I think this chat section is a good place for this maybe for some chatty topic, but for me it is essential in both my productions and long musical experience.
early this year I invented these two Newspeak words to refer to collections of truthful, wisdom spreading, awake (NOT "woke", that fake scripted cancer culture sh*t) lyrics.
wisecore - wise & wake lyrics in hardcore (160+ BPM) songs wakestyle - wake & wise lyrics in hardstyle (~150 BPM) songs
in quite some cases the titles of the songs in hardstyle & hardcore already give the message away, but not in every case.
In this thread I will share some of what I consider the best examples of these styles that I subdefined for us.
In some cases famous lyrics from movies make their way into the music (moviecore and filmstyle), in other cases the hardstyle or hardcore producer do what I very much like to do as well, reverse the Satanism.
most of these songs I use in my productions, published either via Anchor at the popular podcast platforms and/or at my Patreon page, some for free, some for matrons only
just a peek at the song titles of some of what I consider the best wisecore around
tells you all you need to understand what I talk about
and mix with our GEMz at Eye am Eye Radiowe are aLOUD.
because only through their song Bogotá I learned of Miss K8
I was a long time Angerfist fan, but not up to date with all their great great music before
they made the series of 3 syncnificant cities of my life
Madrid
Santiago
Bogotá
the chance this happens with 3 cities, even considering my former travels "all over the world", but missing a LOT of famous places, like Bangkok or NYC, is so small, that it is Synchronicity - Syncnificance
I first lived in a different country, grew up really, danced and flirted my a$$ off and learned my 3rd natural language in Madrid
Santiago was the city we first landed as fiancees, my beautiful esposina for life and me, Fakeo Famous Paolita....
and Bogotá, well...
enjoy these three meaningful, insightful, syncnificant and inspiring lyrics from an absolute Power Couple from the Netherlands and Ukraine !
How can we inspire people, and ourselves
I'm talking about feeling empowered
That's different
Beyond boundaries
What a theme, huh?
To do it not because they tell us
But because we want to
That's powerful
Madrid Hardcore [5x]
Beyond boundaries
What a theme, huh?
To do it not because they tell us
But because we want to
That's powerful
Madrid [4x]
Hardcore
How can we inspire people, and ourselves
I'm talking about feeling empowered
That's different
I want to represent an idea, possibilities
I want to represent the idea that I can create whatever I want to create
This is what I believe and I'm willing to die for it
Bogotá
I want to represent the idea that I can create whatever I want to create
Possibilities
Bogotá
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511 Black Mirror Society Phuture Noize wakestyle NED 2018 A 150 LYR
512 The Aftershock Phuture Noize wakestyle NED 2017 A 150 LYR
513 Puff the Green Stuff Showtek wakestyle NED 2006 B 150 LYR
514 Million Miles Away Dutch Master wakestyle NED 2010 A 150 LYR
519 Double Dutch Darkies TNT wakestyle ITA 2008 F# 150 LYR
520 The Sacrifice Headhunterz wakestyle NED 2006 F# 150 LYR
521 Live The Moment JDX ft. Sarah Maria wakestyle NED 2009 F# 150 LYR
522 JDX ft. Sarah Maria - Live The Moment Hardstyle Pianist pianostyle NED 2016 F# 150
reverse bass - the unique characteristic of hardstyle - hence Reverze (the name of a hardstyle festival and recurring GEM at Eye AM Eye Radio)
BPM aka Tempo - Hardstyle is typically 150-155 BPM, while techno is 124 (minimal & latinimal) to 140s (hardtechno, 90s techno)
structure - hardstyle is not monotonous, while techno by definition is
energy - relates to former, hardstyle, just like hardcore, is constantly working towards highs, while techno is not, is the most trancy music, not trance, ironically
originz - hardstyle comes a.o. from techno (German & Dutch), but more from hardcore (Dutch & Italian) and trance (Dutch) and influences of other styles - the Italian part especially I love in both wisecore (e.g. Mad Dog) and wakestyle (esp. Technoboy & Tuneboy, Zatox), you recognize the "italian" dramatic classical music origins throughout, something I particularly love, having had that classic musical upbringing
MCs - the only electronic music genre (see below) that uses MCs, also very not for techno...
