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Floating Points — Essential Mix

28 November 2015 · Tech House / Techno / Electronic
Floating Points — Essential Mix artwork

Floating Points recorded this Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 28 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 34 documented tracks, opening with — “Intro” and closing on Taxie — “Rock Don't Stop”. Along the way it draws on labels like RCA Victor, Disques Esperance and CBS.

Tracklist

  1. — Intro000
  2. Carlos Walker — Via Láctea [RCA Victor]002
  3. Cortex — Chanson D'un Jour D'hiver [Disques Esperance]006
  4. Dom Salvador E Abolição — Hei! Você [CBS]011
  5. Claudia — Com Mais De 30 [Odeon]000
  6. Neno Exporta Som — Deixa A Tristeza [Copacabana]000
  7. Trio Ternura — A Gira [Polydor]000
  8. Larry T. & The Family — I'm Moving On [LET]021
  9. Maurice Moore — Everything That Shines Ain't Gold (Floating Points Edit) [White]026
  10. The Perfect Circle — Hands Of Time [Inner City]030
  11. Chain Reaction — Search For Tomorrow [Blue Wave]035
  12. Mary Clark — Take Me I'm Yours [La Shawn]038
  13. Lifetones — Good Side [Tone Of Life]044
  14. Neal Howard — The Gathering (Club Mix) [Future Sound]047
  15. Gemini — Day Dreaming [Peacefrog]052
  16. Melchior Productions Ltd — The Ritual [Lick My Deck - 015]000
  17. Pearson Sound — Freeze Cycle [Pearson Sound - THAW 001]060
  18. The Vision — Detroit: One Circle [Metroplex]063
  19. Roman IV — Lucy [Running Back - RB 026]067
  20. Eddie 'Flashin' Fowlkes — Deep Pit (Kenny Larkin Remix) [Dance Pool]071
  21. 4th Measure Men — The Need (Basement Jaxx 'Release' Mix) [Multiply White]070
  22. Evans Pyramid — I Want Your Body [Peoples Potential]076
  23. Emerson — Sending All My Love Out [L.A.S.]079
  24. Crustation — Flame (Mood II Swing Dub) [Jive]083
  25. Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson — Home Is Where The Hatred Is (Live PA) [Arista]088
  26. Queen Yahna — Ain't It Time [P&P]092
  27. Thad Jones & The Mel Lewis Orchestra — Baby, I Can't Get Over You [Metronome]094
  28. ? Bobby V. — Disco Baby (Floating Points Edit) [White]098
  29. Sympho State — You Know What I Like [ZE]101
  30. Jesse Gould — Out Of Work [P&P]104
  31. Standing Room Only — Searchin' [YGB]100
  32. Africano — Open Your Hearts [Hi]100
  33. Jerry Washington — Don't Waste My Time [Glades]113
  34. Taxie — Rock Don't Stop [Archwoods]117

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