I was looking around on the interwebs the other day for a listing of every essential mix of the year, but to my surprise it did not exist. So I made my own, complete with links to download each mix.

I couldn't seem to find any info on the 2003 Essential Mix of the Year, if you happen to know what it was that year, please let me know in the comments.

Also, The Essential Mix program started in 1993 and I would imagine they didnt start naming EMs of the year until a few years in, but I couldnt find out definitively what year they started. The earliest I could find an EM of the year was 1997, but if you happen to know what year they started or of an earlier EM of the year let us know!

Oh and if any links are dead let me know and I'll fix em.

I'm still working on listening to all of them, but so far I'd highly reccomend 2010, 2007 and 2004. Ill update this as I get to the older ones. UPDATE: Definitely check out the David Holmes from '97... Amazing.

Hope you enjoy!

2010 - Swedish House Mafia at Creamfields, Northern England, 9-4-2010 House/Mashup (Filesonic)

2009 - Sharam Studio Session 8-29-2009 Progressive House (Soundcloud)

2008 - Flying Lotus Studio Session 11-29-2008 Electronic/Experimental/Hip Hop (Megaupload)

2007 - High Contrast Studio Session 7-10-2007 Drum & Bass (DNB Share)

2006 - Trentemøller Studio Session 10-15-2006 Downtempo/Minimal (Soundcloud)

2005 - Sasha Live at Maida Vale, Northwest London (BBC Studios) 5-22-2006 - First live laptop mix - Progressive House (Soundcloud)

2004 - Above and Beyond Studio Session 6-6-2004 Trance (Livesets.us)

2003 - Couldnt find this one, if you know what it was, let me know!

2002 - Sasha & Digweed @ Miami World Music Conference 4-7-2002 Progressive House (Megaupload)

2001 - Sander Kleinenberg Studio Session 6-10-2001 House/Trance (Rapidshare)

2000 - Dave Clarke Studio Session 1-16-2000 Techno (Audiobeats.net - Direct link, right click and save as)

1999 - Basement Jaxx Studio Session 5-2-1999 House (uploaded.to)

1998 - Carl Cox Live at Space, Ibiza 8-9-1998 Techno (Rapidshare)

1997 - David Holmes Studio Session 6-15-1997 Northern Soul/Psychedelic Funk/Hip Hop (Soundcloud)

If you are interested in the tracklistings for these or any other essential mixes, check out essentialmix.nu

Also, many of these links are down, but its definitely still worth checking out:

Futuremusic.com: Download Every Single BBC Radio1 Essential Mix From 1993 To 2007

Some background on the Essential Mix of the year (From Wikipedia):

At the end of each year, a shortlist of the most popular Essential Mixes from that year is drawn up by the BBC. Listeners are invited to vote for their favourite shortlisted mix in a poll on the Essential Mix web site around two weeks before the final show of the year. The mix with the majority of the votes is given the title of "Essential Mix of the Year" and is replayed in the final show of the year. The exception for the proper nomination of the essential mix of the year award was in 2007 - when voting and competitions were suspended on Radio 1 until further notice. So for that year, the essential mix of the year (High Contrast) was chosen by Pete Tong and the Radio 1 Essential mix team.