Watch this if you're new to Hardstyle: Hard Dance Genre Differences 

0:35 Gabber 1:14 Hardtek 1:31 Makina & UK Hardcore 2:00 Happy Hardcore 2:09 Jumpstyle 2:20 Hardstyle 2:33 Nustyle / oldschool Hardstyle 2:44 Euphoric Hardstyle 2:55 Rawstyle 3:07 Rawphoric 3:20 Xtra Raw 3:31 Hardcore 3:52 Uptempo 4:16 Frenchcore 4:31 Industrial Hardcore 4:39 Terror 4:54 Speedcore 5:08 Splittercore 5:18 Extratone

As a very oldskool head, and speedcore producer since the 90's I am impressed how detailed (and basically everything correct) it was in just under 5 minutes. Good job.

I grew up listening to hardstyle around the 2006 era, its awesome to see how far its come and how many people still love it!

Huge thankyou to my skitz editor Barnabas for this vid! Share this with your newbie rave mates & smash that like button if you want more content!

thank you for the video, well explained and thank you gpf for not creating new kicks, more like creating a new mental disorder i really cant get enough of x

early hardcore, terror, uptempo. all i need

Solid overview. Been listening to hardstyle since 2006. Prefer the older tracks but the newer ones can be such massive bangers. Hardstyle however, 2006-2011 was the golden days

When music is categorized into specific genres, it can limit its potential for growth and evolution. This is particularly true for genres like hardcore that have been subdivided into smaller sub-genres such as hardstyle, raw, frenchcore, and uptempo. While these sub-genres may help fans to differentiate between different styles of music and identify their preferences, they can also create boundaries that can be difficult to cross. Musicians who want to experiment with different sounds and techniques may find it challenging to do so without breaking the established rules of their chosen genre. As a result, the music may become stale and predictable, and fans may become less interested in it over time. Therefore, while genre classification can be useful, it is essential to remain open to new ideas and approaches to ensure that music continues to evolve and grow.

bruh these song examples are so damn amazing wth

Annyira mókás, hogy a magyaros angol akcentust mindenhol fel lehet ismerni, még mielőtt az illető elmondaná, hogy szerény kis hazánkból származik. Fasza lett a videó, sokat tudtam belőle tanulni, úgy látszik engem a Frenchcore fogott meg leginkább. Ment a Like!

First encountered Hard dance music about 3 years through Japanese producers like Camellia and Kobaryo. Now I am learning to make my own.

As an old german technohead from the 90s near 50 I m not sure how its called today since now but I love it to wake up at 4am every morning

1:32 I would add, what we call UK hardcore today isn't what UK hardcore was in 90s. UK hardcore in the 90s was breakbeat hardcore, which was referred to simply as "hardcore" by Brits. During the late 90s hardcore split with the lighter happier sounds becoming happy hardcore (breakbeat hardcore) and the more bassy, darker sounds becoming jungle (which went on to evolve into DnB). Current UK hardcore (from 2003 onwards) is a mixture of early UK happy hardcore with hard trance, makina and Dutch happy hardcore

having gotten into hard dance in the last few years as an american in an area with no scene videos like this are fantastically useful to help me figure it all out, and hearing the differences bit by bit is super interesting. Thanks for putting this together bro

Great to see Diabarha represented absolute king of speedcore/splittercore/extratone. Uranoid is iconic and to me dreamlike

