Drum & bass maverick opens the year with a bang.
London’s Rockwell delivered the latest BBC Essential mix last night with a two-hour selection that draws lines between generations of drum & bass and his own influences.
Alongside his productions the mix includes tracks from Sam Binga, Fracture, Ivy Lab, and Breakage as well as Eprom, Mr. Carmack, The Clipse, and Boards of Canada. It’s a wild ride, and you can listen back to it via the BBC iPlayer.
Rockwell released his long-awaited debut album, Obsolete Medium, at the end of 2015. Watch the official video for Dizzle on FACT TV.
Tracklist:
DJ Mastercard – Lethal [Mall Music Inc.]
Sam Binga – Believe [Critical]
Sam Binga – Run The Dance [Critical]
Rockwell – Music 2000 [Shogun Audio]
Stray – Break Your Legs [Brownswood]
Fixate – Throwback Therapy [Exit]
Coleco – Raveworx [Shogun Audio]
Riton – Rinse & Repay (Rockwell Remix) [Ministry of Sound]
Abstract Elements – Tenderness [White Label]
Rockwell – IneedU [Shogun Audio]
High Contrast – Music Is Everything (Acapella) [Hospital]
Rockwell – Please Please Please (Play This On The Radio) [Shogun Audio]
Whiney – Komodo [Hospital]
Alix Perez – Recall & Reflect [Exit]
Rockwell – Lines Of Ground Glass [Shogun Audio]
Subwave – Ubik [Metalheadz]
Sam Binga – Greatest Distance (feat. Romaine) (Ivy Lab Remix) [Critical]
Subwave – Stars Get Down [Hospital]
Matrix – Climate (Cause4Concern Remix) [Metro Recordings]
High Contrast – Mermaid Scar (Ulterior Motive Remix) [Hospital]
Rockwell – ITSOK2BHAPP-E (feat. Hyroglifics & Sam Binga) [Shogun Audio]
London Grammar – Hey Now [White Label]
Signs – Bliss Flop [Vandal]
Rockwell – Dizzle [Shogun Audio]
Kanye West – All Day (Eprom Remix) [White Label]
G. Jones – Apollo [White Label]
Mr. Carmack – Tour For Days [White Label]
Taso – Like What [TekLife]
Jubei – Say Nothin’ (feat. Flowdan) (Rockwell VIP Remix) [Metalheadz]
Friction – Kingpin (feat. Riko Dan, Scrufizzer & P Money) (Rockwell Remix) [Shogun Audio]
RL Grime – Monsoon [WeDidIt Records]
Abstract Elements – Untitled [White Label]
Sabre – Yoga (Alix Perez Remix) [White Label]
Rockwell – Guts / Blood / Sex / Drugs (feat. Jams) [Shogun Audio]
Shades – Dogstar [White Label]
Future Cut – Whiplash (Alix Perez Remix) [White Label]
Rockwell – Faces (feat. Lauren L’Aimant) [Shogun Audio]
Mr. Carmack – Womp [White Label]
Ivy Lab – Hiya (feat. Havelock) [Critical]
Rockwell – 14ME [Shogun Audio]
Breakage – Voyage [Digital Soundboy]
Wots My Code – Dubplate (Total Science Remix) [C.I.A.]
Rockwell – Full Circle [Shogun Audio]
Rockwell – Macbook Jungle Crew (Your Time) [Shogun Audio]
Breakage – Kill Dem [Digital Soundboy]
My Nu Leng – Masterplan (feat. Fox) (Sam Binga Remix) [White Label]
Think Tonk – Bury Dem [V Recordings]
Skeptical – Between The Lines (feat. Collette Warren) [Exit]
Fracture – Makin’ Hype Tracks [Exit]
House of Black Lanterns – You, Me, Metropolis [Houndstooth]
Clipse – Momma, I’m So Sorry (Instrumental) x Ayo (feat. Redders) (Acapella) [Critical]
Chimpo – Who Run Tingz (feat. Trigga) [Girls Music]
Digital – Deadline (Rockwell Edit) [White Label]
Rockwell – Sick Of It All (Unreleased Version) [White Label]
Phace – Yes! [Critical]
Rockwell – 1_2_3_4 [Shogun Audio]
Om Unit – 1000 Cats [White Label]
Rockwell – Detroit [Shogun Audio]
Rockwell – Bait [Shogun Audio]
Rockwell – Underpass [Shogun Audio]
Boards of Canada – Olson [Warp]
Rockwell – Technoir [Shogun Audio]