The SAIFAM group is so famous for their hardstyle, particularly Technoboy and his most frequently used partner, Tuneboy, that it's sometimes easy to forget that they also did a lot of hardtrance. Often, Technoboy used one of his other aliases for hardtrance, like DJ Gius. Then again, this is a really early track, predating even "Raver's Rules" and of course, it's remixed by Luca Antolini, who was always more of a hardtrance guy who didn't get nearly as much into hardstyle (personally, I always felt like when he did it was commercialized selling out anyway. Maybe I'm wrong, and it's not like that output is bad, I just get this vibe like he doesn't like hardstyle as much as hardtrance and would rather make the latter.)
Curiously, as hardstyle came and went, hardtrance endured. The hardtrance scene, more underground than it used to be, no doubt, seems to be thriving and new material from new artists is coming out regularly. Hardstyle, on the other hand, seems to be more or less moribund.
Now, don't get me wrong. I like a lot of hardstyle tracks, especially some of the early ones that had a hardtrance vibe to them still, of course. But I like hardtrance a lot better.
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