This is probably the most informative and most accurate representation of the evolution and subgenres of Hardstyle on UA-cam. There are a lot of videos about this topic which spread a lot of misinformation but your video is an example of how it is done right. Although I would disagree on minor points at early hardstyle (I think everyone has their own assumptions there :')) it shows every important step in the evolution of Hardstyle. Great video!
Amazing video, this 20 minutes really flew by and even a noob like me understood everything perfectly; such a shame you didn't made any new videos after this one, hoping for a comeback!
This is by far the best hardstyle history video I've seen. I slipped into this scene like 12 years ago and it is so interesting to experience this evolution of styles live. And thanks, yes I feel old when I hear that Seven by E-Force is now nearly 8 years old. I remember that I heard it being played at a festival and could not wait for its release. This is still the epitome of raw.
Ya gotta agree on Seven. That track still smashes. The modern rawstyle 5 kicks per track with like 50 kick rolls - I can't ever appreciate it fully cause its so ADHD. Seven I could just melt into the kick. Nowadays I hear a kick/screech I like and it lasts literally for 8 kicks then onto the next, its a tease, I don't feel satisfied or fully enjoy it.
SOOOO good! I'm new to Hardstyle but I'm a genre loving nerd (UK are genre nerds too) - I heard Gabba in 1995 or 1996 and it was like being shot in the face by the frantic industrialness of the pace and sound. It was at a a club in London called Eurobeat3000. Super hard but it was just DJ's playing tunes at 300 bpm. Now its evolved into this its amazing. Love Hakken too.
3:24 LMFAO!!!! Dude! Those names are all the people I listen too!!! I'm from America, and got into Techno back in 2001. By 2006 I had the PC and Limewire. Once i was downloading all the music in the world I began to find my personal Favorite. It's Hardstyle. So I have a lot of DJ Luna, Prophet, DJ Pavo, DJ Blutonium Boy, Bass & Ram, Dark Oscillators, DJ Neo DJ Zany and some other names I can remember right now. I was able to keep all my music from back in the day.
looking like this has randomly been pushed into a lot of peoples recommendations in the last few days?! was shattered to realise it was a year old upload with no part 2 😓
back in 2006 2007 it was an awesome era. djs like headhunterz dj zany etc were not so famous back then and came very regularly in small club near me. it was awesome
Just discovered Dubstyle from Defqon.1 2011 CD.. it's not bad, I kinda like it.. sue me! btw, i want to see more, u'r the first person to be so accurate on the Hardstyle history, every people always says that Hardstyle is only dutch, and forget about our (italians) work, TNT started in 2002, the "term" Hardstyle was officially born in 2003, NO ONE EVER mentioned our beloved Zenith and his "I'm your deejay", or SAIFAM except u.. so u got my support and all of my respect! keep it up! P.S maybe soon you can talk about aliases in the Hardstyle history, like Pavelow (Dubstyle alias of Bas Oskam, Noisecontrollers), 2 Best Enemies (Technoboy and maybe Tuneboy alias), Williams Syndrome (Bas Oskam), etc..
id say hardstyle is half italian half dutch in the origins but then became sort of 50% dutch, 30% italian and like 20% australian actually (the ones not from those are few, theres a bit of belgians but its still a small proportion)
Started to listen on hardstyle in 2015, needed something new from dubstep. Now I’m lost in uptempo hardcore, and I wonder if I ever can like ordinary pop music again.
This video was really great to get an overview, I would love if you make a video for hardcore too. I appreciate your style of making such a video pretty much, its so much fun and also informative at the same time
I remember watching hard bass festival videoes for a couple days when I was 12 years old, I loved it then, and then didn't listen to it anymore. and didn't rediscover the genre again before I was 20. now here I am at 21, listening to hardstyle all the time, goes to raves and festivals. I love it!
Love how articulate this is! A lot of videos kind of throw random songs in for a vibe, but arent really accurate for what they're trying to represent. I agreed with everything you've mentioned and it even filled a few gaps in my memory 8)))
I was really hoping to find another video about all this on your channel, buuut no dice. Awesome video mate and I hope you'll do another someday, especially with Uptempo, terror and other silly and lovely stuff even bigger now. Glad this landed on my recommended today.
