Does anyone else think...

[James]

i cant see hard house, or rather 'hard and fast' music going - its just gonna get better and better !

 

people need to get away from sampling or remixing this or that though - its got boring. I want people to start being original again. This is a long term goal of mine as well - to produce an ANTHEM !

[Wub Wub]

Yawn. How many times have we had this discussion?

 

 

Music doesn't DIE per say. One scene may rise to prominence for a while, then fall away and go underground again. Big f___cking deal.

 

 

2000-ish was the year of trance. Is trance dead? No. It's still there, but mainstream culture has embraced something new. Drum and Bass has been bubbling under the surface of the dance music conciousness since it began.

 

However, what has been said about the age of hard house audiences is correct. The sad fact is that the drugs are to blame, IMO. Esctasy and Ket have become more widely available in the past 18 months or so, allowing younger and younger clubbers access to them. Now, couple this with the general associations of hard house with drugs in general, along with the fact that a younger person's body tends to deal with drugs differently than say, a clubber of 25-ish, and you will see why the hard house scene is filled with 13yr olds with cuddly toys on their backs.

[Mr_Happy]

hard house tends to be a younger audience (imo) cuz its full of ppl that have just descovered clubbing (hard house is a v accessible genre compared to alot of the others)

 

the problem is hard house finds it hard to be creative without drawing inspiration from other genres (techno, trance, etc) so (as alot of ppl that have been hard house clubbing 4 many years will probably vouch 4) the genre doesn't seem to evolve as a sound and ppl get baord and move on

[FredTheBaddie]

(hard house is a v accessible genre compared to alot of the others)

I disagree. I'd say that house or trance was more accessable, as both of these are closer to the mainstream. Just look at the charts, loads of house and trance in there ...

[Maria]

Nope.