The Essential Mix at 25: Pete Tong on Creating One of Dance Music’s Most Important Mix-Shows
On October 30, 1993, Pete Tong oversaw the first episode of the Essential Mix on BBC’s Radio 1. Club music was ascendant in the U.K., and Tong devoted a late-night slot to it on national radio, playing an uninterrupted string of house — inspired by iconic New York City mix-shows — that included cuts from Bottom Dollar, Lisa B and Sabres of Paradise.
“The fact that I come on playing house music and the underground of the whole country is kind of dancing to that, obviously the show connected with the people in...
“The fact that I come on playing house music and the underground of the whole country is kind of dancing to that, obviously the show connected with the people in...
- 10/26/2018
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
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