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Hardbass 2010 Livesets

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:39:44 +0000

It’s liveset season in the land of hardstyle, and we’ve been graced by the aural pleasures of none other than the collaborative efforts of 4 teams and 4 live acts. Hardbass 2010 has come and gone, and by the sounds of things, it sounded like a smashing success.

Thanks, as usual, to Hardtraxx.nl for the delicious livesets.

Balistic (Warm Up Set) Tracklist:

01. DJ Arabesque – Serendipity
02. ID
03. DJ Bismark & Philippe Rochard – Theme of sphere (Original Mix)
04. Mauro Picotto – Autumn (Megamind Mix)
05. Sombrero Bros – Pull the plug
06. Prezioso Feat. Marvin – Let Me Stay (Ce Pensa Giò Mix)
07. Warmduscher – Auf die fresse
08. Walt – Bring the pain (Original Mix)
09. Zero Vision – Right here
10. Angy Dee – Something Wonderfull (Original Mix)
11. Ferry Corsten – Punk (Cosmic Gate remix)
12. Zero Vision – Overdrive
13. Carambola – Blue horizons (Deepack remix)
14. The Beholder & Balistic Feat. Max Enforcer – Bigger, Better, Louder! (Decibel 2004 Anthem)

Download Balistic (Warm Up Set) at Hardbass 2010

Team Green (The Pitcher, Crypsis & Technoboy) Tracklist:

01. 2 Best Enemies – Unity
02. Hardstyle Masterz feat. Max Enforcer – Rambo Is A Pussy
03. The Pitcher – Strange Love
04. The Pitcher – Serenity
05. Crypsis – Tuatara
06. Chain Reaction – Lellebel
07. TNT – Tritolo
08. Technoboy meets Ruffian – The Undersound
09. Zany – Mr. Monster
10. The Pitcher – Pump It Loud (2010 Edit)
11. Crypsis vs. Dana – Transmission
12. Crypsis – Jealousy
13. The Hose – I Survived
14. Ivan Carsten – Freesound
15. The Pitcher – Here For The Future
16. Donkey Rollers – 2012
17. Chain Reaction – Answers
18. Crypsis vs. Luna – Torture
19. Technoboy – Next Dimensional World (Qlimax 2008 Anthem)
20. Toneshifterz – Angels & Demons

Download Team Green (The Pitcher, Crypsis & Technoboy) at Hardbass 2010

Second Identity LIVE Tracklist:

01. Second Identity – Distorted Device
02. Second Identity – Identify
03. Second Identity – Amplified
04. Second Identity – Karma Circle
05. Scope Dj – Househeads
06. Second Identity – Atlantiss
07. Second Identity – Moving Madness
08. Second Identity – Eternal Void

Download Second Identity LIVE at Hardbass 2010

Team Blue (Wildstylez, D-Block & S-te-Fan & Coone) Tracklist:

01. Headhunterz – Subsonic (Late Night Edit)
02. Wildstylez – A Complex Situation
03. D-Block & S-te-Fan – Music Made Addict
04. Coone – Throw Ya Handz
05. Headhunterz & Wildstylez – Blame It On The Music (D-Block & S-te-Fan Remix)
06. D-Block & S-te-Fan vs. Wildstylez – The Human Soul
07. Digital Punk – Warrior’s Redemption
08. Psyko Punkz – After MF
09. D-Block & S-te-Fan – Together
10. Headhunterz & Wildstylez feat. Villain – Stuck In Your Head
11. D-Block & S-te-Fan feat. Villain – Sound Of The Thunder
12. Coone – Dirty & Deluxe (Edit)
13. JDX feat. Sarah Maria – Live The Moment
14. The Prophet feat. Wildstylez – Cold Rocking (Gostosa Remix)
15. Headhunterz – Psychedelic
16. Psyko Punkz – ID
17. D-Block & S-te-Fan – Alone
18. Brennan Heart – Just As Easy (Wildstylez vs. SMD Remix)
19. Alpha Twins vs. Wildstylez – Atrocious
20. Coone & Deepack – Thunderdance
21. D-Block & S-te-Fan vs. High Voltage – Shiverz

Download Team Blue (Wildstylez, D-Block & S-te-Fan & Coone) at Hardbass 2010

Zany & The Beholder LIVE Tracklist:

01. The Beholder meets Zany – Midnight
02. Da Bootleggerz – Fresh Beats
03. The Beholder meets Zany – Euphoria
04. Zany & DV8 – Vision
05. Zany meets The Beholder – Who Wants This
06. Zany feat. The Beholder – The New God
07. The Beholder & Zany – Bleeding For The Harder Styles (Decibel 2008 Anthem)
08. Zany meets The Beholder – Annihilating
09. The Beholder & Zany – To Protect & Serve (Hardbass 2010 Anthem)
10. Zany meets The Beholder – Do You Want Heavy?
11. Bulldozer Project – Arise (The Beholder & Zany Remix)

