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[lil_miss_pink]

I have nothing against their new sound, but then again i am ultimate cheese-girl

[tim dawes]

yes you are, therefore i want to see you dressed like this

[lil_miss_pink]

oh. dear. god.

[Ross Mcleod]

mehwoot, on 25 February 2010 - 03:54 PM, said:

(as they effectively waved goodbye to ever playing at a Q-dance event again)

[Orbi]

Enigma, on 26 February 2010 - 02:37 AM, said:

They have been going downhill for the last few years so I don't give a damn and i'm not really curious for their new music. Wouldn't mind some solo productions from Walt though!

Walt's hardtrance releases back around 2007 were really good, would love to see more in the vein of those.

On topic: I'm not surprised (or disappointed ) to see Showtek move away from hardstyle, especially after Analogue Players. The only thing I'm afraid of is that even after they make their new sound and pursue the mainstream market they'll still get labeled as hardstyle and that Showtek's new fans think that all hardstyle is like what they do. That'll be quite annoying.

[divid3d]

yeah at least they are speaking out and saying that they are moving away from hardstyle. hopefully their fans get the hint and don't run around thinking their new stuff is the definition of hardstyle.

[Boxhead]

divid3d, on 26 February 2010 - 04:08 PM, said:

yeah at least they are speaking out and saying that they are moving away from hardstyle. hopefully their fans get the hint and don't run around thinking their new stuff is the definition of hardstyle.

HAHA I was thinking the exact same thing, how many noobs will still call what they make Hardstyle after the fact that they do not like to be classified as Hardstyle producers.

They're clearly doing a Kamui. Maybe they'll invent their own genre name as well.

[ZachZee]

ZachZee, on 25 February 2010 - 09:33 PM, said:

Hopefully they make it big into mainstream but never use the word hardstyle again so as not to bring their new fans into the hardstyle scene.

[Impression]

They can change there sound but they will always be reflected on as Hardstyle.

[DJ Gizeh]

Check their Remix of Out Of The Blue 2010.
That's not Hardstyle anymore.

Never liked them much, because I think they're arrogant idiots, but this brings more and more people into the Hardstyle Scene. Can't see a point, where this is any good. :x

[Ryan Blatt (Empire Traxx)]

I think they are great at production... Just not hardstyle.
Expect a flood of noobs soon because now the numbers of OMGZ SHOWTEKZ kids are gonna grow massively.

We should just assassinate Sjoerd. Maybe then we can get some quality Walt stuff again.
Makes sense to me at least.

[divid3d]

they are capable of making excellent hardstyle, they obviously just prefer making cheese.

[Boxhead]

Revival X Remix, Early Soundz, No One Can Stop Us Remix, Choruz, Down With This... all top quality Showtek tracks.

It just appears that they don't want to make Hardstyle anymore, and want to follow this new found happy crossover sound they have going. It's exactly what Kamui did in their progression into their own unique but cheesy sound.

[Rick Relentless]

Tiesto and David Guetta are also trying to become big in the United States, face it; that's where this is all about. Becoming famous in the US means becoming famous in the whole world eventually and that means they will make lotsa $$$.
And just like David Guetta (who I never liked) and Tiesto, they "betrayed" a large part of their former fan-base to do so. I guess this is just something we have to accept now dance music is becoming more and more popular and it's not just a "Dutch" thing anymore.

If you look at today's pop-music, lots of the tracks have been infused with some kind of dancey influence, even the records by typical American pop-stars(Rihanna, Britney Spears, etc) contain a dancey vibe. For example; when Britney just started out her songs used to contain far more Hip-Hop / RnB like influences, today she uses dancey influences instead. It looks like America has become more tolerant to dance music.

I guess "real" (European) dance music producers have also noticed this, and some of them see this as their big opportunity to make a break-through in the States. Because Americans still aren't ready for the full package the artists need to commercialize their sound, by using influences from other popular genre's in the US (Rock, Hip-Hop, RnB, etc.)

The result? good artists gone bad, making nothing but cheesy music and leaving thousands of used-to-be fans behind them without seemingly giving a crap about it.

Tiesto is the perfect example to this, his album "Elements of Life" from 2007, was a very good album, even in case you did not like it musically, you can't deny that it was produced very, very well.
His latest album sounds like a piece of shit held together with duck-tape, collaborations with the most annoying pop artists, that in most cases simply don't work. All the tracks are very poorly produced because the main-stream teenage American pop music listeners doesn't give a flying crap about it anyway. All they want is to is to be able to sign-a-long to some not-to-hard-to-understand vocals tipped off with some cheesy melody.

Showtek is doing the exact same thing, and they know it, and have all the rights to do so if they want to.
I just hope this won't reflect on the rest of the hardstyle scene too much.

[Qwertz]

cya showtek^^ i still enjoy their early stuff, just sad how they went downhill since 2006...

[Impression]

wtf

Showtek coming to rise soon.

Are they a hardstyle act yes

pfft

[stratovarious]

Ryan Blatt, on 27 February 2010 - 07:26 PM, said:

We should just assassinate Sjoerd. Maybe then we can get some quality Walt stuff again.
Makes sense to me at least.

You forget who DJ Duro is .. lol

I haven't enjoyed Showtek for a while. They have made good tracks in the past, and I'll always love them, that's enough for me..

[patfase]

Satyriasis, on 25 February 2010 - 04:39 PM, said:

Popstyle or RnBstyle anything to make a bit more cash and inflate their egos a little bit more (if that's possible?). I agreed with Anth. Fuck off.

^^ This

[mehwoot]

Something I forgot to mention in the article though, I'm not sure if they will completely give up the hardstyle sound, for example they still do collabs- the "2 devine" collab with zany is pretty orgasmic, nothing like their newer stuff.

So maybe their older sound will stick around in that regard.

[wombie]

Showtek are somewhat like the Axl Rose of Hard-Dance... Yeah, they've got some good tracks, but they also have some woeful ones.

Massive egos. They seem to think they're the greatest thing since sliced bread. It seems as though they've already had their moment as far as hardstyle is concerned...

I'm going to see them this Saturday, I have a feeling it will be the first and last time.