http://germantrance.com/content/_rams/BXX05A.ram

Now I need a seious vote here... is this good hardstyle or bad hardstyle?

Hardstyle is really going in three directions... the dark way, the hard house way and the wierd way.

The dark and the wierd way is the way for me. A new sound which has feeling and purpose. Hard House way, is just the way of the boring same old noises being used to create a hard fast paced pile of noise.

I personal thought on first hearing of this track "hey... not bad" but this was soon replaced with "err... is that it?" followed by "so wheres the track then? This is not a track? its a collection of repetative noises?".

I just don't feel this is music... it lacks purpose and is just exisiting because someone wanted to make something using the ideas of every other early hard style tune.

There's no ambition it seems to produce something new... only make your version of what's already about. We need new ideas for hardstyle, too many people are running away from it as if its about to die - some because they think it has died. It hasn't...

Am I wrong? or am I right? - Either way... I just want to hear your views. Please make them deep and meaningful where you can!

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