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fav tracks from prog house 2002-2005?

very obsessed with this era. post up your fav tracks, but dont post too many at at time post a few; then make another post after someone else has done so.

V-Sag tracks before he got ultrahomo





Pablo Roma tracks that aren't on youtube like Blue Noise and Mykonos.




I dunno, there's plenty. I dug most of what Victoria R was playing on her radio show back then. Christ knows what that woman is up to now.

random big list

lemon8 - new york, new york
subtech - city lights
xzique - outside looking in (sub project remix)
head honcho - medicine
way out west - fear
aphasia - acapulco (chris & kai's acid island trip)
r.b.fusion - parranda
lamya - empires (sander k mix)
sultan & the greek - rezin
van bellen - 20/20 (saints & sinners mix)
moby - in this world (slacker mix)
second sun - the spell (cass dub)
fluke - pulse
the aircrash bureau - don't expect me (antiloop mix)

anybody who mentions greg benz & md are fags

space manouevres pt 3 (breaks mix)

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Originally posted by Mattinsanity anybody who mentions greg benz & md are fags space manouevres pt 3 (breaks mix)

whats wrong with Benz & MD?

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Originally posted by trancedanne whats wrong with Benz & MD?

they incorporate a bunch of bland substances in their tracks that really doesn't invade the ears with any distinctive rhythm that you could appreciate as genuine prog. canadians fail at making good prog house.

they knew they were crossing in more trance, remember to wipe those tears using your kfc napkins.

my personal favorite era.

Hern�n Catt�neo - The Masters Series 2 came to my mind. A lot of good progressive house on that one.

So much outstanding material to select from. These immediately come to mind:

Bjork- Kindness Kind (Delikate Imposters remix)
Tilt- 12 (Dousk remix)
Space Manoeuvres- Part 3 (Original/Pole Folder/Probspot remixes)
Depeche Mode- Only When I Lose Myself (Lexicon Avenue remix)
Sonorous- Second Sun (Leama & Moor remix)
Gill Norris- Forme (Leama & Moor remix)
Micah, Ben Camp, Mat Leutwyler- Grammar Lesson (Ben & Mat remix)
Bent- As You Fall (Micah's Swollen Floor remix)
Introvert- 5 AM
Stel & Good Newz- Little Soul
Sultan & The Greek- Rezin
Valentino- Flying (Sultan & The Greek remix)
Alex Stealthy- Once...and anything else by Alex Stealthy.
PQM- Nameless (Chab Version 2 mix)
PQM- You Are Sleeping (Luke Chable remix)

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Originally posted by Mattinsanity they incorporate a bunch of bland substances in their tracks that really doesn't invade the ears with any distinctive rhythm that you could appreciate as genuine prog. canadians fail at making good prog house.

I'm not entirely clear as to precisely what you're referring to with a description like this, but I can't imagine it applying to something along these lines:

Why starting at 2002?

So much good prog was made before that as well.

because thats the thread topic... god.

Why just those years though. Is there a particular reason why you chose them?

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Originally posted by Lews Why just those years though. Is there a particular reason why you chose them?

Because, for better or worse, this is the timeframe many people deem to be the 'golden age' of Progressive House.

Starting at 2002? o.o

its personal... now contribute. ;p

2002/03 seem to be commonly cited dividing lines with similar threads that pop up here from time to time.

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Originally posted by Paradox Lost Because, for better or worse, this is the timeframe many people deem to be the 'golden age' of Progressive House.

That's almost entirely because a huge demographic of people had been inducted into dance music around 1998-2001 during the epic trance boom (I was one of them). After a couple of years they began to develop a taste for something deeper, and progressive was the obvious place to go. This 2002-2005 prog phase is mostly deemed the "golden age" because of nostalgia and inexperience with older incarnations of prog. I've heard people who've been clubbing for over a decade who think that progressive house was invented at some point in 2001. It's also where this ludicrous idea that prog house is defined by some sort of "progressive structure" comes from. Most of these people had/have no idea about the history or origins of the genre, and when faced with a much longer, slower and protracted version of the glowstick fare they'd been weaned on, they assumed "progressive" was some sort of structuralist definition.

