Pretty sure Crosstown Rebels is still a thing, though I haven't checked on their output for a couple years now, so maybe they've moved onto, I dunno', 3:30am tech-haus?

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Electronic Music Critic: Near-Daily Ruminations Of Music I Own, In Alphabetical Order!

My next listening project will be to go through the whole Fabric series. Aside from a couple of the drum 'n bass ones I've barely heard any. Should make for an interesting timeline of the changing winds of the last two decades of credible club music.

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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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With that said, I just tried listening to this mix and couldn’t get more than 20 minutes in. Not so much boring as outright irritating. I’ve tried coming back to the music from this era many times from an older and broader musical base to see if it will ever click for me, and I’m pretty sure it never will. The era of 2005-10 is the Dark Ages of club music, as far as I’m concerned.

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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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I have around 15.000 records on my Discogs wantlist, mostly dance music from all eras. I'm pretty sure around 2004-2008 are by far the lightest. In my eyes, 2009 and 2010 were already pretty good with lots of foundational and now-classic modern techno and post-dubstep records but you obviously still had a lot of junk bigroom techno and inane tech-haus. As much as I don't like the current standard sound of modern techno it's still leagues above the junk that came out in the peak-mnml era.

I think personally, 2001-2003 and then 2009-2011 were the best years for seminal Fabric mixes. The mixes in the last couple of years were mostly decent and on average, probably better then what came out in the 2000s but just not very memorable, which is probably down to the advent of online mixes and the total oversupply of music that is currently reigning.

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June 2018 mix

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J My next listening project will be to go through the whole Fabric series. Aside from a couple of the drum 'n bass ones I've barely heard any. Should make for an interesting timeline of the changing winds of the last two decades of credible club music.

Damn, that's an ambitious project. You should blog about it.

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Electronic Music Critic: Near-Daily Ruminations Of Music I Own, In Alphabetical Order!

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J With that said, I just tried listening to this mix and couldn’t get more than 20 minutes in. Not so much boring as outright irritating. I’ve tried coming back to the music from this era many times from an older and broader musical base to see if it will ever click for me, and I’m pretty sure it never will. The era of 2005-10 is the Dark Ages of club music, as far as I’m concerned.

Wait a sec, 2007-2009 was the golden age of McProg and 8th note house. It may not be vintage 95 epic house or 98 trance, but I sure had a metric fuckton of fun to that music at the time. Might have been shit in the Uk but it was a second summer of love here in the USA as far as I'm concerned.

Crosstown rebels, hot nature, wolf + lamb, innervision

They All had a good run...


I still check for their releases but they aren't like shifting the scène anymore

Cant go wrong with get physical either


And there is some 8th note mcprog that i really like from 2018..or sounds refreshing again because Its been so long ...

Check out alpha 9-azzura To hear what im talking about

Idk what the fuck you guys are talking about

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Wait a sec, 2007-2009 was the golden age of McProg and 8th note house. It may not be vintage 95 epic house or 98 trance, but I sure had a metric fuckton of fun to that music at the time. Might have been shit in the Uk but it was a second summer of love here in the USA as far as I'm concerned.

Are you being serious?

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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 Are you being serious?

Semi serious, in that I know in hindsight to take McProg etc with a pinch of salt, but I'm not going to sit here and say there wasn't some seriously fucking great music (regardless of how it's dated / at least for the time) etc being pumped out between 2007 - 2009.

Jaytech, Proff, Dinka, Chris Reece Jerome Isma-Ae, Claude Von Stroke, and obviously not forgetting Joel (to his mates) output really ramped up.

Again, I can't comment about Europe as it was right when I moved to the states, but dance music exploded and hearing that progressive bouncy prog, actually in a club was was a fuckton of fun. I can't really take anyone seriously who says it was the dark ages.

In my mind the dark ages were basically 2001 to about 2006 - all the big clubs in the UK shuttered around then with exception to say Fabric and a couple of others, you had some of the most boring prog ever being churned out, only to be complemented with minimal which get ever more, er, minimal and both scenes pretty much died a quick and barren death.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN I can't really take anyone seriously who says it was the dark ages.

If you file Deadmau5 and Jaytech under "seriously fucking great music" I'm not entirely surprised we don't agree with each other.

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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/