Essential Mix jingles

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Does anybody know who is responsible for playing Radio 1 Essential Mix jingles over the DJ mixes? Is it Pete Tong? Or radio 1 staff? Or DJs/artists themselves? I just finished editing out one particularly nasty case of them from Nathan Fake live set. It starts about 30min into the show over one of the most beautiful tracks in the set (which is also a non-album track) and then gets rudely ruined by "essential" voiceover for over a minute.

AARRGGGH!

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:16 (twenty years ago)

typically its Radio 1 that puts them in. although I know Zabiela did his own for his mix in 2004.

― rchinn (rchinn), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

although I know Zabiela did his own for his mix in 2004.

i was under the impression Fake did the same thing for his set (just don't know if it is the one at the 30min mark, the pirates who have the booty on SLSK are a bit slow :(

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

"i was under the impression Fake did the same thing for his set"

it might be true as it's synchronized with the track, but it completely ruins the mood :(

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Omar - check your email.

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Ah what service! Thanks a lot. :) I need this for research of course. ;)

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

what? no way!! the essential mix voice-overs are CRUCIAL to the mood!

― DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:28 (twenty years ago)

next you'll be telling us you don't like crowd noise on live albums!!

― DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

vahid -

oh no, i love put-through-the-flanger/reverb/quantitizor voice-overs no matter how cheesy, but usually they're placed better (like over a transition) and don't stand up as much with all the other voice samples.

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

i LOVE crowd noise on live albums!!

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

the EM jingles sounded really, really good over the (unused) chemical brothers EM (you can get it, it's a mix cd called "dusted decks") and over the blackstrobe mix. and the global communication mix, too.

if i recall right, they put the jingles in during the huge rushy buildups and the parts when the DJs were slowing the tracks to beatmatch. on the digital mixes it sounds great when they do this - especially if they flange and reverb it, like you said.

it's like the mix suddenly gets that early jungle quality of fucked-up timestretchyness.

― DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

"global communication mix" -

you mean the latest Middleton "Star Wars" mix? yeah, i was going to use it as a good example, it actually adds to the mix.

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

engineers do the whole show for pete tong. tong does nothing put talk into the mic. they get the sets prerecorded and the engineer puts it into protools then adds the jingles at the appropirate time. tong shows up, turns on the mic and reads his cards. he may improv a bit but as far as the music goes, that's all preprogrammed by his engineers.

i think the orb said it best...something about tong poo?

― biz, Friday, 21 April 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

you mean the latest Middleton "Star Wars" mix? yeah, i was going to use it as a good example, it actually adds to the mix.

I'd LOVE to hear this again.

― Json Bate, Saturday, 22 April 2006 09:32 (twenty years ago)

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Essential Mix jingles - AARRGGHHH!!