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Okay, I dug up my definition of progressive myself:
First post:
Well I think that the term progressive refers more to the nature of the genre, rather than the actual musical aspects of it. That is, the music has progressed beyond trance and house, it is the future of music, the direction in which music is heading, it is more progressive in the everyday sense of the word than all the other genres of music.
Besides that, I could argue that the music does sound as though it's progressing somewhere anyway. Listen to a beat from a true progressive track: it always sounds like it's going somewhere, it sounds relentless. Same with the music in general actually - it just keeps on going and going, building and building, even if it doesn't peak or trough like in most other genres of music it's still got a definate direction (even though some would argue that it's flat and constant, I think that even though it is subtle, the track is always building and has definate "progression").
And that's what makes progressive so captivating to me. The fact that it just keeps on coming (way-hey) and doesn't let down. I've said it before and I'll say it again, but you have to learn how to detect all this because it's a very subtle form of music, but, at the same time, that's what makes it so satisfying to listen to.
Anyway, I've gone way off track as usual. Hope I've answered your question?
Second Post:
Oh yeah, one more thing.
If "progressive" simply meant that the music "progressed" and had a logical sequence from beginning to end, then you could throw just about any song ever written into this category.
Thus, even though I am unaware of where the term came from, I can only assume that progressive originated not from describing what the music was doing (i.e. progressing from beginning to end with logical succession) but describing the direction that this specific genre of music was taking culturally (i.e. it was progressing beyond all other genres of electronic music).
Feel free to tell me if you think I'm talking cod-shit, but this is just what I understand progressive music to be.
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