Essential Mix 95 - Paul Oakenfold

A mix of Progressive, House and Hard House. Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong, Carl Cox and Sasha each put in a studio mix for BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix series. This four installment series was from May 1995 and ranks with me as one of my all time favourite Essential Mix sessions. Each has a unique style but for my money Sasha and Carl Cox's mixes are the best. Enjoy and let me know what you think?
Tracklisting
1.) Evoke - Runaway
2.) In Aura - Coma Aroma
3.) Brothers Grimm - Survive
4.) The Prodigy - Skylined
5.) Man With No Name - Floor Essence
6.) Grace - Down to Earth
7.) Utah Saints - Star
8.) Virus - Sun
"E'VOKE-Runaway", sound recording administered by: Demon Music IODA
"Man With No Name-Floor-Essence", sound recording administered by: WMG
This is the BBC's intellectual copyright material.

[@DjBillman]

You know this stuff is great when you have no idea what the new stuff is and you just keep coming back to the classic mixes

[@deniscavanagh5925]

Well said

[@MacTheRipper1]

Hear hear!

[@jonathanclarke4529]

Sign of getting old lol.

[@NikosPer]

@@jonathanclarke4529 sign of getting wise.

[@christianlewer-greenlight-]

OMG 30 odd years have past and its still raises the hairs on the back of my neck ----2024 ----

[@johngleig2880]

It’s perfecto stay blessed 🕉☯️

[@Paul-gp5om]

Love doves, Playboys... Mitzubishis.... etc x

[@CopeStarr]

This has taken me right back! Skyline banging out now at breakfast with kids 😅

[@eminemisdogshit4626]

What it was to grow up in the 90's with music like this and the club culture. So dam lucky to have experienced it

[@user-MFTI]

Blessed.

[@kevinaustin3516]

Me to loved it

[@user-MFTI]

@@kevinaustin3516 I feel like the 90's was the peak on planet earth.

[@NickSandt]

Fuck yeah 😎

[@hollykallis4469]

Omg just played it on tv as I found my CD! in my cupboard. Brings back so many amazing memorie😊🙌

[@imathews1]

I've searched for so long to rediscover this utterly divine mix by Oakenfold at his very best! goosebumps, and tears remembering some of my best times!!

[@mickbeeee]

Amen

[@simonmiller5165]

7 months ahead of me…

[@CD-xo5ju]

Goa mix is my fave oakenfold mix

[@christianlewer-greenlight-]

oh the Goa mix ...must dig that out @@CD-xo5ju

[@fitta74]

46 years and still love this music,takes me back when I was young..

[@kevinaustin3516]

Me to bruv them was the days

[@user-dc7ng3xq9o]

Same here got the cd still in front of me you can't beat the 90s for proper dance music oaknfold sasha tong underworld prodigy

[@averilloanthony7527]

House music at its peak ! Early 90s to mid 90s part of our club culture history ♥️👌

[@daniella6477]

AWESOME Album... Blinding first tune Evoke... Many a messy messy messy times listening to this after a night out.... Perfect come down track...

[@guygraham2580]

Sometimes the post-club comedown sessions were as good as the night itself. You just needed all the right stuff!

[@nintendo9231889]

Freaking amazing track!

[@kevinaustin3516]

A great tune after seeing tong for the first time

[@davidcoyle1070]

Had it when it was new out!! Still listening to it at 43!!!!!! Minted!!!!!❤

[@Pettemusic]

! 1981 !

[@toast-CC]

First heard this when I was 16 , I'm rediscovering it tonight when I'm 39 years young . The memories that it's stirring up are timeless . Brilliant upload 😀

[@Stig10001]

This is when the whole Cream/Oakenfold/superstar DJ/superclub thing really began to gather speed. Oakenfold was really on top of his game between 95 -2000 and this catches him right at the start of that purple patch, just before he began his residency at Cream I think, although I think he was resident in the Annex in Cream around this time before he went on to the Courtyard. we were spoilt rotten, really, and I'm glad that I experienced all this because dance music now and the ridiculous so called EDM these days is utter shite.

[@spud74]

Oakenfold didn't take his residence up until 97. The Courtyard had been open a year prior to that. Coxy took his Ultimatum Tour there in the February of 96 and brought it down long before PO's arrival.

[@spud74]

I've still given your comment a "like", just in case you think I'm being pedantic!

[@guygraham2580]

@@spud74 Oakenfold started playing his Cream residency in that little room, before he went to the big Courtyard. The latter was a nicer space, but when he first started he used to demo far more unreleased Perfecto (and related) tracks - often pausing the beat-mixing to play the new tunes in full. Regardless, he did great work at Cream. Better than Judge Jules, who could play really great house/progressive/trance sets - but his own remixes were pretty terrible back then!

