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Your essential guide to the very best dance and electronica from the year 2018!

Pete Tong revisits 2018, a year when house and tech house surged back into the mainstream. Featuring tracks from Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa, Fisher and The Chemical Brothers, plus Essential New Tunes from Krystal Klear and Peggy Gou.

Pete also marks 25 years of the Essential Mix, reflects on the legacy of Avicii, and heads to Ibiza for a rewind of Denis Sulta & Mella Dee's B2B from our Ibiza Weekend.

Produced by We Are Grape for BBC Radio 1 Dance.

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Music Played

  • FISHER

    Losing It

    • Catch & Release.

  • Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa

    One Kiss

    • Columbia.

  • Au/Ra & CamelPhat

    Panic Room

    • RCA.

  • Riton & Kah-Lo

    Fake ID

    • Riton Time.

  • Paul Woolford

    Hang Up Your Hang Ups (CamelPhat Remix) (feat. Kim English)

    Remix Artist: CamelPhat.
    • FFRR.

  • Krystal Klear

    Neutron Dance

    • FFRR/Running Back.

  • Purple Disco Machine

    Dished (Male Stripper)

    • Club Sweat / Virgin.

  • RÃœFÃœS DU SOL

    Treat You Better

    • Rose Avenue/Reprise.

  • Prospa

    Prayer

    • Stress Records.

  • Black Coffee & David Guetta

    Drive

  • Silk City & Dua Lipa

    Electricity

    • Columbia.

  • Calvin Harris & Sam Smith

    Promises (feat. Jessie Reyez)

    • Columbia.

  • Loud Luxury

    Body (feat. Brando)

    • AATW.

  • Nasser Baker

    Say Something

    • Circus Recordings.

  • Avicii

    Without You (feat. Sandro Cavazza)

    • Universal Music AB.

  • Avicii

    I Could Be The One (Nicktim) (feat. Nicky Romero)

    • Positiva/Virgin.

  • Maribou State

    Turnmills

    • Counter Records.

  • DJ Koze

    Pick Up

  • Peggy Gou

    It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Bicep

    Opal (Four Tet Remix)

    Remix Artist: Four Tet.
    • Ninja Tune.

  • Rampa, Adam Port & &ME

    Muye (Black Coffee Remix)

    Remix Artist: Black Coffee.
    • Keinemusik.

  • Adam Beyer & Bart Skills

    Your Mind

    • Drumcode.

  • RebÅ«ke

    Along Came Polly

    • Hot Creations.

  • George FitzGerald & Lil Silva

    Roll Back

    • All That Must Be.
    • Double Six Records.
    • 4.

  • Channel Tres

    Controller

    • GODMODE.

  • Jon Hopkins

    Singularity

    • Domino.

  • Denis Sulta

    L A Ruffgarden (Terrace Mix)

    • Dixon Avenue Basement Jams.

  • Mella Dee

    Donny's Groove

    • Warehouse Music.

  • Atlas

    Angus

    • Sulta Selects Silver Service.

  • Mella Dee

    Passing Me By

    • Warehouse Music.

  • CJ Bolland

    Camargue (Lindsay Green & Stephen Kirkwood Edit)

    Remix Artist: Stephen Kirkwood. Remix Artist: Co-Accused.
    • R&S.

  • Mella Dee

    Techno Disco Tool

    • One More Tune/Warehouse Music.

  • Denis Sulta

    L & S (You Mean Everything Mix)

    • Sulta Selects Silver Service.

  • Finn

    Sometimes The Going Gets A Little Tough (Going a bit Tougher Mix)

    Remix Artist: Mella Dee.
    • Defected.

  • Gigi D’Agostino

    Bla Bla Bla

  • Spencer Parker

    Size: Yes

    • Work Them Records.

Broadcast

  • Last Saturday19:00
    BBC Radio 1 Dance