This is the first in a series of DJ mixes I recorded to celebrate what I consider to be the vintage age of progressive house and progressive trance in the late 90s and early 00s. Throughout this time, labels like Rhythm Syndicate, Pitch Black, Bedrock, Forensic, Saw, Vapour, Hook, Alphabet Street, Sonic City, Tune Inn, Fluid, Silver Planet, Baroque and Propulsion were releasing wave after wave of incredible music: deep, dark, brooding and intense tracks you could get lost in, often with a tough, tribal edge.

Inspired by early albums in the Global Underground series, these are my take on GU mixes if I was able to go back in time and compile them from the records I was buying around then. In particular, some of the tracks included have been remastered from the original 12” vinyl as they’ve never been re-released as digital versions.

I hope you enjoy this trip back down memory lane. More mixes to follow when I get the chance.

Tracklist (artist/title/mix/label):

1. ECVM: Circuit Breaker (original mix) – Shinichi Records

2. White Room: Strapped (original mix) – Bedrock Records

3. Lexicon Avenue: From Dusk Til Dawn (Sander Kleinenberg’s Audio Paranoid remix) – Forensic Records

4. Luigi: Creation (Blackwatch’s East End remix) – Fade Records

5. Little Green Men: These Are The Beats (Third Movements remix) – Forensic Records

6. Echomen: Substance (Mooncat mix) – Forensic Records

7. Lexicon Avenue: Why R U Here (Hard mix) – Saw Recordings

8. Eagle’s Prey: Tonto’s Drum (Blackwatch’s Return To Zion edit) – Plastic Fantastic Records

9. Moogrove: Deuce (Mara’s Chooicide remix) – Saw Recordings

10. Cevin Fisher feat. Sheila Smith: Love You Some More (Steve Lawler’s Flight To Atlanta remix) – Subversive Records

11. Rhythm Unlimited: Feel This (original mix) – Silver Planet Recordings

12. Kev Wright & Dave Begg: Cold Below Zero (original mix) – Quanza Recordings

13. Moguai: U Know Y (Starecase remix) – Hope Recordings