The Avalanches upload iconic 2016 BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix to Soundcloud
Just weeks after jumping on a mix with Jamie xx for his NTS show, The Avalanches have uploaded their glorious 2016 Essential Mix to Soundcloud. Accompanying the upload with a lengthy statement on Instagram, the group said, “Of all our DJ sets over the years, the 2016 BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix is close to our hearts.”
Over two hours, the mix harks back to their defining 2001 record, Since I Left You as well as serving as a signpost for their second era with Wildflower. Full of “homemade music, street recordings and long forgotten pieces of musical flotsam and jetsam,” they described their mix as a way to celebrate “every musical maverick who never gave a damn what anyone else thought.”
“Such spirit! Such firebrand energy! Such beauty! We tried to capture it all in one mix.”
Elsewhere describing it as their “love letter to that world long lost,” it is truly a treasure trove of all things peculiar, unsuspecting and curious — much like The Avalanches themselves. Listen to the mix below: