i'm a huge lover of hard house/nrg/trance/style, nrg, eurodance.

i can't tell the difference between hard house and hard style, or hard trance to hard nrg,

can anyone give me an idea as to what is differen't between these two pairs?

and ur email address starts with dj_ ...for shame for shame!

you can tell by the effect6s and intruments that are used. but they all tread a fine line (esp the last three) it can be difficult.

of course you need to realise that genres in music are very hard to define so all of this is in my humblest of opinions.

Most things classed as 'house' nowadays are really borderline commercial dance. ie ministry of sound annuals. Real house has musical beats, musical progression. lots of live instruments (wind, brass, intricate drums), and a strong jazz feel to it. ie scruff, hed kandi (albeit commercial, but not quite dance)
Usually backed up by female vocalists. Dance around to with a bit of a latin feel. Head bopping around, feet, hips, arms all doing their own thing in time with a certain layer of the music.

NRG is very close to techno, lots of quick hard beats, lots of tones, sweeps, digitally mixed, lots of synthesisers and tone generators. Good to stamp around to with your fists clenched punching the air.

Whilst trance has hard beats with the occasional look to the sky and reach for the laser breaks, a catchy melody, and lots of highs. Dance around with a massive smile on your face, eyes closed, head up...

Meh you get the drift.

Love the music...

Peace

Tim

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oh and www.di.fm for the best toonage

Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 160 bpm, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track, often crescendoing or featuring a breakdown. Sometimes vocals are also utilized. The style is arguably derived from a combination of largely electronic music and house. 'Trance' received its name from the repetitious morphing beats, and the throbbing melodies which would presumably put the listener into a trance-like state. As this music is almost always played in nightclubs at popular vacation spots and in inner cities, trance can be understood as a form of club music.


UK Hard House or simply Hard House (not to be confused with Chicago hard house) is a style of House music that emerged in the 1990s. Tony De Vit (1957 to 1998) was one of the pioneers of the hard house sound in the early 90's, playing a harder, louder, faster style of dance music. The hard house scene grew in popularity throughout the 90's with Trade and Chuff Chuff being joined by several other large club nights e.g. Sundissential, Insomniacz, Slinky and many more.

Hard house is typified by a set formula of up-tempo compressed kick drums, signature style off-beat basslines and the use of 'hoover' type sounds. In contempt of the name it shares very little part in style with house music, but borrows elements heavily from trance music (trancy synths and sometimes breakdown formula), and hardcore/rave music (hoover sounds, chants sometimes). Generally, hard house is part of a wider group of styles called hard dance and has little in common with the modern trance or house scenes.

Hi-NRG (High Energy) is a type of electronic dance music which was popular in nightclubs in the early 1980s and remains popular today.

Eurodance is a colloquial term for a type of European synthesizer-driven dance music which became popular worldwide in the early- to mid-1990s and continuing up until today.

hard style is basically hard trance, with a gabber beat (really low booming bass) i find hardstyle abit messy for my liking...my sub doesnt like it too much either

hard trance is like trance, still has the sweeping sphears and other synth sounds, with a harder beat, and more evil sounding.

hard house once again follows the same principles. u will find most djs that play hard trance will also play hard house (see sublime resident dj Archie) and or hard style (see subbies resident Amber Savage)

theres still a fine line between all the sub-genres of "dance" music. basically u can combine styles and end up creating a new style.

hi NRG - now that is fun :D has an oldschool dance feel to it. alot of hardcore djs are into hi NRG (eg hixxy)

stimulate pretty much hit the nail on the head with the other types. trance is designed to send u on a journey (with its ups and downs..a good dj will hold the ups just before the breakdown for the perfect time, making u eager to get down and boogie) love the stuff.

sublime is the best club in sydney (i've been there once, but friends have lack of money to go ), dj archie is good and i don't mind amber savage

yea i just class hard nrg and hard trance to be the same,

hard trance is just hard house beats fused with trance strings ( my favourite)

all well, i' love my doof doof music, 80% is what gets played in my car,

i can't stand electro (its gives me the ****s, there peak is the same beat that was playing before they drumrolled it)

Im a big trance/hard trance/NRG fan myself. Absolutely hate any of that euro-crap.
But yeah, Dj Taucher, Talla 2XLC, djGT FTW:D