Progressive house, progressive trance, progressive techno. Progressive house, progressive trance, progressive techno. Progressive house, progressive trance, progressive techno. Progressive trance is een rustigere vorm van de normale trance met een lager tempo (bpm) en meestal een wat langdradige dromerige opbouw. Dikwijls zijn er ook invloeden van house en techno in te horen. De tijdsduur van deze songs is ook meestal een stuk langer dan die van gewone Trancenummers. Een goed voorbeeld hiervan is Xpander van Sasha (11:29 minuten). Vanaf 2003 bezigen steeds vaker producers uit de Psychedelic Trance scene dit genre op. Vanaf 2004 is er duidelijk een versmelting tussen de twee stromingen zichtbaar met dit verschil dat de melodielijnen hypnotiserender worden en de eerst nogal vaak voorkomende zanglijnen verdwijnen. Een van de bekendste Progressive Trance DJ's is Armin van Buuren. Progressive is thought to have served as basis for at least four different dance electronic music genres that strongly influenced each other in the first half of the 1990 decade in Europe. Two of the most precursory of these genres, house and trance music, have been colliding in style on numerous occasions, with the most prominent being Leftfield's Song of Life single, released in January 1993. Although their collision can be seen as influence of trance over house, trance music did not feature steady electronic beats prior to the point, whereas house did share complex musical structure before (already present in 1988—89 in some acid house tracks, for example). Although Song of Life clearly defined the common base of progressive, similar sound has been reached by DJs Sasha and John Digweed in the Renaissance dance club, which opened in Mansfield in 1992. Earliest tracks were purely instrumental and featured dub-influenced basslines of house mixed with high-energy Roland TB-303 riff at various stages and posed over the regular 4-to-4 beat rhythm. The term itself was then coined by Mixmag editor Dom Phillips in 1994. Derived from Great Britain, progressive met considerable success in nightclubs in France, Germany and Italy starting 1995. Upon becoming widespread in Western Europe, sound contrasted analogue instrumental melody (mostly violin or piano) with regularized basslines, with effort from such producers as Robert Miles and Nylon Moon. Miles has even defined the result as "dream dance" (often dubbed "dream house" or "dream trance" today), which is considered to be the first of the subgenres of progressive to reach mainstream popularity. By 1996—97, it gained attention from worldwide DJs, and also fused with other then prominent dance genres, notably breakbeat, drum'n'bass and techno. The following years are considered to be the peak of progressive as practically any musical composition produced around that time featured elements of progressive. As house-trance fusion remained the primary example of progressive, notable later tracks included mixed digital and analogue sound. Examples of this can be found in Luna Park's Space Melody (1998) and AnnaGrace's Castles In The Sky (2001). By 2000, the movement was strongly opposed by minimalist tech house and its derivatives, which gained moderate mainstream popularity after being featured in various TV commercials. Both genres shared the dance scene until around 2002, when electroclash started influencing tech house and progressive slowly lost popularity in house/trance scene, with techno being the last of subgenres to keep prominence until 2004—05. Although the term itself is no longer applied to tracks in electronic dance music, influence of progressive can be found today in many other genres, especially in those that remix or remaster popular 1990s tracks and incorporate new, fresh sound into old compositions.