Progressive house

A subgenre of house music that emerged in the UK in the early 1990s. It is known for long, gradually evolving tracks in which layers, melodies and textures are slowly added or removed, so the energy builds and shifts over several minutes instead of relying on sudden changes. It typically runs at around 120–130 BPM, and draws on house, techno, trance and dub, with atmospheric pads and hypnotic, rolling grooves. Leftfield, Underworld and Guerilla, the label behind the “progressive house” tag, helped shape the original sound, and DJs such as Sasha and John Digweed popularised it through long, journey-style sets. In the 2010s the term was also used for a brighter, more anthemic big-room style associated with Swedish House Mafia, Avicii and Eric Prydz’s mainstream hits, which is quite different from the original.