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Looks like I'll be spending a lot of time on here...

First impression feedback: while quickly looking at a bunch of the Essential Mixes, many of them don't have the location where it took place. Personally, I've mentally sorted a lot of these by location && artist, so might find it hard to find something specific I'm looking for.

Thanks for the feedback man! We are trying to keep it as complete and organized as possible. We tried to get the location of the majority of the ones that are live or recorded at clubs. If you find anything that is off please don't hesitate to let us know.
No problem. Now that I've played around with it a little, a couple more points: - on the search results page the term 'essential mix' is set as a link, but when I click on it I'm taken to the entire collection of essential mixes - I'd expect the chosen essential mix to start playing. I see why you've done this, but I found it confusing as a first-time user. - I really like how clicking nearly anywhere on the search result starts playing the chosen mix
Agreed, I had the same issue when I first hit the site.

Also: ability to seek would be nice, these are single tracks that are an hour or two long... not like you can just skip to the next song :)

For those who aren't aware, getting offered to play an essential mix is a huge honor in the electronic music world. Most of the mixes on this site are from artists giving it their very best.

Cracking good work! This looks incredibly polished for a side project; are you planning on building it up?

Thanks for the kind words! Yes, we are planning on building it up. Just wanted to get it out and get some feedback.
In case you don't know, the BBC is pretty happy to take down sites hosting their content. Be careful. I'm pretty sure Mixriot tried the same thing and got burned.

Feedback-wise, you might want to look into more flexible search for non-standard letters. Concrete example, "Tiesto" returns no results, but "Tiësto" returns seven. I have a feeling most people are not going to take the effort to find an umlauted e and will just assume you don't have any of his mixes.

I hope you're going with this where i think you're going with this.

This is way beyond essential mixes . . . I haven't come across one good dj mix sharing website out there.

Linking to already hosted content is 100% the way to go.

Please keep it going.

Thats the plan, and you guys will be the one keeping this going. Thanks for encouragement.
Let me create an account and link up my favorites mixes ... that'll let me shut down my ghetto attempt mix-list.tumblr.com :)
You can create an account through facebook, then favorite mixes.
Yep, right now I'm using Soundcloud and following a user on there who frequently posts new sets from popular artists. But it's just one user; I'd love to see that concept expanded upon and taken to a new site entirely. This site has been bookmarked; I'll be tracking to see where this goes!
Does this use Flash? I don't have it and clicking play does not play, but it also does not show any error.
Yes, unfortunately it does use flash:( SoundManger should fallback to HTML5 though... I'll look into it.
This is fantastic. I love the EM's but I hate the BBC player so I am always trying to find the mixes on SoundCloud or the other shady download sites. Now they are all neatly packaged in one place.

Well done, dude!

Doesn't seem to work for me. I just get the following error in the console:

    soundManager.createSound(): Audio support is not available.
;_;

Edit: Reloaded and it seems to be working now. YES.

I'm still getting this error. OP, if it helps, I have click-to-play on for Flash.
Bookmarked, about to start furiously tweeting, this is excellent and kudos to you for doing it!
This looks and functions really well and you have a good selection of mixes.

For those like me who want to listen to a particular Essential Mix from 1993 till mid 2011, someone has uploaded 910 Essential Mix episodes into a Soundcloud Folder which can be found at http://soundcloud.com/das-boy/sets/essential-mix/. There are some real gems in here and it's pretty much a permanent tab for me.

Enjoy!

Great share, thanks!
Had no clue this existed. Got some work to do this weekend now...
Really like the UI and am already a big fan. Well done.

Any chance you could integrate track listings (perhaps with the start/end times within the mix so you can identify the active song?)

That's our vision! Turns out to be a pretty giant task though. Stay tuned:)
There was a Soundcloud account with a like every essential mix ever on it the other week, but shortly after it disappeared - I think due to licensing issues with BBC content outside of the UK. Did you look into that for your player?
Thanks for putting this together... Looks good:) reminds me of console.fm.

