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progressive breaks

Last updated: Tue Oct 28 2025 16:47:57 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Progressive breaks blends the rhythmic breakbeat patterns of breakbeat and drum and bass with the atmospheric, evolving structure of progressive house. The sound emphasizes gradual build-ups, layered synths, and complex drum programming that creates a driving yet melodic energy suitable for both introspective listening and dancefloors. Emerging in the late 1990s, it bridges electronic music's underground rave culture with more refined, production-focused approaches.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
4		1977	Various Artists	DigiBliss 02	dubstep progressive breaks
18		1977	Various Artists	DigiBliss 01	dubstep progressive breaks
28		1987	Various Artists	United States of Trance	progressive breaks progressive trance
2		1988	Various Artists	FreQ Nasty Presents: Y4K - Next Level Breaks	breakbeat breaks progressive breaks
11		1988	Various Artists	Fear 3 mixed by Chris Salt	progressive breaks progressive house
52		1989	Various Artists	Way Out West: Don't Look Now (disc 2: bonus mix)	progressive breaks
10		1997	Various Artists	Soul of Man Presents: Y4K - Breakin' in the House	breakbeat breaks progressive breaks
38		1997-07-22	Sasha & John Digweed	Northern Exposure, Vol. 1
15		1997-09-08	BT	ESCM	trance	trance # 30
53		1999-07-16	Hybrid	Wide Angle	breakbeat electronic trance	breakbeat # 67
9		1999-08-01	Dream Dolphin	Angel 13: From The Hyper Speed Forest	ambient big beat breakbeat progressive breaks
3		2000-03-13	Anthony Pappa	Global Underground: Nubreed 001	progressive breaks progressive house
29		2000-06	Various Artists	ILS Presents: Y4K	breakbeat breaks progressive breaks
49		2000-06	Various Artists	Ali B Presents: Y4K	breakbeat breaks progressive breaks
61		2000-06	Various Artists	Hybrid Present: Y4K	breakbeat breaks progressive breaks
32		2001	Torus	YEAR0001 - RIFT One	ambient ambient trance art pop breakbeat cloud rap electronic ethereal future garage hard trance industrial techno progressive breaks progressive trance trance	ambient trance # 37
65		2001-03-05	Tayo	Y4K: Further Still	breaks progressive breaks
76		2001-08-20	Way Out West	Intensify	trance electronic
20		2002	Ali B	Fabriclive.02	breakbeat breaks progressive breaks
83		2002-06-04	John Digweed	MMII	electronic breakbeat house progressive trance synthpop trance	progressive trance # 49
71		2002-09-10	BT	10 Years in the Life	progressive breaks
47		2003-07-18	Jono Fernandez	Colours Of Conscience	breakbeat progressive breaks progressive house
30		2003-08	Silencer	Signals	breakbeat
68		2003-11-03	Nubreed	The Original	breakbeat progressive breaks
79		2004	Jono Fernandez	Deliver Me	breakbeat progressive breaks progressive house trance
7		2004-03-01	James Lavelle	Romania	progressive breaks progressive house romania	romania # 19
21		2004-03-01	James Lavelle	Global Underground: Romania	progressive breaks progressive house
31		2004-08-30	Way Out West	Don't Look Now	electronic progressive house electronica	progressive house # 79
66		2004-09-12	Fretwell	Silky Dirty	progressive breaks progressive house
48		2004-09-15	hisboyelroy	9	breakbeat progressive breaks trance
88		2004-09-16	Derek Howell	Might As Well Have A Gasoline Fight Ep	progressive breaks
40		2004-09-20	Hybrid	Hybrid Present: Y4K	breakbeat breaks progressive breaks
74		2004-09-20	Ficta	Eli	breakbeat progressive breaks progressive house trance
70		2004-10-04	Trafik	Bullet	breaks electronica progressive breaks
85		2004-11-26	Kosmas Epsilon	All Is Heaven	progressive breaks
26		2005	James Zabiela	Utilities EP	breakbeat dance progressive breaks progressive house
75		2005-02-28	Jono Fernandez	Northern Lights	progressive breaks progressive house
77		2005-07	Alex Stealthy	Deploring	progressive breaks progressive house trance
62		2006	Future Funk Squad	Future Funk Squad - Towards The Sun	breaks progressive breaks
69		2006	Future Funk Squad	De-mystified	breaks progressive breaks
17		2006-02-06	Nubreed	Y4K	breaks progressive breaks
51		2006-02-28	Momu	Momu	progressive breaks
87		2006-08-08	Hybrid	I Choose Noise	breakbeat electronic	breakbeat # 78
8		2007	Shiloh	Elements	progressive breaks
55		2007	Burufunk	Burufunk - Outsider (2007 Remixes)	progressive breaks breakbeat
54		2007-03-24	General Midi	The DigiBox	breaks progressive breaks
12		2007-05-18	Neo	Mistery Galaxy WEB	progressive breaks
96		2007-06-25	General Midi	General Midi Presents Y4K	breaks progressive breaks	breaks # 49
25		2007-10-20	bambaat	Obscured Rays 001 - 012 on ETN.fm	breaks downtempo electro house electronica progressive breaks progressive house tech house techno
27		2007-10-20	bambaat	Flights and Reflections EP	ambient breaks downtempo progressive breaks
86		2008	Chris Lake	One too many	breakbeat progressive breaks progressive house
63		2008-02-22	Various Artists	Remix and Additional Production By...	progressive breaks
