In one of the most complicated artist fields I've had to deal with, Ed E.T. & D.T.R. (a Welsh hardstyle duo) team up with fellow Welshmen MCP and vocalist Natski to produce one of my favorite reverse bass tracks—and a relatively modern one too—"We Don't Care." This musical style has been kicking around with too much significant change for quite a long time. My last post (the first hardstyle post I made) for "First Match" by TNT was a track released in 2002, when the style was still relatively new (Q-Dance was founded in '99 and Qlimax in 2000. Defqon.1 wasn't founded until 2004.) This one is from 2014, but Ed E.T. and D.T.R. are still doing the same thing with 2016 and newer releases like "The Black Hole." Of course, I'm a relatively recent convert to the hardstyle sound, so that's cool—I've got a fairly deep back-catalog of stuff to explore.
Anyway, as I said last time, this stuff isn't necessarily musically very deep, but it's super intense and exciting—it's main purpose is to be so, in fact. This means that—I dunno, maybe in a few weeks or months, I'll be a bit tired of it, as I now am with synthwave, and I'll get rid of my playlist, and just keep them as tracks that come up occasionally in my big shuffle play. With only about 200 out of nearly 4,000 tracks that get regular circulation on my phone, one won't come up more than once in twenty songs on average.
Still, it's rather amazing that I've grabbed that many tracks already. While I probably grabbed about that many synthwave tracks, and mostly only really love the dreamy vocal type now, I never got anywhere near that many hard trance or acid songs. Well, maybe I did with trance, years ago, but most of those aren't on my phone anymore. Hardstyle may yet end up having been more of a faddish infatuation than something that I love forever, and I may end up thrifting some of my tracks down when I decide that I don't love them all as much as I thought I did when I grabbed them. But for now, I can't listen to this reverse bass stuff without wanting to get up and dance.
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