it has gone cheesy because it is now mostly produced for and by Dutch high school and college kids and everyone on that scene wants to try and earn a few euros, plus they are still competing for radio airplay with our urban genres from the UK.

the main radio station that plays hardstyle is run by the chap from endemol who made big brother and is about 50 years old. To illustrate this I just clicked on slam fm hardstyle stream and had to view an ad for stomach ache medicine :laugh_at:

More disappointingly its on auto playout of single tracks without a presenter, which is a shame given the kind of kit they have at Hilversum, you would think that they would try and grow some new talent better (although they are trying to recruit for the daytime shows on SLAM but these are just like any zoo format radio but in Dutch).