Live at The Arena, San Juan

Jimmy Van M & Chris Fortier · 21 December 2002

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. The recording is a reminder of the harder American side of progressive house around the turn of the millennium, when the mood could be tougher and more stripped back than the big European compilations suggested. The surviving identification work is useful but not complete: those unidentified selections remain open, rather than being silently filled in to make a perfect-looking tracklist. The December 2002 date matters too, despite the filename suggesting 2003.