Most electronic dance music tracks released are produced with certain features that are favourable for DJs to beatmatch records togher with an almost seamless sound to it. Unlike the obvious song structures of genres like hard house or Hi-NRG, the peaks and troughs in a progressive dance track tend to be less obvious. Layering different sounds on top of each other and slowly bringing them in and out of th ...

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Progressive dance music, Progressive dance music - Overview, Progressive dance music - Progressive house, Progressive dance music - Progressive trance, Progressive dance music - Progressive breaks, Progressive dance music - Progressive psytrance, Progressive dance music - Similarities in progressive genres, Progressive dance music - Artists and labels, Progressive dance music - Online Radio

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Progressive dance music, Progressive dance music - Overview, Progressive dance music - Progressive house, Progressive dance music - Progressive trance, Progressive dance music - Progressive breaks, Progressive dance music - Progressive psytrance, Progressive dance music - Progressive drum & bass, Progressive dance music - Similarities in progressive genres, Progressive dance music - Artists and labels, Progressive dance music - Online Radio

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Progressive breaks is a relatively recent phenomenon, essentially growing out of nu skool breaks and progressive house. However, Way Out West was fusing progressive house, trance and breaks in a successful commercial fashion with "The Gift" and "Domination" in 1996 with Hybrid introducing "Symphony" the same year. It is mostly of a trancier feel, with plenty of atmospheric pads and melodies. Most artists working in the genre also work in its immediate relatives too, with only the likes of Hybrid really sticking to it consistently. That said, it is o ...

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Progressive dance music, Progressive dance music - Overview, Progressive dance music - Progressive house, Progressive dance music - Progressive trance, Progressive dance music - Progressive breaks, Progressive dance music - Progressive psytrance, Progressive dance music - Progressive drum & bass, Progressive dance music - Similarities in progressive genres, Progressive dance music - Artists and labels, Progressive dance music - Online Radio

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Hippie (also hippy) is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s. The word hippie was popularized by the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen. Caen's articles were always written with the help of notes and letters from his San Francisco fan base. He is also credited as among the first to include the words beatnik and yuppie in his column. Though not a cohesive cultural movement with manifestos and leaders, some hippies expressed their desire for change with ...

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• Hippie - Origins
• Hippie - Politics
• Hippie - Drugs
• Hippie - Legacy
• Hippie - Characteristics
• Hippie - Pejorative connotations
• Hippie - Hippy
• Hippie - European countercultures after WW2
• Hippie - Bibliography

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Progressive house has its origins in Britain in the early 1990s, with the output of the Guerrilla record label and Leftfield's first singles (particularly "Song of Life") inspiring, according to various accounts, either Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle fame or then Mixmag editor Dom Phillips to coin the term. In 1992, what was to be the first superclub, Renaissance threw open its doors in the small mining town of Mansfield, and its DJs - particularly Sasha and the then-unknown John Digweed - were instrumental in pushing the sound in it ...

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Progressive dance music, Progressive dance music - Overview, Progressive dance music - Progressive house, Progressive dance music - Progressive trance, Progressive dance music - Progressive breaks, Progressive dance music - Progressive psytrance, Progressive dance music - Similarities in progressive genres, Progressive dance music - Artists and labels, Progressive dance music - Online Radio

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Progressive trance is popular sub-genre in trance music and contains elements of house, techno and ambient music. The basic formula of trance became even more focused on the anthemic qualities and melodies, moving away from predictable arpeggiated analog synth patterns (aka acid synth lines). Acoustic elements and spacey pads became popular, compositions leaned towards incremental changes (aka progressive structures), sometimes composed in thirds (like Brian Transeau frequently does). The sound became more and more ethereal and heavenly. Progressive trance contains very intuitive elements, such as unusual bassli ...

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Progressive dance music, Progressive dance music - Overview, Progressive dance music - Progressive house, Progressive dance music - Progressive trance, Progressive dance music - Progressive breaks, Progressive dance music - Progressive psytrance, Progressive dance music - Similarities in progressive genres, Progressive dance music - Artists and labels, Progressive dance music - Online Radio

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Progressive breaks is a relatively recent phenomenon, essentially growing out of nu skool breaks and progressive house. However, Way Out West was fusing progressive house, trance and breaks in a successful commercial fashion with "The Gift" and "Domination" in 1996 with Hybrid introducing "Symphony" the same year. It is mostly of a trancier feel, with plenty of atmospheric pads and melodies. Most artists working in the genre also work in its immediate relatives too, with only the likes of Hybrid really sticking to it consistently. That said, it is o ...

