WAVEFORM

Air 1 — Essential Mix

8 March 1998 · House

Air 1 recorded this Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 8 March 1998 — their only appearance in the Waveform archive. It lands in the late-nineties peak of superclub culture, and the set sits in House territory.

The mix runs through 38 documented tracks, opening with David Bowie — “Speed Of Life” and closing on Ween — “A Tear For Eddie”.

Tracklist

  1. David Bowie — Speed Of Life
  2. The Beatles — The End
  3. Beck — Lloyd Price Express
  4. Rollerball — Executive Party Dance
  5. Dopplereffekt — Pornoviewer
  6. Johnny Mandel — Suicide Is Painless
  7. Quincy Jones — Summer In The City
  8. Serge Gainsbourg — En Melody
  9. Soft Machine — The Soft Weed Factor
  10. Michel Polnareff — Computers Dream
  11. Minnie Riperton — Lovin' You
  12. John Lennon — How Do You Sleep
  13. Jean-Jacques Perrey — Flight Of The Bumblebee
  14. Beastie Boys — Car Thief
  15. Ween — Roses Are Free
  16. The Cure — In Your House
  17. Sly Stone — In Time
  18. Frank Sinatra — Drinking Water
  19. Prince — Crazy You
  20. Kraftwerk — Stratovarius
  21. Small Faces — Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
  22. Beck — Electric Music and the Summer People
  23. The Velvet Underground — Ocean
  24. Money Mark — Pinto's New Car
  25. Richard De Bordeaux — La Drogue
  26. Stanley Cowell — Travelling Man
  27. Supergrass — Lose It
  28. Funk Factory — Rien Ne Va Plus
  29. Brian Eno — On Some Faraway Beach
  30. Michel Polnareff — Polnareve
  31. Harry Nilsson — Everybody's Talkin'
  32. Francis Lai — Génériques
  33. Phoenix — City Lights
  34. The Pharcyde — Passin'me By (Fly As Pie Remix)
  35. Chic — At Last I Am Free
  36. David Bowie — The Man Who Sold The World
  37. Beck — Deadweight
  38. Ween — A Tear For Eddie

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