Progressive House

Progressive House is a native of the UK music direction, which is composed of elements of Deep House, Trance, Tribal House and Tech House. It uses a 4/4-time and driving bass drums. Characteristic is the dramaturgy low -layer construction of the tracks, often reaching a length of up to 7-10 minutes.

Features

Elements

In the sound many areas are finding melody elements and also how randomly interspersed, sound effects (Extra- claps, knocking sounds, snares, vocals as SFX, etc.). Particularly striking is the excessive use of reverb.

Depending on the variant are vocals heard that find either quote -like entrance, or make up all the song parts.

Synthesizers and effects

One of the essential features in the Progressive House is used in many tracks lead synths, which reminds us with the sound characteristics of a plucked string instrument. Synthetic sound itself sets this sound in most cases composed of multiple oscillators. Of these two oscillators are usually provided with a sawtooth or square wave, are minimally detuned to create more space. The third oscillator operates with a sine wave as a bass foundation.

Furthermore, the tendency in modern productions, more and more toward a use of distortion effects from. Deliberately overdriving the sound, the aim is to produce more overtones. The envelope used for the sound is characterized by a very fast rise time (Attack ) and a fast decay time ( Release). The decay runs approximately between 150-300 ms. The holding phase (Sustain ) varies depending on the nature of the piece. If the lead synthesizers in the play is to play the dominant role, the holding phase is chosen usually somewhat longer because thus the sound from the third oscillator is more present with the sine wave, and thus the Zupfklang a wider frequency spectrum is filled ( The sound is full ).

Frequently put performers on the specific use of filtered noise to deliver higher frequencies and to provide more atmosphere.

Stylistics

The speed of the title is mostly 128BPM. In addition to the Progressive House there is the slower version of Deep Progressive House at a rate of 125-128 bpm.

A relationship to progressive rock is not, but probably to Progressive Trance.

Arrangement

The difference between Progressive House and other House - directions is in the structure. Classically, Progressive House tracks have a distinctive drum loop that repeats across the whole track. To this loop around the track then builds on and on, without finding a unique musical climax. The usual structure " Intro - Filler - Breakdown - Main riff / chorus - Filler - Second Breakdown - Main riff / chorus, outro " is in Progressive House replaced by a constantly evolving and changing sound that builds around the original drum loop around. Because these changes often take place in small steps, this can be perceived by the inattentive listener as monotonous.

This structure brings about the term " progressive", which is to describe that the song continues to evolve, rather than to give rise to mood highs and lows. When listeners can result in an unsatisfactory feeling because usually you expect a unique "peak" in every song, what with Progressive House just is not the case. Meanwhile, however, also tracks sorted in the genre, which do not have this progressive structure, but follow the normal house tracks. This shrinks the others of this genre.

Variants

A variant with broken beats is called Progressive Breaks and Nu- Breaks.

Especially in recent years, Progressive House has undergone a change of meaning in terms of its stylistic features. As a key turning point can be the work Aviciis with his title "Levels" in 2011, respectively. With this title, succeeded to the Swedish producers to put Progressive House into the mainstream.

Disconnected them has won the so-called Melodic Progressive House. In contrast to the club -oriented progressive house in the style of Avicii and Swedish House Mafia, this genre is slower and has a calmer mood.

Significant Artists

Related Genres

  • Trance
  • Deep House
  • Big Beat
  • Tech House
  • Nu- Breaks
  • Deep Dark Tribal House
  • Electro House
Sound synthesis Tempo#Beats per minute Progressive electronic dance music#Progressive trance Breakbeat Nu-Skool Breaks DBN (Band) Basto (musician) Michael Woods (producer) Dirty South (musician)
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