The Essential Mix is a weekly radio show broadcast on BBC Radio 1. It is singularly the greatest influence on my disc jockeying career. The summation of the internet, Napster and T1 connection coupled with a desire for music at the first university I attended culminated in my almost student-like devotion in listening to as many Essential Mixes as I possibly could.
The following is a recent Essential Mix done by Hot Chip, a British electro-pop band. It's quite eclectic in tracklisting, which I enjoy. It also features the narsty new Snoop Dogg single "Sexual Seduction" (which has another version titled as "Sexual Eruption").
To whet your appetite, I'll post the tracklist here, but to download the mix, follow the link above.
Tracklist
1. Hot Chip - One Pure Thought - EMI 2. Noze - You Have to Dance 3. Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (Hot Chip remix) - EMI 4. Jill Scott - Golden (Wookie dub mix) 5. Grovesnor - Drive Your Car - Greco Roman 6. Chic - I Want Your Love (Todd Terje edit) 7. Justus Kohncke - Parage - Kompakt 8. Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction - Geffen 9. Romanthony - Bring U Up - Glasgow Underground 10. Timbaland - Drop - AV8 11. Olga Dancekowski - Matt John - BAR25 12. Matthew Dear - Don and Sherri (Hot Chip version) - Ghostly Int. 13. Lanark - Mandinko 14. Alex Under - ? - Trapez 15. Smith N Hack - Falling Stars 16. Undisputed Truth - Law Of The Land - EMI 17. Paul Kalkbrenner - Ick Muss Aus Dit Millieu Heraus - B-Pitch Control 18. Minilogue - Space - My Best Friend 19. Lucio Aquilina - Feelin Plastik - Trapez 20. Giorgio Preiozo and Libre - Pongo (extended) - Nets Work Int. 21. Minimow - Where Is My Pill? - Hell Yeah 22. The Surgery - More Weed (Sticky) - Social Circles 23. Red Robin and Jakob Hilden - Snapdragon - Trapez Limited 24. Tiefschwarz - Original (Carl Craig remix) - Souvenier 25. Jeff Samuel - I Think They Are Trying To Say Something - Trapez 26. Burial - Archangel - Hyperdub
Also, here's the video for "Sexual Seduction" which is the tits. Notice how he's using the vocoder, but when done right, it's on. Even if it's a played out tool, if it's done right, it's aight. Na mean?