Shots Fired!!! Psy Trance DJ Astrix says “Hardstyle is a very easy genre to produce”

A few days ago, Insomniac, the organizers behind massive festivals like EDC – Electric Daisy Carnival and Escape Psycho Circus, discussed about Psytrance and Hardstyle genres with one of the leading trance producers, DJ Astrix.

When he was asked why has hardstyle flopped in the USA, Astrix made the following statement:

“Hardstyle is a very ‘easy’ genre to produce, and I think there were a lot of low-quality productions that flooded the market, and people just lost interest.”

“Psytrance is more complex and deeper by nature. As for the future, we’re talking about art—who can really say what the future holds? But psytrance has more depth and offers a lot more for the listeners and dancers to discover. It’s a real culture.” he added.

Hardwell‘s protege Atmozfears, a hardstyle artist from Holland, immediately took to Twitter to call out Astrix.

And when Dj Astrix saw how many angry hardstyle fans has on his plate, he took it to his official Facebook fan page to publicly explain what was said during that interview.

” Music is not a contest !!!
Seems that there are some people who for their own interests (getting likes on social media…) want to start a “war” between psytrance and hardstyle (as if genre names mean anything…) with me in the middle. So, I will clarify. I’m in war with no one. Especially not when it comes to art. When I was asked in an interview by Insomniac why has hardstyle flopped in the US and said that hardstyle was an “easy” genre to make and that the market got flooded with low quality productions, I meant that the genre got formulated when it became so popular and started seeing a flood of low quality cut and paste preset productions that got people fed up with it. That’s what I thought happened and it’s just one person’s opinion. I didn’t mean that there aren’t real artists making good hard style music, and that the leaders and innovators of the style don’t have good production. I’m on my way to Australia to play an amazing festival in the outback, so no Internet and I can’t indulge you in online duels, and anyway I don’t spend my life in online “wars”. So I will finalize this and say that if you know a little about me, you know that I can only respect anyone who makes their music from their heart. I meant no disrespect to anyone. Enjoy the music that touches your heart!”