Hardstyle

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Hardstyle
Stylistic origins Hard trance, Gabber, UK hard house, Jumpstyle
Cultural origins The Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Switzerland
Typical instruments software synthesizers, Sequencer, Sampler, Audio filter,Distortion,
Regional scenes
The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Japan, United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Malaysia, Spain

Hardstyle is an electronic dance music (EDM) genre mixing influences from trance, hardcore and rave music. The average tempo is between 140 and 160 bpm (beats per minute), though this may vary considerably from one hardstyle DJ to another.

The hardstyle sound typically consists of various musical elements: a "heavy" sounding kick, intense reverse basslines, and "adrenaline-rushing" melodies which often take place at the middle of the song. It bears some similarities to hard trance, but still upholds a unique sound. Many hardcore artists produce hardstyle tracks as well.

Hardstyle is mainly produced in the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Malaysia and Australia.

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[edit] History

Hardstyle originated from hard trance, gabber and rave music with influences from UK hard house and jumpstyle. The place of origin is believed to be the Netherlands,[citation needed] where the first hardstyle events started near the end of 1999 and the beginning of 2000. Persons accredited in the development of the style is Dov J. Elkabas, Raoul Van Grinsven, Wouter and Sjoerd Janssen and Dana van Dreven.[citation needed]

In 2007 the style started becoming popular in several countries in the world, including: Belgium, Poland, Estonia, Denmark, Australia, South Africa and United Kingdom. However, in the Netherlands, United States, Spain, Canada,Malaysia and Germany trance was and is still more popular.

The English sound was very popular in the Netherlands for a short time,[when?] but it soon appeared that the Dutch public preferred a harder bassline. Artists like Dana, and Pavo & The Prophet combined the English sound with new productions. This sound also gained some popularity in Germany, where it was picked up by the German label Tracid Traxxx (who defined their own sound as a combination of trance and acid), and later also by Blutonium Records and Resident E Recordings.

Afterwards,[when?] hardstyle productions briefly became popular in Italy, and later in Germany. This led to the emergenece of new hardstyle which eventually arrived at and became popular in the Netherlands.[citation needed] Q-Dance organised a monthly event in the (known today as the North Sea Venue) under the name Qlubtempo, an event which could be called the melting pot of the Hardstyle. Nowadays hardstyle events are very common in Dutch clubs. Artists who had never performed in the Netherlands before were flown over to bring there the new sound. Artists such as Technoboy, Super Marco May, and Gary D acquired a large reputation in the Netherlands this way.

Examples of renowned hardstyle tracks include Builder's "Hardbeat Market" and The Prophet's "Hardstyle Baby".

[edit] Nu-style

Nu-style is very popular subgenre of hardstyle. Nu-Style kick is usually separated to two parts, punch and bass. These are played at the same time. Bass is pitched with the melody, but the punch part stays in same frequency. There is a very destinct template that nu-style follows, Intro-Verse-Breakdown-Melody-Verse-Outro, While not every Nu-style song follows this template, it seems to shine through.

Nu-Style is usually criticized because many artists are using the same punch sample for kicks, which is called to hardkick 10.


Examples of Nu-style

Headhunterz - The Power Of The Mind Noisecontrollers - Crump

[edit] Notable Hardstyle related events

[edit] Notable Hardstyle artists

[edit] Notable Hardstyle labels

[edit] Online Radio Stations

  • Fear.FM
  • Real Hardstyle Radio
  • Hard.FM
  • DI.FM
  • Q-Dance Radio
  • HardBase.FM
  • Cliffraves www.djcliffraves.jump.to

[edit] Communities

[edit] References

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