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.