The difference between these styles is mostly in the sound. Not so much the BPM's. Offcourse there's a big difference in BPM's between Extratone or Splittercore and Hardcore. But many genres have overlapping BPM speeds. Some Rawstyle can be as hard and fast as Uptempo Hardcore, whilst some Terror can have lower BPM's than regular Hardcore. The DJ/founder of Rotterdam Terror Corps (George Ruseler) always said Terror is about the sound and that some 160 BPM terrortracks can be harder and darker than 240-300 BPM tracks. Also Hardstyle and Hardcore have overlapping BPM's. The early Hardcore wasn't always about a high BPM count, it was often slower than Hardstyle is today. For instance "The Hustle" from Mad-E-Fact...Let a young guy listen to that song today and they would say it's Hardstyle based on its slower rythm and lower BPM count. But that song is actually Hardcore !!! For anyone wondering...I'm a 45 yr old Dutch gabber that's been listening to Hardcore since '93 and been going to Hardcore events since '97. Thunderdome '97 : The Global Hardcore Nation in Sportpaleis Antwerpen was my 1st event. So, I have 30 yrs of experience backing up my opinion. In general Hardstyle is more euphoric than Hardcore, but it doesn't mean Hardcore can't be euphoric. DJ's like Angerfist have a darker sound than what you hear in Hardstyle...so Angerfist is definately Hardcore. But what about Korsakoff ??? She has a lot of euphoric passages in her sets, but if you hear the sets you can definatlely say it's Hardcore too !!! It just hits a little bit different and harder than Hardstyle. I mean, Angerfist is called the "King of Hardcore" and Korsakoff is the "Queen of Hardcore". Two completely different sounds and styles...Angerfist has a pretty dark sound, whilst Korsakoff's tracks and sets are melodic/euphoric and uplifting. But it's both undeniably Hardcore.

absolutely love this video!!!! extremely simple to understand and explains the genres perfectly!

Such a great video and thank you!! Ive been a lover of edm for a long time and over the years my tastes have change. Ive not had the pleasure of being to a festival yet and really am just getting to know specific DJs. I have a huge playlist but i was looking to narrow down the styles i really enjoyed. This helped me find out I am a HUGE lover of Happy Hardcore and Euphoric Hardstyle! Now I can create the best playlist of my favorite specific styles! Cheers!!!!

What's your favourite genre brahz?

Great video. I am a little familiar with these genres so it is always helpful to have a vid like these to learn something new!

I started with jump style when I was 13. 14 years later and Im at Anything after uptempo. It’s not for everyone, but you grow into it :) going to the uptempo raves are so much fun and full of energy! And no, you do not have to be on drugs to enjoy this music/ raves! I know I don’t. Enjoy your own style of music without judging others :)

I been listening to techno and all the harder styles especially basicly since before birth (my mom loves them too), but i have only heard the names of 2/3s of the genres listed here, but know most of the tracks or similar ones. thanks for teaching me :D

As someone who's always been somewhat into techno, and is just now REALLY getting into hardcore, hardstyle, and a lot of the other genres you brought up, THANK YOU for this video. Lots of good information while keeping it straight forward and simple!

The more the video progress, the more artist and fans speedruns their song

Ez az első videó amit nézek tőled (valószínűleg nem az utolsó😅), amint megszólaltál tudtam, hogy magyar vagy😆 Jó kis videó lett, érthető magyarázat + példák! Csak így tovább💪

Finally someone mentions industrial 😂 now I'll just be waiting for someone to start about doomcore😅

Absolute great video. Sick editing skills (the "...on crack" series are awesome xD). Thank you Slendy and Barnabas for creating such interesting content and... Makina FOREVER!!!

There's a slight overlap here in Frenchcore, industrial, early and terror. Early Micropoint and Raium tracks such as Crackpipe, Junkicide and Noise Theatire by Micropoint and Hard Abuse by The Sickest Squad. Some of these artists no longer make this style but you can still find this early frenchcore. I recommend artist like The Sickest Squad, Psiko, Cemtex, SpeedyQ's, D.O.M., DJ Mutante and albums like Social Teknology

Nice to see some defintions! Nice to see they hit the ceiling with 1000bpm now we can bring it back down to where it actually sounds good :D

Just what I was looking for and only 5 minutes amazing!

Old man here... I remember in like '92 when anything over 140 BPM was hardcore or gabber, and hardcore included hard breaks and a lot of the precursors to DnB. I think the first actual hard subgenre I heard of was Happy Hardcore. Even that got confusing because you had the chipmunk sounding super cheesy stuff coming out of the UK, LA and Canada, then also the Dutch Thunderdome stuff, which was oddly considered "Happy" here in the NYC area.

Diabarha is love, Diabarha is life! ❤ And Extratone goes brrrrrrrrrrr

Great video, totally friendly and even learned many new thinks! Thank you :)

Great to see Makina mentioned in this video, good documentation job!

