Can I just take a moment to gush over BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix? It's been a while since I've really paid attention to it, but when an artist I care about does one, it's almost invariably wonderful. Two hours seems to be a perfect length of time to push past the expected and get deeper than your typical 30-minutes-to-an-hour long mix. The last two weeks have been pretty fantastic, with last week's mix coming from Modeselektor and this Saturday's mix coming from Earmilk favorite SBTRKT.
This mix is crazy diverse, with an extreme blend of new versus classic, obscure versus major, and a massive range of genres (from future garage, which you'd sort of anticipate from SBTRKT, to hip hop to indie to, well, pretty much everything). The track list is absolutely packed with artists you'll love: Radiohead, Flying Lotus, Blawan, Joy Orbison, Rustie, Mosca, Lone, Pixellord, Pearson Sound, Drake, The Roots, Machine Drum, and many more. Read on for the full tracklist and stream the mix below.
Stream Only: SBTRKT – BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix
Tracklist:
SBTRKT — Pharaohs
Shed — Leave Things
Hudson Mohawke — Cbat
Radiohead — Bloom
Flying Lotus — Dance Of The Pseudo Nymph
Radiohead — Lotus Flower (SBTRKT Remix)
Boddika — Grand Prix
Blawan — Lavender
Joy Orbison & Boddika — Swims
Disclosure — My Intention Is War
SBTRKT — Wildfire (Objekt Remix)
Mosca — Bax
Adonis — No Way Back
Objekt — Clk Recovery
Boddika — Syn Chron
Sbtrkt & Sinden — Seekwal
Pearson Sound — Stifle
Mr Tickle — Grinding
Untold — U29
Call Super — Timora (Objekt Remix)
SBTRKT — Stopover
Djedjotronic — Computer Jerk
Lone — Raptured
SBTRKT — Sanctuary
Roy Davis Jr. — Gabriel
Mike Dehnert — Isolateur
Pixellord — Iron And Cream Pt 2
Drake — Fireworks (Deadboy Remix)
The Roots — Antiquity (feat. Miguel Atwood Ferguson)
Tinie Tempah — Pass Out (Sbtrkt Instrumental Remix)
Ike Release — Outrun
Fantastic Mr. Fox — Over
Dark Sky — The Lick
Jacques Greene — Another Girl
Masters at Work — Blood Vibes
Machine Drum — U Dont Survive (Sbtrkt Remix)
Roni Size & Reprazent — Destination
Sully — Give Me Up
Rustie — Surph
SBTRKT — Runaway (Essential Mix Exclusive Debut)
D'Angelo — Greatdayindamornin'
