Little Hardstyle release facts and gossips topic

[Romanian Hardstyler]

And i thought that The Prophet was bald

[Freddy]

And i thought that The Prophet was bald

It seems like everybody shaved back in the days , Hhz, Zany, Frontliner, The Prophet, Wildstylez..

[Gommes_]

Great news!

[Morbid_Angel]

Frontliner returns to Scantraxx, This Is Hardstyle becomes a Scantraxx sublabel



lets hope Frontliner will now get rid of those god damn awful AI artworks for his next releases

Also more B-Frontliner work confirmed

Now THAT is good news.

[DjVero]

And i thought that The Prophet was bald

He IS bald, just not on the top of his skull anymore....

[The Blaster]

Okay so i checked the Wildstylez podcast. Some interesting stuff that they said:

There is a recent podcast with Villain where he cannot remember the defqon stage from a few years ago, this gave me the impression he doesn't care, this is just some random job. After this interview, damn. He basically led the interview with some interjections from wsz, I think the vibe was really cool, he should keep leading these. it is funny that for telling people to put their hands in the air for 20 years, now he finds that a shame. but that's probably the best person you could have mediating that convo, well done.

HHZ cannot, cannot, sit there and have qualms about where hs is going, after how he changed the sound and how he pushed, just as newcomers have done and taken a leaf out of his book. It must be so confusing to be erabreak etc. and hear hhz go off on newcomers when he didn't just live it, he literally pushed an entire music genre to be the way it is.

The most confusing thoughts about techno as well. Excluding Villain, because he genuinely seemed to pitch it, take an interest, genuinely seems to be invested in it, but hhz and wsz.... so for them, it is a pity that certain sounds were forgotten and they want 'that' sound to be represented and they find it cool that it is but (even after huge huge dj's and producers pitching this for years, as it was the case in the past), one must never call it techno (this was not really addressed head on), the older guard doesn't like that (except hhz specifically made his career about pushing out older sounds), dj's are no longer dj producers (when challenged on that, in that hs was the same, that is just brushed aside).

Techno has had, what, 40 years of marketing, it's a term that is in the public consciousness. Hardstyle, however well marketed this term is, just isn't. I don't know what to say headhunterz (and btw, q-dance could absolutely include 'save the day once again' in their top 100 voting at the end of the year - curious where this year will land with all the early hardstyle tracks being produced that q-dance will probably not label as hardstyle)

I guess I takeaway that hhz is doing what he wants and I respect that, I hope he does what he wants, whether that's making music or not making music or doing something else, for me personally, what he creates is always going to be more interesting than a ton of current music. But...hardstyle is where it is because of him, I think for his sake, he should get on board with current hardstyle!

[Shodan]

i felt most of the takes on the podcast were contradicting, Heady mentions he does not want to be seen as the saviour of hardstyle then later says he will only release a track if he feels it represents hardstyle

Villain at some point acts as the middle ground trying to get them both to collab with the new guys, then says the new guys lost the point of what hardstyle is

Its funny they mention Rooler so much when he's seen like one of the worst acts around here, and to me one of the main culprits of the tiktokfication of track lenghts and track structure with The Gang shit

As the post above said, Wildstylez mentions nowadays djs are only famous because they got viral, Villain says it was just like that when hardstyle started, they just move on

They all seem to realize its always the same loop in music with the comments regarding techno but they dont want to accept it when it comes to "real" hardstyle feeling

I will never understand how are most producers and people complaining that the old sound is dissappearing when theres TNT still being one of the most successful acts basically just remaking their old stuff, its so funny
They all lost inspiration but the ones that are pilars of the genre just keep on going doing their own stuff

[The Blaster]

We see things slightly differently, different tastes and what not. but yeah, i have to say i agree with most of those points. and i totally agree about tnt. and, everyone could play up their own part in the creation of certain tracks etc etc. but i am under the impression antolini was the huge driving force behind the saifam stuff, must be nearing 900 tracks now spanning 30 odd years. of course, collaborations and so on, but was it really all (majority) tby and tuneboy, is hhz sure about that?

ah, one point of disagreement, i thought villain was very fair to all kinds of hardstyle. he seems to genuinely miss some styles, which can only be a good thing if they were more prominent. and he's very respectful of the new stuff. i mean, it is his livelihood so.

[DjVero]

I will never understand how are most producers and people complaining that the old sound is dissappearing when theres TNT still being one of the most successful acts basically just remaking their old stuff, its so funny

Not only that, but Headhunterz and Wildstylez were like the personification of the shift from EHS to Nu-style, among with some others of course. Now it has happened to them. I hope it makes them realize how Coca, Scot Project and others felt back in the day when they took over with a new sound.

[Gommes_]

Also HHZ pushed that new style too by implementing meme edits and zaags/microwave kicks into his sets. At one point he kinda copied what Vertile played. Not as a full set of course, but he was on board for the new sound.