Best DJ mix, ever. Past OR Future

Tried a brief search for something along these lines but nothing hopped out at me.

For now I will hold to the position that this is the best and greatest. Ever. No diatribe needed, if you know you know.

https://www.discogs.com/release/2227951-Doc-Martin-For-The-People?

What’s singular is that the peak moments imo mostly are crafted around samples of 70s jazz-funk. Leading to almost a full speech by Jessie Jackson? Hmm. It works somehow.

For now I will hold to the position that this is the best and greatest. Ever. No diatribe needed, if you know you know.

https://www.discogs.com/release/2227951-Doc-Martin-For-The-People?

What’s singular is that the peak moments imo mostly are crafted around samples of 70s jazz-funk. Leading to almost a full speech by Jessie Jackson? Hmm. It works somehow.

Feh.

(Couldn’t find any stream or DL links available atm but I can UL to SLSk on request. All good things come to those who wait.)

*Peak jazz-funk samples despite much of the mix being tech house bordering on straight techno. Not sure there’s any Bangalter in there? There’s that one remix I know of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zznNpfDfLRM

I don't have a single mix that towers over the rest honestly. Some of my favorites:

I-F - Mixed Up in the Hague Vol 1
Michael Mayer - Fabric 13
Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ Kicks
Cut Copy - FABRICLIVE.29
Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport
Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure Vol 1

https://www.discogs.com/release/372252-DJ-Cameo-Garage-Anthems-2005

(Disc 1)

Viborg, would love if you'd soulseek it--the YT link posted has several songs muted to avoid takedowns.

Off the top of my head, I love:

Andrew Hung / Fuck Buttons – Vessel Guest Mix
Dixon - Live at Robert Johnson, Volume 8
ADULT. - FACT Mix 393
Monk One - Monk's Dream
David Holmes - Essential Mix 98-01
Blackest Ever Black - The Scold's Bridle

There aren't many mixes I love. They have to meander enough to potentially be more than the sum of its parts and be their own thing, but meandering runs the risk of wrong steps that break a spell

3 I often go back to

Niff - Seekers #1 (https://soundcloud.com/seekershome/seekers-series-1-niff)
KRN - Ghostcast #1 (https://soundcloud.com/theghost/ghost-cast-001-krn)
Truly Madly - Deeprave 2 (https://soundcloud.com/truly-madly/deeprave-2)

The KRN and Truly Madly mixes are two of my favorites as well.

To those I would add:
Larry Levan - Live @ End Max, Tokyo (1991)
Carsten Jost & Lawrence - Betalounge, Hamburg (10.05.2002)
Cassy - Panorama Bar 01 (2006)

I love Radioactive Man's Fabriclive 08. I also love Skitz's BadMeaningGood mix

Riccardo: Imprints Records Podcast #004

https://soundcloud.com/imprintsrecords/imprints-records-podcast-004-riccardo

As a singular thing, it might be this

Some that I go back to often:

Dave Clarke presents Electroboogie vol. 2
Monkey Mafia Live at the Heavenly Social
Optimo Presents Psyche Out
Prins Thomas: Cosmo Galactic Prism
Playgroup: DJ Kicks

Oh and Morgan Geist: Unclassics

Seconded on lukas' pick of I-f - Mixed Up In The Hague Vol.1, listening to it now and it's still astonishingly good

Mixed Up in The Hague is my absolute number one, game changer for me.

I’m really proud still of my Crazy Rhythms RVNG4 mix.

Playgroup DJ Kicks was a big one for me as well.

My friend Porkchop (SSPS) had a mix, I think it was called Me and My rhythm Box, that was crazy. I have to see if I still have that.

Mostly there were some deep house page wbmx hit mix five mixes I used to obsess over but I lost them.

I'm gonna go to bat for 2ManyDJs Vol.2. It became incredibly popular to bash "mash-ups" as a trend, and to be fair it all got a bit out of hand. But that mix was groundbreaking and such a big influence on me and my music tastes. I think there's an argument to say it's the first album of the 2000s.

There are too many to pick just one, and agree with lots of the ones chosen already here.

In recent years and given it's not a very well known mix, I always think this stakes out a really specific sound and territory that nobody else could have covered. Have listened to it more than any other mix of the last number of years, by a long way:

http://offtherecord.net/off-the-record-mix-series-16-manu-archeo/

Porkchop mix was actually called "Le Disk Jox Porkchop"

I don't think it's posted anywhere, I'm gonna ask if I can share.

for my money it's that jeff mills mix up vol 2 live at liquid room tokyo. it goes some and just keeps on

Erlend Øye - DJ Kicks

Some more that I like and go back to:

The Glimmers: Eskimo 5
Andrew Weatherall: Masterpiece
Autechre's Dekmantel podcast [4 plus hours of electro and early hip hop] https://soundcloud.com/dkmntl/dekmantelpodcastautechre
Madlib: Blunted in the Bomb Shelter
DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist: Brainfreeze

A previous thread: the greatest dj mixes...ever.

