Hardstyle takes influences from similar EDM genres, such as jumpstyle, hard trance and gabber. There are many types of Hardstyle scenes in the world, the main popular form of hardstyle being dutch Hardstyle, and its subgenre, labeled 'Nustyle'. Dutch Hardstyle is a fusion of dutch hardcore with Hardstyle, whereas, Nustyle is a more melodic form of Dutch Hardstyle where the kick is pitched to create a melodic bassline that usually plays in pitch with some supersaw or electro house melody. Hardstyle usually ranges from 140-160bpm, with early Hardstyle at 140bpm and Nustyle ranging up to 150bpm. Because of the speed of Hardstyle, it helps to separate the genre from other, faster genres such as hardcore techno. One of the iconic features of Hardstyle that distinguishes it from other genres is the use of "reverse bass", which can be heard on the offbeat after the kick. In various 'Nustyle' tracks, the reverse bass can be pitched accordingly to make the track more melodic.
Hardstyle often has melodies in triplet form, which gives the genre a pulsating rhythm, whereas other genres such as Jumpstyle have basic melodic structures to them.
A recent subgenre of Hardstyle, known as dubstyle, incorporates a fusion of hardstyle melodies, with dubstep style beats, (a hardstyle kick set to a 2-step and/or breakbeat rhythm).
Even more recently Dutch Hardstyle has split to create a new subgenre; Rawstyle. It takes Dutch Hardcore influenced Hardstyle and adds more oldschool and hardcore features and typically features more distortion on the "Kick".
