I’d imagine the clubbing year of 2000 holds a place for all of us, so after a lot of listening and tracklist reviews I’ve ranked every essential mix from that year. You can try and argue, but you’ll be completely incorrect.

TOP TOP STUDIO MIXES

  1. Sasha - 27/2
  2. Laurent Garnier - 30/1
  3. Parks & Wilson - 9/4
  4. Tyrant - 12/11
  5. Steve Lawler - 16/7
  6. Josh Wink - 10/9
  7. Mr C - 2/1
  8. Carl Cox - 20/2
  9. Leftfield - 16/4
  10. Stewart Rowell - 14/5

GOOD LIVE SHARED MIXES

  1. Gatecrasher (Sasha, Seb Fontaine) - 18/6
  2. Love Parade (Tong, Maas, Morales) - 9/7
  3. Glastonbury (Fatboy Slim, Justin Robertson) - 25/6

TECHNO

  1. Slam - 19/11
  2. Mauro Picotto - 3/12
  3. Trevor Rockcliffe - 19/3
  4. Christian Smith - 5/11
  5. Dave Clarke - 16/1
  6. Dave Clarke - 29/10

PETE TONG &

  1. Pete Tong & Chris Fortier - 8/10*
  2. Pete Tong & Timo Maas - 22/10
  3. Pete Tong & Carl Cox - 5/3
  4. Pete Tong & Carl Cox - 13/8
  5. Pete Tong & Alex Anderson - 10/12*

MEH LIVE SHARED MIXES

  1. Homelands (S&D, Tong, Van Dyk) - 28/5
  2. Amnesia & Space (Rampling, Tong, Garnier, Fatboy Slim, Actual Fatboy) - 6/8*
  3. Creamfields (Tong, Oakenfold, Said Fatty) - 27/8
  4. NYE (bunch of nonsense, also including Fatty) - 31/12*

HOUSE

  1. Erick Morillo & Harry Choo Choo Romero - 24/12
  2. Roger Sanchez - 30/4
  3. Rhythm Masters - 15/10

TRANCE

  1. Scott Bond - 9/1
  2. Paul Van Dyk - 23/4
  3. Paul Oakenfold - 21/5
  4. Paul Van Dyk - 17/5
  5. Paul Oakenfold - 13/2
  6. Guy Ornadel - 23/1
  7. John 00 Fleming - 26/11

MASTURBATORY

  1. David Holmes - 24/9
  2. William Orbit - 6/2

FORGETTABLE

  1. Frankie Knuckles - 17/5
  2. Rocky - 4/6
  3. Jazzy M & Nick Holloway - 2/4
  4. Luke Neville - 30/7
  5. Cut & Paste - 11/6
  6. DJ Sneak - 26/3
  7. Norman Jay - 20/8
  8. Danny Rampling - 3/9
  9. Sharp Boys & Alan Thompson - 2/7
  10. MJ Cole - 12/3
  11. Judge Jules - 7/5
  12. Lisa Lashes - ⅒
  13. Nightmare Team - 23/7

*Trisco “Muzak” gets an airing

    zackster

    I know you’re a Mauro Picotto stan…gotta say, his EMix here is pretty damn good. Fast as all hell, but no pots and pans to be found. Considered it for top 10.

        jonattonyeah it’s amongst my favorites. That was a great time for techno. Everything was made on the Yamaha SU700, now impractical to own, but always been a white whale piece of gear for me. Anyways back to the mix… his mixing is on point and the trance bit some time around the half way mark really hits the spot.

          Have you actually bothered to listen to all of these?

          Kudos for the Trisco alert, top stuff.

          Seem to remember that Rocky one being decent, but maybe I had lower standards then.

          Immense work JTY.

          Would be deserving of some kind of award if not for the iffy date format

          Does Masturbatory mean it’s good or bad? The David Holmes was superb imo

          jonattonyeah MEH LIVE SHARED MIXES

          Personally, I have never liked these Essential Mixes where you get 2-3 djs, sometimes only for 45 minutes. Totally pointless, annoying, Tongy almost always muscles in somewhere with a shite set of his own (my opinion has always been great radio dj, shite club dj).

          I much prefer the studio mixes.

            JTY should be downvoted for using the stupid American dating system.

            Only cardinal date format makes sense, anyone who can program knows that.

            Dates amended. Never crossed my mind TBH.

            And, yes I listened to most of them. Some I couldn’t find so relied on the tracklist. Some I did some skipping through as I cannot handle Sasha I mean Danny Rampling going full handbag for two hours.

            Masturbatory = Self-indulgent. Like, oh hey I’m on the biggest house/techno dance music show on the planet…time to break out the bossanova records!

            And if you think the groupings are a bit odd, I found the difference between number 14 and number 28 to be pretty marginal. So thought putting them in general categories and ranking within made more sense.

            Trying to figure out if I should do 2001 or 1999 next.

            jonattonyeah Something even better could be a listening club. Each day you post up an Essential Mix and tracklisting from back in the day (a decent variety of house, techno, trance, POWERPROG ™, breaks etc). Everyone who wants to join in listens to it and gives their comments on how boss it is.

              Given how restrained and mature we are, as well as so willing to listen to other points of view, that should work a treat…

                Curated by Jonattan. Heavyweight modding by Homegrove.

                -si- fuck off with your shit opinions. obligatory safety wink.

                • -si- replied to this.

                    -si- haha there’s no way it takes me 3 comments to explain again to ed why it’s a terrible mix.