Is Hardstyle Dead?

[LEE.S.I]

god i have to search like crazy for the hardstyle that i play and it drives me bananas. anything that tipify's overplayed hardstyle makes me absolutely cringe. the screeching is ridiculous, i might as well play hard house. the sampled cheesy bootlegged bits get right up my ass (go to a ritzy and you'll get more originality) and the gabba kick, well that's just not playable here in the uk imho.

but even though it's a nightmare, in a funny type of way, the thing is, this is the joy of djing and searching for your music. there is good original hardstyle out there, but you just got to search for it. and i suppose that's what's going to set you as a dj out from the rest. ever since the beginning of music, there's always been crap out there. god, some of the absolute cheese that used to come out of germany with the hard trance thing was insane, but to a certain extent it was all filtered by the uk record shops and good distributors who knew the uk sound. now, we don't have that anymore, we as music buyers have instant access to the european shops, and to make it even worse record sales are so low that shops have to stock everything. it's become even harder for us! it's really crazy how the internet has made everything so accesable to the point it's making life harder.

hardstyle isnt dead, in fact it's one of the biggest selling genre's of dance music out there. it's just a uk punter on the floor and on an internet record site, is hearing unfiltered crap and can't be arsed to really sift through and find the good stuff.

i say stop moaning and get searching! :)

Not beeing the bigest fan of Hardstyle i do own a fair few,but as you just hit the nail on the head the amount of sites i go on witht he same tunes and same shite is unreall,no disrepect to any producer but...fuk me if you know how to use your gear then fukn use it lol.
for example ill listen to smaples whilst endlessly searching (fuk me the brews i go through lol) ill click a sample BAM same old cheese eeekkkk lol

part n parcel of DJing/ being invloved in music.i do love coming across sum gob smacking tunes its just the shite in the way,its like a double edged knife

[DJCraig Ryan]

Not beeing the bigest fan of Hardstyle i do own a fair few,but as you just hit the nail on the head the amount of sites i go on witht he same tunes and same shite is unreall,no disrepect to any producer but...fuk me if you know how to use your gear then fukn use it lol.
for example ill listen to smaples whilst endlessly searching (fuk me the brews i go through lol) ill click a sample BAM same old cheese eeekkkk lol

part n parcel of DJing/ being invloved in music.i do love coming across sum gob smacking tunes its just the shite in the way,its like a double edged knife

Yeah good points made there fella. I aint into any hardstyle what so ever any more. A few years back when it first came out, i liked it because it was hard-edged and i bought quite a few tunes. Always remember - Future Sound Corp "Devils Ear" I use to like that tune and "Smashing Guys EP" This was the sort of stuff i liked because they had monster riffs in them. Nowadays it is a joke if you ask me, so cheesy and like Mark said Hard House influenced with the bouncy basslines etc.