Meanings
- uncountableentertainmentA genre of electronic dance music that combines elements of trance, techno, and hardcore, with origins in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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, →ISSN1 more example
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)
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Translations
Arabic هاردستايل, هارد ستايل
- هاردستايل (hārdstāyl)genre of music
- هارد ستايل (hārd stāyl)genre of music
Dutch hardstyle
- hardstylegenre of music
French hardstyle
- hardstylegenre of music
German Hardstyle
- Hardstylegenre of music
Hebrew הארדסטייל
- הארדסטיילgenre of music
Japanese ハードスタイル
- ハードスタイル (hādosutairu)genre of music
Korean 하드스타일
- 하드스타일 (hadeuseutail)genre of music
Russian хардстайл
- хардстайл (xardstajl)genre of music
Ukrainian гардстайл
- гардстайл (hardstajl)genre of music
Cite this entry
hardstyle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hardstyle
“hardstyle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hardstyle. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hardstyle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hardstyle.
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