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Last year, Soulwax became the first group ever to craft an original mix for their BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, which is quite a feat. They came through with an excellent hour of never-heard-before music, which, until now, was basically just floating about in the ether, maybe taking form as a radio rip in a dark corner of the internet. So now they're releasing it in full, as an album titled Essential, via their label DEEWEE on 22 June.Crafted around the concept of "essence", Essential was made in two weeks last year, and considering the amount of work that went into it, an official release feels inevitable. Of the decision, Soulwax comment:
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You can hear one of the tracks, "Essential Four," a breezy number punctuated by vocals and funk-inflected bass below, before the record comes along in full to soundtrack all of your best summer nights:Follow Noisey on Twitter.When we were approached to make an Essential Mix for the BBC in May 2017, we chose to do what every sane human being would do, we decided to lock ourselves into our studio for two weeks and make an hour of new music based around the word 'Essential', instead of preparing a mix of already existing music. The product of this otherwise unwise decision is something we ended up being very proud of.