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I also should mention Solano :

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqPFlZrriXU

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MtCgX9W_TE

 

AND Tegma !

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tmzb4vhzd4

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMvpyqt0tr4

 

AND 12 moons !

 

Available for free on Ektoplazm. Pure atmospheric prog.

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In this sound, no one can touch Atmos IMO. The true king of prog. Melodic trance at its finest. Deep and truly progressive. He is the benchmark, a true classic. Some find it a little deep at times, but I think the way it gets in your head is all part of its greatness. The below is just a taste,

 

 

 

 

Critical Choice, the new collab from Ticon and Emok, is really smooth:

 

00db (John 00 Fleming and the Digital Blonde) make all sorts of trance. It's mostly all excellent, both the deep and the melodic. Here's their best atmospheric prog track IMO

 

 

Motion Drive, from the same label as Mindwave (Iono) can be bland at times, but when he is on form he is superb:

 

 

 

Suntree, also from Iono Records, his more recent stuff is sadly a little generic. But this album some years ago now was amazing. A unique, deep yet very dancefloor-worthy progressive:

<--- actually this one was maybe a bit more pumping than you were after? Still amazing atmosphere and melody. The track 'Freedom' is a bit deeper. Such a classic.

 

His contemporary E-Clip has also gone slightly generic, a bit closer to the standard psy prog sound. But if you like very atmospheric stuff then I highly recommend his album from a few years ago 'Shuma'. Lots of brooding atmospheric stuff like:

 

 

I also find Ovnimoon really goos for atmosphere, but he can be a bit more pumping.

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Manifestor (aka Astropilot) is another good mention. Manifestor for the slightly darker stuff with some psy elements, Astropilot for more melodic progressive but with his unique style. His ambient under the Astropilot name is also superb.

 

Protonica aim for this sound but are very hit and miss IMO. The problem with prog is that when it's not good (usually generic) it's typically boring, which I often find them. Many of the Tesseract artists (Zyce and co) are like this for me too. Lyctum and Sonic Entity are two of the better ones but they're two of the more pumping. Liquid Soul was also strong here a few years ago, but has gone a poor direction in recent years IMO.

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Manifestor (aka Astropilot) is another good mention.

 

Its is more than a good mention, this project will rise high ! Mister Redko is not far from being a genius ! This young Siberian talent is absolute master, and all of his sounds are unique.

 

Manifestor live :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI6O90fEBNc

 

 

Protonica aim for this sound but are very hit and miss IMO

Protonica has released some of the deepest stuff I've ever digged into. Refresh EP is a must-hear. However, their latest release was some disappointing, conventionnal prog-house.

 

 

Many of the Tesseract artists (Zyce and co) are like this for me too. Lyctum and Sonic Entity are two of the better ones but they're two of the more pumping. Liquid Soul was also strong here a few years ago, but has gone a poor direction in recent years IMO.

This is terrible. Some of these guys have talent, but since their colleagues are lazy fuckers who only produce the same repetitive "badabom badabom badabom vocal sample badabom badabom badabom triplet", they just drop their creativity and start applying the fucking same formulas OVER AND OVER AGAIN !

 

Egorythmia, E-Clip, Liquid Soul, Optiloop... don't deliver what they sould be delivering.

 

But there is hope !

 

Goa Tech-Trance is rising, and artists such as John Fleming, the Digital Blonde, Manifestor, Splattered Implant and Suduaya deliver powerful melodic, atmospheric trance with either dark or psychedelic accents.

 

On the other hand : Mindwave.

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I was at that festival above where Astropilot / Manifestor played. All three of his sets were awesome, but this was the best of the lot IMO https://www.mixcloud.com/astropilot/astropilot-live-rainbow-serpent-2014-market-stage-24012014/

 

Mindwave is great but like Motion Drive he can be bland in parts (although not to the same extent). This can be said for many Iono artists, it seems. When he is good, he's great, but he's not quite at the level of Atmos or Timewave, who is one I forgot to mention above but does great space trance.

 

I just don't get in to Protonica. Seen them live at least 4 times in the past 3 years and it just never gets me that much. Which is odd given I love the premise of deep, spacey super progresive trance, but they seldom do it for me. Really odd.

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