Everything goes in cycles!

Back in early 2001 or 2000, I can never remember which, I, through my own desperate search for "new" music, stumbled upon a musical series called Transport. The first iteration was by a "group" called Trendroid. Frankly it was a mesh of techno and progressive, but harder than I had heard before. Suffice it to say I enjoyed the compilation, and the next time I went to the local FYE, sought out with gusto another.

This volume was put together/ mixed by a bloke I hadn't heard of before, a guy called Max Graham. When I put the disc in my CD walkman, I was hooked and felt great about this new series of house discs that I had found, and after having patted myself on the back, chose to share my joy of music with anyone who would listen... Alas, in the grand land of North America, the progressive house or for that matter, house scene had not taken root as well as it had in London, or at least not from what I had found. And so my fervor at sharing my joy fell on deaf ears. Alas I was then left to enjoy my newly discovered music alone. Time passed, alternate music appeared and the two Transport discs sat upon my desk collecting dust. 

Until, that is, some 12 months ago when I was very analy cataloging my CDs, and chanced upon the two albums! I let out a yelp, and regressed back into dance heaven, when a thought struck me... I had very recently discovered by pure fluke, a website called www.soundcloud.com. Where with the miracle of technology, you can search an artist, musical genre or other and likely find music; be they original, remixes or recordings.

I took it upon myself then to search Trendroid and Max Graham on the site, and while I found little on the former, found a page for the latter. Surfing to Mr. Graham's page, to my delight, came upon 3 uploads with nothing less than 2hrs a piece of mixed progressive house - for FREE!

With the excitement of a juvenile child at Christmas, I downloaded the recordings and uploaded them to my iTunes library. From that point fourth I have never listened back. 

The uploads were from a, formerly, monthly show that Max puts out through digital radio, where he compiles in mix format all the progressive tracks of the moment. I say formerly, as he has subsequently made the show a weekly one (be still my beating heart) and while some of the track choices are repeated, each and every mix is nothing short of top quality! 

There is a little techno in there for the harder dance fan, a little trance and a stack load of progressive house, that, if you are into that genre is just cracking.

It's like a musical journey almost, stitched together with the occasional intro to what the listener has heard or about to hear. 

In terms of background, Mr. Graham hails from Montreal, although the fine folks at Wikipedia state that his origins are in the UK; which might explain his musical choice...

He has been DJing since '84, which puts him at the musical forefront of house music, he has remixed bands like Yes and then produced his own tracks of which the most well known are: "Sun in the Winter” and “Nothing Else Matters”.

If you have never sought out house music, and moreover the sub-genre of progressive house, to taste in the delight that is this electronic extravaganza, you could do much worse than checking out cycles radio, every Tuesday 12 noon EST on DI.FM DJMixes Channel. 

Thanks for reading; until next we meet.... The Weeks - Out!