WAVEFORM

Leftfield — Essential Mix

6 August 1994 · House / Techno

Leftfield recorded this Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 6 August 1994 — their only appearance in the Waveform archive. It lands in the show's formative years, when Radio 1 first handed two hours of its airwaves to club culture, and the set sits in House and Techno territory.

The mix runs through 40 documented tracks, opening with Leftfield — “Melt” and closing on No Use — “Squonq DM 6:45”. Along the way it draws on labels like Hard Hands, Dance Pool and GPR - CD2.

Tracklist

  1. Leftfield — Melt [Hard Hands]000
  2. PiL — Radio 4000
  3. Jam & Spoon — Hispanos In Space [Dance Pool]000
  4. Beaumont Hannant — Sym-phon5 [GPR - CD2]000
  5. DJ Edge — Edge Test000
  6. Happy Larry's Big Beat Orchestra Feat. Shaggy Wonder — Lego Beat [Beep Distraxion]000
  7. Cool Breeze — C'Mon [Dorado]000
  8. Danny Red — Riddimwise [Columbia]000
  9. The Dust Brothers — Dope Coil [Junior Boys Own]000
  10. Up Bustle & Out — Too Many Tricksters [Ninja Tune]000
  11. Mike Dred — Kosmik Konundrums EP [Machine Codes]000
  12. The Moody Boyz — Fight Back [Guerilla]031
  13. Mezzontinto EP — Dub Experience [St Germain En Layf]034
  14. The Disciples — Prowling Lion [Boom Shaka Lacka]000
  15. Alpha & Omega — Jah Is Calling [A&O]041
  16. The Bucketheads — Tribal Rydims [Henry Street]045
  17. Disco Drunkard — Tet [Vinyl Solution]000
  18. Dave Clarke — Wisdom To The Wise [Bush - 1015]000
  19. Robert Armani — Up [Alternative Current]000
  20. Flammable — Dubbin To The Sound [Hard Hands]000
  21. Vinyl Blair — Dope (Vinyl's Green Gold Mix) [Hard Hands]056
  22. Leftfield — Space Shanty [Hard Hands]059
  23. E.C. Groove Society — Last Elbow [Prime - 014]000
  24. Daft Punk — Alive [Virgin]000
  25. Oricom Technologies — A Quicksand Adventure [Music Man]000
  26. Dual Mount — Sub Buss [Tesseract]000
  27. Secret Cinema — Timeless Altitude [Music Man]000
  28. Purple Plejade — Realms Of Human Unconscious [Djax-Up-Beats - 199]000
  29. Kamasutra — Running Away [Wildflower]000
  30. DJ Food — Consciousness [Ninja Tune]089
  31. Basscult — Paradise Place [Deep Distraxion]092
  32. Strange Brew — Hashashin's Groove [Robs]000
  33. Renegade Soundwave — Mash Up [Mute]000
  34. Ballistic Bros vs The Eccentric Afros — And It Goes Like This [Delancy Street]000
  35. Strange Brew — Burnin (Down) [Robs]000
  36. Smith & Mighty — Killa [FFRR]000
  37. Woodshed — Tales From The Woodshed [Cloak & Dagger]000
  38. Kalibu — Music Maker000
  39. Full Moon Scientist — Monday Morning Dread [Hard Hands]000
  40. No Use — Squonq DM 6:45 [Oversky]000

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