Essential Mix 15/07/2001 - King Unique by King Unique published on 2013-01-15T14:59:40Z take your mind back to july 2001; dark tribal prog rules britain's superclubs & britain's sound rules the world. berlin is not yet officially cool, cigarettes are smoked on dancefloors, dance music slower than 125 bpm is punishable by death & deadmau5 has not yet been born; it is a time of great joy. the scene is a room full of samplers, synthesizers & class c narcotics - it is chong's palace studio (mark II), lair of king unique & sweating over a remix are two young men called matthew. ring ring!... ring ring!...ring r- KU: "hello?" BBC: "hello it's the bbc here, can i speak to someone from king unique please" KU: "oh, right - um hello" BBC: "right - you know how we asked if you'd do a king unique essential mix in the autumn for us?" KU: "err, yes" BBC: "well, would you like to do it a bit sooner than we discussed? quite a lot sooner in fact?" KU: "um... maybe?" BBC: "great! the thing is (NAME REMOVED AT BBC LAWYER'S INSISTENCE) promised us a mix months ago & they've just told us it won't be ready after all. so you'd be doing us a huge favour if you stepped in" KU: "right. just out of interest did ali & sharam say why they couldn't do it?" BBC: "i couldn't possibly comment" KU: "i see. well, we are insanely busy but we'd obviously like to help.... how soon were you thinking? this month or next?" BBC: "oh definitely this month. in fact, um, more like, you know, er, this week actually" KU: "this week!!!!????" BBC: "...................... yes. by friday night in fact." KU: "& you're aware that today is wednesday????!!" BBC: "............................................ yes." KU: "!" so there you have it, the behind the scenes story of how we came to turn round our first essential mix in under 72 hours from a standing start, armed only with a mountain of vinyl, several samplers & a huge computer struggling to run 4 channels of pro-tools with less than half the power of a current iphone. this is King Unique Broadcast 0 if you like, the first time we hit the airwaves & not a bad way to start :) to add to the nostalgia i've included the handy cassette case with tracklisting that Mixmag used to print each month for all the home-tapers out there - if you'd told us about Soundcloud back then we'd have burnt you as a witch. enjoy the flashback ;) Genre dark tribal prog Comment by Meia's Dream What a fucking transition 2024-01-21T17:19:09Z Comment by Dan Whiteside Such a great mix! 2023-11-10T13:20:20Z Comment by zoltero stoked to discover this gem!! 2023-02-09T03:30:12Z Comment by adamsouthdj28 What an incredible mix this is!! 2023-01-17T12:53:28Z Comment by Tom Heist / DJ Void / Whoever else I happen to be Back to the 'bog of eternal prog' that was 2001 :) Lovely 2023-01-16T23:39:31Z Comment by Shane Mcgeough what a mix wow đ đ đ 2022-09-30T17:53:07Z Comment by pimonric astonishing!! 2022-04-26T03:21:28Z Comment by Why Go Đ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐ°Đ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐșĐ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐ°Đ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐșĐ°Đ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐșĐ°Đ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐ°ĐșĐș 2022-01-22T08:33:54Z Comment by Why Go tonite with KU 2022-01-19T18:18:13Z Comment by petti let's go 2021-06-14T10:39:56Z Comment by Chris Graf pumped! 2021-04-24T19:51:17Z Comment by ahmed halim here u go 2021-03-27T12:41:46Z Comment by Moments of IBIZA this from 2004, not 2001 2021-03-06T10:03:45Z Comment by Joseph S. West obscene filthy dirty immoral ...ah yes 2020-07-14T04:14:22Z Comment by Joseph S. West holy shit. so killer. 2020-07-14T02:48:04Z Comment by HAL9000 New order-not better but different 2020-07-04T20:11:14Z Comment by Tony Woow!! 2019-10-09T18:07:02Z Comment by Tony TOP!! 2019-10-07T18:59:17Z Comment by Darren Walker 18 remember listening to this when it was aired,copied it on tape lost it now I have it again.King Unique now one of my faves.Awesome!?? 2016-01-06T05:21:18Z Comment by Angela Louise reet tune :D 2014-12-31T01:36:15Z Comment by Angela Louise :D 2014-12-31T01:26:35Z Comment by Angela Louise fecking yeah :D 2014-12-31T01:15:16Z Comment by xramvdv niiice) 2014-06-16T08:48:09Z Comment by xramvdv 5+ 2014-06-16T08:42:46Z Comment by user647377000 its twisted ha ha 2014-02-04T00:45:23Z Comment by matthewrobertsdotco it all sound sreally fast looking back now 2014-01-17T09:46:43Z Comment by Aleksandar Aco PaviÄ Way way better then 2011+ tech/house music... 2013-11-05T12:13:22Z Comment by Virginia Genceraviciute Love it at 1.54 2013-08-31T12:44:20Z Comment by LCB wow this is insane 2013-08-20T16:27:50Z Comment by Digweed70 This is taking the piss out of music its 12 yrs old man crazy x 2013-07-28T12:38:09Z