[@spud74]

Guy Graham he didn’t mate, he took up the Courtyard as his home throughout 97. He played the odd night in Zoo Bar, the smaller room off main room in Cream

[@markanthonybrain4839]

@@spud74 probably doesn't know what the word pedantic means,lol but respect for making it clear about your comment

[@michaelafoxy6438]

i,ve just come up on my trip again

[@alexjohnson2485]

There must be some residual MDMA still in the system, same just happened to me.....nearly 20 years later!!!!

[@davehopper7533]

Best part to when this album came out mid 90s how great lsd was so good to take the brain for a shit every now n then to think thats ova 20 yrs ago

[@danielphelan2731]

Flash back alert

[@davidkymdell452]

Hey...5 years late..me too

[@imonlytellingthetruth6562]

@@alexjohnson2485 same pal , amazing mix

[@chloeyoung5130]

And I'm back in '95 ! Escort cabrio, roof down at 1am heading for the Brunel Rooms with this playing. Happy days!

[@markanthonybrain4839]

Hey i probably sold you a few beautiful little white doves at Brunel! Lol it was my second home both my mates were residential djs there.

[@damienreynolds5168]

Loved the brunel rooms 🤍went most weeks

[@markanthonybrain4839]

@@damienreynolds5168 I probably sold you some pills my best mates where resident djs and I was the main club dealer in mid ,90s

[@markanthonybrain4839]

@@damienreynolds5168 although occasionally we have the night off and go down M4 to Bristol to Lakota

[@SK-od8jm]

Like a bird on a journey.....timeless production...to drop this in a set even in this day and age would shut down the place...tune!!!!

[@realest-12]

First heard this on a bus to plymouth warehouse 1996. Awesome times

[@JohnBown]

I was in my first year at Uni and remember buying this at Our Price in Farnham. Great times. The essential selection on radio 1 every Friday before going at had been THE show to listen to. Good times.

[@duanehurn6923]

Prodigy-Skylined....what a tune! Reminds me of Weather Experience yrack off their first album. Essential to any progressive set.

[@user-tp9do2dk1c]

Eeeee I was at club uk when oaky dropped this 94 happy days 🤪

[@ruffback]

Oakey at his absolute PRIME. Such a brilliant blend of genres skillfully bookended by the beautiful Runaway and by Jam El Mar's (of Jam & Spoon) phenomenal remix of Oakenfold and Steve Osborne's gorgeous track 'Sun'. EPIC!

[@arcacoma3524]

Evoke runaway 1st track sets this off majestically..

[@mickbeeee]

I bought some technics 1210s in 1996 and had these tunes - I used to live across the road from the Sanctuary rave venue in MK and had many after party sessions listening to these beautiful tunes. Those days were amazing - really amazing - words cant describe the reality

[@unclepabs]

Absolute Banger! We'll never get those times back, but the memories remain forever! #GooseBumps #TurkeySkin

[@moomountain]

Takes me back to listening to some of these tunes on the decks in hmv on my weekly vinyl shop.

[@simonallibone1559]

So many memories listening to this classic......popped on the headphones closed my eyes and just drifted away, thanks 🙏🏻

[@steveg8549]

Doing it right now Speechless

[@thisisit333]

Same. Absolutely time travel is real. Close your eyes. Pop on the headphones. Bliss.

[@deniscavanagh5925]

It's a masterpiece,still listen to it,,the tunnel mixes are in my opion worth a listening as well ,,up oakenfold ❤

[@leewainwright3526]

Magical time probably the greatest decade in electronic music fantastic mix from oakenfold

[@Drivingp]

I'm 40 this year and it brings back so many fuzzy memories. ha Thanks to the uploader

[@Numba077]

All the best stuff is on tape!!

[@scotthawkes2608]

It's 1995, im proper young but feeling old/experienced because of albums like this. Pumping this out in an Astra GTE back in the day and feeling that base like I'm not off my nut. Still sounds good to this day in 2018. Crazy shit

[@Bazmondofull]

Oh man, I used to get ready to this tape mix, and was one of my all time favourites, been looking/trying to remember it for ages (was 25 when this came out).....wow what a nostalgia hit!! Been grinning my ass off for last hour, thank you sooooo much James:)

[@JamesBrewerDJ]

Barry Churchill No probs Barry. Glad you enjoyed as I love the feedback I get from like minded people. Keep on rocking fella

[@declanmcmanus1101]

I still have all of the essential mixes every CD and not a scratch on them. Best music in the world. I'm listening to it right now texting this yaaaaaa

[@user-jt1jv8vl9r]

I used to record onto mini-disc 1999-2003. Was perfect and easy to edit each track and put in track names via mixmag listing.

[@parashorea]

back in the day...I'm sure 95 was the best for house

[@guygraham2580]

'95 was a vintage year for sure. We used to get (now current) superstars come play our dingy clubs, with an eclectic bag of records. Oakenfold was particularly impressive, as he would debut new Perfecto tracks that went on to become big hits!

