Essential Mix Of The Year 2011
Post categories: Essential Mix, Ibiza, creamfields, drumandbass, dubstep, pete tong
|19:10 UK time, Friday, 9 December 2011
It's Essential Mix Of The Year time again. Just pick your favourite from the fifteen below using the link here and at the bottom of this blog.
A Radio 1 Panel made up of the Friday Night Dance Show producers have debated and argued their way to a shortlist of the following fifteen two-hour mixes. All mixes broadcast between January 1st and December 10th 2011 were up for consideration.
Picking out fifteen was a near-on impossible task. The standards were high in 2011!
In the end, the shortlisted mixes were the ones that made maximum use of ttwo hours of air time, taking the listener on a creative, flowing, coherent musical journey from start to finish.
The most popular mix will be broadcast in full at 3am on 24th December.
Good luck choosing a winner!
Above & Beyond Former Essential Mix Of The Year winners returned with an emotional therapy session, making clever use of spoken word to tell a story.
Beardyman Utterly unique. Beardyman recorded this mix using only a keyboard, an effects pad and a microphone. No records or CDs or MP3s! Check out the video on the Essential Mix page.
Brookes Brothers A high octane mix which crammed in over 100 tunes and almost as many genres!
Carl Craig A seamless journey through deep house and techno from the second wave Detroit innovator. Completely classic.
Dimitri From Paris A funk & disco fuelled mix which set old school classics against contemporary tracks in a coherent vibrant mix.
Eats Everything at In:Motion Recording your first Essential Mix in front of your hometown crowd could be daunting. Eats Everything breezed through it mixing up a tight-as two hours of Bristol Bass.
Eric Prydz at Creamfields Apparently Eric didn't know his set was being recorded for the Essential Mix until just before he went on stage. No matter. As expected, it was epic.
Jamie XX A mix filled with personality. He'd already served up a classic 6 Mix for 6 Music. Dare we say he went one better on this Essential Mix?
Joker The second Bristolian to make the shortlist. Joker's debut was all about grinding bass and effortlessly flowed through dubstep, house and d&b.
Julio Bashmore And the third Bristolian! There really was somethin in the South West water in 2011! Bashmore's debut was an all vinyl affair joining the dots between classic UKG with future facing Bristol Bass.
Kaskade An epic, melodic, uplifting big room mix from America's superstar DJ.
Maya Jane Coles One of the stars of the year served up one of the most train-spotted mixes of the year crammed full of (at the time) unreleased goodies. The mix bounces and flows effortlessly through two hours.
Pete Tong 20 As part of a night to celebrate 20 years of broadcasting on Radio 1, Pete put together a very special mix of classics and hidden gems from twenty years of DJing. He pulled off a spectacular musical journey.
SBTRKT A mix that encapsulates the the sound of 2011 from one of the artists of the year. Packed full of exclusive and never heard before tracks.
Seth Troxler Funky, sexy and bouncing. Troxler recorded this mix live in one take in Jamie Jones living room. We wished we were there!
You can vote here
Huw
Huw Owen is Executive Producer for BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix
A Radio 1 Panel made up of the Friday Night Dance Show producers have debated and argued their way to a shortlist of the following fifteen two-hour mixes. All mixes broadcast between January 1st and December 10th 2011 were up for consideration.
Picking out fifteen was a near-on impossible task. The standards were high in 2011!
In the end, the shortlisted mixes were the ones that made maximum use of ttwo hours of air time, taking the listener on a creative, flowing, coherent musical journey from start to finish.
The most popular mix will be broadcast in full at 3am on 24th December.
Good luck choosing a winner!
Above & Beyond Former Essential Mix Of The Year winners returned with an emotional therapy session, making clever use of spoken word to tell a story.
Beardyman Utterly unique. Beardyman recorded this mix using only a keyboard, an effects pad and a microphone. No records or CDs or MP3s! Check out the video on the Essential Mix page.
Brookes Brothers A high octane mix which crammed in over 100 tunes and almost as many genres!
Carl Craig A seamless journey through deep house and techno from the second wave Detroit innovator. Completely classic.
Dimitri From Paris A funk & disco fuelled mix which set old school classics against contemporary tracks in a coherent vibrant mix.
Eats Everything at In:Motion Recording your first Essential Mix in front of your hometown crowd could be daunting. Eats Everything breezed through it mixing up a tight-as two hours of Bristol Bass.
Eric Prydz at Creamfields Apparently Eric didn't know his set was being recorded for the Essential Mix until just before he went on stage. No matter. As expected, it was epic.
