Editing Progressive music (section)

==Electronic==
{{Main|Kosmische musik|Intelligent dance music|Progressive house}}
"'''Progressive electronic'''" is defined by AllMusic as a subgenre of [[new age music]], and a style that "thrives in more unfamiliar territory" where the results are "often dictated by the technology itself". According to Allmusic, "rather than sampling or synthesizing acoustic sounds to electronically replicate them" producers of this music "tend to mutate the original timbres, sometimes to an unrecognizable state". Allmusic also states that "true artists in the genre also create their own sounds".<ref name="AMProgElec">{{cite web|title=Progressive Electronic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/progressive-electronic-ma0000011836|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>

[[File:Giorgio Moroder Melt! 2015 02.jpg|thumb|right|[[Giorgio Moroder]] performing in 2015]]

[[Tangerine Dream]]'s 1974 album ''[[Phaedra (album)|Phaedra]]'', recorded with a [[Moog Music|Moog]] sequencer, was described as "an early masterpiece of progressive electronic music" by ''[[Rolling Stone]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Epstein |first1=Dan |title=50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-greatest-prog-rock-albums-of-all-time-78793/tangerine-dream-phaedra-1974-35872/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=18 February 2022}}</ref> In [[house music]], a desire to define precise stylistic strands and taste markets saw the interposition of prefixes like "progressive", "[[tribal house|tribal]]", and "[[intelligent dance music|intelligent]]". According to disc jockey and producer [[Carl Craig]], the term "progressive" was used in [[Detroit]] in the early 1980s in reference to [[Italo disco|Italian 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 [[Philadelphia sound]].{{sfn|Reynolds|2013|pp=7, 16}} By 1993, [[progressive house]] and [[trance music]] had emerged in [[dance club]]s.{{sfn|Reynolds|2013|p=184}} "Progressive house" was an English style of house distinguished by long tracks, big riffs, mild dub inflections, and multitiered percussion. According to Simon Reynolds, the "'progressive' seemed to signify not just its anti-cheese, nongirly credentials, but its severing of house's roots from gay black disco".{{sfn|Reynolds|2013|p=376}}

In the mid-1990s, the [[Lowercase (music)|lowercase]] movement, a reductive approach towards new digital technologies, was spearheaded by a number of so-called "'''progressive electronica'''" artists.{{sfn|Potter|Gann|2016|p=178}}

===Criticism===
Reynolds{{sfn|Reynolds|2013|p=50}} posited in 2013 that "the truly progressive edge in electronic music involves doing things that can't be physically achieved by human beings manipulating instruments in real-time".{{sfn|Reynolds|2013|p=50}} He criticized terms like "progressive" and "intelligent", arguing that "it's usually a sign that it's gearing up the media game as a prequel to buying into traditional music industry structure of auteur-stars, concept albums, and long-term careers. Above all, it's a sign of impending musical debility, creeping self-importance, and the hemorrhaging away of fun."{{sfn|Reynolds|2013|pp=6–7}} Reynolds also identifies links between progressive rock and other electronic music genres, and that "many post-[[rave]] genres bear an uncanny resemblance to progressive rock: conceptualism, [[music auteur|auteur-geniuses]], producers making music to impress other producers, [and] showboating virtuosity reborn as the 'science' of programming finesse".{{sfn|Reynolds|2013|p=386}}{{Clear}}