hardstyle en · NOUN
Etymology
From hard + style.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A genre of electronic dance music that combines elements of trance, techno, and hardcore, with origins in the Netherlands and Belgium.
hi jack. you just missed the best hardcore/gabba party: "thunderdome - a decade", here in amsterdam. 2 huge rooms filled with 15.000 people (the party had sold out weeks in advance), one room for oldstyle (92-97), one for the newer hardcore/hardstyle (97-02).
2002, mik, “gabber/terror/hardcore”, in uk.music.rave (Usenet):Boiler Room hosted hard dance specials with young crews from across Europe, while American EDM’s absorption of Dutch hardstyle – a fusion of techno and hardcore – has reached truly terrifying levels through the likes of Guatemalan DJ Carnage.
2020 January 10, Joe Muggs, “Gift of the gabber: the return of dance music’s gloriously tasteless subgenre”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- (uncountable) In contrast to sports style, a specifically intensive workout exercise, such as a swing squat.
Translations (11)
ru хардстайл (genre of music) · nl hardstyle (genre of music) · io hardstilo (genre of music) · ko 하드스타일 (genre of music) · ar هارد ستايل (genre of music) · he הארדסטייל (genre of music) · fr hardstyle (genre of music) · ja ハードスタイル (genre of music) · uk гардстайл (genre of music) · ar هاردستايل (genre of music) · de Hardstyle (genre of music)