Archive
Classic DJ sets, radio shows and mix CDs from the 1990s and early 2000s — covering progressive house and classic trance side by side.
Browse progressive house below, then dig through the classic trance sets featured on this page. Both belong to the same archive.
This is the main digging room. Start with the mix CD that lived in your car for a year, then follow it into the ones you missed the first time round. Some entries are obvious, some are the sort of thing you suddenly remember at one in the morning, but nothing is here for the sake of a complete catalogue — every mix is here because it's still worth an hour of your evening.
Not sure where to start? Hit the Classic Chart for the current Top 10, or browse the DJ Profiles if you want to follow Sasha, Digweed, Oakenfold, Nick Warren and the rest through the 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.
An hour and six minutes of 2001 progressive from one of Renaissance's early residents: Ian Ossia's own mix, shared years later on his own Mixcloud rather than released as an album.
Renaissance's 1998 resident showcase: Ian Ossia's vocal, house-led CD1 with Kylie and Albion's Air, and Nigel Dawson's dubby, trance-bound CD2 ending on Agnelli & Nelson. Both discs playable here.
A forgotten 1997 John Digweed curveball: 75 minutes of the short-lived Jackpot label at its best, from Blue Amazon and a double helping of Chakra's "I Am" to Tenth Chapter's "Wired".
Max Graham's guest hour on John Digweed's Kiss 100 show, 12 October 2002: tough, techy progressive with an early promo of his own Crank, three years before it came out.
Nearly three hours of Nick Warren on German radio in October 2000: 29 records from Sasha's Scorchio and James Holden's Horizons to Oliver Lieb, with Way Out West turning up five times.
Hernán Cattáneo's July 2003 guest hour on John Digweed's Kiss 100 show: eight records from Björk and Robert Owens to Mary J. Blige in a Luke Fair remix, caught as his South American sound reached a much wider audience.
The first volume of Global Underground's Nubreed series, March 2000: Anthony Pappa's dark, controlled CD1, with early remixes from James Holden and Timo Maas and a disc that sits right on the progressive–trance fault line.
If your memory of John Digweed starts with him standing next to Sasha, Sydney CD1 is where his solo identity becomes impossible to miss: deep, percussive and patient before Albion's Air finally lets the light in.
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.
Classic trance · The Mix Archive
Gatecrasher, Essential Mixes and late-90s to early-00s trance sets: public listening and previews for everyone, full research for Members Club members.
set · 2001
Ferry Corsten at Club Eau in Den Haag, 1 September 2001: 17 records in 1:54:58, from Club Quake and Sunset On Ibiza through his own Punk, Needle Juice and The Legacy to First Strike, Dance Valley Theme 2001 and Gouryella. By Septe
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Paul van Dyk's Essential Mix of 20 April 1997: 19 records from Depeche Mode in BT's Twilo Mix and LSG's Netherworld through Tilt and Olive to Flaming June, Forbidden Fruit and his own Words. This is not yet the fast, polished Paul
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Armin van Buuren at State '01, The Docks, Toronto, 10 November 2001: an 18-record surviving part from Simulated and Rapture through The Legacy, Clear Blue Water and Urban Train to Maximum Overdrive and Binary Finary's 2000. This i
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John '00' Fleming's Essential Mix of 11 November 2001: 20 records, opening and closing with Plasma's Imagination, and running through James Holden, Way Out West and Belfast Trance to GMS remixes, Astral Projection and BT's Flaming
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Paul Oakenfold's part of the Essential Millennium broadcast from Home in London, New Year's Eve into 2000: 11 records from Grace and BT through Skydive, Universal Nation and Street Spirit to Salva Mea, Offshore and You're Not Alon
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Ferry Corsten at Trance Energy, Beursgebouw, Eindhoven, 29 April 2000: a fully timestamped 1:29:34 recording with 14 records, including Eternity, The Nightfly, Viola, Don't Give Up, Cry, Till We Meet Again, Stargazer and Tenshi. T
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