HC is slowly killing my interest in HS

[Tamme]

Thanks! Well, guess i just have to explore some of this fine genre. Found Destructive Tendencies to, i like!
It will deffo be a few more visits to the hardcore4life and back2school stages at decibel than i've been planning.

[SCH]

If you like Tymon, check out Darkness4Life, that stage is closer to his style (industrial)

[Zero Chance]

You always just go to find something a bit harder, a bit rawer.
hardstyle>Raw>Pop HC>HC>Industrial/Crossbreed

Thats been me over two years

Holy shit, that was me in two months LOL

[Leifson]

I can relate to this topic, at least in some ways. I still listen to Hardstyle occasionally, just not the new stuff. I love to go back and listen to older stuff (2003-2008 perhaps), and it's still the great feeling that got me hooked back then. Nowadays there are still a few hardstyle songs which I like, but most of them are just OK, and quite a few of them are useless.

I don't know about you guys, but for me, this change depends mostly on one thing, and that is that hardstyle nowadays is trying to be so freaking "deep and epic", which is a disease it has caught of modern house music. Every track today has to have a deep ass voice taking forever to say something. What happened to the whole party mentality, the "lets go fucking crazy"-lyrics? No long ass voices, just the banging kick and some short catchy lyrics. It takes forever between each bassline with all those lyrics and "epicness", and that kills the track and the party. Not good.

Hardcore still has this, the lyrics are generally fast and the time between bassdrums is usually fairly short. It's not that deep and serious either, it's more "lets go crazy"-mentality, which I miss. This is the big reason for me. It's not about tempo, distorted kicks or anything like that. It is about the fukken' mentality of the songs.

Personally, I have not yet explored the deeper end of the hardcore pool. For me it is like a ladder, you start with the mainstream stuff like Endymion and Evil Activities (atleast their new shit) and then work it up. Dunno how high up I am yet, but I sure enjoyed Ophidians set on DQ1, so I guess it's something. Been looking into som frenchcore too, but it is just too crazy, atleast just to listen to. Partying to is OK, as with most things.

[SCH]

I used to be just as negative as you, but I started to care less and less, all I can say is, tone it down a bit unless you wanna get involved in internet fights.
This site has a lot of fans of the 'euphoric' side.. I'd guess on 25-30% percent or so of the active users.

[Leifson]

I used to be just as negative as you, but I started to care less and less, all I can say is, tone it down a bit unless you wanna get involved in internet fights.
This site has a lot of fans of the 'euphoric' side.. I'd guess on 25-30% percent or so of the active users.

Fighting and discussing are two very different things. I am not saying that the 'euphoric' is wrong or anything, just that it is not really my peice of pie, and that if I would have been god, I would probably not have changed it to what it is. Sadly, I'm not god (atleast not aware of it yet), so it's more like sit back and enjoy the ride. Discussing is interesting though, and hearing opinions "from the other side" is probably the best part about it, wouldn't you agree? :-)

~30% is a surprisingly low number though, I would have guessed higher.

[KFKiller]

I know how everyone is feeling, last year I decided that I would stop producing hardstyle in favour of other genres such as Psy Trance and Techno. I changed because the inspiration I used to get was gone. What I found was that I had inspiration from other genres I think it was because all I used to listen to was hardstyle.
I think I maybe on my way to the Hardcore scene now though as I decided to do some research after seeing the line up for Q-Base this year, PRSPCT got my attention and I looked on youtube and 10 Years of PRSPCT came up and I was hooked after only 6 minutes!!

To be fair I think my music production is starting to wayne anyway.

[futurewonderbolt]

I used to be just as negative as you, but I started to care less and less, all I can say is, tone it down a bit unless you wanna get involved in internet fights.
This site has a lot of fans of the 'euphoric' side.. I'd guess on 25-30% percent or so of the active users.

Fighting and discussing are two very different things. :) I am not saying that the 'euphoric' is wrong or anything, just that it is not really my peice of pie, and that if I would have been god, I would probably not have changed it to what it is. Sadly, I'm not god (atleast not aware of it yet), so it's more like sit back and enjoy the ride. Discussing is interesting though, and hearing opinions "from the other side" is probably the best part about it, wouldn't you agree? :-)

~30% is a surprisingly low number though, I would have guessed higher.

Yeah no, it seems to be higher than 30%, me being included. Although I just thought I'd put it out there that I know how it feels to have producers/genres of music change for what you believe is the worse (and being part of a very small minority with that opinion). I haven't really felt that way about hardstyle, but I certainly have about other music and stopped listening to that music as a result of it.

[Xenon96]

I wrote a loooong post, and forget to post it. I haven't listened to hardstyle in 2 months, and I love crossbreed. That's all.

[Grape]

handsup kicks seem to be harder than nowadays hardstyle kicks