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.

1 Current status
2 Notable DJ's and artists
3 Record labels
4 See also
5 External links

[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, Estonia, Denmark, Australia, South Africa and the UK.

[edit] Notable DJ's and artists

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)
Headhunterz (Netherlands)
Isaac (Netherlands)
Luna (Netherlands)
Luca Antolini (Italy)
Mark EG (United Kingdom)
Melanie di Tria (Germany)
Mic-E (Slovenia)
Pavo (Netherlands)
Pila (Netherlands)
The Prophet (Netherlands)
Psylent Pulse (United States)
Scot Project (Germany
Southstylerz
Tatanka (Italy)
The Hard'Onez (United States)
Technoboy (Italy)
Warpbrothers (Germany)
Zatox (Italy)

[edit] Record labels

Activa
Blutonium
BLQ Records
Danamite
Dance Pollution
Fusion Records
Future Sound Corporation
Green Force
HellHouse Recordings
ID&T
Nukleuz
Scantraxx
Seismic Records
Straight On Recordings
Sys-X
Titanic Records
Wicked Records

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Q-Dance Main homepage for hardstyle events in The Netherlands. Also a radio where you can listen to hardstyle/dance etc. 24/7!
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)

Trance
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
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