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The Classic Chart
Ten classic progressive house and trance mixes I'd put in front of you before anything else on the site. If you're coming back to this era after fifteen years away, this is the shortcut. Not the biggest sellers, not a public vote, definitely not an algorithm — just the mixes that have earned the spot, reshuffled when something genuinely knocks one out.
- 1
Renaissance: The Mix Collection (CD1)
- Progressive House
- Progressive
Proof a mix CD could be a proper body of work, not just a souvenir of a night out.
- 2
Essential Mix — The Goa Mix
- Trance
- Progressive Trance
Radio built like a film score. Still nothing else quite touches it.
- 3
Northern Exposure (CD1 — North)
- Progressive House
- Progressive Trance
Proof progressive house could be cold, patient and properly strange and still work brilliantly.
- 4
Essential Mix
- Progressive House
- Progressive
The set that laid down the blueprint for British progressive house on the radio.
- 5
Global Underground 009: San Francisco (CD1)
- Progressive House
- Progressive Trance
- Progressive
Dark and fluid, growing more trance-shaped as it runs: Sasha stretching progressive house without losing the patience underneath it.
- 6
Communicate (CD1)
- Progressive House
- Progressive
Sasha & Digweed ditching the widescreen mood for something darker, tighter and built for the club.
- 7
Essential Mix — Live at Homelands
- Trance
- Progressive Trance
Oakenfold at peak 1999 trance: Orkidea, Grace, Binary Finary and Gouryella inside a live set that still builds with progressive patience.
- 8
Northern Exposure 2 (CD1)
- Progressive House
- Progressive Trance
The moment progressive house and the trance boom collided head-on.
- 9
Renaissance Presents… Volume One
- Progressive House
- Progressive Trance
- Trance
Not the famous Sasha and Digweed monument. Two resident DJs taking the same club instinct into a darker, trance-facing pair of 1998 discs.
- 10
Mutations (2001)
- Progressive House
- Progressive
An hour of 2001 progressive from one of Renaissance's least mythologised residents — and Ossia's own surviving time capsule.