Name: Orkidea - Pure Progressive 1 (CD)
SKU: WEEC660049
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Description

It took a shade under thirty months for Pure Progressive to rock past its one-hundredth release. That was time enough for the label to bring music from near enough every prog operator of note through its doors and onto floors. Penner, Barone, O”Glue, Saint-Jules, Schossow, Driftmoon, label honch Solarstone (naturally) – you name ”em, they”ve all received their P.P. pin.

If there was any surprise to be had it was that Pure Progressive”s resisted a full-blown compilation until now. Time is time though and July 2020 sees Solarstone”s progressive progeny emphatically score that notch. At the wheelhouse of its mix/disc-deuce is none other than that flying Fin, Orkidea – a genre prognosticator himself who”s recorded for the label many a time. Notably perhaps it was ”One Man”s Dream” – their hundredth release, as well as his longstanding Solar-association – that saw him earmarked to mix-helm ”PP Vol. 1”. Either way he”s seized both opportunity and reins to deliver a stupendously mixed first edition – and one that brings the best of his and the label”s artistic cohort to your ears.

Amongst them – well an embarrassment of progressive riches abounds. Genre forefathers like Way Out West rub shoulders with scene-starters like Oakenfold, whilst a host of respected outfits from its dawn – Deepsky, Sunscreem, Desert, Slusnik Luna, Pink Bomb and others – see their works remix-reimagined.