Hello people! Good morning and welcome back to another PFG Progcast, our luxurious trip around the world of progressive beats....

Today, we enter 'The Land Of Our Fathers', Wales, and the birthplace of probably the greatest DJ our scene has produced. During our extended trip around the British Isles we've found that it's not always the big names in the bright lights that delivers the goods, its that burgeoning raw talent that does the job as well as if not better than those headliners. Today's DJ is no exception, Ladies & Gents Ryan Thomson!

It was finding a John Digweed essential mix way back in the 90’s that triggered Ryan’s obsession with underground music... After discovering Sasha & Digweeds Northern Exposure everything changed, and Ryan was hooked.

Having moved to and lived in Berlin for 9 years, Ryan was quickly drawn in to the amazing party life and became drawn to the Techno and Progressive styles of mixing, while not being pigeonholed by genre. He enjoys playing extended melodic sets inspired by DJ’s like John Digweed, Hernan Cattaneo, Sasha and Anthony Pappa.

Ryan has played across a number of venues in Germany whilst living there and back home including a set in London’s Pacha. He also regularly gets asked to play on London's Insanity Radio. His biggest gig to date would see him playing for Back to Mine in Birmingham, supporting Nick Muir, Stelios Vasiloudis, Luke Brancaccio and Dave Angel.

A proud supporter of local producers, from his passion of helping support smaller names, Ryan's 'Foundation Underground Music' Page was created on Twitter.

July 2020 saw Ryan releasing back on German Techno imprint Toolfunk Recordings with his latest track, and November 2020 will see Ryan and his best friend, Karl Lovesey release their debut 2 track EP on Neil Preedy’s label, i Occupy Music. 
 
I hope you enjoy the mix, as much as I did putting it together, thank you PFG!

https://soundcloud.com/djryanthomson

https://www.mixcloud.com/DJRyan_Thomson/


1. Ethnic - Plastikman 
2. Plastique - Plastikman 
3. Bachelorette - Susan & Daniel Klose
4. Filenta - Sound Quelle 
5. Lucid - Heckman 
6. Twilight feat. I AM HALO - Mollono Bass
7. Drifters - Michael & Levan and Stiven Rivic
8. Micah - Disguised As Thieves (Juliane Wolf Remix-Ruhnsong) - Micah Paul Lukasewich
9. Micah- Dr.Science (2019 Floor version)-Ruhnsong - Micah Paul Lukasewich
10. My Way (instrumental) - Mollono Bass
11. Nzambe Yimbu (Shai T & Dj Zombi Remix)  - Vapour
12. Oncana - Sound Quelle 
13. Pull Revisited 16-44 - Mark Tarmonea, Felix Raphael 
14. Phunkt - Mogz-e
15.The Jungle - Mogz-e
16. Cush - Theuss
17. Cush - Fish

PFG The Progcast - Episode 28 - Ryan Thomson

Originally from Scotlands coastal East Lothian but now based in Edinburgh . Very broad musical tastes influenced over the years, my parents loved a party, their music definitely influenced me.

I was into early gangsta rap in 90s, then Leftfield,Daft punk etc , whilst working in a kitchen as a teenager in a Saturday, i listened to Pete Tong before finishing work and heading home for the essential mix later! 

Became hooked on clubbing during the early days of prog , 2000 onwards it was every weekend nearly.My love of clubbing and music has never stopped from those days.


Picked up Belt drive turntables before moving to 1210s in 06 and added Pioneers, I still use vinyl but mainly digital nowadays.


Over the years I have played in clubs in Edinburgh at nights such as Beatroot, Karnival. 

Aswell as Edinburgh I have also played at Kinfolk in Williamsburg ,Brooklyn NYC, Cariocas Beach Bar in Greece and also in the glamorous Cote d'Azur areas of St Raphael/Frejus. 

I hit a buffer in 2018 due to family circumstances and it wasn't until 2020 I got back into DJing again. 

I did 2 vinyl live streams during lockdown and afterwards I was Invited to do guest mixes for Online group PFG , I was then asked by Steven Mccreery and Kev Wright to do mixes for Beat 106. In July 2022 I was asked by Belgium/France based station, Xbeat radio to do a mix. I have since done a further 6 mixes for them .

The Pinnacle for me has been playing at the mighty Skyline parties in Glasgow, I was first asked to play at their 2nd Birthday Sudbeat Showcase in May 2024 alongside Graziano Raffa, Marcelo Vasami, Nicolas Rada, GMJ and Matter .

Incredibly I was asked to play again at the Selador records party in September 2024. Dave Seaman and  Steve Parry, alongside Kasey Taylor,Tara Brooks.

I like to try and use music from many different genres and artists. Anything goes ! 

From Ambient sounds to Hip Hop,Jazz,Disco and on to good ol House music with anything else in-between! 

I continue to record guest mixes for stations around Europe and hopefully beyond in the future ,
Thank you for checking out my page and I hope you enjoy my mixes.



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