James Holden

He butchered the sky was pink but at least he was authentic unlike so many who got help back then or used ghost producers.

Smallman1 this is a popular view, however I regret to inform you that it is quintessential historical revisionism. If you deign to examine the record, when he had left silver planet, sasha and digweed were already disowning the merger of trance and house so beloved of the progressive lifestyle and capitulating to pure mnml tech house. Holden kept it alive well into the late 2000s. After all, who was playing Midimiliz - Trace Function in 2005 outside of the psytrance scene? Peak time wrecking ball prog, that one.

how could you, for instance, dare to deny that this is quintessential gu013 material, only updated to take account of the technological advances of laptop production in 2007?

I should like to agree with you that his new music is disappointing, but this is because the virtuous crusade to keep the real progressive house sound and lifestyle alive was disowned by all the main practitioners. He was a lone warrior. Putting myself in his shoes, if enough music is not coming into my inbox to constantly reenact 1999, what else could I do? and I also regret to inform you that you must take responsibility for isolating him so callously because you became ashamed of liking trance because you could no longer chat up hipster birds.

Of course as an older and wiser man your youthful follies can be excused and you may be forgiven, but what is written in tablets of stone cannot be erased.

pure 2010 peak time wrecking ball prog

It is only recently that your friends mr smallman have realised the error of their ways and are now returning to peak time wrecking ball prog. for instance:

I was going to say that either you’re a massive troll, or that you need your ears tested. But then I realised you must be Flares and so it’s clearly both.

Anyway, it’s likely futile but I still might as well quickly tear this down:

[deleted] After all, who was playing Midimiliz - Trace Function in 2005 outside of the psytrance scene? Peak time wrecking ball prog, that one.

The riff and the beat is pure electro house.

[deleted] how could you, for instance, dare to deny that this is quintessential gu013 material, only updated to take account of the technological advances of laptop production in 2007?

It doesn’t require much to “dare” to point out that the misstress barbara track is a limp, ping-pong ball beat, melodic minimal track with yet another metallic electro lead, which has absolutely zilch to do with gu013.

[deleted] pure 2010 peak time wrecking ball prog

LOL - this is the funniest one of the lot. 118 bpm slo-mo glitchy crap = “peak time wrecking ball prog”?!?!?!

[deleted] It is only recently that your friends mr smallman have realised the error of their ways and are now returning to peak time wrecking ball prog. for instance:

This is also a highly amusing part, because in referencing Avalon Emerson you actually have managed to mention someone who now sometimes plays fairly close to the mid-late 90s prog trance sound, yet you posted an older track of hers which doesn’t really encapsulate this (her sound does move around a bit and she can be quite eclectic mind). If you wanted to actually post an example of it then you should have gone for this:

[deleted] Holden kept it alive well into the late 2000s.

It’s just nonsense. ‘Come To Me’ was the last real prog track he made (which in 2004 was in fairness pretty late for the genre). One could even argue it was actually ‘Nothing’ in 2003 and that ‘Come to Me’ was already a blend with the more minimal and glitchy stuff he was heading towards.

But yeah, from that point with his Border Community stuff he disappeared up his backside with the more minimal/electro stuff along with everyone else. You posted a track from his 2006 ‘At The Controls’, but that mix was an example of him having almost entirely jumped the shark from the, already fairly minimal but still prog-laced 2003 Balance mix, to an overly noodley minimal style.