Subgenres of HARDSTYLE and their history

A tour over the history of hardstyle and its subgenres. More to follow.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
2:03 Early Hardstyle
5:50 Nustyle
11:09 Rawstyle
16:04 Euphoric Hardstyle
18:04 Today
19:29 Outro
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Tracklist:
Headhunterz - Destiny
Thunderdome '97 ID
Bas & Ram - The Flirt
DJ Zenith vs. Avex - I'm your Deejay (Attack Mix)
Silk - Tomahawk (Mark Norman Remix)
Donkey Rollers - Immeasurably
Donkey Rollers - Motherf*ck
Donkey Rollers - Immeasurably
Headhunterz - The Power Of The Mind
Wildstylez - No Time To Waste
Zany & Mc VD8 - Nothing Else Matters
Showtek - FTS
Headhunterz - Just Say My Name
Mr. Puta - Green Stuff
Headhunterz, Wildstylez & Noisecontrollers - Tonight
Project One - Rate Reducer (Headhunterz Remix)
Teachnoboy - Into Deep
Coone & Technoboy - Nustyle Crap (TBY Goes Crazy Mix)
Brennan Heart - Just As Easy (Wildstylez & SMD Remix)
Zatox ft. Nikkita - Raw Style
The R3bels - Pattern 2
Max Enforcer ft. The Rush - Fade To Black
Gunz For Hire - Plata O Plomo
DJ Thera & Delete - Welcome
E-Force & Luna - Masterclass
E-Force & Luna - Evolved
Frontliner & B-Front - Magic
Chain reaction - The Record Breaking
E-Force - Seven
Noisecontrollers - Gimme Love
Noisecontrollers - Down Down
Regain - Broken
Atmozfears ft. David Spekter - Release
Ran-D ft. Skits Vicious - No Guts No Glory
Headhunterz & Sub Zero Project - Our Church
Rebourne - Leaving
Rebourne ft. Niclas Lundini - Darkness Disappears
Warface & D-Sturb - Midnight Paradise
Rooler & MC Villain - Hammertime
Wildstylez - Timeless

[@NuttyTraxx]

Great little vid

[@fredericsiemoneit8358]

This is probably the most informative and most accurate representation of the evolution and subgenres of Hardstyle on KZbin. 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!

[@gasparrochat7842]

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.

[@FreedomBob]

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.

[@briarboy8959]

I personally discovered Hardstyle on a trip to Amsterdam in 2000, still listening to this day but I miss the old school sound.

[@brandonmckay1912]

Same

[@ward7313]

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!

[@charlessobrino5546]

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!

[@gasparrochat7842]

What about Caine's or even his GPF tracks?

[@charlessobrino5546]

@@gasparrochat7842 Totally agree, GPF is definitely meme worthy haha

[@kreamah1870]

@@charlessobrino5546 GPF is memestyle

[@marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043]

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)

[@merlijndehaas7445]

Just call it happy hardstyle

[@requence2176]

I think first was from Hennes and Cold - First Step (1999)

[@dolsimon]

This video is awesome! Very high quality 👌

[@audacioustitan1326]

Shout out for actually mentioning Nutty T. One of the only producers to stick with dark and heavy sounds when everyone else went Euphoric.

[@kimmag]

Agreed!

[@gokuworkout3675]

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!

[@paggnut]

man still waiting

[@Yobs2K]

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!

[@Gettenhart]

You are a life saver. thanks for this video

[@domkeukde6638]

More please! This is so good.

[@Daniel-ln8jf]

listening to this music and following the scene since 2003/2004 and this video is super accurate! great job!

[@daimendimen]

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.

[@Mellow-Prism]

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!

[@rejoice5HT]

I love it. Would love to see a lot more content about the origins and history of hardstyle and related genres.

[@lukabutinar8236]

Very nice, high quality video. Keep it up mate

[@vmvds]

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

[@Synctrex1337]

Loved this!

[@YXVNGBLVNT]

Just saw this video and already waiting for part 2

[@treysonmcgrady4750]

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!

[@NickoNagell]

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!

[@therealcancer48]

Thank you man. I got so much out of this. You made an awesome video!

[@58north]

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.

[@ernestoa999]

Good info and great video

[@biggbrah]

Great summary of hardstyle history

[@topi850]

Make more videos! You are very good at explaining and my nostalgia is through the roof;)

[@a_Valley14]

plz second episode that was great!

[@hugotuteinnolthenius4995]

So happy that i was there from 2001 till 2015. Miss the good old days.

[@i2pjd6hRw5P]

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

[@RedMeansRecording]

This is fantastic

[@daddelprinzger2249]

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.

[@maximood-tired]

i love this scientific deep dive into hardstyle, please more of that!

[@MrSatnavatron]

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 !

[@loudblaxz6759]

Good Video this explain a lot...i would like to see the 2nd episode

[@noname1210hh]

great video man, just subbed

[@danthe7942]

that was great, I enjoyed the video a lot!

[@frenzy7519]

Man, this video is so well done! Please keep these kind of videos! 😁👏👏

[@tino7830]

Great Video.

[@poobd]

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)))

[@And1DJ]

Thanks, for that, good education gor everyone who didn't experience it 🎉😊

[@hyperball01]

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.

[@cMARVEL360]

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.

[@zalphero618]

Legend!

