New sound?

Hmm... I'm not sure where we are going musically. Is hardstyle already jumping towards techno sound?

Dj Carlo Bardini - Expire is a strange track in my book. It's more techno than trance... does that mean trance is not the future anymore? or does it mean we are comming to a stage with dance music where each genre has been explored so much that it's had to set them apart? Cause to Mr/Ms I Don't Listen To Any Music they claim our sound is "all the same" and I used to laugh at this. But few years down the line, and it's sort of is... and that scares me.

Let's take a look at Luca Antolini DJ - Lifes A Mistery. Now this track is very similar to what the ex Happy-Hardcore DJ's are playing now. It's like hard trance influenced Happy Hardcore. I don't know if I like it or not. I sat down and listented to the last Helter Skelter (human traffik?) and some tracks where bloody fast hard trance (and original stuff) and others were blatant remixes of classic happy hardcore with modern trance influences.

Where are we going? - I think in the past we had 10 Top producers who each made one brillaint Hard Trance track in a year. Today, we have 50 Hardstyle, Trance, Hard Trance, Techno Trance, Hard Rabbit **** Trance (whatever) all producing stuff at the same time... and I look at what I want to have and it's all a bit of a mess really. Some tracks sound like they don't even know what style there are either!

I personally think the industry needs to slow down... but because of the huge competition from many different labels and the fear of not making money is causing a musical overload.

I think to some it up... the underground world is bigger than the commerical one, just not financially.

ARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!

I need a stella. Anyone else care to join me?

does it matter? let em call it what they like so long as you still play tunes you like it doesnt matter what some ppl choose to class them as....
would you rather have clearly defined boundaries so you can be nicely catagorised?
i played gabber before trance and now the gabber i have is so slow and the trance so hard that i play them both in one set. and listening to tunes in the shops lately ive almost bought a couple of techno tunes to play in hardstyle sets. i dont think names matter so long as its good music

i did have a liberator tune i used to play but i sold it to saki nzyme cos he wanted the cheesy trance mix innit ;) hahaha

"would you rather have clearly defined boundaries so you can be nicely catagorised?"

no no no...

I was not asking this. I was more speculating about "where" music is going. I'm finding more and more releases of tracks of late to be substandard or just mixed up with an identity crisis.

I retract my post if it's been seen as offensive.

no, its not offensive - i just dont see that it matters... yeah there may be substandard releases but that happens everywhere, theres no magical genre with 100% amazing tunes.

as for the identity crisies - i see those tracks as good things. maybe they get ppl to look in new directions. they may not be recieved as well as other tunes by those who are only into their trance or whatever but i generally like em and i play them as much as possible :)

Fairplay :)


It's just that I really care about the music and like to know where it's going.... thought it may of been an interesting topic to discuss.