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

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.

    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’…

              Vom

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