Progressive House
Progressive house is a melodic style of house music in which long tracks build slowly, adding and removing layers instead of relying on sudden changes.
It developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s, and the mix albums 'Renaissance: The Mix Collection' (1994) and 'Northern Exposure' (1996) by the DJs Sasha and John Digweed are credited with establishing it. Tracks build intensity by regularly adding and taking away layers of sound, with build-ups that can last several minutes. In the 2010s the name was also used for the festival sound of acts such as Avicii and Swedish House Mafia, while producers like Eric Prydz stayed closer to the original style.
Artists it is known for: Sasha, John Digweed, Eric Prydz, Swedish House Mafia.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United Kingdom, early 1990s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 7%
About 5,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have progressive house among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Progressive House artists
Calvin Harris
Martin Garrix
Armin van Buuren
deadmau5
Duke Dumont
Chris Lake
Kaskade
AFROJACK
HardwellThe progressive house artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.