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

hugopal 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.

Some of his recent Rinse mixes are exclusively dub techno which does little for me. His live mixes are generally more of the trancier stuff.

    @hugopal Jobe is another worth checking out. Below is mix of his own tracks. Breaks and Prog;

      SM001 Jobe is another worth checking out. Below is mix of his own tracks. Breaks and Prog;

      That was a quick and easy nope.

      Firstly, too many breaks for “golden era prog” and they’re just not really my thing anyway. All too fluffy sounding as well.

        zackster Dark horse name here, but Dj Nobu can play trance tinged stuff in a way that I would call progressive.

        Where would an example of this be? From the limited amount I’ve heard of him he’s pretty much just loopy techno.

        zackster Also Function.

        I don’t really understand this comparison either.

            certainly not the bpm’s, but definitely the deep and dark vibe of the golden age

              Slightly more trancy than prog but golden nonetheless:

                ArchimedesQ definitely the deep and dark vibe of the golden age

                Definitely not. Same monotonous “vibe” as Organic House. Dull as fuck.

                    zackster that’s one track and it doesn’t particularly make me think of ‘prog’. It has a space-y synth line but it’s too drift-y and “atmospheric”/ambient. If anything it reminds me a bit more of what passes for modern day “prog”.

                      SM001 ArchimedesQ definitely the deep and dark vibe of the golden age

                      Definitely not. Same monotonous “vibe” as Organic House. Dull as fuck.

                      Blue/Black or White/gold?

                        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.

                            hugopal Eurythmics ‘Sweet Dreams are Made of This’ plus Sonique "It Feels So Good’…

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                                hugopal Haven’t listened to him since he played Pianoman Blurred in 2021. Jeremy Healy tribute act.

                                    alistair If memory serves you were singing his praises in the not so distant past!

                                      hugopal science must remind you of certain iconic records of the progressive era.
                                      Such as:
                                      Blue Amazon - And then the Rain Falls.
                                      Jayne Hannah - River of Tears/Lost Without you.
                                      Morgan King - I’m Free.
                                      lucid - - crazy (nalin and kane down on a sit mix)
                                      BT - Mercury and Solace
                                      Solid Sessions - Janeiro
                                      Cass and Slide - Perception (Vocal mix)
                                      Stoneproof – Everything’s Not You (quivver remix)
                                      K90 - Above The Clouds( Ylem Remix)
                                      Moral - True the f***** is you (deep dish poof daddy remix.)

                                      All cheesier than Sweet Dreams

                                      Hence science must conclude that golden era prog never existed, and golden era prog is in fact for musical centrism. But as centrism has no defined ideological orientation, it will always be in flux, as it is dependent on being middlebrow. Science has decided.

                                          forzaforza All cheesier than Sweet Dreams

                                          Morgan King - I’m Free, yes, and I’ve spoken about really disliking that record and thinking it nearly ruins San Francisco.

                                          The rest? Nope. And to top it off, as I mentioned it was a particularly naff mix of Sweet Dreams as well.

                                          If you think BT ‘Mercury and Solace’ and ’Everything’s Not You (Quivver Mix) are cheesy then I think you’re on the wrong forum. I think most big jocks ignored the ‘Vocal’ of ‘Perception’ as well.

                                          Oh wait, I just realised by the last part of your comment that you must be Flares. Fuck off again.

                                          @Millsy @Homegrove @Hursty @mono-stereo etc.

                                              hugopal I do not like Job Jobse, but brisk and ham are good. if you want cheese, go into the maximum possible scientific cheese. No cheese centrism!

                                                  forzaforza Hence science must conclude that golden era prog never existed, and golden era prog is in fact for musical centrism. But as centrism has no defined ideological orientation, it will always be in flux, as it is dependent on being middlebrow. Science has decided.

                                                  Schrödinger’s Prog?

                                                      Wasily definitely schrödinger’s prog. After all, this is a serious Finnish prog if you think about it hard enough.

                                                        13 days later

                                                        Wasily This is in a similar vein:

                                                        Also not bad; missing a bit of darkness and oomph, but a fair amount of proggy stuff in there including some less commonly heard tribally sounding bits.

                                                          This guy is quite good. Also playing the same edit of Sasha & Holden ‘Bloodlock’ as Courtesy. His productions are good as well.

                                                          Though again as with most prog revivalists nowadays his stuff leans a bit more towards the more psychedelic, bouncy, floaty trance mid-90s sounds.