[@martinp21000]

Had the original CD. Then put it on iTunes. Lost the cd. Then iTunes swallowed it up. Nothing. Thank F for you tube!

[@simonmiller5165]

The opening track still gives me goosebumps when I hear it. I’m transported back to a wonderful time of my life, clubbing every weekend and making new friends. What a classic album.

[@wanderah]

2017 and still kicking major ass

[@jasonwood7956]

This CD Collection is probably THE best compilation available. I think because it was one of, if not the 1st big name multi mix disc Collection. Guaranteed goosebumps every time. Lost mine a while ago due to various moves and divorce. So it is absolutely MUSTARD that it's here. Thanks for sharing. Bank Holiday Weekend, Oi Oi, let's AAAVVV IT! 💊💊🙏🏼🤘🌟

[@adrianradu6861]

The Prodigy epic...❤

[@erdevon3257]

Has both discs when it came out, someone "borrowed " them, then recently got an immaculate copy in a charity shop for £2🤣🤣

[@agentdelta9723]

All these years later still gives me goosebumps

[@superdanpl]

James Brewer - you sir are a legend. This mix still sounds amazing 20 years later. Oakey at his peak. Remembering the days of getting back from the club, music in the car, blazing in the back, and then back to a mates house for the come down session. Will never forget those times.

[@imonlytellingthetruth6562]

This is one of the best mixes even today, sublime music 95 was legend

[@leannebosman5617]

Amazing memories - wow! Brings a lot of good feelings back... those were the days. Thanks!!!

[@jimmyg2382]

Swear I could feel myself coming up listening to this. Belter!!

[@kenmurphy4317]

Ha damn right fella.those double doves 😅

[@bigdunc1313]

Had this CD in my Capri. Bought it in Woolworths. Yay Yo let’s go….

[@moschino2]

I was 17 and BRAND NEW to THIS MUSIC.... I only remember bits and pieces of this series even though I have heard the whole thing numerous times....Im 37 now and it still sounds as good as it did when I was 17. I like all of the mixes in this series BUT Oakenfold stands out among the other three... imo.. 18:31= :) #Memories #ISURVIVED

[@daniella6477]

+Shaun Noble You took the words right out of my mouth... Same here, I was 17 too & it still sounds ten times better than the stuff these days :)

[@DrBiBeatz]

Shaun Noble me too

[@Dezzasheep]

First year uni when i bought this and listened loads - '95 was an epic time with amazing tunes.

[@jasminedaliah1253]

Same!

[@andymoore1527]

I'm 38 mate and agree completely although id have to give 5he top slot to sasha out of the 4. On the abstract choices of record. Sasha and oakenfold are without doubt the legal owners of dance music

[@victoriajones8352]

Amazing mix by Oakey... never fails to impress !

[@suzanneswamn3188]

Memories.....💃🎶❤💋🥃🌛

[@Mz-fi3tl]

Wish I could go back in time to discover this music again changed my life forever man

[@futurestrader74]

A sonic magic carpet ride. I cant put into words the wonderful memories this mix congers up for me. Bring tears to my eyes. Thanks for uploading. : )

[@Venus29]

Back from the club with a keeb, stick this on and drink anything alcoholic left in the house. Chill out then with hitman and her and laugh at the people dancing 😂

[@dave-dh3rd]

memories driving in my vauxhall nova

[@unplanedlayer]

so many nights, so many stories .... this is the soundtrack, for most of us i guess

[@jacquelinejardine1032]

the mixes on here belong in the halls of dj fame...after all these years, I come back to this because of the mass talent

[@unclepabs]

20th Anniversary, & still I never tire of this mix ;-)

[@MrSamuelconway]

I had this on tape recorded live by pressing play and record, whilst cutting out the picture from mix mag. What an amazing set.

[@joestrummer5762]

Just beautifull.

[@cd78]

James really appreciate the upload here mate. SUPERB memories,

[@imonlytellingthetruth6562]

I've just had the biggest flash back ever 25 years on,,,,,,,Amazing

[@kyleaubrey821]

just awesome still absolute heaven

[@GrahamMC007]

James I could not agree more, this is the music that made me buy decks, 1210 Mk.||'s, still Have them and every vinyl from this album, Its an absolute classic and shows the range of DJ's in those early to mid 90's

[@LibtardTears]

This was playing in the campsite at t in the park 1996, as I was freaking my beans on acid. Never forgot and took me almost 27 years to find out what was playing. The evoke tune at the beginning dragged me deeper into oblivion.

[@LibtardTears]

I think I was on repeat in my head for 8 hours

[@Mz-fi3tl]

Nice one James I prefer the oakenfold mix personally but all awesome my legendary dance music djs of all time . We listened to this a lot when it was released I was around 18 then . Great memories bro thanks for putting it in here to share with us .