I watch a lot of videos about history and subgenres division of harder styles lately, and this video is the best of I've seen to this moment. A hell lot of an information, no contradictions or false facts like in many of similar videos, and humor that made me laugh a few times through the video. Awesome video, thanks for your work!
You really put effort into this, good job! I am part of the hardstyle scene since 2008 but i still learned something while watching this video. i personally prefer euphoric hardstyle and not so much Rawstyle. Sometimes i miss the old kicks, not that i dont like the heavier hitting ones but i just miss the 'old' sound that euphoric hardstyle used to be in 2014/2015 etc. But nevertheless keep up the good work! And happy new year!
Hardstyle is easily my favorite EDM subgenre. I’ve always enjoyed EDM, started off with techno, and I was a big metalhead growing up. Hardstyle is the perfect genre to me. I went to Qimax last year and it just solidified it for me, I hope I never get tired of it. Also, thanks for putting the tracklist in the description, there’s a couple I somehow hadn’t heard!
Waiting for second part! I've entered into hardstyle gold era - started with DBSTF music made addict/rockin' ur mind then got to know more and more inclusive with early hards. Regarding to Italian hardstyle producers you forgot to mention about Davide Sonar who also has great melodies!
Its great that you adress the problem with genres in the intro. Great video! Also, dont forget the king of hardcore, Angerfist. He has been there since the nustyle era and has revolutionized the rawstyle scene with new kicks and unique melodies.
1:20 As someone who has been listening to Techno for the past 21 Years. What I have always done is taught myself the various differences for that Exact Purpose of knowing the music name and finding more of that listed type. But then I just slap it all together in a Mix and call it all Techno Music. That way the Box only Exist Just for Finding the music and then you just enjoy the music as a whole together in a mix. It's only when you begin to make a Hard Style Playlist, Jumpstyle, Hard Trance and so on that you begin to live with those labels.
4:51 I'm soooo sorry for posting so many comments dude! But as an American I have never spoken to anyone who is so interested in this music! Dude!! Qlimax!!!! I have whole Hours long downloads of Mixes from Qlimax! I used to watch them on UA-cam a lot too! That was a damn Nostalgic Hit right there dude!!!! Yaa.... I used to also do E-Pills back in the day.... So to hear that Bass Filled Voice say QLIMAXXXX!!! Hit Me In The Feels!!!
Your nickname is so cool and funny at the same time. Hardkick10 was the most reused kick in the scene before the noisecontrollers CTRL ALT DELETE introduced the boing kick lol
It's now late 2023 and we have stuff like Tevvez, Enmity, HARDSTYLE MAGE, which I like to call ZyzzStyle, HardLift, or GymStyle (idk I like to be creative with it) which is all centered around higher BPM and remixes of popular songs thanks to TikTok and Gym Bro's. I'm cool with it, I've got quite a bit of it in my gym playlist, definitely a guilty pleasure
I love it so much that both euphoric and rawstyle evolved together again but the magical freeless feeling of 2011-2015 euphoric hardstyle will always be special to me :D
About the future of hardstyle, there has been a strong mainstream trend on it cuz of the gym community, bigger than when hardstyle went into mainstream edm. It started with more melodic sutff, kinda similar to epic nu-style tracks (plus a lot of trance-like melodies), but now ppl are starting to find out about Raw and even Hardcore subgenres such as Uptempo. This basically means that there's a huge wave of people who have no idea about the hardstyle culture getting into the music from a completely different place than the usual. Tevvez is an artist with huge numbers, very famous on tiktok and the gym community, yet he isn't really a name in the hard dance scene and as far as I know he ain't present in festivals. I believe with time all the new people will find their way into the main hardstyle culture and this might unfortunately be when hardstyle gets that dubstep/brostep situation.
oh also Rooler and Sickmode are fucking killing it and basically taking Xtra Raw so far it goes against its own concept. I guess maybe this could be called Anti Xtra. Funky Style also sounds good but sounds more restrictive
Tevvez, and any other of those gym-producers, isn't present at festivals (or any labels), because their music simply isn't very good, sure it's got millions of plays on Spotify, but the overall production quality of the tracks is extremely low compared to any established producer in the hardstyle scene.
@@DonBugatti Only a matter of time mate. The popularity is there already. Frankly, I've listened to other hardstyle. Boring af, with a few exceptions. I notice better sound quality yet I don't vibe with it.
