BBC Radio 1 Essential Mixes

[ELECtROjan]

i only really listen to them when im running, at the gym, or driving long distances

[mmblack]

every time i listen to music i think that but does that stop me from listening to it?

[brando4n82]

i have a hard time getting into essential mixes, something about being removed from the live atmosphere makes it feel like you lose the artists touch. even with the good ones i've heard by artists i've seen before i can't help but think to myself how much less awesome it is than seeing it live.

ouch. sorry to hear that. you're missiong out on some quality mixes

[HAMMERHEAD]

i think the most creative concept for an essential mix i've run into was fake blood's 2 parter. an hour for the club and an hour for the after party. i was feelin it.

[mmblack]

and regarding boys noize: he could have gone about dropping a set you would hear him play at a club or festival but he went out of the box and decided to come in on the 12's with all of his vinyl collection and give us an amazing introspective look at his influences and pedigree in edm so kudos to him.

[HAMMERHEAD]

ouch. sorry to hear that. you're missiong out on some quality mixes

its not that they're not quality, i would just rather download a shitty bootleg from some club than hear some stuffy studio-pristine mix.

[truths]

i only really listen to them when im running, at the gym, or driving long distances

this

[HAMMERHEAD]

i guess ive never really tried it that way. i'll give it a shot, i some long drives this weekend ahead of me.

[mmblack]

i only really listen to them when im running, at the gym, or driving long distances

santa barbara > LA + fake blood (hour 1) = 45 minutes

[djandrews25]

Seriously right

I don't want all teh Emos to post comments on like how Boys Noize is amazing and the best mix and how DnB is the best music ever.

Really not interested. I don't need Coachella to tell me what good dance music is.

But one thing I will say is, it's very biased, as there is a lack of old skool hardcore and happy hardcore and considering those styles of music made so much money and were so popular in the mid 90s, there should be more mixes like those.

I mean, in 1994 I don't think anybody was listening to Evil Eddie Richards if I'm honest. The frickin Hot Chip of of the early 90s.

The only reason there is no hardcore or happy hardcore on radio one, is because it is the most fucking god aweful music to ever be created.

[djandrews25]

By the way, the best essential mix ever is the 2005 mix of the year by none other than Dj Sasha. You are all welcome.

[Bud Luster]

for the record, the Boys Noize Essential Mix is pretty much flawless.

the songs Boys Noize chose for his mix were steller..the mixing was horrible though.

Yeah, the mixing on the Boys Noize EM is complete and utter shit. Yay he uses vinyl, but c'mon mofo is supposed to be a professional.

Also I challenge LunaVC to point to one happy hardcore artist that made "so much money".

[LunaVC]

Yo I have no idea what double H is on about.

A mix is a mix yo. It's a bunch of songs, ya know, mixed together.

I wouldn't lose any sleep over it yo.

[truths]

hardcore used to be good you know... its OG as fuck

[LunaVC]

Think DJ Andrews is on some Euro-Bop Bruno German Gay Bar trip right there

[djandrews25]

hardcore used to be good you know... its OG as fuck

A bunch of douchebags moshing at a rave was never good.

[mittens4kittens]

dissing DnB and promoting HH tells me that you have poor taste in music, sir

[LunaVC]

LOOK BABY

I'VE BEEN INTO DANCE MUSIC SINCE.

I DUNNO...EARLY 90S

USED TO LOVE THAT ISH ON DREAM FM 107.6

YOU CAN'T KNOCK HARDCORE, JUST COS ALL THE KIDS IN THE USA HAVE DUMMIES IN THEIR MOUTHS,YO WE NEVER DO THAT STUFF, WE TAKE IT SERIOUSLY BABY

[djandrews25]

Think DJ Andrews is on some Euro-Bop Bruno German Gay Bar trip right there

Sorry for not having the same taste in music. Hardcore....hahahah

[truths]

props

ill let luna spread the truth

[mittens4kittens]

[LunaVC]

Sorry for not having the same taste in music. Hardcore....hahahah

No worries Dj Andy

It's always luv

[LunaVC]

really not feelin the hate to the hardocore ravers yeah

[SoulDischarge]

Do you actually speak like that in real life?

[ELECtROjan]

its not that they're not quality, i would just rather download a shitty bootleg from some club than hear some stuffy studio-pristine mix.

Check out the live sets recorded at the Warehouse Project, Creamfields, Ibiza, Ultra, etc. They're pretty much a high quality bootleg and at the big festival sets you can usually get multiple artists in a single extended EM

[LunaVC]

Do you actually speak like that in real life?

Been watching too much The Wire you know.

Maybe thats why.

[ELECtROjan]

By the way, the best essential mix ever is the 2005 mix of the year by none other than Dj Sasha. You are all welcome.

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[djandrews25]

You know that its the shit russ.

[Donaldj]

When Luna talks about Hardcore from the early 90s he isn't talking about Gabber which is what most people consider Hardcore. He's talking about the origins of rave music and stuff like early Prodigy, Altern 8, SL2, Kaotic Chemistry, Austin, Human Resource, Kicks Like A Mule, Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era, Acen etc. Labels like Suburnban Bass, Production House, early XL, etc. This style of music went by a lot of names, Hardcore, Rave, Hard Breaks etc. It was pretty much one of the reasons EDM took off across Europe and American tried to capitalize on this in the early 90s by releasing a string of the big anthems. There was a time when every major label in America had a sub label releasing this stuff over here. Now what we call Happy Hardcore from the late 90s is pretty wank. I totally agree.

[Monklish]

Sasha's been shit for years, Andrew. Ever since that album they went to Amsterdam to put together. Nothing like hash to really shit all over your abilities.

I went to a couple of the nights they were in residency at Twilo in NY though, and it was awesome. That was a while ago though.