…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>
