto - Sept 2001
5. Gabriel & Dresden - March 2003 |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Also, one of my favourite things about the Essential Mix which I never hear talked about is that beautiful Radio One compression you get on them, particularly the older ones. The sound quality is so fat and has a fantastic texture to it, which is the closest I've ever heard to capturing the punch of hearing a tune on a big club system. So many times I've heard a tune in an EM and thought it sounded massive, only to play it on Youtube and be disappointed by how thin it sounds in comparison. |
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| Paradox Lost |
One of the later ones, but I rather enjoyed Joris Voorn's 2009 EM, released right around the time he and his balance comp were being helped to a heaping of hype. Love the way that one (and really any mix) weaves its way through downtempo and midtempo jams, so if anyone could recommend an EM mixed in a similar vein, would be very much appreciative.
BTW, no love for Sasha's Maida Vale set? |
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| Kilixpree |
btw, 'carl cox 2000-02-20' is another one that I spin from time to time. the track selection is absolutly sick...
by the way, in this mix he plays a track called 'Future Reference - This One's Yours'. Anyone has this one or know where I can buy it in digital format? It is so haunting, holy molly |
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