Carl Cox James Barton Jose Padilla & Pete Tong recorded this Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 31 December 1996 — their only appearance in the Waveform archive. It lands in the late-nineties peak of superclub culture, and the set sits in Techno territory.
A full tracklist for this broadcast has not been documented — the recording runs as one continuous set. It aired in a year that also brought Essential Mixes from DJ Tinman, Tall Paul, Dave Seaman.