What are all your takes on it? By that I mean who are some artists/what are some tunes that you consider progressive trance? I was talking with someone on Oldo's a couple days ago who claimed that PvD was prog trance, but I didn't think so. What are your opinions?

<-------Matthew Dekay

DISCLAIMER: The below is just my opinion, feel free to disagree.

For me, I define progressive trance as such stuff like what was released on labels like Jackpot, Skinnymalinky, Whoop, Stress, Fluid and the likes during the 90's and nowadays is a style that's somewhat few and far between. I'm not too great at explaining but I'll give it a go, it's a lot less minimal in content than progressive house and a lot more synthy, yet generally slower than standard "trance" and doesn't have such a big "climax"

Examples of what in my opinion is progressive trance:

Squelch - Crash (Danny Howells Original Mix)
Desert - Feelings Run So Deep
Tarentella - Deep Down
Breeder - The Chain
Evolution - Phoenix (Breeder Mix)
Dream Traveller - Time (Edge Factor Mix)
React 2 Rhythm - Intoxication (Digweed & Muir's Bedrock Mix)
Atlas - Compass Error (Tarentella Vs Redanka Remix) - One of the rare examples of progressive trance from the past year.
Dominion - Re-creation
Coyote - Spirits Dancing (Yekuana's Miracle Brew Mix)
Blue Amazon - The Runner
Fade - Heaven To Heaven
Arkarna - The Future's Overrated (Evolution's Time Bomb Mix)
Sian - Stronger Together (Andy Ling's Aryan Dub)
Max Graham vs Starecase - Love The Bomb

Most of the producers who did what I would define as progressive trance have either moved onto a deeper, more minimal progressive house sound or into other genres these days. Describing it as "somewhere between progressive house and trance" would pretty much sum it up in short.

And yes, I'd also agree with you that PvD isn't Progressive Trance.

C'mon, let's keep this thread going! Name some producers/DJs/etc. that you'd consider prog trance.

gu011 = prog trance
gu012 = prog trance
gu013 = epic and some prog trance
gu014 = prog trance in parts

that settle it?

See the problem today is that too many deejays blur the lines between progressive house and progressive trance that most people have no clue what it is.

Nubreed 4 cd 2, later part of it is prog trance.

Leama and Moor

21st Century Fux - Night
21st Century Fux - Sunspirit
3 Drives On A Vinyl - Carrera 2 (Gabriel And Dresden Remix)
BT - Somnambulist (Junkie XL Dub)
BT - Somnambulist (Sander Kleinenberg Convertible Mix)
Darren Tate vs. Jono Grant - Nocturnal Creatures (Original Mix)
Deepsky - Talk like a Stranger
Delerium - After All (Satoshi Tomiie Mix)
DJ Tiësto - In My Memory (Fades Sanctuary Mix)
Evolution ft. Jayn Hanna - Walking On Fire (Bedrock Remix)
Gabriel And Dresden - Lament (Satoshi Tomiie Remix)
Grayarea - One for the Road (Gabriel & Dresden Interstate 5 Remix)
Infusion - Troika
James Holden - Nothing
James Holden - Nothing (93 Returning Mix)
James Holden vs. Ben Pound - Kaern Turned
James Talk - Eggs Are Cute (Talk's Re-Percussion Mix)
Jase From Outta Space ft. Claire Sky - Do What You Want (Infusion Remix)
John Creamer & Stephane K - I Love You (Dub Mix)
Matthew Dekay - Beautiful Monday
PQM - You Are Sleeping (PQM meets Luke Chable Vocal Pass)
Sasha & Emerson - Scorchio (Sander Kleinenberg Scorched Mix)
Sasha - Cloud Cuckoo
Sasha - Wavy Gravy
Suffix - Mindgaps (Infusion Remix)
UNKLE - In A State (Sasha Remix)
Valentino - Flying (Sultan & The Greek Remix)
Yunus Güvenen - Mass Schizophrenia
Yunus Güvenen - Red Pilot
Yunus Güvenen - Underwater

Theres some from a quick playlist I threw together. Most of it is newish stuff, but there is some older stuff also.

