Swap Fairylights for Strobe Lights with Rick Holden’s Latest Mix, Hardstyle Christmas

Manchester producer Rick Holden wished his followers a very Hardstyle Christmas with a high-octane seasonal riot that tears away from polite festive playlists. Across this hardstyle mash-up of tongue-in-cheek house and techno, he lines up kicks and synths to get your heart thudding in sync with explosively energetic beats. Forget archetypal Christmas singles; who genuinely needs another saccharine sleigh bell-heavy track that reeks of desperation to claw its way to Christmas number one? Hardstyle Christmas exemplifies Holden’s ethos as a producer who lives, breathes and bleeds hardstyle, yet still has time for a cheeky wink at the sillier side of the season. If you are the kind of raver who would happily switch fairylights for strobe lights and the King’s speech for filthy bursts of bass, Hardstyle Christmas digs deep under the skin, especially when the drops tumble in like a rave siren call for the misfits who treat Boxing Day as recovery day. It is the sound of tinsel getting ripped down in favour of laser beams and fog machines. Holden has roots in Droylsden on the Manchester map, where he first started sketching out tunes on home computers in the early 90s before graduating to a Roland XP50 […] The post Swap Fairylights for Strobe Lights with Rick Holden’s Latest Mix, Hardstyle Christmas appeared first on A&R Factory.

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Manchester producer Rick Holden wished his followers a very Hardstyle Christmas with a high-octane seasonal riot that tears away from polite festive playlists. Across this hardstyle mash-up of tongue-in-cheek house and techno, he lines up kicks and synths to get your heart thudding in sync with explosively energetic beats. Forget archetypal Christmas singles; who genuinely needs another saccharine sleigh bell-heavy track that reeks of desperation to claw its way to Christmas number one? Hardstyle Christmas exemplifies Holden’s ethos as a producer who lives, breathes and bleeds hardstyle, yet still has time for a cheeky wink at the sillier side of the season. If you are the kind of raver who would happily switch fairylights for strobe lights and the King’s speech for filthy bursts of bass, Hardstyle Christmas digs deep under the skin, especially when the drops tumble in like a rave siren call for the misfits who treat Boxing Day as recovery day. It is the sound of tinsel getting ripped down in favour of laser beams and fog machines. Holden has roots in Droylsden on the Manchester map, where he first started sketching out tunes on home computers in the early 90s before graduating to a Roland XP50 […]

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