It features Ben Klock, Basement Jaxx, Britney, Destiny's Child, Anthony Naples and more.
Four Tet was back in the Essential Mix hotseat over the weekend and he contributed a varied mix of music that included his own tracks, unreleased collabs with Joy Orbison, jungle, Ben Klock, Britney Spears, Basement Jaxx, Destiny’s Child, Bicep, Anthony Naples and more. That is to say then that it’s a bit of a… Read more »
Posted on March 21st, 2018
Recorded live in Dublin earlier this month.
Northern Irish house and techno DJ Timmy Stewart and Dublin DJ and booker Colin Perkins share their live recording from a back to back set in Pygmalion earlier this month. “Timmy and I first played back to back at a riotous street party for Culture Night in Belfast in September 2017 and we decided it… Read more »
Posted on January 22nd, 2018
A bluesy, soulful and reflective compilation made over five years.
21 year-old independent artist and BIMM Dublin student Rob Toal-Lennon or RTL’s new EP Much Love is a body of work built up over the past five years that depicts five definitive moments in his life. “This is an accumulation of five years of planning, writing & recording. A transition of sound/taste over five years…. Read more »
Posted on January 15th, 2018
The Irish DJ legend and Scary Éire producer offers a masterclass indeed.
‘The Conor McGregor of deejaying” Johnny Moy – March 2017 “Meks’ the fuckin’ boss” Ian Brown – July 2017 “Without DJ Mek there would be no SoundCrowd” – Mr Spring November 2017 “Best DJ mix I’ve heard this year” – Mark Kavanagh The Star November 2017 DJ Mek’s reputation preceeds him. But he still remains… Read more »
Posted on November 15th, 2017
A who's who of Irish hip-hop from Scary Éire to T-Woc.
“How lucky is Cork to have that dude? Hip-hop MVP of the country for years now. Obviously he does so much sterling grunt work setting up gigs and keeping things ticking over like the underground trooper he is, but his artistry is so damn high-level. DJ-wise, on a modern hip-hop tip, there’s not many out… Read more »
Posted on November 7th, 2017
The annual downloadable DJ mix featuring 22 songs and 26 artists all playing at Electric Picnic.
For what is now an annual tradition, I present the Nialler9 Electric Picnic DJ mix put together by myself. Featuring 22 songs and 26 artists all playing at Electric Picnic this weekend, this mix is for your pre-festival work prep, your packing, your journey down, your campsite (not too loud now), your car and your… Read more »
Posted on August 29th, 2017
Mick Falvey and Ian Nyquist provide two mixes.
The Peace Pagoda is an alternative music sanctuary at Electric Picnic. Found in the Healing Area of Body&Soul, the area offers a programme of ambient and electronic music for the first two days while Sunday ramps things up for its closing party. The Peace Pagoda is curated by Algorithm for Body&Soul with a projection mapped… Read more »
Posted on August 21st, 2017
Over 2 hours of an epic set.
Three great DJs doing a B2B set at Optimo’s 20 party as the grand finale for an all-day event that had a hefty lineup. This is my kind of set featuring LCD Soundsystem’s Lindstrom Tribulations mix, Moda’s ‘Retro & Grade’, Giorgio Moroder, Margarida and many more including that Optimo favourite – Madonna’s ‘Hung Up’. Dig… Read more »
Posted on August 17th, 2017
Made for this week's Lumo Club Beasties Appreciation night.
With this Saturday’s Lumo Club night featuring a whole room of Beastie Boys tunes and videos, we asked Dennis Cassidy (We Three Kings / The Record Spot) to put together a mix of tracks that were sampled by the Beastie Boys over the years. This is the result. Tracklist below. Come along to Tengu in… Read more »
Posted on May 23rd, 2017
An hour of new music and a 2ManyDJs Deewee mix in one.
Soulwax were the guests on the Essential Mix this past weekend. It was the Dwelele brothers first Essential Mix in 12 years and it takes the form of two parts. The first part is ALL-NEW original material that clocks in at an hour with the word ‘Essential’ as inspiration. The second part is billed as… Read more »
Posted on May 22nd, 2017
Is it Summer yet?
The hip-house trio of Bon Voyage, Brooklyn rapper Shamon Cassette and the two young producers from Finglas; in Dublin The Supreme and Gucci Cortez as the name suggests take their inspirations from ’90s house and hip-hop. Like last year’s ‘African Voices’ and their Hare Squead remix m the latest installment in the Nialler9 Mix Series,… Read more »
Posted on April 6th, 2017
As broadcast on this day in 1997.
It was 20 years ago this week. Before they became the robots, before they became mega-selling global artists, before they were known as dance music mavericks to most, and just weeks after they released their seminal debut album Homework in 1997, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo recorded their first and only Essential mix on… Read more »
Posted on March 3rd, 2017
Paying homage to the teachers as the robots' Homework turns 20.
CK is a Dublin DJ who originally put together a podcast for Bodytonic back in 2011 inspired by Daft Punk’s Homework track ‘Teachers’ in which they shout out to all the masters that came before in the fields of house and techno in particular. CK went on to expand that in a second mix that… Read more »
Posted on February 2nd, 2017
DJ Skarface's acappella assisted mix is superb.
DJ Skarface took beats from DJ Shadow’s discography and paired them with acapellas from Run The Jewels’ first album and it is gift. It’s a mashup that makes sense as the trio collaborated last year. RTJ3 dropped over the Christmas period too. Tracklisting Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels DJ Shadow – Napalm Brain/Scatter… Read more »
Posted on January 5th, 2017
A mix featuring new & recent songs which are inspired by the '80s electro sound.
Each mix in the Nialler9 Mix Series features feature a theme and will be put together by some of my favourite DJs or musicians, local or international. This edition, came to me through by inbox by sometime DJ and tune enthusiast Gavin O’Sullivan. I listened, thoroughly enjoyed and decided it needed a bigger audience so… Read more »
Posted on December 7th, 2016
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