Progressive House?! What is going on?

[manus]

Welcome to electronic genres ever evolving shifts and rebrandings. Though I do feel like progressive house was turning into electro 6 years ago via the beatport charts. I kind of miss the darker, percussion laden progressive sounds easily attainable in the early 00's. i also wish tribal house was still a thing instead of getting lumped into tech house, but so it goes.

I agree completely with this. Progressive house has not been 'Progressive House' for years and more just like BigRoom House. It annoys me because it just sounds like a top 10 chart of everyone trying to outdo each other for the biggest Bigroom anthem over and over again and there is not much Club Music unless you go through alot of shit. I do like to go crate digging when it was vinyl but not now because there is just way too much shite.

[mamberton]

[buffalosoldier]

Progressive house is a unique genre, IMO is the mix of progressive melodies (from 90's trance and techno) with some house beats.
Different to the cheesy electro-house vocals with prog sounds charted at Beatport

Top referents of the Progressive Techno House Sound ;

Sasha (Last Night on Plante Earth)
John Digweed (Bedrock)
Dave Seaman (Bedrock, Sudbeat, etc)
Nick Warren (Hope recordings, Sudbeat)
Hernan Cattaneo (Sudbeat)
James Zabiela
Guy J (Lost and Found, Bedrock, Cocoon)
Henry Saiz (Natura Sonoris)



In Henry Saiz words:" As Henry Saiz, I made quite a few tracks that were born from the idea to add techno beats to some Italo chords, which people later called 'prog-house', which I find odd, as I've never been a fan of that style. But then again, all those tags and styles are so subjective that I don't really care..."

From playground mag interview:
http://www.playgroundmag.net/music/m...hal-incandenza