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

If there was any surprise to be had it was that Pure Progressive’s resisted a full-blown compilation until now. Time is time though and July 2020 sees Solarstone’s progressive progeny emphatically score that notch. At the wheelhouse of its mix/disc-deuce is 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 ‘PP1’. Either way he’s seized both opportunity and reins to deliver a stupendously mixed first edition - and one that brings the best of his and the label’s artistic cohort to your ears.

Orkidea’s split his edition clean down the middle, dividing it into Artist and DJ mixes, the latter of which comes with many an edge-cutter from 2020’s prog class. Yotto, Grum, Paul Thomas, gardenstate, Forerunners, Allende and a horde of others pack out its second disc’s tracklist. Collectively ‘Pure Progressive 1’ serves the clearest possible vision of what’s-currently-what in the world of prog.

Mix 1 - The Artist
01. Way Out West - Earth (Orkidea Pure Progressive Remix) 02. Orkidea - Rebel Time
03. Solarstone & Orkidea - Slowmotion V
04. Orkidea - Forward Forever
05. Orkidea & Sunscreem - Perfect Motion
06. Orkidea - Metta
07. Deepsky - Cosmic Dancer (Orkidea Pure Progressive Remix)
08. Orkidea - One Man’s Dream (Pure Progressive Mix)
09. Paul Oakenfold featuring Little Nikki - Only Us (Orkidea Pure Progressive Remix) 10. Slusnik Luna - Valssi (Orkidea Pure Progressive Edit)
11. Orkidea - Higher State (Pure Progressive Edit)
12. Orkidea - That Feeling
Mix 2 - The DJ
01. Macker - Lost in Space
02. Solarstone & JES - Like A Waterfall (Forerunners Remix)
03. Forerunners - Stream of Consciousness
04. Desert - Moods (Mr. A + SØNIN Remix)
05. Yotto - Tarantia
06. Solarstone & Orkidea - Slowmotion IV (F-Act Remix)
07. Elfsong - Crenshinibon (Dub Mix)
08. ZOYA - Bright Star
09. gardenstate - Bloom
10. Milla Lehto - World Outside
11. Paul Thomas & White-Akre - Vyote (Grum Remix)
12. Dreams & D.N.A - Frequency Modulated Universe
13. Allende - Fate
14. Pink Bomb - Indica (Orkidea & Solarstone Pure Progressive Remix)

Pure Progressive Vol. 1

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Pure Progressive Vol. 1 - Mixed by Orkidea (Preview)

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