Party Vibe

I knew it was from some sort of hardstyle track and wasn’t directly written my itsamagicting as the lyrics are clearly written by a native Dutch speaker – as I’m learning Dutch I can see the challenges in swapping between both languages and how this leads to subtle differences, for instance I tend to make my sentences in NL too long as English is less “abrupt” than many other languages of Northern Europe.

ironically if you look at Showtek’s website they are playing at Zouk in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which has a very strict door policy and curfew (less strict than it was before to be fair) They probably will let them perform the F-track, but that won’t turn KL into Rotterdam. at least they don’t hang pillheads any more in MY (or they would never be allowing them to perform there).

yes, hardstyle is very popular in Asia (as is trance) and there are more events in some Asian nations than in Europe! however this is more because their economies have grown and societies have developed they can experiment with greater freedom/tolerance (the paranoia about drugs/western culture was from the days these nations weren’t as developed and feared being recolonised by stealth, with drugs/music used as a distraction tactic).

gedoogbeleid (Dutch drugs tolerance) was originally used as a tactic to keep their empire in what is now Indonesia, but perhaps things have been monitored and adapted. I suspect another reason why these nations have become more tolerant is also because their strong social/family values mean even if youths take drugs, they do not neglect other social responsibilities (similar to North European culture) and their drug use remains “under the radar”.

but sadly we do not get many posts from SE Asia about the party scene, this is a great shame as I know Party Vibe is not blocked in these countries as people from that part of the world aren’t shy to try and spam the forums.. :crazy:

@The Psyentist 508895 wrote:

I guess another reason why there are fewer white British/American (where I believe hardstyle has recently caught on) vids of the dance and music is dancing is much less predominant in our culture. We tend to just jump up and down, fist pump and gurn lol

this is recent though. People in England danced loads in the 90s old skool scene. And until recently in Asia, dancing was once viewed as “for women and ladyboys” or even sinful (depending on religion). But think where the precursor chemicals to the good pills and the best chemists come from nowadays (both in Asia and Europe). 😉