i do agree, the hard trance of yesterday outdoes alot of today's music in originality. i was listening back to some of my records the other day and was actually feeling very, very sad that the music has lost that particular feeling that hard trance used to have (especially that of the time unlimited/music research era). i mean even the hard trance coming out now is either bad overdose/scot project rip offs or, well just rips off. i do desperately want that feeling back in music but without a full record box of stuff that sounds like that in my sets, i just can't put it in my sets. i really don't want to be an 'old school' dj, cause it simply wouldn't interest me. sure it might be nice for a few months but after a while you'd be playing the same old records. it's the searching for new music that really interests me in my life, getting that track through the post and then trying to fit it into your box at the time. see what i mean?

also, everyone's version of old school is so very different. i've been playing hard trance since 1994, so that's like 13 years of different types, different feelings and different sounds. wouldn't that be one hell of a confused dancefloor????? hehe lol

you know, i do want to do a mix of some old school stuff for here but knowing me (it's the same with all my home recorded mixes) it would take me 2 months of planning and about 3 days of solid mixing getting the mix right. i really am a perfectionist when it comes to shit like that. ok leave it with me, perhaps it will inspire me in the studio too. i was thinking recently how i need to get back into writing a form of new hard trance, inspired from the old days, this seems a good way to do it.