what the **** is hardstyle??

**Jimfish** · 12-06-2003, 04:53 PM

please, what is this?

**Hakka.** · 12-06-2003, 05:09 PM

Your best bet is reading what tracks people posted below as hardstyle.

**djstride** · 12-06-2003, 05:12 PM

i class it as ppl passing off gabber to trance crowds :)

**Elle** · 12-06-2003, 08:22 PM

someone wrote ages ago its like hard trance without the trance, which is kinda the best way i can think to describe it!!

**Carl** · 12-06-2003, 09:08 PM

mmmmmmm melodys :D

**Jimfish** · 13-06-2003, 07:53 AM

so its like hardcore?

**Addict** · 13-06-2003, 08:38 AM

It's Italian Hard House.

Same speed as trance, different formula, almost always seems to be a 4 beat break before the tune kicks in. I think I remember hardcore being slightly faster than Hardstyle though.

Most of it sounds too samey for me, I prefer the more technoey side to it coz this goes better at the end of a hard trance set rather than breaking into hoovers and horns.

**Voorheez** · 13-06-2003, 09:04 AM

Thanks for quoting me Elle

:D

Hardstyle is splitting into it's own little subgenres now, so none of the above answers are wrong, even though they are varied in description.

Stuff by Technoboy is what I would class as pure hardstyle. If you want to hear a track that is 100% hardstyle, go find Tuneboy - Housensation on Titanic records.

You also have the hard house flavoured hardstyle which Trance Addict mentioned, mostly dutch tracks. Good examples of this are tracks by Dj Isaac or stuff on Scantraxx or Seismic.

Then we have the techno influenced hardstyle being produced by the Italians, mostly on 59 records or Italian Masters of Hardstyle labels. Uncompromisingly hard, and sounding very industrial.

This is the stuff that also sounds almost like slowed down gabber, as Stride very truly mentioned. Most tracks by Lorenzo De Preti fit this description.

**Voorheez** · 13-06-2003, 09:06 AM

P.S - Mark, please don't go putting all of these into a seperate forum... :lol:

**Addict** · 13-06-2003, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by Voorheez

Thanks for quoting me Elle

:D

I said that you theif! That's copyright!!!

**DJ Corbzy** · 13-06-2003, 01:20 PM

Hardstyle for me is just slowed down techno, with a distorted kick drum and loads of stupid, annoying noises, hoovers and all.

**Addict** · 13-06-2003, 01:29 PM

Slowed down techno? Some of it's faster than techno.

**DJ Corbzy** · 13-06-2003, 01:33 PM

Well, it might be faster, but techno sounds faster because it has more percussion. But anywhos Hardstyle is gash.... :P :lol:

**djstride** · 13-06-2003, 01:39 PM

hardstyle is better than you :)

**Addict** · 13-06-2003, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by Voorheez

P.S - Mark, please don't go putting all of these into a seperate forum... :lol:

I think it needs to be done! he he

**DJ Corbzy** · 13-06-2003, 01:42 PM

:cry:

**Addict** · 13-06-2003, 02:05 PM

Hardstyle doesn't sound anything like techno to me, its closer to hard house in my opinion.

**djstride** · 13-06-2003, 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by trance-addict

Hardstyle doesn't sound anything like techno to me, its closer to hard house in my opinion.

listening to the wrong hardstyle then :)

**Addict** · 13-06-2003, 03:44 PM

Yeah I did generalise there didn't I. It's not all like that. I love Lorenzo de Preti's stuff, that's proper techno trance.

**Voorheez** · 13-06-2003, 08:09 PM

It's hardstyle

And that's my quote buddy :!:

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