Download Zany & The Beholder LIVE at Hardbass 2010

Team Yellow (Tatanka, Pavo & Frontliner) Tracklist:

01. Frontliner & Tatanka – Yellow (?)
02. Frontliner & B-Front – Godz Powerrr!
03. Pavo – Back In Time
04. Tatanka – TBA
05. Frontliner – Tuuduu (DJ Tool)
06. Nagoom – 4×4
07. Tatanka & Zatox – Gangsta
08. Frontliner – On The Rise
09. Pavo – Communicate
10. The R3bels – Straight To Da Beat
11. Frontliner – The First Cut
12. Bass Modulators – NRGizer
13. Davide Sonar – My World
14. B-Front & Frontliner – Magic
15. Pavo & Zany – Orgasmo
16. Blademasterz – In The End
17. Frontliner – Frozen
18. Pavo – Raven
19. Frontliner – TBA
20. Frontliner – Rollin’
21. Bass Modulators – Our World (Tats Q-Base Edit)
22. Tatanka – Dooms Day

Download Team Yellow (Tatanka, Pavo & Frontliner) at Hardbass 2010

Brennan Heart LIVE Tracklist:

01. Brennan Heart – City Of Intensity (Decibel 2009 Anthem)
02. Headhunterz – The Sacrifice (Brennan Heart Remix)
03. Brennan Heart – Musical Impressions
04. Brennan Heart – Till U Believe It
05. Brennan Heart & Headhunterz – The MF Point Of Perfection (Original Dubstyle Mix)
06. Brennan Heart & Wildstylez – Reputation Game
07. The Viper & G-Town Madness – Come As One (Brennan Heart Remix)
08. Brennan Heart – This Is Scantraxx
09. Brennan Heart feat. Shanokee – Feel U Here
10. Brennan Heart – Faith In Your DJ (Blademasterz DFQN RMX)
11. Brennan Heart – Just As Easy (Wildstylez vs. SMD Remix)
12. Blademasterz – Audiometric
13. Brennan Heart – Midify (?)

Download Brennan Heart LIVE at Hardbass 2010

Team Red (Noisecontrollers, The Prophet & Zatox) Tracklist:

01. Noisecontrollers – Shreek Again
02. Headhunterz – Forever Az One (Noisecontrollers Remix)
03. Zatox – Andromeda
04. Zatox feat. Nikkita – Poltergeist
05. Headhunterz & Noisecontrollers – The Space We Created
06. Proppy & Heady – The B-Side
07. Noisecontrollers – TBA
08. Zatox feat. Nikkita – Raw Style
09. Noisecontrollers & Zany – Paranoid
10. DJ Chuckie – Let The Bass Kick (Headhunterz Remix)
11. Zatox – Creation
12. Noisecontrollers – Samara
13. Digital Punk – Keep it Bouncing
14. Zatox – Drop The Track
15. The Prophet – TBA
16. Noisecontrollers – Surge Of Power
17. Zatox – Ear Fucking
18. Southstylers – Pounding Senses (Zany vs. Noisecontrollers Edit)
19. The Prophet – Counterfeit
20. Zatox – I Hate U
21. Donkey Rollers – Ruff Again (Noisecontrollers Mash-Up)
22. The Prophet vs. Zatox – Spin Me Up

Download Team Red (Noisecontrollers, The Prophet & Zatox) at Hardbass 2010

Deepack LIVE Tracklist:

01. Coone & Deepack – Thunderdance
02. Deepack feat. MC Lan – Fire In Tha Place
03. D-Block & S-te-Fan vs. Deepack – Rock Diz (Edit)
04. Deepack – The Prophecy (2009 Remix)
05. ID
06. The Killers – Human (Deepack Bootleg)
07. ID – Hardcore
08. ID – Hardcore

Download Deepack LIVE at Hardbass 2010

The Pitcher’s Christmas Surprise

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:27:11 +0000

What better to help you nurse your Christmas hangover than an hour of rough Fusion hardstyle?

That’s exactly what The Pitcher is giving us over Q-Dance radio, at 8PM (NL time) on the 26th of December. We were promised a Christmas surprise and a Fusion Yearmix is what we’ve got. Covering all the big Fusion releases over the past year, I think we’re all in for a treat.

Here’s the teaser/promo video that was posted earlier today to give you some idea of what it’s about:

Click here to view the embedded video.

We at The Harder View are a bit less festive, and all we can really offer you is this animated Christmas tree.

Merry Christmas everyone.

