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Special Request — Essential Mix

14 November 2015 · Tech House / Techno / Electronic

Special Request recorded this Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 14 November 2015 — 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, Techno and Electronic territory.

The mix runs through 31 documented tracks, opening with — “Intro” and closing on Special Request — “Original Soundtrack”. Along the way it draws on labels like Warp, Unreleased and Hyperdub.

Tracklist

  1. — Intro000
  2. Aphex Twin — Kesson Dalef [Warp]002
  3. Special Request — Submerged [Unreleased]000
  4. Special Request — Requiem 5 [Unreleased]000
  5. Burial — Untitled [Hyperdub]000
  6. Special Request — Untitled [Unreleased]000
  7. Aphex Twin — Xtal [R&S - AMB 3922DB]008
  8. Special Request — Forbidden [Houndstooth - HTH 012D]013
  9. Special Request — Modern Warfare [XL]000
  10. Special Request — Elegy [XL - DA 733]017
  11. Detboi — Joyride [Keysound]000
  12. Special Request & Lonnie Liston Smith — Undead X A Garden Of Peace [Houndstooth]000
  13. Brothers Grimm — Exodus (Special Request VIP) [Unreleased]000
  14. Special Request — Damage [XL - DA 733]041
  15. Special Request — Reset It [XL - DA 733]045
  16. Special Request — Take Me [XL - DA 733]051
  17. Special Request — Ride VIP [Houndstooth - HTH 012D]056
  18. Special Request — Damage (Detboi Pump Action VIP) [Unreleased]000
  19. Special Request — Lockjaw [Houndstooth - HTH 012D]069
  20. Special Request — Untitled #2 [Unreleased]000
  21. Special Request — Simulation [XL - DA 733]073
  22. Special Request — Tractor Beam [XL - DA 733]078
  23. Special Request — Broken Dreams [Houndstooth - HTH 012D]086
  24. Scanone — Ssik 92 [Modified Magic - YMMM 002]090
  25. Special Request — Mindwash [Houndstooth - HTH 012D]093
  26. DJ Pierre — Box Energy (AFX Remix) [Men]099
  27. Scanone — We Copy [Modified Magic - YMMM 002]103
  28. Dexorcist — Sunstorm [Yellow Machines - YM 012]108
  29. Edge 1 — Compounded [Edge]111
  30. The KLF — The Rites Of Mu [Echo Beach]114
  31. Special Request — Original Soundtrack [Unreleased]110

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