Holy fuck this must have taken some time!

Agree with Hugo about Desyn. I chanced seeing him a year later and the sound coming out of him and Omid 16b around then was something new for sure.

I also loved Neil Quigley around 06/07 who wasn’t the same as Desyn but the difference in the sound paired with the way it just worked for people loving Prog/House reminded me of this and I wished I was exposed to more back then.

Two deep dish pizzas LOL

As for Masiello, I ranked the mix third. That’s very high praise. I put Black Strobe ahead because it sounds ahead of its time. I put Zabiela ahead because it did the most you could do with two hours.

Swap out any of the top three and I have no problem with it.

That said, having going though all of these, the top two stood out. Not boring. Not dated. This is a RANKING so I have to make some tough decisions.

    jonattonyeah I’m not criticising your work Jonathan.

    And personally I would definitely rank you top two North American poster, just above Loopstick but below Veja Horseface.

    Fair play I would say it must taken some amount of time!

    Listen to Pongwater, oh woe is me, I had to listen to 100-odd hours of essential mixes, when everyone on the fucking board listens to mixes all the time, probably whenever they’re at home, doing work, on the subway or whatever.

    It’s not like he had to stick a needle in his japper every time Pete Tong did a voiceover.

    Basically, even when doing something decent, Mongwater can’t do it without being a moany cunt: “look at the burden I had to bear for you”

    SM001 Yep ….plus he did some work with Fluke’s frontman.

      Dan Can we all have is autograph?

      • Dan replied to this.

        SM001 I’ll ask him next time I see him. He normally drinks in the Ship in Chelmsford. He was remixing Mick Jagger when he about 23 and his live set up played at Glastonbury. Talented bugger.

        Used to hammer this one by him.

        I’m late to this but has Jon gone through all this work just to let everyone know what his fave EM of 2004 is? Bloody hell, mate, why did you do this to yourself? A similar thread will be started by some plug in a few months again anyway or this one will descend into ‘Post your favourite EM’ in no time at all. Hugo debating him on the choices then as per fucking Christ, lol

        Anyway, I don’t remember the Zabiela one so I’ll check it I suppose.

          I sent Zabiela the Björk-remix he played on the essential mix. KLANG. Introvert pressed a small patch of 12 inches of the remix and gave me a copy to thank me. He got a lot of publicity out of it being on an essential mix. No idea what he’s doing these days, lost touch with him over the years.

          Part owns a Salon in Southampton Zabiela.

          Does hair, nails and beauty treatments.

            Smallman1 I like to think this is how Hernan, Zabiela and Diggers will all end up. Side by side stylists in an up market salon. Mincing and reminiscing. It’s destiny.

              Brilliant thread mate. Can see you put a lot of work into it. Think Desyn would have made it to the top for me followed by Zabiela as a close second place.

              It’s been mentioned here already, but I think Desyn and other similar DJs really contributed to the evolution of the sound lifting the scene out of its recession in the early 2000s. Obviously this is what tends to happen anyway the sounds change and you get different trends but I think without it, prog wouldn’t have been able to evolve as it did. Not the only factor of course but a big factor from my perspective.

              The other ones that I think of apart from Desyn, SOS etc are Luke Fair and Add2Basket, both were quite underrated in my opinion but just revitalised the sounds and took it in a different direction. The Rogue Show, that Luke and Add2Basket did was just incredible.

              Nice one mate. Hoping to see other EM reviews for different years.