Feature · September 2026
When Did Sasha Get Darker?
Ten Sasha sets from 1995–98 that let you hear the shift from warmer progressive house into the darker, spacier progressive-trance sound for yourself.
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Classic progressive house, trance and DJ mixes worth hearing again.
You had the CDs. You taped the radio shows. Then life got in the way, and one day an old Sasha or Digweed mix comes back on and you think: fuck me, I'd forgotten how good this was. This is the place to go looking again — progressive house and trance from the 1990s and early 2000s, from Global Underground and Renaissance to Nick Warren, Oakenfold, Dave Seaman and plenty you'd half-forgotten, each one written about properly and linked back to legitimate listening sources.
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Mutations (2001)
- Progressive House
- Progressive
A Renaissance resident's own tape from 2001, put online years later because he still rated it — and he's right to.
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Three from the current Top 10
If you only get through ten mixes from this era, make it these. Ranked by opinion — mine — rather than streams, sales or a public vote, and reshuffled when something genuinely earns it.
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10 records that helped define the sound.
The progressive house and trance records you'd recognise in two bars — the ones that turned a room over back then and still do the job now.
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Heaven Scent (Original Mix)
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The Chain (Babealicious Mix)
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Careful (Brothers in Rhythm Soundtrack)
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One more worth your time from outside the chart — no ranking, just a mix we couldn't leave out.
Renaissance Presents… Volume One (CD1)
- Progressive House
- Progressive Trance
- Trance
Disc one of Renaissance's 1998 two-CD resident showcase — the broader, more vocal half, before Nigel Dawson takes the darker route on CD2.
Featured Track of the Week
One record from the era that's been stuck in my head again. No grand theory attached — just something you probably haven't heard in fifteen years, and should play loud.
Horse — Careful (Brothers in Rhythm Soundtrack)
- Progressive House
- Progressive
Twelve minutes and forty-two seconds of remix, and Brothers in Rhythm use the lot.
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Mutations (2001)
- Progressive House
- Progressive
An hour and six minutes of 2001 progressive from a long-serving Renaissance resident — Ian Ossia's own surviving mix, shared years later on his own Mixcloud rather than released as an album.
Renaissance Presents… Volume One
- Progressive House
- Progressive Trance
- Trance
Renaissance's 1998 two-disc resident showcase: Ian Ossia's broader, vocal-leaning CD1 and Nigel Dawson's darker, trance-facing CD2, with both discs playable here.
The Winning Ticket
- Progressive House
- Progressive Trance
- Progressive
A forgotten 1997 John Digweed curveball: 75 minutes of Jackpot Records at its best, moving from Blue Amazon and Chakra into the darker, rolling progressive sound Digweed was making his own.