Is there any way to skip through the selected mix?

A huge thumbs up for this! May I suggest the Resident Advisor and XLR8R podcasts to be added too? Again: Thanks for creating this site.
Thanks man! Those two are definitely in the works.
I absolutely love this.

Couple of things:

- It would be nice to be able to skip to an arbitrary part of the mix.

- Sound didn't work for me until I reloaded the page.

| It would be nice to be able to skip to an arbitrary part of the mix. This is in the works. Just wanted to get the bare minimum out the door.

| Sound didn't work for me until I reloaded the page. Looking into this right now.

Thanks for the feedback:)

Yep, skipping the - sometimes longish - intro talks would be a plus.

That said... awesome! Already sharing stuff on my Facebook :)

I was going to leave the same feedback about skipping ;)

One other thing.. the pause || & |> is misaligned (Windows Chrome) in the circle (it sits a little bottom-left rather than central)

Other than that, great work :)

Right around the turn of the millenium, I downloaded a couple dozen Essential Mixes while I was on the GT campus. This just made my day--I really hope any legal issues can be avoided and this can stay online. :)
I really can't describe how much I'm enjoying going back and finding mixes from that era. Not only is the music great; but I feel like I just stepped into a time machine!
love that you posted here when you first saw it, then posted again after listening to a bunch that brought back memories... i did the exact same thing.
love the site design, can I ask what you are using to build the front/backend? Love the colours and the gradient used in the background, how is this generated? Thanks
Sure thing man! Frontend is all Backbone.js hooked up to a Rails API for the backend. We use MongoDB with Mongoid and LESS for CSS with the old bootstrap.less (which later became Twitter Bootstrap). As for the background I could of used a gradient but its just an image made with photoshop.
Love it. Netsky's Essential Mix is amazing to listen to while programming: http://mixture.fm/search/netsky :)
Pandora plays the crap out of Netsky if you make a station of Ed Rush (and that's a good thing!). I actually like the occasional break in play from Pandora as it reminds me to get up and walk around a bit.
Wow. Was about to go find the Nero Essential Mix and write a new feature, but this site takes care of the first part for me :). Great work!
Nero's Essential Mix really impressed me when it first came out. The long instrumental around 1h:16m was really unique for one of these mixes, probably a more artistic flair than they would even inject in a live set. The dramatic bpm flux around 1h:28m is also a really experimental, unique climax which could only work near the end of a long two hour set like this one.

/ChristianBale

How can I upload my own mixes?
This appears to only contain mixes from BBC's radio 1 essential mix, and FACT magazine guest mixes. So you'll need to become a world-famous DJ/producer to get your own mix uploaded.
Wow. This is very elite Web 1.0
Love it, and loving your selection I'm seeing in there.

You might like the "mix youtube music videos" website I made. You can load any youtube user's video playlists as "crates" and then mix from track to track:

http://burnsmod.com/fun/mixtube/mixtube.html

That looks fun. Would be really useful if each list had a field to "cue" a youtube url that was not in the crate already. That way you can browse youtube in a separate tab to find a video, then cue it up and start the crossfade.
Wow, looks (and sounds) great, listening to the Four Tet one as we speak :) It looks like all the sounds are hosted on SoundCloud, is this in your own pro+ account? I'm guessing this was the most economical way to host the files?
You sir, are my new hero. Fantastic work. One added bonus here would be to include the track-list for each one. A simple contribution feature here I think would be a big hit so others can do the work to find them.

For example, a few results down on: http://track-list.com/page/2/?s=deadmau5 will give the track-list for item #3 in your list.

Can't believe I'm seeing this here. Well done!

I highly recommend http://core.thomaslaupstad.com/

The owner has been diligently putting out downloads of Essential Mixes and other top UK radio shows of the genre as soon as they come out.

Cheers!

I. Love. You.