hakka, i feel everything you're saying. voorheez, you too.

before i start, let's all understand i've had a few drinks :)

i'm annoyed. and what i'm annoyed about is how such an amazing potential went horribly wrong. but even after saying that, i can't stop myself checking out every single hardstyle record out there. because i do, every now and then, stumble across something that is ground breaking. but only every now and then.

and i get annoyed too, having to listen to so much absolutely commercial crap to find these records. i NEVER had this problem with hard trance. sometimes i worry it's polluting my head having to sift through the crap. it's a nightmare senario. but i do it so i must see something in it.

hardstyle is a form of hard trance that has been bastardized beyond belief. the problem i have is this:

you play hard trance and it's nice. but i don't want nice for my whole set. i want face in the speaker avin it. you really have to search for the hard, hard trance records but they dont come and when they do come, they bloody rock. but they don't come very often.

ok so now put a hardstyle record on the decks after you've played you're banging hard trance record and it's like 'wow, this ROCKS!!!!'. but after two or three hardstyle records it's like, hmmmm.... where do i go from here? and to be honest, i'm totally board. why is this?

hardstyle has become a formula. and you know why? because most of it is made on a cracked copy of reason, perhaps rewired to cubase and using a shit load of samples. in fact, it's all based around samples. it all becomes 'digital'. it becomes a 'drone' of digital haze in your head. plus it's forumlated. which then makes it unbearable. sure it rocked at first but ..... you see my point???

NOW, this is the thing. hard trance used alot of digital (ie sampled) drums but the melody was always analog. you ask all the german producers. i suppose you could say that making hardstyle is like playing on your copy of musik for the playstation but making hard trance is like have a studio.

i love what the original producers of hardstyle did. but then i feel it became a massive formula that everyone was content to be a part of. until now - all the real ppl that care about where they've got to and love what they've achieved are like - DUH??? WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR SOUND??? well i say, step back. hardstyle is actually ruined beyond repair IMO. PROVE ME WRONG!!!! but i think it's time for a change. time for a revolution in this sound. explore the analog in hardstyle. this is where you really will make a difference.

drone, drone, drone. same, same, same. this is the whole problem with human existance. it takes a big man to step up and be different but it takes a group of like minded people to really change shit.

hardstyle is just a step in the evolution of something really powerful.

stick with it but make the change.