Good Morning Mix – Butch Essential Mix (3/3/2012)
Whether you're on the fence or have already purchased tickets to this weekend's Black and White Festival, allow this Good Morning Mix to educate you on one of the supporting acts of the festival, and one of electronic music's best underground producers. Butch's two-hour Essential Mix showcases everything from grooving house to soulful techno.
Good Morning Mix – Davide Squillace Essential Mix (9/28/12)
Over the course of Pete Tong's BBC Radio 1 residency, the famed Essential Mix has been a way for artists to transcribe their musical tastes and abilities in a two-hour recorded segment. Last Friday saw the debut of Italy's Davide Squillace -- one of the leading faces behind the infamous Circo Loco parties at DC-10 in Ibiza. Enjoy this 120 minute mix which dives deep into the Balearic sounds that this revered underground talent has come to represent.
Good Morning Mix – Daft Punk Essential Mix (2/3/1997)
Start your week off with a mix from one of the most influential and storied dance acts of all time. For as long as we can remember, Pete Tong and his legendary Essential Mix have been taking over the airwaves of BBC Radio 1 to showcase the world's greatest DJs in a two-hour recorded mix. This fifteen year old segment came out the same year Daft Punk debuted their first album, Homework, which is largely said to have redefined electronic music and paved the way for what house music would become.
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs premieres his Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1
Orlando Higginbottom is the eccentrically dressed, 26-year-old producer behind the equally eccentrically named, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, or T-E-E-D for short. Despite his music background (his father was the head of the choir at Oxford - where he also studied,) Orlando has only been producing under the T-E-E-D moniker since 2011. His debut album, Trouble was released back in June, and now, less than 3 months later, he premieres his first essential mix on the prestigious BBC Radio 1.
Pete Tong premieres Moguai essential mix, unleashes progressive fire
Moguai has some big shoes to fill with his Essential Mix, especially with the way Arty has stolen the spotlight recently. Essential Mixes have been known to bring producers to the next level, and we happen to think that Moguai made the most of this opportunity.