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THE 10 BEST MID-90S PROGRESSIVE HOUSE TRACKS
Leftfield - Song of Life
Does it have to be progressive house? A lot of these are more progressive trance.
MIxmag would frankly post any old shite to try and stay relevant.
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bosstrabs ..absolutely, never liked the term, was always associated with the pretentious and grandiose (which to be fair, it did become for a while).
The annoying thing was, at the time that the original Mixmag article came out that named it, there was something interesting and unique going-on, and that mixture of US dubs, tribal, and percussive house starting to come out of the UK was definitely becoming a thing in it’s own right, just a shame they decided to give it a shit name.
Also, I’d agree with hugopal, a lot of the music that people associate with ‘prog’ came later on and had way more in common with euro trance.
In the States it was just whatever Sasha & Digweed, and their minions, were playing. By minions I mean Jerry Bonham, Jimmy Van M, Kimball Collins, Sandra Collins, Chris Fortier, and so on. It was really just less cheesy-trance - or trance with a lower-case “t”. The scene here in San Francisco in the mid and late ’90’s was house-heavy, hyper-localized, and outside mega-DJs were often given a bit of a side-eye. But the prog guys used to play records from local labels and producers so they were generally accepted. I guess what I’m saying is “progressive” over here was basically meaningless sound-wise and was totally DJ-specific.
Wrecking ball prog is my favourite kind of prog.
Particularly around the 5am mark at Fabric.
A wonderful Dj is El Tel.
Never enjoyed a Terry Francis warm up. Peak time, however… Absolute fire.
Blain At his best when closing Room 1 I always thought.
I remember him absolutely totally clearing out Room 3 once.
I’ve a lot of respect, but it just sounds like two dustbins being smacked together.