67		2008-03-01	Arthur Deep	Friends	progressive breaks progressive house
46		2008-03-15	Morphonix	Off The Grid	progressive breaks
36		2008-10-06	StrangeZero	The NeverLands	psybient
23		2008-11-06	Steve Foulds	live your life - dusk free download	ambient breaks electronica progressive breaks
45		2008-12-17	Steve Foulds	Some new tracks	ambient breaks canada chillout dance downbeat dub electro electronic electronica electropop idm progressive breaks synthpop trance trip-hop
1		2009	Various Artists	Evil Nine Present : Y4K	breaks progressive breaks
5		2009	Various Artists	Global Underground: Nubreed 001 (disc 1) (Mixed by Anthony Pappa)	progressive breaks progressive house
33		2009	Various Artists	Y3K: Deep Progressive Breaks	progressive breaks
35		2009	Various Artists	General Midi Presents Y4K	breakbeat breaks progressive breaks
16		2009-02-28	Aeron Aether	Aeron Is Coming	progressive breaks
89		2009-06-29	General Midi	Operation Overdrive	breakbeat breaks progressive breaks	breaks # 17
81		2009-07-03	Future Funk Squad	Disorders of Skill	breaks progressive breaks
82		2009-11	The Silk Demise	Music For A Film	ambient techno illbient industrial rock instrumental post-rock progressive breaks	ambient techno # 12 illbient # 81
57		2010	Kekal	8	avant-garde metal death industrial electronic rock experimental metal experimental rock indonesia indonesian post-black metal power electronics progressive breaks	death industrial # 1 experimental metal # 18 indonesian # 33 indonesia # 46
94		2010-01-31	BT	These Hopeful Machines	progressive house glitch progressive trance	progressive house # 21 progressive trance # 39
80		2010-02-04	Future Funk Squad	Re-Orders of Skill	breaks progressive breaks
42		2010-03	James Ferraro	Live at Primavera Sound 2012 (James Ferraro)	breakbeat dance edm electronic field recordings progressive breaks progressive trance trance
39		2010-06-29	Aeron Aether	Synthanelia	progressive breaks
13		2010-12-01	Various Artists	Koma & Bones Present: Y4K - Next Level Breaks	breaks progressive breaks
64		2011-04-11	Reii	Ghostly Sea EP	progressive breaks
92		2011-09-26	Miguel Campbell	Baby I Got It	deep house disco house minimal techno progressive breaks
6		2012-01-15	Rory Gallagher	Never Coming Down / Remember Me	progressive breaks progressive trance trance vocal trance
19		2012-05-17	Mr. Bill	Meaningful Ambience	progressive breaks
41		2012-05-29	Tarac	Botenstoff	ambient downtempo progressive breaks psybient psychill
59		2012-06-19	Timewave	War	ambient progressive breaks progressive trance
90		2012-09-07	Hybrid	Cinematic Soundscape	electronica progressive breaks trance
37		2012-10-29	Airwave	Bright Lines	electronic idm progressive breaks progressive trance
73		2013-04-08	Tinlicker	Remember the Future	progressive breaks
50		2014-04-21	John 00 Fleming	The 10th life	progressive breaks
34		2014-10-10	Plu-Ton	Stalker Zone EP	breaks progressive breaks
24		2016	Various Artists	Global Underground: Nubreed 001 (disc 2) (Mixed by Anthony Pappa)	progressive breaks progressive house
58		2016-09-19	Omauha	Work Out	breaks electronic progressive breaks
97		2017-08-01	Dreamweaver	blue garden	ambient atmospheric drum and bass drum and bass progressive breaks	atmospheric drum and bass # 49
93		2017-12-07	Monrroe	Falling Apart EP	progressive breaks
95		2018-04-27	ilan Bluestone	Scars	breakbeat breaks progressive breaks	breaks # 47
60		2018-10	Toke	Mind Motion	progressive breaks
72		2020-05-01	GLACCI	PURE	breaks progressive breaks trance
56		2020-06-01	Quivver	Controlled Substance Vol. 1	progressive breaks progressive house
100		2020-12-02	sewerslvt	Newlove	atmospheric drum and bass big beat ethereal instrumental progressive breaks sampling space ambient	instrumental # 56 ethereal # 70 sampling # 79 atmospheric drum and bass # 85 big beat # 92 space ambient # 100
99		2021-01-27	disctr4k	progression breaks	breakbeat electronic jungle progressive breaks	jungle # 50
91		2022-09-16	KAI WHISTON	Quiet As Kept, F.O.G.		deconstructed club # 43 sound collage # 52
78		2022-11-04	Daniel Avery	Ultra Truth	idm ambient electronic	atmospheric drum and bass # 29
98		2022-11-21	bye2	Metamorphose	progressive breaks
22		2023	Various Artists	Northern Exposure 0° North	chillout downtempo progressive breaks progressive house progressive trance
43		2023	Various Artists	Nubreed presents Y4K	breakbeat breaks progressive breaks
14		2023-07-04	Various Artists	Ministry of Sound: Clubbers Guide to Breaks, Volume 2 (Mixed by Kid Kenobi) (disc 2: Chill Breaks)
84		2024-10-11	TURQUOISEDEATH	Kaleidoscope	atmospheric drum and bass breakbeat dance drum and bass edm electronic jungle progressive breaks trance	atmospheric drum and bass # 36
44			hisboyelroy	proton radio remixes	breakbeat progressive breaks
			Sasha & John Digweed	Northern Exposure	ambient

Related genres

• breaks
• breakbeat
• progressive house
• electronic
• progressive trance
• trance
• ambient
• downtempo
• electronica
• dance