http://www.trackitdown.net/news/102240.htmlReported by Liz Cirelli on June 18, 2008
The Sunday Times’ Style Section turned its attention onto clubland again this week, dropping progressive house music in the out-of-fashion section of their fashion arbiter barometer ‘Going Up/ Going Down’
"Progressive house- murder on the dance floor,” the notoriously fickle tastemakers sneered, “it’s boring us to death".
Erstwhile prog type Paolo Mojo was empathetic if unimpressed.
“Actually I would fully agree with these guys,” Paolo told Skrufff, “Though I'm surprised it took then over 5 years to notice. But then again it is the Sunday Times and not Boys Own,” he laughed,
“Give me something with funk; with soul; with stark underground energy any day,” he continued. “If I never heard another filtered pad or delayed bass note ever again I could happily survive. Waap waap waap waap. Oh do f**k off you cretins,” he swore.
Fellow ersthwhile prog type Danny Howells aimed his fire elsewhere, telling Skrufff ‘oh there's so much boring prog out there right now; a lot of it comes out on labels like Perlon and Minus. It does nothing and goes on forever. Quite interminable, if you ask me.’
“But there's loads of amazing prog (if you can call it that) coming out on labels like Buzzin' Fly, Freerange, Simple etc,” Danny added.
He also happily accepted being labelled a progressive house DJ pointing out ‘my prog association has given me a job that previously I couldn't have even dreamed of having; and it's paid my mortgage so to be unhappy with the association would be a bit stupid, wouldn't it?’
“Prog's always been an easy scapegoat for thick journalists,” said Danny, “Those same journalists whose tired old musings are more boring than any boring prog house record ever made.”
Seminal prog superstar DJ Sasha touched on the genre last year, in a hilarious interview in DJ magazine in which he accused numerous minimal producers of previously specialising in ‘screaming trance’.
“I’ve been to parties where the DJs are meant to be playing minimal but all I hear is an update on progressive house”, he complained, adding ‘A lot of minimal music is self-indulgent music for people to {mmm...tasty} off to.”
Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
