Since none of you clowns have bothered to provide any decent attempt at an explanation, here's mine: hard trance has a more euphoric sound. It features a lot more syncopation than hardstyle and achieves a 'racy' feel through the spreading of melodic and percussive elements throughout the duration of a bar. It's uplifting and harmonic.

Hardstyle, on the other hand, tends to emphasise the first beat in each bar, placing melodic elements mostly there. The melodies are less euphoric and more screechy/scary, often sounding like demented carnival music. Hardstyle often employs distorted kick drums with a 'fuzzy' sound, while hard trance usually features tighter beats. As previously mentioned, hardstyle also tends to have a faster tempo, with hard trance ranging from 140 to 150 and hardstyle hovering more around 160. Despite this, hard trance sounds a lot more energetic/intense to me due to the increased amount of syncopation it employs.

Also, although hard house is easy for me to pick, I'm not sure to go about describing it. The most recognisable element is 'the hoover'. Listen to a sample of the sound here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_sound. Hard house also seems to feature a lot of simplistic off-beat basslines, which means that a single bass notes is placed on the third beat in each bar (kick drums are always on first).

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hardstyle is a shit version of gabber

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Originally posted by maksim47842 i used to only listen to trance, mostly mainstream stuff like Tiesto, or whatever Ministry of Sound spits out every two months (of course im not trashing MoS) but recently i've started to like hardstyle (or harder dance in general) can somebody explain the difference between HARDSTYLE and HARDTRANCE? are they the same thing? and apparently, there's also HARDHOUSE, but i'm having a hard time imagining what that would sound like.

ffs u are troll

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Originally posted by owien hard trance hard house

hard dance u fucking twat it has not been called hard house since 2001

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Originally posted by the_voice hard dance u fucking twat it has not been called hard house since 2001

the track is from 93, nice trollin though

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Originally posted by the_voice hard dance u fucking twat it has not been called hard house since 2001

hard dance is just a tag for the harder area of dance music and the two tracks i posted were good examples of hard trance and hard house.


now go run along and suck on lady gagas dick

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Originally posted by Domesticated with hard trance ranging from 140 to 150 and hardstyle hovering more around 160.

Hardstyle is about 30 bpm slower than hardcore, 140 - 160, not just close to 160. IMO compared to hardtrance it's not that much faster.

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