Musings on music, travel, life
August 2025 saw the inaugural edition of the Balance Croatia festival, with a 5,000-strong contingent of the global progressive house community descending on Tisno - a small village on the Adriatic coast halfway between Split and Zadar. Anticipation had been sky-high since the line-up dropped late last year. Many claimed it was the greatest progressive... Continue Reading →
June 2024 saw the fourth edition of Anjunadeep Explorations, a six-day festival with a difference in Dhërmi, southern Albania. It had caught my eye in previous years but an inability to organise myself in time and the proximity of the date to Barcelona's Sonar/off-Sonar meant my attendance had never quite come together. This year, however,... Continue Reading →
Hernan Cattaneo’s annual gig at Woodstock 69, a beach club in Bloemendaal around 30km to the west of Amsterdam, is one of the most sought after tickets on the European progressive scene. Hernan himself talks about it as one of his favourite gigs of the year and it has become the Glastonbury of prog in... Continue Reading →
Five years on from my last visit to Sonar I found myself back on a Saturday night at the huge Barcelona Fira site to mark the 30th anniversary of the festival. I was left wondering where the time had gone as the 25th birthday event still seemed a recent memory. Of course, there had been... Continue Reading →
My new 'Tamraght Beach EP' is out now on Golden Wings Music! The EP comprises two new original compositions with inspiration coming from two places I passed through on my travels last year - Tamraght Beach in Morocco and the Andalucian region of Spain. In the latter, I spent time hanging out with long-term collaborator... Continue Reading →
My monthly System Showcase radio show with Andy Green is now available as a podcast via iTunes and Spotify. To access click on the links or go to the System Showcase Soundcloud page. Subscribe/follow to get the podcast when it is made available on the 4th Friday of the month, two days after it first airs on Proton Radio on the 4th... Continue Reading →
My latest musical offering sees me remix Anthony Yarranton’s ‘Aircode’ for Bonzai Progressive. 01) Anthony Yarranton - Aircode (Original Mix) 02) Anthony Yarranton - Aircode (Robin Thurston Remix) 03) Anthony Yarranton - Aircode (Transient Motion Remix) Anthony’s original falls under the progressive trance genre, with the track's title paying homage to the legendary early 2000s... Continue Reading →
It is always great to be in Barcelona and there is no better time to be in the city than Sonar/off-Sonar weekend. If you know me you'll be aware I am something of a regular and this was my 11th Sonar! My clubbing itinerary this year would take in HOSH’s fryhide party on the Friday, Innervisions... Continue Reading →
After three enjoyable nights in Chefchaouen it was time to move on. By this point I had two weeks still to go before flying back to the UK from Marrakech. I wanted to get down to Marrakech much sooner than that, though, and use it as a jumping off point to head out to the... Continue Reading →
After two nights in Tangier I was on the move to Chefchaouen, a town in the Rif Mountains famed for its picturesque blue-washed medina. I arrived shortly after 3pm following a 2-hour Grand Taxi ride. A shared taxi like this is significantly quicker than the bus and, at 70 dirham, not a great deal more in... Continue Reading →
Robin Thurston 