Global Underground 009: San Francisco
Hear a moodier Sasha than the Ibiza mix that followed — deep, psychedelic progressive house slowly opening into darker progressive trance across one patient journey.
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Collector's Shelf
Global Underground
The series that turned the DJ mix CD into a document of a night in a particular city. These pages are about the music on those discs.
Global Underground began in the late 1990s with a simple idea: send a DJ to a city, record what they actually played, and release it properly. The result was a run of double CDs that still read as the clearest surviving record of how progressive house and trance were mixed at the time.
So that's what these pages are about. Long-form writing on how each mix moves, complete tracklists you can actually read, and links to hear the music again. The releases earn their place on a shelf because the mixes still work, not because somebody stuck the word collectable on a listing.
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Releases
Releases worth owning.
Global Underground 013: Ibiza
Sasha goes widescreen: a deep first disc earns the rush of Perception, Xpander, Mercury & Solace and Heaven Scent without losing the discipline of a complete long mix.
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Global Underground 006: Sydney
Hear Digweed define his solo sound through bass, percussion and patient pressure — two complete discs that explain his style better than a biography ever could.
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Global Underground 014: Hong Kong
Digweed in late 1999, deep inside the darker end of progressive house: Underworld, L.S.G., Lexicon Avenue, Breeder and an unreleased mix of Heaven Scent across two discs that keep tightening rather than showing off.
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Global Underground 019: Los Angeles
Digweed at the edge of progressive house’s darker early-2000s turn: deep vocals, tribal pressure, James Holden, Bedrock, Breeder and two discs that feel less like a collection of peaks than one controlled descent into the night.
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Global Underground 003: Prague
Nick Warren’s first Global Underground is loose, live-feeling and gloriously 1997: Beachball appears almost immediately, the first disc gets tougher and stranger, then Café del Mar and Galaxia push the second disc into full progressive-trance scale.
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Global Underground 008: Brazil
Brazil is where Warren sounds fully in control: dark progressive house, breaks, melodic trance and long stretches of less-famous records that make Café del Mar feel like part of a journey rather than the point of one.
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Global Underground 011: Budapest
Budapest is Warren tightening the screws: colder synths, firmer drums, Bedrock, L.S.G., Breeder, Tilt and a focused techy-progressive sound that feels much more 3 AM than sunset.
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Global Underground 018: Amsterdam
Amsterdam is Warren turning the obvious peaks down: deeper grooves, more space, Way Out West dragged through Peace Division, Fluke, PMT and a second disc that gets stranger and techier before circling back to Eternity.
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Global Underground 001: Tel Aviv
Before Global Underground became synonymous with progressive house, Tony De Vit kicked the doors open with fast, hard, ravey club music: hard house, NRG, Up To No Good, Are You All Ready and two discs that never apologise for 1996.
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Global Underground 012: Buenos Aires
Seaman's patient late-90s progressive build: Underworld's Jumbo opens for nearly eleven minutes, Dutch Liquid lock in the groove, So Damn Beautiful provides earned emotion, and CD2 gets increasingly deep and trance-facing without becoming a hits compilation.
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Global Underground 016: Cape Town
Cape Town balances atmosphere, vocals and serious progressive pressure: Moby and Mandalay sit beside Funk Function, Breeder, Way Out West, James Holden and Junkie XL, with Seaman using contrast rather than a parade of obvious peaks.
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Global Underground 022: Melbourne
By Melbourne, Seaman's GU sound is darker, cleaner and more early-2000s: ambient fragments, broken textures, Cass & Slide, Orbital, Infusion and long progressive records make this feel like a genuine shift from Buenos Aires and Cape Town.
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Global Underground 010: Athens
Athens is Global Underground with the lights turned down: dark tribal house, techno, electro and long repetitive grooves, with Frank Sinatra and Music Is the Answer landing harder because Tenaglia makes you work for them.
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Global Underground 015: Uruguay
Global Underground with more swing in its hips: Emerson joins deep house, techno, acid and disco through groove rather than constant breakdowns, mixing classics with then-current club records across 30 tracks.
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