participation - just like MCs and rappers, imagine, live at Qlimax, having a symphonic orchestra playing, for 28.000 people (in horrific acoustics, unfortunately the GelreDome is not made for concerts) that you don't see at techno...
parties - visit a techno party, doen't matter the style, and compare that with a hardstyle party, festival or part of a bigger electronic festival and you see, feel, experience the difference
people - here also, people who like hardstyle parties usually don't like techno parties and the ones who like techno parties hate hardstyle parties, generally speaking. It is 2 worlds. At hardstyle parties you talk with others, socialize, have fun. At techno parties everyone is inside themselves and one with the music, no disturbance appreciated
substances - every music style goes hand in hand with certain substances, that famous jazz night (one of the few music styles I detest) in Yerevan with whiskey (also an alcoholic drink I don't like) made perfect sense. The same for xtc or some psycho-active variant of it (2-cb etc. thank you Sasha Shulgin!). At techno parties you can also find mdma in HOlland, but typically speed in Germany, the absolute birthplace of ALL techno, in the biggest sense.
sentiment - the accumulation of all the former and more - it just feels SO different, you wouldn't confuse hardstyle with techno, and yet....
why all electronic music and thus hardstyle is techno
in the end all electronically made music, or using elements of that, I'd say you can call techno. The origins of it do not come from Detroit or so, like they claim, no electronically produced music is such a typical German invention. Kraftwerk is a famous name, but how many amateurs were there not in the late 70s and early 80s experimenting with what technology provided to make new music....
but also here
techno is mostly purely techno, electronically produced music, completely with Ableton Live or alternatives, at most accompanied by live recorded voices, but mostly those get distorted too, electrified, technolized ?
hardstyle has more elements of other origins, like the BAND and HIP HOP roots that I named in the musiversity thread here
band as in voices or rock samples
hip hop as in the abundant use of samples. Sampling is the root of HIP HOP and wakestyle and wisecore are the hip hop of electronic music
why wakestyle isn't techno
the titles of wisecore and wakestyle say a lot already, but the beautifully uplifting truisms (i.e. philosophy) that wakestyle is known for, absolutely formed the basis for the beginnings and still red thread of Eye AM Eye Radio.
I have downloaded a lot more hardstyle and not everything is as great and not everything wakestyle
but
no hurries
no worries
at Eye AM Eye Radio you'll enjoy more of
Rebelion
Sub Zero Project
Sound Rush
Hard Driver
Ghost Stories
& many other wakestyle artists !
and for the techno fans, mainstream techno is not so my thing
but
latinimal
my Newspeech for latin influenced/themed minimal techno
absolutely will be mixed again, check the tags at Patreon for styles of the releases of the past !
aSHIFT. - take control over your OWN life
the more we are, the more we share
the more we share, the more we are
I was browsing through my vast collection of photos and came across ...
YouTube playlist
on my late* mother's 58th birthday
*you see how silly even your vilest "attacks" on me, for no reason whatsoever, were, NigelTroll ? GAIA already took care of "my family" that you "so wished dead"... fool
line-ups, I mean.... wow
statistics
some reviews
feedbacking :
99 % satisfied !!
In Qontrol 2007 DJs (yeah, producers, musicians, artists) mixed at Eye AM Eye Radio - 14 !
it was the last hardstyle party before I embraced ecstacy; Nov '08
my sister already enjoyed "Molly" (nobody uses that in Holland) and was bouncing like extrafocused her in the Sunday morning train back home...
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I learned, doing this
that Zany (en-wiki), one of THE hardstyle pioneers
and apparently
Zany's 2002 song Be On Your Way has been used as the "Walk on" music for professional darts player Ted Hankey.
and most probably most or second most mixed into Eye AM Eye Radio, held his first registered live dj set at least on this exhaustive database, great site !
