Current DJ who spins most similarly to Golden Prog Years?

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.

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.

Wasily Slightly more trancy than prog but golden nonetheless:

Job Jobse often annoys me for playing plenty of excellent records but too slow. He also chucks in too many “wet” or cheesy records as well as the odd italo-disco sounding stuff to remind people that he’s playing the trance tracks too slow.

I mean, I was going to say that the set you linked there seemed one of his better ones, but then typically as I was thinking that he follows up playing some belters like ‘7 Days and 1 Week’ and ‘Hale Bopp’ with a frickin’ hideous disco-breaks remix of Eurythmics ‘Sweet Dreams are Made of This’ plus Sonique "It Feels So Good’…

I couldn’t go to one of his gigs because I’d spend the whole time knowing I couldn’t enjoy myself properly even with a good track playing, because I’d be constantly on edge bracing myself for whenever he’d without warning chuck some hot turd at the speakers.

But it’s true that there’s a fair bit of crossover with what he plays and peak prog and he’s closer than most of those mentioned so far; shame he has to ruin the good stuff he’s playing though.