[@BDNB-baddognobiscuit]

We had DJ Prophet in Australia for the ThunderDome raves So much fun! Thanks for the video, very entertaining

[@annamaus234]

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

[@wishiwasboosted7741]

Please make a second video. I really enjoyed this lmao.

[@Alistajaupseeri]

We need this kind of content, please come back!

[@bigmoomusic]

waiting on part 2 ;)

[@bigmoomusic]

epic breakdown 👌

[@zoki727]

man its 1 year since my man uploaded this masterpiece

[@DangerousBoy]

Let's go Part 2!

[@ownageDan]

thanks for this. im more of a DnB/Crossbreed/Industrial Hardcore kinda guy, but Hardstyle is my guilty pleasure, so this was very informative :)

[@Vanguard_dj]

Great vid mate, when I saw your deep cut of a channel name, I knew I was in the right place :)

[@kraftrad7840]

Great!

[@SeanoldBeasley]

18:50 such an awesome modern track

[@UnknownHardstyler1]

Really nice work! sad it's only 3k views - really good job!

[@collapsedtool]

We need more vids from you :)

[@blech71]

Quality content! Subbed! Looking forward to more badass vids my dood! Keep’em comin!

[@RealHansPeteR]

Nice vid :D

[@smolbo1]

need a part 2 even though i knew most of these pretty well

[@TheFiku]

insanely good video

[@samyakchavan6730]

subscribed 👍🏻 waiting for the second part of this really wanna know wtf is tek and hard trance

[@obama7855]

We need part two

[@NYZZMANN]

I hope the crunch comes back in one way or another, I love crunchy sounds

[@NeverGimmo]

Waaa waiting to the second paaart 😄😄😄

[@LuckyLuuk_-gf8en]

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.

[@kamillereznov7313]

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..

[@marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043]

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)

[@hardstyle4life394]

Hardstyle is the best music and part of my life for 14 years !!!

[@soulreaverz425]

sehr geil gemacht, freu mich schon auf ein weiteres Video. Und voll erwischt mit dem Namen XD

[@archlinuxsys]

thanks for the video, this really helps. came from r/hardstyle ❤️

[@KaoticIndustrial]

Good over view. Would like to see more like this to show to newbies lol

[@josang9332]

We need more videos!

[@Dzyroth808]

waitin on that episode 2

[@zsideswapper6718]

Same

[@ManSteveAsperger]

Hardstyle ist by far the best genre for working out in the gym

[@vortekkz_mixes]

nahh Neurofunk is way better :- P

[@rascal3398]

awesome!

[@rainbowflash5937]

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

[@Hushi]

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!

[@hannahwollenzin7172]

Nice! I've been a hardstyle fan since I was 14 and I feel like I'm the only American who enjoys it 🙃 Wish there were festivals here.

[@getradvideo]

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 😓

[@F3arRa1n]

yes please do the deep dive !

[@TheSimon253]

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.

[@dennisvanopstal7360]

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.

[@TheSimon253]

@@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.

[@rookbranwen8047]

@@dennisvanopstal7360 I could be wrong, but my current understanding is that Frenchcore developed from Hardtek.

[@NyahSquidward7219]

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

[@headhunterzlover1]

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.

[@Goku13_7]

had an instant flashback to Sensation Black 2004 at the first part of your video 😅

[@krank3869]

we need a part 2

[@DJ999ULTRA]

👍 very interesting

[@zookrates711]

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!

[@bmw_fantopdrives5501]

Blümchen

[@valerka3264]

Subground is in my heart❤

[@berniespy]

I love how the genre collectively pushes away from what happened to brostep

[@meis18mofo77]

What do you even mean with that? Dubstep's doing fine!

[@LiveforHM]

@@meis18mofo77 original real dubstep is very much underground and is overshadowed by brostep and its derivatives

[@zloidooraque0]

@@LiveforHM brostep is derivative itself lol

[@simontempler3230]

Prophet, DJ Zany.. is legendary...

[@aurelius7160]

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

[@ItsTheLyricalMC]

Frequencerz Medium Rare album really hit the nail on the head with this both in terms of name and content.

[@tumage8592]

2:08 just thunderdome Music XD. It do be like that when it was then and there

[@danyelu3911]

Bro we need this for hardcore too !!

[@VisualsDude]

Just wanted to chime in here and say nice video dude! I would love to see you talk about some other genres as well, there are some real hidden gems out there. You mentioned hard Trance in there, that would be a really nice topic since it developed at the same time as early hardstyle and (I think) aided in hardstyle using pitched bass lines. A real treat would be Makina though. A genre that developed even before all of this in Spain of all places. Featuring pitched kicks, anti-climaxes, sometimes happy melodys, sometimes really dark stuff. And all that since 1994! If you have a fascination for the development of electronic music, specifically hard dance music, you have to check it out! So many melodys you hear used today in Hardstyle and hardcore have their origins in this long lost treasure of a music genre. Good place to start is Zombie - Don't Speak (Zombie Mix) And remember, that track is from 1997!

[@Vatsuggggg]

We need another episode my brother❤

[@netoxicky]

Nice video, please do a follow up!

[@charlessobrino5546]

There's also a big difference in style and themes when considering hardstyle made in North America compared to the original European hardstyle sound. I listen to alot of both and they are both constantly evolving.

[@christophwehrmann892]

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

[@PreposterousJellyfish]

Would love a video about the technicalities as you mentioned around 4:25 !