First of all: Merry Christmas! I got a nice surprise for you all ;)

Here we are at the end of 2020. I thought people could use some distraction, so I'm uploading not 1, but 2 new showcases! I've put some serious effort in them, so I hope it will be appreciated!

2004 marks the year that I went to my first DefQon (at Almere strand; what an amazing location!) and Qlimax (underaged that is. I was 17 y.o. haha). These amazing parties left a deep impression on me and started a streak of party going!

These showcases are the missing pieces in my SAIFAM 'speciale' series. They cover the golden year of hardstyle: 2004! It even took me 2 volumes to do it justice ;)

TRACKLIST:
01- Hardstyle Guru - Rock It Now!
02- Citizen - Face 2 Face (Drah x Rewop Mix)
03- Timescape - Superstyle
04- Q-Zar - Power Zone (Super Mix)
05- Tuneboy - Sexbusters (Technoboy Remix)
06- Dark Oscillators - Hardstyle Hell (Infernal Mix)
07- Traum - Synthetic Shit (Golden Mix)
08- Timescape - Gozer (Audioholik's Edit of Technoboy Rude Mix)
09- Speedwave - Junior (First Switch Mix)
10- Hunter - Beauty And The Beat (Technoboy Remix)
11- Nitro - Rouge (Audioholik's Short Cut)
12- Pacific Link - Time For New Energy
13- Ricky T - Generation T (Hardstyle Mix - Short Cut)
14- Ruff - Da Beat (Sharp Mix)
15- Psy Man - Push The Hardcore Groove (Rap Mix - Short Cut)
16- Gius - Mega What (Stardust Remix)
17- TNT - Freakuency (Technoboy & Tuneboy Mix)
18- Vector Two - Slayer (Mega Mix)
19- Gius - Definition Of A Track

Enjoy!

P.S. I also made a playlist of all my SAIFAM 'speciale's. So if you need approx. 10 hours of (early-) italian hardstyle in your life, then please go check it out! 

LINK: https://soundcloud.com/audioholik-nl/sets/saifam-speciale-technoboy

SAIFAM Speciale - Edizione 2004 Vol.1 (24.12.2020)

EARLY HARDSTYLE fanatic! 

If you want to book me or want me to do a guest mix or whatever, DM me please!

MY definitions:
<2000-2006 = EARLY hardstyle
2006-2011 = CLASSIC hardstyle

I'm building an archive of all my favorite tracks. Especially honoring and showcasing the forgotten gems produced by my favorite artists!

BIO:
I started listening to hard dance music in 1999, at the age of 12, the year I went to high school. My taste was pretty random in those early days. But soon the Bitte Ein Beat series would change all that. After purchasing vol.2 and listening it over and over, I knew I had found a new passion in life!

Back then, the term hardstyle wasn't even conceived. We called it hardhouse at first, but that actually never felt right. Luckily someone, somewhere, came up with the name for this new sound: HARDSTYLE! And it felt right immediately.

SIDE NOTE:
I love 'slow' mixing. Let the tracks breath for a bit instead of mixing 30 in 1 hour! Just my opinion ;)