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Massive Attack — Essential Mix

11 December 1994 · Trip Hop
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Massive Attack recorded this Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 11 December 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 Trip Hop territory.

The mix runs through 39 documented tracks, opening with Massive Attack — “Sly (Underdog Mix)” and closing on Buddha Baboons — “Say Uptown (Rowdy Hoodrock Mix)”. Along the way it draws on labels like Wild Bunch, Peace and Street Jazz Productions.

Tracklist

  1. Massive Attack — Sly (Underdog Mix) [Wild Bunch]00:00:00
  2. DJ Smash — Da Boodah [Peace]00:04:02
  3. DJ Cam — Dieu Reconnaîtra Les Siens [Street Jazz Productions]00:06:55
  4. Massive Attack — Blue Lines [Wild Bunch]00:09:17
  5. DJ Cam — Pure Pleasure (Old School Trip At 75 BPM) [Street Jazz Productions]00:13:04
  6. Urban Thermo Dynamics — My Kung Fu (Salaam's Remix) [Payday / FFRR]00:16:47
  7. TLC — Creep (Jermaine's Jeep Mix) [LaFace]00:21:18
  8. Nine — Whutcha Want? [Profile]00:23:58
  9. Fat Fluids — Feelin' Good [Strapped]00:28:17
  10. Ennio Morricone — The Ecstasy Of Gold (L'Estasi Dell'oro) [United Artists]00:29:53
  11. Fu-Schnickens — Breakdown [Jive]00:32:13
  12. Jeru The Damaja — Statik [Payday / FFRR]00:35:28
  13. Public Enemy — Louder Than A Bomb (JMJ Telephone Tap Groove) (Vocal) [Def Jam]00:39:14
  14. Main Source — Scratch & Kut [Wild Pitch]00:41:59
  15. The 45 King — Get Funky [Tuff City]00:44:07
  16. DJ Use — Let Me Hear You Say [Phlange]00:47:38
  17. Rek Shit Rebulz — Bounce (To The Beat) [Wreck]00:50:28
  18. Gang Starr — The ? Remainz [Chrysalis]00:52:22
  19. Public Enemy — Yo! Bum Rush The Show [Def Jam]00:56:28
  20. A Tribe Called Quest — God Lives Through [Jive]00:60:25
  21. Black Moon — Reality (Killing Every...) (Instrumental) [Wreck]00:63:59
  22. Whodini — One Love [Jive]00:66:33
  23. Super Cat — Scalp Dem (Wu Tang Mix) [Columbia]00:69:55
  24. Brandy — I Wanna Be Down (LP Instrumental) [Atlantic]00:73:17
  25. + Super Cat — Scalp Dem (WuCapella Mix) [Columbia]00:73:17
  26. Black Moon — Who Got The Props (Evil Dee's Deadly Instr.) [Nervous]00:78:07
  27. Big Daddy Kane — Word To The Mother (Land) [Prism]00:80:58
  28. Le Pamplemousse — Gimmie What You Got [AVI]00:82:25
  29. The 45 King — Red Alert [45 King]00:84:50
  30. The 45 King — Street Fun [45 King]00:89:51
  31. Stetsasonic — Talkin' All That Jazz [Tommy Boy]00:90:24
  32. 90 Lovers — I Know You Got Soul (Smooth Snap Mix) [Logic]00:94:43
  33. Bootman — To The Hip [Freeze]00:99:44
  34. Kenny Dope Unreleased Project — Get On Down [TNT]00:102:29
  35. G. Simone — I Know, You Know [Front Page Entertainment]00:105:35
  36. Paris — Whatcha See? [Priority]00:108:12
  37. Jamiroquai — Journey To Arnhemland [Sony Soho Square]00:112:23
  38. Biz Markie — Nobody Beats The Biz [Prism]00:115:41
  39. Buddha Baboons — Say Uptown (Rowdy Hoodrock Mix) [AV8]00:116:49

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