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meest interesante aan dit avondje is het volgende:
| quote: | DD: Your ‘new’ style (well you’ve been doing it for over year now so it ain’t really new, but you know what I mean) of playing more non UK hard house tracks, seems to have confused some of your fans but they remain loyal to you whatever you do. But what about HQ? It seems you have changed and club has not and most of the HQ die-hards seem to love your hard house sets more than the you new sets. Do you notice this? And what do you feel about it??
TH: I’m really glad you asked this as it is something that has been causing a lot of debate recently and I feel that I need to shed some light on the situation. I read a lot of stuff about my new style/old style on chat rooms and forums but no-one ever seems to ask me to my face so, in all honesty, thank you mate!
TH: Over the past year I have developed my style a lot to include a lot more tech-trance and techno. There are a number of reasons for this, but mainly it is all about personal and musical development. I have been playing UKHH ever since the term ‘hard house’ was first used (about 7 years ago), and in my mind a lot of the stuff that’s being produced now isn’t really pushing the boundaries of the style like it used to. The same breed of producers and DJs still really dominate the scene none of whom are doing anything new so I just wanted to try something a bit different in my sets. That said, I still have still been playing a lot UKHH, you only need to look at say my set at Dance Valley for proof of this.
TH: The second reason why I expanded the style of music that I play was to allow me the scope to play in certain clubs and countries where I had not played before. Again this was to help develop my career as a DJ. I have been playing at certain clubs in Holland and the UK on and off for nearly a decade and while I dearly love playing at all of them I was keen to branch out and play in some new places. Also, UKHH is quite a niche style of music that is very popular in the UK, Holland, Canada, Japan and Australia but a lot of countries simply don’t have a hard dance scene or have clubs that book hard dance DJs. By evolving my style to make it more ‘exportable’ I suddenly found that I was getting booked to play at lots of new clubs that I hadn’t played at before.
TH: All things considered though, I can see why a lot of fans were confused and maybe even disappointed about the change in style. In Holland I am known for pioneering Hard House and helping to create the hard dance scene as we know it today. Because of this I can see why people wouldn’t like the change, but I hope understand why I did it from what I’ve said above.
TH: BUT and here’s the big BUT…it has become apparent to me that my new style hasn’t been working that well at HQ. People go to HQ for hard house, not tech trance, as it is one of the best hard house clubs on earth, so it seems foolish not to play the sound for which I am famous. SO… from now on I want to make it completely clear that at all HQ parties plus any events where I am representing HQ (like Dance Valley, Impulz, HQXL or whatever) I will be only playing nothing but UK hard house. I feel that I owe this to my loyal army of fans who come to HQ month in month out to hear me play. This means that from this month’s HQ onwards I will use my sets at the club as a platform to showcase the best of UK and European hard dance both old and new. You can expect all the signs of a ‘classic’ Tommy performance ie lots of action on the cross-fader, a bit a scratching, three deck mixing and a whole lot of jumping about and arm waving. In actual fact I can’t wait so please, if you’re reading this and feel that I’ve not been playing enough UKHH at HQ recently get down to HQ on the 24th September and be pleasantly suprosed… |
DD=danny d
TH= Tom Harding
Conclusie van het hele verhaal is dat TH weer full exploding non stop banging UKHH gaat draaien in de Melkweg en niet meer die tech-trance dfingen.
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Dat is wat ik heb meegekregen tenminste tijdens DV. 
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