DJs
The DJs who shaped the archive's version of progressive house and trance — what they sounded like, where the important mixes fit, and why you'd still bother listening now.
Browse the progressive selectors and classic trance DJs here. Public profiles and listening links stay free; the complete research is for Members Club members.
These aren't Wikipedia biographies with every residency, remix and airport lounge appearance. They answer the question you actually have when a name comes back to you years later: what did they sound like, which period was the good one, and which mix should you put on first?
Once you've got the background, head into the Archive for the full mix write-ups, or Features for the longer stories around labels, clubs and the scene itself.
From Hamburg's Tunnel and Bristol's Lakota to Twilo, Perfecto and DC10, Timo Maas gave the turn of the millennium its heaviest basslines. "Der Schieber", "Ubik" and his remix of "Dooms Night" were played by Oakenfold, crossed into UK garage and helped push progressive towards something tougher.
Dorset, Hong Kong, Tyrant with Craig Richards and Nubreed 005: the DJ who made early-2000s progressive odder, groovier and a lot less obedient.
Free-party roots, a home-made promo CD, Bedrock's first Original Series mix and Balance 008: the DJ who caught progressive house turning into something else.
Born in Ghent, raised in Orlando, and behind a surprising amount of the machinery that carried progressive house across America: Balance Promote Group, a Twilo residency and the Delta Heavy tour, with warm-up programming as his actual signature.
From Leeds electro and an after-hours club in Chapeltown to Renaissance. Ian Ossia mixed the third disc of Part 4 (1996), disc one of Volume One (1998), and shared Mutations (2001) himself.
Six hours for £20 at Sutton Scarsdale Country Club, then a Renaissance residency, ten years at The Cross, records as Dominion, and the darker, trance-facing disc two of Renaissance Presents… Volume One.
If the name mostly rings a bell from a stack of old Global Underground CDs, you're onto something. From Bristol and Massive Attack to Cream, Way Out West and eight Global Underground mixes, Nick Warren built a career on patience and melody.
Classic trance · The Mix Archive
Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, Tiësto, Armin van Buuren and the DJs who shaped a different side of the era.
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Spectrum, Perfecto, the Goa Mix, Cream and two years as the world's number one DJ. The best way to hear Oakenfold at his late-90s peak is the run of Essential Mixes he recorded around the world in 1999, from Sydney in January to L
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From Tresor in 1991 to Vandit, Out There And Back and a Grammy nomination. Start with two Essential Mixes three years apart: the patient 1997 broadcast with LSG, Tilt and BT, then Home in London in April 2000, where Tell Me Why, A
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System F, Gouryella, Albion, Moonman and Tsunami: one producer behind a lot of names. Start with two Dutch event recordings, Innercity in December 1999 for the late-90s network of aliases and collaborators, then Trance Energy in A
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Black Hole, Magik, Gouryella, Kamaya Painters and the Silence remix that took him beyond the clubs. Start at Energy 2000 on New Year's Eve 1999 for the Dutch collaboration network, jump to Gatecrasher Sheffield in December 2000 fo
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Blue Fear, Communication, Armind and the first years of A State Of Trance. If you remember Armin on the radio, start with the Essential Mix of 9 February 2003. If you remember Gatecrasher Sheffield, start with The Republic on 26 A
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Remember Above & Beyond on Radio 1, No One On Earth, Surrender, Tranquility Base or an early Anjunabeats CD? Start with the 2004 Essential Mix, which the BBC later named its Mix of the Year, then follow whichever record or alias y
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