[@nickbadger963]

Survive-Brothers Grimm, what a tune !!!

[@alicekinloch5663]

definitely will stay in my memory forever as a student, first experience of hard house!!!!! the best !!!

[@lozzais]

One of my fav oaky mixes or just mixes period.

[@duanehurn6923]

This was my first proper house album. Oakenfolds mix was the best set on this album, but the whole album was stand alone the best collection

[@tomlennon8967]

My twin brother landed home with this back in the day, got us into dance music in a big way, even to this day. Radio 1 essential mix every weekend, Pete Tong introducing us to new and up and coming DJ's just tonight we replayed Hernan Cattaneo Creamfields 25.08.2002.

[@Numba077]

Poet, know it lol

[@sparkysalisbury]

Oaky, top of his game

[@kevinaustin3516]

Still loving it just brilliant thanks

[@pinkstuff21]

LOVE YOU for putting this up, oh my word I've got chills. Awesome memories.

[@adamgrant2190]

Hearing this back in the day. Mesmerising!! Loved it. Playing it again as I come home from a wicked messy weekend in Portugal 👌🏻

[@warrenchisholm8935]

chillls down spine time!!!

[@donnaparkinson5162]

Listening to this and lovin it, even my children can't get their heads round as to why I do. I'm 65 years old and I just shouldn't be listening to tunes like this. Hahaha

[@fact67]

Thank you so much for posting this. One of my all time favourite tracks. BLISS!!!

[@joecc6]

I think it came down to one thing. Great Melodies...Great Emotive Melodies...

[@Wigedywezzers1]

Remember this session on radio 1. Great mix. Thanks for uploading buddy

[@kevinaustin3516]

Keep listening to this life was so much fun back then

[@VickyLibra007]

pure quality by Oakey.. The master of music

[@kevinaustin3516]

Bloody brilliant mix guys

[@T1B3R1An]

Great compilation of vinyl from folks who stood out in time. Brings back many memories. For sure. I lost this compilation. Hats off to you sir.! Thank you.

[@clairejoolz78]

Heaven in CD form ! I've still got this on disc, covers a bit worse for wear though but still fills my heart with joy joy JOY !!!! Thanks for posting buddy :-)

[@MARTYC76]

Heaven in cassette form for me. Still brings me nostalgic joy!

[@joecc6]

Superb! uset listen to this doin my home work in 97...too young to go clubbing..

[@paulie5076]

Prodigy never gets old 🤘 awesome stuff ma man 🤙 appsolutely fantastic classics 💚 It thank you

[@jacquelinejardine1032]

17 mins in and I'm so gone into heaven....James you are a star for posting this....I had this on tape lol...

[@Patrick-st4go]

Paul seen the Wef coming a mile away. The greatest at work

[@ruffback]

Thanks for uploading... what a brilliant mix this was! When Oakey was at his best...

[@abiwholefoodsimmunovetuk9301]

For years and years and years I couldn't remember the tune nr the end 34mins>-I thought it was sun by virus and could hum it and get so close-tip of the tongue then gone. I imagine I was to euphoric to remember lol..... Thanks SOOO much for putting this on.... What is that track the wobble I call it in my head lol

[@kevinaustin3516]

Monday morning this set me up for the day

[@makrisdimitris5430]

Killer set.... Best ever.

[@ALBAABHU]

wow memories and how did I survive that decade lol

[@JamesBrewerDJ]

***** Hahaha....I wonder myself how I survived that period to :)

[@LinkthaBox]

After hours tune blew the house up everytime

[@andyhall7032]

THANKYOU !!! ( our of the 4 this was the one that did it for me ... tho "access" ( misjah and tim ) on tong's mix is truly essential )

[@CroydonTramp]

Beautiful

[@trinitysfour]

Chillin having fond memories of XU and hanging in the Z28 rocking the MB Quarts!

[@neatparaders]

Same here! And funnily enough, I was in the marines and on a Norway deployment when I first heard this - E'voke Runaway is the track. 41 now and still love it 18 years later! For a trip down memory lane, try Oakenfold's Goa Mix also!

[@ProspectFilmRoom]

22:30 Bada Bing!!!!!

[@kevinaustin3516]

The best possible experience ever nothing like it 🤪

[@kellyingleson771]

1, Runaway - E'voke 2. Coma Aroma (Perfecto Dub)Inaura 3. Survive - Brothers Grimm 4. Skylined - The Prodigy 5. Floor Essence (Dayglo Mix) Man with No Name 6. Down to Earth - (Oakenfold & Osborne Dub Mix) Grace 7. Star - (Red Jerry Mix) Utah Saints 8. Sun - (Jam El Mar Mix) Virus

[@alchemicalweddings7489]

absolute classic