Essential Mix of the Year Above & Beyond recorded this Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 24 December 2011 — their only appearance in the Waveform archive. It lands in the 2010s wave that pulled underground sounds back to the front, and the set sits in Tech House and Electronic 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 Retro Grade, Gareth Wyn, Beardyman.