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Progressive House UK

Progressive House UK

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Established in 2019 Progressive House UK is a global Progcast station & electronic music mix show for like-minded people. Each week we produce a new 'In The Mix' show from our team of resident underground DJs. We also feature a very special 'Guest Mix' series and partner with Flux Electronic Music to bring you the very best of scenes from renowned or emerging international DJs. You can also find us online on Facebook & Instagram where we create & share unique content, discuss music, UK event ...
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In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, award-winning writer for the New Yorker and The Observer newspaper's video game critic invites a well-known guest from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on their very own fictional games machine. They discuss those five games in chronological order of release, interspersed with biographical chat about the guest’s life and career –– a lens that often leads to new an ...
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Danny Jarvis

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Welcome to 'In Conversation With,' the podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of the UK underground House music scene. Join host Danny Jarvis as he sits down with some of the most exciting and influential DJs, producers, and promoters in the game to explore the passion, nostalgia, and complexities of this dynamic music scene. From clubbing memories to current projects and everything in between, get ready to dive deep into the highs and lows of being a part of the underground electro ...
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My guest today is the award-winning humourist, writer, and presenter Danny Wallace. Born in Dundee, Scotland, he published his first professional video game review at the age of thirteen while conducting work experience for Sega Power, a magazine that subsequently offered him a job. At 22, after graduating from The University of Westminster, he bec…
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With nearly a decade-long career, Ceará-born DJ and producer Sadra, a graduate of DJ Academy Brasil, was involved in event production even before starting her journey as a DJ. She has been a prominent figure in the electronic music scene in Brasília, the city where she currently resides and has established roots. The artist combines her intuition, …
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My guest today is Nainita Desai, the British composer for film, television and video games. Born and raised in London by her Indian parents, she earned a degree in mathematics, then studied sound design at the National Film and Television School. She started her career as a sound designer on the films Little Buddha, Lessons of Darkness and Death Ma…
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My guest today is the American video game designer and programmer Eugene Jarvis. Born in California, he studied computer science at Berkeley, where, in the basement of the physics laboratory, he played the early video game Spacewar. After graduating he worked for Hewlitt Packard, but quit after three days to join Atari, where he began programming f…
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Welcome to The Void, music for lonely places and distant spaces. We continue our journey through the stars, exploring auditory signals from across the spectrum. Tracklist: 1. Sleepy Town Manufacture - Latatoo 2. Erothyme - A Familiar Weightlessness 3. Pagaent - Wave 4. Lovetrip - Intake 5. Chuck Johnson - Superior Mirage 6. Framewerk - I Feel It (P…
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My guest today is the German filmmaker Uwe Boll. Born in Wermelskirchen he decided he wanted to direct films at the age of ten, after seeing Marlon Brando star in Mutiny on the Bounty. It wasn’t until he was in his mid-thirties, however, that he directed his first major motion picture, Blackwoods, a psychological thriller that a critic for the New …
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My guest today is the American video game artist and designer, Derek Yu. Born in Pasadena, California in the early eighties, he started mapping out games on graph paper when he was still a child. After graduating college with a degree in computer science, he moved to San Francisco to work as a freelance illustrator. In 2007 he developed a satirical…
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In this special correspondence edition, host Simon Parkin reads out listeners' correspondence and answers your questions. Hear Simon discuss the recent, headline-making episode with former PlayStation President Chris Deering, listener responses to the controversy, as well as discussion of what term we should use to describe the genre formerly known…
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My guest today is an American businessman and the former and first president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Chris Deering. Raised in Boston, Massachusetts to immigrant parents, my guest had a strict upbringing. Despite the disadvantages he faced, he graduated with distinction with a degree in computer science at Boston College, then studied…
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My guest today is Eliot Higgins, a British citizen journalist and founder of Bellingcat, a website that specialises in open-source intelligence. In 2012, while unemployed, he became involved in online discussions about the conflict in Syria, where few journalists were able to operate. Despite having little prior interest in the region, he began to …
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In this special episode, Simon is joined by comedian Glenn Moore to discuss the subject of July's My Perfect Console 'Game Club', The Messenger. Throughout July 2024, Glenn and Simon, along with many of you, the listeners, played through the 2018 platformer The Messenger, a game chosen by Abu Salim during his episode of My Perfect Console. Glenn an…
