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Your essential guide to the very best dance and electronica from the year 2016!

Pete takes it back to 2016 with music from the likes of OFFAIAH, Jax Jones, 99 Souls, DJ Koze, Skream, High Contrast and more. Plus there's a live performance from Becky Hill and MK from his LA broadcast and there's a 30-minute slice of The Blessed Madonna's debut Essential Mix - recorded live at Space, Ibiza.

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Music Played

  • Calvin Harris

    This Is What You Came For (feat. Rihanna)

    • Columbia.

  • OFFAIAH

    Trouble

    • Positiva.

  • Kungs vs Cookin’ on 3 Burners

    This Girl

    • 3 Beat.

  • Jax Jones

    House Work (feat. Mike Dunn & MNEK)

    • Polydor.

  • Lee Walker & DJ Deeon

    Freak Like Me (feat. Katy B)

    • Defected.

  • 99 Souls

    The Girl Is Mine

    • free download.
    • white.
    • 1.

  • Låpsley & DJ Koze

    Operator (DJ Koze's Disco Edit)

    • XL.

  • Skream

    You Know, Right?

    • Pure Garage.
    • New State Music.
    • 016.

  • MK & Becky Hill

    Piece Of Me

    • Area 10 / Columbia.

  • Riton

    Rinse & Repeat (feat. Kah-Lo)

  • Disclosure

    Moog For Love (feat. Eats Everything)

    • DMC DJ Dance Extra Mixes 103.
    • DMC.
    • 008.

  • Eric Prydz

    Opus

    • Virgin Records Ltd.

  • High Contrast

    Remind Me

    • 3Beat.

  • Protoje

    Who Knows (Shy FX Remix) (feat. Chronixx)

    Remix Artist: Shy FX.
    • Warner.

  • Midland

    Final Credits

    • Classic Music Company.

  • RÜFÜS DU SOL

    Like An Animal

    Remix Artist: John Monkman. Remix Artist: YOTTO.
    • White Label.

  • RY X

    Howling (Soffi Tukker Remix)

  • Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra

    Too Much Information (Laolu Remix)

    Remix Artist: Laolu.
    • Innervisions.

  • Danny Daze

    Swim

    • Kompakt.

  • Kölsch

    Goldfisch

  • Floorplan

    Tell You No Lie

    • M-Plant.

  • Peggy Gou

    Gou Talk

    • Seek for Maktoop.
    • Technicolour.
    • A1.

  • Mura Masa & A$AP Rocky

    Love$ick (Four Tet Remix)

  • Isaac Tichauer

    Higher Level (Bicep Remix)

    • The Club of 27: Space Ibiza 1989 - 2016.
    • Cr2 Records.
    • 302.

  • Savile

    No Sleep, Not In America

    • STRIPPED & CHEWED.

  • Crackazat

    Somewhere Else

    • LOCAL TALK.

  • Tiga

    Blondes Have More Fun

    • No Fantasy Required.
    • Counter Records.
    • 111.

  • Grace Jones

    Pull Up to the Bumper (Joey Negro Bumper to Bumper mix)

    • Remixed With Love By Joey Negro (Vol. Two).
    • Z Records.
    • 007.

  • Ks French

    Gimme The Funk

    • REBEL HEARTS.

  • HNNY

    Hotline Riddim (Jacques Renault Edit)

    • Local Talk.

  • T‐Connection

    At Midnight

    • HENRY STONE.

Broadcasts

  • Sat 28 Feb 202619:00
    BBC Radio 1 Dance
  • Sunday19:00
    BBC Radio 1 Dance