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A ROUGH GUIDE TO DARK PROGRESSIVE HOUSE
A ROUGH GUIDE TO DARK PROGRESSIVE HOUSE
2001-2003
2001-2003
As I sit here typing this, I'm listening to Saeed & Palash's 2003 mix compilation Addictive Beats, my final entry from a deep dive into dark progressive house. Listening to this particular mix - one of a few I had never listened to until now - I am fully prepared to disqualify it from consideration, on the grounds that I know these DJs' reputation for tribal house beats, and I teeter on the edge of plummeting into a spiral of full-blown electronic music genre-labelling retardedness. After all, everybody knows that tribal house is completely different from progressive house, right? Right?!? Labelling and understanding and arguing about (both the excellence and the correct categorization of) the various genres and sub-genres of electronic music has long since become a cliche within the dance music community, eg, "I used to be into techno, but now I'm more into ambient-trip-hop- experimental-noise."
