It took a long around thirty months for Pure Progressive to rock past its one-hundredth release and 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 honcho Solarstone (naturally) – you name ‘em, they’ve all received their P.P. pin.

Breaking down the sound he played his part in founding, Orkidea states:

“to me, progressive has always been that perfect mixture of house and trance. It has the slow groove and pumping bassline of the former, but with the melody, emotion, and atmosphere of the latter. Essentially it’s a bridge between those two identities. I fell in love with its first wave, when it was the underground sound of German trance played by the likes of Sven Väth. At the same time in the UK, the progressive house got trancier & trancier with the likes of Sasha & Digweed making and playing their version of the genre, best showcased through the legendary Renaissance compilations.

Time is time though and July 2020 sees Solarstone’s progressive progeny emphatically score that notch with 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’ along with 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 to name a few.

The compilation is released already and you can stream/buy it from here.

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