Jamie XX A mix filled with personality. He'd already served up a classic 6 Mix for 6 Music. Dare we say he went one better on this Essential Mix?
Joker The second Bristolian to make the shortlist. Joker's debut was all about grinding bass and effortlessly flowed through dubstep, house and d&b.
Julio Bashmore And the third Bristolian! There really was somethin in the South West water in 2011! Bashmore's debut was an all vinyl affair joining the dots between classic UKG with future facing Bristol Bass.
Kaskade An epic, melodic, uplifting big room mix from America's superstar DJ.
Maya Jane Coles One of the stars of the year served up one of the most train-spotted mixes of the year crammed full of (at the time) unreleased goodies. The mix bounces and flows effortlessly through two hours.
Pete Tong 20 As part of a night to celebrate 20 years of broadcasting on Radio 1, Pete put together a very special mix of classics and hidden gems from twenty years of DJing. He pulled off a spectacular musical journey.
SBTRKT A mix that encapsulates the the sound of 2011 from one of the artists of the year. Packed full of exclusive and never heard before tracks.
Seth Troxler Funky, sexy and bouncing. Troxler recorded this mix live in one take in Jamie Jones living room. We wished we were there!
You can vote here
Huw
Huw Owen is Executive Producer for BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix
Comment number 1.
At 22:13 9th Dec 2011, yariso wrote:No Sharam or Luciano or Paul Kalkbrenner?
For me it's a showdown between Pete Tong and Above & Beyond, I'm going to have to have a relisten to both... several times... before I make my choice!
Overall a good year for EM quality!
Complain about this comment (Comment number 1)
Comment number 2.
At 05:41 10th Dec 2011, Gio_dood wrote:No Robert Babicz?!?!?! i am very disappointed : -\
Complain about this comment (Comment number 2)
Comment number 3.
At 16:13 10th Dec 2011, dugarry23 wrote:Pearson Sound?!
Complain about this comment (Comment number 3)
Comment number 4.
At 01:44 11th Dec 2011, MINDFUNKED wrote:umm alan fitzpatrick?
Complain about this comment (Comment number 4)
Comment number 5.
At 20:16 12th Dec 2011, Harry Jackman wrote:Eats Everything at In:Motion - definately the highlight of my year.
Complain about this comment (Comment number 5)
Comment number 6.
At 23:30 15th Dec 2011, nmglky wrote:Very disappointed Paul Kalkbrenner is not on the list!!!!!!
Complain about this comment (Comment number 6)
Comment number 7.
At 00:13 16th Dec 2011, Chosenone599 wrote:Carl Craig baby!
Complain about this comment (Comment number 7)
Comment number 8.
At 01:43 16th Dec 2011, James wrote:How on earth was Cosmic Gate excluded from this list? There mix earlier this year still makes me want to go to Ministry of Sound tomorrow to see them live. It was incredible stuff.
Complain about this comment (Comment number 8)
Comment number 9.
At 17:33 17th Dec 2011, cy370z wrote:I need more Essential Mix in my life. Pete Tong, once a week isnt cutting it. MOREEEE PLEASEEE
Complain about this comment (Comment number 9)
Comment number 10.
At 18:15 17th Dec 2011, hoUSehed wrote:Martin Solveig!
Complain about this comment (Comment number 10)
Comment number 11.
At 11:54 18th Dec 2011, superparalyzer wrote:ok,i enjoyed above & beyond and maya jane coles. but my favorite is not on the list: art department. its difficult to argue about taste, but i was sure art department were going to make it.
Complain about this comment (Comment number 11)
Comment number 12.
At 15:32 18th Dec 2011, Tony Bello wrote:No AXWELL, Calvin Harris, or Deadmau5??? Wow.
Complain about this comment (Comment number 12)
Comment number 13.
At 18:37 18th Dec 2011, Mustafa wrote:agree that the art department mix was amazing. as was maya jane coles and marco carola, and last week's one from michael woods!
by the way, does anybody know what the music is from the intro for the radio 1 intro which mentions in new djs we trust. its sounds like a dark slow dubstep tune. shazam can't find it and i want to know what it is!
Complain about this comment (Comment number 13)
Comment number 14.
At 19:07 20th Dec 2011, Patz wrote:Really surprised the Art Department mix has not made the top 15. It's by far one of the best in my opinion. Will have to go for Seth Troxler as No.1 and Maya Jane Coles as No.2
Complain about this comment (Comment number 14)