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Remember Warren coming on after Lottie and playing it (one) as his first track at Turnmills to commemorate the GU it was on. It blew the doors off as Mr Caine would say. What a fucking set that was
Disc 2s of Superior Quality
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jonattonyeah I think I’m on record previously as saying that prog basically died 2002-3; i.e. from that point on (including the whole tiefschwarz stuff) it jumped the shark and bpms also started to plummet. I think 2004 counts as “mid-00s”?! I’m sure you get my point anyway.
That Sasha Essential Mix that opened with Ride was literally the last prog mix of all time.
I think even earlier. Still rank “Rise In” as the worst prog record ever made. That Sasha/Diggers NYE MTV mix is self-indulgent and terrible. DJ’s trying to do facsimiles of S/D were more focused on the perfect blend than actually moving a crowd. The music was bland and insipid by 2002 at the latest. Most of the bigger DJs ditched prog entirely or entirely ditched their careers (not always by choice). Shiloh and the like never mattered and never should have. Looking at JVM mixes from that era nostalgically is fucking insane to me. Those were the last nails in an already very nailed coffin.
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jonattonyeah The music was bland and insipid by 2002 at the latest
Mostly yes, but a few alright tunes still trickled in for a couple more years and it wasn’t so rare yet for the bpms to even venture north of 130.
jonattonyeah Shiloh and the like never mattered and never should have.
Sure.
jonattonyeah Shiloh and the like never mattered and never should have.
Go off KING! 
Proton Radio… Jaysus what an awful time!
To put it simply, there’s a reason people looked to Mylo, Desyn Masiello piano house, German micro, and pretty much anything but prog (and those three examples are pretty damn terrible). It got that bad. People lament that era as poor….well what caused it? 10 minute Bedrock releases and Proton Radio. Sander was like, out, I like girls. Shout out to Phil and Christopher Lobsinger.
Jonatthan Poundwater and Zackster are going great guns in this thread, and I put it all down to the recent well-deserved bollockings they’ve had off me keeping them on their toes.
Well in!
Hugo’s post about people dancing to 140bpm techno was one of the worst posts I ever did read.
Was Danny Howells the Disc 2 mix on the Renaissance comp with Nick Warren? That one for sure.
Nope, Warren was Disc 2.
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rhouses the mixing on the warren cd was terrible.
Smallman1 Actual Techno is the next big thing.
mono-stereo Actual Techno is the next big thing.
Lol, if I were a techno Dj that would be my Dj name.