Re: Progressive [House] Music: Status
My particular scene has no progressive, techno, minimal, or anything else remotely good so that doesn't say much... But based on my broader experience, I would absolutely echo what others have said. It's no secret that prog went out a while back. It's obvious to that even Sasha and Digweed are not playing the way they used to, which most people I talk to seem to associate with the classic "progressive" sound. They're clearly playing music from producers who have in various ways hybridized traditional prog with minimal styles. You can really hear it in the beats - you've got all those slower-tempo clipped snares and hats now...I throw on some old prog records and am surprised by how much softer and more "house-like" those long-decay hi-hats inbetween the beats used to be... I know many people wish it was 1992 again, but I personally dig it now love my minimal, too
bingo. this is exactly how it goes.
In fact, if you hang around the minimal scene, you'll already likely have seen various levels of the backlash taking place - how people are getting sick of the flood of really quirky, syncopated copy-cat crap that is coming out now, how the DJ sets oftentimes come out flat and boring, how the parties are too obnoxious, etc... when I went to WMC three years ago, my friends and I were just blown away by the incredible drive, inventiveness, and groove of many of the "minimal" DJs then - it was so much better to party to than that old, predictable prog sound. Now, most of my friends who used to love that minimal sound are saying that it's not what it was and that they're sick of what they hear now...
but the really good music is always timeless and never really disappears
My particular scene has no progressive, techno, minimal, or anything else remotely good so that doesn't say much... But based on my broader experience, I would absolutely echo what others have said. It's no secret that prog went out a while back. It's obvious to that even Sasha and Digweed are not playing the way they used to, which most people I talk to seem to associate with the classic "progressive" sound. They're clearly playing music from producers who have in various ways hybridized traditional prog with minimal styles. You can really hear it in the beats - you've got all those slower-tempo clipped snares and hats now...I throw on some old prog records and am surprised by how much softer and more "house-like" those long-decay hi-hats inbetween the beats used to be... I know many people wish it was 1992 again, but I personally dig it now love my minimal, too
bingo. this is exactly how it goes.
In fact, if you hang around the minimal scene, you'll already likely have seen various levels of the backlash taking place - how people are getting sick of the flood of really quirky, syncopated copy-cat crap that is coming out now, how the DJ sets oftentimes come out flat and boring, how the parties are too obnoxious, etc... when I went to WMC three years ago, my friends and I were just blown away by the incredible drive, inventiveness, and groove of many of the "minimal" DJs then - it was so much better to party to than that old, predictable prog sound. Now, most of my friends who used to love that minimal sound are saying that it's not what it was and that they're sick of what they hear now...
but the really good music is always timeless and never really disappears
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