BBC

Essential Mix 25

Radio 1's Essential Mix at 25 with Derrick Carter. The legendary DJ digs deep into the vaults for a mix of classics spanning three decades. Paul Woolford is next up as we celebrate 25 years of Radio 1 ...

Radio 1's Classic Essential Mix

Available episodes of Radio 1's Classic Essential Mix ...
Rolling Stone

The Essential Mix at 25: Pete Tong on Creating One of Dance Music’s Most Important Mix-Shows

On October 30, 1993, Pete Tong oversaw the first episode of the Essential Mix on BBC’s Radio 1. Club music was ascendant in the U.K., and Tong devoted a late-night slot to it on national radio, ...
The Fader

The Chemical Brothers two-hour Essential Mix from 1995 is available for streaming

BBC Sounds has released The Chemical Brothers' 1995 Essential Mix for the next month and a half in conjunction with their latest album, For That Beautiful Feeling, released on September 8. The mix ...
Mixmag

This archive footage of an early Essential Mix is how the internet used to be

Before the days of search, this is what music discovery actually looked like. Last week, the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix made it onto BBC World News, with some archive footage of Pete Tong MBE, from ...