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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Have you got any recommendations in the genre? I'm always looking out for more stuff like this.

If you have not listened to john digweed's 1995 essential mix, do it now. I like that mix better than any sasha mix during that time. I can't provide a link for you to download, but since its an essential mix you should be able to find it somewhere like mixingbowl.org.

i'd also recommend Sasha live at Temple of Love, 1993. Find it on mixingbowl.org, absolute killer set with amazing tracks you probably can't find anywhere.

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Originally posted by Nostalgic If you have not listened to john digweed's 1995 essential mix, do it now. I like that mix better than any sasha mix during that time. I can't provide a link for you to download, but since its an essential mix you should be able to find it somewhere like mixingbowl.org.

Heh. I just came online and had a PM from IpLaYWiTLiGhTs with a link to this set in, from when I'd requested it ages ago. It was meant to be!

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Mixes:
> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J 9. Blue Amazon - And Then The Rain Falls (Javelin Remix)

\o/ One of my favorites

Nicely done. The attention and effort that went into 10min+ epic house productions makes most of today's "DJ tools" seem so sad by comparison.

Definitely. My aim is to keep alive the ethos and the emotional aesthetics of this kind of music, which seem to be rapidly vanishing into the sands of time.

My long-term aim is to actually produce some music with this philosophy, although that's realistically just a pipe dream at present. In the meantime, the least I can do is make threads, make mixes and keep playing it to anyone who'll listen.

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Mixes:
> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

Like these sets? Come see me play live at Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/

Re-bumpbumpbump. I fucking love this mix. Listened to it multiple times at work this week and it helped keep me sane. We need more good shit like this. Any CD mixes from back then you recommend that are somewhere along the lines of your mix?

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June 09: Sohan's Double Fudge Brownie Mix
GUIDO FISTPUMP ANTHEMS MIX
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Originally posted by spc Re-bumpbumpbump. I fucking love this mix. Listened to it multiple times at work this week and it helped keep me sane. We need more good shit like this. Any CD mixes from back then you recommend that are somewhere along the lines of your mix?

Renaissance: The Mix Collection Part 2, although I haven't actually listened to it yet.

Here's the link for that Digweed Essential Mix: [[ LINK REMOVED ]]


I'd also recommend Sasha's Essential Mix from 21/5/95: I used a couple of the same tracks he played in that set.

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Mixes:
> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

Like these sets? Come see me play live at Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Renaissance: The Mix Collection Part 2, although I haven't actually listened to it yet. Here's the link for that Digweed Essential Mix: [[ LINK REMOVED ]] I'd also recommend Sasha's Essential Mix from 21/5/95: I used a couple of the same tracks he played in that set.

Nice, I had Sasha & Digweed's 1st Renaissance Mix Collection which I loved. I didn't know that Digweed actually made the 2nd Mix Collection so I'll definitely try to check that one out. Already got the 95 EM which is an awesome set. I'll def check out Digweed's EM when I get home tonight.

Anyway, time to put your mix back on.. i love this stuff

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April 10: Late Night Suffern Train
June 09: Sohan's Double Fudge Brownie Mix
GUIDO FISTPUMP ANTHEMS MIX
lol@theinternet

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Originally posted by spc Nice, I had Sasha & Digweed's 1st Renaissance Mix Collection which I loved. I didn't know that Digweed actually made the 2nd Mix Collection so I'll definitely try to check that one out. Already got the 95 EM which is an awesome set. I'll def check out Digweed's EM when I get home tonight.

Yeah, Renaissance were one of the clubs that championed this sound in the mid-90s, along with other Northern clubs like Up Yer Ronson. I've heard this epic progressive sound described as "Northern House" because it was very popular in the North of England. Blue Amazon are from Huddersfield, which is where I'm living now, so I have a direct cultural connection with this stuff: it's the clubbing heritage of my region.

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Mixes:
> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

Like these sets? Come see me play live at Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/

I'm gonna keep bumping this thread for awhile lol. I'm listening to Digweed's 95 EM you linked right now and I absolutely love it! Sasha & Maria - Be As One just started getting mixed in and I started spazzing out since it's one of my favorite vocal trance tunes. (On a sidenote I wonder how much of a hand BT had in this production) Anyway if I keep finding more stuff similar to this, I might end up making an "epic house" mix too.

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April 10: Late Night Suffern Train
June 09: Sohan's Double Fudge Brownie Mix
GUIDO FISTPUMP ANTHEMS MIX
lol@theinternet

I need something different right now and this looks like it will fit the bill quite nicely.

Back with thoughts in an hour or so.

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Well I'm just having a chance now to sit down and spout some nonsense about this set, but it was really a treat to listen to. I wasn't too familiar with many of the tunes you used (I may have heard about half of them more than a handful of times), but the flow of the first two tracks was just the mood I needed to get some stuff done this morning.

You should post more sets - your posts in MD say you've got good taste and the programming of this says you know how create a coherent set.

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Originally posted by RJT Well I'm just having a chance now to sit down and spout some nonsense about this set, but it was really a treat to listen to. I wasn't too familiar with many of the tunes you used (I may have heard about half of them more than a handful of times), but the flow of the first two tracks was just the mood I needed to get some stuff done this morning. You should post more sets - your posts in MD say you've got good taste and the programming of this says you know how create a coherent set.

Thanks. I'm glad to see you praising it, because you don't hand out praise lightly.

I don't post sets because I don't consider what I do proper DJing, in particular when it comes to buying music. I don't really trawl to find individual tracks and develop a unique style. I don't have that mindset. Musically (although not technically), this set is a homage to Sasha and Digweed circa 1995, and I've not hidden that.

I'm thinking about making a set of classic progressive house from the 92/93 Leftfield/Underworld/Spooky/Fluke school, and I might post that here, but classics sets are all about commemorating a musical style rather than trying to define your own. A DJ in the proper sense of the word, like what you do, deserves celebrating for their devotion to discovering music, and I simply don't feel I engage with music in that way.

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Mixes:
> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

Like these sets? Come see me play live at Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/

Last edited by SYSTEM-J on Jan-16-2008 at 18:40