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Nicolas Jaar — Essential Mix

19 May 2012 · Minimal / Deep House★ Mix of the Year
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Nicolas Jaar recorded this Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 19 May 2012 — 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 Minimal and Deep House territory.

The mix runs through 40 documented tracks, opening with Angelo Badalamenti — “Secrets From Another Place: Creating 'Twin Peaks'” and closing on Nicolas Jaar — “The Student”. Along the way it draws on labels like Excerpt, Columbia and Roc-A - Fella.

Listeners voted it the Essential Mix of the Year for 2012.

Tracklist

  1. Angelo Badalamenti — Secrets From Another Place: Creating 'Twin Peaks' [Excerpt]000
  2. The Brothers Four — Greenfields [Columbia]005
  3. + Jay-Z — My First Song (Acapella) [Roc-A - Fella]000
  4. Jonny Greenwood — There Will Be Blood [Nonesuch]000
  5. Los Angeles Negros — Tu Y Tu Mirar... Yo Y Mi Cancion [Harmless]008
  6. + Lashun Pace — It's Me Oh Lord (Acapella Praise) [Shanachie]000
  7. Jonny Greenwood — Open Spaces [Nonesuch]007
  8. Pearson Sound — Footloose [Pearson Sound]000
  9. The Electric Prunes — Holy Are You (There Is No God Edit) (Reprise)000
  10. Aphex Twin — Ziggomatic 17 [Warp]000
  11. Jordi Savall — Sonnerie De Ste Geneviève Du Mont-De-Paris000
  12. Keith Jarrett — Tokyo, November 14th, 1976 (Encore) [ECM]025
  13. My Girl & Me — Always Back To You000
  14. Vera November — Last Night Together (You're Coming Back Edit) [Rough Trade]000
  15. Nikita Quasim — L'Amour L'Apres M.I.D.I. [Clown And Sunset]040
  16. Nikita Quasim — The Way I Felt Today [Clown And Sunset]043
  17. Feist — Caught A Long Wind [Polydor]048
  18. Shigeru Umebayashi — Yujemi's Theme [In The Mood For Love OST]000
  19. *NSYNC — It Makes Me Ill (Edit) [Jive]000
  20. — ?000
  21. Charles Mingus — Myself When I'm Real [Impulse]059
  22. Bill Callahan — America! [Drag City]000
  23. The Field — The Little Heart Beats So Fast [Kompakt]000
  24. Sneaky Sound System — Always By Your Side (Nicolas Jaar Remix) [Modular]063
  25. Just Friends — Avalanche067
  26. Pavla + Noura — Don't Owe Me A Thing [The Prism, Clown And Sunset]074
  27. Acid Pauli — La Voz Tan Tierna [Clown And Sunset]079
  28. Igor Wakhevitch — Taddy's Dream: Ramallah's Road [Pathé Marconi EMI]000
  29. Nikita Quasim — Derridu000
  30. Beyoncé — 1+1 [Columbia]000
  31. Anouar Brahem — Vague / E La Nave Va [ECM]091
  32. Rio En Medio — Let's Groove (Tonight Edit)000
  33. Gonzales — Manifesto [Sunnyside]000
  34. The Grass Roots — Let's Live For Today (Learn To Live Edit) [Dunhill]000
  35. Marvin Gaye — Inner City Blues (Sk Edit) [Tamla]104
  36. Man Friday Feat. Larry Levan — Real Love (The Paradise Garage Mix) [Nite Grooves]000
  37. DJ Slugo — What That Do [Subterranean Playhouse]000
  38. Ricardo Villalobos — What You Say Is More Than I Can Say [Playhouse]000
  39. Nicolas Jaar — Break My Love [Other People]000
  40. Nicolas Jaar — The Student [Wolf & Lamb]000

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