Paul Oakenfold recorded this Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 21 July 2012 — the 8th of their 9 Essential Mixes 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 L Vis 1990, Azari & III, Chuckie Porter Robinson & Judge Jules.