WAVEFORM

David Holmes — Essential Mix

24 September 2000 · House

David Holmes recorded this Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 24 September 2000 — the 5th of their 5 Essential Mixes in the Waveform archive. It lands in the early-2000s era of progressive sounds and superstar DJs, and the set sits in House territory.

The mix runs through 32 documented tracks, opening with David Holmes — “Compared To What” and closing on David Holmes — “Zero Tolerance”. Along the way it draws on labels like Go! Beat, Dynamo and Motown.

Tracklist

  1. David Holmes — Compared To What [Go! Beat]
  2. JW Grasshopper And The Butterfly — Ali Shuffle
  3. Hot Butter — Getting Off [Dynamo]
  4. Stevie Wonder — Finger Tips Tamla [Motown]
  5. Paul Weller — So You Wanna Be A Dancer? [Go! Discs]
  6. The Explosions — Hip Drop [Goldcup]
  7. Rosco — Peace Maker [Barclay Toussant McCall]
  8. Toussaint McCall — Shimmy [Ronn]
  9. Alvin Cash — Keep On Dancing [Toddlin Cordelius]
  10. Cornelius — Count Five Or Six [Matador]
  11. Chester Randall And The Soul Senders — Soul Brothers Testify [Anla]
  12. Voodoo Juju — Drug Sound [Barclay]
  13. The Moodclub — First Born
  14. Larkin Sun Forest — Magic In The Mountain [Deram]
  15. Ultramagnetic MC's — Ain?t It Good To You [Nixt]
  16. Plateau Art Ensemble Of Chicago — Yoyo [Soul Jazz]
  17. Discofenia — ?
  18. Valentin Mehlers Herbsplatten 69 — ?
  19. Fug — Sola Sonique [Session]
  20. Jujus — Sweetsongs [Folkways]
  21. David Holmes — Living Room [Go! Beat]
  22. Jujus — Alchemy Of The Blues [Folkways]
  23. Miles Davis — Spanish Key [Columbia]
  24. Public Enemy — Fight The Power [Def Jam]
  25. Lalo Schiffrin — Kelly's Heroes [MGM]
  26. David Holmes — 69 Police [Go! Beat]
  27. The Cimarons — We Are Not The Same [Soul Jazz]
  28. Ella Fitzgerald — Sunshine Of Your Love [Mojo]
  29. Silver Apples — Love Fingers [Kapp]
  30. Silver Apples — Programme [Kapp]
  31. Osmutantes — Panis Et Circenses [Polydor]
  32. David Holmes — Zero Tolerance [Go! Beat]

More