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British newspaper the Sunday Times’ Style Section turned its attention onto clubland this week, dropping progressive house music in the out-of-fashion section of their ‘Going Up/Going Down’ barometer. “Progressive house – murder on the dance floor,” the notoriously fickle tastemakers sneered, “it’s boring us to death”.
Erstwhile prog type Paolo Mojo was empathetic if unimpressed. “Actually I would fully agree with these guys,” Paolo told Skrufff, “Though I’m surprised it took then over 5 years to notice. But then again it is the Sunday Times and not Boys Own,” he laughed. “Give me something with funk; with soul; with stark underground energy any day,” he continued. “If I never heard another filtered pad or delayed bass note ever again I could happily survive. Waap waap waap waap. Oh do fuck off you cretins,” he swore.
Fellow one-time prog type Danny Howells aimed his fire elsewhere, telling Skrufff; “oh there’s so much boring prog out there right now; a lot of it comes out on labels like Perlon and Minus. It does nothing and goes on forever. Quite interminable, if you ask me. But there’s loads of amazing prog (if you can call it that) coming out on labels like Buzzin’ Fly, Freerange, Simple,” Danny added.
He also happily accepted being labelled a progressive house DJ, pointing out; “my prog association has given me a job that previously I couldn’t have even dreamed of having; and it’s paid my mortgage so to be unhappy with the association would be a bit stupid, wouldn’t it? Prog’s always been an easy scapegoat for thick journalists,” said Danny. “Those same journalists whose tired old musings are more boring than any boring prog house record ever made.”
Seminal prog superstar Sasha touched on the genre last year, in a hilarious interview in DJ Magazine in which he accused numerous minimal producers of previously specialising in ‘screaming trance’. “I’ve been to parties where the DJs are meant to be playing minimal but all I hear is an update on progressive house”, he complained. “A lot of minimal music is self-indulgent music for people to wank off to.”
Medea312 says...
Thank god!
Medea312 says...
Thank god!
angy says...
So what the fuck is prog anyway? It's long ceased to be an strictly identifiable sound, all the "prog DJs" out there (including Paolo) merely cheery pick all the best parts of underground house. Awesome quote from Howells - "There’s so much boring prog out there right now... from labels like Minus." LOL
JackT says...
That's a really weird quote from Paolo Mojo.
mcdoofus says...
"Quite interminable" LOL, how British :)
noiser says...
Perlon=prog? huh? don't think so.
Fourthstate says...
Pffft why even make this article. there will always be good prog and people will always love it. theres bad prog too but theres bad everything else anyway?
walkdogz says...
Prog IS a strictly identifiable sound, it's really not hard to know what a progressive house song is. And progressive sets are not just sets full of prog house, they are sets that have a progression of feeling, emotion and energy which takes in other genres such as tech-house and whatever the DJ sees fit to take the dancefloor on a progressive journey. And it is definitely not dead.
pomrocks says...
its prog....2 years and it'll be popular with the masses again
dj joey says...
i wouldnt play prog house if my life depended on it..its not 2003 anymore
partyboi007 says...
FINALLY!! Prog house is effing boring. Axwell @ the met earlier this year was a prime example.
Cheeky Banjo says...
this is weird - so much of the minimal-slash-techyhouse-slash-deeper guff coming out right now is prog. sure it ain't the boring aimless up-it's-own-arse prog we're all sick of, it's more of the warm and melodic variety. so yeah, progs changed (for the better for sure), but i wouldn't say its dead by any stretch......
Wowk says...
partiboy007 - Axwell is not prog house. not by a long shot. Re this article: prog is not dead. Prog is not anything. The whole point of prog is that it's a pervasive attitude and feeling, not just a small subgenre of music. You could arguably name LOTS of different music prog. Calling it dead is as stupid as calling techno dead.
westerndog says...
who gives a toss what some stupid rag reckons... I couldn't care less if prog is considered to be either 'in' or 'out'...
Discodemon says...
I have just one thing to say, If Prog is dead why is John Digweed number 3 on the DJ Mag top 100 and Sasha number 5. Oh yeah and what do all the top Trance Dj's play before they get in to the thick of there Trance sets....... Prog lets look to the top 20 11: Deep Dish, 14: Hernan Cattaneo, 17: James Zabiela, 23: Gabriel
shortino says...
oh and another thing UK djs hate minimal because the 'UK minimal' really really sucks..look more to germany, Spain, Italy detroit for the real stuff. UK is just a place for in-ya-face electro...and in-ya-face magazines
shortino says...
minus has boring prog? lol its not even house, try minimal techno at best. Something to subtle for someone like Danny Howells...UK djs at at best over-rated these days
scottyk82 says...
snore..... video game music has more appeal
Orion says...
prog is not so much a genre any more, i would be associated with the genere and play the genre, yet i find most of my tunes filed under 'techno, tech house, progressive' now, so who knows any more. this genre bashing seems to cause too much confusion. prog aint dead, it will never die, you just have to look in different places ;)