I get what you're saying. I guess just the whole "the world got sick of the NY sound" line always rubs me the wrong way. I remember it being chic to make that claim when "newstyle" became the big craze from a lot of the dutch. Meanwhile, the world hadn't gotten sick of the NYC sound. Rather, one of the people who was a central figure in it died and the rest of the people involved either almost stopped producing entirely or went on to new things. For all the dutch producers that take themselves so seriously and pretend whatever "new" sound is so cutting edge in Holland, I've heard nothing but subtale variation come out of Holland for the past decade. The NYC sound was not a subtle variation. The French sound was not a subtle variation. The stuff coming out of the UK for a bit with Deathchant was not a subtle variation. The sound of Bloody Fist and crew was not a subtle variation. They were all new takes on techno/hardcore. Yet, the Dutch producers with the egos have done what? Oh, yeah, they slowed
down, or sped up slightly, the same shit that DJ Paul started with virtually no straying from that formula. Throw some reverb on it and hit some black keys, and all of a sudden it's a new ****ing genre that revolutionary? Please. :p

So, yeah, just me ranting. That line of logic, particularly when attributed to Dutch producers, just conjures a lot of negative memories from around 98. ;) When the sound died in NYC, it was just starting to get big. I really doubt people would be sick of it by now if they can still listen to synth stabby gabber in Europe where, when you throw a little distortion and filter work on the shit, everyone pretends it's ****ing industrial. :p