8 ms·

Every BBC Essential Mix, 1993 to 2010

143 points by metamemetics 16y ago

SandB0x 16y ago
Really? Really? Come on, keep this on Reddit please.
- exit 16y ago
  but i don't read reddit anymore.
- delano 16y 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 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525445
  - jamesbritt 16y 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.
    - delano 16y ago
      I might be misunderstanding you, but surely there must be a line between encouraging people and telling them to go to other sites.
      - jamesbritt 16y ago
        " ... but surely there must be a line between encouraging people and telling them to go to other sites." There's certainly some sort of misunderstanding going on, because now I have no idea what that is supposed to mean or refer to. My original intended point: I do not want to see more posts such as "Every BBC Essential Mix, 1993 to 2010". When they do appear, I prefer people not up-vote them; it just encourages more of the same. I do, however, like certain posts that accumulate a multitude of links to a variety of music sources. And it was a post of that kind that was (incorrectly) presented as some sort of precedence for the current post. In any event, these things will sort themselves out as people prefer.
        bruceboughton 16y ago
        There is no "I" in community.
        gloob 16y ago
        Yes there is.
- metamemetics 16y 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 16y ago
    No apology necessary - this is an awesome find. Essential mixes are probably my most listened to programming tracks.
- sullrich 16y ago
  What's a reddit?!
  - sullrich 16y ago
    Wow, tough crowd.
- electromagnetic 16y 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 16y 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.
petercooper 16y 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/ http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/
- _delirium 16y 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.)
  - petercooper 16y ago
    Sadly I noticed that only later ;-) Though at least the cache could speed things up for the window shoppers.
anedisi 16y ago
paul oakenfold 18.12.1994 goa mix :ave edit: i don't get it, why downvotes ?
petermarks 16y 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 16y ago
Extra info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Essential_Mix_episodes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Essential_Mix_episodes
Raphael 16y ago
The server may get more load than it can stand.
- edkennedy 16y ago
  It seems to be down now, for me.
miguelpais 16y 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 16y 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 16y ago
Aren't these copyrighted?
- lmz 16y ago
  I guess some "Hackers" think that copyright law is for other people to obey.
- arethuza 16y ago
  My initial reaction was "WTF is that doing on HN?": From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Mix 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.
deleted 16y ago
[deleted]
kqr2 16y ago
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Mix 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 16y 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%20Mix%20-%20Daft%20Punk.mp3 http://thenine.ca/essential/1997/1997.03.02%20-%20Essential%...
- dfischer 16y ago
  This is an epic one.
brighton36 16y 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/ http://thenine.ca/essential/
- j2d2 16y ago
  Or install extension.fm :)
- lsb 16y ago
  Using Coral CDN: wget -rl 0 -np -A .mp3 http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/
  - aidenn0 16y ago
    Nogood, checkout the robots.txt
    - forkqueue 16y ago
      Yup, thenine.ca is blocking coral cache for .mp3 :(
    - _delirium 16y ago
      Since Coral considers itself a distributed caching proxy rather than a crawler, it doesn't respect robots.txt. It does respect the relevant cache-control headers, like "no-cache", but this site doesn't appear to set them. However, the main problem here is that Coral doesn't cache any files >50mb, so almost none of these are cached. The few <50mb do seem to be, though, e.g.: http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/1998/1998.01.01%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Pete%20Tong%20(Part%201).mp3 http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/1998/1998.01.01%20-%20E...
      - deleted 16y ago
        [deleted]
  - jc-denton 16y ago
dailo10 16y ago
Does anyone else have fond memories of the Oakenfold mixes? http://thenine.ca/essential/2000/2000.02.13%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Paul%20Oakenfold.mp3 http://thenine.ca/essential/2000/2000.02.13%20-%20Essential%... http://thenine.ca/essential/2000/2000.05.21%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Paul%20Oakenfold.mp3 http://thenine.ca/essential/2000/2000.05.21%20-%20Essential%...
- Sparragus 16y 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-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Paul%20Oakenfold%20(Part%201).mp3 http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/1994/1994.12.18%20-%20E... http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/1994/1994.12.18%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Paul%20Oakenfold%20(Part%202).mp3 http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/1994/1994.12.18%20-%20E...
  - anigbrowl 16y 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Mix) Thanks for digging out the relevant links, mas I only had an incomplete copy of this.
  - josefresco 16y 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 16y ago
  Live in Rojan Club, Shanghai, China... And Liverpool University, those are all time faves!
parenthesis 16y ago
I realise that other people's musical taste is not necessarily interesting, but http://thenine.ca/essential/1995/1995.11.11%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20David%20Morales.mp3 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".
DrStalker 16y 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 16y ago
  They are in a 110 Gigabyte torrent at themixingbowl, a site dedicated to mixes. I also highly recommend the BTTB series.
  - dfischer 16y ago
    Good tip. Thanks.
  - gasull 16y ago
    https://isohunt.com/lite/files/148859505/Essential%20Mix%20themixingbowl https://isohunt.com/lite/files/148859505/Essential%20Mix%20t...
bpm140 16y ago
Not to be gauche, but where do I send the 1TB hard drive to get a dump of every mix? :D
dfischer 16y 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.
deleted 16y ago
[deleted]
samd 16y ago
I recommend the Scratch Perverts mix at: http://thenine.ca/essential/2004/2004.08.22%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Scratch%20Perverts.mp3 http://thenine.ca/essential/2004/2004.08.22%20-%20Essential%...
- rbxbx 16y ago
  seconded, that's a fantastic mix.
thegeezer3 16y ago
this was epic http://thenine.ca/essential/1994/1994.05.28%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Billy%20Nasty.mp3 http://thenine.ca/essential/1994/1994.05.28%20-%20Essential%... as well as the daft punk one posted earlier here.
desigooner 16y ago
seems like the site was overloaded and exceeded bandwidth capacity
Lorin 16y 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 http://lorinhalpert.com/puredj-Cor_Fijneman-Outstanding Radio.mp3
julianz 16y 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 16y ago
Wish these were hosted on mixcloud.com