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Enjoy Danny's closing set of the evening recorded live on Say 17th Aug at World Headquarters. Rokazer -Nekkar (Extended Mix) [Colorize (Enhanced) Tom Pavicich - Aura (Original Mix) [BC2] Fuenka - Theed (Kostya Outta Remix) Taylan - Helium [Venture Records] B.B.E. - Seven Days And One Week (Yotto Remix) The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea …
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Newman (I Love) - You're Not Alone (Extended Mix) Orkidea & Sunscreem - Perfect Motion (Extended Mix) Frankey & Sandrino - The Moment Kamilo Sanclemente, Sebastian Valencia - Holograph (Original Mix) [Plattenbank] Cristoph, Pete Tong & Paul Rogers - Where's The Music Gone Because of Art - Transient [LNOE158] Richie Blacker & James Shinra - Rapture …
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Enjoy Danny's first set of the evening recorded live on Say 17th Aug at World Headquarters. 'Now, your perfect Sunday... starts with a bangin’ Saturday evening!' The ultimate early evening clubbing experience with house to techno from 17:00-22:30 hrs ensuring you're home before midnight. DJs Danny Jarvis and Richard Trout bring 30+ years of global …
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My guest today is Maddy Thorson, a Canadian writer and designer for video games. At the age of 14, she obtained a copy of GameMaker, software on which she learned to make simple games. After studying computer science at Grande Prairie Regional College in Alberta, she moved to Vancouver and there rented a house in which she and her friends began wor…
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My guest today is Holly Gramazio, a writer, curator, and game designer. Born in Australia, she earned her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, then moved to London where she founded the Somerset House-based games festival Now Play This, an annual celebration of experimental games. In 2019 she wrote the script for Dicey Dungeons, a…
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Welcome back to the The Void, music for lonely places and distant spaces. We continue our journey through the stars, exploring auditory signals from across the spectrum. Tracklisting: 01.Deepchord - Neon and Rain 02.Alex Albrecht - The Blacksmith 03.Aphex Twin - Ageispolis 04.Nosnar - Memories and Even More 05.Qeshi - Tulip 06.Mick Chillage - Deser…
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In this special episode, five My Perfect Console supporters share the games they would like to put on their ideal, fictional games machine, and the reasons behind their choices. If you would like to share your console with the My Perfect Console audience, head to www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole where you can become a supporter and receive a raft o…
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My guest today is Luke Muscat, the Australian video game designer behind some of the best-known smart phone games yet made. After graduating from Queensland University of Technology with a degree in IT and Games, he joined Halfbrick Studio, a game developer in Brisbane that specialised in games licensed from film and TV. There he designed a simple …
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Tribute to Paul Oakenfold @ The Que Club 28-05-1995 One of the first mixes recorded off Radio 1. Some of these tunes blew me away. The tape I had of this was bad quality but i still listened hundreds of times. A few scratchy mixes but no doubt Paul Oakenfold was the man of the moment throughout the 90's. A few months ago I just remade the mix. Sadl…
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Following on from RICCO's tribute mix to Sasha, we bring you another tribute mix, this time to the mighty FRAMEWERK. From their own tracks to some of their fantastic remixes this mix hits hard, sit back and turn up as we bring you a tribute to FRAMEWERK. Mixed by RICCO.. Papua new guinea - FSOL (Framewerk remix) Forge - Bedrock ( Framewerk remix) D…
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McMo's passion for progressive house shines through in his latest resident's mix for PHUK. Full of energy and class, he takes us on a deep, funky journey through some of his favourite tracks of the moment, perfect for these heady summer months...enjoy! X Tracklist: 1. Michael A - Passion (Original Mix) [Proton Music] 2. GIBSOM - Hovering Hours (Ext…
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A special episode to celebrate the life and work of Brett Jones, an artist and animator for video games, film and television who passed away in July. Jones worked on the seminal N64 movie tie-in game, Goldeneye 007, which successfully brought the first person shooter genre to consoles. He made instrumental contributions to its sequel, Perfect Dark,…
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My guest today is the American video game developer Steve Meretzky. Born and raised in Yonkers, New York, he attended MIT, where he earned a degree in construction management. In 1981, after two years spent working in the construction industry, a friend asked him if he would like to become a tester for Infocom, a publisher that specialised in inter…
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My guest today is an English writer for video games, TV, film, comics, and books. Born into a literary household – her father was the celebrated fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett –– she studied journalism at the University of Arts in London. After graduating she joined the staff of PC Zone, where she worked her way up from editorial assistant to the…
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A tribute to... SASHA. Featuring music released by Sasha either as a producer or a remixer. Sasha has to be the most well known dj of our time and what better way to celebrate his music, than to throw some of his greatest tunes in a mix in a tribute to the man like... Sasha. Mixed by PHUK resident RICCO. Tracklist Sasha, Franky wah- mark one Sasha,…
