Every BBC Essential Mix, 1993 to 2010

by metamemetics • 16 years ago

143 57 16 years ago

kqr2• 16 years ago

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Mix :

  The Essential Mix is a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 1 
  currently broadcast between 03:00 and 05:00 Saturday morning. 
  Originally broadcast on 30 October 1993, The Essential 
  Mix features contemporary DJs and music producers of
  electronic dance music.

_grrr• 16 years ago

I've waited 15 years for this link. Thank you.

My personal favourite, from 1997: http://thenine.ca/essential/1997/1997.03.02%20-%20Essential%...

dfischer3• 16 years ago

This is an epic one.

brighton36• 16 years ago

I may regret posting this ....

But this is what you probably want to do:

user@host:/path/to/EssentialMixRip09.04.10$ wget -rl 0 -np -A .mp3 http://thenine.ca/essential/

j2d2• 16 years ago

Or install extension.fm :)

lsb• 16 years ago

Using Coral CDN:

  wget -rl 0 -np -A .mp3 http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/

aidenn0• 16 years ago

Nogood, checkout the robots.txt

jc-denton• 16 years ago

-e robots=off

However aren't they copyrighted?!

_delirium3• 16 years ago

As a heads up for anyone who doesn't realize how much music this is, that wget will slurp >100gb of stuff (or would, if it weren't for sever load).

dailo10• 16 years ago

Does anyone else have fond memories of the Oakenfold mixes?

http://thenine.ca/essential/2000/2000.02.13%20-%20Essential%...

http://thenine.ca/essential/2000/2000.05.21%20-%20Essential%...

Sparragus• 16 years ago

Oakenfold's 'The Goa Mix' is probably the best mix I've ever heard.

Should be these two: http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/1994/1994.12.18%20-%20E...

http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/1994/1994.12.18%20-%20E...

anigbrowl• 16 years ago

So good it has its own Wikipedia entry - it's not often that a one-show playlist has been the template for a whole genre. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Mix) Thanks for digging out the relevant links, mas I only had an incomplete copy of this.

josefresco• 16 years ago

Goa is good, but there's a lot more to Oakenfold than just that set (love his set from Havana Cuba). I have to say I'm happy to see fellow trance dinosaurs here. The electro world has moved on from the days of Oaky but I still have a vast collection that I use for marathon coding sessions.

MLnick• 16 years ago

Live in Rojan Club, Shanghai, China... And Liverpool University, those are all time faves!

parenthesis• 16 years ago

I realise that other people's musical taste is not necessarily interesting, but http://thenine.ca/essential/1995/1995.11.11%20-%20Essential%... is what got me really into dance music, is what opened my ears to the musical possibilities of stringing records together, and made me think "I've got to learn how to do this".

SandB0x• 16 years ago

Really? Really? Come on, keep this on Reddit please.

exit• 16 years ago

but i don't read reddit anymore.

delano2• 16 years ago

Coding music is a common theme on HN.

Most recently 48 days ago (which has links to many others): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525445

jamesbritt2• 16 years ago

An occasional single post that contains a multitude of links is one thing.

Encouraging people to make each of those links (and others like them) a separate post is another.

metamemetics• 16 years ago

I apologize. Justification for posting:

1. As a time portal showing the evolutionary development of electronic music over the past 17 years, it also a reflection of the evolution of personal computing. From atari and circuit bending roland synths to the macbook.

2. Music is an important part of my coding or designing process.

barmstrong• 16 years ago

No apology necessary - this is an awesome find. Essential mixes are probably my most listened to programming tracks.

sullrich2• 16 years ago

What's a reddit?!

sullrich2• 16 years ago

Wow, tough crowd.

electromagnetic• 16 years ago

Okay, you can take your comment to Reddit. I know complaining HN is turning into Reddit is a very catchy meme, but it has still, as of yet, to turn into Reddit and as music is a frequent topic on HN this is worthy of note. If you don't agree, either don't upvote, don't make a HN=Reddit complaint, or go to Reddit for 5 minutes and return in horror and feel strangely comfortable again on HN.

purpledove• 16 years ago

Oh wow, overload. Tempted to leach, but...