I found this video incredible, being someone who speaks Spanish and not having extensive knowledge of English, I am very happy to find videos that explain it to me in an easy way and that I can understand.

i like that it's EUPHORIC hardstyle instead of just happy hardstyle

we need to see more videos like these

Thank you for the information. Being a new person in the hardcore enthusiast group, this really helped me get a gist of everything.

Thanks for the video man, I grew up with this music, grew up with my grandparents and my uncles would go to all the major parties back in the 90's. I have such fond memories of that time, I miss it a lot. To this day the only music I listen to is Hardcore and some of it's spin offs. Industrial Hardcore is my favorite style and of course Ophidian is my hero, the undisputed number one! This is much more than just music, its sacred to me! HC4L!

Very educational video indeed, one of a kind. Looking forward to watching more of these

Dad first introduced me to hard and techno style music back in the 2006 (was 4 at the time) Got to listen thunderdome in his good ol peugeot 306 s16 with upgraded sound system That's good parenting

Thanks for realising my video idea! 👏😊

Thank you for this video! These styles are awesome.

Great video, I listen to the harder styles for over 10 years now and I learned a lot :)

finally i can just send my non-rave friends this video to explain the basic idea of the harder styles xD

also always nice to add some fresh tracks to the playlist so thanks for the music

Excellent video, thank you very much!

Thank you so much it helped me a lot :)

Perfect work very clear and covering all the genres. Thanks for this gem

did you hear about the illegal rave that took place last weekend in Sint-Truiden, Belgium x)?

As a 92's guy I❤Gabber but in my youth I listened a lot of Happy Hardcore

Gotta love the GPF shoutout fr x

The first example Barnabas showed of gabber is actually Miss Groovy - Jungle Sickness:)

Perfectly explained in 5 Minutes, Respect!

thank you for this video

Thank you for making this clear, I always was confused about this topic 🙏

Tysm for this please keep going

Might aswell add this as a cool fact, in the north of England (and above to Scotland) there is a big following of Makina (specifically not UK hardcore) as supposedly a DJ from Newcastle had gone to spain, picked up a couple vinyl copies of some makina and started playing it and people went mental for it, then they got more and more till it was popular enough that a club called the New Monkey was started which was famous for the Makina of the UK aswell as having an MC spit over the beat (creating people like MC Mental, MC Flinchy, MC Genno D,etc) i might have some facts a bit off but its generally around what happened

thanks for the extratone jumpscare

Such a nice and helpful video❤❤❤

Just newd this to go to any rave and answer the typicall question of your new friend in raves, that doesnt know anything about this genre, that get me sick but also give me an smile because there will be another person to enjoy this genre🎉

Helpful video, this stuff seems somehow even more hard to get a read on than black metal in HS in the 2000s lol. I love it all, genuinely haven't been more excited about music in nearly 20 years. Only bad part for me is I had no idea it was a thing back in ~2009. Just glad S3RL is still going strong releasing a banger every 3 weeks somehow lol. Been listening to him non-stop for 4 months and am still finding new songs of his every week.

Very interesting. I feel Hard Trance and Down Tempo Hardcore needed a mention. Overall great video 😁

i’ve been watching you since i was in 7th grade and i’m going to be a senior in college soon

Thanks a lot, mate! (who would have known, that I was about to find a Hungarian's vid about this?!) 😁

Sick video

I'm not new to the scene, but I clicked the video, needed to freshing up my memory

Amazing video!!! 🙌🙌🙌

Thanks man!

Thank you for the video. Your English is perfect

Casualy listening to EXTRATONE.

Nagyon profi összegzés csak így tovább! :D

Everything changes from time to time.

Ah, didn't even know that you're Hungarian. Good to see some Hungarians enjoying some quality music (quality includes GPF, UOK, Diabarha and every, out of the ordinary producer too)

tbh i would listen to a majority of these, my first genre of the hardcore world was speedcore, specifically M1DY and Kobaryo. then i hopped over to GPF and UOK, so my hardcore introduction started with GPF and UOK, you could only IMAGINE what i would willingly blast into my ears now. and holy blessing of GPF, the piep kick made Uptempo 300x better, but i will always love any and all Uptempo, with or without piep.

