General purpose thread

[Nuracore]

Sorry to bother you with this (I hate lobbying for votes..), but I have a chance to open the classic stage at Intents festival this year. But for that to happen, I need to win this voting round.
So, if you want to help a passionate guy with a deep love for classics out, please vote for Nuracore

https://www.intentsfestival.nl/dj-conte ... j-contest/

[freddy g]

whilst not strictly hardstyle news, it is defqon 1 adjacent lol - looks like a number of artists are boycotting field day festival and mighty festival in the uk, and sonar festival in Barcelona over KKR investments in Israeli military tech

https://www.iq-mag.net/2025/05/superstr ... ott-calls/

https://mixmag.net/read/artists-sonar-b ... ments-news

who would have foreseen that consolidating into a global investment firm might lead to some conflicts of interest/ethics

[battlejellyfish]

whilst not strictly hardstyle news, it is defqon 1 adjacent lol - looks like a number of artists are boycotting field day festival and mighty festival in the uk, and sonar festival in Barcelona over KKR investments in Israeli military tech

would be kinda ironic to not speak about the issue from a festival named after this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON