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Hardstyle aka Hardcore

There's really no way to ease into this genre... JUMP IN! It's a hard energetic style music. You put a dirty face on and then dance your heart out. Hardstyle of the gods.

Showtek - The Colour Of The Harder Styles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T03zdjfGX68

Hixxy - More & More
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swiDqhOZSMs
(this Hixxy track is pretty cool in my opinion because it has a psychedelic trance sound to start off with, but i don't really like the female upbeat vocal style that Hixxy is known for.)

Art of Fighters - Let's Get It On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z91j_JE46M

Ophidian & Tapage - The Mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S1VMpk_T3o

Discotronic- Tricky Disco (squad-e remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyvAzhib-2s

Endymion - Payback (Tommyknockers Yes I Am Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0r8bSnlF-E

Here's a different mix of that showtek song above, it's pretty great:
Showtek - The Colour Of The Harder Styles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usZZ9J9ng94

Ok there's a few subgenre's of hardcore. One of them being happy hardcore, or HHC. another is called gabber. I normally can only get into regular hardcore, but if you're interested in differentiating the genre's here's a few tracks that exemplify the genre. So the tempo is intense with both, and happy has a positive vibe sound. Gabber can be more raw sounding and not so happy, and there's a lot more vocals that get cut up with gabber, whereas with happy it is mainly just altered to be all high pitched usually. Most of these are pretty annoying but if you're in the right mood and don't mind looking like a jackass dancing to these, it's pretty fun.

happy [old school tracks]:
99 Red Balloons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy7HvvC9K_w

Euphony - Space Invader
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cto3NGPdtiU

Dune - Million miles away from home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMihpjZ03_w

Who the fuck is alice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoTTmO0OFA4

Dreamer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VU83dpDpTk

happy [more modern]:
Hixxy - Angel Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bllK16hwU4I

Hixxy - Now is the time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOHBEJ4sCBs

... i guess i can't find that much modern stuff ha

gabber:
Angerfist - megamix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa7SzjL0lHg

DJ Isaac - Nobody Likes The Records
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUaL6z0oOcg

Evil Activities - Never Fall Asleep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRTehEfXoeA

Rotterdam Terror Corps - God is a Gabber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgNK7S-L-M0

Tommyknocker VS Sunbeam - Twisted World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyH-rESH5Fc

intense dp, in an awesome way

when I think hardcore, this is not what I think of!

the original hardcore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ZnFT2qAJU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmSs_rMjJLg&am … re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q-Bv0ahP6U

Out here in H-town, that I know of, hardcore usually refers to "music" like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qtk9c6ZGcM

that reminds me more of killswitch engage and avenged sevenfold phi, which seem to fall more in the metalcore catagory.

Chiken wins this thread!

> that reminds me more of killswitch engage and avenged sevenfold phi, which seem to fall more in the metalcore catagory.

Metalcore and Hardcore have some definite overlap, but don't talk to some hardcore kid about that or they freak out. Seriously, it's weird.

http://www.myspace.com/greendevon

They are pretty indicative of the Cypress-area hardcore scene, but not completely. My brother fronted this band for a long time (he left last year at some point, along with the bassist and guitarist) and his anti-religious attitude put them at odds with the rest of the bands out here who are very much Christian. He got into plenty of fights while playing because of it, which makes me very proud of my baby boy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-implAcSLg

There's a video, too. haha.

is that one song title "Jesus cheated off of morgan freeman?" lol

I believe the full title is "Jesus Cheated off of Morgan Freeman in the Third Grade".

Yeah, my brother has a sense of humor.

i was just coming from the electronic dance music variety with this thread.

i'll check out the other links when i'm not in class :]

nothin' wrong with that kind of hardcore.

also i think of the last link that phi posted being a genre from some kind of post punk hardcore, isn't that called screamo?

one band i used to go see in socal identified themselves as screamo and some sort of rock/punk mix, and they sorta sound like green devon. they aren't around anymore and they sorta dissolved and became a really different type of experimental rock/post rock sounding band though. i think these were the only local people i ever went to go see perform live in the LA area :p

Post hardcore punk makes more sense, but it's just called 'hardcore'.

yeah i don't know why i said post punk... i think just to differentiate between it and the type of music i posted, which is an electronic dance music variety of hardcore.

haha, it's cool. Just thought I'd bring it up.