Yes Ginge - for Neo this is probably the best thing that could have happened to you. I've very pleased you've managed to get maximum press in a very short space of time. Getting people thought the doors is of upmost importance at the beginning. You're really sound people and I do so want your night to work for you.

But my problem is entirely a musical thing. And it goes deep into everything I stand for. When I know 50,000 people are going to buy Mixmag and probably four times that amount of people will read it, I get rather worried when I'm labelled a ‘slow European-influenced hardcore’ DJ. It's like someone announcing you like to shag horses when you don't and you have never even thought about it. Automatically people make a judgement. And it'll take you alot more than a few months to change people's opinions.


All I want is my music and my sound to be represented right. I've tried hard to make sure that is the case whenever I could but some things are simply out of your control. And this article has become one of those things. I wanted the 'hardstyle' name to be represented right, that's why I went out of my way to help with this article, but now it's linked with hardcore. And now, I'm linked with hardstyle, so therefore, I must play hardcore. Grrrr.......


What this article does is lumps everything from hard trance/hard house/hard techno/hardstyle etc etc into one category of 'hardcore'. It's not that I hate hardcore... I just don't play it - never have (well I used to dabble in at bit in the early 90's ie Drop Bass/Lenny D and so did most techno dj's but it was always amoungst techno). Putting me in the category of hardcore is doing me and all the other froms of hard music no favours whatsoever and all I can see is it'll make everyone's musical mission even harder.