@@Verbux Unless they can up the production quality of their tracks, they won't get signed to any serious hardstyle label. And without the support of a strong label, they most definitely won't be playing any hardstyle festivals either.
I think we kinda see both subgenres splitting again now. Euphoric is splitting into one hard euphoric and one soft euphoric. We also see raw slpitint into at least two. With one being harder and the other trying to be more fun. Would also be interesting to see how yo think Frenchcore (Sefa, Dr peacock etc) and Happy hardcore (Darren styles etc) relate to Hardstyle since both ha gained a lot of popularity among the Hardstyle fans in recent years.
It does not relate to it at all. Happy Hardcore and Frenchcore are almost a decade older. Happy Hardcore was a radio columnation of Eurohouse/Dance (2unlimited etc.) The more Happy sounding Hardcore from the likes of Scott Brown and the German Rave Sound all started in the first half of the 90's Frenchcore originated in France, at the same period Terror and Speedcore was starting to emerge. It was in the same area. Cold and Industrial sounding with faster tempos. Invented by the likes of Radium, Al Core (Micropoint) and Laurent Ho. Many people blame Dr. Peacock for making Frenchcore sounding happy but this is false. Because one of the inventors himself, Radium started to make happy dancefloor tracks allready in the 90's also. I heard Sefa at a Thunderdome Die Hard Die some years ago and noticed he used Hardstyle inspired kicks in this Frenchcore. So it is crossing over here and there. But the origins are years apart and unrelated. Hope that helps.
@@dennisvanopstal7360 I am aware that they are older but today they feel almost adopted by Hardstyle and Hardcore. Thanks to Sefa and Peacock most fans of Frenchcore seem to be Hardstyle-fans. I guess Im controversial but I do belive former generes can be adopted as sub-genreres.
Nice video. But for me, the biggest game changer from hardstyle to nu-style, was Psychedelic. I was totally shocked when I heard it for the first time on qlimax 2009. It was something special and unique. Basically my fav track from HHZ. And I guess not only mine, because Psychedelic is one of the most viewed HS tracks on youtube.
Really great and accurate video, this is exactly how I remember it evolving. Man I miss subground and tek, those were really cool subgenres that I wish had been more successful
As someone who started listenjng to hardstyle in 2013, right in the middle of the spit of raw vs euphoric, i like to say im well versed in the split and the movement back. I believe, one of the forst artost to really pioneer the sound of blending raw and euphoirc has to be Phuture noize, and then later Myst to name a few. Pursuit of Thunder and Prophecy, both in 2017, are def two of the biggest indicators of this shift to 'rawphoric' or just tpdays hardstyle. Also what i do hope is, or has been touched on is the psy trance influenced kick made popular by Sub Zero Project. Imo, they are attributed to bringjng the scene together and really driving innovation. Hardatyle is a genere that is able to incorpwrate any other genre and drove it forard with new sounds, and even allowing us to have new songs with olders spunds that are fresh and unique.
Really good video! I just love the transition and the evolution of the scene and personally thinks that the quality of hardstyle gets better every year. Sometimes the war between the subgeneres is annoying. Especially when you look at the every year returning discussion about the q-dance top 100. 16:55 2015 was the year of Solar. I think you found a wrong top list. Anyway, i'm hyped for the next Video!
Some of the early information is a little debatable. Whether it bothers people or not DJ Scot Project and others artists from Germany were the pioneers of the reverse bass and hard style sound before the term "hardstyle" existed. This is clear in records like "DJ Scot Project - F (DJ Scot's Hardriff Mix)", "Solar Quest - Acid Air Raid" "Hennes & Cold - First Step" which were on white label as early as 1998/9. I was 17 at the time travelling around the UK going to gigs that had people like Yoji B, Scot Project, Derb, Kai Tracid, DJ Wag + lots more - most of the time it was their UK debut, some of the time the gigs were almost empty. Hardstyle grew out of that into things like Climax, Defcon etc For that I feel Hardstyle owes a lot of it's existence to Overdose & Tracid Traxx Germany as much as anything else, when most of the labels like Wicked, Red Alert or future sound corp were just biting that style from them to begin with.
