Hard with Style

Hardstyle is a genre of Electronic Music that is played at around 150 BPM,  its most known for a heavy kick drum with reverse bass on every offbeat, giving it a distorted sound. Alot of Hardstyle producers such as "Headhunterz" will also use deep , sinister sounding vocal samples as found in the video above while some producers like "Brennan Heart" prefer positive, uplifing vocals in their tracks. I can only listen to Hardstyle in small doses, after a while it starts to give you a headache and makes you kind of anxious, I assume because of the very fast BPM accompanied with the distorted kick.

As of last year, i have heard a couple Big Room House tracks that sample elements of hardstyle.  While still played at 128 BPM, you can definateley hear that reverse bass after each kick. You can hear for yourself in the video below by Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, Lil Jon and Coone.

Careful, its a Trap.

Electronic Trap which is usually just referred to as Trvp is a newer genre of music, it was inspired by the dirty south hip hop type of Trap which was made popular by T.I. , Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy. Its is played at around 130 to 175 BPM and it shares the same 2/4 (half-time) beat structure as dubstep and most hip hop tracks. Other similarities between the older dirty south hip hop trap and this newer electronic trap include the 808 kick drum,  snare drum rolls, hi hat rolls and chopped vocal samples usually saying something like "What  What  What".  This electronic Trap is being referred to as the new Dubstep, and i can definately see that happening here in Atlanta. Alot of people got into electronic music a couple years ago through dubstep, but dubstep was really just a fad and it has faded out as of recently, so it seems like all those people have now jumped on the Trap bandwagon.  There is alot of very good Trap tracks out there and alot of Trap remixes as well, such as the one above of Awolnation - Sail,  but when i go to the club and the DJ plays Trap, for some reason he tends to leave out all the melodic Trap music and just ends up playing an hour long set of ghetto crunk Trap.  There was even a case last year in Chicago where Trap producers Flosstradamus were banned from performing their set as police said last time they almost caused a riot.

Dirty Dutch Explained

Dirty Dutch House is a subgenre of Electro House.   While Electro House has more focus on electro bass lead synths and basslines, Dirty Dutch shows more emphasis on High pitched lead synths rather than bass synths. You can see what im talking about at 2.14 in the above video.  This track is from the king of dirty dutch "Chuckie", while "Afrojack" and "Sidney Samson" are huge names in the Dirty Dutch scene, i still think Chuckie is the king of this genre, as he has managed to keep it underground. Dirty Dutch will always be one of my favorite genres.

What is Reverse Bass?

Reverse Bass is a synth usually found in the Hardstyle genre of music, you can hear it on the offbeat of most Hardstyle tracks.  Reverse Bass is also one of the main elements of Melbourne Bounce as heard in the track above at 0.38 by Will Sparks.

Another Big Room Progressive Banger

This is my favorite genre in EDM, This is Big Room Progressive House.  I know that some people aren't going to like the autotune on a couple sections of the chorus, but I could see this track being a festival banger. Tracks like this are the reason for my blog,  I am always searching beatport, youtube etc... for cool remixes and tracks that people really dont know about, and this is one of them. So here it is Cosmo - "Wayward Son", a Big Room Progressive remix of 70's Rock Hit "Carry on Wayward Son" by Kansas

Amazing remix of Daft Punks - "The Grid"

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I am actually not even sure what genre this track is, but damn its amazing. It sounds like progressive house with that banging kick drum and alot of the electronica synths from the original removed, but its too slow to be House at 102BPM. So im just going to call it electronica since thats what the original track is that was featured on the "Tron Legacy" soundtrack.  I could put this on repeat and fall asleep to this one, the video is pretty sick as well.

Introduction to DubHouse

This genre is called DubHouse, atleast thats what Ash Pournouri the owner of "At Night Management" is calling it. At Night management  is also responsible for Aviciis rise to success. Their newest edition is this duo that go by the name "Cazzette", made up of two swedes by the names of Sebastian Furrer and Alexander Bjorklund. This genre basically starts out like your normal electro house or complextro track, it carries the 4/4 beat, it uses a mixture of modulated bass,  dubstep  and electro sounding bass synths as well as the modern talking synth. What makes DubHouse different than electro house or complextro is that at some point during the track (usually the 2nd drop) the beat changes from a 4/4 beat to a 2/4 beat and their is more focus on the dubstep bass synths during this time (See @ 2.53 in the above track).