Yeah, hard trance has been in a sorry state the past year or so. Good releases are even further apart than before and you really have too look hard these days. No sure artist or label that that you can count on. Shokk was the last one of that IMO.

Scot Project, Yoji Biomehanika etc, have been dispointing latley and seem to lack inspiration and new ideas.

I'm with DJ Dawn regarding Hard Style. Most releases tend to be simplistic garbage, all sounding the same. Some releases can be really good but that seems almost to be the exception to the rule or something.

However, I love proper hard trance and will continue to release promo-mixes for everyone that might be interested. Not as often as I would like but at least I strive to uphold the quality.

Tech-trance is interesting though and Oliver Klitzing (Kaylab, Reloop etc.) is releasing some fine stuff on his labels Headline and Minority.

Dj Simple is another one I'm keeping an eye on lately.

Jam X & De Leon (not as Dumonde) are still interesting from time to time with their label F8T Recordings.

It's not all bad but we are definetly seeing a slump in quality (not quantity) these days. However I'm positive that sooner or later it will pick up again.

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