Is progressive house in New York dead?

[i!!ustrious]

Re: Is progressive house in New York dead?

^ well fucking said man. btw., that one mix u did not to long ago was killer.

[Miroslav]

Re: Is progressive house in New York dead?

If you define your genres of music very narrowly, meaning that you want "progressive house" today to always sound exactly like it did in the summer of 1999...then yes, it is dead.

If you define your genres of music more broadly and stay open to evolutions of sound in terms of what "progressive house" means...then no, it is not necessarily dead. To me, Sasha and Digweed are still properly carrying on the legacy of "progressive house" in what they do; they are honestly far from real "minimal".

It's up to you whether you want to stay in 1999 or go with the changes. But music always changes and waits for no one.

[Kinetic]

Re: Is progressive house in New York dead?

If you define your genres of music very narrowly, meaning that you want "progressive house" today to always sound exactly like it did in the summer of 1999...then yes, it is dead.

If you define your genres of music more broadly and stay open to evolutions of sound in terms of what "progressive house" means...then no, it is not necessarily dead. To me, Sasha and Digweed are still properly carrying on the legacy of "progressive house" in what they do; they are honestly far from real "minimal".

It's up to you whether you want to stay in 1999 or go with the changes. But music always changes and waits for no one.

This is also quite true.

[i!!ustrious]

Re: Is progressive house in New York dead?

^^ word. that last line of yours was strait up wisdom miro. regards.

[floridaorange]

Re: Is progressive house in New York dead?

so basically labeling sub genres is a moot point in EDM.

right?

[feather]

Re: Is progressive house in New York dead?

Well if you looked at progressive house history, it HAS evolved drastically ... the reason so many people harp on about the 99-early 2000 era is because that's when a lot of current EDM fans got into the scene.

But I find over the years progressive house has/had a signature: melodies, vocals, and a beat or bassline that has energy in it. Listen to Sasha or Digweed sets from the early 90s, they aren't bass heavy, they just have great beats that drives you on the dancefloor. Even when progressive house got pared down and went more 'minimal' with the darker stuff, the emphasis went to the bass lines for that deepness, those huge rolling phat basslines.

Contrast with the electro or minimal influence. Electro had these fucking irritating synths and the structure of the tracks sounds like trance to me in the way they always build up to the irritating bits. I don't have a quibble with minimal in general, I think minimal on its own is fine, but when transported into the progressive house genre, it was neither here nor there: The minimal influence made progressive house sound aenemic with its flat beats and thin-sounding melodies (when there were any), and I am sure from the minimal camp, they thought it was equally shit.

What's lacking in progressive house is musicality and basslines with substance. Just listen to Spooky, Jark Prongo or Moshic. Granted it shouldn't be a comparison because the music has moved on and we should be listening to it with a different mindset, but to me, progressive house has lost its essence in its evolution.

[thesightless]

Re: Is progressive house in New York dead?

i live here, im out on long island.

it aint dead
not at all

where r u going?

many aplaces still ripping it up all the time and PS1 parties are right around the corner

[srbbnd]

Re: Is progressive house in New York dead?

ha ha ha ha... it's like a never ending tree diagram of subcategories with you guys. can't just call it rock and roll, noooooo it has to be called alternative rock->goth rock->industrial rock->indie->emo->hardcore->screamo. Can't just call it electronica or techno, noooooooooooo. prog->edm->mars->drum and bass->mars->minimal->experimental->tribal->NES blah i cant take it anymore. Sorry for the rant...someone posted a pretty spiffy diagram of all the various forms of dance music since sythetic sounds had been created, anyone got a link to that anymore?

[dusk]

Re: Is progressive house in New York dead?

any of you New Yorkeans know about some good proggy venues out there please let me know, I will appreciate. Thanks.

Hey is you are unable to find any proggy venues.. I'd say you're next best bet would be to hop on over to the P&R section .. there's a boat load of proggy sets there that should keep you going forever.. ..