Your dream unreleased find(s) from Sasha sets 1990-2010
If you could walk into a magic shop and at your command any track Sasha played from these years that was never could be yours at the flick of a wand what tracks would you ask for?
Obviously THAT version of Medway - Bassline track is one for me.
There's probably a gazillion ID's and edited versions of tunes that can't come to mind right now however, I do remember one in particular. In the NYE 1997 mix on Triple J with Digweed, there's a great version of Slacker's your face that I have never heard since nor can I find it anywhere. Starts at roughly 1 hr 27 mins.
I'll probably edit this post as I'm almost certain I'll have more contributions.
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any party from 2003 and back I only remember bits and pieces...i've combined those memories into one awesome party
May-29-2025 14:35
the-sixth
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quote:
Originally posted by SPANIARD
There's probably a gazillion ID's and edited versions of tunes that can't come to mind right now however, I do remember one in particular. In the NYE 1997 mix on Triple J with Digweed, there's a great version of Slacker's your face that I have never heard since nor can I find it anywhere. Starts at roughly 1 hr 27 mins.
I'll probably edit this post as I'm almost certain I'll have more contributions.
Ahh the dub mix. Yes I know of this one, not usually a fan of slacker but this one has grown on me.
Honestly, I don't care about this stuff anymore. Lusting over some obscure prog record from 1997 might have made sense when prog was a finite resource like northern soul, and old records were the only way to get more of it. These days there's twenty great new tunes released every month that you don't have to hunt down like Moby Dick to get hold of.
Chasing people around on Discogs for years on end trying to get a slightly different version of a track as played out as The Baseline Track is an endeavour for the obsessive collectors and I've never been one of those.
If you enjoy any of these sets and want to hear me live, I'll be playing a 2 hour progressive trance set at Basing House in Shoreditch, London on 11th October.
I'm also a resident at our bi-monthly party Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/
May-30-2025 06:45
Mattsanity
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Before this gets out of hand, I wanna say the- sixth and system-j have both done a lot for the online dance community. I hope we can agree to disagree.
May-30-2025 08:32
SYSTEM-J
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It's not going to get out of hand, don't worry Matt. Aydrean has spent a hell of a lot of money and energy over the years doing what he does and he's got a reputation in the extremely niche scene that is the prog house classics community as the collector's collector. I'm sure that brings him plenty of satisfaction that's not going to be diminished by anything I say.
For me, I thought about this question and basically realised I don't obsess over classics sets like I used to 5+ years ago. I'll buy oldies if I can get hold of them easily enough, but it's just a fundamentally different landscape now.
If you enjoy any of these sets and want to hear me live, I'll be playing a 2 hour progressive trance set at Basing House in Shoreditch, London on 11th October.
I'm also a resident at our bi-monthly party Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/
May-30-2025 10:02
the-sixth
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No issue for me at all guys,
I actually agree anyone with sense (and a bigger bank balance) has let go of these things a long time ago
Still curious about the ones people did want at the time that never made it if you do recall
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: West LA, California (where retired party people live)
My wife and I will forever love Sasha and Digweed. Sasha's actually playing this weekend at an Anjunadeep day show (no babysitter = no go for us). Although their old mixes and tracks are nostalgic, I can only handle a few minutes before boredom sets in. There's this moment of "Yes! Honey! Do you remember this track?!?!" to "Okay, I'm done. What's for dinner."
BUT if Sasha or Diggers were to throw down one of their classic tracks during a live set/show we're attending, you know I'm going APE SHIT over it!!
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May-30-2025 15:33
Mattsanity
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
It's not going to get out of hand, don't worry Matt. Aydrean has spent a hell of a lot of money and energy over the years doing what he does and he's got a reputation in the extremely niche scene that is the prog house classics community as the collector's collector. I'm sure that brings him plenty of satisfaction that's not going to be diminished by anything I say.
For me, I thought about this question and basically realised I don't obsess over classics sets like I used to 5+ years ago. I'll buy oldies if I can get hold of them easily enough, but it's just a fundamentally different landscape now.
My bad, I didn't mean to make a snarky comment. You obviously didn't have ill intentions when responding to this thread.
I'm not gonna pretend I've been hunting down unknown ID's for years, but the last track in this set was pretty dope:
Originally posted by Mattsanity
My bad, I didn't mean to make a snarky comment. You obviously didn't have ill intentions when responding to this thread.
I'm not gonna pretend I've been hunting down unknown ID's for years, but the last track in this set was pretty dope:
I suppose if there's one lost release I would like to come to light, it would be Paul Van Dyk's final album for MFS that was never released. Sasha and Digweed were playing the original promo version of Avenue in '97 which PVD had to re-record in full to get around the copyright dispute, and tracklists suggest one of the IDs at the end of Digweed's Gainsville set in 1997 was another track from that album.
I was never much of a fan of Out There And Back, and it would be interesting to know if the album-that-never-was would be more in keeping with PVD's sound around '97.
But then, I remember reading about BT and Sasha collaborating with Peter Gabriel in 1998 on an ambient world music album that was never released and thinking it would have sounded amazing if it ever saw the light of day. Then some of the promo tracks ended up YouTube and they're just... a bit naff: https://www.discogs.com/release/151...Rn1vpKvG_yjrphv
If you enjoy any of these sets and want to hear me live, I'll be playing a 2 hour progressive trance set at Basing House in Shoreditch, London on 11th October.
I'm also a resident at our bi-monthly party Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/
Jun-01-2025 07:55
the-sixth
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
one of the IDs at the end of Digweed's Gainsville set in 1997 was another track from that album.
That one turned out not to be a PVD track, but one hidden on a Goa CD. The producer did release on MFS however so perhaps Paul gave it to John along with his album stuff?