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Progressive House or Main/Big Room House?
« on: January 15, 2016, 11:20:50 pm »
Could someone please explain to me the difference between "Progressive House" and "Main/Big Room House"? Because....I forget.

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Re: Progressive House or Main/Big Room House?
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2016, 11:47:30 pm »
My opinion(for whats its worth): It really doesn't matter. Its an arbitrary form of classification, doesn't really mean anything about the quality of the music.
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Re: Progressive House or Main/Big Room House?
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2016, 11:56:10 pm »
I used to think progressive house is this light chilled trancy-stabs filled stuff you might find on mr. SuicideSheep once in a while. I liked it that way. :) ...but now it's used to describe Garrix-ish multi-layer epic-esque bigger than life things. So I must admit, I'm lost in this, but ... also ... kinda don't care either. :D
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Re: Progressive House or Main/Big Room House?
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2016, 11:58:19 pm »
Nice to see you on here SomeCollege! For some reason when I think of Progressive House I'm thinking of a condition rather than a set genre. So what is now main/big room was at one point progressive before it had that genre distinction. But what's is progressive may not be progressive forever. Main/Big room however is a landing zone. When I hear Main/Big Room I have an idea already what that might sound like. There's a framework and a set palette.

Progressive house for me right now tends to be a little more focused on groove and that chunky feel (122-126 BPM) as opposed to main and big room which may be less focused on that and more about big sound and a less diverse tempo (126-132)

When I hear Progressive House, I think Jaytech, old Bayer etc. when I think big room, I'm thinking more Sander Van Doorn, etc.
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Re: Progressive House or Main/Big Room House?
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2016, 01:22:23 am »
Quote from: felyxsnow on January 15, 2016, 11:58:19 pm
Nice to see you on here SomeCollege! For some reason when I think of Progressive House I'm thinking of a condition rather than a set genre. So what is now main/big room was at one point progressive before it had that genre distinction. But what's is progressive may not be progressive forever. Main/Big room however is a landing zone. When I hear Main/Big Room I have an idea already what that might sound like. There's a framework and a set palette.

Progressive house for me right now tends to be a little more focused on groove and that chunky feel (122-126 BPM) as opposed to main and big room which may be less focused on that and more about big sound and a less diverse tempo (126-132)

When I hear Progressive House, I think Jaytech, old Bayer etc. when I think big room, I'm thinking more Sander Van Doorn, etc.

Nice to see you here too bro!  I have exactly the same opinion of what Progressive House is.  I think it's more about groove than the big banging' drops like "Beatport" Progressive House! (I love Jaytech's work too!)  I will continue in the more groove driven style when ever I do a Progressive House track.  Here's an example of one of my favorites, but by no means definitive example of this genre.

https://youtu.be/jg0TAk5OB0M

Take care,
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Re: Progressive House or Main/Big Room House?
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2016, 05:31:09 am »
Progressive House to me will always be saw plucky, melody driven club music, although I do like the groove based stuff too.
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Re: Progressive House or Main/Big Room House?
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2016, 06:33:47 am »
Progressive House - Dash Berlin, Kaskade, Eric Prdyz, Zedd, Sander van Doorn etc anything that builds up and then drops

Main/Big Room House - Hardwell, afrojack, stuff for festivals really.. anything big room means festivals lol

I dunno, theres not really genres anymore, everything is kinda mixed now
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Re: Progressive House or Main/Big Room House?
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2016, 06:45:02 am »
Progressive house usually has a bassline melody while big room has just a kick and bass tail for a bassline, but thats not always true. Big room also usually has more "big room" sounding reverb
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Re: Progressive House or Main/Big Room House?
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2016, 07:39:35 am »
Quote from: vinceasot on January 16, 2016, 06:33:47 am
Progressive House - Dash Berlin, Kaskade, Eric Prdyz, Zedd, Sander van Doorn etc anything that builds up and then drops

Main/Big Room House - Hardwell, afrojack, stuff for festivals really.. anything big room means festivals lol

I dunno, theres not really genres anymore, everything is kinda mixed now

Well I guess that's cool that everything is mixed now.  Kind of like Rock and Roll. Pearl Jam was considered "Grunge" but the guys in Pearl Jam just think they're playing Rock and Roll. I like the creative possibilities with everything mixed now.  Although when describing Progressive House, Different people might have very different opinions. That's what's confusing with this particular label.

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