My love of hardcore will always be UK's Happy Hardcore. It's what I grew up with, very uplifting and a bit crazy all over the place, a mix match of sounds and samples... and friend/family aren't always mad about listening to it. The mix of sounds and samples is why I like Industrial hardcore, it feels to me very much like the very flipside of the UK Happy hardcore scene with samples that are down beat, still a crazy mix though. My favourite is Frenchcore, the tracks just seem to do it for me most of the time. It's only when I want something a little faster I go for Speedcore. I do like Terror core, but rather than just being defined by the BPM, again like Industrial Hardcore and Happy Hardcore, it's the samples used, very dark vocals used in the tracks... maybe it's just the music I listen to.

Very helpful, thank you! Great video!

i'm a new fan of hardcore from sydney and this is very helpful thanks :))

Glad to see Enfants De La Rave in here! Great video 🙌

5:18 I would want to add some information. Yeah extratone is over 1000 BPM, but it doesn't create a constant note already at that tempo. Somewhere at 20000 BPM there will be a constant note. The song Sloof Lirpa by GPF (5:24-5:28) at the drop was 27000 BPM. How did you get that informaton about Sloof Lirpa BPM? The frequency of the kicks were 450 Hz so 450 Hz * 60 s = 27000 BPM. Hopefully my additional information helped you a bit!

Big up to my fellow Hungarian friend!

This is by far the best and most simple explanation about hard dance subgenres o:

köszi az összefoglalót!

Hallod... az ELSŐ szónál rögtön az ugrott be - Basszus ő magyar?!? :D (az akcentus miatt csak, jó ez az angol :) ) // I knew it from the FIRST word... the first thing that came to my mind was - is he Hungarian? he speaks very much like that. // Tök jó, hogy együtt dolgoztok... így tovább, csípem a videókat nagyon! Üdv! Andrew // It's great to see you working together... keep it up, I love your vids! Bye! //

You forgot to mention GABBERDISCO , the sample type hardtec that is only young and is made by the greatest legendary producers from around the world.

Great vid!!! Thank you + your english is perfect!

can you make more videos like this and go more indepth into the history of all the styles?

very good video to understand all the different hardstyle genres 🙏 Keep it up

6 years? I need a mix for OG hardstyle (2006-2012 which was 'basic' [minimalist]), THEN advanced hardstyle 2013-modern [distorted kick and OG inspiration + HARD vibe], and a separate mix for modern hardstyle/rhythm songs [idk what else to call them; there is a minute or so in each 'modern' that is beat and nothing else}).

I would have chosen a different song to represent extratone, maybe “singularity at 2.646e+6 BPM” because it’s actually listenable

Ukhardcore / Happyhardcore doesn’t always have a reverse bass, it’s actually more know for an offbeat sawbass. Also happyhardcore came before UKhardcore. But in modern day the 2 names are used interchangeably and it’s become one genre

I came for answers and all I have is more questions 😂

Sick video! Just as some people indeed are saying its probably more about the sound than the tempo. For me there are some uptempo hardcore tracks that are at normal hardcore or even rawstyle bpm but they are still uptempo, just because of the kick. Even tho i dont like the current harstyle (im more a fan of 2012 to 2017's harstyle), its cool to see all these hard dance genres, because for me at the end of the day its all Harder styles/hard dance and i love it!

thank you for including makina :)

thank you GPF

Csak hogy legyen itt egy magyar komment is, nagyon jól el magyaráztad, király kis videó volt! 😁

I'm almost 10 years into the scene and producing harder styles myself for 5 years. Just wanted to check what you were saying. I can agree with pretty much everything you said! Well done! Only thing i would kinda disagree is speedcore being mostly 400+, because i think it's not only the BPM but also the sounds used that differenciate speedcore from faster uptempo or upterror. I'd say speedcore is around 250-500 and splittercore also starting at around 500. It's a really slim line between speecore and splitter BPM wise. Splitter has much heavier kicks though.

Well explained

Ma favorite part of extra tone is when it goes beeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppp

Jó kis összefoglaló ! Miss K8 / DJ Anime a kedvencek nálam :)