The mix of euphoric and raw really started in 2017, if not before. Besides Ran-D, you had Phuture Noize, Myst, Frequencerz and others already doing the hard yet melodic hardstyle (rawphoric). Still, great video, would've been interesting to see your take on more modern stuff like you mentioned
Funny that, like at the very very defining of experiments with the Roland 909 the initial kicks were called, in Italy, the “cassa Rotterdam” the Rotterdam kick of the Rotterdam bass speaker.
Bruh you got just the first thing wrong. "Early hardstyle" did not evolve from slowing down hardcore. It evolved from hardening and minimalising acid german hard trance The kick from 2002 Motherfuck is a jumpstyle/gabber kick and not the revolutioary one. That one first appears in 2004 in Donkey Rollers - Strike Again 2004. The best kick in Rate Reducer (Headhunterz remix) 9:30 isn't the one you are showing which is not the main kick. It comes in the drop like 30 seconds later. Euphoric started getting back on track in 2015 and 2016 before HHz even returned. Good point on that Ran-D making Defqon anthem because that's exactly what the others did as well. For example Phuture Noize in 2016 wasn't really the rawstyle we've seen between 2011 and 2014 with screeshes and anticlimaxes. He brought the combination of euphoric and raw back in 2016 and not in 2018 that you are tracking only in top 3 tracks of the year. And since then we have the middle "normal hardstyle" between rawstyle and euphoric back. Too bad you did not include a single sample of Spoontech track.
Michel Pollen is my favorite dude ever. 9:15 The Pitcher - Smack album is a damn close second. Still waiting for that second episode. 😅 You'd definitely have to touch on the return to the golden era nustyle type sound that a lot of DJs are embracing now that people are tired of the noise of the new mainstream "rawphoric." Hardstyle was really defined by the crunchy kicks of the early 2010s, and they're making a comeback now. Plenty of DJs love playing classics only sets as well.
Great little vid
This is probably the most informative and most accurate representation of the evolution and subgenres of Hardstyle on UA-cam. There are a lot of videos about this topic which spread a lot of misinformation but your video is an example of how it is done right. Although I would disagree on minor points at early hardstyle (I think everyone has their own assumptions there :')) it shows every important step in the evolution of Hardstyle. Great video!
Amazing video, this 20 minutes really flew by and even a noob like me understood everything perfectly; such a shame you didn't made any new videos after this one, hoping for a comeback!
This is by far the best hardstyle history video I've seen. I slipped into this scene like 12 years ago and it is so interesting to experience this evolution of styles live. And thanks, yes I feel old when I hear that Seven by E-Force is now nearly 8 years old. I remember that I heard it being played at a festival and could not wait for its release. This is still the epitome of raw.
Ya gotta agree on Seven. That track still smashes. The modern rawstyle 5 kicks per track with like 50 kick rolls - I can't ever appreciate it fully cause its so ADHD. Seven I could just melt into the kick. Nowadays I hear a kick/screech I like and it lasts literally for 8 kicks then onto the next, its a tease, I don't feel satisfied or fully enjoy it.
I personally discovered Hardstyle on a trip to Amsterdam in 2000, still listening to this day but I miss the old school sound.
Same
SOOOO good! I'm new to Hardstyle but I'm a genre loving nerd (UK are genre nerds too) - I heard Gabba in 1995 or 1996 and it was like being shot in the face by the frantic industrialness of the pace and sound. It was at a a club in London called Eurobeat3000. Super hard but it was just DJ's playing tunes at 300 bpm. Now its evolved into this its amazing. Love Hakken too.
2:08 just thunderdome Music XD.
It do be like that when it was then and there
3:24 LMFAO!!!! Dude! Those names are all the people I listen too!!!
I'm from America, and got into Techno back in 2001. By 2006 I had the PC and Limewire. Once i was downloading all the music in the world I began to find my personal Favorite.
It's Hardstyle. So I have a lot of DJ Luna, Prophet, DJ Pavo, DJ Blutonium Boy, Bass & Ram, Dark Oscillators, DJ Neo DJ Zany and some other names I can remember right now.
I was able to keep all my music from back in the day.
Legend!
Sickmode and Rooler are pioneering a new sorta sub genre of raw, I like to describe it as "fun rawstyle". Full of memes and it's awesome ☺️ great vid!
What about Caine's or even his GPF tracks?
