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Hardstyle is an electronic dance music (aka EDM) genre mixing influences from hardtechno, hard trance,hardcore and rave music. The average tempo is between 140 and 160 bpm (4/4).

The hardstyle sound typically consists of a hard sounding kick (consisting of a Bass, a Punch and in Nu Hardstyle a Tok), intense reverse basslines, and detuned and distorted sounds. It bears some similarities to hard trance. Many hardcore artists produce hardstyle tracks as well. Many Nu Hardstyle tracks are written in the 3/4 rhythm triplets, while older hardstyle tracks and also some Nu Hardstyle tracks are written in 4/4 rhythm.

History
Hardstyle originated from hard trance, gabber, oldskool hardcore, acid techno and influences from UK hard house. Hardstyle originated from Germany and the Netherlands, where the first hardstyle events started near the end of 1999 and the beginning of 2000. Hardstyle is also produced in Australia and theUnited Kingdom. 

Hardstyle takes influences from similar EDM genres, such as jumpstyle, hard trance and gabber. There are many types of Hardstyle scenes in the world, the main popular form of hardstyle being dutch Hardstyle, and its subgenre, labeled 'Nustyle'. Dutch Hardstyle is a fusion of dutch hardcore with Hardstyle, whereas, Nustyle is a more melodic form of Dutch Hardstyle where the kick is pitched to create a melodic bassline that usually plays in pitch with some supersaw or electro house melody. Hardstyle usually ranges from 140-160bpm, with early Hardstyle at 140bpm and Nustyle ranging up to 150bpm. Because of the speed of Hardstyle, it helps to separate the genre from other, faster genres such ashardcore techno. One of the iconic features of Hardstyle that distinguishes it from other genres is the use of "reverse bass", which can be heard on the offbeat after the kick. In various 'Nustyle' tracks, the reverse bass can be pitched accordingly to make the track more melodic.

Hardstyle often has melodies in triplet form, which gives the genre a pulsating rhythm, whereas other genres such as Jumpstyle have basic melodic structures to them.

A recent subgenre of Hardstyle, known as dubstyle, incorporates a fusion of hardstyle melodies, withdubstep style beats, (a hardstyle kick set to a 2-step and/or breakbeat rhythm).

Even more recently Dutch Hardstyle has split to create a new subgenre; Rawstyle. It takes Dutch Hardcore influenced Hardstyle and adds more oldschool and hardcore features and typically features more distortion on the "Kick".

Dance

There are several notable dances performed to hardstyle. The most popular dances performed to it are shuffling, jumpstyle, tecktonik, and hakken in the various hardstyle scenes. Shuffling is believed to have had originated in Melbourne, Australia; as it is commonly known as the "Melbourne Shuffle", having now caught on in a localized manner around the world. It has now become popular throughout Europe and in the United Kingdom and other countries where shuffling is now an urban subculture.

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