Tuesday 22 February 2011

From the Vault: MJ Cole Essential Mix [12/03/2000]

After a weekend listening to quite a lot of old UK Garage and 2/step including the seminal album 'Sincere' by the man MJ Cole, I rediscovered this BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix that is almost 11 years old to the day.

Listening to Jamie XX's 6mix for Rob Da Bank gave me the impetus to upload and reshare the MJ Cole ESM, as Jamie in his mix plays a couple of old garage tunes in beween his own productions to highlight the similarities between them and to show how his production style has been influenced by UK Garage of old.

UK Garage has played an important part in shaping a lot of the good music that has been surfacing over the past few years, my favourite remix of the last 12 months being a prime example (The XX - Crystalised (Dark Sky remix)). Listening to this also highlights the quality that UKG had to reach a commercial audience, when compared with the trash that comes from David Guetta, Basshunter and now The Black Eyed Peas, tracks like Sincere, Crazy Love and even Daneil Bedingfield's 'Gotta Get Thru This' have so much more longievity and dare I say class. Anyway enjoy the mix, hopefully it will bring back some memories and allow you to relate to the sounds that it has influenced.

MJ Cole- Essential Mix (12/03/2000)
Download Link! or Stream below.


Tracklist for the tune spotters is available from HERE.


[18/10/11 Note: I recently recorded a short garage mix of my own which some of you may be interested in, it can be found on the blog or by clicking THIS LINK.]

1 comment:

  1. Just got your msg on Twitter... started listenin now! I'm excited!!!!

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