REVIEWS – Jay Dobie – PHC

Progressive House Classics Buried Treasure

Drawing to the end of 2025. We’re still crate digging although sometimes there is just to much to go through! Some selected listening and recommendations that may just have slipped under your radar coming right up.. Put your battle helmets on and lets get digging! 4 recommendations from the Progressive House Classics vinyl vaults

Malcolm McClaren – Bell Song – Remembrance Mix – Overdose – 1997

No stranger to dance music Malcolm McClaren delivered an absolute weapon of track with a bit of help from Coventry lads Parks & Wilson. Released in 97, Bell Song took the big progressive trance dance floors by storm with support from all the major players. Released on the Red Parrot label, originally home to Space Manoeuvres (Quivver) this particular mix flirts with an epic house sound and a 14 minute run time to boot.

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Fatback Boogaloo – Wide Open Spaces – Skinny Malinky – 1995

Delving through the Skinny Malinky back catalogue is always a blast. The label became a favourite with the big prog DJs alongside Jackpot Records in the mid nineties. It was indeed a special time for music production and this particular release with its Mothers Pride remix really stands up well. Fatback Boogaloo are Mike Monday and Andy Cocup and if you listen to this and think it sounds a bit like a Beat Foundation production you’d not be mistaken as they’re one and the same. A smoothly produced classic that’s worthy of your attention.

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Origin – Acushla – Steel yard – 1998

The stir this caused when it dropped through a few letter boxes was immense. Originally distributed and mailed by Amato Disco. Many first heard the track when Sasha dropped it in a set that was recorded and then sold as a tape. Its a big, building affair perfectly suited to peaktime dance floors, wonderful stabby synths and a breakdown that builds and kicks straight into the heads down, dark room groove.

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Sunday Club – Healing Dream – Stress – 1998

You can go two ways with our final pick as there is a decent dub mix that is credited to Freefall which is of course Alan Bremner and Anthony Pappa but on this occasion we’ll go for the original in all its 15 minute, epic, prog trance glory! A track that clocks in at 15 minutes truly is something to behold, the production values behind this are incredible and its perfect for an opening a set. Marc Mitchell and Stuart King are a production duo out of Jersey and stamped their name on the scene with complex layered production. Beautifully epic with a dreamy vocal this is arguably the best in the Sunday Club back catalogue. A great example of late nineties prog trance.