@@gasparrochat7842 Totally agree, GPF is definitely meme worthy haha
@@charlessobrino5546 GPF is memestyle
is sort of like an "agressive style" (yeah i know "Agressive Records" but i actually mean it in the sence that its agressive but not necesarally dark)
Just call it happy hardstyle
waiting on part 2 ;)
This video is awesome! Very high quality 👌
looking like this has randomly been pushed into a lot of peoples recommendations in the last few days?! was shattered to realise it was a year old upload with no part 2 😓
Great vid mate, when I saw your deep cut of a channel name, I knew I was in the right place :)
Hardstyle ist by far the best genre for working out in the gym
nahh Neurofunk is way better :- P
back in 2006 2007 it was an awesome era. djs like headhunterz dj zany etc were not so famous back then and came very regularly in small club near me. it was awesome
Just discovered Dubstyle from Defqon.1 2011 CD.. it's not bad, I kinda like it.. sue me! btw, i want to see more, u'r the first person to be so accurate on the Hardstyle history, every people always says that Hardstyle is only dutch, and forget about our (italians) work, TNT started in 2002, the "term" Hardstyle was officially born in 2003, NO ONE EVER mentioned our beloved Zenith and his "I'm your deejay", or SAIFAM except u.. so u got my support and all of my respect! keep it up! P.S maybe soon you can talk about aliases in the Hardstyle history, like Pavelow (Dubstyle alias of Bas Oskam, Noisecontrollers), 2 Best Enemies (Technoboy and maybe Tuneboy alias), Williams Syndrome (Bas Oskam), etc..
id say hardstyle is half italian half dutch in the origins but then became sort of 50% dutch, 30% italian and like 20% australian actually (the ones not from those are few, theres a bit of belgians but its still a small proportion)
man its 1 year since my man uploaded this masterpiece
Blud dropped one of the top hardstyle videos and gone
Very nice, high quality video. Keep it up mate
Started to listen on hardstyle in 2015, needed something new from dubstep. Now I’m lost in uptempo hardcore, and I wonder if I ever can like ordinary pop music again.
I think first was from Hennes and Cold - First Step (1999)
Shout out for actually mentioning Nutty T. One of the only producers to stick with dark and heavy sounds when everyone else went Euphoric.
Agreed!
This video was really great to get an overview, I would love if you make a video for hardcore too. I appreciate your style of making such a video pretty much, its so much fun and also informative at the same time
waitin on that episode 2
Same
I remember watching hard bass festival videoes for a couple days when I was 12 years old, I loved it then, and then didn't listen to it anymore. and didn't rediscover the genre again before I was 20. now here I am at 21, listening to hardstyle all the time, goes to raves and festivals. I love it!
Very nice video! Would love to see a video dedicated about the connection between hardstyle and Hardcore kinda stuff 👌
This is fantastic
Love how articulate this is! A lot of videos kind of throw random songs in for a vibe, but arent really accurate for what they're trying to represent. I agreed with everything you've mentioned and it even filled a few gaps in my memory 8)))
Just saw this video and already waiting for part 2
Would love a video about the technicalities as you mentioned around 4:25 !
I assume you are german, because you could say Blühmchen the right way. Awesome video! So many new tracks to add too my playlist, thank you man!
Blümchen
epic breakdown 👌
I was really hoping to find another video about all this on your channel, buuut no dice.
Awesome video mate and I hope you'll do another someday, especially with Uptempo, terror and other silly and lovely stuff even bigger now.
Glad this landed on my recommended today.
So happy that i was there from 2001 till 2015. Miss the good old days.
every single track I liked as a kid , teen , 20's 30's becomes classic-- I never fail --- Euphoric reverse bass tek funk is this summer !
I watch a lot of videos about history and subgenres division of harder styles lately, and this video is the best of I've seen to this moment. A hell lot of an information, no contradictions or false facts like in many of similar videos, and humor that made me laugh a few times through the video.
Awesome video, thanks for your work!
18:50 such an awesome modern track
We need this kind of content, please come back!
You are a life saver. thanks for this video
You really put effort into this, good job! I am part of the hardstyle scene since 2008 but i still learned something while watching this video. i personally prefer euphoric hardstyle and not so much Rawstyle. Sometimes i miss the old kicks, not that i dont like the heavier hitting ones but i just miss the 'old' sound that euphoric hardstyle used to be in 2014/2015 etc. But nevertheless keep up the good work! And happy new year!
