What is your favorite BBC Essential Mix?
I love the show, everyone always throws down a great set. Laidback Luke’s essential used to be my favorite, but… after hearing Rustie’s essential mix it definitely has my vote. If you haven’t heard it I suggest you do! What is your favorite?
breakage or james zabiella, both carry you away on an emotional journey for an essential mix I prefer that style over club bangers.
I liked the mstrkrft essential mix. it was a little rough as far as the technical aspect of it, but it gets good towards the end.
Subfocus 2009 such a good selection of of music and varied tempo’s flowed perfect start to finish 
Carl Cox 2005 space set techno, stomping ( listen to that at least once a week and still sounds fresh)
Seth troxler 2011 the intro tracks alone amazing…wasn’t into the rustie one at all just couldn’t get into it 
oakie’s original goa mix. i have a beat up cassette somewhere with pete tong’s voiceover which segues into eerie trance voices. sublime!
Desyn Masiello’s Essential mix from 2004. Really kick started that electro house sound that everyone was jumping on at that time, but it’s still such a timeless mix as well. Still sounds fresh today
Not trying to bash OP, but I thought that was pretty awful. A whole bunch of stumbling transitions. For example, he just fell into Juicy J and fell right back out of it. It just wasn’t smooth at all.
nero’s mix is very good as well
i’m really diggin the art department essential mix from this past year
+1 for the breakage mix as well
I’m gonna get bashed for this. Normally I’m a prog house fan, but Bassnectar’s 2010 (?) essential mix was just one energy filled continuum of awesome. He definitely gained a fan with that one.
Undoubtedly Nero’s 2010 essential mix. I’m not even a huge dubstep fan really, but yeah, this;
I used to love listening to essential mixes.. but now I’m too much of a snob about audio quality! The only one I’ve found in 320/lossless has been Nero’s (really great mix minus some of the brostep)
Rusko and Caspa… but that fucking announcer needs to shut the hell up while they play their tracks
I still don’t get why people get so angry about Pete Tong. It’s a radio show FFS, not a podcast.
Paul Kalkbrenner’s essential mix is my favourite.
Also seen him live recently and it was the best thing i’ve ever witnessed.
Kaskade’s BBC essential mix is by far my favorite. It just puts me in such a wonderful mood
Joker’s mix is my all time favorite, so smooth and well planned out with great track selection and good representation of his sound.
Rusko’s from 08 i think it was had a big influence on me and I still listen to it, Skream’s from a while ago also.
LOVED Kode 9’s also.
Scratch perverts from 2004
Flying lotus in 2008
Nikolas Jaar from this year will also go down as a timeless EM
DJ Yoda did a couple of pretty good ones. So did DJ Shadow.
Greg Wilson!