Hardstyle is an
electronic dance genre mixing influences from hard techno and
hardcore. Hardstyle typically consists of a deep, hard-sounding kick drum, intense faded or reversed basslines accompanying the beat, a
dissonant synth melody, and detuned and distorted sounds. Many
hardcore artists produce hardstyle tracks as well, and many newer Hardstyle tracks are written in compound time (for example older
Headhunterz and Noisecontrollers work).