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Progressive dance music, Progressive dance music - Overview, Progressive dance music - Progressive house, Progressive dance music - Progressive trance, Progressive dance music - Progressive breaks, Progressive dance music - Progressive psytrance, Progressive dance music - Similarities in progressive genres, Progressive dance music - Artists and labels, Progressive dance music - Online Radio

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Most electronic dance music tracks released are produced with certain features that are favourable for DJs to beatmatch records togher with an almost seamless sound to it. Unlike the obvious song structures of genres like hard house or Hi-NRG, the peaks and troughs in a progressive dance track tend to be less obvious. Layering different sounds on top of each other and slowly bringing them in and out of th ...

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Progressive dance music, Progressive dance music - Overview, Progressive dance music - Progressive house, Progressive dance music - Progressive trance, Progressive dance music - Progressive breaks, Progressive dance music - Progressive psytrance, Progressive dance music - Progressive drum & bass, Progressive dance music - Similarities in progressive genres, Progressive dance music - Artists and labels, Progressive dance music - Online Radio

Read more here: » Progressive dance music: Encyclopedia II - Progressive dance music - Overview

Progressive house has its origins in Britain in the early 1990s, with the output of the Guerrilla record label and Leftfield's first singles (particularly "Song of Life") inspiring, according to various accounts, either Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle fame or then Mixmag editor Dom Phillips to coin the term. In 1992, what was to be the first superclub, Renaissance threw open its doors in the small mining town of Mansfield, and its DJs - particularly Sasha and the then-unknown John Digweed - were instrumental in pushing the sound in it ...

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Progressive dance music, Progressive dance music - Overview, Progressive dance music - Progressive house, Progressive dance music - Progressive trance, Progressive dance music - Progressive breaks, Progressive dance music - Progressive psytrance, Progressive dance music - Progressive drum & bass, Progressive dance music - Similarities in progressive genres, Progressive dance music - Artists and labels, Progressive dance music - Online Radio

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The Koxbox gained considerable popularity within the psytrance scene. Their work was of exceptional quality and differentiated them from most groups of the time. They used innovative sounds that make the Koxbox music characteristic to trained ears. They had a preference for rich, melodic tunes, and this was much appreciated at a time when the Goa sub-genre was the most popular psytrance style. They have remixed tracks by Juno Reactor and Slinky Wizard. Their tracks Fuel On, Ambivalentino, and Midnight Till The End appear in the danish movie Pusher. The later track was produced esp ...

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Koxbox, Koxbox - History, Koxbox - Music, Koxbox - Discography

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In the 1940s and 1950s the term hipster came into usage by the American Beat generation to describe jazz and swing music performers, and evolved to also describe the bohemian-like counterculture that formed around the art of the time. The 1960s hippie culture evolved from the beat culture, and was greatly influenced by changing music style and the creation of rock & roll from jazz. The first use of the word hippie on television was on WNBC TV Channel 4 in New York City at the opening of the New York World's Fa ...

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Hippie, Hippie - Origins, Hippie - Politics, Hippie - Drugs, Hippie - Legacy, Hippie - Characteristics, Hippie - Pejorative connotations, Hippie - Hippy, Hippie - European countercultures after WW2, Hippie - Bibliography

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Hippies often participated in peace movements, including peace marches such as the USA marches on Washington and civil rights marches, and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations including the 1968 Democratic Convention. Yippies represented a highly politically active sub-group. By 2005 standards, they're prone to hedonism and pacifism. The culture has also rapidly embraced postfeminist and mostly postmodern "principles" in wake of the twenty-first century. Though hippies embodied a counterculture movement, early hippies were not particularly tolerant of homosexuality. Acceptance of homosexuality grew with the culture and by today's standa ...

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Driven by the appeal of the Sixties "psychedelics guru", Harvard professor Timothy Leary, who advocated use of these drugs as a form of mind expansion, many hippies participated in recreational drug use, particularly marijuana (see cannabis, cannabis (drug), and hashish) and hallucinogens such as LSD (see both psychedelic and psychedelic drug) and psilocybin (see Psychedelic mushroom). Some hippies prize marijuana for its iconoclastic, illicit nature, as well as for its psychopharmaceutical effects. Although some hippies did not use drugs, drug use is a trait often ascribed to hippies. Some hippies used drugs to express their di ...

