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My brother, god rest his soul, went to Twilo and saw Sasha and Digweed, said it was absolutely off the chain.

Cheers!

jonattonyeah A bit of both but more about “Fire”. It’s just so….long. I can’t imagine how anyone would fit it into any set outside of the year 2002. Did anyone other than Sasha even play it?

The intro is def too long, though once the main part kicks in I think it’s quite hypnotic and so I don’t mind that it just keeps on going.

I also think it could have worked in earlier prog sets from 98 or so, and would have fit on say Tenaglia’s London, or even the building up parts of Sasha’s San Fran. But for sure I do struggle to think how someone might fit it in to a contemporary set. I still like listening to it regardless of that.

As for others playing it - it seems to have been included in John Kelly’s Essential Mix in 2002 for at least one, ha. Surely jocks like Tenaglia and Moshic must have done as well.

    jonattonyeah I like the first hour of it, just saying he played a few of the tracks of it, moved up a fair few gears by the end,

      Homegrove he’s got an amazing takent of sucking the breathe and energy out of every conversation he’s in. A human black hole.

      He’s like a slightly less shite version of Bigfella

          seanc80 He’s like a slightly less shite version of Bigfella

          Lol.

          Wait until ed reads that! You’re in bother, sean!

            bosstrabs that was it for me too. first time i saw them was june 2000 on the ne3 tour with jimmy van m. 10 hours of madness, i’d be hard pressed to come up with a night where i had more fun. looking back, it felt a bit like the stars aligning with great music, djs, friends and at an age where not much else mattered.

              Sasha coming into his own as an individual from 98? Lol, drivel. Sasha was an individual before John even had a gig at Renaissance, for the clueless amongst us.

                LT42 …inclined to agree, Sasha had already had a few different incarnations before the Digweed ‘Renaissance’.

                Its testament to how long he’s been at it that we all have different experiences of him in different musical phases though…

                  FYI, If you didn’t know about Sasha in 92, you’re vermin according to Dermo.

                  This thread was tailor made for him. If hes out there, and we all know he is, he’ll be having some serious itchy fingers right now.

                  LT42 Sasha coming into his own as an individual from 98?

                  I didn’t know, which is why I also put it as a question. 😉

                  But as for the rest of my post, do correct me if he wasn’t at the peak of his popularity 98-01; there’s plenty to indicate that was the case.

                    …said it before, but the most memorable Sasha era for me was prob 93-94/5 when he stopped doing the anthemic piano stuff and started mixing up the styles a bit- US dubs with the more tribal, UK (as opposed to ‘Tribal UK’) stuff. It really felt like UK club music was finding its own identity IMO.

                    Never really liked the Progressive House tag, but the Mixmag article that originally coined the term nailed-it when they identified this ‘new’ strain of music that was being played around that time- a mixture of house dubs, tribal rhythms, big crescendos and drops, at a time when many clubs were polarised around either US garage, techno or Euro-trance it really was something fresh.

                    This album is a decent summary of the period I mean: https://www.discogs.com/release/135497-Various-Progressive-House-Classics

                    All that said, I’m sure he reached his peak in terms of worldwide recognition (and ability to make cash) later, from 98>