some if the early HS stuff was ok.

i find it's a very limited style of music. there is only so much stuff u can do with high pitched sounds. i like some of the basses and the perc but then the breaks are always a let down and when they kick in it's like marching music.

very few HS tracks i hear have got a driving perc to carry it along and it just thumps.

i hear a lot of it too, cos my house mate loves the stuff!

i play odd bits of tracks now and again as fill tracks. normally play about 2 mins of them b4 the break to build a set up a level as the basses are always hard, then take it out b4 the bunkness appears!

the only way i think hard trance will return is if producers try and be more creative and don't just re-work the same old riffs with only minor changes. there's so much scope for hard trance tunes, but no-one seems to want to exploit it!