I don't have the same nostalgic reverence for this period, and my opinion on early-00s prog isn't too different to my original verdict: most of it is fucking boring. Ishkur has this idea of the "great anthem crash" where everyone got sick of epic trance bombast and started making anti-anthemic music, and that's a good definition of this type of prog. I find it funny when people bemoan tech house hegemony and then wistfully talk about early-00s prog, because this is where modern tech house's anti-melody, anti-drama, anti-fun aesthetic was born. It's basically the beginning of the end of progressive, and it's certainly the death of everything the genre originally stood for.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I don't have the same nostalgic reverence for this period, and my opinion on early-00s prog isn't too different to my original verdict: most of it is fucking boring. Ishkur has this idea of the "great anthem crash" where everyone got sick of epic trance bombast and started making anti-anthemic music, and that's a good definition of this type of prog. I find it funny when people bemoan tech house hegemony and then wistfully talk about early-00s prog, because this is where modern tech house's anti-melody, anti-drama, anti-fun aesthetic was born. It's basically the beginning of the end of progressive, and it's certainly the death of everything the genre originally stood for.

To delve deeper into that, what were some of the factors feeding into it? Was it simple crowd burnout of the convention or was it that new DJ's were flooding the market who lacked experience and expertise to pull off combinations which sounded good, and therefore needed something much simpler, who helped shape it? Or a combination, there-in or elsewhere?

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Ishkur has this idea of the "great anthem crash" where everyone got sick of epic trance bombast and started making anti-anthemic music, and that's a good definition of this type of prog. I find it funny when people bemoan tech house hegemony and then wistfully talk about early-00s prog, because this is where modern tech house's anti-melody, anti-drama, anti-fun aesthetic was born. It's basically the beginning of the end of progressive, and it's certainly the death of everything the genre originally stood for.

Yes, I also read that in the existing version of the guide, but I was under the impression that it was in reference to what he categorically refers to as the 'Tech Trance' (which seems to be more commonly referred to as Progressive Trance) sound that was being championed most prominently by the major British DJ's towards the end of the 90's and well into the early 2000's, which then seemed to taper off into what is considered to be the 'Progressive' typically associated with the timeframe this thread is concerned with.

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Originally posted by EddieZilker To delve deeper into that, what were some of the factors feeding into it? Was it simple crowd burnout of the convention or was it that new DJ's were flooding the market who lacked experience and expertise to pull off combinations which sounded good, and therefore needed something much simpler, who helped shape it? Or a combination, there-in or elsewhere?

Both, to an extent. It was simply the massive, massive popularity of epic trance. It may not have been obvious in the US, but this stuff absolutely flooded the charts in the UK and Europe. Trance hits became pop hits. When any style gets that popular, it brings in a lot of bad DJs who abuse the style, and a lot of shit trend-hopping producers who saturate the market with terrible clone records. You can see the same thing happening with dubstep today.

A huge number of people got sick of epic trance and trance DJs. Prog was a stylistic backlash: it stripped the music right down. If you were on TA around 2002/3, you'll remember a massive war between trance and progressive. Similar to the kind of war waged between trance and "minimal" these days. This early-00s prog was the plink-plonk of its day.

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Originally posted by Paradox Lost Yes, I also read that in the existing version of the guide, but I was under the impression that it was in reference to what he categorically refers to as the 'Tech Trance' (which seems to be more commonly referred to as Progressive Trance) sound that was being championed most prominently by the major British DJ's towards the end of the 90's and well into the early 2000's, which then seemed to taper off into what is considered to be the 'Progressive' typically associated with the timeframe this thread is concerned with.

Read his blurb for "Brit House".

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Originally posted by Mattinsanity anybody who mentions greg benz & md are fags space manouevres pt 3 (breaks mix)

That's a pretty bold statement from someone who posts breaks to a prog house thread.

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