Back 2 Basic

First time I’m doing this, but I love this project so much that I have to be straight forward to some of the blog fans and regular visitors. I started this website as a small lame blog in 2008 and slowly the blog grew in size, quality and popularity. I tried to get content as fresh as possible and to re-invent the website all the time, new layouts were created, some more functionality and so on. I wanted the blog to grow out to be a community. But …

With all these plans and ideas I kind of lost time and track of why I started this website in the first place: share my love of music. I tried to get other people involved while I lost my own involvement and even interest in the website (hence the lots of ups and downs in activity). The latest website layout was an attempt to step away from the blog aspect and become more of a “magazine” style like website. But this kind of stranded because a lack of my time and inspiration.

Now, where am I going with all of this? I’m throwing aboard a lot of stuff I tried to do the last few months. We’re going back to a “normal” blog website and I will be posting my love for music, art, culture and so on … So back to basic, back to where we were a good year ago and eventually how it should be. So expect no-nonsense media, sometimes not the latest news and tracks but probably still only the best.

Hope this all makes sense to those who even took the time to read this. I also hope with the new state of mind of the website and myself I can manage to squeeze in more time (or better spend time) in more regular updates. Any comments, likes or dislikes on this … don’t hold back!

Red Bull Elektropedia Awards 2011

Last year there were the Red Bull Elektropedia Vanguard Awards who were given to some of the biggest Belgian dance icons, this year Red Bull Elektropedia along with media partner Studio Brussel introduce the Red Bull Elektropedia Awards: 13 awards in all kinds of different categories such as ‘Best DJ’, ‘Best Producer’, ‘Best Track’,'Best Remix’ and so on! A professional jury, including us (yeah I like to call myself a professional *COUGH*) nominated BELGIAN(!) djs / producers / bands for all the categories and now it’s up to you, the audience, the music enthusiast, the party people to get your vote on! The awards will be handed out to the winners on the 12th of November in Ghent just before I Love Techno 2011 starts (awesome afterparty or what?!)

Now, before I (finally) introduce the nominees I also would like to point out that GetHypedOnThis is selected for the ‘Best Media’ category which of course is a big honor for us! So if you like our blog and the work we put in it, give us some love!

All the nominees after the jump! Or skip straight to the voting: right here
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The “best” tracks of 2010!

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I finally catched up with all my sleep, my stomach feels like I can now go without food for 2 weeks, which means it’s time to get active again! I normally planned this post for the last week of 2010, but I completely lost track with my “schedule” so here it is, the best tracks of 2010 by your votes!

It’s the first time we did something like this, but it’s always cool to see some responds and feedback from weekly readers, we got 100+ people sharing their top 3 of 2010 which made me end up with 233 different tracks voted for! It’s clearly that our visitors have very variate tastes, which is very cool for us! Because our goal is anything but being mainstream, we just do our thing. Because the very variate votes, it took rather long too see a top 10 appear, but here are the results:

01. Duck Sauce – Barbara Streisand
02. Doctor P – Big Boss
03. Boys Noize – Yeah!

Unexpected top 3? Well yeah, actually it is. Barbara Streisand of course not being it still is huge in Belgium after all that airtime, but how bored you get of the track you still catch yourself singing along with the tune. Then Doctor P with his track Big Boss, dubstep was probably the biggest hype in 2010 and Doctor P did bring us one of the more commercial and therefore popular dubstep tracks. The biggest surprise for me is number 3, don’t get me wrong this track deserves this top 3 spot in my opinion but I had no clue this track was so huge for the rest of the “scene”

04 – 06. Doctor P – Sweet Shop
04 – 06. Mumbai Science – Ancova
04 – 06. Tiga – You Gonna Want Me (Hey Today! Remix)

Doctor P yet again, dubstep a hype in 2010? you bet. Than there is the revelation of 2010: Mumbai Science, they were popular as Project Cyborg in Belgium, but then they took over the world as Mumbai Science. Well deserved spot in the list! Tiga – YGWM (Hey Today! Remix) took ages to be released and everybody already heard it enough before it’s release on Turbo Recordings.

07 – 09. Bart B More – Brap
07 – 09. Erol Alkan & Boys Noize – Lemonade
07 – 09. Swedish House Mafia – One

Brap! When I first this track I seriously thought: “Why the hell is everybody liking this track? It’s crap!” but it simply grows on you and hits you right in the stomach when it’s being played at those big partys. Lemonade then again was love at first sight, two of my idols combining forces, no way this could have gone wrong. SHM – One, … most people love it some not really, I’m not the biggest fan and I prefer the Congorock remix far more (that’s why I “accidentally linked that one, woooops)!