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Hippie, Hippie - Origins, Hippie - Politics, Hippie - Drugs, Hippie - Legacy, Hippie - Characteristics, Hippie - Pejorative connotations, Hippie - Hippy, Hippie - European countercultures after WW2, Hippie - Bibliography

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DJs who play progressive sounds include: John Digweed Sasha Brian Transeau James Holden Nick Warren James Zabiela Sander Kleinenberg Deep Dish Jimmy van M Steve Porter Danny Tenaglia Luke Chable Sector7seven Moshic Andrew Casric Progressive music producers: Timo Maas Hybrid (band) Way Out West Suspender Infusion Shiloh (group) See also:

Progressive dance music, Progressive dance music - Overview, Progressive dance music - Progressive house, Progressive dance music - Progressive trance, Progressive dance music - Progressive breaks, Progressive dance music - Progressive psytrance, Progressive dance music - Progressive drum & bass, Progressive dance music - Similarities in progressive genres, Progressive dance music - Artists and labels, Progressive dance music - Online Radio

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By 1970, much of the hippie style, but little of its substance, had passed into mainstream culture. The media lost interest in the subculture, as it went out of fashion with younger people and even became the target of their ridicule with the advent of punk rock. However, many hippies made, and continue to maintain, long-term commitments to the lifestyle. As of 2005, hippies are found in bohemian enclaves around the world or as wanderers following the bands they love. Since the early 1970s, many rendezvous annually at Rainbow Gatherings. Others gather at meetings and f ...

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Hippie, Hippie - Origins, Hippie - Politics, Hippie - Drugs, Hippie - Legacy, Hippie - Characteristics, Hippie - Pejorative connotations, Hippie - Hippy, Hippie - European countercultures after WW2, Hippie - Bibliography

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Infected Mushroom are one of the most popular pioneers of the psychedelic trance (or 'Psytrance') genre, this has been attributed to both their constantly evolving style of music and also to their tendency to use catchier, more accessible melodies than the more eccentric 'tripped-out' melodies used in most other psytrance music. Both Erez and Amit (Duvdev) are classically trained musicians, and this may explain the difference in the melodies they construct. The Gathering (1999) was the breakthrough debut album for the group with the s ...

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Infected Mushroom, Infected Mushroom - History, Infected Mushroom - Members, Infected Mushroom - Discography, Infected Mushroom - Albums, Infected Mushroom - EPs

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The term hippie has also been used in a derogatory sense, to describe long-haired unkempt drug users. Among those of the Beat Generation, the flood of youngsters adopting Beatnik sensibilities, appeared to be cheap, mass-produced imitations of the Beatnik artist community. By Beat standards, these newcomers were not "clever" enough to really be "hip". On the other hand, conservatives used the term hippie as an insult toward young adults whom had a leftist, liberal, and other progressive outlooks on life. Bands members like the Beatles defied ...

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Hippie, Hippie - Origins, Hippie - Politics, Hippie - Drugs, Hippie - Legacy, Hippie - Characteristics, Hippie - Pejorative connotations, Hippie - Hippy, Hippie - European countercultures after WW2, Hippie - Bibliography

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DJs who play progressive sounds include: John Digweed Sasha Brian Transeau James Holden Nick Warren James Zabiela Sander Kleinenberg Deep Dish Jimmy van M Steve Porter Danny Tenaglia Luke Chable Sector7seven Moshic Andrew Casric Progressive music producers: Timo Maas Hybrid (band) Way Out West Suspender Infusion Shiloh (group) See also:

Progressive dance music, Progressive dance music - Overview, Progressive dance music - Progressive house, Progressive dance music - Progressive trance, Progressive dance music - Progressive breaks, Progressive dance music - Progressive psytrance, Progressive dance music - Similarities in progressive genres, Progressive dance music - Artists and labels, Progressive dance music - Online Radio

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Neo-hippies or simply hippy is a name given to turn of the 21st century youths who still believe in the hippie philosophy from back in the day. Dreadlocks — especially with beads sewn into them — remain popular amongst neo-hippies. Much like their 1960s counterparts, the peace and justice theme continues. Especially with antiwar demonstrations in the wake of the Gulf War II, and ...

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Hippie, Hippie - Origins, Hippie - Politics, Hippie - Drugs, Hippie - Legacy, Hippie - Characteristics, Hippie - Pejorative connotations, Hippie - Hippy, Hippie - European countercultures after WW2, Hippie - Bibliography

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The term New Age describes a broad movement of late twentieth century and contemporary Western culture, characterised by an individual eclectic approach to spiritual exploration. Collectively, New Age has some attributes of an emergent religion, but is currently a loose network of spiritual teachers, healers, and seekers. The movement is most visible where its ideas are traded—for example in specialist bookshops, music stores, and New Age fairs. The name "New Age" also refers to the market segment in which its goods and servi ...

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• New Age - History
• New Age - Beliefs
• New Age - Quotations
• New Age - Lifestyle
• New Age - Underlying assumptions
• New Age - Language
• New Age - Critiques of the New Age
• New Age - Medicine
• New Age - Music
• New Age - New Age communities

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