Iboga

Sigh. As Save The Robot, Alien Project and Quadra have created some of the most exquisitely dire electronic music of recent years, culminating in an incredibly…

Jean Borelli has been making music for a rather long time, and the longer he does it the weaker it gets. From appearances “right at the beginning” on Flying Rhi…

What funny times we live in, eh readers? Reader’s Voice: Eh? Well, remember only a couple of years ago the thought of paying for an mp3 file was just… well, r…

Have you been disillusioned with progressive trance this year? Fed up of prog-u-like derivativity? Are you losing your hair? Erection Problems? Is your house i…

Now this is what I call playing it safe. With a title that instantly reminded me of that turgid mid-90’s angsty teen TV series My So-Called Life, I was hoping t…

I’ve tried with this one a lot, but I can’t help but find it completely underwhelming. One of the problems is that there’s a hell of a lot of it – a doublepack…

The latest instalment in the series of prog compilations largely responsible for making the genre as big as it is today is also one of the best. Ex-Spiral Trax…

I sort of suspect, here, that the emperor wears no clothes. Liquid Soul has perfected that laid-back, laconic prog – no argument there. But Synthetic Vibes soun…

Imagine Kraftwerk collaborating with vintage Atmos – you’re halfway there. Reefer Decree was always one of those acts I respected, and recognised was good, but…

It can’t be easy to be Freq. 2004’s Strange Attractors is, in many people’s eyes, THE progressive album. Along with Son Kite’s Colours, it opened the door to th…

Iboga are trend-bucklers. Not only are they enjoying tiptop sales as a natural result of developing the progressive sound that’s been dominant for the last year…

The followup to last year’s Set 5: Summer Collection has a lot to live up to. We thought we knew where we were with Sets 2 and 3, and then Set 4 showcased some…

A tricky one this. Prog sounds wonderful at the moment, and the prospect of a second album from these two would arouse trainspotters in a way only other trainsp…

The latest in the Set… series is compiled by Aran Gallagher, aka Freq; the same guy whose Strange Attractors last year brought Iboga bang up to date to pretty m…

New-Zealander Aran Gallagher has turned out a stormer here: nine tracks of fing ace progressive trance that smacks of dancing in the late morning with the sun o…