It looks like I won't be going through to the second round of the Eyecon competition, and it does sort of disapoint me. The person who has got through from the week I entered played that techy trance style that is so in vogue at the moment. I wouldn't say he was as good technically as me, in fact I feel I was discriminated against for playing hard trance.
As Hakka so rightly says, and as Mark knows - in Dance Academy the crowd LOVE hard trance. But despite what Tom might be saying, and the impression you may get Mark, there is a distinct lack of dj's who play hard trance there. It is supreme irony that Tom says he is growing bored of hard trance & hard trance djs, because this is a club promoter who still books Hard house djs week in, week out nearly 3 years after hard house died the death! Out of 4 competitors on the week I was in there, 2 played 'Tidy' hard house.
I think it is sad that Tom feels this way about our sound, as whatever he thinks, the crowd still want hard trance. The stuff he plays (and this is not meant as an insult to him) is going rapidly downhill, because he plays what is fashionable, and so at the moment he plays this really dull fake techno stuff like Jules and Fergie, and I can tell you that the crowd do not like it. Occasionally he'll drop something like an Uberdruck track, the dancefloor fills, the crowd whoop in delight - it's not hard to see what the crowd want, but it seems like they're going to be told what they want.