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My guest today is the British scriptwriter and librettist for opera, Richard Sparks. In 1978 he wrote a sketch for Rowan Aktinson, the actor who later played Mr Bean, which Atkinson performed in the Secret Policeman’s Ball, a series of benefit shows organised by John Cleese to raise funds for Amnesty International. The success of the sketch led my …
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My guest today is the American game writer and narrative designer Kelsey Beachum. After graduating from Michigan State University, she worked in publishing, first as editor of the Cryogenic Society of America, then in editorial operations for the satirical current affairs publication, The Onion. In 2012 stared work on a space-mystery game titled Ou…
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My guest today is Mike Drucker, an American comedy writer and producer. After graduating with a master’s degree in literature from New York University, he worked as a localisation editor for Nintendo, writing English language jokes for games such as Kid Icarus: Uprising. After a year working as Head Video Writer for the website IGN, he joined Late …
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Each year, I create my own little version of a Northern Exposure mix that captures the essence of one of the most historic mixes of all time. I also wanted to lovingly recreate the classic Northern Exposure 2 artwork as a tribute to one of my favorite albums in that series. I hope you enjoy the spirit of the music, featuring the latest and best fro…
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Mix of some of my favourite records at the moment. Enjoy Nick :) Tracklist John Shima - Empty Lands Mihail P - Permission to Dream Duv Tales & Kim Young - Fixer Upper Daveeth - Lucky Fields of Mist - Biological Lair Komarbei - Run With It Russ Gabriel - Internal Force Darren Nye - Elevated CCO - Forbidden Fruit Errell Ransom - Fragments of Moments …
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My guest today is Michael Sherman, director of esports for Riot Games. While attending the University of Texas at Dallas for Computer Science, he worked as an Automotive Safety Software Engineer for Texas Instruments, inventing a wireless car-seat that would sound an alarm if a child was left in the car. In 2013 he moved into the emerging world of …
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In this special correspondence edition, host Simon Parkin reads out listeners' correspondence, answers questions, and offers at least one clue about a forthcoming special guest. Hear Simon discuss which was the best year for video games, which video game characters would make the best stand-up comics, and what Hollywood will do for #content when th…
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My guest today is the American game designer and musician Eric Barone. Born in Los Angeles, he spent his childhood in the suburbs of Seattle. In 2011 he graduated from the University of Washington Tacoma with a degree in computer science, but was unable to find employment. He started developing a video game to hone his programming skills. Supported…
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Welcome to another episode of our Resident in the mix series, This time our selector is Mark Selby. 1. Following Light - Freedom Of Choice (Napalm, D-phrag Remix)[xi Music] 2. Fran Garay - Geneva (Taylan Remix)[AH Digital] 3. Andy Frangi - Genesis (Original Mix)[Droid9] 4. Zy Khan & EKIS EKIS - Make It Better (Original Mix)[Oxytocin Records] 5. Ton…
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Nina Freeman is an American independent video game writer and designer. While a student at Pace University in New York, she was drawn to the work of Frank O’Hara and other poets of the New York School, who documented their lives through witty, confessional verse. She began to explore ways in which she could employ a similar tone, not in poetry, but…
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My guest today is the British actor Abubakar Salim. Born in Hertfordshire to a family of first-generation Kenyan immigrants, he joined the National Youth Theatre at the age of sixteen, then won a scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He made his professional stage debut in 2010 playing Osric in Prince of Denmark at t…
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Resident in the mix. Spice. Welcome our new resident, Bobby Davis aka Spice. Spice started dj'ing in the mid 90's, holding residencies in Scotland and playing gigs further afield. 2021 saw him return to his native Tyneside and return to dj'ing. Progressive House UK has seen the work he puts into his sets and we hope he can keep delivering amazing m…
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My guest today is the American writer and game designer Chet Faliszek. In the nineties he and his friend Erik Wolpaw founded the website Old Man Murray. The satirical online publication poked fun at video gaming’s sacred cows and established a tone that is still prevalent across the internet today. After catching the attention of Half-Life creator …
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This concept mix was mixed live on my weekly 'Lost In' series 3 years ago. There are many layers to the soundscape and I wanted to mix my love of science fiction with my love of electronic music. It's an epic 3.5 hour mix, you don't need to consume it in one go but if you do, you'll have gone through the black hole and tripped the light fantastic! …
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Friend of the podcast Glenn Moore joins Simon for a special bonus episode to discuss April's book-club-game, Stephen's Sausage Roll edition. This previously supporter-only episode gives a taste of the bonus monthly episode My Perfect Console supporters receive through Patreon. Throughout April 2024, Glenn and Simon, together with many of the My Per…
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