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Please can you all name 5 tracks that have pioneered hard style? Not just from the begining, but ones from past & present where possible.
I think personally things are starting to look up again. I felt the same way you do now Mark for the past couple of months, but recently i've been picking up quite a few bits. In answer to your question, here's where I think the future lies - my 5 recent pioneering tracks:

1) Dana - Undenlichkiet
2) DJ Zany - Sky High
3) Southstylers - Pwoap
4) ASYS - Storm & Thunder
5) Fliegenpilz - Unmoglich

I wouldn't class A.S.Y.S "Storm & Thunder" as Hardstyle.
None of those above are really typical hardstyle. A lot of them bend genres which is in my eyes the way forward, or pioneering a new direction instead of just recyclying the same tired samples. The Dana track is techno infuenced, Zany is very trancy, Pwoap is very much like a jumpstyle track. Fliegenpilz is gabber like and ASYS is (obviously) acidy, but the beat is enough to make it hardstyle to me.