Hardstyle is easily my favorite EDM subgenre. I’ve always enjoyed EDM, started off with techno, and I was a big metalhead growing up.
Hardstyle is the perfect genre to me. I went to Qimax last year and it just solidified it for me, I hope I never get tired of it.
Also, thanks for putting the tracklist in the description, there’s a couple I somehow hadn’t heard!
We had DJ Prophet in Australia for the ThunderDome raves
So much fun!
Thanks for the video, very entertaining
Very cool video. I am be very curious about the technical stuff. Also I think a hardcore and hardcore subgenre video would be very cool.
Waiting for second part!
I've entered into hardstyle gold era - started with DBSTF music made addict/rockin' ur mind then got to know more and more inclusive with early hards. Regarding to Italian hardstyle producers you forgot to mention about Davide Sonar who also has great melodies!
man still waiting
Its great that you adress the problem with genres in the intro. Great video! Also, dont forget the king of hardcore, Angerfist. He has been there since the nustyle era and has revolutionized the rawstyle scene with new kicks and unique melodies.
Make more videos! You are very good at explaining and my nostalgia is through the roof;)
More please! This is so good.
thanks for this. im more of a DnB/Crossbreed/Industrial Hardcore kinda guy, but Hardstyle is my guilty pleasure, so this was very informative :)
early hardstyle influence/tracks is again brought back into the business techno scene lmao
Quality content! Subbed! Looking forward to more badass vids my dood! Keep’em comin!
Good Video this explain a lot...i would like to see the 2nd episode
1:20 As someone who has been listening to Techno for the past 21 Years. What I have always done is taught myself the various differences for that Exact Purpose of knowing the music name and finding more of that listed type.
But then I just slap it all together in a Mix and call it all Techno Music.
That way the Box only Exist Just for Finding the music and then you just enjoy the music as a whole together in a mix.
It's only when you begin to make a Hard Style Playlist, Jumpstyle, Hard Trance and so on that you begin to live with those labels.
Please make a second video. I really enjoyed this lmao.
2 years and still no follow up video. :/
Great video tho :P
Hardstyle is the best music and part of my life for 14 years !!!
youtube recommended me this gem of a video, very well explained. I've been recently discovering new music genres and this really helped, thank you.
Man, this video is so well done! Please keep these kind of videos! 😁👏👏
I hope the crunch comes back in one way or another, I love crunchy sounds
I love it. Would love to see a lot more content about the origins and history of hardstyle and related genres.
plz second episode that was great!
PLEASE MAKE THE SECOND EPISODE I WILL PAY YOU
Great summary of hardstyle history
subscribed 👍🏻
waiting for the second part of this
really wanna know wtf is tek and hard trance
sehr geil gemacht, freu mich schon auf ein weiteres Video. Und voll erwischt mit dem Namen XD
Waaa waiting to the second paaart 😄😄😄
i love this scientific deep dive into hardstyle, please more of that!
Really nice work!
sad it's only 3k views - really good job!
thanks for the video, this really helps. came from r/hardstyle ❤️
great video man, just subbed
listening to this music and following the scene since 2003/2004 and this video is super accurate! great job!
Good info and great video
4:51 I'm soooo sorry for posting so many comments dude! But as an American I have never spoken to anyone who is so interested in this music!
Dude!! Qlimax!!!! I have whole Hours long downloads of Mixes from Qlimax! I used to watch them on UA-cam a lot too!
That was a damn Nostalgic Hit right there dude!!!!
Yaa.... I used to also do E-Pills back in the day.... So to hear that Bass Filled Voice say QLIMAXXXX!!! Hit Me In The Feels!!!
We need more vids from you :)
need a part 2 even though i knew most of these pretty well
Your nickname is so cool and funny at the same time. Hardkick10 was the most reused kick in the scene before the noisecontrollers CTRL ALT DELETE introduced the boing kick lol
We need part two
It's now late 2023 and we have stuff like Tevvez, Enmity, HARDSTYLE MAGE, which I like to call ZyzzStyle, HardLift, or GymStyle (idk I like to be creative with it) which is all centered around higher BPM and remixes of popular songs thanks to TikTok and Gym Bro's. I'm cool with it, I've got quite a bit of it in my gym playlist, definitely a guilty pleasure
It can be alright, but I hate when the kicks are pitched wrongly, lol
Great Video.
