The Mix Archive · Members Club
Discover the DJs, tracks, records and stories behind classic progressive house and trance. Then keep following the music. One cracking find leads to another.
Still got a favourite Renaissance or Global Underground CD? The free archive gets you listening. The Members Club gives you the research, collecting tools and listening trails to go properly down the rabbit hole.
Your joining offer
When the launch offer is enabled, eligible email-verified accounts can claim a founding place immediately after signing in. Registration alone does not reserve one. Other future tiers are shown below. Your account confirms live terms before any payment.
Creating an account is free. Verify your email; current eligibility and any payment are confirmed in your account before joining.
Questions before joining? Contact me or email kelvin@themixarchive.co.uk.
See it before deciding
Pick your sound, read an actual public research introduction and test a demo listening list. Full articles and saved progress are the member-only part. Public listening always stays free.
Try the experience · No signup needed
This is a hands-on taste of how TMA connects listening, proper research and your own discoveries. These introductions are genuinely public. The full guides and saved member tools stay behind your real membership login.
Guest demo only: selections and notes disappear when you leave or refresh. No account is created and no music is locked.
01 / Pick your rabbit hole
Your demo passport
0 / 3 discoveries saved
0 marked listened · Demo session only
02 / Hear it and understand it · A listening comparison
Put John Digweed's Sydney CD1 next to Sasha's San Francisco CD1. Listen to the first twenty minutes of each, then notice how differently they build the tension.
A real published research preview
Global Underground 006: Sydney and 009: San Francisco are from the same year and the same compilation series. That doesn't make them the same listening experience. Digweed's Sydney begins with Fortunato & Montresor, Liquid Language and Pocket before the groove steadily gains weight. Sasha's San Francisco makes room for the drawn-out tension of Breeder's The Chain. One is a lesson in patient rhythmic programming; the other shows what happens when a DJ lets a record's pressure develop over time.
Try the first twenty minutes of each, back to back. You can hear the distinction without paying a penny. The Members Club guide compares the long middle, the closing stretches and the track-sequencing choices.
03 / Try a saved discovery
Paid members can use the real Listening Passport or collection tools across visits. Here you can try the interaction without an account.
Only shown on this screen. The real Passport saves your progress to your member account.
What membership actually adds
The complete Disc-by-Disc guide examines what happens after those opening minutes, why the sequencing works and the connections between the records.
The member area requires an active membership. Public audio remains free.
Want to send this to someone? Open the standalone interactive preview.
What's in it for you?
It's not about hiding a pile of music links behind a paywall. It's about getting more from the tunes you already love.
Follow the music
You know that moment when one tune takes you back 25 years? Follow that mix into the DJ, the compilation, the records and the story behind it. Real archive connections, not another endless list of search results.
Connected DJ profiles, mixes, tracks and original research.
Know what you're listening to
Read the fuller story behind a favourite CD or club set. Explore documented tracklists, disc-by-disc guides, original release information and the clubs and labels that shaped the sound.
Complete published articles and verified track information where known.
Keep your discoveries
Save the ones worth hearing again. Build a personal listening list, mark what you've finished and work through listening challenges. Your next good evening of music is easier to find.
My Archive, Listening Passport, listening journeys and curated picks.
For the CD and vinyl collectors
Tick off releases you own, keep a wanted list and look more closely at rare editions. Share collecting leads through a moderated member board, without turning the archive into another shop.
Complete Collection Challenge, Rare Release Vault and Collectors' Swap Board.
Discover together
Listen to a featured classic mix each month, compare notes and talk collecting, tracks and DJs with other members. Discussions are text-only and moderated, not an unfiltered free-for-all.
Monthly Listening Club and Members Discussions.
A reason to come back
The Drop gives you a considered place to start: something to hear, something rediscovered and a trail worth following. There's always another bit of music history to dig into.
The Drop, recently found recordings, rare-mix research and member requests.
See how it works
Put on a classic Sasha and Digweed mix. A track catches your ear, so you follow it into the DJ's profile, a related compilation or a piece of club history. Along the way you save another set, find an old CD worth tracking down and discover what you've been missing.
01 · Listen
The original free player, where a verified recording exists.
02 · Follow
Read the full context and move into related DJs, records and stories.
03 · Keep
Build a listening list and track the CDs or vinyl you're after.
See it in action · Four new My 9 guides
Four new classic trance and progressive house collections have 36 free picks and four permanent posters. Inside Members Club, each collection adds a proper researched guide: all nine records explained, listening comparisons, edition checks and ideas for where to dig next. These are real articles, not temporary promotional unlocks.
Pricing explained
These are the planned Members Club launch tiers, not a claim that every offer is available today. The live offer above and your account are authoritative. Benefits are the same across the new tiers. Once the club reaches 1,000 active members, new sign-ups are £19.99/month. This planned threshold applies only once the new tiers are enabled.
Founding places · 1–50
Free
Full Members Club access for the first 50 eligible verified accounts to claim. No PayPal required.
After 50 free places
£9.99/month
Full access for new paid members while the club remains below 1,000 active members.
From 1,000 members
£19.99/month
The new-joiner price after the 1,000-member milestone. Earlier subscribers keep their agreed plan.
Founding availability and live checkout pricing are confirmed in your account. The free founding places are first-come, first-served after email verification. The new tiers only become available when the Members Club launch is enabled.
Free versus Members Club
Questions worth answering
You don't need to join to hear a publicly available recording. The Members Club is for the research, connections, full articles, collecting tools and organised listening around it. The music is the starting point, not something we're charging you to stream.
Published mix and DJ previews, verified public players, selected track details, My 9 collections and free Community Chart voting remain available. A verified free account still gets exactly the same voting power as a paid member.
If the founding offer is enabled, the first 50 eligible, email-verified accounts to claim a place receive ongoing Members Club access without a monthly charge. You can claim immediately after email verification and sign-in. Registration alone never reserves a place. Live availability is shown above and checked again in your account.
Under the planned new tiers, after the first 50 free places have gone new memberships are £9.99 a month. At 1,000 active members, the price for NEW joiners becomes £19.99 a month. These tiers only apply when enabled; the live offer above and your account confirm what you can actually join. Existing subscribers keep their agreed rate.
Creating and verifying a free account doesn't charge you. If you choose a paid plan, PayPal shows the amount before you approve anything. You can cancel future renewals from your account; paid access normally lasts through your paid-through date.
The public introduction and available Mixcloud or YouTube listening links stay free. The complete published research, collector notes and members-only features require Members Club access.
No downloads are sold here. Recordings stay with their original hosts. Tracklists and release details are included where documented, with gaps clearly marked instead of invented.
