Classic trance · progressive house · 90s and early 00s
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Take yourself back
Pick a year. Rediscover the progressive house and trance records, DJs and mixes that take you straight back. Public introductions and available listening links are free.
Even a half-remembered set or a CD cover is enough to start digging.
Just added · Listen free
A few classic recordings worth putting on again. Every available public player and archive introduction stays free; Members Club is for the deeper research, fuller write-ups and collecting features.
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Dig this out if you only remember Sasha for the huge trance years. CD1 of 1998's Global Underground 009: San Francisco is him still deep in progressive house, with the brighter pull only arriving in the last three records.
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Skip the obvious Seaman picks and go here instead. Cape Town CD2 is his darker 2000 side, with Quivver, Planisphere, Luzon's Bedrock remix, Way Out West and James Holden, built without a single cheap peak.
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Proof Nick Warren's old patience survived the 2005 production shift. Shanghai CD2 is breaks, Hardfloor's acid, a run of unknown producers and a warmer melodic finish, still built his way.
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Don't expect Northern Exposure's widescreen mood here. Communicate finds Sasha & Digweed in 2000 gone darker and tighter, playing the same records as everyone else at the top of progressive house, and making them hit harder.
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Don't skip about looking for the famous bits. Oakenfold's 1994 Goa Mix is two hours of Goa trance, house, Blade Runner, Dracula and Dead Can Dance that only makes sense once you let it unfold, and Radio 1 listeners voted it the best Essential Mix ever.
Records of the Day · Just shared
A rolling record of my classic trance and progressive house Facebook picks. Each one links to the exact track or remix, and every previous day stays in the archive.
Day 1 · Progressive House
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Progressive house and classic trance discoveries, together in one place.
Two sides of The Mix Archive
Keep following the records wherever they lead. The original progressive archive remains intact, with the classic trance collection now alongside it.
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Sasha, Digweed, Warren, Renaissance, Global Underground and the progressive house and crossover sounds that built TMA.
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Sets, DJs, records, clubs, labels, compilations and stories from the classic trance era, researched and filed right here in TMA.
Explore classic trance →Progressive · Mix of the Week
One mix each week, picked because it deserves a proper sit-down listen rather than a thirty-second skip. Put it on while you're driving or cooking and let it do its thing.
A Renaissance resident's choices away from the most frequently reposted Sasha and Digweed sleeves.
Trance · Mix of the Week · 1 November 2026
A classic trance recording worth hearing again. Listen here, then explore the full tracklist and story.
Fleming's surviving WEMF Ontario set from July 2001 has fourteen documented positions and one unresolved ID. Kosheen and Placebo remixes share the route with a deeper trance selection.
Classic Chart
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.
Classic Tracks
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.
Heaven Scent (Original Mix)
The Chain (Babealicious Mix)
Resurrection
Bonus Pick
One more worth your time from outside the chart — no ranking, just a mix we couldn't leave out.
One of the first places to go after the famous Sasha and Digweed GU CDs.
Trance · Bonus Mix · 1 November 2026
Another classic trance set to put on. Listening links stay free; the full write-up is in the archive.
Marco V at Sensation Black, July 2002: a harder, techno-facing answer to the big melodic Dutch sets. The surviving recording documents seventeen selections.
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.
Before the later Holden sound fully took shape, Horizons was already a little stranger than a standard trance anthem.
Trance · Featured Track · 1 November 2026
One specific version from the original trance years, with a public listening link and a route into related DJ sets.
Deepsky's Stargazer in the X-Cabs remix: compare its place in Ferry Corsten's 2000 Trance Energy recording with the original record.
Latest Feature
Feature · September 2026
Red Jerry, Café Del Mar, Lost Tribe, Miro, Medway and Tilt: one London label moving through progressive house and trance without asking permission.
October 2026 · My 9
Trance albums, progressive albums and the tracks that still send you looking for more. All 36 picks and the listening links are free; the deeper research is for Members Club members.
Members Club
The public mixes stay free. Members Club adds full researched stories, personal listening and collecting tools, and fresh routes into the records each week. See a real example and the live joining offer before deciding.
From the community
Newly found mixes, archive additions and the odd one that brings the whole era flooding back.
Archive
Chris Fortier and Jimmy Van M back-to-back at The Arena in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in December 2002. An hour of tough, techy American progressive with Quivver, Darko vs Greed, ReMosh and Helwig Holleman, and two IDs still open.
Dave Seaman at XIII, Moscow, on 1 September 2001: nearly three hours and forty minutes across three parts, from X-Press 2 and bootlegs to Dido, Satoshi Tomiie and iiO's Rapture.
Dave Seaman at Electrolux, Reykjavík, dated 20 December 2002: 73 minutes and twelve records from Conjure One and Holden & Thompson to Underworld and Dirty Vegas, with a curious overlap with his Bucharest set a month earlier.
