Harderstate - Hardstyle & Hardcore Forum

ceero:ah i remember the old old flash website that was around since early 00s. Was biased and factually inaccurate as shit and more reflecting the guy's personal taste than providing correct information, but still helped me and the entire early 00s internet generation learn a lot about electronic music. Feels quite nostalgic. I'd loooooove to explore this but holy crap thats one bad website, i dont know if im doing something wrong but its lagging and buggy as hell

Reverse Ghost:The panels that look much darker than the rest don't have any music to click for, presumably because he didn't feel like scouring for tracks from a year that don't sound much different from the year before/after.

The Convicted:

Reverse Ghost:The panels that look much darker than the rest don't have any music to click for, presumably because he didn't feel like scouring for tracks from a year that don't sound much different from the year before/after.

No, I actually meant the lighter panels when there's no response (not even a spinner at the bottom of the page to indicate something is loading) clicking on them for a looong time Rrefreshing the page solves the problem but not all the time...

Reverse Ghost:Ah, might just be server lag? I imagine a decent amount of traffic incoming due to the following he has, hopefully it dies down soon.

ceero:ah i remember the old old flash website that was around since early 00s. Was biased and factually inaccurate as shit and more reflecting the guy's personal taste than providing correct information, but still helped me and the entire early 00s internet generation learn a lot about electronic music. Feels quite nostalgic.

It is time now for us to have a conversation about the Dutch. Their food is shit, their economics is shit, their sex acts are shit, even their soccer players are shit (except for this guy, he cool).

Now, I can forgive The Netherlands for Moombahton, or Gabber, and maybe even Eurotrance or Vocal Trance up to an extent (I mean: Any country that can foist Venga Boys and Alice Deejay upon the world has something seriously wrong with it so we should've known they were up to something). But I draw the line at Hardstyle.

This is just bad music. This is beyond corny, even for Dutch music. And it's not the good kind of corny like Police Academy 3, but rather the sad, tragic kind of corny like Police Academy 7. This whole country must be stopped.

What can be said about Hardstyle? Well it borrowed ideas from Jumpstyle and Hard Trance and it was a quick conversion. If you flipped a coin on which genre -- Hardstyle or Hard Trance -- is worse, the coin would land on its edge.

Hardstyle took everything the Dutch typically ruin with electronic music and cranked it up past 11. The super compressed and pitched kicks making a goofy "DOING DOING DOING DOING" sound, the nauseating screaming anthems, the tiresome breakdowns, the obtrusive off-beat bass stabs so overdriven that they're just a big "WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP" in-your-face cacophonous swill, the lack of any self-awareness or productive inventiveness.

This is annoying jump-scare music. It would be funny -- almost a parody of hard music -- if it weren't such a sad microcosm of everything wrong with the Dutch. This is fucking looney toons.

Hardstyle has a lot of similarities to a newborn baby, in that both are excrement factories. There is nothing redeemable about this flavorless, funkless, metronomic wall of screaming noise garbage.

This sound was been double baked, fired, refried, dehydrated, plastered, and reinforced with rebar into a mold that has not been altered in nearly 20 years. Thousands of tracks all cut from the same factory assembly process. And they keep making more. It's like whale vomit -- it just keeps coming.

Showing someone who's never heard Hardstyle before the best Hardstyle tracks trying to convert them is like sending someone a dick pic. Like supply side economics, there's no proof that it has ever worked yet guys keep doing it thinking the next time will be different.