Controversial Prog Takes
Echo there’s a bug in the module it belongs to. I’ve reported it to the developers.
Never knew there were so many fans of this Essential Mix, always thought some of his others seemed more popular among the prog cognoscenti, even bizarrely the Maida Vale one.
There used to be a real monster of a Sasha mix around this time (well, 1999 possibly) from Gatecrasher on the Gatecrasher web site (video included), where he pitched everything up and just banged it out, pure power prog. Would love to get hold of that.
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Sasha at Gatecrasher’s 5th birthday, from the same year?
Aired on Galaxy
I remember liking it at the time. Tried playing it having a mix at home in about 2004 and remember just wanting it to finish. Ended up taking it off less than half way through
ScottBailey That may have been a portion of it.
Such an embarrassing tune.
The Bedrock mate. Enjoyed it out when I heard it at the time but I just couldn’t sit through it at home.
BlainSA Go and wither in a corner with your Jeff Mills drivel. Whenever the Baguio Track kicked in at Bedrock everything kicked into place. You wouldn’t understand because you weren’t there. A proper Bedrock moment. I feel for you Zack.
Don’t worry, it’s just Zack being an absolute thalidomide as per.
He’ll scuttle off into a corner after calling you a ‘beta’ or a ‘cuck’ or some other totally worn-out Yank phrase typically lobbed by people who are ‘betas’ and ‘cucks’ themselves.
Dave and Baguio Track: file under Low T
Dave going full alpha, cap doffed.
Sasha’s 2000 EM better than his 95 mix? The amount of wronguns that post on here would make you sick.
ScottBailey Reminds me of Sasha dropping two copies of Mercury & Solace at Fabric to have a double drop of the main break. I can’t believe we were so amazed by another 12 seconds or so. Son of God etc.
This is a cracker too
She’s like an 8 year old who had one too many juice boxes.
BlainSA that must have been awesome!
ScottBailey Well, that was the great thing about fabric at the start. There weren’t any grills between the DJ and the crowd so you could see everything. So there we were, just out of school, learning how to properly mix and watching the tricks he did when mixing. The thing that got me the most was when he used to flick the bass on full and the sound would just fill the room up. Never saw anyone else stick the bass on 10 there. I didn’t even think you could do it.
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The Baguio Track (Original) is an absolute choon.
Where you’re going wrong is picking the Bedrock mix.
This is prob going to be controversial on here, but I find too much of San Francisco Disc 2 to be one-dimensional and a tad dull: ‘Clarkness’ to ‘Change Me’ feels like an extended period of relatively seamless filler.
Clarkness is a great track, but it’s cheesy trance really, not POWER PROG ™.
Not sure I’d describe it as cheesy trance. I just think that whole middle bit of SF Disc 2 is completely skippable.
Agreed, but I do love Change Me
hugopal The Baguio Track (Original) is an absolute choon.
Bang on. A proper face melter when it dropped. One of those E tunes where you’re absolutely peaking and you can’t dance properly, one eye open, kinda swaying from one foot to the other, clasping your hands, looking around to see if anyone notices how off your face you are, the crescendo of the track with that vocal making you breathe like a bear with rabies. I’m gonna play it now just to take me back.
100 Days Off is a top 3 Underworld album