Sasha & John Digweed recorded this Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 7 April 2002 — the 1st of their 2 Essential Mixes in the Waveform archive. It lands in the early-2000s era of progressive sounds and superstar DJs, and the set sits in Progressive House 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 Unkle Sounds, H Foundation, James Holden.
Listeners voted it the Essential Mix of the Year for 2002.