Ground Breaking Mixes

[floridaorange]

List the mixes that when you heard for the first time you were blown away. Would be nice to revisit some of these, and I know I am forgetting several. Feel free to quote others with a "+1" but lets try not to have too many repeats.

Please be selective

Paolo Mojo - Loops (I think that's the right name, anyone remember Paolo's old promo mix)
Robert Miles - Dreamland
Cass - Balance Promo 2001
Paul Oakenfold - Transport
Paul Oakenfold - New York GU007
Paul Oakenfold - Havana Cuba Essential Mix
Sasha - Airdrawndagger
Deep Dish - Yoshiesque 2
John Digweed - LA GU019
John Digweed Essential Mix 1995
Sasha and Digweed - Northern Exposure

[simonr]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

Sasha - GU 009 San Francisco
Hernan Cattaneo - South America
John Digweed - Transitions 4
Joris Voorn - Balance 014

[unkle]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

Sasha and Digweed - Northern Exposure

+ 1

Hernan Cattaneo - South America

+ 1


These could be some.



Paul Oakenfold - Essential Mix A Rare Treat 1997
Paul Oakenfold - Essential Mix World Tour 1999
Hernan Cattaneo - Buenos Aliens 2000
Hernan Cattaneo - Clubland Vol. 1
Nick Warren - Back to Mine
Nick Warren - Reykjavik GU 024
Sasha - Ibiza GU 013
Jimmy Van M - Live at Abacus Club, Santo Domingo (06-Dec-2002)

[clintlove]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

Gab Olivier - No Nonsense
John Digweed - Live @ Massive Germany 2001
Joris Voorn - Balance 014
Chris Fortier - Trance America
James Holden - Balance 005
Riley Reinhold - Tour de Traum II
Christopher Lawrence - Hook Recordings
Adultnapper - Audiomatique vol 2
Guy J - Esperanza
Paul van Dyk - Vorsprung Dyk Technik
Sasha & Digweed - Communicate
Wighnomy Brothers - Metawuffmischfelge
Stephan Bodzin - Live @ Kiosk 2006
Chris Fortier - Kiss FM 2000
Smight - Failure is not an Option

I'm sure there's more, but off the top of my head, these are some of the mixes that have always stayed in rotation since the day I first heard them. Minus the Paul van Dyk discs of course, although I totally just put it on while writing this, but I remember playing the shit out of those when it came out. Seeing that guy live at the State Palace was such an experience; it kinda changed my life and definitely my entire outlook on electronic music. I was also on a shit ton of drugs... but still. Vorsprung came out like a week later....

[88Mariner]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

Jimmy Van M - Bedrock Disk 2 (I've never had a change to listen to Disk 1, however)
Jonathan Lisle - Regime Change
Jonathan Lisle - Live @ Gatecrasher Summer Sound System
Matt Diamante - Dreamstates
Hernan Cattaneo - 2001 Mix for John Digweed's KissFM show
John Digweed - GU: Hong Kong Disk 1 (the best one-disk mix of the entire GU catalogue)
John Digweed - GU: Sydney Disk 1 and 2
John Digweed - Bedrock Disk 1 and 2
Hernan Cattaneo - South America Disk 2
Anthony Pappa - Balance 006 Disk 1
Tiesto - Magik 6: Amsterdam (yes srs)
Tom Middleton - Sound of the Cosmos: Harmony (Disk 3)
----> http://soundcloud.com/mcastradio/tom-middleton-cosmos-harmony

There are solid Fabric compilations, but I can't recall returning to them over and over again. Even Digweed's Fabric is only good on the first half.

I still haven't made up my mind about MMII. I think that because I still return to it trying to figure it out is indicative that it's ahead of its time even today. Hmmm

Some solid choices posted already, and I agree with just about every single one of them, (except for Oakenfold's Havana E-mix, which I just can't get into like his set from Shadow Lounge or others from that year).

[floridaorange]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

Quality, thanks to all for your lists so far.

[foreks]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

Cattaneo - Funky Deep'n'Tribal.
Digweed - GU Sydney CD1.

[Homegrove]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

Voorn's Balance sure was a game changer. It was the first to come to mind reading the title.

[lockedgroove]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

Coldcut -- Journeys by DJ

[barkup]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

Yeah Diggers e-mix from 95 is still amazing.

Dave Seaman's renaissance masters 4 (the leaf one), think it was also the first one he did for Renaissance.

And like alot of people ne1 and 2, didnt like communicate

[Huggie Smiles]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

+1 for many of those and

Derrick Carter - About Now - greatest house music mix CD of all time.

[jay813]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

ClintLove, its Balance005 for James Holden, which i was going to post here.


I'd call Sasha's first Involver to be groundbreaking.

[floridaorange]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

Please be selective

Paolo Mojo - Loops (I think that's the right name, anyone remember Paolo's old promo mix)

It just hit me that this ^^ mix was called "loopz." So I searched for it on soundcloud and there it was... haven't heard it in many years, this mix was groundbreaking at the time, aaah the memories.

http://soundcloud.com/getlaid/paolo-mojo-loopz

[clintlove]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

Jimmy Van M - Bedrock Disk 2 (I've never had a change to listen to Disk 1, however)

Dude, disc one is far superior to disc 2. This should have been on my list.

ClintLove, its Balance005 for James Holden

I know, thanks for catching that.

[88Mariner]

Re: Ground Breaking Mixes

@ Clint: i've read that in several places. just never had the opportunity to listen to it. i think cd 2 is amazing, jimmy's best release, but if everyone says it's not as good as cd 1, then I can imagine it is simply stellar.