10 – 12. Cassius – I Love You So
10 – 12. Gonzales – I Am Europe (Djedjotronic Remix)
10 – 12. Magnetic Man – Perfect Stranger

I Love You So is one of my favourite tracks of 2010, simple and effective, I’m only bumped out the App was only made for iphone device and not for android devices. Gonzales also one of my favourite artists of 2010, making me completely in love with the piano. One of the best albums of 2010 as well by the way, must have. And “last” but not least, no dubstep hype without Magnetic Man!

So this was your top tracks of 2010, this what you all expected? I think in generally it pretty much fits what was going on in 2010. I could go on and on about why some tracks did do well in 2010 and why some didn’t but this post is already going out of proportion and I need to get working on those first posts of 2011. Enjoy 2011 and I hope we can entertain you guys as good as we did in 2010! Big big love, the GetHypedOnThis team!

We are looking for the best tracks of 2010

That’s right, along with our personal 2010 lists we are looking for the favourite tracks of our readers. You can vote your favourite tracks right here: http://vote.gethypedonthis.com. I will gather all the results and make a top 10 list of it! If you don’t immediately have your top 3 in the back of your head, you can always go trough our archives of this year. All general dance/electronic genres are welcome, electro, house, techno, dnb, dubstep, … . Share this link with your friends trough facebook, twitter and so on.

TWO YEARS!

Hooray! It’s our birthday! That’s right, you favourite blog has already been spreading hypes onto the world wide web for two years now. We started as a lame, one out of the thousand, blogspot blog and grew to become one of the best known blogs in Belgium (and maybe even further!). We aren’t done expanding, along with Jack Herror and EJECT! we are constantly looking for ways to get some exclusive and fresh content going. What to expect in our year number three? More music, more mixtapes, more interviews, more videos, more hypes and we are already making plans for some cool GetHypedOnThis goodies as stickers and Tshirts. AND! if everything goes as planned the first GetHypedOnThis party could be a fact before the end of this year! Stay tuuuned

Last but not least I want to thank: Jack Herror and EJECT! for the input into the blog and keeping things going along with me! All the artists and labels that sent us all that fresh content. AOOA.TV for the hot and exclusive party videos! All the Belgian (and non-Belgian of course!) artists that have shown support as we supported them and last but not least all you fans and daily readers that appreciate our posts! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

REDNIK, Jack Herror and EJECT!

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NT89 – Onestopoli (Original mix)

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Mustard Pimp – kiwi (GTRONIC JustAnotherBassRmx)

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Valerna – Snakes (Clockwork Remix)

Happy Newyear

2009…
Wow, what a year it has been for GetHypedOnThis… . At the end of 2008 I was still managing this blog on my own, doing 10-15 posts a month. Then I realised I needed some help to get things going to the next gear. With the addition of EJECT! and Jack Herror to the team things got going again. We more then doubled our posts a month and already started thinking bigger with an own domain and webspace. So since begin october we went live with the new website, which I like to call “GetHypedOnThis part two”. The hype continued and our posts aswell as our viewers doubled (mainly thanks to the hypem.com bloglisting).

2010…?
So, what are the plans for 2010? Well simple, bigger and more! At the moment our website is just known as a “music-blog”, we now want to make the website more of a “community” website. We want to get more feedback and more input from viewers, artists, producers, dj’s, promoters etc … . At the moment there is nothing in development yet and there are only ideas, such as : forumboards, better partycalendar, more interviews, more articles, more reviews. Any other things you would like to see for a GHOT community? Let us know!

Community
In await of a brand new website (probably somewhere in the summer of 2010), we are always happy to see more fans joining our Facebook page or people following us on Twitter. It’s always nice to get some feedback from our readers!

Twitter!

Yes, that’s right! GetHypedOnThis is now also active on twitter.com! Stay updated and follow GetHypedOnThis on twitter.com!

And along this post I also want to shout out again that we are still looking for one or two active and enthusiastic posters. For more info check my previous post on this subject “GetHypedOnThis needs new posters”

It's time to get hyped again !

That’s right, we had a nice pause, some time to chill out and relax. Starting from today we are back for more new hyped up music. Knowing I haven’t been following the latest music, I’ll probably post some older stuff aswell. I hope we can get some of our almost daily viewers back and some new aswell ofcourse. Enjoy your stay.