Mahoosive respect to Jonathan tbf. Talk about research.
Listened to a few of these that year and reading back the comments brought a lot of it back.
Mix of the year goes to Desyn for me personally
2004 Essential Mixes - RANKED
Desyn was good for a while so much so that I stayed in Heaven’s room 2 for the last three hours when Digweed was playing the main room. That and the fact the main room was too hot!
Loads of burds in the SOS room for Desyn too. More room to get your swag on too. Then heads down for Digweed a bit later.
jonattonyeah Most played song: Spektrum - Kinda New (Tiefschwarz Mix)
I cannot fully explain the ferocity with which I hate this song.
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jonattonyeah Might do 2000 next.
Spoiler alert:
If Dave Clarke’s from that year isn’t at no.1 then you’re wrong and need your head examined. Trufax.
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Just having some fun, Hugo. I’ll reply to the rest when I’m home. It’s a very long process getting through these 110/112 whatever hours of music - much of it very bad - and multiple listens for some.
I stand by the top 10 or so. After that I have to group mixes together for my own sanity. If people have issues with it well go ahead and listen to these mixes on your own then. It’s not fun! Is number 40 or whatever better than 32? Sure. Maybe. But keeping them in like-minded groupings made sense to me.
The Dave Clarke mix is just a racket. And I consider myself a fan. By 2004 mixing and technique had gotten too good to tolerate cheap crossfader tricks and drunken record smashing. He plays good tracks. But the presentation was headache-inducing. Like a two-hour root canal.
EDIT oh and I might pass on 2000 as I think I already know what’ll be #1. No fun in that.
No opinion really (other than Howells’ Madonna mashup being terrible) but it was the song of the year without any doubt. I was taken aback by the diversity of DJ’s who played it. I would guess there were months there where it was played every night out, likely multiple times
jonattonyeah heard Sander K play it at Crobar. Never went to another prog event, that I can remember.
If Sander played “The Right Time” I wouldn’t blame you for killing yourself let alone attending another prog party.
hugopal “We all live and die”
I always thought they were saying “we are little vampires”. @Smallman1 is the one who broke the news to me that I had it wrong.
jonattonyeah he absolutely could have. It was an unbelievably bad night. I can’t believe how many bad tunes were played.
Finally, Jonattan Yeah does something good with his life.
By the way, I seemed to play a lot of the essential mixes from this year at the time, agree with the top 4 but with Desyn at the top + probably Choo Choo Romero to round off the top 5.
Holy fuck this must have taken some time!
Agree with Hugo about Desyn. I chanced seeing him a year later and the sound coming out of him and Omid 16b around then was something new for sure.
I also loved Neil Quigley around 06/07 who wasn’t the same as Desyn but the difference in the sound paired with the way it just worked for people loving Prog/House reminded me of this and I wished I was exposed to more back then.
Two deep dish pizzas LOL