Radio 1's Essential Mix at 25 with Derrick Carter. The legendary DJ digs deep into the vaults for a mix of classics spanning three decades. Paul Woolford is next up as we celebrate 25 years of Radio 1 ...
Released ahead of the pair's debut album Exit Planet Dust, the two-hour mix features Craig Mack & The Notorious B.I.G., The Beatles, Beastie Boys and more. By Katie Bain Before their 1995 debut album ...
BBC Sounds has released The Chemical Brothers' 1995 Essential Mix for the next month and a half in conjunction with their latest album, For That Beautiful Feeling, released on September 8. The mix ...
It's been said that having a BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix is a DJ's true big moment; not playing a festival or releasing an album to critical success, but rather curating a two-hour long mix on a ...
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On October 30, 1993, Pete Tong oversaw the first episode of the Essential Mix on BBC’s Radio 1. Club music was ascendant in the U.K., and Tong devoted a late-night slot to it on national radio, ...
BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix series, the Saturday morning cartoons of people who like to listen to 4 a.m. Saturday superstar DJ sets, scored a major booking this week: DJ Shadow. It’s the pioneering ...
Before the days of search, this is what music discovery actually looked like. Last week, the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix made it onto BBC World News, with some archive footage of Pete Tong MBE, from ...
A little known fact? The first song ever played on the first ever Essential Mix was Save Our Love by 90s girlband Eternal. Pete Tong's Radio 1 staple is now celebrating its 25th birthday with a night ...
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