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What genre is Sasha?
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| PersianMafia |
| What genre does Sasha play. Now I mean all the way back to his Norther Exposure days to his latest Involver? Is it house? progressive? trance? I'm really confused as to his style and is John Digweed more house? |
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| A Massive Zebra |
| quote: | Originally posted by PersianMafia
What genre does Sasha play. Now I mean all the way back to his Norther Exposure days to his latest Involver? Is it house? progressive? trance? I'm really confused as to his style and is John Digweed more house? |
Mainly progressive house but with occasional trancey and breakey elements.
Digweed is pure progressive. |
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| Dmatrox |
His artist CDs (involver, airdrawndagger) aredifficult to classify
his live sets are a combination of prog house and what he guy said above me
his old mix cds of NE and GU were more prog trancy
when he plays out, he usually plays proggy style with breaks. |
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| stren |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dmatrox
His artist CDs (involver, airdrawndagger) aredifficult to classify
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Involver is a mix cd not and artist album like airdrawndagger |
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| lost_in_trance |
I would say he is electronic house, progressive house and breaks. Everybody has a different meaning about progressive. For example, some people say that Sasha is rather progressive trance but he doesn't play any progressive trance records...
PROGRESSIVE TRANCE : Markus Schulz, Leama & Moor, Perry O'Neil,..
PROGRESSIVE HOUSE : James Holden, Ozgur Can, James Zabiela,.. |
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| TheVrk |
| quote: | Originally posted by A Massive Zebra
Mainly progressive house but with occasional trancey and breakey elements.
Digweed is pure progressive. |
spot on:D |
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| rooibos |
| quote: | Originally posted by stren
Involver is a mix cd not and artist album like airdrawndagger |
Actually, every track on there has been re-edited, re-hashed, re-worked, re-somethinged by Sasha, so it was classified as an artist album. If you can find the sleeve notes of the Limited Edition release, they're worth a read!
But, to reply to the thread, Sasha is anything. For sets, he's spun along side Hernan and spun nothing but funky ass house, other times hes spun with Digweed and spun mellow progressive house, then way back in the 80's he spun electro/funk/funky house. He spins whatever the 'situation' calls for.
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PROGRESSIVE TRANCE : Markus Schulz, Leama & Moor, Perry O'Neil,..
PROGRESSIVE HOUSE : James Holden, Ozgur Can, James Zabiela,..
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Damn, you really need to expand your music knowledge. James Holden is trance, for one. He 'created' his own sub-genre called 'pixie trance', which is sort of house, chill, progressive trance, all shoved into one when speaking about his own productions.
Ozgur is progressive trance, because listen to his productions...I don't hear any house elements. :p
Anyways, I don't wanna start up a debate between what is house and what isnt. :] |
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| paranoik0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by lost_in_trance
I would say he is electronic house, progressive house and breaks. Everybody has a different meaning about progressive. For example, some people say that Sasha is rather progressive trance but he doesn't play any progressive trance records...
PROGRESSIVE TRANCE : Markus Schulz, Leama & Moor, Perry O'Neil,..
PROGRESSIVE HOUSE : James Holden, Ozgur Can, James Zabiela,.. |
That's subjective as , Zabiela plays a lot of breaks as well, Holden is a bit on a world of his own nowadays with his blend of proggy elements with lots of different crazy stuff, etc.. Time periods also mess a lot with these definitions, what you're calling progressive trance there is very different from the old Sasha NE stuff for example.
Sasha definitely moved around his style with time. I haven't heard his early 90's sets which supposedly were more house, so lets start with the mid/late 90's NE period.. that time he played mostly the "old" progressive trance which could go as far as 140 bpm. Around 2001 he got slower, and incorporated a lot more prog house and prog breaks into the sets. By this year (2004), he seemed to start turning into the housier side things for once, including some more electro. Airdrawndagger and Involver, as said before aren't very easy to classify. |
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| lost_in_trance |
| Here's why we always speak about "progressive". Certainly because it's very difficult to classify records in a particular style. |
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| AirDrawnDaggers |
| quote: | Originally posted by stren
Involver is a mix cd not and artist album like airdrawndagger |
Involver is an artist mix CD. Sasha engineered each of the tracks specifically for the album. So, its a mix CD, using all Sasha Edits. Artist Mix. |
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| stren |
| quote: | Originally posted by rooibos
Actually, every track on there has been re-edited, re-hashed, re-worked, re-somethinged by Sasha, so it was classified as an artist album. If you can find the sleeve notes of the Limited Edition release, they're worth a read!
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I actually read those :D I was just thinking that you can call and album an artist album, when the tracks are written by that person. My bad then |
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| memusa |
| quote: | Originally posted by paranoik0
That's subjective as , Zabiela plays a lot of breaks as well, Holden is a bit on a world of his own nowadays with his blend of proggy elements with lots of different crazy stuff, etc.. Time periods also mess a lot with these definitions, what you're calling progressive trance there is very different from the old Sasha NE stuff for example.
Sasha definitely moved around his style with time. I haven't heard his early 90's sets which supposedly were more house, so lets start with the mid/late 90's NE period.. that time he played mostly the "old" progressive trance which could go as far as 140 bpm. Around 2001 he got slower, and incorporated a lot more prog house and prog breaks into the sets. By this year (2004), he seemed to start turning into the housier side things for once, including some more electro. Airdrawndagger and Involver, as said before aren't very easy to classify. |
Wow...hearing Sasha nowadays and what he plays makes it hard to believe he once played as fast as 140bpm. I would love to get a hold of one of these sets...
But yeah, it's very very hard to describe Sasha's style because he can play from G+D - Arcadia which is more prog-trance to Spektrum - Kinda new (Tiefshwarz dub) which is kind of like prog acid house. I guess you can also say Sasha is pure progressive because he plays all the elements associated with progressive, yet he never plays pure house or pure trance. Even his breaks are progressive breaks.
All I know is he is the only DJ who can blend all the styles within progressive and get away with it because he is THAT good. |
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