D:Fuse and Christopher Lawerance

Paul definitely is not progressive trance.

Aloep made a great explanation, so I'll just put some more examples. Bedrock, Renaissance, and Hook were in on the progressive trance action when they started up, too, but soon turned towards the dark progressive house we all know and love/hate.

Luzon - The Baguio Track
Sasha - Xpander
Underworld - Cowgirl (Bedrock Mix)
Libra pres. Taylor - Calling Your Name (Original Mix)
Sasha & Emerson - Scorchio
Sander Kleinenberg - My Lexicon
Bedrock - Heaven Scent
Bedrock - Lifeline
Bedrock - Set In Stone
Bedrock - Forbidden Zone
James Holden - Nothing
James Holden - Horizons (Way Out West Remix)
Carissa Mondavi - Solid Ground (Fade Vocal Mix)
Paganini Traxx - Zoe (Timo Maas Remix)
Junkie XL - Beauty Never Fades
Junkie XL - Bon Voyage
Junkie XL - Zerotonine
Junkie XL & Sasha - Breezer
Space Manoeuvres - Stage One
Odessi - Moments of Space
Tilt - I Dream (Tilt's Ressurection Mix)
Stoneproof - She Does (Quivver mix)
Quivver - One Last Time
Sphere - Gravity
Andy Ling - Fixation
Andy Ling - Futura
Origin - Wide Eyed Angel
The Light - Panfried
Gus Gus - Purple (Sasha vs The Light Mix)
Breeder - The Chain (Babealicious Mix)
Breeder - Tyrantantric (Slacker's Kingdom Come Remix)
Orbital - Nothing Left (Breeder Remix)
Evolution - Phoenix (Breeder Mix)
Evolution - Walking On Fire (Bedrock Vocal Mix)
Arrakis - Medusa (Evolution Dub)
Arakis - Aira Force (Lemon 8 Remix)
Greed - Strange World (Blackwatch Dub)
Blackwatch - Skin Deep (Gulf of Tonkin Mix)
Way Out West - Activity
Way Out West - Domination
Way Out West - Spike
Way Out West - Ajare
Way Out West - UB Devoid
(Most other Way Out West productions)
Taylor - Slide
Taylor - Xenophobe
Natious - Flashpoint
Natious - Amber
Natious - Stylo
Natious - Thrust One
(Uh, everything by Natious)
Subsky - Four Days
Midtone - Pearl
Max Graham - Tell You
Max Graham - Falling Together
Max Graham - Backdraft
(Most Max Graham productions, although he is in a class of his own; maybe "epic progressive"?)

Hook:
Progressive trance of a trancy style was the hallmark of the Hook label up until about a year or two ago, such as:
DeNiro - Mind of Man
DeNiro - Evolver
DeNiro - Elan Vital
X-Cabs - Infectious
Christopher Lawrence - Renegade
Christopher Lawrence - Wasteland
Christopher Lawrence - Interceptor
Christopher Lawrence - Rush Hour
etc.

Early Renaissance compilations
Some of the earlier Global Underground
Early compilations from D:Fuse, Noel Sanger, and Dave Seaman
Oh, and of course Sasha - GU013: Ibiza

This was trance before the anthem, before Sasha and Diggers turned their back on the sound, as well as a bit of spinoff once the Oakenfold-style began to take its own course. Christopher Lawrence still spins his own unique brand of it, but not too many others.

Hope this helps. I've tried to pin down this genre for a while. Feel free to take potshots.

Fretwell

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Originally posted by Galapidate What are all your takes on it? What are your opinions?

that is all. thank you for your attention.

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Originally posted by torontotrance See the problem today is that too many deejays blur the lines between progressive house and progressive trance that most people have no clue what it is.

I totally agree
sometimes it's really hard to tell whether it's prog house or prog trance

well pvd is definately not prog trance
i know this guy who thinks that
the way he gets his music is by going on p2ps and looking up the word trance
laaame