I understand your concerns Mark but I think you're more worried than you should be.

Are you now going to start playing shitty hardcore because this article says you do? - NO you're not.

Do people in the hardcore scene think you're a shitty hardcore DJ? - NO they don't.

Maybe the definition of hardcore in the UK will at last change towards something that actually sounds hard??
Maybe not, people like Hixxy still churn out what I'd have to call softcore but they brand it hardcore.
Maybe the word hardstyle is a nice bridge to get a lot of new heads into it.

Musically you've never been hardcore yet you play at more hardcore events than a lot of hardcore DJs do.
What does that say about your music?

Forget about the article - when people hear you play they're going to know that what you play is just 'damn good music' (why do you think we wanted you to be resident at NEO)?
If they have any sense they'll learn that champagne-sipping, cocaine-snorting Mixmag journos are never to be trusted.

BTW - I felt completely mis-represented in the article too but as the saying goes "any press is good press".