Every BBC Essential Mix, 1993 to 2010

[kqr2]

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.

[petercooper]

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/

[_delirium]

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.)

[dailo10]

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]

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...

[MLnick]

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

[parenthesis]

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".

[brighton36]

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/

[_delirium]

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).

[lsb]

Using Coral CDN:

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

[j2d2]

Or install extension.fm :)

[DrStalker]

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]

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

[samd]

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

[rbxbx]

seconded, that's a fantastic mix.

[_grrr]

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%...

[dfischer]

This is an epic one.

[petermarks]

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

[zokier]

Aren't these copyrighted?

[arethuza]

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.

[lmz]

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

[Lorin]

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

[miguelpais]

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]

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.

[julianz]

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?

[alexophile]

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

[purpledove]

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.

[dfischer]

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.

[Raphael]

The server may get more load than it can stand.

[edkennedy]

It seems to be down now, for me.

[thegeezer3]

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

[bpm140]

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