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What ishardstyle?

On the hardcore line between frenchcore and flashcore. Grew out of hard trance (trance line) and hard house (house line).

EMERGED 1999

HARDSTYLE

Hardstyle runs at about 150 BPM, between house and hardcore, on a hard, distorted kick that in its early years came with an off-beat reverse bass.[1][2] Dutch producers made the first tracks around 1999 for dancers who liked hard sounds but not hardcore's speed, as gabber DJs slowed to about 150 BPM; Italy was the other early centre.[1][3][2] Q-dance's Qlubtempo nights and then Qlimax and Defqon.1 built it into the Netherlands' biggest hard dance scene.[1][2]

A packed indoor arena lit in red at Qlimax 2017, with lit canopies and a glowing sphere hanging over the crowd.
A packed indoor arena lit in red at Qlimax 2017, with lit canopies and a glowing sphere hanging over the crowd.. Picture: Vezoy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

FIVE TO START WITH

  1. 1The FutureTechnoboy2000
  2. 2ControllerShowtek2001
  3. 3Puta MadreShowtek2006
  4. 4Words From the GangDJ Coone2007
  5. 5Next Dimensional World (Qlimax 2008 Anthem)Technoboy2008

EXITS

classic hardstyle

SOURCES

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