Editing Progressive house (section)

==Etymology==
{{See also|Progressive music}}
In the context of [[popular music]] the word "progressive" was first used widely in the 1970s to differentiate [[experimental rock|experimental]] forms of [[rock music]] from [[Popular music|mainstream]] styles. Such music attempted to explore alternate approaches to rock music production.<ref>Kevin Holm-Hudson (2008).''Genesis and the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway,''Ashgate, p.75, ({{ISBN|0754661474}}).</ref> In [[disco|disco music]], and later [[house music]], a similar desire to separate more exploratory styles from standard approaches saw [[Disc jockey|DJs]] and [[Record producer|producers]] adopting the word "progressive" to make a distinction.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}

According to DJ and producer [[Carl Craig]], the term "progressive" was used in [[Detroit]] in the early 1980s in reference to [[Italo disco]]. The music was dubbed "progressive" because it drew upon the influence of [[Giorgio Moroder]]'s [[Euro disco]] rather than the [[disco]] inspired by the symphonic sound of [[Philadelphia soul]]. In Detroit, prior to the emergence of [[techno]], artists like [[Alexander Robotnick]], [[Klein + M.B.O.]] and Capricorn filled a vacancy left after disco's demise in America.<ref name="Reynolds1999p16">Reynolds, S., ''Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture'' (New York: Routledge, 1999), p. 16.</ref><ref name=Reynolds1999p22>Reynolds, S., ''Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture'' (New York: Routledge, 1999), p. 22.</ref> In the late 1980s, [[United Kingdom|UK]] music journalist [[Simon Reynolds]] introduced the term "progressive dance" to describe acts such as [[808 State]], [[The Orb]], [[Bomb the Bass]] and [[The Shamen]]. Between 1990 and 1992, the term "progressive" referred to the short-form buzz word for the house music subgenre "progressive house".<ref name=MIXMAG>Phillips, Dom, [http://www.djhistory.com/features/trance-mission-1992 Trance-Mission] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205213522/http://djhistory.com/features/trance-mission-1992 |date=5 December 2011 }}, Mixmag, June 1992.</ref>

[[Dom Phillips]] coined the term progressive house in June 1992 while writing for [[MixMag]].<ref name="wiph1">{{cite web |date=14 November 2023 |title=What is Progressive House? |url=https://www.decodedmagazine.com/what-is-progressive-house-2/ |website=Decoded Magazine |access-date=24 March 2025}}</ref>