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[kasper_flip]

stratovarious, on 28 February 2010 - 11:25 AM, said:

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..

was gonna say the same thing.
DJ Duro - Cocaine MF > anything Walt ever did solo.

[mehwoot]

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was gonna say the same thing.
DJ Duro - Cocaine MF > anything Walt ever did solo.

If you like Duro's style, then yeah. But don't discount how good walt is as a hard trance producer.

[DJ Gizeh]

WAS. How good he WAS.

:x

[dany]

stratovarious, on 28 February 2010 - 11:25 AM, said:

You forget who DJ Duro is .. lol

dj duro now is mc duro

[KAi]

Strivo, on 27 February 2010 - 08:58 PM, said:

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.

Hahahaha yeah this basically how it is in the USA... No one gives a flying shit about EDM unless people can sing-a-long to it.. People still despise EDM since it is made electronically and its boring. So I bring up well rap is made electronically as well my friend (majority) and many of the beats are boring in rap that the vocals only save it. Sometimes I just don't understand peoples logic.

[D-Nemacyst]

Their sound is one of the few to break free from the constraints of hardstyle, one of the few hardstyle brands recognizable in pop culture.

pop & top 40 sucks.
hradstyle is reaaaly not something like that

[SCH]

They aren't even calling the music hardstyle anymore... But nustyle isn't too far away from top 40 imo.

[wyzZ]

Well, i'm glad that there aren't many people that think like you, Yeric.

[SCH]

Change kick+bass on Spacer and you got hands up;)

[wyzZ]

We all know Frontliner doesn't produce Hardstyle but hands up. Unless under his previous alias Abject.

[Rick Relentless]

wyzZ, on 06 March 2010 - 09:22 AM, said:

We all know Frontliner doesn't produce Hardstyle but hands up. Unless under his previous alias Abject.

Erh What? Frontliner has produced some really badass tracks, take "The First Cut" for example. that is one of the best tracks I have heard in a long, long time. It's hard, semi-dark and the build up is actually pretty original.

[wyzZ]

Strivo, on 06 March 2010 - 08:25 PM, said:

Erh What? Frontliner has produced some really badass tracks, take "The First Cut" for example. that is one of the best tracks I have heard in a long, long time. It's hard, semi-dark and the build up is actually pretty original.

U forgot to say how bad it is.
Semi-dark? Maybe the first seconds of the build-up is, but within 10secs those ugly sounds ruin it. Hard? The kicks suck. They are so soft, i wouldn't call it hardstyle anymore. And the build-up isnt original either, its just Abject - Mystical in a new jacket.

[Qwertz]

magic = handsup ?

[mehwoot]

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Erh What? Frontliner has produced some really badass tracks, take "The First Cut" for example. that is one of the best tracks I have heard in a long, long time. It's hard, semi-dark and the build up is actually pretty original.

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First cut is fucking brilliant, and quite removed from hands up.

[Rick Relentless]

wyzZ, on 06 March 2010 - 10:30 PM, said:

U forgot to say how bad it is.
Semi-dark? Maybe the first seconds of the build-up is, but within 10secs those ugly sounds ruin it. Hard? The kicks suck. They are so soft, i wouldn't call it hardstyle anymore. And the build-up isnt original either, its just Abject - Mystical in a new jacket.

Your sense of logic amazes me.

I fail to see how the build-up is like Mystical in a new jacket, do you only say this because both tracks use a classical break down? come on this happens in a lot of other tracks as well. The build-up is original in such a way that it is somewhat techno like. No 3 minute breakdown with a lame standard cut-off build up of the melody before the kick comes in. The transitions from intro to break to climax to outro are all done very abruptly, but in a very good way. This, on the contrary to most nu-style these days actually gives you a feeling that the track sounds like something whole, something complete instead of just 4 different parts duck-taped together.

How can you possibly say the kicks are soft? They have so much more sub-bass in comparison to most other tracks, they are just plainly brutal. The only way I could imagine why you think they are soft is either because your sound system can't handle it or you never heard it being played at a party.

Tbh I find tracks like Headhunterz - Psychedelic and D-Block & S-Te-Fan - Sound of Thunder to sound far more like a cheesy hands-up record.

[wyzZ]

If you would listen better to Mystical & then First Cut u'll hear it sounds alike. The build-up isn't original either, u say that it sounds like techno, and that pretty much sums up Frontliner. It doesn't even sound like hardstyle anymore.

The kicks are soft

I said nothing about HHZ and DBSTF.

[SCH]

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How can you possibly say the kicks are soft? They have so much more sub-bass in comparison to most other tracks, they are just plainly brutal. The only way I could imagine why you think they are soft is either because your sound system can't handle it or you never heard it being played at a party.

Bass does NOT equal hard... Kicks and basses in trance, house and progressive have lots of bass as well, yet they aren't hard either..

[Bubbles]

Im with Tim and Valency on this one, i still respect what they're doing and will support them. I loved about half of the tracks on their new album.

[Mantello]

They definately still play hardstyle though.

Last night was just jam pakced with old tracks, I think I counted like 2 or 3 of their analogue album tracks..that's it.

[DjPractice]

Frontliner sucks. period. he has made one good track - Sunblast.

probably the worst of all the big name producers out there - maybe except Scope DJ.

nice to hear Showtek played some of their old stuff and not forgetting where they came from.