I love it so much that both euphoric and rawstyle evolved together again but the magical freeless feeling of 2011-2015 euphoric hardstyle will always be special to me :D
About the future of hardstyle, there has been a strong mainstream trend on it cuz of the gym community, bigger than when hardstyle went into mainstream edm. It started with more melodic sutff, kinda similar to epic nu-style tracks (plus a lot of trance-like melodies), but now ppl are starting to find out about Raw and even Hardcore subgenres such as Uptempo. This basically means that there's a huge wave of people who have no idea about the hardstyle culture getting into the music from a completely different place than the usual. Tevvez is an artist with huge numbers, very famous on tiktok and the gym community, yet he isn't really a name in the hard dance scene and as far as I know he ain't present in festivals. I believe with time all the new people will find their way into the main hardstyle culture and this might unfortunately be when hardstyle gets that dubstep/brostep situation.
oh also Rooler and Sickmode are fucking killing it and basically taking Xtra Raw so far it goes against its own concept. I guess maybe this could be called Anti Xtra. Funky Style also sounds good but sounds more restrictive
Tevvez, and any other of those gym-producers, isn't present at festivals (or any labels), because their music simply isn't very good, sure it's got millions of plays on Spotify, but the overall production quality of the tracks is extremely low compared to any established producer in the hardstyle scene.
@@DonBugatti Only a matter of time mate. The popularity is there already. Frankly, I've listened to other hardstyle. Boring af, with a few exceptions. I notice better sound quality yet I don't vibe with it.
@@Verbux Unless they can up the production quality of their tracks, they won't get signed to any serious hardstyle label. And without the support of a strong label, they most definitely won't be playing any hardstyle festivals either.
I think we kinda see both subgenres splitting again now. Euphoric is splitting into one hard euphoric and one soft euphoric. We also see raw slpitint into at least two. With one being harder and the other trying to be more fun.
Would also be interesting to see how yo think Frenchcore (Sefa, Dr peacock etc) and Happy hardcore (Darren styles etc) relate to Hardstyle since both ha gained a lot of popularity among the Hardstyle fans in recent years.
It does not relate to it at all.
Happy Hardcore and Frenchcore are almost a decade older.
Happy Hardcore was a radio columnation of Eurohouse/Dance (2unlimited etc.) The more Happy sounding Hardcore from the likes of Scott Brown and the German Rave Sound all started in the first half of the 90's
Frenchcore originated in France, at the same period Terror and Speedcore was starting to emerge.
It was in the same area.
Cold and Industrial sounding with faster tempos. Invented by the likes of Radium, Al Core (Micropoint) and Laurent Ho.
Many people blame Dr. Peacock for making Frenchcore sounding happy but this is false.
Because one of the inventors himself, Radium started to make happy dancefloor tracks allready in the 90's also.
I heard Sefa at a Thunderdome Die Hard Die some years ago and noticed he used Hardstyle inspired kicks in this Frenchcore.
So it is crossing over here and there.
But the origins are years apart and unrelated.
Hope that helps.
@@dennisvanopstal7360 I am aware that they are older but today they feel almost adopted by Hardstyle and Hardcore. Thanks to Sefa and Peacock most fans of Frenchcore seem to be Hardstyle-fans.
I guess Im controversial but I do belive former generes can be adopted as sub-genreres.
@@dennisvanopstal7360 I could be wrong, but my current understanding is that Frenchcore developed from Hardtek.
Nice video. But for me, the biggest game changer from hardstyle to nu-style, was Psychedelic. I was totally shocked when I heard it for the first time on qlimax 2009. It was something special and unique. Basically my fav track from HHZ. And I guess not only mine, because Psychedelic is one of the most viewed HS tracks on youtube.
had an instant flashback to Sensation Black 2004 at the first part of your video 😅
Really great and accurate video, this is exactly how I remember it evolving. Man I miss subground and tek, those were really cool subgenres that I wish had been more successful
Thanks, for that, good education gor everyone who didn't experience it 🎉😊
I love how the genre collectively pushes away from what happened to brostep
What do you even mean with that? Dubstep's doing fine!
@@meis18mofo77 original real dubstep is very much underground and is overshadowed by brostep and its derivatives
@@LiveforHM brostep is derivative itself lol
15:27 SEVEN the best track in the rawstyle history
Thank you man. I got so much out of this. You made an awesome video!