Anyway, here is a recommendation:

2006.03.26 - This is a good long mix I listened to many times.

petercooper2• 16 years ago

For "open directories" like this, it's good form to use the Coral Cache in order to not overwhelm the original source: http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/

_delirium3• 16 years ago

Unfortunately, Coral Cache doesn't cache anything >50mb, so for almost all of these it'll just redirect you to the original URL. (There are a handful of <50mb mixes, which it does serve up without redirecting.)

petercooper2• 16 years ago

Sadly I noticed that only later ;-) Though at least the cache could speed things up for the window shoppers.

anedisi• 16 years ago

paul oakenfold 18.12.1994 goa mix :ave

edit: i don't get it, why downvotes ?

petermarks• 16 years ago

Surprising to see this on HN. Regardless, here's my favs:

2009-03-10 Jamie Jones, 2007-02-18 Danny Howells, 2006-10-14 Trentemoller, 2003-08-24 Sasha live at Creamfields

alexophile• 16 years ago

Extra info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Essential_Mix_episodes

Raphael• 16 years ago

The server may get more load than it can stand.

edkennedy• 16 years ago

It seems to be down now, for me.

miguelpais• 16 years ago

Awesome! I usually download three or four of these a year from the DJs I like.

And Yes! I'm glad this came to HN, otherwise I wouldn't find it and I love the Essential Mixes.

From 2010 I recommend the one from John 00 Fleming at 13-FEB-2010.

andre3k1• 16 years ago

You sir are a god amongst men. Wasn't aware that so many HN readers were into house, techno, trance, etc.

Anyone ever been to Ultra Music Festival? Most amazing time of my life.

zokier• 16 years ago

Aren't these copyrighted?

lmz• 16 years ago

I guess some "Hackers" think that copyright law is for other people to obey.

arethuza• 16 years ago

My initial reaction was "WTF is that doing on HN?":

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Mix:

"However in 2010, Mixriot, a website which hosted stream and download links to past Essential Mix broadcasts dating back to the first ever edition for its members, was asked to remove all its past recordings by production company Somethin' Else due to copyright infringement. The Mixriot website is still live though it has since taken down all Essential Mix broadcasts."

I would expect the owner of that site to be getting a nasty letter from a lawyer Real Soon Now.

DrStalker• 16 years ago

Does anyone have a torrent link to download these, or does getting music in bulk through a torrent feel too illegal in ways that grabbing individual tracks from a directory listing doesn't?

aw3c2• 16 years ago

They are in a 110 Gigabyte torrent at themixingbowl, a site dedicated to mixes. I also highly recommend the BTTB series.

dfischer3• 16 years ago

Good tip. Thanks.

gasull• 16 years ago

https://isohunt.com/lite/files/148859505/Essential%20Mix%20t...

bpm140• 16 years ago

Not to be gauche, but where do I send the 1TB hard drive to get a dump of every mix? :D

dfischer3• 16 years ago

Oh my god I want this so bad but the server load is ridiculous. If someone could download it and put it on a torrent I'd love you so much.

samd• 16 years ago

I recommend the Scratch Perverts mix at: http://thenine.ca/essential/2004/2004.08.22%20-%20Essential%...

rbxbx• 16 years ago

seconded, that's a fantastic mix.

thegeezer3• 16 years ago

this was epic http://thenine.ca/essential/1994/1994.05.28%20-%20Essential%... as well as the daft punk one posted earlier here.

desigooner• 16 years ago

seems like the site was overloaded and exceeded bandwidth capacity

Lorin• 16 years ago

Been waiting a while for something like this, could anyone identify either this track or the set it's from? I know it's from Cor Fijneman's Outstanding Radio mix...

http://lorinhalpert.com/puredj-Cor_Fijneman-Outstanding Radio.mp3

julianz• 16 years ago

I've got a fairly good collection of the older mixes, and there's some amazing stuff in there, no doubt. Any pointers on what's been really great in the last couple of years?

pclark• 16 years ago

Wish these were hosted on mixcloud.com

Every BBC Essential Mix, 1993 to 2010

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