review

Let it be known: I want to be Karton when I grow up. Okay, okay - I've been listening to electronic music for well over a decade... [insert off-color age remark here. good. got that out of your system?] What I mean is that while I have immersed myself in EDM for quite some time, my musical production skills are still in their infancy. And when they have matured to a point that they are ready to leave the nest and become rebellious teenagers, I want them to create the kind of audacious, moving, crank-it-to-11 type music that Karton effuses into our musical microcosm.

It's only fitting that the first track review for the new progressivebreaks.net is one from Hybrid. PBN might not exist if it weren't for the boys from Swansea. It was some ten years ago when I first heard "If I Survive" playing over the speakers of the little club in my hometown. It stopped me in my tracks then and even today remains one of my favorite songs of all time. Over the years Hybrid has provided many a spine-tingling moment: whether from seeing them perform live, or randomly happening across one of their old remixes. Indeed the PBN studio is adorned with autographed Hybrid posters. What I'm getting at is that to love progressive breaks is to love Hybrid, and I love me some mother effing Hybrid.