Hardstyle
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Hardstyle, sometimes referred to as hardbass, is a sub-genre of trance music that is closely related to nu style gabber and hard trance. Its sound is usually characterized by a four to the floor kick beat and an off-beat gabber style bass line, trance like synth stabs and sweeps and miscellaneous samples. Tracks often feature excessive reverb and/or other effects, breakdowns and occasionally small breakbeat sections. The average tempo is between 140 and 150 bpm, around 30 slower than nu style gabber. Many hardcore artists produce hardstyle songs, which sound very similar but are more accessible. Hardstyle is generally played along side Nu-NRG and gabber in the UK and aside hard trance or hardcore in the rest of Europe.
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[edit] Current status
Hardstyle is mainly produced by artists from The Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland and Germany, yet other producers from around the world are starting to pick up the sound.
Currently, the scene is booming in various countries around the world besides these founding countries. Notable scenes worth mentioning include those in the United States, Israel, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Denmark, Australia, South Africa and the UK.
[edit] Notable DJ's and artists
- Fredrik Lundström
- Digital Mizchief
- Dj Fadeliss
- DjFerren
- A-lusion (Netherlands)
- Abyss (Netherlands)
- Activator (Italy)
- Alpha² (Netherlands)
- Arne L 2 (Germany)
- Brennan Heart (Netherlands)
- Cally & Juice (United Kingdom)
- Daniele Mondello (Italy)
- Dana (Netherlands)
- Donkey Rollers (Netherlands)
- Fellow DJ (WALES)
- Headhunterz (Netherlands)
- Isaac (Netherlands)
- Luna (Netherlands)
- Luca Antolini (Italy)
- Mark EG (United Kingdom)
- Melanie di Tria (Germany)
- Nutty T (United Kingdom)
- Mic-E (Slovenia)
- Pavo (Netherlands)
- Pila (Netherlands)
- The Prophet (Netherlands)
- Psylent Pulse (United States)
- Scot Project (Germany)
- Southstylerz (Netherlands)
- Tatanka (Italy)
- The Hard'Onez (United States)
- Technoboy (Italy)
- Warpbrothers (Germany)
- Yoji Biomehanika (Japan)
- Zatox (Italy)
[edit] Record labels
- Activa
- Blutonium
- BLQ Records
- Danamite
- Dance Pollution
- Fusion Records
- Future Sound Corporation
- Green Force
- HellHouse Recordings
- ID&T
- Nukleuz
- Nutty Trance
- Scantraxx
- Seismic Records
- Straight On Recordings
- Sys-X
- Titanic Records
- Wicked Records
- The Freddyhackers xNACKA
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Q-Dance *Global HardStyle (Discussion about this music genre)
- Screamer Hardstyle
- Norwegian hardstyle community
- Estonian hardstyle community
- Slovenian hardstyle community
- German hardstyle community
- HARD.fm (Webradio with live artists performing)
- [http://www.hardstyleuk.co.uk
| Trance |
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| Acid - Goa - Hard - Hardcore - Hardstyle - Progressive - Psychedelic - Uplifting - Vocal |
| Other electronic music genres |
| Ambient | Breakbeat | Dance | Drum and bass | Electronica | Electronic art music | Hard dance | Hardcore | House | Industrial | Synthpop | Techno | Trance |
| Hard dance |
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| Freeform hardcore - Jumpstyle - Hard house - Hard trance - Hard-NRG - Hardstyle - Nu-NRG |
| Other electronic music genres |
| Ambient | Breakbeat | Dance | Drum and bass | Electronica | Electronic art music | Hard dance | Hardcore | House | Industrial | Synthpop | Techno | Trance |
