Feature · September 2026
When Did Sasha Get Darker?
Ten Sasha sets from 1995–98 that let you hear the shift from warmer progressive house into the darker, spacier progressive-trance sound for yourself.
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Features
Stories behind the mixes
Progressive house history without pretending this is an academic journal: the DJs, mix CDs, labels, scenes and weird little turns that made the era what it was.
Some things need more room than an Archive entry — usually the arguments you and your mates were having at the time. Why did Global Underground make a city feel like part of the mix? What happened when progressive house crossed the Atlantic? And why did the sound you loved fall apart so quickly after the turn of the millennium?
That's what the Features section is for. If you want the actual mixes, go to the Archive. If you want the people behind them, start with DJ Profiles.
Article · September 2026
Sasha vs Digweed: What Was Actually Different About Them?
They spent years being spoken about as one unit, but they were never interchangeable DJs. Melody, tension, GU009, GU006 and why the contrast made the partnership work.
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Feature · September 2026
Nubreed: The Global Underground Series That Looked Past the Superstars
Pappa, Howells, Lawler, Kleinenberg, Burridge and Tomiie — how Global Underground’s second series caught progressive house turning darker and techier while the main line was busy building legends.
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Article · September 2026
What Is Progressive House? The 1990s Sound Behind Sasha, Digweed and Renaissance
What the term originally meant in early-1990s Britain, the records and DJs that defined it, and why searching for it now turns up something quite different.
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Feature · August 2026
Why the Essential Mix Mattered More When You Had to Stay Up for It
Two hours of Radio 1, a blank cassette and no guarantee you could hear the bastard again — why the Essential Mix felt bigger before every DJ set was permanently waiting on your phone.
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Article · August 2026
15 Classic Trance Tracks That Still Sound Bloody Brilliant
Café Del Mar, Gamemaster, Xpander, Push, Tilt and the records where progressive house and trance kept nicking each other's record boxes.
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Feature · August 2026
When Progressive House Went to America — and Came Back Different
Twilo all-nighters, LA raves, San Francisco branding and Tranceport on the car stereo — if you ever wondered how your favourite mixes ended up scattered across America without one shared sound, this is that story.
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Feature · August 2026
What the Hell Happened to Progressive House After 2001?
If you’ve ever wondered why your later mixes hit harder but feel less warm than your 90s tapes, this explains it — Twilo, CDJs, Bedrock, breaks, minimal and the collapse of one shared progressive centre.
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Feature · August 2026
Global Underground: When a Mix CD Felt Like a Passport
Two CDs, one DJ, one city and a ridiculous amount of atmosphere — revisit how Global Underground turned progressive-house mixes into something that felt like a passport, and find out which releases still earn the hype today.
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