Feature · September 2026
When Did Sasha Get Darker?
Ten Sasha sets from 1995–98 that let you hear the shift from warmer progressive house into the darker, spacier progressive-trance sound for yourself.
The Mix Archive
Classic progressive house, trance and DJ mixes worth hearing again.
You had the CDs. You taped the radio shows. Then life got in the way, and one day an old Sasha or Digweed mix comes back on and you think: fuck me, I'd forgotten how good this was. This is the place to go looking again — progressive house and trance from the 1990s and early 2000s, from Global Underground and Renaissance to Nick Warren, Oakenfold, Dave Seaman and plenty you'd half-forgotten, each one written about properly and linked back to legitimate listening sources.
Latest Updates
Added this week
Highlights from the most recent Sunday update, in one place.
Mix of the Week
One mix each week, picked because it deserves a proper sit-down listen rather than a thirty-second skip. Put it on while you're driving or cooking and let it do its thing.
Live at Arena
- Progressive House
- Progressive
Two DJs who spent the early 2000s building the scaffolding around American progressive house, sharing a booth for an hour.
Classic Chart
Three from the current Top 10
If you only get through ten mixes from this era, make it these. Ranked by opinion — mine — rather than streams, sales or a public vote, and reshuffled when something genuinely earns it.
- 1
- 2
- 3
Classic Tracks
10 records that helped define the sound.
The progressive house and trance records you'd recognise in two bars — the ones that turned a room over back then and still do the job now.
- 1
Heaven Scent (Original Mix)
- 2
The Chain (Babealicious Mix)
- 3
Careful (Brothers in Rhythm Soundtrack)
Bonus Pick
One more worth your time from outside the chart — no ranking, just a mix we couldn't leave out.
Live at Carnival XIII, Moscow
- Progressive House
- Progressive
Three hours and ten minutes of Dave Seaman in Moscow, surviving in one piece — which almost never happens.
Featured Track of the Week
One record from the era that's been stuck in my head again. No grand theory attached — just something you probably haven't heard in fifteen years, and should play loud.
Knight Keys — Never Felt This Way (Behrouz & Andy Caldwell Toronto Remix)
- Progressive House
- Progressive
Deep, vocal and in absolutely no hurry — the early-2000s sound keeping the long build and dropping the late-90s furniture.
Latest Feature
Long reads from behind the records
From the community
Follow The Mix Archive on Facebook
Newly found mixes, archive additions and the odd one that brings the whole era flooding back.
Collector's Shelf
From the Collector's Shelf
If something in the Archive has you wanting the CD again, start here. Twenty-five classic mix releases with complete tracklists and proper deep dives into why the music still deserves shelf space.
Global Underground
The Global Underground mixes that still deserve a proper listen — complete tracklists, musical deep dives and the releases worth owning again.
Renaissance
The Renaissance mixes worth owning again — the music, complete tracklists and the releases that made the DJ mix a proper album.
Sasha & John Digweed
Northern Exposure, Northern Exposure 2, Expeditions and Communicate — four complete journeys through the duo's changing sound.
Archive
Latest from the Archive
Live at Arena
- Progressive House
- Progressive
Just over an hour of Jimmy Van M and Chris Fortier sharing a booth in December 2003 — two of American progressive house's quiet builders, in a recording that survives with almost no metadata attached.
Live at Carnival XIII, Moscow
- Progressive House
- Progressive
Three hours and ten minutes of Dave Seaman in Moscow on 1 September 2001 — a full club set surviving intact, without a CD running time or a radio slot cutting it down.
Live at Electrolux Festival, Reykjavík
- Progressive House
- Progressive
Seventy-five minutes of Dave Seaman at the Electrolux Festival in Reykjavík on 20 December 2002 — a tighter festival set, and a useful contrast with his three-hour Moscow recording.