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  • Current DJ who spins most similarly to Golden Prog Years?

Sasha could provide ‘the journey’. Cattaneo, despite having 60% the same bag of records, couldn’t provide ‘the journey’.

Oakenfold, at his peak, couldn’t mix properly but could still provide ‘the journey’.

    Fucking hell just cringed at the thought of me describing the genre to innocent bystanders circa 2002-2007 with the word ‘journeyesque’.

      apyssjw Flo Masse basically plays her Uncle’s old records.

          Some of the bangers Perel puts in her sets definitely sounds like it was heavily influenced by old school tune age - hook recordings and their trancier sound comes to mind - some stuff almost sounds like repurposed happy hardcore - not the golden age of prog but still kinda refreshing when so much stuff takes itself way too seriously these days.

          rhouses ‘Music that stimulates the mind as well as the heart’ was my own ultra wanky way of describing things back in the day.

              Wally My favourite was some skinny, speccy bloke in Renaissance Nottingham (I think the club was called Media) who looked madoutofit, bouncing off the walls, when we asked what he was on he said “just high on the music, mate”.

              • Heno replied to this.

                  bosstrabs Hmm, Sasha was mini journey Vs Digweed’s mega journey in my humble.

                    My point, albeit brief, was that Prog fans spout an awful lot of shite about ‘the journey’.

                      Mad_Cyril Indeed. The last time a a Sasha set took me “on a journey” were in the mid 90s when he was playing half of Ima in them.

                        I rather enjoyed his Emfire sets at MOS.

                        Mad_Cyril That was your suggestion? Yeh, pretty difficult to get that from your limited wording, but I’d agree for sure that it isn’t.

                            How long before we start talking about sequencing?

                            bosstrabs Serious point by MC. It was all about the journey.

                            If “the journey” is from 125bpm melodic house to 128bpm breakbeats then I don’t give a shit.

                              The Prog journey…..122bpm Deep House (ADID) to 130bpm (Drumcode)

                              They never quite wind it down…Full throttle tp the end.

                                Dan The Prog journey…..122bpm Deep House (ADID) to 130bpm (Drumcode)

                                Thought it was 124bpm bongos………………….. 6 hours of bongos later …………………to 124bpm more bongos ?

                                  Some of the cunts need to mimic Danny Krivit… That’s how you play a set.

                                    Edgar Davids?

                                    Baumel from a couple years back was the prog I wanted and missed. Seemed like the perfect fit for GU and Balance at the time as well.

                                    apyssjw There’s lots of ‘progressive trance’ at the moment but I wouldn’t be confident in stylistically it aiming at ‘peak prog’..

                                    Flo Masse would be a good shout as a dj (and plays loads of 90s classics)

                                    That’s not bad actually. Goes a bit too ‘eclectic’ in the middle, but good at the start and end.

                                    I’m not sure it’s “peak prog” in sound either as again the influences tend more towards the early-mid 90s with lots of floating psychedelic acid lines and old-school basslines, but there are a few tracks in there that despite being made in 2022 (I’ve posted a couple below) definitely seem progressive trance more than anything and sound very much the kind of thing Sasha would be playing around 95-96.

                                    When there’s stuff like this being made today it’s very confusing why Sasha now plays what and how he does. I noticed that the first track here was also played by Zabiela, which kind of supports my original post.

                                      Dan Flo Masse basically plays her Uncle’s old records.

                                      Who’s her uncle?

                                      • Dan replied to this.

                                          SD’s been very hypothetical today!

                                          SM001 Try some of Adam Pits sets. Some of his “Progier/Trancier” sets can veer to the dubby techno side.

                                          Wasily I’d second Pits too, though it’s not really ‘golden’ prog IMO.

                                          I quite liked that Adam Pits set, I did get shades of deep and moody late 90s stuff like Corellian ‘Fathoms’ (Freelance Icebreakers Mix’) and Electric Tease ’Your Lovin (16B Mix) early on. It also had a hypnotic feel missing from a lot of recent sets that draw from prog influences.

                                          However, as you say it ended up mostly dub techno type stuff and I have to admit towards the end I was starting to find it all starting to sound rather samey.