I liked early sasha when he mixed the music up - would kill to have experienced Shellys and his rave period
the problem for me developed later on - by part 3 of the northern exposure series in the late 90s the whole prog sound produced by peeps like BT had just got so formulaic and boring, 13mins swooshes where you would barely hear a beat
it all seemed very remote from the chicago roots, which is why I got bored of it all - it all seemed to go hand in hand with the branded superclubs, which are just everything I dislike - sterile, corporate, soulless
I think Sasha also suffered from being ridiculously hyped by the dance press and is unwittingly the reason for the whole myth of superstar DJs - which it's taken nearly 15 years to get over - although some people on this forum and in Ibiza still clearly buy into that whole circus.
In Sasha's defence tho, I saw him at fabric room 2 a few years back and I remember he played the skylark mix of kylie's I believe in you and the roof went off - he still knows how to manipulate the crowd and my jaded old ears aren't that impressed by much these days