143 points by metamemetics 16y ago

SandB0x 16y ago

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

exit 16y ago
but i don't read reddit anymore.
delano 16y 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 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525445
- jamesbritt 16y 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.
  - delano 16y ago
    I might be misunderstanding you, but surely there must be a line between encouraging people and telling them to go to other sites.
    - jamesbritt 16y ago
      " ... but surely there must be a line between encouraging people and telling them to go to other sites." There's certainly some sort of misunderstanding going on, because now I have no idea what that is supposed to mean or refer to. My original intended point: I do not want to see more posts such as "Every BBC Essential Mix, 1993 to 2010". When they do appear, I prefer people not up-vote them; it just encourages more of the same. I do, however, like certain posts that accumulate a multitude of links to a variety of music sources. And it was a post of that kind that was (incorrectly) presented as some sort of precedence for the current post. In any event, these things will sort themselves out as people prefer.
      - bruceboughton 16y ago
        There is no "I" in community.
        gloob 16y ago
        Yes there is.
metamemetics 16y 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 16y ago
  No apology necessary - this is an awesome find. Essential mixes are probably my most listened to programming tracks.
sullrich 16y ago
What's a reddit?!
- sullrich 16y ago
  Wow, tough crowd.
electromagnetic 16y 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 16y 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.

petercooper 16y 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/ http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/

_delirium 16y 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.)
- petercooper 16y ago
  Sadly I noticed that only later ;-) Though at least the cache could speed things up for the window shoppers.

anedisi 16y ago

paul oakenfold 18.12.1994 goa mix :ave edit: i don't get it, why downvotes ?

petermarks 16y 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 16y ago

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

Raphael 16y ago

The server may get more load than it can stand.

edkennedy 16y ago
It seems to be down now, for me.

miguelpais 16y 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 16y 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 16y ago

