Global Hardstyle is no moreHardstyle: 1999~2007A music genre evolved around the turn of the millenium combining elements of hardtrance, hardhouse and hardcore. The unique melting pot provided for underground electronic dance music filling the gap between the uprising commercialisation of trance and the return of mainstream hardcore. Findings its roots in the German, Italian, English, Swiss and later also Dutch dance scene, artists from other genres soon made the jump and turned hardstyle into a popular yet hard electronic genre. Generally speaking the audience for hardstyle throughout these years ranged 18 to 35, having a more mature sound distinguishing itself from the commercial genres at the time.This is what triggered Global Hardstyle to be created in order to have a common platform from people around the world exchanging information about a style which was difficult to find in public in most countries. Global Hardstyle contributed vastly to the hardstyle scene by introducing foreign artists into the scene, arranging events in locations where hardstyle was unknown and arranging travels to international events. In the end we grew to 30,000 members. Nu-style: 2007~nowReplaced hardstyle approximately in the year 2007. Larger organisations, labels and artists refuse to exchange the term hardstyle for nu-style as they have invested into the terminology. Even though the music is a black and white contrast compared to what it was in previous years (we call it pussification); modern day nu-style seems to be targeted at an audience ranging age 12 to 18, with the focus on happy melodies, sing along breaks to attract the girls to the events and children to buy the CD's. Many producers and DJ's from the early years have given up on the genre since they can not find themselves in these changes.Global Hardstyle went through difficult times when it was obvious that the people in charge of the scene were heading for change. Many users from the old days detested the changes in their beloved music which led to conflicts with new people joining the site for what they thought was hardstyle. Additionally several artists and labels took offense of the public criticism of Global Hardstyle and its users upon the change within the genre and targeted the owner with verbal abuse, threats and legal claims.  Hardstyle: a corrupt sceneAdditionally corruption introduced into the hardstyle by companies such as Q-Dance, Scantraxx and many others taking part in a mafia cartel to ensure that only the people that are trusted within their groups are allowed to perform on their events. This makes hardstyle one of the few electronic genres in the world that is factually controlled by a handful of people. Events taking place go as far as blackmailing and extortion, verbal as well as physical violence between artists and many other low-life activities. Conclusively - we don't want to have anything to do with hardstyle any more. Do yourself a favour and find another genre.HARDSTYLE WILL NOT BE FORGOTTENAny member (or non-member) is always welcome to enjoy any of the other sites:Global Hardcore | Global Hardtechno | Global Hardtrance |