4 months after my first one, the moment I became the dj, simply because I had so much music that people appreciated and "mixing" was gluing CDs in a floorfilling and diverse musical way
ok, my audience was about 100 people, dunno how big Shadowlands On Tour was, but probably bigger
Also
I'd define 3 birth moments of hardstyle
the first time it was launched, mentioned, called upon was
1 - Sensation Black 2002
where I wasn't, but infamous famous hardstyle nympho Olga was
she introduced me to the earliest forms of hardstyle, I still have some of those old files
and then with her, and without "Molly" (MDMA), "just beer"
we visited my first big party
amazing
absolutely awesome insane decorations
if you think about it
and Tiesto announced in Russian by Russian models, beautiful, that livemix I have and comes back in the Lando More Wins MEGAmix, not finished the painting even ! so patience, listeners !
Innercity 2002 - on GAIA's and esposinas and suegronos birthday, the only real New Year - 21-12
number 2, I just learned today, looking up Zany's other famous project, that I will mix more by promise now...
And hs been exported very successfully before the psyopaths closed it down, we podcasted about it in some FACs
Defqon.1 Australia
I mixed various anthems from there
Defqon.1 2003 ON DONNY TRUMPs 57th birthday - 14-06 !! funny, Defqon.1 is of course a military term ...
predates the 3rd birth moment and typifying, the one I experienced with my big blue eyed big boobed big booty bouncing beauty
3 - Qlimax 2003
first time Qlimax was held in the location it always was after that
the absolutely atrocious atmosphere of acoustic awfulness
the GelreDome
Qlimax represents THE brand for hardstyle worldwide
the whole night party, the indoor darkness
2010 we obtained tickets for us and our friends
28,000 tickets
sold out
in
20 minutes
beat that, Bieber
especially 2009, the year before I went there last, my 2nd time only after 2003, was awesome
on DVD, and thus Youtube
this sound is NOT what you hear in the Temple of Acoustic DOOM
occupied as main purpose by this year relegated by me hated club Vitesse
Qlimax 2003 anthem
Literal lyrics : The Prophecy Of The Harder Stylez - public announcement of hardstyle as "a more tolerant hard dance music" (other lyric, other song)...
De Haag's Deepack's - The Prophecy is of course a classic and kicks off Lando More Wins, as he prophesized his first win in 2024...
KISMET throughout, signature of musiversity and Eye AM Eye Radio and aSHIFT. the ultimate anti-cult !
and some great wisecore wisdoms to close off this day, that just started for most, dawn happened, no more lights needed...
aSHIFT. - take control over your OWN life
the more we are, the more we share
the more we share, the more we are
even though hardcore punk is one of the ancestors of hardcore "techno", just hardcore, it deserves its own place, thanks for the crew cleaning things up
indeed the lyrics define if it's wisecore within hardcore and wakestyle within hardstyle
I should get to some earliest wakestyle songs, really showing the awakening lyrics of the songs that typify the genre, or subgenre that I created with naming them. Great feedbacking, up to your farthest away freaks, so that means it's good.
not the start and the last year I lived in Europe, only 1 memorable hardstyle party with an even bigger eyed than normal esposa going crazy on Evil Activities and Endymion, two of my favo wisecore producers/DJs, but they are musicians primarily, they make new songs
the only hardstyle party
on the biggest dance event
in the whole freaking world
not in techno birthplace capital Berlin
no, in Amstelredamme
Different than anybody else, now in my ear, soon in mixes, lots of "new" wakestyle added to my archives...
no but this song, the title
the lyrics
and the producers
say it all
and the rhythm, the flow, that what makes hardstyle, hardstyle.
it is enticing, uplifting, exciting music, not boring, as techno is designed to be...
and whose probably most sampled song from which movie is in this Wakestyle beauty
does Judy "Over The Rainbow" Garland ring some bells @napoleon wilson ?
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby
[x2]
Hush, little baby don't you cry
It is just a lullaby
Dreams of rainbows make you stop
That I am here to wake you up
I am here to wake you up
Somewhere over the rainbow
I am here to wake you up [x2]
on an EP with
Wake Up! / Till U Believe It / Face The Enemy (Zany Rmx)
all mixed already in the first year of Eye AM Eye Radio Mollycast intro productions, I only learn today that they belong together, so very cool KISMET - that what was fated to be ... designed to meet each other
aSHIFT. - take control over your OWN life
the more we are, the more we share
the more we share, the more we are
