I've been thinking about this subject quite a bit since it was mentioned. It's not really very nice to hear that the music you play is now ridiculed by people and disrespected, but I do sort of see evidence of it now.

Personally I think a lot of these people are too into labeling. On a cd I gave out a while ago I labeled it hard trance when in truth 99% of it was hardstyle - it was widely accepted by many more people than the cd that I gave out last, which was labeled as hardstyle. Why? Because people are too put off by a label i've put upon it. Hardstyle is sort of becoming a dirty word in underground circles, but with little real substance behind people's prejudices. The truth is that if I labeled myself as a hard trance dj and still played the same stuff I play, people would enjoy it. It's all in the name.

All these people who were so into hardstyle last month but hate it now are the worst kind of people in dance music - people who are just into fads, what music is the 'in' music at the time (even if it is in underground terms). These people are in it for all the wrong reasons.