Live at Electrolux Festival, Reykjavík

Put this next to the Moscow recording and you've got a proper little lesson in what the room does to the DJ.

Moscow, September 2001: three hours and ten minutes, a club, and all the time in the world. Reykjavík, 20 December 2002: seventy-five minutes, a festival, and a considerably shorter runway. Same DJ, roughly fifteen months apart, two entirely different sets of decisions.

That's the reason this one is worth keeping rather than treating as a lesser version of the same thing. Progressive house gets described as though patience were an ideology, but the good practitioners were always pragmatic. Give Seaman a night and he'll take the scenic route. Give him an hour and a quarter on a festival bill and he won't waste twenty minutes of it establishing a mood.

A note on the spelling: the uploader's title has Reykjavík wrong. It's a small thing, but if you go looking for it you'll want to know.

No tracklist survives, so there isn't one here. I'm not going to sit and guess at record IDs to pad the page out — you'll hear December 2002 clearly enough without me narrating it: cleaner, tougher and more driving than the equivalent set three years earlier, with the tribal and techier end of progressive pulling at it.

Icelandic winter, a festival crowd and a British DJ a long way from home. Seventy-five minutes is an easy ask, and it makes the Moscow set sound even more unusual afterwards.