high, the BBC has resisted making the show available in this way due to copyright issues, but the development of peer-to-peer internet technologies has spawned a new trend in which fans of the show make recordings of mixes available to users of services such as BitTorrent and eMule. Although illegal, the BBC has taken little action against such activity. However, in 2010, Mixriot, a website which hosted stream and download links to past Essential Mix broadcasts dating back to the first ever edition for its members, was asked to remove all its past recordings by production company Somethin' Else due to copyright infringement. The Mixriot website is still live, although it has since taken down all Essential Mix broadcasts. Many torrent sites and internet forums still continue to provide mp3 download links to past shows, which can be found easily through internet search engines. Essential Mix of the Year 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 website 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, due to failures in various BBC competition voting systems. So for that year, the Essential Mix of the Year (High Contrast) was chosen by Pete Tong and the Radio 1 Essential Mix team. 1995: Tony de Vit (1995-01-08) 1997: David Holmes (1997-06-15) 1999: Basement Jaxx (1999-05-02) 2000: Dave Clarke (2000-01-16) 2001: Sander Kleinenberg (2001-06-10) 2002: Sasha & John Digweed (2002-04-07) 2004: Above and Beyond (2004-06-06) 2005: Sasha (2005-05-22) 2006: Trentemøller (2006-10-15) 2007: High Contrast (2007-10-07) 2008: Flying Lotus (2008-11-29) 2009: Sharam (2009-08-29) 2010: Swedish House Mafia (2010-09-04) 2011: Above and Beyond (2011-07-02) 2012: Nicolas Jaar (2012-05-19) 2013: Eric Prydz (2013-02-02) 2014: Caribou (2014-10-18) 2015: Ben Klock (2015-10-10) 2016: Midland (2016-02-20) 2017: Helena Hauff (2017-02-25) 2018: HAAi (2018-09-29) 2019: Josey Rebelle (2019-02-09) 2020: Sherelle (2020-11-14) 2021: Elkka (2021-11-13) 2022: KH (2022-07-09) To mark the 500th DJ/artist to appear in the series, in April 2010