News about Sasha...Sasha ditches using vinyl and progressive

[bartlett]

I heard that Sasha was going to be using his computer for the Dallas date on the 26th.

[DJ Cubano]

Originally posted by bartlett
I heard that Sasha was going to be using his computer for the Dallas date on the 26th.

samething I heard, but Live 4 doesn't come out till July, and the beta version hasn't been finished yet so....I bet he's learning on Live 3.

[Eric Scholwinski]

Originally posted by Xodiac
No one can even really agree on what 'progressive' means.

Boring? Teheheh


Good for Sasha, everyone needs change now-and-again.

Originally posted by DJ Cubano
samething I heard, but Live 4 doesn't come out till July, and the beta version hasn't been finished yet so....I bet he's learning on Live 3.

I'm pretty sure little ole Sasha can get his hands on it.

Guys like him get this shit sent to them sometimes without even asking.

And as far as Sasha ditching prog. I'd say hes been trying to do that for awhile now. His sets have swayed back and forth between the realms of tech to straight up house.

There is still alot of prog out there being release althou I have no idea who the fuck is buying it.
Its pretty stale right now and I can definitely see alot of people who once championed the sound trying to escape its clutches and move on into some more interesting territory.

Maybe even get a few people to dance along the way.

yea i agree that sasha doesn't have to wait for abelton live 4 to come out, he has a copy already. also i dont think he will be using that anyways, because you dont get as clean of mixes out of it. i have a friend that uses that for mixing his org tracks together and making mixed compolations of his own work.

i dont think sasha will stop playing his progressive house, but i do see him going more into tech house, idm, ambient, and some form of deeply melodic trance. i also think he will be using final scratch just like paul van dyk and several other cds out there today. he could possible use ableton 4 and final scratch together. hell who knows really?

i do think it is a good idea for djs to change their styles over time. everyone needs a change from what they normally listen to, even if it is a little change. the same old thing gets old after a while.

also progressives isn't going anywhere, because sasha is not the one that makes everyone play progressive tunes. there are people out there that liked progressive music before progressive was progressive and before sasha started playing progressive tunes. also i am one of those people that buys some of the progressive tunes being put out on the market, and there are a lot of other djs that are buying them also.

[jayson_gold]

The next time I wanna change my style maybe I should think of hitting some girl in the face with a vinyl?!?!?!

[thefncrow]

Originally posted by Xodiac
No one can even really agree on what 'progressive' means. It's vague, like "alternative rock", so a lot of stuff that doesn't really fit neatly into house or trance gets thrown in there. I've heard some of Involver, and it easily fits my idea of what progressive sounds like.

Yeah, exactly. I've basically dumped the entire idea of there existing "progressive house", "progressive trance", and "progressive breaks" for something which I now just call the Prog Triangle. On each edge sits breaks, trance, and house. Within there sits progressive. A track might be a point halfway between the edge between breaks and trance, or halfway between house and trance, or maybe its sitting dead in the middle of all 3. Prog breaks seems to vary from "bits of breaks, lots of melody" (leaning towards trance with breaks tendancies), or "lots of typical breakbeat structure with house elements", or whatever. Defining genres in progressive anymore is really counterproductive. And, you know what? If BSPF ever starts to come around again, it'll probably become the Prog Diamond, and you add Tribal in there somewhere. Really, I think about the only good definition left for progessive would be "Combining elements of <list of applicable genres here> to create music whose sound is not typical of any of the original genres."

It seems that Sasha has just decided to not be constrained to the triangle anymore, and is just playing all over the place. Hell, the S&D Emix a few weeks back, when Sasha hit the decks, he threw out a long section of breaks. Last night, he was on Global DJ Broadcast, and ranged back and forth between some really near-Trance numbers and some House stuff.

[Adam D]

Prog was bumped off a while ago. BFD.

Originally posted by Adam D
Prog was bumped off a while ago. BFD.

WRONG, maybe in dallas yea, but not here in nashville tenn, or new york, or california, or north carolina, or atlanta, or miami, or several other places.

That's funny.

[J. Fees]

very funny

[physix]

Originally posted by Eric Scholwinski
Boring? Teheheh


Good for Sasha, everyone needs change now-and-again.

including you deep house djs.

[Stefan Anion]

who cares what "progressive" is...it's just music. some of it's fast, some's slow, some hard, some soft. bottom line: music.

if it's trendy, the press slaps a label on it and markets it until everybody get's tired of it and the next fad comes hopping along.

it's kinda strange, a lot of the stuff i hear now in clubs is what they played in London in '89, while there's also stuff that no one can quite understand yet.

[h0x0rb0b]

Originally posted by Stefan Anion
who cares what "progressive" is...it's just music. some of it's fast, some's slow, some hard, some soft. bottom line: music.

if it's trendy, the press slaps a label on it and markets it until everybody get's tired of it and the next fad comes hopping along.

it's kinda strange, a lot of the stuff i hear now in clubs is what they played in London in '89, while there's also stuff that no one can quite understand yet.

Thats what im sprayin niglet

[la dj]

there's also stuff that no one can quite understand yet

that's the kind of sound i want to hear