General purpose thread

[Valadia]

Does anyone have a instrumental version of "Unite" by the Noisecontrollers?

[striker159]

Bionic will be shut down.

long FB post

We thank you all so much for being a part of Bionic for over 15 years. During this time, you have helped give us so many unforgettable nights which we are sure will always hold many amazing memories for you, just as they have for us. During our time as Bionic we have worked with an incredible team of people over the years who have become friends, and who have all played their part and helped give you the nights out you have enjoyed so much. We’ve met many of you at our parties who we feel have become our rave family, and have looked forward to seeing you all at every event and loved hearing you share your stories with us from your experiences at our events.

Bionic has been a big passion of ours since the start. It has been our baby we’ve watched grow and we never imagined it would become what it has today, one of the leading institutions for hardstyle and hard dance music in the UK. We’ve witnessed it quickly outgrow small venues in Cardiff until our home became The Emporium, then shortly after, Evolution. We’ve since gone on to take our parties to many venues up and down the country, and even abroad, hosting arenas for events such as the Metro Weekender, Westfest, Escape into the Park, Q-Dance’s prestigious Q-Base event, and so many others. Far more than we ever could have imagined all those years ago when we first started out.

Bionic has been a full time commitment, working every day behind the scenes to bring all of you the best night out we can possibly put on. However, in recent times circumstances have changed and due to other obligations we feel we’re now unable to put 100% of our focus on Bionic which is needed to continue at the level we have reached.

Every great story comes to an end and after much thought and with some sadness in our hearts, we’re announcing there will be two final events before we close the Bionic chapter forever.

With the event's popularity in Wales & England we have decided to throw two final parties, one in each area, which we hope you will all join us at. We have secured one of Wales most exclusive venues, The Vaults in Cardiff, for our final homecoming party in Wales. For England and our last ever event, we have secured what has become our home in recent times, and one of the best venues in the country, the mighty Motion Warehouse in Bristol, which we feel is best suited for the Grand Finale!

We want to thank every single one of you who have ever attended a Bionic event, been a part of our history and for sharing so many amazing times with us. We are thankful for having this one last opportunity to share another unforgettable moment with you and hope you will all join us to create history and give Bionic the perfect send off. We have some special surprises planned for both events and we look forward to announcing full details soon.

Due to the nature of the events we expect extremely high demand for tickets. We are releasing tickets for Cardiff on Monday 15th February at 9am. Capacity for this unique 'Bank Vault Rave' venue in Cardiff is limited and guaranteed to sell out so please make sure you get your ticket before they are all gone. The best way to ensure you get first access to tickets for both events is to sign up at http://bionicevents.com/
A date for ticket release for our Grand Finale in Bristol will be released soon.

We hope to party with you all one last time!

Big love to you all.

Bionic x

[MKN]

Big shame but was a long time coming!

Really fear for the UK scene. We have next to no events in England, Ireland & Wales

[DjPractice]

I find UK never really liked much hardstyle past the end of the early hardstyle era..........

[MKN]

Yeah the majority of people here literally only like 160+ BPM Reverse Bass lol

But now that more are discovering Defqon... they're growing to like the dutch sound and even raw more thankfully

[ceero]

Pontuz Bergman

Okay, I really need to get something of my chest remember this is my opinion, I'm not going against anyone here to begin with.. But Im really thinking of leaving the Hardstyle scene, just because I can't stand the RAW music, it's so fucking overrated and it's not even music anymore and people call it hardstyle. It should be something like "industrial hardcore" or some shit, cause some guys play it at 158 BPM at events anyway. Sounds the same.... It's getting really fucking tough especially when the A names just sit back and do nothing to change the sound. I mean come on.. I know time changes and bla bla, YES I get that. But there's no joy in the music anymore, all fucking tunes goes something like this: "IM GONNA KILL YOU WITH MY FIST MOTHERFUCKER" GANG GANG GANG, "insert 5 year old kick rolls"... Something needs to fucking change.. WHERES THE MELODIES????? Where's the actual music????? Cause if nothing's gonna change -> I'm Out! And people can complain when the Euphoric hardstyle sound disappears and wonder what happen to it. Long live hardstyle.

just wow, what a douchebag. Yes, there is a big creativity crisis in the raw scene but seriously, putting it this way?

[MarlboroMan]

The same thing can be said about his music.

[ceero]

The same thing can be said about his music.

exactly lol. i still remember his album - 15 asbolutely same sounding tracks with no variation. What a fucking tool. I smell someone getting frustrated that the mainstream hype is taking a direction around him lately.

[Bomberz]

Actually I think he is right but raw is much better and diverse atm than one or two years ago. Besides, they made a raw track some months ago that sounds like all of what he is complaining

[MarlboroMan]

And saying that Rawstyle sounds like Industrial Harcore or "some shit". Isn't really respectful either. I would say a big part of the Industrial scene is more creative then him and his works.