Happy Holidays all!

I know it has been a while since  I last posted a podcast and for those of you who have sent in music for me to publish, fear not! I will be publishing a few new episodes in the weeks to come.  I felt that to close out the year I should bring to you all something that I had put together myself and what better way than as a Just-In-Time Christmas present!

I have been very busy over the past year, DJing has taken up most of my weekends and my day job on top of that has become particularly hectic in the past few months.  Needless to say I have been scrambling to make it all work and hopefully in the new year I will gain some balance that will allow me to keep bringing these podcasts to you all on schedule. 

This particular set is a fantastic meld of some great tech house, deep progressive and even a little of what I call New Trance.  The music coming out these days has finally recaptured my intrigue and I am very much looking forward to what will be coming out in the year to come.  It would appear that there is a resurgence of that deep progressive sound that really caught my ear back in the late nineties and with it a bit of hope for all the hardcore prog heads out there who were never really ready to let it die.  Coming to us with the same deep and percussive elements that were the mainstay of the greats of the prog world a decade ago but with a polished sound and mixing in elements of the new minimal techno and electro house genres, progressive today is a much improved and mondernized version of its former self. 

In the mix I have be able to feature some of the new talent that is hitting the airwaves, EeSma, Sebastian Leger, Guy J, Fine Taste and Envotion just to name a few.  Artists who have made waves in many genres and have helped to re-invent some old ones.  I hope that this mix will help to educate some of you out there who may not know about progressive house in all its flavours.  This mix to me represents all things progressive in nature and while I would not, perhaps, categorize many of the tracks in this compilation as progressive house, I do feel that they all take something from that genre and reuse it to one degree or another.  I will let you all be the judge of that and I look forward to any and all feedback that you have time to post on this. 

Enjoy the final Textures Mix of this year 2008 and I look forward to sharing some new deep progressive beats with you in the new year!

Peace and be well all of you out there.

RobC