New Fusion: Slim Shore, Titan, Zany, Noisecontrollers, B-Front and Frontliner

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:47:34 +0000

I figured since not a whole lot is going on in the hardstyle scene at the moment, and the fact that it’s doing some pretty interesting thing at the moment, I can give you an update as to what’s forthcoming on the now massive label, Fusion Records.

Recently signed to Fusion, we have two newcomers, Slim Shore, who you may recognise as the old Dutch Master, and Titan, who has played at Q-Base as DJ Pinas.

Slim Shore is slated to have a 3-tracker debut EP, featuring King of the Stage, Scars and Siren. Of the three tracks, only two have previews which are below, however all three sound quite dissonant and contain weird harmonics. A new musical direction for Henry? I hope so, because it sounds awesome.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Titan, basing purely on sound, sounds to me like a darker Zany alias. Having no prior productions, yet listening to the quality of his music – not to mention the fact it’s Fusion – leads me to believe he may have had quite a helping hand from head honcho, Zany and possibly the label’s musical magician, The Pitcher. Either way, Strength and Fury and Nightmare are both melodic and rough, a perfect combination.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Then we have two tried and tested artists, some of the biggest in the scene coming together to give us two – possibly three – predictably hard tracks. If you’ve listened to either a Zany or Noisecontrollers set in the past few months you’ve probably heard either Diffusion or Paranoid, and though they might not have been quite so memorable, they are quite so awesome.

Click here to view the embedded video.

We haven’t heard a whole lot from B-Front since Fusion signed him quite some time ago. Apparently working on a solo 4-tracker, he’s been busy at work with someone who has had quite a lot of attention since he arrived on the scene, Frontliner. Together they’ve come out with four pretty hard tracks to be split and released on both Fusion and Scantraxx.

The Fusion two contain Magic and Become The Sky, Magic being the rough standout and perfect combination of styles.

Click here to view the embedded video.

More and more previews keep coming, yet barely anything is released. Not only is there the above in the queue to be released, there’s also Zany & Dozer with Fruxaq and Huwex, Noisecontrollers & Toneshifterz with Empire of the Sun and Jaydee, Zany’s solo with Angel of the Sun & Purify Your Senses, Dozer’s solo with Robin’s Revenge and Elixer, some unofficially announced forthcoming Pitcher and no doubt some Donkey Rollers.

C’mon Fusion, pick up the pace, everyone wants your stuff!

Titan Joins Fusion Records

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:57:32 +0000

Fusion Records, seemingly looking toward the future, are not to be stopped, as another newcomer is added to their large label. This is helping them establish an extensive roster of incredibly skilled producers that can only improve in the future. Speculation at the moment involves a rearrangement in the record label, moving the established artists such as The Pitcher and Dozer off Superplastik onto Fusion, leaving Superplastik for the ever growing number of new talents.

The new artist, Titan, which some of you may recognise previously as Pinas, a man who has already played at Q-Base in 2006, and Defqon.1 in 2007 and 2008, not to mention a vast array of smaller events, was officially announced – it was assumed Titan was going to be signed to Fusion as he was performing on the Fusion truck during the parade – in a similar fashion to Slim Shore, via a video on YouTube.

Coming seemingly from nowhere, because as far as I can tell he has no prior productions, he must have spent a while locked in the studio, practicing and possibly being mentored by Zany, as the preview of his first track Titan - Strength and Fury definitely has a Zany touch within it.

Check out the track embedded below, which sounds quite dark and rough, and very professional, so a spot at Fusion does make sense.

A big congratulations to Titan, we’re looking extremely forward to seeing what he can come up with.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Slim Shore Joins Fusion Records

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:31:07 +0000

As many of us predicted – thanks to his friend choice on his MySpace profile – Slim Shore, AKA ‘the old Dutch Master’ has joined the already ‘too-many-artists-for-one-label’ crew at Fusion Records. The move seems to be fitting fit, as Henry’s production skills have always been of an incredibly high calibre.

This is not so much of a surprise, after his recent move away from Showtek’s label, Dutch Master Works due to some disagreement, and the subsequent dodgy cover up by the DMW boys in Dutch Master’s biography. Shortly after the move, Slim Shore – what an odd name – was quickly scooped up by Platinum Agency, so I daresay there are already some plans in the works for him over there.

There is no doubt that there is a significant amount of work in the future for Henry, rebuilding his reputation, but with the production skills he possesses, and already a strong rebrand in place, it shouldn’t be much of an issue (however Fusion’s release schedule might be).

The move to Fusion was announced in a YouTube video on Fusion’s channel, where Slim Shore’s latest work is being displayed.

The semi-cheesy track, ‘Scars‘ seems to be having a dig at DMW, in a vein similar to that of Showtek’s ‘World is Mine‘, oddly enough, but have a listen for yourself:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Take a look at his website for a bit more information: http://www.donkeyrollers.com/slimshore/