Deep
Deep adjective - Extending far downward.
Progressive and deep are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Progressive" instead the word "Deep" as a verb or an adjective.
Progressive
Progressive adjective - Being far along in development.
Deep and progressive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Deep" instead the word "Progressive" as a verb or an adjective.
Both words in one sentence
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His first album Ima was deep/progressive house, then he changed to drum&bass/trance/ambient/trip-hop for ESCM and Movement in Still Life, then Emotional Technology was pop-trance, electro, and rock ballads.
Source: New Sound Album - Progressive rock band Dream Theater used to occasionally switch instruments with each other during live shows and perform a cover version of Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers" (except in one case where they did "Suicide Solution" by Ozzy Osbourne instead) under the pseudonym "Nightmare Cinema".
Source: Fake Band -
A fairly extreme example, Pain of Salvation is a fairly dark and brooding progressive metal band, with huge spiralling concept albums about the existence of God and a fair bit of deep introspection.
Source: Gratuitous Disco Sequence
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