Today, I present to you some historically questionable progressive house fanfiction. It’s a Friday evening in 1999. Sasha and John Digweed are shopping at Satellite Records in downtown Manhattan, looking to pick up a few new 12-inches before their set at Twilo later that night. Flipping through the crates, Digweed stumbles upon a mysterious record. “Oi! This record with the spiral and the sun looks wicked,” he shouts to nobody in particular. He puts the wax on the platter. Things are never the same again.

DESTINY CLOUD is a new collaborative project between Detroiter 2Lanes and the Los Angeles-based Cromie. Over two tunes and some remixes, they present a tweaked version of progressive house, one that conjures images of a visor cut through a laser. These are the kind of tunes that Muzik magazine might’ve called “chuggers” back in the day. Still, these retrograde influences are shot through the two producers’ own narratives and musical histories, giving the music a distinctively contemporary sheen. Somebody get Digweed on the line!