I love me some McProg. It's a guilty pleasure and I'll say one thing, in a club or party is really just works. There was a great DJ who used to play downstairs at Avalon here in LA and it was about 4-5 hours of that prog and honestly, I often had more fun in that tiny little lobby space than the headlining DJ in the main room.
Thanks for posting up thsoe tracks and sets guys! I am a little surprised that there's no Jaytech, Chris Reece or Dinka
Godking5
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Originally posted by DJ RANN
I love me some McProg. It's a guilty pleasure and I'll say one thing, in a club or party is really just works. There was a great DJ who used to play downstairs at Avalon here in LA and it was about 4-5 hours of that prog and honestly, I often had more fun in that tiny little lobby space than the headlining DJ in the main room.
Thanks for posting up thsoe tracks and sets guys! I am a little surprised that there's no Jaytech, Chris Reece or Dinka
Im much younger than most members on here and thus dont really know what "mcprog is" . Can someone please provide me with an example of Mcprog?
AlphaStarred
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Originally posted by Godking5
Im much younger than most members on here and thus dont really know what "mcprog is" . Can someone please provide me with an example of Mcprog?
Pretty fluffy and all that.
Floorfiller
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Originally posted by Godking5
Im much younger than most members on here and thus dont really know what "mcprog is" . Can someone please provide me with an example of Mcprog?
pretty much everything that's been posted in this thread is McProg.
I don't know if that term is used elsewhere across the internet (I always thought of it as a community term).
So basically around 2002 Markus Schulz established his Global DJ Broadcast show. His trademark sound was supposed to be more "progressive" (a big buzz word at the time just like deep house or whatever today) than the likes of Armin's and Tiesto's of the world.
as you would assume, a lot of people didn't consider this to be "progressive" and so they started to refer to it as McProg, to imply the cheap, mass produced quality that they believed it had.
This sound generally reached it's peak of popularity in 2004-2005. There seems to have been a lot of people that were getting introduced to electronic music through shows like Global DJ Broadcast and so a lot of people have a strong nostalgic attachment to this sound.
The Probspot - Blueberry track that Alpha posted is a great example. Twinkly, lots of reverb, chugging rhythm, etc.
Syntonic
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Originally posted by cyanghost109
Sure you are familiar with Miami '05 compilation. This came out last year and gave me those same vibes instantly... could get your search started.
Lews
Solid Stone has done a couple things in the last year or two I've quite enjoyed.
I never really got into McProg. Not from distaste or anything, just never spent the time to listen to any of it, or any of the prog-like music put out after 2002/3. Pretty much none of the songs posted here are familiar to me, and I've never listened to any of those Coldharbour mixes. I keep meaning to, since I generally like twinkly melodies and chugging rhythms. Just so much music out there, so little time.
Mr.Mystery
You know, I really hated the whole McProg thing when it was popular, but I've been warming up to it lately. I think there's a lot more to it than we originally gave it credit for and we really dismissed it too harshly back in the day.
I've been going back to Perry O'Neil's stuff in particular and I'm really enjoying it.
Lews
I was actually just last week looking at a tracklist from an old Dave King set and found this track by O'Neil I greatly enjoyed, which led me to look at a few more of his stuff. There's a lot of really good tracks he put out. Need to keep digging through them.
Salegon
Hybridized.org has some nice sets. Enjoyed Benz & MD back in the day.
This was the time I discovered Jaytech, U&K and Max Graham. Good times.
Godking5
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Originally posted by Lews
Just so much music out there, so little time.
The dilemma of any serious music aficionado. Opening one door leads to ten more to explore