Aren't these copyrighted?

lmz 16y ago
I guess some "Hackers" think that copyright law is for other people to obey.
arethuza 16y ago
My initial reaction was "WTF is that doing on HN?": From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Mix 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.

deleted 16y ago

[deleted]

kqr2 16y ago

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Mix 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 16y 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%20Mix%20-%20Daft%20Punk.mp3 http://thenine.ca/essential/1997/1997.03.02%20-%20Essential%...

dfischer 16y ago
This is an epic one.

brighton36 16y 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/ http://thenine.ca/essential/

j2d2 16y ago
Or install extension.fm :)
lsb 16y ago
Using Coral CDN: wget -rl 0 -np -A .mp3 http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/
- aidenn0 16y ago
  Nogood, checkout the robots.txt
  - forkqueue 16y ago
    Yup, thenine.ca is blocking coral cache for .mp3 :(
  - _delirium 16y ago
    Since Coral considers itself a distributed caching proxy rather than a crawler, it doesn't respect robots.txt. It does respect the relevant cache-control headers, like "no-cache", but this site doesn't appear to set them. However, the main problem here is that Coral doesn't cache any files >50mb, so almost none of these are cached. The few <50mb do seem to be, though, e.g.: http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/1998/1998.01.01%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Pete%20Tong%20(Part%201).mp3 http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/1998/1998.01.01%20-%20E...
    - deleted 16y ago
      [deleted]
- jc-denton 16y ago

dailo10 16y ago

Does anyone else have fond memories of the Oakenfold mixes? http://thenine.ca/essential/2000/2000.02.13%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Paul%20Oakenfold.mp3 http://thenine.ca/essential/2000/2000.02.13%20-%20Essential%... http://thenine.ca/essential/2000/2000.05.21%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Paul%20Oakenfold.mp3 http://thenine.ca/essential/2000/2000.05.21%20-%20Essential%...

Sparragus 16y 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-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Paul%20Oakenfold%20(Part%201).mp3 http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/1994/1994.12.18%20-%20E... http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/1994/1994.12.18%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Paul%20Oakenfold%20(Part%202).mp3 http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/1994/1994.12.18%20-%20E...
- anigbrowl 16y 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Mix) Thanks for digging out the relevant links, mas I only had an incomplete copy of this.
- josefresco 16y 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 16y ago
Live in Rojan Club, Shanghai, China... And Liverpool University, those are all time faves!

parenthesis 16y ago

I realise that other people's musical taste is not necessarily interesting, but http://thenine.ca/essential/1995/1995.11.11%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20David%20Morales.mp3 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".

DrStalker 16y 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 16y ago
They are in a 110 Gigabyte torrent at themixingbowl, a site dedicated to mixes. I also highly recommend the BTTB series.
- dfischer 16y ago
  Good tip. Thanks.
- gasull 16y ago
  https://isohunt.com/lite/files/148859505/Essential%20Mix%20themixingbowl https://isohunt.com/lite/files/148859505/Essential%20Mix%20t...

bpm140 16y ago

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

dfischer 16y 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.

deleted 16y ago

[deleted]

samd 16y ago

I recommend the Scratch Perverts mix at: http://thenine.ca/essential/2004/2004.08.22%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Scratch%20Perverts.mp3 http://thenine.ca/essential/2004/2004.08.22%20-%20Essential%...

rbxbx 16y ago
seconded, that's a fantastic mix.

thegeezer3 16y ago

this was epic http://thenine.ca/essential/1994/1994.05.28%20-%20Essential%20Mix%20-%20Billy%20Nasty.mp3 http://thenine.ca/essential/1994/1994.05.28%20-%20Essential%... as well as the daft punk one posted earlier here.

desigooner 16y ago

seems like the site was overloaded and exceeded bandwidth capacity

Lorin 16y 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 http://lorinhalpert.com/puredj-Cor_Fijneman-Outstanding Radio.mp3

julianz 16y 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 16y ago

Wish these were hosted on mixcloud.com