Weekend Rewind: Eric Prydz's iconic Essential Mix turns 12

Swedish powerhouse producer Eric Prydz has been within the sport for years, however his unending oasis of expertise simply retains on giving. In late 2018, he performed a slew of reveals underneath his techno alias Cirez D alongside Adam Beyer and kicked off 2019 with choose Pryda reveals. Later this 12 months, he’ll be bringing his insane hologram setup to Creamfields for a visually beautiful HOLO dwell efficiency. While Prydz’s dedication to innovating for essentially the most superior know-how stands on a calibre of its personal amongst the trade, EDM All Day want to acknowledge the place his visionary tasks stemmed from and look again on his biggest energy: mixing. Twelve years in the past this month, Prydz took to the Radio 1 decks for his Essential Mix 2007, nonetheless considered one of his biggest mixes thus far.

Prydz weaves progressive, electro, and techno into his Essential Mix, taking listeners on a two-hour journey. Featuring tracks from each his Pryda and covert Tonja Holma alias, his eclectic choice additionally incorporates a number of of his personal edits on tracks from artists Arno Cost, Brett Johnson and D’Malicious. Dance-worthy, energy-ridden and, after all, combined to perfection, this Essential Mix will endlessly go down within the books as testimony to Eric Prydz as considered one of this technology’s most timeless DJs.

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