Mark - have to agree with pretty much everything you say on the matter.

Bar a couple of things.

They used my quote "mutant baby of hard trance and Dutch gabba" (well they spiced up what I said a little but that was my general idea).

Most of the hardstyle I've heard sounds like a mix of these 2 things (with tons of other elements thrown in too and lots of new ideas), and I've heard quite a lot of all 3 styles.


BTW - it IS the main front cover feature article.

It also is predominantly about clubbers going to NEO rather than an article about hardstyle.

It does get many points wrong (DJ Promo is allegedly a hardstyle DJ???) but what would you expect from a bunch of journalists who are specialists on Gatecrasher trance or soulful house, etc?
It is very positive however and could have a very good effect on NEO generally.

We're not going to change the music we play according to what the article says so if people come down with preconceptions that we don't fulfil they may like it even more than they thought they would and they may learn not to believe everything they read.


I really strongly have to agree about them missing the point musically though.
NEO and the night we do in Leeds - Cypher are both about playing a nice balanced range of hard dance, bringing people and scenes together.

Still, sounds like the group they followed to NEO had a wicked night out, irrespective of the article's short-fallings.