For me personally, I stopped playing as much or any hard trance as the techy side of the current trance scene is just as tough as any of the hard trance out there. Peetu-S, Bryan Kearney, John O'callaghen in his Joint ops alias, MEKK, Abel Ramos, Dave Schiemann all make absolutely wild tech trance. The percussion is interesting, its carries a ton more energy (imo) because of this.

The offbeat german gear just doesnt do it for me these days, the breaks tend to be too long and unless the offbeat bassline is something that still gets yer rocks off, they generally tend to follow the same recipe.

Kamui on the other hand, they are ripping the place up imo. I think some of there recent stuff is fairly similar, but it packs some punch in a club and I cant get enough it. They have a nasty bottom end, good quirk percussion and finally... I just find them exciting.

They rock my world!!!!