Originally posted by Hydarnes
I think there's a "hardstyle" for all the subgenres: Trance, Dance, Techno, Goa, etc.

I believe this is wrong. Hardstyle is an entirely seperate genre, closely related to hard-trance. I've never heard of 'Goa hardstyle' or 'House Hardstyle.'

Originally posted by Hydarnes
It is defined by excessively frequent and more pronounced percussion and thumps. The style lacks melody, beauty and is almost exclusively rhythm and a few background synth grooves. Sometimes it has some talking and/or chanting.

Chanting? LOL.
Hardstyle is basically the middle-ground between trance and gabber. It tends to use the hard-trance style bass and percussion (as opposed to the bouncier hardcore bass) and stays around the 145-160 bpm. Hardstyle tends to be very hard, dark and pounding, and almost always
has a large breakdown in the middle, similar to trance. This breakdown can, and often is, melodic, but not in the over the top way of epic trance. Hardstyle also uses lots of hoovers and acid samples.

As opposed to what Hydarnes said, hardstyle is often very beautiful. It's the transition from something brutally hard, to a beautiful melody that makes hardstyle so amazing. There's nothing like hearing an elegant strings breakdown followed immediately by a hard as concrete snare and a bass line from satan himself :devil

Originally posted by Hydarnes
I personally don't like it, it's too nerve-racking. You want something atmospheric and beautiful.

The guy wants a definition - not an opinion. Who are you to say that music needs to be atmospheric? Perhaps he despises that music.
All i'm saying is this is how ppl become jaded - why not let him formulate his own opinion of the genre after he's heard it and understands what it is? I'm not trying to be an asshole, i just dont like seeing people trying to impose their own musical tastes on others.


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