yes i think you've got a point. it's dodgy mixmag doing something on this. but thank god i had the chance to say my point. i just hope it gets represented the right way. remember - i'm a journalist myself - so i know what the press is all about.

as for changing your style. well that's made me think. i always do that when something goes commercial!!! ok so hardstyle goes super commercial uberdruck gets labelled 'hardstyle'. so i get labelled 'hardstyle'. so what the hell do we do..

no serious now. i've been thinking. hardstyle is for sure a reaction against commercialism. it isn't a genre.

ok, so get this. 5 months down the line and everyone and his dog is onto the italian sound cause they think it's hardstyle. but i know for sure Uberdruck are not into commercialism. i KNOW. i speak to them both regularly! If everyone is playing a certain sound and they see it as becoming commercial, they will move. so will i. we'll still be playing hard music, but it just wont be what the press has labelled 'hardstyle'!

music moves on. and if you're underground you move with it. you're at the forefront of it. commercialism cannot catch up. the press cannot catch up. so 'hard style' becomes commercial and we all go back into the underground to continue our mission.

you know. hard style is such a good word. it encompasses everything i like about dance music. if it get's exposed and then retracts into the background, then great. if it becomes commercial then hey great, we helped to create something, we buzzed off it for a bit, but then we look for something else.