Great work mate!
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As someone who started listenjng to hardstyle in 2013, right in the middle of the spit of raw vs euphoric, i like to say im well versed in the split and the movement back. I believe, one of the forst artost to really pioneer the sound of blending raw and euphoirc has to be Phuture noize, and then later Myst to name a few. Pursuit of Thunder and Prophecy, both in 2017, are def two of the biggest indicators of this shift to 'rawphoric' or just tpdays hardstyle.
Also what i do hope is, or has been touched on is the psy trance influenced kick made popular by Sub Zero Project. Imo, they are attributed to bringjng the scene together and really driving innovation. Hardatyle is a genere that is able to incorpwrate any other genre and drove it forard with new sounds, and even allowing us to have new songs with olders spunds that are fresh and unique.
I've seen a lot of those Videos and this one is actually one of of not the best one to describe Our scene and the Evolution of it
Really good video! I just love the transition and the evolution of the scene and personally thinks that the quality of hardstyle gets better every year. Sometimes the war between the subgeneres is annoying. Especially when you look at the every year returning discussion about the q-dance top 100.
16:55 2015 was the year of Solar. I think you found a wrong top list. Anyway, i'm hyped for the next Video!
Some of the early information is a little debatable. Whether it bothers people or not DJ Scot Project and others artists from Germany were the pioneers of the reverse bass and hard style sound before the term "hardstyle" existed. This is clear in records like "DJ Scot Project - F (DJ Scot's Hardriff Mix)", "Solar Quest - Acid Air Raid" "Hennes & Cold - First Step" which were on white label as early as 1998/9.
I was 17 at the time travelling around the UK going to gigs that had people like Yoji B, Scot Project, Derb, Kai Tracid, DJ Wag + lots more - most of the time it was their UK debut, some of the time the gigs were almost empty. Hardstyle grew out of that into things like Climax, Defcon etc
For that I feel Hardstyle owes a lot of it's existence to Overdose & Tracid Traxx Germany as much as anything else, when most of the labels like Wicked, Red Alert or future sound corp were just biting that style from them to begin with.
Basically German/UK Hard Trance.
The mix of euphoric and raw really started in 2017, if not before. Besides Ran-D, you had Phuture Noize, Myst, Frequencerz and others already doing the hard yet melodic hardstyle (rawphoric). Still, great video, would've been interesting to see your take on more modern stuff like you mentioned
Frequencerz Medium Rare album really hit the nail on the head with this both in terms of name and content.
Funny that, like at the very very defining of experiments with the Roland 909 the initial kicks were called, in Italy, the “cassa Rotterdam” the Rotterdam kick of the Rotterdam bass speaker.
Bruh you got just the first thing wrong. "Early hardstyle" did not evolve from slowing down hardcore. It evolved from hardening and minimalising acid german hard trance
The kick from 2002 Motherfuck is a jumpstyle/gabber kick and not the revolutioary one. That one first appears in 2004 in Donkey Rollers - Strike Again 2004.
The best kick in Rate Reducer (Headhunterz remix) 9:30 isn't the one you are showing which is not the main kick. It comes in the drop like 30 seconds later.
Euphoric started getting back on track in 2015 and 2016 before HHz even returned. Good point on that Ran-D making Defqon anthem because that's exactly what the others did as well.
For example Phuture Noize in 2016 wasn't really the rawstyle we've seen between 2011 and 2014 with screeshes and anticlimaxes. He brought the combination of euphoric and raw back in 2016 and not in 2018 that you are tracking only in top 3 tracks of the year.
And since then we have the middle "normal hardstyle" between rawstyle and euphoric back.
Too bad you did not include a single sample of Spoontech track.
that was great, I enjoyed the video a lot!
Loved this!
Michel Pollen is my favorite dude ever.
9:15 The Pitcher - Smack album is a damn close second.
Still waiting for that second episode. 😅 You'd definitely have to touch on the return to the golden era nustyle type sound that a lot of DJs are embracing now that people are tired of the noise of the new mainstream "rawphoric." Hardstyle was really defined by the crunchy kicks of the early 2010s, and they're making a comeback now. Plenty of DJs love playing classics only sets as well.
We need more videos!