Hardstyle

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What is Hardstyle?


Hardstyle is an electronic dance music (aka EDM) genre mixing influences from hardtechno, hard house, hard trance, hardcore and rave music. The average tempo is between 140 and 160 bpm (4/4).
The hardstyle sound typically consists of a hard sounding kick, intense reverse basslines, and detuned and distorted sounds. It bears some similarities to hard trance. Many hardcore artists produce hardstyle tracks as well. Many modern Hardstyle tracks are written in tuplet.




History of hardstyle:




Hardstyle originated from hard trance, gabber, oldschool hardcore, acid house and influences from UK hard house. Hardstyle originated from the Netherlands, where the first hardstyle events started near the end of 1999 and the beginning of 2000. Hardstyle is also produced in Italy, Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Hardstyle takes influences from similar EDM genres, such as Hard House, Hard Trance and Gabber. There are many types of Hardstyle scenes in the world, the main popular form of hardstyle being Dutch Hardstyle, and its newer term, 'Nustyle'. Dutch Hardstyle is a fusion of dutch hardcore with Hardstyle, whereas, 'Nustyle' is a more melodic form of Dutch Hardstyle where the kick is pitched to create a melodic bassline that usually plays in pitch with some supersaw or electro house melody. Hardstyle usually ranges from 140-160bpm, with early Hardstyle at 140bpm and 'Nustyle' ranging up to 150bpm. Because of the speed of Hardstyle, it helps to separate the genre from other, faster genres such as hardcore techno. One of the iconic features of Hardstyle that distinguishes it from other genres is the use of "reverse bass", which can be heard on the offbeat after the kick. In various 'Nustyle' tracks, the reverse bass can be pitched accordingly to make the track more melodic.
Hardstyle often has melodies in triplet form, which gives the genre a pulsating rhythm, whereas other genres such as Jumpstyle have basic melodic structures to them.
A recent subgenre of Hardstyle, known as dubstyle, incorporates a fusion of hardstyle melodies, with dubstep style beats, (a hardstyle kick set to a 2-step and/or breakbeat rhythm).
Even more recently Dutch Hardstyle has split to create a new subgenre; Rawstyle. It takes Dutch Hardcore influenced Hardstyle and adds more oldschool and hardcore features and typically features more distortion on the "Kick".




What to Dance on Hardstyle Music?




There are several notable dances performed to hardstyle. The most popular dance performed to it is shuffling. Shuffling is believed to have had originated in Melbourne, Australia; as it is commonly known as the "Melbourne Shuffle", having now caught on in a localized manner around the world. It has now become popular throughout Malaysia, Europe and in the United Kingdom and other countries where shuffling is now an urban subculture. In the Dutch hardstyle scene the most popular dances are jumpstyle and hardjump.




Events? We in Holland are proud to host the biggest events of them all!




XQlusive
[video=youtube;brjvUBiyC8E]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=brjvUBiyC8E[/video]


Sensation Black
[video=youtube;7DOA1jlYbac]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DOA1jlYbac[/video]


Defqon 1
[video=youtube;naZRtXbRi8E]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=naZRtXbRi8E[/video]


Defqon 1 Australia
[video=youtube;lZnzLCqxW-M]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZnzLCqxW-M[/video]


Qlimax
[video=youtube;JiHk4lMq0n8]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiHk4lMq0n8[/video]


Decibel
[video=youtube;XiA9y2I_HbE]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiA9y2I_HbE[/video]

Hardbass
[video=youtube;AzAooaSgv6c]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzAooaSgv6c[/video]


Qontinent
[video=youtube;TJZPOJPJ71I]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJZPOJPJ71I&feature=fvst[/video]


Thrilogy
[video=youtube;Mgt-Q5BNB8g]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgt-Q5BNB8g[/video]


Mystery Land
[video=youtube;RoztDAv8Cmc]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoztDAv8Cmc[/video]


Reverze
[video=youtube;nQnJRmd7S08]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQnJRmd7S08&feature=fvst[/video]




The most Famous Artists in the scene:


D-Block & S-te-Fan
DBSTF - The Home of D-Block and S-te-Fan


Headhunterz
Headhunterz


Showtek
Showtek - Assumption is the mother of all **** ups!


Zany
DJ Zany - DJ / Producer Official Website


Deepack
Deepack - DJs & Producers - Official Website


Prophet
The Prophet


Noisecontrollers
Noisecontrollers - DJ's / Producers / Live Act - Don't Expect Us To Be QUIET!


And many more, but that list will be to long!




Why i like this Music?


The Festivals are awesome. The People u meed are crazy and from all over ther world. Ther music is heavy for some people, but soft for so many others.
Thrue alot of people ascociate this music with drugs in our country, and im not gonna deny alot of people(including myself) have used/or use drugs on festivals.


But in all the times ive been to those, i have only seen 1 big fight. For such music, with all the different people that come and including drugs. Thats not bad at all.


Feel free to discuss this count of music. What u dont like about it. What u do like about it if u like it. Why u hate it, Why u like it.
I can tell u, its my number one preffered music style and that will never change.


//dicuss.


Sources:

Wikipedia
Youtube
My own opinion

 

BUmp for this. I know im not the only one who likes this kind of music. Ive seen others around wich do!

 

Emo music even tho i live in netherlands xD

 

maybe this is the only music which i "dis"like

 

If thats your opinion xD

 

i love hs/hc bro i hope u know about Fear.fm ^^
let's start spam
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some Hardcore
[video=youtube;80tbWxUkExM]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=80tbWxUkExM[/video]

 

Maybe you can make Thread about Hardcore too

 

Yeah i listen to Hardcore ^.^

 

so i think you will like this ^^
[video=youtube;v59wBg2O-xo]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=v59wBg2O-xo[/video]
[video=youtube;FdRD1Qawl8U]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdRD1Qawl8U[/video]
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I love you bro finaly someone posted this style of music :3 (HS/HC)

 

Not realy a hardcore fan myself, but some songs are nice indeed

and this one tips my favourite for now:

[video=youtube;hCUARnP48OY]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCUARnP48OY[/video]

 

[video=youtube;7Zqk5bscvtw]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zqk5bscvtw&feature=related[/video]
Bad Quality
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[video=youtube;OU_dbOI5Jnw]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU_dbOI5Jnw[/video]

 

bump for this thread
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[video=youtube;2DKzQfYaEr8]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DKzQfYaEr8[/video]

[video=youtube;pNWY_lRLZv8]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNWY_lRLZv8[/video]

 

Bump this thread with a doctor!

[video=youtube;V-dFbNwNkxY]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-dFbNwNkxY[/video]

10 sept. we will be here:

[video=youtube;I8t3JagkVew]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8t3JagkVew[/video]