"Of all our DJ sets over the years, the 2016 BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix is close to our hearts.
A compilation of homemade music, street recordings and long forgotten pieces of musical flotsam and jetsam, the mix celebrates every musical maverick who never gave a damn what anyone else thought. Such spirit! Such firebrand energy! Such beauty! We tried to capture it all in one mix.
Our journey begins with a 1950 home recording from somniloquist Dion McGregor, a sleep talker who would often narrate his dreams at conversational volume. As narrator of his own terrifying dream journeys, Dion adopted various personas and frequently established an insolent approach to the subject matter at hand - be it a hot air balloon trip to the moon with a group of school children, a game of culinary Russian roulette with poisoned eclairs upon a wildly spinning food wheel, or a journey through a wonderfully tiny 'midget city'. Most of McGregor's dream narratives end with him shrieking in terror as he wakes up.
Leaving Dion, we meet Moog scientist Mort Garson and his electronic 'Symphony for a Spider Plant’, the Temple City Cazoo Orchestra, electronic pioneer Bruce Haack and the homemade punk-funk of 14 y/o Chandra, (who we sampled 30 years later on ‘Subways’). We detour via the street recordings of Moondog (‘the viking of 7th avenue’) and other traveller musicians; Larry ‘Wild Man' Fischer's riotous recordings from the streets of 1970's L.A are all-time favorite, before reuniting with better known mavericks Sun Ra, Yoko Ono and The Slits.
We wanted to celebrate the little things with this mix, the beauty in the unnoticed and overlooked, the magic and wonder from the other side of life. This mix is our love letter to that world long lost. Peace." The Avalanches
Emahoy Tsegué & Maryam Guèbrou - The Story of the Wind [Buda Musique]
Unknown - Hello [Playhour]
Dion McGregor - Snowflakes [Decca]
Dion McGregor - Midget City [Decca]
Ratatat - Black Heroes [XL Recordings]
Wild Man Fischer - The Leaves Are Falling [Bizarre]
Sun Ra - Enlightenment [El Saturn]
Nancy Dupree - James Brown [Asch / Folkway]
The Joubert Singers - Stand On The Word [Next Plateau Records Inc.]
Cindy & The Playmates - Now That School Is Through [Jay Pee]
Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street [Arista]
Edan The Humble Magnificent - Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme [Lewis Recordings]
Nina Simone - Ain't Got No, I Got Life (Live)
Betty Everett - 1900 Yesterday [Uni]
Moondog - Fog On The Hudson (425 W 57th Street) [Marz]
Wild Man Fischer - Wild Man On The Strip Again [Bizarre]
The Temple City Kazoo Orchestra - Stayin' Alive [Rhino]
Krak Attack CX Kidtronik & Tchaka Diallo - Fame Rapp [Sound-Ink]
Moondog - Up Broadway [Prestige]
The Parliaments - What You Been Growing [Goldmine Soul Supply]
Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney - Monkberry Moon Delight [Apple]
Africa - Light My Fire [Ode]
Clarence Reid - Miss Hot Stuff [Alston]
Edan The Humble Magnificent - Funky Voltron (feat. Insight) [Lewis Recordings]
Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop - Dreams [AJP]
Madlib - Rock Konducta Vol 1 [Stones Throw]
Unknown - The Snake
Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble - Psych City [Aragorn]
Blair - Life [Mercury]
Nancy Dupree - What Do I Have [Asch / Folkway]
Donald Byrd And The Blackbirds - Jazz Alphabet (Live)
Play Along At Home Rhythm Band - Pease Porridge Hot [Disneyland]
Dick Rosmini & Hello People - Experiments (Teac Home Recording) [Teac]
The Broads - Sing Sing Sing [Hansa]
Shooby Taylor - The Human Horn [WFMU]
Don Armando's 2nd Ave. Rhumba Band - I'm An Indian Too [ZE Recordings]
The John Cacavas Golden Space Orchestra - Hydrogen and Helium [Golden]
Bruce Haack - Lie Back [The Omni Recording Corporation]
Bruce Haack - Sing [Dimension 5]
Frank Zappa - Oh No [Zappa]
Hermeto Pascoal - Som da Barba (Music From the Beard) (Live)
Blair - Virgo Princess [Solar Sounds Records & Tapes]
William Onyeabor - Better Change Your Mind [Wilfilms Records]
Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo - The Year Punk Broke [Tara Films]
Thurston Moore - Thurston @ 13 [Ecstatic Peace]
Jack Fascinato - Music From A Surplus Store [Capitol]
Clara Mondshine - Die Drachentrommler (Dragon Drummers) [Innovative Communication]
Frank Zappa - Excentrifugal Forz [Discreet]
Bruce Haack - Rubberbands [Dimension 5]
The Stooges - L.A. Blues [Elektra]
Bad Brains - Big Take Over [Reachedout International]
J-Jems - Dance [Optimo Music]
Bruce Haack - Motorcycle Ride [Dimension 5]
Chandra - Kate [GO GO]
Tony Schwartz - Music In The Streets [Folkways]
Ata Kak - Daa Nyinaa [Awesome Tapes From Africa]
Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice [Geffen]
The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine [Island]
William Onyeabor - Let's Fall In Love [Wilfilms]
Black Dice - Glazin' [Paw Tracks]
Univ. of Ghana Postal Works - Cancelling Stamps At The University Of Ghana Post Office [James Koetting Field Recording Collection]
Joe Moks - Boys And Girls [Afrodisia]
The Pointer Sisters - Don't It Drive You Crazy [Blue Thumb]
David Essex - Rock On [CBS]
Paul McCartney - Check My Machine [Parlophone]
Jimmy Van M & Richard Hieronymous - I Weigh With Kilos [Metric]
Hanny Nahmias - Hanna's Sabbath Dress [Oz Theatre]
Sinkane - How We Be [How We Be]
Mort Garson - The Wozard of Iz [A&M]
Uriah Heep - Wake Up [Earmark]
Black Milk - Wake Up [Fat Beats]
Mort Garson - Prologue [A&M]
Frank Zappa - Mom and Dad [Verve]
The Zombies - Hung Up On A Dream [CBS]
Tony Schwartz - Music In The Streets [Folkways]
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