Any set by
Dj Surgeon from Detroit
Neuropolitique
Dj Bone

Erlend Øye - DJ Kicks

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, January 15, 2025 2:00 AM (fifteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

almost made my list, great mix

forgot about that one but hung out with him a few times during that era, with both of my primary dropped names of the Rapture and Morgan Geist. I think he had a release where he thanked "the dans of new york" which I think meant me, Dan Balis of Escort and Dan Houghland of Excepter/Other Music but my memory may be completely wrong.

Any set by
Dj Surgeon from Detroit
Neuropolitique
Dj Bone

Any set? Do they all have the same records in them, to be of exact equal quality?

So far everything posted has been from the past, let's hear about some great mixes from the future.

ha.

for me, the one i always go back to whenever i am struggling to find something to listen to, is FSUK3 by BRA.
yeah, it's part of the big beat era, but the spread of styles always makes me grin.

obviously given my current rabbit hole, i am all over the various andy votel mixtapes, and the besst of the bunch for me is his Vertigo mixtape.

off topic but... when do you find the time to listen to these mixes? are you just dancing round the living room for hours? do you listen while working/commuting?

I've put on Eris Drew’s Mystery of the Motherbeat Part 2 a lot, while working, but I don't think I've gotten further than abt 45 mins before being interrupted https://soundcloud.com/eris-drew/eris-drew-mystery-of-the-motherbeat-vol-2-3

While working or while insomnia-stricken for me.

off topic but... when do you find the time to listen to these mixes? are you just dancing round the living room for hours? do you listen while working/commuting?

i work at home so often while working. while cooking also. and when walking or travelling.

This is my most listened to mix

https://soundcloud.com/ostgutton-official/panorama-bar-07-nd_baumecker

Was initially interested in the fact it included St Etienne and Cabaret Voltaire in the track listing, good vibes all the way through.

https://soundcloud.com/tduvante/titonton-duvante-live-dj-set

Titonton Duvante - Rex Club Paris May 2002

breezy

DJ Mary Hill & Kelvin Bridge - Optimo 2001 An Espacio Odyssey.
Frenchbloke - Flashbacks: A High Energy Snapshot.
Ivan Smagghe - Live At Robert Johnson Vol. 3.
Ellis Dee - Fantazia: The Big Bang. (Seriously)

Oh and the set I've rinsed more than any other the last ten years or so is, by far, Ewan Pearson & Andrew Weatherall @ Tunnel Milan

Prins Thomas: Cosmo Galactic Prism

this!

LocalGarda

They are good at the desks. Just listen any set by them. Eg, Dj Surgeon live at demf 2005 (available on soulseek)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Mlx-CSvAM

the surgeon live fuse in detroit 2005

I just listened to Sasha and Digweed’s Northern Exposure mixes for the first time this past month. Feels like a “last classic album you were knocked out by” entry, for mixes, though I can also see why I waited this long to hear them, having come of age at a time and place when this sound was peak-uncool. Had a similar experience with Coldcut’s 70 Mins of Madness mix a couple years ago, which I always thought was the kind of mid-90s ninja tune instrumental hip hip I don’t care for, but was, well, knocked out by it.

Aside from stuff already noted (mixed up in the hague, m mayer’s fabric, dixon’s live at robert johnson and body language mixes), and speaking only of commercially released CDs, I’d add

Daniel Bell - The Button Down Mind of Daniel Bell + The Button Down Mind Strikes Back
Zip - Superlongevity 2
DJ/rupture - gold teeth thief / unroot
James Murphy and Pat Mahoney - fabric 36

Of more recent-ish things, Fabric mixes by Call Super, Nina Kraviz, and Special Request, and DJ Stingray’s Kern mix (all 2017, feels like a moment when the Mix CD was long obsolete, but people were trying to do interesting things with the format).
Also, the Beats in Space mixes by Josey Rebelle and Powder

One I've listened to a million times is Daft Punk's Essential Mix
https://soundcloud.com/hardrockstriker/daft-punk-bbc-essential-mix-march-2nd-1997?in=farooq-z/sets/electric

crucial thread, thank you. there's others in the archive, but this one is turning into the most concentrated.

maybe a bit more niche, but an alltime classic in its style, paul nice's breaks for days took the rare groove "live looping" tape format and completely leveled it up. his selection of well-known beats right up against still-unnamed records combined with his precision touch makes for one of my alltime favorites. i used to have the cd, but luckily it's made it to bandcamp: https://paulnice.bandcamp.com/album/breaks-for-days

yeah, i love the mix paul nice released on antidote.
one of my favourite hip hop mixtape.
ta for the pointer to his bandcamp.
r.i.p.